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| Democrats Basically Supportive of US Troops |
| 10.28.05 (8:11 am) [edit] |
How many times do the enemies within have to state their true intentions before people wise up?In his first major foreign policy address since losing his White House bid, Senator John F. Kerry called on President Bush to bring home 20,000 US troops from Iraq after the country votes on a National Assembly in December, adding that ''the goal should be to withdraw the bulk of American combat forces by the end of next year." http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washingto n/articles/2005/10/27/dem ocratic_leaders_offer_a_n ational_security_plan" title="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washingto n/articles/2005/10/27/dem ocratic_leaders_offer_a_n ational_security_plan" target="_blank"http://www.boston.com/news/na... Over at National Review Online, Jim Geraghty sums it up nicely: "There's your slogan for 2006! 'The Democrats: Basically supportive of the troops. Kinda. Sorta. You know. Enough.'" Tools. No wonder you idiots keep losing elections. |
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| RIP Rosa Parks |
| 10.28.05 (6:14 am) [edit] |
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| A Virtual Duet |
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| Piggy banks 'offend UK Muslims' |
| 10.25.05 (11:52 am) [edit] |
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British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims. Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here. Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be an impure animal. Salim Mulla, secretary of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, backed the bank move. "This is a sensitive issue and I think the banks are simply being courteous to their customers," he said. However, the move brought accusations of political correctness gone mad from critics. "The next thing we will be banning Christmas trees and cribs and the logical result of that process is a bland uniformity," the Dean of Blackburn, Reverend Christopher Armstrong, said. "We should learn to celebrate our difference, not be fearful of them." Khalid Mahmoud, the Labour MP for a Birmingham seat and one of four Muslim MPs in Britain, also criticised the piggy-bank ban. "We live in a multicultural society and the traditions and symbols of one community should not be obliterated just to accommodate another," Mr Mahmoud said. "I doubt many Muslims would be seriously offended by piggy banks." © 2005 AAP Good dhimmies... http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Piggy-banks -offend-UK-Muslims/2005/1 0/24/1130006056771.html" title="http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Piggy-banks -offend-UK-Muslims/2005/1 0/24/1130006056771.html" target="_blank"http://www.theage.com.au/news... |
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| California Declines Accepting Southern Lifes (sic) |
| 10.25.05 (11:25 am) [edit] |
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SFIMC's continuing coverage of Hurricane Katrina Coverage San Francisco Declines Accepting Southern Lifestyle by Nessie SFIMC EDITOR My city San Francisco is a very tolerant place. we have extended our hands all over the world but after the displaced from Hurricane Katrina started to arrive here we where (sic) suddenly faced with the reality of the fact that if we let the thousands of southerners migrate into our home they will change it forever. In the past forty years many of us have struggled to make the SanFrancisco (sic) Bay Area a Progressive and intellectual Oasis. That would be forever lost forever (sic) if we allow the droved (sic) of back woods red necks from the south to invade our wonderful city. plans are now underway signatures are being collected, protests are being planned to prevent the forced migration of thousands from the deep south into our city. what can you do now ? watch for the web sight (sic) that will be launched in the next two days sign the petitions being circulated plan to attend the up comming protests spread the news of our movement E Mail the board of supervisors and demant (sic)that they protect the life style of our City Wow. Just wow. No suprises this is posted on IndyMedia. I hate to even provide the link... http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/111548.shtml" title="http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/111548.shtml" target="_blank"http://sandiego.indymedia.org... |
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| Reporting on the 2,000th American Death in Iraq |
| 10.25.05 (6:27 am) [edit] |
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Posted on 10/23/2005 12:22:39 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob Shortly, the 2,000th death of an American serviceman or woman will occur in Iraq. That will generate an orgy of coverage in the American press on how “deadly” the war is. Sidebars will suggest that citizens are becoming “increasingly doubtful” about the conduct of the war. This Newsbusters article denounces that coverage as dishonest, in advance. I wrote on 24 April, 2004, that the War on Terror is the LEAST bloody war in the history of the United States, measured by deaths per month. This is true going back to the Revolutionary War, even though the nation’s population then was only 1 percent of what it is today. (In impact on the population, every death in the Revolution was equivalent to about 100 deaths today.) Source: http://www.chronwatch.com/con... Now, Dan Hallagan has done the detailed research to put all of America’s wars in context and compared them, by their cost in blood and money, to the nation’s populations and economies when those wars occurred. I had used “deaths.” Hallagan uses the correct military meaning of “casualties” including