KKK IMPERIAL WIZARD WARNS OF OBAMA ASSASSINATION

Video of some crabby old jackass in a funny hat warning of possible Obama assassination. Quote: "If that man is elected president, he'll be shot sure as hell"

HILLARY CLINTON COMPLETELY BAFFLED BY COFFEE MACHINE: THIS AIN'T STARBUCKS SUGAR BRITCHES

Video of Hillary Clinton trying to figure out how to work a coffee machine at a convenience store. If she's going to answer that 3 a.m. phone call, we'd better hope she's using a rotary phone.

OBAMA PLAYS BASKETBALL WITH THE TARHEELS

This just sickens me...No wonder Carolina got blown out by Kansas...They can't even stop this geek from driving to the hoop.


See the video here.

UNBELIEVABLE: OBAMA TURNS FROM ONE HATE-FILLED "MAN OF GOD" TO ANOTHER

In the aftermath of having a public spat with his mentor, Jeremiah Wright, Barak Obama it seems has turned to yet another hatemongering religious man for counsel.

CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports Obama felt betrayed and Wright felt sand-bagged. Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church said he has been speaking to both men as the events of the past 24 hours unfolded.

He counseled Obama Tuesday morning, and while CBS 2 talked to him Tuesday evening, Rev. Wright called his cell phone.

"I don't think he had any intention to hurt Barack. He loves Barack," Pfleger said. "I think the pain and the moment took over."

Who is Father Michael Pfleger? Here he is...

Amazing! Obama is now getting counsel from this guy? And Obama wants to be our latex salesman?

STILL NOT A RECESSION

Oh the economy is slowing that is for sure. Recession is a high possibility. But the fact remains: We are not in a recession NOW. Despite what all three presidential contenders are going around bleating. Oh and by the way, I haven't seen so many stories on the economy in a long, long while. Certainly not when the Bush Boom took off. Bias in the media? Nah! Even this AP story is tinged with sorrow even though the first quarter BEAT expectations and STILL shows we are not in recession.

From the AP:

The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.

The country's economic growth during January through March was the same as in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The statistic did not meet what economists consider the classic definition of a recession, which is a retraction of the economy. This means that although the economy is stuck in a rut, it is still managing to grow, even if modestly.

(SIGH)...WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN: BUSH LAYS THE SMACKDOWN ON PRESS REPORTER

This is a spectacular clip of Bush laying out the overall concept of fighting these animals in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Dirty Liberal Media. Where has this George W. Bush been? I believe had he been out there talking like this to these agenda pushing socialists we'd be in better shape in this war.

Enjoy the smack down.

OBAMA DENOUNCES WRIGHT - AFTER 21 YEARS: WHAT THE BLOGOSPHERE IS SAYING

By now, most everyone who can read is aware that after a 21 years as his mentor and spiritual adviser, Barak Obama has decided to denounce Reverend Jeremiah Wright for his racist and anti-American speech. I thought I would write something about that, but it occurred to me that lots of other people had already done that. So, I'm just going to borrow their stuff. Here's what I found:

"I’m watching MSNBC and Andrea Mitchell is asking NBC correspondent Athena Jones why Obama chose now to finally, unequivocally, part ways with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In her reporting wisdom, Jones is talking about how Wright offended Obama with his remarks yesterday at the National Press Club. I don’t think so.

My guess is it had something to do with the poll call I got last night. All questions were about the Obama-Wright relationship and whether that made me think more unfavorably about Barack Obama. Then they asked if I was more inclined now to vote for Hillary since this blew up. Due respect to Athena, but she should do a little more reporting and actually ask Obama why he did what he did a few minutes ago.

I would put money on the fact that Obama saw the results of that snap poll and said, “My God, I’ve got to ditch this guy.”"

So the night before Obama, after 21 years, decides to throw Reverend Coo Coo Pants under the bus, someone is polling in North Carolina trying to measure public response to the Wright/Obama relationship. That's a good a place as any to start. Next, let us remember what Obama said about Wright not so long ago:

“I constantly remember Rev. Wright as the shepherd who guided me to my commitment to Christ one Sunday morning at Trinity. I often consider, as I work in the Senate how he lives his life-a life of service to Trinity, Chicago and the nation; his activism on behalf of causes that few would champion and his dogged commitment to the first principles of love for God and fellow man. And in my personal walk, I seek daily to imitate his faith."

Barack Obama on Rev. Jeremiah Wright
His Father Figure & Mentor
February 5, 2007
5 Days Before He Announced His Candidacy

And you may remember a few weeks ago Obama, in his great race speech, had this to say about Wright (and remember, this was in response to the exact same type of comments that he now purports to be outraged by):

"I could no more disown him (Wright) as I could disown my white grandmother."

Oh y'all remember grandma...

Granny was a nice lady...To nice to be under the bus. That's for sure. In any event, yesterday, Obama had this to say about the outrageous comments by Wright:

"I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday."

"The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago." "His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church."

"They certainly don’t portray accurately my values and beliefs,".

To which, the Ace of Spades had these very insightful and, dare I say, prophetic comments:

This time, the media will crow, he really has put this issue completely behind him.

Of course they said that last time, too, and six thousand times since then.

Claims that Wright's recent "performances" represent a "Change" from the man he'd known for 20 years. Doubles down claiming that he hasn't heard this stuff from Wright before.

Two words:

Bull. Fucking. Shit. This is not a man who is shy about revealing whatever is on his lunatic, racist mind. The idea that Barack didn't know is so preposterous as to make me physically angry.

Wait, Wait, Wait: Now that Wright threatens Obama's candidacy, are we not any longer supposed to look at his words "in context" and judge the man "according to his whole career and the good works he's done"?

That was the MSM's claims yesterday, when Obama was still trying to limp along with his Illinois Nazi buddy. Now that Obama himself has declared Wright a non-person, the MSM will, I imagine, suddenly decide he is as well, and of course the focus will be on Wright himself being an evil guy, not on Barack Obama for cultivating a twenty year political/personal/spiritual alliance with him.

Of course, we could go on and on. But is there really any need to?

IF I WERE PRESIDENT: THE COUSIN KENNY CHRONICLES (VOL. 6)

If I were president...I would build a really big bonfire in Gary, Indiana...The biggest the world has ever seen...All Americans would be invited to come and witness the awesome spectacle...Correction, all Americans would be compelled to come...I would make it one big party to celebrate America...There would be all kinds of neat things to do at my party...and good food to eat...potato salad for all...and lots of porta-potties...no waiting...live musical acts abound...puppet shows for the children...bingo for the elderly...We would talk...laugh, cry...all that stuff...then...at precisely midnight, on the third day, I would abruptly and emphatically call an end to the festivities and ask everyone to leave...I would then, at 6:00 a.m. that morning, issue an executive order to forcibly deport any person within the continental United States outside of a 10 mile radius from Gary, Indiana...that would leave, in my estimation, only the fine Americans who had stayed after the party to help clean up...and perhaps a few people who couldn't remember where they parked their car...all the others?...deported to a country where it's not common courtesy to help someone clean up after a party...It is with the people who stayed after to help pick up--the hearty stock of after-hangers--that I would rebuild America...That's what I would do if I were President.

Cousin Kenny

IS ROME'S NEW MAYOR A SIGN THAT EUROPE IS READY TO CONFRONT ISLAM?

