Kerry: Soldiers poor and stupid

Bush Demands Kerry Apologize for Comment About Troops (Update4)

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush accused Massachusetts Senator John Kerry of insulting U.S. troops in Iraq and called on him to apologize. Kerry said Republicans were feigning outrage over a ``botched joke'' for political gain.

While campaigning in California yesterday for gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, Kerry said: ``Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.''

Kerry's suggestion ``that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and it is shameful,'' Bush said at an appearance in Georgia tonight. ``The members of the United States military are plenty smart. And they are plenty brave. And the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology.''

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So the nuanced "genius" botched a political joke?

Boy, Rove really made us wait for this October Surpise!

Education is great, but Kerry, an underwhelming student, could offer students, particularly the men, a better path to a comfortable job -- marry rich women and use their inheritances to run for office in states friendly to socialist ciphers.

Kerry and his fellow Dems have spent the past couple years providing fodder for al Jazeera and offering the Jihadists hope that, though they can never beat us militarily, they can reclaim the magic that helped the North Viets beat us politically and slaughter or brutally "re-educate" millions after we abandoned our allies in the South.

Most people learn from their mistakes as they grow up. The more things change for John, the more they stay the same.

This is not the first time Terry's prince consort has slandered American troops and buoyed our enemies. We refer you to his famous 1971 treasons and last December's intimations that our military are "going into homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women". (see bottom p. 4).

Kerry has reacted to the brouhaha by going Clinton -- that is to say, babbling like a lunatic. He's essentially accused those of us with normal listening comprehension skills of being stupid enough to "get stuck in Iraq". We are so daft as to misinterpret his obvious "joke".

Then, there's this risible flapdoodle:

Statement of John Kerry Responding to Republican Distortions, Pathetic Tony Snow Diversions and Distractions

Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:

“If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.

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Kerry calling ANYONE else a stuffed suit? Johnny -- at least Tony buys his own suits!

And Rush has not been doughy for a decade or so.

Where was the requisite shot at Fox News?!

How presidential, though, these attacks on anyone who would dare question the great hero of ... what was it again? Damned right wing nutjobs!

This logical fallacy that military service imputes infallability upon and should innoculate the likes of Kerry and John Murtha against charges that they are pumping up those who would slaughter our troops and eventually US -- we like to call it the Argumentum ad militarium -- needs to die now.

You can find active and former military on both sides of all issues of war and peace just as you can find current and former major league ballplayers on both sides of the designated hitter controversy.

At the risk of sounding dumb enough to get "stuck in Iraq", Kerry has never had a meaningful private sector job, yet does that preclude him from supporting legislation that regulates and taxes the productive members of society?

Kerry's mistake was stating what most in his party truly believe: Our troops and those who support them and their mission are boobs.

What better "get out the vote" ad for disenchanted conservatives?!

Americans of all political stripes owe the SwiftVets so much for helping to keep this mediocrity in the Senate. For us, that $200 was extremely well spent.

Kerry is the archetypal lib: conceited with little justification, convinced of his moral and intellectual superiority with no evidence to back up that confidence.

Keep talking, Mr. Heinz. Six days to go.

Related: Who Are the Recruits? The Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Enlistment, 2003–2005

More economic illiteracy from the DNC

Bush’s Failed Energy Policies Lead To Record Profits For Oil Companies

Today, ExxonMobil announced that “its third-quarter earnings rose to $10.49 billion, the second-largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company.” Royal Dutch Shell also “beat all forecasts with a 21 percent rise in underlying third-quarter profit.” These earnings reports come “as high crude prices this year have fueled record profits in the oil industry” which has triggered “an outcry from consumers who were being asked to pay about $3 a gallon for gasoline in early August.” [AP, 10/26/06; Reuters, 10/26/06]

“These record profits for oil companies while Americans still face sky-high gas prices, is one more example of the consequences of President Bush’s decision to let his friends in big oil write our nation’s energy policy,” said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney. “While oil companies have received tax breaks, the pocketbooks of America's working families have been squeezed by a combination of rising energy costs and declining incomes. Americans are ready for a new direction. Democrats remain committed to reducing our dependency on foreign oil, and creating a robust domestic industry for alternative energy sources that will create jobs."

Under Bush, America's Dependence on Foreign Oil Has Increased. During the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush criticized the Clinton Administration for allowing U.S. imports on foreign oil to reach 56% of U.S. oil consumption. Five years after President Bush announced his energy plan, U.S. imports of foreign oil have risen to 65% of U.S. consumption. [House Government Reform Committee, Democratic Staff, 3/16/06]

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Presumably, it'd be beneficial for America if her major corporations realized record losses. Imagine the headline: "Bush’s Failed Energy Policies Lead To Record Losses For Oil Companies".

