Suzan Shown Harjo, a Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee, is the respected president and executive director of the Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights and cultural-advocacy organization. Harjo torched Churchill in a message she sent to Colorado's chancellor and Board of Regents:
"The University of Colorado promotes this deception by holding Churchill out as a Native person. Many Native Peoples have called this deception to the attention of the University of Colorado, only to be ignored and to see Churchill promoted and given tenure. Churchill ... has never been able to substantiate any of his many, varied and conflicting claims to be a Native person. He stands exposed and isolated in the community of Native Peoples, but cloaked in the security of the University of Colorado. It is long past time that the university take action to remove itself as a participant in Churchill's deception."
The American Indian Movement "once again is vehemently and emphatically repudiating and condemning the outrageous statements made by academic, literary and Indian fraud Ward Churchill in relationship to the 9/11 tragedy in New York City that claimed thousands of innocent people's lives."
Harjo and AIM speak for all true American Indian people.
DR
2/22/2005
Osama bin Laden Arrested?
Iran is denying some suggestions on some local internet sites that it arrested al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the Western world's most wanted man, on the border with Pakistan.
.....Some Iranian internet sites quoted American officials as saying the al-Qaeda leader, who has a $US25 million ($31.67 million) bounty on his head, had been arrested two weeks ago by Iranian forces....
Pakistan is helping with the effort: This week, for the first time, Pakistan is allowing ads to air that offer rewards for helping find Al Qaeda leaders....
News from India claims "Osama bin Laden no longer exercises central control in Saudi"....
hmmm...
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.....Some Iranian internet sites quoted American officials as saying the al-Qaeda leader, who has a $US25 million ($31.67 million) bounty on his head, had been arrested two weeks ago by Iranian forces....
Pakistan is helping with the effort: This week, for the first time, Pakistan is allowing ads to air that offer rewards for helping find Al Qaeda leaders....
News from India claims "Osama bin Laden no longer exercises central control in Saudi"....
hmmm...
DR
2/21/2005
Religion of Peace Update
Mona Abdallah, who is a second-year political science major at U.C. Irvine, writes a reaction piece about the uproar over the hate-filled speech by Muslim speaker Amir-Abdel Malik-Ali...
And we have to sacrifice too, while we live here ... in Am-ri-ka. The belly of the beast. The number one imperialist in the world.
...But ... let’s call it a state, OK? And then you gonna go get some Uncle Tom Palestinian leaders to fall for this okey-doke. Two-state solution is off the table. No. One state. And check this out! One state ... majority rules. One state ... majority rules.
Us. The Muslims.
[crowd yells “Allahu Akbar!”]
I am having a difficult time trying to understand what Mona is saying when she writes:
Never in the history of the Muslim Student Union has it encouraged any type of violence or hate toward an ethnic group or religion.
The MSU’s only aim is to speak out against and inform the student body of the horrors and atrocities carried out against the Palestinian people as a result of the Zionist movement and the state of Israel. The MSU is not anti-Jewish in any way, shape or form.
Well, I daresay if you watch the video you will have a different opinion...
For Malik-Ali to shout that they are 'sacrificing in the belly of the beast' - I say to him: GO HOME!
We didn't force you here - you came here of your own volition...and now you shout hate in an effort to incite hate...
Get the hell out if you don't like it here...
DR
And we have to sacrifice too, while we live here ... in Am-ri-ka. The belly of the beast. The number one imperialist in the world.
...But ... let’s call it a state, OK? And then you gonna go get some Uncle Tom Palestinian leaders to fall for this okey-doke. Two-state solution is off the table. No. One state. And check this out! One state ... majority rules. One state ... majority rules.
Us. The Muslims.
[crowd yells “Allahu Akbar!”]
I am having a difficult time trying to understand what Mona is saying when she writes:
Never in the history of the Muslim Student Union has it encouraged any type of violence or hate toward an ethnic group or religion.
The MSU’s only aim is to speak out against and inform the student body of the horrors and atrocities carried out against the Palestinian people as a result of the Zionist movement and the state of Israel. The MSU is not anti-Jewish in any way, shape or form.
Well, I daresay if you watch the video you will have a different opinion...
For Malik-Ali to shout that they are 'sacrificing in the belly of the beast' - I say to him: GO HOME!
We didn't force you here - you came here of your own volition...and now you shout hate in an effort to incite hate...
Get the hell out if you don't like it here...
DR
Ward Churchill: First Amendment Rights Do Not Apply To My Critics
The infamous Ward Churchill has quite a legacy...one of hate-filled speeches and attempts to incite physical violence against his critics...
This student, Grant Crowell, experienced that aspect of Churchill’s twisted approach to things in 1994 when Churchill went to speak at the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus in Honolulu.
According to Crowell he had created a cartoon that was published in the student newspaper that caused outrage among left-wing activists: I had depicted one of Ward Churchill’s close colleagues on our campus, Professor Haunani K. Trask, U.H.’s Hawaii Studies Director, reading an excerpt from her recently published poetry book, entitled "Racist White Woman," who described in lurid detail her fantasy of punching, knifing, mutilating and ultimately murdering a white colleague she despised.
