Of Bibles and Korans

This very interesting article was emailed to me yesterday, from a retired Marine. I'll respect his privacy until he otherwise lets me know I can mention his name.

This sheds light on the realities of what goes on in Muslim countries, but whats particularly disturbing is that Saudi Arabia reacted with concern towards the Newsweek allegations, while harbouring their dirty little secret.

Saudis Do Destroy Bibles, Think Tank Affirms

A U.S. based think tank critical of the Saudi government has added its voice to allegations that authorities in the kingdom routinely destroy Bibles.

In another article posted on its site- and published as on op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Friday- Saudi Institute Director Ali Al-Ahmed wrote of his fellow Saudis:

"As Muslims, we have not been as generous as our Christian and Jewish counterparts in respecting others' holy books and religious symbols".

I've yet to see this story appear in anywhere in the MSM!

The Sounds Of Silence Are Deafening!

The Sounds of Silence Are Deafening

It's strange and disturbing to me that Muslim's using the excuse of the alleged desecration of the Koran, and alleged abuses at Gitmo, become so outraged that they are incited to riot, in two countries, killing 17 fellow Muslims.

Yet, when hijackers crashed planes into the WTC, and the Pentagon, declaring themselves to be holy warriors of Islam, Muslim outrage was too well contained.

When Al Zarquawi declared that the killing of innocent children and women was condoned by Jihad, Muslim outrage was also too well contained.

When these same jihadists kidnapped Ms Hassan, who ran CARE, and looked after Iraqi KIDS for years, Muslim outrage was too well contained.

When civilians trying to rebuild Iraq, or when democratically elected Iraqi officials, or Iraqi security forces and police officers are targeted and killed DAILY, Muslim outrage is yet again very well contained.

The sounds of silence are deafening.

But ONE article, and a false one at that, in that POS rag Newsweek, and suddenly Muslim outrage manifests itself as a riots in two countries.

And now, from Irshad Manji, I find out that Muslims worldwide are scheduling demonstrations for the end of this month against those who insult Islam.

They'll peacefully protest not just the possibility of the Koran's desecration at Guantanamo but the proven torture at Abu Ghraib as well as civil rights violations suffered by ordinary Muslims in the United States. According to Irshad, they have every right to condemn these injuries.

Irshad Manji is author of "The Trouble With Islam Today". It's a great book - an honest look at the problems indemic to Islam from an insider. I have alot of respect for Irshad - she is a lesbian feminist Muslim, an outspoken critic of those who claim the Koran is authorative and unsullied and the literal word of God, who has had a fatwa issued against her by HER OWN PEOPLE.

Yet, I have to admit, I'm disappointed when she says " Muslims everywhere are questioning America's respect for all religions" and even more disappointed when she says that Muslims have a right to condemn these injuries.

Which INJURIES? And what violations have ordinary Muslims suffered in the US?
What about the injuries and violations inflicted on Muslims by OTHER MUSLIMS????

Muslims everywhere have NOT ONCE CONDEMNED THE INJURIES INFLICTED BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE INCLUDING HIJACKING ISLAM, THE MASS MURDERS OF FELLOW MUSLIMS, AND THE LUDICROUS ASSERTION THAT JIHAD CONDONES THE KILLING OF INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

Muslims everywhere have NOT ONCE QUESTIONED THE LACK OF RESPECT THAT THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND THEIR OWN COUNTRIES HAVE FOR THE RELIGION OF ISLAM! THEY HAVE NOT ONCE QUESTIONED THE LACK OF RESPECT THEY HAVE FOR CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM!
YET THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO QUESTION THE RESPECT AMERICA HAS FOR ISLAM???

ARE WE BOMBING MOSQUES?
ARE WE KILLING MUSLIM WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE NAME OF HOLY WAR?
ARE WE BEHEADING CARE WORKERS, AND BURNING DOWN THE BUILDINGS OF AID WORKERS?
ARE WE PREVENTING MUSLIMS FROM PRACTICING ANY FORM OF THEIR FAITH IN THE U.S. EVEN AS IT ENCOURAGES THEM TO KILL US???
ARE WE BOMBING JEWISH TEMPLES IN OUR OWN COUNTRY?
OR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR THAT MATTER??
ARE WE DESECRATING OTHER RELIGIOUS TEMPLES?

HOW DARE THEY QUESTION OUR RESPECT FOR ISLAM? And how could you, Irshad, of all people agree that they have a right to?

How dare they hold demonstrations peaceful or not to condemn Abu G?
And once again, Irshad, how could you of all people agree they have a right too? WE HAVE TRIED AND SENTENCED THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE HEINOUS CRIMES. And we did it in the light of day for the whole world to see, which is more than ANY Arab country has done with those guilty of far greater crimes; and do not pretend that any prisoner in ANY Arab prison is treated kindly and not tortured!!!!

How dare they hold demonstrations to condemn alleged abuses at Gitmo, when they refuse to hold demonstrations against those that HIJACKED THEIR RELIGION OR AGAINST THE VERY GOVERNMENTS THAT DENY THEM DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOMS INALIENABLE TO ALL!! And, Irshad, how can YOU condone this?

HOW DARE THEY QUESTION OUR RESPECT FOR OTHER RELIGIONS!!

Do you really want me to believe that Muslims CARE ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT AMERICA RESPECTS OTHER RELIGIONS WHEN MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN TARGETING AND KILLING CHRISTIANS AND JEWS, WHEN SHIAS AND SUNNIES AND KURDS, ALL MUSLIMS, ARE KILLING ONE ANOTHER?!?!

Do Muslims see Jews, Hindus, Catholics,Budhhists, Christians, or even Athiests rioting in our streets or ANYWHERE else in the world against America's lack of religious respect?

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour, we rounded up every Japanese person in the country and interned them. We didnt spend anytime hiring them lawyers, and debating if our actions were "fair" or "ethically right" or "morally right", or if they were entitled to rights afforded them as US citizens! It was a time of war! The Japanese had bombed our shores, and we could no longer trust any Japanese living in the US!

TODAY, we are at war, and yet we have NOT interned and denied basic rights to Muslims living in the US.

We have instead detained those we suspect of being terrorists. Perhaps we have detained them longer than you, most Muslims and some Americans feel is fair, but war isnt always fair.

Is it "fair" that Muslim extremists kill children and claim its sanctioned by Jihad?
Is it fair that planes were hijacked and flown into buildings killing thousands of people as they started work?
Is it fair that Muslim jihadists disguise themselves as civilians, and blow themselves up in an outdoor market murdering innocent people, and is it fair that they hide in the shadows, and refuse to fight our troups as soldiers SHOULD HONORABLY DO, mano a mano, but instead plant hidden bombs in the road that kill our troups, Iraqi police forces, and any innocent bystander, and is it "fair" that they assassinate elected Iraqi govt officials, blow up mosques, churches, and police stations??

In the grande scheme of FAIR.....who has been the most unfair Irshad.... Muslims or Americans?
Before you condone their peaceful protests directed only at America, why not demand that your fellow Muslims protest against the Muslims that DESECRATE ISLAM DAILY in the name of misguided political ideals! At least we KNOW that the desecration they have inflicted is NOT ALLEGED, but all too real.

You recently asked "Will they also speak out against the bloody, fiery riots that, in the name of honoring Islam, are killing an increasing number of Muslims and non-Muslims?"

A good question, well worth asking, but it is one that sadly FEW MUSLIMS ARE ASKING, and worse, when SOMEONE does finally ask, instead of speaking out against those who really insult Islam, the Jihadists, who are nothing but mass murderers, Muslims will " protest not just the possibility of the Koran's desecration at Guantanamo but the proven torture at Abu Ghraib as well as civil rights violations suffered by ordinary Muslims in the United States"
And you CONDONE this?

