A Clueless Associated Press (AP) Reports

Now, we had so far one MSM outlet who reported on President Bush strong and sincere emotions meeting more than 900 family members of some 270 soldier skilled in Iraq or Afghanistan over the past two years. It was Newsweek, the original distributor and author of the President Bush' story, who distributed the story and had the PR Newswire distribute the news story further, until Yahoo News picked it. Now, will the NY Times or Wapo pick this story up? You're funnin' me? Heck, even the AP editors as reported by the NY Times said that people were "worried" that they were not getting other news aside from the regular reporting on the bombings and killings.

"Did you know that 47 countries have re-established their embassies in Iraq?" the anonymous polemic asks, in part. "Did you know that 3,100 schools have been renovated?"

"Of course we didn't know!" the message concludes. "Our media doesn't tell us!"

Ms. Goudreau's newspaper, like most dailies in America, relies largely on The Associated Press for its coverage of the Iraq war. So she finally forwarded the e-mail message to Mike Silverman, managing editor of The A.P., asking if there was a way to check these assertions and to put them into context. Like many other journalists, Mr. Silverman had also received a copy of the message.

How simple is it to peruse U.S. military websites such as Defend America to check up on construction updates and the likes? And make a few phones calls or even visit commanders nearby? All one has to do is look up the Iraq Weekly Progress Report on the internet reported by the Defend America military website. The IWPR has been reporting these reconstruction news and other good news for more than 16 months!

The bottom-line question was, people wanted to know if we're making progress in Iraq," Ms. Goudreau said, and the A.P. articles were not helping to answer that question.

"It was uncomfortable questioning The A.P., knowing that Iraq is such a dangerous place," she said. "But there's a perception that we're not telling the whole story."

Mr. Silverman said in an interview that he was aware of that perception. "Other editors said they get calls from readers who are hearing stories from returning troops of the good things they have accomplished while there, and readers find that at odds with the generally gloomy portrayal in the papers of what's going on in Iraq," he said.

Mr. Silverman said the editors were asking for help in making sense of the situation. "I was glad to have that discussion with the editors because they have to deal with the perception that the media is emphasizing the negative," he said.

"We're there to report the good and the bad and we try to give due weight to everything going on," he said. "It is unfortunate that the explosions and shootings and fatalities and injuries on some days seem to dominate the news."

Suki Dardarian, deputy managing editor of The Seattle Times and vice president of the board of the Associated Press Managing Editors, said that the discussion was "a pretty healthy one."

"One of the things the editors felt was that as much context as you can bring, the better," Ms.
Dardarian said. "They wanted them to get beyond the breaking news to 'What does this mean?' "

"What does that mean?" ?? Are they actually that clueless? Newsweek got it about President Bush that he is really human. For the AP reporters they make these phone calls to determine how many were killed or injured in blasts or firefights as a part of their confirmation process from their hotel rooms. What makes them think they can't get other information besides deaths and injuries??

Mr. Silverman said the wire service was covering Iraq "as accurately as we can" while "also trying to keep our people out of harm's way."

"The main obstacle we face," he said, "is the severe limitation on our movement and our ability to get out and report. It's very confining for our staff to go into Baghdad and have to spend most of their time on the fifth floor of the Palestine Hotel," which is home to most of the press corps. The hotel was struck by a tank shell in 2003, killing two journalists.

Ok. Ever considered using the phones, Instant Messaging for real time chat interviews, check the internet or even do email interviews with U.S. commanders on what's happening out there, construction-wise? How hard is that when bloggers are getting most of the alternate news out to the people? But then the famous CYA response comes from the AP:

By the end, she said, editors were acknowledging that even in their own hometowns, "we're more likely to focus on people who are killed than on the positive news out of a school."

More likely they just want to keep doing what they've always been doing considering the history of the AP and an agenda to report only bad news and their dislike for President Bush' administration. The AP continues to report the deaths and bombings with the gloom and doom scenarios they portray in Iraq.


UPDATE: Michelle Malkins makes a note about the AP's excuse on reporting the war, albeit one day late to mine. But has lots of links to others who reported about the weak-kneed AP's excuse.

Proof That President Bush Cares About US Soldiers Killed in Action

Seems like Newsweek is making amends to president Bush after a false story on the Guatanamo Bay fake Koran descecration by writing a moving story of President Bush' meetings with widows and kids without their fathers, and brothers of those who were killed in the Iraq or Afghanistan war.

Aug. 22, 2005 issue - The grieving room was arranged like a doctor's office. The families and loved ones of 33 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan were summoned to a large waiting area at Fort Bragg, N.C. For three hours, they were rotated through five private rooms, where they met with President George W. Bush, accompanied by two Secret Service men and a photographer. Because the walls were thin, the families awaiting their turn could hear the crying inside.

President Bush was wearing "a huge smile," but his eyes were red and he looked drained by the time he got to the last widow, Crystal Owen, a third-grade schoolteacher who had lost her husband in Iraq. "Tell me about Mike," he said immediately. "I don't want my husband's death to be in vain," she told him. The president apologized repeatedly for her husband's death. When Owen began to cry, Bush grabbed her hands. "Don't worry, don't worry," he said, though his choking voice suggested that he had worries of his own. The president and the widow hugged. "It felt like he could have been my dad," Owen recalled to NEWSWEEK. "It was like we were old friends. It almost makes me sad. In a way, I wish he weren't the president, just so I could talk to him all the time..."

Bush routinely asks to see the families of the fallen when he visits military bases, which he does about 10 times a year. It does not appear that the White House or the military makes any effort to screen out dissenters or embittered families, though some families decline the invitation to meet with Bush. Most families encourage the president to stay the course in Iraq. "To oppose something my husband lost his life for would be a betrayal," says Inge Colton, whose husband, Shane, died in April 2004 when his Apache helicopter was shot down over Baghdad. Bush does, however, hear plenty of complaints. He has been asked about missing medals on the returned uniform of a loved one, about financial assistance for a child going to college and about how soldiers really died when the Pentagon claimed the details were classified.

At her meeting with the president at Fort Hood, Texas, last spring, Colton says she lit into Bush for "stingy" military benefits. Her complaints caught Bush "a little off guard," she recalls. "He tried to argue with me a little bit, but he promised he would have someone look into it." The next day she got a call from White House chief of staff Andrew Card, who said the White House would follow up. "My main goal was to have him look at my son, look him in the eyes and apologize," says Colton. "I wanted him to know, to really understand who he has hurt." She says Bush was "attentive, though not in a fake way," and sometimes at a loss for words. "He didn't try to overcompensate," she says.

The most telling—and moving—picture of Bush grieving with the families of the dead was provided by Rachel Ascione, who met with him last summer. Her older brother, Ron Payne, was a Marine who had been killed in Afghanistan only a few weeks before Ascione was invited to meet with Bush at MacDill Air Force Base, near Tampa, Fla.

Ascione wasn't sure she could restrain herself with the president. She was feeling "raw." "I wanted him to look me in the eye and tell me why my brother was never coming back, and I wanted him to know it was his fault that my heart was broken," she recalls. The president was coming to Florida, a key swing state, in the middle of his re-election campaign. Ascione was worried that her family would be "exploited" by a "phony effort to make good with people in order to get votes."

Ascione and her family were gathered with 18 other families in a large room on the air base. The president entered with some Secret Service agents, a military entourage and a White House photographer. "I'm here for you, and I will take as much time as you need," Bush said. He began moving from family to family. Ascione watched as mothers confronted him: "How could you let this happen? Why is my son gone?" one asked. Ascione couldn't hear his answer, but soon "she began to sob, and he began crying, too. And then he just hugged her tight, and they cried together for what seemed like forever."

