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Terrorists thank Shehag

From WND:

Muslim terrorist leaders are “thankful” for the efforts of activist and congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan, stating in a new book Sheehan’s anti-Iraq war activities and her statements against President Bush “give us hope” the U.S. will change its Mideast policies.

“You [Sheehan] give us hope and you show us that there are different Americans than those whom we know,” stated Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group in the West Bank’s Anskar Refugee Camp.
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Adassi’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades took responsibility, along with the Islamic Jihad terror group, for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years. It also carried out scores of fatal shootings and hundreds of rocket attacks against Jewish population centers.

According to “Schmoozing with Terrorists,” jihad leaders interviewed about Sheehan were thankful for the anti-war activist’s activities.

Klein states in his book he read to the terrorists quotes from the outspoken mother of fallen U.S. Army specialist Casey Sheehan. Among the quotes highlighted for the terrorists were statements calling Bush “the biggest terrorist in the world” and “worse than Osama bin Laden,” and Sheehan’s labeling of Iraqi insurgents multiple times as “freedom fighters.”
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Responding in “Schmoozing,” Ala Senakreh, overall West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, stated:

“I agree with her completely and thank her from deep in my heart when she dares to tell the Americans that their children are killed for the interests of Israel. …

Nice, Shehag. Osama sends his best.

September 18, 2007 Posted by | moonbats, religion of peace, shameful, Shehag | 8 Comments

Bush: That’s not the federal government’s job!

Since when do those words ever come from his lips? From al-Reuters:

The Bush administration threatened on Monday to veto a bill the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on this week that would extend a post-9/11 federal terrorism risk insurance program.

“The administration strongly opposes efforts to expand the federal government’s role in terrorism reinsurance,” the White House said in a statement.

Critics of the program have called it a subsidy to the insurance industry and said terrorism risk insurance should be left up to the private market.
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The White House said in a statement: “The most efficient, lowest cost, and most innovative methods of providing terrorism risk insurance will come from the private sector.”

It said the House bill “effectively makes TRIA permanent, increases the role of the federal government, and expands the scope of coverage well beyond the point where it is needed.”

Where in the heck have you been the last seven years? There are lots of things you proposed or approved that increased the role of the federal government, so why so late to the game?

September 18, 2007 Posted by | big government | Leave a Comment

NE moonbat legislator sues God over natural disasters

This is part of a back-to-back “crap I just can’t make up”! From FNC:

Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world.

Chambers filed a lawsuit against God in Douglas County Court Friday afternoon, KPTM Fox 42 reported.

The suit asks for a “permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.”

The lawsuit identifies the plaintiff as, “the duly elected and serving State Senator from the 11th Legislative District in Omaha, Nebraska.” (You folks in Omaha must be proud! – Ed.)

Chambers also cites that the, “defendant directly and proximately has caused, inter alia, fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornados, pestilential plagues…”

Chambers says he isn’t suing God because he has any kind of beef with the deity (is that the euphemism for God these days? “The deity”? – Ed.). He says the suit is to fight possible laws restricting the filing of frivolous lawsuits. Chambers tells KPTM FOX 42 News that his lawsuit is in response to bills brought forth by other state senators to try and stop lawsuits from being filed.

In other words, this moonbat is trying to stop laws that curtail frivolous lawsuits by…filing a frivolous lawsuit. Friggin’ brilliant.

Well, good luck getting “the deity” to pay up, sir. The Dude has been owing me a winning lottery ticket for almost two decades now! For those of you on the left, the prior sentence was sarcasm and not sacrilege.

September 18, 2007 Posted by | moonbats | 6 Comments

Greenspan clarifies “Iraq is a war for oil” comment

This is rich! From the Washington comPost:

Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the removal of Saddam Hussein had been “essential” to secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Greenspan, who was the country’s top voice on monetary policy at the time Bush decided to go to war in Iraq, has refrained from extensive public comment on it until now, but he made the striking comment in a new memoir out today that “the Iraq War is largely about oil.” In the interview, he clarified that sentence in his 531-page book, saying that while securing global oil supplies was “not the administration’s motive,” he had presented the White House with the case for why removing Hussein was important for the global economy.

“I was not saying that that’s the administration’s motive,” Greenspan said in an interview Saturday, “I’m just saying that if somebody asked me, ‘Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?’ I would say it was essential.”

He said that in his discussions with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, “I have never heard them basically say, ‘We’ve got to protect the oil supplies of the world,’ but that would have been my motive.” Greenspan said that he made his economic argument to White House officials and that one lower-level official, whom he declined to identify, told him, “Well, unfortunately, we can’t talk about oil.” Asked if he had made his point to Cheney specifically, Greenspan said yes, then added, “I talked to everybody about that.”

In other words, when Greenspan said that it was “politically inconvenient” to acknowledge the real basis for the Iraq invasion was for oil, it was nothing more than a case of projection. If we take Mr. Andrea Mitchell at his word, he is saying that he advocated removing Saddam in order to procure the Iraqi oil supply…you know, for the good of the country and stuff? So Bu$hCo didn’t invade Iraq for oil, but Greenspan would have been cool with it if they had.

