"in terms of damage to children and to our society, meth is now the most dangerous drug in America."This Newsweek exposé explains how it has happened and what steps are being taken to try to get it under control. Some really serious reading, here. If you seriously want to know more about this scourge, the Newsweek article also provides links to other articles on the web.
The Kyoto accord looks like yesterday's approach to yesterday's conception of tomorrow's problem.Here's the deal on the Kyoto Accord. Back when Clinton was president, the US Senate advised him by a vote of 99-0 not to sign the Kyoto accord. The accord is basically an agreement by some developed nations that they will make draconian cuts in their emissions of so-called "greenhouse" gases, like carbon dioxide. If the promised new limits are not met, the signers would have to pay humongeous penalties. The world's underdeveloped nations, like China, are not subject to these limits.
Teens arrested for burning 20 small U.S. flagsThen the first paragraph of this thoroughly misleading report:
Two teenage boys were charged Thursday with burning 20 small American flags set up in honor of a soldier who died from injuries suffered in the Iraq war.Now, after the headline and the first paragraph have you believing that two teenage boys were charged with flag burning (which is not a crime), the second paragraph finally gets around to mentioning, as an aside, what the boys were actually charged with. The report doesn't state this outright. The reporter leaves it up to the readers to figure it out.
Police said the boys apparently did not know the significance of the flags they took from the yard and set afire under a car belonging to the soldier's sister-in-law. The vehicle was destroyed.What the report never states is that the arson charge was for burning the car, not the flags.
"...the U.S. government is not only undermining the ability of a free press to function in this country but also sending a signal to other governments that such a course is acceptable when dealing with journalists of whose actions they do not approve."Outrageous behavior on the part of this no doubt self described non-aligned committee. What the committee should have done is called upon the Congress of the US to pass legislation to institute a shield law to protect journalists who find themselves in this kind of a pickle.
"Only a minority of countries worldwide imprison journalists for their work," Cooper said. "The United States, long seen as setting a global standard for freedom of the press, is damaging its international reputation by jailing journalists."
"In short, it is a fake fatwa designed merely to deceive the American public into believing that these groups are moderate.Cair's problems have been well documented as both present and past CAIR officials have many ties to terrorist organizations. Visit The Counterterrorism Blog - there is a lot of there, there.
Judea Pearl, father of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, as maintaining that the fatwa is a "vacuous because it does not name the perpetrators of Islamic terrorist theologies and leaders of Islamic movements."
The Chairman of the Fiqh Council, Taha Jaber Al-Alwani, is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against Sami al-Arian, the alleged North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose trial began in June 2005 in Tampa, Florida. Alwani has been named in court documents as an official of several entities in northern Virginia suspected of being connected to terrorist financing. Documents released in the Al Arian trial show that Alwani funded the Islamic Jihad front groups in Tampa.
Aren't we lucky? Isn't it great? We have patriotic ingrate Jane Fonda, the multiple divorceé who was born with a silver hoof in her mouth, acting as spokespig for our country again. Although she's born here, isn't there a way we can throw her out since her basic career is to bad-mouth the United States of America? If being a smoker is against the law, how about being a traitor? If spitting on the sidewalk is not allowed, how come spitting on the U.S.A. is OK? If double-parking gets a fine, shouldn't there be some small punishment for treason?Couldn't have said it better myself.
Hanoi Jane taking the money she made in this God-blessed country and spending it on a nationwide oink against us? Hanoi Jane who in 1972 betrayed United States prisoners of war during the blood-filled Vietnam days? Harming our nation and then apologizing just long enough to sell a book, a video or a monster of a movie? Three husbands left her. The whole rest of us should, too.
While signing her book someplace, this woman announced a hideous anti-Iraq bus tour she intends to take. She now announces she'll take her 32-year-old son, Troy, with her. Isn't anyone going to stop this? Isn't there some law against this? And her kid's comment about why mummy dearest is doing it? "I guess she thinks it's time for people to do something."
I know what they can do. They can drive her the hell out of here. Look, we don't all favor this war, but we do favor our country. Right or wrong, it's our country. We love it. We support it. We do not help the enemy.
