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Saturday, August 27
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WorldNetDaily has several stories that demonstrate that the madness coming out of Crawford, Texas, courtesy of raving leftist Cindy Sheehan is spreading: - A Mom vs. Mom grapplefest? The mother of a Marine serving in Iraq - Deborah Johns, the leader of Move America Forward's "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" Tour - is challenging Cindy Sheehan to a 1-on-1 session.
- White supremacists claim Cindy's cause: The latest entrants in the saga of Cindy Sheehan vs. the White House are white supremacists. Members of Stormfront.org (friends of David Duke) are tossing their figurative hoods into the mix, as they invite supporters to come to Camp Casey to "let the world know that white patriots were first and loudest to protest this war for Israel." While this is going on, the Rev. Al Sharpton will be holding a prayer vigil there tomorrow.
- Along with Neo-Nazis, it seems that a thousand angels are also backing Cindy Sheehan and her cause. Does that mean she believes God is on her side? If this was a conservative, the media would be going nuts. The more Sheehan talks the more unhinged she looks. From WND: "Casey in heaven 'calls Bush idiot' - Cindy quotes slain son in afterlife, says 'tens of thousands of angels' back her".
More and more war families are coming out against Sheehan. Many groups are also joining the fray: Free Republic's The Heart of Texas Chapter planned to return to Crawford today and Protest Warrior has sanctioned Operation Word to Your Mother.
Posted - 8/27/2005 01:26:47 PM - Permalink | |
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Friday, August 26
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Lee Kaplan uncovers the Crawford House of Hate, i.e. terrorist radicals that liked the anti-Israel, anti-US tripe running out of Sheehan's mouth and have therefore allied themselves with her. Additional commentary on this can be found at El Rushbo.
Posted - 8/26/2005 07:02:47 PM - Permalink | |
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ProEnglish, an English advocacy group has issued a press release that denounces a new bilingual principal rule that is being implemented in Dallas. The rule would required principals the speak Spanish in half the students are Hispanic. DMN: "DISD trustee Joe May says principals should be able to speak Spanish if they head a school where a majority of students are struggling to learn English." ProEnglish responds: "The trustees who support this rule have their priorities upside down," said K.C. McAlpin, the executive director of ProEnglish, a national organization that advocates for making English the official language.
"If the Dallas schools are failing in their responsibility to teach school children to speak English because they continue putting them in bilingual classrooms, the school board should address that failure rather than accommodate it by forcing school administrators to learn the students' language," McAlpin said.
McAlpin noted that Census data shows that immigrants who speak English well earn over twice as much on average as those who don't. "Instead of catering to the language needs of recent immigrants, we should stress their responsibility to learn the language of their adopted country," he said. Dallas Morning News has a bunch of articles on this.
Posted - 8/26/2005 06:03:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Some stuff on Intelligent Design and Darwinism: Also be sure to check out William Dembski's blog Uncommon Descent.
Posted - 8/26/2005 01:21:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Richard Baehr , at The American Thinker, addresses "More Krugman lies: the Great Unraveling continues."
Posted - 8/26/2005 12:54:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Thursday, August 25
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From KOMO TV in Seattle - "Two soldiers, who just returned from active duty in Iraq, were horribly beaten outside a bar in Seattle and someone with a video camera captured the entire incident." From what I can tell, there was an altercation that began after one of the suspects touched a woman inappropriately. Although the anti-war, anti-US kooks have been gaining a high profile lately, this incident doesn't seem to have anything to do with the fact that these guys were soldiers who just returned from Iraq. CBS ran this in their Caught on Tape feature, more can be read here.
Posted - 8/25/2005 08:56:14 PM - Permalink | |
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USAToday - 2 authors of a recent report, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, which concluded that fetuses probably don't feel pain until around the seventh month of pregnancy have been accused of bias, slanting their findings.
Posted - 8/25/2005 02:17:07 PM - Permalink | |
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Two stories -- first, from CNSNews, anti-war protestors have targeted wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital, a video report by Marc Morano can be seen here. Two of the groups involved in organizing these protests, "Veterans For Peace" and "Code Pink", are anti-US allies of Cindy Sheehan, which leads directly into... A second item - the Washington Times is reporting on Military families who have been removing crosses from what is now called "Camp Casey" that bear the names of their fallen children, transfering them to another site to show support for American troops in Iraq. The names were usurped, with no permission what-so-ever, for a cause which the fallen soldiers and their families do not support. There is a huge ground-swell of opposition building against Sheehan and her allies: Anti-war protesters "never asked for my permission to put up a cross for my son for their cause," said Gary Qualls, whose son was killed in Iraq. "They are not respecting our sons and daughters."
