On The Mercy Of The Court

This sounds like something out of an old Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni movie. But, who would leave Sophia no matter how much nagging there might be? Mama mia!

A man sentenced to nine months house arrest begged a judge to jail him instead because he couldn't stand his wife's nagging.

Algerian Ahmed Salhi, 24, was sentenced to a nine month curfew at home with his Italian wife in Ferrara, northern Italy.

But he went back to court after a week and begged the judge to jail him because he could not bear her nagging.

Salhi was sentenced to nine months house arrest after breaching immigration regulations.

But he turned up at his local courtroom and begged to be taken into custody because he said he could no longer stand living with her, and would rather be behind bars, Corriere della Sera reported.

He said: "I need some peace."

A local court agreed to the Salhi's request and he has been jailed for the rest of his sentence.

From Ananova.

The Grinch Is Green, Radical Green

Thanks to a lawsuit by the Earth Island Institute you may not be seeing a Capitol Christmas Tree this year. A ruling by Judge James K. Singleton, of the Eastern District Court of California (what were the odds?) is causing the Forest Service to suspend 1,500+ permits for activities from Boy Scout meetings to family reunions. The left must be ecstatic, they get to screw Christmas, families and the Boy Scouts with one ruling.

This year New Mexico is to supply the nation's Christmas Tree. Here's a quote by Senator Domenici as given in The Washington Times:

"We need these reindeer games to stop so New Mexico can stay on schedule with its national holiday tree plans," said Sen. Pete V. Domenici, New Mexico Republican.
"This ruling and the Forest Service response to it would be like the Grinch who stole Christmas for the many New Mexicans who have worked well over a year to prepare for the tree's state tour and eventual trip to the nation's capital, and for school kids and groups who are already creating ornaments to festoon the tree," he said.
Mr. Domenici noted the seriousness of the court ruling's implication on the far-reaching impacts and "consequences of some environmental lawsuits," but he and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico Democrat, are asking Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns to intervene so the holiday conifer can be delivered on schedule.
"We are troubled that the interpretation of a decision made by a Federal District Court in California may adversely affect these plans. We urge you to redouble your efforts to address concerns regarding the procurement of this year's Capitol Holiday Tree in order to resolve this situation in time for the tree's tour around New Mexico," the senators said last week in a letter to the federal officials.

Frisco Slams The Door On The USS Iowa

Back in July I wrote about this travesty in San Francisco

SF Supervisors Disrespect US Military

"This is how much the liberals hate America. They have rejected a WWII memorial because of their gay and anti-war agendas. How sad for us that these people are voted into positions of power and when they act disgracefully are not even held to account.
I will never visit this city and I hope it is skipped over by tourists more times than its own crosswalks."

Here is a little update. I should like to point out that when Diane Feinstein thinks you're being petty it might be time to do a little soul searching. Oh... you'd have to have a soul to do that.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered one of the nation's most deadly military accidents.

Veterans groups and history buffs had hoped that tourists in San Francisco could walk the same teak decks where sailors dodged Japanese machine-gun fire and fired 16-inch guns that helped win battles across the South Pacific.

Instead, it appears that the retired battleship is headed about 80 miles inland, to Stockton, a gritty agricultural port town on the San Joaquin River and home of California's annual asparagus festival.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a former San Francisco mayor, helped secure $3 million to tow the Iowa from Rhode Island to the Bay Area in 2001 in hopes of making touristy Fisherman's Wharf its new home.

City supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose taking in the ship, citing local opposition to the Iraq war and the military's stance on gays, among other things.

”If I was going to commit any kind of money in recognition of war, then it should be toward peace, given what our war is in Iraq right now,“ Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi said.

Feinstein called it a ”very petty decision.“

”This isn't the San Francisco that I've known and loved and grew up in and was born in,“ Feinstein said.

San Francisco's maritime museum already has one military vessel - the USS Pampanito, an attack submarine that sank six Japanese ships during World War II and has about 110,000 visitors a year.

Officials in Stockton couldn't be happier. They've offered a dock on the river, a 90,000-square-foot waterfront building and a parking area, and hope to attract at least 125,000 annual visitors.