I find that so strange and so sad coming from someone who once said that she was not fighting Islam, but rather the routinely low expectations from those who practice it!

Truth Doesn't Become Him

Once again that liberal jerk Frank Rich has written yet another piece of trash vilifying the White House for being angry at the Newsweek article falsely accusing our Military of desecrating the Koran, and like his croney, Boob Herbert, his Op Ed appears in the New York Times.

You know, Frank, you are fucking annoying. And you're fucking stupid. And the sad fact that you make so much money for being both annoying and stupid is a travesty. You carry around your left wing, anti Bush, anti Republican, anti Right agenda and display it with such arrogance and pride that I have to wonder if anyone can fit into the same room as your ego!!

"Our United States military personnel go out of their way to make sure that the Holy Koran is treated with care," said the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, as he eagerly made the magazine the scapegoat for lethal anti-American riots in Afghanistan. Indeed, Mr. McClellan was so fixated on destroying Newsweek - and on mouthing his own phony P.C. pieties about the Koran - that by omission he whitewashed the rioters themselves, Islamic extremists who routinely misuse that holy book as a pretext for murder.ast week, the question of why they hate us can now be answered in just one word: Newsweek."

Well Frankie poo-it may seem to YOU that Scott was fixated on scapegoating Newsweek, but to anyone with half a brain, it's clear that Scott was articulating what is established and well practiced MILITARY POLICY and there's a world full of Milbloggers, and Iraqi's who bare witness to this fact.
WHO bared witness to the alleged descration of the Koran that an alleged "reliable source" allegedly provided???

That's how absurdly over-the-top the assault on Newsweek has been. The administration has been so successful at bullying the news media in order to cover up its own fictions and failings in Iraq that it now believes it can get away with pinning some 17 deaths on an errant single sentence in a 10-sentence Periscope item that few noticed until days after its publication. Coming just as the latest CNN/Gallup/USA Today poll finds that only 41 percent of Americans think the war in Iraq is "worth fighting" and only 42 percent think it's going well, this smells like desperation. In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far.

Frank you are obviously having some kind of synapic misfire or breakdown. THIS admin has BULLIED the LEFT WING LIBERAL MEDIA into COVERING UP its own fictions??????
Are you smoking cheap shit again???
THE LEFT WING MEDIA (aka the MSM) HAS ENDLESSLY SHOVED THEIR LIES AND PERPETUATED THEIR BLANTANT LEFTIST AGENDA ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, WHICH IS WHY THE MSM ARE LOSING RATINGS, SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE DECREASING, AD REVENUES ARE DOWN, AND NO ONE IS PAYING MUCH ATTENTION TO YOU ANYMORE, OTHER THAN THOSE FOOLS WHO ARE AS DELUSIONAL AS YOU!

The entire success of Fox News and Talk Radio is a direct backlash to the left wing agenda you and your ilk shove down our throats! Let me see how many examples of this admin bullying the MSM you will dare to produce! Is this the same MSM that has made a point of supporting Saddam, terrrorists, mass murderers, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, and uses PC words like "insurgent" or "suicide bomber" to exonerate the actions of the despicable lowlifes they support and lend credence to???

Oh and by the way- if a left wing paper and a tv news network that have never supported the war- are claiming that only 42% of Americans now support the war and think it's going well, then there are only two questions to ask:

1) Who did they poll?
(Their subscriber base represents those that believe as they do. Hardly objective!)

2) How could those that watch CNN and read USA Today ever feel differently when the ONLY news they get from these two left wing media outlets is bad and rarely reflects anything positive going on Iraq?

Try asking that same question to those that watch Fox News, read milblogs, live in Iraq, write blogs, listen to talk radio,and have a far more objective understanding of what is really going on Iraq. I KNOW if you did, you'd find out that a larger majority of Americans do in fact still support this war, and KNOW its going well.

For those that don't know the war is going well, the MSM IS TO BLAME for NOT being objective, fair and balanced in it's reporting of the TRUTH and the REALITIES in Iraq, and of the MANY successes in both Iraq and Afghanistan!
Do you know that 80% of Iraq is safe, secure and stable,Frank? Do your readers know that Frank? Does the MSM know that Frank? It's doubtful from reading what you and the MSM spew forth daily.

But thank gawd some of us don't pay much attention to the MSM or you anymore......well at least those of us who know better.

Unless it's to laugh at your arrogance coupled with your stupidity wrapped up in your GREAT BIG EGO!

Let's stipulate flatly that Newsweek made a serious error. For the sake of argument, let's even posit that the many other similar accounts of Koran desecration (with and without toilets) by American interrogators over the past two years are fantasy - even though they've been given credence by the International Committee of the Red Cross and have turned up repeatedly in legal depositions by torture victims and in newspapers as various as The Denver Post and The Financial Times. Let's also ignore the May 1 New York Times report that a former American interrogator at Guantánamo has corroborated a detainee's account of guards tossing Korans into a pile and stepping on them, thereby prompting a hunger strike. Why don't we just go all the way and erase those photographs of female guards sexually humiliating Muslims (among other heinous crimes) at Abu Ghraib?

* face plant on desk*
Similar accounts by who...the fucking terrorists themselves!!??!! The Red Cross took the statements of the terrorists !???

That's like taking the statements of a pedophile in a room full of kids...."who me...nawwww I never touched them"

Ahhh yes you mention ".similar accounts" by The Denver Post, The New York Times, The Financial Times, all three papers with HUGE LEFT WING AGENDAS that do not support Pres Bush, the War on Terror, the democratic process going on in Afganistan and Iraq! YEAH THOSE ARE REALLY RELIABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES OF INFORMATION -NO HIDDEN AGENDA THERE!

And once again Frank, you have to mention ABU GHRAIB. *rolls eyes* Why not throw in Viet Nam while you're at it?

Newsflash Frank: we have dealt with those renegade soldiers who behaved in this manner at Abu Ghraib. We tried them, they were found guilty, and they are in PRISON!!! GET THE FUCK OVER IT!

Mention Abu G again and I WILL bitch slap you!

Even with all that evidence off the table, there is still an overwhelming record, much of it in government documents, that American interrogators have abused Muslim detainees with methods specifically chosen to hit their religious hot buttons. A Defense Department memo of October 2002 (published in full in Mark Danner's book "Torture and Truth") authorized such Muslim-baiting practices as depriving prisoners of "published religious items or materials" and forcing the removal of beards and clothing. A cable signed by Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez called for interrogators to "exploit Arab fear of dogs." (Muslims view them as unclean.) Even a weak-kneed government investigation of prison abuses (and deaths) in Iraq and Afghanistan issued in March by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church III of the Navy authenticated two cases in which female interrogators "touched and spoke to detainees in a sexually suggestive manner in order to incur stress based on the detainees' religious beliefs."

HELLLLLOOO YOU ASS! WE ARE INTEROGATING MASS MURDERERS WHO HAVE NO FEAR OF DEATH AND WHO KILL WOMEN AND CHILDREN WITHOUT REMORSE CLAIMING IT'S SANCTIONED DURING JIHAD!!

