January 26, 2010

Ouch

That's gotta hurt.

Dennis Prager:Dear Charles:

As you know, over the years, I was so impressed with your near-daily documentation of developments in the Islamist world that I twice had you on my national radio show — both times face to face in my studio. And you, in turn, periodically cited my radio show and would tell your many readers when they could hear you on my show.

So it came as somewhat of a shock to see your 180-degree turn from waging war on Islamist evil to waging war on your erstwhile allies and supporters on the right. You attempted to explain this reversal on Nov. 30, 2009, when you published “Why I Parted Ways With The Right.”

You offered 10 reasons, and I would like to respond to them.

January 22, 2010

Vanity Fair???

Bwwwahahahahhaaaaaaaa!!!!

Later this year, we’ll be launching a two-pronged campaign by which we hope to increase both the reach and efficiency of the blogosphere, as well as to bring pressure to bear on the media at large.....

I suggested to him that, in contrast to that particular project, we try to recruit bloggers who aren’t completely deranged. He agreed that this might be an effective approach.

Well I guess that leaves Vinnie out?

Actually I agree with much of what was said. Except for the insane nasty blog war part that has been going on.

But blogs have already been invented. And without the crazy part you're not gonna get any traffic that's for damn sure. And I'm sure Charles and his enemies are enjoying the traffic his little self created blog war has drawn.

Maybe we can get in on that ;)

We need more diversity and linking on blogs not more petty creation vs science crap coupled with more consolidation.

Personally I've never had a conflict with science and God. Nope never read Sagan or Leaky or Asimov or even Charles Johnson for that matter and come away with less faith.

Never found much in the bible that explains much except Jesus ,how to save your soul and live either. But I don't dislike my "the world was created in 7 days and is 6000 years old " literalist cube neighbors. Nice folk. Trust my kid with em any day.

Seriously when Charles' Science can give me an at least half proven theory on what caused the big bang. Not a hypothesis mind you. Give me a call. Until then drop the believers are nutso anti-science crap.

If you want to do the blogs a service go invent a kick ass automatic spamproof trackback system.

Because that's the important part Charles is ordinary folk getting their say. Not a few hand picked vetted PC fake ass people.

Your idea is not bad, but how many Hot Air's can there be? If you can make it work more power to ya. I'll put my crazy blog money on no.

What you thought I play with real money?

January 04, 2010

Strange Twists of Fate: The Obligatory Obama Picture-Gate Scandal Post

OK, so first, here's the picture of Obi-One and Joe Skywalker

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Glenn posted it was like a picture or something. Then Ann said she thought it made Obama look like James Bond. I said, "Well if Obama is supposed to be Q, were screwed."

I dunno, its just an effing Whitehouse flikr photo. What does it really say about anything?

Apparently this resulted in a Blog War!

Andrew Sullivan came back with a, "You're all rayycccyyst for talking about the messiah's image!" or something(links at above). Which was ironic since James Bond is pretty much a white dude.

I was up early this AM and this is the number one topic on Memeorandum?

SLOW. NEWS. DAY.

Update 06:39 am: Ooooh, ohhh! I hereby place dibs on the term, "Insta-Gate". As in "Insta-lanche", was I in time?

I've more stuff for later, but Rusty says, "I'll be back Monday."

So maybe ya'll will get a fresh Sith Lord this week. Wouldn't that be grand?

December 15, 2009

Sock Puppet Gate at The Daily Dish

Apparently Andrew Sullivan's readers are upset by er uh something "personal" and utterly "honest."

But mostly stuff that was impersonal and dishonest.

Or something like that.

December 07, 2009

He's In It For The Money

How dumb is Charles "Global Warming Will Kill Us All" Johnson? This dumb:

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That Blogad goes to this anti-Cap and Tax website.

Yeah, that's some honesty and integrity from the left for ya. Chuck, those of us on the right are extremely glad you broke with us. You can't buy that kind of stupid outside of DU or Kos these days.

December 01, 2009

I'm Sorry

I never should have done this post.

It's the Christmas season, and it's not nice to make fun of the handicapped. My humble apologies.

