Merry K. Gregory Pantano, mother of Marine Second Lieutenant Ilario Pantano, has set up a website and is asking for our help:
Doctors have medical malpractice insurance. Police and Firemen around the country have benevolence associations that raise money and awareness for their cause. Our Marines and soldiers, our first line of defense in conducting the dirty business of war, have no such association and nowhere to turn except to family and friends for the monies needed to mount their defense; monies that must be available for civilian legal defense counsel, technical advisors and experts.
We need to act and we need to act fast...this young man was 'over there' defending us and our freedom...
DR
2/17/2005
2/16/2005
Just In Case You Missed This Because You Were Keeping Up With Michael Jackson's Hospital Stay...
...I just want to remind you about 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano, the marine who is charged with premeditated murder because he shot two insurgents, who had tried to escape in a sport utility vehicle, coming at Lt. Pantano.
He ordered them to stop in Arabic, and when they did not, he shot them with numerous volleys from his M-16, his attorney Charles Gittins said....
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He ordered them to stop in Arabic, and when they did not, he shot them with numerous volleys from his M-16, his attorney Charles Gittins said....
DR
Navy's Newest Nuclear-powered Attack Submarine to be Dedicated to Master Swamp Rabbit Shoo-er Jimmy Carter
ScrappleFace is reporting that Jimmy Carter is the first of the American Seahare-class subs, featuring a high-tech sonar system which alerts enemy forces to its presence and a safety device on the Nerf missiles which allows firing only after an enemy missile impact....
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Am I The Only One?
Sometimes when I publish a post I discover later in the day that there are more than one of the same thing...how does that happen?...I only push it once...
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UN forces – just a bunch of thugs?
Once again, Mark Steyn captures the moment:
....corrupt organisations rarely stop at just one kind. If you don't want to bulk up your pension by skimming the Oil-for-Food programme, don't worry, whatever your bag, the UN can find somewhere that suits - in West Africa, it's Sex-for-Food, with aid workers demanding sexual services from locals as young as four; in Cambodia, it's drug dealing; in Kenya, it's the refugee extortion racket; in the Balkans, sex slaves....
...on a UN peace mission, everyone gets his piece. Didier Bourguet, a UN staffer in Congo and the Central African Republic, enjoyed the pleasures of 12-year-old girls, and as a result is now on trial in France. His lawyer has said he was part of a UN paedophile network that transcends national boundaries....Now how about this? The Third Infantry Division are raping nine-year olds in Ramadi....
But think about it: the merest glimpse of a freaky West Virginia tramp leading an Abu Ghraib inmate around with girlie knickers on his head was enough to prompt calls for Rumsfeld's resignation, and for Ted Kennedy to charge that Saddam's torture chambers were now open "under new management", and for Robert Fisk to be driven into the kind of orgasmic frenzy unseen since his column on how much he enjoyed being beaten up by an Afghan mob: "Just look at the way US army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi," wrote Fisk. "No sadistic movie could outdo the damage of this image. In September 2001, the planes smashed into the buildings; today, Lynndie smashes to pieces our entire morality with just one tug on the leash."
Who's straining at the leash here?
....systemic UN child sex in at least 50 per cent of their missions? The transnational morality set can barely stifle their yawns. If you're going to rape prepubescent girls, make sure you're wearing a blue helmet....
...there exists...a UN culture in which the free nations have met the thug states so much more than half way that they now largely share the dictators' view of their peoples - as either helpless children who need every decision made for them, or a bunch of dupes whose national wealth you can reroute to your Swiss bank account, or a never-ending source of fresh meat. Those British officials trying to rationalise Oil-for-Fraud or child sex rings give the game away: it's not just the underage Congolese girls who get corrupted by contact with the UN.
My question for the day: Is the U.N. so corrupt...so far gone...that it is now beyond salvaging?
