How Can One Argue With This? I Won't.

I as an American took notice of this article for one reason only, someone from Canada actually gets it and admits it. No doubt there are many like this columnist that realize we have come to an extraordinary moment in time like no other. The free world is at risk of playing catch up in a game that one has to deliver the first blow when the opportunity presents itself, as if we wait any longer to hope that the enemy we face is just blowing rhetoric and appeasement will save lives, in this case it will not and the ultimate directive must be issued immediately unanimously unequivicolly to Iran. Play nice or face pre-emptive ahnialation.

TorontoSun.com - Michael Coren - We should nuke Iran: "It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world peace.

Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal. It is, sadly, the only response that this repugnant and acutely dangerous political entity will understand.

The tragedy is that innocent people will die. But not many. Iran's missiles and rockets of mass destruction are guarded and maintained by men with the highest of security clearance and thus supportive of the Tehran regime. They are dedicated to war and, thus, will die in war.

Frankly, it would be churlish of the civilized world to deny martyrdom to those who seem so intent on its pursuance. Most important, a limited nuclear attack on Iran will save thousands if not millions of lives.

The spasm of reaction from many will be that this is barbaric and unacceptable. Yet a better response would be to ask if there is any sensible alternative. Diplomacy, kindness and compromise have failed"

Its motives are beyond question, its capability equally so. It is spending billions of dollars on a whole range of anti-ship, anti-aircraft and anti-personnel missiles, rockets and ballistic weapons:

The Shahab 3ER missile, with a range of more than 2,000 km, and the BM25 and accompanying launchers, which are so powerful that they can hit targets in Europe. Raad missiles with a range of 350km. The Misaq anti-aircraft missile, which can be fired from the shoulder. The Fajar 3 radar-evading missile and the Ajdar underwater missile, which travels at an extraordinarily high speed and is almost impossible to intercept. The Zaltal and the Fatah 110 rocket, the Scud B and Scud C and the BM25 with a range of 3,500 kms.

Iran is also developing enormous propellant ballistic missiles and began a space program almost a decade ago that will enable it to bomb the United States. It is also assumed in intelligence circles that Tehran has Russian Kh55 cruise missiles stolen from Ukraine which are now being copied in large numbers by Iranian scientists.

Comparisons to the Nazis in the 1930s are unfair -- to the Nazis. Hitler had the French army, the largest in Europe, on his border and millions of Soviet infantry just a few hours march away. Iran has no aggressive enemies in the region.

Its fanatical leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, controls a brutal police state, finances international terror and provokes bloody wars in foreign countries. It is unimaginably wealthy because of its oil revenues and is committed, in its leader's words, to "rolling back 300 years of Western ascendancy" and wiping another nation, Israel, from the face of the earth.

A conventional attack would be insufficient because Iran and its allies seem only to listen to power and threat. Better limited pain now than universal suffering in five years.

The usual suspects will complain. The post-Christian churches, the Marxists, the fellow travelers and fifth columnists. But then, the same sort of people moaned and condemned in 1938. They were clearly wrong then. They would be just as wrong now.

I wrote this columnist a pleasant email after reading this story and was surprised to recieve a response within minutes . I wish I could share it but feel awkward remailing him for permission. All I can say is I hope more folks up there come to the realization that he has about the nature of this enemy we now collectively face.

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ABC And It's Upcoming 9-11 Mini Series

Reading this review and some others it appears television and Hollywood might be beginning to realize that catering to the liberal audience has been far less profitable than it would've been for them and the time has come to start portraying things in America as they are in the American heartland. That of coarse opposed to the hate America, Bush is bad, religion bad, homo good mantra they have been drumming over the past 10 years or so.

My reasoning for saying that is in part due to the fact that this TV documentary being presented on September 10th and 11th actually criticizes President Slick and his administration for being most complicit in Osama binLaden being free to unleash 9-11. A cardinal sin for any true left wing organization.

Below is an excerpt of Human Event's review praising the program as a must watch for conservatives. Below that you will see another excerpt and links, this of a Rush Limbaugh segment where he talks about how Clinton and crew actually tried but failed to have parts of this mini-series rewritten and changed prior to it's showing, just as you will recall Sandy Burglar tried to do while pilfering government documents from the classified viewing room d

ABC's 'The Path to 9/11' Is Outstanding by Govindini Murty "I recently attended an advance screening of ABC’s outstanding, epic miniseries 'The Path to 9/11' (airing this September 10-11), and I came away enormously impressed. Writer/producer Cyrus Nowrasteh ('Into the West'), director David Cunningham ('To End All Wars'), and the whole production team have done a magnificent job in presenting the complex events leading up to 9/11 with accuracy, fairness, and artistry.

The writing, acting, directing, editing, cinematography, and overall story-telling are first-rate. 'The Path to 9/11' is fast-paced and thoroughly gripping the entire way. The five-hour miniseries (aired over two nights) is based on the 9/11 Commission report, and also on ABC News correspondent John Miller’s book, 'The Cell.' ABC is going to air the first three hours on Sunday, September 10, and the final two hours (which culminate in a shattering depiction of 9/11) on Monday, September 11.

