Haven't You Heard? Iraq Constitution Passes Muster Among Iraqi Voters

Yes. Shocking news for Liberals out there in la-la land. They've been screaming quagmire for the past 2 and half years. And for the second successful time the Iraqis used their new found democracy to vote. And the recent vote for the constitution referendum passed muster:

The vote on the constitution was 78.59 percent in favor of ratification and 21.41 percent against, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said. The charter required a simple majority nationwide with the provision that if two-thirds of the voters in any three provinces rejected it, the constitution would be defeated.

The referendum results, announced after a 10-day audit following allegations of fraud, confirmed previous indications that Sunni Arabs failed to produce the two-thirds "no" vote they would have needed in at least three of Iraq's 18 provinces to defeat the constitution.

The charter is considered a major step in Iraq's democratic reforms, clearing the way for the election of a new, full-term Iraqi parliament on Dec. 15. Such steps are important in any decision about the future withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from Iraq.

Congrats to the Iraqi people. Proof of concept that democracy does work whether if the referendum passed or failed. Of course, there will be naysayers, doomsayers and people who just drip with venom that'll come out of the woodwork everytime something successful happens.

I wonder if the Sheehan crowd will make a note of the successful Iraq constitutional referendum vote? For democracy to gain a foothold requires time, committment, faith and blood. As always, freedom is never free. Sacrifice is what it takes. Sheehan forgets that very readily just to make a buck and a shot at momentary fame and recognition defiling and embarrassing the memory of her dead son. She even has an excuse for that, too.

UPDATE: Sheehan, despite her pathetic excuse, smiled all the way to the police's paddy wagon along with other women sitting there, glumly and not looking too thrilled about getting arrested. See the video. Kudos to Sheehan on exploiting capitalism via politics and recognition.

More glummy article about the Iraq Constitution (before the successful passing of the referedum) by Sheehan and misses wildly the whole concept of freedom and democracy. Freedom is never free. We're there to help. Any step toward a more democratic and free country is always a success for the horribly oppressed people rather than be under the iron fist of tyranny and despotism and not have a voice.

Post Wilma Working Cam on Florida Keys and Elsewhere

Check out Live Duval Street for live streaming cam on the Florida Keys somewhere on Duval Street. I'm surprised it's working so well despite it getting hit and the flooding problem that's obvious in the streaming live cam. You can see waters about 1ft deep in the streets and may see an occassional person walking by wading through the waters. For an accurate map, click on the website's "Click for Map" on the left.

Here are some Ft. Myers cams. Some working, some not.

A 1,005 lb Monster Bench Press!

Gene Rychlak Jr. Heard of him? I've been watching him and he's come a long way to actually bench press over (barely) 1000 lbs. Here's a video (allow about 30 seconds to load if you have a fast line) of him benching, officially, for the books 1005 lbs. at the 2004 IPA Nationals. He became the 1st man to bench over 1000 lbs. That's 1/2 a ton, folks! Considering that he weighed 380lbs at 6 ft 1 inch which makes him a rather large and rotund man. And extremely strong, too. He makes my bench press (without a bench shirt that I never use or have) of 340 lbs seem puny. But hey, that guy weighs nearly twice as me and a few inches taller. Just to note the difference a bit more, Gene was able to bench press 2.64 times his body weight but that was with a bench shirt which can can give him an additional 10% extra lift. In my opinion, using a bench shirt is pretty much like cheating since it acts like a spring. Regardless, this would mean I would have to bench press 475 lbs. I know what 475lbs feels like since I do partial bench presses (about once every 3 weeks) upward to 550 lbs by pressing up and down (at least one time for the heaviest ones) of about 3 or 4 inches from the top position rather than from the top down to the chest and back upward which would be the stand bench press. BTW, partial bench presses is scheduled for tomorrow. I'd be lucky if I can even budge an inch or two upward for 600 lbs. I can't imagine the pressure of 1000 lbs on a human body. It's something you have to get use to after awhile. After 21 years of working out with the weights, plus a 3 year hiatus, it is certainly fun to get back in again and make gains once again, bigger gains this time.

If there is one sport that I find interesting it's the Strongman games. Try and pick up a round, heavy concrete/stone ball. If you thought a medicine ball was heavy, you haven't picked up a stone ball before. Tire flips and farmer's walk are usually standard fares in a strongman games. There are numerous other events, and the one who completes all of the events with the most points wins the competition. Each games are not the same and most events are usually standard with some additional ones added.

In the past these games were reserved only for the heaviest and strongest persons but now there are more of these strongman games in the lighter weight category with the lightest category being under 200 lbs for men. At least the under 200lbs is much more palatable to work up to than to getting up to 231 lbs just to take advantage of the extra weight and strength gains. Usually these strongman events have only just two weight categories such as 232 lbs and over, and under 231 lbs.

