American Muslim leaders are starting to realize the threat that comes from
within the Muslim community.

It’s about time, though I’m skeptical.  However, it is
encouraging to read statements like this:

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_on_re_us/muslims_threat_within_2

Ladies, are you feeling inadequate? Your
kid was cut off at the slide? Go out and spend $32,800 on a Hummer H3, for
it will surely solve all your problems. Get your girl on.

Oh and gentlemen, embarrassed
about buying vegetables and tofu instead of red meat? For 32,800 you can
restore the balance (of your manhood that is).

It is a fact, the original tagline was "restore your manhood", but
Hummer revised it due to complaints, though the commercial still airs.

I am neither a woman, nor a vegetarian. In fact, I’m probably the guy buying
all the red meat in the tofu commercial. That doesn’t matter, because the
commercial still doesn’t appeal to me.

There is an increasing trend of brazen belittling the consumer. Commercials
have always had the stench of marketing through condescension, but I’ve never
seen it so flagrant.

Adholes,
a blog about the advertisement industry, highlights how the Tofu commercial is
insulting to vegetarians. Marc Lefton writes:

Source: http://adholes.com/postings/1992ac59cc88c56d9dc6ea0769265020

Mr. Lefton and I probably couldn’t be further apart on the spectrum. I have
no problem with SUV’s, drive what you want to drive, but we both share a disdain
for the ad.

So, Hummer, who exactly was your target audience?

As commercials continue to insult us, I just can’t imagine how the people
making the decisions feel comfortable with their products.

Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were freed
today.  This is terrific news as I, and most, feared they were going to
me murdered.

Michelle Malkin
has al of information on how the release developed.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005815.htm

New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin, in defense of his inability to clean his flood
ravaged city in a timely manner decided to use Ground Zero in New York as a
comparison, calling it a "hole in the ground".

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/24/60minutes/main1933092.shtml

As a New Yorker, who witnessed the attack on our country, I’m disturbed that
this man doesn’t have the decency to respect those who were killed on September
11. To say it needs to be "fixed" leads me to believe he thinks it was
broken, not destroyed in an attack by jihadists whose goal was to kill as many
people as possible.

Perhaps Nagin doesn’t consider the human loss at Ground Zero, and that may be
why he left his people in New Orleans stranded while he hid in a hotel.

The fine people at Hot
Air have some choice comments for Mayor Nagin.

You’re at the airport, getting ready to go through a security checkpoint and
when the guards find an object in your baggage that resembles a grenade, but in
actuality is your penis pump, you say it is a bomb because you don’t want your
mother, who is traveling with you, to know you own one.

I’m not making this up.

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/24/D8JMSCT01.html

Where to begin? I mean, this is wrong on so many levels. Of all the things to
say, of all the lies, bomb is the best you can come up with!

Is this in your carry on? And why do you need this on a trip with your
mother?

What’s worse, your mom finding out you have a penis pump or claiming it is a
bomb, getting arrested, having to admit it is a penis pump and now not only does
your mom know but so does everyone else!

Oh man.

In November 2004, it was reported that Osama bin Laden secured
religious approval to use nukes against Americans.

Source: http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/04_Nukes/041112.UBL.approval.html

After almost two years it seems they’ve come up with an
acceptable number of American deaths, that being 10 million.  Jihad Watch
has the details on the Saudi
cleric’s permission.

I wonder, does bin Laden go around looking for the best
deal?  Surely there is another Islamic cleric willing to go to 15 million
20 million?  How do they come up with this number?  Is there some
Excel spreadsheet that formulates these numbers?

What do you think the reaction would be if the Pope approved 10
million Muslim deaths?  Or even ten.

I watched Spike Lee’s documentary on hurricane Katrina last night and I have
to say it was painful to watch the horrors my fellow Americans had to endure.
Watching Harry Belafonte praise Hugo Chaves was also difficult.

Yes Harry, let’s get Hugo in to run things. Good pal of Fidel Castro, Moammar
Khadafy and Saddam Hussein.

Not to be outdone, I pick up the August issue of GQ and find that magazine
pimping Lee’s movie, practically salivating over any anti-administration
comments. Add another magazine to the shit list.

The same issue has a piece on the top 12 dickhead characters in a movie
(Billy Zabka as Johnny in The Karate Kid was the winner) and as a sub story,
picked 10 real-life guys who would make "great movie dicks". Guess who
was on that list? President Bush. Is it that hard thinking up material?

I read Michael Barone’s column in The New York Sun last night and tabbed it
for a post.  This morning I saw that Power
Line already had, so take a look at their comments and read the article.

Source: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2006/08/21/our_covert_enemies

Criminal defense attorney, Jeffrey
Lichtman, had some insightful commentary on the 77WABC
radio station website. He explains his transformation from a die hard Democrat
to a Republican voting conservative.  Read the full commentary at the link
below.

Source: http://www.wabcradio.com/Article.asp?id=122761&spid=

I was told recently, that some television news show had a segment on the
influence of brand names on children, specifically when it comes to food.

It’s bad enough that a friend of mine has two nephews, aged between 8-11, who
refuse to use any ketchup other than the McDonalds packets of ketchup. But now,
apparently in this news piece, kids were given the choice of eating either a
banana or a rock. The rock was adorned with stickers of cartoon characters, and
the banana was just, well a banana. All but one kid picked the rock…to eat!
Now you might think they didn’t know it was a rock, but they were told, ‘you
can’t eat a rock’ and some replied ‘yes I can!’.

I can’t find any resources on the story but I’ll keep looking. I’d be
interested to know the ages of the kids and how many they tested, but any way
you peel it, our kids want to eat rocks.

**UPDATE**

Reader JenW was kind enough to find the background info on the story. 
It was a Dateline piece called Food
Fight.

Source: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14415766/

A big thanks to JenW.