Let me start by saying that 'The Path to 9/11' is one of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever seen on TV, and conservatives should support it and promote it as vigorously as possible. read more

And Below from Rush Limbaugh on this subject:

Bill Clinton Personally Attempts to Get ABC's Path to 9/11 Mini-Series Recut

Clinton planned a phone call to Bob Iger... ABC: The Path to 9/11 | Clintonoids Attack Movie

I told you people yesterday and the day before of a movie, a mini-series running on ABC on September 10th and 11th, called The Path to 9/11 and I told you that I have the DVDs. I also told you because I am in touch -- I am poor when I'm in New York -- I do not have a DVD player. I don't. My apartment's got an old media room in it, it's got a laser disk player in it, but it doesn't have a DVD. Well, actually it has a DVD player in it, but the TV doesn't work. The projector does, and it's the only room in the house where there's a DVD player, and I can't watch DVDs on computers because I can't hear well through computer speakers. So I watched it. It's four hours. read more Or Listen to it here

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Saga of Valerie Shame and Joe the Ho Wilson Comes to An End

Psychiatric hospitals from sea to shining sea are preparing for an onslaught of patients suffering from dreaded BDS, or as it's more commonly known, Bush Derangement Syndrome , appearing in care centers predominantly on the East and West coasts. This latest outbreak (the 1st since the widespread 2002 post election debacle) comes on the heels of news from Washington confirming once and for all that Valerie Plame (AKA super secret CIA agent 69, code name VP) was not at all outed from her secret desk duty at the CIA by a Bush operative as the left wing had hoped, but instead was harmlessly revealed by a Bush backstabbing fat assed former Deputy Secretary of State known as Richard Armitage .

This disclosure thus brings to an uncerimonious end a litany of left wing bloggers blogs and their treasured dreams of high level frog marches being performed for them and their MSM allies resulting from the administration's supposed vindictive "outing" of Mrs Plame.

This so called "outing" was to be in retribution for her gadfly husband Joe Wilson's well known fact finding trip to Nigeria during the run-up to the Iraq war that supposedly confirmed that there was no Nigerian yellowcake connection to Saddam Hussein as claimed by the administration, which was later shown to be bunk as there appears there was indeed a slight connection that Mr Wilson unintentionally I'm sure overlooked in his 15 minute politically motivated investigation over in Africa.

The Washington Post Friday had the essential wrap-up of this mind boggling waste of time and effort by the left wing partisans to hopefully hang the president and his underlings they hate so much that it has caused them and their many legions to fall mentally disturbed in their stalking type pursuit seeking to destroy him, his administration and our country in any way humanly possible.

End of an Affair: "WE'RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years. But all those who have opined on this affair ought to take note of the not-so-surprising disclosure that the primary source of the newspaper column in which Ms. Plame's cover as an agent was purportedly blown in 2003 was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.

Mr. Armitage was one of the Bush administration officials who supported the invasion of Iraq only reluctantly. He was a political rival of the White House and Pentagon officials who championed the war and whom Mr. Wilson accused of twisting intelligence about Iraq and then plotting to destroy him. Unaware that Ms. Plame's identity was classified information, Mr. Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak 'in an offhand manner, virtually as gossip,' according to a story this week by the Post's R. Jeffrey Smith, who quoted a former colleague of Mr. Armitage."

***SNIP***

Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming -- falsely, as it turned out -- that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. commentary in full

Say it aint so, Joe you Ho :( boo hoo

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Latest From Madrid / Wilson Congressional Race, Blogs For Heather

In my sidebar you will see an ad that is a link to "Blogs for Heather" run by our friend Chris at Luckydawg news along with others on behalf of congresswoman Heather Wilson, incumbent New Mexico Republican. This race along with a few others are very important to us all for the simple fact that their outcomes have far reaching implications in regards to the balance of power in the house staying under Republican control for the remainder of Bush's term and hopefully beyond.

As if that wasn't enough reason she is under constant attack from Nancy Pelosi and her leftwing lunatic crowd on behalf of a much lesser and indeed scarier candidate, that being shady Democratic Attorney General Patricia Madrid. As you know, anytime Nancy Pelosi is on the side of anything or anybody you know one thing for sure, it's gotta be bad for the country as a whole and a blessing for America's enemies which means it must be fought against with guns blazing.

So, based on that backgrounder, should you hopefully wish to join us in this effort and/or stay up to date on the latest news coming from this race you can either check back here or click here and the folks @ Luckydawg News will be more than happy to provide any answers to the questions you might have.

