L I B E R T A D

Libertad, that's Spanish for FREEDOM.



Shamelessly borrowed from Publius Pundit



Venezuelan college kids, known as 'chamos', march in Sunday's rally
in Caracas, forming the word 'libertad' or in English, 'freedom' with
their bodies, as their rallying cry from the dictatorship of Hugo
Chavez. It's the beginning of the end for that tyrannical sack of trash.



Venezuela's freedom protests are no longer about anything political - they are about freedom.



The white hand with a sort of peace sign is a symbol of resistance to tyranny among the Venezuelan college kids,



Venezuelans rally Sunday at the headquarters of CNN in Atlanta. Like RCTV, CNN has been threatened by the dictator. The kids want CNN to stay strong and not cave in. CNN would be wise to heed them. (CNN is the friend of dictators worldwide, CNN hid the crimes of Saddam to keep 'access', CNN knowingly supported the torture of thousands to keep 'access'. CNN will support Chavez.)



the chamos want freedom for all. (and so do I.)



Venezuelan chamos protested in San Francisco on Sunday, the most famously progressive city in the U.S., calling for freedom there, too. Where are the hippies who claim to stand for as much?



Putting tape over their mouths to protest the gagging of the free
press, Venezuelans protest at the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico City, a
city where many have been drive to exile from Chavez's tyranny and
economic ruin.



DO NOT PURCHASE GAS AT CITGO. Chavez owns CITGO.

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Faux Quote

Daily Kos, a lie a day will keep the honest folks away.



Fred

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Vote Fred Thompson 2008...Americans will get that secure border!

The Oppressive Lebanese

from Reuters: International

NAHR
AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese troops directed artillery and
tank barrages at al Qaeda-inspired militants dug in at a Palestinian
refugee camp on Sunday, the third day of an intensified assault to
crush the gunmen.



How dare they attack the poor innocent Palestinians?!



Those Palestinians are just fighting for their rights, for their freedom.




How dare they attack the poor innocent Palestinians?!



Oh, yeah. this isn't the evil Joos attacking, it is the Lebanese.

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Note

Jesus was Just a Muggle.



Mohammad was an evil Muggle.



Moses was Just a Muggle.



Hitler was an evil Muggle.

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Faux Quote

Liberals: Smell like chickens.



Fred

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Living in Terror

By Fred Thompson

May 30, 2007

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. What do you think America would do

if Canadian soldiers were firing dozens of missiles every day into Buffalo,

N.Y.? What do you think our response would be if Mexican troops for two

years had launched daily rocket attacks on San Diego -- and bragged about

it?

I can tell you, our response would look nothing like Israel's restrained

and pinpoint reactions to daily missile attacks from Gaza. We would use

whatever means necessary to win the war. There would likely be numerous

casualties on our enemy's side, but we would rightfully hold those who

attacked us responsible.

More than 1,300 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza since

Palestinians were given control two years ago. Israelis, however, have gone

to incredible lengths to stop the war against them without harming

Palestinian non-combatants. But make no mistake, Israel is at war. The

elected Hamas government regularly repeats its official promise to destroy

Israel entirely and replace it with an Islamic state. Hamas openly took

Credit for killing one woman and wounding dozens more last week alone.

The Palestinian strategy is to purposely target and kill Israeli civilians.

Then, when Israel goes after those launching the attacks, Palestinians

claim to be the victims. If Palestinian civilians aren't hurt in the

Israeli attacks, they stage injuries and deaths. Too often, they garner

sympathy and support from a gullible or anti-Semitic media in the

international community.

Israelis, themselves, are often incapable of facing the damage they inflict

in self-defense. Knowing this, Islamic extremists are using their own

populations as human shields.

I'm beginning to wonder how much longer this vicious plot will work though.

International sympathy for Palestinians has diminished as the same

Islamofascist extremists have brought havoc to Madrid, Bali, Somalia,

London and elsewhere. More importantly, Israelis themselves are suffering

so badly, they may be on the verge of losing their sympathy for the people

who have sworn to kill them.

Imagine what it would be like to live, knowing that a rocket could fall on

you or your children at any minute. Half of those who live nearest to Gaza

have fled their homes. Those remaining are traumatized by daily warning

sirens and explosions.

The irony is that Israel has the military might to easily win the war that

is being waged against them today. They haven't used that might, in the

past, out of compassion for Palestinian civilians and because it could

trigger a wider regional conflict.

That balance of power is about to change, though. If Iran develops nuclear

weapons, the very existence of this tiny nation of Israel will be

threatened. The Iranian regime has left little doubt that it intends to see

Israel "wiped off the map. Hamas is using the same language, not

coincidentally, and has announced it will begin launching missiles into

Israel from the West Bank too.

If the world doesn't act to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions, it must be

prepared for the consequences of Israel defending itself.

Fred understands this world of ours.

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Faux Quote of the Day

Liberals: Not just for breakfast, also good for lunch and dinner.



Fred

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Quote

From Austin Bay:

Where the nutroots control, the purge shall follow. That’s because they are Stalinists at heart.

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Swiss campaign against minarets

“We don’t have anything against Muslims,” said Oskar
Freysinger, member of parliament for the Swiss People’s Party. “But we
don’t want minarets. The minaret is a symbol of a political and
aggressive Islam, it’s a symbol of Islamic law. The minute you have
minarets in Europe it means Islam will have taken over.”

Mr Freysinger’s words may sound extreme, even paranoid, but this is
a general election year in Switzerland, and the campaign against
minarets is playing well with voters. A recent opinion poll for one
Swiss newspaper found that 43% of those surveyed were in favour of a
ban on minarets.

“We have our civil laws here,” insisted Mr Freysinger. “Banning
minarets would send a clear signal that our European laws, our Swiss
laws, have to be accepted. And if you want to live here, you must
accept them. If you don’t, then go back.”

Professor of Islamic studies Reinhard Schulze warns that any hint
that Muslims are not peaceful might result in violence. Better to let
them have the minarets, so they don’t hurt us.

It’s a harsh message for Swiss Muslims, many of whom
were born in Switzerland. There are fears that the campaign against
minarets will provoke growing resentment against Swiss society.

“I think Swiss Muslims will be angry and bitter over this,” said
Reinhard Schulze, professor of Islamic Studies at Berne University.
“And we know that anger and bitterness among a community can lead to
radicalisation, even to militancy.”

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America the Beautiful

Quote

In terms of this Republican administration, some views about stem cell
research, gay rights, separation of church and state, and on and on—I
don't agree with any of them. But you can worry about the trees and the
environment and gas emissions later.

Right now there's a bigger
problem, and it's a guy who doesn't care if you're a Republican or a
Democrat; he wants to blow himself up and take you out. That's the
problem.