DR
....corrupt organisations rarely stop at just one kind. If you don't want to bulk up your pension by skimming the Oil-for-Food programme, don't worry, whatever your bag, the UN can find somewhere that suits - in West Africa, it's Sex-for-Food, with aid workers demanding sexual services from locals as young as four; in Cambodia, it's drug dealing; in Kenya, it's the refugee extortion racket; in the Balkans, sex slaves....
...on a UN peace mission, everyone gets his piece. Didier Bourguet, a UN staffer in Congo and the Central African Republic, enjoyed the pleasures of 12-year-old girls, and as a result is now on trial in France. His lawyer has said he was part of a UN paedophile network that transcends national boundaries....Now how about this? The Third Infantry Division are raping nine-year olds in Ramadi....
But think about it: the merest glimpse of a freaky West Virginia tramp leading an Abu Ghraib inmate around with girlie knickers on his head was enough to prompt calls for Rumsfeld's resignation, and for Ted Kennedy to charge that Saddam's torture chambers were now open "under new management", and for Robert Fisk to be driven into the kind of orgasmic frenzy unseen since his column on how much he enjoyed being beaten up by an Afghan mob: "Just look at the way US army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi," wrote Fisk. "No sadistic movie could outdo the damage of this image. In September 2001, the planes smashed into the buildings; today, Lynndie smashes to pieces our entire morality with just one tug on the leash."
Who's straining at the leash here?
....systemic UN child sex in at least 50 per cent of their missions? The transnational morality set can barely stifle their yawns. If you're going to rape prepubescent girls, make sure you're wearing a blue helmet....
...there exists...a UN culture in which the free nations have met the thug states so much more than half way that they now largely share the dictators' view of their peoples - as either helpless children who need every decision made for them, or a bunch of dupes whose national wealth you can reroute to your Swiss bank account, or a never-ending source of fresh meat. Those British officials trying to rationalise Oil-for-Fraud or child sex rings give the game away: it's not just the underage Congolese girls who get corrupted by contact with the UN.
My question for the day: Is the U.N. so corrupt...so far gone...that it is now beyond salvaging?
DR
Oil for Food: Swiss firm Cotecna Protecting Kofi Annan's son Kojo Annan?
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), is one of several congressional and law-enforcement agencies investigating the scandal in which Saddam ripped off $21.3 billion through kickbacks and oil smuggling — and rewarded sympathetic international figures with sweetheart oil deals.
The Swiss firm Cotecna inspected aid shipments into Iraq for the United Nations...
...Coleman chided Cotecna executives for failing to tell the full story about the activities of Kojo Annan, son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who was employed by the firm at the time it won the U.N. oil-for-food contract.
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The Swiss firm Cotecna inspected aid shipments into Iraq for the United Nations...
...Coleman chided Cotecna executives for failing to tell the full story about the activities of Kojo Annan, son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who was employed by the firm at the time it won the U.N. oil-for-food contract.
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Oil for Food: Annan Attempting to Block Investigation?
The leaders of the Senate investigations subcommittee criticized the United Nations on Tuesday for failing to provide access to its officials and documents for the panel's inquiry into the oil-for-food aid program in Iraq.
Dileep Nair, a Singaporean who supervises the United Nations' auditing office, had not been permitted to testify.
Senator Coleman, an outspoken critic of the former Iraq aid program and of Secretary General Kofi Annan, also called on Mr. Annan to lift diplomatic immunity from Benon V. Sevan, who ran the program.
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Dileep Nair, a Singaporean who supervises the United Nations' auditing office, had not been permitted to testify.
Senator Coleman, an outspoken critic of the former Iraq aid program and of Secretary General Kofi Annan, also called on Mr. Annan to lift diplomatic immunity from Benon V. Sevan, who ran the program.
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Oil for Food: U.N. Oil Monitor Took Bribe
"We have found disturbing evidence that one of the U.N. oil monitors -- the individuals hired by the U.N. to inspect the oil exports from Iraq under the OFF Program -- took a bribe," said subcommittee chairman Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican.