After the Korean war, the Iowa was decommissioned and placed in reserve in a Philadelphia shipyard for three decades. In 1988, it was recalled to duty escorting oil supply ships safely in and out danger in the Persian Gulf. In 1989, 47 sailors were killed in an explosion that tore through a gun turret during a training exercise.

The warship, decommissioned by the Navy in 1990, is currently anchored with a mothballed fleet in Suisun Bay, near the mouth of the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta.

San Francisco's rejection of such a storied battleship is a slap in the nation's face, said Douglass Wilhoit, head of Stockton's Chamber of Commerce.

”We're lucky our men and women have sacrificed their lives ... to protect our freedom,“ Wilhoit said. ”Wherever you stand on the war in Iraq ... you shouldn't make a decision based on philosophy.“

Rep. Richard W. Pombo, R-Calif., has sponsored legislation authorizing the ship's permanent move to Stockton. Feinstein has countered with a bill to open bidding to any California city.

The two versions will have to be reconciled by a House-Senate conference committee considering the Pentagon spending bill.

From the Picayune Item

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Brazilian Vision

Why didn't he foresee he wasn't getting this reward and stop sending the letters?

If he sues in the US and can get this to the 9th circuit court he probably has a good chance of success. That group loves the supernatural as long as it doesn't involve Jesus.

A Brazilian court will consider a psychic's claim that the United States Government owes him a $US25 million ($33 million) reward for information he says he provided on the hiding place of the ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Brazil's second-highest court, the Superior Court of Justice, ruled the Brazilian justice system could rule on the matter and told a court in the psychic's home state of Minas Gerais to judge the case.

The lower court had earlier told Jucelino Nobrega da Luz his claim would have to be judged in the US.

A Superior Court of Justice spokesman said: "Jucelino da Luz alleges that the US armed forces only found Saddam based on his letters that provided his exact location, the very hole where he was hiding in Iraq."

The US Government offered the reward in July 2003 after US-led forces occupied the country. He was captured that December.

The court said Mr da Luz sent letters to the US Government from September 2001, describing Saddam's future hiding place - a tiny cellar at a farmhouse near Tikrit. He never received a reply."His lawyers attest that the author has an uncommon gift of having visions of things that will come to pass. Via dreams, he sees situations, facts that will happen in the future," a court statement said.

From The Sydney Morning Herald.

Are Thousands Of Kentuckians Breaking The Law?

The following is an excerpt from the Lexington Herald-Leader.

"Each day thousands of Kentuckians break the law when they drop their children off at school or drive to work.

They drive without a recognized driver's license not because they are scofflaws, but because state law says they can't have one. That's the case for thousands of undocumented immigrants who work at horse farms, factories and businesses in Lexington and throughout the Bluegrass."

Factual error number one: It is not Kentuckians who are breaking the law it is Mexicans, Guatamalans, Moroccans or whatever other nationality of criminal has illegally entered our country. Breaking our laws, because they are inconvenient for you, does not make you one of us. So, let's set the record straight these are not Americans breaking the law or Kentuckians. Understand , undocumented is 100% law breaking illegal and scofflaw applies since by definition it means a person who flouts the law.

They drive without a license because they are here illegally. They cannot get a license because the rule of law, which they choose to ignore, says they are not entitled to one.

Here's more of the same manure from the same pail.

"It is also difficult, if not nearly impossible, for them to get driver's training or secure a driver's manual in their native language to learn the rules of the road in their new country."

This is not their country, new, old or any other way. If it were they would be citizens. Their country is wherever they came from and where they need to return. There they can read the manual in their native tongue and have the prized drivers license. It will all be LEGAL.

Notice how this article tries to act as if these criminals belong here, as if they have a right to be here and our nasty government is making things difficult for them. It is writers and publishers like the ones who promoted this piece of treachery that are a disgrace to their already tarnished profession. They produce propaganda and call it news. Shame on those who sell out our sovereignty and our security.