I think racially profiling anybody from the Middle East ...
the Swiss have been good this year, and as an Israeli, I want you to
look at me first. I want you to search my anal cavity and look at my
tax records. I want you to look at me first, and then at every guy
named Muhammad.

- KISS front man Gene Simmons

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Poem for today

It is the soldier, not the poet, who gives us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who gives us freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us freedom to protest.

It is the soldier who serves beneath the flag,

who salutes the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag,

who gives the demonstrator the right to burn the flag.

Father Edward O'Brien, USMC

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For those who gave all

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.



We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.



Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.



- Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, 1915

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From CWO Jim Funk

"Hello media, do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers every day? You inspire and report the enemy's objective every day. You are the enemy's greatest weapon. The enemy cannot beat us on the battlefield so all he does is try to wreak enough havoc and have you report it every day. With you and the enemy using each other, you continually break the will of the American public and American
government.

"We go out daily and bust and kill the enemy, uncover and destroy huge weapons caches and continue to establish infrastructure. So daily we put a whoopin on the enemy, but all the enemy has to do is turn on the TV and get re-inspired. He gets to see his daily roadside bomb, truck bomb, suicide bomber or mortar attack. He doesn't see any accomplishments of the U.S. military (FOX, you're not exempt, you suck also).

"We, the soldiers, keep breaking the back of the enemy.

You, the media, keep rejuvenating the enemy."

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Glad I Live in the States

The EU is considering sanctions against
several member states because of their supposed "homophobia" which is
defined as the failure to promote homosexuality in schools. More on the
EU's attempts to bludgeon member states into compliance on the "party
line" on homosexuality can be found here.



So European schools must PROMOTE homosexuality, not just teach TOLERANCE, but must activity promote homosexuality......I guess the Europeans really want to slide into the dustbin of history.

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Idiot Candidate: Ron Paul

Ron Paul thought that a Republican crowd would buy that the United States is to blame for 9/11....idiot.



Jimmy Carter, failed to respond to the taking of 44 hostages, and sat dumbstruck for 444 days...

Ronald Reagan got those hostages freed, by threatening Iran before he took office. Correction: It was not a threat, it was a promise to level Iran if the hostages were not freed.



Ronald Reagan, failed by protecting Yassar Arafat, and by a weak response to the bombing of the Marines.



Bill Clinton, responded weakly to all threats.



But those failures do not make the US responsible for 9/11.



The Islamic Fascists under Osama are responsible. George W Bush acted properly in Afganistan and Iraq.



Ron Paul is stupid to say otherwise, especially in front of Republicans.

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Five Iraqi Hostages Freed

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Five Iraqis who were held captive and tortured by
terrorists were freed Monday morning during a Coalition Forces raid on
the site where they were imprisoned.

Coalition Forces targeted the building northeast of Karmah during
continued operations to disrupt the al-Qaeda network operating in the
area. After a thorough search of the building, ground forces found a
padlocked room. Inside were four men and a boy who had been kidnapped
and severely beaten with chains, cables and hoses. The four captives
also showed signs of torture, and the boy stated the terrorists had
hooked electrical wires to his tongue and shocked him.

Coalition Forces evacuated the five individuals and provided
treatment for their injuries. The hostages indicated their captors were
foreign fighters who spoke with different accents. The hostages, who
are from different tribes, will be turned over to their respective
tribal leaders for repatriation.

“The brutality and viciousness of these acts demonstrate the
complete disregard terrorists have for human life,” said Lt. Col.
Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson. “We will continue to hunt
foreign fighters who bring this violence into Iraq.”

Source MNF-Iraq.

h/t to My Pet Jawa

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USS Stark

Twenty Years ago today. (from the book "No Higher Honor" By Bradley Peniston)

Just before sundown on 17 May, an Iraqi pilot in an F-1 Mirage jet headed down the Gulf, scanning his instruments for oil tankers.

The first missile punched through the hull near the
port bridge wing, eight feet above the waterline. It bored a flaming
hole through berthing spaces, the post office, and the ship’s store,
spewing rocket propellant along its path. Burning at 3,500 degrees, the
weapon ground to a halt in a corner of the chiefs’ quarters, and failed
to explode. The second missile, which hit five feet farther forward,
detonated as designed. The fired burned for almost a day, incinerating
the crew’s quarters, the radar room, and the combat information center.

About one-quarter of the crew was incapacitated in the attack. Twenty-nine were killed immediately; eight more died later.

I was onboard the USS Haleakala AE-25 in the Western Pacific when this attack occurred. We immediately, without waiting for orders, starting planning our voyage to the Persian Gulf. We figured that the munitions in our holds would be needed.

Two days later, we were told that we would not be going.

Here’s to absent friends, and keeping your powder dry.

Eternal Father, strong to save,


Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,


Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep,


Its own appointed limits keep.


Oh hear us when we cry to Thee,


For those in peril on the sea!

Thanks Lex for reminding me of this.

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Quote of the Day

By Mike at Flopping Aces:

We each have a choice: Submit to the Islamo Fascists or fight
and prevail. Sticking your head in the sand is nothing more than
submission and cowardice.

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Attempted Rules Change in the House

Speaker Pelosi is attempting to silence the Republicans in the House. She desires absolute control of the House. She doesn't want the minority party to have a say.

The Motion to Recommit rule has been on the books and unchanged since 1822.   The Rules Committee website says
“The motion to recommit is the prerogative of the Minority party.” 
Thomas Jefferson prepared a rules manual for his own use as President
of the Senate, and the House still uses it for guidance.   At the
beginning of Jefferson's Manual he quotes the Speaker of the House of
Commons from 1728 to 1761:

"It
was a maxim he had often heard when he was a young man, from old and
experienced Members, that nothing tended more to throw power into the
hands of administration, and those who acted with the majority of the
House of Commons, than a neglect of, or departure from, the rules of
proceeding; that these forms, as instituted by our ancestors, operated
as a check and control on the actions of the majority, and that they
were, in many instances, a shelter and protection to the minority,
against the attempts of power."

The
rules of the House are there to protect the Minority from the tyranny
of the Majority.  But Nancy Pelosi is in charge now, and the Rules are
being eliminated.  You do the math.

Comrade Speaker Pelosi wants no opposition to her will. None.   

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Fox News: Intelligence suggests missing soldiers are alive

from Hot Air

U.S. aircraft dropped leaflets Wednesday in a thinly populated farming area south of Baghdad, offering a $200,000 reward for any information on three missing American soldiers believed captured by Al Qaeda terrorists.

The new search tactic came as a senior U.S. military official in Baghdad told FOX News there was reason to believe the missing GIs were still alive. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, would only say the assessment was based on intelligence.

Damn, it's hard to type with crossed fingers.

I'm still praying for them.