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2/15/2005
And The Winner Is....
oh the hypocrisy of it all...
the Hollywood Reporter, writing about the "chilly reception" that Chris Rock will get when he hosts the Oscars STILL doesn't get it!
Calling the United States a 'second grade classroom'....acting as if Eason Jordan is some kind of hero for lying to the world that American soldiers were targeting journalists...blaming 'conservative blogs' for Jordan's eventual loss of his job....and trying to tie all of that back to the uproar that Hollywood is now in over Chris Rock's goofy statements...
Listen, Hollywood...Chris Rock's dumb comments about the Oscars does in no way equate to Whoopie Goldberg's crass jokes about the president's name...
You actors go out - mostly when you are overseas speaking to sympathetic audiences (because you know you will get your arses kicked off the stage if you dare try it at home - Linda Ronstadt are you listening?)...you go onstage and denigrate this country and its leaders...disgusting - all of you!
Listen to what this idiotic writer says about this: In this case, the problem is unfortunately one of respect...
Apparently David Letterman made a similar 'mistake' : He was an outsider who failed to gauge the tolerance a Hollywood crowd would have for a guy poking harmless but pointed fun at their revered institution -- and the crowd turned on him...
The same writer warns: Rock is setting himself up for a similarly chilly reception, particularly in an age when speaking one's mind can be hazardous to one's career health....
HOLD ON! Let me get this straight!
It's OKAY for the Hollywood creeps to go global and run a smear/hate/scorched-earth campaign on the leader of the free world...even if none of the accusations are true or can ever be verified...because it is their RIGHT to do so....
But...BUT...
...let one comedian - yea, Johnny, a comedian - make one or two wisecracks about their precious let's-oooohh-and-aaaahhh-and-suck-up-pat-yourself-and-each-other-on-the-back-award program...and watch the long knives come out...the claws are unsheathed...the poison is being readied for his drink...because the dumb-ass black kid "didn't show respect"...
HEY HOLLYWOOD!
KISS MY ASS...
DR
the Hollywood Reporter, writing about the "chilly reception" that Chris Rock will get when he hosts the Oscars STILL doesn't get it!
Calling the United States a 'second grade classroom'....acting as if Eason Jordan is some kind of hero for lying to the world that American soldiers were targeting journalists...blaming 'conservative blogs' for Jordan's eventual loss of his job....and trying to tie all of that back to the uproar that Hollywood is now in over Chris Rock's goofy statements...
Listen, Hollywood...Chris Rock's dumb comments about the Oscars does in no way equate to Whoopie Goldberg's crass jokes about the president's name...
You actors go out - mostly when you are overseas speaking to sympathetic audiences (because you know you will get your arses kicked off the stage if you dare try it at home - Linda Ronstadt are you listening?)...you go onstage and denigrate this country and its leaders...disgusting - all of you!
Listen to what this idiotic writer says about this: In this case, the problem is unfortunately one of respect...
Apparently David Letterman made a similar 'mistake' : He was an outsider who failed to gauge the tolerance a Hollywood crowd would have for a guy poking harmless but pointed fun at their revered institution -- and the crowd turned on him...
The same writer warns: Rock is setting himself up for a similarly chilly reception, particularly in an age when speaking one's mind can be hazardous to one's career health....
HOLD ON! Let me get this straight!
It's OKAY for the Hollywood creeps to go global and run a smear/hate/scorched-earth campaign on the leader of the free world...even if none of the accusations are true or can ever be verified...because it is their RIGHT to do so....
But...BUT...
...let one comedian - yea, Johnny, a comedian - make one or two wisecracks about their precious let's-oooohh-and-aaaahhh-and-suck-up-pat-yourself-and-each-other-on-the-back-award program...and watch the long knives come out...the claws are unsheathed...the poison is being readied for his drink...because the dumb-ass black kid "didn't show respect"...
HEY HOLLYWOOD!
KISS MY ASS...
DR
Re-Education Camps on a University Campus Near You...
It really is very simple to do...plug in the words "conservatism on campus" and do a search...
