This is one of the funniest thing I've ever read. Imagine people calling in to protest the move of a zoo wanting to add female penguins in an already all male penguin in a zoo pen fearing that male penguins might become straight. I laughed outloud reading this. Fearing that male penguins might become straight?? Really nutty people to even bother protesting. But they do anyway. Put the female penguins in and see how it turns out. I'd be interested in seeing the results. But noooooooooooooooooooooooo......not according to the gay and lesbian community who fear that these supposedly "gay" penguins may become "straight." Gasppp! The horror!! Oh fer cryin outloud! Lighten up people. Heck, these penguins might turn out to be the "bi-curious" kinds or even bi-sexual. I supposed they are against that? Or maybe these male penguins really are straight and they are just simply a confused bunch of penguins just like being in an all-male prison population where you have no females to cavort with. Just don't reach for that soap, yet.
These male penguins are certainly confused if they go around trying to hatch a stone. It's an innate response since it's the father who keeps the egg warm first until it hatches and keeps the chick warm, too. The mother go out and "feed up". The father "incubate" the eggs and doesn't eat until the female penguin returns (after 6 or 7 weeks). Male and female penguins mate for life. Of course, you still get your gay penguins in an already female and male penguin population. This has been observed in zoos and in the wild that have a mixed population of female and male penguins. And if this is the case, why protest in the first place?
These people who protested the zoo's decision are absolutely nuts. Sorry. They're not thinking with a full deck of cards here in this instance when all the zoo wants to do is add female penguins to already all-male penguin society...in a closed pen. What's next? Demand that zoos put all female penguins in a separate pen, too?
The is the same level of ludicrous on the belief that a live lobster scream in pain when put in a pot of boiling water. Sure, yeah. A lobster screaming underwater. A lobster can't scream, it's impossible. The lobster does not have a vocal cord. And a lobster has a very primative nervous system. So, pain is not an issue.
The "gay penguin" protest is also on the same level of laughability when a woman complained who was offended that a cop was eating a banana when a bus full load of people who were coming to attend Rev. Jackson civil rights appearance. An why was she offended? She took the officer's banana eating to imply an analogous racial slur relating black people to apes. Oh please, the woman needs psychiatric help.
Funny how these people are sometimes. And how they whine and complain in the most obtuse and dense way.
And, oh, btw people, don't read too much into the title of my blog piece as well as my written blog, too. Don't want to come off looking like a whiner. Well, you probably are anyway.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A plan by a German zoo to test the sexual appetites of a group of suspected homosexual penguins has sparked outrage among gay and lesbian groups, who fear zookeepers might force them to turn straight.
"All sorts of gay and lesbian associations have been e-mailing and calling in to protest," said a spokesman for the zoo in the northwestern city of Bremerhaven on Friday.
He said the zoo concluded the penguins might be gay after seeing male penguins trying to mate with other males and trying to hatch offspring out of stones.
German media reported that female Swedish penguins would be brought to the zoo to test the theory, but when word got out about the plan, the phones started ringing.
"Nobody here is trying to break-up same sex pairs by force," the zoo's director Heike Kueck told public broadcaster NDR. "We don't know if the three male pairs are really gay or just got together because of a lack of females."
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
cBS' Spawns of Hell to Cannibalize Leader
According to the Drudge Report THE NEW YORK OBSERVER will report tomorrow with an article about how former 60 Minutes Wednesday executive editor Josh Howard has told colleagues that before he resigns, the 23-year CBS News veteran will demand that the network retract remarks by CBS president Leslie Moonves, correct its official story line and ultimately clear his name.
It was Josh Howard who warned CBS to admit to the hoax of the fake Bush Guard document.
Two days after the broadcast, Howard suggested that CBS admit it may have been the victim of a hoax. But the network refused to apologize for another 10 days, when Howard recalled telling his staff: "Your management failed you. I failed you."
It was Josh Howard who warned CBS to admit to the hoax of the fake Bush Guard document.
Two days after the broadcast, Howard suggested that CBS admit it may have been the victim of a hoax. But the network refused to apologize for another 10 days, when Howard recalled telling his staff: "Your management failed you. I failed you."
Even though on Jan. 10, 2005 in the 224-page investigative report the memo describes how CBS president Leslie Moonves issued a statement dwelling on the failures of the employees involved in producing the disputed segment. Bad timing on Moonves part.
It was Powerline blog who suggested on January 18, 2005 that,
The biggest threat to CBS, I think, is an employee or two who don't want to take the fall and are willing to talk about how the National Guard story came to be. Given the cultural monolith at CBS and the other broadcast networks, I'd be shocked if anything really revelatory came out, but at a minimum, recalcitrance on the part of these "terminated" employees must be making Dan Rather and many others sweat.
Looks like Powerline Blog is right on the mark. Looks like Mr. Howard will be taking the route to defend his name and honor and has retained a lawyer. He has told associates that he would like to see Moonves put under oath to talk about his own roles in the network's stubborn, hapless defense of the flawed segment on President Bush's National Guard service.
According to the Drudge Report, Howard has also indicated to colleagues that he would subpoena specific CBS documents, including the e-mails of top executives.
Now, being the recalcitrance people they are, looks like cBS has just now stepped beyond the event horizon and are now staring down into their own blackhole. Once those e-mails of top executives become revelatory then certainly cBS would lose all credibility as a news organization. And if things gets nasty, perhaps a leak or two might happen. This is going to be the bare knuckle fight between Mr. Howard, the "fired employees", Moonves and cBS.
cBS deserve this fate in their reckless zeal to try and destroy the Republican party and President. Nice going Dan Rather. You've helped seal cBS' fate.
Now here comes the bloggers who would like to see those CBS documents and emails, too.
Beta Version of Video Google Comes Up with Deaf Deportation
Check out the beta version of video Google. And to start it off, I put in the search word "deaf"...
Also, check out the latest likely deportation of this individual whose parents died. He interprets for deaf people. Dulalia, 39, has been in the United States since 1987, both as a student and an interpreter in Ohlone College's deaf studies department. He signs into the hands of students who are both blind and deaf, one of only a dozen or so such interpreters in the Bay Area.
>>And the attorney says the unexpected deaths ruined her client's chances of being a citizen.
>> When his father died and his mother died, the petition died with both parents.
>> Now he is scheduled to be deportd back to the Philippines. He is devastated.
>> There is no work for me there.
Same story here, and here, and here....
What cruel irony here.
His Filipino father fought with U.S. forces in World War II, under a promise of American citizenship from President Franklin Roosevelt. Congress revoked the promise in 1946 — an act that would take almost 45 years to be judged illegal. Dulalia's father was finally granted his citizenship in 1995. Had it been granted when promised, Gerry Dulalia would have been born an American.
Read this story. And pass it on to other deaf or hard of hearing bloggers. Doesn't matter if you're a Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Right Wing Nutjob, Green Party, or Libertarian. The power of bloggers can change this scenario for this one deaf guy who faces deportation to a country where deaf people do not have any opportunities at all. There are no deaf interactions. There are no deaf communities to be part of. There are no deaf supported services. He is that close to become a citizen in the United States. That...close...after living 18 years in the United States as a productive, legal immigrant who have helped deaf and deaf/blind people as an interpreter.
UPDATE: Seems like the deportation will go through but we can contact the Department of Homeland security to to drop the case on humanitarian grounds.
Several members of the Ohlone community, including McLaughlin and college President Doug Treadway, have written letters in support of Dulalia.
Perez said she has done everything she can. She contacted U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer several months ago, but neither offered to help. She said she received a reply from Rep. Pete Stark, but that was just asking for more information. And she received it only this week.
"It's too little, too late," she said.
Letters in support of Gerry Dulalia can be sent via e-mail to marciaiperez@cs.com. Perez will compile them and present them to government officials.
Barry Shatzman covers Ohlone College for The Argus. He can be reached at (510) 353-7003, or bshatzman@angnewspapers.com.
Also, check out the latest likely deportation of this individual whose parents died. He interprets for deaf people. Dulalia, 39, has been in the United States since 1987, both as a student and an interpreter in Ohlone College's deaf studies department. He signs into the hands of students who are both blind and deaf, one of only a dozen or so such interpreters in the Bay Area.
>>And the attorney says the unexpected deaths ruined her client's chances of being a citizen.
>> When his father died and his mother died, the petition died with both parents.
>> Now he is scheduled to be deportd back to the Philippines. He is devastated.
>> There is no work for me there.
Same story here, and here, and here....
What cruel irony here.
His Filipino father fought with U.S. forces in World War II, under a promise of American citizenship from President Franklin Roosevelt. Congress revoked the promise in 1946 — an act that would take almost 45 years to be judged illegal. Dulalia's father was finally granted his citizenship in 1995. Had it been granted when promised, Gerry Dulalia would have been born an American.
Read this story. And pass it on to other deaf or hard of hearing bloggers. Doesn't matter if you're a Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Right Wing Nutjob, Green Party, or Libertarian. The power of bloggers can change this scenario for this one deaf guy who faces deportation to a country where deaf people do not have any opportunities at all. There are no deaf interactions. There are no deaf communities to be part of. There are no deaf supported services. He is that close to become a citizen in the United States. That...close...after living 18 years in the United States as a productive, legal immigrant who have helped deaf and deaf/blind people as an interpreter.
UPDATE: Seems like the deportation will go through but we can contact the Department of Homeland security to to drop the case on humanitarian grounds.
Several members of the Ohlone community, including McLaughlin and college President Doug Treadway, have written letters in support of Dulalia.
Perez said she has done everything she can. She contacted U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer several months ago, but neither offered to help. She said she received a reply from Rep. Pete Stark, but that was just asking for more information. And she received it only this week.
"It's too little, too late," she said.
Letters in support of Gerry Dulalia can be sent via e-mail to marciaiperez@cs.com. Perez will compile them and present them to government officials.
Barry Shatzman covers Ohlone College for The Argus. He can be reached at (510) 353-7003, or bshatzman@angnewspapers.com.
Monday, February 14, 2005
Mr. Ho and the Supervirus (HIV)
Is it a HIV supervirus or not? We don't know yet. But deep down in Mr. Ho's laboratory tests are being conducted to see whether or not the new strain of HIV is actually a supervirus or not.
AIDS viruses isolated from two individuals are being studied to determine whether either might be the source of a rare and potentially more aggressive form of HIV detected in a New York City man, an AIDS scientist involved in the studies said Sunday.
Many more tests need to be conducted to determine if the strains from the three people are the same, said the scientist, Dr. David Ho. He directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan, which is conducting some of the studies in collaboration with the New York City health department. While some findings may be available in a week, others will take longer, Ho said.
But even if the strains prove to be the same, it does not necessarily mean that a supervirus is on the loose because there could be genetic factors in the first man that would make the infection progress faster.
"What we can't prove is that this is a supervirus" and that it caused the rapid progression from infection to AIDS in the New York man, Ho said.
Tests in Ho's laboratory and elsewhere have shown that the strain from the man whose case started the investigation is resistant to 19 of the 20 licensed antiretroviral drugs. AIDS experts said that the strain may have led to the rapid onset of AIDS in the New York man or that his immune defenses may have been weakened by drug use or genetic factors.
Now, we have a potential source (NYC and, perhaps San Diego..see below) of where this virus came from and if it's indeed a supervirus, and if you're familiar with with math there is this progression called "geometric growth," then there will be some nasty progression from here on out. This is when 2 becomes 4 and 4 becomes 8 and then 16 and then 32, 64, 128, 256, and so on, doubling after each new generation. Or it could 3, 9, 27, 81...and so on, tripling with each new generation. This is also called "exponential growth."
If this supervirus is true and that it takes 2 to 3 months for a full blown AIDS, then imagine the devastation. Imagine when the new HIV strain is resistant to 19 of the 20 licensed antiretroviral drugs, you're talking trouble.
The two male contacts in New York, only one of whom is cooperating with the investigation, are among hundreds of men with whom the New York man told health officials he has had sex in recent weeks while using crystal methamphetamine. The man who sparked the investigation is cooperating with city health officials but apparently does not know the names of all his partners.
That partner probably did have sex with the New York man in October, a few weeks before the New York man became ill with what his doctors believe was the acute retroviral syndrome. It occurs in the earliest stages of HIV infection.
"He's a potential source for this man's case," Ho said. "But he may not be."
The second virus is from an unidentified patient in San Diego. It was found by scouring the records of a commercial laboratory, ViroLogic Inc. of South San Francisco, and portions of its genetic makeup closely resemble the molecular pattern of the New York man's virus, Ho said.