I DON'T CARE IF WE SHOVE SOMETHING UP THEIR BUTTS TO GET INFORMATION FROM THEM TO PREVENT THEIR JIHADIST BROTHERS FROM FLYING PLANES INTO BUILDINGS WITH MY FRIENDS IN THEM, OR TO PREVENT LITTLE GIRLS FROM BEING KILLED IN THE NAME OF JIHAD, OR TO PREVENT THESE TERRORISTS FROM PLANTING ANY MORE IEDS THAT KILL OUR TROUPS, OR TO STOP THEM FROM ASSASSINATING ELECTED IRAQI GOV'T OFFICIALS.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP SUPPORTING THESE MASS MURDERERS, FRANK!!

I hope you never spend five minutes with the Mossad watching how they interrogate terrorists, you'll just freak when you see what "interrogation measures" they implement! Or maybe you should sit down and have a chat with Shitdam, and ask him to explain to you in great detail what HE did to political prisoners, the Kurds, anyone he disliked on any given day, those he suspected lied or betrayed him, and then you should ask the former head of the KGB now Russian President Putin, how they treated their terrorists, anyone they disliked, or any political prisoners!

About the Newsweek matter Donald Rumsfeld had a moral to bequeath the land. "People need to be careful what they say," he said, channeling Ari Fleischer, and added, "just as people need to be careful what they do." How true. If one of his right-hand men, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, hadn't been barnstorming American churches making internationally publicized pronouncements that his own Christian God is "a real god" and Islam's god is "an idol," maybe anti-American sentiment in the Middle East, at record highs even before the Newsweek incident, would have been a shade less lethal. If higher-ups had been called to account for the abuses of Abu Ghraib, maybe Newsweek might have had as little traction in the Arab world as The Onion.

OH SHUT THE FUCK UP! ARABS HAVE BEEN OVEREACTING TO EVERY LITTLE WORD AND INCIDENT THAT HAPPENS WHICH THEY FIND INSULTING.

I FIND YOU INSULTING! CAN I START RIOTING IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE??

APPARENTLY THE ARAB WORLD DOESNT FIND THE KILLING OF INNOCENT CHILDREN ENOUGH CAUSE TO RIOT AGAINST THOSE THAT HIJACK THEIR RELIGION, YET THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO BOTHER YOU!

GROW UP FRANK! THESE TERRORISTS- THAT YOU AND ALL YOUR LEFT WING CRONIES THINK WE SHOULD TREAT WITH KID GLOVES, AND OFFER TEA AND BISCUITS TOO WHILE WE ASK NICELY FOR INFORMATION - HATE YOU!
THEY HATE EVERYTHING YOU REPRESENT.

THEY FLEW PLANES INTO BUILDINGS WHERE YOU LIVE AND WORK.
THEY HATE LIBERALS.
THEY THINK YOU HAVE RUINED A ONCE GOD FEARING CHRISTIAN COUNTRY AND THAT OUR WOMEN ARE LOOSE, OUR SECULARISM IS DISGRACEFUL AND THAT OUR KIDS- WHO REFUSE TO LISTEN TO THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR PARENTS AND SUE THEM FOR THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY- ARE A PRODUCT OF A SECULAR LIBERAL SOCIETY GONE TO HELL......AND YOU STILL WANT US TO MAKE NICEY NICEY TO THEM!

THEY'D KILL YOU FRANK. THEY HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK FUCKED UP LEFT WING MIND!!

THEY COUNT ON YOUR LIBERAL STUPIDITY TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE TREATED NICELY AND TO RAGE AGAINST YOUR MILITARY WHEN THEY AREN'T!!

YOU, FRANK, ARE THEIR SHILL. YET THEY'D STILL KILL YA!
YOU'RE THE SHILL THAT THEY'D KILL!

Then again, even the administration's touchy-feely proactive outreach to Muslims in the Middle East is baloney: Karen Hughes, appointed with great fanfare by the president in March as our latest under secretary of state for public diplomacy (the third since 9/11), runs a shop with no Muslims at the top - or would, if she were there. As The Washington Post reported, she doesn't intend to assume her duties until the fall and the paperwork for her confirmation has yet to be sent to the Senate. Why rush? It's not as if there's a war on.

That's right Frank, how very progressive of you to target Karen Hughes before she has begun working! How very fair and balanced of you...how very liberal! How do you know what she plans to do UNTIL she takes office?

How about instead we target the support your paper has been giving Mass Murderers!! We know what you intend to do to help Muslim American relations...it's what you have been doing all along........NOT A DAMN THING!

You support Mass Murderers and provide them with any reason to add more fuel to their misplaced anti American anger, but you've done nothing to support the Afghanis, and the brave courageous Iraqi's that stood up to terror and voted, and who are now forming a fledgling democracy inspite of their lives being threatened, inspite of the many Iraqi's that have been killed lining up to be police officers, or who are being targeted and assassinated simply because they are gov't officials who were voted in by the Iraqi's, who are trying to create a better future for their country and their children based on democratic principals of freedom and gov't by the people for the people, or to support the foreigners who have risked their lives to help rebuild Iraq only to be kidnapped and beheaded.

Why rush to support their efforts --- its not like there's a war going on, Frank!

Given this context, the administration's attempt to pass the entire buck to Newsweek for our ill odor among Muslims, including those Muslims who abhor jihadists committing murder, is laughable. Yet there's something weirdly self-incriminating about the language it uses to do it. Richard Boucher, the State Department spokesman whose previous boss, Colin Powell, delivered a fictional recitation of Saddam Hussein's weapon capabilities before the United Nations Security Council, said it's "shocking" that Newsweek used "facts that have not been substantiated." Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, attacked Newsweek for hiding "behind anonymous sources," yet it was an anonymous source, an Iraqi defector known as Curveball, who fed the fictions that Mr. Powell spouted to gin up America for war. Psychological displacement of this magnitude might give even Freud pause.

Given your personal,as well as your paper's, unbriddled support of Mass Murderers, I think the odor you are smelling among Muslims is the latest fragrance worn by left wing nuts like you," Eau De Lying Hypocrite" .

I hear you have to sell your soul to buy it!

The only thing more ridiculous is the spectacle of the White House's various knee-jerk flacks on cable news shoutfests and in the blogosphere characterizing Newsweek as representative of a supposedly anti-American, military-hating "mainstream media." It wasn't long ago that the magazine and the co-author of the Periscope item, Michael Isikoff, were being cheered by the same crowd for their pursuit of Monica Lewinsky and Kathleen Willey.

What the fuck has one got to do with the other??? You are comparing the pursuit of Monica and Kathleen to the rioting caused by irresponsible lies printed in the MSM??? Rioting that cost the lives of 17 people, and is part of a calculated left wing agenda originally aimed at trying to prevent the re- election of Pres. Bush, which you failed at, and is now being used to continuously support Mass Murderers, at the expense of women and children, our troups, the coalition forces, other innocent Afghani's and Iraqi's, as well as those trying to rebuild the country; but mostly at the expense of spreading democracy in the Middle East; our last remaining hope of mitigating anymore unfounded attacks on the US and around the world by terrorists!

As for the supposed antimilitary agenda of the so-called mainstream media, the right should look first at itself. In its eagerness to parrot the administration line, it's as ready to sell out the military as any clichéd leftist. For starters, it thought nothing of dismissing the judgment of Gen. Carl Eichenberry, our top commander in Afghanistan, who, according to Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said the riots were "not at all tied to the article in the magazine."

Really Frank!*shakes head* Perhaps Gen. Myers is smart enough to understand that Gen Eichenberry's judgement was wrong. It seems that Gen Eichenberry's judgement doesn 't stand up to the judgement of the troups on the ground, the Afghanis, and the actual admission by Arabs that this was in reaction to the alleged desecration of the Koran! Sorry, Frank, but Eichenberry's judgement was off the mark! Perhaps I should direct you to milbloggers in Afghanistan who have first hand knowledge of what happened, why it happened, and who is to blame!