Whatever the weight category, I think it's a fun sport to watch or even more so to participate in one. And over the years these strongman events have become more popular (thanks to ESPN) just like poker tournaments have gotten popular over the years. In fact, there is one deaf person that I'm aware of that have participated in a strongman event. And that would be Andy Medak.

Are you a deaf or hh strongman, powerlifter, or an olympic lifter?

When Washington Post Gets Duped by Telegraph Daily on False Reporting

Now, the Washington Post must be seeing red for printing out an inaccurate report on the claim that one US civilian contractor was burned alive and killed while 3 others were shot in the head as reported by Britain's Daily Telegraph with the headline emblazoned:

U.S. Confirms Killing Of Contractors in Iraq - Four Were Slain by Angry Mob Last Month

"U.S. confirms killing"? And how exactly did the Washington Post ensured that it was confirmed? Because the Daily Telegraph says so? Didn't John Ward Anderson and Steve Fainaru from Washington Post Foreign Service who wrote that in yesterday's article ever tried calling a few military people just to double check on the Daily Telegraph's supposed "confirmation" ?

It is interesting, however, that the Daily Telegraph wrote that story on October 22, 2005, a few days after the burning of the Taliban dead bodies was reported by the media. Either they were careless in their reporting, or there is an agenda here to mislead others with disinformation. Either way, it was poor journalistic work. Even many of the bloggers can do better. This is little comfort coming from the MSM outlets on hoping that they follow a bit of proper journalism protocol seeing how big a boo boo they both made.

Here's the actual confirmation as reported by the Associated Press today:

BAGHDAD, Iraq The U-S military is denying a newspaper report that the bodies of four American contractors killed in Iraq were set on fire by a mob.

The military says all four were in their vehicles with bullet wounds and one of them was burned from a vehicle fire. It says another one was injured but later died of his wounds.

What will Washington Post (and the rest of the MSM) do to ensure that they follow through with the proper journalistic protocols on ensuring that the story they have is correct and not just hearsay?

Both WaPo and DT need to do some answering here.

Ok, how many of you bloggers out there were duped by this and ranted over the fake reporting by WaPo and Daily Telegraph?

Hurricane Wilma on the Fast Track to Florida

Hurricane Wilma is on a fast track now with speed of 12 mph (NE) and will probably go a little faster as the day wears on. Amy Kurz and her family, we're thinking of you. Batten down the hatches! Also, my mother and her husband live just 40 miles east of Fort Myers. They, too, have already put up the shutters on her windows. They have enough food and water, drinks to last a couple of weeks and expect the power to go out for a few days or so.

And, no, this isn't the result of "global warning," either. It's the same trend that we had 1950s and 1960s when we had a rash of hurricanes. Oh sure, we had more Cat. 5 hurricanes in one season in the past but the frequency of Class 3 or higher hurricanes is mimicking the trend back in the 1950s and 1960s. Must've been some serious global warming then. And then it got relatively "quiet" after that only to get cranked up again, from th e mid-1990s onward.

Oh, btw, Greenland's ice sheet has been thickening up (here and especially here) and if all of that ice melted, it would raise the sea water level about 15 to 20 feet. If we're in a "global warning" as so many chicken littles are saying, then why are the ice sheets of Greenland have been getting thicker every year?

*Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich. (From 1926 to 1960, some 70-95% of these glaciers were in retreat.)

• A comparison of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 1965 and
1990 Plant Hardiness Zone Maps, shows a southward change of one zone, or 10°F, between 1965 and 1990.

• Careful measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in German oaks, which are rigorously calibrated to temperature data, show a 1°C temperature decline from 1350 to 1800 (the lowpoint of the Little Ice Age). Temperature thereafter increased by 1°C from 1800 to 1930, and has been declining since then.

• From weather stations in the Alps, and in the Nordic countries, we find the temperature decline since 1930 is also 1°C.

• Satellite measurements have shown growth in the height and breadth of the huge Greenland ice sheet, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere.

Others (a great source of info!) have noted elsewhere that ice and snow are accumulating as well as changes in avg. temperature which in many places have gotten colder.

Go ahead and play the chicken little game while feigning ignorance my little chickadees.

Lady-Boys and Girlie-Men, Terrorists and Terrorist Sympathizers

Oh..oh....oh!....hand wringers over there....there, too....how about here? Don't get yourself in a tizzy, I'm talking about those Islamic terrorist dogs who would even eat their own brothers if it would serve a purpose. Those Islamic terrorists and extremists, and sympathizers, are needlessly being overly sensitive ignoring even the facts they have also mutilated US soldiers and American bodies time and time again. It's called..*gasp!...war.