Meanwhile, here is the very latest on this race from one of Madrid's supporters' blogs discussing a recent looney toons fund raiser she participated in with the above mentioned left-wing queen loon Nancy Pelosi. The blog itself is quite entertaining and to me appears as if it is being run by someone over theres' high school aged daughter. Below are some excerpts of the post pertaining to the above mentioned rally. They mostly contain the typical rubber stamp left wing talking point stuff like the following...(.Bold by me)

House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared at a packed, raucous, rowdy rally at the IBEW hall in Albuquerque yesterday with NM-01 Congressional candidate Patricia Madrid. They rocked the cheering crowd and skewered Heather Wilson's love affair with the oil companies, bigtime. (Click on photos for larger versions.) Snip

(photo caption below is mine,this pic kinda resembles a weight watchers pep rally to me:)

Skyrocketing gas prices? Heather doesn't care. She voted to give oil companies massive tax cuts despite the unprecedented profits they're making off the unnaturally (new liberal word??) high prices of oil.

Global warming? Heather doesn't care. She's against almost everything that would slow down the process.

You get the picture. If you find that stuff amusing and want some more laughs head over there and read the left winger comments, just like a little milder version of the Daily Kos.

Otherwise on a more serious note, fellow "Blogs for Heather" blogger Mario Burgos, also a New Mexico resident, has this info regarding Patricia Madrid and her wise (sarc) use of her New Mexico residents tax dollars to her advantage in this race . Below is an update to the link above for the very latest info.

UPDATE - Madrid Ignores Law

Looks like I may have spoken too soon. Patricia Madrid's behavior may actually be against the law. I just checked an email from a guy who is on a mission to have APS officials commit to the same accountability standards being touted for its students.

In his email he points out there is a law against acting unethically. Let's look at how Patricia Madrid measures up to three of the four sections of this law:

A. A legislator, public officer or employee shall treat his government position as a public trust. He shall use the powers and resources of public office only to advance the public interest and not to obtain personal benefits or pursue private interests incompatible with the public interest.

Madrid's recent mailing campaigns using public resources while running for office may be argued to have a public benefit; however, the timing of these mailings is such that they definitely also have a personal benefit. Since the mailings are legal "only to advance the public interest," this is a clear violation of the law. read more here

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Newsflash For The "Can't We All Get Along" Folks on the Left

You know the crowd. The we should go to the UN, include France and our allies, sit down and negotiate blah freakin blah blah crew. Well folks, this latest middle finger from Iran is what happens when we civilized nations go to the UN to get these uncivilized nations to adhere to United Nations resolutions. Absolutely Nothing gets accomplished EVER.

This means if you are a middle eastern nation, then you can yank the chain of most the free world endlessly while you manuever around easily achieving your nefarious goals (see Saddam, 11 years , 17 UN Resolutions) for years on end, all the while laughing your arabic camel huggin' ass off while making fools out of the rest of the planet. Imagine what Saddam and his henchkids would be doing today if we (President Bush, Tony Blair and our soldiers for the most part) didn't have the 'nads to go in there and do the dirty work no one else could or would.

This present UN dance could go on into the next decade and after a few western cities are obliterated by those standards of engagement. I'd say it's high time for the US and our few dearest allies to scrap that worthless organization and start anew, since without our money and participation that place is nothing but a holiday rest stop for third world diplomats anyway.

My Way News - Iran Ignores Powers, U.N. on Enrichment: "VIENNA, Austria (AP) - A defiant Iran kept on enriching uranium in advance of the U.N. Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, U.N. and European officials said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged European members of the council against resorting to sanctions, saying punishment would not dissuade his country from pursuing its disputed nuclear program.

'Sanctions cannot dissuade the Iranian nation from achieving our lofty goals of progress. So it's better for Europe to be independent (of the U.S.) in decision-making and to settle problems through negotiations,' Ahmadinejad said Wednesday, according to state-run television.

Iran could theoretically still announce a full stop to enrichment before the deadline set by the Security Council. But that appeared unlikely, considering Tehran's past refusal to consider such a move and findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was enriching small quantities of uranium as late as Tuesday."

Welcome to Iranimal House

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When You Purchase Miller Beer, You Support Illegal Immigration

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 5TH, 9 PM CHICAGO TIME

Miller Brewing 's media relations department responded to the accusations and allegations made below by myself and links from others in regards to this posted story. To read the comments check the comment link at the bottom if you wish.

As for the authenticity I have been able to confirm the email address they left, but have been unable to check into the claim they make in their comment that they did not sponsor this event as reported by the sources provided in the post below. Judge for yourself, as I also cite this post above in my September 5th rant about Chicago celebrating Mexico's independence for a whole week.....

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This arrangement really has quite a few chicagoans and americans flippin' raging this morning , rest assured. What exactly can be done about it on a large scale on such short notice for this weekend is not yet clear.

But this company can bet on this, although I dont drink beer, this chicagoan will never purchase any products from their company as long as I live, they can take that to the local bank currency exchange amigo.

Michelle Malkin is on the wagon already and has alot of links and company info should you wish to join in on the boycott of their products.

Why this immigrant rights march is brought to you by Miller | Chicago Tribune: "Marchers had to duck into fast-food restaurants for water when they first took to Chicago's streets in support of illegal immigrants five months ago. At the next two marches, family-owned grocery stores offered free bottled water from trucks emblazoned with their names.