Of course, he doesn't know the names of all his partners over the past several months. Who knows whether if this is a supervirus or not. If so then we would have literally, potentially so, thousands already infected or will be infected. If one had sex with 10 other people, and in turn if they each had sex with 10 other people, that's 100 that could be potentially infected. And then they each have sex with 10 other people that's 1000 potential victims. And then up to 10,000 in just a few months time. That's exponential growth. And with diseases, especially the dangerous or virulent ones, when conditions and environments are ideal, then these diseases can rapidly progress. Knowing the power of math realizes the danger of a runaway virus. It's not a pretty sight.
And using a condom might be questionable too if this is a new deadly HIV strain then we don't know if this new virus is a little smaller that can pass through the porous holes of the latex rubber. We don't know what kind of harsh environment it can survive. We don't know what other pathways this virus can take or if it can reside in saliva or not. All you need is one dinky little virus for it to multiply exponentially. Exponential growths is very fast, unlike accumulative growth which is just adding 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12...or 5, 15, 20, 25...100, 200, 300...it grows but it's very, very slow compared to exponential growth with each succeeding new generation.
Now, we have San Diego and NYC to contend with (so far) on this potential HIV Supervirus. Only time will tell if this is indeed a supervirus. Might want to stop your favorite activity for now for the next few months until health officials know for sure. Being prudent has always been a wise choice. Unfortunately, many don't give a hoot. Be very careful I'd say. Be responsible. Be accountable. Be smart.
Meanwhile, here's a good concept, and it could save your health, sanity, and life - Project Reality.
AIDS viruses isolated from two individuals are being studied to determine whether either might be the source of a rare and potentially more aggressive form of HIV detected in a New York City man, an AIDS scientist involved in the studies said Sunday.
Many more tests need to be conducted to determine if the strains from the three people are the same, said the scientist, Dr. David Ho. He directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in Manhattan, which is conducting some of the studies in collaboration with the New York City health department. While some findings may be available in a week, others will take longer, Ho said.
But even if the strains prove to be the same, it does not necessarily mean that a supervirus is on the loose because there could be genetic factors in the first man that would make the infection progress faster.
"What we can't prove is that this is a supervirus" and that it caused the rapid progression from infection to AIDS in the New York man, Ho said.
Tests in Ho's laboratory and elsewhere have shown that the strain from the man whose case started the investigation is resistant to 19 of the 20 licensed antiretroviral drugs. AIDS experts said that the strain may have led to the rapid onset of AIDS in the New York man or that his immune defenses may have been weakened by drug use or genetic factors.
Now, we have a potential source (NYC and, perhaps San Diego..see below) of where this virus came from and if it's indeed a supervirus, and if you're familiar with with math there is this progression called "geometric growth," then there will be some nasty progression from here on out. This is when 2 becomes 4 and 4 becomes 8 and then 16 and then 32, 64, 128, 256, and so on, doubling after each new generation. Or it could 3, 9, 27, 81...and so on, tripling with each new generation. This is also called "exponential growth."
If this supervirus is true and that it takes 2 to 3 months for a full blown AIDS, then imagine the devastation. Imagine when the new HIV strain is resistant to 19 of the 20 licensed antiretroviral drugs, you're talking trouble.
The two male contacts in New York, only one of whom is cooperating with the investigation, are among hundreds of men with whom the New York man told health officials he has had sex in recent weeks while using crystal methamphetamine. The man who sparked the investigation is cooperating with city health officials but apparently does not know the names of all his partners.
That partner probably did have sex with the New York man in October, a few weeks before the New York man became ill with what his doctors believe was the acute retroviral syndrome. It occurs in the earliest stages of HIV infection.
"He's a potential source for this man's case," Ho said. "But he may not be."
The second virus is from an unidentified patient in San Diego. It was found by scouring the records of a commercial laboratory, ViroLogic Inc. of South San Francisco, and portions of its genetic makeup closely resemble the molecular pattern of the New York man's virus, Ho said.
Of course, he doesn't know the names of all his partners over the past several months. Who knows whether if this is a supervirus or not. If so then we would have literally, potentially so, thousands already infected or will be infected. If one had sex with 10 other people, and in turn if they each had sex with 10 other people, that's 100 that could be potentially infected. And then they each have sex with 10 other people that's 1000 potential victims. And then up to 10,000 in just a few months time. That's exponential growth. And with diseases, especially the dangerous or virulent ones, when conditions and environments are ideal, then these diseases can rapidly progress. Knowing the power of math realizes the danger of a runaway virus. It's not a pretty sight.
And using a condom might be questionable too if this is a new deadly HIV strain then we don't know if this new virus is a little smaller that can pass through the porous holes of the latex rubber. We don't know what kind of harsh environment it can survive. We don't know what other pathways this virus can take or if it can reside in saliva or not. All you need is one dinky little virus for it to multiply exponentially. Exponential growths is very fast, unlike accumulative growth which is just adding 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12...or 5, 15, 20, 25...100, 200, 300...it grows but it's very, very slow compared to exponential growth with each succeeding new generation.
Now, we have San Diego and NYC to contend with (so far) on this potential HIV Supervirus. Only time will tell if this is indeed a supervirus. Might want to stop your favorite activity for now for the next few months until health officials know for sure. Being prudent has always been a wise choice. Unfortunately, many don't give a hoot. Be very careful I'd say. Be responsible. Be accountable. Be smart.
Meanwhile, here's a good concept, and it could save your health, sanity, and life - Project Reality.
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Mike McConnell - One of Liberals Worst Nightmare
If you ever have a sense of humour, this is the time. From a different blogger:
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mike McConnell and Cunningham are at the top of their games because they are well informed, can argue their points, make you laugh, and their shows sound good. (Sure, sometimes McConnell and Hannity get a bit preachy. And sometimes Rush's parody songs and Cunningham's comedy bits are tasteless. Still, these guys are good.)
And another one:
Steven Taylor notes that Bill Kristol is predicting Bush will nominate Mike McConnell as the next Chief Justice (after Rhenquist leaves).
And this one:
Mike McConnell is a former head of America's top electronic spying agency the NSA, and he worked as intelligence officer for the then General Colin Powell during the last Gulf War. He's in Australia at the moment with the company he now works for, Booz Allen Hamilton. Mike McConnell, former head of America's top electronic spy organisation, the National Security Agency.
Oh, and one more I've found, books galore!
Gee, Mike McConnell is all over the place. All in the right places, too, including my blog - Kokonut Pundits. My cloning project must be working (although I found a few errant ones, too).
"I'm a force to be reckoned with." (with sounds of Darth Vader)
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mike McConnell and Cunningham are at the top of their games because they are well informed, can argue their points, make you laugh, and their shows sound good. (Sure, sometimes McConnell and Hannity get a bit preachy. And sometimes Rush's parody songs and Cunningham's comedy bits are tasteless. Still, these guys are good.)
And another one:
Steven Taylor notes that Bill Kristol is predicting Bush will nominate Mike McConnell as the next Chief Justice (after Rhenquist leaves).
And this one:
Mike McConnell is a former head of America's top electronic spying agency the NSA, and he worked as intelligence officer for the then General Colin Powell during the last Gulf War. He's in Australia at the moment with the company he now works for, Booz Allen Hamilton. Mike McConnell, former head of America's top electronic spy organisation, the National Security Agency.
Oh, and one more I've found, books galore!
Gee, Mike McConnell is all over the place. All in the right places, too, including my blog - Kokonut Pundits. My cloning project must be working (although I found a few errant ones, too).
"I'm a force to be reckoned with." (with sounds of Darth Vader)
Buck Naked Bison - No Skinny Dipping Allowed
Buck Naked Bison is becoming the new deaf alternative electronic newsletter format by founders Brendan Stern and run by Jane Jonas. But Stern and Jonas are no longer at the helm and the torch was recently passed to Ben Moore and Tim Woodford. The original BNB (not to be confused with Gallaudet University’s newspaper Buff and Blue’s acronym BNB) struggled with the costs of paper and print when it came to distributing their newsletter in a paper format. It wasn’t long until they decided to go “electronic” using the internet as their medium. Buck Naked Bison’s aim is to expose controversial perspectives (supposedly so) while using, uh, colorful graphics. Some of the graphics may be deemed as “offensive” to some (probably I. King Jordan is currently offended at the moment) with one picture of a naked man sitting on a port-a-potty while the private area is covered with a newspaper as if he’s reading it while the face of President I. King Jordan is superimposed over the original photo. Funny? You be the judge. Some say that President I. King Jordan of Gallaudet University is Buck Naked Bison’s “mascot”. Is this a love-hate thing going on here with Jordan or what? Regardless, this seems to be their “de rigueur” format. If this is any indication of free literacy license to do what they want then expect Buck Naked Bison eNewsletter to expand. Let’s see whether if they can buck the trend of the past or not.
In the past, Gallaudet University students were given the artistic literary license (although not entirely *THAT* free to do what they wanted) to communicate and express their thoughts and feelings. But time and time again through their newsletters they failed to maintain the much needed circulation and enthusiasm to keep their newsletters afloat. Why? Such defunct literary contents as Mental Floss (headed and founded by Kevin McLeod who now blogs), Manus (Latin for “hand”), and Gallaudetian newsletters flopped with so much as a whimper, nobody really heard it (pun intended). When the Deaf-run Mental Floss newsletter failed (or abandoned) the name was taken up (stolen?) elsewhere on the internet and in print with a successful result. Go figure.
What caused the continued demise of these newsletters falling like dominos one after another? Could it be that the majority of deaf and hard of hearing students at Gallaudet University and their loyal alumni simply do not have the English capacity to comprehend finely written articles filled with wits, tongue-in-cheek comments, satire, and seemingly “complex” words that you could swear those articles were written by hearing people and not by deaf, Deaf and hard of hearing students?
But even with these fine examples of literary composures and free thinking thoughts could the majority of deaf student see such newsletters as “boring” pieces of work? It’s no surprise that Galluadet Research Institute made a point that 17 and 18 year old deaf and hard of hearing students’ (while in school) English literacy skill level corresponds at the 4th grade equivalent in one well known survey. Could it be that the low circulation count and lack of enthusiasm were entirely attributed to an English problem within the Deaf community as not being “Deaf-friendly” enough?? Who knows? And even with the recent blogsite called “gBlog” set up by Gallaudet University this year has only two bloggers to begin with. One being an English major and the other a Biology major. Gallaudet University seems to be excited about this new medium for students and staff to do their own blogging:
*Introducing... "gBLOG - How we see it..."
*The Office of Enrollment Services has launched an online journal (blog) site where current students write about their lives, classes, friends, hopes, dreams, frustrations, successes, and everything else. *You can also find the site by clicking on a link from the Undergraduate Admissions website.
*OES plans to add additional bloggers in the future -- maybe even recruiting our very own faculty and staff!
*This is all part of the recruitment efforts to make direct connections with prospective students and to let them meet "faces" at Gallaudet before actually applying or visiting the campus.
Recruitment efforts? A plan? Will we ever see examples of poor deaf writings in gBlog with a face posted alongside as a source of inspiration for potential Gallaudet University students seeking to apply at the school? Not likely since people who are not confident with their English reading and writing skills tend to be quite uncomfortable in exposing their English weaknesses in a public arena. But you could almost imagine the parents’ horror upon seeing written examples in gBlog of typical Gallaudet University students if this were the case. They wouldn’t even let their deaf sons or daughters attend. Will Gallaudet University make sure that this won’t happen? Can you say "dictatorial"?
If gBlog comes to a point where there are more faculty and staff doing the blogging than students, then certainly Gallaudet University will be in bigger trouble with their pet project. Not only that, Gallaudet University will have to compete with other deaf bloggers found in Blogger.com and Livejournal.com blogging sites as well as other deaf eNewsletters invoking the name "Gallaudet." But I’ll admit, the number of deaf bloggers ought to grow by the leaps and bound covering both written and (future) video blogging incorporating sign language reaching internationally rather than it being a national phenomenom.
Only time will tell whether the latest and newest avant-guard Buck Naked Bison eNewsletter with their writers’ articulate wits will survive this round of electronic and paper flops from the halls of Gallaudet University’s rows uneventful and long forgotten newsletters and magazines . To insure their survival, they even have a blogsite of their own . The more the merrier. Repeat the name often, it’ll get recognized. The Buck Naked Bison eNewsletter survived narrowly this time in their open letter to the readers in the December 2004, Volume 3, Issue #1 newsletter:
Readers,
Huh? We're alive again?
Brendan Stern, the founder of Buck Naked Bison, has passed the torch to us. It's going to be a formidable task improving on what he has done.