Iraqslogger had reported this a few days ago:

The “source” told the newspaper that the attack took place in Shwaisha, 30 kilometers west of Mahmudiya. The US troops were riding two Humvee vehicles, stationed on a bridge over the Euphrates River, the source – who spoke under the condition of anonymity – said.

The attack occurred while the US patrol was “exchanging its position with a replacement patrol,” the source claimed. An armed group, which al-Hayat did not identify, attacked the US troops with mortar shells, causing the death of 5 soldiers, while the remaining three “fled to an unknown location.”

The source added that it is still unknown whether the missing soldiers were captured by the same group that attacked their patrol…

What is notable in the al-Hayat report is that the security source affirmed that the three soldiers were “missing and not captured;” adding that “al-Qa’ida is “claiming a victory for itself that it did not achieve.”

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Wisedom from a Democrat

Yes, wise words from a Democrat. It is hard to believe but some Democrats do understand the real world.

From Ed Koch (D).

Because the Democrats are forcing an end to the struggle in Iraq, we must now prepare to fight terrorism in our homeland for the next thirty or more years. This is a war of civilizations. The Islamic terrorists worldwide want to destroy the U.S. and every other Western nation, along with moderate Muslim nations, e.g., Egypt, Jordan, etc. Our very survival as a nation is involved. Will we have the courage and will to do all that will be necessary to prevail?

During the Cold War the pols in Washington were mostly united in support of this goal. But now the Democrats are not. There is no safety for the weak and foolish. When you seek to end a war without substantially achieving your essential goals by simply ceasing to fight, it is often a form of surrender. And that’s the way the Democrat-imposed outcome in Iraq will be understood around the world, especially by our enemies.

Yep, the former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, understands.

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Democrats Blinked

From Congressman Cantor

House Republicans are shutting down the floor, because the Democrats are threatening to change a rule and deny Republicans any opportunity to offer a motion to recommit on the "paygo" provisions of their legislation.
That’s a lot of wonky talk; bottom line - the Democrats are preventing their Members from having to vote on the tax increases that they are trying to impose on the American People.

It is simply stunning that House Democrats want to change the germanenss rule on motions to recommit; this would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.

Check back for updates. We will be updating on this showdown as it unfolds.

UPDATE: Rep. Westmoreland just moved for a recorded quorum call, then a motion that the committee will rise. Expect to see more of these…

House Democrats Just Blinked

House Democrats wanted to change the rules to make it easier to raise taxes. They wanted to hide their Members from a direct vote on the tough issues. They wanted to change rules on minority floor rights that have been in place since 1822.

They failed.

Today, House Republicans stood united and successfully fought against the House Democrats’ ill-advised rule changes, by reducing all business on the House Floor to a crawl. We used a creative set of motions and other parliamentary techniques to bring the fight.

In the end, House Democrats lost and the American People won.

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Good, Good....

From The Tank on National Review Online

al-Qaeda Captors Cornered Near Baghdad, No Word On Soldiers [Steve Schippert]

The al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists who captured three US Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division are reportedly cornered in a rural area near Baghdad. From the story developing:

"Right now our focus is on searching for the missing soldiers, and we're trying to isolate the areas where we think they could be," said Army Maj. Kenny Mintz, the brigade operations officer for the 2nd BCT, 10th Mountain Division in a Multinational Corps Iraq news release.

"The (captors) don't have freedom of movement; if they have the soldiers, they can't move them from where they are. We're doing a deliberate search of the areas for the people responsible for the soldiers we're looking for," he said.

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One word about 2008

F R E D

Religious Difference

From Iraq War Today

At any rate, I don't buy it. A Muslim friend of a friend said once that although he's lived in America all of his life, although he loves this country, if a fatwah came down to kill Americans, he'd be obligated to do it.


Let's think about that for a second. If the Pope said, "OK, folks, time to kill all the Jews - it's the religious obligation of all Catholics to do so," the collective Catholic following would say, "Time for a new Pope," not "Where do we start?!"

Go read the entire rant.

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More Politics, Less Help for the People

from Stop The ACLU by RagingAnura

Good Lord are those Democrats touchy!

Yesterday afternoon, I posted about
allegations that Howard Dean had manipulated KS Governor Sebelius into criticizing the White House about federal response to the Greensburg tornado, as did others (a Technorati search should enlighten you as to how viral the story has become in the blogosphere).

The offended souls at the DNC have whittled down the reaction time to a very impressive overnight. Their lawyers sent a letter to both XM Satellite Radio (the ones who originally got the purported information) and to our buddies over at Free Republic.
Both letters are not only denials of the facts as I mentioned them yesterday, but they also contain injuctions to cease and desist any further dissemination of allegations relating to this matter.

Did I just witness the 1st Amendment take a pick axe to the head?

Democrats: 10% is all we can send, so we can blame Bush for not helping.

Democrats: Politics first, Help People in need second

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Fred's Word

"A French president who openly admires America is an embarrassment to those who view us as the country bumpkin cousins of the sophisticated Europeans. American pundits and politicians who say we should change our foreign policies to win the European popularity contest ought to be feeling a little embarrassed too."

(Fred Thompson @ NRO)

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Thanks, John Doe

"If we didn't get that tip," said U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie in New Jersey, "I couldn't be sure what would happen."

M. Zuhdi Jasser, director of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, agrees that the FBI's arrests show the need to protect the principle of "see something, say something."

"What if this 'John Doe' had contrarily chosen to be silent due to a fear of litigation?" Dr. Jasser said.

Thanks, from one 'John Doe' to another 'John Doe'.

Conventional Stupidity

via Michelle Malkin

So much for anti-Americanism, says the Examiner:

Amazing, isn’t it, how the conventional wisdom that holds sway among many sophisticated — i.e. liberal — Washingtonians and New Yorkers is often so completely divorced from reality. These folks have come to take it as a given that America’s involvement in Iraq has inflicted severe damage to our nation’s image abroad, especially in Europe. But the most recent national election results from France and Germany demonstrate that this “truth” about George W. Bush’s America is about as credible as the recurring rumor that Elvis is actually alive and well flipping hamburgers in happy obscurity somewhere near Seattle...

Hey, Elvis flips a very tasty burger.

Appeal for Courage

Reposted from The Cook Shack -- Gab & Grub



Well Sir....at Bluto's request, I borrowed and posted this....and I agree completely....



The Latest Mainstream Media Lie...

...is a lie of omission.



John Hinderaker at Powerline writes about The Appeal for Courage:



As an American currently serving my nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to fully support our mission in Iraq and halt any calls for retreat. I also respectfully urge my political leaders to actively oppose media efforts which embolden my enemy while demoralizing American support at home.

The War in Iraq is a necessary and just effort to bring freedom to the Middle East and protect America from further attack.It was signed by 2,700 active duty service men and women, and the only place you'll read about it is on blogs like this one. Not your local newspaper, not CNN, certainly not NBC or CBS - not even Fox, so often accused of leaning right. But you'll certainly hear about three disgruntled generals and their hissy fits over strategy and tactics.