Is Rome's recent election of a anti-immigration hard line mayor a sign that Europe, or at least the Italians, are fed up with Muslim immigration?

Italy's new parliament met for the first time today with applause for Rome's mayor-elect, Gianni Alemanno, a day after followers celebrated his triumph with straight-arm salutes and fascist-era chants.

Alemanno, a former neo-fascist youth leader, took 54% of the vote in a run-off on Sunday and Monday, crushing his rival, Francesco Rutelli, a deputy prime minister in the last, centre-left government.

On Monday night, the area around Rome's city hall rang to chants of "Duce! Duce!", the term adopted by Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, equivalent to the German "Führer". Supporters of the new mayor gave the fascist Roman straight-arm salutes.

Gianni Alemanno, the new right-wing mayor of Rome, has pledged to reinforce law and order and crack down on immigrants. And he says he wants to be mayor for all citizens in Rome.

During his campaign, Alemanno promised to consider tearing down the illegal gypsy and immigrant camps set up on the outskirts of the city.

Meanwhile, a study released on Tuesday indicated that most Italians have negative views about immigrants from Muslim countries.

Alemanno's victory marks yet another political victory in Italy for an anti-immigrant candidate. Silvio Berlusconi,who just won his third term as Italy's Prime Minister has been stocking his cabinet with anti-immigrations sympathizers.

LIL' PIMPIN': WAHABI MUSLIM CHILD WITH HIS GIN AND JUICE

This, my friends, is the best evidence of progress in Iraq.

DNC ATTACK AD ON McCAIN SHOWS FOOTAGE OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS BEING ATTACKED

Absolutely shameless tactics being used by the DNC. Just after the part where McCain is quoted out of context as saying he would like troops in Iraq for 100 years, the ad shows footage of American troops being bombed by an IED device. That's right, the ad makes political use of American soldiers being attacked in war. And this isn't just some ad from a fringe democrat group. This is an ad sanctioned by Howard Dean himself.

In fact, yesterday, Dean sent this email to those on his mailing list. He's absolutely giddy about the ad.

Dear Friend,

John McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He’s said it, and it’s on tape.

But his campaign hates that he was caught. They’ve viciously attacked anyone who reminded the American people that he said it, including me. They’ve said that those who reference the 100 years comments are “deliberately misleading voters.”

So we’ve taken John McCain’s own words — video of him saying that 100 years would be “fine with me” — and made a TV ad. There’s no confusion, no distortion, no misleading — it’s John McCain, on tape, for voters to judge on their own.

It’s one of the most powerful political ads I’ve ever seen. It’s devastating — and the McCain campaign will spend the rest of the election trying to fight it.

H/t lgf

The soldiers being attacked in that video are someone's family. Someone's brother, son or father. And they do not deserve to be used in such a fuckstickian fashion by the DNC. Howard Dean and the DNC are one large lot of sorry mother fuckers. That's about all one rational thinking veteran can say about that.

DID AL SHARPTON JUST CALL OBAMA AN UNCLE TOM?

Al Sharpton lets loose. It sure sounds like he's calling Obama an Uncle Tom.

Barack Obama made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict - infuriating the Rev. Al Sharpton, who accused the presidential candidate of trying to "grandstand in front of white people," sources told The Post.

During what a source described as a "heated" phone call yesterday, Sharpton told Obama he was disappointed with the Illinois senator's words on Friday, when Obama said "resorting to violence to express displeasure" was "completely unacceptable and counterproductive."

"[Obama] issues this statement and not a single rock had been thrown," said a source. "How does the candidate of change ask people to accept a verdict that is unjust?"

The source said Sharpton had hoped Obama would "side with the Bell family" and not use it as an "opportunity to grandstand in front of white people."

It pains me to say it, but, Al is right. That's exactly what Obama was doing...Grandstanding in front of "white people".

THE IRANIAN GENERAL PULLING THE STRINGS IN IRAQ

Interesting stuff from MyrtleBeachOnline.com...

One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat.

He's an Iranian general, and at times he's more influential than all of them.

Brig. Gen. Qassem Suleimani commands the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, an elite paramilitary and espionage organization whose mission is to expand Iran's influence in the Middle East.

As Tehran's point man on Iraq, he funnels military and financial support to various Iraqi factions, frustrating U.S. attempts to build a pro-Western democracy on the rubble of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.

According to Iraqi and American officials, Suleimani has ensured the elections of pro-Iranian politicians, met frequently with senior Iraqi leaders and backed Shiite elements in the Iraqi security forces that are accused of torturing and killing minority Sunni Muslims.

By the way, General Suleimani is on the United States' terrorist watch list.

DURBIN ADMITS ETHANOL AFFECTING FOOD PRICES

Are the oil companies paying Durbin to say this?

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Monday that U.S. ethanol policies may be partly to blame for a global food crisis threatening to leave millions hungry.

Durbin, whose state produced 2.28 billion bushels of corn in 2007 — second only to Iowa — emphasized he wasn’t advocating a shift from policies that provide incentives for biofuel production. At the same time, he said the role biofuels are playing should be explored as part of a coordinated congressional response to massive hunger overseas.

Seriously you global warming nutjobs. Where's your God now?

IAF STRIKE IN SYRIA KILLED 10 KOREANS

Breaking news from international.jpost.com.

Ten North Koreans were killed in an IAF air strike on a Syria installation September, Bloomberg reported Monday, quoting an NHK report that cited unidentified South Korean intelligence officials.

According to the report, the Koreans' remains were returned to North Korea after being cremated.

The report quoted a Japanese broadcaster who said that they had been assisting the Syrians in the construction of a nuclear reactor. Several North Korean workers survived the air strike, the report said.

Yielding to months of pressure from the US Congress, the Bush administration gave members briefings on Thursday indicating that on September 6, Israel destroyed an alleged Syrian nuclear reactor built with North Korean help.

The CIA released footage of the alleged reactor showing several North Koreans, including the head of the country's nuclear negotiating team.

The Syrian facility was almost complete when it was attacked, and was far enough along to demonstrate a resemblance to the North Korean reactor at Yongbyon, which in the past has produced small amounts of plutonium and is supposedly now being dismantled, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information.

IT'S SUPER WHACKY MUSLIM FUN TIME...AGAIN

Things I have learned recently about Muslims, Islam, and the Middle East in general...

A bridge is being planned over the Red Sea to connect the Middle East with the African continent...It may indeed get built...But I'll bet money it doesn't stay built.

In Australia, a senior Muslim leader has warned of the dangers of the radicalisation of Muslim university students, saying these students should be critical of everything they are told by secretive Islamic groups...My thoughts on this?...Senior Muslim leaders, almost universally, piss me off.

"More and more Muslim and Arab populations -- [including] clerics and scholars -- are questioning the value of al-Qaeda's program,"...Or, they're questioning the tactics of Al Qaeda and not the mission...This take is more consistent with last week's Super Whacky Muslim Fun Time" revelation that 80% of Arabs think negatively of the US.

A British man who was attacked after converting to Christianity from Islam was told by police to "move to another place"...My thoughts?...He still has his head...Progress?...Or are the jihadists just getting soft?

A journalist for a Asheville, North Carolina newspaper wrote this...

