January 06, 2010

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab' Visa Revoked

La Times' Blog:

Under the category of looks-like-about-12-days-too-late, the State Department has announced it is revoking the U.S. visa for suspected Nigerian underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

That will show him and who knows how many others that the Obama administration really means business.

It wasn't revoked when MI5 reported him. I was not revoked when his father reported him missing. It was not revoked when he tried to blow shit up.

But now that he's locked up they revoke his visa? What's next? Going to suspend his DL so he can't drive around the prison?

December 15, 2009

Media Matters Now Defending Kiddie Porn

Look, we're no prudes around here. We like hot lesbian teacher posts as much as any one. But I've read some of the stuff being recommended by Kevin Jennings and it's the kind of reading that would make a sailor blush. No, more than that. The sailor would first blush, then take you out back and kick your ass. Then he'd kick it again just for safe measure.

Any one defending Jennings after actually bothering to read what his organization recommends deserves that same ass kicking.

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December 07, 2009

"Santa Claus is Coming Out"

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Obama Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings linked GLSEN is hosting a fundraiser in NYC

NEW YORK CITY: Join GLSEN December 8th, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. for a benefit evening of festivities and entertainment with Santa Claus Is Coming Out, an Off Broadway show written and performed by Jeffrey Solomon, and directed by Joe Brancato...

Santa Claus Is Coming Out is a Santa story like you've never heard before. Developed at Penguin Rep Theatre, this mock-u-mentary follows Santa in his heartfelt struggle to reconcile his romantic relationship with Italian toy maker Giovanni Geppetto, and he better think of something fast because Christmas is just around the corner! Garnered to induce plenty of hearty chuckles, this clever Santa story is sure to leave you with a new found appreciation for the cheery, snowy-bearded icon.

"Hearty Chuckles"?, I think not...just disgust.

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December 04, 2009

Good News: Obama "Safe Schools" Czar Recommends Child Porn to Kids

When I first heard about this I was skeptical. I'm not as prone to hyperventilating over sex as some of my friends. But taking a look at this? Man, that is pretty f*cked up right there:

Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.
Gateway Pundit has some of the offending quotes up and, yes, they really are that bad. Much much worse than I was expecting. Bad enough that I won't be printing any of it.

So, did Kevin Jennings have anything to do with the recommended book list? Or is Obama's adviser on "safe schools" only guilty of starting an organization that went terribly bad after he left?

If Jennings was involved, not only should he be fired but he should also have his ass kicked. Either way, somebody's ass needs to be kicked.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin posts this info that I thought I'd pass along:

Would Barack and Michelle Obama approve of their daughters reading this in their classrooms?

Would Barack and Michelle Obama approve of their daughters reading this in their classrooms?

Is Kevin Jennings bringing his reading list to your children’s school?

Email: Kevin.Jennings@ed.gov

Email: Arne.Duncan@ed.gov

Yeah, I dunno if it's his reading list. It's his organization's. But I would really like someone to find out how old this reading list is and if Jennings was associated with the organization when it was compiled. That is the million dollar question.

UPDATE: Uh-oh. I missed this:

Kevin Jennings stepped down as Executive Director last year after leading GLSEN since its inception, but every single book mentioned in this report was added to the list while Jennings was in charge (dates are given for each title’s addition to the list). Therefore, it’s reasonable to believe he was aware of the addition of these works – especially since most were added when GLSEN was still quite small and the Executive Director had a hands-on role in daily operations.
This guy has got to go. Now. I've changed the title of the post to reflect this.

If someone gave one of my kids one of these books I'd call the cops. Presuming, of course, I had the self control not to kick his ass. Which in this case is a stretch.

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November 17, 2009

Should Congress Investigate Hasan?

Part of me says yes for the reasons given by Ed Morrisey -- namely that Congress has a duty to find out on what grounds Hasan was declared "not dangerous" by someone in the FBI; why information that he was communicating with a known terrorist was not passed on to the military; and why the military ignored all of its own red flags that Hasan held extremist views antithetical to core American values.

But another part of me says no. It may be a false choice, but if I had to choose between the military and the FBI on one side and Congress on the other side in investigating systemic failures then the choice seems obvious.