We didn't think it was possible to display more economic illiteracy than the Left does when it comes to drug companies.

Clearly, we were wrong.

These simps actually believe that corporations exist to give stuff away.

This ignorance is understandable inasmuch as most of the rich people the Left are friendly with are trust fund kids or gigolos -- Kennedy, Rockefeller, Kerry -- or even worse, currency manipulators (Soros).

We're not certain which "sky-high gas prices" they're referring to. The price per gallon in Virginia City looks to be down 70 to 80 cents since August.

That "robust domestic industry for alternative energy sources" will arise when it becomes feasible and profitable. Free markets are wonderful things.

As far as dependence on foreign oil goes, we look forward to the day when our Red Green friends join us in supporting drilling at ANWR and various offshore locations, the construction of new refineries and -- *gasp* -- nuclear power plants.

In the mean time, perhaps George Soros, Ted Turner and Babs Streisand could pool their fortunes, buy an oil company and voluntarily run it at a loss.

So ironic that the self-proclaimed "smart" people have no clue how an economy works.

For the kids: Komrade Kennedy

Kennedy-KGB collaboration

History has long since vindicated Ronald Reagan's Cold War policy. Even Sen. Ted Kennedy, whom no one would accuse of harboring pro-Reagan sympathies, had to admit that Mr. Reagan "will be honored as the president who won the Cold War." But opinions have not always been so united.

In his new book, "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism," Grove City College professor Paul Kengor sheds light on a letter written by KGB head Viktor Chebrikov to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. The letter is dated May 14, 1983, right as the debate was heating up over Mr. Reagan's proposed deployment of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe to counter the Soviets' medium-range rockets in Eastern Europe.

Most Democrats and much of the left were universally opposed to Mr. Reagan's plan, which they argued would lead to nuclear war. Heading the list of critics was Mr. Kennedy, who had, according to the Soviet letter, sent former Sen. John V. Tunney to meet with Kremlin leaders. Chebrikov writes that Mr. Kennedy "charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to... Andropov."

According to the letter, Mr. Kennedy was concerned with "Reagan's belligerence," which he felt was in part the result of the president's popularity. "The only real threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," wrote Chebrikov, relaying Mr. Tunney's message. "These issues, according to [Mr. Kennedy], will without a doubt become the most important of the [1984] election campaign."

The letter goes on to say how Mr. Kennedy felt that the Soviets' peaceful intentions were being "quoted out of context, silenced or groundlessly and whimsically discounted." Conversely, Mr. Reagan "has the capabilities to counter any propaganda." In other words, if the letter is to be believed, Mr. Kennedy felt his own president was the real aggressor.

Mr. Kennedy had two proposals for Andropov, according to Chebrikov. First, he asked for a meeting later that summer in order "to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA." Second, that "Kennedy believes that in order to influence Americans it would be important to organize ... televised interviews with [Andropov] in the USA."

If Chebrikov's account of events is accurate, it's clear Mr. Kennedy was actively engaging the Russians to influence the 1984 election. He also seems to have genuinely believed that Mr. Reagan's policies were endangering U.S.-Soviet relations and that the best solution was to get Mr. Reagan out of office. The letter closes with Chebrikov saying that "Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988," possibly suggesting Mr. Kennedy had other, more selfish motives.
As Mr. Kengor concludes, "if the memo is in fact an accurate account of what transpired, it constitutes a remarkable example of the lengths to which some on the political left, including a sitting U.S. senator, were willing to go to stop Ronald Reagan."

We agree. Even in a jaded world, it is breathtaking to discover a U.S. senator -- brother of a former president -- actively and secretly collaborating with Soviet leaders in an attempt to undermine the president of the United States' nuclear defense policy during the height of the cold war.

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We post this for the benefit of young conservatives who might believe that the current aid and comfort provided to the enemy by the Disloyal Opposition is a recent development.

It's not.

Prediction: Similar to their Reagan's-death-bed-conversion to Cold Warriors, 25 years from now those currently trying to thwart this administration's attempts to vanquish the Jihadists will turn out to have been foursquare behind the effort all along.

Aid and comfort flashback: Commander in Chief wannabe Kerry gladhands commie thug Ortega as Tom Harkin (he looks like he's seeing his first naked woman) looks gaily on.

"I hear al Qaeda comin' ...

" ... A comin' round the bend,

But I ain't seen George Tenet,

since I don't know when ...

Well I shot my load on Monica,

Then asked her to lie ... Ah haaaa ...

When I think about my marriage,

I hang my head and cry."

Check out the adoring Man-flake to his right! Great stuff!

Teenagers make horrible leaders.

He didn't, but so what if he did?