LOL! I just can’t make this stuff up!

September 18, 2007 Posted by | Iraq | 2 Comments

Night and Day

When Bush was considering Supreme Court nominees:

Mukasey also has boosters among some of Bush’s toughest Democratic critics.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., previously recommended Mukasey for a Supreme Court vacancy.

In June 2005, the liberal Alliance for Justice put Mukasey’s name on a list of four judges who, if chosen for the Supreme Court, would show the president’s “commitment” to picking someone who could be supported by both Democratic and Republican senators.

Nan Aron of the alliance said if Bush nominated Mukasey, the Senate would view it as a “conciliatory” act.

When Bush is considering Attorney General nominees:

In a statement issued last night, the senator was somewhat guarded. “For sure we’d want to ascertain his approach on such important and sensitive issues as wiretapping and the appointment of US attorneys, but he’s a lot better than some of the other names mentioned and he has the potential to become a consensus nominee,” the statement said.

To summarize: Chuck the Schmuck thinks a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court would have been acceptable, but a 16-month term as A.G. might be too much to bear. Got it, Schmuck. Thanks for the clarification.

Observes Texas Rainmaker:

It’s like Democrats warning us for years about the dangers of Saddam and his WMDs until Bush takes action and suddenly those same people claim there was never really a threat.

I bet if Bush came out today and said he was a homosexual atheist who favored abortion, we’d see a stampede of Democrats rushing to proclaim their stance as straight, God-fearing, pro-lifers.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that political games (and a geniune disregard for public service and the actual office involved) were being played here! If I didn’t know any better, that is.

September 17, 2007 Posted by | hypocrisy, Night and Day | 1 Comment

Arctic ice at record low, Antarctic ice at record high

Let’s play “Guess Which One of These Stories the MSM Decided NOT to Run”! From Say Anything:

The low level of arctic ice, of course, has all the global warming zealots really concerned. But what’s funny is that it has also just been announced that Antartica has ice extent at a level not seen since 1979.

What’s really funny, however, is that the Associated Press and the rest of the media are only picking up on one of these stories.

Gee, I wonder why that is?

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 17, 2007 Posted by | global warming, media bias | Leave a Comment

Sen. Moonbat: I just know Gonzo broke the law!

Who needs proof when you have “feelings”? From Front Page Mag:

On Sunday, July 29, Chris Wallace interviewed Senator Russ Feingold on Fox News. Wallace observed that Democrats had received thousands of documents related to the firing of the U.S. attorneys. He asked if the Senator could point to one smoking gun that had been discovered in those documents indicating that a crime had been committed. The Senator stammered that he could not name specifics but that he was sure that a crime had been committed.
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Today’s story is the investigation into the firing of the US attorneys. The Senate Democrats, despite the resignation of the Attorney General, have said they will continue their investigation. It would be interesting to hear what it is they believe they are investigating. Senator Feingold said he was sure a crime had been committed although he had no specifics. Perhaps the Senate Democrats could put their fertile imaginations to work, temporarily laying aside the important task of dreaming up lurid hypothetical dangers for destitute voters, and try to imagine any hypothetical crime that might conceivably have been committed by firing the US attorneys. After all, one of the president’s responsibilities, spelled out in the Constitution, is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Since there are laws against vote fraud, for the president to tell US attorneys to prosecute vote fraud, one would think, is merely to carry out his obligation under the Constitution. If the Senate Democrats are upset about this, one must conclude that there are certain laws which they do not want to see “faithfully executed,” a constitutionally curious position to say the least.

The day that the Dems actually give a rodent’s rump about the Constitution is the day that Bubba gives up the interns.

September 17, 2007 Posted by | moonbats, shameful | 2 Comments

The Dems’ embracing of defeat

Absolutely spot on assessment of the “loyal opposition” who now control the purse strings. Even the headline, “Defeat at Any Price”, knocks a home run. Money excerpt from the Weekly Standard:

To leading Democrats such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Al Gore and John Edwards, America would be better off if she lost. And this has been true from the start.

To rephrase the question: Why did Harry Reid announce months ago that the war was lost when it wasn’t, and everyone knew it wasn’t? The wish is father to the deed. He was envisioning the world of his dreams.

The Democrats’ embrace of defeat is inspired by no base desire to see Americans killed or American resources wasted. But let’s be honest about it, and invite the Democrats to be honest too.

Appeasement, pacifism, globalism: Those are the Big Three principles of the Democratic left. Each one has been defended by serious people; all are philosophically plausible, or at least arguable. But they are unpopular (especially the first two) with the U.S. public, and so the Democrats rarely make their views plain. We must infer their ideas from their (usually) guarded public statements. …

If you believe in appeasement, defeat in Iraq would show that we were wrong to stop talking and start fighting. If you believe in pacifism, defeat would demonstrate that war is futile even if your motives are good. If you believe in globalism, defeat would suggest that we should have acted strictly in concert with world opinion. In short, if you do believe in appeasement, pacifism, globalism (and many leading Democrats do), your wish for defeat is no evil or traitorous urge. It is merely logical.

As usual, feel free to question their patriotism at any time.