"The left's SUPPOSED anti military agenda"???

Dear Gawd Frank, YOU do Live in DENIAL! There is nothing SUPPOSED about it! There does exist now and has existed SINCE VIETNAM major liberal distrust of the military which has found its way into the liberal Media.
There IS Liberal anti Military bias and distrust in the MSM.
I'll be testing you on this next week Frank! Get it wrong and I'll bitch slap you again!

The right's rage at Newsweek is all too reminiscent of the contempt it heaped on Specialist Thomas Wilson, the soldier who dared to ask Mr. Rumsfeld at a town hall meeting in Kuwait in December about the shortage of armored vehicles. Mr. Wilson was guilty of "near-insubordination," said Rush Limbaugh; the embedded reporter who helped him frame his question was reviled by bloggers as a traitor. Yet Mr. Wilson's question was legitimate, and Mr. Rumsfeld's answer (that the shortage was only "a matter of production and capability") was a lie. As USA Today reported in March, the Pentagon has known for nearly two years that it didn't have enough armored Humvees but let the problem fester until that insubordinate questioner gave the defense secretary no choice but to act.

You need to get off your ass, get out of your guilded ivory tower, get over to Iraq, TALK TO the men and women putting their lives on the line and get THEIR opinion about a left wing reporter who USED the one unhappy Spc. he could find, and set up Sec Def Rumsfeld. Maybe you should ask the President how Sec Def offered to resign twice and was turned down. Maybe you should read the MILBLOGS that spoke of how respected SecDef is and how a good majority of Soldiers and Marines were PISSED OFF at Spc Wilson, but more so at THE REPORTER's underhandedness.

Prior to the question being posed, work had begun on up-armouring vehicles, and they were moving as quickly as they could....yes the Military is a bureauocracy and sometimes it moves too slowly..but it was moving. And once again you quote USA Today, that same Left wing paper that frames everything it writes about from its LEFT WING POV!

And what the fuck has that got to do with Newsweek's irresponsible reporting; with Newsweek choosing to print LIES which THEY ADMITED were unverifiable and problably not true?!
We jumped on what the Specialist said because we knew he had been used by the left wing liberal press and we resented the MSM for this little stunt! And the right wing media jumped on it because they knew the soldiers didn't feel it was a fair question given the circumstances nor representative of how they felt! OUR ANGER TOWARDS THAT INCIDENT DIDNT CAUSE RIOTS IN THE STREETS and it didnt add fuel to the festering fires of jihadists who hate America INCLUDING THE MSM ELITES OF WHICH YOU BELONG!

It's also because of incompetent Pentagon planning that other troops may now be victims of weapons looted from Saddam's munitions depots after the fall of Baghdad. Yet when The New York Times reported one such looting incident, in Al Qaqaa, before the election, the administration and many in the blogosphere reflexively branded the story fraudulent. But the story was true. It was later corroborated not only by United States Army reservists and national guardsmen who spoke to The Los Angeles Times but also by Iraq's own deputy minister of industry, who told The New York Times two months ago that Al Qaqaa was only one of many such weapon caches hijacked on America's undermanned post-invasion watch.

Weapons caches hijacked?? How is that POSSIBLE? The MSM claims that NO WMDS have EVER been found in Iraq!! Make up your deranged mind!!

"mistakes were made" whine whine whine...Oh please....Frank...so some mistakes have happened during this war...shall we go over the litany of mistakes made in WW2. OR better yet, shall we go over the litany of LIES, MISREPRESENTATION OF FACTS, and CRAP THAT'S COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, and most of the MSM?

War is hell! No one is denying that; wars are conducted by people, and people make mistakes, mostly by underestimating the enemy! But,what is your excuse for sleeping with the enemy and making the big mistake of supporting terrorists instead of those who are seeking to bring forth democracy and freedom and help push the Arab world into the 21st Century?

IT is terrible that Newsweek was wrong, though it's worth noting, as John Donvan of ABC News did, that the Defense Department's claim that its story was "demonstrably" false is also an overreach. Almost nothing that happens in the sealed prison at Guantánamo is as demonstrable as, say, Saddam's underwear. But if something good can come out of something bad, the administration's overkill of Newsweek may focus greater public attention on just how much it is using press-bashing to deflect attention from the fictions spun by its own propaganda machine.

Wait, first you say they weren't wrong, and that the "right" is over reacting for no reason, and now you say that IT IS Terrible, and Newsweek was wrong? Have you've been hanging around Kerry lately?? Make up your mind!

By the way, Frank, "Terrible" is what happens when the stock market crashes. TERRIBLE IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LIES AND IRRESPONSIBLE REPORTING OF ALLEGED UNVERIFIABLE INFORMATION IS PRESENTED AS FACT AND RESULTS IN ADDING MORE FUEL TO THE SMALL MINORITY IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN THAT RESENT DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM, WHICH IN TURN FUELS A RIOT THAT RESULTS IN THE DEATH OF 17 PEOPLE, ENDANGERS COUNTLESS OTHERS, AND WHOSE LIES SERVE TO SET BACK THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ!

When that happens Frank, it's called a TRAVESTY!

The press is being bashed because of their PERPETUAL one sided, left wing, anti Bush, pro terrorist, pro mass murderers, pro jihadists, stance. Your left wing agenda coupled with your elitist arrogance, which has you convinced that you represent all enlightened mainstream Americans, cost you the election, and has cost you - and all your MSM cronies- ratings, ad revenues, subscribers, and the respect of the real majority of honest intelligent Americans that are smart enough to see through your bullshit!

You and your cronies have no one to blame but yourselves for any press bashing that has gone on!

Just since the election, we've witnessed the unmasking of Armstrong Williams and Jeff Gannon.

Prior to and long after the election we have witnessed the demise of Dan Rather, Eason Jordan, and many more but not nearly enough, left wing elitists in the media. So what's your point?

We've learned - thanks to Newsweek's parent publication, The Washington Post - that the Pentagon went so far as to deliberately hide the circumstances of Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death from his own family for weeks, lest the truth mar the P.R. advantages to be reaped from his memorial service

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We've learned that any "unbiased" sources at The Washington Post who own Newsweek, cannot be trusted! Now they claim that the Pentagon deliberately HID the truth about Pat Tillman! Since when does waiting until an investigation is complete before releasing the findings constitute deliberately HIDING the information? At least they investigated and got at the truth before printing anything, which is more than I can say for Newsweek and most of the MSM!

PR advantages reaped by who? Pat's family? Maybe the Pentagon felt the need to allow them to bury Pat Tillman, deal with his death, and then in due time share with them the findings, rather than spring it on them during an already painful time.

You have a nerve to talk about reaping PR advantages,Frank!

Your newspaper has provided the terrorists with so much positive PR in an effort to win over the hearts and minds of Arabs, turn the American public against their own gov't, give their jihadist cause a measure of credence, and enable the Arabs who only receive Anti Israel, Anti America perspectives from their biased media to receive MORE anti American perspective from a biased American Media, encouraging their anger and fueling more hatred towards America and Americans!!!!

I'm beginning to think that the paper you work for should be called THE ARAB TIMES!

I'm not claiming that either side is perfect, but only ONE side has made it a point to try to bring down the Presidency, deliberately interfered with the 2004 Presidential election, supported terrorism, exonerated mass murderers, offered one side of the events going on Iraq ( the side that SUPPORTS terrorists) refused to acknowledge a legimitate election in Iraq, (Chris Mathews FINALLY conceded the election had happened and was legit THREE WEEKS LATER in a very quiet voice on his show and without any fanfare) and only one side continues to lend credence to everything that these terrorists do to undermine our efforts at forming a democratic gov't and bringing order and stability to the small part of Iraq that is still troubled.