It seems to me that if some sort of PC concern about Islamophobia is at the root of the failure to oust Hasan from the military then let us lay blame square where it belongs: with the politicians in Congress who no doubt wish to point fingers elsewhere.

If there has been pressure in the past on the FBI and the military to treat Muslims who act in a suspicious manner with kid gloves for fear of alienating "the community" then I would propose that much of this pressure has come from the same Congressional Democrats who will be in charge of investigating the Fort Hood atrocity.

Let Congress summon the ACLU, CAIR, the ISNA, and other "civil rights" organizations that make a living off of screaming Islamophobia whenever another Islamist is tied to terror.

Do that, and maybe I'll be less conflicted.

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Good News: Obama Appoints 'Devout' ROP Members to Top Security Posts

Via Israel National News:

(IsraelNN.com) U.S. President Barack Obama continues to “reach out to Muslims” by appointing them to key security posts amid charges he wrongly ignored internal Muslim terror. One recent appointee was harshly criticized for appearing on a British-based television station whose host is a member of a radical Muslim group.

President Obama has continued to “reach out Muslims,” as he said in his keynote speech in Cairo last June, and this past week he swore in a Muslim rights advocate to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, shortly after the Fort Hood massacre. HSAC members are involved in expertise on national security.

Personally my preference for top national security posts are all drunken Irishmen. What could possibly go wrong?

Hat Tip: Writermom.

November 12, 2009

Siraj Wahhaj Meets With Mayor Bloomberg

Via Ace O Spades HQ:

Siraj Wahhaj has defended the convicted WTC bomb plotters, called the FBI and CIA the "real terrorists," and said he hopes all Americans eventually become Muslim.

He was among religious and civic leaders who met with (Mayor Mike) Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to discuss the deadly Fort Hood shooting spree.

... As he was leaving, a Channel 2 reporter asked the mayor if he was uncomfortable about Wahhaj's presence.

"I don't know. He's not here," the mayor responded. When told that Wahhaj was in fact in the meeting, Bloomberg reversed course.

"That one. Yes. We have to talk to everybody," he said.

Drew at Ace's: It's hard enough to get people to stand up and disavow these clerics but there's zero incentive for average Muslims to do so when these same "leaders" are invited to mayoral sit downs and feted as if they are the keys to keeping the city safe.
Well put sir.

October 28, 2009

Sucking Hamas' Behind

Via Powerline:

Khaled Meshaal is the terrorist murderer who compiled his record in Hamas, which he now heads.

...Paul Mirengoff recently drew our attention to Washington Note blogger Steve Clemons in this post. On October 17, Clemons interviewed Meshaal in his offices in Damascus, Syria.

...Clemons has posted the complete transcript and video of his interview with Meshaal. It appears to me that if Meshaal had a ring, Clemons would have kissed it. The interview has to be seen to be disbelieved.

Note: The Powerline site has been slow loading this AM for me. Hopefully it will open up soon.

October 20, 2009

20 Best Signs at S.F. Tea Party

And the number one best sign is .......

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The rest here.

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October 06, 2009

Six Degress of NAMBLA

I'm not sure this it is at all relevant to the current discussion over Obama advisors that "Safe Schools Czar" Kevin Jennings once praised Harry Hay who he knew as a gay rights advocate.

This would be the same Harry Hay who also supports the pedophilia advocacy group known as NAMBLA.

That would be the North American Man Boy Love Association, and not the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes.

Pretty. Freaking. Sick.

Like I said, I don't think this says much about President Obama -- that one of his advisers once praised a sick bastard.

But, it does say a lot about Harry Hay -- a man lauded as a "civil rights advocate".

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September 29, 2009

Wow, Just When Did the Pope Make Obi-One A Saint?

Pretty good feat considering the president is not Catholic.

Maybe he's just a Temporary Saint?


September 25, 2009

The same people that think 9/11 WAS staged, think this WASN’T staged [UPDATE: REAL?!?!?]

I just ripped off the headline from a commenter over at Hot Air. Because, really, what else needs to be said?

Seriously, it's not even close to being believable.