September 17, 2007 Posted by | defeatism, Iraq | Leave a Comment

Wooly mammoth turds speeding up global “warming”

OK, seriously: please stop. I mean it. Enough already. This “everything is causing the planet to fry” routine is getting older Robert Byrd’s white sheets. From al-Reuters:

Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better.

“It smells like mammoth dung,” he says. (OK, I’ll bite: how does one know what mammoth dung smells like? – Ed.)

This is more than just another symptom of global warming.

For millennia, layers of animal waste and other organic matter left behind by the creatures that used to roam the Arctic tundra have been sealed inside the frozen permafrost. Now climate change is thawing the permafrost and lifting this prehistoric ooze from suspended animation.

But Zimov, a scientist who for almost 30 years has studied climate change in Russia’s Arctic, believes that as this organic matter becomes exposed to the air it will accelerate global warming faster than even some of the most pessimistic forecasts.

“This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop,” he said.

George Bush caused wooly mammoths from centuries ago to take a dump and sauté the Earth. Bush, you evil b#stard!

Exit question: freezing temperatures, warm temperatures, homosexuality, the real estate bubble, Islamic terrorism, Darfur’s genoicide, OJ getting busted again, Ray Nagin’s and Kathleen Blanco’s incompetence…is there anything that global “warming” is not responsible for?

September 17, 2007 Posted by | environuts, global warming | 7 Comments

Quote of the day

From former Secretary of State, Madeleine Not-too-bright, on her good “friend” Hillary:

“There has been an attempt to portray her as a cold fish, and she is not.”

I don’t even want to know!

September 17, 2007 Posted by | Hillary, quote of the day | Leave a Comment

Mr. Andrea Mitchell: Iraq war was for oil

The MSM is getting giddier than pre-teens at a Justin Timberlake concert over this one:

AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.

In his long-awaited memoir (long-awaited by whom? – Ed.), to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies.

However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says.

Defense Secretary Gates retorts:

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday rejected former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s statement that the Iraq war “is largely about oil.”
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Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Gates said, “I have a lot of respect for Mr. Greenspan.” But he disagreed with his comment about oil being a leading motivating factor in the war.

“I wasn’t here for the decision-making process that initiated it, that started the war,” Gates said. But he added, “I know the same allegation was made about the Gulf War in 1991, and I just don’t believe it’s true.”

Not only were you not there during the decision-making process, Sec. Gates, but neither was Mr. Andrea Mitchell. Yet for some reason, the MSM treats Greenspan’s wasn’t-there opinion with more respect and admiration than your wasn’t-there opinion.

Speaking of “politically inconvenient”, I have a “politically inconvenient” question to ask Mr. Andrea Mitchell: what level of expertise does he have to where we should come to his conclusion?

If we’re talking about economics, then fine…Greenspan has the credibility to fall back on here. But unless he can give me a memo not obtained by CBS that shows Rummy saying “This war for oil ought to be a hoot”, I don’t see why his opinion on Iraq is any more informed than that of Ralph the security guard at my office.

So the left is going “Ooooo, lookie! Even Greenspan thinks the war was for oil!” An equivalent response would be “Well, actor James Woods says it wasn’t!” When it comes to Iraq and the decisions behind the invasion, James Woods was privy to the reasons just as much as Greenspan was, which is to say “not at all.” But hey, why let a little thing like facts or reason get in the way of a good “feeling”, right?

September 17, 2007 Posted by | Iraq, media bias | 1 Comment

Socialism causes people to eat their pets & rats to invade homes

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa until socialist brutal dictator Robert Mugabe got a hold of it, has seen staggering inflation and severe food shortages. The people in that left-wing shiitehole are starving. Observe:

Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, according to animal welfare groups.

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said it could not feed surrendered animals or find new homes and was being forced to kill them and destroy the corpses.
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In Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown, meat, cornmeal, bread and other staples have vanished from shops and stores. A government order to slash prices of all goods and services in June worsened acute food shortages and has left stores virtually empty of basic foodstuffs.

Food and food waste shortages have also emboldened rats to forage for scraps in homes and far beyond their usual hideaways, pest control specialists said.

Leftover food that would have been discarded has become too precious to throw away and common garbage was in short supply, said a rat catcher in western Harare.
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The prices clampdown aimed to tame official inflation of more than 7,600 percent, the highest in the world. Independent estimates put real inflation closer to 25,000 percent and the International Monetary Fund has forecast it reaching 100,000 percent by the end of the year.

Illegally slaughtered meat sells for more than 10 times the government’s fixed price on the thriving black market. It comes in plastic bags of 10 kilograms (22 pounds) and more, containing bone, fat and offal and no indication of types or cuts of meat.
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A court case is pending in the eastern city of Mutare where a family dog was butchered and eaten. Police and SPCA inspectors were called to a shopping center in Harare earlier this month where a man was offering frozen dog meat for sale from the back of a pick-up truck, activists said.

The joys of socialism! Naturally, in the face of such a glaring model of economic and sustainability failure, it only makes sense that the UN would tap Zimbabwe to chair its Commission on Sustainable Development.