Read the whole thing for you naysayers that President Bush is a heartless SOB and cares nothing about families who lost their husbands, brothers or fathers.

Privately, Bush has met with about 900 family members of some 270 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. The conversations are closed to the press, and Bush does not like to talk about what goes on in these grieving sessions, though there have been hints. An hour after he met with the families at Fort Bragg in June, he gave a hard-line speech on national TV. When he mentioned the sacrifice of military families, his lips visibly quivered.

No lip bitting here. No going from laughing to quickly producing a single teardrop in 7 steps after noticing a video camera pointing his way. This is the president we know and love for his sincere and real emotions regardless whether a camera is around or not. This is a president that truly knows how to connect with his people.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

When Anti-war Activists Scream Over Invasion of Iraq for Oil is Debunked

The U.S. went to war in Iraq to free up the Iraqi people from a tyrannical leader and his cruel regime rather than going to war solely to gain control of Iraq's oil. Today the NY Times (gasp!) reports:

Under the agreement, oil revenue would be shared by the central government and Iraq’s 18 provinces, and split roughly according to their populations. It was unclear which entity would control the money, though one Iraqi leader said it would be the central government.

“The agreement is that the distribution would be under the control of the federal government,” said the leader, Saleh Mutlak, a member of the committee charged with writing the constitution.

If it holds, the deal will constitute a major advance in the effort to complete a constitution. The control of oil revenue, which provides the bulk of Iraq’s income, could significantly strengthen the hand of the central government over the regions, like Kurdistan and southern Iraq, that are pushing for greater self-rule.

Most of Iraq’s oil is concentrated in fields well to the south and north, raising fears, especially among the Sunni Arab population, that the revenues will fall under the control of the Shiite Arabs and the Kurds. Until this week, Kurdish leaders were demanding that they keep at least 60 percent of the money earned from oil in their area, in the north. A Kurdish official said Friday that they had dropped that demand.

“This is a formula that everyone can agree on,” said Mahmood Othman, a Kurdish member of the constitutional committee.

This was in light of the Iraq's Constitution which was completed one day ahead of schedule which will require an October 15 referendum (see page 9 and don't be shy to read the rest of the pdf file) to accept the Constitution by voters to held in another National Election on December 15, 2005.

While you are at it, check out the latest massive infrastructure works in Iraq succumbing to massive quagmires in Iraq.

And they said that the primary U.S. motive was entirely about controlling Iraq's oil? The Kos Kids think so. From all indications they would love nothing better than to see Iraq fail.

UPDATE: Check out "Generation Why" on how the oil cost is divided in the United States and how much profits are actually made. Thanks to "Generation Why" for linking to my blogsite here.

When Kos Kids Get Unhinged Over Casey Sheehan's Pictures

How ironic. When the Kos kids get upset when supporters of Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed recently in Iraq, honored him by carrying signs with his pictures of him as a "Fallen Hero" and that "Freedom isn't Free."

I really thought no one could stoop so low as to using the pictures of a dead soldier AGAINST his own MOTHER! No shame, no decency, no empathy - just sheer heartlessness. I'm not normally a violent woman, but when I saw this I wanted to hurt someone - after I nearly vomited.

Never mind the fact that Patrick Sheehan, husband of Cindy Sheehan, is filing for divorce possibly because of her grieving antics that strained their already separated relationship. And also never mind the fact that Sheehan's extended family are asking her to stop this antics even though they support the troops in Iraq in an open email signed by Casey's aunt Cherie Quartarolo on behalf of his paternal grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins:

We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the expense of her sons good name and reputation.

The Sheehan family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving, the e-mail stated. The rest of the Sheehan family supports the troops, our country and our president, silently, with prayer and respect.

If the Kos kids are outraged by the honorable display of Casey's pictures in support of a fallen hero at Casey Camp then where are their outrage for Citizen Smash of Indepundit when he got angry over scores of pictures of US soldiers on banners who were killed in Iraq to protest against the Iraq war policy in a bad way?

I NOTICED four people from the peace group preparing to display an unusually long banner, so I decided to check it out for myself. Putting on my friendly face, I slipped in behind them to take a peek. What you got there? I asked, looking over the top of the banner. It was a series of photographs, most of them formal portraits of soldiers in uniform. It took a moment to register, but then I was hit by a wave of rage. These are servicemen who died in Iraq!

That's right, replied the middle-aged woman standing closest to me.

I know two of these guys, they were my friends! YOU CAN'T DO THIS!

What do you mean, we can't do this?

Did you get permission from their families to use their photos? You don't speak for them, these men did not die for your cause!?

No, they died for OIL.

Now I was really angry. That is the MOST INSULTING thing I've EVER HEARD! I was raising my voice now. Nobody joins the military because they love OIL, they volunteer because they value FREEDOM

Why don't YOU sign up?

I served for TEN YEARS!

So, why did you leave the service, then?

I DIDN'T! But this last exchange was over my shoulder. I had become too angry, and had to walk away before things got really ugly. But they're using photos of my college roommate and my brother's best friend on one of their banners over there.

Ok. I guess Kos Kids get angry over a photo of Casey used in an honorable way but they are not even remotely outraged over a string of photos of numerous different US soldiers killed in Iraq who volunteered to sign up. U.S. soldiers died to protect our freedom so protestors like Liberals can do their thing to demean and demoralize US soldiers in the most dishonorable way...including the trampling of U.S. flag when U.S. soldiers have died and fought so hard for over 200 years to protect America and the belief in democracy and freedom.

And if the Kos Kids are truly outraged over a few pictures of Casey, shouldn't they be even more outraged when Michael Moore filmed the Arlington memorial scene of Betty Lenzi (Maj. Gregory Stone's mother) and Tammie Eslinger (Stone's fiancee') without their permission and used the scene in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 movie? All to demean and demoralize US troops and give more fodder to Muslim terrorists who abhor freedom and democracy?

Very funny of Laura D. of The Daily Kos to do this. Next time, Laura, make up your mind.

Clinton's "Talk No Evil" Photo...Thumbs Up.

I've seen the photo before in Michelle Malkin's latest blog on the 9/11 Omission Report. But for the first time I just now noticed Clinton's "thumbs up" on his lap while his mouth is covered. Is this a morbid, secret symbolic gesture about his Lewinsky affiar? Now, what was that joke about Wee Willie again?


Hear No Evil. Speak No Evil. See No Evil. Major Heartburn.

When a Deaf Person Calls Michelle Malkin a "Chink Bitch"

It's amazing how people react when they do not get an email reply back. This one Deaf dude called Michelle Malkin a "Chink Bitch" as outlined in Rhymes with Right blog. Only because Michelle Malkin didn't return his email. All this over a discussion of Cindy Sheehan claiming that RWR blog attacked Cindy Sheehan's good name. Hardly even close. RWR was careful and respectful of Cindy's loss of her son. But the viciousness of the Loony Liberal Left just gets lower and lower just as Michelle Malkin pointed them out because we dare to criticize Sheehan's action and the questionable actions of the MSM by taking advantage of Sheehan's situation. How many emails did Michelle Malkin answer? Who really cares?