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The Enemy Within

Here's a quick peek into the disgusting dung heap where the maggots of the far left feed. What were the odds that we would find such scatalogical fare in Seattle?

They don't like the term "Anti-American" because it is a propaganda tool to stifle dissent. These are the masters of the euphemism, who insist on not calling a spade a spade, but a shovel.

They have a different "vision" of America, one so different that were it to be actualized America, as we now know it, would no longer exist. It is a nightmare rejected by the vast majority of our citizenry and embraced only by the self-depricating iconoclasts of the radical left.

Seattle, Washington - A T-shirt with a Warholian likeness of United States President George Bush sports the incendiary legend "International Terrorist", Another shows the World Trade Centre towers with the words, "What Goes Up Must Come Down".

These are just some of the provocative - some would say anti-American - items for sale at Left Bank Books Collective, in the liberal and frequently outspoken US West Coast city of Seattle. Left Bank Books Collective has dedicated to spread radical ideas from its spot in one of the prime tourist attractions, Pike Place Market, since 1973.

Collin Coyne, 33, has been a member of the bookstore collective for a year. He quit his job writing marketing copy when his company would not give him time off to attend an activist training camp.

He dislikes the term "anti-Americanism", citing one of his heroes, the radical intellectual Noam Chomsky, who argues the very term "anti-Americanism" is a totalitarian propaganda tool used to stifle dissent.He may not embrace the label "anti-American", but Coyne, whose hat is emblazoned with "Solidarity Forever", opposes what he believes is the country's militaristic foreign policy and abusive capitalist system.

Coyne and Americans like him also don't share their fellow citizens' romantic notions of US history.

They take their cues from historian Howard Zinn, whose A People's History Of The United States tells the story of the rich and powerful elite subjugating everyone else - here and abroad.

Paul Hollander is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts who has written books on anti-Americanism in America.

"There have been few places in the history of the world where people have tried to go and create a new social system," he said.

When grandiloquent visions of justice, freedom and equality are not realised, disappointment sets in, he added.

Cliff Hare, who recently opened a counter-cultural bookstore and art gallery in Seattle called Infohazard, said Hollander's reasoning rings true.

"America could be a strong force for good in the world, but our generosity has been hijacked," he said.

His bookstore's logo features a biohazard symbol connecting two minds, a reference to William S. Burroughs, who once claimed "language is a virus".

Hollander said he isn't sure how many Americans fit the description "anti-American" but thinks the number is small. For the most part, they are not organised, although there are groups such as the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists.

Mark Laskey, 29, is a member who lives in Boston, a city well known for its radical intellectuals, Chomsky and Zinn among them. In an email interview, Laskey went so far as to wish ill upon US soldiers in Iraq.

"I believe in the right of self-defence, and support the Iraqi resistance on that basis. I also believe that the United States, as the dominant superpower in the world, needs to be defeated in Iraq," he said.

Chris Pugmire, another collective member, laid out a vision for a different America: "I think people should govern themselves as they see fit in a non-hierarchical way so everyone's needs are taken care of, rather than people being taken advantage of."

From IOL

Carnival II

Don't forget to visit Carnival of True Liberties II over at Stop the ACLU.

There are several interesting posts. It looks like things are heating up at Raving Conservative and The No God-Religion.

MsUnderestimated has a post on the ACLU and the NO jail.

Lots of posts, plenty of controversy, heated discussion. Go on over and voice your opinions. Have fun!

Terrorist Earthquake Strikes

So tell us, oh great Islamic thinkers, is this the hand of Allah the Merciful and Compassionate? Why just a month ago we heard from the Palestinian Authority religious leaders, Muhammed Yousef Al-Mlaifi the director of the Kuwaiti Ministry Of Endowment's research center, the UAE Khaleej Times and Al Qaida itself preaching that the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina was Allah's punishment to the United States for fighting Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and the PA, and for threatening Iran and Syria. "The terrorist Katrina is one of the soldiers of Allah, it was not mother nature but Allah", they ranted on glorying in the natural disaster.

