2/27/05-3/5/05
What's Going on in Lebanon?
Another country suffering because of the UN. Which has issued yea many resolutions for Syria to vacate this country and take its army with them.
From my readings, Lebanon has been a cultural mess what with Beirut and its locale close to Israel of all things hated by Arabs.
Thus the Syrian army has been occupying Lebanon for over ten years despite the UN's demands to vacate. Yet the UN never stops complaining about the US "occupation" of Iraq.
At any rate, the Lebanese people have been fueled by three events, two very public and one only whispered. The Lebanese people are very angry at the murder of their former premier Rafik Hariri. This very diverse society composed of Christian, Shia and Druze Muslims also just witnessed that Iraqi election and began to have dreams of their own.
For the most enlightening article of all on the thinking of the oppressed Lebanese people, from the Washington Post no less, an interview with a Lebanese Druze leader:
It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," explains Jumblatt. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world."
Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. "The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."
Hmmmm. The whispered is being said out loud. It was our President who called for freedom for all peoples of the world. His words are being taken seriously. For if oppressed people stand for their own freedom, the United States of America will stand with them.
Does anyone remember Beirut, Black Hawk Down and how Bill Clinton hightailed out of
Lebanon at the first hint of criticism?
I dare Syria to shoot the crowds of increasing Lebanese resistance. It won't happen.
The occupying Syrian army will leave first. Finally forced to fulfill its obligation not that the UN did anything about it, Syria will have to behave.
All because of the United States of America, do not forget.
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Chief Justice Renquist Will Not Sit for Spring Session
At least that was the Drudge siren the week just passed.
Which fuels speculation over his replacement. Thoughts and comments invited on this one.
Scuttlebutt has Ted Olsen as next appointment to the Supreme Bench with Justice Thomas to be named as the new Chief.
How can the Dems filibuster Ted Olsen for God's sake? His wife died in the crash of that plane into the Pentagon on 9/11/2001.
As for the next Chief Justice, well Clarence has been there before. Already that famous reader of Judicial wisdom, Harry Reid, has come out against the man.
We also hear that Ruth Ginsberg is quite ill. Replacing her ought to be a circus.
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Thanks to Slick Rich...
This story has been flying under the radar since it happened. And so will this final conclusion to the tale but it deserves a mention by this humble Blogger. Check the archives. I've been telling this story as it unfolded right along.
Seems a bunch of Christians decided to read the bible at a Philadelphia Gay Pride event.
Yes they did. These Christians had the nerve to stand and read scripture as the drag queens and homosexuals marched with pride upon a Philadelphia street.
The event received taxpayer dollars from the city of Philadelphia and took place on a public square. But the event organizers maintained it was a private event and in due course a bunch of the gay participants attacked the Christian scripture mongers.
Now it doesn't seem very polite perhaps for those Christians to rain on this gay parade with their damning scriptures. Since when is not being polite worthy of jail time? For that's right folks. Had the judge not dismissed the case, those Christian scripture readers faced 47 years in jail!
Interestingly, the judge viewed a videotape of the confrontation and dropped all charges. Well why hasn't The Old Media showing this video? I mean, wow, what a sight clip, happily parading gays being "attacked" by bible-welding Christians.
Or could it be, what with the judge throwing the case out based on the video, that those gay parade participants were not so very kind to the Christians?
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Man Arrested for Conspiracy to Assassinate President Bush
Imagine this. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was indicted for collaborating with the Al queda terror network to kill George W. Bush either via gunshot or by detonating a car bomb.
What's even more intriguing about this tale are the fools who supported him.
A former high school valedictorian in Virginia was charged Tuesday with conspiring to
assassinate President Bush and conspiracy to support the al-Qaida terrorist network.
From the
Washington Post:
"The notion that the government can litigate a case involving a U.S. citizen's liberty entirely behind closed doors is unprecedented and totally contrary to the basic principles upon which this country was founded," Cole said.
Cole and the family said yesterday that the U.S. government is trying to shut down the case to avoid embarrassing disclosures that it was complicit in Abu Ali's imprisonment. They noted a Washington Post article last week reporting that the State Department had issued a formal request to the Saudi government asking it to indict Abu Ali or turn him over to U.S. custody.
Federal prosecutors asked for special exemption for this case due to its grave national security consequences. Which a possible assassination of a US President would surely be.
Yet this fine fellow's lawyer, get this, accuses the US government of trying to shut down the case to avoid embarrassing disclosures.
NOT!
The US tried to keep the details on the case quiet due to, well figure it out, the possible assassination of the President!
And to show the misplaced loyalties of the American left, before the revelation that this man was going to murder our President, there were a few web sites devoted to defending this man!
Here is an online petition to free this guy!
And from the liberal state of Oregonanother online petition to set this fine fellow free.
Now suppose these silly petitions had been successful. Would the wonderful Ahmed have rewarded his supporters by assassinating the President of the United States?
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More Massachusetts Nonsense
Which is getting to be a weekly entry. Which makes me think that there's a lot of craziness in Massachusetts.