For quite some time now concerned individuals have been writing, posting, and warning us about the appalling, one-sided, extreme liberal atmosphere that exists on practically every campus...they are also relaying what those students that are strong enough in their convictions are going through...if they are able to withstand the incredible amount of pressure that is applied - by both professors and other brain-washed students...
Consider this - Thomas Lipscomb writes in an article, Students have appallingly weak grasp of free speech, the following:
Almost three out of four students said they took the First Amendment for granted or didn't have any particular opinion about it. Their general indifference and misunderstanding took tangible form in the belief of three out of four students that flag-burning was illegal and almost half believed the government had the right to censor the Internet. Once the First Amendment was read to them, one third of the students felt it went "too far" in granting free speech and one half thought that the government should have the right to approve news stories.
If you don’t understand what I am concerned about, please re-read the previous paragraph…you are seeing the results – in living, breathing color – of the successful indoctrination of our university students to the extreme left beliefs and views…Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx come quickly to mind…
What is wrong with this picture?... for students to believe that flag-burning is illegal (it is definitely reprehensible, but not illegal)…that the government has a right to censor the internet…that the government has a ‘right’ to approve news stories...
Ward Churchill is nothing new to this scene…he is just putting all of this into focus…
It is not enough to simply write the check and send your youngster off to college…parents need to pay attention to what is happening right in front of their eyes…
If a student dares to espouse conservative views, they are ostracized…they are ridiculed…they are stigmatized, expelled, subjected to mandatory psychological counseling or forced to take "re-education" courses, with very little legal recourse.
When was the last time we heard those words – re-education classes (or camps)?
The “new” Vietnamese government decided in 1979 to "re-educate" thousands of former American allies, government workers, intellectuals and merchants by transforming them into agricultural workers…
Wade Teasdale, chief of staff for Bill Morrow, a CA state senator, said that his office received a report of a professor who offered students extra credit to write and send letters to President Bush complaining about the Iraqi war policy. Those who wrote letters commending the policies were not given credit for the assignment.
Reports like these, Teasdale said, lend credence to the need for policy changes.
“It has the flavor of a re-education camp,” he said…
Lipscomb asks How did one half of American high school students become perfectly comfortable with government censorship of media?
He points to the dearth of availability on some campuses of student publications… What is particularly troubling is that school administrators in the last five years are not only interfering with student publications more and more frequently, they are increasingly asking for prior approval of their content...
How has this been allowed to get this bad?
Until recently, the legal excuse for this kind of thought policing was college administration references to conditions laid down by the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education. But in July 2003, a letter of clarification was issued by that office which removes this excuse. Nonetheless, Lukianoff feels that "in the past year, I have seen the worst incidents in my career."
There have been hundreds of incidents of the theft and destruction of college newspapers by some groups, on campus and off, who feel they are expressing their freedom of speech by suppressing access to speech with which they disagree in the paper. Even the mayor of Berkeley, Calif., felt free to confiscate copies of a student newspaper that opposed his election. And less than a dozen have yet been arrested or even investigated and disciplined by any college administration to date.
My voice is but one of many…and the chorus needs to get louder…
Ward Churchill is going to be the poster boy for reform on our university campuses…
Even if Churchill is allowed to stay, hopefully all of the attention that has been drawn to this problem will follow with more balance within our faculty on campus…
The extreme left idealism has been allowed to fester and grow for long enough within academia…these people are shaping the minds of our youth...the future leaders of this nation...
It is time to realize that we DO have a problem…it is also time to DEAL WITH IT
DR
For quite some time now concerned individuals have been writing, posting, and warning us about the appalling, one-sided, extreme liberal atmosphere that exists on practically every campus...they are also relaying what those students that are strong enough in their convictions are going through...if they are able to withstand the incredible amount of pressure that is applied - by both professors and other brain-washed students...