And infinitely less stupid.TAGS: Muslim, Islam, terrorist, racial profiling, stupid
"Any (foreigners) in the madrassas - even dual nationality holders - will leave Pakistan," Gen Musharraf said.Well, that's a start, I guess. I don't know if I believe the 1400 number. I would think it would be more like 14,000 or 140,000, but that's just my opinion. Of course, if they turn them over 4 times per year, that's an annual output of some 5600 wild-eyed, where's-my-72-virgins? jihadist and martyr wannabees.
The Time reporter (Cooper) wrote in his recent first-person account that he couldn't recall whether he first learned her name by reading Mr. Novak's column or from doing research on the Google Web site.Huh? I thought that Cooper has said that Karl Rove gave him Valerie Plame's name. That's why all the squealing from the lefties for Rove's head. What is detailed here is that Cooper's notes say that Rove told Cooper,
"it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip."So Rove, according to the notes, told Cooper that Wilson's wife apparently worked at the CIA on WMD issues. Then Cooper found her name either through a Google search or by reading Robert Novak's column.
With Ms. Miller and Mr. Cooper potentially facing civil-contempt findings and jail in the Plame investigation, Mr. Pearlstine spoke with Mr. Sulzberger, the chairman and publisher of the Times. Mr. Pearlstine says that Mr. Sulzberger suggested they offer buttons to employees of their organizations declaring, "Free Judy, Free Matt, Free Speech." Mr. Pearlstine demurred.TAGS: Karl Rove, Valerie Plame, Judith Miller, Time Magazine, New York Times, Plamegate, Rovegate, leak
"Less than two hours before his death, Teele told DeFede he was upset about the records linking him to the transvestite," and "Teele also complained that his financial problems - a burden throughout his 15-year political career - had become overwhelming."That's from the tape. And now the police want the tape and the Herald's DÃaz says the newspaper has refused because,
The Herald doesn't turn over unpublished notes and Teele had requested that the conversation be off the record, he said."We're going to honor that," DÃaz said. "We expect we will get subpoenaed and we will say we will not meet the subpoena and we'll end up in court."So the Herald fired the reporter for making the tape (a misdemeanor in Florida, like running a stopsign) after the reporter immediately told his bosses he had done so "with shaking hands", thinking he might be listening to the last words of Arthur Teele, Jr., which he was, then publishes quotes from the tape, then refuses to give up the tape. This is ethics?
The charges were filed 25 years after the alleged crimes took place.Judge Phillip O'Sullivan of the Irish High Court also included a permanent injunction against future extradition attempts. So, I guess that in Ireland an accused sex offender is free to roam the streets, molesting at will until convicted, if the victim doesn't tell for a long time, then the pedophilia is A-Ok, and pink underwear is a serious violation of a pedophile's rights. What a schmuck.
Arizona's practice of denying bond to certain accused sex offenders violated rights under the Irish Constitution.
Prior newspaper coverage would endanger Colleary's chances of getting a fair trial.
He feared that Colleary would be sent to a Maricopa County jail and kept under inhumane conditions that included wearing pink underwear.
06:53 GMT, Jul 28, 2005 Latest Headlines...The Reuters report quotes the U.S. military commander in South Korea, General Leon LaPorte, as saying, "North Korea has self-proclaimed itself as a nuclear power and on several occasions said they had nuclear weapons. North Korea is the only one that could precisely answer the question whether they have nuclear weapons."
N. Korea has nuclear bomb components, but no weapons - source
BEIJING. July 28 (Interfax-China) - North Korea has no arsenal of
nuclear weapons ready for use, a diplomatic source close to the six-
nation talks on the Korean nuclear problem told Interfax on Thursday.
"Following the announcement that North Korea has become a nuclear
power, Pyongyang made it clear to China that North Korea has developed a detonator for blowing up nuclear charges, which is the most
sophisticated component of nuclear munitions," the source said.
"North Korea developed methods of making nuclear weapons back in
the early 1960s, but it did not succeed in creating a detonator for a
long time," the diplomat said.
"After work on this problem succeeded, North Korea announced that
it became the fourth country possessing nuclear weapons, since methods
for making all of its components were now available and the production
of nuclear weapons ceased to be a problem," he said.
The source said that North Korea is still hoping for real results
at the six-nation talks and is refraining from serious spending on the
mass production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
"But if the U.S. and its allies delay providing real security guarantees to North Korea, or advance demands Pyongyang cannot accept, North Korea will have to step up the creation of a self-defense nuclear arsenal," the diplomat said.
