Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Don't tase me, bro!

 
So a student was tasered yesterday for disrupting an on-campus John Kerry speech.

Question: During a speech on campus, what's the difference between a student harassing John Kerry and another harassing Ann Coulter?

Answer: In the latter case, the University cops would tase Coulter.

Wait for it...

 
Question: what's a half-mile long but only has eight teeth?

Answer: the line to see the dentist under HillaryCare™.

Exclusive: Experimental infantry weapon

 
What will our weapons designers think of next?

This new, experimental design uses a high-powered, "coherent sonic attack system." It plays Hillary Clinton's speeches on an infinite loop, resulting in the immediate surrender or suicide of any forces in its path.

Monday, September 17, 2007

HillaryCare version 2.0 (beta) update from Macsmind

 
Macranger offers an update on HillaryCare version 2.0 (beta) but happens to use a photo that is somewhat disturbing, at best. Put simply, it will be forever burned into your brain. Be warned!

Before you try to click-through to the website, please read the following terms and conditions and then click the Agree button.

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Despite these and other risks, I wish to click on the link and hereby assume the risks of doing so. I hereby hold harmless Doug Ross @ Journal and indemnify them against any and all claims, actions, suits, medical procedures, expenses, damages, liabilities, loss of bowel control, or temporary vision problems connected with or resulting from my viewing the aforementioned website.

Can you tell I'm sick of the OJ coverage?

 
Scene: a hotel room in Washington.

Don't let nobody out this room. Mother******s! Think you can steal that s***?

No. I didn't think that.

Don't let nobody out of here. Mother******, you really think you can steal that s***?

Uh. I said no. By the way, don't shoot.

You tapin' this? Uh... uh.... I don't have any gun. But get your back to the wall!

Stop waving the gun around. Bill took the money.

I know f***ing Bill took it. I always thought you were a straight shooter.

I'm cool. I am. Alright, I give. Check Bill's bag. The $850K is in there.

Thanks, OJ, you're a real pal.

Shut the hell up, Hsu, and give me that damn money!

What? You're ripping me off, too? Dammit, I knew I couldn't trust anyone in DC!

Hahahahahaha! Hsu, you are so 1992! Did someone sell you the rights to the Lincoln Memorial when you were walking over here?

Romney asks the UN to indict the genocidal midget

 
Gateway Pundit caught a juicy tidbit on the Mitt Romney website. Romney demands that the UN bar genocidal midget Mahmoud Ahmedinejad from its headquarters in New York.

...[Romney] called for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be banned from the UN General Assembly next week and indicted for genocide.

"...I call on the United Nations to revoke any invitation to President Ahmadinejad to address the General Assembly," Romney wrote in a letter to Ban. "If President Ahmadinejad sets foot in the United States, he should be handed an indictment under the Genocide Convention... "The United States and the world must take a strong stand against the terrorist Iranian regime and the time for action is now."

If the United Nations fails to act on the threat from Iran, Romney said "the United States must reconsider its level of support and funding for the United Nations... In the letter, he complained that Ahmadinejad had "spoken openly about wiping Israel off the map, has fueled Hezbollah's terror campaign in the region and around the world, and defied the world community in its pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities."

He also pointed to testimony by US Iraq war commander David Petraeus last week to Congress that Iran was supporting Shia extremists in Iraq responsible for the deaths of US soldiers...

I'm thinking maybe we should start calling him President Mitt Romney.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

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Rule #33: Claim explosive contraband is 'fireworks'

 
Thanks to Google Alerts, there's a bit of new info just in on the USF students-cum-traveling band of fireworks experimenters named Mohamed and Megahed. The pair were apprehended last month in South Carolina and the usual parties immediately blamed law enforcement's tendency to "profile".

Prosecutor Jay Hoffer said authorities found three pieces of piping cut into small sections in the trunk of a car Megahed was traveling in, each filled with a "potassium nitrate explosive mixture."

Also found in the car were 20 feet (6 meters) of fuse, a box of .22 caliber bullets, a drill that could have been used to "perhaps insert a fuse" into the explosive devices, and a partially filled 5-gallon gasoline container, Hoffer said.