This time, as demonstrators march from Chinatown to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's (R-Ill.) Batavia office this weekend, they will have Miller Brewing Co., as a sponsor. The brewer has paid more than $30,000 for a planning convention, materials and newspaper ads publicizing the event.

The support of a major corporation for a controversial political cause shows how fierce the competition has become to woo the growing market of Latino consumers.

For Miller, the march offered a special chance to catch up. This spring the brewer drew the ire of pro-immigrant forces over contributions to U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who sponsored legislation that would crack down on illegal immigrants. That prompted a short-lived boycott by some Latino groups.

Now, march advertisements feature not just the organizing committee's trademark blue globe but Miller's logo and a Spanish translation of its 'Live Responsibly' slogan, a company effort to build goodwill among Latinos." read more

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Were's The Outrage?

According to the article below the terrorist Hezbollah fighters were using rockets loaded with shrapnel and other fragmentary particles designed to maximize civilian casualties during the recent conflict with Israel.

I refer to it as a conflict, not a war as Israel only went half cocked after these creatures due to the worldwide outrage of fighting with disproportionate force and all that other garbage. Not to mention all the criticism leveled at them resulting from what turned out to be staged photographic events as we all know, Hezbollah's hiding in the midst of civilians while Israel goes out of their way beyond the call to avoid civilian injury and death by dropping millions of leaflets instead of bombs. And all the while these terrorists are sending over gerrie-rigged missles used only for 2 things, to terrorize and maim Israeli civilians, thats it, and yet we hear nothing.

The silence is deafening.

WorldNetDaily: Shrapnel-filled rockets used on civilians: "Steel balls and other lethal fragments were encased in rockets from Syria and Iran that were used by Hezbollah on Israeli civilian areas during the recent war, the Israeli Ministry of Defense confirmed to WND today.

Photographs of the anti-personnel 'flying metal' damage done by Syrian-made 220-mm rockets fired by Hezbollah were published today in Israel by Uzi Rubin of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Rubin served as the head of Israel's Missile Defense Organization from 1991 to 1999, when he oversaw development of the country's Arrow anti-missile defense system."

The published report documented the Hezbollah rockets and rocket launchers as "one of the defining weapons of the second Lebanon war," predicting their impact in the Middle East "will encourage radical movements to adopt rocket attacks against U.S. and Western forces and assets."

The report documented 4,228 rocket impacts inside Israel from rockets fired by Hezbollah from July 13 to Aug. 13. Israel suffered 53 fatalities from the attacks, along with 250 severely wounded people and 2,000 lightly wounded. full story

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One Poll & It's Results That You Won't See or Hear About

That would be because the results aren't what they are looking for in the MSM. The only place this poll was cited were Red State small town television stations that comprise alot of Survey USA's clientele.

SurveyUSA Home Page

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It's Not Just "Ambulance Chaser" Anymore

Lawyers in Kentucky Hit for Ads Seeking Clients After Air Disaster: "LEXINGTON Ads placed in a Lexington newspaper by lawyers soliciting family members of victims who died in Comair Flight 5191 has drawn the ire of the Attorney General’s Office.

Attorney General Greg Stumbo says his office has forwarded several complaints to the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Kentucky Bar Association regarding the ads, which he said showed “questionable conduct” by the attorneys.

Stumbo said federal law prohibits attorneys from soliciting victims’ families for 45 days following a plane crash. Though he’s not sure whether the ads were improper, Stumbo said he considered the ads tasteless."

By the way.....

What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the Atlantic?
A good start.

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"Stop The ACLU"..... Thursday BlogBurst

As the old saying goes, an enemy of my enemy is my best friend. And Stoptheaclu.com is the advocate & friend of we Americans that are sick & tired and fighting against these liberal touchy feely type organizations raping and attempting to rewrite our constitution not through the traditional will of the people at the ballot box way but through the newest weapon of the left, that being activist sympathetic judges legislating their agenda from the bench.

Here's even more on that organization who's out to protect your civil liberties to burn the US flag, (but not the gay flag or the mexican flag) piss and dump on the constitution and have the freedom to threaten the president of the US among other valued freedoms (not) from our friends at STOP THE ACLU.com:

Today they point to a story picked up on Drudge related to the making of a movie involving the assasination of President Bush..

Drudge is calling it shocking. Nothing is shocking anymore. I would call it typical. After seeing all of the kooky 911 conspiracies and terrorist sympathy in the world something like this is only the natural next step.

They also have links to the many other bloggers commenting about this there.

The next post is also a great one, as it gives a rundown of all the "great rulings" (sarc) that the ACLU has been part of in what they call protection of our civil liberties. Funny, to alot of people these would and do signify the exact opposite and show us all why this organization needs to be stopped as soon as possible.

The ACLU vs. America — The Numbers Don’t Lie

Please go and give this stuff a read. It's enlightening in to what this country is facing from the enemies that lie in wait within. These folks are scary, that is no epiphany, but websites like stoptheaclu are doing some hard work staying on top of these traitors for the rest of us so we can go there to get the latest. I 'm there every day and will be as long as Jay keeps goin after these scumbags.