Cheney did not back simulated drowning: White House

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The wife of Vice President Dick Cheney leaped to his defense on Friday after he was accused of endorsing simulated drowning by saying a "dunk in water" for terrorism suspects might be useful.

"This is complete distortion. He didn't say anything of the kind," Lynne Cheney told CNN's "The Situation Room" when asked if Cheney was endorsing "water boarding," an interrogation technique some human rights advocates consider torture.

The vice president was asked on Tuesday by a conservative radio host from Fargo, North Dakota: "Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?"


"Well, it's a no-brainer for me," replied Cheney as part of a campaign by Republicans to keep national security on the minds of voters ahead of November 7 congressional elections.

Cheney did not address the controversy on a trip to Missouri, but his wife, President George W. Bush and White House spokesman Tony Snow all came to his defense.

"This country doesn't torture. We're not going to torture. We will interrogate people we pick up off the battlefield to determine whether or not they've got information that will be helpful to protect the country," Bush told reporters.

Cheney's comment prompted complaints from a human rights group that he was endorsing a technique called "water boarding" that simulates drowning.

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First off, "water boarding" as practiced by our men does not entail "dunking" but "pouring". You'd think terrorist rights -- er, human rights -- groups would know that much.

More importantly, we agree with the Veep's original reaction: It's a no brainer. Water boarding sounds unpleasant but hardly compares with having your head sawed off or leaping to your death from the 88th floor of a skyscraper.

So many Americans are going wobbly.

Fence bill signed. Now build the damn thing!

Bush Signs U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Bill

President Bush wanted an exchange of workers with Mexico to bring order to the border, but wound up signing a law Thursday that approves partitioning 700 miles of the United States from its southern neighbor.

The administration once talked of "orderly migration" - workers entering the United States and returning to Mexico or other countries when their jobs were finished. But political realities have replaced phrases like that with "border security" and plans for fences, surveillance cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles and watch towers.

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Cool. Now BUILD it!

A reminder to our conservative brethren who plan to sit at home on November 7th: Without the GOP House, today would have seen the signing of an amnesty bill.

Well, here's a shocker

Poll shows Muslims in U.S. lean to Democrats

By Deborah Charles

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More American Muslims are now supporting the Democratic Party but their votes should not be taken for granted, an Islamic civil rights group said on Tuesday.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, released a poll of 1,000 registered Muslim voters in the United States it said showed the community has changed a great deal since supporting Republicans in 2000.

The poll found 42 percent of respondents were Democrats and 17 percent Republican, while some 28 percent had no party affiliation, said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.

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We doubt this support has to do with the Disloyal Opposition's embrace of abortion, pornography and unimaginable perversions. We're fairly certain these are beheadable offenses under Islamic "law".

This is not to imply that every American Muslim supports the imposition of the Sharia in America.

Now, not all Christians live as Jesus did, but His was a tough act to emulate. Self-sacrifice and forgiveness are, after all, much harder than waging Jihad.

However, ask yourself this: How would Mohammed vote?

If you're not sure, you need to read more about this alleged man of peace.

Klugman v. Krugman

Where we compare the characters (mostly Oscar Madison with the occasional Quincy) portrayed by one of America's most beloved TV actors, Jack Klugman, with the man Donald Luskin has lovingly branded "America's Most Dangerous Pundit", Paul Krugman!

Please send us your Klugman v. Krugmans!

Klugman		Krugman
Roommate made honking noises		Is rumoured to make honking noises whenever someone mentions tax cuts

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An ad every GOP candidate should imitate

“National Security”

How odd that it should take RINO Nancy Johnson (lifetime 47 ACU rating) to run an ad like this.

This spot should serve as a model ad for all Republicans running against opponents who want to fight mass murder seeking Jihadists with two hands tied behind our backs.

We suggest they go even further.

The enemy within wants to give captured enemy combatants the same rights as uniformed soldiers. They blanche at the very thought of, in the pursuit of lifesaving information, causing discomfort and "shame" to these hellhounds.

Instead, we give them Korans, prayer mats and religiously correct meals.

And they thank us by throwing their feces at our guards.

One side just does not get it. Indeed, many on our side still do not.

Civilization is at stake. Islamicism is acsendant in Europe -- indeed, Intifada rages in France -- and would love to get a toe hold here.

Those who dread the notion that Christians vote should consider life under the Sharia:

"No porn, no abortions, no gay bathhouses, not a single luxury.

Like Teh-er-ra-an, as primitive as can be."

For all their warts, this Administration and the GOP majority seem to (mostly) understand this.

The other side seems content to re-fight the 2000 election.

Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel and Harry Reid are ill-equipped for leadership in a time of great peril.

Now is not the time to go wobbly and empower these overgrown 7 year olds.

