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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
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| 01-31-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."
Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.
I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to
-GoogleNewsBeta--
with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.
May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.
Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:
-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--
-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --
DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***
DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-
DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"
DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II
-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--
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04/09/2007 4:44:50 PM PDT
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backhoe
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If you’ve decided you’ve had enough of the pet food industry and want to make your own pet food here’s a great site:
http://www.balanceit.com
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04/09/2007 11:10:29 PM PDT
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backhoe
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An extraordinary editorial in IBD - PAID ONLY. I am running it all here so you can read it. You must. It is so clear, stating the painfully obvious.
The Democratic Contract On America hat tip Daryl
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2007
Diplomacy: “We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy,” a member of Nancy Pelosi’s Mideast entourage said. Problem is, it’s one applauded by terrorists around the world who couldn’t be happier she’s speaker of the House.
We wonder what the media reaction would have been had Newt Gingrich traveled around the world in 1995 offering an alternative Republican foreign policy. Suppose he had, to cite just one example, condemned on foreign soil Bill Clinton’s shameful withdrawal from Somalia, which inspired Osama bin Laden to plan 9/11.
At least Gingrich, unlike Pelosi, wouldn’t have been giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies. She advocates talking to Iran, which is building nukes to annihilate Israel and shipping advanced explosive devices to Iraq to kill British and U.S. troops. She advocates a date certain for throwing the people of Iraq to the Islamofascist wolves.
Speaker Pelosi expressed the foolish thought that “the road to Damascus is the road to peace.” The road to Damascus is the road Syrian supply columns traveled bringing Iranian rockets and supplies plus a few goodies of their own to help Hezbollah attack Israel and plot the overthrow of Lebanon’s democracy. It was the body of that democracy that Pelosi tip-toed around to visit the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, among others, who were dispatched by Syrian operatives.
We wonder if Pelosi is malicious or merely naive. After all, last December she picked Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas to head the critical House Intelligence Committee, describing him as having “impeccable national security credentials.” But in a subsequent interview, Reyes couldn’t describe Hezbollah, the Iranian-created and supplied terrorist group that used Lebanon as a human shield in its war with Israel and which murdered 241 U.S. soldiers in Beirut in 1983.
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John over at Infidels are Cool got a couple of weird inbound lists. He followed them and found this. I and many of the best of the truth tellers, among other things, FATWAWORTHY. Loving the company I am in;
In his third post, he shares his “hit-list” of popular conservative bloggers:
I am here, alive on Earth, to worship Allah. What I actually meant was why I am I blogging on this site. The reality is that I started my first blog to provide a Muslim voice in the bloggersphere [sic] because we are too few, and I cant leave all the work to the Iranian’s due to risks of illegal innovation! Therefore I have returned to provide my opinions on the politics and current affairs of our time, which is evidently needed in light of the vast array of anti-Islamic opinion that continues to invade our time, and this includes cyberspace (just check out my “Fatwaworthy?” links for a few examples). It is remarkable that they continue to fail to comprehend the unity and peace of Islam which is in front of them when it is written they will regret their actions at the moment of death.
If you click through you will see that the “regret” he speaks of is “The Regret of Disbelievers at the Moment of Death.”
But Fatwaworthy? What does that even mean? Apparently, a list of people I’m sure he’d like to have silenced, if not hurt/injured, or God forbid, killed.
I scrolled down to check out the “fatwaworthy” list. Here’s what I saw:
UPDATE: Rusty over at My Pet Jawa has the back story on his fatwa here. Please read it. Muslims gone wild. They can't kill all the truth teller.
No smoking, we're British
One of my favorite college English professors was James Price. Professor Price was a brilliat teacher, among other things, of eighteenth-century literature (and I'm sure he still is wherever he is teaching nowadays). One of Professor Price's main literary interests was aphorisms. He was intrigued by the form and enjoyed studying authors who wrote them. It had never occurred to me before that they might constitute a genre of their own.
Jack Kelly is the glorious columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade. He is a fount of sanity. I'm struck by the aphorisms Kelly works up for his superb column on the Iranian seizure of British hostages and the lame British response. Kelly writes:
Some liken liberal appeasers to those Britons who wanted to make a deal with Hitler after the fall of France in 1940. That's unfair to those appeasers. Their attitude was not honorable, but it was reasonable. The Nazis then possessed a substantial advantage in military power. Today's liberal appeasers embrace dhimmitude even though it's the West that has a huge military and economic advantage.
Liberals are not so much terrified by the threat radical Islam poses as they are oblivious to it. A recent poll indicated a majority of Democrats are more worried about global warming than Islamic terror. While many liberals do indeed need to have backbones surgically implanted, more need to have their heads examined.
The infidels Allah is about to destroy, he first makes mad.
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04/10/2007 2:01:51 AM PDT
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backhoe
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Y2Kyoto: The Inconvenient Math
Lorne Gunter employs something seldom seen in mainstream coverage of global warming - math;
Think of the atmosphere as 100 cases of 24 one-litre bottles of water -- 2,400 litres in all. According to the global warming theory, rising levels of human-produced carbon dioxide are trapping more of the sun's reflected heat in the atmosphere and dangerously warming the planet.
But 99 of our cases would be nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), neither of which are greenhouse gases. Only one case -- just 24 bottles out of 2,400 -- would contain greenhouse gases.
Of the bottles in the greenhouse gas case, 23 would be water vapour.
Water vapour is the most abundant greenhouse gas, yet scientists will admit they understand very little about its impact on global warming. (It may actually help cool the planet: As the earth heats up, water vapour may form into more clouds and reflect solar radiation before it reaches the surface. Maybe. We don't know.)
The very last bottle in that very last case would be carbon dioxide, one bottle out of 2,400.