Consider this - Thomas Lipscomb writes in an article, Students have appallingly weak grasp of free speech, the following:
Almost three out of four students said they took the First Amendment for granted or didn't have any particular opinion about it. Their general indifference and misunderstanding took tangible form in the belief of three out of four students that flag-burning was illegal and almost half believed the government had the right to censor the Internet. Once the First Amendment was read to them, one third of the students felt it went "too far" in granting free speech and one half thought that the government should have the right to approve news stories.
If you don’t understand what I am concerned about, please re-read the previous paragraph…you are seeing the results – in living, breathing color – of the successful indoctrination of our university students to the extreme left beliefs and views…Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx come quickly to mind…
What is wrong with this picture?... for students to believe that flag-burning is illegal (it is definitely reprehensible, but not illegal)…that the government has a right to censor the internet…that the government has a ‘right’ to approve news stories...
Ward Churchill is nothing new to this scene…he is just putting all of this into focus…
It is not enough to simply write the check and send your youngster off to college…parents need to pay attention to what is happening right in front of their eyes…
If a student dares to espouse conservative views, they are ostracized…they are ridiculed…they are stigmatized, expelled, subjected to mandatory psychological counseling or forced to take "re-education" courses, with very little legal recourse.
When was the last time we heard those words – re-education classes (or camps)?
The “new” Vietnamese government decided in 1979 to "re-educate" thousands of former American allies, government workers, intellectuals and merchants by transforming them into agricultural workers…
Wade Teasdale, chief of staff for Bill Morrow, a CA state senator, said that his office received a report of a professor who offered students extra credit to write and send letters to President Bush complaining about the Iraqi war policy. Those who wrote letters commending the policies were not given credit for the assignment.
Reports like these, Teasdale said, lend credence to the need for policy changes.
“It has the flavor of a re-education camp,” he said…
Lipscomb asks How did one half of American high school students become perfectly comfortable with government censorship of media?
He points to the dearth of availability on some campuses of student publications… What is particularly troubling is that school administrators in the last five years are not only interfering with student publications more and more frequently, they are increasingly asking for prior approval of their content...
How has this been allowed to get this bad?
Until recently, the legal excuse for this kind of thought policing was college administration references to conditions laid down by the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education. But in July 2003, a letter of clarification was issued by that office which removes this excuse. Nonetheless, Lukianoff feels that "in the past year, I have seen the worst incidents in my career."
There have been hundreds of incidents of the theft and destruction of college newspapers by some groups, on campus and off, who feel they are expressing their freedom of speech by suppressing access to speech with which they disagree in the paper. Even the mayor of Berkeley, Calif., felt free to confiscate copies of a student newspaper that opposed his election. And less than a dozen have yet been arrested or even investigated and disciplined by any college administration to date.
My voice is but one of many…and the chorus needs to get louder…
Ward Churchill is going to be the poster boy for reform on our university campuses…
Even if Churchill is allowed to stay, hopefully all of the attention that has been drawn to this problem will follow with more balance within our faculty on campus…
The extreme left idealism has been allowed to fester and grow for long enough within academia…these people are shaping the minds of our youth...the future leaders of this nation...
It is time to realize that we DO have a problem…it is also time to DEAL WITH IT
DR
Churchill's "Homeland 'In'Security" Speech Cancelled
The University of Oregon has canceled plans to have Ward Churchill speak at an on-campus symposium.
Churchill was scheduled to give the keynote lunch address at a symposium titled "Homeland 'In'Security: Race, Immigration and Labor in Post-9/11 North America," a joint presentation of the University of Oregon's Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the Center on Diversity and Community, the school's Oregon Daily Emerald reported.
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Churchill was scheduled to give the keynote lunch address at a symposium titled "Homeland 'In'Security: Race, Immigration and Labor in Post-9/11 North America," a joint presentation of the University of Oregon's Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the Center on Diversity and Community, the school's Oregon Daily Emerald reported.
DR
2/14/2005
ten·ure Pronunciation: 'ten-y&r
Tenure: The status of holding one's position on a permanent basis without periodic contract renewals: a teacher granted tenure on a faculty....