The rival cross camps are evidence of a growing public backlash against the anti-war campaign of California activist Cindy Sheehan, who blames Mr. Bush for son Casey's death in Iraq and has called for immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gregg Garvey's son, Army Sgt. Justin Garvey, 23, was killed in Iraq in July 2003. On Tuesday, Mr. Garvey of Keystone Heights, Fla., removed two crosses bearing the name of his son that were posted at the Sheehan demonstration site -- dubbed "Camp Casey" -- outside the Bush ranch.
"I also picked up crosses of two colleagues [of his son], after their parents gave me permission to remove their crosses as well," Mr. Garvey said yesterday.
The crosses were erected by a group called Veterans for Peace as part of Mrs. Sheehan's protest that began Aug. 6.
"One by one, [Mrs. Sheehan's] crosses are coming down," said Mr. Qualls, whose son, Louis Qualls, 20, was a Marine reservist killed in Fallujah last fall.
Mr. Qualls, an Army veteran from Penwell, Texas, said he has removed three different crosses bearing his son's name from the nearly 600 erected on the narrow road leading to Mr. Bush's ranch. Each time he removed a cross, protesters replaced it, he said.
Last weekend, Mr. Qualls transferred the crosses to a site in downtown Crawford that's been nicknamed "Fort Qualls." Mr. Garvey moved his son's crosses there as well. By yesterday afternoon, friends and relatives of 13 other fallen soldiers had followed suit.
"More are on the way," Mr. Qualls said, based on the number of e-mails, letters and phone calls of support he has received.
Also, starting today, about 500 yard signs that say "Support Our Troops" and "Bush Country" will be placed on property directly across from Camp Casey by a group called GrassFire.org.
"We will also unfurl a huge American flag" to fly at the site, which is being called "Camp Reality," said Steve Elliott, president of GrassFire.org. He said his group has collected 400,000 petitions supporting both Mr. Bush and U.S. troops. Hat Tip: Ankle Biting Pundits
Posted - 8/25/2005 01:50:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, August 24
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Most Arab viewers find US-funded news broadcasts credible, reports the Middle East Times: Three-in-four Arabs who watch or listen to US-government funded Al Hurra television and Radio Sawa find their news content reliable, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
The two Arab-language networks have also gained viewers and listeners, according to the survey by ACNielsen released by the Middle East Broadcasting Networks Inc., which operates Radio Sawa and Al Hurra. MBN is funded by the US government.
In nine countries where people were surveyed, Al Hurra, a satellite station, has a weekly audience of 21.3 million people per week. Radio Sawa has a weekly audience of 20.8 million adults. This was also mentioned on Brit Hume's Political Grapevine: U.S. sponsored broadcast networks set up to counter anti-U.S. propaganda in Arab media are apparently making substantial headway in the Middle East. A new survey by ACNielsen in nine Middle East countries shows that each week, in those countries alone, 21.3 million people watch TV news network Al-Hurra. And 20.8 million tune in to Radio Sawa, which carries a combo of music and news.
What's more, the vast majority of those polled said they consider news by the U.S. funded broadcasters reliable. In fact, in Egypt 92 percent now say Al-Hurra is credible, up from 70 percent last year. In Lebanon, 79 percent say it's credible, up from 53 percent, and in Jordan 68 percent agree, up from 46 percent. A PR Newswire release is here.
Posted - 8/24/2005 09:22:25 PM - Permalink | |
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Sunday, August 21
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Via Rob at Say Anything, a Salt Lake City, Utah TV Station, ABC affiliate KTVX, has refused to run Cindy Sheehan's anti-Bush ad.
Posted - 8/21/2005 03:32:20 PM - Permalink | |
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Friday, August 19
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The front of the shirt reads: "Jesus said, 'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.'" The back of the shirt contains the statements: " Homosexuality is sin. Islam is a lie. Abortion is murder", reports News from Agape Press: A federal judge has told an Ohio school district it can no longer bar a middle school student from wearing a t-shirt with a Christian message.
Judge George Smith has ruled that Sheridan Middle School in Thornville violated the constitutional rights of student James Nixon by prohibiting him from wearing a t-shirt bearing a quote from the Bible verse John 14:6. The front of the shirt reads: "Jesus said, 'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.'" The back of the shirt contains the statements: "Homosexuality is sin. Islam is a lie. Abortion is murder."