Time Magazine reported yesterday that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan had to burn the bodies of dead Islamic terrorists because they were BLOATED and they STANK under the 90 degrees plus heat! Well, have you ever smelled dead but obviously bloated bodies rotting under the sun for a few days? It isn't air freshner that's for sure.

It was then that Lt. Nelson took the decision that could jeopardize his service career. "We decided to burn the bodies," one soldier recounts, "because they were bloated and they stank." News of this cremation may have remained on these scorching hills of southern Afghanistan, had the gruesome act not been recorded on film by an Australian photojournalist, Stephen Dupont. Instead, when the footage aired on Australian TV on Wednesday, it unleashed world outrage. A Pentagon spokesman described the incident as "repugnant" and said that the army was launching a criminal investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in violation of the Geneva Convention on human rights.

Fueling the furor was the fact that the TV report showed that after the bodies were torched, a U.S. Psychological-Operations team descended on Gonbaz in Humvees with their loudspeakers booming: "Taliban, you are cowardly dogs. You are too scared to come down and retrieve the bodies. This just proves you are the lady-boys we always believed you to be."

Well, that's a new new insult, "Lady-boys." Must be a slight derivative of Arnold's smack, "Girlie-men." It's all part of the Psy-Ops on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq by American forces. Surely, more Hand Wringers of America will step forward and do some more analysis claiming that by taunting Islamic terrorists with such insults as "Lady-boys" will be damaging to their psyche and well-being. And giving an excuse to handle this war with kids gloves thus leading to a more "sensitive war." Pink bonnets and flowers for the terrorists.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Burn 'em, boys! Burn the Lady-boys.

Heh.

And, a Semper Fi, too!

U.N. Supports Despotism, Islamic Terrorism, and Tyranny

This goes from bad to worse for the U.N. now that more documents and evidence that seemingly ties the U.N. to the al Qaeda network. Another reason why the U.N. shouldn't be trusted. There are numerous dictators that are a member of U.N. One is Robert Mugabe who is a poster boy for the U.N. and a ruthless dictator of Zimbabwe who starves his own people for political purposes on World Food Day and compares President Bush to Hitler.

Most of the civilized world recognizes Robert Mugabe as a brutal tyrant responsible for transforming what was once the breadbasket of the African continent into a place of destitution, and dependence on the West.

The United States alone has donated nearly $300 million worth of food to Zimbabwe since 2002, and it's hard to see how a single penny of that aid did not go to waste.

This is a country where government-sanctioned theft of land from white farmers has led to black starvation, and where information about the regime's grain reserves are guarded from the U.N. and the Zimbabwean people in the way terrorist states keep secret their weapons of mass destruction programs.

Someone naive to the U.N.'s ways might expect to see sanctions imposed on Mugabe's regime. Instead, Mugabe was invited to speak to the 60th anniversary of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome — in spite of a European Union ban on Mugabe's travel.

If you support the U.N. you also support Islamic terrorism, despotism, tyranny and dictatorship. It's time to weed out the vile and corrupt U.N. once and for all.

Sensitive Liberals Lending a Hand to Sensitive Muslim Fanatics?

I heard about this yesterday and Michelle Malkins re-iterates this again at her site about the burning of corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan that Moonbats are making hay over this new allegation by the Australian "journalists" with a television footage that purportedly shows US soldiers burning the bodies. This time it's the "abuse" of corpses that took place in a battle field. Well, I can see how sensitive Liberal journalists beget a sensitive Liberal audience. Next time, we'll make sure US troops get permission from the enemy on what to do with a dead Islamic terrorist body and help them pick up the 1000 pieces, too.

Hey, I have no qualms about burning them up. It's no different than Taliban fighters getting caught in a burning hut caused by the Coalition weapons. Or a 500 lb bomb ripping through their "secret" headquarters blowing them up into several thousand pieces. How many of those Taliban fighters had to abandoned their brothers to rot under the sun? This is war. What do the Australian journalists want? A more sensitive war?

Haven't we forgotten what the evils of Islamic terrorists have done when they also multilate corpses?

Remember this one?


3000 dead. Burned. Crushed, Dismembered.
Many of them unaccounted for. We can't
account for them. Why should the Talibans?


Hey, I'm for burning up the bodies of Taliban fighters if it necessary on war against terrorism as part of their psychological warfare tactics. Now, if the Taliban fighters had enough sense to stop their 14th century backward thinking maybe they (and the women) would be better off in today's society by stopping this nonsense. Remember, we are at war and the battle field is not a playground. Many do go MIA. We're not playing Guatanamo Bay here handling the Koran with white kids gloves and give jailed Islamic terrorists the 5 star spa treatment at Club Gitmo. This is a battle field. A completely different scenario here. I'd say that once these Islamic terrorists get killed in action, bury them all in pig skins. Burn 'em. Let them rot under the sun for months. Or let the vultures eat the corpses and turn them into vulture droppings. If the Taliban fighters want to claim the bodies, they'd best surrender first. Simple as that.