October 16, 2009

Charles Johnson vs the Little Guys of the Right Blogosphere (The Cartoon)

Um, can you guess which one The Jawa Report is?

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Christmas Ghost has this and other political satire cartoons here.

Thanks to W. Teach.

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October 01, 2009

Guess who is number 47...

Well above Ace of Spades......eat our exhaust Ace.

Wikio blog rankings..

Hat tip Howie...who is too modest to post this breaking news.....

But I'm not.

Update by Howie: Yeah I'm not a braggart. Actually Ace gets more traffic. So go figure.

What is really really really satisfying is being listed above my little bitch, Oliver Willis.

And Oliver knows I say that in the most loving respectful manner possible. Oliver, like kryptonite to perspicacity.

Heh, didn't think I knew that word did you?

But really we used to be #30, if we could get that Sith Lord Shackleford off his ass and blogging at least once in a while we wouldn't be slipping so.

But see he's always out there rubbing elbows or er uh something with the rich and famous.

Rsluty how can you break poor Vinnie's heart like that, poor Vinnie always the last to know......

September 21, 2009

LGF Bans Baldilocks?

Okay, now I know Baldilocks. We've met on several occasions. And given the circles we travel in, I'm pretty sure she's met CJ. Personally. But he's banned her.

Dude, WTF?

Thanks to Stacey.

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September 19, 2009

Ah, So That's Why Little Green Footballs Has Gone South!

First, Stacey McCain and now Dan Riehl are racist? I've met Stacey McCain, hung out with him. There are a lot of adjectives I think he'd accept as describing him, some of which might not be the most flattering ... but racist?

And Dan Riehl, consistently a voice of reason in the blogosphere?

Dude, why are you doing this?

Oh, well now, this explains a lot.

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More photos at TNOYF.

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September 18, 2009

Wow Just Wow

Via Ace O Spades:

Apparently CJ's moderator Kilgore Trout went over there (Hot Air) last night and started posting racist stuff. To see, he said, if it would be cleaned up.

It wasn't. Because both Allah and Ed were asleep. It being the middle of the night.

Wow, just wow......that's soooooo low.

Whaddya gonna do Chuck? Ban me?

(note: As Rusty says, this is my opinion and my opinion only. Opinions in comments are the poster's opinions. Posts at Jawa Report are the respective opinions of the author(s) of that post.)

See how this works Chuck?

July 30, 2009

Case Closed: Birtherism

I don't often bring up the fact that I'm a political scientist by training and profession, but reading Gabriel Malor's excellent piece on why the birthers just don't get it that the Constitution clearly gives the electoral college electors (which the states have seen fit to check by popular vote) and Congress the final say on who is fit to be President, is just way too good to pass up. Read it all. He's right.

It's why a vocal minority of Bush supporters were aghast at the whole Bush v. Gore thing: Congress, not the courts, are to be the arbitrators of elections. And since Republicans controlled both Houses at the time, we would have won no matter what the courts said.

After you're done reading Article II, sec. 1 and Amendment XII it might also do you some good to read Amendment XIV which explains why even the children of illegal aliens born in the US are "natural born citizens" -- all attempts by Congress to limit citizenship by law be damned.

If you don't like that fact then offer an amendment. I'd support it.

Don't try to bring up laws that haven't been enforced in decades about dual citizenship. Those laws are null and void because they are unconstitutional. You can't "automatically" lose citizenship as some claim. It's a formal process.

Don't cite the federal code either, because when laws cease to be enforced they are not "taken off the books". You might as well cite laws still on the books giving a man permission to beat his wife once a month, as long as the switch's circumference is no bigger than your thumb. Laws are what are enforced, not what are on the books.

So, even if you were correct about the vast conspiracy to cover up Obama's real birthplace --- which you're not, a Certificate of Live Birth is a birth certificate so Obama has already provided his birth certificate (let alone overlooking the vast conspiracy which would need to be involved with the falsification of newspapers dating back to the week that Obama was born in which his birth was announced in Hawaii) -- there is no judicial remedy to it.