Sperry also gives us a list of useless precautions and profiles that protect nobody, inconvenience everybody and waste law enforcement resources.Department of Homeland Security
Young Muslim men of Arab or South Asian origin. Elderly Muslim women don't fit the terrorist profile. Neither do young Muslim girls or children.
Terrorist Profile
Seen praying fervently, giving the appearance of whispering to someone.
A shaved head or short haircut. A short haircut or recently shaved beard or moustache may be evident by differences in skin complexion on the head or face.
May smell of herbal or flower water (most likely flower water), as they may have sprayed perfume on themselves, their clothing, and weapons to prepare for Paradise.
Identity cards in their shoes because they want to be praised and recognized as martyrs. (This is difficult to spot, but is mentioned.)
May raise their hands in the air just before the explosion to prevent the destruction of their fingerprints. (Best advice if you see this is to say a quick prayer to your God because you will shortly be on your way to meet him.)
Useless precautions and profiles that protect nobody:TAGS: terrorist profile, racial profiling, anti-terrorist precautions, politicians, cowards
Grannies and Girl Scouts having their backpacks and bags searched.
People wearing heavy coats who do not fit other terrorist profiles.
People fiddling with their bags who do not fit other terrorist profiles.
People sweating who do not fit other terrorist profiles.
Elderly Muslim Women
Young Muslim girls and Muslim children.
If the Boy Scouts of America had 1,000 scout troops, and 10 of them practiced suicide bombings, then the BSA would be considered a terrorist organization. If the BSA refused to kick out those 10 troops, that would make the case even stronger. If people defending terror repeatedly turned to the Boy Scout handbook and found language that justified and defended murder - and the scoutmasters in charge simply said "Could be" - the Boy Scouts would have (been) driven out of America long ago.Then why are Muslims, Islam and their caretaker organizations, like CAIR, still permitted to remain here in the United States?
But a review of Mr. Pincus's own accounts and those of other people with detailed knowledge of the case strongly suggest that his source was neither Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's top political adviser, nor I. Lewis Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, and was in fact a third administration official whose identity has not yet been publicly disclosed.Well, if Karl Rove was not the leaker (weep bitterly, lefties), and Lewis Libby was not the leaker, and Rove and Libby turned everyone loose to testify, and the true leaker identified himself to the prosecutor and detailed his conversation to Pincus, then we are back to the as yet unidentified "no partisan gunslinger" informant of Robert Novak. Or perjury by one or more of the parties involved or obstruction of justice by one or more of the parties involved.
Mr. Pincus wrote in the Nieman Reports article that he had agreed to answer questions from Mr. Fitzgerald last fall about his July 12, 2003, conversation only after "it turned out that my source, whom I still cannot identify publicly, had in fact disclosed to the prosecutor that he was my source, and he talked to the prosecutor about our conversation."
Regarding classical Islam, the oft-quoted remark that Islam is a religion of peace is false.I fear we are in for a longer war than anyone can imagine. A war that we must win.
The Prophet died a successful military leader who created a single Islamic polity that expanded - through warfare - all over the known world. The caliphate combined the double logic of a religious community and an imperial state.
"He who dies without having taken part in a campaign dies in a kind of unbelief."
Al Qaeda sympathizers avidly read European fascist literature and pursue religious ends via atheist methods. Recruits to the cause are not the excluded uneducated poor, they are intellectuals with a radical critique of Western society and its impact on Islam.
But it could begin to develop a critique of its history by recovering some of its aborted traditions. Islam must place true religious conversion (like that of Sufism) over territorial conquest.
Islam needs to restore the legislative authority of communal consensus to allow Muslims to develop along with, rather than against, the future.
The contestants:TAGS: hobbies, abject stupidity
Nate Hawn, 20, "My goal that night was to beat up the biggest tourist I could find."
Jarod Stevens, 25, "It's proving something to yourself, that you're man enough to be a part of it and do well...hopefully."
Dog, 40, (alarmed by a question on the forms) "This being wanted by any law enforcement agencies, what does that mean?"
Mr. Stevens, "I'm not one of those guys who's going to back down from a fight. I've had six ribs broken. I've been knocked out cold at a concert."
David Adamyan, 22, (after regaining consciousness) "I don't know what happened. "It was just boom, I was gone."