...in other words...liberals guaranteeing other liberals that they have job security...FOREVER
Noam Chomsky has pronounced academic fraud Ward Churchill a professor whose work is "of high scholarly quality." Well why wouldn't he, since Churchill's views of America -- genocidal, worse than Hitler Germany, deserving of everything it got on 9/11, are plagiarized from Chomsky himself:
"I've read a fair amount of his work, and a lot of it is excellent, penetrating and of high scholarly quality," said Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an anti-war activist. -- Denver Post, 2/9/05
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...in other words...liberals guaranteeing other liberals that they have job security...FOREVER
Noam Chomsky has pronounced academic fraud Ward Churchill a professor whose work is "of high scholarly quality." Well why wouldn't he, since Churchill's views of America -- genocidal, worse than Hitler Germany, deserving of everything it got on 9/11, are plagiarized from Chomsky himself:
"I've read a fair amount of his work, and a lot of it is excellent, penetrating and of high scholarly quality," said Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an anti-war activist. -- Denver Post, 2/9/05
DR
Happy Anniversary Arizona!
Today, in addition to celebrating Valentine's Day, we Arizon-ians also celebrate our anniversary of statehood....
February 14, 1912...almost 100 years ago...
...I realize that we are one of the last ones to join the 'union'.....and all of you 'easterners' can celebrate the fact that your state of origin joined many years before we westerners here in the Wild West finally made that decision.....
...but, as someone who was born and raised in this Wild, Wild West...I treasure the fact that my predecessors had the knowledge...the foresight...and fortitude....to hold out just as long as they could....
...gives me one more reason to be proud of the 'cowboy' name many of my friends so fondly attach to my name....
DR
February 14, 1912...almost 100 years ago...
...I realize that we are one of the last ones to join the 'union'.....and all of you 'easterners' can celebrate the fact that your state of origin joined many years before we westerners here in the Wild West finally made that decision.....
...but, as someone who was born and raised in this Wild, Wild West...I treasure the fact that my predecessors had the knowledge...the foresight...and fortitude....to hold out just as long as they could....
...gives me one more reason to be proud of the 'cowboy' name many of my friends so fondly attach to my name....
DR
Google = Cash Engine for Democrats
Matt Drudge has picked up this story about Google's campaign contributions reporting: A USA Today analysis published Monday indicated 98 percent of the money went to Democrats, the most-lopsided giving of any of the top tech company donors...
Google declined to discuss employee campaign contributions but the among the company's top 2004 givers was Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, whose biggest single donation was $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee....
....but WE all know how those contributions broke down from my earlier post about Google's bias...
DR
Google declined to discuss employee campaign contributions but the among the company's top 2004 givers was Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, whose biggest single donation was $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee....
....but WE all know how those contributions broke down from my earlier post about Google's bias...
DR
Chris Rock - Oscars - Ward Churchill - Larry Summers
oooohhhh...this is getting soooo good...
think about it!
Ward Churchill calls 9/11 'payback'...calling the 3,000+ victims "little Eichmann's"...the same Ward Churchill that has been quoted as saying 'another 9/11 is necessary'...has said "[I want the] U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether." ...and boy-oh-boy, the liberals are falling all over themselves, rushing to defend his First Amendment rights...
Larry Summers, one of the most respected economists in America, president of Harvard University and former secretary of the treasury dares suggest that there might be some innate cognitive differences between men and women, and what happens? An MIT feminist biologist – who moonlights as a feminist activist – quickly got the vapors and stormed out of the room for fear of fainting. If she stayed any longer, she explained, she’d vomit....Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe compared Summers to people who cavalierly bandy about the N-word or who thoughtlessly wear swastikas...One hundred members of the Harvard faculty drafted a letter demanding that he apologize...The National Organization for Women demanded that he resign...The dean of engineering at the University of Washington called his comments “an intellectual tsunami.”
...where are HIS First Amendment rights???