We plan to take full advantage of the fact we're online by becoming more multimedia and adding some exciting features (eventually). We'll continue to showcase the most riveting and funniest rhetoric in Kendall Green, as well as substantial, thought-provoking articles.
Ah, enough hype. Without further ado...
Ben Moore
Tim Woodford
Let’s hope for an eNewsletter publication that will question authority (deaf, Deaf and hearing) equally and without relegating themselves into partisan hacking spitballs. But also let us note that Gallaudet University is grounded with mostly Liberals a la the Berkley type . Of course, students, faculty and staff are known to lean politically (I’d say with near horizontal effect) with Deaf culture (or extremism in some cases if you wish) and Liberalism. You may want to note the string of Liberal commencement speakers who attended Gallaudet University’s past graduations, which seems to confirm that liberalism besets the campus of Gallaudet University. The campus is becoming a Liberal (Deaf) hotbed. All the while located in a city called Washington D.C. where 90% of the voters in D.C. voted for John Kerry. Heavily influenced I’d say. Maybe even brainwashed?
All I can say is good luck to the staff of Buck Naked Bison eNewsletter on their website and let’s see how many rocks they will turn over leaving no stones unturned while bucking the trend. It’s about time, too.
In the past, Gallaudet University students were given the artistic literary license (although not entirely *THAT* free to do what they wanted) to communicate and express their thoughts and feelings. But time and time again through their newsletters they failed to maintain the much needed circulation and enthusiasm to keep their newsletters afloat. Why? Such defunct literary contents as Mental Floss (headed and founded by Kevin McLeod who now blogs), Manus (Latin for “hand”), and Gallaudetian newsletters flopped with so much as a whimper, nobody really heard it (pun intended). When the Deaf-run Mental Floss newsletter failed (or abandoned) the name was taken up (stolen?) elsewhere on the internet and in print with a successful result. Go figure.
What caused the continued demise of these newsletters falling like dominos one after another? Could it be that the majority of deaf and hard of hearing students at Gallaudet University and their loyal alumni simply do not have the English capacity to comprehend finely written articles filled with wits, tongue-in-cheek comments, satire, and seemingly “complex” words that you could swear those articles were written by hearing people and not by deaf, Deaf and hard of hearing students?
But even with these fine examples of literary composures and free thinking thoughts could the majority of deaf student see such newsletters as “boring” pieces of work? It’s no surprise that Galluadet Research Institute made a point that 17 and 18 year old deaf and hard of hearing students’ (while in school) English literacy skill level corresponds at the 4th grade equivalent in one well known survey. Could it be that the low circulation count and lack of enthusiasm were entirely attributed to an English problem within the Deaf community as not being “Deaf-friendly” enough?? Who knows? And even with the recent blogsite called “gBlog” set up by Gallaudet University this year has only two bloggers to begin with. One being an English major and the other a Biology major. Gallaudet University seems to be excited about this new medium for students and staff to do their own blogging:
*Introducing... "gBLOG - How we see it..."
*The Office of Enrollment Services has launched an online journal (blog) site where current students write about their lives, classes, friends, hopes, dreams, frustrations, successes, and everything else. *You can also find the site by clicking on a link from the Undergraduate Admissions website.
*OES plans to add additional bloggers in the future -- maybe even recruiting our very own faculty and staff!
*This is all part of the recruitment efforts to make direct connections with prospective students and to let them meet "faces" at Gallaudet before actually applying or visiting the campus.
Recruitment efforts? A plan? Will we ever see examples of poor deaf writings in gBlog with a face posted alongside as a source of inspiration for potential Gallaudet University students seeking to apply at the school? Not likely since people who are not confident with their English reading and writing skills tend to be quite uncomfortable in exposing their English weaknesses in a public arena. But you could almost imagine the parents’ horror upon seeing written examples in gBlog of typical Gallaudet University students if this were the case. They wouldn’t even let their deaf sons or daughters attend. Will Gallaudet University make sure that this won’t happen? Can you say "dictatorial"?
If gBlog comes to a point where there are more faculty and staff doing the blogging than students, then certainly Gallaudet University will be in bigger trouble with their pet project. Not only that, Gallaudet University will have to compete with other deaf bloggers found in Blogger.com and Livejournal.com blogging sites as well as other deaf eNewsletters invoking the name "Gallaudet." But I’ll admit, the number of deaf bloggers ought to grow by the leaps and bound covering both written and (future) video blogging incorporating sign language reaching internationally rather than it being a national phenomenom.
Only time will tell whether the latest and newest avant-guard Buck Naked Bison eNewsletter with their writers’ articulate wits will survive this round of electronic and paper flops from the halls of Gallaudet University’s rows uneventful and long forgotten newsletters and magazines . To insure their survival, they even have a blogsite of their own . The more the merrier. Repeat the name often, it’ll get recognized. The Buck Naked Bison eNewsletter survived narrowly this time in their open letter to the readers in the December 2004, Volume 3, Issue #1 newsletter:
Readers,
Huh? We're alive again?
Brendan Stern, the founder of Buck Naked Bison, has passed the torch to us. It's going to be a formidable task improving on what he has done.
We plan to take full advantage of the fact we're online by becoming more multimedia and adding some exciting features (eventually). We'll continue to showcase the most riveting and funniest rhetoric in Kendall Green, as well as substantial, thought-provoking articles.
Ah, enough hype. Without further ado...
Ben Moore
Tim Woodford
Let’s hope for an eNewsletter publication that will question authority (deaf, Deaf and hearing) equally and without relegating themselves into partisan hacking spitballs. But also let us note that Gallaudet University is grounded with mostly Liberals a la the Berkley type . Of course, students, faculty and staff are known to lean politically (I’d say with near horizontal effect) with Deaf culture (or extremism in some cases if you wish) and Liberalism. You may want to note the string of Liberal commencement speakers who attended Gallaudet University’s past graduations, which seems to confirm that liberalism besets the campus of Gallaudet University. The campus is becoming a Liberal (Deaf) hotbed. All the while located in a city called Washington D.C. where 90% of the voters in D.C. voted for John Kerry. Heavily influenced I’d say. Maybe even brainwashed?
All I can say is good luck to the staff of Buck Naked Bison eNewsletter on their website and let’s see how many rocks they will turn over leaving no stones unturned while bucking the trend. It’s about time, too.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
NYT Screams Alarm About New AIDS Report , Says "Not Surprise."
Super HIV on the way??
Just as health officials have feared that one of these days they'll come across a HIV that's highly resistent to drugs and has a fast onset of disease. Still, people think that taking a pill will save them and only adds to the idiocy of how these people think when it comes to playing with Russian Roulette. The New York Time screams the headline about the AIDS report. Here's a clip on idiocy at play:
No kidding. This all started (supposedly so) when one of the infected man, gay and in his 40's, who tested negative for H.I.V. in May 2003, then tested positive last December. According to health investigators they believe he may have contracted the virus in October when he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine. The usual HIV drug cocktail was used but three of the four classes of anti-retroviral drugs used against H.I.V. were not working in this case. Thus the usual signs of AIDS include rapid weight loss, a high level of the virus in his bloodstream, and a depleted supply of crucial immune system cells in the person's bloodstream. Even though the anti-retroviral drug "cocktail" has extended many lives, some infected people still deteriorate and end up with AIDS, but that process usually takes many years. Doctors say that for a patient to reach that stage in a matter of months (2 to 3 months) is extremely troubling.
Troubling indeed. Should have stayed with a one partner system instead. At least that makes the most sense...sadly for some, it is not. The New York Times reiterates on some fine points:
Thank goodness I've never had the urge to practice that sort of lifestyle. A one partner system makes the perfect AND safest sense. No back door stuff, either. Boinking around with multiple partners is asking for trouble whether with a condom or not. A condom isn't a 100% guarantee you won't get infected. But people continue to do these things without a condom and have multiple partners....a dangerous combination. The New York Times makes a point,
Trust me? Only an idiot would accept that.
Well, the fun can only go for so long. A decadent lifestyle is simply playing with fire. Next they will say in a few months from now that President Bush is not doing enough to produce a vaccine to stop this super HIV. Don't blame Bush. Learn to accept responsibility of your own actions.
Just as health officials have feared that one of these days they'll come across a HIV that's highly resistent to drugs and has a fast onset of disease. Still, people think that taking a pill will save them and only adds to the idiocy of how these people think when it comes to playing with Russian Roulette. The New York Time screams the headline about the AIDS report. Here's a clip on idiocy at play:
Michael Justiniano, 37, who lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, said he watched his father die of AIDS in 1993. "I have spoken to young kids, sometimes here, who say, 'If I get it, it's no big deal. I can just take a pill,' " he said. "I'm like, 'Are you stupid?' It is so disgusting. I find it really disturbing."
No kidding. This all started (supposedly so) when one of the infected man, gay and in his 40's, who tested negative for H.I.V. in May 2003, then tested positive last December. According to health investigators they believe he may have contracted the virus in October when he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine. The usual HIV drug cocktail was used but three of the four classes of anti-retroviral drugs used against H.I.V. were not working in this case. Thus the usual signs of AIDS include rapid weight loss, a high level of the virus in his bloodstream, and a depleted supply of crucial immune system cells in the person's bloodstream. Even though the anti-retroviral drug "cocktail" has extended many lives, some infected people still deteriorate and end up with AIDS, but that process usually takes many years. Doctors say that for a patient to reach that stage in a matter of months (2 to 3 months) is extremely troubling.
Troubling indeed. Should have stayed with a one partner system instead. At least that makes the most sense...sadly for some, it is not. The New York Times reiterates on some fine points:
In 2003, a survey by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found that more than half of city residents with multiple recent sexual partners had not been tested for H.I.V. in the previous 18 months, and 40 percent said that they had not used condoms the last time they had sex. At the time, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city health commissioner, attributed the results to "H.I.V. precaution burnout."
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg described the failure to take precautions against H.I.V. in stark terms yesterday. "It's just a sin in our society, where we know how it's transmitted from one person to another," he said, "and we should be able to get people to conduct themselves such that they don't catch it themselves, and certainly that they don't infect anybody else."
Unsafe sex practices combined with growing resistance to medications among people with H.I.V., has had officials warning for years about a possible resurgence of AIDS, a fear voiced yesterday by many people across the country as they struggled to make sense of the news out of New York.
Thank goodness I've never had the urge to practice that sort of lifestyle. A one partner system makes the perfect AND safest sense. No back door stuff, either. Boinking around with multiple partners is asking for trouble whether with a condom or not. A condom isn't a 100% guarantee you won't get infected. But people continue to do these things without a condom and have multiple partners....a dangerous combination. The New York Times makes a point,
Oliver Palan, 19, a gay student at Baruch College, said that he had slept with 10 men recently, and that none of them had wanted to use a condom. "So many people are like, 'It is so much more fun without the condom,' so they prefer to take the risk," he said, noting that he insists on using condoms. Often, he said, partners will try to dissuade him by saying, "I trust you, you should trust me."
Trust me? Only an idiot would accept that.
"It seems like we're moving backwards in the fight against AIDS," Mr. Gonzalez said
Well, the fun can only go for so long. A decadent lifestyle is simply playing with fire. Next they will say in a few months from now that President Bush is not doing enough to produce a vaccine to stop this super HIV. Don't blame Bush. Learn to accept responsibility of your own actions.
Friday, February 11, 2005
Eason Jordan Quits Commie News Network (CNN)
Well, Eason Jordan buckled. The big guy from CNN. But there is one thing I want to see and that is the video. Sounds like CNN did review the Davos tape and saw that Eason did in fact say those things about the military targeting journalists on purpose. And to preserve further potential embarassment to himself Eason is erring on quiting instead.
Still, I wanna see the video.
Now, who in the heck is this "Jack Gannon"??
UPDATE: Another theory proposed as to why Eason bailed out is that Fox News primetime gets three times as many viewers as CNN's primtime - 2,041,000 to 656,000; CNN doesn't want to go the way of MSNBC (primetime viewership, 356,000) - so the last thing they need is their honcho out there calling our troops murderers.
Well, that seems about right.
Still, I wanna see the video.
Now, who in the heck is this "Jack Gannon"??
UPDATE: Another theory proposed as to why Eason bailed out is that Fox News primetime gets three times as many viewers as CNN's primtime - 2,041,000 to 656,000; CNN doesn't want to go the way of MSNBC (primetime viewership, 356,000) - so the last thing they need is their honcho out there calling our troops murderers.
Well, that seems about right.
Aikido - What Is It?