But now, the slipper is on the other foot, oh worshippers of the crescent. If Allah was behind Katrina, he must likewise be behind the earthquake, unless of course there is another god working at odds with Allah. Could it be Allah is not (gasp) in complete control? Or could it be that Allah's aim is bad and he was shooting for California but hit Pakistan? Perhaps it is Muhammed, the myopic, corrective lenses be upon him, that sent this tragedy.

Pakistan — Scores of activists from an Islamic charity linked to a banned militant group were killed in Saturday's devastating earthquake in northern Pakistan.

The militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, was outlawed by Pakistan in January 2002, a month after some of its members were accused of having taken part in an attack on India's parliament in New Delhi.

A spokesman for the Jamat-ud-Dawa charity, whose members are drawn from Lashkar's ranks, said the quake had leveled its mosques, hospitals, schools and seminaries.

"Many of our members have been killed," the spokesman said.

From the NewYork Post.

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Is This A Test And, If So, What's Passing?

Columbus Or Churchill

Ward "the fraud" Churchill and his groupies didn't have much of an impact on the Columbus Day Parade in Denver. Drums and chants, imitation blood, screams of genocide, just more of the usual leftwing apathy inspiring arsenal. At least they didn't flaunt any naked ugliness in public this time. The protestor's street theater can simply be viewed as comic relief presented by the intellectually less fortunate.


DENVER — As drums and chants echoed in the background, demonstrators briefly staged a mock death scene in the street today before a Columbus Day Parade passed by.

About 15 people laid down in an intersection before the parade was in view. Other protesters covered them with blankets and carried them away just before police moved in to make arrests.

Some protesters spilled red liquid to signify blood. Others held banners reading "Genocide," "Columbush" and "1492."

University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, who caused a nationwide uproar when he likened some Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, was standing along the parade route. He said earlier in the week he wouldn't participate in the protest as he has in the past because he didn't want to be a distraction.

Churchill was among about 240 people arrested last year for disrupting the parade. He and other protest leaders were acquitted and the charges against the rest were dismissed.

Glenn Morris, a member of AIM's Colorado chapter, said protesters avoided arrest this year.

"It served no purpose to tie up our people in the courts," he said. Instead, the police and parade became part of the protesters' street theater, Morris said.

He said the demonstrators who laid on the street represented Indians exterminated since the arrival of Columbus, the people carrying them away on stretchers were the survivors honoring their ancestors and the police cleaning up the red liquid were authorities erasing history.

As the parade rolled by, protesters chanted "Celebrate pride, not genocide" and "Shame, shame." Some held up large mirrors with signs that read "This is what genocide looks like."

Two women in the parade stopped at a lower downtown intersection clotted with protesters and held up a placard with the words "This is what free speech looks like."

From the Rocky Mountain News.

The Devil's In The Details

Satan appeared in the office of the Executive Director of the ACLU.

"I have been watching you and your organization and have been most interested in your work," said the devil.

" And though you have accomplished much, there is still more that could be done. With my direct intervention, you could be successful in all your cases. In no time at all, we could destroy religion completely in America and along with it the family and the social order. Anarchy and chaos would reign and atheism would be the state religion.

As for you, I would see to it that you live well past one hundred in excellent health and your income would grow ten fold. Any earthly pleasure, no matter how perverse, would be yours for the asking. I would strike down your enemies in the must brutal and ruthless means your mind could devise.

Doing this, however, would require you to give me your immortal soul and help me win the souls of your family. You would all burn in hell while worshiping me for eternity. What say you Mr. Director?"

Pale and shaken, the Director, pulled himself together and thought intently while he stared at Satan. Then with a smirk he replied, "So what's the catch?"

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C'est La Guerre, Subway

This ad by the Subway chain depicts a cordon bleu chicken sandwich with the words "France and chicken, somehow it just goes together". Notice the picture of a chicken dressed like Napoleon.
Subway ran the ads in about 10 US states for nearly a month and pulled them in September following an outcry by members of the French community and some other customers who claimed to be offended.

It seems the French also lack a sense of humor about themselves. If there was no truth to the assertion they could simply laugh it off, but noooo! I mean what do they have to be embarassed about, didn't they just kick the snot out of the Ivory Coast?