Now, good lord! Everybody knows that Michelle Malkin's blogsite is popular and that she must get tons of emails. Even I sent her several emails but no reply, and I didn't expect a reply either knowing that she gets tons of emails. Am I bitter? No. Am I disappointed? No. What I *don't* do is roll on the floor in a rage of fit just because somebody didn't answer my email. How DARE she ignore me! Hey, I'm flexible and I understand that people cannot answer all emails, especially if they get tons of it with half of it being scathing, idiotic and thoughtless spews.

The temper tantrum result was over the claim that Michelle Malkin used the words "deaf-mute" as a derogatory term in her article a few months back. And in return called her a "gook" in a deliberate attempt to be racist by purposely using a derogatory term against her in the form of a question. An odd way at rationalizing the justification in doing so when Michelle Malkin wasn't trying to be racist nor purposely using "deaf mute" as a derogatory term. But to say "deaf and dumb" would be the more obvious derogatory term. The term "deaf mute" in Michelle's instance doesn't qualify as a derogatory term but rather to explain medically the girl's limitation rather than trying to be mean. But this Lovable LLL purposely used a derogatory term as if "gook" and "deaf mute" have the same derogatory standard. Hardly. "Gook" is never a medical term or medical description but a racist one by the person saying it.

How Often Did the NYTimes Consistently Lied or Misled Readers of the Past?

Michelle Malkin reports that NYTimes' "transcript" of Al Franken's remark never existed. Now, how often has the NYTimes consistently lied and mislead readers of the past prior to the blogging explosion? It would be nice to gather up the last, oh say, 5, 10 or 20 years of the NYTimes newspaper publication and see how often they purposely mislead readers to think otherwise that was just as blatant as this NYTimes latest disinformation. We all know that the publication is wanton to do this but to see the actual numbers and articles in front of us would be priceless. Their own past would sure to haunt them.

When NYTimes Gets Busted for Lying to Help Cover Up Air America's Scandal

From Michelle Malkin.

The NYTimes reports buried deep in their newspaper:

"I don't know why he did it," Mr. Franken said, according to a transcript of the broadcast made by the Department of Investigation. "I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations. I think he was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."

Here's what Franken actually said (via audio at Brainster's Blog and transcript at Brian Maloney, who busted this story wide open in the blogosphere the Times sneers at):

I don't know why they did it, and I don't know where the money went, I don't know if it was used for operations [softer, especially fast], which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul.

I've listened to the audio link and compared that with the available transcript and sure enough, Brian Maloney reported it correctly on what Al Franken actually said about the missing $870,000 Federal Grant that was stolen from Gloria Wise for Boys and Girls to act as a "loan" for Air ScamAmerica.

Why is the NYTimes helping to cover up Air America "loan"? Why were they so bold to say "according to a transcript" (of the AA show) in the article and write down differently what Al Franken actually said?

The NYTimes got caught with their pants down, literally. Will they issue a correction? An apology? Not likely. Will they do a more in depth reporting on AA's scam even though they fawned all over Air America Radio debut as a Liberals' answer to conservative radio talk shows?

- On March 11, 2004, the Times Business section introduced Air America in a story titled "Liberal Talk Radio Network To Start Up in Three Cities."

- On March 21, 2004, the Times Magazine ran a 7,659-word cover story about Al Franken titled "Al Franken, Seriously So." The reporter, Russell Shorto, said that everyone he talked to "agreed that Al Franken has excellent prospects for success in talk radio." He also reports that "Franken's political views are more eclectic than you might imagine." (Kokonut - I'm laughing over this one).

- On March 31, 2004--the day of Air America's debut--the Times ran a 1,403 word puff piece on page E1. The reporter, Jaques Steinberg, said Air America host Jeaneane Garofalo is merely "poking fun" at Karl Rove when she accuses him of pursuing ''the elusive 18-25 Klan demo" as if accusing a high-ranking White House official of pandering to one of the most vile organizations in America is akin to telling a lighthearted knock knock joke.

- On April 1, 2004, media critic Alessandra Stanley followed up with a 752-word review of Franken's first day on the air.

- On April 2, 2004, the front page of the metro section carried a 755-word article by reporter Clyde Haberman about the "debut of all-day Air America," which had occurred the previous day.

Will the NYTimes report the scam with more in-depth and correct reporting? Now, really!



More on Air America scam at:
A Live Air America Radio Band Aid Solution

When Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover Air America Scandal

Lawyers Weigh In on Air America If "Stealing" of Kiddie Funds Actually Existed

Air America Stealing Money from Poor-Inner City Kids and Elderly?

A Little Phun.

Accuracy is one thing when it comes to Googling and seeing who has what when comparing bloggers. The "Googlefight" is a quaint site and doesn't mean much when comparisons are done. Although it's more phun when I do this. So small, a magnifying glass is needed to see this one. And, of course, let the greater idiot be the winner. Although, this type of thing is not entirely accurate. So, take it with a grain of salt and have phun with it.

When Live Donkeys and Mentally Retarded People Are Used as Bombing Devices

Check out the desperation of terrorists using live animals such as a donkey or a dog and the use of mentally retarded Arabic people to carry bombs killing himself (or the animal) while maiming and killing innocent people nearby. What idiocy these terrorists are!

This is what Michael Moore support by calling these people "Minutemen". Maybe Michael Moore ought to participate in Spurlock's next 30-day McDonalds binge for the next schlockumentary?

When Idiots Prevail Over Common Sense on Gas Prices

I am surrounded by more idiots. What many people do not realize is that President Bush does not control oil prices nor does he set the prices of oil anymore than former President Clinton could. Anybody who believes this is a person whose brain is totally fried. Oh, btw, Halliburton is not the end all be all controller of oil prices, either. We also don't depend entirely on Saudi Arabia either. We get most of our oil from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela. We get more oil from Canada or Mexico than we do from Saudi Arabia.

It's all about quota. Supply and demand versus future expectation. And not about laughable conspiracy theories.

I suspect the Bush Administration has been allowing the oil prices to make a lot of gains close to $65 a barrel, perhaps just to make profits. Because the numbers of administrators including GW Bush invested/owned/ran the oil companies ... when they are done with the presidency, they are going to reap the harvest that they invested in these stocks.

With todays news from MSNBC:

While oil prices are 40 percent higher than a year ago, they would need to surpass $90 a barrel to exceed the inflation-adjusted peak set in 1980.

In other words, we were paying for oil and gas dirt cheap for such a long time and now the price of oil is catching up - inflation-wise - to where it supposed to be along with the rest of the products bought and sold (scroll down to the MSNBC "Fact File").

And yet people whine about oil prices not even realizing that U.S. oil and gas prices are SUBSIDIZED! Without the U.S. subsidy of oil and gas we would see prices up into the $6.00 dollar range, which is where Europe is right now. You're still complaining about gas prices? Move to Venezuela and you'll see gas prices at around 0.12 cents a gallon.

Yeah, right. One U.S. President controls the world oil prices. Hey, psst, I have a London Bridge to sell ya! Dirt cheap, too!

Please, no more idiots tonight. Gawd, bunch of clueless, whiny little ingrates! Hey, I'm not complaining. Just a sad fact here. Very sad. I'm glad I'm not in Europe. Go ahead and move over there if you wish and you'll have more to complain about gas prices.

Peter Jennings' smoking...revisted.

A few days ago I said my condolence piece about the passing of Peter Jennings and left a question on whether or not his lung cancer was a result of resuming his smoking habit after 9/11 (the link I posted to USATODAY "9/11" in my previous post that explained Jennings' smoking habit he resumed AFTER 9/11.....not a one day thing of him getting lung cancer....sheesh!! READ THE LINK!! What are you smoking boy? See below in red) breaking his 20 smoke-free years.