That's news, at least as profoundly biased mainstream media types define it. It should shame
every one of us that those who are putting their lives at risk for our freedom and safety feel the need to publicly ask the folks at home and their representatives to grow a pair of balls.



As a Disabled Vet, I am becoming so ashamed of our Government...and most certainly the MSM of this country....



Cookie....



As a veteran, the domestic enemies of freedom - MSM - disgust me to no end. They are nothing but idiots who are to stupid to see how their actions endanger the very freedoms they abuse.

Marvin....

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Politics First, Helping People Second

Kansas Governor Sebelius was instructed by Howard dean to NOT ask for Federal Aid, then to claim help was slow in coming.

XM Radio’s Quinn & Rose made the allegation that DNC Chairman Howard Dean called Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius early Sunday morning and instructed her not to request federal assistance in recovery from the Greensburg tornado, and to lie about the federal response to date, on their show, The War Room, today. After I discussed the story via phone with both Quinn and Rose today, here’s what they sent me.


Democrats: Politics First, Help People Second

Senator Sam Brownback told Governor Sebelius that he was very disappointed in her, She pleaded “You know me Sam, I wouldn’t have said it if I didn’t have to.” She declared “Howard (Dean) called me around 5 o’clock (in the morning) and told me not to ask The White House for any help or make any statements until I heard
back. Dick (Durban?) called me an hour or 2 later and that’s when he told me we needed to use this ‘n’ said to talk about the Guard all bein’ at war.”

She then explained the thinking; “Speaker and Harry got so much heat on them from both sides over this damn war, ‘n’ they need to get the press on somethin’ else. I didn’t think it was right to use it like this either, but I didn’t see’s I had much choice in this climate, Sam.”

Democrats: Politics First, Help People Second

Of course, only 10% of the state National Guard members were called in to help before the governor held the press conference on "shortages".

Democrats: Politics First, Help People Second

Tully, who lives in the area, reported this from Greensburg:

Wichita and Sedgwick County crews were already on standby because of the storms
sweeping the state, and were in Greensburg within two hours. It's a hundred miles away. Do the math.

Acquaintances on one of those first teams told me that when they got there, the highway in had already been cleared and locals with chainsaws and pick-ups were well into clearing the streets so that rescue vehicles could go anywhere. By dawn heavy equipment from the region was already pouring in, and they had to start cordoning off the town because there were too many volunteers there with equipment. By Sunday when Sebelius made her insulting remarks, there were traffic jams on the highway from utility crews piled up, coming in to "safe" the gas and electric.

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Democrat 10% Aid Response

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) tries to blame Washington for her decision to only send 10% of the available National Guard resources to help the victims in Greensburg, KS.



10% of the available National Guard in Kansas was all that this Democrat sent to help her people. (600 of some 6000).

Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback disputed claims by Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius that a deadly Kansas tornado exposed holes in National Guard readiness caused by the Iraq war.

Sebelius said Monday that Kansas is missing about half its National Guard trucks and many well-trained personnel that could have helped respond to last weekend's tornado in Greensburg, Kan. The twister killed at least 10 people and razed the farming town.

"The issue for the National Guard is the same wherever you go in the country. Stuff that we would have borrowed is gone. It's gone across the country," she said Monday.

Brownback said Tuesday that local officials and the Kansas National Guard commander all told him they have the resources needed to respond.

"That's what really got me, is her saying that," Brownback said in an interview.

"So I asked, privately and publicly, the adjutant general, do you have the equipment you need?" he said. "Because if you don't, we're going to hit Fort Riley and McConnell (Air Force Base) and other places to make sure we have all the equipment we need to respond to disasters. Everybody there said no, we have the equipment we needed."

DEMOCRATS play POLITICS when PEOPLE need HELP.

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Was Bin Laden Right?

go to My Pet Jawa and learn!

Learning from History

In 480 BCE a small group of warriors stood against millions. They knew
they faced almost certain death. They knew that they probably would not
receive reinforcements. And yet they held their ground, they refused to
retreat and their actions did nothing less than save Western
civilization. This is the story of 300 Spartans who held off the two million man army of Xerxes of Persia.



It is also the story of the Alamo, where a few hundred men delayed the advancing thousands of the Mexican army, where the volunteers from Tennessee stood tall.



It is also the story of Bataan and Corigidor (sp?), where the US 1st Army stood and fought, for months, until they were exhausted.







Three examples of smaller forces, standing tall, fighting and dying - to give freedom and democracy a chance to survive.



The men knew what they fought for,

they knew they would not prevail,

they stood and fought anyway.





Is freedom and democracy worth fighting and dying for?

What price shall we pay to stop the creeping chaos?



Iraq and Afganistan - the United States has lost and average of 2 soldiers a day. Plus, we keep the fight against the Islamofacist 'over there' and off of our streets.

But some the fight is on our streets - the 'flying Imams' and their lawsuit to silence the reporting of 'unusual behavior'. They are working to weaken our protections here at home.





We need the 300 today.

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The French prove they are smart!

The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president of La Belle France, with his affirmations of friendship for the United States, a firm stand against Islamism, and a rejection of the socialism that has pretty much turned France into an economic basket case, is proof that the majority of the French still have functioning brains and are still able to think for themselves.

I hope President Sarkozy can bring France back from the edge of self-destruction.

I hope he can reestablish law and order in ALL French neighborhoods. The 'Special Administrative Zones' set-up by former President Chirac, are a sign of defeat and surrender to chaos and mob rule.

I hope President Sarkozy can save Europe from the European Union and its looming oppression of Europeans.

Message to Speaker Pelosi

To: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House
Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Democrat Leader

Congress has passed and President Bush has vetoed H.R. 1591, the Iraq Surrender Act of 2007.

This legislation, which you worked to pass, sets a timetable for surrender. It pulls the rug out from under our troops. That is shameful and wrong.

Your actions have already emboldened the enemy. Violent jihadists now know that the elected leadership of Congress would undermine the troops by holding their funding hostage to demands for surrender.

This Congress would bring us back to the dark days of the 1970s, when the world doubted our staying power. Except only much worse. Withdraw in April 2008, and on May 1, Iraq becomes an unchecked den of terrorism at the heart of the Middle East -- a new base for the same people that struck our homeland on September 11th.

I stand with our troops. I stand for victory. I support the President's veto and will urge my representatives to vote to sustain it.

There can be one and only one outcome in Iraq: We win, they lose.

Capital Fraud

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California death row investigator pleaded guilty on Monday to falsifying evidence in a bid to help spare the life of four condemned inmates, including one who has led a major challenge to the legality of lethal injection.