Well, let’s see…I am trying to relate…if I ‘despise’ someone, do I write a book detailing how I would like to off that person?…Nope…can’t relate…
But, in the interest of fairness, let’s assume that is what I, the normal, everyday, go-to-work-to-get-a-paycheck-to-pay-my-mortgage kind of person that I am…let’s just assume for a moment that if someone pisses me off, I will go to my publisher with my detailed diary entries so that everyone will now know what a psycho I am…
And if anyone dares publish a cartoon challenging that thought process…well, I will just call on my friend Ward “Dr. No” Churchill…
Okay, I really am getting into this…
So, this student gets his cartoon published…which apparently really pissed off the psycho Professor Trask…so when Churchill arrives for his book discussion on his latest masterpiece, Fantasies of the Master Race: Racism in the University, the whole thing deteriorated into this:
During Churchill’s speaking time at the event, this man -- a man who had never met me and refused to do so before and during the event -- included in his speech a reference to me as "vermin," and shared aloud a story of how an unnamed Nazi cartoonist was tried at the WWII Nuremburg trials, executed, dismembered and then cremated. Churchill’s ended this story with his own personal comment of, "Now, I’m not saying that should happen to Grant, but it would be a good thing."
Don't tell me the audience didn't understand his suggestion...thankfully they didn't follow through on it...Churchill, just by his size alone, could be a really intimidating figure I imagine
...the thought of him ranting like we have seen lately, saying without really saying it, that it would be a good thing to execute, dismember and cremate someone just because they don't agree with him, is way, way, way beyond the pale...
The stories that are beginning to surface all point to one conclusion…Ward Churchill is a dangerous man…
I am really trying to understand the professors that are supporting Churchill's repeat visit to the University of Hawaii...do you think it is out of loyalty for 'one of their own'?
...do you suppose they are thinking "there but for the grace of God go I"?
It's possible...and I am trying to give them the benefit of doubt...because the other option...the one that tells us that they are of the same mindset...now THAT would be a real problem...
...hopefully that is not the case...HOPEFULLY...
DR
This student, Grant Crowell, experienced that aspect of Churchill’s twisted approach to things in 1994 when Churchill went to speak at the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus in Honolulu.
According to Crowell he had created a cartoon that was published in the student newspaper that caused outrage among left-wing activists: I had depicted one of Ward Churchill’s close colleagues on our campus, Professor Haunani K. Trask, U.H.’s Hawaii Studies Director, reading an excerpt from her recently published poetry book, entitled "Racist White Woman," who described in lurid detail her fantasy of punching, knifing, mutilating and ultimately murdering a white colleague she despised.
Well, let’s see…I am trying to relate…if I ‘despise’ someone, do I write a book detailing how I would like to off that person?…Nope…can’t relate…
But, in the interest of fairness, let’s assume that is what I, the normal, everyday, go-to-work-to-get-a-paycheck-to-pay-my-mortgage kind of person that I am…let’s just assume for a moment that if someone pisses me off, I will go to my publisher with my detailed diary entries so that everyone will now know what a psycho I am…
And if anyone dares publish a cartoon challenging that thought process…well, I will just call on my friend Ward “Dr. No” Churchill…
Okay, I really am getting into this…
So, this student gets his cartoon published…which apparently really pissed off the psycho Professor Trask…so when Churchill arrives for his book discussion on his latest masterpiece, Fantasies of the Master Race: Racism in the University, the whole thing deteriorated into this:
During Churchill’s speaking time at the event, this man -- a man who had never met me and refused to do so before and during the event -- included in his speech a reference to me as "vermin," and shared aloud a story of how an unnamed Nazi cartoonist was tried at the WWII Nuremburg trials, executed, dismembered and then cremated. Churchill’s ended this story with his own personal comment of, "Now, I’m not saying that should happen to Grant, but it would be a good thing."
Don't tell me the audience didn't understand his suggestion...thankfully they didn't follow through on it...Churchill, just by his size alone, could be a really intimidating figure I imagine
...the thought of him ranting like we have seen lately, saying without really saying it, that it would be a good thing to execute, dismember and cremate someone just because they don't agree with him, is way, way, way beyond the pale...
The stories that are beginning to surface all point to one conclusion…Ward Churchill is a dangerous man…
I am really trying to understand the professors that are supporting Churchill's repeat visit to the University of Hawaii...do you think it is out of loyalty for 'one of their own'?
...do you suppose they are thinking "there but for the grace of God go I"?
It's possible...and I am trying to give them the benefit of doubt...because the other option...the one that tells us that they are of the same mindset...now THAT would be a real problem...
...hopefully that is not the case...HOPEFULLY...
DR
Iraqi police nab al-Zarqawi cell leader, Saddam-era general
From Baquba, Iraq, comes this news:
Iraqi security forces on Saturday arrested the alleged commander of an insurgent cell close to al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, police said.
"Early this morning Iraqi security forces assisted by US forces raided the house of Haidar Abu al-Buwari in western Baquba," said a police spokesman for Diyala province, whose capital is Baquba.
"He is one of the mujahedeen princes who works with Zarqawi in the position of cell leader," he said. Police found rocket-propelled grenades, grenades, drugs, computers and a photocopier in the house, he added.
Iraqi security forces also arrested a former high-ranking officer under Saddam Hussein allegedly involved in the insurgency in the northern city of Mosul, said a government statement.