September 14, 2007 Posted by | Mugabe, socialism | Leave a Comment

Castro a Troofer

Good news for you 9/11 conspiracy nutters (aka “Truthers”): you’ve got elite company. Your boy Fidel is a barking moonbat just like you! From NewsMax:

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the U.S. government misinformed Americans and the world about 9/11, echoing conspiracy theories about the terror attacks against the United States six years ago.

In an essay read by a Cuban television presenter on Tuesday night, Castro said the Pentagon was hit by a rocket, not a plane, because no traces were found of its passengers.

“Today one knows there was deliberate misinformation,” wrote Castro, who has not appeared in public since July of 2006 when life-threatening surgery for a secret illness forced him to hand over power to his brother Raul Castro.
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“We were fooled like the rest of the planet’s inhabitants,” he wrote.

That idiot Bush is so stupid that he fooled the whole planet. Dubya, you magnificent bastard!

Well, I have to say this: if there’s anything that Fidel knows much about, it’s government misinformation.

September 14, 2007 Posted by | Castro, moonbats | 10 Comments

Dems embrace criminals, smear patriots

From Hot Air:

Data point #1: Confessed thief Sandy Berger is good enough to become one of Hillary Clinton’s three senior national security advisors:

My informed sources suggest that what Berger destroyed were copies of the Millennium After-Action Review, a binder-sized report prepared by Richard Clarke in 2000—a year and half before the 9-11 attacks. The review made a series of recommendations for a tougher stance against bin Laden and terrorism. There are 13 or more copies of this report. But only one contains hand-written notes by President Bill Clinton. Apparently, in the margin beside the recommendations, Bill Clinton wrote NO, NO, NO next to many of the tougher policy proposals.

You can see why Clinton might be happy to see these records vanish down the memory hole.

So Berger was stuffing in pants and socks and later shredding the evidence that President Clinton did not want to take a tougher line on bin Laden, following the 1998 attack on two U.S. embassies that killed 224 people (including 12 American diplomats).

Now for the Hillary connection…

So what does the Democratic front-runner and former First Lady do?

She makes Berger one of her top three foreign policy advisers.

The ever-wise Jonathan Adler has some interesting thoughts on this over at the Volokh Conspiracy.

And I have a few questions:

Did she bring him aboard to reward him for his criminal destruction of classified material? Or did she sign him up because of his stellar record in fighting bin Laden in the late 1990s?

She might have brought him on board to keep him from telling anyone what he knows.

Data point #2: Hillary wants convicted felon Norman Hsu’s Ponzi scheme proceeds, and that appears to be the source of the money that he lavished on nearly every Democrat who ever got within arms’ reach of the man, re-laundered so that she can re-accept them.

If you’re keeping track, that’s two known criminals that the Democrats expressly embrace and approve of. They’re not giving Hsu’s money back on the principle that it’s tainted; they’re giving it back in the hopes that they’ll be able to appear clean, and then get the money back shortly. And they’re only giving it back because he got caught. Clinton, for one, was warned that he was dirty, yet took his money anyway.

Now, let’s look at a few people the Democrats neither embrace nor approve of.

John Rizzo, nominated to become the CIA’s counsel general by the Bush administration, is being sidelined by Democrat fears that he may be too tough on captured terrorists.

Ted Olson, whom Sen. Harry Reid will block to become the next Attorney General, though Olson has already served as US Solicitor General and lost his wife, Barbara, in American Airlines Flight 77 on 9-11.

Gen. David Petraeus, smeared by the Democrat MoveOn machine, though he has spent about 30 years in uniform and may yet save the Iraq war. MoveOn wasn’t alone in smearing the general: Sen. Clinton lectured the general and Democrats in the House and Senate all but accused him of perjury to his face. Dubbing Petraeus’ testimony the “Bush report,” as most Democrats have by now, accuses him of lying under oath when he said the testimony was his own work.

Tally it up: Criminals and smear artists, ok with Democrats. John Rizzo, Ted Olson and Gen. David Patraeus, not ok with Democrats. The twice-demoted Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp is evidently the Democrats’ model soldier; Gen. Petraeus is just a political shill.

Glad to see they have their priorities straight.

September 14, 2007 Posted by | Hillary, shameful | 1 Comment

NYT gives big discount to MoveOn for “Gen. Betray Us” ad

From al-Reuters:

An ad criticizing the top U.S. general in Iraq raised charges on Thursday that The New York Times slashed its advertising rates for political reasons — an accusation denied by the paper.

The ad by liberal anti-war group moveon.org ran on Monday, the day of Gen. David Petraeus’s testimony to Congress about the war and how long U.S. forces will stay in Iraq.

Moveon.org confirmed it paid $65,000 for the full page ad headlined “General Petraeus or General Betray Us.”

The New York Post ran a story on Thursday asking why the basic rate of $181,692 for such an ad was discounted.

“Times Gives Lefties a Hefty Discount for ‘Betray Us’ Ad,” was the headline in the Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp..

Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis denied the rate charged indicated a political bias and said it was the paper’s policy not to disclose the rate paid by any advertiser.
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Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor who blogs on media at buzzmachine.com, said the key question for the Times was could any other political or advocacy group get the same rate under the same circumstances.