There is only a political remedy. They're called elections.

It's not only a dumb issue it's a dead issue.

Congressional elections are just around the corner. It's time to get fired up about electing Representatives and Senators who will check Obama's disastrous fiscal policies.

I'm closing the comments on this post because I'm sick of arguing with the signs. UPDATE: Oops, I can't figure out how to close comments. So I guess I'll just ignore them. And all further emails arguing for birtherism.

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June 19, 2009

And Still Yet Another Sandcrawler PSA: Send Our Troops Care Packages (STICKY)

*****STICKY SCROLL DOWN FOR NEWER POSTS******

I'm pleased to announce that the Jawa Report will be joining has joined the Anti-Jihad team in Troopathon 2009.

The goal is a friendly competition while attempting to assemble the largest shipment of care packages to the troops ever.

If you'd like to send a care package to the troops, and have it credited to our team, please use this form. Thanks in advance!

June 16, 2009

Sandcrawler PSA: Cyberwar Guide To Helping The Iranian Protesters (sticky)

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From Mere Rhetoric:

A DDOS attack took down Boing Boing a few minutes ago, along with their cyberwar guide to helping the Iranian protesters. The site where they got it from is also offline, although I think that's an account bandwidth issue. In any case, feel free to distribute:
Very well distributing...
The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter.

1. Do NOT publicise proxy IP's over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran. If you are creating new proxies for the Iranian bloggers, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 and they will distributed them discretely to bloggers in Iran.

2. Hashtags, the only two legitimate hashtags being used by bloggers in Iran are #iranelection and #gr88, other hashtag ideas run the risk of diluting the conversation.

3. Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don't retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.

4. Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become 'Iranians' it becomes much harder to find them.

5. Don't blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don't publicise their name or location on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don't signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind...

Spread it all around like butter.

June 09, 2009

Sandcrawler PSA: Regarding Ed Whelan Edition

Jawa Report position on the matter of Ed Whelan outing the anonymous blogger Publius.

* Ed Whelan is a Total F*cking Assmaggot!

That is all.

Updated 06/09/09: Assmaggot apologizes for his assmaggotry.

Earlier this evening, I sent him an e-mail setting forth my apology for my uncharitable conduct.
Update II: Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

* Since we get all that love mail promising to remove our infidel heads from our Kufr torso, kill our families, rape our wives, what other position we gonna take?

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Total F*cking Assmaggot
Total F*cking Assmaggot
Total F*cking Assmaggot
Total F*cking Assmaggot
Total F*cking Assmaggot
Total F*cking Assmaggot


May 07, 2009

Obligatory Dijongate Post

Pardon me Mr. President but would you have any grey poupon?

Via the newly famous Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: My post the other day, MSNBC Hides Obama's Dijon Mustard (aka Dijongate), has hit a nerve unlike anything else I have written.

Like most of my posts, Dijongate could have and probably should have fallen into the black hole of internet punditry, never to be seen or heard of again. But the reaction from the nutroots was widespread and swift, and they have kept the story alive.

Check out the links to the original post, and you will see that many of the high profile nutroots blogs have linked. If you check out the links and comments, you will see that the full foul-mouthed, abusive intellect of the nutroots has been brought to bear.

And that's blogging for you, spend hours and hours sweating over a post and get crickets. Make a quick remark about Obi-One's mustard and boom, you're infamous baby!

Update: Fame, fortune and more mustard controversy explodes!

Much of the first post and its updates were tongue-in-cheek to prove the point. It is beyond me how anyone could have thought I really cared that Obama used Dijon mustard in his Tuna Salad recipe, or that he had a Dijon mustard addiction. Did people really think I believed there was a "conspiracy of silence on Obama's allegience to Dijon Mustard"? I have said before, and repeat, that the first victims of liberalism are satire and irony.
A pre-emptive left wing defensive attack on anyone laughing at the pre-emptive left wing attack on those who noted the lefty leaning censorship of Obama's mustard preference. Its now a VRW mustard khinspiracy!

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You know, I knew this would happen. How? Well I am a Sith Lord, so I see things stuff before they happen. Call it a gift.