Now, Aikido is a Japanese Martial Art. It is NOT Kung Fu, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Silat, and the likes. It is, however, based on various old Japanese martial arts such as Jujutsu or aiki-Jutsu, spear fighting (yarijutsu), kenjutsu , and the sword arts of the Yagyu family (kenjitsu). Aikido is all about how you react to others. It is not about attacking. Is it not a linear martial art movement but circular movements when it comes to self-defense. It's about centering. Being the center. And allowing gravity and momentum do the work. It is a martial art that's counter-intuitive when it comes to self-defense.
It is certainly not about screaming either but in Aikido we can employ what you call a "kiai" or shout. This is one of the multitudes of techniques to "unbalance" the attacker using the "atemi" (or a strike, not necessarily injurious but to hurt and distract) approach. Of course, screaming or shouting at a stone deaf attacker would look pretty stupid hoping the attacker would get startled. I rarely use the "kiai". Think of "kiai" when you go to a zoo to watch some monkeys up close and one of the monkey moves suddenly and screeches at you loudly with his face grimacing at you. You get starteld. You've momentarily become unbalanced at a time when you least expected it. That's when a "kiai" is useful.
Now, this isn't about which self-defense martial art is the best but which martial art is best for you. And you practice it with your best. There is no "perfect" martial art but a martial art that's perfect for you.
With this Aikido that I practice, it's not about religion, esoteric fantasy of moons and stars circling about with floaty self-defense movements. This is the hard traditional Aikido, and you WILL get injured practicing Aikido whether it's from a cut, broken toe, thumb or arm, along with numerous bruises to the body or bumps to the head from a baseball bat, stick or jo. It's part of the learning experience. The rentention rate is very low with students dropping out after a month or two for obvious reasons. After 8 years, I've been lucky to sustain only one serious injury....a knife cut to the palm of my hand that required 7 stitches. But I'm still doing it. Here's an interesting story told by Sensei Ellis about a knife. Sensei Ellis is the teacher (United Kingdom) of my teacher (USA) at my dojo.
Now, that'd be a scary dude to mess with. Tadashe Abe had scars on his forearms from many knife cuts over the years.
But if you want to learn more about Aikido before making any embarrasing comments on the suppositions of what Aikido might be like, go here first or tap into Google. That way, the next time you make comments about Aikido it'll be an intelligent and an informed one. It is rather embarassing to read such blog comments from people who have no clue about Aikido in their attempt to raise ire.
It is certainly not about screaming either but in Aikido we can employ what you call a "kiai" or shout. This is one of the multitudes of techniques to "unbalance" the attacker using the "atemi" (or a strike, not necessarily injurious but to hurt and distract) approach. Of course, screaming or shouting at a stone deaf attacker would look pretty stupid hoping the attacker would get startled. I rarely use the "kiai". Think of "kiai" when you go to a zoo to watch some monkeys up close and one of the monkey moves suddenly and screeches at you loudly with his face grimacing at you. You get starteld. You've momentarily become unbalanced at a time when you least expected it. That's when a "kiai" is useful.
Now, this isn't about which self-defense martial art is the best but which martial art is best for you. And you practice it with your best. There is no "perfect" martial art but a martial art that's perfect for you.
With this Aikido that I practice, it's not about religion, esoteric fantasy of moons and stars circling about with floaty self-defense movements. This is the hard traditional Aikido, and you WILL get injured practicing Aikido whether it's from a cut, broken toe, thumb or arm, along with numerous bruises to the body or bumps to the head from a baseball bat, stick or jo. It's part of the learning experience. The rentention rate is very low with students dropping out after a month or two for obvious reasons. After 8 years, I've been lucky to sustain only one serious injury....a knife cut to the palm of my hand that required 7 stitches. But I'm still doing it. Here's an interesting story told by Sensei Ellis about a knife. Sensei Ellis is the teacher (United Kingdom) of my teacher (USA) at my dojo.
A knife for my enemy
by Ellis Sensei
It was this early positive style of Aikido that Abbe sensei brought to the UK in 1955, at this time there was also the first Japanese master to Europe, this was Tadashi Abe sensei 6th dan who was based in France, he was a small man even by Japanese standards, but to my mind he was the hardest man I have ever met, he was very similar to Kazuo Chiba Sensei who I met with in London's West End last week. When he traveled he always carried a knife with him, this was not for his own protection but to hand to his shocked opponent, he would say "please, this is for you" he said that an opponent with his bare fists was no challenge, but a man with a knife was "very interesting".
Now, that'd be a scary dude to mess with. Tadashe Abe had scars on his forearms from many knife cuts over the years.
But if you want to learn more about Aikido before making any embarrasing comments on the suppositions of what Aikido might be like, go here first or tap into Google. That way, the next time you make comments about Aikido it'll be an intelligent and an informed one. It is rather embarassing to read such blog comments from people who have no clue about Aikido in their attempt to raise ire.
New HIV Strain in NYC - Ground Zero?
It was bound to happen, I suppose. A new HIV strain was discovered in NYC. We all know that viruses mutate where they become more resilient to drugs and the body's immunity. Just as we expect different strains of the flu viruses to occur every year, however.
Be prudent. Be very prudent here folks. We'll know more in three months time. Stay tuned.
Good thing I've never lived a decadent lifestyle prior to my marriage. Imagine the complications, the grief, and money involved! Rarely did I ever drink. No drugs. No smoking. Or dangerous sexual activities. All of that signifies a loss of control and irresponsible actions. I'd like to think and do things with a clear mind. Who want to be a "shroom" head and become a complete idiot? You dabble, you get what's coming to you sooner or later. By your own free will you choose a particular dangerous activity. I know better not to be that stupid. At least I'm still following through in my marriage. It makes sense.
You sow what you reap. That's a harsh reality.
New York City doctors have discovered a previously unseen strain of HIV, which appears to be resistant to three of the four types of anti-viral drugs that combat the disease, and progresses from infection to full-blown AIDS in two or three months, the health department said.
"We've identified this strain of HIV that is difficult or impossible to treat and which appears to progress rapidly to AIDS,'' said New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden.
Frieden said the case, diagnosed in a man in his mid-40s who reported multiple male sex partners and unprotected anal sex -- often while using the drug crystal methamphetamine -- was "extremely concerning and a wake-up call.''
Antonio Urbina, medical director of HIV education and training at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, site one of Manhattan's largest AIDS clinics, said at a news conference that the patient's use of crystal methamphetamine shows that the drug "continues to play a significant role in facilitating the transmission of HIV.''
The drug reduces peoples' inhibitions and their likelihood of using condoms or other forms of safe sex, he said.
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"....but clearly the fact that we are dealing with such broad resistance of drugs and the rapid clinical progression is quite alarming,'' Valdiserri said.
Be prudent. Be very prudent here folks. We'll know more in three months time. Stay tuned.
Good thing I've never lived a decadent lifestyle prior to my marriage. Imagine the complications, the grief, and money involved! Rarely did I ever drink. No drugs. No smoking. Or dangerous sexual activities. All of that signifies a loss of control and irresponsible actions. I'd like to think and do things with a clear mind. Who want to be a "shroom" head and become a complete idiot? You dabble, you get what's coming to you sooner or later. By your own free will you choose a particular dangerous activity. I know better not to be that stupid. At least I'm still following through in my marriage. It makes sense.
You sow what you reap. That's a harsh reality.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Eason Jordan - "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire"
The Eason Jordan brouhaha. No, make that debacle, and a bad one at that. The simple fact boils down to this; Eason Jordan made a serious charge. It was not simply a "belief" or an "opinion" but an out and out extremely serious charge nonetheless. A charge that American troops were deliberately targeting journalists. This was Eason's charge and it was witnessed by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank who told Michelle Malkin that after Jordan made the statements, which was a charge, he was so troubled that he tried to get specific examples from Jordan. But Jordan refused to provide an ounce of proof to support his outrageous charge.
You see folks, it's ludicrous to say that people should back off of Eason Jordan's "belief" or "opinion" who have been saying that American forces were *deliberately* targeting journalists for assassination. And if somebody professes that "belief" or "opinion" then he or she should back up that proof. Eason has not done so and have begun to backtrack, or let other Liberal weenies try and cover him (but not for long). The blogosphere is really nailing him, and the MSM such as Joe Scarborough of MSNBC (saying CNN should fire Eason) are starting to pick this story up not wanting to be left out like they did with the Rathergate episode. Ratings and integrity are everything. So is honesty and truth (Scarborough's words). Certainly the MSM would not want to look too weasel-like and have a "CNN-like" stigma stuck onto them. Nobody want to be the Commie News Network who ranks the lowest on viewership.
Democrats have a quandry here. You can either call Eason Jordan a liar who is CNN's most powerful news executives when he told a group of world leaders overseas that American soldiers had targeted reporters for assassination without an ounce of proof. This is the same charge as calling somebody a murderer without proof but just an "opinion." Not to be taken lightly, and certainly not within the realm of simply as an "opinion." If you don't call Eason a liar then you are calling Democrat Congressperson Barney Frank and Democrat Senator Chriss Dodd liars when they both heard Eason Jordan make those same charges on the Davos panel.
Yet this is a very, very serious charge made by Eason Jordan who never provided any proof or specific examples.
Now, Jordan's the man who admitted last spring that CNN withheld news out of Baghdad to maintain access to Saddam Hussein's regime. He was quoted last fall telling a Portuguese forum that he believed journalists had been arrested and tortured by American forces (a charge he maintains today). In the fall of 2002, he reportedly accused the Israeli military of deliberately targeting CNN personnel "on numerous occasions." He was in the middle of the infamous Tailwind scandal, in which CNN was forced to retract a Peter Arnett report that the American military used sarin gas against its own troops in Laos. And in 1999, Jordan declared: "We are a global network, and we take global interest[s] first, not U.S. interests first." (Thanks, Malkin)
As Jim Geraghty says,
I agree. Eason Jordan need to put up, or shut up. Just a Jordan's simple opinion? Please, people, don't be an idiot. It's a serious, serious charge. It's even more serious if there's no proof to back up that statement made by Eason Jordan.
You see folks, it's ludicrous to say that people should back off of Eason Jordan's "belief" or "opinion" who have been saying that American forces were *deliberately* targeting journalists for assassination. And if somebody professes that "belief" or "opinion" then he or she should back up that proof. Eason has not done so and have begun to backtrack, or let other Liberal weenies try and cover him (but not for long). The blogosphere is really nailing him, and the MSM such as Joe Scarborough of MSNBC (saying CNN should fire Eason) are starting to pick this story up not wanting to be left out like they did with the Rathergate episode. Ratings and integrity are everything. So is honesty and truth (Scarborough's words). Certainly the MSM would not want to look too weasel-like and have a "CNN-like" stigma stuck onto them. Nobody want to be the Commie News Network who ranks the lowest on viewership.
Democrats have a quandry here. You can either call Eason Jordan a liar who is CNN's most powerful news executives when he told a group of world leaders overseas that American soldiers had targeted reporters for assassination without an ounce of proof. This is the same charge as calling somebody a murderer without proof but just an "opinion." Not to be taken lightly, and certainly not within the realm of simply as an "opinion." If you don't call Eason a liar then you are calling Democrat Congressperson Barney Frank and Democrat Senator Chriss Dodd liars when they both heard Eason Jordan make those same charges on the Davos panel.
Yet this is a very, very serious charge made by Eason Jordan who never provided any proof or specific examples.
After the panel was over and he returned to the U.S., Rep. Frank said he called Jordan and expressed willingness to pursue specific cases if there was any credible evidence that any American troops targeted journalists. "Give me specifics," Rep. Frank said he told Jordan. Rep. Frank has not yet heard back from Jordan.
Now, Jordan's the man who admitted last spring that CNN withheld news out of Baghdad to maintain access to Saddam Hussein's regime. He was quoted last fall telling a Portuguese forum that he believed journalists had been arrested and tortured by American forces (a charge he maintains today). In the fall of 2002, he reportedly accused the Israeli military of deliberately targeting CNN personnel "on numerous occasions." He was in the middle of the infamous Tailwind scandal, in which CNN was forced to retract a Peter Arnett report that the American military used sarin gas against its own troops in Laos. And in 1999, Jordan declared: "We are a global network, and we take global interest[s] first, not U.S. interests first." (Thanks, Malkin)
As Jim Geraghty says,
Davos authorities can settle this dispute by releasing the videotape: Help us learn who’s telling the truth. And everybody else in the media – blogs, mainstream, left, right, big, small – can help add to the pressure by politely but firmly calling on the World Economic Forum to release the tape.
