Bill's Bites -- 2006.09.15 Contributed by Bill Faith
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Destitute Dog --Please and help if you can.
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The 9/11 conspiracy theorists (or "truthers") were out in force at Ground Zero on the 5th anniversary (see photos , and ). We touched on this issue in our Sept. 8th cartoon but decided to devote a cartoon to it, as well as compile more links (there are new links below plus the links from the previous post).
by David Dunbar and Brad Reagan, both editors at Popular Mechanics, is the must-read book on the subject. ...
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Allahpundit
Almost certainly , but it’s Friday so it gets the link. Read what she has to say. Ace is trying to confirm it with the FBI in Austin. If you don’t know who Shukrijumah is, this’ll bring you .
One thing about her story that gives me pause is the fact that ...
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... Earlier today the political blogosphere witnessed an interesting and fairly infrequent occurrence — a minor blogfight pitting an against an : At the Prospect’s newest blog, Horse’s Mouth, former Spinsanity co-writer Brendan Nyhan, slammed Eschaton for taking a . Nyhan initially mistook guest poster Avedon Carol for Atrios himself, and chaos ensued. That’s interesting and all, but I’m distracted from whatever I was going to say about it because… the incident giving rise to the debate — the alleged suicide of a ticket agent who had checked in Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari on the way to crash Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade center — appears to be an urban legend, hoax or mistake ...
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... Penn also suggested Bush will bring fascism to the United States. When? After his last mid-terms when Congress might go Dem? This who visited Iran, as we all know is not a fascist country, to “cover the elections”.
However, saying President Bush “devastated our country”, shamefully accusing him of doing “enormous damage to mankind”, and implying that Bush is a fascist, just wasn’t enough for Spicoli. He had to bash our military: ...
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Pakistan has removed all doubt about its tenacity in fighting terrorism. The London Telegraph reports that Pervez Musharraf has caught in the five years since the US drove their government out of Afghanistan: ...
Apparently in desperate need of a history lesson, Democrats yesterday described the passed by the House yesterday "another political gimmick" and called the barrier a new Berlin Wall: ...
The arguments employed by the opponents of George Bush's plan to establish specific definitions for Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions , and rarely get challenged on it. They claim that any redefinition or apparent backsliding on the Geneva Conventions will put our own troops at risk; Colin Powell made the same argument yesterday. However, they fail to explain how the GC has ever protected American troops during wartime: ...
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Assassination fantasies — they’re anymore!
Benedict XVI is set to visit Turkey in November, for those looking to descry omens, here’s one that’s not terribly encouraging: A potboiler novel currently on bestseller lists in Turkey titled Papa’ya suikast (”Attack on the Pope”) predicts that Benedict will be assassinated.
Written by novelist Yücel Kaya, the book is subtitled, “Who will kill Benedict XVI in Istanbul?” ...
Either TP is right and AAR is circling the drain or TP is wrong and they end up humiliated in front of the blogosphere. That’s a nice warm Friday fuzzy for you.
Brian Maloney doth protest too much, though: ...
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Scott Ott
(2006-09-15) -- Pope Benedict XVI today apologized for using a quotation in a recent speech that has offended Muslim leaders by implying that the religion of Muhammad has brought little good to the world, and much evil. ...
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Worth Watching
Boomer thinks you'll enjoy
Del Vecchio thinks you'll enjoy .
I think you'll enjoy them both. While you're in the neighborhood, check out
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Paul Mirengoff
Don't miss excellent dissection of the objections raised by Republican Sen. John McCain and "his entourage" of terrorist rights advocates against President Bush's proposed terrorist trial procedures. As McCarthy notes, Sen. McCain's unwillingness or inability to see past his experiences as a prisioner of war in very different times under very different circumstances raises this question: Can the nation afford a President John McCain? (One might also ask whether, given his power and influence with respect these issues, the nation can afford a Senator McCain). ...
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John McCain, the Republican frontrunner for the 2008 presidential election, has dramatically raised the stakes in a fight with the White House over interrogation techniques permitted for use at secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons by saying he is unwilling to back down on the issue even if it ruins his chance of becoming president. ...
Contributed by Bill Faith on September 15, 2006 at 06:49 PM in , |
Comments
Posted by: GI Zhou
Bill et al,
The fellow who writes Captain's quarters is so far of the truth it begs a reply. His misuse of Second World War history by selective use of examples and distortions, regarding the treatment of American POWs in the European Theatre of War is just plain bullshit. I am not into censorship – show me a true picture of Ann Coulter nekkid anytime – but this guy's comments I believe drags down this site.
If you do not follow the Geneva Conventions you become as bad the terrorists/insurgents themselves and further risk alienating a somewhat hostile population depending on the situation – I'm just not talking Iraq here. First time I heard that the Germans routinely shot pilots in the Second World War, I'm not saying there weren't isolated examples, it wasn't the norm. He neglected to mention the German treatment of captured Russians in the Second World War and even in the Second Wworld war, the Allies respected the Geneva Conventions regarding treatment of Japanese POWs.
This guy needs a good case of STFU when it comes to this (I doubt if this guy was ever in uniform), as comments like these aid an enemy ( including leftist arseholes in Europe) by exposing 'what the Americans are really like'. I just love the way people who haven't been in the military tell the military what it is doing wrong. If it was so damn easy most militaries would have done it already.
My thoughts anyway but this article drags the site down. BTW KICK KERRY AND MURTHA IN THE GOOLIES!