Previous - Hendrik Tennekes, retired Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, speaks of this;
If there is not even a rudimentary theory of the Polar Vortex, much less an established relation between rising greenhouse gas concentrations and systematic changes in the Arctic Oscillation, one cannot possibly make inferences about changes in precipitation patterns. We do not know, and for the time being cannot know anything about changing patterns of clouds, storms and rain. Holland’s national weather service KNMI circumvented this impasse last year by issuing climate change scenarios with and without changes in the position of the North Atlantic storm track. It did not occur to the KNMI spokesmen that they should have been forthright about their lack of knowledge. They should have said: we know nothing of possible changes in the storm track, so we cannot say anything about precipitation. But it is entirely consistent with the IPCC tradition to weasel around such issues.
(And lighter fare - this
smackdown in the comments. Funny things happen when commentors share their "expertise" - one never can guess who else is reading.)
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LMAO.... perhaps the article should go one step further and point out that to reduce Canada and the world's footprint on green house gas CO2 emissions we could just ask the Dion's, Gore's, Clinton's and Suzuki's to stop exhaling CO2... If they hold their breath long enough we all win :P
The only way you're going to stop global warming is to turn down the temperature of the Sun or block out the energy that reaches Earth from it.
When scietific report after report indicates the average temperature on other planets in our solar system have been going up then it ain't rocket science to draw the conclusion that hey...maybe we should expect to see an increase in our own planets average temperature...ya think???
As for water levels rising from melting Ice caps...try dropping some ice cubes in your drink and mark the water level before and after they melt... Now do the same thing in your bath tub as a proportional representation of the Earth's Oceans and the polar ice caps...heck... fill the tub 50/50 ice and water and see where the water level is before and after the ice melts... then shut the hell up 'cause the water isn't going to rise and flood out New York or LA.
The concern shouldn't be focused on the smoke and mirrors of "Global Warming" or the redistribution of the worlds wealth... we should be looking at polution and poluters and be fining and taxing the hell out of people that polute and encouraging people to clean up their act...
Telling 3rd world countries in Africa, South America, Latin America and Asia they're not allowed to develope coal, gas, or oil electric plants to provide electricity to their people for simple things we take for granted like refridgeration of medical supplies and/or food, or lights at night, or power for cooking without having to light a non vented fire in their homes to cook is criminal. Especially when they have some of the largest reserves in Coal, Natural Gas and Oil in the world. That's where your "Millions are dieing"... but it's not being caused by global warming...it's being caused because of global fear mongering... "
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04/10/2007 2:11:54 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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Cheering The Mullahs
Liam O'Brian responds to a collection of rather astonishing comments left at CBC's Your View re: Iran's seizure of British sailors;
Far too many people in this country have a glandular inability to rationally weigh pros and cons in a foreign policy discussion. Instead, since 2000-2001 or so, there has been a cheap and ignorant but popular way out of any and every foreign policy discussion -- bash Bush, bash the US, bash the Iraq mission . . . I wonder will they be forced to have an actual intelligent discussion post-'08 when Bush leaves? Or will there just be a different bogeyman? Of course, when prodded on how they chose to evaluate the facts surrounding intervention in Iraq, these are the same genocidal-regime-apoloist chuckleheads who think it's fair to ignore what was going on in Iraq before 2003 too . . . Kurds, it seems, are worth less to many Canadians than - say - Turbot . . .
Precisely.
The sentiments are expanding into deeds - Anti-globalists reach out to Islamists;
The international left, as represented at the conference, emphasised practical ways to reach out to the broader Muslim community, as reflected in conference forums on such projects as twinning UK and Palestinian cities, countering the boycott of the Hamas government in Palestine with a boycott of Israel and Western firms that provide military equipment to Israel, countering Islamophobia -- in a word, citizens' diplomacy. James Clark of the Canadian Peace Alliance described how the anti-war coalitions are now supportive of Muslims who find themselves targets of racial and religious profiling and no-fly lists, and that there is active work in the peace movement to counter Islamophobia, "which the governments use to fan the flames to generate support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
So it would seem. A curiously narrow range of conflicts they've chosen to oppose - and from a curiously one sided perspective. One would think a group opposing war would avoid at all costs the temptation to pick favourites in a conflict.
Clark vowed that the Canadian peace movement, inspired by the Arab resistance in Lebanon and Iraq, would work with Muslims to defeat imperialism.
Is "chickendove" a word yet?
Iran's to your east, fellas. Knock yourself out.
(h/t Tim Blair)
Link sent along by a reader who asks, "Hamas is related to the Muslim Brotherhood. Does the RCMP know?"
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Umar Lee slings some mud
Umar Lee is a Muslim blogger and activist in St. Louis. I was supposed to debate him on a radio show there a few years ago, but for some reason it was canceled. Today he is smearing me and Charles Johnson, along with Ann Coulter, as "racists," but alas, doesn't explain what race Muslims are. His idea of intelligent criticism is evidently to post an incendiary photo and claim that it represents something we support. I would have ignored it except that in this Umar Lee joins the long line of people who have called me all sorts of names but never quite managed to come up with a single inaccuracy in my work. Even those who claim that it is full of "glaring errors" can't come up with a single one, and have not hesitated to play fast and loose with the facts.Umar Lee himself, when he posted video of my CPAC debate with Dinesh D'Souza (thanks to James), could do nothing but write libelous claims about what I believe.Posted by Robert at 01:38 PM | Comments (18)
The criterion in this case was that LGF put it up -- I neglected to supply that link above -- here it is:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25080_Islamist_LGF-Haters&only
As for debating, I'd be happy to debate any of those you name. But Schwartz also heaped abuse on me, without dealing in anything substantive:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15709
And just today, Irshad Manji responded to Fjordman's reasoned criticism by calling Jihad Watch "right-wing." I wrote to her to ask what made us right wing: our support for Islamic reform? Our opposition to jihad violence? Our opposition to the Iraq democracy project? But in any case it was a mild case of the same phenomenon: answering arguments by name-calling.