I agree. Eason Jordan need to put up, or shut up. Just a Jordan's simple opinion? Please, people, don't be an idiot. It's a serious, serious charge. It's even more serious if there's no proof to back up that statement made by Eason Jordan.
Protesting via your 1, 5, 10 and 20 dollar bills.
This is what I saw here:
This will probably be the new movement and a cheap way of advertising - on a U.S. dollar bill. Just be sure to bring an indelible black ink and mark it off. That's all. No need to advertise.
Join the revolution for progressive legislation http://www.boycott-republicans.com. Write this url on your one, five and ten dollar bills.
This will probably be the new movement and a cheap way of advertising - on a U.S. dollar bill. Just be sure to bring an indelible black ink and mark it off. That's all. No need to advertise.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
sComm, Inc Wins $1.3 Million NIH Award
Just received personal words via my email from the CEO of sComm, Jason Curry, whose company was recently awarded a few days ago a $1.3 million dollar funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH). The recent award will help fund the Phase II of their product that provides technology-based tools that enable face-to-face communication betweeen deaf and hearing people, and between people in other communication-challenged situations. The Mission of sComm is Freedom through Communication. sComm, Inc. of Kansas City, MO has completed a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project, funded by NIH, to develop a stand-alone communications device for the deaf and hearing-impaired. The recent award will help sComm, Inc continue with their Phase II project.
But sComm's fundamental contribution reaches far beyond the tools.
Jason Curry, who is deaf and wears a cochlear implant ever since 2000, is a known innovator and motivator whose positive energy encourages people to set their own goals to a higher standard for themselves. Now, Jason Curry and his company, sComm, Inc will have an even higher goal to break....a device enabling independent face to face communication between deaf and hearing people. The power of transformation. The power of greater independency.
For more information please contact Jason Curry, Founder and CEO, jason@jasoncurry.com or Emma Curry, Administrator, Emma1@sbcglobal.net
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Look here on the Kokonut Pundits blogsite for more and exciting updates or visit the sComm, Inc website. The exciting journey on FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION for millions of people who are deaf across the world can now move foward at sComm, Inc.
But sComm's fundamental contribution reaches far beyond the tools.
"We have observed that deaf users of our tools experience a profound sense of freedom and independence that greatly transcends the tools. Gone is dependence on a human interpreter; gone is the reduced quality of content that gradually overtakes a signed, or handwritten conversation. Instead, the user experiences authentic, nuanced, rapid-fire conversation that was never possible before."
Jason Curry, who is deaf and wears a cochlear implant ever since 2000, is a known innovator and motivator whose positive energy encourages people to set their own goals to a higher standard for themselves. Now, Jason Curry and his company, sComm, Inc will have an even higher goal to break....a device enabling independent face to face communication between deaf and hearing people. The power of transformation. The power of greater independency.
For more information please contact Jason Curry, Founder and CEO, jason@jasoncurry.com or Emma Curry, Administrator, Emma1@sbcglobal.net
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Look here on the Kokonut Pundits blogsite for more and exciting updates or visit the sComm, Inc website. The exciting journey on FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION for millions of people who are deaf across the world can now move foward at sComm, Inc.
I. King Jordan on NPR
An Exploration of Deaf Culture - click on the link for more.
NPR.org, February 2, 2005 · This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
The millions of Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing form a unique community, a culture, they say, shaped by their shared experience and their shared language. ASL, American Sign Language, is currently the second most taught language on college campuses. A major Broadway play using deaf and hearing actors is touring the country. At the same time, deaf culture is both changed and challenged by technology. There are plenty of divisions and arguments within deaf culture, but the deaf and hard of hearing share another universal trait--the incomprehension of the hearing world around them that sees their condition as a disability, as a handicap. For those who live without sound, that absence is the starting point of an identity.
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However, what I generally disagree is Carol Padden's remark:
I wouldn't say literacy levels "shot up and skyrocketed" knowing that the general reading and writing skill levels among deaf/hh kids are still around the 4th grade level among 17 and 18 year olds as reported in the Gallaudet Research Institute website, no less.
NPR.org, February 2, 2005 · This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
The millions of Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing form a unique community, a culture, they say, shaped by their shared experience and their shared language. ASL, American Sign Language, is currently the second most taught language on college campuses. A major Broadway play using deaf and hearing actors is touring the country. At the same time, deaf culture is both changed and challenged by technology. There are plenty of divisions and arguments within deaf culture, but the deaf and hard of hearing share another universal trait--the incomprehension of the hearing world around them that sees their condition as a disability, as a handicap. For those who live without sound, that absence is the starting point of an identity.
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However, what I generally disagree is Carol Padden's remark:
CAROL: Yeah. So the point was that as a major focus of this conference at Swarthmore College, there was tremendous amount of time and energy given to the
pursuit of oral education, which was continued to be, 35 years later, the same kind of feeding on the fears and ignorance of hearing parents that let me waste the first 10 years or so of my children's life by staying away from deaf people, away from sign language and away from deaf culture. And it wasn't until that turned around by my watching what they needed from their perspective and not from this so-called hearing professionals and medical people who really didn't know what they were doing. That changed and that's when their literacy levels shot up and skyrocketed, once they got their language and their culture, which I've come to believe is the birthright of every single deaf child in the world....
I wouldn't say literacy levels "shot up and skyrocketed" knowing that the general reading and writing skill levels among deaf/hh kids are still around the 4th grade level among 17 and 18 year olds as reported in the Gallaudet Research Institute website, no less.
Privatizing Social Security
It’s incredible. Liberals are at again. Screaming that you should not have a choice in how you invest or use your money for your retirement plans. This is all about privatizing Social Security. It’s already being done for Federal workers ever since in 1987. The Thrift Savings Plan, which as of December 2004 had assets of $152 billion, is a retirement-savings plan open to all civilian federal employees, including senators, and all members of the uniformed services. This includes Senator Harry Reid, a screaming Liberal, who is against the idea of Social Security privatization. Yet he participates in the Thrift Savings Plan! How convenient for him. Remember his name for now.
Even Bill Clinton agreed that privatization of Social Security ought to be done. In fact, Clinton warned that there were only three possible ways to reform Social Security: 1) raise taxes, 2) cut benefits, or 3) find a way to receive a higher rate of return through private investment. Payroll taxes are already so high and benefits so low that young workers receive a rate of return on their taxes of barely more than one percent, far below market returns (actually it closer to a negative rate of return). Raising taxes or cutting benefits will only make that bad deal worse.
Only the third option -- private investment -- solves all of those problems. It preserves Social Security's solvency and increases returns to young workers while allowing workers to accumulate real and inheritable wealth.
Bill Clinton wasn't able to follow through on Social Security reform. That responsibility has now fallen to President Bush.
Now, In the Thrift Savings Plan, Federal employees can invest as much as 14 percent of their salaries in one of five retirement funds. Even if they do not want to participate, the government contributes 1% of their base pay for free! Free money added into their Social Security retirement plan.
Now, let’s consider the rate of return of C Fund, one of the five. It is a common-stock fund, (think Blue chip, Dow, and Nasdaq) so it should represent the risks that Senate minority leader Harry Reid thinks should terrify Americans:
In only four of 17 years has the rate of return been negative. But in 11 years the rate has been greater than 10 percent, in eight years it has been greater than 20 percent, in four years it has been greater than 30 percent! The compound annual rate of return for the last 10 years has been 12 percent, and the return over the 17 years has been 12.1 percent. You have to look at the long term returns and not the yearly return.
And funny that Reid participates in the plan, but opposes allowing all Americans the comparable opportunity that Bush is proposing. Imagine every Democrats or Liberals opposing the privatization of Social Security even though each and everyone of them have a choice in the Thrift Savings Plan!
But you’ll hear the “buts” from Liberals and nay-sayers who are adamantly against Social Security privatization. Suppose the stock market crash and go bankrupt? So what? Everybody would lose. That’s a no brainer. Social Security as we know it would be *kaput!* Where do you think will happen to the workers? They are the ones that pay into the existing retirees’ monthly Social Security check. Currently, approximately 3 workers pay into the Social Security system that fund one retiree's monthly retirement check. Thirty years to forty years ago it was 6 workers that paid into for one retiree’ monthly Social Security check. And in a few more years the number will have a ratio of 2:1 with two workers paying for one retiree’ SS check. And just to ensure that one retiree get his/her same month SS check, payroll taxes will have to go up for those two current workers under the current Social Security system.
You want to pay more taxes to support a retiree’s monthly Social Security check? And nothing to contribute to your retirement plans?
Now, you can check out the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) who have http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5530&sequence=0 been asked to evaluate the long-term economic and budgetary implications of current laws governing major entitlement programs and of legislative changes to those programs. In accordance with its mission to provide the Congress with budget projections and estimates of the costs of legislation, CBO has sought to enhance its capacity to produce long-term analyses. As a starting point, the agency presented comprehensive 50-year scenarios for the federal budget in December 2003 in The Long-Term Budget Outlook. (Background on Social Security, including information about the program's structure and financing, underlying demographic trends, and strategies that have been proposed to prepare for the aging of the U.S. population, can be found in an earlier CBO publication, Social Security: A Primer, published in September 2001). In short, the long term projection is not good if we stay with the current Social Security system.
FACT #1: Social Security was designed to supplement your pensions and your own personal savings plan (eg savings banks, CDs, IRAs, Market funds, personal investment, etc). The monthly Social Security check was not meant to be as a sole source of income when you retire. It wasn’t meant as a “safety net” either. It’s supplemental source of income. It has always been that way. Liberals just want to believe it’s your sole source of retirement income. It’s not.
FACT #2: Workers today pay into the Social Security *FOR* retirees only, and not for themselves. That means when YOU retire, you better hope there will be enough workers who will pay into for your Social Security monthly check. It is the current workers’ money that pays into the retirees’ monthly Social Security checks.
FACT #3: People will have a choice on whether to participate in the privatization of their own Social Security where the money they put into while they work is their money alone…and not to some retiree’s monthly check.
FACT #4: The privatization plan affects only current employees. Those who are already on Social Security (or close to retirement) will not see a change in their monthly checks.
FACT #5: The government is actually *stealing* your money to pay for somebody else’s retirement. It’s not yours to begin with. It never was your money. It belongs to Joe Schmoe who is retired. And to continue the funding of Social Security means that there will be less workers to fund the system and the payroll tax will have to raised in order to fund the month Social Security checks. Again, more stealing of your money by the government to pay existing retired people who never really planned or saved for their retirements.
FACT #6: It is YOUR money. Not the government. Not the retirees’. But YOUR money and you should have a say on how to control your money. This is about choice. Current Social Security does NOT give you a choice. The existing Social Security is nothing more than a pyramid scheme when you have less people paying for that one person at the top of the pyramid (e.g. retiree). Somebody’s going to get hurt at the end when it is all said and done because existing Social Security system cannot maintain their course of direction indefinitely. It need to be reformed on a massive scale.
From Vox Libertatis ac Veritatis (The voice of freedom and truth):
Yet it will cost 2 to 3 trillion dollars to help pay for the transitioning to the privatization of Social Security that tax payers will have to support. This will be a somewhat painful, but no where near as painful to watch Social Security as we know it become increasingly useless starting 10 years from now. It will take trillions more than the current 2 to 3 trillion dolars it’ll take to currently revamp Social Security now than to try and save Social Security 10 years down the road when everybody’s in a panic mode, costing us even MORE money to save the Social Security system.
What would you rather have? A system that has a range of 5 to 15% rate of return or a negative -1% return under the existing Social Security retirement system (which was not designed as a sole source income)?
Hey, I want to control MY money and see that it stays under MY name when money is deducted from MY paycheck. I don’t want to depend on some “IOUs” from the government when I retire.
Even Bill Clinton agreed that privatization of Social Security ought to be done. In fact, Clinton warned that there were only three possible ways to reform Social Security: 1) raise taxes, 2) cut benefits, or 3) find a way to receive a higher rate of return through private investment. Payroll taxes are already so high and benefits so low that young workers receive a rate of return on their taxes of barely more than one percent, far below market returns (actually it closer to a negative rate of return). Raising taxes or cutting benefits will only make that bad deal worse.
Only the third option -- private investment -- solves all of those problems. It preserves Social Security's solvency and increases returns to young workers while allowing workers to accumulate real and inheritable wealth.
Bill Clinton wasn't able to follow through on Social Security reform. That responsibility has now fallen to President Bush.
Now, In the Thrift Savings Plan, Federal employees can invest as much as 14 percent of their salaries in one of five retirement funds. Even if they do not want to participate, the government contributes 1% of their base pay for free! Free money added into their Social Security retirement plan.