CARE to guess which side that might be??? HINT: LEAN LEFT!!!!

This steady drip of subterfuge and news manipulation increasingly tells a more compelling story than the old news that Newsweek so egregiously botched.

You are, of course, referring to the steady drip of LEFT WING subterfuge and news manipulation, right??

No.....of course not! I forgot......Truth doesn't become you!

Freedom Isn't Free

I read about four magazines, 2 books, and 6 newspapers during the course of a week.

In the March issue of HARPERS, Kathy Dobie wrote on military desertion (AWOL In America)in which she portrayed the Army as "a mass of dimwitted natural born killers". This after only spending a half day at a reception center!

The article was unbalanced, and stank of "I hate Bush, What the Fuck are we doing in Iraq" liberal bias.

There is no doubt that throughout the recent history of our Military. young men have been naive when they joined. Many cases, poverty and the desire to access better higher education is a motivating factor. There are a small minisicule percentage of those who join who commit suicide, die during bootcamp, incurr panic attacks, turn to drugs, and drink heavily. But if the Military is a microcosm of the macrocosm, a smaller version of the bigger society, than we need to understand that in our macrosociety, these kind of events happen MORE often. People commit suicide, drown, incur panic attacks, turn to drugs and alcohol, and often there is collatoral damage inflicted on those whose path they happen to cross or share.

In this month's HARPER, two letters to the editors about this story have been printed.I was particularly struck by what Mark Fauldauer wrote:

"Like the young men Dobie writes about, I was naive when I joined the Army, everyone is. I remember being scared in basic training.....All the talk of glory of killing sounded like some savage tribe banging war drums in an effort to psyche themselves up.
........I was twenty when I went in, had no direction in life. The military seemed a logical choice for me. I marveled at how clueless many of the recruits were when they arrived. There were many who left, and its a good thing, too: its scary to go to war with men who don't belong there"

He goes on to say that UNLIKE Dobie's portrayel, "MOST of the men he knew were intelligent, peaceful types who believed, however corny it may sound, that Freedom isn't free. "

"The problem isnt the Army", he goes on to say, "its that our society, in times of peace, take security for granted"!

Ain't that the truth!

What astounds me is that even after 9/11....half this country is as clueless and naive as some of those that entered the Army.Unfortunately, this completely places the responsibilty to protect this country, a responsibility that all should share willingly in exchange for the freedoms enjoyed, on the few that aren't myopic, and it also becomes encumbent up those few, to keep repeating what the ACLU, left wing activists, the MSM, and Hollywood Elites, seem to have forgotten or simply chose to deny: FREEDOM ISN'T FREE!

Thank you Mark, and all our men and women now deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world, for your service to this country, and for always reminding us that " FREEDOM ISN'T FREE".

Sleeping With The Enemy!

From Michael Yon's latest blog entry:

"A fanatic who straps a bomb to his chest and walks into a market crowded with women and children, then detonates a bomb that is sometimes laced with rat poison to hamper blood coagulation, is properly called a "mass murderer." There is nothing good to say about mass murderers, nor is there anything good to say about a person who encourages these murders. Calling these human bomb delivery devices "suicide bombers" is simply incorrect. They are murderers. A person or media source defending or explaining away the actions of the murderers supports them. There is no wiggle room"

Hey! Left wing activists, MSM elites, ACLU members, Hollywood "intelligentsia" ......are you listening?????

Its about time someone called out the pseudo PC crap that spews from you terrorist loving, Al Queda supporting, so called "progressives".

How "progressive" is it to support MASS MURDERERS, and to attempt to use your PC words to EXONERATE their actions? I do understand why you do it..because calling a Mass Murderer an "insurgent", a "Suicide bomber", or a "Martyr," thus elevating him to the morally ambiguous, yet highly acceptable rock star stature of a "Rebel with a Cause", helps you to feel justified in your misguided hatred for our troups, our President, and the War on Terror, and now you sleep peacefully at night!

Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

Bryon York, recently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor.

I just finished reading his book, Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, which shines the spotlite on the dark side of Elitist Liberals, who spearheaded byBillionaire George Soros, Wes Boyd and Joan Blades( founders of MoveOn.org) Michael Moore, Ariana Huffington, Eli Parisier(a liberal activist) and David Pickering(an aspiring filmmaker now living in PARIS FRANCE ( nuff said!) who believed that 9/11 offered a chance for peace if the American gov't could be persuaded NOT to defend itself militarily) believed they would deny George Bush a second term and do it by a huge landslide. Under the illusion that they represented the" real majority", they would send a message to Republicans, to George Bush, and to Evangelical Christians, and the message would be " MOVE ON".

What went wrong????

York explains the"Illusion of the Majority" in which these left wing activitists "conjured up the the ILLUSION of a national majority that ended up fooling even its creators!"

The mindset of Soros is what I find contemptable and equally laughable because its so arrogant and so freaking stupid I have to wonder how this man was able to become a successful capitalist Billionaire! A man who is so stupid yet so rich is as dangerous as Osama Bin Laden!

York tell us that SorASS didnt understand WHY Americans were upset about the destruction of the WTC, the Carnage of the Pentagon, and the Crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. THIS ASSHAT DOESNT UNDERSTAND WHY AMERICANS REACTED AS THEY DID????!!!

Soros believes the BEST COURSE OF ACTION would have been for Pres. Bush to offer massive foreign aid, enact equitable trade laws, and for the US to be a kinder, gentler more co operative member of the world community! In other words, lets enact the Marshal Plan BEFORE we had won WW2!!

PLEASE SEND THIS CAPITALIST ASSHAT WHO BELIEVES IN SOCIALISM FOR EVERYONE BUT HIMSELF BACK TO WHATEVER DARK HOLE HE CRAWLED OUT OF!
I'M BETTING ITS THE SAME ONE OSAMA IS HIDING IN TODAY!

I'll spare you how ACT, (America Coming Together) used an elaborate sleight of hand to allow itself to violate established standards governing these kind of organizations, standards that liberals had insisted on and voted for! ( Can we spell Hypocrite?) In the end these left wing activistswho bought into their own bullshit and illusions, convinced themselves they could alter the election outcome because they believed they were expanding their appeal and swaying the majority of voters.

THEY WERE WRONG!

One of my favorite chapters details what I already KNEW to be true about Michael MoRONS POS Farenhype 9/11.

The crap about Mike's POS touching the heartland was nothing more than hype. Means Girls, Barbershop 2, Starsky and Hutch, to name a few, all outdid FH911 at the box office.

Movie studios use Neilsen to track ticket sales city by city, market by market, and SCREEN BY SCREEN; York got a view at the Neisen numbers which reveal a totally different picture than the one Michael Moore and the liberal media painted!

I had begun tracking the numbers on my own during the summer, and was loudly, diligently and passionately screaming to all within hearing range that this MOCKUMENTARY was NOT doing well as compared to other releases, and that my spidey senses were telling me that it was dramatically underperforming throughout most of the country. My Hollywood friends refused to believe me, as did most left wing liberals on the message boards where I posted, and sadly, my family who hate Pres Bush, also refused to believe me . I am vindicated by the numbers produced in York's book: numbers that liberals and my family will still refute...but then again...why let truth stand in the way of wishful fantasies!