"Harbi Abd al-Khudaier Hamudi, 50, also known as Abu Nur, was arrested on February 16," it said.
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Iraqi security forces on Saturday arrested the alleged commander of an insurgent cell close to al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, police said.
"Early this morning Iraqi security forces assisted by US forces raided the house of Haidar Abu al-Buwari in western Baquba," said a police spokesman for Diyala province, whose capital is Baquba.
"He is one of the mujahedeen princes who works with Zarqawi in the position of cell leader," he said. Police found rocket-propelled grenades, grenades, drugs, computers and a photocopier in the house, he added.
Iraqi security forces also arrested a former high-ranking officer under Saddam Hussein allegedly involved in the insurgency in the northern city of Mosul, said a government statement.
"Harbi Abd al-Khudaier Hamudi, 50, also known as Abu Nur, was arrested on February 16," it said.
DR
2/20/2005
Michael Moore Caught in Another Lie
Oh, and here is another trait about liberals that I love to hate: "Don't ever put your money where your mouth is"
In January, during an interview about his film on the U.K.'s Channel 4 network, Moore was asked:
"If you are so concerned about helping our troops in Iraq, why don't you donate 100 percent of the money from your movies to that cause?"
Moore shot back: "I haven't seen a dime from this movie!"
According to Vanity Fair, however, "Fahrenheit 9/11" cost $6 million to produce and generated box office sales of more than $200 million.
The magazine said that Moore stands to pocket about a quarter of that gross, which would be $50 million.
Yea, that's right, Mr. Piggy...bitch about the President...make an anti-American movie filled with lies...and continue the lying process by claiming you haven't seen a dime from the movie...
Lies upon lies and more lies...is anyone surprised?
DR
In January, during an interview about his film on the U.K.'s Channel 4 network, Moore was asked:
"If you are so concerned about helping our troops in Iraq, why don't you donate 100 percent of the money from your movies to that cause?"
Moore shot back: "I haven't seen a dime from this movie!"
According to Vanity Fair, however, "Fahrenheit 9/11" cost $6 million to produce and generated box office sales of more than $200 million.
The magazine said that Moore stands to pocket about a quarter of that gross, which would be $50 million.
Yea, that's right, Mr. Piggy...bitch about the President...make an anti-American movie filled with lies...and continue the lying process by claiming you haven't seen a dime from the movie...
Lies upon lies and more lies...is anyone surprised?
DR
Teresa Heinz "no more Kerry": Sour Grapes
Doncha just love the liberal mantra - "It's always somebody elses fault" ?
Addressing Stanford University's "Whole Earth Symposium" last week, Teresa Heinz blamed the media for distorting their position on the environment....
oh, and just in case you weren't paying attention...Ms. Heinz no longer uses the hyphenated version of her name...dropped the Kerry the day after her husband lost the election apparently...cheesy thing to do...call yourself by your 'husband's' name just in case you can fool the people with how lovey-dovey you are and how you are the traditional sort of wife...heh, right!
but you know, a lot of women wouldn't have done it...they NEVER would have taken to attaching their name with the name of John F'n Kerry...but, some people just really have no class...
but, I digress...
...the first lady wannabe said that the press was largely responsible for the perception that her husband ignored the environment during the 2004 campaign, according to the campus newspaper, the Stanford Report.
What did get covered was the fact that the Heinz Kerrys owned a gas-guzzling private jet, a yacht Teresa bought for her husband, four SUVs and five giant mansions that burn up thousands of gallons of oil each year to heat and cool.
But Mrs. Heinz didn't address questions about how her lifestyle conflicted with her environmental beliefs.
Instead she accused reporters of falsely presenting the facts about climate change as a "duel of battling scientists."
Hey! Last time I looked, those reporters from the MSM were on your side, Ms. Heinz...so don't go blaming them for your husband's lack of...well...everything...
DR
Addressing Stanford University's "Whole Earth Symposium" last week, Teresa Heinz blamed the media for distorting their position on the environment....
oh, and just in case you weren't paying attention...Ms. Heinz no longer uses the hyphenated version of her name...dropped the Kerry the day after her husband lost the election apparently...cheesy thing to do...call yourself by your 'husband's' name just in case you can fool the people with how lovey-dovey you are and how you are the traditional sort of wife...heh, right!
but you know, a lot of women wouldn't have done it...they NEVER would have taken to attaching their name with the name of John F'n Kerry...but, some people just really have no class...
but, I digress...
...the first lady wannabe said that the press was largely responsible for the perception that her husband ignored the environment during the 2004 campaign, according to the campus newspaper, the Stanford Report.
What did get covered was the fact that the Heinz Kerrys owned a gas-guzzling private jet, a yacht Teresa bought for her husband, four SUVs and five giant mansions that burn up thousands of gallons of oil each year to heat and cool.
But Mrs. Heinz didn't address questions about how her lifestyle conflicted with her environmental beliefs.
Instead she accused reporters of falsely presenting the facts about climate change as a "duel of battling scientists."
Hey! Last time I looked, those reporters from the MSM were on your side, Ms. Heinz...so don't go blaming them for your husband's lack of...well...everything...
DR
The Tightening Noose: al-Zarqawi's Propaganda Chief Killed
Iraqi security forces have killed or captured three insurgents producing websites showing hostages being tortured, officials said.