Now, let’s consider the rate of return of C Fund, one of the five. It is a common-stock fund, (think Blue chip, Dow, and Nasdaq) so it should represent the risks that Senate minority leader Harry Reid thinks should terrify Americans:
In only four of 17 years has the rate of return been negative. But in 11 years the rate has been greater than 10 percent, in eight years it has been greater than 20 percent, in four years it has been greater than 30 percent! The compound annual rate of return for the last 10 years has been 12 percent, and the return over the 17 years has been 12.1 percent. You have to look at the long term returns and not the yearly return.
And funny that Reid participates in the plan, but opposes allowing all Americans the comparable opportunity that Bush is proposing. Imagine every Democrats or Liberals opposing the privatization of Social Security even though each and everyone of them have a choice in the Thrift Savings Plan!
But you’ll hear the “buts” from Liberals and nay-sayers who are adamantly against Social Security privatization. Suppose the stock market crash and go bankrupt? So what? Everybody would lose. That’s a no brainer. Social Security as we know it would be *kaput!* Where do you think will happen to the workers? They are the ones that pay into the existing retirees’ monthly Social Security check. Currently, approximately 3 workers pay into the Social Security system that fund one retiree's monthly retirement check. Thirty years to forty years ago it was 6 workers that paid into for one retiree’ monthly Social Security check. And in a few more years the number will have a ratio of 2:1 with two workers paying for one retiree’ SS check. And just to ensure that one retiree get his/her same month SS check, payroll taxes will have to go up for those two current workers under the current Social Security system.
You want to pay more taxes to support a retiree’s monthly Social Security check? And nothing to contribute to your retirement plans?
Now, you can check out the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) who have http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5530&sequence=0 been asked to evaluate the long-term economic and budgetary implications of current laws governing major entitlement programs and of legislative changes to those programs. In accordance with its mission to provide the Congress with budget projections and estimates of the costs of legislation, CBO has sought to enhance its capacity to produce long-term analyses. As a starting point, the agency presented comprehensive 50-year scenarios for the federal budget in December 2003 in The Long-Term Budget Outlook. (Background on Social Security, including information about the program's structure and financing, underlying demographic trends, and strategies that have been proposed to prepare for the aging of the U.S. population, can be found in an earlier CBO publication, Social Security: A Primer, published in September 2001). In short, the long term projection is not good if we stay with the current Social Security system.
FACT #1: Social Security was designed to supplement your pensions and your own personal savings plan (eg savings banks, CDs, IRAs, Market funds, personal investment, etc). The monthly Social Security check was not meant to be as a sole source of income when you retire. It wasn’t meant as a “safety net” either. It’s supplemental source of income. It has always been that way. Liberals just want to believe it’s your sole source of retirement income. It’s not.
FACT #2: Workers today pay into the Social Security *FOR* retirees only, and not for themselves. That means when YOU retire, you better hope there will be enough workers who will pay into for your Social Security monthly check. It is the current workers’ money that pays into the retirees’ monthly Social Security checks.
FACT #3: People will have a choice on whether to participate in the privatization of their own Social Security where the money they put into while they work is their money alone…and not to some retiree’s monthly check.
FACT #4: The privatization plan affects only current employees. Those who are already on Social Security (or close to retirement) will not see a change in their monthly checks.
FACT #5: The government is actually *stealing* your money to pay for somebody else’s retirement. It’s not yours to begin with. It never was your money. It belongs to Joe Schmoe who is retired. And to continue the funding of Social Security means that there will be less workers to fund the system and the payroll tax will have to raised in order to fund the month Social Security checks. Again, more stealing of your money by the government to pay existing retired people who never really planned or saved for their retirements.
FACT #6: It is YOUR money. Not the government. Not the retirees’. But YOUR money and you should have a say on how to control your money. This is about choice. Current Social Security does NOT give you a choice. The existing Social Security is nothing more than a pyramid scheme when you have less people paying for that one person at the top of the pyramid (e.g. retiree). Somebody’s going to get hurt at the end when it is all said and done because existing Social Security system cannot maintain their course of direction indefinitely. It need to be reformed on a massive scale.
From Vox Libertatis ac Veritatis (The voice of freedom and truth):
Plainly stated, Social Security is broke. Why are Democrats so quick to increase the tax burdens on the wealthiest Americans yet at the same time stand by this outdated system? Social Security taxes are regressive, meaning poorer Americans pay into the fund with larger percentages of their wages than middle and upper class Americans. In 2018, the federal government will begin to pay out more in Social Security benefits than it collects in Social Security taxes. The money which 2018 retirees will have paid throughout their working life and which should be collected by them upon retirement in 2018 is not stored somewhere the same way we store money in a bank account. That money was loaned to other areas of the federal government through special bonds—IOUs from one part of the government to another. Without changes, by 2042 the system will be unable to continue paying full promised benefits. To repay these "IOUs," the government will need to collect $5 trillion from taxpayers by then—an increase of $33,000 per family or a hike 50% hike of payroll taxes. The other option would be to cut benefits by more than a third.
It does not take a Ph.D. in Economics to know that the market performs best over the long haul. Examine any 40 year period (assuming a person starts payments at age 25 and begins to receive benefits at age 65) in stock market history, and you will see a growth rate 10-15% over that time, compared to the negative -1% return under the present system.
Yet it will cost 2 to 3 trillion dollars to help pay for the transitioning to the privatization of Social Security that tax payers will have to support. This will be a somewhat painful, but no where near as painful to watch Social Security as we know it become increasingly useless starting 10 years from now. It will take trillions more than the current 2 to 3 trillion dolars it’ll take to currently revamp Social Security now than to try and save Social Security 10 years down the road when everybody’s in a panic mode, costing us even MORE money to save the Social Security system.
What would you rather have? A system that has a range of 5 to 15% rate of return or a negative -1% return under the existing Social Security retirement system (which was not designed as a sole source income)?
Hey, I want to control MY money and see that it stays under MY name when money is deducted from MY paycheck. I don’t want to depend on some “IOUs” from the government when I retire.
Monday, February 07, 2005
Koran-friendly U.S. Bankers Lend Interest-Free Loans.
Who wouldn't want an interest-free loan? I think we all dream of getting our hands on interest-free loans. The best you probably could have mustered was anywhere between 5 and 6 percent for a 30 year mortgage loan. Or may 4 percent for a 15-year loan. But, if you happen to be a devout Muslim, (what about those who convert to other religion from Muslim? They get the ax or what?) you are forbidden to pay any form of interest or "riba" according to the February 14, 2005 Business Week edition. This is an example of either showing good financial stewardship or having this irrational fear of debt-phobia. Probably worse than the mafia who will break your knee caps if you don't pay up that 40% interest loan. Now, imagine the quandry of Muslim-Americans who want to own their own homes debt-free, essentially so.
Ok. You can stop imaging the quandry.
Maybe move to middle America and get some cheap housing?
But the works are in the works where Koran-compatible "Islamic banking" is coming to the U.S. But the biggest irony is that Devon Bank, who is leading the way, is a small community bank in Chicago owned by the Loundy family, who are Jewish. Now, isn't that a hoot?
In January, Freddie Mac (FRE ) agreed to buy Devon's Islamic home financing products. But isn't Devon's Islamic home financing products are the brainchild of the Loundy family who are Jewish?
Ok. Great. Now I can see it now. More reasons for Muslims to go after Jewish people using the Devon Bank as proof that Jewish people are trying to rule the world.
According to Business week, other banks are starting to offer Islamic services in the U.S., including the University Bank in Ann Arbor and HSBC in New York.
They are? Interest-free loans? Isn't that like saying "deafening silence"? Isn't Devon Banking an example of an oxymoron?
Business Week describes that,
Guess who moving out and those who are moving in?
But I wonder if they also conform to Shari'a law concerning debts? But according to Business Week, under "Murabaha", or installment financing, this is how it works:
Technically, no interest? Isn't that like "cooking the books" just so that Muslim-Americans can get away from paying any debts that would clash with their religious Koranic beliefs?
Somebody's making money in this loan scheme. Money is being made and nothing is ever free. Somebody's paying interest, whatever the disguise is. You've heard the lawyer jokes and how much money they make in making the victims (i.e. "their clients") pay? Bankers are certainly next in line. It's too good to be true to get an "interest-free" loan from, what else, a banker.
Hey! I want an interest-free loan, too!
Ok. You can stop imaging the quandry.
Saving to pay for a home in full when housing prices are skyrocketing is nearly impossible for those who do not believe in paying interests.
Maybe move to middle America and get some cheap housing?
But the works are in the works where Koran-compatible "Islamic banking" is coming to the U.S. But the biggest irony is that Devon Bank, who is leading the way, is a small community bank in Chicago owned by the Loundy family, who are Jewish. Now, isn't that a hoot?
In January, Freddie Mac (FRE ) agreed to buy Devon's Islamic home financing products. But isn't Devon's Islamic home financing products are the brainchild of the Loundy family who are Jewish?
Devon also is working with Fannie Mae (FNM ) to develop Koran-compatible home mortgage products.
Ok. Great. Now I can see it now. More reasons for Muslims to go after Jewish people using the Devon Bank as proof that Jewish people are trying to rule the world.
According to Business week, other banks are starting to offer Islamic services in the U.S., including the University Bank in Ann Arbor and HSBC in New York.
They are? Interest-free loans? Isn't that like saying "deafening silence"? Isn't Devon Banking an example of an oxymoron?
Business Week describes that,
Devon, on Chicago's North Side, anchors a neighborhood that has shifted from Eastern European Jews to Indian, Pakistani, and Middle Eastern Muslims. To meet customers' needs, the bank, which has $261 million in assets, spent two years developing financial products that could conform to Islamic laws and pass the financial scrutiny of U.S. regulators.
Guess who moving out and those who are moving in?
The Devon bank, which has $261 million in assets, spent two years developing financial products that could conform to Islamic laws and pass the financial scrutiny of U.S. regulators.
But I wonder if they also conform to Shari'a law concerning debts? But according to Business Week, under "Murabaha", or installment financing, this is how it works:
Devon buys a property chosen by a customer, then turns around and sells it for a price that includes projected interest costs. There is no principal and thus, technically, no interest. Islamic financing is nearly half of Devon's mortgage portfolio. The bank also offers Koran-friendly financing for commercial real estate, business equipment, and letters of credit. "We are a community bank helping a community that's being underserved," says David Loundy, the bank's legal counsel. "In this case it's the Muslim community." Given an estimated 6 million Muslims in the U.S., that's bound to change.
Technically, no interest? Isn't that like "cooking the books" just so that Muslim-Americans can get away from paying any debts that would clash with their religious Koranic beliefs?
Somebody's making money in this loan scheme. Money is being made and nothing is ever free. Somebody's paying interest, whatever the disguise is. You've heard the lawyer jokes and how much money they make in making the victims (i.e. "their clients") pay? Bankers are certainly next in line. It's too good to be true to get an "interest-free" loan from, what else, a banker.
Hey! I want an interest-free loan, too!
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Patriots wins!
Well, whadya know. The Patriots won the Superbowl XXXIX! 24 to 21. This is what we need more of...Patriots. With the Patriots winning the Superbowl 3 out 4 times in the last four years is a good reminder for Americans to remember the word and that would be "Patriots". We have the Patriots dynasty and the Bush dynasty. Both good examples of how team members use the word "patriot." Dynasties don't have to be perfect or pretty. They just have to win.
God bless the men and women of the Armed Forces serving in Iraq.
Semper Fi!
And, oh, congratulations Patriots! And the Eagles? Better luck next time. Maybe another 30 years will do?
God bless the men and women of the Armed Forces serving in Iraq.
Semper Fi!
And, oh, congratulations Patriots! And the Eagles? Better luck next time. Maybe another 30 years will do?
Deaf Republicans...4 more years.
Be sure to visit the Deaf Republicans website and if you have questions, give them a call. What many people do not know is that a good majority of culturally deaf people are Liberals....and yet they're not quite fully informed. A big job for the people of the Deaf Republicans grassroots organization.
Eason Jordan and North Korea
In the Conservative bloggers' world we pretty much have a hold on the controversy surrounding Eason Jordan as reported by Captain's Quarters blog. However, we're seeing signs of North Korea's boat taking on water as it circles the whirlpool of death. Except that, of course, Eason Jordan believes otherwise.
In The Paralysis of American Policy, 2002, Eason Jordan commented about the state of North Korea's stability in 1999:
Hmm, Eason must have been quite impressed with North Korea and Kim Jong II elevator shoes? And yet according to "The Peking Duck" stating further the likely and possible collapse of North Korea in its infancy throes.