LOL, wonder what we're being distracted from by this..... more on that later.

April 14, 2009

Just a Friendly Reminder

There are such things as right-wing extremists. Just throwing that out there.

Just call me an instigator. Have fun!

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December 07, 2008

The Winner of the BOBs Best Press Freedom Blog is

not me, but wow! Look who I lost to:

BOBS: The 2008 Reporters Without Borders Prize was awarded by the jury to a pair of blogs. Zeng Jinyan, the wife of an imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, and 4equality, a Persian blog that fights for women's rights in Iran.

Placed under house arrest, Zeng Jinyan's blog describes life under constant surveillance by the Chinese authorities. "It's a moving example of what people go through when someone is always watching what they are doing," said Clothilde Le Coz, the Reporters Without Borders representative on the jury. "She is isolated at home raising a daughter with her husband in jail. Hopefully this award will raise her spirits."

The Persian Weblog 4equality is working to gather 1 million signatures on a petition for increased women's rights in Iran.

"This blog is an alternative media," said Farnaz Seifi, the BOBs' Persian-language jury member, adding that 48 people involved with the movement surrounding the blog landed in prison and that the Web site had been blocked by Iranian authorities a total of 17 times.

I agree with the judges completely. Tthe two winners deserve it, and furthermore they need the publicity and international support more than me. I have rights; my Chinese and Iranian co-finalists are fighting a bigger battle under much more dire circumstances, and really its an honor to be grouped in with them. Good job ladies. Thanks to everyone who voted for me. I wasn't in last place. Yay!

November 23, 2008

I'm in the BOB's!!!

Hi its Jane. I just found out I'm a finalist and there's only three days left to vote. "The BOBs are the world’s largest international Weblog awards for Weblogs, podcasts and videoblogs," (organized by Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international public broadcaster.)

Vote here for Armies of Liberation as the world's best press freedom blogger, do it for America! This category:

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November 09, 2008

Saudi Poet/Blogger Arrested for Apostasy

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information reported today that blogger Roshdi Algadir was arrested by the Hisba apparatus in Saudi Arabia on 4th November. He was taken from his place of work in Al-Dammam city, held for three hours, beaten up and forced to sign an agreement never again to publish his work on the internet. The reason behind the attack is the poem that Algadir has posted on his blog.

Roshdi Algadir, winner of an international award for his collections of poetry had posted some on them on his blog. Following this he was surprised by a number of the Hisba apparatus snatching him from his work, beating him and accusing him of apostasy.

September 22, 2008

When it Rains, it Pours

I can't think of a worse day to lose the internet. My connection has been on and off all day --- but mostly off. It's back. Knock. On. Wood.

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July 18, 2008

More From The RightOnline New Media Summit

A few photos from around the conference...

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Local media interviews Laura Elizabeth Morales, conservative youth activist extraordinaire.

MORE BELOW

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The Americans for Prosperity booth

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Veterans for McCain

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The Sam Adams Alliance


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Liveblogging the RightOnline New Media Summit

A group of almost 500 conservative activists have converged on Austin, Texas this weekend to share lessons learned and develop strategies by which conservatives can more effectively organize and challenge the left online.

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Emily Zanotti of Sam Adams Alliance opens up the morning's "Austin Samsphere" group session. Emily's presentation focused on what the Left-wingers do well, and what we can learn from their success. In particular, Emily's presentation focused on the importance of networking, interaction and online community.

MORE BELOW THE FOLD

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Nicky Cheese (also of Sam Adams Alliance) moderates a breakout session on effective online activism. The group discussed what has been found to work and what hasn't.

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Sean Hackbarth, of The American Mind, shares his thoughts on getting out the conservative message effectively, as John Hawkins of Right Wing News looks on.

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Erick Erickson, of RedState, lays out strategies for getting online conservatives in touch with one another. Erick points out that, contrary to a lot of the hype, there is a great deal of conservative activism online. The difference, as Erick correctly notes, is that individual conservatives tend to build personal outposts, while lefties tend to congregate in huge online collectives, such as DailyKos.