Verdict: Hoax Epic Fail!

UPDATE: Wow, apparently this is real. What is fake is the spin that these are members of the military and that this represents some sort of state of martial law.

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September 21, 2009

See no ACORN. Hear no ACORN. Speak no ACORN.

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Thanks to FS.

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September 18, 2009

ACORN Employees to Sue the People Who Exposed Their Corruption

What a wonderful court system which allows the criminals to sue the people exposing them.

What could be more disturbing than a civil suit seeking punitive damages in an effort to quash free speech? It's a criminal complaint.

We'll see if the prosecutor declines to bring charges or not.

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August 28, 2009

Huffpo: Jesus, Mary Jo Kopechne Sacrificed Their Lives for Kennedy's Awsomeness

Wow. This is just sick. Mary Jo Kopechne as Jesus.

She died so He could live
:

We don't know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she'd have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don't know, as always, could fill a Metrodome...

Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it.

You know, when I wake up in the morning I say two prayers.

One to cute little baby Jesus, thanking him for His Eternal sacrifice and the ability it gives me to repent of my sins. And for creating NASCAR.

And oblations to Mary Jo Kopechne, thanking her for Her Eternal sacrifice and how that enabled Ted Kennedy to live another day so he could fight for universal healthcare.

And FYI: If you read the entire article Melissa Lafsky is not claiming that she is a Rush Limbaugh fan when she mentions it in the article. She is the blogger behind Opinionstas, notably on the Left.

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August 19, 2009

FBI's "right-wing hate blogger" agent provocateur exposed?

Drudge has this AP article linked this morning, but it is worthy of special attention:

A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday.

Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an "agent provocateur" and was taught by the agency "what he could say that wouldn't be crossing the line," defense attorney Michael Orozco said.

"His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest," Orozco said.

Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die.

"But if you compare anything that he did say when he was operating, there was no difference. No difference whatsoever," Orozco said.

In light of the recent "rise of right-wing hate" meme, this revelation if confirmed is troubling in many ways. Judicial Watch or some other organization should find out more and do a massive FOIA on this FBI agent provocateur effort.

UPDATE by Rusty: Again, I know I'm out of step with readers here, but I don't see the problem.

A) There is such a thing as a radical right wing organization. Or have we forgotten our nation's home grown terrorists in the Ku Klux Klan? The so-called meme was largely accurate in predicting an uptick in extremism from the the far-right.

B) You'll notice that the person who labels Turner an "agent provocateur" is Turner's lawyer. In other words, his lawyer is going to try to make it seem like Turner's death threats were done at the behest of the FBI. A silly but all too common defense tactic -- paint a story of a vast government conspiracy to entrap innocents through the use of third parties.

C) The right-wing terrorism meme came out this year, after Turner had been arrested. The two are not connected.

August 06, 2009

Pelosi Claims Swastikas at Healthcare Protests and Godwin's Law

Kevin Aylward debunks Pelosi's claim. However, scroll down to the very bottom screencap he posts and you will see what appear to be Nazi type SS lightning bolts.

The problem with Pelosi's claim is not that it might not be true. It might, in fact, be true. I've received dozens of emails regarding Obama's health care plans which use Nazi analogies.

The problem is that Pelosi is trying to infer that those protesting Obama's version of health care reform are far right wing radicals: ie, neo-Nazis.

Look, a Swastika, see they must be white supremacists
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It's part of the Democratic narrative: any who oppose Obama are racist, any who oppose his policies are extremists -- organized extremists.

However, look at the pic posted by Kevin carefully. You'll see that the Nazi lightning bolt is used as an "S" and that the last S -- the one that I can see -- is the first letter of "Socialism".

In other words, if protesters are bringing signs with Nazi symbology on them it is likely that they are comparing Pelosi and Obama to Nazis for their socialistic tendencies. For instance, one of the photoshops sent to me by reader Corky.

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What we have here is a perfect example of Godwin's law -- also called Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.

If Pelosi saw a sign with a Swastika on it and didn't realize the protester was calling her a Nazi, then she is indeed more stupid and out of touch than I previously thought.