The government said two alleged terrorists were killed in a Feb. 11 raid in Baghdad. It identified the two as Abu al-Izz and Adel Mujtaba, known as Abu Rim, who the government said ''disseminated propaganda'' for the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and created ''terrorist Web sites.'' It did not name the sites.
DR
The government said two alleged terrorists were killed in a Feb. 11 raid in Baghdad. It identified the two as Abu al-Izz and Adel Mujtaba, known as Abu Rim, who the government said ''disseminated propaganda'' for the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and created ''terrorist Web sites.'' It did not name the sites.
DR
2/19/2005
Guide for the Yucatecan Migrant
Mexican Government Guide cover
What to do if confronted by U.S. Immigration officer...
Officials in the Mexican state of Yucatan have published their own 87-page handbook for potential migrants to the United States, adding fuel to an international debate over whether such guides encourage illegal border-crossers.
The Guide for the Yucatecan Migrant, published by the southeastern state of Yucatán, comes with an accompanying DVD in Spanish and Mayan. It tells migrants how to apply for U.S. work visas but also gives detailed safety advice for crossing illegally, including where to find water in the desert and how to avoid the most dangerous areas. The guide includes a section specifically about Arizona.
This comes on the heels of the Mexican Government guidebook that is being distributed by the Mexican Foreign Ministry helping illegal immigrants cross the border into the U.S.
U.S. critics fear Mexican states quietly are encouraging undocumented immigrants as a way to boost their economies. Mexican migrants in all parts of the United States sent $16.6 billion to Mexico last year.
"That open border is worth more than a billion dollars a month to Mexico, so they're going to do whatever they can to keep it going," said Rick Oltman, Western field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, based in Washington, D.C.
The Yucatan book goes much further into details along with the instructional DVD:
The Guide for the Yucatecan Migrant is filled with photographs and maps, and the cover shows a man in traditional Yucatecan dress standing in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
It devotes 11 pages to U.S. visas and how to apply for them. The guide published by the Foreign Ministry in December contained none of that information and was widely criticized for it.
An additional 21 pages are about crossing the border illegally, including descriptions meant to help migrants avoid the most dangerous routes through Arizona, California and Texas.
Eight pages deal with crossing the Arizona desert, telling migrants what clothes to wear and to add salt to their drinking water and use a rehydration formula that can be bought in pharmacies.
"After passing through Lukeville, you will cross through a national park where you will find tanks of water," one section says. "If the smuggler decides to walk beyond the park, you will travel on paths where there is no Border Patrol but in places where military exercises are conducted."
Guzmán said the descriptions are meant to help migrants realize when smugglers are leading them into danger.
Four pages are devoted to migrants' rights while detained by U.S. authorities. The guide tells them they only must give their names to officials, advises them to sign nothing without speaking to a lawyer or consular official and recommends they contact their local consulate for help in getting refunds for unused plane tickets.
The rest of the book is devoted to life in the United States: how to send money home, where to find health care, differences in U.S. and Mexican laws and driving tips.
The book urges migrants to seek free English classes. It also tells them how to apply for documents that will allow them to enroll in U.S. grade schools, a sore point for some U.S. school districts.
"There is an agreement between the governments of Mexico and the United States so that, no matter your migration status, you can study in elementary, secondary and preparatory schools," it says. "Don't stop studying; there is always an option."
The DVD repeats much of the same information using voice-overs, but it includes more photos and graphics.
The book ends with an invitation to return home: "Don't forget that Yucatán is your homeland and that in your homeland we will always receive you with open arms and with the respect you deserve."
Now just what the hell is THAT? "..the respect you deserve.."?
They come here illegally...work illegally...take complete advantage of our infrastructure - hospitals...schools...fire and police...welfare... - and most of them do not pay taxes...and we are supposed to dish out respect for all of that??
Get this:
....the amount of money migrants sent back to Yucatán doubled in 2001-04 to about $9 million. On Dec. 28, the government held its first Day of the Yucatecan Migrant ceremony to honor expatriates....
I have HAD IT!
I am heading to D.C. at the end of April and I am going to help lobby for REAL immigration legislation...
DR
National Drive for Immigration Reform
Speaking of KFYI, morning host Bruce Jacobs will head to Washington DC in April, joining talk show hosts and interested listeners from around the nation to lobby our elected officials on Capitol Hill demanding Immigration reform now.
The other talk show hosts who are committed to travel to D.C. with their listeners:
John & Ken - KFI, Los Angeles
Melanie Morgan - KSFO, San Francisco
Lars Larson - Westwood One, Portland, Oregon
Mark Williams - KFBK, Sacramento
Bruce Jacobs - KFYI, Phoenix
Martha Zoller - WDUN, Gainesville, Georgia
The lobbying and other activities will take place April 23-28, 2005. Details are listed on the KFYI link above if you are interested in joining them...
DR
The other talk show hosts who are committed to travel to D.C. with their listeners:
John & Ken - KFI, Los Angeles
Melanie Morgan - KSFO, San Francisco
Lars Larson - Westwood One, Portland, Oregon
Mark Williams - KFBK, Sacramento
Bruce Jacobs - KFYI, Phoenix
Martha Zoller - WDUN, Gainesville, Georgia
The lobbying and other activities will take place April 23-28, 2005. Details are listed on the KFYI link above if you are interested in joining them...