One Year Anniversary of Kokonut Pundits

Well, well, well. It's been one year to this day that I started my blog called "Kokonut Pundits." People have cried over it. People have threatened me over it. People have laughed. People have cursed over it. People have found it to be an enjoyable read. People were intimidated by it. A few have decided to become a stalker where in one case I have earned one offical fan of"Kokonut Pundits" who is a bonafide Deaf stalker accessing multiple computers just to let me know that' he's a crackpot. And there were people who cannot read well went over into simpler territories by visiting other blogsites. A surprise did come when there were people who met me on the streets and talked about my blogsite. And so on. Always something interesting.

My first blog was called "Opening salvo against Kerry's grab."

It happened. Finally happened when a Democrat deaf and hard of hearing American group called "National Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans for Kerry/Edwards Steering Committee" (a mouthful!) was officially endorsed by the Kerry/Edwards in their website as the lay claims to 28 million deaf and hard of hearing Americans as their own. Needless to say they do not represent me, nor to the million others deaf and hard of hearing Americans who support George W. Bush

Thus began my foray into the world of other people's ludicrousness by pointing out their inanities. Their creativity of it. Or simply because I found them interesting enough to blog the details on my blog site. Of course, you wouldn't want to forget my famous Bush rally pictures. That was some classic pictures I took.

My blogsite "Kokonut Pundits" was referred to a few times in Michelle Malkin, Iowa Voice. Blogs for Bush, and Captains Quarters, for example. Plus numerous other lesser known Conservatives (and Liberals) that have linked to my blogsite to reference my articles.

As for sizing up my blogsite with others, here they are:

On the Technorati scale, my blog is now ranked at #4,968 with 798 links from 202 sites. The number of blogs that Technorati covers stands at 19.9 million blogs.

My "Average Per Day" hits currently stands at 101.

My "Average Vist Length" has gone up remarkably over the last several months with average visit length of exactly at 4:00 (4 minutes).

So far, over 26,000 hits or the number of times people have visited my blogsite. Although two months went missing when I took the Site Meter button off but later I decided to put it back up again. I joined the Site Meter on December 11, 2004 versus starting my blog on October 22, 2004. So the number should be a little bit higher, probably close to 30,000 by now. But hey, 26,000 is fine.

Now, what will the 2nd year bode me in my continued blogging while I cover politics, deafness issues, Republicans, Liberals, sensitive Democrats, national security, technology and so on? Only time will tell. This blogging is a hobby (out of few others I do) of mine since I do enjoy writing like so many others out there.

Are you going to blog or what?

Hurricane Wilma's Eye Over Cozumel

Amazing radar photo of Hurricane Wilma's eye over the island of Cozumel. The length of the island is 30 miles long while the eye of the hurricane encompasses the whole island with the eye being about 40 miles along the oblong length of it. Constant windspeed of 145 mph has certainly battered the island and as of right now, it's calm blue skies where people are undoubtedly coming out of their shelters with many of them not knowing that the storm isn't over! The second phase of the storm is almost upon them. The eastern and northeastern quadrant of the storm is the worst part. Keep them in your prayers.


Now you people, get back into your shelters! This island is going to get destroyed and will feel the economic impact with destroyed infrastructures and no tourism for years to come. Cancel your 2006 spring break, folks.


Monster storm taken at 2 PM Mountain Time
(or 4 PM Eastern Time) October 21, 2005

Hey! No Fair! DeLay's Smiling!

Just as I thought this would happen. "Dems Complain About DeLay's Smiling Mug Shot"

The Texas Republican is smiling, dressed in a suit and wearing his House pin.
Unlike most mug shots, the photograph being circulated on the Internet does not include written information at the bottom, so it looks more like an ordinary snapshot than a mug shot.

That bothers many of the bloggers on the Democrat's "Kicking Ass" website.

Some complained that the official mug shot "doesn't look real -- no ID markings, no booking numbers, etc." Others wanted to see the profile shot."I want a copy of the warrent [sic] for the back of a t-shirt and his mug on the front," one Democrat wrote. Others indicated they'd like to wipe the smile off DeLay's face.

Ha ha! Outwitted. Ever see a movie called "Dumb and Dumber" ?

Curses, foiled again! So desperate are these Liberal nutballs they decided to produce fake mugshots instead for their own T-shirt. Even a sorry Liberal radio station tried their hands at photoshopping using Nick Nolte's own mugshot and his famous disheveled look with Tom DeLay's face.

Next, maybe they'll try and look for a Texas statute buried somewhere that specifically forbade any smiling (only if you want to leave the country) for those arrested and booked when they get photographed.