And now Chris Rock....
ooohhh...Hollywood is so upset about his comments they are lobbying to have him fired as the host for the upcoming Oscars....
HOLLYWOOD?? Hollywood not supporting someone's First Amendment rights???
WTF is going on here???
DR
think about it!
Ward Churchill calls 9/11 'payback'...calling the 3,000+ victims "little Eichmann's"...the same Ward Churchill that has been quoted as saying 'another 9/11 is necessary'...has said "[I want the] U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether." ...and boy-oh-boy, the liberals are falling all over themselves, rushing to defend his First Amendment rights...
Larry Summers, one of the most respected economists in America, president of Harvard University and former secretary of the treasury dares suggest that there might be some innate cognitive differences between men and women, and what happens? An MIT feminist biologist – who moonlights as a feminist activist – quickly got the vapors and stormed out of the room for fear of fainting. If she stayed any longer, she explained, she’d vomit....Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe compared Summers to people who cavalierly bandy about the N-word or who thoughtlessly wear swastikas...One hundred members of the Harvard faculty drafted a letter demanding that he apologize...The National Organization for Women demanded that he resign...The dean of engineering at the University of Washington called his comments “an intellectual tsunami.”
...where are HIS First Amendment rights???
And now Chris Rock....
ooohhh...Hollywood is so upset about his comments they are lobbying to have him fired as the host for the upcoming Oscars....
HOLLYWOOD?? Hollywood not supporting someone's First Amendment rights???
WTF is going on here???
DR
Chris Rock: Only Gays Watch Oscars
You gotta admit, Chris Rock is nobody's fool...
Matt Drudge is reporting that "veteran members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have grown concerned over the choice of Chris Rock as host of this month's awards show"
HAR!
Chris Rock apparently has been doing what we love to see him do...say exactly what is on his mind:
"I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show," Rock recently declared.
"What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one!"
Rock added: "Awards for art are f---ing idiotic."
He got that one right...
Some in Hollywood have gotten their panties in a wad over Rock's statements...fearing Rock may "tarnish" the reputation of the Academy.
They are so full of themselves...WTF?? "tarnish" the Academy's reputation??
Those egotistical millionaires in Hollywood...why can't they just be happy to suck up our money so we can go to the movies and escape reality for two hours?
The only 'reputation' the Academy has is within that community...none of the rest of the world REALLY cares...but, oh they love to give themselves awards...atta-boys...tell themselves and each other how *wonderful* they are...
Guess they really are little sick puppies, huh? Don't have enough self-respect to realize who or what they are...
I remember right after 9/11 how the Hollywood freaks were all atwitter...thinking the terrorists were going to target them next...remember that? I even think they postponed the Oscars because they were convinced that they were targets.....
Hey Hollywood! Get over yourself!
The rest of the world is dealing with terrorism...so, as someone famous recently said, Shut up and Sing...that is how your name got in the limelight in the first place...nothing else...nothing else...
DR
Matt Drudge is reporting that "veteran members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have grown concerned over the choice of Chris Rock as host of this month's awards show"
HAR!
Chris Rock apparently has been doing what we love to see him do...say exactly what is on his mind:
"I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show," Rock recently declared.
"What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one!"
Rock added: "Awards for art are f---ing idiotic."
He got that one right...
Some in Hollywood have gotten their panties in a wad over Rock's statements...fearing Rock may "tarnish" the reputation of the Academy.
They are so full of themselves...WTF?? "tarnish" the Academy's reputation??
Those egotistical millionaires in Hollywood...why can't they just be happy to suck up our money so we can go to the movies and escape reality for two hours?
The only 'reputation' the Academy has is within that community...none of the rest of the world REALLY cares...but, oh they love to give themselves awards...atta-boys...tell themselves and each other how *wonderful* they are...
Guess they really are little sick puppies, huh? Don't have enough self-respect to realize who or what they are...
I remember right after 9/11 how the Hollywood freaks were all atwitter...thinking the terrorists were going to target them next...remember that? I even think they postponed the Oscars because they were convinced that they were targets.....