“The quandary the Times gets stuck in is they don’t want to admit you can buy an ad for that rate, no matter who you are,” Jarvis said, noting that with print advertising revenues in decline newspapers generally did offer big discounts.

Excellent question, Prof. Jarvis. Rudy is, in fact, going to see if he can get an answer to that question for us:

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said Thursday that he is asking The New York Times for the “same heavily discounted rate they gave MoveOn.org” for his campaign to run an ad in Friday’s paper.

Giuliani, calling MoveOn.org’s controversial “General Betray Us” ad “abominable,” said his campaign is asking the paper for a comparable rate for an ad to run following President Bush’s speech on Iraq. …

Big discounts for an anti-war moonbat group’s ad? Nope…no liberal media bias! We’ll see if Rudy shames the Old Gray Hag into giving him the same plum rate they gave to the ‘bats.

September 14, 2007 Posted by | media bias, moonbats, Rudy | 1 Comment

“Ex-ABC consultant said to fake interview”

Maybe the interview was, in the words of the disgraced Dan Rather, “fake but accurate”? From the AP:

A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn’t authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others.

The consultant, Alexis Debat, quit the Nixon Center, a Washington think tank, on Wednesday after Obama’s representatives claimed an interview with the senator appearing under Debat’s byline in the French magazine Politique Internationale never took place. The interview quoted the Democratic presidential candidate as saying the Iraq war was “a defeat for America.”

Pelosi, Gates, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg all said they never gave interviews that appeared in the magazine under Debat’s byline, ABC News’ Web site, the Blotter, reported on Thursday.
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In the other cases, Debat said he drafted questions for the political figures for Politique Internationale. The magazine sent back “answers” that he translated, wrote an introduction for and sent back with his byline, he said.

“They do some weird things over there,” he said.

Politique Internationale editor and political scientist Patrick Wajsman founded the magazine nearly 30 years ago. He called Debat “a grand liar” and said he had hired a lawyer to pursue “all possible measures” against him.
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The Blotter quoted a U.N. official as saying Wajsman was told in 2005 that the interview with Annan was faked. A second “interview” with Annan posted earlier this year instead included portions of a speech he had made at Princeton University passed off as an interview, the Web site said.

Debat had been a consultant at ABC News since shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks, reporting on terrorism issues, said Brian Ross, chief of ABC News’ investigative unit.
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Since the revelations about the fabricated interviews, ABC News also is going back again to check over Debat’s work, sending people to Pakistan and Europe, Ross said.

“We’re working hard to make sure that everything he was involved in that we reported stands up,” Ross said, “and if it doesn’t, we’ll report it immediately.”

Thank goodness the MSM has “multiple layers of fact-checking“, otherwise some lying schmuck would be able to worm his way into working for an outlet like ABC for six years. Oh, wait…

September 14, 2007 Posted by | media bias | Leave a Comment

Castro: We saved Reagan from ’84 assassination

From MSNBC:

Fidel Castro claims Cuba’s government saved the life of President Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot in 1984.

The essay published Wednesday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma appeared to be the first time Cuba has made the claim. It seemed aimed at showing Cuba has cooperated with the United States in the past.

Point to ponder: does this hurt Fidel’s standing with Mikie Moore and the tinfoil nutters of the left?

September 13, 2007 Posted by | Castro | 4 Comments

Reason #1,278 not to vote for Ron Paul

Besides the fact that he’s chugged a pitcher of Crazy Juice, here’s a reason not to consider the Bircheresque crank who indulges the lunatic fanatsies of Truther moonbats:

He thinks that mall security guards are more competent at their jobs than the Marines are at theirs.  ‘Nuff said.

September 13, 2007 Posted by | Ron Paul | 17 Comments

TN Dem state representative arrested on multiple charges

As Ace puts it, “Tennessee State Democratic Rep Arrested For DUI, Vandalism, Full-On Meth-Tweakin’ Insanity”!  At least the MSM actually gives us his party.  There’s a first time for everything, my friends.  From Ace:

Reason he was weaving in and out of lanes? His SUV has a wide stance.

I hope he gets Al Gore Jr.’s lawyer, because he’s going to need it:

video of the arrest of House Judiciary Chairman Rob Briley over the weekend shows the Nashville Democrat alternately berating police and breaking down in sobs.At one point a profane Briley asked officers to take him out to the woods and shoot him in the head.
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Briley called the officer a Nazi and a brownshirt, then sang the first line of “Springtime For Hitler” from the Mel Brooks movie and musical “The Producers.”

The video is not yet available, or at least I couldn’t find it; let me know if you do.

Incidentally, he was arrested for vandalism after being released on the DUI — cops found later he had done about a thousand bucks’ worth of damage to the back of their cruiser trying to kick out the glass when he was left there alone.

So, let me answer the questions liberals want to ask:

Are you saying the arrest of a psychotic state rep means the war in Iraq is won?

Yes. And…?

The Vid:

It takes a while for the howling and sobbing to begin. Then it gets pretty good.

Thanks so much to SarahW.