Free Democratic Party seal is now
available for sensitive Democrats.
Call me and get yours today!


Hat tip: Mizhko

Deaf Frappers!

The Frapper! is a Google mapping website for those who want to make their own locator map based on a group's affiliations or commonalities anywhere from deafness to politics. There are now several deaf and hard of hearing groups that are using the Frapper! website for their own fun and purpose.

Deafreedom is starting to have its members put their names on the map. Deaf America has one, too. Cochlear Implantees are making themselves known. There is even a Deaf Bloggers map that's starting. Then there's this "Deaf Gang" and "Deaf Climbers." And finally there is a "Gallaudet Alumni" map, apparently very new for those who graduated from Gallaudet University. Here's another one.

Check out the search result on "deaf" every so often and you may find more deaf groups that are added to the "deaf" Frapper! list.

Hey, if you have a particular interest, hobby or an affiliation and want to know where those people are? Create one! It's easy. So, start your Frapper! today.


UPDATE: Here's a weird one.

Thanks for the info Mizhko.

Smile, Tom DeLay! Smile!

Drats! Foiled Again. Now, Democrats can't use Tom DeLay's mugshot photo. It is just...too.. cheerful!

The horrors! How dare he, uh...smile! Next thing Liberals will say that his smiling is a sign of arrogance. Little do they know. He smiles cause he knows Liberals cannot do anything with that photograph except whine about it. And yet they still have him convicted. Remember kiddies, he stand indicted, not convicted. Very typical of them. Remember the old adage, innocent until proven guilty? Tom DeLay is innocent as of now. The very reason why we shouldn't trust people who have the "Guilty until proven innocent" mentality. You know who those people are.




Republican Tom DeLay took a big smile for his much touted and expected mugshot after being issued for an arrest warrant. Note the clean look. Sparkly smile. No creases in the suit. The House of Representatives security pin on his lapel meticuously positioned. Oh, double drats! The perfectly arranged tie. The well combed hair. And none of the dreary and humiliating photo shot seen elsewhere in other people's mugshots. How dare he smile for a mugshot!! Why, he, he, he was just indicted! And yet he was called into court for fingerprinting and a mugshot like a common criminal just as the Democrats had hoped for.

Note to kiddies once more, "indicted" does not mean guilty nor is it a conviction, either. It's the conviction charge that counts where the charged gets to wear that special orange prison jumpsuit. Although this is what the Democrats were hoping for by making Tom DeLay look like a common criminal who wasn't even convicted yet. If you're convicted of a crime(s), then certainly you'd have nothing to smile for. Heck, this is probably Tom Delay's best photo shot ever. So atypical is his mugshot it outshines the sleazy and CONVICTED (not indicted) Liberal Democrat James Traficant's own bland and dreary mugshot with an unkempt look to it.

James Traficant, the hairhat-wearing former Ohio congressman, was photographed at the Summit County, Ohio jail in July 2002. The disgraced Democrat was awaiting transfer to a federal prison where he will serve eight years after being found guilty of racketeering, bribery, and fraud charges.

And I'll bet with Tom DeLay's new mugshot photo he will use this photo for future political events or rallies. I'm sure he'll be signing his new glossy 11 x 13 copies of his mugshot for his political admirers soon enough.

Because the overly zealous Liberal D.A. Ronnie Earle continues to be the idiot, he probably did not realize that under Texas law Tom DeLay was allowed to be booked at a place of his choosing. And yet the MSM press dogs were salivating at the prospect of taking pictures of him taking the "perp walk" to Fort Bend county where he resides. Instead, he goes to Harris County Sheriff's Department in Houston. By surrendering in Houston, DeLay was able to avoid the now obviously gullible media press corps that were camped out in nearby Fort Bend County after being led to believe he would choose to be booked there so close to his home. You would think he'd be that stupid to let the press to take pictures of him going into the county Sherrif's office? DeLay flew into Texas on a private jet with two Capitol Hill police officers. And then promptly (I'm assuming here since he's not that stupid to stay around) flew back out while the media hounds ended up scratching their heads looking like jackasses. Well, they are mostly that.

What a smart Republican.

What dumb Liberals and MSM Liberal dogs.

Tom DeLay smartly avoided all of the paparazzi-like media photos, the frenzy, the whole mainstream media going agog over this rare opportunity only to get the slip. And the Liberals get foiled once more when he smiled for the camera making the photo look as good or even better as any standard Congressional photo.

Now, if you haven't figured it out, it was all a fabricated sham dreamt up by none other than the Travis county prosecutor, Ronnie Earle. The next step? Sue the living daylight out of Ronnie Earle for prosecutorial misconduct and the misuse of District Attorney's power for political purposes.