Left finally finds a use for firearms it can applaud

"Fetus" shooter skates

Judge Dismisses Charges Against Woman Who Killed Her Unborn Child

Oct. 19, 2006 — A Virginia judge has dismissed charges today against a young woman who shot herself in order to kill her unborn child in a case that has angered anti-abortion activists.

Tammy Skinner was a poor, desperate 22-year-old with two young children and another one on the way.

She said her boyfriend wouldn't pay for an abortion, so she carried her pregnancy to term.

Then she did the unthinkable.

Prosecutors say that on the morning she was scheduled to give birth, Skinner drove to an auto dealer's parking lot, took a gun, and shot herself in the belly, killing the fetus in an act of self-abortion. Skinner was charged with carrying out an illegal abortion.

Is Skinner a criminal?

Today, a Virginia judge said no. The charges were dropped, her case dismissed.

Should he have ruled otherwise?

The law in question states that it is illegal to administer or cause an illegal abortion on an expectant mother.

But Skinner's defense lawyer, Kevin Martingayle, argued that the law did not make it a crime for a mother to cause her own abortion. Ultimately, that argument convinced Circuit Court Judge W. R. Carter.

If someone else had pulled the trigger, he or she would be criminally accountable. Because it was the pregnant woman herself, no crime was committed, the court ruled.

But the Commonwealth of Virginia filed a direct indictment against Skinner, putting her case back in the courtroom.

Skinner's case has legal analysts scratching their heads and anti-abortion activists pounding their fists.

To those activists, this is an unequivocal case of murder coupled with a failure of the courts to catch it.

In an online article, Keith Fournier, a Catholic deacon in Richmond, Va., wrote that equated Skinner's case with the abortion movement as a whole.

He criticized, in particular, the fact that Skinner's earlier charges had been dropped.

"This case reveals all the evil fangs on the evil face of legal abortion on demand," Fournier said.

Skinner's Story: 'I Did Not Have Any Choices'

In a written statement, Skinner admits to the tragic and gruesome act.

But she also provides a context for it, portraying a moment of desperate confusion stirred by constant mental abuse.

It all began just after 3 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2006.

"I couldn't sleep that morning, and I got up out of bed. I got dressed and grabbed my gun. I was having contractions — so scared out of my mind," Skinner said in a written statement to authorities.

"I got somebody to load the gun, because I didn't know how. I got in the car. … Sat there for a while and told the Lord that my mind was not right. I pulled the trigger. … The gun went off."

After Skinner pulled the trigger, she called 911 and told the operator she had gotten into an argument with a man named Travis, who then shot her in the stomach.

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This tragic incident -- tragic for the dead victim, that is -- highlights the bizarre casuistries of the "abortion anytime, anywhere, any reason" crowd.

Don't get us wrong -- we feel for Ms. Skinner. After all, it's difficult to remain un-pregnant.

Apparently, after at least two previous pregnancies, Ms. Skinner could not get it through her skull that refusing to spread her legs for a no account bum might be the best course of action, at least until her wedding night.

So, Skinner got knocked up and waited 39 weeks and 6+ days to murder her child.

The poor dear could not afford to have her unborn son or daughter (herein, for the sake of clarity, "son") offed.

Did she approach organizations like Planned Parenthood and NARAL, abortion cheerleaders for whom every abortion not performed is a tragedy, and plead for aid?

Who knows.

What we do know is that she was having contractions when she pulled the trigger.

A beautiful, innocent, unique-in-the-existence-of-the-Universe human being was minutes away from exiting the womb and taking his first breath.

Were her actions against the law? Apparently not.

Despite the fact that the child had long ago become "viable", Virginia law apparently states that, simply based on the whims of another person, the soon-born person has no right not to be aggressed against.

A few minutes later, Skinner would have been guilty of murder, though some "ethicists" like Princeton flake Peter Singer believe infanticide should be legal for 28 days. Even the most devout pro-aborts stop short of Singer's (who mourns the suffering of rats) insanity.

So here is the "logic" of abortion: Your unalienable right to be left alone rests on the arbitrary wishes of someone else, your alleged "mother".

Would it have killed Skinner to give birth to the child and allow him to be raised by adoptive, adoring, functional parents?

We breathlessly await gun charges -- did she have a permit? -- being filed against Skinner.

Sick.

American kids suck at math but feel good about themselves

U.S. math students feel good despite their lagging scores

WASHINGTON — American students get more pats on the back than their counterparts in many other countries but aren't necessarily learning more, according to a new study.

Where student confidence is emphasized, countries such as the United States have lower achievement scores than in nations that may not put as much focus on happiness, according to the Brookings Institution, a liberal-leaning think tank.(emphasis ours)

Indeed, countries with the least happy students have the highest math scores, according to the study released Wednesday.