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May 27, 2008

And now a Zen Moment of PWNAGE: Jooosef al-Khattab Loves Pork Chops

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Especially Prophet Brand Pork Chops, mmmm, mmm good.

Jooosef (or whoever is collaborating with you in Dublin these days), you've been Pwned!

You'd think the online Jihadi morons would learn about hotlinking Jawa Report images.

Update: Massive double Smackdown Pwnage!

April 09, 2008

Ace Embraces His Inner Sith Lord...

Posted at Ace of Spades:

I'm defensive about [red-baiting] because I have internalized it since childhood that pointing out red connections = McCarthyism = badwrong. But while I've internalized that, I'm not finding it especially plausible as I think about it.

Why shouldn't we inquire about a presidential candidate's likely hidden agenda? Is it just the communist/socialist agenda that's specially protected?

Search your feelings, Ace. You know it to be true...

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February 29, 2008

"Rabbi" Threatens Blogger

What the hell is going on today? First, Snapped Shot gets a cease and desist letter from the Associated Press, and now Pamela from Atlas Shrugs has some nutjob "Rabbi" threatening to sue her for libel. Since the "Rabbi" is clearly a public figure due to his political activism, I'd suggest his lawyers read New York Times v. Sullivan (1964).

What's the legal term for "stick your certified letter where the sun don't shine"?

Thanks to Cynthia.

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February 19, 2008

Yousef al-K(phlegm)ttab Gets Rejected

Yusuf al-K(phlegm)attab tried to protest against that Zionist, racist corporate entity Starbucks (lulz!)

He didn't seem to be quite successful, though. Note the "Are you Palestinian?" and the "I'm addicted to Starbucks."

Nice try, Usseff. Maybe you should boycott Hebrew National instead? Talk about an Islamotard.

Piss off an Islamotard, buy Starbuck's coffee!

January 21, 2008

I Stand With Rusty

Like Rusty, I hope that Lionheart is acquitted of the ridiculous charges being brought against him in England. Also like Rusty, and after closely following the dustup that's been going on the past couple of weeks, I've come to the conclusion that Lionheart is, indeed, a douchebag.

Charles Johnson is not my friend (unlike Rusty, who I am proud to call a friend), he's not my mentor, nor did he inspire me to start a blog. I started a blog after following a link in a Michael Ledeen piece at NRO to Iraq The Model. That's how I learned what a blog was.

However, I've come to my conclusion based on Lionheart's vehement reaction to Charles' update in his initial post. When it was revealed to him that Lionheart was a BNP supporter, Charles rightly distanced himself, without withdrawing his support for Lionheart's case.

Instead of saying "well, I disagree with you about the BNP" and thanking him for the continued support for his personal case, Lionheart went on the attack.

He then posted a tepid apology, but even in that took a swipe, claiming that he had been defamed and slandered, despite the fact that his support for the BNP is quite clearly noted throughout his blog.

When you're in the situation that Lionheart is, you need all the help you can get. Going after people who want to see you triumphant, while not necessarily agreeing with all of what you do, is rather counter-productive.

Frankly, the BNP supporters of Lionheart showing up in comments on just about every post on this issue remind me of the Paultards. Which means that I think our side needs them like we need a new asshole.

Especially this person that left the first comment on Rusty's post:

Sadly, like Charles, at heart you are just another leftist Dr. Shackleford. Hence, an insidious traitor as opposed to a open one.

A traitor to whom, Mr. Mysterio? Or, better, a traitor to what? If you think Rusty is a leftist, please show evidence, other than the fact he, nor any of us here at the Jawa Report, support Neo-Fascist douchebags.

January 19, 2008

Charles Johnson is an "Insidious Traitor"

I'm no political purist. If douchebags want to jump on the anti-Islamist bandwagon I welcome the douchebags as allies. In politics there are no friends, only allies.

Hell, we fought side-by-side with the Soviets during WWII. They weren't our friends, they were our allies. There's no hypocrisy in this. We did what we had to do to protect our interests.

