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May 31, 2007
No Beer? How About Botox?
No beer at the ballgame? No problem, have some plastic surgery instead!
Minor league baseball team, the Newark Bears will be having Cosmetic Surgery Night as a promotion! Fun for the whole family!
The Newark Bears made recent news for their inability to sell beer at games.
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In the off-season, the team switched food vendors, and the new concessionaire is still waiting for a liquor license, explained Joe Montefusco, a spokesman for the team. The matter is in the hands of city and Essex County officials, he said, adding, “We don’t know when it’s coming.” |
Oops, that can't be good for attendance.
May 28, 2007
Memorial Day, 2007
"Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic." -- General Logan - May 5, 1868
May 25, 2007
Al-Qaeda Torture Manual Gets No Press
If news breaks and nobody reports it, does it exist? That's how it seems with regards to the Al-Qaeda torture manual.
Drudge had it up yesterday morning and Newsbusters posed the question "Will Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib?"
May 24, 2007
Torture the Al-Qaeda Way
Boring newsletters, deflated basketballs and belly slaps, are the norm. Waterboarding turned out to be our worst offense and is now prohibited. However, Al-Qaeda goes for the gold.
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In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." |
Some graphic photos put the definition of torture into perspective. Gitmo or Al-Qaeda safe house? Hmm...
Via Drudge
May 23, 2007
The Pew Research Poll
The Pew Research Center poll of American Muslims has been gathering a lot of attention lately, and rightfully so. A quick summary of the poll, as stated by Robert Spencer, "shows significant support among Muslims in America for suicide bombing and loony conspiracy theories about 9/11." And Michelle Malkin points out some real world facts that back this up.
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The poll comes on the heels of the Fort Dix jihadi terror bust involving young, American-raised Muslims and the conviction this week of Muslim doctor Rafiq Abdus Sabir — born in Harlem, based in Florida — who had pledged loyalty to al Qaeda and vowed to treat injured al Qaeda fighters so they could return to Iraq to kill Americans. A Brooklyn bookstore owner and a Washington, D.C., cab driver also pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison in the case. The tiny minority of jihadi sympathizers aren’t just sitting around stewing harmlessly about their beliefs. They are recruiting, proselytizing, plotting, and growing. |
Couple these stats with the proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants, and you have a significant and exponentially growing problem on our hands. However, It is good to see that some are trying to counter this problem.
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The Free Muslims Coalition seeks to use the poll as a catalyst for action among American Muslim leaders. It must be made clear that suicide bombings are wrong in all instances. Moreover, when Muslim leaders condemn suicide bombings they must mention the “I” word (Israel). This is important because many in the Muslim community are passionate about the belief that Israel is a wrongdoer. It is because of the deep emotions about Israel that Muslim leaders must specifically mention it by name when condemning suicide bombings. If Muslim leaders do not create a consistent message against suicide bombings then they will never defeat the extremist minority. |
Via Hot Air
More recap and opinion on the Pew poll: Jihad Watch, Hot Air, Ace of Spades HQ
May 20, 2007
An Interesting Cut
May 19, 2007
Jesse MacBeth Arrested, Facing Jail
A year ago Jesse MacBeth claimed to be a former Army Ranger who was ordered to slaughter innocent Iraqis. He quickly became popular in the anti-war crowd, that is, until it turned out he was a total fraud.
May 15, 2007
Torture!
The Hesitation
Reading this New York Post article about the "Fort Dix Six" one quote jumped out at me. The teenage Circuit City employee who dropped the dime on the jihadists went to a friend after viewing the 90-minute terrorists training video made by the arrested suspects and said the following (emphasis my own):
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Throughout the 90-minute-long tape, above the booming gunfire at a Pennsylvania target range, the jihadists could be heard screaming "God is great!" The two employees "freaked out," their co-worker recalled. At first, the teenage clerk didn't know what to do, his pal said. "Dude, I just saw some really weird s-," he frantically told his co-worker. "I don't know what to do. Should I call someone or is that being racist?" |
Allah at Hot Air picked up on the same line and I share those views.
This is a direct result of apologists and activists who want us to second guess our instincts. When the US Airways Imams were acting strangely and passengers spoke up, groups were outraged and accused everyone of being racist.
So when this teen sees something so frightening, so undeniable in its intentions, that it compels him to want to do something, yet he hesitates. And it is that hesitation our enemies feed off. Luckily, his hesitation was only momentary.
