Bill's Bites -- 2006.10.06
Contributed by Bill Faith
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Destitute Dog -- Please read this and help if you can.
"Filipina firecracker...Fox News firecracker;"
Plus: A Kos diarist offers support(!)
Michelle Malkin
I love how the always oh-so-sensitive New York Times has no problem throwing my ethnicity into an attack, when my ethnicity has nothing at all to do with the subject (the jihad vs. anti-jihad war at YouTube). Of course, if you visited NYTimes writer Virginia Heffernan's insipid blog to look at the petty swipes, you wouldn't know about it. She or her editors edited the gratuitious ethnic references out after readers complained and failed to note that they had done so. But thanks to Bob Cox, you can check out the evolution of the hilarious edits for yourselves:
First: ...
Veil Rage continues to simmer
Michelle Malkin
Via Sugiero and LGF, the latest on Muslim rage over British Foreign Secretary's candid remarks about Islam, attire, and community relations:
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Time critic blames FOX News for Olbermann’s whacky behavior
Ian Schwartz
Hat tip to Rich Noyes at Newsbusters, who writes: In an article posted Friday on Time.com, the magazine’s critic James Poniewozik suggests the Fox News Channel, which he sees as tilted to the right, is also responsible for the multi-minute rants that MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has lately been emitting. Time also dismisses the idea that the rest of the mainstream media (presumably including itself) is tilted to the left, with Poniewozik parenthetically noting that “the MSM really slant toward the institutional, establishmentarian center, which is a bias as dangerous as any other.” ...
James Poniewozik, the Time critic, writes this about FOX News: ...
Soon-to-be Speaker Pelosi marks fifth anniversary of Afghan war
Allahpundit
A little morale booster for the troops overseas and all of us chickenhawks, left and right, hoping for victory here at home. ...
Lawyer of outed page speaks
Michelle Malkin
Did the outers make another mistake? The [congressional page's] attorney disputed as “a piece of fiction” a report on a widely viewed Internet site, The Drudge Report, that [the page's] exchanges with Foley were a prank by the page. ...
Video: CNN reports Foley victim calling Drudge prank claim ‘fiction’
Ian Schwartz
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On the 4pm hour of CNN’s The Situation Room, correspondent Brian Todd was questioned about “internet suggestions” that recent Foley IM conversations were a prank or hoax by anchor Wolf Blitzer. The lawyer of one of Foley’s victims called it a “piece of fiction”. ABC News also commented and said the report is not true.
Full transcript below. ...
Evangelicals abandon GOP, teens abandon evangelicals
Allahpundit
Which I guess for us means not only are we going to lose now, we’re going to lose big time in the future!
The bad news:
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The good news? ... Video: Father of the devil calls Hugo Chavez “an ass”
If the devil smells like sulphur, what does a Venezuelan ass smell like?
Note Aitch-Dubya’s veiled threat at the end of the clip. Heh.
Update:
Foley follies: Friday all-purpose thread
Allahpundit
On behalf of myself and the Hot Air readership, I open this thread by calling upon Speaker Hastert to resign immediately and spare us from having to devote yet another day of coverage to this clammy, tedious crap. ...
And now: Veil Rage!
Veil call "sparks Muslim fury"
What doesn't "spark Muslim fury?" A senior British Cabinet minister has sparked fury by saying that Muslim women who wore full veils made community relations more difficult.
Jack Straw wrote in a newspaper that a veil was "a visible statement of separation and difference" and that he was more comfortable dealing with female visitors to his local political office with their faces uncovered.
But Muslim leaders in Straw's Blackburn constituency in northwest England said many Muslim women would find his comments "offensive and disturbing."
Questions for ABC News
Michelle Malkin
Blogger Bob Owens has some questions for ABC News that he can't seem to get answered: * When did [Brian] Ross become aware of the existence of the instant messages between Congressman Foley and House pages?
* Were these instant messages given to Ross and the Staff of The Blotter directly by the pages, or were they filtered through an intermediary?
On the second question, I linked to the WSJ the other day, which reported that Ross says ... Raise your voice against jihad lawyer Lynne Stewart
Michelle Malkin
Radical left lawyer Lynne Stewart, convicted of helping terrorists by smuggling messages of violence from imprisoned Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, faces sentencing for her crime just 10 days from now.
On Oct. 16, her terror-coddling sympathizers plan to show up in full force in court in lower Manhattan. A socialist rag reports: An overflow crowd will rally in Foley Square at Centre and Worth Streets.
On the eve of sentencing, a rally and tribute to Stewart has been organized to honor her long legal efforts and activist political life. The event will begin at 4 p.m. at Riverside Church—between 120 and 122 Streets and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Stewart has described the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an "armed struggle." This is a reminder of exactly what she did to aid and abet jihad via Middle East Quarterly: ...
North Korea: War Is Coming To American Soil
A rambling, disjointed editorial by a man known as Kim Jong-Il's "unofficial spokesman" tells Asia Times readers that North Korea does not intend to build its nuclear weapons to use as bargaining chips. Kim will build them to turn American cities into "towering infernos": ...