Kathleen Culhane, 40, who worked in private practice and earlier as an investigator for a San Francisco center that represents indigent death row inmates, admitted to four counts of perjury, forgery and falsifying documents.

She is expected to get a sentence of five years in prison, Brown's office said.
***
5 years!!
Can we make her pay the state's cost in redoing all these cases?
Can we execute all those killers/rapists that walked free because of her criminal acts?

Audio from CAIR's meeting on 6 Imams

from Vigilant Freedom/910 Group Blog

It’s all about the numbers in the victimhood bullying game.

And Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR, has problems getting the numbers he needs to prove that Muslims are subject to unusual discrimination. This could be a real embarrassment for Awad, because if Muslims are actually doing well in the U.S., maybe they don’t need CAIR.







1. First speech by Nihad Awad

There were 196 cases reported by the Justice Department for Muslims in civil rights cases. There were over 1008 cases reported by the Jewish faith. We need to do a much better job not only in recognizing our civil rights but also in reporting it to the government. Which is very critical and very important.

Hmmm, Jews being victimized 5 times for each Muslim victim... Yep. Jews have been victims for thousands of years.

…It is very important for Muslims to understand the law, and it’s also very important for Muslims to exercise their legal rights in the country. And it’s also important that if these rights are violated, that Muslims recognize that these rights are violated. Many Muslims,they are discriminated against or mistreated, they overlook or ignore or they are afraid to say or challenge or report these mistreatments. Which means, more of the same will take place against the same person or persons or against Muslims. And when people stand up and say something and challenge them, then there will be change.

True enough

But the psyche of Muslims have to change. The laws are there, fortunately, but the laws are not utilized. They’re not understood and they’re not followed by the victimizers or the victims. So there’s a lot of ignorance about the law, and that’s why Muslims usually find themselves being mistreated or discriminated against. Reporting to an organization like CAIR is important, because it is empowering.

Victimizers? Who are Victimizers? Are these the Muslims who attack others?

The Department of
Justice, in their annual report, don’t be surprised that if you feel
Muslims are not treated well in the country, that the number of reports
of incidents against Muslims or hate crimes is very low. Whereas the
number of incidents and hate crime cases against the Jewish community
is very very high. Maybe dozens of [incidents] against Muslims, but
against Jews are in the thousands. But when you examine the situation
you say, We really feel our community is more targeted. 54% - this is
one of CAIR’s surveys - 54% of all Muslims surveyed said they had been
subject to discrimination.

54% of who. Just exactly who did CAIR survey? There own membership - their leadership, just exactly who did they survey? And what questions were asked in this survey? How were the questions worded? Were they all leading questions? Did this include discrimination by Muslims against Muslims?







From the Questions  after his speeches:

“There
are two levels. Imams are going after those who caused this for them,
the particular incident. The imams also have the right to sue the media
if the media misrepresented them and that misrepresentation caused them
harm. So this is almost like first draft. There could be second and
third draft. There’s a statute of limitation for Defamation of one
year. So until November 20, 2007 they have the right to sue any party
who misrepresented them or defamed them.

But the laws of
defamation in the United States are much more difficult. The most
difficult laws. You can say almost whatever you want in this country.
Unlike Europe and Canada, where there are strict, tough defamation
laws. If you accuse someone, if you say something about some people,
you can be sued, you can go to jail or you can be fined. In the United
States, people use free speech, the First Amendment, to justify a lot
of what they say. But there’s a limit.And I think there are many
lawyers who are looking into this. But the main focus on the imams now
is to have legal recourse against those who caused them [immediate]
harm, they were rejected, they were mistreated, they were [arrested]
and they were denied service.”

Sounds like he don't like the First Amendment.

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Farewell: Sandmonkey

via Atlas

Here are some excerpts. On reform:

SANDMONKEY: "Any kind of democratic reform in the
country [Egypt] for the past 3 years has been rolled back specifically
because there is no more pressure coming from Washington anymore."

ATLAS: Why? What happened to the pressure in Washington?

SANDMONKEY: You know what happened to the pressure in
Washington. The Democrats won the Congress. There is no more pressure
coming from Bush because he is not able to push people anymore to do
those things. He is not able to push the Egyptian government
anymore because the American public is suddenly not interested in
reforming the Middle  East because of what's going on in the Iraq. So suddenly the Egyptian government is not afraid of the American pressure. They are doing whatever they want to do. They
are beating up demonstrators, they are cracking down on activists, they
are changing the constitution, and eroding civil liberties once and for
all and they are using proxies to take down bloggers.

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Quote

"Americans never quit."

General Douglas Macarthur

Assuming that statement is true, then who are the Democrats?

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Michelle vs Mary Katharine

A battle royal on YouTube this week.

Michelle Malkin's - Defeatocrats Cheer

VS

Mary Katharine Ham's - I Do Not Like To Hear Good News





VS

Quote of the Day

Senator Kit Bond:

Is it really any surprise then that jihadist websites are

quoting Harry Reid word for word?

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The DA

No, not the lawyer type District Attorney.....



The Wizard Type - Dumbledore's Army



Click Here to join.



The Dark Lord must be Defeated!

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How to Clean up the Blogosphere?

My thoughts on how to improve the blogosphere:

Start with your own blog!
And don't link to folks who don't maintain a polite blog.
And 'just do it' - don't blow your own horn about how nice and polite you are, just be nice and polite.

Use peoples names, don't use nicknames:
no silk pony, no hildabeast, no klintoon, no chimphitler, etc

Children use nicknames, adults should use real names.

Respect their office, even if you can not respect the officeholder.

Attack/discuss their ideas, their agenda.
Make sure the facts support comments on their character.

As to the comments on your blog:
Comments are off.
Comments are moderated. (Be consistent)
Comments are unmoderated.

If a comment is deleted or edited - comment on why it was deleted/edited.


Just my thoughts.

Speaker Pelosi avoids General Petraeus

Pelosi Won't Attend Petraeus Briefing


ABC News

House Speaker to Skip Gen. David Petraeus' Briefing on the Progress of the Troop Escalation




By JAKE TAPPER




WASHINGTON, Apr. 24, 2007- 

As the House and Senate prepare to vote this week on the final conference report on
the $124 billion troop funding bill -- which would also mandate that
U.S. combat troops begin withdrawing from Iraq on October 1 at the
latest -- Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to come to the Hill tomorrow
to brief lawmakers on the progress of the recent troop escalation.

ABC News has learned, however, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will not attend the briefing.

"She can't make the briefing tomorrow," a Democratic aide told ABC News
Tuesday evening. "But she spoke with the General via phone today at
some length."

Shamelessly borrowed from Atlas Shrugs

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Congressional Show Trials

via Gateway Pundit





The money quote:

How about...

FUND THE TROOPS AND QUIT PLAYING YOUR SICK GAMES TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS!