UPDATE
: Case in point, sent by Andrea Shea King.

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As Gd. Lt and Mongol remind us in the comments, though, the Bush-Nazi analogies came practically every day for 8 years.

Which I think goes to the point of Godwin's law: people make stupid analogies all the time and as arguments become heated they inevitably lead to comparisons with Hitler.

Bush was no Hitler.

Just like Obama is no Hitler. A Jimmy Carter? Yes. And worse. But not a Hitler.

And Allahpundit asks this important question: If it's all an astroturfing campaign, then why send out your operatives with swastika posters?

Of course, the answer is obvious: it isn't an astroturfing campaign.

However, given the number of emails I've been getting over the past two weeks using Nazi analogies and symbology, I wouldn't discount the claim altogether.

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August 05, 2009

1k Words on Raising Taxes on the Rich

You'll notice that the top 1% were paying more in income taxes than the botton 95% before The One raised their taxes. Oh, and he wants to raise them again. Click the image for more info.

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Atlas Shrugs in 4 ... 3 .... 2 ....

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August 03, 2009

Why Cash for Clunkers Sucks

The so-called "highly successful" cash for clunkers program sucks. It is ineffective, inefficient, and inequitable.

As a rule, I shy away from economic analysis at this blog. Not because it's something I don't know about, but because it's something I know about. I try to keep my professional life and my blogging life separate, you see.

But the cash for clunkers program is so unjust, that I can't keep away from the subject. Besides, it's affecting me personally in a negative way and that pisses me off.

If the dual problems this program seeks to remedy are that we: a) need to get clunkers off the road given that they disproportionately contribute to air pollution; b) need to get car sales moving again to help the sagging econmy; then this is a crazy way of going about it.

Basic welfare economics says that it doesn't matter who owns the clunker and who is buying the new car. As long as one new car is bought when it otherwise would not have been, the auto industry will be stimulated. As long as one gas guzzler is off the road, air quality will be improved.

Both, of course, are marginal gains. But marginal gains compounded by each additional car sale and by each additional car off the road.

The rules as they are presently constituted for the program require that the car must have been owned, insured, and registered by the person buying the new car for at least one year. The idea being that you don't want to subsidize people to scrap old cars that haven't actually been polluting because they have been sitting out on Bubba's front yard for five years.

There is justification for the car being insured and registered for at least a year, but it is highly inefficient to require one year of ownership. This requirement also makes the program less effective than it should be.

For instance, I need a new car. No, really, I hit a deer last year and the thing is falling apart. Literally. My friends say that I remind them of that guy in the Free Credit Report advertisement. Yes, it's that bad.

A buddy of mine has an old truck he drives. He is not in the market for a new car. He can't afford one. But he is trying to unload his old truck on any sucker he can pawn it off to so that he can buy another used car.

If the program were effective and efficient, it wouldn't matter who's car was scrapped -- as long as a car was scrapped. And it wouldn't matter who bought the new car -- as long as a new car was bought.

Ideally, I would buy my buddy's old truck -- say for $1,000 (which is actually what he wants for the clunker!). I would then trade in that old truck, get the $4,500 credit, and buy a new car.

It's win-win-win.

I get a new car, and save $3,500 over what I would have paid ($4,500 - $1,000 paid to my friend.) I win.

My buddy get's rid of his old truck that he otherwise would not have sold, and buys another used car. He wins.

That old gas guzzler is off the road, meaning less air pollution. You win.

The economy is stimulated because both a new and a used car were purchased, adding that money to circulate.

As it is, I will not buy a new car. Car prices are actually going up thanks to the artificial demand created by the program. These are only very marginal price increases, but they've squeezed me out of the market. I'm now waiting for the program to be over before I even consider buying a new car.

As it is, my buddy's old truck will continue to pollute. As it is, my buddy will not buy a newer used car to replace his old truck.

It's lose-lose-lose.

The program is further unjust because it punishes those who made prior socially responsible decisions and rewards those who have made socially irresponsible decisions.