Fjordman: http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014678.php
Manji: "Right-wing Jihad Watch slams Irshad" in the news section here:
http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/index.html
I'd be happy to debate Mansoor Ijaz. I thought his debate with Andrew McCarthy was extraordinarily revealing.
http://www.opinionduel.com/debate/?q=NDk=
Cordially
Robert Spencer
This is the Public Broadcasting System at work, making sure that you, the public, are insulated from all doubleplus ungood knowledge about Islam, as they strive to achieve Total Political Correctness™: Producer: PBS dropped ‘Islam vs. Islamists’ on political grounds. (Hat tip: Kenneth.)Here’s the actual letter to the PBS Board of Directors from Frank Gaffney, Martyn Burke, and Alex Alexiev: 950K PDF file.
UPDATE at 4/10/07 10:20:23 am:
Here’s a transcript of Hugh Hewitt interviewing Frank Gaffney about this: Why is PBS using our money to make a film that we’re not allowed to see? (Hat tip: Ed.) | link: 244 comments
In depth discussion with Frank Gaffney on Hugh Hewitt's radio show.
The terrorists of Hamas have not stopped plotting to commit mass murder, and they especially like to perpetrate their atrocities during Jewish holidays. Today comes word of another narrowly averted plot to set off a car bomb in Tel Aviv during Passover.
JERUSALEM - Israeli authorities on Tuesday said they have arrested 19 Palestinian militants for planning to set off a huge car bomb in Tel Aviv over the Jewish holiday of Passover.
The suspects are all were Hamas members from the West Bank town of Qalqiliya, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement. The agency said the arrests took place in late March, but details were only cleared for publication on Tuesday, the day after the weeklong holiday ended.
Hamas officials in Qalqiliya denied the account and said they were not involved in any plot.
Shin Bet said a Palestinian man who apparently intended to blow himself up drove a car packed with 220 pounds of explosives into the Tel Aviv area, then, for reasons not yet clear, returned to Qalqiliya where the car later exploded through a technical malfunction. No one was hurt.
The would-be bomber was able to enter Israel unhindered because he has an Israeli Arab stepmother and holds an Israeli identity card, Shin Bet said. It said the car had Israeli license plates.
The Palestinians, of course, are doing what they always do when caught red-handed planning murder. Lying.
Palestinian police officials in the town said the 19 suspects weren’t connected to any bombing. They said the militants were rounded up at a Hamas ceremony marking the third anniversary of the Israeli assassination of the group’s founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
Police said the car held less than 2 pounds of explosives and that it was unlikely Hamas was connected because the bomb was so small. However, they said it remained unclear why the car was carrying explosives.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 7:49:39 am PDT | link: 88 comments "The religion of exploding cars..."
19 arrested again!
Here are some others:
The "Toronto 19"
19 Al-Qaeda Arrested in Najaf
19 Muslim Teachers Arrested in Thailand
Egypt Arrests 19 For Plotting Election Unrest
19 Arrested In Connection With Iraq Mosque Bombing
19 Arrested For Hijacking Afghani Plane (pre 9-11)
Yemen Detains 19 For Plotting Terror
19 Terrorists Martyred on 9/11
The ways in which the “progressive” left and the radical Islamists attack their critics are becoming remarkably similar; I think they’re picking up techniques from each other.
Here’s an Islamist site run by an admirer of imprisoned terrorist and former CAIR official, Ismail Royer, with a special message of hatred and demonization for us: 1950s Little Green Footballs gathering.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 7:42:09 am PDT | link: 118 comments "Notice he doesn't claim LGF is making it up, just reporting it. And it's annoying him... "
I KNEW BUDDY EBSEN as Jed Clampett or (worse) Barnaby Jones. I know he was a dancer originally, but seeing his fluid movements in this sequence was still kind of a shock.
The Greening of Gingrich (Newt joins the ecotard chorus)--He always rolls over/panders in the end. He did it with Bubba and with the Hildebeast. He is not presidential material in any way, shape or form...
'Duped dads' fight back in paternity cases
PRICE GOUGING GAS BILL COSTLY-long lines likely-- would cost the economy about $1.9 billion during a national emergency on the scale of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Anthrax: some new findings
Beaverton workers treated for tuberculosis exposure
Sleep apnea a silent killer for heart patients (Doubles deaths: study)
Registry would treat gun owners like criminals (PA)Federal Distortion Of Homosexual Footprint (Ignoring Early Gay Death?)
The British Way of Murder
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04/10/2007 2:35:18 PM PDT
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backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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Governmental Hugs
From Jacob Sullum’s fantastic “An Epidemic of Meddling,” May 2007 Reason (subscribers only):
What do these four “public health” problems—smoking, playing violent video games, overeating, and gambling [framed as such by, respectively, Henry Waxman, Hillary Clinton, Surgeon General Richard Carmona, and Thom White Wolf Fassett (general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society(] have in common? They’re all things that some people enjoy and other people condemn, attributing to them various bad effects. Sometimes these effects are medical, but they may also be psychological, behavioral, social, or financial. Calling the habits that supposedly lead to these consequences “public health” problems, “epidemics” that need to be controlled, equates choice with diseases, disguises moralizing as science, and casts meddling as medicine. It elevates a collectivist calculus of social welfare above the interests of individuals, who become subject to increasingly intrusive interventions aimed at making them as healthy as they can be, without regard to their own preferences.