A video found on a laptop in the car, which Mohamed has acknowledged he made, shows "how to turn a radio controlled car into a detonator that could be used for an explosive," Hoffer said.

The men say the explosive materials were simply for homemade fireworks...

I don't know about you, but whenever I'm getting ready to shoot off fireworks near a sensitive military installation, I cut PVC pipe into small sections, fill those up with a potassium nitrate-based compound, and drill holes in them. Plus, I carry around a large gas canister to make sure my fireworks will ignite when I need them to. Oh, and bullets too, in order to add the cool "pop-pop-pop" sounds.

So I totally buy into their story.

More recent updates here.

America ‘has lost the peace’

 
Don Surber has a must-read op-ed in the Charleston Daily Mail (the link is to his old blog, which is an archive for these pieces):

THE people in the Time-Life publishing empire dispatched one of America’s great novelists to the battlefield a year after the war ended. He found broken infrastructure, a huge black market and anti-Americanism at every corner.

Oh, and the French press hated us.

The year is 1946, not 2007. The place is Europe, not Iraq.

But the same defeatist attitude prevailed... And the French press still hate us.

Wrote John Dos Passos: “Never has American prestige in Europe been lower. People never tire of telling you of the ignorance and rowdyism of American troops, of our misunderstanding of European conditions... They say that the theft and sale of Army supplies by our troops is the basis of their black market. They blame us for the corruption and disorganization of UNRRA... They blame us for the fumbling timidity of our negotiations with the Soviet Union. They tell us that our mechanical de-nazification policy in Germany is producing results opposite to those we planned... ‘Have you no statesmen in America?’ they ask.”

...“The Russians at least are carrying out a logical plan for extending their system of control at whatever cost. The British show signs of recovering their good sense and their innate human decency... All we have brought to Europe so far is confusion backed up by a drumhead regime of military courts. We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease.”

Reading the piece gave me one of those head-clearing laughs. This unintentionally funny piece put in perspective just how predictable the Fifth Columnists are in America... Dos Passos died in 1970. But his words of 1946 reflect the left’s agenda of 2007..."

Read it all.

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The brilliant leadership of the New York Times

 
Gateway Pundit points us to some fascinating statistics related to the pathetic stewardship of the New York Times. Ad revenue declined 3.2% in the month of August alone. So what does management do?

They offer MorOn.org a discount on their treasonous anti-Petraeus ad. They then argue that this is the standard fare although their rate card says otherwise and many advertisers were reportedly not offered the discount.

Then, GOP candidate Rudy Giuliani demands the same price for his ad. The Times throws up their hands and -- with steam issuing from Pinch Sulzberger's ears -- give him the discounted rate, too.

Is this sort of thing the best financial strategy for a company whose stock just hit a 52-week low?

Even worse for the Times? Their online readership numbers are dropping faster than Michael Moore's mattress. The accompanying chart illustrates the traffic rankings of the Times (in blue) versus Internet startup Digg.com, founded in mid-2004 (dark red). Digg is eating the Times' lunch.

Good thing the Internet isn't a strategic channel for the Times.

Update: Don Surber observes "The quoted (or list) price of a full-page B&W ad for NYT just fell from $181,000 to $64,375 because you cannot discount political ads (FEC) [Federal Election Commission]. Look for ad revenues to rise -- Laffer curve and all that..."

Update II: Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard: "Will the last investor leaving the Times please remember to flush?"

Credits: Stock chart courtesy of Yahoo Finance. Traffic rank graph courtesy of Alexa

Guardian: Israeli raid a dry run for an attack on Iran?

 
Today's Guardian:

The Observer's Foreign Affairs Editor attempts to unravel the truth behind Operation Orchard and allegations of nuclear subterfuge

[Questions remain about a] mysterious air raid that happened this month, codenamed 'Orchard', carried out deep in Syrian territory... the known facts [include:] Two detachable tanks from an Israeli fighter were found just over the Turkish border... they belonged to a Raam F15I - the newest generation of Israeli long-range bomber, which has a combat range of over 2,000km when equipped with the drop tanks. This would enable them to reach targets in Iran, leading to speculation that it was an 'operation rehearsal' for a raid on Tehran's nuclear facilities...