The sandwich, I understand, came with a complimentary white napkin suitable for waving at the (ahem) appropriate moment.

There are rumors that other Subway ethnic dishes have been shelved; the German-Chinese Salad for instance because an hour after you eat it you're hungry for power.

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What About The Bulletin Board?

The PC Police are out of control in NYC. Take a look at this blog by a brand new NY school teacher in which she says she's not to use the expression "bullet points" because of the negative connotation.

Soon, spontaneous conversation, extemporaneous speech etc. will be replaced by prepared written statements replete with disclaimers.

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Forgers Endanger America

These forgers have endangered the entire population of the United States. Supplying people with false identification should be a major crime and dealt with in the most severe way possible. There is no way of knowing what use the ID will be put to but the potential for terrorist activities is very real. If we need stronger laws to combat this crime then let's get them passed.

Long Island authorities have arrested 41 people suspected of manufacturing or possessing fake drivers' licenses, Social Security cards, passports and other official forms of identification.

"False identities are the cornerstone of terrorists' ability to operate through virtually undetectable and unidentifiable means," Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon said yesterday. "We are no longer dealing with poor-quality, plastic, laminated photos."

Dillon said Uniondale's Henry Flores, a former employee of the Nassau County Information Technology Department, "on several occasions sold phony New York state drivers' licenses to undercover investigators."

Flores is charged with five counts of possession of a forged instrument.

No suspect has any ties to terrorist organizations, authorities said.

From the New York Post

Can't Get Crazy Over Halloween

The politically correct strike again. Why is trying to scare someone for fun equated to being insensitive to mental illness? What's next the witches complaining because we depict them as physically unattractive? When will the fairies jump on the homophobia boys in the bandwagon? For pity's sake, can't we lighten up even once a year?

BIRMINGHAM -- A popular haunted house altered one of its attractions this year after mental health advocates complained that the name -- "Slag's Insane Asylum" -- was insensitive to people with mental illnesses.

Operators of Sloss Fright Furnace made the change to "Slag's Un-ending Nightmare" after the state chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill asked its local groups to voice their objections to the old name, which had been used for two years.

Cecelia Laurie, president of the Tuscaloosa branch of the alliance, said mental illness often is viewed as being a character defect, so many who need help for mental disorders don't get it. "There always seems to be that confusion with people thinking that because a person has a mental illness, they're a psychopath," she said. "That has nothing to do with mental illness. And a lot of haunted houses have that theme."

Robert Yarbrough, producer of Sloss Fright Furnace, said he changed the area's name to get rid of the reference to insanity after getting e-mails linked to the complaint. He also said he would change artwork that depicted a man bound by a straitjacket. Yarbrough said he had the attraction changed because he wanted to "get rid of any suggestion of making light, or not taking seriously, mental illness." "We have great respect for NAMI," he told The Tuscaloosa News in a story Wednesday. "We're glad to do the things we did to correct the ad artwork and the facade on the attraction."

Jim Hamilton, associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Alabama, said fear of the mentally ill has historical roots related to the belief that people with mental illness were possessed by demons. "Being taken over by an unseen, untouchable spirit is consistent with the Halloween theme. And the same sorts of ideas historically applied to understanding mental illness," Hamilton said. "It's not surprising that haunted houses have incorporated mentally ill persons in their themes. Nevertheless, it is unacceptable."

From the Montgomery Advertiser.

ACLU Loses To Latter-Day Saints

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the controversial sale of Salt Lake City's Main Street to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which turned a section of the former street into a religious park.

Judges said the plaza, as the area between church offices and the faith's temple is known, is private property and the sale was not an endorsement of the church by city leaders.

"Looked at objectively, the ... case is one of neutrality and equal access, in which the city does nothing to advance religion, but merely enables the LDS church to advance itself," the court wrote.

The ruling rejects the claim of the Utah chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union that the street should remain a public sidewalk where free speech is allowed.

The city initially sold the one-block section of Main Street to the Mormon church in 1999 for just over $8 million. In that sale, the city reserved a public-access easement, but gave the church the right to block on-plaza protests, proselytizing and other behaviors.