Joel Hinrichs and the Missing 51,000 lbs of Urea Nitrate Fertilizer

One of the reason that may have gotten the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force's intense scrutiny and secretive nature over Joel Hinrichs may be related to the 51,000 pounds of urea nitrate that went missing on May 25, 2005 in Little Rock, AK. And red flags were waving when Joel Hinrichs attempted to purchase a significant amount of ammonium nitrate fertilizer at a feed store in Norman, OK, two days earlier before his suicide (or attempted murder) near the Oklahoma University stadium packed with 84,000 people on Saturday, October 1, 2005.

Oklahoma University President, David Boren, attempted to brush this aside 48 hours after the incident as completely unrelated to terrorism. Jason Smith of Generation Why? has more on this questioning the FBI, JTTF, and David Boren.

According to Douglas J. Hagmann, Director of Homeland Security US website, and Randy Taylor, Senior Analyst, opinion about the OU President and FBI's response to the suicide, by saying the whole thing was "Baloney" in their October 13, 2005 article "Fibs, Fertilizer & the FBI." They explain with their own (conspiracy) theory about the extra hush hush work:

On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 51,000 pounds of urea fertilizer went missing in Little Rock, Arkansas. To date, that fertilizer has yet to be found. on Wednesday, June 1, 2005, Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center issued a bulletin about the missing J & M Transport truck, the driver and cargo. The FBI became involved, at that time citing the potential for the cargo to be used as a critical component in a fertilizer-based explosive. BOLO's or "Be on the Lookout" bulletins were issued, and FBI agents searched the Arkansas area for the missing truck, its driver and contents.

On June 3, 2005, after the empty truck was found - but not the 51,000 pounds of fertilizer, the FBI called off their search for the missing fertilizer as they determined that the cargo "was not particularly dangerous." According to FBI spokesman Special Agent Steve Frazier, the Terrorism Task Force "determined that the missing fertilizer was urea-based and used primarily for grass and rice - not the more hazardous nitrate-based fertilizer." It should be noted that the latter is what "lone despondent O.U. bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs was shopping for 2 days before his death by explosion.

The explosion that killed Joel Hinrichs had enough explosives, a tiny amount but no info on the ounces it used that killed him. Or how spectactular it was whether body parts flew or not. But the Northeast Intelligence Network has a video of 3.53 ounces (100 grams) or almost 1/4 lb of urea nitrate fertilizer used in a explosion demo that was taken off of a jihad website. The amount of urea nitrate used weighed 3 times more than the average cell phone.

Now, we have 51,000 POUNDS! of urea nitrate missing. Looking at the video of urea nitrate that was ignited contained barely 1/4 pound of the stuff. Imagine 51,000 pounds of it going off. Or have 510 of these 100 pounds of urea nitrate being placed in various key areas to maim, destroy and murder innocent U.S. civilians.

Randy Taylor has this to say,

From the main component of the fertilizer bomb to the explanations of the Oklahoma office of the FBI and the President of O.U., their explanations are truly manure.

The mainstream media continues to be conspicuous by their absence in their coverage of the O.U. bombing story - and the 51,000 pounds of urea nitrate is conspicuously absent as well.

It does sound fishy. Even Mark Tapscott has this to say when found out yesterday that Joel Hinrichs shaved his beard before inquiring about the fertilizer at the Norman, OK feed store:

It should be noted that Islamic suicide bombers often shave just prior to carrying out their deadly acts. This is not "proof" that Hinrichs was on a similar suicide bombing mission, of course, but his beard was one of his most memorable features. His father has said that his son "looked like Abraham Lincoln since he was in high school."

If Joel's beard was his identity throughout high school and beyond, why the shaving of the beard? One of many questions in this FBI/JTTF investigation that goes unanswered.

Indeed.

Now, here's a tangent FYI. If you want to help, go visit the Google map site "Known Terrorist Activities or Attacks" and enter your own piece of linked information of terrorist actitivies around the U.S./Canada (or even the world). I decided to set this up for my own sake but would be nice for bloggers to help with the additional info of different activities. Watch out for duplicates. Might get interesting on seeing what pattern emerges from this. We need the bloggers help in on this.

Known Terrorist Activities or Attacks via Google Map

Folks, I created a Google Map via Frappr! to map Known Terrorist Activities or Attacks in the United States and Canada (or anywhere else in the world, it wouldn't hurt). It is very easy to use. Just provide the zip code of the location of a known Islamic terrorist activity (or attack) reported in the news (or by bloggers just when the MSM won't cover it), add a few words or explaination in the shout box and provide a link to the information you provided. Please, I cannot stress how important it is to provide a link so that verification can be done for the sake of veracity and relevancy. And make sure the information hasn't been provided just to keep the duplicity down to a minimum and less clutter on the map.