DR
Teachers: No More Red Ink - Purple Carries Red's Authority but Blue's Serenity
So, how far are liberals going to carry this 'blue thing' after losing the election??
First it was the blue states...then it was the blue wristbands...now liberals are bringing blue ink into the mix??
The Arizona Republic reports that teachers, in order to spare kids feelings, are using purple ink to correct papers...
Hey! if you got it wrong...it is WRONG...so go home and study and try again!
"Red is just so bold. It's kind of an angry color," says Meghan Dorsett, who teaches sixth-grade language arts and eighth-grade math at Skyline Junior High School in Peoria.
WTF!
Some of the other comments from educators:
Purple calls attention, but it doesn't scream at kids....
Purple is more fun. It doesn't have the same negative connotations as red....
If you get back a paper with a lot of red on it, you know you got a bad grade....
So...purple isn't a bad grade...purple is...what?
This is ridiculous...how are our children going to be prepared for a reality-based world? Political correctness at this level is taking the everybody-is-equal-let's-not-upset-anyone-by-singling-out-poor-performers-or-GOOD-performers...
This goes hand in hand with the schools that refused to have a class valedictorian because 'all the other students would feel bad'...what about the kid that did good?
Unbelievable...inconceivable...
DR
Hat tip: Ken Voight at KFYI
First it was the blue states...then it was the blue wristbands...now liberals are bringing blue ink into the mix??
The Arizona Republic reports that teachers, in order to spare kids feelings, are using purple ink to correct papers...
Hey! if you got it wrong...it is WRONG...so go home and study and try again!
"Red is just so bold. It's kind of an angry color," says Meghan Dorsett, who teaches sixth-grade language arts and eighth-grade math at Skyline Junior High School in Peoria.
WTF!
Some of the other comments from educators:
Purple calls attention, but it doesn't scream at kids....
Purple is more fun. It doesn't have the same negative connotations as red....
If you get back a paper with a lot of red on it, you know you got a bad grade....
So...purple isn't a bad grade...purple is...what?
This is ridiculous...how are our children going to be prepared for a reality-based world? Political correctness at this level is taking the everybody-is-equal-let's-not-upset-anyone-by-singling-out-poor-performers-or-GOOD-performers...
This goes hand in hand with the schools that refused to have a class valedictorian because 'all the other students would feel bad'...what about the kid that did good?
Unbelievable...inconceivable...
DR
Hat tip: Ken Voight at KFYI
Ward Churchill and Liberal Faculty at CU: Supporting the Constitution a Throwback to McCarthyism
The RockyMountainNews reports that Ward Churchill signed an oath on Friday to support the constitutions of the United States and Colorado, ending a controversy that has been simmering for a week.
The oath has been a condition of employment in Colorado colleges and public schools for decades.
But the oath was not attached to copies distributed to the news media of the contract Churchill signed when he became a tenured faculty member in 1991.
CU officials have been looking for the oath in at least five campus offices where documents are filed.
Churchill ended the matter Friday by signing a new oath, university spokesman Ray Gomez said.
Churchill could not be reached for comment.
The loyalty oath has been a sore point among liberal faculty members at CU. They view it as a relic of the McCarthy era, when several left-leaning professors were hounded by the legislature.
The oath was upheld in federal court, said Deputy Attorney General Renny Fagan.
DR
The oath has been a condition of employment in Colorado colleges and public schools for decades.
But the oath was not attached to copies distributed to the news media of the contract Churchill signed when he became a tenured faculty member in 1991.
CU officials have been looking for the oath in at least five campus offices where documents are filed.
Churchill ended the matter Friday by signing a new oath, university spokesman Ray Gomez said.
Churchill could not be reached for comment.
The loyalty oath has been a sore point among liberal faculty members at CU. They view it as a relic of the McCarthy era, when several left-leaning professors were hounded by the legislature.
The oath was upheld in federal court, said Deputy Attorney General Renny Fagan.
DR
2/18/2005
U.N. Infiltrated by Organized Pedophiles?
Michelle Malkin thinks so...
Last Friday, ABC's "20/20" program aired a devastating expose by investigative reporter Brian Ross highlighting some of the worst alleged crimes.
The accused include Didier Bourguet, a U.N. senior official from France charged with running an Internet pedophile ring in the Congo. According to ABC News and others, pictures taken from his personal computer contained thousands of photos of him with hundreds of girls. Police say Mr. Bourguet had turned his bedroom, plastered with mirrors and rigged with remote-control cameras, into a stealth porn studio. He was caught in a sting operation while allegedly preparing to rape a 12-year-old girl....
...Mr. Annan's spinners would have us believe that the problem of U.N. sex predators is confined to a tiny band of rogues and locals beyond the control of headquarters. But according to Mr. Bourguet's lawyer, there was an entire network of U.N. personnel who had sex with underage girls in Congo and the Central African Republic. Investigators are now digging into claims of U.N. infiltration by organized pedophiles....
What is it going to take to get this situation under control?
DR
Last Friday, ABC's "20/20" program aired a devastating expose by investigative reporter Brian Ross highlighting some of the worst alleged crimes.