And further evidence of Kim Jong II and North Korea going looney over "Team America" as more signs of instability by going against the spirit of Free Expression want to ban the movie Team America, a movie where nobody's immune to the acerbic political satire. A cue for the Jib Jab guys.
Banned? Image? Good thing the Czech government is not going to do such a thing. Can't the North Koreans have a sense a humour? And we all know that Kim Jong II is a movie buff.
In The Paralysis of American Policy, 2002, Eason Jordan commented about the state of North Korea's stability in 1999:
When you hear about starvation in North Korea, a lot of very evel-headed people think, “There is no way a country like that can survive.” Well, I can guarantee you this: I’m here to tell you with absolute certainty those guys will tough it out for centuries just the way they are. Neither the United States nor any other country is going to be able to force a collapse of thatgovernment in North Korea.
—Eason Jordan, president, CNN International Networks, in a lecture at Harvard University, March 10, 1999, reporting on nine visits to North Korea
Hmm, Eason must have been quite impressed with North Korea and Kim Jong II elevator shoes? And yet according to "The Peking Duck" stating further the likely and possible collapse of North Korea in its infancy throes.
According to exiles, North Korean agents in Beijing and Ulan Bator are frantically selling assets to raise cash — an important sign, says one activist, because “the secret police can always smell the crisis coming before anybody else”.
And further evidence of Kim Jong II and North Korea going looney over "Team America" as more signs of instability by going against the spirit of Free Expression want to ban the movie Team America, a movie where nobody's immune to the acerbic political satire. A cue for the Jib Jab guys.
"It harms the image of our country," the Lidove Noviny daily quoted a North Korean diplomat as saying. "Such behavior is not part of our country's political culture. Therefore, we want the film to be banned."
Banned? Image? Good thing the Czech government is not going to do such a thing. Can't the North Koreans have a sense a humour? And we all know that Kim Jong II is a movie buff.
We told them it's an unrealistic wish," ministry spokesman Vit Kolar was quoted as saying. "Obviously, it's absurd to demand that in a democratic country."
Aye. This is what you get from a democractic country while North Korea spirals around the "vortex of death" before getting sucked into oblivion. Maybe take Eason Jordan along?
UPDATE: Apparently North Korea is off a lot worse with Eason Jordan's latest comments on CNN, although it was 2 years ago on January 14, 2003. Kind of foretold things to come with N.K.'s secret police trying to cash out.
JORDAN: Well, the North Koreans have a history of tough talk, a lot of rhetoric. They talk a lot about war, a lot about killing. It's a lot of hot air.
But the North Koreans, for all the tough talk, are scared of the United States. They're scared of being branded part of the "axis of evil."
Saturday, February 05, 2005
When a Picture of a Pregnancy Kit Gets Banned from a Billboard via "Backdoor Censorship"
Just when you thought it was safe in the United....Kingdom. "Backdoor censorship" - soon to come to a country near you.....
Billboard Company Ban Operation Christian Vote Election Poster
"We are not prepared to run the ‘abortion’ copy without ASA guidance..." David Gumley, Maiden Outdoor Advertising Billboard Company Ban Operation Christian Vote Election Poster
As ‘backdoor censorship’ of Operation Christian Vote’s election campaign continues.
Operation Christian Vote will be drawing attention to what it is calling “backdoor censorship” in the Scottish Euro Elections in a peaceful gathering outside the Communication Worker’s Union offices in Brunswick Street, Edinburgh, at noon today(Saturday 6th June, 2005).
Operation Christian Vote will be unveiling a 20 foot billboard poster that outdoor media company Maiden Outdoor has refused to display, claiming that it is too “controversial”. The billboard poster that bears a picture of a pregnancy testing kit and the words, “Abortion? It may be a choice for the mother, but it’s murder for her baby!” will now travel around Edinburgh and Glasgow on a mobile advertising trailer.
In a telephone call, made just after 3 O’clock on Thursday, 3rd June, hours before the proposed launch of Operation Christian Vote’s election billboard campaign, Maiden Outdoor executive, David Gumley, informed Revd Hargreaves of the decision. After pressing Mr Gumley, it was revealed that Maiden Outdoor senior executives objected to the Operation Christian Vote’s pro-life poster, and as a result, Maiden Outdoor sought to pull out of the entire campaign.
Revd Hargreaves comments,
Revd Hargreaves added,
After protracted negotiations Maiden Outdoor has agreed to display an alternative poster which campaigns for more rights for parents.
In a letter to Revd Hargreaves, Maiden Outdoor made the following statement:
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Go figure. They recoil at the sight of a picture containing a pregnancy kit along with a text to make a point is too much for a billboard company.
Billboard Company Ban Operation Christian Vote Election Poster
"We are not prepared to run the ‘abortion’ copy without ASA guidance..." David Gumley, Maiden Outdoor Advertising Billboard Company Ban Operation Christian Vote Election Poster
As ‘backdoor censorship’ of Operation Christian Vote’s election campaign continues.
Operation Christian Vote will be drawing attention to what it is calling “backdoor censorship” in the Scottish Euro Elections in a peaceful gathering outside the Communication Worker’s Union offices in Brunswick Street, Edinburgh, at noon today(Saturday 6th June, 2005).
Operation Christian Vote will be unveiling a 20 foot billboard poster that outdoor media company Maiden Outdoor has refused to display, claiming that it is too “controversial”. The billboard poster that bears a picture of a pregnancy testing kit and the words, “Abortion? It may be a choice for the mother, but it’s murder for her baby!” will now travel around Edinburgh and Glasgow on a mobile advertising trailer.
In a telephone call, made just after 3 O’clock on Thursday, 3rd June, hours before the proposed launch of Operation Christian Vote’s election billboard campaign, Maiden Outdoor executive, David Gumley, informed Revd Hargreaves of the decision. After pressing Mr Gumley, it was revealed that Maiden Outdoor senior executives objected to the Operation Christian Vote’s pro-life poster, and as a result, Maiden Outdoor sought to pull out of the entire campaign.
Revd Hargreaves comments,
I pointed out to Maiden’s that it was ludicrous to scupper our entire campaign because of an objection to just one of three poster designs. I also pointed out that Operation Christian Vote has a legally binding contract with Maiden Outdoor and that their decision to pull our entire campaign had serious ethical and legal implications.
Revd Hargreaves added,
I cannot help wondering whether there is a wider political motive at play. Maiden’s initial stance seemed to suggest that because our party takes a pro-life position, none of our material on any other political subject, such as the EU constitution or parental, should be displayed on their billboards. Such a stance is political interference of the most blatant form. This backdoor censorship is totally unacceptable in our democratic country.
After protracted negotiations Maiden Outdoor has agreed to display an alternative poster which campaigns for more rights for parents.
In a letter to Revd Hargreaves, Maiden Outdoor made the following statement:
Maiden’s normal procedure is to request an advertiser to seek copy approval from the Advertising Standards Authority if their copy is likely to be deemed to be controversial. The visual relating to abortion we feel is controversial and we would have asked you to gain that approval, prior to accepting your booking, if it had been drawn to our attention.
Revd Hargreaves has responded by noting, “The same “visual relating to abortion” was approved by the BBC, STV and thepost office for airing on television and distribution as an election leaflet without any comment. Operation Christian Vote will be immediately seeking copy approval from the Advertising Standards Authority. We are confident that we will gain approval; once approved we will insist that Maiden Outdoor display our poster as originally planned.”
Operation Christian Vote Scottish European Election candidate and Tranent based pastor, Revd Richard Russell, said
It is interesting to note that the poster industry displays any amount of offensive images that we as Christian have had to bear for years, yet a picture of a pregnancy kit together with text is too much for them to bear!
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Go figure. They recoil at the sight of a picture containing a pregnancy kit along with a text to make a point is too much for a billboard company.
When Terrorists Use Mentally-Disabled People as Weapons
If you want the whole story from the mouths of Iraqis on this, go here. These terrorists are complete sickos...attempting to kidnap and use Iraqis with Down Syndrome or other mental impairments to force them to strap on bomb vests to try and blow up polling centers...if not elsewhere prior to or after the election. How many of these mentally-impaired (well, all terrorists are mentally-impaired, but you get my meaning here) Iraqis were kidnapped and used as weapons by forcing them to wear bomb vests? It's difficult to find out who the person was after he/she gets blown up. No ID. Head's gone or shattered into unrecognizable features, and the likes. I think resources for willing suicide bombers have gone down tremendously with arrests by coalition forces and the Iraqi police and army happening almost on a weekly basis, if not on a near daily basis. Terrorists are becoming desperate to the point of holding a toy action figure hostage by sending photos of what was supposedly (they were hoping) to be a human U.S. soldier. It was obvious to everybody (mostly conservative bloggers than to MSM or Liberal bloggers thinking it was the real thing).
Now, there is no "new low" with these terrorists. They will do anything in their justification to kill Americans and their supporters. They'll even kill their own mothers if it'll help.
Support the troops. Support Iraq.
Semper Fi! (don't like it...don't ask for their help should you ever, God forbid, get in a bind).
They deserve our respect and we must honor them for it is the Armed Forces who help protect America with their lives.
Now, there is no "new low" with these terrorists. They will do anything in their justification to kill Americans and their supporters. They'll even kill their own mothers if it'll help.
Support the troops. Support Iraq.
Semper Fi! (don't like it...don't ask for their help should you ever, God forbid, get in a bind).
They deserve our respect and we must honor them for it is the Armed Forces who help protect America with their lives.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Even gay people have their limits
Nothing new but noticed that even hearing gay people (they're human, too!) are not immune to idiocy and bad taste from a deaf gay person. If people insist on blathering to no end and to spite people all the time because of their ideas and beliefs by stooping to call people names, then what can you do? Well, this guy finally had to do something about it with this one visitor who pretty much trashed his blogsite with trash talk. Sounds like a bitter person who feels like he's been jilted who insist on trashing people's blogsites. It wasn't a pretty sight to read.
Ouch...and by a hearing person, too. Now, this deaf person will now have more reasons to hate hearing people, as usual, on the grand order. Although, I haven't banned anyone....yet. I harbor no ill-will and feel no need to call names, either. Why lower MY standards with that kind of an attitude? I seek to challenge myself akin to playing on a PGA-style 18-hole golf course rather than an 18-hole putt-putt golf course. What I don't buy is intellectual dishonesty crapola a' la "Nick Coleman" from people with potty mouths.
I hope everybody success that comes with honest hard work and perserverance. Even in the World Wide Blogosphere. Deaf and hard of hearing people have to work harder regardless of political affiliation or orientation just to be recognized. That effort alone is worth kudos rather than attempt at Crab Theory. Success is yours, indeed.
And remember, when you visit somebody's blog and make comments on their blogsite, it's a priviledge....not a Constitutional Right. And when somebody bans you, don't curse but celebrate knowing that Freedom of Expression still works.....the right to ban people at will and whenever, and for whatever reason. Learn from it and move on. If a person continues to curse and call people names, then that person hasn't learned to move on.
C'est la vie.
.....but you also don't have free license on my blog to lower the standards of political discourse.
Ouch...and by a hearing person, too. Now, this deaf person will now have more reasons to hate hearing people, as usual, on the grand order. Although, I haven't banned anyone....yet. I harbor no ill-will and feel no need to call names, either. Why lower MY standards with that kind of an attitude? I seek to challenge myself akin to playing on a PGA-style 18-hole golf course rather than an 18-hole putt-putt golf course. What I don't buy is intellectual dishonesty crapola a' la "Nick Coleman" from people with potty mouths.
I hope everybody success that comes with honest hard work and perserverance. Even in the World Wide Blogosphere. Deaf and hard of hearing people have to work harder regardless of political affiliation or orientation just to be recognized. That effort alone is worth kudos rather than attempt at Crab Theory. Success is yours, indeed.
And remember, when you visit somebody's blog and make comments on their blogsite, it's a priviledge....not a Constitutional Right. And when somebody bans you, don't curse but celebrate knowing that Freedom of Expression still works.....the right to ban people at will and whenever, and for whatever reason. Learn from it and move on. If a person continues to curse and call people names, then that person hasn't learned to move on.
C'est la vie.
Kokonut Pundits Gets Mentioned in FrontPageMag
Not only am I getting around but conservative bloggers and magazines (ezines) are beginning to pick up my blogsite. Good news. Twice with BlogsforBush.com, once with CaptainsQuartersblog.com, Sisyphean Musings, and now Frontpagemag.com. The more the merrier.