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DEFEATocratic Leader: Senator Reid

Harry Reid says that even if Gen. Petraeus reports progress in Iraq, Reid will refuse to believe it.



via LittleGreenFootballs

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Should NBC have aired Cho's video?

Gut reaction - No.



Allah at Hot Air looks at whether any news organization should have aired this mass murderer's video.



The networks refused to show the footage of the people who fall/jumped out of the World Trade Center, because they feared it would cause too much anger.

But the networks aired Osama's video after 9/11....





hmmm..



Final answer - No. That bastards is the most watched video on YouTube. How many other glory seekers are going to plan a major crime to achieve such honor?

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What Would I Do?

What would I have done, if I had been at Virginia Tech - - -

I don't know.
I have never been in a situation of live hostile gunfire.

I have had been threatened with a knife, twice.
First time, I stared him down. (This was at a small organizational event, for a high school club. The man who threatened me, in front of a witness, would have gone to jail.)
Second time, was at a high school event. I had an entire football team backing me up.

So neither of those incidents were truly life threatening.

But, my daughter, who will start college next fall, asked about what she should do.

This is what I told her.

First, determine if you are in immediate danger,
if not, determine were the danger lies, and move away from the danger.
if yes, get small, get low, get slow.

Get small - less of a target
Get low - a shooter is more likely to shoot high
Get slow - a person notices fast motion, more than slow motion.

Fighting Back - An Option?

from Big Lizards by Dafydd





The epiphany is this: Each one of us is a foot soldier for civilization; when evil threatens, we must do our utmost to thwart it.



Your utmost may be as simple as snitching on your best friend
when you discover he has systematically looted the company you both
work for... or as profound as Virginia Tech Engineering Professor Liviu
Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, who gave his last full measure blocking
the doorway to his classroom, allowing his students time to escape out
the window.



Read it ALL

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The Victims

 Gateway Pundit has posted a list of the massacre victims.



One person listed jumps out at me.

A Survivor who gave his life to allow some students to escape.





A Holocaust survivor...



** 75-year old Professor Liviu Librescu threw himself in front of the shooter,Israeli lecturer (Via Dan Riehl)

He was killed while holding off the gunman so his students could escape.

Yesterday, was Holocaust Remembrance Day.



He acted to protect life.

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French Voter Guide

via Pajamas Media

French Voters Guide

PJM Sydney

April 16, 2007 9:04 PM

French voters in casting their ballots should “remember who has
offended Islam,” the vice president of France’s largest French Muslim
group said. (AKI)

PLEASE VOTE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE OFFENDED ISLAM

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Prayers for the Hokies

I am praying for the all of the Virginia Tech Family......



After today's massacre, prays are truly needed....

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THUGS RECITE KORAN WHILE ATTACKING

via Pat Dollard

From The Norwegian Newspaper “Aftenposten”:

Kadra attacked in public

Norwegian-Somalian Kadra, who became famous in Norway for exposing
imam support of female circumcision, was beaten unconscious on Thursday.

Kadra was attacked and beaten senseless by seven or eight persons of
Somali origin, newspaper VG reports. Kadra said that the gang of Somali
men attacked her around 3 a.m. in downtown Oslo on Thursday. A medical
examination found that she had several broken ribs, NRK (Norwegian
Broadcasting) reports. Kadra filed charges and was due to speak with
police on Friday.

“I was terrified. While I lay on the pavement they kicked me and
screamed that I had trampled on the Koran. Several shouted
Allah-o-akbar (God is great) and also recited from the Koran,” Kadra
told VG.

Kadra’s role in a 2000 hidden camera TV documentary revealing the
positive attitude of Muslim leaders to female circumcision had a
massive impact on Norway, and sparked new legislation.

Posted by Pat Dollard



RELIGION OF PEACE -- NOT

ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF CHAOS AND DEATH.

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Living in Sin, All these years

Leading Islamic Cleric: Nudity During Sex Annuls Marriage

from Little Green Footballs

The former dean of Al-Azhar University (the highest center of Sunni Islamic learning in the world) has issued a fatwa declaring that if a husband and wife are completely naked during sex, the marriage is annulled.

If this applies to Jews......

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Word from Sgt Brooks

via Powerline

Many people believe that being in Iraq has little bearing on the war
on terror and winning is no longer an option. Yet even if we have no
chance of winning we must have the moral strength and courage to
continue to fight.

Through our operations we have tilled up the Iraqi society and our
departure would only allow the enemy to embed themselves deeply within
the social fabric. Left unchecked this situation would produce a state
that is evil, radical, and anti American. This would be a Jihad
Victory. Because of this we must be victorious.

I say that it is the “Right war to Fight” and I mean it with every
fiber of my being. America is in this fight now. Much like Israel is
locked in war, we are now locked in war. It may be slow and protracted
but it will remain.

You may be thinking that this is not the case and that the attacks
on American soil were a fluke. I say to you that you are lying to
yourself and are in for a rude awakening. Not only are you in for a
rude awakening but your self deception will cost our nation dearly in
mindset and readiness. You have become tired of fighting. But how can
anyone become tired of fighting the right fight? Much like in a foot
race you will begin to tire and hurt. You will begin to focus on what
is happening to you now. You have lost sight of the goal as you focus
on yourself. And the pain that consumes you now has killed your
aspirations of winning. You will only be able to win when you keep your
eyes on the end goal and you see past the now. But unfortunately our
eyes, via the news, have been focused on the now far too long.

Where have the enemies of our country come from? The answer is
Radical Islam. The only thing that I can equate Radical Islam to is a
gang. In a land where there is little to offer in terms of education,
jobs, and class advancement the idle public will begin to look for
affiliation. They find that affiliation in their religion. Similar to a
gang, Fundamental Islam provides a sense of belonging which translates
to influence and through that affiliation and influence the members
execute the will of the organization.

READ IT ALL

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Quote

John Stuart Mill:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of
things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who
has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more
important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has
no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of
better men than himself."

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Global Warming

Snow Falls In Metro Atlanta

from WSBTV.com - Local News

Metro Atlanta residents flood Channel 2
Action News with calls of snow flurries overnight. Our cameras caught a
steady stream of snow on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta.



None of the snow stuck. With temperatures Saturday morning hovering around the freezing mark, Channel 2 meteorologist Brad Nitz said Easter Sunday would be colder than it was on Christmas.

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The Declaration of Arbroath 1320

The Declaration of Arbroath 1320 by John Prebble

The Declaration of Arbroath was and has been unequalled in its eloquent plea for the liberty of man. From the darkness of medieval minds it shone a torch upon future struggles which its signatories could not have foreseen or understood.

The author of this noble Latin address is unknown, though it is assumed to have been composed by Bernard de Linton, Abbot of Arbroath and Chancellor of Scotland.