Nuclear Terrorism Or Better Enforcement?
A disturbing report in the Times of London raises the question about whether terrorists have increased their efforts to find nuclear material, or whether the West has improved its ability to stop them. Confirmed incidents of nuclear trafficking have increased sharply since 2002, with most of the material falling into the "dirty-bomb" category: ...
Missing The Low-Hanging Fruit
In all of the heat surrounding the NSA warrantless surveillance program and SWIFT banking intelligence, we seem to have lost track of the uncontroversial communication taps allowed by law. The Washington Post reminds us in an editorial that we have no bar to reviewing prisoner communications, and yet the imprisoned terrorists already in our custody have little problem sending mail to their jihadist friends unmolested: ...
Audio: Clinton says he loves George Bush;
Update: Tells WaPo Dems expect media to take their side
Allahpundit
Now he can guest-blog at Powerline!
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I’m kidding, of course. It was the other George Bush to which he was referring.
But the audio was too sweet not to clip.
Speaking of Billy Jeff, Richard Clarke will be on Bill Maher’s unwatchable HBO show later this evening. Michael Scheuer has drawn up a list of five questions Maher should, but won’t, put to him about why he and Clinton let Osama get away in 1999.
Update: Quite an admission. Eric Alterman’s going to wet himself: ...
Border fence dead on arrival
File this with Frist’s comments about the Taliban in the “What’s the difference?” folder.
They’re laughing at you: The loopholes leave the Bush administration with authority to decide where, when and how long a fence will be built, except for small stretches east of San Diego and in western Arizona. Homeland Security officials have proposed a fence half as long, lawmakers said…
Asked whether Homeland Security would build 700 miles of fence, department spokesman Russ Knocke would not say…
The office of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) yesterday released a letter from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) promising to ensure that Chertoff has discretion over whether to build a fence or choose other options…
North Korea nuke test
The North Korean military is rallying to Kim Jong-Il. Diplomacy is stirring to stop its nuclear test, which may come off this weekend. But China refuses to stop North Korea from testing a nuclear weapon (h/t Austin Bay): WHILE the rest of the world looks to Beijing to stop North Korea from exploding a nuclear bomb, a leading Chinese analyst says it is too late - China cannot act without doing worse harm to its own interests.
“Basically, our country’s work of persuasion with the (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) in the 12 years that the DPRK developed its nuclear program had been a failure,” writes highly regarded Shen Dingli, of Shanghai’s Fudan University.
That work of “persuasion” never quite got around to Beijing cutting off North Korea’s fuel and food supplies. It never quite got around to any sort of threat and never quite got around to any real cooperation with the US, Japan and South Korea. It never quite got around to being serious. ...
Scientists confirm: Nazis made people into soap
It had always been alleged, but they couldn’t prove it at the time due to the limits of forensic testing.
They can prove it now.
Fighting jihad at YouTube
Michelle Malkin
If you've had an anti-jihad video pulled from YouTube, feel free to sport the badge on your site (thanks to AllahPundit).
I like the Jawa Report's take on a new YouTube logo, too (credit Ragnar). Welcome to AllahTube:
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That one's very appropriate given today's piece in the NYTimes on the proliferation of jihadi propaganda on YouTube--at the same time anti-jihad videos are being yanked and conservative videos flagged as "inappropriate." While YouTube has removed a few of the terrorist videos from its site, many more remain: In recent weeks, YouTube has removed dozens of the videos from its archives and suspended the accounts of some users who have posted them, a reaction, it said, to complaints from other users.
More than four dozen videos of combat in Iraq viewed by The New York Times have been removed in recent days, many after The Times began inquiries. ...
Disorganized Dog
Figure on this old dog gettin' a late start today. Don't have sense enough sometimes not to chase things I can't catch, sometimes slow to give up. Got a new Dog comin' up the path with a bunch of medals none of the other Dogs have, and a new book out to boot. Need to get him added to the "Who Are We?" post and integrate his ribbons into that bar at the top of the page. Had a silly notion I could do it by morning. No way. Not even close. Don't think he has his first post written yet anyway so maybe it'll work out OK.
Harvard faculty committee
recommends adding religion to core curriculum
Allahpundit
A religious lefty(!) friend(!) told me the other day she thinks Bush was right about the Third Awakening.
I’d say this is as good a sign as any.
Although this might be better. Chart grabbed from the Pew poll summary: ...
Good news: Radioactive smuggling doubles since 2002
Enjoy this little Foley interlude while it lasts, kids: Smugglers have been caught trying to traffick dangerous radioactive material more than 300 times since 2002, statistics from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) show. Most of the incidents are understood to have occurred in Europe.
The disclosures come as al-Qaeda is known to be intensfiying its efforts to obtain a radoactive device. Last year, Western security services, including MI5 and MI6, thwarted 16 attempts to smuggle plutonium or uranium. On two occasions small quantities of highly enriched uranium were reported missing. All were feared to have been destined for terror groups. ...