My Free-Credit-Report-Dot-Com car that I drive now -- the one that's literally falling apart -- is pretty fuel efficient. That is, if society has judged that this kind of car is good while gas guzzlers are bad, then why is it rewarding those who made poor decisions in the past while punishing we who they claim made a good decision? That is not only a perverse incentive for poor behavior, it is the very definition of unjustness.

Lose-lose-lose again.

So, to Uncle Sam I say: piss off. As long as duct tape is cheap, I won't be buying a new car any time soon.

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August 01, 2009

Girl Who Converts to Christianity Goes Missing in Ohio

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I'm not sure I have all the fact in the Fathima Rifqa Bary case. Here's some of the info I've read and have been told about.

The 16 year old girl lives in a Muslim household, but recently made some professions that she was converting to Christianity.

She was last seen on July 19th. Her facebook account has been closed and her cell phone deactivated. Her friends are worried and claim this isn't like her.

There is a missing persons report out on her, so I'm assuming that it was the family that filed the report.

There may be nothing in this related to her recent alleged conversion to Christianity. She could be just a kid that ran away from home for the normal reasons that kids run away from home. Or worse, the victim of an abduction.

But as evidenced by the reports that saw fit to mention her recent trips to churches in her community, some of her friends are worried that her going missing has something to do with her recent conversion.

If nothing else, keep an eye out for her. Here's the missing persons report at the Ohio Attorney General's webpage.

Thanks to Cristi Li.

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July 28, 2009

Noted Trig Birther Upset Over Anti-Birther Bill Block

After spending much time 'just asking questions' about the circumstances of Sarah Palin's youngest child Trig's birth, Andrew Sullivan is now upset that one single Republican blocked a vote which included an anti-birther clause.

Sullie's writing is always incredibly unclear, but much of the post seems to be devoted to the notion that leading conservative voices are also birthers. He notes:

Yep, the other face of the GOP - after Coulter, Limbaugh, Malkin, Cheney and Inhofe - just blocked a resolution affirming the birthplace of Obama.
Did I read that right? Does Andrew Sullivan really think that Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh are birthers?

That would be news to me if true. In fact, I've never once heard either of these two say anything that comes close to birthirism. I'm on a listserve with Michelle, and whenever a birther raises their ugly head and I and others shout them down, I've never once heard Michelle offer any support for the birther position.

I don't listen to Limbaugh the entire 15 hours a week he's on the air, but I've never once heard him even 'raise questions' about Obama's birthplace.

Sullivan, on the other hand, is a noted Trig Truther.

Also a problem? The guilt-by-association argument he uses to bring Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, etc. into the birther nuthouse (ie, one Republican blocked the anti-birther vote. That one Republican must be a birther. What else could explain the procedural blocking? Malkin, etc are Republicans. Therefore Republicans are birthers) is complete nonsense.

Go to Think Progress, his source for the deranged accusation, and watch the video. From that you come to the conclusion that birtherism is rampant in leading Republican circles?

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding.

Also a problem for the Think Progress / Andrew Sullivan argument: Bachman, the woman seen in the video, ended up voting yes on the anti-birther bill.

Alex Koppelman at Salon notes:

In fact, as a spokeswoman for Bachmann told Salon -- and C-SPAN video of the congresswoman's remarks on the House floor confirmed -- Bachmann supports the resolution.

After the postponement, on Monday evening the resolution passed -- unanimously. Bachmann was one of the "yea" votes.

Wow.

Because of the hypocrisy!

Thanks to Cuffy Meigs.

UPDATE: Well, duh, of course Obama was born in Hawaii.

UPDATE II: Et tu Rush? Or is this taken out of context by the WND birther nuts?

UPDATE III: Birthers, please STFU. You know not of what you speak.

When I applied for my US passport I didn't produce an original birth certificate. I produced a "certificate of live birth". Exactly what Obama has produced. That's what many states give you when you ask them for a copy of your birth certificate.

Since I can't produce my "original birth certificate" am I ineligible to run for President? Seriously, you guys are retards.