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Instant Karma's Gonna Get You...

Gonna knock you right on the head.. You better get yourself together.. Pretty soon you're gonna be dead....John Lennon

Cindy sure has been having a rough summer, particularly as of late. Maybe somebody upstairs is sending her a message, like possibly her son Casey? (quit embarrassing me mom!)

KWTX | Sheehan Arrested For Unpaid Traffic Ticket: "August 30, 2006)—Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan’s stay this month in Central Texas has not been a pleasant one.

First she was admitted to a local hospital for treatment of exhaustion and dehydration and to undergo gynecological tests. Last week she underwent a hysterectomy.

Then Tuesday night police from the Waco suburb of Woodway arrested her near Crawford on traffic warrants.

She was cited for following too closely and failure to appear.

Sheehan was released after she paid a $400 fine.

She plans to remain here through Labor Day, but then she and other anti-war demonstrators are planning to shift their protests to Washington, D.C.

The planned protests and events will be known as Camp Democracy, organizers announced Tuesday during a news conference in Washington, D.C.

The protests will begin on Sept. 5 and will run through Sept. 21."

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A Few Commentaries on 9-11 Conspiracy Nuts

The first one I posted is from Dennis Byrne of the Chicago Tribune, not known for their right wing slant, although no quite a liberal paper either, the second from Cliff Kincaid of accuracy in Media, a media watchdog keeping it's eye on the left wing MSM. Both were pretty good commentaries pretty much echoing the way I feel about the wackjobbers selling the 21st century version of snake oil to folks that will buy anything.

It pains me that the Americans who buy into these theories are aligning themselves with the very peoples from which the perpatrators came from. When your theories echo that of your 14th century type enemies, that in itself should be enough to indicate that you might be barking up the wrong tree.

Chicago Tribune news: 9/11 conspiracies are a crying shame: "The fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, is two weeks away, but the screeching from the conspiracy monkey house already is upon us.

The '9-11 truth squads' are planning a three-day gala in New York City to inform the world that Sept. 11 was a 'catalyst' designed to set in motion a 'global domination project' by overthrowing the American government, says NY911Truth.org. Which would be true, if you were talking about a plot by Islamic fascists. But they say it was by President Bush himself, 'as a pretext for the current Middle East aggression.'

The organizers of the conspiracy jamboree urge 'all movements for transformational progress' to converge on Gotham thusly: 'If we want to put an end to war, use our treasury for productive purposes domestically, restore our Constitution, have a law-abiding government, create cooperative rather than antagonistic relationships with the rest of the world, heal our environment and be the creators of our own destiny, understanding 9/11 is required,' say these 'truth' activists.

The blogosphere is buzzing with the things they want us to understand." full commentary

The Real 9/11 Conspiracy

Cliff Kincaid Accuracy In Media Aug. 29th: The so-called 9/11 Truth Movement, which has been covered extensively by C-SPAN as well as Al-Jazeera, has confused many Americans and Muslims alike about the nature of the 9/11 attacks. This movement, which includes associates of Lyndon LaRouche, who openly supported Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf war, are telling us that the Bush Administration was really behind the 9/11 attacks and blamed them on the Arabs so it could go to war in the Middle East.

Incredibly, polls shows that about one-third of the American people-and majorities of Muslims in many Arab countries-actually believe this disinformation. In reality, of course, as extensively documented by Al-Jazeera itself, Osama bin Laden's international al-Qaeda terrorist network planned and carried out the suicide hijackings. This information can be considered reliable because Al-Jazeera has been consistently shown to be an outlet for al-Qaeda propaganda with sources inside the terror network. full commentary

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A Very Worthwhile Project You Can Still Join, We Need Your Help

In May of this year I was alerted to what I deemed a very worthwhile project asking bloggers like you and I to participate in an unusual and unique tribute to the victims of 9-11. The idea was to assign 2996 blogger volunteers an individual to pay tribute to on their blog this September 11th, thus creating a blogburst tribute to those victims that would be different and special from any other previous attempts that I am aware of.

I myself drew a man whom you will find directly left of this post in my sidebar named Eddie A Dillard, who died that day on flight 77 which hit the pentagon. At first I was apprehensive as to whether or not I would be able to pay ample tribute to this gentleman I knew nothing about in order to fill my role as a participant and debt of gratitude to he and the others that died that day.

Innocent Victims whom history will eventually identify as the 1st casualties & warriors of the Real Big One, WWIII. Not only did I find that it was very possible to do, I found myself developing a unique attachment to this individual and his family as I researched his fruitful life to create his tribute which you will find here on September 11th, 2006.

Please take the time to click over there and give this project some thought if you would. We would all greatly appreciate your participation if you should choose to join us.

We Thank You In Advance

Chicagoray

"2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.

On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.

We will honor them by remembering their lives, and not by remembering their murderers.

If you would like to help out, either by pledging to post a tribute on your own blog, or by offering your services to promote this cause, just leave a comment here and I’ll email you the name of a victim.

Then, on 9/11/2006, you will post a tribute to that victim on your blog.