The accused include Didier Bourguet, a U.N. senior official from France charged with running an Internet pedophile ring in the Congo. According to ABC News and others, pictures taken from his personal computer contained thousands of photos of him with hundreds of girls. Police say Mr. Bourguet had turned his bedroom, plastered with mirrors and rigged with remote-control cameras, into a stealth porn studio. He was caught in a sting operation while allegedly preparing to rape a 12-year-old girl....
...Mr. Annan's spinners would have us believe that the problem of U.N. sex predators is confined to a tiny band of rogues and locals beyond the control of headquarters. But according to Mr. Bourguet's lawyer, there was an entire network of U.N. personnel who had sex with underage girls in Congo and the Central African Republic. Investigators are now digging into claims of U.N. infiltration by organized pedophiles....
What is it going to take to get this situation under control?
DR
2/17/2005
Professor: You Are Too Conservative - Get Psychological Counseling or I Will Pull Your Visa
yep - you heard what I said....
A 17-year-old Kuwaiti Arab Muslim writes a very moving essay on his history:
I was three years of age when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. My parents still remember what it was like for us during the invasion. Waiting for long hours in line for a few pieces of bread. We had darkness 24 hours a day from the burning oil wells. My two uncles are still traumatized from being kidnapped and tortured in Iraqi prisons. Most of all we remember our one-week-old baby cousin who died while the Iraqi invaders were stealing incubators from hospitals to sell them for profit. The Americans by contrast came in to liberate us and asked for nothing in return. I love this country for the freedom it provides and for rescuing Kuwait’s liberty in the first Gulf War. 12 Years later, America once again has selflessly protected my country and my people by removing Saddam Hussein.
So, you say - what is the problem? He and his family are safely living in the U.S. and all is well...
HA!
Read on...read about the terrorism this student has had to face here in America:
I arrived in the United States for the first time 5 months ago with tremendous enthusiasm to study the political institutions and history of this extraordinary country.
I enrolled in Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California and immediately registered for “Introduction to American Government and Politics." I was shocked by my Professor’s singularly one-sided presentation. Week after week, I encountered a lack of intellectual and political diversity that I would have more commonly expected to have heard on the streets of pre-liberation Iraq. In this particular class I heard only one consistent refrain: America is bad.
A week before thanksgiving Professor Woolcock assigned us a take home final exam. The final exam consisted solely of one required essay: “Dye and Zeigler contend that the Constitution of the United States was not ‘ordained and established’ by ‘the people’ as we have so often been led to believe. They contend instead that it was written by a small educated and wealthy elite in America who were representative of powerful economic and political interests. Analyze the US constitution (original document), and show how its formulation excluded the majority of the people living in America at that time, and how it was dominated by America's elite interest.”
This student...this emigree resisted this definition of America:
When I read the assignment I remembered back to my high school in Kuwait. Many of my teachers were Palestinian; they hated America, they hated my worldview, and they did their best to brainwash me. I did not leave my country and my family to come to the United States to receive further brainwashing. I disagreed completely with Dye and Zeigler’s thesis. I wrote an essay defending America’s Founding Fathers and upholding the US constitution as a pioneering document, which has contributed to extraordinary freedoms in America and other corners of the world - including my corner, the Middle East.
Eventually he wrote a very pro-America essay...turned it in...and was shocked by the professor's reaction:
Professor Woolcock didn’t grade my essay. Instead he told me to come to see him in his office the following morning. I was surprised the next morning when instead of giving me a grade, Professor Woolcock verbally attacked me and my essay. He told me, “Your views are irrational.” He called me naïve for believing in the greatness of this country, and told me "America is not God's gift to the world." Then he upped the stakes and said "You need regular psychotherapy." Apparently, if you are an Arab Muslim who loves America you must be deranged. Professor Woolcock went as far as to threaten me by stating that he would visit the Dean of International Admissions (who has the power to take away student visas) to make sure I received regular psychological treatment.
This very brave young man resisted the brain-washing that our young people are currently being exposed to day after day on our university campuses...he writes further:
I have since learned that mine is not an isolated case. Many students in American universities are being indoctrinated and silenced by biased professors who hate America. America saved my life and the lives of my family. How can I not speak out?
This is not an isolated incident...these same themes can be found in the current curriculum on the campsus of William and Mary College, Truman State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, just to name a few...
I am quoting from a FrontPage article that was posted January 6, 2005...and from a post from Redford Outpost that I didn't discover until today...but it was Hannity and Colmes that first brought my attention to this disgraceful man that calls himself a 'professor' over at Foothill College in California....
DR
A 17-year-old Kuwaiti Arab Muslim writes a very moving essay on his history:
I was three years of age when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. My parents still remember what it was like for us during the invasion. Waiting for long hours in line for a few pieces of bread. We had darkness 24 hours a day from the burning oil wells. My two uncles are still traumatized from being kidnapped and tortured in Iraqi prisons. Most of all we remember our one-week-old baby cousin who died while the Iraqi invaders were stealing incubators from hospitals to sell them for profit. The Americans by contrast came in to liberate us and asked for nothing in return. I love this country for the freedom it provides and for rescuing Kuwait’s liberty in the first Gulf War. 12 Years later, America once again has selflessly protected my country and my people by removing Saddam Hussein.
So, you say - what is the problem? He and his family are safely living in the U.S. and all is well...
HA!