...from a source involved in the Israeli operation, ...one thing was absolutely clear. Far from being a minor incursion, the Israeli overflight of Syrian airspace through its ally, Turkey, was a far more major affair involving as many as eight aircraft, including Israel's most ultra-modern F-15s and F-16s equipped with Maverick missiles and 500lb bombs. Flying among the Israeli fighters at great height... was an ELINT - an electronic intelligence gathering aircraft.

...In a series of piecemeal leaks from US officials... a narrative was laid out that combined nuclear skulduggery and the surviving members of the 'axis of evil': Iran, North Korea and Syria... [and] that North Korea was not being properly monitored in the deal struck for its nuclear disarmament and was off-loading its material to Iran and Syria, both of which in turn were helping to rearm Hizbollah. [The implication being that] the three countries might be collaborating to supply an unconventional weapon to Hizbollah.

...[The reported] target of the attack, revealed only to the pilots while they were in the air, was a northern Syrian facility that was labelled as an agricultural research centre on the Euphrates river, close to the Turkish border... According to this version of events, a North Korean ship, officially carrying a cargo of cement, docked three days before the raid in the Syrian port of Tartus. That ship was also alleged to be carrying nuclear equipment.

...Whatever the truth of the allegations against Syria - and Israel has a long history of employing complex deceptions in its operations - the message being delivered from Tel Aviv is clear: if Syria's ally, Iran, comes close to acquiring a nuclear weapon, and the world fails to prevent it, either through diplomatic or military means, then Israel will stop it on its own.

So Operation Orchard can be seen as a dry run, a raid using the same heavily modified long-range aircraft, procured specifically from the US with Iran's nuclear sites in mind. It reminds both Iran and Syria of the supremacy of its aircraft and appears to be designed to deter Syria from getting involved in the event of a raid on Iran - a reminder, if it were required, that if Israel's ground forces were humiliated in the second Lebanese war its airforce remains potent, powerful and unchallenged...

Iran's leadership must be stopped now, before the eruption of a nuclear conflagration that sets the entire Middle East afire.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Sandy Berger to host 9/11 Special Investigation

 
Michelle Malkin and Age of Hooper feature an eclectic photo gallery from the Washington DC anti-war protest, which was met by a counter-protest. Led by Gathering of Eagles, many vets and citizens formed a protective ring around the Vietnam War Memorial, which had been defaced a few days earlier by anti-war crowds.

Among the Democratic Party's anti-war base: Communists, puppets, moonbats, Sesame Street characters, anti-Semites, and -- the Leftists' new best friends -- 9/11 troofers. The troofers represent the 42% of Democrats who think the U.S. Government instigated 9/11 or had advance knowledge of it and allowed the attacks to occur. I'm serious.

This demographic appears to be such a large chunk of the Democratic base that a new cable TV station is up and running. It was funded by Al Gore, I think, with proceeds from his carbon offset business.

Anyhow, former Clinton National Security Adviser (and current Hillary Clinton security adviser) Sandy Berger is hosting a new exposé on 9/11.

Those whistling sounds you hear are FDR, JFK, and Truman spinning in their graves.

Shocker: the new Bin Laden tape exposed!

 
Jay at STACLU reports that a new Bin Laden videotape is set to be released. We received an advance copy, but there's something decidedly fishy about it. First, let's look at one of the frames of Bin Laden.

But note what happens when we zoom in as Bin Laden talks:

I'm no image enhancement expert, but there's something oddly out of place here.

The strange case of Hillary's Sheik

 
The New York Sun reports that a senior Dubai government official with ties to the Clintons is facing a class-action lawsuit. The accusation? Facilitating enslavement of thousands of boys for use as jockeys in camel races throughout the Middle East.

[The] deputy ruler of the United Arab Emirates and leader of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ...was [previously] named in the suit, [which] was thrown out on jurisdictional grounds. [A new] suit has now been refiled in Kentucky, where Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum has extensive horseracing interests, including livestock and stables...