In most cities across America including Los Angeles, F911 UNDERPERFORMED, ( meaning it sold less tickets than the standard set for that city) It did OVERPERFORM in the next 7 largest markets, and it did well in several smaller markets. But unlike the hyperbole spewed by Michael and the MSM about how this movie was taking the heartland by storm, the real picture painted is one where F911 did well in Blue States ONLY, and really well in Canada (SADLY) . But since Canadians don't vote in US elections, Canadian markets are irrelevant.

The truth is the numbers reveal that FAR from being a runaway hit nationwide ( which Moore and the MSM claimed) the mocumentary UNDERPERFORMED throughout Red states and the all important SWING STATES.

Farenheit 911 should be aptly re- named FarenHYPE 11/04!

And what's even more interesting is that the day after the election dems and left wing activists could not fathom WHY and HOW they had lost the election. Later Dems would ask themselves if perhaps Moore's movie had done more harm than good as they wondered What went wrong?

York answers that " although Moore himself probably knew it at the time, Farenheit 9/11 never had the sort of national appeal its maker and publicists claimed"

York goes on to summarize that "even though liberal activists had organized historic numbers of people and raised historic amounts of money...to defeat GW Bush, they failed because they did not represent the "real majority" of Americans, despite their deeply held belief that they did!"

In effect, a number of the groups in the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy were CLOSED LOOPS, "circles of like minded people who appealed almost exclusively to other like minded people but who at the same time exhorted on another into thinking that their appeal stretched far beyond their circle. Before the election living inside their closed loops, they were not able to scan the horizon to see that the were in fact outnumbered by the other guys!"

York goes on to explain that Move On.org was a 2.5 million member closed loop.

Soros was a one man closed loop, "who believed before the election that the majority of Americans agreed with him, and after the election believed that they had somehow all gone crazy".
( now there's the pot calling the kettle black!)

ACT was a closed loop and those who attended F911 were the same members of that same closed loop who reaffirmed their passionate hate for George Bush.

This closed loop overlapped: people who belong to MoveOn, watched F911, contributed to ACT, and listened to Air America. Throw in an MSM that was hellbent on forwarding and supporting a left wing agenda, and you understand why LIBERALS /DEMOCRATS were all under the spell of their own illusion! The irony of that fact is not lost on me when I consider how many left wing activists accused those Americans, who did not agree with them, of being DELUSIONAL!

York cautions us to remember that this Vast Left Wing Conspiracy is still poised to come on strong in 2008, and might very well succeed. He cites that the one thing that they could not control( apart from believing their own hype) was that this country was at war, and that voters did not trust Kerry to conduct that war!

In 2008 things might be different!

Heaven help us all!

Privileges and Responsibilities

Firepower 5 is a milbloger stationed in Afghanistan. I wondered if he would comment on the Newsweek fiasco. He did!

This is the best blogpost I've read on the aftermath that was ignited in response to the unabashed and incendiary LIES written in Newsweek.

"16 people died in these demonstrations across the country ignited by this reckless reporting and fueled by extremists using any opportunity to destabilize the fledgling democracy. It's a bit surreal watching this occur in a country where the freedom of speech is newly re-discovered. Even when it turned violent, it was a more honest and above board exhibition of free speech than what I saw in Newsweek. Hiding behind the freedoms of the first amendment, Newsweek will never admit to their overt, "progressive", "liberal", "enlightened", or anti-Bush agenda, while publishing an incendiary article under the guise of getting a 3 year old truth "as quickly as possibly".

"Perhaps we have grown so accustomed to the privileges of our freedoms that we forget the responsibilities that accompany it!"

What touched me deeply about what he reported was how the ANA stood their ground against the rioters, while our military offered them guidance from behind the scenes. After reading what Firefox wrote, I have the utmost admiration and respect for the ANA!

I used my copy of Newsweek to pick the fecal excrement from the dog I was walking! It seemed the only appropriate use for this piece of shit magazine!

One Nation Under God

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" The Declaration of Independence


Dadmanly has a great post with a link to a very insightful and important article in "The Weekly Standard" online, which "makes clear that young Americans know very little about the Bible, but Gelernter is more concerned with the fact that a sizable number of Americans don't know why they should. At a time when secular minded activists think it appropriate to eradicate any Biblical references from educational settings, this inattentiveness to core American values is very troubling."

"I understand the concerns of some Americans about establishment of religion by the state, or government dictating the terms and conditions of worship. These are real concerns, and we should try to understand what might be legitimate boundaries between government activities and religious expression. (But surely no inseparable wall with religious people and expressions on one side, and government employees and officials and absolutely pristine secularity on the other.)"

"But equally important, we need to maintain a knowledge and awareness of the great Judeo-Christian foundations in the history, the culture, the ideals, and the creeds of this American Republic. We owe it to the generations of Americans who motivated, labored, fought, served, and often died in America's cause. Often with the name of God on their lips."

Go read more of what Dadmanly shares, then go read the article he references in its entirety. It confirms what I've said on The Debate Space but which Danmanly articulates better than I. God and His wisdom as expressed in The Bible, are both intrinsic to and enshrined in the writings of the foundational documents of the United States.

For all those liberals, aethiests, secularists, and the ACLU, who seem to have forgotten what those documents are, I'll help you out:

• The Magna Carta
• The Kentucky Resolution
• The Virginia Resolution
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights
• The Declaration of Independence
• The U.S. Constitution

His Inner Struggle

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Many months back, I wrote about why I left Hollywood and about the downside of fame in a post entitled "I am A Hollywood Refugee" .

Today, I've just read a very deep interview with Dave Chappell, who has gone to South Africa, in need of spiritual renewal, after leaving his uber successful show on Comedy Central.

"Let me tell you the things I can do here which I can't at home: think, eat, sleep, laugh. I'm an introspective dude. I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes. And I've been doing a lot of thinking here." The picture he paints—and it seems a fairly honest and frank assessment— is of someone struggling to come to terms with a new position and power who's still figuring out how to come to grips with how people around him are reacting to the $50 million deal he signed last year with Comedy Central"

Here's an excerpt from my post:

...the glaring intense spotlight that the celebs I know, sometimes choose to bask in, can still be blinding to me. The irony is that while celebs love the attention the spotlight brings them, believing the attention connects them to many people, more often than not it creates a state of isolation, separation, and distrust.

And what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

When the spotlite gets too big and too bright, when the light that shines on a celeb gets too intense, they need friends around them to keep them grounded, together and to deflect the light away from them


Now here's what Dave goes onto say about why he quit his show:

"If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself," he says. "Everyone around me says, 'You're a genius!'; 'You're great!'; 'That's your voice!' But I'm not sure that they're right."

You got to be careful of the company you keep," Chappelle says. "It's hard to know how much to say. One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

"During my ascent, I've seen other people go through that wall to become really big. They always said that fame didn't change them but that it changes the people around them. You always hear that but you never really understand it. But now that I'm there that makes a lot of sense and I'm learning what that means. You have to have people around you that you can trust and aren't just out for a meal ticket."

It seems Dave is coming to realize that Fame is a Pandora's Box! We share that common understanding and experience!

I'm not so sure I agree with Dave when he and his celeb friends say "Fame doesnt change you, it changes the people around you" Fame DOES both. She changes you, by instilling within you doubt and distrust, of those in your inner circle, both your friends and those you work with, and she changes the way in which those in your inner circle now react towards you.

Not only do they become uncomfortable around you, uncertain how to act, what to do, (remember when you all earned the same amout, and you all split the the bill for dinner - NOW watch how those around you sit back..and want you to pay) they also experience envy, or deep jealousy, and for some reason an attitude of entitlement suddenly surfaces in people who you'd least expect that from.