The Promotor:
Damien Alexander, 30, "You know what we got? We got a bunch of bars and a state park. This is good."
The trainer:
Aaron Hullinger, 33, "The purpose of learning jiu-jitsu is not to get into the cage, but if that's something you want to do, you better know jiu-jitsu."
The spectator:
Anna Anderson, 21, (wearing black clothes and matching black nail polish) "There's really not much in Sioux Falls to do. No one seems to get seriously hurt, but if they do, shucks for them."
The responsible city official:
Vernon Brown, 37, Sioux Falls City Council, "I always say, 'Where's the rule book?' They keep giving me a sheet printed off the Internet that says no eye-gouging, no fishhooks, no fingers in bodily orifices."
Durbin said Democrats would adopt a posture of asking questions about Roberts rather than rejecting him out of hand, two sources who were there said.Wow! Our illustrious Democratic Senators are actually going to ask Roberts some questions? That is a revolutionary idea.
So today it's income inequality and the trade deficit with China that spells certain doom. In an economy so big and so diverse, some grim-sounding statistic will always pop, some indicator will always lag. And a minority party, desperate for power, will only too gladly exaggerate their meaning.He has some sound advice on Social Security, too. Like, Do Something!
"They've got material out there thatWell Senator, start reading our blogs. See blogroll at right.
we don't know about." he complained.
"I know, Ike, let's have a spelling contest."Miami black community leaders outraged at a Miami City summer camp invitation to a "Ghetto Style Talent Show" and "Watermelon Eating Contest."
Doc Holliday to Ike Clanton after Clanton
had just lost 12 consecutive poker hands.
"There is a growing and justifiable criticism that we are not doing enough to deal with extremist individuals and groups within the Muslim community."
"Muslims cannot put their heads in the sand and pretend that this is all a conspiracy theory."
"The reality is that those acts of violence and terrorism did take place and Muslims have been implicated in those acts."
Here is a photo of the good Sheikh, probably being carried around by hundreds, if not thousands, of jihadis with orders to shoot-on-sight."I haven't seen a single, serious poll beyond the media's that attacking Rove helps us one bit with the voters," says a Democratic House member. "No one can show me numbers. This is all the fringe people like MoveOn and even Howard Dean. It's all about not getting past 2000 and 2004. And I really fear we're going to pay for it down the road."In other words, Show me the numbers! And there ain't any.
"My party is making a huge bet on something we really know nothing about," says the Democrat. "We don't know where this Plame thing is going to go, yet we're giving these people a huge platform. I'd rather be fighting for the issues that we know Americans care about: the environment, more of their tax dollars on national security and homeland defense. That stuff resonates at home."
The paper, which describes itself as independent, insisted that state terrorism was more fearsome because it is being seen as legitimate and was used as a way to spread democracy, freedom and human rights.Yep, spread democracy, freedom and human rights. What could be worse?
FOXNEWS O'REILLY: 2,594,000 (viewers)Jeez, FOX more than doubles the viewership of CNN and has 7 times more than MSNBC. And FOX puts 3 shows up against 4 by both CNN and MSNBC.
FOXNEWS GRETA: 2,534,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES: 2,275,000
Total for FOX = 7,403,000
CNN LARRY KING: 1,533,000
CNNHN NANCY GRACE: 797,000
CNN AARON BROWN: 564,000
CNN ZAHN: 513,000
Total for CNN = 3,407,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN: 331,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH: 326,000
MSNBC HARDBALL: 233,000
MSNBC TUCKER: 153,000
Total for MSNBC = 1,043,000
36 percent, now say the Islamic religion is more likely to inspire violence, while 44 percent said that in July 2003I have to believe that this poll was taken in American Samoa, or Guam, or maybe Puerto Rico. That or CAIR propaganda is more effective than I thought. See this post or this one or this one to see what thinking Muslims - those not too afraid to speak out - have to say about their own religion.
The poll found that recent terrorist bombings in London have had no noticeable impact on the public's view of Muslim-Americans or of Islam.
Just over half in the poll, 55 percent, said they have a positive view of Muslim-Americans. That's roughly the same number who felt that way in July 2003 and higher than the number who said they have a positive view of Muslim-Americans in March 2001, before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Four in 10 now say they have a favorable view of Islam, while 36 percent have an unfavorable view - numbers that are virtually unchanged since March 2002.