Hey Hollywood! Get over yourself!
The rest of the world is dealing with terrorism...so, as someone famous recently said, Shut up and Sing...that is how your name got in the limelight in the first place...nothing else...nothing else...
DR
On Eason Jordan...
Eason Jordan resigned...so is this story over?
You and I both know it is just the tip of the iceberg...and Grey Hawk over at Mudville Gazette agrees...
His synopsis is worth taking the time to read and absorb...
DR
You and I both know it is just the tip of the iceberg...and Grey Hawk over at Mudville Gazette agrees...
His synopsis is worth taking the time to read and absorb...
DR
"No one will stop the train of democracy and those who stand against the change will soon be nothing but forgotten."
...so ends a poignant post from Mohammed over at Iraq the Model...
Another post quotes an Iraqi politician and the head of the "Hizb Al-Umma Al-Iraqiya" or the (Iraqi Nation Party) who survived an assassination attempt when a group of terrorists attacked him in front of his house, but his two young sons and his guard were killed in the attack:
Again, the ghosts of death are going out. They are ready to kill a person, ready to kill the peace, ready to kill the victory of Iraqis and their right to life. Again, henchmen of the Ba'ath [Party] and dirty terrorist gangs, Al-Qaeda and others, are going out convinced that they can determine life and death as they desire. Iraq will not die.
My children, three people [in all] -- one of my bodyguards and two of my children -- died as heroes, no differently from other people who find their heroic deaths. But we will not, [I swear] by God, hand Iraq over to murderers and terrorists.
We will pave the road for peace. If [the attackers] thought that by attempting to kill Mithal al-Alusi, the advocates of peace in Iraq will be stopped, then they have made a grave mistake. We will be calling for peace. We will be calling for peace with all neighboring countries [of Iraq]. We will be calling for peace with all countries of the region. And we will be calling for fighting terrorism by any means [and] against all forms [of terror].
They claim that Islam is a message of killing, while Islam is a message of peace. They claim that the principles [of Islam] encourage killing, while the only principles that encourage killing are the principles of the Ba'ath [Party] and of the heathens from Al-Qaeda groupings.
Strong words, indeed...
...the people of Iraq knew they had a long, hard road to travel on their way to freedom...but as the positive stories find their way to us, we are able to realize that they are truly embracing this opportunity...
DR
Another post quotes an Iraqi politician and the head of the "Hizb Al-Umma Al-Iraqiya" or the (Iraqi Nation Party) who survived an assassination attempt when a group of terrorists attacked him in front of his house, but his two young sons and his guard were killed in the attack:
Again, the ghosts of death are going out. They are ready to kill a person, ready to kill the peace, ready to kill the victory of Iraqis and their right to life. Again, henchmen of the Ba'ath [Party] and dirty terrorist gangs, Al-Qaeda and others, are going out convinced that they can determine life and death as they desire. Iraq will not die.
My children, three people [in all] -- one of my bodyguards and two of my children -- died as heroes, no differently from other people who find their heroic deaths. But we will not, [I swear] by God, hand Iraq over to murderers and terrorists.
We will pave the road for peace. If [the attackers] thought that by attempting to kill Mithal al-Alusi, the advocates of peace in Iraq will be stopped, then they have made a grave mistake. We will be calling for peace. We will be calling for peace with all neighboring countries [of Iraq]. We will be calling for peace with all countries of the region. And we will be calling for fighting terrorism by any means [and] against all forms [of terror].
They claim that Islam is a message of killing, while Islam is a message of peace. They claim that the principles [of Islam] encourage killing, while the only principles that encourage killing are the principles of the Ba'ath [Party] and of the heathens from Al-Qaeda groupings.
Strong words, indeed...
...the people of Iraq knew they had a long, hard road to travel on their way to freedom...but as the positive stories find their way to us, we are able to realize that they are truly embracing this opportunity...
DR
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