The spotlite is glaring, and blinding and everyone wants to stand in it with you!

Suddenly people feel you OWE them for having been there when you were struggling. But since when does friendship come with strings attached!

When Jim Carrey ( who I had the pleasure of meeting and spending a fair amount of time talking with on the set of The Cable Guy) was asked why he didn't give his brothers and sisters back in Canada ALOT of money, or retire them, or turn them into instant millionaires, he would often reply " Because everyone has to have a purpose in life, a reason to get up in the morning". I'll leave you all to ponder what that means....Jim is deeply spiritual and adheres to the understanding that a Life Unexamined is a life not worth living.

"His religion is also crucial. "I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you learn it the right way. It's a lifelong effort. Your religion is your standard. Coming here I don't have the distractions of fame. It quiets the ego down. I'm interested in the kind of person I've got to become. I want to be well rounded and the industry is a place of extremes. I want to be well balanced. I've got to check my intentions, man."

I know most people find it hard to believe that there are some of us who worked in Hollywood and still do, who walk with God, have a non secular POV, and an inner landscape that reflects a deeper wisdom, because we aren't the norm, but every once in a while, you do get to learn about the inner landscape of a certain celeb , and you find that its not what you ever expected.

Dave Chappelle is struggling with the emptiness, loneliness, doubt and distrust that comes with fame and a huge paycheck! And he is wise enough to walk away until he can be filled spiritually and receive God's guidance quietly.

Fame may be a demanding fickle and unfaithful mistress, but even she has to respect a guy who walks away from her until he can be clear about his intentions and he can trust himself enough to know that he's doing what he's doing for the right reasons.

I cannot express how much I admire Dave, and how much I truly understand this inner struggle he now faces.

May he find the peace he seeks!

Monster in Law

"Nighttime is the Rightime to be with the one you love"


While Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are sizzling up the tabloids, their exes -Michael Vartan and J-Lo -are creating major heat of their own in the first hit of the summer season, MONSTER IN LAW.

I was invited to the Canadian premiere of this movie last week, and expected that this movie would be nothing more than mediocre. BOY WAS I WRONG!!!!

Not only do Michael and J Lo SIZZLE, but Jane Fonda is HILARIOUS as the soon to be Monster..err Mother in Law, and Wanda Sykes is hilarious as her personal assistant! As much as I hate to admit it...I loved Jane in this movie. Her performance is brilliantly eccentric...... KUDOS to her!

This is a feel good, laugh outloud, melt your heart, date flick..oh okay so I went with my girlfriends...but thats only because I am in LOVE with Michael Vartan and he is best enjoyed without the distracting company of any other male...especially since no guy will come close to measuring up to him! MEEOOOWWWWW! I LOVE HIM...and he's single again! YES....God does love me!!

Huntress has already booked her trip to LA!!! Can we say ALIAS SET VISIT!!!

Michael Vartan *sigh*

As the woman sitting behind me exclaimed as Michael poetically described J Lo's eyes in a scene that left EVERYONE in the theatre BREATHLESS AND SIGHING...."Jennifer Garner dumped HIM for BEN AFFLECK!!!!What was she thinking???!!!!"

She was thinking that Micheal and I would make a MUCH better couple!

Go see my future husband in MONSTER IN LAW!




Congratulations to Jennifer and Ben - they are expecting their first child.

Stranger Than Fiction

Mustang 23 at Assumption of Command has posted the truth about the many successes we continue to have in Iraq, and wonders IF this news has appeared in the MSM?

NOPE it hasn't for the most part because UNLESS it appears in the NY TIMES, then its just NOT REAL, ITS JUST NOT THE TRUTH, IT JUST CAN'T BE SO!!

The MSM won't feature any news out of Iraq that doesn't support their bullshit left wing agenda. Why feature the truth when you can instead feature the ramblings of a known liar like Bob Herbert, who deliberately lies and/or misrepresents the truth to suit his left wing "I hate Bush, wa wa ...we shouldn't have gone to war with Iraq, wa wa.... Iraq is failure, wa wa....people died agenda.

His latest piece of crap is an Op-Ed piece which is filled with so much shit that the one or two lines of truth that are buried so deep become inconsequential.

The world now knows that the weapons of mass destruction were a convenient fiction. Less well known is that bumbling administration officials eagerly embraced the ravings of a foreign intelligence source known, believe it or not, as "Curveball." He helped promote the fantasy that Iraq had mobile laboratories for the manufacture of biological weapon

What he doesnt mention is that caches of wmd's have been found all over Iraq, and that every scientist that worked under Saddam lied to him about their weapons program out of fear that telling Shitdam anything he didn't want to hear would result in their deaths. So basically the information Curveball had was true...or so he was being led to believe.

Bob- like all left wing types- simply chooses to harp on WMDS without ever mentioning the other reasons that we ousted Saddam. Apparently he is either too stoned or too stupid, or both to be able to speak intelligently about the War on Terror and what's really going on in Iraq!

Shut up Bob, you're wearing your ignorance on your sleeve, and you wear it with pride and arrogance. Sooooo unbecoming!

Bush and Co. sent far fewer troops into the war, and many of them were never properly trained or equipped. The results have been nightmarish. Roadside bombs have caused 70 percent of American casualties in Iraq. The military was not prepared for this tactic and has had a miserable record providing protective armor for Humvees and other vehicles carrying soldiers and marines. So G.I.'s
from the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the history of the world have been dying because their nation wouldn't give them up-to-date combat vehicles

I suggest he stops pretending to speak on behalf of the Marines and Soldiers, and starts LISTENING to what THEY HAVE TO SAY

The United States is now stuck with a war it should never have started. The violence continues to rage out of control. The latest fantasy out of Washington is that somehow, miraculously, Iraqi troops will be able to take over and win the war that we couldn't.

OMG what kind of SHIT are you smoking Bob? I'm changing your name to BOOB Herbert! The violence rages out of control?
Over 85% of Iraq is NOT under seige, remains stable, and beginning to prosper in ways unimaginable under Shitdam.

Maybe he should actually talk to Iraqi's and better yet, really LISTEN to what they are saying instead of holding imaginary conversations in his head, with himself!

Perhaps he should read what a deployed blogger has writes in Opinion Inc. Bryan continues to post about how relatively calm and trouble free his part of Iraq is!!

If President Bush had consulted with his father before launching this clownish, disastrous war, he might have gotten some advice that would have pointed him in a different direction and spared his country - and the families of the many thousands dead - a lot of grief.

If Boob Herbert had consulted with the thousands of Iraqi's and deployed troups he might have an iota of an idea of what the REALITY is like in Iraq, and we would be spared the grief of having to endure more of his stinking shit!

Make A Wish

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give"
- Winston Churchill


I volunteer as a Wish Granter for The Make A Wish Foundation. Its very rewarding. Today I went to see a "wishkid" whose wish should be granted very soon. He is adorable, with a smile that melted my heart. In spite of all the pain he was in, and the terminal illness that he deals with daily, he is upbeat, and very clear about what he likes and doesnt like. What certainity at such as young age! He loves arts and crafts and was busy exploring his inner artiste. Such an adorable kid. I cannot wait to see the look on his faces when his wish comes true. I m getting teary eyed thinking of it now.

There are no words to describe the joy and love that fills my heart being able to make these kids wishes come true!

If you ever get a chance to become involved with "Make A Wish"...DO IT!