Read on...read about the terrorism this student has had to face here in America:
I arrived in the United States for the first time 5 months ago with tremendous enthusiasm to study the political institutions and history of this extraordinary country.
I enrolled in Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California and immediately registered for “Introduction to American Government and Politics." I was shocked by my Professor’s singularly one-sided presentation. Week after week, I encountered a lack of intellectual and political diversity that I would have more commonly expected to have heard on the streets of pre-liberation Iraq. In this particular class I heard only one consistent refrain: America is bad.
A week before thanksgiving Professor Woolcock assigned us a take home final exam. The final exam consisted solely of one required essay: “Dye and Zeigler contend that the Constitution of the United States was not ‘ordained and established’ by ‘the people’ as we have so often been led to believe. They contend instead that it was written by a small educated and wealthy elite in America who were representative of powerful economic and political interests. Analyze the US constitution (original document), and show how its formulation excluded the majority of the people living in America at that time, and how it was dominated by America's elite interest.”
This student...this emigree resisted this definition of America:
When I read the assignment I remembered back to my high school in Kuwait. Many of my teachers were Palestinian; they hated America, they hated my worldview, and they did their best to brainwash me. I did not leave my country and my family to come to the United States to receive further brainwashing. I disagreed completely with Dye and Zeigler’s thesis. I wrote an essay defending America’s Founding Fathers and upholding the US constitution as a pioneering document, which has contributed to extraordinary freedoms in America and other corners of the world - including my corner, the Middle East.
Eventually he wrote a very pro-America essay...turned it in...and was shocked by the professor's reaction:
Professor Woolcock didn’t grade my essay. Instead he told me to come to see him in his office the following morning. I was surprised the next morning when instead of giving me a grade, Professor Woolcock verbally attacked me and my essay. He told me, “Your views are irrational.” He called me naïve for believing in the greatness of this country, and told me "America is not God's gift to the world." Then he upped the stakes and said "You need regular psychotherapy." Apparently, if you are an Arab Muslim who loves America you must be deranged. Professor Woolcock went as far as to threaten me by stating that he would visit the Dean of International Admissions (who has the power to take away student visas) to make sure I received regular psychological treatment.
This very brave young man resisted the brain-washing that our young people are currently being exposed to day after day on our university campuses...he writes further:
I have since learned that mine is not an isolated case. Many students in American universities are being indoctrinated and silenced by biased professors who hate America. America saved my life and the lives of my family. How can I not speak out?
This is not an isolated incident...these same themes can be found in the current curriculum on the campsus of William and Mary College, Truman State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, just to name a few...
I am quoting from a FrontPage article that was posted January 6, 2005...and from a post from Redford Outpost that I didn't discover until today...but it was Hannity and Colmes that first brought my attention to this disgraceful man that calls himself a 'professor' over at Foothill College in California....
DR
Syria and Iran - Shotgun Wedding...?
This One Falls Under The Category: "Be Careful What You Wish For..."
DR
Quote of the Day
"This woman has gotten a very bad rap, Hillary Clinton. It is true that she's smart. She didn't go to school just to eat her lunch."
--Dan Rather during 1992 election coverage....
Hat tip: RatherBiased.com
DR
--Dan Rather during 1992 election coverage....
Hat tip: RatherBiased.com
DR
Zarqawi duo under arrest: Iraqis
Iraqi security forces have captured two suspected members of a militant group headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, the Iraqi Government said today.
Brothers Hutheyfa and Mohammed Abdul-Jabbar were picked up on February 12 in Baghdad, based on intelligence extracted from other suspected insurgents under interrogation.
"It's clear from information and evidence gathered from the raid that Hutheyfa is a member of al-Qaeda," the Government said.
Iraqi security forces have rounded up scores of suspected guerrillas in recent weeks.
Some of the boldest and bloodiest insurgent attacks have been claimed by the group led by the Jordanian Zarqawi.
....slowly...ever so slowly...the noose is getting tighter...
DR
Brothers Hutheyfa and Mohammed Abdul-Jabbar were picked up on February 12 in Baghdad, based on intelligence extracted from other suspected insurgents under interrogation.
"It's clear from information and evidence gathered from the raid that Hutheyfa is a member of al-Qaeda," the Government said.
Iraqi security forces have rounded up scores of suspected guerrillas in recent weeks.
Some of the boldest and bloodiest insurgent attacks have been claimed by the group led by the Jordanian Zarqawi.
....slowly...ever so slowly...the noose is getting tighter...
DR
And Now...Churchill's Leap to a Tenured Position is Under the Microscope
The Rocky Mountain News is reporting there might be some discrepancies where Churchill's tenure is concerned:
Churchill had been working for more than a decade in a program that helps minority students when then-Vice Chancellor Kaye Howe recommended him for a one-semester appointment teaching Indian studies.
Eleven months later, Churchill leaped to a coveted tenured position.
"This just doesn't compute for me," Howe said Wednesday of Churchill's quick rise to tenure. "I don't understand that."
Tenure is usually granted only after a "laborious" process, she said.
A discussion point at that time was over the fact that Churchill didn't have a doctorate...
"I'm sure that what I was thinking was that Ward, with his involvement in scholarship in Native American areas was one of those people who should probably . . . be given the opportunity to demonstrate that he might have the credentials to be a successful faculty person."