Report:
Czech jihadis plotted to kidnap, incinerate “dozens of Jews”
The old-fashioned European means aren’t available anymore, so they planned the next best thing: herd the hostages into a synagogue, then blow it up.
Call it the Oradour strategy.
Note well this detail: The Czech Republic’s leading newspaper quoted unidentified sources close to intelligence agencies as saying the captives would have been held in a Prague synagogue while the captors made broad demands that they knew could not be fulfilled. ..
Another Florida sleazoid
Michelle Malkin
Mike Deeson of Tampa Bay 10 News reports: Some Florida Democrats called Kevin King a rising star amongst the ranks of Democrats, but others, like the head of the Pinellas Democratic Party, Ed Helm, had doubts.
King was arrested in 2001. A judge ordered the St. Petersburg Police Department to seal all records regarding the arrest. King admits that the arrest stems from when he was a substitute teacher. He was arrested for computer solicitation to commit a lewd and lascivious act and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. ...
The cross at Ground Zero
Michelle Malkin
Remember the cross-shaped beams pulled from the wreckage at the World Trade Center on 9/11?
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The symbol of faith and hope that inspired rescue workers and 9/11 families is being moved from the site. The 20-foot-tall artifact was discovered in the smoking ruins two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and became a symbol for recovery workers, family and later construction crews at the site.
It will be moved to the exterior wall of nearby St. Peter’s Church during construction at the trade center site. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation has said it plans to include the cross as part of its memorial or inside the Sept. 11 museum. ...
Calling All Angels -
Help Our Wounded Stay in Touch with their Families
Contributed by Bill Faith
From Blackfive: The call is out.
We need 25 laptops (we have 25 wounded troops requesting them that are Wait-Listed RIGHT NOW) with voice recognition software for our wounded troops to stay in touch with their family and friends. ...
DAWg Tales
Contributed by Bobbie (OWB)
Back about 15 years ago or so, some of us were engaged in a little something called Desert Storm. During that time, I was assigned to a C-130 Airlift Wing which combined with a bunch of other C-130 units to form what was lovingly called the 1st DAWg, since we were the first Desert Airlift Wing set up and operating in theater. The powers that be eventually came up with an official designation, but who cares. We were and remained 1st DAWg for the duration. ...
Anti-war Protesters
Contributed by Bobbie (OWB)
Anyone else notice that the anti-war protesters of today look and sound a lot like the ones from the 60's? With a few more grey hairs and wrinkles, of course.
I had the dubious pleasure of being among a group of students being recruited for "service" with the SDS back in the 60's. They seemed to think that I fit their target audience of teenagers of upper middle to upper income, well-educated families. They were wrong, of course, which may explain why their tactics didn't take. Being curious and as hard-headed then as now, I took advantage of the opportunity to take a good look inside their organization anyway. It was disturbing, to say the least. ...
Please Join Me In Welcoming Our Newest Dog
Contributed by Bill Faith
Welcome Bobbie "OWB" Craig!
Bobbie's been leaving comments signed "OWB" for a while and come to find out she's someone a couple of the Dogs have known and trusted since the '04 Kerry Wars. Since I don't know a lot about her yet myself I'll let her bio and the two posts just below this one handle the introductions for me. I mean what do I need to know? With two dogs I didn't even know knew each other (if they do) vouching for her, added to the proof I've seen of her writing ability, who am I to ask questions? Just as long as she doesn't start wanting to paint or rearrange the furniture or something we'll be fine. (No, that wasn't a "sexist" remark. Master Sergeants just make me a little nervous.) ...
Marine nominated for Medal of Honor
Contributed by Bill Faith His Corps Value Was Bravery (H/T)
Chris Adlesperger's family, shocked to learn of his heroics in Iraq, later saw how it all made sense. In death, he's been nominated for the Medal of Honor.
On Nov. 10, 2004, in 30 minutes of close combat, Marine Pfc. Christopher Adlesperger, a soft-spoken, religious young man who loved poetry and art, attacked an enemy stronghold in Fallouja, Iraq, and killed at least 11 insurgents. ...
Homo Republicanus?
Contributed by Russ Vaughn
Is nothing more disgusting,
Than these congressional scenes,
Of a Republican gone lusting,
After pages in their teens?
It’s what the Dems would have us think,
That nothing’s gone before us,
To make esteem so quickly sink,
And to our bones abhor us. ...
Pedophile Lies
Contributed by Shane Briscoe
Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley, the pedophile homosexual who resigned after sexually explicit text messages between him and a Congressional page, deserved to go. And deserves to be prosecuted. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Evidence is mounting that Democrat operatives had knowledge of the situation for quite some time and sat on it so it would break as an October surprises right before the elections. There are ample connections between the players at a Soros-funded hit squad CREW and Democrat Members of Congress, plus indications of altered e-mails, that suggest Foley's exposure was orchestrated by Democrats hoping to tip the election and embarrass Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert into resigning. ...
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