NR:

If one applies for a United States passport, the passport office will demand a birth certificate. It defines this as an official document bearing “your full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth, sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other certification of the official custodian of such records.” The Hawaiian birth certificate President Obama has produced—the document is formally known as a “certificate of live birth”—bears that information. It has been inspected by reporters, and several state officials have confirmed that the information in permanent state records is identical to that on the president’s birth certificate—which is precisely what one expects, of course, since the state records are used to generate those documents when they are requested. In other words, what President Obama has produced is the “real” birth certificate of myth and lore. The director of Hawaii’s health department and the registrar of records each has personally verified that the information on Obama’s birth certificate is identical to that in the state’s records, the so-called vault copy. Given that fact, we are loath even to engage the fanciful notion that President Obama was born elsewhere, contrary to the information on his birth certificate, but we note for the record that his mother was a native of Kansas, whose residents have been citizens of the United States for a very long time, and whose children are citizens of the United States as well.
But your idiotic case gets worse:
Baby Barack’s birth was not heralded, as some of his partisans have suggested, by a star in the east, but it was heralded by the Honolulu Star, as well as the Honolulu Advertiser, each of which published birth announcements for young Mr. Obama.
So, Barack's parents -- knowing that someday in the far off future the young chosen one would need to run for President -- called in to not one, but two separate newspapers to announce the birth of a child?

Wow, a bunch of mongoloids.

UPDATE Again: Ha, my bad. You guys were right. Obama wasn't born in Hawaii. That's from an IBM Selectric, right?

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July 27, 2009

OMG Teh Schtoopid

Even Schtoopider than those morons at Ace of Spades HQ.

Seriously, ya gotta click that one.

Really I should have let Vinnie write this one ;)

July 24, 2009

Turkey Arrests 200 Hizb ut-Tahrir Members

Via Todays Zaman:

Turkish police detained nearly 200 suspected members of the outlawed Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in simultaneous raids in 23 provinces across Turkey, the state-run news agency Anatolian said on Friday.

In Friday's operation police said they confiscated a number of documents linking the suspects to the Islamist group.

Hizb ut-Tahrir seeks to unite Muslims into a pan-Islamic state but says its means are peaceful.

We let them host a conference at the Chicago Hilton last weekend.

Go figure.

Hat Tip: Internet Haganah.

June 29, 2009

Big Tee Vee's Are Bad

mmmmmKay.

But I was wrong - and the CEC is actually DEAD SERIOUS about punching a huge whole in the California economy, and severely limiting consumer choice in big screen televisions, implementing a ban on many of them starting in 2011, with even more being banned starting in 2013.

June 11, 2009

Well looks like

its about time to create a Mexican tobacco cartel.

Thursday's legislation gives the FDA power to evaluate the contents of tobacco products and to order changes or bans on those that are a danger to public health. The agency could limit nicotine yields
Nicotine related drug violence soon to follow.

Which is cool, cause dying in a hail of gunfire while swimming the Rio Grand with a carton of "real Marlboros" is much more romantic than say COPD.

May 19, 2009

Obama's New CAFE Standard Kills Children

much faster than the old plan to kill children.

100-pound reduction in the weight of small cars increases annual traffic fatalities by as much as 715
And some of those 715 dead will be you guessed it, babies, puppies and kittens.

May 04, 2009

On Biden's Investments and Trig Trutherism

It's not so much his hair plugs as his investments that are troubling. I can't comment much on the issue, but it would be nice if the muckrakers in the MSM would have given equal time to the Biden family's troubling investments as they did to the love lives of the Palins.

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April 27, 2009

Airplanes buzz Lady Liberty (Update: Video)(Update: It was a White House Photo-op they apologize)

Someone wanted this photo-op badly enough they terrified thousands getting it....and....based on the reaction....9/11 is still not to far from the surface ...even after 8 years.

Via NBC New York

It wasn't even a drill. It was a photo op.


And the Pentagon told local authorities, but said they couldn't share the information with the public.

An Air Force One lookalike and two F-16s buzzed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor this morning, halting work on nearby construction sites, causing resident and office workers to flee their high-rises and giving thousands of people in downtown Manhattan and New Jersey a major fright. At least two people were treated for minor injuries at Jersey City Medical Center after falling during the rush to exit their high-rises.