In documents filed... in U.S. District Court in Lexington, Ky., Sheik Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum and unnamed others are accused of "obtaining boys through abduction, false inducement, or agreement" from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritania, and Sudan... "These boys would then be trafficked across international borders by traffickers and smugglers posing as the boys' parents," the documents say. "Once these individuals arrived in the United Arab Emirates (‘ U.A.E.') … they would then sell these boys into slavery to individuals in the camel-racing industry where the boys would, among other forced tasks, serve as jockeys."

..."The children … work long hours in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit, live in unsanitary conditions, receive little food, and are deprived of sleep so that they do not gain weight and increase the load on the camels they race... They are trained and kept under the watchful eyes of handlers, who employ abusive control tactics, including threats and beatings. Some are reportedly abused sexually. Many have been seriously injured and some have been trampled to death by camels..."

The Clintons' ties to the Sheik


About this time last year, the New York Post reported on the web of connections between the Emir of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the Clintons.

Clinton's former press secretary, Joe Lockhart, is said to have denied he works for the emir. But it now turns out that the Emir's Dubai International Capital Corp. (DICC) hired Lockhart's Glover Park Group (GPG) to help with its U.S. takeovers. Among the takeovers: two U.S. defense firms. Besides Lockhart, GPG's partners include Hillary's chief advisers: Howard Wolfson and Gigi Georges. DICC paid $100,000 for GPG's services.

The Post article questions whether Hillary knew that the emir provided funding to her senior-most campaign consultants. But it seems hard to believe that Hillary, a notorious "control freak", wouldn't have insight into these potentially damaging relationships.

The Clinton family's swelling coffers


Senator Clinton's office claims that GPG never lobbied her on the Dubai ports issue. But, tellingly, Newsday has reported that other New York officials (including Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Peter King) were contacted.

The Post article reports that the Clintons' net worth has increased quite dramatically in only two short years. In 2003, Hillary disclosed assets of between $352K and $3.8 million.

Only two years later, she declared assets of between $10 million and $50 million. In the past, observers could have pointed to suspect commodities trading practices, but this time no one is quite sure what's behind the Clintons' swollen assets. The Post posits that Dubai may be the answer to the question of what caused Hillary's assets to explode:

* Clinton is a top advisor to Yucaipa, an investment company run by billionaire Ron Burkle, which, through a subsidiary, [manages] the emir's investment portfolio shortly after Clinton joined the firm.

* Clinton gets a flat fee from Yucaipa and a share of the profits on the foreign investment fund it manages. (Hillary's Senate disclosure form notes only that Bill gets more than a $1,000 a year in compensation from this.)

* The emir gave an undisclosed donation to the Clinton Presidential Library -- but it must have been hefty: The library set up a Clinton Scholars program for young people from the Arab nation, the only such program it runs.

* Bill Clinton has twice given speeches in Dubai for close to $500,000.

What are the real ties between Dubai and the Clintons?


The true relationship between the Clintons and the Emir should be fully and fairly disclosed.

Given Bill Clinton's bizarre attenuation to the Chinese military, these questionable links to Dubai merit utter transparency. Anything less is a continuing stain on what little remains of the Clinton "legacy."

Update: Welcome, Instapundit readers and thank you, sir, for the link. Still contemplating voting for Hillary? Make sure you read the disclaimer... heh!

Hat tips: Atlas and Larwyn. For more information on the camel jockey slave trade, see this BBC report from 2005.

CAIR: Megahed "just happened to be in the car"

 
Remember the case of the two South Florida students who were detained near a military base in South Carolina after pipe bombs were found in their car?

Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney's Office released additional details on the contents of their car: pipes filled with fertilizer, Karo syrup, kitty litter, bullets and fuses, a laptop with a history of web searches on Jihadist martyrdom, Hamas and Qassam rockets and video instructions for turning a remote-control car into a detonator.

When federal agents searched the men's car, a Toyota Camry registered to Megahed's brother, Yahia Megahed, they found the stuffed pipes wrapped in plastic bags in the trunk alongside a 5-gallon container of gasoline... Potassium nitrate is a low-grade explosive otherwise used as fertilizer. Kitty litter bound the ingredients while syrup could add fuel.

"I think you can safely say it's a bomb," said Edward Dreizin, a New Jersey Institute of Technology chemical engineering professor.