all those killed and wounded. His conclusions are that Gulf War I was the least bloody war in our history with a casualty rate of 0.00029 percent of the population at the time. The second least is the War on Terror, with a rate of 0.00529 percent. Third, the Spanish American War, at 0.00551. By contrast, the three bloodiest wars were the Revolutionary War at 0.30351 percent, then World War II at 0.80761 percent, and by far the highest, the Civil War at 2.82865 percent. Note that Mr. Hallagan uses a total of 2,184 for American troops killed in the War on Terror. This is because he includes all deaths in this war, those in Afghanistan plus a few in other places such as the Philippines, whereas the American press today ignores those other deaths. The not-so-subtle bias is that deaths other than in Iraq are in a good cause, and should be ignored. The effort to delegitimize this war applies only to Iraq. On the cost of the wars, Mr. Hallagan presents his “War Cost Index” which divides “the average annual cost of a war ... by its ending Gross Domestic Product GDP.” In short, this measures how much of the nation’s total economy is devoted to each war. The three least expensive wars, by that measurement, are Spanish-American War, War Against Terror, and the Vietnam War, with respective indices of 0.00271, 0.00746, and 0.01132. The three most expensive were WW II, the War of 1812, and the Revolutionary War, with respective indices of 0.33676, 0.49069, and 0.59524. Gulf War I and the War of 1812 both move far up the scale compared to their cost in casualties, because these two were fought mostly with more expensive assets, air and sea power. Source: http://www.logictimes.com/dis... Mr. Hallagan presents his information both in text and numbers, and in simple, clear graphs. So even the editors and readers of USA Today can read and understand them. In short, I condemn every reporter and every editor in every media source of all types who reports on the 2,000th American military death in Iraq as professionally incompetent, if they do not put those deaths in context with other American wars. Any competent reporter can click the link above, read Mr. Hallagan’s statistics (and their sources), check his math, and then write an honest and competent story when that “milestone death” in Iraq occurs, which will be soon. I’m not holding my breath for the American press to become competent overnight on this subject, however. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507788/ posts" title="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507788/ posts" target="_blank"http://www.freerepublic.com/f... |
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| 85% of Child Predators Captured Are Criminal Immigrants |
| 10.25.05 (6:18 am) [edit] |
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Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently revealed that arrests for child sex crimes during the first two years of Operation Predator have exceeded 6,000 and 85 percent of them are criminal immigrants. Operation Predator is Immigration and Customs Enforcement's comprehensive initiative to safeguard children from foreign national pedophiles, international sex tourists, Internet child pornographers and human traffickers. Operation Predator evolved out of ICE’s mission to find and deport illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The majority of the arrests under Operation Predator - roughly 85% - have involved foreign nationals in this country whose child sex crimes make them removable from the United States. By matching immigration databases with state Megan’s law directories, ICE agents have arrested more than 1,800 registered sex offenders. Since Operation Predator began on July 9, 2003, the initiative has resulted in 6,085 child predator arrests throughout the country - an average of roughly 250 arrests per month and eight arrests per day. While arrests have been made in every state, the most have occurred in these states: Arizona (207), California (1,578), Florida (255), Illinois (282), Michigan (153), Minnesota (190), New Jersey (423), New York (367), Oregon (148) and Texas (545). Operation Predator also has an important international component, as leads developed by domestic ICE offices are shared with ICE Attaché offices overseas and foreign law enforcement for action. To date, leads shared by ICE with foreign authorities have resulted in the arrest of roughly 1,000 individuals overseas. With an average of nearly 250 child sex predator arrests per month, ICE's Operation Predator has emerged as one of most successful efforts ever launched to protect America's children. In enforcing the nation's immigration laws, ICE is systematically targeting those who pose the greatest threats, including criminal aliens who prey on our children. Some recent ICE arrests involving criminal aliens who committed child sex crimes include Julio Cesar Rabago-Magana, a Mexican man who raped a four-year-old child in the basement of Mercado Central in Minneapolis, Minn. Rabago-Magana pleaded guilty Oct. 23, 2002 to first-degree criminal sexual conduct. After serving his criminal sentence, he was arrested by ICE agents at his St. Paul home on March 3, 2005, and deported six days later. To date, more than 2,100 of these foreign-born predators have been removed from the United States to their home nations. As part of this process, ICE advises the host nation governments about the criminal histories of each sex predator it is deporting to their nations. ICE also issues Green Notices through Interpol in appropriate cases. The Green Notice provides information on career criminals who have committed, or are likely to commit, offenses in several countries. Sources: US Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Security Institute But...but... They're just doing the jobs that no Americans want to do! http://www.sierratimes.com/05/10/22/152_163_100_ 12_58063.htm" title="http://www.sierratimes.com/05/10/22/152_163_100_ 12_58063.htm" target="_blank"http://www.sierratimes.com/05... |