The ACLU and other plaintiffs sued, contending the church could not curtail free speech or other First Amendment rights in a public easement. In a 2002 ruling, the 10th Circuit upheld the ACLU's claim.

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson originally supported the ACLU, but later brokered a deal with church leaders to trade the easement for $4.5 million in property on the city's west side to build a community center, which is not yet open.

ACLU attorneys then sued both the church and the city, saying that political pressure from the church forced Anderson into a deal that violates constitutional provisions against government favoring one religion over another.

The city's secular gains of a community center were a "facade" protecting the Mormon church from critics, the lawsuit said.

In its ruling the court said that in giving up the easement, the city gained roughly 10 times its market value and rightfully disengaged itself from a potential constitutional entanglement with the church over control of the plaza.

Judges also said that traditional public forums can, in fact, be sold to private groups and no longer continue to be public forums.

"The fact that the mayor changed his mind by first vocally opposing the sale of the easement and later supporting it, or that this issue was controversial, simply does not support the claim that the transaction was a sham," the judges said. "The city simply does not own the plaza."

From the Jackson Hole Star Tribune.


The ACLU lost this one, but the underlying question is why did they sue in the first place? The city and the church had arrived at what seemed to be a mutually amicable and advantageous settlement for both parties. The city had gained from this transaction, not only financially but also will benefit by the addition of a community center the church intends to build.Not content with that, the ACLU tried to claim that somehow the city government was endorsing the Mormon church by allowing it to procure an easement thus enabling it to make sure that there were no nearby activities that might be offensive to church members.

Now, the ACLU seems to take great pains to sue over what might be offensive to Muslims, witches, satan worshippers and druids but it balks over protecting the sensitivity of Mormons. What is wrong with this picture? Why would the ACLU sue to overturn a deal that is a win-win for the vast majority of city residents?

Is it because the Mormons, like other morally upright faiths don't seem to condone many of the ACLU's agenda items? It would seem to confirm that religions which uphold the principles that keep America free, strong and secure are consistently the targets of ACLU aggression. The ACLU is works to suppress the voice of faith, wanting to expunge its message from the public forum, all under the guise of protecting our liberty.

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I Spy With My Little Eye

What in the world is going on? Have we become so inept, or is our government so uncaring that spys can infiltrate at will. Here are just two examples of our government failing to remain vigilant. Was 9/11 not enough of a wakeup call? Are the Philippines and Indonesia not hotbeds of fanatical Islamic intrigue? Did we not take extra care because of this ridiculous racial profiling nonsense? The fact that there is no evidence of terrorist activity should be of no comfort. How many more of these loose cannons are out there?

Couple incidents like these with our failure to secure our borders, allow millions of illegal immigrants to roam at will and threaten them only with amnesty if caught and one has to wonder what our government has in mind for the future.

There will be no need to worry about social security if a few million of us are killed off by terrorists and our economy gutted by catastrophe of our own making.

Will anyone be held responsible? Probably not and we will all continue to pretend that the emperor of security is not naked.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former Marine who worked at the White House is under investigation for allegedly misusing his top-secret clearance to steal classified information from computers, multiple U.S. government sources told CNN late Wednesday.

Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, worked in the vice president's office from 1999 to 2001, during both the Clinton-Gore and Bush-Cheney administrations.

Aragoncillo, who worked as an FBI intelligence analyst after working at the White House, was arrested along with a Filipino citizen in September in a separate case on charges that he used an FBI database to download and pass along classified information.

Among the documents that Aragoncillo allegedly downloaded was a dossier on Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, which he passed on to her political opposition in the Philippines, according to CNN's multiple government sources.

From CNN.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Three people who taught foreign languages at the Joint Special Operations Command Center at Fort Bragg were arrested on immigration charges, federal officials said.

While workers at U.S. military installations may have access to sensitive work sites, authorities said the three men did not.

"What's important to remember is they did not teach any classified materials, and they were not exposed to any classified materials," JSOC spokeswoman Tina Beller said.