Forty percent of U.S. eighth-grade students believe they do well in math, far higher than the 4 percent of Japanese students and 6 percent of Korean students.

However, U.S. students scored much worse than their counterparts in the two countries.

Even Singaporean students, who say they are lousy at learning math, outperform the most confident American students, the study found.

The results show that American teachers overestimate how much "feeling good" plays into student learning, said Tom Loveless, the study's author and director of the institution's Brown Center on Education Policy.

"I'm not urging to make kids unhappy. We don't want kids who aren't confident," Loveless said.

"But we should make sure our kids get feedback on how they compare to the rest of the world."


Teaching relevance
Showing students that math is relevant to their daily lives, a common teaching tactic, may be futile, Loveless said.

Instead, he said, teachers need to stick to the basics.

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We recall a similar study from 15 or 20 years ago.

When we got perfect marks on our math tests, we felt pretty good about ourselves, at least for the moment. After all, there was always another test around the corner and we'd have to prove ourselves again.

Never can we recall feeling fine about crapping out (95% or below) on a math test.

And never did we wonder "how is math relevant to our lives?".

We simply understood that it must be, given the emphasis put on it by our Old School (sorry) teachers whose mission was to educate, not indoctrinate.

In a selfish sense, the results of this study are great, as the children of the Ponderosa will never fall into the "as long as you feel good all's well no matter how much you fail" tarpit and will surely succeed over their lesser motivated but self-satisfied peers.

But as Americans, we worry about the long term economic health of the nation. Will we produce enough of the best and brightest to prevail in a century that clearly will be ruled by those who master technology?

Well, at least America's kids can properly fit a banana with a condom.

The pussification of American kids continues apace

Not It! Mass. Elementary School Bans Tag

ATTLEBORO, Mass. Oct 18, 2006 (AP)— Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.

Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.

While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous.

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, S.C., school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.

"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."

Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.

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Lesseeeee ... Were we trapped on a high floor of a burning building it seems to us it'd be preferable to have Mrs. Laferriere's boy tasked with our rescue as opposed to Ms. Willett's emasculated son.

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
-- C.S. Lewis

Wrist slap for treasonous Moonbat lawyer

Judge lenient with civil rights lawyer

NEW YORK - Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart arrived at her sentencing packed for prison. With medication, books and a pair of sweat pants, she was prepared to begin a stay that could have stretched for 30 years.

Instead, Stewart walked out of the courtroom unshackled, free pending appeal of a 28-month sentence after a judge took into account her career of standing up for the most unpopular clients.

The 67-year-old, convicted of helping a jailed terrorist sheik communicate with his disciples, smiled through tears as the judge announced the sentence Monday. Later, she hugged family and supporters and was handed two bouquets of red roses as she walked out of the courthouse.

"This is a great victory against an overreaching government," she told dozens of supporters outside the lower Manhattan courthouse after winning extraordinary leniency from U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl.

The judge rejected demands by the government that Stewart be sentenced to 30 years in prison for convictions of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorist organizations, making false statements and defrauding the government.

Prosecutors had blistered Stewart's acts as "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group."

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Crackpot Jihadist sympathizer (r), Bounty, the quicker picker-upper (l).


Why is it that whenever one reads about a daffy decision from a federal judge, the offender is invariably a Carter or Clinton appointee?

28 months for essentially aiding and comforting the enemy?

"[O]verreaching government"?! This broad happily did the bidding of those who would slaughter you, me and the infidel next door.

The GOP has not given its supporters much motivation to crawl over broken glass to vote for it in three weeks.

It's opponents, however, have.

Klugman v. Krugman

Where we compare the characters (mostly Oscar Madison with the occasional Quincy) portrayed by one of America's most beloved TV actors, Jack Klugman, with the man Donald Luskin has lovingly branded "America's Most Dangerous Pundit", Paul Krugman!

Please send us your Klugman v. Krugmans!

Klugman		Krugman
Worked with dead people (Quincy)		Works with dead economic theories (NY Times)

FINALLY!: The Odd Couple: The Complete First Season

We'll be off Monday ...

... We're seeing Iron Maiden in Toronto.

Saddam heartened by latest U.S. polls

Saddam says victory at hand against U.S. occupation

AMMAN (Reuters) - In an open letter, Saddam Hussein told Iraqis "victory was at hand" and urged insurgents to show magnanimity to opponents, saying he himself forgave Iraqis who aided the killers of his two sons.

In the letter dictated to his chief lawyer Khalil Dulaimi during a four-hour meeting on Saturday in his prison, the former Iraqi leader also said Iraqis should put aside differences and set only one goal - to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq.

"Victory is at hand but don't forget that your near-term goal is confined to liberating your country from the forces of occupation," Saddam said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Sunday.