If you want to help in being a part of the mapping process just click on the link and follow the rest of instruction. Everybody can help. If the FBI won't give us the details of these locations, we can provide our own map for the readers to get their news sources and information off of the Google map.

Also, again, make sure you are not adding the same information that was already added to the map. We needn't any unnecessary clutter of redundant information. If it hasn't been mentioned and you have the required information then put it down on the Google map for the readers. Hopefully with the bloggers' help we just might be able to produce an interesting and informative map result! Bloggers and those concerned about terrorist activities in the United States can certainly be a big part of this mapping effort. There are bloggers who do and then there are bloggers who don't.

Nowadays, it is by no coincidence that well known Conservative or well minded bloggers such as Michelle Malkin, Mark Tapscott, or Jason Smith of Generation Why? are known to hold certain journalist integrity by providing important info because wanting to know the truth isn't a crime. But compare to the MSM, they continue to indulge in their own petty refusals to cover certain news that we may consider important and possibly life saving information where we are in the midst of a war against terrorism. Even if they do cover these news they usually have it buried on page A22 in their newspapers. Little justice does that do.

I am hoping that over time (in short order with the bloggers' help and their voracious appetite for information) we may able to quickly see a pattern emerge based on the locations of past terrorist activities or, God forbid, attacks. I started with the 9/11 attack as an example and a link to Wikipedia to get it going. You guys can help me with the rest. Now, go and dig as much information as far back as possible and provide any credible information of known Islamic terrorist activities or attacks that took place and put it on the map. Even prior to 9/11/2001 such as the bombing at the WTC in 1993 or earlier if there is enough information.

Start your digging and watch the transformation unfold.

And start passing around the "Known Terrorist Activities and Attacks" link and add it to your blog. Let your favorite blogger or friends know about this link.

Hey, this could get quite interesting if ya'll just jump in!


Semper Fi!

Deaf Bloggers Google Map

Got this message from somebody who gave me this new hyperlink address to a Google mapping site that contains the locations of "Deaf Bloggers." It's new and looks like only a few were added so far.

This is a Google map beta version called "Frapper!" Apparently it's very easy to use, of course. Just add your zip code, your blogsite name, any message to add in the shout box, and add your link address. Simple! A quick and easy visual look on where everybody is located at a glance. You can even make your own whether it's based on Deaf Chat Coffee locations or whatever. If there is a valid zip code in the United States and, apparently, in Canada (or anywhere else in the world) then you can put down your own location on the Frapper! map or if you're a deaf/hh blogger add it to the Deaf Bloggers Frapper! site.

Pass it around the Deaf Bloggers Frapper! address link and add it to your blog!
http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/deafbloggers

It's neat and fun. Google is really getting creative here.

UPDATE: Did some playing around in a different Google map and realized that while writing comments in the shout box, be sure to hit the return key often keeping the writing short in length rather than having one long uninterupted written length which will show up as a stretched out bubble on the Google map. Click on "Banjo" the very first Deaf blogger to put his name on the map and you'll see what I mean.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Says All Illegal Aliens Out!

Finally. Finally! Somebody in the administration has the gut to publicly announce that all illegal aliens in the United States need to be deported back to their country. Why? Well, they're here illegally you dimwits! Why do you need passports to visit other countries? And if you're caught there illegally without a passport or some other documents does it mean you get to stay there? There you go. That's using you're own noodles. That's what grey matters are for.

Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions.

"It should be possible to achieve significant and measurable progress to this end in less than a year," Chertoff told a Senate hearing. Thousands of "Mexicans who are caught entering the United States illegally are returned immediately to Mexico. But other parts of the system have nearly collapsed under the weight of numbers. The problem is especially severe for non-Mexicans apprehended at the southwest border," Chertoff explained.

"Today, a non-Mexican illegal immigrant caught trying to enter the United States across the southwest border has an 80 percent chance of being released immediately because we lack the holding facilities," he added.

"Through a comprehensive approach, we are moving to end this 'catch and release' style of border enforcement by reengineering our detention and removal process."

Chertoff's remarks in favor of returning "every illegal entrant, no exceptions" appeared to conflict directly with the US policy toward illegal Cuban migrants.

Read his lips..."No exceptions!" This whole illegal aliens and porous borders are considered a national security issue. Now, I'm sure Mexicathat are here illegally are planning ways to go into hidings. Now, I favor those who enter the U.S. legally whether to visit or to become a citizen someday. If you don't think so, then I'd suggest you leave your front door open all the time so anybody can come in as they wish.

We'll see how this one goes. That's the first step, announce that you're coming to get the illegal aliens and get them out for those who do not have the proper documents.

UPDATE: Check out Chris Kelly in the Immigration Blog for clarification.