"But radicalized Islam places little value on the individual, while holding up for supreme value the interests of the group, particularly their view of the group called Islam. And it is this aggressive, assertive insistence by radicalized Muslims in the West to subordinate our inherent rights to their collective demands that slowly and more or less quietly is forcing Westerners to take sides in the radicals’ demands. The resolution of this developing conflict — if not managed by the elites in Western countries on behalf of indigenous Western rights — inevitably will result in unnecessary violence."

...Whoa!...nice job "Scoop"...This guy just set the world on its ear.

Join me next week for another action-packed episode of Super Whacky Muslim Fun Time...
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VOICES FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE: OBAMA WTF

Usually, this is the time I reprint an entire article from a guest blogger. In this instance, however, I thought it would be sufficient just to link an incredible collection of Obama lies from the blog Obama WTF. The guy does about the best job I've seen of keeping tabs on Obama. Or, as he likes to say, "debunking Obama". So, check it out. "Obama's Demonstrable Lies: 34 and growing".

CHINESE THUGS INVADE SEOUL OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY

Chinese bullies doing their Chinese bully thing...

An interesting report from One Free Korea.

One Chinese student swatted at the demonstrators with a flagpole. Another student was arrested for allegedly throwing rocks, police said. Police said four other people were arrested for trying to disrupt the relay. Authorities deployed some 8,000 police — some riding horses and bicycles — to protect the torch.

At one point, the two groups clashed with Chinese students kicking an elderly South Korean protester and hurling rocks at a group that raised banners chastising Beijing.

Look at these animals. Of course, the Chinese government's line will be it was all just the Dali Lama manipulating world opinion.


Where is L. Ling-chi Wang when you need him?

SEARCHING CYBERSPACE FOR THE NEXT TERRORIST ATTACK

Armed with fluent Arabic and fake identities, members of Terrogence Ltd, scour the Internet for signs of the next Islamist attack. Staff members are are all former Israeli army intelligence analysts that decided to put their army skills to work.

NORTH KOREA READYING FOR WAR?

It certainly looks like North Korea is preparing for war.

North Korean military engineers are completing an underground runway beneath a mountain that can protect fighter aircraft from attack until they take off at high speed through the mouth of a tunnel.

The 6,000ft runway is a few minutes’ flying time from the tense front line where the Korean People’s Army faces soldiers from the United States and South Korea.

Quite an expenditure for a country that can't even feed its people.

OBAMA RELEASES T-MOBILE "MY FAVES" - LEAVES OFF HIS GRANDMOTHER

Barack Obama has released his T-Mobile "my faves"...

HEY JOHNNY MAC! HOW'S THAT "RESPECTFUL CAMPAIGN" WORKING OUT FOR YA?

John McCain will get it sooner or later. He is going to find that his calls for a "respectful campaign" are going to fall on deaf democrat ears. Point of fact, those calls already are falling on deaf democrat ears.

In what is becoming almost weekly protocol, Sen. McCain condemned officials his own party for going over the line in attacking Barack Obama.

This time the North Carolina Republican party has launched a new TV spot tying local Democrats who support Obama to incendiary remarks made by the Democrat’s longtime preacher, Jeremiah Wright. (below)

The ad declares that Obama is “just too extreme for North Carolina,” noting that local officials should “know better” than to support the Democratic presidential frontrunner.

McCain repeatedly called on the state party to pull the ad Wednesday, vowing again to run a “respectful campaign.”

Meanwhile, Democrats have released the following campaign attack ad:

I'm not sure about the wisdom of a man who wants to be President if he's too daft to know that regardless of what he calls for with respect to campaign etiquette, the left is going to tear him to shreds between now and November. And this notion that Obama's relationship with Reverend Wright is off limits is just ludicrous. Especially when Obama himself says that his relationship with Wright is a legitimate issue. Obama is an unknown quantity. Accordingly, his character is an issue. And few things are more telling of a man's character than the thoughts of his church and his mentors. Of course, I suspect McCain is taking the high road publicly while allowing the right wing blogs to do his dirty work as it relates to Obama and his past dealings. This tactic, however, is going to fail. Sooner or later McCain is going to have to get down and dirty with Obama.

UPDATE: I had no sooner finished writing the above than I noticed the following from John McCain today:

“I’ve stated my position very clearly that I don’t like the ad. I was interested that this morning Senator Obama said it was a legitimate political issue. If he believes that, then it will probably be a political issue. I saw yesterday some additional comments that have been revealed by Pastor Wright, one of them comparing the United States Marine Corps with Roman Legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior, I mean being involved in that. It’s beyond belief. And then of course saying that Al Qaeda and the American flag were the same flags. So I can understand, I can understand why people are upset about this. I can understand why Americans, when viewing these kinds of comments, are angry and upset. Just like they view Senator Obama’s statements about why people turn to their faith and their values. He believes that it’s out of economic concerns. We all know it’s out of a fundamental belief, a fundamental faith in this country and its values and its principles. Again, Senator Obama, out of touch. I can’t control, and will not in future, control. I will voice my opinion. And I will continue to say that I think that ad should not be run. But I won’t continue to try to be the referee here.”

Translation: McCain's isn't concerned about what his conservative base thinks, but if the Messiah says it cool, than it's cool.
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GOV. BILL RICHARDSON MEETS WITH HUGO CHAVEZ

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, rumored to be Obama's future running mate, met with Socialist dictator Hugo Chavez yesterday. The stated purpose was to discuss the situation of three U.S. hostages held by rebels in Colombia by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since 2003. But don't be fooled. This meeting is nothing more than Richardson planting the seeds of a good socialist relationship with Chavez should Obama win the presidency. The hostages have been held for 5 years and Richardson is just now getting around to trying to work his magic? Richardson is looking for Chavez to put a feather in his cap prior to the upcoming US elections. One has to wonder what he's promising Chavez in return for that feather.

SHOCK VIDEO: INDIANS THROW BABIES FROM 50 FT. ROOF FOR GOOD LUCK

Nuts...

FAKE US PASSPORTS SEIZED IN THAILAND

Oh boy. And didn't the US just outsource part of its its passport preparation to Thailand?

Thai authorities have seized more than a thousand fake Asian and Western passports and arrested a man in one of the biggest anti-counterfeiting operations in recent years, police said on Sunday.

Mohammed Karim, a 56-year-old from Bangladesh, was nabbed in a Bangkok townhouse late on Saturday where they found a sophisticated passport making operation and more than 1,000 finished and unfinished documents, Police Major-General Chaktip Chaichinda said.

"He admitted that he made fake passports," Chaktip told Reuters, adding that his partner, a Myanmar national, escaped arrest.

The passports were for several countries including the United States, New Zealand, France, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Malta. Police seized two computers, a scanner, three printers and rubber stamps for several countries.

By no means is the first time fake passports have been found in Thailand.

Passport fraud is a common problem in Thailand. At the end of 2006, Thai and US police launched a joint sting operation which netted 500 fake US passports.

A Thai man and a Pakistani man were arrested on that occasion.

Yeah Thailand sounds like a great place to send our passports to be made.
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KIDNAPPED BRITONS HELD IN IRAN BY THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD?

The Times Online is reporting that the five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq almost a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards, according to two separate sources in the Middle East and London.