This is precisely and elegantly put—as well as pointedly inclusive: nannystatists tend to be progressive statists, the kind of secular moralists whose influence has grown in the wake of cultural Oprahfication; in fact they are, you might say, the bastard children of Ralph Nader’s consumer concern and alarmist hyperbole fetchingly dressed in the slick, sexy garb of modern marketing campaigns.
But such “traditional” nannystatists are not alone, as Sullum’s list makes clear—which is why I am often just as critical of social conservatives who try to legislate their particular morality as I am the progressive nannystatists. Note, though, that legislating is, for me, the key: because I have no philosophical problem with the free-market gambits of social conservatives, such as boycotts or public condemnations of, say, The Dixie Chicks—though I may not agree with the content of the form.
And as Cathy Young very adroitly pointed out not too long ago, libertarians themselves are often guilty of promoting that which they ostensibly and ideologically claim to abhor.
The point being that we all must be constantly onguard if we are to balance individual liberty—the basis of our republic—with our own moral prescriptions, less the prescriptions become a form of socialism.
Making this particularly thorny for the classical liberal or conservative is his adherence to process. That is, laws held to be Constitutionally sound and duly passed by the legislature become part of the social contract—even when we consider those laws silly or intrusive. Which is why many of us wind up legal conservatives—pushing for judges who we hope will respect the Constitution, which we believe does a fine job, when interpreted with fidelity, of promoting and protecting individual freedoms.
But back to Sullum:
This tendency to call every perceived problem affecting more than two people an “epidemic” obscures a crucial distinction. The classic targets of public health were risks imposed on people against their will, communicable diseases being the paradigmatic example. The more recent targets of public health are risks that people voluntarily assume, such as those associated with smoking, drinking, eating junk food, exercising too little, watching TV too much, playing poker, owning a gun, driving a car without wearing a seat belt, or riding a bicycle without wearing a helmet. The difference is the one John Stuart Mill urged in his 1859 book On Liberty: “The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection...The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.” Mill’s “harming principle” is obviously important to libertarians, but public health practicioners also should keep it in mind if they do not want to be seen as moralistic busybodies constantly seeking to expand the reach of government.
Under Mill’s principle, there is a strong case for government intervention to prevent the spread of a deadly microbe, extending even to such highly coercive measures as forcible quarantine or legally mandated medication. The case for intervention to prevent people from placing bets, eating ice cream, or playing Grand Theft Auto is much weaker. It requires demonstrating that such activities harm not only the people engaged in them but other people as well. And although Mill was imprecise on thise point in On Liberty, harm to others has to be understood as a necessary but not sufficient condition for government intervention. To justify the use of force, the alleged harm has to be of the sort that the government has a duty to prevent—that is, the sort that violates people’s rights.
The mechanism Sullum describes—running matters of choice through the filter of moralism and hyperbole and producing, as an end result, an “epidemic” or a crisis of “public health”—is particularly dangerous, as I’ve recently discussed, when the government assumes the role of healthcare provider.
Because under such conditions, the very people who are redefining choices in terms of disease will ultimately be responsible for controlling the costs of treatment, and for determining what is and is not covered by “universal healthcare.”
Which makes bans on soda and salt-and-vinegar potato chips (non-baked)—if not mandatory jumping jacks—that much more likely.
And the last thing I want to do is find myself standing in a field one day, shirtless and smeared with greasepaint, screaming “you can take away my Oreos Doublestuff, but you can never take...MY FREEDOM!”
Especially if I’m wearing a kilt.
It’s worth remembering as well that there is an entire industry of advocates and academics that exists solely to perpetuate ever more expansive lenses of public health. Keep scrolling
here for a taste.
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04/10/2007 4:15:22 PM PDT
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backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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Sestak was interviewed on Dom Giordano's show last night here. I called in to question him on his troublesome ties to CAIR, front for radical Islam (more on that here.) Listen to how glowingly, sort of like a Jim Jones cultist, he speaks of "the beauty of Islam" - like that's supposed to convince the American people (you know, the John Doe's they want to sue) that CAIR is not the enemy .....
Brian was a great call in. He nails him. Listen to this tool stutter and stammer when Brian asks him THREE TIMES if "he had ever been in the home of Mr Hussain" (Chairman of CAIR Philly/PA Iftekhar Hussain.) Sestak lied. He LIED. Sestak said he had never been in his house when in fact Hussain said he had. What is he hiding?
I have the explosive audio of the Chairman of CAIR Philly/PA Iftekhar Hussain describing how "Joe Sestak was in my house for a fundraiser, for him" and that "A lot of muslims were sitting ready to give him checks".
The fact that Sestak lied about it is significant. Why would he lie about being in Iftekhar's house? Clearly it would expose just how cozy he is with CAIR.
When I tried to extract the reasoning behind why he would support CAIR (an organization with terror ties) and not a group like the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, he hemmed and hawed. He could not answer me. He had the audacity to contend he was not supporting CAIR by attending their fundraiser. Yeah, he talked trash. By their acts we shall know them and so we know Sestak.
Here's last night's interview of Radical Islam's Congressman here. Listen to what a cheap transparent phoney he is on the audio.
UPDATE: HERE IS THE AUDIO OF CAIR CHAIRMAN HUSSAIN
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Money quote:
Iftekhar Hussain: “I was doing a fundraiser for him in my house, got a bunch of muslims sitting, and I gave him the opportunity with that question to come out and say ‘NO’ and he said, “I would hope not” he was trying to be intellectual. And I’m okay with that but… these guys are about to give you checks and need the right thing, in the meantime, two seconds more of that…”
UPDATE: Addressing CAIR 'Empowers Islamists,' Say Moderate Muslims Monisha Bansal (CNSNews.com)
[...] In his remarks delivered during the dinner, Sestak praised the organization.