This way people can realize that even deaf and hard of hearing Conservatives and Republicans can be just as good as the rest of them. Presenting an argument becomes an art form by being able to poke holes into those Democrats or Liberals' meek arguments that are increasingly being relied on their own emotions and not facts. Pretty much like deflating their "Exit Strategy" scream fest by stating that President Bush never planned an "Exit Strategy" for the Iraq war. Of course, he didn't. They're right. He never planned an "Exit Strategy". The only "Exit Strategy" needed is to W...I....N the battle! A pretty simple and straight forward plan. Nothing overly complicated here that would challenge some of the Liberals' amazing shrinkng brains.
Now, WWI never had an "Exit Strategy". Neither did WWII. Korean war. Vietnam war. The Gulf War. Grenada battle. And certainly not this Iraq war. All of those wars or battles main prerogative is so excrutiatingly simple and that is to.. *takes a breath*.... W...I...N!
Many Democrats and Liberals just want to scream to their clueless constituents about President Bush supposed lack of an "Exit Strategy" plan. A deception in disguise by the Liberals who think these people who pander to them are dumb. Well, they are in a way. Naughty people you are to prey on the dumb and clueless. You might want to remind them about Clinton's own true to life and soberly real "Exit Strategy" on the disasterous Somalia battle.
Instead, when President Clinton saw his 18 Delta Force soldiers get killed in an eight-hour battle, he immediately lost heart in Operation Restore Hope, ended the Aidid manhunt and soon after withdrew 28,000 Marines and US forces. This was Clinton's own unique brand of true to life "Exit Strategy" by giving NO HOPE or desire to win but only showed the world the meaning of the word "cowardice". President Clinton wouldn't even back or defend the 28,000 Marines already there. He wanted them to look like dogs (the Marines for pete sakes!) with tails between their legs.
President Bush own "Exit Strategy" is to simply win the battle. So far, so good. Those Democrats are awfully quiet of late. The 8 million or 60% of the registered Iraqi voters who voted last week is pretty damned good an indicator of President Bush winning the battle.
So, for the love of god stop making yourselves complete buffoons and lay off the "Exit Strategy" screams and gruntings. It's so..uh, Dean-like. So hateful. So...dumb.
This way people can realize that even deaf and hard of hearing Conservatives and Republicans can be just as good as the rest of them. Presenting an argument becomes an art form by being able to poke holes into those Democrats or Liberals' meek arguments that are increasingly being relied on their own emotions and not facts. Pretty much like deflating their "Exit Strategy" scream fest by stating that President Bush never planned an "Exit Strategy" for the Iraq war. Of course, he didn't. They're right. He never planned an "Exit Strategy". The only "Exit Strategy" needed is to W...I....N the battle! A pretty simple and straight forward plan. Nothing overly complicated here that would challenge some of the Liberals' amazing shrinkng brains.
Now, WWI never had an "Exit Strategy". Neither did WWII. Korean war. Vietnam war. The Gulf War. Grenada battle. And certainly not this Iraq war. All of those wars or battles main prerogative is so excrutiatingly simple and that is to.. *takes a breath*.... W...I...N!
Many Democrats and Liberals just want to scream to their clueless constituents about President Bush supposed lack of an "Exit Strategy" plan. A deception in disguise by the Liberals who think these people who pander to them are dumb. Well, they are in a way. Naughty people you are to prey on the dumb and clueless. You might want to remind them about Clinton's own true to life and soberly real "Exit Strategy" on the disasterous Somalia battle.
(T)he big difference with Bush and the Fallujah atrocities, contrasted with Clinton and Clark abandoning our U.S. troops to the savagery in Somalia, is Bush’s resolve to actually avenge the atrocities perpetrated against our fellow Americans. Truth be told, Clinton and Clark....they did not defend the U.S. against Somalia’s murderous thugs who killed our servicemen.
Instead, when President Clinton saw his 18 Delta Force soldiers get killed in an eight-hour battle, he immediately lost heart in Operation Restore Hope, ended the Aidid manhunt and soon after withdrew 28,000 Marines and US forces. This was Clinton's own unique brand of true to life "Exit Strategy" by giving NO HOPE or desire to win but only showed the world the meaning of the word "cowardice". President Clinton wouldn't even back or defend the 28,000 Marines already there. He wanted them to look like dogs (the Marines for pete sakes!) with tails between their legs.
President Bush own "Exit Strategy" is to simply win the battle. So far, so good. Those Democrats are awfully quiet of late. The 8 million or 60% of the registered Iraqi voters who voted last week is pretty damned good an indicator of President Bush winning the battle.
So, for the love of god stop making yourselves complete buffoons and lay off the "Exit Strategy" screams and gruntings. It's so..uh, Dean-like. So hateful. So...dumb.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Survey said!....the "Abstinence Only" programs
Since I'm a professional scientist and when doing scientific studies (when you say "scientific" it means that experiments can be "repeated") you must have a control group or blind group to compare results to. As for the case of a recent "study" by Texas A&M they claimed that "abstinence-only" sex education programs have had no impact on teenagers’ behavior in Texas, according to their new study. What they don't mention is that they never had a "control group" to compare their results with! Major bummer! Major load dropping, too.
From the Abstinence Clearinghouse:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Opponents of truth and common sense are working hard to make abstinence education look bad. Unfortunately for the contraceptive sex educators, it's not working. Most recently, a study by Texas A & M University is drawing headlines across the state questioning the results of abstinence education. The flawed study, however, fails to have a control group by which to compare its results.
When compared with the general teen population (data found in the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance), teens who participate in abstinence education programs have significantly lower sexual activity rates. The following chart illustrates the vast difference:
Table 1: Texas teen sexual activity by grade year, Texas A&M abstinence educated teens versus 2003 YRBS (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance) general Texas teens*
9th Grade Females
Post-Abstinence Education…..28% ever sexually active
YRBS TX Teens……………..31.7% ever sexually active
10th Grade Females
Post-Abstinence Education…..N/A
YRBS TX Teens……………..39.0% ever sexually active
9th Grade Males
Post-Abstinence Education…..24% ever sexually active
YRBS TX Teens……………..45.5% ever sexually active
10th Grade Males
Post-Abstinence Education…..39% ever sexually active
YRBS TX Teens……………..56.6% ever sexually active
After the recent rise of parents, educators, and health officials who united to integrate abstinence curricula in the public schools of Texas, contraception education supporters are desperate to regain the unbridled access to young minds they once had through so-called “comprehensive” sex education programs.
“It’s obvious that sex education supporters are attacking because their programs are not gaining in professional acknowledgment or parental esteem,” said Leslee J. Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse. “On the other hand, the more authentic abstinence education is studied, the better it is proven to be. Parents want what is best for their kids. It’s no surprise they’re choosing abstinence education. Perhaps sex education supporters should spend less time trying to make abstinence education look bad and try to make their own failed programs good.”
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Here's a shocking result by NBC and People magazine latest survey shown this year in 2005. Their survey was taken during a period from September 4, 2004 and November 7, 2004. And survey said! (to the tune of Family Fued).......the majority of teens don’t want to have sex according to 1000 teens aged 13 - 16 in the NBC survey result. Gasppp!
Ok...you can close your mouth now.
Now, it's all about peer pressure because the other person wanted to have sex. Pick your friends carefully. Now, don't blame the messenger, it was your Liberal NBC and Hollywood star-studded magazine who produced the shocking survey. Go after them.
Better luck next time.
From the Abstinence Clearinghouse:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Opponents of truth and common sense are working hard to make abstinence education look bad. Unfortunately for the contraceptive sex educators, it's not working. Most recently, a study by Texas A & M University is drawing headlines across the state questioning the results of abstinence education. The flawed study, however, fails to have a control group by which to compare its results.
When compared with the general teen population (data found in the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance), teens who participate in abstinence education programs have significantly lower sexual activity rates. The following chart illustrates the vast difference:
Table 1: Texas teen sexual activity by grade year, Texas A&M abstinence educated teens versus 2003 YRBS (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance) general Texas teens*
9th Grade Females
Post-Abstinence Education…..28% ever sexually active
YRBS TX Teens……………..31.7% ever sexually active
10th Grade Females
Post-Abstinence Education…..N/A
YRBS TX Teens……………..39.0% ever sexually active
9th Grade Males
Post-Abstinence Education…..24% ever sexually active
YRBS TX Teens……………..45.5% ever sexually active
10th Grade Males
Post-Abstinence Education…..39% ever sexually active
YRBS TX Teens……………..56.6% ever sexually active
After the recent rise of parents, educators, and health officials who united to integrate abstinence curricula in the public schools of Texas, contraception education supporters are desperate to regain the unbridled access to young minds they once had through so-called “comprehensive” sex education programs.
“It’s obvious that sex education supporters are attacking because their programs are not gaining in professional acknowledgment or parental esteem,” said Leslee J. Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse. “On the other hand, the more authentic abstinence education is studied, the better it is proven to be. Parents want what is best for their kids. It’s no surprise they’re choosing abstinence education. Perhaps sex education supporters should spend less time trying to make abstinence education look bad and try to make their own failed programs good.”
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Here's a shocking result by NBC and People magazine latest survey shown this year in 2005. Their survey was taken during a period from September 4, 2004 and November 7, 2004. And survey said! (to the tune of Family Fued).......the majority of teens don’t want to have sex according to 1000 teens aged 13 - 16 in the NBC survey result. Gasppp!
Ok...you can close your mouth now.
Now, it's all about peer pressure because the other person wanted to have sex. Pick your friends carefully. Now, don't blame the messenger, it was your Liberal NBC and Hollywood star-studded magazine who produced the shocking survey. Go after them.
Better luck next time.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Completely Clueless People
Insurgents say they are holding US soldier Rory McCarthy in Baghdad Wednesday February 2, 2005.
A militant group in Iraq claimed last night to have kidnapped an American soldier and threatened to kill him if Iraqi prisoners were not released within 72 hours.
The group posted on the internet what appeared to be a photograph of a soldier sitting in front of a black banner with a gun pointed at his head.
A statement posted with the picture said a number of other soldiers were killed when the hostage was kidnapped and suggested the group was holding other soldiers. The group did not say where the incident happened and there was no independent confirmation of the kidnapping.
"Our mujahideen heroes of Iraq's Jihadi Battalion were able to capture American military man John Adam after killing a number of his comrades and capturing the rest," a group calling itself the Mujahideen Squadrons said in a statement. "God willing, we will behead him if our female and male prisoners are not released from US prisons within the maximum period of 72 hours from the time this state ment has been released," the statement said.
The US military said yesterday that no American soldiers had been reported missing in Iraq. "No units have reported anyone missing," said Staff Sergeant Nick Minecci in Baghdad.
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The Guardian Unlimited news website is completely clueless just like some Liberals media continued to report this fake hostage story even after it was debunked on the first day within the hour with the conservative bloggers help, of course.
But I tell ya, those jihadists are certainly getting desperate. First used a young "insurgent" who had Down Syndrome to blow himself up at one of the Iraq's polling station, and next, you get "Soldier Cody" being held hostage which was a total bunk story, obvious to anybody except those who really, really, really, really, really......breathes......really wanted to believe. Man, what's next? Ransoming Barbie dolls?
A militant group in Iraq claimed last night to have kidnapped an American soldier and threatened to kill him if Iraqi prisoners were not released within 72 hours.
The group posted on the internet what appeared to be a photograph of a soldier sitting in front of a black banner with a gun pointed at his head.
A statement posted with the picture said a number of other soldiers were killed when the hostage was kidnapped and suggested the group was holding other soldiers. The group did not say where the incident happened and there was no independent confirmation of the kidnapping.
"Our mujahideen heroes of Iraq's Jihadi Battalion were able to capture American military man John Adam after killing a number of his comrades and capturing the rest," a group calling itself the Mujahideen Squadrons said in a statement. "God willing, we will behead him if our female and male prisoners are not released from US prisons within the maximum period of 72 hours from the time this state ment has been released," the statement said.
The US military said yesterday that no American soldiers had been reported missing in Iraq. "No units have reported anyone missing," said Staff Sergeant Nick Minecci in Baghdad.
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The Guardian Unlimited news website is completely clueless just like some Liberals media continued to report this fake hostage story even after it was debunked on the first day within the hour with the conservative bloggers help, of course.
But I tell ya, those jihadists are certainly getting desperate. First used a young "insurgent" who had Down Syndrome to blow himself up at one of the Iraq's polling station, and next, you get "Soldier Cody" being held hostage which was a total bunk story, obvious to anybody except those who really, really, really, really, really......breathes......really wanted to believe. Man, what's next? Ransoming Barbie dolls?
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