I prefer to leave my question open-ended rather than to claim that Jennings' lung cancer was not the result of resuming his smoking. This is because I know there are two types of cancer... the agressive ones that can metastasized easily and very quickly throughout the body and the common slow growing and localized variety that would allow a person with this type of lung cancer to have a better chance of surviving. My grandparents suffered the fate of both types of lung cancer.

According to Oncolink:

The longer you go without smoking, the greater your risk declines; but it is never too late to quit because your risk declines somewhat no matter how long you have been smoking.

Is it any wonder why people are encouraged to quit smoking?

Now, smoking combined with stress can certainly be trigger causes for lung cancer with smoking (ie. carcinogen) being primarily the culprit. People have been known to get lung cancer after smoking for only several years rather than 30 years down the road. This could likely be a genetic predispostion or sensitivity to get lung cancer easily. We know that Peter Jennings began smoking by breaking his 20 year hiatus after 9/11 which was a very stressful time for Jennings and many U.S. citizens. Only a fool (and a complete idiot coupled with feeblemindedness) would say that Peter Jennings had lung cancer prior to 9/11 or that his lung cancer was not the result of his resuming his smoking after 9/11 without even looking at his medical records. What is this silly notion thinking this was a one-day marathon smoke that resulted Peter Jennings in getting lung cancer 4 years later? I said "Did 9/11 event ultimately put a path to his fateful destiny?" Note the word "path" and the article link to USATODAY, and put 2 and 2 together. Again, READ THE LINK YOU IDIOT!! More English 101 for you guys. No. Make that English 90. Rudimentary stuff I'd tell ya.

This lung cancer thing is entirely moot until we get more information on exactly what type of lung cancer Peter Jennings had, the stage he discovered the cancer, and when it may have occurred (cancerous to metastasized). Nor do we have information on how often or heavily he smoked prior to quiting versus smoking after 9/11. There are details missing here. I err on the caution side before making any sweeping conclusions about Peter Jennings' lung cancer. Only idiots would make these sweeping conclusions.

Generally so, smoking would be the most plausible culprit when it comes to lung cancer and smokers. However, during the 20 smoke free years we don't know whether Peter Jennings subjected himself to city pollution, 2nd hand smoke from his news colleagues or friends, radon or other environmental factors that would predispose Jennings to get lung cancer early on before 9/11 or after. However, we do know that Peter Jennings resumed smoking after 9/11. The question is, did his resumption of his smoking habit sealed his fate to get lung cancer? Did he already have cancer prior to his resumption to smoking? Or did this occur after 9/11? All of this is entirely moot rather than a conclusion.

And oh, I am a blogger. Not a wanna-be blogger. See? I write here which means I blog here. Therefore I am a blogger. Blogging doesn't have to be a profession. It's a hobby for me. Like hundred of thousand of other people around the world. Geez Louise!

What imbeciles I must come across to explain these things for those who failed to read carefully or cannot get the gist of my context in my blogs combined with the links. *sigh* Gawd almighty. What a totally discombobulated person we have over there.

RIP Peter Jennings. You had a long illustrious career! He left too early, IMO. He had class.

Rev. Fred Phelps is a Rabid Democrat Activist - you keep him.

Rev. Fred Phelps is a rabid Democrat Activist. I never did like Phelps. He is a total idiot who spouts nonsense with anti-American activities. He would go so far as to smear the memory of a dead U.S. soldier. This is exactly what many rabid anti-war Liberals would not mind doing.

In addition to mocking patriotic songs and waving anti-gay signs, one group member dragged an American flag on the ground with her foot.

Rev. Fred Phelps fits right in with these Liberal anti-war wackos.

You can have him!

Enjoy him for all he's worth.



Hat tip: Rhymes with Right.

Peter Jennings - RIP. Did 9/11 Event Helped Seal His Fate?

Peter Jennings dies at age 67 in his home from lung cancer. He was an admitted smoker and smoked over 9/11.

Did 9/11 event ultimately put a path to his fateful destiny?

Michelle Malkin notes condolences. Bloggers from around the world add to the growing list of condolences and remembrances of Peter Jennings and his smooth style of television journalism.

A Live Air America Radio Band Aid Solution

In David Reinhard's editorial he offered a great idea on how to help the cash-strapped, scandal ridden, check bouncin' Air America Radio by setting up a Live Air America Radio Band Aid or the L.A.A.R.B.A solution. Get Dixie Chicks, Madonna, Sheryl Crow, Bruce Springsteen and Barbara Streisand on board to help with the Band Aid solution to help cover Air America Radio's string of faux pas and financial inequities, though questionable at times, that are testing Air America Radio's finances with debts in the millions. Selling T-shirts, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers can no longer help support Air America Radio's finances and so a Band Aid solution is needed.

We know that Al Franken cannot do this by himself to garner the needed help and exposure of Air America Radio. Air America Radio. Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, and all of the Liberals who listen to Air America Radio need your help to keep this flotsam afloat by setting up the first ever temporary Band Aid solution.

Support the Live Air America Radio Band Aid and help end the needless sufferering of Al Franken's constant embarrassment among Liberals everywhere.

Michelle Malkin makes a point about pennies.

Donate your pennies to:


Live Air America Radio Band Aid
PO Box 00001
LAARBA, CA 12345

When Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover Air America Scandal

Cox and Forkum

That's why we have bloggers when cBS, NBC, NYTimes, ABC et al failed (ie refused) to cover the news on Air America Radio scandal. Check out Technorati's list of bloggers covering Air America as well. Only Foxnews cable station covered the scandal as far as a major news source covering the scandal. Michelle Malkin covers it well. Not only the financial scandal is the current problem, there were questions in the past that Air America Radio was (or maybe still is or has been) a campaign finance loophole machination.

I think the airness in Air America Radio is deflating.

Morgan Spurlock Watch

Remember the show "Super Size Me" about how one guy, Morgan Spurlock, who lived off of McDonalds food for 30 days by doubling his normal caloric intake of 5000 calories a day? And how he skewed the whole results after 30 days with high blood pressure, bad cholesterol readings, and absolutely no excercise with the exception of lifting up a Big Mac, fries and coke?:

Sayer is a biology professor who replicated Spurlock's thirty-day experiment to teach his students about how the documentary medium can be abused to further a political agenda. The difference between Sayer and Spurlock: Sayer didn't deliberately double his daily calorie intake, nor did he stop exercising. He ate three meals per day at McDonalds, diversified what he ate, and was able to keep his calorie count between 2,000 and 3,000. Over 30 days, he lost 17 pounds. His blood pressure dropped. And his cholesterol basically remained the same. He suffered none of the effects Spurlock shows in Super Size Me.

Really. It's all about personal responsibility. Spurlock showed none of it.

The experiment is the most interesting, but not necessarily the most informative, aspect of Super Size Me. Spurlock goes on a one-month McDonald's spree in which he eats three gluttonous meals per day. He plays by a few rules: everything he eats has to be on the McDonald's menu, he must sample every food choice at least once, and he only super sizes when asked by a cashier. Over the course of his study, he gains 25 pounds; experiences an extreme increase in cholesterol; suffers sexual dysfunction, headaches, and nausea; and shows signs of addiction. It's not a pretty picture, and, while the extremity of Spurlock's reactions are in part a result of his excessive indulgence(5000 calories per day), it illustrates a point about the unhealthiness of fast food eating.