But, and this is critical, the tributes should celebrate the lives of these people–kind of like a wake. Over the last 5 years we’ve heard the names of the killers, and all about the victim’s deaths. This is a chance to learn about and celebrate those who died. Forget the murderers, they don’t deserve to be remembered. But some people who died that day deserve to be remembered–2,996 people.

Thank you, D.Challener Roe"

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On Tonight / National Geographic Channel

Inside 9/11 :: Al Qaeda, World Trade Center, September 11 :: National Geographic Channel:

"NGC presents an updated version of its Emmy-nominated miniseries.

Inside 9/11 reveals a clearer picture of the events
of that tragic day. New details from the past year
have been incorporated into the special, including the
trial of Zacarias Moussaoui and audio from Flight 93."

There is also a show on Oslima following this program. Inside 9-11 will re- broadcast on September 11th.

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Does This Constitute Torture?

Under the guidelines that the left would like to see our military adhere to or by the standards that they used to call the fraternity prank type crap at Abu GrabAss, yes. Under my guidelines I say no, and I think it's pretty damn funny what they're doing here to poor Saddam..

WorldNetDaily: Marines make Saddam watch self as 'gay' Satan lover: "Saddam Hussein is being forced to watch a cartoon version of himself have a homosexual relationship with Satan the devil in the movie version of 'South Park.'

Saddam Hussein portrayed as the homosexual lover of Satan the devil in the movie version of 'South Park'

That according to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the animated series, who spoke at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Parker and Stone say U.S. Marines are making the ousted Iraqi dictator watch the episode 'repeatedly.'"

I have it on pretty good information from the Marines on detail in Iraq that they showed him the movie," Stone said, according to the Sun newspaper. "That's really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy."

Saddam is portrayed in "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" as the devil's homosexual lover. The film, which features Saddam and Satan trying to take over the world, was banned in Iraq when it debuted in 1999 for characterizing Hussein as a homosexual. full story

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The Open Mic Syndrome Catches Newswoman in the John

For once this happens to somebody other than George Bush. It's pretty funny and a bit embarrassing for her..

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Potty break mic snafu: CNN’s Phillips chats in the loo during Bush speech: "Today, CNN’s Kyra Phillips got caught, well, with her skirt down. Someone in CNN left her mic open and on the air as she went to the loo in the middle of President Bush’s speech commemorating the Katrina anniversary. So instead of getting the president’s remarks, CNN’s audience got that and Phillips in some girl-chat." click to watch/listen

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This Could Be Great, if it's Ever Completed Once It's Started

Or it could become the US Government's version of the Boston Big Dig project, or our very own Chicago Deep Tunnel. Just another multibilliondollar boondoggle that creates lots of jobs and contracts for the well connected and takes a decade to complete. (geez, that sounded like it came out of the mouth of a liberal, I'm just tired of governmental waste in this post 9-11 world as are many others)

Or it could be the answer to the border problem in the long run. In the meantime good old-fashioned border patrol agents and the National Guard troops that were promised and yet not fully delivered will have to be the stopgap measure.

The Seattle Times: Billions at stake in border contract: "WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is expected next month to choose an industry consortium to erect a high-tech security shield along the U.S. borders, launching one of the federal government's most ambitious public-works projects in years.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calls the proposed Secure Border Initiative Net (SBInet) the 'most comprehensive effort in the nation's history' to gain control of more than 6,000 miles of border with Mexico and Canada, and 2,000 miles of coastline.

SBInet is a centerpiece of President Bush's efforts to fortify the U.S.-Mexico border at a time Congress is locked in a struggle to revise the nation's immigration laws. Administration officials say they intend to proceed with the security net regardless of the outcome of the debate over immigration legislation.

The multibillion-dollar undertaking has ignited a contract battle among industry teams headed by four leading defense companies — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon — and Ericsson, the Swedish-based telecommunications giant with U.S. headquarters in Plano, Texas." full article

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Some More Thoughts on The Kidnapping Saga

This post below is by a blog I was directed to over the weekend by a friend, who musta' been reading my mind when this was penned by themselves regarding the Wiig-Centanni kidnapping:

HH Blowhard: "We've just received the following, said to be a transcript of a top level meeting held in Gaza

recently between top terrorist leaders.

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Terrorist 1: Ok, people. We've got to find a way to improve our image. Ideas?

Terrorist 2: Well, we could set up a new terror group and have them kidnap two journalists. Then we could arrange for their safe return. The world would see us as peacemakers."

(No response from the other terrorists)

Terrorist 1: Ok, here's what we do. We set up a new terror group, have them kidnap two journalists, then we arrange for their safe return. The world will see us as peacemakers.

(Sounds of approval and excitement from the other terrorists)

Terrorist 2: Wait. You just said the same thing I said, but you did this (moves hands sideways).

Terrorist 1: No, I did this (moves right hand vertically).

(Sounds of approval from the other terrorists)

Terrorist 4: Makes all the difference.