Update: Actually, when confronted with the actual human suffering rather than just dryly reading about it, it’s not as funny as I first thought.

It’s far funnier.

No, really, it’s not funny at all. I take no delight in this at all.

Well, some. But who’s counting?

I’d have more sympathy if he didn’t fall into the default whine about it being “Nazi, Germany” when someone’s pulled over for driving in jerk-eyed meth cyclone.

If you want to see it, then go grab a bag of popcorn and a nice refreshing beverage before watching the video, because it’s fun for the whole family!  Dude is nuttier than a sphyilitic Kos contributor on ‘shrooms.

September 13, 2007 Posted by | moonbats | 9 Comments

Quote of the day

You go, Sen. DeMint!  From NRO: 

DeMint’s Brutal Takedown of Obama Yesterday   [David Freddoso]

In case you missed it, from Lynn Sweet at the Chicago Sun-Times:

Each member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had seven minutes to question Petraeus and Crocker about the Iraq War. Obama used about six minutes of his time to lecture Petraeus and Crocker….As Obama was wrapping up, he said, “That, of course, now leaves me very little time to ask questions, and that’s unfortunate.” …

…Petraeus never got to answer Obama’s 266-word question. Rushed at the end, Obama asked about benchmarks not met. Crocker said, “Senator, I described for Senator Sununu a little bit ago some of the things that I think are going to be very important as we move ahead.”

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) followed Obama. He told Petraeus and Crocker, “As you have found, our hearings are more about listening to ourselves than listening to our witnesses.”

Ouch.  That’s gonna leave a mark for Barry O.

September 13, 2007 Posted by | Iraq, Obama, quote of the day | 2 Comments

Thankfully some in teachers’ unions get it!

From Michelle Malkin:

After years and decades of coerced dues-paying, this is a promising sign:

Washington’s teachers, Democrat and Republican alike, increasingly agree that they should not be forced to pay for the Washington Education Association’s politics. In a poll commissioned by EFF, teachers were asked if they agreed or disagreed that, “Teachers should not be forced to pay for someone else’s politics, including the WEA’s.”

73% agreed compared to 62% who agreed in a poll ten years ago when the same question was asked. Support for the statement increased sharply among both Republicans and Democrats.

1997 2007

Republicans 81% 92%

Independents 67% 66%

Democrats 52% 66%

Now think about WEA’s decade-long campaign to convince teachers that, when it comes to politics, it knows best. WEA’s message has not resonated with teachers, even those who side with it ideologically. Maybe for teachers, the First Amendment cannot be “untaught.”

And it’s no wonder more educators are revolting against their non-education associations, which focus on everything BUT real education. As I’ve said before, the teachers union bosses are the looters libs ignore.

There may be hope for Washington state yet.

No one cares who teachers vote for, but to confiscate the money from teachers in order to fund political agendas (and as this poll shows, regardless of whether the teachers agree with the politics or not) is indefensible.

September 13, 2007 Posted by | public education, unions | 2 Comments

Her Highness still trying to get Hsu’s dirty money

The Hsu has dropped, but Shrillary’s shamelessness continues. From Hot Air:

You cannot be serious.

The campaign is refunding $850,000 to [Hsu’s bundled] donors, viewing the money as tainted. Yet the campaign is also risking another public relations mess by saying that it would take back the money if it clearly came from the donor’s bank account, not from Mr. Hsu or another source. The risk is that Mrs. Clinton will appear to want more cash no matter whether it was once colored by a disgraced donor.

The campaign will try to get most of the donors to give the money back right after the refunds, said a senior Democratic strategist who advises Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. “That’s the plan,” the strategist said.

The strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal campaign deliberations, added that the Clinton campaign was deeply worried that the controversy could grow.

“They are worried there are more out there,” the strategist said. “Bundlers. The feeling is there are a few more that will have Hsu problems.”

Riddle me this: If the worry is that Hsu was using at least some of these people as fronts so that he could exceed the federal limits on how much he could donate to Hillary, then how will the money be any less tainted if they re-gift it to her? I.e., if Hsu cuts John Doe a check for $100,000 and asks him to spread it around among Democrats A-Z, then giving that money back to John so that he can give it right back to you doesn’t “cleanse” it. It’s Hsu’s money; John never should have had it in the first place. If you donate the money to charity and then hit John up for a donation from his own bank account, that’s fine. But that ain’t what she’s planning to do. Exit question: Why not at least wait until the DOJ investigation of Hsu’s bundled donations is over so you know which donors are clean and which aren’t? 

These people are despicable.

September 13, 2007 Posted by | corruption, Hillary, shameful | 2 Comments

NC government school bans wearing American flag on 9/11

Government schools and political correctness just seem to go hand-in-hand, don’t they? From LGF.

Here’s the latest outrage to come from the moral equivalence mindset, as school administrators in North Carolina banned the wearing of the US flag—because they didn’t want to favor one flag over another.

Not even their own country’s flag. This is bad craziness.

Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.

 
The new rule stems from a controversy over students wearing shirts bearing flags of other countries.

Gayle Langston said her daughter, Jessica, was told to remove her stars and stripes t-shirt.