Anybody who does that deserve that kind of fate. However, McDonalds does provide nutritional information so that customers can make an informed decision regarding which food to eat if they are trying to manage their dietary intake. Something that Spurlock hardly want to acknowledge. His attitude reflects that in his videos a la Michael Moore when lying and/or disinformation is the way to go to become a star. Will Michael Moore continue to eat at McDonalds?

Pathetic.

Check out the Morgan Spurlock Watch blogsite - a blog devoted to holding Mr. Spurlock accountable for the inaccuracies and factual distortions in his movie, book, and TV show.

UPDATE: More goodies about Morgan Spurlock and his pathetic attempts on filming documentaries where half-truths are hardly the case.

Also, what Netrox failed to note is that you can eat 5k worth of calories a day for 30 days practically at any food establishments from the fast foods to a 5-star French restaurant and still suffer the consequences of bloating oneself up to 25 and feel absolutely miserable! And, oh, the thin man he refers to in the documentary? He never ate 5k worth of McDonalds everyday. And thin doesn't equate being healthy, either. And many fast foods do carry alternate meals consisting of salads, fruits and whole grain! See here, here, here, here at Subway, here, here, KFC, and, of course, the best and worst of fast foods (2002) in America when it comes to vegetables, fruits and grain. My wife absolutely loves Wendy's Mandarin Chicken Salad. So much for "lack" of healthy choices. The choices are growing.

But Americans want tasty food...not tofu. But there's always room for more food imagination and the right mix to appease both types of consumers who choose between healthy foods and regular fast foods.

Where are the fast food resturants that serve dishes that are rich in vegetables and fruits and whole grains? I want them. Bet you cannot find one.- Netrox

I just did. Netrox doesn't look very hard, apparently. Was he swayed and blinded by Spurlock's schlockumentary thinking that corporate America of the fast food industry is not thinking about alternative healthy choices??

Spurlock sends a terrible message to America: "Obesity is not your responsibility. It's the fault of greedy corporations." This is where Netrox is wrong regarding Spurlock's "documentary" as not being biased. It is extremely biased that is literally tilting to one side. "Super Size Me" demonizes fast food to such a high degree.

Bottom line, Spurlock never discussed about personal responsibility when it comes to eating at fast food restuarants and exercising in his, uh, "documentary" and that his eating 5k for 30 days is not typical of what most Americans eat at fast food restaurants.

Not biased? Yeah, right.

Wolcott and Al Capone: Lost cousins?

These hoity toity Vanity Fair writers must use their own caricatures of themselves instead of a photograph? We know why. A caricature of a person does make him or her look slim and brings about his or her "best" and prominent features. Michelle Malkin makes a point about James Wolcott, a "professional" editorial writer in Vanity Fair, relishing his role on making fun of other people's physical appearances by picking on Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters blog. Angry in the Great White North takes a jab at James Wolcott's "professional" editorialized article on making fun of Ed Morrissey's of Captain's Quarters.

Now, far from it for me to say that there isn't any resemblance between Capone and Wolcott. But one thing for sure, I wouldn't want to hang around with Al Capone who had a penchant for a baseball bat on a human being's head. He's simply a disgusting figure. Simply.... creepy.


Al Capone & James Wolcott

But hey, many of us bloggers would rather debate on the merits of an argument at hand rather than sling mud, call people names and generally be a creepy person to begin with. I guess James Wolcott doesn't fit the bill as a "professional" writer.

When Al Franken Explodes

Found this blogsite detailing the puerile outburst of Al Franken after he agreed to go to Michael Medved's table for a radio spotlight only to find O'Neil (Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (about John Kerry)) at the table, too.

Too bad I missed this radio show since it happened this February even though I occasionally listen to Michael Medved's radio show. Be sure to click on the blogsite in the link above to download a video clip of the incident. It's not much.

Evidently what happened was that Medved ran into Franken and asked him if he would like to stop by the table to do a couple of minutes on the show. Getting an affirmative, Medved then ran into O'Neil and made the same offer. Franken's outburst was based on his paranoid claim that Medved "set him up" and "ambushed" him by setting up a debate with O'Neil without giving him a day or so to prepare.

As O'Neil said, if you are telling the truth, you don't need time to get yourself prepared. That, of course, was after Franken stormed off in a huff, carrying his hissy fit to the door.

I don't know what happened with Laura, but there was talk of Franken throwing a chair to the floor in another fit of rage earlier. Franken denied this, saying he had just pushed back and stood up and the chair fell over, but later O'Neil agreed with Medved that the chair had been thrown to the floor in anger, and they said something like 400 people saw this.But Franken did get in his pro-Kerry mantra, about Kerry serving "two tours of duty in Viet Nam', etc.Someone should tell him there is a difference between a fool and a comic.

Here's another account from commenter in that blogsite:

Al Franken reprised his role in "Trading Places" and went ape today on the Michael Medved show when he arrived at Michael's table on radio row for a brief appearance to find John O'Neill of SwiftVets fame sitting next to Medved prepared for a "debate" with Franken.

A crowd quickly gathered hoping for another RNC-Habib like outburst and, although disappointed, was treated to Franken tossing a chair and then Franken angrily denying that he tossed a chair ("it fell over when I walked away").

Franken'e eyes literally bulging out of his head. I was 3 feet free Franken and the corner of his mouth was twitching and his hands were curled up in close to a fist.

Here's a different website detailing the whole Franken fiasco.


Hey Al! Bring...it....on!

I think Al need to put up his fists and get it out of his system.

Uh, yeah. Right.

Lawyers Weigh In on Air America If "Stealing" of Kiddie Funds Actually Existed

Go here and see what lawyers have to say about Air America's fiscal fiasco on the stealing or "misappropriating" funds meant for kids and alzheimer patients.

When Liberals Become the Poster Children of “Hate Speech”

What is funny nowadays is whenever I point out certain things about an individual classless retort about the deads they turn it around and call it "griping" or "bitching". There is a difference between pointing out uncool, thoughtlesss remarks versus actually bitching all the time. Remember, I don't hold a weekly or monthly "Bitch Session" submitted by readers and have their gossipy, complaining and real bonafide whining remarks displayed on my blog.

We have many Democrats who will use their own hate and bile to smear good standing people so they can score political points. They will lie to such an extent just to hurt people. Such people as Durbin, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, and a few more feel what that they say justifies their political motives, even if it means costing people lives or reduce troops moral. This is not griping. Nor is it bitching. But a fact on what they do for people who are absolutely CLUELESS of what is going on. If anything, hate seems to be many of the Liberals' middle name. Once their cogs stop turning or get kinked in their thinking and use their emotions instead of rationale thinking they tend to end up going completely bonkers (warning: extremely graphic. You may get sick, bleh. I nearly barfed). They lose all sense of rationality and clear thinking when hate is their game plan. This is also the terrorists' game plan as well.

Very uncool. Very.... uncool.

Senate Backs Boy Scouts of America Use of Military Bases

I guess the Senate vote of 98-0 to allow BSA the use of military bases mean nothing to ACLU but it does put things into perspective when nobody in the Senate opposed the vote.

The Senate voted Tuesday to allow U.S. military bases to continue to host Boy Scout events, responding to lawsuits and a federal court ruling aimed at severing relationships between the government and the youth group.

In a 98-0 vote, the Senate approved the provision continuing the hosting of Boy Scout events as part of massive bill setting Defense Department policy for next year. After the vote, Senate leaders decided to put off further debate and votes on the overall bill, probably until fall when Congress returns from a month long break.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a former Boy Scout who sponsored the Senate provision, said it is necessary to push back on a spate of lawsuits to limit Boy Scout activities on government property.