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| Summary justice needed to fight crime says Blair |
| 10.12.05 (7:55 am) [edit] |
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JAMES KIRKUP AND GERRI PEEV Tony Blair yesterday threatened to impose "summary justice" on people accused of offences including terrorism, organised crime and neighbourhood yobbery. Claiming that the criminal justice system was "passing through a watershed," the Prime Minister suggested a radical and far-reaching shift in legal practice, hinting that many traditional legal protections could be swept away. Mr Blair identified terrorism, brutal, violent, organised crime and antisocial behaviour as "new types of crime" that require new rules. "You can't do it by the rules of the game we have at the moment, you just can't," he told a Downing Street press conference. ...Going beyond that proposal, Mr Blair suggested that police could get more powers to impose fines on suspected offenders, or expel people accused of drug crimes from public rented housing. Only after the penalty had been imposed would the accused have the right to mount a legal appeal to prove their innocence. "Now that is summary justice," Mr Blair told journalists in Downing Street. "It is tough and it is hard, but in my judgment it is the only way to deal with it, and that comes first." Hinting at a shift away from the presumption of innocence as the foundation of the legal code, Mr Blair said: "You have got to put the ability to protect the law-abiding citizen at the centre of it." New rules for organised crime and anti-social behaviour will come in the next few months, but the government's immediate project is the Terrorism Bill published yesterday. The bill's most contentious clause would allow police to detain suspects without charge for up to three months. Mr Blair insisted there could be no compromise on that plan, which is based closely on a request to government from senior police officers. Mr Blair insisted that he was not simply doing everything he was told by the police. "If they are right, then how can I responsibly refuse to do something that will actually protect, the most basic civil liberty, which is the right to life?" If true, this is seriously bad news for the UK... http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=2075882005" title="http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=2075882005" target="_blank"http://news.scotsman.com/poli... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16237 084&method=full&siteid=94 762&headline=blair-s-yob- war--name_page.html" title="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16237 084&method=full&siteid=94 762&headline=blair-s-yob- war--name_page.html" target="_blank"http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/... http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0" title="http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0" target="_blank"http://www.thesun.co.uk/artic...,,2-2005470382,00.html |
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| Former Vietnam POWs Sue John Kerry |
| 10.05.05 (10:38 am) [edit] |
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Sen. John Kerry and a top DNC campaign official have been sued for conspiracy and defamation in Federal District Court in Philadelphia by the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation (VVLF), which is led by a group of former Vietnam combat veterans, including several POWs, and the wife of a POW. The legal action comes just weeks after the group of highly decorated veterans, which includes a Medal of Honor recipient, was itself sued twice by Kerry campaign supporters who were once his fellow antiwar activists. All the lawsuits stem from last year's Presidential elections and Stolen Honor, a documentary released last September that examined the impact of Kerry's 1971 anti-war activities on hundreds of American POWs still being held in the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison camp. The Kerry campaign mounted a major effort to prevent Stolen Honor from being aired last October after the Sinclair Broadcasting Company announced plans to show the film on its 62 stations nationally. Sinclair was sued, boycotted and harshly condemned by Kerry campaign officials who publicly threatened to have the TV cable company's FCC license revoked if Kerry was elected. That was followed by protests from 18 U.S. Democrat Senators who called for FCC and FEC investigations of Sinclair. Amid the furor, the documentary's producer, Carlton Sherwood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and thrice wounded Vietnam veteran, was sued for libel by a Kerry advisor and member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, an organization Kerry represented as national spokesman in the 1970's. That case is scheduled for a jury trial next year in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas. Sinclair eventually withdrew its planned broadcast of the film and, under pressure from Kerry campaign supporters, theater showings were canceled. The federal lawsuit, filed this week by Sherwood and the POWs, charge Kerry and DNC campaign coordinator Anthony Podesta of conspiring to discredit the documentary and defaming the film's producer for the purpose of preventing Stolen Honor from being broadcast or seen in theaters. Stolen Honor focused on Kerry's 1971 testimony before the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee when he accused U.S. combat troops of committing atrocities and war crimes on a "day to day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." The film examined, through interviews with 17 POWs and three POWs wives, the consequences of those allegations on some 350 American POWs still held in North Vietnamese Communist prison camps. Some of the POWs interviewed for the documentary charged Kerry with "treason" and "perjury," while others said his 1971 Senate testimony placed their lives in jeopardy, protracted the Vietnam War and extended their confinement for years. All the POWs accused Kerry and his followers of fabricating "war crimes" and providing aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. Ha, HA! /Nelson Munce http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051005/dcw038.html?.v=27" title="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051005/dcw038.html?.v=27" target="_blank"http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/0... |