Posted - 8/19/2005 07:04:38 PM - Permalink | |
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UK's Guardian: Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world, Russian pair challenge UK expert over global warming.
Posted - 8/19/2005 03:09:18 PM - Permalink | |
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Thursday, August 18
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Via Stephen Spruiell - Confirm Them reports on an AP hit piece about John Roberts' boyhood home which "once banned the sale of homes to nonwhites and Jews". They forgot to mention Roberts' elementary and high school, which was once (most likely) racially segregated - barring the doors to blacks (like most schools in this coutry at the time).
Posted - 8/18/2005 08:17:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Angry in the Great White North posts about anti-war protestors -- i.e. Cindy Sheehan and company -- usurping or stealing if you will the names of soldiers who have fallen in Iraq. AitGWN writes about Robert duSang, whose name appeared on a cross in Crawford: Do you think Robert duSang wants his name on one of Cindy Sheehan's crosses? Do you think his family does?
Robert L. duSang served his country well. His family are heartbroken over his loss, and little Kimberly has lost her father, but they are moving on, as all people do. That Cindy Sheehan, who epitomizes self-indulgent suffering, who has made her problems with accepting the decisions made by her adult son and the consequences of his decisions into a political movement, would take the name of Robert L. duSang and scrawl it on a paper crucifix with which to decorate her political altar makes me angry. For the first time, I'm actually angry. And from today's Rush Limbaugh show: CNN -- on their morning show, Miles O'Brien, talked to Debbie Argel Bastian. Her son, Captain Derek Argel, died in Iraq. The question was, "What concerns did you have when you heard that your son's name was on one of those crosses -- not down in Crawford, a different location, but similar kind of thing. What were your concerns about that?"
MOTHER BASTIAN: My son Derek fully believed that everyone has the right to protest and express their opinion, but our family very much objects to the fact that, you know, after my son's death that his name be used in this way. He would never have participated in any sort of an anti-war protest, and it's our understanding that there is a name on a across in Crawford, Texas, as well. It came up on a website. My son was very much in favor of President Bush and the Bush administration and had great respect for him as commander-in-chief. Derek was a special escort for Mrs. Bush when she made her trip to Iraq and Afghanistan and for the president and for the US ambassador to Iraq, and it's just inappropriate not to ask the families.
Posted - 8/18/2005 06:45:20 PM - Permalink | |
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Pat Buchanan: Why is no leader in the Democratic Party giving voice to the antiwar cause with the perseverance and passion of Cindy Sheehan? Why are they all hiding in the tall grass, or making statements about how they support the war and the troops, but just disagree with how Bush has managed it. If polls are to be believed, half the nation now agrees with Cindy Sheehan. In related news, Stephen Spruiell, on his Media Blog, investigates Sheehan's claim that she never said her son died for Israel. She of course did say it, or at least wrote it, and David Duke took notice. Chris Hitchens took Sheehan apart last night on H ardball for lying.
Posted - 8/18/2005 05:32:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, August 17
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Dallas Morning News: Four out of every 10 Mexican adults would migrate to the U.S. if they had the means and opportunity to do so, according to a poll released Tuesday.
And two in 10 Mexican adults say they'd be willing to live and work illegally in the U.S., the Pew Hispanic Center reported in what is thought to be the first snapshot by U.S. pollsters of Mexicans' views on migration.
With about one in every eight Mexican adults already living in the U.S. – and 40 percent of the nation's nearly 70 million adults willing to migrate if the opportunity presents itself – the findings could hold implications for U.S. policy-makers. Read the Full report at the Pew Hispanic Center. In related news, Citing a surge of smuggling and violence along the border, the governors of New Mexico and Arizona have declared thier border areas States of Emergency.
Posted - 8/17/2005 05:39:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Featured in GI Special 3A65 February 28, 2005 - Darell Ankarlo, Scum In Human Form By Cindy Sheehan: Darell Ankarlo, Scum In Human Form:
Shit-Mouthed Piece Of Trash Pisses On Families Of Soldiers Killed In Iraq: Lies About Memorial To The War Dead ..... Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn't it? UPDATE- This just in from Drudge: "We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"
So declared Cindy Sheehan earlier this year during a rally at San Francisco State University.
Sheehan, who is demanding a second meeting with Bush, stated: "We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now."