I Heart Southpark

OP-ED columnist and stauch left wing liberal, Frank Rich, makes a few interesting points in todays NY Times. His focus is fueled by the recent release of a book "South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias," by Brian C. Anderson

Among their anarchic comic skills, Mr.Parker and Mr Stone,
have a perfect pitch for lampooning what many Americans find most
irritating about liberals,especially Hollywood liberals, a self righteous
propensity for knowing better than any one else and for meddling in everyone's
business, whether by enforcing PC speech codes, or plotting to curb SUVs and
guns.

So far, so right!

He then talks about a March 30th episode of Southpark, in which Matt and Trey

true to their butt-out libertarianism, aimed their fire at self-righteous, big-government conservatives who have become every bit as high-handed and meddlesome as any Prius-pushing movie star

So far, still right.

Such is this role reversal that the same TV show celebrated by Mr. Anderson and his cohort as the leading edge of a potential conservative victory in the culture wars now looks like a harbinger of an anti-conservative backlash instead.

OPPPS!!!No longer right!

Trey and Matt have a long history of aiming their fire at both LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES.

Frank Rich is trying to imply that the "recent" acceptance of Southpark by conservatives is an attempt to become hip, and to embrace a cultural war victory over liberals.He uses that as the basis for drawing the erroneous conclusion that this one episode is an example of how conservatives, who he finds to be arrogant (the pot calling the kettle black)are now getting a big slap in their cultural face.

That is simply not true NOR is his belief that the cultural acceptance of Southpark by SOME conservatives (mostly campus students) is an attempt by the right at being "hip".

Maybe he should read Mr Anderson's book before using it as the basis for his erroneous hypothesis and conclusions!

As I wrote previously, the book is less about South Park and more about how the intellectual exhaustion of the left, along with other factors such as excessive political correctness, ,talk radio, Fox News, and bloggers have shaped the new conservatives, impacted on politics, and helped the Right to achieve parity in the cultural war.

In referencing the March 30th episode of Southpark, which hits at the Bush Administration's decision to intervene in the Schiavo case, Frank Rich goes onto say

" But what's given the Schiavo case resonance beyond the Schiavo story itself is that it crystallized the bigger picture of Olympian arrogance and illiberalism on the right. The impulse that led conservatives to intervene in a family's bitter debate over a feeding tube is the same one that makes them turn a debate over a Senate rule on filibusters into a litmus test of spiritual correctness. Surely no holier-than-thou Hollywood pontificator could be harder to take than the sanctimonious Bill Frist, who, unlike Barbra Streisand, can't even sing".

I tend to agree with him here -Bill Frist is sanctimonious and can't sing.
But here's where I have to wonder what Frank's point is:

"A USA Today poll a week later found that Americans by 55 to 40 percent believe that "Republicans, traditionally the party of limited government, are 'trying to use the federal government to interfere with the private lives of most Americans' on moral values".

USA TODAY!! A LIBERAL LEFT WING BIASED paper conducts a poll of its largely left wing liberal readers and he doesnt seem to wonder IF those "results" are skewed??

What IS Frank's point? That left wing liberals feel this way? This is a new revelation? A change in the way they used to feel?? Gee imagine that...left wing liberals who feel Republicans are trying to impose their moral values on them!! Next thing you know he will reveal is that water is wet and wrestling is fixed!

Then he tries to bring home his point, whatever the hell it may be, with this next statement

"No wonder another recent poll, from the Pew Research Center, finds that for all the real American displeasure with coarse entertainment, a plurality of 48 percent believes that "the government's imposing undue restrictions" on pop culture is "a greater danger" to the country than the entertainment industry itself. Who could have imagined that the public would fear Focus on the Family's James Dobson more than 50 Cent? "

48% of Americans (the same number give or take a percentage,who are left wing liberals that voted for Kerry) feel this way.
How is any of this information "new" and what is your point Frank??
That the country is culturally divided??? DUHHH!!!! We knew that already!

I do have to admit, however, that while I am the biggest critic of Hollywood, and know first hand that as an industry it imposes its left wing morality on the world, and due to some collective synapic misfire, insists it represents the "mainstream" and "the enlightened" I adamantly believe that undue restrictions on pop culture poses a great danger!

Some of the greatest literature and art of the 20th C. came out of Paris, in the 20's, during a time of great moral restraint in the US. At that time, Paris was the cultural mecca of literature, music, art, brewing in a cauldron of sex, booze and drugs. Culture and life itself burned brightly in the The City of Light.

It was the centre of modernity and artistic creativity - independence was encouraged and it revolutionized art literature and music. Prostitution was legal and the brothal culture was rich and flourished, even inspiring Salvador Dali who spent a few hours at 12 Rue Chambonne near the National Library of France. There was even a brothal that catered to priests; Religion simply closed its eyes in this legendary sin city!

The cafes of Montparnase, a magnet for artists, musicians, and writers, attracted Picasso Chagall Hemmingway Joyce Fitzgerald who shared ideas, lovers, and money.

"I shall never know again such freedom, lightheartedness and comradeship", sighed Hemingway. Paris was indeed "A Moveable Feast".

In this culture of freedom flamed by a tolerance that allowed eroticism to flourish openly, so many artists came together in one place for a brief time.

These creative geniuses of the 20th century, would transform the worlds of art, literature and music, all while living in a Paris, the city of tolerance and sexual freedom.

Art has for the most part been liberal and left of center, and that should never change. The more closed our society becomes, the more liberal becomes the backlash, using art( be it poetry, painting, sculpture, theatre, tv, music, film ) as its loudest voice.

We have spent three years liberating both Afghanistan and Iraq, providing their citizens with the opportunity and freedom to express themselves in music, art, and literature, without fear of gov't intervention and reprisals.

Hollywood is an art community; its product is art, even though the medium is film and television instead of paint brush, canvas, or the printed word.

So, what kind of shining example of freedom would imposing undue restrictions on Hollywood be to the rest of the world?

If you ask me, as a Southpark Conservative, why I love the show, I'd say its because Matt and Trey target everyone and everything regardless of religion, political affiliation, or cultural sensibilities. They are social commentators who voice their thoughts honestly and openly through their alter egos in Southpark, and they are prolifically in tune with the zeitgeist, at any given time, on any given issue.

I do not support or agree with Ted Steven's proposal that cable and satelite be policed by the federal government along with broadcast television. Cable is NOT available to everyone, only those who CHOOSE to pay for it, so the "protecting the public from liberal morality " argument is invalid. CHOICE is fundamental in a democratic nation. And while someone may find The Sopranos or Sex and The City offensive, I do not, and I sure as hell do NOT want ANYONE denying me the right to make that viewing choice, by eliminating or mitigating the opportunity for those shows, art forms in their own right, to be created.

There is definately a need for Hollywood to create art that represents many different voices, politically, sexually, culturally, religiously, and NOT to impose a liberal POV in those areas while denying a positive conservative voice, the right to also be expressed.

There is a bigger need for Hollywood and Hollywood celebs to stop lying, denying and deluding themselves into believing and then insisting that their left wing morality, opinions, attitudes, and politics represent the mainstream and are the purview of the truly enlightened.
As someone who is enlightened, and worked in Hollywood, THAT offends ME!

Hollywood considers its product "art" and wants the freedoms afforded to "art" yet it insists on imposing itself as a moral authority, and a mainstream moral authority at that, which is simply not true.

Art has always been LEFT of center, NOT THE center and the Hollywood elite need to remember that. They cannot have it both ways.

If they want the "left of center" freedoms that come from being "art" then they cannnot presume to be "the center". The Hollywood elites MUST stop imposing their own "censorious jihad" and denying a fair voice to those that think differently, and lean conservatively, especially while accusing Republicans and Conservatives of doing the same.