Above the seals of eight earls and forty-five barons, it asked for the Pope's dispassionate intervention in the bloody quarrel between the Scots and the English, and so that he might understand the difference between the two its preamble gave him a brief history of the former.

The laughable fiction of this is irrelevant. What is important is the passionate sincerity of the men who believed it, who were placing a new and heady nationalism above the feudal obligations that had divided their loyalties less than a quarter of a century before. In its mixture of
defiance and supplication, nonsensical history and noble thought, two things make the Declaration of Arbroath the most important document in Scottish history.

Firstly it set the will and the wishes of the people above the King. Though they were bound to him 'both by law and by his merits' it was so that their freedom might be maintained. If he
betrayed them he would be removed and replaced. This remarkable obligation placed upon a feudal monarch by his feudal subjects may be explained in part by the fact that Bruce was still a heather king to many of them, still a wild claimant ruling upon sufferance and success.
But the roots of his kingship were Celtic, and a Celtic tradition was here invoked, the memory of the Seven Earls, the Seven Sons of Cruithne the Pict in who, it was believed, had rested the ancient right of tanistry, the elevation of kings by selection. This unique relationship
of king and people would influence their history henceforward, and would reach its climax in the Reformation and the century following, when a people's Church would declare and maintain its superiority over earthly crowns.

Secondly, the manifesto affirmed the nation's independence in a way no battle could, and justified it with a truth that is beyond nation and race. Man has a right to freedom and a duty
to defend it with his life. The natural qualifications put upon this by a medieval baron are irrelevant, as are the reservations which slave-owning Americans placed upon their declaration of independence.

The truth once spoken cannot be checked, the seed once planted controls its own growth, and the liberty which men secure for themselves must be given by them to others, or it will be taken as they took it. Freedom is a hardy plant and must flower in equality and brotherhood.

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Muslim Demands

from Signal 94;by sig94

A H/T to Al Hammel.



TWISTED LOGIC - POOR OLD MUSLIMS -

THEY GET INSULTED - WE GET BEHEADED

The Pope says that jihad violence is against God's nature,

and officials fear that in response,

Muslims enraged by this insult will commit ...
jihad violence.



Muslims murder 3,000 innocents in New York and the Pentagon

and expect no criticism.

Muslims murder 202 tourists in Bali

and expect no criticism.

Muslims murder 333 schoolchildren and their teachers in Beslan

and expect no criticism.

Muslims murder 292 innocents,

mainly Kenyans and Tanzanians at two US Embassies

and expect no criticism.

Muslims murder 241 US and 58 French peacekeepers in Beirut

and expect no criticism.



Muslims fire 4,000 Katyusha rockets into Northern Israel

killing over 50 innocent civilians

and expect no criticism.



Muslims murder 52 in London and 191 in Madrid

and expect no criticism.



Muslims murder 200 in Mumbai

and expect no criticism.



Muslims behead

Western hostages in Iraq,

Buddhist monks in Thailand,

Christian schoolgirls in Indonesia

and expect no criticism.



Muslims murder 500,000 in Darfur

and expect no criticism.



Muslims regard Jews as 'sons of pigs and monkeys',

and vow to nuke Israel

and expect no criticism.



Muslims force women to wear hideous sacks,

stone to death women for getting raped and for leaving the home unescorted, engage in honor killings of sisters and daughters for unapproved dating,

and expect no criticism.



Muslims danced in the streets

and handed out sweets to their kids to celebrate the 9/11 atrocity,

and still expected no criticism.



Since 9/11 Muslims have killed over 26 ,000

and wounded over 50,000 in terrorist attacks worldwide

and expect no criticism.



Since 9/11 Muslims have committed terrorist attacks in

Afghanistan,

Algeria,

Bangladesh,

Belgium,

Chad,

Chechnya,

Dagestan,

Denmark,

East Timor,

Egypt,

England,

Eritrea,

Ethiopia,

France,

Germany,

India,

Indonesia,

Ingushetia,

Iran,

Iraq,

Israel,

Jordan,

Jordan-Iraq,

Kabardino-Balkans,

Kenya,

Kosovo,

Kuwait,

Kyrgyzstan,

Lebanon,

Mauritania,

Morocco,

Netherlands,

Nigeria,

Pakistan,

Gaza-Palestinian Authority,

Philippines,

Qatar,

Russia,

Saudi Arabia,

Scotland,

Somalia,

Spain,

Sri Lanka,

Sudan,

Syria,

Tajikistan,

Thailand,

Tunisia,

Turkey,

United Arab Emirates,

United Arab Republic,

United States,

Uzbekistan

and Yemen,


and still expect no criticism.


Muslims have carried out over 7,000 fatal terrorist atrocities since 9/11,
and countless thousands since Islamic conquest began in 623 AD

and expect no criticism.



But if a Pope dares to tell the truth about Islam

or Danes publish cartoons about Mohammed,

then let the outpourings of Islamic hate and outrage begin.



And, by some twisted reach of logic,

the arrogant bastards demand the Pope issue an apology.



**********

ISLAM IS A DEATH CULT

Islam worships Death

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I am John Doe

From Michelle Malkin
UPDATED with VIDEO

Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist, You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours. I am John Doe. I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift. I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss. I am John Doe. I will never forget the example of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight. I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean. I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run. I will act when homeland security officials ask me to "report suspicious activity." I will embrace my local police department's admonition: "If you see something, say something." I am John Doe. I will protest your Jew-hating, America-bashing "scholars." I will petition against your hate-mongering mosque leaders. I will raise my voice against your subjugation of women and religious minorities.

Respectfully,

John Doe

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Interactive Cartoon Fun

Shock & Awe



All Praise unto Cox and Forkum

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Bappy Hirthday: Gred and Feorge

April 1st- marks the birth of the happy go lucky Weasley Twins.

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Word from Winston

“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without
bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not
too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with
all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may
even be a worse case: You may have to fight when there is no hope of
victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”



Sir Winston Churchill

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Sam Ryskind : Cartoonist

Words of Wisdom

From Senator Saxby Chamblis

Congress Should Not Micromanage the War

March 30th, 2007

Congress
does not need to micromanage the war, and funding for our troops should
not be delivered with strings attached.  The continuous efforts to set
a surrender date undermine our military and are contradictory to the
Senate’s unanimous support of General David Petraeus, who is currently
executing the new strategy in. We need to give that strategy a chance
to work without tying the hands of those who are carrying out that
strategy.

We have military leadership on the ground in recommending against
imposing timelines. We have civilian leaders who have significant
military experience who testified before the Senate Armed Services
Committee, and every single one of those individuals, whether they were
Republican or Democrat, has said imposing timelines is not the way to
go. A surrender date will simply embolden the enemy.