The hostages were handed over to the Revolutionary Guards by their Iraqi kidnappers last November, the sources believe. One of the sources said they were being held in the western Iranian city of Hamadan.

If confirmed, the involvement of Revolutionary Guards would be seen as evidence that senior figures in the Iranian government had backed the decision to hold them in the country.

However, British officials said that while there had been rumours that the five were in Iran, they had seen no evidence to support the idea.

The hostages are said to be in good physical shape but spending much of their time in solitary confinement.

Hat tip to the Jawa Report.

ANT FARM: THE COUSIN KENNY CHRONICLES (VOL. 5)

I didn't have an ant farm as a child....But my next door neighbor did...I remember when he got it and set it up...He placed it under one of those flexible-neck study lamps that were so popular in the 70s...He didn't place it under the lamp so he could study their habitat or behavior....Best I can tell, he put it there so he could burn ants with a magnifying glass even when it was raining outside.

Cousin Kenny

SUNDAY VIDEOS

Iron Horse Report

US Marines Fire Fight With Insurgents After Getting Ambushed In Iraq

AL SHARPTON LEADS CROWDS SHOUTING "KILL THE POLICE" THROUGH THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY

Just Al being Al...

Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.

"We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians," Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. "This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell."

Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell — a black man — and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.

The rally at Sharpton's office was followed by a 20-block march down Malcolm X Boulevard and then across 125th Street, Harlem's main business thoroughfare, where some bystanders yelled out "Kill the police!"

Of course, the truth never stopped Al Sharpton from flapping his gums. This is, after all, the same retard that went ape shit with the Tawanna Brawley fiasco which proved to be nothing but a fraud and a hoax.

REAL ISLAM REVEALED

Shocking video...

THE GREATEST PLAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY: RICK MONDAY - A TRUE AMERICAN HERO

32 years ago today, Rick Monday makes the greatest play in Baseball history...

Monday was playing center field for the Chicago Cubs on April 25, 1976, at Dodger Stadium when he noticed two protesters kneeling on the grass in left-center, intending to burn the American flag. He immediately bolted toward them and snatched it away.

"I was angry when I saw them start to do something to the flag, and I'm glad that I happened to be geographically close enough to do something about it," said Monday, now in his 13th season as a Dodgers broadcaster.

"What those people were doing, and their concept of what they were trying to do was wrong. That feeling was very strongly reinforced by six years in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. I still think it's wrong to do that."

HUNGRY PEOPLE ABANDON GLOBAL WARMING HOAX

We've been talking about this all week. All around the world, as food prices soar, more and more people are reconsidering the socialist climate control measures trying to be imposed by the global warming hoaxers. Shallow thinking hippie types, who were sleeping well with the thoughts of gas tanks full of ethanol, are now waking up to the reality that their eco-religion and their knee-jerk feel good policies are starving people to death. Anyone reckon Al Gore will make a movie about that?

The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels.

With prices for rice, wheat, and corn soaring, food-related unrest has broken out in places such as Haiti, Indonesia, and Afghanistan. Several countries have blocked the export of grain. There is even talk that governments could fall if they cannot bring food costs down.

One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food...

Mr. Senauer said climate change advocates, such as Vice President Gore, need to distance themselves from ethanol to avoid tarnishing the effort against global warming. “Crop-based biofuels are not part of the solution. They, in fact, add to the problem. Whether Al Gore has caught up with that, somebody ought to ask him,” the professor said. “There are lots of solutions, real solutions to climate change. We need to get to those.”

Mr. Gore was not available for an interview yesterday on the food crisis, according to his spokeswoman. A spokesman for Mr. Gore’s public campaign to address climate change, the Alliance for Climate Protection, declined to comment for this article.

Hey global warming freaks! Where's your God now?

AMERICAN BADASS: KID ROCK AND THE USS COLE

This story gave me goosebumps when I first heard about it nearly 8 years ago. It still does. Not much of a Kid Rock fan, but, because of this story and all the things he has done for the American soldier over the years, he gets my respect.

Desperate Hours
The Blast Claimed 17 Lives And Crippled A Destroyer. The Inside Story Of The Heroic Bid To Save The Uss Cole.
BY EVAN THOMAS AND SHARON SQUASSONI
NEWSWEEK
Updated: 10:21 PM ET Dec 17, 2007

The bomb almost cut the Cole in half. Flammable fuel oil showered down on the deck and sprayed through the flooded compartments of the ship. Torn electrical cables arced and sparked, threatening to torch a conflagration. Most of the ship was plunged into darkness. Pulling on an oxygen mask, Lt. Cmdr. Deborah Courtney headed through the smoke and murk for her battle station. An athletic woman with a pleasant but no-nonsense manner, Courtney says she "loves her engineers." She had carefully trained them for emergencies. Before shipping out, she had gone to her local Home Depot and bought--at her own expense--80 Maglite flashlights, one for each of her crew. During the desperate hours ahead, as her engineers crawled through the wreckage in search of wounded sailors, shutting off circuit breakers to avert an inferno and laying cable to restore power, those flashlights would come in handy.

Such small acts of preparation and leadership spared the Cole from being remembered as the first major American ship to be sunk by enemy action since the Pacific War in 1945. Various official inquiries have focused on who is to blame for failing to prevent the terrorist attack on the Cole that killed 17 sailors and wounded 42. The muddy verdict: everyone and no one up and down the chain of command. A secret report on an FBI investigation, obtained by NEWSWEEK, closely links the bombing to suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden (following story). But little attention has been paid to the effort to save a ship that came close to becoming a terrorist trophy of war on the bottom of Aden harbor. The ordeal, which did not climax until the third night, is a timeless story of courage and ingenuity, with some distinctly modern-day twists.

With its crew of 249 men and 44 women, the Cole, a 500-foot, 8,300-ton high-tech warship bound for patrol duty in the gulf, was making a routine six-hour "gas-and-go" stop in Aden. There was little sense of danger on the bridge or below decks. American fighting vessels had been using the dusty port on the south coast of Yemen as a refueling base every month for the past two years. The sailors keeping watch fore and aft held unloaded shotguns, the shells still in ammo belts slung around their waists.

As they steered their craft toward the Cole that morning, the two men in the small white boat looked friendly. One waved. Most of the crew mistook the suicide bombers for trashmen. When the bomb went off at 11:18 a.m., many crew members were lining up outside the galley for lunch (fajitas). "Mission: Impossible" was playing on the mess-room video monitor. Chief Petty Officer Eric Kafka remembered the sensation of the blast as it ripped into the Cole just a few yards away: his chest felt like it was about to cave in. In his stateroom about 150 feet aft, Lt. (j.g.) Robert Overturf saw objects levitating all around him. The ship felt like it was surfing on a "giant wave," he recalled. Overturf noticed an acrid smell, which he recognized as gunpowder. A deck below, executive officer Lt. Cmdr. Chris Peterschmidt, the ship's "XO"--the No. 2 in command--was holding a "morale meeting" to decide whether the ship needed to buy new 32-inch TVs for the crew. The explosion blew an existing TV set out of its brackets on the wall. Peterschmidt went into the passageway to find chaos. Panicked sailors were pushing their way on deck while equally frightened seamen were running below to take cover. Steadier hands were going to battle stations. Petty Officer Ernesto Garcia, a former ranch hand and gulf-war veteran, went toward the blast site to find a gaping hole in the ship. As the water gushed in, one of Garcia's mates could only repeat, "Holy s---."