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| Perils Before Swine |
| 10.05.05 (10:23 am) [edit] |
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NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. Bosses acted after a Muslim complained about pig-shaped stress relievers delivered to the council in the run-up to the Islamic festival of Ramadan. Muslims are barred from eating pork in the Koran and consider pigs unclean. Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban. He said: “It’s a tolerance of people’s beliefs.” Hmmmm... Never hear Jews whine about things like this. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0" title="http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0" target="_blank"http://www.thesun.co.uk/artic...,,2-2005450600,00.html |
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| Cindy’s Katrina Relief: $17K For Media Equip, $0 For Katrina Victims |
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Mother Sheehan fans will recall that as hurricane Katrina threatened to remove her grieving visage from the front page of the nation’s newspapers, Cindy got together with her pals, the Veterans For Peace, to start a Katrina relief effort. Even the self-designated higher being, Michael Moore, began vouching and shilling for Cindy and the VFP’s Katrina relief program. As discussed previously, the VFP asked for donations that they claimed would be used to "support" the Red Cross. (The VFP later falsely claimed that the Red Cross had designated them "the best shelter" doing Katrina relief. Despite the minor fact that the VFP never opened any kind of shelter.) Meanwhile, the VFP accused the Red Cross of gross incompetence and bragged about looting Red Cross supplies and passing them out to the victims themselves. Soon, however, the Red Cross and the local authorities were made aware of the VFP’s claims. The VFP were quickly chased out of the school they were using, then their storage facility, and then even the public campground. In each instance the VFP had lied to those in charge, falsely claiming to be with the Red Cross. Eventually, the VFP scrubbed its sites of most references to their "support" of the Red Cross, but not before collecting untold hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, as well as who knows how much supplies and equipment. As of this writing, the local police, the Red Cross, the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office and the US Department of Justice are reportedly conducting investigations into the VFP’s Katrina activities. Despite their overwhelming success at fundraising, where they claimed to be collecting more than $100K a day, the VFP have apparently thus far spent little or no money helping the victims of Katrina. (Apart from delivering possibly pilfered supplies to the racist Moslem felony ex-con former Black Panther, Malik Rahim.) Lastly, the VFP’s own lawyers accused them of malfeasance, and the VFP in turn fired said lawyers. The Veterans For Peace have long since fled Covington, Louisiana, which was their Katrina relief center. They have even closed down their message board and reportedly fired all the moderators there. Though they continue to ask for donations for their Katrina relief program there and elsewhere on the internet. Here is a recent update from a purported insider, Paul V. Paul alleges that no VFP money has been spent on hurricane relief. But he says the VFP did try to use their money to try to buy $17,000 worth of "media equipment" Via: Sweetness & Light |
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| Katrina Relief Money Spent On VFP Buses |
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From: Gordon Soderberg To: "Margaret E. Hayes" CC: beasaldivar@.net, underhill@.net, joker4penquin@.net, twavatar@.com, campcaseyalumni@yahoogrou ps.com, wolfishq@.net, signwares@.com Subject: Re: [campcaseyalumni] Re: Donations for hurricane victims-BUS IDEA Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:07:32 -0700 We are looking at a short bus with wheel chair ramp $5,000 great shape VFP Katrina Fund has approved paying for it. We are also looking for a motor coach ( bus, motor home for the Impeachment tour. Pat Tate will be returning to California with the oringinal bus. Dennis Kyne, Fred Danforth, and Myself will be starting the impeachment tour again in October from The Farm in Tennessee. On Saturday, October 01, 2005, at 12:02PM, Margaret E. Hayes Gordon Soderberg Veterans For Peace Chapter 22 and 56 Dear Beatriz, I think you have a great point and there are lots of other offers for buses coming in. Peace and keep up the good work. Beatriz, I never met you personally at camp casey but I admire you a lot and am so sorry for your loss. In Peace, Margaret Lovely. Morons. http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/katrina-relie f-money-spent-on-vfp-buse s/" title="http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/katrina-relie f-money-spent-on-vfp-buse s/" target="_blank"http://www.sweetness-light.co... |
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