Sheehan unleashed a foul-mouth tirade on April 27, 2005:
"They’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up..." Sheehan said of the Bush administration.
"If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullshit, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?"
"The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war."
"We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog shit in Washington, we will impeach all those people." Quite the " soft-spoken woman" - more like a potty-mouthed-hate-filled woman.
Posted - 8/17/2005 05:25:00 PM - Permalink | |
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First, it looks like Curt Weldon might be vindicated. The New York Times run a story about Able Danger team member Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer who tried to the point of insubordination to raise the alarm about Atta. NRO's Jim Geraghty has updates on this and links/highlights to Col. Shaffer's interviews. Second, Deborah Orin at the New York Post, writes about a memo U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White wrote, in which, "she pleaded in vain with Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick to tear down the wall between intelligence and prosecutors, a wall that went beyond legal requirements." Orin had recently written another article that mentioned Mary Jo White. Last, Judicial Watch has received some 1996 State Department documents though the Freedom of Information Act after four years of trying. The documents prove the threat posed by Osama bin Laden was fully known to the Clinton administration - and really reflect badly on Clinton just two days after he bragged that he always thought Osama was a bigger threat than Bush and would have taken him out too, only if...... Related: NY Times - State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996 FoxNews - Documents Show State Department Warned Clinton About Bin Laden NewsMax - Albright: I Don't Know Why Clinton Turned Down Bin Laden Deal
Posted - 8/17/2005 03:01:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Monday, August 15
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Christopher Hitchens at Slate - Cindy Sheehan's Sinister Piffle - What's wrong with her Crawford protest.
Posted - 8/15/2005 05:56:42 PM - Permalink | |
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Saturday, August 13
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WaPo:Suspected Chemical Weapons Plant Uncovered in Mosul. Military Believes Insurgents Intended to Use Dangerous Agents Against U.S., Iraqi Forces.
Posted - 8/13/2005 08:09:53 PM - Permalink | |
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Christians 4 America: Christian Group asks Congress to Investigate ACLU for Frivolous, Dangerous Lawsuits.
Posted - 8/13/2005 09:01:07 AM - Permalink | |
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Friday, August 12
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John Podhoretz at The Corner on National Review Online.
Posted - 8/12/2005 04:33:23 AM - Permalink | |
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Drudge: "The family of American soldier Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, has broken its silence and spoken out against his mother Cindy Sheehan's anti-war vigil against George Bush held outside the president's Crawford, Texas ranch."
Posted - 8/12/2005 04:24:30 AM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, August 10
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At his blog Uncommon Descent, William Dembski responds to Steven Pinker's condescending piece in Time magazine about Intelligent Design. UPDATE (Sat. 8/13 8:45am) - Dangerous Liberty notes that the Intelligent Design debate, which has received more MSM play lately thanks to President Bush's comments, has set the Blogosphere (not to mention the world of traditional punditry - opinion columns and editorial pages) on fire. A Technorati search for "Intelligent Design" yields over 20,000 posts. These post span the spectrum. DL Blog writes, "you'll see entry after entry, ranging from arrogant sneering to maternal clucking. The high majority of posts are critics of ID, a smatter defend ID and even smaller number do so with logical rigor."
Posted - 8/10/2005 10:11:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Via El Rushbo, CNN reports: September 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers were identified by defense intelligence officials more than a year before the attacks, but information about possible al Qaeda connections never was sent to law enforcement, Rep. Curt Weldon said Tuesday. More at Just One Minute, Tin Ear, TKS. Ace of Spades posts about data mining identifying these guys, pointing to a Kausfiles post: Poindexter's Revenge - The case for 'data-mining' just got stronger.
Posted - 8/10/2005 07:50:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Two new sites to check out: the Media Research Center's new blog NewsBusters and Power Line's new news page, fittingly called Power Line News.
Posted - 8/10/2005 07:41:58 PM - Permalink | |
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Tuesday, August 9
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DRUDGE REPORT has the details and a link to a Factcheck.org report that debunks NARAL's charges about Roberts.
Posted - 8/09/2005 07:36:40 PM - Permalink | |
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Michelle Malkin has the entire run-down on the friends of anti-war liberal activist Cindy Sheehan.
Posted - 8/09/2005 07:32:00 PM - Permalink | |
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The detainees being held at Gitmo seem to be enjoying the new Harry Potter book, reports the Washington Times.
Posted - 8/09/2005 07:28:24 PM - Permalink | |
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