The provision adopted Tuesday says Boy Scouts should be treated the same as other national youth organizations Frist said it "removes any doubt that federal agencies may welcome Scouts to hold meetings, go camping on federal property or hold scouting events and public forums" on government property.

The ACLU opposes the BSA because they do not allow gays or atheists because it goes against BSA's values. Ever wonder why the ACLU doesn't screech when the BSA also does not allow women or girls into their private organization?

Let's wait and see what fall brings us.

When People Jump for Joy for Dead Boy Scouts Leaders

A tragic accident at a Boy Scouts of America (BSA) jamboree where 4 adult Boy Scouts leaders were killed by electrocution when one of the tent pole they were erecting touched an overhead electrical wire. Despite the tremendous loss the families of the victims still hold the faith.

However, at least one Deaf person exults happily in a macabre manner the deaths of BSA leaders:

Boo hoo. 4 hearie men dead. Good riddance. Why? Because the BSA is firmly against gays.

People like him would rather hold a higher regard for Islamic terrorists who would rather (and do) kill gays as a practice of their religion? Just because this private organization holds an organizational belief about gays and their lifestyles justify in jumping for joy in seeing somebody die of a horrible and painful death? The BSA is a private organization in the belief of a higher Supreme Being and because it is a private religious organization they have the right to accept who can attend or be hired/fired based on their religious moral belief and values where the Supreme Court confirmed that right 5 years ago. This would be true of any other private organization including the KKK. As with most private organizations (except for NAMBLA and it's women's version) I am sure the BSA would want avoid this. But that is beside the point when it's all about the right of a private organization to hire or fire whoever they want that violates the private organization's moral and religious precept.

Now, having said that, we still get lunatic fringes whooping it up for dead BSA leaders. I've already outlined one. Sadly though. Now, it would be equally disdainful and repugnant to hear from pastors or religious leaders who would whoop it up for dead GBLT leaders killed in an accident or die from testicular cancer. Disagreement has its place but not extremism when emotion clouds judgements which is attributed to having a few loose screws getting in the way.

Air America Stealing Money from Poor-Inner City Kids and Elderly?

The Air America radio show hosted by, ahem, Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, your local Liberal idiots, is in hot waters. Very hot waters. In New York Air America is being investigated for shucking federal and local funds in the, most likely, "hundreds of thousands of dollars" all meant for inner-city kids and the elderly citizens into the station's own bank account.

According to published reports, the allegations involve Charles Rosen, the founder of Gloria Wise who has stepped down as executive director, investing city contract funds in Air America Radio, the liberal talk radio network.

Evan Cohen, Air America's former chairman, had served as Gloria Wise's director of development.

The Bronx News has learned,

through informed sources, that the diversion of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in Co-op City to the liberal Air America Radio is at the center of the city’s probe of corruption at the local club.

The money, which was reportedly paid to Air America as a loan, was supposed to be paid back with interest, two unidentified informed sources told the News. One source added that Air America officials, led by an official of the Gloria Wise Club, agreed to help the local club by publicizing its activities.

To date, no indictments have been handed down in the New York City Department of Investigation’s ongoing probe of the Gloria Wise Club’s reported transfer of funds to Air America.

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Cohen, who is reportedly at the center of the Gloria Wise probe, is a Guam-based investors who was reportedly a key principal in the start-up of Air America, which has been billed as the liberals’ answer to conservative talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Shaun Hannity, Bob Grant, Michael Savage, and G. Gordon Liddy.

How desperate is Air America radio show to keep that cash? Ever wonder why the show is called "Err America"?

Boy, talk about stealing lolipops from kids and kicking grandpa out into the street.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.

UPDATE: The monies taken from elderly citizens were for Alzheimer patients. The monies stolen were used to invest in Air America radio program. You don't take money that were specifically targeted for a program and put into some hot stock expecting a return. You simply don't! Even under the guise as a "loan". We're talking $500,000 dollars here that the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club never received.

As Captain's Quarters said:

Has Air America paid back the loan, or even made preliminary payments? We don't know; AA hasn't issued a statement, and more curiously, the national media hasn't asked them. The only papers covering this story are the New York Daily News (but not in its national paper) and the Gotham Gazette, a local newspaper for New Yorkers covering the borough beat. It seems to me that if Salem Radio or Clear Channel had taken money from poor children and Alzheimer's patients to stay on the air, we would hear about that from all major media outlets within nanoseconds of it coming out.

Cough up the money Air America. NOW!

UPDATE2: Check out Gloria Wise Community Center that has a campsite called "Camp Air America" which is located on Lake Stahahe among the 46,000 wooded acres of Harriman State Park, just 40 miles north of New York City.

How ironic.

And please read Jonathan Larson's blog under the AirAmericaRadio.com website where he attempted to pitch to the audience for donation to Camp Air America.

It (i.e. camping) taught me a great deal of self-sufficiency, which later served me well, especially when I went off to college. If you went to camp, think back on how much that time -- and, yeah, some of it might have been tough or painful -- ended up shaping who you've become. That's an opportunity every kid should have. We'll be talking about why for the next few weeks. Your donations (click on the "Camp Air America" ad to the left) have already started coming in. When we're done, we'll fill you in on what you've made possible. I hope you'll be a part of it. Thanks.

See? Maybe if Air America hadn't taken the $500,000 dollars to fund Air America radio show this donation pitch wouldn't be needed.

Morning Sedition will be helping to raise money for Camp Air America this June and July.

Go ahead a register on Larson's blog and start asking about the missing $500,000 for Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club that would've helped Camp Air America. No wonder they're going full tilt this June and July asking for donation considering where the $500,000 went in the first place!

Remnants of Emily Hits New Mexico...slightly

Well, in the death throes of Hurricane Emily it dumped massive amount of rain in the northeastern section of Mexico. The remaining clouds or the remnants of Emily did in fact reach the lower portion of southern New Mexico. My town of Alamogordo received less than a quarter inch of rain from the remnants of Emily that produced rainshowers over my area. No wind except from the down draft of the rainfall. All part of the July-August monsoon season where moisture flow from the southeast picking up moisture off of the Gulf ocean.

Naysayers were wrong about the remnants of Emily not to hit New Mexico. It did. So much for their intelligence in the sciences.

Lance Armstrong wins 7th Tour de France! The dope is on them.

In an amazing 21-stage ultra-marathon bicycle race Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France victory today. What an amazing individual.

Armstrong's new record of seven wins confirmed him as one of the greatest cyclists ever, and capped a career where he came back from cancer to dominate cycling's most prestigious and taxing race.

Of course, you will have you ever so ultra-jealous French people and people in general who do not like Lance Armstrong because he overcame is testicular cancer which had spread throughout his body. Or that they are suspcious of his 7 Tour de France wins but not suspicious of the old record of 5 Tour de France wins held by their own Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault. How typical.

And we have the ever so chant of "Dope! Dope!" by losers in the crowd and everywhere else on the planet at Armstrong's 7th win. This showed their extreme jealousy, petulant and wanker attitudes. Poor sportsman ship and jealousy all because Lance worked hard at this?

Cancer survivors, autograph hunters and enamored admirers pushed, shove, and yelled "Lance! Lance!" outside his bus in the mornings for a smile, a signature, or a word from the champion. He had bodyguards to keep the crowds at bay — ruffling feathers of cycling purists who sniffed at his "American" ways.

Some spectators would shout obscenities or "dope!" — doper. To some, his comeback from cancer and his uphill bursts of speed that left rivals gasping in the Alps and Pyrenees were too good to be true.