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Ordinarily, that last paragraph would inspire peals of laughter.

Amazingly, however, it reflects the hopes and dreams of America's soon-to-be Disloyal Majority.

You know who you are.

Boy Clinton, Economic Illiterate

Clinton Touts Oil Tax Measure at UCLA Rally

Accusing oil companies of lying about the cost of Proposition 87, former President Clinton on Friday called "bogus" their contention that approving a tax on oil revenues would trigger higher gas prices for California motorists.

During a rally at UCLA, the former president said the state ballot measure would help California move toward less expensive, cleaner forms of energy by funding research into alternative fuels.

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"California is being given an opportunity and an obligation to do something remarkable — to save the planet, improve our national security, create the next generation of good jobs for the American people," Clinton said.

The measure on the Nov. 7 ballot would impose up to $485 million a year in taxes on companies that extract oil from California land, with the money going to finance research and development of alternative energy. Over its life, the measure would raise $4 billion for grants and loans to projects developing alternative fuels and more energy-efficient vehicles.

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Spoken like a guy who's never worked in the real world.

A tax on oil profits won't lead to an increase in prices? Has this guy ever even run a lemonade stand or worked a drive thru window?

As for "grants and loans to projects developing alternative fuels and more energy-efficient vehicles" -- clearly the boy genius has no clue where new products and technologies come from. Every great advance -- the auto, the personal computer, life-saving pharmaceuticals -- springs from someone's desire to make a lot of money. That these creations greatly serve mankind is one of the wonders of capitalism.

When the costs and inconveniences of alternative energy sources fall below those of current sources the world will embrace the former.

Prop 87's "[G]rants and loans" will be doled out in return for political favors to patrons whose ideas are unworthy of private sector capital and will continue to be lavished even when such ideas prove to be duds. That is how Government works. When it is not your money the fact that is is being pissed down a rathole is of no concern to you.

The lip biter has at various times made a living off the taxpayers, donors to his insipid foundation and initiative and foreigners willing to pay a hefty fee to hear him bash America. Never has he been involved in an enterprise where supply, demand and profit were the primary considerations.

Perhaps the fellow we are constantly told is so much smarter than the rest of us should get an education in basic economics.

We suggest a paper route.

Theresa Heinz's Coxcomb Babbles On

Kerry: Bush policy 'stand still and lose'

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The Massachusetts senator, who is considering running for the presidency again in 2008, called the Iraq war "a disgrace" and said Bush has adopted a "stand still and lose" policy, the Boston Globe reported.

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Disgrace, thy name is John Kerry-Heinz.

Our Iraq policy is and has always been to build the political, military and cultural institutions that will enable Iraq to stand alone.

The tactics toward this end have changed innumerable times as dictated by circumstances.

If Kerry knows of a better policy than helping Iraq govern and defend itself, we'd sure love to hear it.

Why is it so many empty suits just love hearing themselves drone on and on?

Hopefully, not many Americans are listening.

Maddeningly, countless of our enemy clearly are.

Should the Congress flip to the Disloyal Opposition on November 7, the people of Iraq can expect to suffer the same fate of the South Vietnamese, sold out to communist savages by the Democrats in 1975.

Klugman v. Krugman

Where we compare the characters (truthfully, mostly Oscar Madison with the occasional Quincy) portrayed by one of America's most beloved TV actors, Jack Klugman, with the man Donald Luskin has lovingly branded "America's Most Dangerous Pundit", Paul Krugman!

Please send us your Klugman v. Krugmans!

Klugman		Krugman
Never won the Nobel Prize for Economics		Never won the Nobel Prize for Economics

FINALLY!: The Odd Couple: The Complete First Season

This is why they invented the electric chair

Florida Police Believe 4 Bodies Found Beside Highway to Be 'Family'

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Two adults and two children, believed by police to be a family, were found shot to death Friday morning along an isolated stretch of Florida's Turnpike in St. Lucie County, with the woman clutching the two children in an apparent attempt to protect them, authorities said.

A witness alerted Florida Highway Patrol troopers to the bodies of a man, woman, boy and girl on the southbound shoulder south of the Route Midway Road in Port St. Lucie around 7:45 a.m., according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office.

Investigators believe the victims' vehicle had pulled to the side of Florida's Turnpike before someone else in the vehicle shot them and drove away sometime between 1:30 and 3 a.m., Sheriff Ken Mascara said.

"They were killed by multiple gunshot wounds," Mascara told reporters Friday afternoon.

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We're certain the murderer(s) had a legit reason to murder four valued and loved members of the civilized world: his kindergarten classmates mocked him, he wasn't chosen first for dodgeball, the pervert in the park had a present in his pants.