Another Soldier Steps In for Clarification on the "Staged" Accusation

Like I said, interview the damn soldiers for clarifications about the so-called "staged" teleconference with President Bush last week! These MSM outlets are total idiots. They go out of their way to bash President Bush on the live teleconference saying everything was staged and that the soldiers' own words weren't their own. Now, we have another soldier stepping forward adding more to the old phrase about the MSM on catching them "red handed" for their deceitfulness. From the Chattanooga Times Free Press:

A Chattanooga soldier now in Iraq with the 278th Regimental Combat Team said soldiers used their own words during comments made last week in a satellite discussion with President Bush.

"We wanted to give President Bush a no-kidding assessment of what we have all been working 14- (to) 18-hour days on for the last 11 months," said Lt. Gregg Murphy, of Chattanooga. "We gave him the God’s honest truth as we know it."

The dialogue was among President Bush and 10 U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq last Thursday on the eve of Iraq’s constitutional referendum. Media outlets have called the event staged because the solders went through a rehearsal before talking live with President Bush.

"Staged infers that we were given scripts and that we followed those scripts," Lt. Murphy wrote in an e-mail to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. "This is not true. None of the members on the panel used any words that were not their own."

Lt. Murphy said he was chosen to travel to Tikrit, Iraq, for the interview because he had spent the last three months leading an Iraqi army training program at a 278th base near the Iranian border.

They can't even track them down for clarification but these soldiers had to step forward for the clarification. The MSM sure can track down some yahoo guy in Texas about the fakey Bush memo in a moment's notice but refuse to ask the soldiers for clarification about their wordings...was it their own or not? Of course they were. You a fool or what?


Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

"If you must judge, judge wisely"

The motto written in Arabic and emblazoned in gold on the wall of a newly refurbished Iraqi court was seen a few days ago in a special Foxnews special of the upcoming Saddam trial. The pithy and wise motto says "If you must judge, judge wisely." I had assumed that this was some quote found in the Koran but after some extensive searching I couldn't find it. Perhaps under a different wording? Can anybody provide a passage quote? It would make sense coming from the Koran to use such quotes as some of the U.S. courts do the same. Regardless, that pithy quote reminds me of a statue of a blindfolded lady holding up a gravity scale seen in U.S. courts which signifies a "balanced" judgement without bias.

Conspiracy Theories versus Questionings

It's really funny when Liberals attack conservative bloggers whenever they question certain loose ends found in an investigation and brand them as a practicing conspiracy theorist. One, uh, Libertarian, said in reponse to my blog on Joel Hinrichs' death by self inflicted bombing:

"...looney right wing bloggers think it's a planned terrorist attack and question why the "MSM" (in their translation - "liberal media") is not reporting about that suicide. Kokonutguy says, "You can tell whose side the MSM is on....the side of the terrorists and not inform the public at large......."

If anybody ever take the time to actually read my blog, or other well respected true journalistic style reporting bloggers that I have linked like Tapscott's (who is, btw, a real practicing professional journalist), you'll see that I and others do not subscribe to a conspiracy theory about Joel Hinrichs. We do not make arguments for a terrorist connecton but rather question the surrounding incidents when there were many suspcicious incidents to begin with.

Michelle Malkin who had lots of questions about the incident, rather than committing to a conspiracy theory, tried to explain to a Wall Street Journal "journalist" who contacted her by phone to ask questions about the bombing incident in Norman, Oklahoma, a place where known terrorist activities took place. Much to the "journalist's" dismay, he didn't find a rabid conservative conspiracy theorist.

It's funny when people already conclude even before the FBI make the final conclusion that:

Joel's a lonely boy who wanted to end his life. There's no evidence he is tied to any terrorist organizations.

No. Not quite. Mince words you must you people. The FBI never said that there's no proof of a terrorist connection.

On October 4, the FBI issued a statement saying:

"At this time, there is no known link between Hinrichs and any terrorist or extremist organization(s) or activities."

Note the words, "At this time," which means the investigation is ongoing until they can determine exactly whether or not that there is indeed a terrorist connection or ties to Islamic organization(s). Why else would there be the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force at work here when it could simply be the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearm (ATF) doing the investigation?

The string of incidents albeit suspicious in nature ought to be enough to force those to ask questions just as I have done with the Hinrichs' case. Michelle Malkin's reiterate once again to the reporter:

I explained that unlike the MSM, most of the blogs I have linked to were simply trying to find out the truth about the strange incident-and that meant keeping open the possibility that Hinrichs meant to commit murder and that he may have been swayed by extremist Islamic views.

Indeed. Next time, work on using that brain matter some more. I have never said there was a terrorist connection but simply asked questions that the FBI and JTTF have not answered so far. Until all possibilities are exhausted, the FBI and JTTF will provide the final conclusive report to the public.