 
“Today she wanted to wear her shirt, and I had to tell her no,” said Langston. “She didn’t like it at all because I knew it would get her in trouble. Of all days, 9/11, she could not wear her American Flag shirt.”

The superintendent of schools in Sampson County calls the situation unfortunate, but says educators didn’t want to be forced to pick and choose which flags should be permissible.

Dumb#sses.

September 12, 2007 Posted by | political correctness, public education | 12 Comments

Save us from the “peace” activists!

It seems like every time I turn around, “peace” activists are engaging in acts of violence. Now we can add murder to their list of creative ways to lobby for “peace”! From Gateway Pundit:

The suspect, Carlos Hartmann, 41, of Tecumseh, Mich., has confessed to the Sept. 8 killing on a train platform in the southern city of Roosendaal, defence lawyer Peter Gremmen said.

Gremmen said Hartmann wanted to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq…

“He hates soldiers, and says that the army kills people, so it would be legitimate if he were also to kill someone . . . from the American military – or from its NATO allies,” Gremmen said in a telephone interview.

When he failed to find a soldier at the Roosendaal train station, “he got such a crazy, disturbed idea that he killed a civilian,” Gremmen said…

BN/De Stem quoted a witness who asked to remain anonymous as describing Hartmann as striking the victim in the back of the head with the axe. It also quoted an unidentified family member from the United States as saying Hartmann has suffered from emotional problems since his early 20s.

“Peace” at any price…including murder.

September 12, 2007 Posted by | moonbats | 2 Comments

It’s not the war in Iraq, stupid

Euros are genuinely surprised by this, despite the fact that we’ve been saying it for years now. From Texas Rainmaker:

Despite all the rhetoric from the Left about how President Bush has created more terrorists and American foreign policy has made the world more dangerous, folks in Europe are starting to get a clue about the real culprits.

Since the terror attacks on the United States on Sept. 11 six years ago, Europe has faced far more new attacks and reported plots than the United States.

Europeans on the Fight Against Terrorism Train bombings in Madrid three years ago killed 191 people, the London transit attack two years ago killed 52 commuters, and a string of plots have been discovered and foiled. Then last week, arrests were made in Germany in a plot that the police said could have caused even worse carnage than in Madrid or London.
[…]
France and Germany both opposed the war in Iraq, and both countries have been targets of terrorist plots by Islamist extremists, noted François Heisbourg, a French expert on terrorism and a special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris.

“Bush is incredibly reviled in Germany, and Iraq is viewed as a total disaster, which it is,” he said. “But it doesn’t lead people to say we have terror because of Bush. Why? Because these guys strike a country that is against the Iraq policy.”

Ding, ding, ding. This has never been about President Bush’s foreign policy. These islamic nutjobs have been attacking innocent civilians for ages as they pursue their retarded ideas of access to the afterlife.

Now do you Euros get it?

September 11, 2007 Posted by | Euros, Iraq, religion of peace | 6 Comments

Reflections six years later

There’s a plethora of columns out there that are much more eloquent than what I have to say, so I’ll keep this short and sweet: I don’t like the direction we’ve gone since 9/11/01.

Back then, we were united. Now, we’re as divided as we’ve ever been. I mean, our survival is at stake, and we’ve got elected officials who are invested in defeat so as to score some political points for themselves and their party. Their myopia is lethal, and I pray that God has mercy on us and saves this nation from peril through these idiots’ faulty leadership.

By “idiots”, I mean on both sides of the aisle. Bush has squandered the unity that this country has, through at-times ineffective leadership and communication. Weak-kneed Republicans, dealing with a war-weary electorate, are now opting for political expediency rather than sound (if unpopular) policy decisions. As for Democrats, their shameful behavior is too lengthy to fully address, and for those of you who come here often, you know what I mean.

In short, I question Republicans’ vision and spine, and I question Democrats’ patriotism and sanity.

We the people are not without blame for the current state of the union. We live in an ADHD society, not having an attention span sufficient to see the big picture. We want what we want and by gosh, we want it now. We like our wars the way we like everything else done for us these days: quick. Though our president leveled with us and told us in 2001 that the war against terrorism would be long and would continue after he was gone, we must not have believed him, because we’re acting like the whining and nagging children on a car trip: “Are we there yet?”

Some columnist recently opined that we needed another terrorist attack to unite us. That’s a stupid thing to wish for, and my reaction then is the same as it is now: We would be united again, until the next season of American Idol came along to distract us again.

I will never forget that day in infamy six years ago. I wish to God that we could be united in the way that we were back then. But if such a horrific event didn’t keep us unified, I don’t know what will.

September 11, 2007 Posted by | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Kos kooks: Don’t know if bin Laden is evil, but Reagan was!