"CAIR does such important and necessary work in a difficult environment to change such perceptions and wrongs -- from racial profiling and civil rights to promoting justice and mutual understanding -- at a time when it is challenging to be an American Muslim and pass, for example, through an airport checkpoint," Sestak said.
CAIR, which calls itself a "civil rights group," has come under close scrutiny for several years, not least of all for its consistent refusal to denounce Hamas and Hizballah, two groups on the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations.
A vocal critic of CAIR, Middle East Forum Director Daniel Pipes, said both Sestak and Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, who also attended Saturday's event, "are making a terrible mistake in endorsing CAIR and even helping it raise funds."
"CAIR is the stepchild of Hamas and helps the enemy in the war on terror," Pipes told Cybercast News Service Monday.
"We cannot blindly empower Islamists, like Gov. Ed Rendell and Rep. Joe Sestak have done, and then wonder why we are losing the ideological battle," added Zuhdi Jasser, chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
"CAIR's focus on apologetics for terrorism, victimization and minority politics is simply a distraction from their responsibility to lead the battle within the Islamic community to defeat militancy and theocracy," he told Cybercast News Service.
"As an American Muslim, I have significant concerns with CAIR and their less-than-transparent agenda," Jasser said. "At the core, they present themselves as a representative of a faith community, but a brief review of all their materials demonstrates a heavily political agenda long on foreign and domestic policy criticism and very short on spirituality.
Related:
Atlas Shrugs: Sestak Moneyman for CAIR
Atlas Shrugs: SESTAK RAISES $$ FOR CAIR TERROR
Atlas Shrugs: Sestak: Punish TERROR CAIR's Enablers
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Edwards' Neighbor On Blog Talk Radio
Yesterday, Elizabeth Edwards made headlines by declaring that she would treat her "rabid Republican" in an uncivil manner, despite never having met the man. Tonight, you can do what Elizabeth Edwards refuses to do -- meet her neighbor. Eric Dondero will have John Montgomery on his Blog Talk Radio show tonight: Posted by Ed Morrissey at 06:22 PM | Comments (9) "...I'm sure that she is a nice woman who doesn't beat her servants too often....her statement makes her out to be just another upper-class limousine liberal b*tch..."
MEGAN MCARDLE ON NUCLEAR POWER AND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY:
The environmental movement has so far utterly failed to develop a coherent approach to replacing carbon producing power sources. Wind and solar are not such a coherent response without a massive breakthrough in battery technology, because variable sources are inadequate to provide base-load power. Also, they too have negative externalities: wind kills birds and destroys views, and many solar panels are loaded with gallium arsenide, a highly toxic substance that is apparently rather tricky to dispose of.
All this wouldn't be so bothersome if the environmental movement merely failed to provide realistic alternatives, but in fact, many environmentalists actively move to block new wind installations (I'm looking at you, Robert jr.) and nuclear power plants, spread hysteria over nuclear waste, and otherwise actively work against the cause they are trying to advance. As such, it is perfectly legitimate to demand why they are blocking the only things that have any realistic chance of replacing carbon-emitting power plants.
The answer, in my opinion, is that too many environmentalists flunk basic and economic knowlege, which is why so many people believe it is practical to replace a coal-fired turbine that pumps out 1,000 megawatts with a solar installation that will, in peak sun conditions, produce about 1 kilowatt per 150 feet of space, twelve hours a day; or wind farms, which average less than 1 megawatt per turbine in prime spots.
Read the whole thing.
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"This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,
'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'."
"If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here So accept the country YOU accepted."
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(A Nuke for every Kook- what a Clinton "legacy...")
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Fred Thompson on Hannity Live--He is so much like Reagan it is amazing. He’s biding his time and wants to do something for his country. He said he’s never really wanted to be President, but that now may be the time he could do things that only a President can do...“I would speak plainly and truthfully to the American people.”
Toilets facing Mecca (again) --
Every public toilet in every westernized nation should face mecca without exception. We need this written into law.
Every refugee and immigrant should be required to eat a pork sandwich before they stay here 24 hours.
If they can't abide by our customs then they can go elsewhere. WE DON"T NEED THEM. They bring NOTHING we need and a great deal that we don't need when they come.
Why do we allow them into our country? They don't have a "right" to come here.
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(A Nuke for every Kook- what a Clinton "legacy...")
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Fred Thompson health update
Fred Thompson is on with Sean Hannity right now. He's discussing his lymphoma. It is not among the severe kinds. His doctors tell him it's better to have what he has than to have diabetes.
Thompson received the diagnosis two and half years ago during a check-up. He says he hasn't been sick a day since. He would not have known of the illness but for the check-up. It's no scoop, but I'll say it anyway: Thompson is an excellent communicator. Posted by Paul at 03:32 PM | Permalink
Is classroomGlobal Warming preaching indoctrinating the next generation?
THE DEFINITIVE PLACE for followups on the Duke Non Rape Case is, of course, K.C. Johnson's blog.
UPDATE: Stuart Benjamin comments: "A defense lawyer (or a libertarian) treating this as a cautionary tale about the awesome power of a 'rogue prosecutor' to run amok is not a surprise. But an attorney general framing the case that way is more striking. Not that Nifong didn't deserve this drubbing — just that I wasn't betting on it."
Duke Rape Accuser the New Tawana Brawley
TRANSFORMING IMUS INTO A CONSERVATIVE: But of course.
UPDATE: This was fast.
"WHY LIBERALS WRITE COLUMNS AND EDITORIALS .... .... and basically suck at talk radio."
Posted by Kate at 12:01 AM | Comments (6) "OK .. enough fun with Cynthia Tucker as a talk show host spouting her anti-Second Amendment nonsense. Obviously she doesn't have much of a future in talk radio; but, then, what liberal does?"