Seems a staff member of Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Lowell, Mass. has a novelty plate on the front of her car. "Fight crime, shoot first" was the tag's sentiment and it seems ONE parent, please, please, please note that it was ONE parent that complained.
The school openly acknowledged that there was nothing they could do about employees' cars parked upon a public street.
And yet.
Well hey, ONE parent complained.
So an agreement was reached that would have the employee covering their novelty tag with a cloth when it's parked in front of the school.
One could argue that the novelty tag's sentiment is unkind. And yet all across the country are novelty tags, Tshirts and other froufrou all sporting unkind, not cool, even weird sentiments.
Remember, please, that ONE parent complained.
In the great state of Massachusetts.
The Lowell Sun
An employee's car parked at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School lot has
sparked fury among some parents ushering their children inside the school each morning.
The car -- a red, late-model Ford Mustang with a novelty plate on its front end reading "Fight crime, shoot first" -- irritated one parent so much that she complained to her son's pre-kindergarten teacher.
"If anything disrupts the educational process, we do have the right to ask staff and teachers to maintain a code of conduct," she said. "What is parked in a lot or on a street is a different matter, however. Whatever happens in the building we have control over."
The solution? Dunning and Baehr plan to mandate that the staff member somehow cover the plate upon arrival each morning, possibly with magnets and a cloth. The plate will be covered by the first day of school after February break, Feb. 28, Behr said.
"I expect cooperation on the part of the staff members to cover it up or obscure it in some way," Baehr said.
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Weads Grow Even in Friendly Gardens
Chris Matthews and other hysteroids are having a field day over this Wead fellow, author of a book on children of Presidents and opportunist, traitor and general nuisance.
In the interest of book sales, Wead releases excerpts of a secret tape he made of George W. Bush during Bush's Texas gubernatorial race. Across the air waves we heard Bush state his positions on smoking pot and doing cocaine. Which was, specifically, to refuse to answer any questions from the press along those lines.
The Wise I supposes the choice of excerpts were meant to answer that age old question that so obsesses The Old Media: Did George W. do cocaine and did he smoke pot?
Something the American public suspects already. But hey, we've been raised in a culture of Johnny Depps and have watched them all boohoo on Oprah about how they've overcome their problems. And damn we admired them for overcoming adversity.
We do know that Bush was an alcoholic and it would be too surprising to discover he's snorted and smoked in his wild past.
What's your point, Old Media?
At any rate Wead's book promo ploy backfired in that he's been wildly excoriated by the general public. Seems only Chrissie Matthews is still all excited about it.
Wead defends himself by saying he will not release most of those tapes. Which, instead of an excuse, only tends to flame the passions of The Old Media in that such a statement leads us to believe the rest of the tapes are so much worse.
The public isn't fooled. Bush didn't know those tapes were being recorded. No matter what they said, we get it out here in la-la land. We too say things from time to time that would cause us grief to discover we'd been secretly taped.
Wead sensed a massive backlash against his book and soon enough announced he was going to release the tape back to the Bush family.
Pay no mind to assertions that the Bush family somehow forced this man to back pedal. Wead and his publisher knew that Bloggers and Conservative groups across the country were about to launch a massive campaign that who knows, might have revealed a bit more about Wead than he would like to have publicly known.
Dubya's been elected twice. What good would Wead's tapes have done for release now?
Except give Chrissie Matthews gorebasms.
Military Pets
We all love our pets and I'll admit I hadn't thought about our sons and daughters serving abroad and how they must deal with their beloved furry ones. I came across the following organization that takes care of the pets of our soldiers and wanted to pass it along.
Albin started NetPets.org shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, figuring the nation would be going to war.
"I heard what happened during the last desert war. If military members had no friends or family who could step up to the plate, they were left with nonacceptable options: shelter or abandonment.
"Either way, they would never see their pets again. … What a morale builder," Albin deadpanned. "In order to serve and protect, you have to kill your best buddy."
About 5,000 foster families worldwide make up the mosaic of pet lovers and owners that is the MilitaryPetsFOSTER Project, specifically designed to connect foster homes with military members who might be deploying, moving or going to school.
Anyone interested in taking in a pet or making a charitable donation can visit www.NetPets.Org.
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She Might Be Our Next President
Thanks to Chuck Muth
You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
-Hillary Clinton(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)
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Don't Necessarily Agree ...
But the sentiment is worth keeping in mind.
"This whole ‘public's airwaves' is nothing less than an excuse for government control. The first job of any despot is to control the broadcasting."
- Talk-show host Neal Boortz
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Dowd Sums It Up
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WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN
"Don't expect the Bush administration to get much credit, but the wall holding back Arab democracy is beginning to crack. From elections in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine to reforms throughout the region, it's unlikely any of it would've happened under a different U.S. president. In a surprise move over the weekend, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak used a nationally televised speech to call for a constitutional amendment to allow opposition parties to participate in presidential elections."
- Brendan Miniter, Political Diary, 2/28/05
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