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EU Solves "Terrorism" Problem

From Little Green Footballs

The European Union has solved Europe’s problem with Islamic terrorism and jihad.

By banning the words.

The European Union has drawn up
guidelines advising government spokesmen to refrain from linking Islam
and terrorism in their statements.

Brussels officials have confirmed the existence of a classified
handbook which offers “non-offensive” phrases to use when announcing
anti-terrorist operations or dealing with terrorist attacks.

Banned terms are said to include “jihad”, “Islamic” or “fundamentalist”.

The word “jihad” is to be avoided altogether, according to some
sources, because for Muslims the word can mean a personal struggle to
live a moral life.

One alternative, suggested publicly last year, is for the term
“Islamic terrorism” to be replaced by “terrorists who abusively invoke
Islam”.

An EU official said that the secret guidebook, or, “common lexicon”,
is aimed at preventing the distortion of the Muslim faith and the
alienation of Muslims in Europe.

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The Code of Conduct

Article I: I am an American, fighting in the armed
forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to
give my life in their defense.

Article II: I will never surrender of my own free will. If in
command I will never surrender the members of my command while they
still have the means to resist.

Article III: If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all
means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to
escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.

Article IV: If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my
fellow prisoners. I will give no information nor take part in any
action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will
take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed
over me and will back them up in every way.

Article V: When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am
required to give name, rank, service, number, and date of birth. I will
evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will
make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its
allies or harmful to their cause.

Article VI: I will never forget that I am an American, responsible
for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country
free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.

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Senator Joe Speaks Truth

“...it is an awful irony of this debate that many
of the same people who consistently and correctly call on the United
States to do more to stop the bloodshed in Darfur now demand we abandon
the Iraqis.”

“We hear that Sunnis and Shia have been fighting for
centuries, and that no matter how tragic, we cannot possibly hope to
resolve this conflict. We have heard these arguments before. We heard
them in the 1990s about Yugoslavia. We heard them about Rwanda. Like
the euphemism of “civil war,” it is another way for us to distance
ourselves, emotionally and morally, from what is actually happening—and
from the people it is happening to. It allows us to think of these
places as a sort of abstract tragedy, in which there are no victims,
just victimizers, whom we can walk away from with impunity… The wanton
slaughter of innocent people that our soldiers are trying to stop in
Baghdad is not the inevitable product of ancient hatreds, but the
consequence of a deliberate, calculated strategy by an identifiable
group of perpetrators—first and foremost, Al Qaeda.”

“I ask my colleagues: consider what it will mean if Congress
orders our troops to pull back from this battle, just at the moment
that they are taking the initiative. Consider the consequences if we
knowingly and willingly withdraw our forces and abandon one of the few
states in the Middle East to have held free, competitive elections to
extremism and violence...”

“We cannot redeploy from our moral responsibility to the
Iraqis. It is contrary to our traditions; it is contrary to our values;
and it is contrary to our interests. And yet that is precisely what this Congress will be calling for, if we order our troops to withdraw.”

- Joseph Lieberman, addressing the United States Senate

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How Liberals Think

Hmmm

According to TheHill.com

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) said Tuesday that he did not give staffer Phillip
Thompson the pistol whose possession got the aide arrested Monday when
he tried to enter the Russell Senate office building.

“I
have never carried a gun in the Capitol complex and I did not give the
weapon to Phillip Thompson, and that’s all that I think I’ll say,” Webb
told reporters.

So, Senator,

is your staffer a thief? or

is your staffer a manic bent on killing inside the Senate Offices? or

is your staffer just plain stupid?

And Senator don't forget - your staff is a reflection of you.

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Sorry Kos: FOXNEWS is Fair and Balanced

Kos at Daily Kos is annoyed by FOXNEWS - telling the truth!

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Reuters: Bias Report

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Foreign troops deployed in Afghanistan are
beginning to draw the resentment of Afghans fed up with growing
civilian casualties and the lack of material progress in their lives,
experts say.

Resentment has posed special problems in the south, where villagers
who have suffered from Western military firepower have responded to the
Taliban's call to arms against foreign troops and the government of
President Hamid Karzai, the experts said.

David - just who are these 'experts' and what is their 'expertise'? Are they Islamic militants?, Democrats?, United Nations staff?,

Just who are these experts - you refuse to name in the openning paragraphs of your report.



An honest journalist would have named their expert source, the first time they cite the source.

Ahh!! the third paragraph ids one source:

"There is growing resentment because of the kinds of military
operations that have been carried out, not because of the international
troop presence," Samina Ahmed, South Asia project director for
International Crisis Group think tank, said this week in an interview

The seventh paragraph does show some balance:

Pentagon and NATO officials cited opinion polls, however, that show a
large majority of Afghans favoring foreign troops and only a small
fraction of support for the Taliban.

on page 2 - online:

But David Edwards, a U.S. anthropologist regarded as an expert on
the origins of the Taliban, said reconstruction has been overshadowed
by rampant corruption, meager international donations and poverty in a
country where the unemployment rate is about 40 percent.

Resentment against the lack of material progress in theirs lives...has caused some Afghans to accept a paycheck from the Taliban.



But opinion polls show that the Afghan people accept the need for the NATO Troops to be in Afghanistan - Because the Afghans know the horror of living under Taliban rule.

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Prayers for Tony Snow

White House spokesman, Tony Snow, who is a survivor of colon cancer, now has liver cancer..



My dad has battled colon and liver cancer for over a decade now..



Stay strong, Tony.

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My Day: Bad News, Good News

The BAD news:
Today was my last day at - what was - my primary employer. I have been laid-off. We were formally notified that the company had lost the contract last May, and we had suffered thru 2 years of contract negotiation before that. So, this was not a surprise. Since, I had 16 years with them, my package is 26 weeks of pay.
I still have my other job. A part-time retail job, which hopefully will become full-time, while I search for another 'primary' or hopefully 'only' job.

The GOOD, I mean GREAT news:
My one and only child, has been accepted (unofficially) at New York University (NYU)!!! The kid's desire has been to go to college in NYC. The kid is bursting at the seams. My in-laws live in NYC - so the kid gets college in the same town as the grandparents. [Official acceptance letters are sent March 31st.]

The QUESTION:
How do we afford to send the kid to NYU?????

Slow News Day

I am almost bored enough to find a picture of Anna Nichole Smith in a blue dress and caption it "Is Bill Clinton the Daddy?"
Now, of course that would make Hillary Clinton, the prime suspect in the deaths.
If that was true, would Angelina Jolie, adopt the baby?
and whose campaign would get the cash?
I am almost that bored.

Then again if Harry Houdini has escaped from his casket, then Sherlock Holmes, urr I mean, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gets away with 'red rum'.

But that would be like Gandalf returning from the dead or Professor Dumbledore dying.

Nope, not that bored.