TENNESSEE BLOGGER THREATENED WITH LIBEL SUIT. The text of the demand letter is here. Some thoughts on why threats like this are usually a bad idea can be found in this article on libel in the blogosphere.
Brittney Gilbert, meanwhile, has a characteristically pungent response.
This statement in the demand letter suggests a lack of familiarity with federal law on the subject: "As the 'publisher' of your blog, you control, and are responsible for, the content appearing in it. References by persons posting to your blog to JL Kirk Associates as 'crooks' and its services as a 'scam' are equally false and defamatory as your own." If, as it seems to be, this is a reference to posts by blog commenters, it appears inconsistent with the Communications Decency Act's immunity provisions. Perhaps, however, I misunderstand the argument.
UPDATE: SayUncle thinks this was a bad move: "They’ve probably done more damage with this than her original post did."
ANOTHER UPDATE: Bill Hobbs: "As for JL Kirk Associates, if I was in the job market - and, as it turns out, I am - I wouldn't use them. Not because of what Katherine Coble wrote, nor because of what I found about them via Google, but because they and their law firm decided that threatening to sue a blogger to squelch criticism was a better business tactic than addressing problems that may exist with how they do business."
I have to admit, I’m stunned at these statements from Tom Lantos. I thought he was one of the few remaining principled Democrats; but now it’s clear that he’s just as willing as any of them to sacrifice everything he stands for to achieve political power—even if it means the most craven, suicidal appeasement of the sworn enemies of America: Pelosi, Lantos may be interested in diplomatic trip to Iran. Are these people completely insane? link: 57 comments
You gotta hope that a guy like Lantos wakes up every night from the same nightmare screaming. Six million corpses dragging him into a mass grave or something like that. Guys like Lantos wear the holocaust survivor badge loud and proud but I'm not buying it. It is sort of like Michael J. Fox wearing his Parkinsons disease badge to weigh in on a hot political issue when in fact he doesn't know jack about the differences in adult vs. embryonic stem cell research. The left believes folks like these are untouchable (in fact they insist upon it in their Orwellian way.) But what Lantos is considering is far worse than Fox's toe dipping in the wild and wacky world of PC politics. Because the fate of the world hangs in the balance and Jewicidal Lantos is giving Amadinejihitler legitamacy just by meeting with him. Jewicide Lantos is underminig all those dissidents and fighters against the Islamic totalitarian murdering regime.
UPDATE: Excellent editorial from the most excellent editorial board of Investors Business Daily;
Click below to read it all.
Continue reading "Party of Treason: Kissing the ass of the Poison Dwarf" »
Report: 'Moderate' Islamic charities back terror
Mexican truck stampede to hit U.S.!
What Does Illegal Immigration Cost? - A new study tries to nail down an answer.
Geek Vanity: How to save and convert flash files (.swf) to other formats (.mpg, .flv or .wmv)
How to stop cancer from spreading
Iranian missiles can strike Europe
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Bomb wounds 11 in Thailand’s Muslim south.
YALA, Thailand (AFP) - At least 11 people were wounded by a bomb at a busy market in Thailand’s restive Muslim-majority south Thursday but a second device was defused, police said.
The attack came as mainly Buddhist Thailand was on high alert against possible terror attacks during the five-day Buddhist New Year holiday, which begins on Friday.
The bomb, hidden under a market stall, was set off by a mobile phone in Yala, one of three insurgency-hit southern provinces bordering Malaysia, police said.
Another bomb was discovered at a public phone booth near the market but police defused the device.
Notice: even though the wire services want us to think the jihad violence in Thailand is “shadowy” and mysterious and no one ever claims responsibility, they still don’t hesitate to label it an “insurgency.”
Yala has suffered the brunt of a recent escalation in attacks by a shadowy Islamic insurgency, which never claims responsibility for the violence. More than 2,000 people have been killed in three years of unrest in the south.
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How the left destroys America. Carolyn over at BTWA, let loose with what I consider to be the best sum up of the Duke lynching;
GREAT news! NC Attorney General Cooper announced that all 3 of the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape are totally innocent. Reade Seligmann, Colin Finnerty and Dave Evans are free for the first time since this nightmare started last March 14th when a black prostitute lied to get out of a drunk tank.
AG Cooper also found that (1) all criminal charges will be dropped against the 3 players -- in fact, the AG pointedly noted that the 3 never should have been arrested in the first place; (2) far from being raped, the prostitute Crystal Mangum was never even touched by the lacrosse players that night; (3) the AG would have arrested Crystal for filing a false rape report except the AG decided she was too mentally disturbed; and (4) the AG is demanding the North Carolina Supreme Court enact a new law that will prevent a 'rogue prosecutor' like Nifong from ever railroading innocent players like Reade, Colin and Dave.
NONE of the Gang of 88 (the nickname for the 88 leftist Duke professors who attacked the lacrosse players like wolves and literally demanded they be castrated, etc.) will apologize. Indeed, one of the professors says she still doesn't consider the players innocent - merely that they got off because there wasn't a good enough investigation. (Obviously, leftists don't need facts.)
I now await the sound of wonderful lawsuits slapping down on the desks of the Gang of 88, etc. Duke University didn't have just one 'Ward Churchill' professor, it had 88 of them. Duke President Brodhead groveled to them completely when the Gang dictated that the lacrosse players be tossed under the bus. One of the Duke Deans even helped put out a 'wanted' poster on the innocent kids - and then tried to bully the players into not getting lawyers or even telling their parents. Unbelievable.
It's been a long hard haul till now. I am so glad - so glad - that it's over.