But, Howe said, she wasn't talking about tenure when she recommended Churchill for a job.
"It was for one term. Why not give somebody an opportunity when it looks like they have been very active in scholarship?" she said.
Curiouser and curiouser...
DR
Churchill had been working for more than a decade in a program that helps minority students when then-Vice Chancellor Kaye Howe recommended him for a one-semester appointment teaching Indian studies.
Eleven months later, Churchill leaped to a coveted tenured position.
"This just doesn't compute for me," Howe said Wednesday of Churchill's quick rise to tenure. "I don't understand that."
Tenure is usually granted only after a "laborious" process, she said.
A discussion point at that time was over the fact that Churchill didn't have a doctorate...
"I'm sure that what I was thinking was that Ward, with his involvement in scholarship in Native American areas was one of those people who should probably . . . be given the opportunity to demonstrate that he might have the credentials to be a successful faculty person."
But, Howe said, she wasn't talking about tenure when she recommended Churchill for a job.
"It was for one term. Why not give somebody an opportunity when it looks like they have been very active in scholarship?" she said.
Curiouser and curiouser...
DR
Ward Churchill, Threats and Violence Against Colleagues
It is all documented...all of it...
In January 2003 this article was posted at FrontPage: Dr. Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado – Boulder, a man who pretends to be a "radical Indian activist" and who physically attacked and broke Mrs. Carol Standing Elk’s wrist after she exposed him as a fraud to the Native American community
Over at Students for Academic Freedom: Churchill has not shrunk from violence himself, having participated in an attack that left a one Carol Standing Elk with a broken wrist, spitting on the elderly Indian woman. The attack was in retaliation after for the pivotal role Standing Elk played in expelling Churchill from AIM in 1993 for “misdirecting, disrupting, and sowing division in order to discredit and neutralize the leadership of the American Indian Movement.”
The Denver Post quotes Churchill's attorney, David Lane, about a report that Churchill's wife first attacked the elderly Carol Standing Elk and after she fell down Churchill spit on her: "Maybe she needed to be physically attacked," he said. "Maybe his wife acted in self-defense. Maybe she needed to be spit on."
The Post is also reporting that Churchill, when wanting to give a dorm an Indian name, threatened another colleague with harm: "He suggested I should back off my proposal and if I didn't, I would get hurt," Arnold said after she was contacted by The Denver Post. "I was shocked, and that's why my dean heard about it."
hmmmm...this is getting really interesting......
DR
In January 2003 this article was posted at FrontPage: Dr. Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado – Boulder, a man who pretends to be a "radical Indian activist" and who physically attacked and broke Mrs. Carol Standing Elk’s wrist after she exposed him as a fraud to the Native American community
Over at Students for Academic Freedom: Churchill has not shrunk from violence himself, having participated in an attack that left a one Carol Standing Elk with a broken wrist, spitting on the elderly Indian woman. The attack was in retaliation after for the pivotal role Standing Elk played in expelling Churchill from AIM in 1993 for “misdirecting, disrupting, and sowing division in order to discredit and neutralize the leadership of the American Indian Movement.”
The Denver Post quotes Churchill's attorney, David Lane, about a report that Churchill's wife first attacked the elderly Carol Standing Elk and after she fell down Churchill spit on her: "Maybe she needed to be physically attacked," he said. "Maybe his wife acted in self-defense. Maybe she needed to be spit on."
The Post is also reporting that Churchill, when wanting to give a dorm an Indian name, threatened another colleague with harm: "He suggested I should back off my proposal and if I didn't, I would get hurt," Arnold said after she was contacted by The Denver Post. "I was shocked, and that's why my dean heard about it."
hmmmm...this is getting really interesting......
DR
Greenspan Supports Social Security Reform
Hat tip: Sacred Cow Burgers
Don't know if you caught it or not, but Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan "endorsed President Bush's idea of private Social Security accounts, saying the current system isn't set up to handle the approaching retirement of baby boomers."
WHOA! What?
You mean to tell me those libs have the Fed Reserve Chairman to add to the list of people they have to combat on this issue? They already are having to backtrack, sidestep and outright lie when confronted with their OWN position on this topic not so long ago...
I was LOL watching it...you could almost hear the gasps in the room as Greenspan spoke...
...mind you, Greenspan wasn't giddy or anything like that - in fact, he was urging caution as we move forward with this, but he was practically putting his Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval on it: "If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way"
Liberals tried their damndest to interpret what he said as a negative on changing the Social Security structure: "It seems to me that what you're saying here is that moving to the system that's outlined, that the president may propose, is risky," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "It's risky because we don't know what the markets ... will do if they see it, and at the same time, it does not increase overall net savings in and of itself."
Nope. That's not what he said at all.
Greenspan went on: "I've always supported moves to full funding in the context of a private account," Mr. Greenspan said. "We've got a problem in that the existing pay-as-you-go system is not working, and we've got to change it."
Looking toward future challenges, Mr. Greenspan urged Congress to act in the near future to shore up Social Security and Medicare for the baby boomers, though he didn't cite specific solutions.
"Real progress on these issues will unavoidably entail many difficult choices. But the demographics are inexorable and call for action before the leading edge of baby boomer retirement becomes evident in 2008," he said.
DR
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