Armstrong insisted that he simply trained, worked and prepared harder than anyone. He was drug-tested hundreds of times, in and out of competition, but never found to have committed any infractions.

Congratulations Lance! Who says hard work is never the answer? Honesty, integrity and hard work makes a man humble and humbled even more so after beating cancer after staring death in the eye. There are some people I know need to grow up about Lance and should take cue from Lance on the integrity of hard work.

Support Lance Armstrong's cancer website and his own website. Cancer information can certainly help save people lives.


UPDATE: Boo hoo to the whiners (aka stalkers) sneaking around among Gallaudet University's multitude of computers screaming "FOUL!!" about Lance Armstrong's winning the 7th Tour de France and his successes in life while over-coming adversity. C'est la vie! Stop complaining! I swear, people acting like big overgrown, fat babies around here. Here, have a sucker!

Hey, let's give a big U.S.A. salute to Lance!!

A Lemonade Stand in Quantico to Help U.S. Soldiers

What a better business icon than seeing a few young and savvy business people run a lemonade stand in Quantico, Virginia? Two 9-year olds and one 7-year old run the lemonade stand to help raise money through the "Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund" for families of Marines and Sailors who were wounded during combat or training. Ever since the fund started, it has helped over 1,000 families with over $1.7 million in grants. The ubiquitous lemonade stands that pop up every summer around the United States, this one lemonade stand helped contribute to the fund.

“The children started the stand because they wanted to help the injured Marines,” said Lisa Killeen, mother of Kelsey and Megan. “Hayden's mother, Rene Bardorf, is one of the founders of the Semper Fi Fund, and I am a caseworker for Bethesda and Walter Reed. The kids have seen us working and wanted to do something on their own to help.”

Each of the girls has her own job: Megan holds the sign up at passing cars, greeting everyone with her smile, and points to the location of the stand. Kelsey pours the lemonade, bakes cookies for the stand, and hands out Semper Fi Fund cards. Hayden takes the orders, gets the ice, and hands out the lemonade. And they all do it with a smile.

After 5 days they managed to raise $205.

More lemonade stands to help soldiers seen here despite the myth that Republicans hate lemonade which turns out that Liberals hate lemonade in this one.

This is what America is about. Help your fellow American soldiers all you can do. Sadly, Newsweek, Kennedy and Durbin all refused to do this by preferring to slur, injure and put our U.S. soldiers at risk so they can score political points.



Photo by Sgt. Donald Bohanner
A salute to the kids and a hearty Semper Fi!

Hypocrite John Kerry Demands Records of Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts

How very stupid, repugnant and hypocritical of Senator John F. Kerry to demand that

the White House release "in their entirety" all documents and memos from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' tenure in two Republican administrations.

This is nothing but a farce on Kerry's end when he refused to turn over all of his Navy records via the SF 180 form prior to the Presidential election and afterwards when he promised he would. He never really did a few months ago.

John Kerry said:

We cannot do our duty if either Judge Roberts or the Bush administration hides elements of his professional record.

And people voted for John Kerry last year? Are they that gullible or what?

Senator Kerry, stick it where the sun doesn't shine. You have not yet provided the SF 180 in allowing the release of ALL of your Navy record. Why are you still not keeping your promise? Are you hiding something? What an effin lying weasel!

We called for Kerry to execute a form which would permit anyone to examine his full and unexpulgated [sic] military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center. Instead he executed a form permitting his hometown paper to obtain the records currently at the Navy Department. The Navy Department previously indicated its records did not include various materials. This is hardly what we called for. If he did execute a complete release of all records we could then answer questions such as (1)Did he ever receive orders to Cambodia or file any report of such a mission (whether at Christmas or otherwise); (2) What was his discharge status between 1970 and 1978 (when he received a discharge) and was it affected by his meetings in 1970 and 1971 with the North Vietnamese? (3)why did he receive much later citations for medals purportedly signed by Secretary Lehman who said he did not know of them; (4) Are there Hostile Fire and Personnel Injured by Hostile Fire Reports for Kerry's Dec. 1968 Purple Heart (when the officer in charge of the boat Admiral Schacte, the treating Surgeon Louis Letson, and Kerry's Division Commander deny there was hostile fire causing a scratch) awarded three months later under unknown circumstances.

Netherlands Dutch Court Clears Anti-Gay Imam

Well, I'm not surprised about the Imam ruling knowing that parts of European cities are strained with Muslim extremists (and fundamentalists) running amok even though this ruling was read 3 years ago.

A Dutch court has cleared a Muslim cleric of charges of discrimination after he denounced homosexuality as a contagious disease.

The court ruled that the imam could not be convicted because of his constitutional right to religious freedom.

The judge said that while he did consider the imam's comments discriminatory, he was free to base his remarks on the text of the Koran.

It's only a matter of time til these Islamic terrorists start bombing cities in the Netherlands. One thing for sure, the LGBT community cannot use Iraq as an excuse why these nutto terrorists are going after them. Try blaming the Koran for once as the source and justification for terrorizing people ("infidels") of all kinds through threats, intimidations and killings. Although the Dutch parliament is currently debating a draft law presented by the government on radicalism combat, including a TV show to monitor sermons delivered by imams. But you still have these terrorists living in the Netherlands. This is the price to pay when a country becomes too liberal in their policy toward allowing too many radical and extremist people to live in their country which will someday be a country belonging to Muslims being that they may likely someday become the majority.

British LGBT Receives Threats from Muslim Fundamentalists

How ironic. Gay leaders in the U.K. receives death threats from Muslim fundamentalists. Seems like most British gay and lesbian organizations are leftists that support Palestinian terrorists and other terrorists in Iraq, as well as their terrorism tactic that is now boomeranging on them. Here is their thanks.

I wonder how long until they realize the radicalness and extremism of these terrorist groups really are. They sincerely and desperately want to bomb the LGBT's hinnies to kingdom come because they see LBGT's lifestyle as a direct threat to their own religious Islamic beliefs.

Islamic terrorists are preaching and guaranteeing martydom and 72 virgins in heaven for suicide bombers. Now, it's not about 72 gay virgins but the male bomber's expectation is about the 72 FEMALE virgins in heaven. All hokey stuff. But does it at all ring a bell here on where these Islamic terrorists are going with? Hello? I'm knocking on your heads. And yet the LBGT try and support them at the same time? It's like throwing gasoline on a bonfire but you're soaked in it, too.

That's a definition of pure idiocy....and suicide, too.

Hurricane Emily to Hit Just South of Texas

Want to see Hurricane Emily in action from South Padre Island, Texas? Go here to see the webcam of Emily in action. Here's a bouy that's recording wind speed, temperature and wave action just south of South Padre Island near Port Isabel. Windspeed is measured in meters per second. For every 1 m/s = 2.2 mph. Right now, winds are gusting up to 11 m/s or about 23 mph.

We'll see in a few days if the remnants of Hurricane Emily will impact New Mexico. Meanwhile, batten down the hatches!!

Super Typhoon "Haitang" to Hit Taiwan

Hurricanes. Big mothers they are. But Super Typhoon "Haitang" is one big typhoon...bigger than hurricane Emily. A "Super Typhoon" merely means it is a Category 5 storm with sustained winds greater than 155 mph or 135 knots.

A continuous update on Super Typhoon Haitang can be seen here.



The island of Taiwan can be seen in the
upper left corner of photo.


Haitang, with winds gusting to as high as 185 mph (300 kph), is heading west north-west across the pacific at about 16 mph, the U.S. government's Joint Typhoon Warning Center Web site said in an advisory issued earlier today.