People - be aware. This victory is not just for the innocent players - this victory is for the blogs. Let no one forget that had it not been the blogs proclaiming the innocence of those players - blogs like Durham-in-Wonderland, Bill Anderson, John in Carolina and LieStoppers, etc., those kids would almost certainly been jailed for 30 years for a rape that never happened. Not only did the leftist campus turn on them, including their own Duke President, but even the NYTimes, Newsweek, CBS, etc. - ALL proclaimed those kids guilty. It was only after serious blogging began to uncover startling facts about the 'accuser' (i.e., she was/is a well known prostitute in Durham, she'd bragged to her stripper girlfriends about the money she was going to make off the 'rich white boys' to drop the rape charges, etc.), about the DNA (Nifong lied to the defense and withheld lab tests that proved Crystal was lying, etc.), about an innocent cab driver who provided an ironclad alibi for one of the players (bloggers revealed Nifong arrested the driver on fake charges and tried to have him jailed because he wouldn't change his story), etc. that the tide began to turn. Bloggers poked holes in that farce faster than Dan Rather's National Guard memo - and within weeks, the media began to pick up on it. Slowly but surely the bloggers turned everything around - and now today is the proof of their power!
Want more? This is the Durham site. and the LieStoppers site.
Bruce over at The Democracy Project: The U.S. Is Duked
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“Dems Invite Muslim Brotherhood to Speak to Congress”
Hmm. Guess bin Laden already had plans. From MEMRI Blog and LGF, “Egyptian Daily: Democrats Invite Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Leader and Muslim Brotherhood MPs to Congress”:
The Egyptian opposition daily Al-Masryoon reported that high-level diplomatic sources said that Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Muhammad Mahdi ‘Akef, several members of his office, and Muslim Brotherhood MPs had been invited by U.S. Democrat congressmen to visit the U.S. next month and to speak to Congress.
Well then. So much for fighting them over there so that we don’t have to fight them here.
Somebody’d better warn the Congressional commissary to keep pork off the menu. Or so help me, heads will roll!
Notes Charles at LGF:
It just keeps getting worse; even though it’s a report from Egypt, I have little doubt that it’s accurate. Not only are they setting up their own shadow government, and pandering to the worst dictatorships on the planet, the Democrats are now openly inviting virulent enemies of Western civilization into our country.
This is probably a bit unfair. After all, as Secretary of State, Nancy Pelosi has every right to conduct diplomatic business. And as Commander in Chief-by-proxy, the Democratic majority in Congress is certainly within its rights to entertain our avowed enemies and give them a chance to spread enemy propaganda on C-Span.
Nuance, I think they call it. Try to keep up, would you, Charles?
A US citizen in Columbus, Ohio, has been charged with plotting terror attacks and training with Al Qaeda (since 1999): Columbus man charged with joining al-Qaeda, alleged bomb plot. (Hat tip: ronaldusmagnus.)
COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury indicted a U.S. citizen on charges of joining al-Qaeda and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas.
Christopher Paul, 43, of Columbus, trained with al-Qaeda in the early 1990s, the indictment issued Wednesday says. The indictment says he told al-Qaeda members in Pakistan and Afghanistan that he was dedicated to committing violent jihad. Paul is charged with providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. ...
The indictment says Paul traveled to Germany about April 1999 to train co-conspirators to use explosives to attack European and U.S. targets, including government buildings and vacation spots frequented by American tourists. It does not address specific resorts or buildings that might have been targeted, but it gives U.S. embassies, military bases and consular premises in Europe as examples.
Paul later sent a wire transfer of $1,760 from a financial institution in the U.S. to an alleged co-conspirator in Germany, prosecutors allege. A fax machine in his home contained names, phone numbers and contact information for key al-Qaeda leadership and associates, according to the indictment.
Paul also is accused of storing material at his father’s house in Columbus, including a book on improvised land mines, money from countries in the Middle East and a letter to his parents explaining that he would be ”on the front lines,” according to the indictment. ...
Paul was born Paul Kenyatta Laws. He legally changed his name to Abdulmalek Kenyatta in 1989, then to Christopher Paul in 1994, according to the indictment. After finishing his al-Qaeda training in the early 1990s, he returned to Columbus to teach martial arts at a mosque, the indictment said.
Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:59:06 pm PDT | link: 290 comments |
Only Nice Children Have Sex
At what age should children be subjected to "explicit" sex ed? The Brits (and at least one Canuck) seem to think, or so it would appear, that virtually any age will do ... after all, the family with it's sexual constraints is evil ... right?
Brock Chisholm, the Canadian doctor who became Director-General of the World Health Organisation, decreed that children should be freed from national, religious and other cultural prejudices inflicted on them by their parents. He advocated that classroom sex education should be introduced, “eliminating the ways of the elders by force if necessary.” As Valerie Riches has noted in Sex Education or Indoctrination? another like-minded American family planner, Mary Calderone, called for “liberating children from their families” and “abolishing the family as we know it”. CLICK
ht: Brussels Journal
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April 12th, 2007
From a delighted Associated Press:
Clinton Names Activist to Campaign Post
NEW YORK (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Thursday that Raul Yzaguirre, a prominent Hispanic activist and former president of the National Council of La Raza, would co-chair her presidential campaign and lead its outreach to Hispanic voters.
“Hillary Clinton has spent more than three decades advocating on behalf of those who are invisible in America,” Yzaguirre said in a statement. “Not only is she the most experienced and qualified candidate to be president, Senator Clinton has the ability to bring people together to get results and move this country forward.” …
As always, our watchdog media leaves out any bothersome details.
Mr. Yzaguirre was the Director of the National Council of La Raza. La Raza (which means “race”), which is one of the most racist organizations in the country.
But that is no surprise, as Mr. Yzaguirre is a racist himself.