But when one of your allies goes to war with someone who is friend, ally, and mentor, then it becomes personal.

I started this whole thing in the LGF comments section. Charles inspired me to start my own blog. He started as a mentor, has always been an ally, and now I can say he's my friend.

Charles mentions that Lionheart calls him a traitor. Actually, the phrase he uses is insidious traitor.

That makes it personal Lionheart.

What the British government is doing to Lionheart is still wrong. I'm not sure how prosecuting someone for criticizing Islam isn't either a partial adaptation of sharia or dhimmtide. I hope Lionheart wins his case.

But wouldn't it be nice if our test cases had more sympathetic figures? A Rosa Parks would be nice right about now.

Imagine this scenario: The Brits try to prosecute some poor old working class lady. Her neighborhood has slowly been 'Stanified' over the past 20 years. Now when she walks home from work the local unemployed thuggish sharia enforcers harass her for not covering her head. She starts an online publication, with the help of her grandkids, in which she speaks out against recent Muslim immigrants for not assimilating. She blames Islam.

I can't imagine a jury that would convict. It would also show these anti-hate laws for what they really are.

Instead the Brits are going to prosecute someone who is unstable, a former drug user, and a supporter of the neo-fascist BNP party. A real douchebag.

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December 10, 2007

Ironic Perfection on YouTube: Radical Antisemitic Islamist Accuses Jawa of Racism

Apparently Mohamed M. Ghounem took issue of our post which identified him as the owner of Muslim Videos. The online site features dozens of antisemitic videos, including one accusing Jews of ritualistically killing babies and another which encourages Muslims to kill Jews.

So naturally Ghounem responded by posting a video of himself at YouTube in which he describes The Jawa Report as "a racist Zionist website", and claim that they are "not antisemitic in any way shape or form".

Below is a screenshot from the home page of MuslimVideos.com. Leave aside the blood libel video called Jewish Lady Sacrificed a Baby & Worshipped the Devil for a second . The bottom left video you see there entitled Shaikh Yousef al-Qaradawi's Advice to the Ummah is a rationale for why it's okay to blow oneself up --- as long as the intended victim of said suicide-bombing is a Jew.

Nothing antisemitic about that.

Thanks to Charles Johnson for the tip.

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December 06, 2007

Just Another Blog Regurgitating the White House Talking Points

Actually, I do get a list of talking points from the White House. Daily.

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So, tell me again how we "regurgitate exactly and put up on [our] blogs what you said to [us]"?

Ace points out that he, too, gets some press releases but:

I doubt I've ever actually used a WH thing for a post.
Anyway, this is all over the lefty blogosphere as "big news" and "proof" of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

To be honest, I don't see much difference between a few well know bloggers and the Administration's line on many things. I don't read those blogs. I know what they're going to say on any particular issue, so why read them when I can watch Fox News and hear the same things about the same stories?

Oh, right, I don't watch Fox News either. Sorry to disappoint.

The blogs I read either don't get the daily talking points, do get them and don't care, or, like me, have them directly diverted into a spam folder. I'm simply not interested in what the White House is interested in and could care less if I furthered their cause.

I gave up on the Bush administration long ago. I can name exactly one thing they've done that's pleased me since Bush was reelected: the surge in Iraq. And that four years late.

Dan Riehl is spot on with this:

In my opinion, simply regurgitating what professionals give you isn't blogging, not blogging I respect, anyway. And the best bloggers just don't do it.
As my "buddies" would say, Ameen.

If anything, though, right-of-center bloggers are far less partisan than those on the left. Take a peak over at the left's largest blog, Markos Moulitsa's Daily Kos, and what you get are story after story about eevil Republicans. As of this writing Kos is featuring two stories about American Taliban right-winger Mike Huckabee juxstaposed with criminal adulterer Giuliani. All Republican bashing politics all the time.

Now take a look at the right's largest blog, Instapundit, a small "l" libertarian who is constantly at odds with the White House and which at least half the posts are apolitical at best. Or the three runner ups for second place: LGF--a war on terror blog, rarely interested in the political priorities of the WH; Michelle Malkin, who can be counted on to be opposed to most of Bush's stupid policies, which are many; and Hot Air--hardly a bastion of "compassionate conservatism" and admittedly not on the White House's PR list anyway.