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For those who don't recognize the above, it means that the terrorists are now spending way too much time watching television, AND they pay attention to the commercials. We should be able to find a way to use this to our advantage...go there to read more stuff like this

I commented on their blog for that post above and some others I visit daily regarding the kidnapping and it's aftermath. I as HH Blowhard feel this kidnapping was planned from start to finish by the damn (Hamas or Hezbollah, like it matters) so called government over there to extract the very response that it has. I cannot believe that a bunch of camel riders have learned how to play the Western media like a IED trigger, and in this case to my amazement Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig themselves.

I cannot emphasize my disappointment while watching their interviews (2 minutes into the linked vid) in the aftermath of the release, tripping that they were pleading with other journalists to "keep reporting the story of the beautiful Palestinian people in spite of their ordeal"..etc. I thought to myself Holy Stockholm Syndrome while realizing they were fuc&^%* serious.

I simply cannot believe that they, even as solid professionals of their field, would come out of that ordeal after the outpouring of support that they received from of coarse first and foremost their families, the blogging community, (since they got hardly any from their fellow journalists, blogged by me here & countless others), advocate repeating this mistake that they wandered into for the sake of "the story".

I may sound cold and callous when saying this, but if they or any other reporters wander into that anything goes nutzone again to "tell the story" of the poor boo hoo palestinian peoples, (who in their first stab at democracy voted in a terror organization as their official government, who joyfully danced in the streets during & after 9-11,) they will most likely not get any sympathy from this blogger, whether they work for FOX or anywhere else. There is no more story to be told from Gaza, we know it all from front to back, more than we need. So much so that stuff has to be made up to fill all the papers and videos, no? Let them try to become educated and then civilized so they can tell it themselves.

Once again I am glad they are home, physically unharmed it appears and did not become victims in the sense that other westerners have at the hands of these animals. But please do not encourage others to make the same mistake you men did, unwittingly lending yourself to the arab propaganda machine. They had a plan for you guys and they executed it to a T.

Thank goodness you were pawns instead of the other dreadful alternative.

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Yeah, Right Machmoud......We Hear Ya ;)

NOT. As I said in my post yesterday before the release of Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, these Mooslime terrorists, and any official from or in the middle East for that matter cannot be believed, trusted to tell or say anything close to the truth ever. They are nearly as bad as liberal democrats... maybe, just maybe a little worse.

This morning these clowns are claiming that they were promised some sort of deal from the US Government to pressure Israel into concessions of some nature by releasing the journalists. Can these people really be as stupid as they seem or at least think that we are as stupid as they? No doubt the similarities in some ways to democrats can sometimes be uncanny, here they hope that the more they repeat untruths the more hopeful they will be believed as truths. That sure sounds familiar.

Any takers that this will be repeated by the left wing on the Kos Playground or The Dummocratic Underground forums throught the upcoming week? None that I could find yet, but they'll catch on to this by daybreak, east coast hit the bath-house time.

WorldNetDaily: Fox News abductors claim concessions from U.S.: "TEL AVIV – The kidnappers of two Fox News journalists who were released earlier today claim they received guarantees from European mediators that American would pressure Israel into concessions, a terror leader in the Gaza Strip told WorldNetDaily.

'European mediators promised that they received pledges from the United States to pressure Israel into ending raids in Gaza, the razing of Palestinian homes and the killings of our leaders. It was on this basis that the reporters were freed,' Abu Mujaheed, a leader and spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees terror group told WND.

Abu Mujaheed claimed his group was not involved in the kidnappings. But he said he was 'certain' of the European pledges." A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Israel said the Jewish state was not involved in any mediation efforts and made "no agreements whatsoever" for the return today of Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig.

A Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, doubted the terror leader's claims. He speculated the abductors were trying to "save face" by claiming they extracted concessions for the kidnapping. full story

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Lady Half as Old as United States Dies

When you put it that way, this lady sure lived an unusually long life, hopefully it was as good as it was long.

BREITBART.COM - World's Oldest Person Dies at Age 116: "Maria Esther de Capovilla, believed to be the world's oldest person, has died at 116, her granddaughter said.

Catherine Capovilla, 46, a property manager and real estate agent in Miami, said Capovilla died Sunday at 3 a.m. local time in a hospital in the coastal city of Guayaquil. She died two days after coming down with pneumonia. Her funeral was planned for Monday.

Born on Sept. 14, 1889 _ the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler _ Capovilla was married in 1917 and widowed in 1949.

Robert Young, senior consultant for Gerontology for Guinness World Records, said Elizabeth Bolden of Memphis, Tenn., now appears to be the oldest person alive." more

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The Kids Are Allright.....NOT

Yo dog, wassup? This urban video is part of some sort of CD or DVD about the gang scene in Kansas City I happened across while perusing Free Republic yesterday and then the Kansas City Paper's crime page.(below)

If you want to kill some time seeing what problems our society faces just from within without the extracurricular outside terrorism threat then give it a look . **Sound Warning, loud & harsh)**

Crime Scene KC: "This eight-minute video, posted on YouTube, features a group of gun-toting 12th Street Kansas City gangbangers flashing their dope, their weapons and their views of the world.