Even Wikipedia admits it:
As President [of La Raza], Yzaguirre often engaged in hyperbole and sensationalism to promote his racial / raza agenda. In the 1990s Yzaguirre said, “US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to US English the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg. But it’s apparently fine for Democrats to hire racists.
In fact, it’s mandatory.
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CATALLARCHY: GUILT VS. INNOCENCE:
"Why we care." Plus an interesting observation in the first comment.
ANDREA PEYSER wants the New York Times to apologize to the Duke Lacrosse players. Plus this: "But the biggest losers may be the ones you'll never hear about. These are the genuine victims of sexual assault: women who don't fabricate tales of brutality, or seek out the richest, whitest men to falsely accuse of forcing them into sex. Who will believe a rape victim now?"
UPDATE: More on the Times' coverage: "The worst journalist covering the case was the New York Times’ Duff Wilson."
Meanwhile...
Kurt Vonnegut, RIP
The novelist Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at age 84. Back in the day when I took my lessons in political thought from John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut was one of my favorite writers. I read every one of the novels he had published through 1970, beginning with Player Piano, continuing with The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and Mother Night, and culminating in Slaughterhouse-Five. The man met the moment with Slauhghterhouse-Five in 1969 and Vonnegut became a countercultural celebrity without any discernible discomfort. Indeed, he encouraged acolytes like me in our fatuity, our grandiosity, our irresponsibility.
From an adult perspective, one can see that the novels are full of cheap irony, insufferable sentimentality, paper thin characters, and forgettable plots. If Vonnegut's novels have made it into the high school curriculum, as Dinitia Smith states in today's New York Times obituary, pity the poor high school student who thinks that this is what literature is all about.
Just before Vonnegut became a celebrity he collected his shorter fiction in Welcome to the Monkey House. Vonnegut included his early dystopian story "Harrison Bergeron" in the collection. In it he envisioned a nightmare future in which "everyone was finally equal." It's a story that runs against the grain of the kind of leftist political orthodoxy that Vonnegut came to embody. RIP.
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ENJOYING THE FIGHT, and
cheering on both sides. "Essentially it didn't matter that Imus has done a lot of good things, when it became clear that advantage could be taken and pandering could be done, Imus was thrown under the bus."
LGF-Haters Rampage at Fark.com
They hate us. I mean, really, really hate us. It’s a blind, unthinking hate party at Fark.com: Think Nancy Pelosi’s (D-upe) trip to Syria was a good idea? Think again. Here’s how it’s playing in Saudi Arabia.
They couldn’t care less how Nancy Pelosi is being viewed in Saudi Arabia. The most important thing is to smash the object of hatred, i.e. LGF, by any means possible.
UPDATE at 4/12/07 9:40:48 pm:
And the LGF-haters at Digg.com are now using the site as their own personal character assassination tool.
A message to me from the thoughtful, caring left:
Charles, you are a kingsize jerk. Enjoy neoconservative twilight, you sperm burping gutter slut.
Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 8:09:23 pm PDT | link: 140 comments
Did any of you see Michelle Malkin host O'Reilly's show tonight? You want to talk about offensive, how about Michelle being called a white man's political whore by a black racist. [Link: hotair.com...] I saw that. Michelle handled herself well..and the audience got to see how far off that muslim brotherhood piece of crap was.
Michelle Malkin (Subbing for O'Reilly tonight)
MIRAMAR Clinics operated outside the law, police say the co-owner of two abortion clinics
Red-light fines to go to police, firefighters (for running lights without reason)
Magnitude 6.2 - GUERRERO, MEXICO
Bloomberg Bolsters Gun Drive in Ohio and Kentucky-- So the solution is to infringe on the rights of law abiding Americans?
Palestinian Nazis and Nancy Pelosi
The Menace of the Lobby [Mullahs, Gays, Greens]
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Immigration debate sours for illegals--
"There are plenty of Democrats who would rather just walk away and say the Republicans are racist, and the Hispanics will vote for us, and then we'll do something" after the 2008 elections, said Tamar Jacoby..."
But for fun...
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Makes you wonder who is getting paid off.
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LMAO.... perhaps the article should go one step further and point out that to reduce Canada and the world's footprint on green house gas CO2 emissions we could just ask the Dion's, Gore's, Clinton's and Suzuki's to stop exhaling CO2... If they hold their breath long enough we all win :P
The only way you're going to stop global warming is to turn down the temperature of the Sun or block out the energy that reaches Earth from it.
When scietific report after report indicates the average temperature on other planets in our solar system have been going up then it ain't rocket science to draw the conclusion that hey...maybe we should expect to see an increase in our own planets average temperature...ya think???
As for water levels rising from melting Ice caps...try dropping some ice cubes in your drink and mark the water level before and after they melt... Now do the same thing in your bath tub as a proportional representation of the Earth's Oceans and the polar ice caps...heck... fill the tub 50/50 ice and water and see where the water level is before and after the ice melts... then shut the hell up 'cause the water isn't going to rise and flood out New York or LA.
The concern shouldn't be focused on the smoke and mirrors of "Global Warming" or the redistribution of the worlds wealth... we should be looking at polution and poluters and be fining and taxing the hell out of people that polute and encouraging people to clean up their act...
Telling 3rd world countries in Africa, South America, Latin America and Asia they're not allowed to develope coal, gas, or oil electric plants to provide electricity to their people for simple things we take for granted like refridgeration of medical supplies and/or food, or lights at night, or power for cooking without having to light a non vented fire in their homes to cook is criminal. Especially when they have some of the largest reserves in Coal, Natural Gas and Oil in the world. That's where your "Millions are dieing"... but it's not being caused by global warming...it's being caused because of global fear mongering...Posted by: Mr Ed at April 9, 2007 1:51 PM "