Two Indonesian natives, Nurkis Qadariah, 34, and Sayf Rimal, 37, were arrested Tuesday and charged with possessing and using false documents, U.S. Attorney Frank Whitney said.

Ousmane Moreau, 38, of Senegal, was arrested Monday and charged with being in the United States illegally, Whitney said.

Qadariah and Rimal are accused in a complaint of using counterfeit resident alien cards and falsely saying that they were lawful permanent residents of the United States in order to get a job with Florida-based B.I.B. Consultants Inc. to teach foreign languages at Fort Bragg.

All employees of the company must go through background checks, and checks on the three men "came back clear," Daniel Guillan, director of government and contracting for the company, told WTVD-TV in Durham.

From TwinCities.com

Piglet Under Islamic Attack

Kosher Jews don't eat pork but all the ones I knew when I lived in NYC were never offended by Porky Pig. That's because Jews don't embrace their faith like childish fanatics instilling xenophobia and hate in their members.

If you want to forego the delights of bacon and ribs that's your business, but don't try and give me grief because you're offended by the sight of me consuming a BLT.

And if you're offended by Piglet or Porky Pig , then you truly are an idiot and there's no need for anymore dialogue.

Read about this ridiculous catering to Muslims in England. Tolerance of people's beliefs, Councillor, would mean the Muslims tolerate diversity in the office and not force their ridiculous prohibitions on others.


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.”

From The Sun.

It's Looney Rooney Time, It's Looney Rooney Time

I was thinking that cBS should get Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite to put their heads together so they could make a complete ass of themselves. They could call it the "Anus and Andy Show".

The following is taken from a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by Andy Rooney.

The interspersed comments are mine.


"I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States — our United States — is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into."

Let's face it Andy, you're not too clear on anything except maybe the price of prunes and a pack of Depends.

"We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today."

"Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what? "

To keep your sorry butt safe, Andy, along with the rest of us.

"Now we have the hurricanes to pay for."

Think hard now Andy, we've had hurricanes before and we've had to pay for those also. That's why you have insurance in case there is storm damage. Did you remember to pay the premium?

One way our government pays for a lot of things is by borrowing from countries like China.

Well, we have to pay the bills yuan way or another!

Another way the government is planning to pay for the war and the hurricane damage is by cutting spending for things like Medicare prescriptions, highway construction, farm payments, AMTRAK, National Public Radio and loans to graduate students. Do these sound like the things you'd like to cut back on to pay for Iraq?

NPR first!

"I'll tell you where we ought to start saving: on our bloated military establishment."

Speaking of bloated, Andy, did you remember to take your milk of magnesia? You wouldn't want to go through that hot Vicks enema thing again would you?

No other Country spends the kind of money we spend on our military. Last year Japan spent $42 billion. Italy spent $28 billion, Russia spent only $19 billion. The United States spent $455 billion.
We have 8,000 tanks for example. One Abrams tank costs 150 times as much as a Ford station wagon.

Most of us want our military well equipped Andy. It's hard to get guys to go over the top in old country Country Squires and Pintos.

"We have more than 10,000 nuclear weapons — enough to destroy all of mankind."

"We're spending $200 million a year on bullets alone. That's a lot of target practice. We have 1,155,000 enlisted men and women and 225,000 officers. One officer to tell every five enlisted soldier what to do. We have 40,000 colonels alone and 870 generals."

'We had a great commander in WWII, Dwight Eisenhower. He became President and on leaving the White House in 1961, he said this: “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. …"'

"Well, Ike was right. That's just what’s happened."

Rooney, you have no idea what happened an hour ago. You have been out of touch with the real world for decades. CBS seems to think you're cute so they allow you to babble your little rambling commentary. Then, it's wipe off the chin with the bib time and back to the rocking chair until next week.

And by the way, Ike also said, "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

Clash Of Cultures

On this day in history in one culture:


1985
Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley.


1993
Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.


2002
Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.


2003
A Palestinian woman blew herself up inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, killing 21 bystanders.

This day in history in another culture:

1997
Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C., in one of the largest religious gatherings in U.S. history.

Enough said.