It's hard to watch, harder to listen to and not safe for work - lots of bad language. There's an occasional rap-music overlay, and a narrator who I take to be the film-maker, madjohann. This is by far his most popular video, viewed 4,309 times when I saw it yesterday" more commentary

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Kidnapped Fox Journalists Released

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip.

The freeing of FOX correspondent Steve Centanni, 60, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, ends the longest-running drama involving foreign hostages in Gaza.

Centanni, in a phone interview shortly after his release, said "I'm fine. I'm just so happy to be free."

He said he was so emotional because he was out and alive.

"There were times when I thought 'I'm dead,' and I'm not," Centanni said. "I'm fine. I'm so very happy." full story

Free Republic live thread on the release

* My Original post from earlier is below

Two kidnapped Fox journalists appeared on a new videotape

Thats what is being reported out of Mooslim land this morning. Hopefully this video purporting to show the 2 men converting to Islam is propaganda that they will be denouncing upon their release as the journalist Jill Carroll from Christian Science Monitor did upon her release from her captivity by a similar group of animals.

Then again, we all know how trustworthy anything coming from the mouth-pieces of the collective community in the middle east can be, since even the PA leadership/ government are terrorists for the most part themselves. But hopefully in this case they will keep their word.

Should these men be released unharmed let's hope that all journalists with the exception of Al Jazeera will give a second thought about venturing into these areas in the future to "get out the word of the palestinians", as this is how these pigs treat their guests and they do not deserve the privilege of the western media access after this episode.

GAZA (Reuters) - Two kidnapped Fox journalists appeared on a new videotape released by their captors on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, in which the reporters said they had converted to Islam, the Fox News Channel said.

Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Seyam said efforts were under way to secure within hours the release of Fox correspondent Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American, and New Zealand-born cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36.

Both journalists appeared to be in good health in the new video. They were seized on August 14.

They were shown separately sitting cross-legged, reading a statement which Fox said was an announcement that they had converted to Islam. At times in the video they were wearing long Muslim robes. full story

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Hurricane Katrina Wayback Machine

How fitting that on the anniversary of last years hurricane Katrina, (the first hurricane ever propogated and executed by a sitting president and his administration, utilizing the then experimental "super secret racist hurricane machine") that Mayor Nagin shows us what makes him the leader we came to know and love during the tragedy.

Who could ever forget Mayor Nagin proudly leading the city through those tough days and nights while perfecting his communication and administration skills right in front of our very eyes.

Navy Commander /Mayor Nagin has chosen to once again stick his air jordan's into his mouth almost as soon as we almost began to forget how f'n stupid he can be and apparently still is by ridiculing the progress being made or not made at ground zero as we all know by now. In spite of the fact that I myself advocated the swift rebuilding of two new twin towers slightly modified and the political bullchit that has overtaken the project, the Mayor of New Orleans has enough to worry about at home I would say, although his outspoken words do have some truth to them.

Who better to critique and ridicule the somewhat discombobulated backwards moving progress going on at Ground Zero after the terror attacks of 9-11 than Mayor Nagin and his NOLA administrative all stars.

After all, ground zero is there thanks to the actions of 19 radical arab hijackers and millions of Islamists that hate America's freaking guts, of which there is a big difference than what occurred in New Orleans. We all know you and your followers hate the man and the president as much as the next jihadder, but their hate exceeds even Al Sharpton and Spike Lee on a good day.

So how about you and your constituents getting over it and getting to work instead of waiting for the taxpayers of the US to come to the rescue again and again. I mean, it's bad enough we're all gonna foot the bill for this act of God, and as willing as we are to see the chocolate city back to full strength as soon as possible, must the government to do all the work too?

In commemoration of that fateful event 1 year ago, I am breaking out some of the Chicagoray archival photoshops along with an editorial from the New York Post regarding the Mayor's Ground Zero remarks . These parodies were made during the disaster last year to ease the tension per say. By no means am I or was I making fun of the many citizens that were let down during that trying time by their local government in all ways imaginable, causing more death and misery than should have occurred, just the mayor, his administration and their collective ineptitude.

NAGIN THROWS A STONE - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion: "August 26, 2006 -- Ray Nagin, in his own way almost as much a disaster for New Orleans as was Hurricane Katrina, deigns to crack wise about New York City - about Ground Zero, actually.

Who can forget Mayor Nagin - the fellow who dissolved into hysterical sobs, on national TV no less, at the height of the Katrina crisis a year ago.

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Remember the utterly false claims about how evacuation centers were being overrun by gangs of heavily armed rapists and murderers?

And whose police force was it that virtually deserted its posts in the dark of night? Ray Nagin's."

Indeed, Nagin exacerbated the crisis in the first place by failing to develop realistic evacuation plans. (He's also the fellow who later vowed to make sure that The Big Easy remains "a chocolate city" - but that's a topic for another day.)

Now Nagin tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed and it's five years later."

Well, OK.

He's not totally wrong about everything. read full editorial

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