Men and women with shattered legs and jaws lay in the passageway, calling for help. Commander Peterschmidt, a slight, soft-spoken man, forced himself to remember his training, which required him to ignore the cries and get to his post in the central control station in the heart of the ship. Inside the CCS, bells were ringing, sirens whooping, klaxons blaring. Computer screens signaled massive breakdowns in the ship's systems. Together with Commander Courtney, who joined him in the CCS, Peterschmidt started giving orders to contain the flooding and avert a fire. The Cole had been pumping in 2,200 gallons a minute of high-test fuel when the bomb went off. The smell of fuel was overpowering. At the same time, Courtney's electricians had to rig emergency power lines. For safety reasons, the crew does not use live wiring during drills, but now they had to. "Ma'am, we've never done this before," one of the electricians said to Courtney. "You know how to do it, right?" she asked. "Yes," the electrician said. "Then go do it," she ordered. "Please," she thought, "don't let me get any more men killed."

Courtney had reason to worry. The average age of the crew was 22, and most were on their first cruise. Because the chiefs' mess was right near the blast, most of the senior enlisted men were either trapped or wounded. Yet green young sailors stepped up to fill the gap, shoring leaks, spreading fire retardant and rescuing their mates. "Rank in a lot of ways just evaporated," said Peterschmidt. On deck an enlisted man came up to him and, unbidden, pulled off his superior's insignia--so he would not be picked off by snipers.

The attack on the Cole had triggered a massive rescue effort: warships steaming toward Aden from around the gulf, a detachment of Marines flown in to stand guard, special teams from the FBI and the Navy to survey the damage and help keep the ship afloat until it could be towed to safety. But the basic work of shoring, pumping and repairing the badly wounded ship remained with the Cole's increasingly exhausted crew, working round the clock in intolerable heat (113 degrees in the shade, 130 degrees below deck).

The crew had to stay with the ship if she was ever going to float out of Aden harbor. After the first, intense hours of rescuing crewmates and containing the damage, the ship settled into a grinding routine of work. Officers and sailors, normally rigidly segregated, slept side by side on the deck and shared the same meager junk food (the ship's food stores were destroyed by the blast). Peterschmidt dozed off less than four hours the first two nights. On the third night, after midnight, he heard an ominous sound: the crunch of a bulkhead giving way and the woosh of seawater. One of the ship's two main engine rooms was already flooded; now the other engine room began to fill as well. The Cole listed farther over on her port side. Peterschmidt feared the pressure would break the ship's weakened keel. At just the wrong moment, the ship's one generator conked out. Without power, the main pumps could not run. The Cole went dark and quiet. Peterschmidt could smell rotting food and hear the hull creaking and groaning. "It felt like the ship was dying," he recalled. Over his mobile phone, a senior officer from fleet headquarters, calling from a hotel room in Aden asked him, "You're sinking, aren't you?" Answered Peterschmidt: "Yes, sir." Technology on the billion-dollar, state-of-the-art warship had failed. The enlisted men began forming a bucket brigade. "I kept thinking of our grandfathers in World War II," said Peterschmidt.

It was, he later recalled, his lowest moment. Filthy and despondent, he huddled with the ship's captain, Cmdr. Kirk Lippold. Lippold was "calm, absolutely calm," said Peterschmidt, but the XO could see his captain was exhausted. The ship's small portable pumps could not boost the water out of the three-story-high engine room. Grasping for a crude solution, Peterschmidt suggested cutting a hole lower down--in the side of the ship just above the waterline. No commander relishes punching a hole in a wounded ship, and slicing steel was dangerous. With fuel thick on the surface of the water in the engine room, the risk of fire from a stray spark was grave. Reluctantly, Lippold agreed to cut the hole. The alternative, said Peterschmidt, was to "lose the ship."

An enlisted man cut the hole; the ship did not burn; the pumps were able to get ahead of the flooding. Still, the Cole's weary crew was reaching the end of limits of endurance. The wailing Islamic prayer, blaring from the shore three times a day, "spooked us," said Peterschmidt. The harbor, which once seemed like any other, now appeared alien and dangerous, lurking with unseen enemies. At the behest of the American Embassy, local hotels had prepared hot meals for the crew--but the wary sailors refused to eat anything prepared by the locals. Navy SEALs, flown in to prevent further terrorist attacks, did not lift spirits by spinning out grim threat scenarios. Food sent over by other American warships spoiled in the heat. At least 70 crew members had diarrhea. There was only one working toilet.

That morning of the fourth day, Commander Courtney called together her engineers. "Why can't we just leave?" asked one. Others wanted to know: why couldn't the crew just fly out of Yemen? Courtney chose her words carefully. "If we leave, it would be an insult to those who died," she said. The men looked at each other. "OK," said one. "We stay." On the flight deck, Peterschmidt gave the crew a pep talk. "I said, 'Don't give up the ship.' I can't believe I actually said that," he recalled with a laugh.

At his desk--a large rubber tube shaded by the Harpoon missile launchers on the deck--Lippold was worrying about a delicate problem: how to get the dead bodies off the ship without further demoralizing the crew. Should the corpses be quietly carried off in body bags? He turned for advice to Lt. Cmdr. John Kennedy, a psychiatrist who had been flown in that night from a naval hospital in Italy. Kennedy had a different approach. He suggested elaborate ceremony: formal burials at sea to restore the pride of the men. Sailors were reluctant to sleep down below near the carnage. Kennedy suggested that officers lead tours of the blast area so they could "repossess the ship." It was all a little touchy-feely for men. Yet the group therapy seemed to work. So did the simple act of cleaning up the Cole. Painstakingly searching for evidence, the FBI agents were loath to disturb what they saw as a crime scene. An early inspection by the ship's master-at-arms had turned up a propeller from the small motor boat used by the attackers, and a further grim memento: their teeth.

At night as he lay on deck, Peterschmidt was heartened by the sight of the ship's flag, its soot-covered battle ensign, still flying. On Oct. 22, 10 days after the bombing--and after the last dead sailor had been taken off the ship--the crew lowered the flag and ran up a new one. A week later, as the ship prepared to sail out of Aden under tow, Captain Lippold ordered a medley of patriotic songs to be played as the crew stood at attention. First came the "Star Spangled Banner." Then, to Lippold's surprise, a rap song entitled "American Badass" by Kid Rock blared out of the loudspeakers. The captain angrily turned to Peterschmidt. "I got that look that said, 'XO, fix it'," recalled Peterschmidt. The executive officer ran off to yell at the crew to stop the music. But then he stopped, and let the song of defiance play on.

God bless America.

SENIOR US OFFICER WARNS OF IRAN PROVIDING ARMS TO AL SADR MILITIA

The groundwork is being laid for an ass whoopin'.

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military had evidence Iran was sending new weapons to Iraqi insurgents despite Tehran's commitment to the government in Baghdad that it would halt such support.

"The Iranian government pledged to halt such activity some months ago," Mullen said. "It's plainly obvious they have not. Indeed, they seem to have gone the other way."

BASRA COMES TO LIFE

Encouraging news from Iraq.