The typhoon was about 860 kilometers east-south east of the island at 2:30 p.m. local time, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said in a statement.

The eye of the storm, the first big one of the western Pacific's typhoon season, will probably make landfall in Taiwan sometime after 8 a.m. on July 18, the Typhoon Warning Center said. Sustained winds, now at 150 mph, are forecast to increase to as high as 161 mph with gusts, up to 196 mph by tomorrow.


Praying that the people of Taiwan survives this monster noting the fact that the hurricane force winds and higher will nearly encapsulate the whole island.

David Corn "Outed" Valeria Plame?

Now, it seems to be that writer David Corn outed Valeria Plame that started all this Karl Rove brouhahahahas. Remember folks, Karl Rove was never the target in this probe to find out who the "leaker" was or where it came from.

Now, as for leaking CIA information publicly, all you have to do is look at John F. Kerry's naming of names on the Senate floor this year by outing a CIA agent.

United States senators, including former presidential candidate John Kerry, may have inadvertently blown the cover of a CIA agent.

At a hearing to discuss the nomination of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations, politicians discussed a dispute over Bolton’s treatment of an intelligence analyst.

The analyst was referred to as “Mr Smith” but when Kerry read from a transcript of closed door interviews he mentioned a name that had not previously come up.

“Did Otto Reich share his belief that Fulton Armstrong should be removed from his position? The answer is yes,” Kerry said.“Did John Bolton share that view? Yes.”

While it was not completely clear whether Armstrong was the spy, Bolton replied: “As I said, I had lost confidence in Mr Smith, and I conveyed that. I thought that was the honest thing to do.”

Where's the outrage over that? Typical Liberals they are who go after Rove believing he's absolutely guilty. Well, he's not.

Yet, in one of John Kerry's secret closed door committee back in the Sandinista days in February 1987 somehow leaked the name of a covert CIA agent:

I said, "Senator, this has been the hardest testimony I ever gave in my life."He looked up, glasses perched on his nose.

"Why?"

"Because, sir, it is extremely difficult to have to answer questions from someone you do not respect."...I told him outright, "Senator, my name was leaked by your committee as being involved with drugs. I take that very seriously because it affects my family, my reputation, and my friends."

Kerry looked at me sternly and said, "You're making a very serious accusation, because this committee doesn't leak."

"Senator, leaked or not it was in every goddamned newspaper that, at one of your closed committee hearings, Ramón Milian Rodríguez said I solicited money. That is a damned lie."

Felix Rodriguez wanted his testimony made available to the public, but "Kerry and Blum" refused.

Then we have Senator Leahy (D) or "Leaky Leahy" as he is fondly remembered as:

"Leaky Leahy," allegedly threatened to sabotage classified strategies he didn't like.

Leahy ‘inadvertently' disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview.

"The intercept … made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizens. …"

"The reports cost the life of at least one Egyptian operative involved in the operation."

In July 1987, it was reported that Leahy leaked secret information about a 1986 covert operation planned by the Reagan administration to topple Libya's Moammar Gaddhafi.

U.S. intelligence officials said Leahy, along with the Republican panel chairman, sent a written threat to expose the operation directly to then-CIA Director William Casey.

Weeks later, news of the secret plan turned up in the WashingtonPost, causing it to be aborted.

A year later, as the Senate was preparing to hold hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal, Leahy had to resign his Intelligence Committee post after he was caught leaking secret information to a reporter.

He should have been indicted, tried and sentenced.

Hey, "R"! Get on the floor and do 50 push-ups! Oh, yeah. You can't. Have a hot dog instead.

Typical Liberal weenies who keep screaming QUAGMIRE! when they are the ones sinking. Karl Rove outed Plame?

Let me laugh for a moment and enjoy this one.

Will Lefty Loonie Liberals Get Eggs on Their Faces over Rove's Case?

It just gets funnier by the minute. These Liberals love to presume a guilty charge rather than innocence among any Republicans who are presumably charged with a "crime" in a probe investigation when in fact Karl Rove is not the target of the probe investigation according to Plamegate special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Liberals do not allow the probe to complete its investigation to uncover where the leak had originally occurred. In this case, it'd be the Karl "Evil" Rove who they say exposed Valeria Plame's identity when it was Novak all along, or so it seems.

Chief presidential adviser Karl Rove testified to a grand jury that he talked with two journalists before they divulged the identity of an undercover CIA officer but that he originally learned about the operative from the news media and not government sources, according to a person briefed on the testimony.

The person, who works in the legal profession and spoke only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, told The Associated Press that Rove testified last year that he remembers specifically being told by columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame, the wife of a harsh Iraq war critic, worked for the CIA.

Isn't that interesting? And yet Democrats want to buddy up with Wilson the liar thinking he's the golden boy in helping to oust Karl "Evil" Rove the mastermind in helping President Bush from the Administration?

Hey, you Liberal wackos, ready to concede defeat once this is cleared by the probe investigation? Ready to apologize for your behaviors?

Now, why would I expect that? They'll just claim that Karl Rove was the mastermind behind all this in his evil, diabolical effort to make Liberals look like fools.

Actually, it's not that. It's just that Liberals always make fools of themselves. They'll look in the mirror and blame the mirror for their appearances. That's how many of them react nowadays.

U.S. Forces Devises New Strategy on Burying Killed Terrorists in Pig Skins as Part of Psychological Warfare.

It was overheard that U.S. Forces on the war against terrorism is now devising a strategy to help deter Islamic terrorists from engaging in battle whether it's suicide bombing or fire fights by facing the prospect of being buried by U.S. Coalition Forces (non-Islamic) in pig skins after getting killed. Lieutenant "N" (preserved for anonymity and protection) in Iraq is part of the multi-prong "Bravo Game" efforts on mental and psychological warfare against Islamic terrorists.

Lt. "N".: "It's well known that these Islamic terrorists are devoutly religious and have deep revulsion and fear towards anything pig-related whether it's food or its by-products. It's a part of their dietary beliefs, fear and revulsion."

The Lieutenant continued to make an important point that by touching or eating pigs will prevent them, according to their Koranic beliefs, from going to heaven, even after martyrdom. This belief is considered to be a weakness among the Islamic terrorists.

Lt. "N".: "We've contacted several pig farms throughout North Carolina to acquire initially approximately 80 tons of pig skins. They will be used immediately to begin burying killed terrorists in them by wrapping up their bodies or their remains in pig skin. This include Islamic suicide bombers, too. The head usually survives intact in a vest suicide bombing or bombing in general. We have a protocol on burying severed terrorists heads by burying them in pig skins. Whether the bodies are intact or in pieces we'll scrap everyone of them up and place them in pig skins."

The Lieuteaent went on to explain that in order to be successful in getting the message out video tapes and photographs of the event will be advertised. When asked if they were worried about the Religious backlash from non-terrorists Islamic believers?

Lt. "N": "It's damn if you do, damn if you don't when it comes to fighting Islamic terrorists. We would rather use every tactical means to dissuade them from thinking that dying is a good thing in enemy terroritories believing they'll achieve martydom and heaven. Not so, according to their beliefs, if we advertise the fact we'll bury them for free in pig skins. Word of mouth should do the rest."

The Lieutenant smiled.

"Lt. "N": "We respect those who believe in Islam as a peaceful religion while respecting all other religions. But if they use the Koran as a source and inspiration for their terrorist activities, then by all means we'll use that against them. It's fair game."

Now, aint' that sweet folks?