Agents also found a box of bullets underneath the front passenger seat, where Megahed sat. On a laptop hastily unplugged, agents discovered sites that concerned them, including searches of Qassam rockets, weapons developed by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, often made with steel pipe, liquid sugar and potassium nitrate...

When the men were taken into custody, they were questioned separately. But when they were placed in the back of a squad car together, the conversation -- in Arabic -- was recorded by a hidden microphone. Megahed reportedly asked Mohamed what happened to the pipes, if they exploded.

As investigators researched the mens' backgrounds, they found more disturbing information. In July, Mohamed posted a YouTube video that teaches viewers how to use a remote-controlled toy car as a detonator. The video's narrator says that it was intended "to save one who wants to be a martyr for another day in battle."

Mohamed admitted that he created and uploaded the video, according to authorities.

Authorities were also concerned about Megahed's recent predilection for firearms. He recently bought a rifle, discussed purchasing a Beretta handgun, and joined a shooting range. The rifle had a telescopic sight, which is used to increase its effective range.

Megahed also possessed "multiple Egyptian passports" and visited a Sears photography center in July to acquire additional passport-sized photos. Megahed's passports reportedly offered different names. Megahed's recent travel, to Egypt, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria, also raised prosecutors' fears.

Ahmed Bedier, director of the Central Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was quick to distinguish between Megahed and Mohamed...

He defended Megahed, saying it appeared he "just happened to be in the car." But he had harsher words for Mohamed... If he could talk to Mohamed, Bedier said, "I'd say, 'Wake up!' "

He added, "Muslims don't get a second chance when they dabble with things like this. Not only will this have consequences on him, but it will have consequences on most of the Muslims in this country."

If I could talk to CAIR's Bedier, I'd say, "Wake up!" We know precisely what you're up to.

More information: Tampa Bay Online and St. Petersburg Times

Friday, September 14, 2007

Is Kent State home to a Professor of Jihad?

 
Did Kent State "Professor" Julio Pino send the following email to journalist Mike Adams on -- you guessed it -- September 11, 2007?

...I received an email from someone claiming to be Professor Julio Pino of Kent State University. Pino is a Muslim extremist who advocates the mass murder of Jews while drawing a paycheck from the hard-working people of the great state of Ohio... The most memorable portions of the disturbing email are reproduced below:

"O, Slaves of Zion and Amerika, Arise! The shaheed (martyr) who yearns to die, and has prayed for this moment all his life, has come to rescue you! ...The shaheed, May God Be Pleased with Him, is not only the perfect soldier, but the perfect Muslim. All of life is preparation, and striving for, martyrdom.”

“...(T)he Muslim knows no continents, regions, nations or tribes but acknowledges the existence of only two groups of human beings; men of faith—-his Brothers—-and the kaaffir (unbelievers and apostates), those ungrateful and rebellious beings that, like Satan himself, opted for disobedience. With the latter no compromise is possible or permissible, by Islamic principles.”

“...The martyr has no time for peace; no time to be cynical, or pessimistic... (There is none worthy of worship but Allah) must be on his dying lips that he may enter Paradise. Not by chance did Mohammed Atta’s ‘Instructions for the Final Night’ counsel him [sic] make these his last words before crashing into the World Trade Center. Amen...”

Pino has a checkered history. If he authored this fascist tripe, Ohio taxpayers are certain to entertain funding reprisals against Kent State someday soon.

Rudy demands same ad rates as MoveOn.Org

 
Reports are circulating that left-wing attack group MoveON.org received a massive discount from the New York Times for its ad calling General David Petraeus "Gen. Betray-us". The Hill is reporting that GOP candidate Rudy Guiliani has asked the Times for the same discounted rate. Here's the ad Rudy wants to run.

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Hillary? Apologize? Where does one begin?

Thursday, September 13, 2007

More must-see TV....

 
I'm really upset that my cable system hasn't arrived at an agreement to air Truther TV. This is another show that could become an instant classic.

It would be a real shame if Rosie got trapped in the basement during her scientific experiment.

Exclusive Photos of Hillary Grilling Petraeus

 
It appears Hillary had some questions for her staff prior to Gen. Petraeus' testimony.




Yes, I've got one heck of a zoom lens on my camera.