Young women are daring to wear jeans, soldiers listen to pop music on their mobile phones and bands are performing at wedding parties again.

All across Iraq’s second city life is improving, a month after Iraqi troops began a surprise crackdown on the black-clad gangs who were allowed to flourish under the British military.

Video.

Notice the locals don't have too many good things to say about the British Army.
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MICHIGAN STATE PRO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WHACKJOBS SEIZE CAMPUS BRIDGE

From The Spartan Spectator...Some video that shows La Raza, Mecha and Chicanos Y Latinos members being complete asswipes as law abiding students try to attend class...


Do they have a point?...do they ever?

EVEN TERRORIST CLASS BULLIES SUCK

Kid hits like a girl...

BREAKING NEWS: US CARGO SHIP FIRES ON IRANIANS

They done done it now...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A ship contracted by the U.S Military Sealift Command has fired at least one shot toward an Iranian boat, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.

"It was an MSC vessel," the official said, confirming the ship fired on an Iranian boat.

Other details were not immediately available.

Developing...

GREENPEACE FOUNDER BACKS NUCLEAR POWER: NO PROOF GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY HUMANS

It just keeps getting worse for prince Albert...

Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.

He says his change of heart comes from his background in science and a different approach to sustainability.

Man...there's gonna be a whole lot off pissed of crazy people.

SCIENTIST WHO VOTED FOR GORE DEBUNKS GLOBAL WARMING FEARS

The global warming hoax takes another massive hit...Scramble the jets Al.

We’ve been warming up about a degree per century since the Little Ice Age in about 1600. We’ve been warming for 400 years, long before human-generated CO2 could have anything to do with the climate. If we project the previous century into the coming one, my projection is that we will have about a half-a-degree of cooling from 2007 (plus or minus three to five years) to about 2040. Then it will start getting warmer as we enter the next warm cycle, followed by cooling again.

For a number of interviews, especially in the national news media, they ask ‘Are you a Republican?’ and I say ‘No, I’m not, as a matter of fact, I voted for Al Gore. I don’t want to pick on him because he’s not a scientist.’ The nonsense he spews comes from the IPCC [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], so in a sense I don’t condemn him as much as I do the so-called climatologists like [James] Hansen, who says things that are idiotic. They’re the ones giving him all this stuff.

Al Gore makes a hundred-million dollars? He has five-billion in his slush fund? Look at [U.S. Senator] Barbara Boxer, she sponsored a bill for carbon cap and trade [Sanders/Boxer Global Warming Bill S.309]. Who will benefit from hundreds of billions of dollars for administering a scheme like that? The other thing is research funding. The U.S. spends about two-billion dollars a year on research. Right now, if you submit anything that says CO2 is not the bad guy, you won’t have a chance of getting funding. It all goes to the CO2 people who build little fiefdoms; they have grant money coming out of their ears.

Global warming "fiefdoms"...I'm going to use that.
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THE BIG DRINK - FLYING SCOTSMAN

A good enough drink to make you forget you're wearing a skirt.

Flying Scotsman:

1 oz Scotch
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 dash Bitters
1/4 tsp Simple Syrup
Ice

Stir with ice and strain into a glass.

DEMOCRATS ADMIT THEY CAN'T DELIVER UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

Several prominent US Senators have now admitted that neither Hillary or Obama will be able to deliver on their promise of universal health care. So why, you may ask, are the two of them still promising to do just that? Simple, Because they're fucking liars!

Congressional Democrats are backing away from healthcare reform promises made by their two presidential candidates, saying that even if their party controls the White House and Congress, sweeping change will be difficult.

For some senators, the promises made by Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) outside of Washington may not match the political reality on Capitol Hill.

“We all know there is not enough money to do all this stuff,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), a Finance Committee member and an Obama supporter, referring to the presidential candidates’ healthcare plans. “What they are doing is … laying out their ambitions.”

Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), a member of Senate Democratic leadership and a key Hillary Clinton ally who also sits on the Finance Committee, said he is “not sure we have the big plan on healthcare.”

“Healthcare I feel strongly about, but I am not sure that we’re ready for a major national healthcare plan,” Schumer said.

There's gonna be a whole lot of pissed off lazy people.
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US GOVERNMENT: DON'T CALL THEM "JIHADISTS" ANYMORE

You gotta be fucking kidding me...

The U.S. government has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language.

Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people not to describe Islamic extremists as ``jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism" is out, too.

The reason: Such words may actually boost support for radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious credibility or by causing offence to moderates.

For example, while Americans may understand "jihad" to mean ``holy war," it is in fact a broader Islamic concept of the struggle to do good, says the guidance prepared for diplomats and other officials tasked with explaining the war on terror to the public. Similarly, "mujahedeen," which means those engaged in jihad, must be seen in its broader context.

It doesn't say anything about "murderers"...So...Carry on
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PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA EXPOSED: FAKE WOUNDED

I'm not sure what happened to this guy to make him go lifeless. But whatever it was, getting hit by the van made him all better. Palestinian propaganda exposed.

THIS GERMAN UNDERSTANDS OBAMA BETTER THAN MOST AMERICANS

Gabor Steingart of Der Spiegel writes:

After the confetti has been shaken out of the hair and the party balloons have deflated, what is left from Tuesday's election night (more...) is a disturbing message: There is nothing to celebrate.

The winner is the loser. But the loser is not the winner. Clinton's victory was not big enough to snatch the nomination from Obama. But neither was his star power enough to woo the voters in the center.

It seems the race is jinxed: He was handed a defeat when he needed a victory, and she secured a victory when only an improbable triumph would have helped her.

Barring a miracle, Clinton's role at the Democratic Party convention in Denver in August will be limited to guest speaker. But Obama will go into the actual presidential election badly damaged.

On the night of Obama's first primary win, in the state of Iowa, this columnist wrote (more...): "(Obama) has scant hope of reaching the White House. He's too young, too inexperienced, too vague, and for many Americans, too black. His magic words about the era of change, of hope, of an America he will unite -- all that will evaporate like morning mist."...

Obama's chances of a successful run for the White House are anything but rosy. There are three reasons why his presidential run will be difficult:

First, a politician who favors social policies has a tough time in a recession. In his desperation over the persistent rejection by white working class voters, Obama has shot himself in the foot...

These people want new jobs, but they don't want new government debt. They want leadership, but Obama is only flashing his wallet.

Secondly, he is an opponent of war in a time of war. The United States is fighting a lonely and increasingly difficult war on two fronts, in Iraq and Afghanistan. He would like to finish the war quickly -- but the majority of Americans would like to win it first.

...he is a party favorite in times of dwindling party loyalty. He excites the active members of the Democratic Party, the officials, the young people and the university graduates, not to mention that part of the party -- a part which should not be underestimated -- which is to be found within newspapers and TV stations. Up to 35,000 people came to his meetings in Pennsylvania.

...the further one moves from the ranks of the true believers in the direction of the undecided -- from the left to the center, from young to old, from student to worker -- the lower the excitement over Obama. In Pennsylvania, 61 percent of older voters chose Clinton, as did 68 percent of Catholics, 65 percent of workers and over 70 percent of voters in rural areas. There, where life is hard, serious and sometimes monotonous, Obama struggles to make himself heard...