Individuals can be the last line of defense and we cannot be stripped of our ability to speak up when we see something that we instinctually feel is wrong. When we start to second guess ourselves, more people may die.
May 10, 2007
"Mullah Mouse" Update
Following up on my post from Monday about what is affectionately being referred to as the "Mullah Mouse", it appears CNN tried to cover up the story. Glenn Beck goes through the details on his radio show.
**Update** In direct defiance of a Palestinian government request to take the show off the air, the Hamas run station has refused.
May 08, 2007
Campus Shooting at Cal State Fresno
Another shooting on a college campus? Cal State Fresno... stay tuned.
**Update**
Fox News is running a banner stating "1 Killed, 2 Wounded in Shooting Near California State-Fresno Campus".
**Update**
Confirmed: Fox News with a possible standoff with the suspect.
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Fresno police negotiators are trying to convince a Hayward man to give himself up after he allegedly shot and killed one person and wounded two others Monday night in an apartment complex next to the Fresno State campus. Police are communicating by phone with 19-year-old Jonquel Brooks after last night's shooting at the University Village Apartments, a complex across from the school's Bulldog Stadium. Police say Brooks is suspected of shooting and killing a former Fresno State student and wounding two other people during a confrontation last night. |
Home is Where the Ear Is
I've heard of having cobwebs in your head but this is just crazy...and gives me the heebie jeebies!
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What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear — "like Rice Krispies" — ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear. "They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said. One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — "like Rice Krispies." |
Animal rights activists want the spider, Ms.Cavatica, declared human and given compensation for losing her home.
May 07, 2007
Saturday Morning Cartoons... Hamas Style
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The Hamas Television is using a clone of Disney’s Mickey Mouse to teach children to hate Israel and America, and aspire to Islam’s inevitable and impending world domination. The squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike, named Farfur, is the star of a weekly children’s program called Tomorrow’s Pioneers on the official Hamas TV station (Al-Aqsa TV). Farfur and his co-host, a young girl named Saraa’, teach children about such things as the importance of the daily prayers and drinking milk, while taking every opportunity to indoctrinate young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the US and support of "resistance" – the Palestinian euphemism for terror. [and later in the article...] The effectiveness of this program is heightened by including child viewers, who phone in to the show and recite poems with images of hate and violence; for example, “We will destroy the chair of the despots, so they will taste the flame of death;” and, "Rafah sings ‘Oh, oh.’ Its answer is an AK-47. We who do not know fear, we are the predators of the forest." |
Via Jihad Watch
May 02, 2007
Virgin Atlantic Offering Loose Change on Flights
I've just learned that Virgin Atlantic is offering the 9/11 conspiracy theory "documentary", Loose Change, as in-flight entertainment. This is the same scum who go to the WTC site to spread this bile during 9/11 memorial ceremonies. The same repugnant filth that accuses the victim's family member of being in on the conspiracy. And yet Virgin Atlantic thinks this is entertainment; something worthy of consideration. What's next? Holocaust denial films?
I've emailed Virgin Atlantic with my opinion, you may want to do the same: customer.relations.us@fly.virgin.com.
Via Drudge
**Update** They heard us. They've decided to pull the film. Nice work everyone.
May 01, 2007
Rubber Chicken Alert: Rage Against the Machine
What better way to begin a reunion of an aging band? It's Rubber Chicken time!
Rage Against the Machine played for the first time in seven years and went straight for the applause button by proclaiming "And this current administration is no exception. It should be hung and tried and shot, as any war criminal should be."
Via: Michelle Malkin
Nazi Influence on Modern Propaganda
Daniel Pipes of the New York Sun examines a research article by Joel Fishman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Fishman's piece, The Big Lie and the Media War against Israel, takes a historical look at the anti-Semitic propaganda of Nazi Germany and how that planted the seeds of the anti-Israeli propaganda of today.
It was interesting to learn that Nazi's who escaped Germany after Word War II set up shop in parts of the Middle East.
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Von Leers escaped Germany after 1945 and a decade later turned up in Egypt, where he converted to Islam and became a political adviser to President Nasser's Department of Information. There, Mr. Fishman recounts, he "sponsored the publication of an Arabic edition of ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' revived the blood libel, organized anti-Semitic broadcasts in numerous languages, cultivated neo-Nazis throughout the world, and maintained a warm, encouraging correspondence with the first generation of Holocaust deniers." |
Both articles are well worth reading.