Or he wanted something they had and didn't feel like working for it.

Whatever.

Four people whose existence made the world a better place were slaughtered by someone the world will be better off without.

Life in prison is not proportionate punishment for this sort of crime.

Strapping him to a chair and exposing him to the same terror he inflicted on his innocent victims is a start.

Deterrent? Who knows.

Appropriate punishment for the crime -- you bet.

Here's hoping you get what you deserve, asshole.

Air America to Creditors: Drop Dead!

Air America Radio Files for Chapter 11

NEW YORK -- Air America Radio filed for bankruptcy reorganization Friday, in the latest patch of turbulence to befall the liberal talk radio network that launched two years ago headlined by the comedian and author Al Franken.

The network will continue to operate with funding from its investor group, led by RealNetworks Inc. CEO Robert Glaser, who owns 36.7 percent of the company, and two other former board members.

The company also named a new CEO Friday, Scott Elberg, a radio executive who joined the company in May 2005 following stints at the New York area radio station WKTU and other places.

Air America had dismissed rumors just one month ago that it was planning to file for bankruptcy protection. Spokeswoman Jaime Horn said Friday the filing became necessary only recently after negotiations with a creditor broke down.

Court documents showed that MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting Inc., a creditor with whom the network had tussled in its early days, had Air America's bank accounts frozen.

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How quintessentially "liberal". We owe you money? Screw you!

Fear not, Moonbats -- you still have NPR!

What is it about the Looney Left that they look to a failed comedian and a failed sports guy for opinion and analysis?

Al Franken!?! Keith Olbermann!?! You people stand on the shoulders of midgets!

These are the folks who believe they are smarter than the rest of us!

Religion of Peace Update

Orthodox Priest Beheaded In Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq -- Relatives of a beheaded Iraqi priest said his captors had demanded a church apology for recent papal comments about Islam.

They said the Orthodox priest was abducted Sunday by an unidentified group, which demanded a ransom. The kidnappers also wanted the priest's church to condemn controversial recent remarks by Pope Benedict. In a speech last month, the pope quoted a medieval text describing Islam as a religion spread by the sword.

The relatives said the priest's church had already posted signs condemning the pope's statement. A similar message was posted again after the abduction.

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Since the start of the Muslim holy month, U.S. officials in Baghdad said the number of attacks there is up by 15 percent.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said Ramadan "historically" brings more violence. (emphasis ours) And Caldwell warned that the military is assuming "it will still get worse before it gets better." He's anticipating a continued increase in violence over the next two weeks, until the holy month ends.

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Where to begin?

So, to protest the Pope's quoting some ancient emperor's words excoriating Islam as a religion spread by the sword, modern day Mohammedans ... TAKE TO THE SWORD!

Glad we got that cleared up.

We wonder if these savages demanded this brave man of Christ convert to Islam in order to spare his life.

Say hello to Jesus for us, Father Iskender. Enjoy the eternal peace you have earned.

"Ramadan 'historically' brings more violence".

Say what?!

Yeah, many's time my Right Wing Christian buddies and I have tied one on during Advent and gone on a spree of mosque burning and Muslim beheading.

It's time some of ya came to grips with the uncomfortable truth: Islam is a death cult and everyone from the most devout Jew and Christian to the most libertine pervert has a mark on his head.

Sleep well, fellow infidels.

New HammerFall vid!

Natural High

Cheesy video? Yup! But it's molten riff-laden, true heavy metal!

Let the hammer fall!

American charged with treason (not Bill Keller)

American charged with treason for aiding al-Qaida

A 28-year-old Californian who joined al-Qaida and appeared in propaganda videos for the terrorist organization was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of treason and providing material support to terrorists.

A grand jury in Orange County returned the indictment against Adam Yehiye Gadahn, 28, a suspected al-Qaida operative sought by the FBI since 2004 and believed to be in or near Pakistan.

It was the first time an American had been charged with treason since the World War II era, federal officials said.

Gadahn is believed to have attended the terrorist group's training camps in Pakistan and served as one of its translators. Gadahn appeared last month in a 48-minute video along with al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, calling on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for US soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.

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Better late than never.

Now, to crack down on the traitors in our midst.

With all due respect, sir ...

... this is a load of crap.

President Bush Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month at the White House

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We will conduct this debate on immigration in a way that is respectful to our heritage. We are a nation of law, and we will enforce our law. But at the same time, we must remember that in order to secure our borders, in order to make sure we fulfill our heritage, immigration reform must be comprehensive in nature. We must understand that you can't kick 12 million people out of your country; that we must figure out a way to say to those that if you're lawful and if you've contributed to the United States of America, there is a way for you to eventually earn citizenship. (Applause.)