...this game is approaching its terrible end. The superdelegates, who are independent from the party base, will have to commit a political murder in the coming months. Will it be Obama or Clinton? For the party, the decision could amount to political suicide.

Full story

Well said Dieter...well said.

DICKHEAD OF THE DAY

Scumbag robs an ROTC student who is having a seizure...

IRAQIS FIND IRANIAN MID-RANGE MISSILE

Iraqi forces have found an Iranian warhead for a medium-range missile in Iraq.

On April 19, Iraqi troops, as part of Operation Charge of the Knights, discovered a cache of munitions that included a 240 mm high-explosive warhead in Basra...

The warhead, which contained Iranian markings, was said to be the most advanced weapon found in the possession of the Mahdi Army.

Meanwhile, back in America, Democrats are screaming "free Tibet".
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THE ICE AGE COMETH: GLOBAL WARMING HOAX SUFFERS ANOTHER HIT

Phil Chapman, a geophysicist and astronautical engineer, casts more doubt on the global warming hoax...Frankly, he scares the hell out of me...

"THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously...

The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers.

It didn't happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon.

The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth's climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790...

The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years.

The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue. We also know that glaciation can occur quickly: the required decline in global temperature is about 12C and it can happen in 20 years.

The next descent into an ice age is inevitable but may not happen for another 1000 years. On the other hand, it must be noted that the cooling in 2007 was even faster than in typical glacial transitions. If it continued for 20 years, the temperature would be 14C cooler in 2027.

By then, most of the advanced nations would have ceased to exist, vanishing under the ice, and the rest of the world would be faced with a catastrophe beyond imagining..."

In a related note, more evidence that the enlightened Europeans aren't as concerned with global warming as they claim we should be.

At a time when the world’s top climate experts agree that carbon emissions must be rapidly reduced to hold down global warming, Italy’s major electricity producer, Enel, is converting its massive power plant here from oil to coal, generally the dirtiest fuel on earth...

And Italy is not alone in its return to coal. Driven by rising demand, record high oil and natural gas prices, concerns over energy security and an aversion to nuclear energy, European countries are expected to put into operation about 50 coal-fired plants over the next five years, plants that will be in use for the next five decades.

It is strange that European governments are ramping up coal production while, at the same time, increasing taxes on their citizens for global warming related reasons and calling on the United States to contribute billions of dollars to combat global warming. There's something rotten in Denmark.
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BEATDOWN AT THE BEAUTY SALON

Man gets the crap beat out of him when trying to rob a beauty salon...

IT'S OFFICIAL: FAKE TIPSTER WAS AN OBAMA DELEGATE

Confirmation on the story of the alleged Obama delegate who pretended to be an abused child so the police would raid a church that she did not agree with. It's alleged no more...

Plenty is known about who Rozita Swinton is not.

She is not a teenage girl who bore her father's child and wanted to kill herself in Castle Rock. She is not an injured child trapped in a Colorado Springs basement. And she was never a sexually abused teen bride trapped in a polygamist compound in Arizona or Texas.

Who she is,though, is not so clear. A 33-year-old woman with a reasonably clean criminalhistory, Swinton has been active in politics and once sold insurance.

Yet in secret she was someone who could play the part of an anguished child with chilling authenticity. She is a person with either finely honed investigative skills or inside information into the secret details of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. And she's someone smart enough to know just how much information to give police to keep them searching - and how multiple cell phones reduced the odds of getting caught.

After the El Paso County Democratic caucuses and convention, she was named one of the 360 delegates to the state convention at the World Arena on May 17, chosen to support Barack Obama.

Kelly Seaman, a 911 supervisor for the Colorado Springs Police Department, said that more than 10 911 calls from at least three cell phones have been linked to Swinton in recent years. One of those calls also involved Arapahoe County.

Seaman said Swinton would give a little bit of information and then hang up. When dispatchers tried to get back in touch, the cell phone would be turned off. Swinton might then give a piece of information to another agency, or call dispatchers back to give a little more. She would play the part of a scared, crying girl. The calls went well beyond a typical prank, said police spokesman Lt. Skip Arms.

And these are the people knocking on doors for Obama.

VIDEO: IRAQI TROOPS PERFORMING DUTIES ON THE STREETS

Iraqi National Police Battalion conducting a cordon and search operation in Baghdad. Scenes include Iraqi soldiers on performing their duty in the streets.

INVASION OF THE PENIS SNATCHERS

Sleep with one eye open fellas...

Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.
"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Penis snatchers? I bet these guys are Hillary supporters.

EX-EXTREMISTS CALL FOR "WESTERN ISLAM": TRANSLATION - WE'RE WINNING

Islamic theologians convened at the British Museum Tuesday to support the launch of a new think tank to counter Al Qaeda's world view.

Former Islamist radicals in Britain launched a "counter-extremism think-tank" on Tuesday, saying they wanted to reclaim Islam from the violent ideology of al Qaeda.

The Quilliam Foundation, named after a 19th century English convert to Islam who established Britain's first mosque, says it aims to expose Islamism as a false ideology and help Muslims develop a tolerant modern brand of Western Islam.

Of course, I trust these fellas about as far as I can throw them, but, just the fact this discussion is taking place is a clear sign that the good guys are winning the war on terror.

Need more evidence? Well, take a look at Al Qaeda's #2 man throwing a shit fit over his own people:

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri criticised Muslims for failing to support Islamist insurgencies in Iraq and elsewhere in a new audiotape posted Tuesday on the Internet.

Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant also blasted Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas over their reported readiness to consider a peace deal with Israel.

Al Qaeda is getting more support from former US presidents (Jimmy Carter) than it's getting from its own people. And in what seems to be a reminder to Al Qaeda itself, in a recent internet Q & A with aspiring young jihadists, al-Zawahiri promised that attacks on Western countries were in the works. Just the fact that the question was asked is a sign that even O'Doul's drinking suicide bombers in training are becoming fed up with Al Qaeda's tactics of slaughtering its own people.
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COROLLA MAN - THE COUSIN KENNY CHRONICLES (VOL. 4)

This morning, at a red light, a man driving a Toyota Corolla stopped next to me...he had his windows down...all four of them...and was blasting Foreigner's "Urgent" over his stereo...I had my driver's side window down half way as I was smoking a cigarette...which made his little morning concert all the more annoying...Knowing the general nature of traffic lights, and the their tendency to turn green after a certain period of time, I waited patiently, anxiously awaiting my opportunity to distance myself from "Corolla Man"...green...great...I purposely drive 10 mph over the posted speed limit to ensure that I hit the next light before it turns red...poor synchronization...I still hit the red light...and in the distance, creeping up on me like a monthly car payment, that noise...once again...Foreigner..."it's urgent (urgent), urgent (urgent)...emergency"...I think to myself..."ass!"..."clown!"..."who the fuck do you think you are?"...not quite finished with my cigarette, I endure...once again waiting for the light to change...yet not as patient as the time before...but during the wait, I resolve myself to one thing...the situation at the next light will be different...somehow, some way, things will not be as before...but what?...I could put out my cigarette, half finished, and roll the window up...but these things cost good money..and I enjoy the cool tobacco refreshment...so that option is off the table...I could yell at him to "turn that noise down"...but that's bush league...in this professional part of town...Then it occurs to me...like a stroke of genius...I fumble through the console..."AC/DC"?...no...Otis Redding?...no...ah ha...got it...windows down...I pop it in...I turn it up...loud as it will go...factory speakers pushed to the brink...windows rattling...small animals fleeing...seismologists on alert...the jets are scrambled...----danananana da da dana...dananana da da dana ----"ahhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaaaa"....----...The Rolling Stones!...."Rocks Off" you Foreigner listening nancy boy!...Rocks-fucking-Off!!!!...boomp3.com. ...