These are the nujobs to whom the Democraps ponder. From Bill Hobbs:

DailyKos Equates Osama bin Laden with Ronald Reagan
I kid you not. DailyKos.com, the Left’s most popular website and a key source of fund-raising for Democrats from coast to coast, says Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan have a lot in common

So is Osama bin Laden truly “evil?” Most people who lost family members at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 would probably consider him to be evil. Was President Ronald Reagan evil? Most residents of Beirut who lost family members when the USS New Jersey rained 2,700 pound Mark 7 shells on residential neighborhoods in 1983 during the Lebanese Civil War probably considered Reagan to have been evil. Bottom line? Bin Laden is no more evil than other revolutionary leaders in other times or even than ordinary national leaders who propel their countries to war for “national honor,” or to acquire the resources of others, or even to “do good.”

To translate Kos-speak: Osama bin Laden isn’t a terrorist, he’s a freedom fighter. And Reagan wasn’t a freedom fighter – he was a terrorist.

DailyKos’ attempt to assert moral equivalence between a terrorist leader who masterminded the slaughter of thousands of innocents while aiding a regime that slaughtered women for showing an angle or wearing lipstick and a former American president whose tireless efforts lead to the freedom of millions from Soviet oppression is disgusting.

The writer of the Kos article then asserts that bin Laden’s agenda is “congruent with the neoconservative agenda and the corporatist agenda” of the United States, based on something the writer thinks Osama said in his recent video message. But of course the writer’s interpretation of the translation from Arabic could be off. But even it if isn’t, to believe bin Laden’s agenda really is “congruent with the neoconservative agenda and the corporatist agenda,” one must believe that bin Laden is telling the truth in his video message.

That’s the problem with the entire DailyKos analysis of bin Laden’s message: It accepts that the words coming out of bin Laden’s mouth are truthful words rather than propaganda meant to mislead and misdirect.

DailyKos, it seems, wants to believe that bin Laden is a truthful freedom fighter battling terroristic America. In fact, the piece shows they’ve fallen for Osama’s world view hook, line and sinker.

At the end of the piece the Kos writer asks, “Are we truly stupid?” (That’s rhetorical, right? – Ed.)

Sadly, yes, they are.

It would be easy to dismiss these moonbats as nothing more than a cuckoo fringe leftard group of meds-taking loons…if only they didn’t have such a stranglehold on the Democrat Party.

September 10, 2007 Posted by | moonbats | 7 Comments

Euros: Plasma TV’s are killing polar bears

Yet another reason in a long line of “reasons not to mimic the Euros”! From Londonistan:

THE Conservatives will propose banning plasma screens and other energy-guzzling electrical goods in a report to be unveiled next week.

The proposals target white goods like fridges and freezers, as well as TVs, personal computers and DVD players that use too much energy or operate on stand-by.

The ideas come from a Conservative group set up by David Cameron to develop policies to protect the environment and although the measures to make household electrical appliances more energy efficient are not binding on Mr Cameron, they are thought likely to be warmly received by the Tory leader.
…
Mr Gummer warned: “We live in a joined-up world and yet we organise our lives in silos. The imperative of global warming demands that we change that approach utterly – not just governments, but businesses, groups and individuals.”

Sometimes, words just totally escape me.

September 10, 2007 Posted by | environuts, Euros, global warming, moonbats | 4 Comments

MTV doesn’t care about black people

Profile in moonbattery: Kanye West.

The rapper who accused Dubya of hating black folks (right after Dubya spawned and steered Hurricane Katrina to smash the Chocolate City), and who accused the White Man of putting AIDS in Africa and crack in the ghettos, is now melting down even further, this time in front of his peeps. From the AP:

Sour grapes from Kanye West — again. Shut out at the Video Music Awards, Kanye West threw a tantrum Sunday night in front of media and crew backstage as the MTV show was ending.

West, waiting for an elevator in a crowded hallway, began yelling about losing all five categories for which he was nominated.

“That’s two years in a row, man … give a black man a chance,” West said, stomping around his entourage and directing his comments at a reporter. “I’m trying hard man, I have the … number one record, man.”

West said he never will return to MTV.

The rapper was nomination for five awards, including male artist of the year. This is the latest in a series of awards show outburst for West. Last year, he crashed the stage at the MTV Europe Awards after not winning for best video.

Take a chill pill, Screwface. While a black man may not have won the award last night, Rihanna and Beyoncé both won awards. Akon didn’t win an award, and though Akon had a hugely successful year (more so than West), he didn’t whip out the race card. Take your loss like a man, chump, and stop blaming others for your failures.

September 10, 2007 Posted by | moonbats | 3 Comments

Non-political post of the day, “Georgia idiocy” edition

Good grief, the cops in Union City, GA, must be devoid of things to do. Check this out:

A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.

Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.

Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who ”tried to thump the salt off.”

On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. ”It didn’t make me sick,” Bull told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick.

Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.

”If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?” said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months. She said she didn’t know a police officer got one of the salty burgers because she couldn’t see the drive-through window from her work area.

Police said samples of the burger were sent to the state crime lab for tests.

City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger ”without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it.”

I detest mayo, and when I take a bite of a sandwich or burger that has mayo, I don’t eat any more of it. If the cop thought his burger was too salty, why did he keep eating it? Come back and get another burger, or ditch the salty burger and get another one from somewhere else.
Sorry, but I think this is stupid. Criminal charges for oversalting a burger?

September 10, 2007 Posted by | non-political, shameful | 3 Comments

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