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"if you're lawful and if you've contributed to the United States of America"

By the act of circumventing this nation's immigration laws, 12 million are NOT lawful.

Our great grandparents came here legally, through Ellis Island, around 80 years ago.

Their very first act as Americans was to obey the laws of this nation and gain proper entry to this amazing land.

Afterward, they did not demand that their children be taught by Italian speaking teachers, nor that signs and instructions be printed in Italian.

They did not attend anti-American rallies, wave the flag of Italy and demand that America become Italy West.

The same can be said for tens of millions other European and Asian immigrants.

One of our major disagreements with the president concerns his refusal to punish those who have come here illegaly.

Make no mistake, a liberal majority in Congress would offer no respite and would almost certainly exacerbate the situation.

Indeed, only House Republicans offer a bulwark against unfettered immigration from the south.

Mr. President, build up that wall.

Build it long and build it high.

The Court has lost its mind

Appeal on school's lesson in Muslim culture is rejected

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by evangelical Christian students and their parents who said a Contra Costa County school district engaged in unconstitutional religious indoctrination when it taught students about Islam by having them recite language from prayers.

The court, without comment, left intact a ruling by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco last November in favor of the Byron Union School District in eastern Contra Costa.

The suit challenged the content of a seventh-grade history course at Excelsior Middle School in Byron in the fall of 2001. The teacher, using an instructional guide, told students they would adopt roles as Muslims for three weeks to help them learn what Muslims believe.

She encouraged them to use Muslim names, recited prayers in class, had them memorize and recite a passage from the Quran and made them give up something for a day, such as television or candy, to simulate fasting during the month of Ramadan. The final exam asked students for a critique of elements of Muslim culture.

The students and parents who sued argued that the class activities had crossed the line from education into an official endorsement of a religious practice. A federal judge and the appeals court disagreed, saying the class had an instructional purpose and the students had engaged in no actual religious exercises.

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Were the girls forced to wear burqas?

Was the penalty for stealing someone's lunch money having your hand lopped off by the principal?

If a girl was kissed against her will on the playground was she stoned to death by her classmates?

Coming soon: intramural beheading!

America is slipping away.

Found: 810,000 jobs

The Worker Rally

The Labor Department released its September jobs report on Friday, and some wags are calling it the "whoops" report. The "whoops" is a reference to the upward revision of 810,000 previously undetected jobs that Labor now says were created in the U.S. economy in the 12 months through March 2006.

So instead of 5.8 million new jobs over the past three years, the U.S. economy has created 6.6 million. That's a lot more than a rounding error, more than the number of workers in the entire state of New Hampshire. What's going on here?

Our hypothesis has been that, due to the changing nature of the U.S. economy, the Labor Department's business establishment survey has been undercounting job creation from small businesses and self-employed entrepreneurs. That job growth has been better captured in Labor's companion household survey, which reported 271,000 new jobs in September after 250,000 new jobs in August, and a very healthy total of 2.54 million new jobs in the past year.

The household survey is what is used to determine the unemployment rate, which fell in September to 4.6%, the lowest level in five years. The establishment survey, meanwhile, is used to announce the monthly "new jobs" numbers. Every year the Labor Department revises its job estimates from the previous year, in essence reconciling the figures from the two surveys, and the missing 810,000 jobs was the result through March 2006.

Getting out of the statistical weeds, the news here is that the U.S. has a very tight labor market -- which is now translating into significant wage gains. Over the past 12 months wages have climbed by 4%, which is the biggest gain since 2001 and which economist Brian Wesbury points out is higher than the 3.3% average annual wage growth of the last 25 years.(emphasis ours)

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6.6 million jobs since the 2003 tax cuts, 4.6% unemployment rate -- damn, even Keith Olbermann has a job -- surging tax revenues leading to a dwindling budget deficit and strong wage growth.

Remind us again why Americans are about to put Charlie Rangel in charge of tax policy ...

The Botoxed Assassin

It goes without saying that HBO’s Bill Maher is no journalist. However, it doesn’t seem to be asking too much of the comedian turned political pundit in his own mind to exhibit some degree of impartiality when interviewing current members of Congress and former presidential candidates, especially four weeks before a major election. Sadly, that appears not to be important to Maher, who like his compatriot on MSNBC, has become an unashamed, predictable hatchet-man for the left.

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After some niceties, Maher asked the senator what he got his wife for her birthday. Kerry said that he took his wife to a lovely retreat in Vermont. Begin transcript:

Maher: You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.

Kerry: Or, I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.(emphasis ours)

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Oh, how silly these looney lefties! Assassination is such a riot!

But the president need not worry. Anyone who recalls Kerry's ceremonial first pitch at a 2004 Red Sox game understands that any stone Kerry throws will fall several feet short of its target.