"Everybody panicked," said Daisy Cooper, a Merrill Lynch worker in Jersey City, who lost a nephew on 9/11. "Everybody was screaming and we all ran downstairs. I'm devastated. ..Everybody was running, we didn't know why we were running. We just knew it was a plane, there we go, 9/11 again."

They need to fire the IDIOT who thought it wise NOT to inform the public.

Update by Rusty on Howie's lazy behalf: Here's the video. It wasn't just an F-16 -- hence I changed the title of the post. My understanding is that it was Air Force One's backup plane. His Oneness was not on it.

UPDATE: It was Air Force One, kinda sort of. Air Force One isn't an airplane it is a designation given to any airplane the President is on. So, this is one of the planes that is Air Force One, only since Obama wasn't on it, it wasn't.

Comprende?

UPDATE:White House apologizes they owned this royal screw up.

April 22, 2009

Belated 4:20 Post

Can one be pro-legalization of marijuana and yet anti-hippie? Because if you can, count me in.

These stoners bother me, and yet I'm right there with them on the grounds that stupid people ought to be allowed to do stupid things.

It's called freedom.

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April 17, 2009

Why the DHS Report Was Pushed Out So Fast

Just a friendly reminder to various friends who are asking why the DHS report on 'right-wing extremists' went out when it did despite objections to its wording by civil rights lawyers within the DHS.

Um, because, as I've said before: there was a briefing deadline. Objections or no, when the Sec of Homeland Security asks to be briefed on the McVeigh types, you have to have that report ready by the meeting deadline.

The timing of it stinks, but don't fall for the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Just because two events occur in proximity to one another, does not mean that the events are related.

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April 15, 2009

Gitmo Detainess Given Phone Calls, what could possibly go wrong?

A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed el Gharani, used his weekly phone call to his family to dial an al Jazeera reporter instead.

The first words out of his mouth? Help, I'm being oppressed!

An inmate in the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told Al Jazeera that he has been beaten while in custody and had tear gas used on him after refusing to leave his cell.

Mohammad al-Qurani, a Chadian national, said in a phone call to Al Jazeera that the alleged ill-treatment "started about 20 days" before Barack Obama became US president and "since then I've been subjected to it almost every day".

"Since Obama took charge he has not shown us that anything will change," he said.

A) He gets phone calls? B) He gets to dial the numbers himself?

WTF?

UPDATE: Ooops, I didn't see SH had posted about this: GITMO Prisoner Calls Media, Investigation Ensues. I had the post sitting here for a bit but got distracted by other things and wasn't able to actually publish until like 30 minutes later. Sorry about that SH.

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April 11, 2009

You Know Who Else Asked People to Pledge to Flags? Hitler

Apparently this journalist wasn't aware of Godwin's law before making a fool of herself.

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April 03, 2009

Muslim Traitor Gets 10 Years

For the life of me I can't figure why he was not charged with treason and hanged. But hey, why do the sensible thing in a time of war?

Via Google News: NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements and the best ways to attack them was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz said Hassan Abu-Jihaad, of Phoenix, betrayed his country and endangered his fellow sailors.

Of special interest to Jawa Report readers, Hassan Abu-Jihaad leaked his information to a forum on a British based Islamist website. For those of you out there who criticize our interest in removing such sites as a "violation of free speech" or play down the danger of the online activities of the Cyber Jihadists. Let this be a lesson to you.
The leak (ie: of Abu-Jihaad's ship's movements an battle group information) to a Web site in London that openly espoused violent jihad against the U.S. came just months after the 2000 USS Cole bombing, prosecutors noted.

Prosecutors say investigators discovered files on a computer disk recovered from a suspected terrorist supporter's home in London that included the ship movements, as well as the number and type of personnel on each ship and the ships' capabilities.

Abu-Jihaad was charged in the same case that led to the 2004 arrest of Babar Ahmad, a British computer specialist accused of running Web sites to raise money, appeal for fighters and provide equipment such as gas masks and night vision goggles for terrorists.

Ahmad lived with his parents, where the computer file was allegedly found, and was arrested in London, and is to be extradited to the U.S.

We've become far to civilized to, you know, do the right thing. One of these days we're going to wish we had a backbone.