I look straight ahead...I smile to myself...feeling I had already accomplished the most important thing I will accomplish all day...the light turns green...but I'm in no hurry now...but Corolla man seems to be...he drives, purposefully it seems, over the speed limit, just as I had, in an attempt to make the next light...---he does not...and slowly, like a monthly car payment, I roll up next to him..."plug in flush out and fire the fucking feed"...again I smile...my life is good.

Cousin Kenny
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OBAMA'S "BLACK THEOLOGY" CHURCH: DESTROY ALL WHITES

OK...Look past the guy in the funny hat...and ignore the fact that his boys just got busted stealing nuclear secrets from the US...The video is still full of facts...In the end, Obama's just another angry black man

CHINA DOWN TO 12 DAYS OF COAL

I'm so far ahead of the curve on this it's scary. China's quest for energy to feed its growing economy has them all over the globe in search of oil, coal, and other energy sources. And now, recent news out of China indicates that they will become more and more desparate in their search.

CHINA only has enough coal for 12 days of consumption, three days less than a month ago, state media reported Wednesday, sounding the alarm bells over the nation's most important source of energy.

In certain parts of China, such as densely populated Hebei province in the north, reserves are down to less than a week, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the China Electricity Regulatory Commission.

China counts on coal for about 70 per cent of its energy consumption, a proportion that has stayed almost unchanged for the past nearly three decades despite a skyrocketing rise in demand for power.

Why is this important? I'll tell you why it's important. Next week.

BAD MOOKIE: AL SADR SHAMES HIS FAMILY

From the Mudville Gazzette...

Iraq’s Josef Alsadar said that Muqtada Alsadar has tainted our family reputation; we will deal with him internally.

Alseyed Josef Alsadar a member of the honored Sadar family wrote a letter to Alrafedain news which said: ‘Muqtada Alsadar has tainted the reputation of this respected family, and the family disowns Muqtada. We are as innocent of him as the wolf is of the blood of Josef (Biblical (Old Testament I believe) and Koranic reference). The family is working on ways to discipline him with in the family. Consultation for this are held at the highest level to come up with punishments for its rogue son.

These courageous and dangerous statements come, for the fist time, from a member of the Sadar family. Alseyed Josef Alsadar is considered to be a member of the family with deep faith who is rarely public. It appears he has broken his silence to show the truth before it is to late.

It's a translation, so, it's subject to verification.

COUNTER-PROTEST AT GEORGE MASON

Thanks to Last of the Few

IRAQI ATM MACHINE

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OBAMA PLAYS THE WAFFLE CARD WHEN ASKED ABOUT CARTER'S MEETING WITH HAMAS

A first in American politics...Rather than answer a question from a reporter about former president Jimmy Carter's ill-advised meeting with the terrorist group Hamas, Obama played, not the race card, but the waffle card.

Democratic White House contender Barack Obama could not hide his irritation Monday when asked by a reporter what he thought about former president Jimmy Carter's meeting with Hamas last week.

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" the Illinois senator said as he ate breakfast in Scranton, Pennsylvania, according to MSNBC television pictures.

Pressed again for an answer, he replied: "Just let me eat my waffle."

Let's be sure to keep this guy out of IHOP. We'll never get a straight answer.
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MUSLIMS CALL FOR MECCA TO BE CENTER OF WORLD TIME

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true center of the Earth. I don't suspect we can expect much opposition from the British. So, get used to the term "Mecca mean time".

VOICES FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE: SELMA FREAKING ALABAMA???

The Big Feed is proud to present this article from the esteemed Robert Stacy McCain who writes for the blog, THE OTHER MCCAIN.

Reprinted with full permission.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Selma Freaking Alabama???

So I'm lying in bed this morning, half-awake, getting ready to get up, get dressed and get on the road to Harrisburg.

The TV's on Fox News. They go into the 10 o'clock hour, and suddenly it's Carl Cameron talking about John McCain kicking off something he calls the "Time For Action Tour" in Selma, Alabama.

Selma. Alabama.

Holy freaking crap! That's when I notice that Cameron is telling me this while standing in front of an arched bridge over a river and now I realize that John McCain is about to speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Edmund. Pettus. Bridge.

Some clever Republican political strategist has just proven himself too clever by half. Whatever PR value there is in having a Republican talk about the need to "take action" on poverty, it's more than canceled out by the glaring idiocy of sending him to the Edmund Pettus Bridge to talk about civil rights and John Lewis:

"There must be no forgotten places in America, whether they have been ignored for long years by the sins of indifference and injustice, or have been left behind as the world grew smaller and more economically interdependent. In America, we have always believed that if the day was a disappointment, we would win tomorrow. That's what John Lewis believed when he marched across this bridge. That’s what he still believes; what he still fights to achieve: a better country than the one he inherited."

What the bloody hell is this? Going to the buckle of the Bible Belt and talking about "the sins of indifference and injustice"? Talking about "places left behind"?

To start with, nobody in Alabama needs or wants a lecture about "injustice," and certainly not from a Republican senator. Look at the calendar: 2008. Anybody old enough to have marched with John Lewis in the 1965 voting-rights march is now more worried about Social Security and Medicare than anything else.

Second, if you want to talk about "places left behind," leave Alabama out of it. Anybody with Google can easily discover that the economy in Alabama has been growing faster than the overall U.S. economy for several years, for example:

In 2006 and 2007 24 new auto plants opened in Alabama. Although Birmingham residents are most familiar with Lincoln's Honda Manufacturing and the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant in Vance, supplier plants also play a significant employment role. Since 2003, supplier plants have reported 6.8 percent growth in jobs. Jefferson County's supplier job growth has increased 41 percent.

But the most obvious blunder involved in John McCain going to Selma and talking about John Lewis is that John Lewis is a Democrat. And not just a generic Democrat, but a feisty liberal Democrat.

John Lewis, partisan Democrat, is sure to be enraged by watching the McCain campaign attempt to co-opt Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge for a GOP campaign photo-op. And if the McCain campaign tries to use that photo-op in an advertisement, the Democrats will immediately trot out Lewis to preach a sermon about the transparent bogusness of John McCain.

For crying out loud, while John Lewis was preparing to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, John McCain was preparing to kill Commies in Vietnam.

Who can account for the fathomless idiocy of a GOP strategist who, not content to have a genuine Commie-killing war hero as his candidate, decides it's a clever move to co-opt the most famous episode in the life of a Democrat like John Lewis?

Maybe once Crazy Cousin John figures out what a dumb move this Selma trip was, his infamous temper will take hold of him and he'll strangle the GOP strategist who dreamed up this idiotic stunt.

If any Republican campaign wants to stage a photo-op at a famous bridge and invoke the name of a famous Democrat, my suggestion would be Chappquiddick and Ted Kennedy.

Posted by Robert Stacy McCain
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