Sure, there are a few reliable right-of-center bloggers, but one of them, Hugh Hewitt, as Captain Ed observes, is a nationally syndicated talk show host who is a "blogger" only on the side.

Anyway, the only caveat I'll add is that I would willingly shill for the Bush White House, but they haven't offered me any money yet. I'm not interested in their political agenda, but money talks Bush & co. So why not have someone from Haliburton drop some cash and we'll chat?

Flattering me with a conference call ala the McCain model, as Joyner suggests, might be nice. But money talks and bullshit walks.

As the saying goes, it's not so much a disagreement about what we bloggers are, it's simply a matter of negotiating the right price.

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November 14, 2007

Bambi Plots Revenge on Vinnie

It's hunting season. A vicious rumor has been circulating in the Sandcrawler that Vinnie is out to kill Bambi. But a sooper-sikret source reveals to The Jawa Report, that Bambi is plotting revenge. And this time, it's personal.

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November 07, 2007

Reader Love Mail: From Inshallahshaheed With Love Edition

It appears Sammy finally noticed the little hotlinking game we played with him today.


12. muslimpad - November 7, 2007

Assalam Alaikum,

Jazakullah Khair to everyone for informing us of what the enemy of Allah, Rusty Shackleford aka mypetjawa (qatalahumullaah), had done with some of the pictures. We initially had a bad feeling of what he might do if we were to link the pictures from his blog.

So now that this true enemy of Allah has shown his ugly face, we say to him: we pray that Allah does not guide you, makes your whole life miserable, and that you are eradicated from the earth by a Mujaahid. We cannot wait to see your expression on the Day of Judgment when reality hits you in the face and the Angels who don’t know the meaning of Mercy will tear you apart into pieces for eternity. We hope that Allah gives you a severe torment in both worlds for your evil deeds. We pray that you die the way Pharaoh died… at the last minute, when his soul was about to be taken by the Angels, he wanted to become Muslim when he saw the truth (i.e., death)… but Allah rejected it and the Angel threw mud in his mouth so that he couldn’t pronounce the testimony which would take him to Paradise.

So let them laugh now, but we will be the ones laughing in the afterlife.

O Allah kill Rusty Shackleford and terrorize his family.

O Allah kill Rusty Shackleford and terrorize his family.

O Allah kill Rusty Shackleford and terrorize his family.

May this Kaafir rot in this world and be tortured forever in the Hereafter.

Bwhahahahahahah!

Are you outraged Sammy? Good!

[UPDATE by Rusty: Part of me is proud. I've been begging for a death fatwa for ages.

When an American al Qaeda apologist and propagandist, featured on the front page of the NY Times, threatens your life---well, it doesn't get much better than that, does it?

On the other hand, he threatened my family. Unlike Samir, I don't live with my parents and produce al Qaeda propaganda from my mommy's basement.

And I have guns. Lots of them.]

UPDATE by Vinnie: Further pwnage. Samir is beseeching Allah to kill a cartoon character from the Fox animated series "King of the Hill." Maybe if he knew Rusty's real name, like we know his, Allah might answer. Even then, I doubt it.

Still, I'm not a fan of "King of the Hill," so Allah is free to do with Dale Gribble aka "Rusty Shackleford" as he wishes. I don't watch the show anyway.

Update by Howie: I noted another hotlinked image on Sammy's blog this morning. It was one of ours of an insurgent holding a small UAV. The last image that was shown Sammy's blog all day long, below the fold

Updated again: Welcome Michelle Malkin readers! Thanks Michelle, Vote Jawa!

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Posting hot chicks and beefcake for votes, zero dollars. Filling your Balloon with Juice via blegs on Dkos, zero dollars. Pissing off a traitorous Jihadi blogging from his mommy's basement, PRICELESS!

Vote Jawa! We don't get votes! We earn them!.

Seriously, vote for Jawa, we need to win at least once before they keeel Rusty.