• SOMETIMES THE POPE ISN'T RIGHT

BENEDICT'S EASTER MESSAGE

He says 'nothing positive comes from Iraq'

Out of genuine respect and admiration, I'm not going to add the Pope and the Catholic Church to the group that Larry Elder last week said that were already gone (Western Europe, basically), ready to bow to Islamo Fascism. But the Pope certainly seems to be saying that he preferred Saddam Hussein - can that be true? I sure hope not. Read on. --JZ

Pope, amid Easter's joy, mourns 'continual slaughter' in Iraq, worries about Afghanistan

By Frances D'emilio
ASSOCIATED PRESS

In an Easter litany of the world's suffering, Pope Benedict XVI lamented that “nothing positive” is happening in Iraq and decried the unrest in Afghanistan and bloodshed in Africa and Asia.

VATICAN CITY – On Christianity's most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI lamented the “continual slaughter” in Iraq and unrest in Afghanistan as he denounced violence in the name of religion.

In his message for Easter, Benedict said suffering worldwide puts faith to the test.

“How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world,” the pontiff told tens of thousands of pilgrims, tourists and Romans gathered Sunday at St. Peter's Square where he had just finished celebrating Mass.

Benedict, delivering his traditional “Urbi et Orbi” Easter address from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, denounced terrorism and kidnappings, and “the thousand faces of violence which some people attempt to justify in the name of religion,” as well as human rights violations.

“Afghanistan is marked by growing unrest and instability,” Benedict said. “In the Middle East, besides some signs of hope in the dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, unfortunately, nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees.”

He also had harsh words about the “underestimated humanitarian situation” in Darfur as well as other African places of suffering. These included violence and looting in Congo, fighting in Somalia, and the “grievous crisis” in Zimbabwe, marked by crackdowns on dissidents, a disastrous economy and severe corruption.'

Benedict said political “paralysis” threatened Lebanon's future.

“Suffering, evil, injustice, death, especially when it strikes the innocent such as children who are victims of war and terrorism, of sickness and hunger, does not all of this put our faith to the test?”

In contrast to his sorrowful address were the bright red, pink, yellow and orange splashes of color from flowers which adorned the steps of the basilica and surrounded the outdoor altar where he celebrated Mass under hazy sunshine.

Voices of choir boys floated across the square, as did the smell of incense sprinkled by clerics.

More, click HERE.

• Easter Morning

A verse for James Cameron, this Easter Morning

• AMAZING AUDIO

Geraldo Rivera uses hoohah to defend a drunk Mexican in the country illegally



Listen to the argument HERE.

This is an amazing thing to see -
Here it is at youtube !

• Global Warming Fears Come Down To 'Chance of Accuracy'

Oh brother. 'Chance of Accuracy' is all that
stands between the earth's continued
good health and the end of it all.

CHICKEN LITTLE IS RUNNING AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH IT'S HEAD CUT OFF

Dig this piece - click HERE.

"The sentence originally said scientists had "very high confidence" - which means more than 90% chance of accuracy - in the statement that many natural systems around the globe "are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases."

After days of intensive negotiations over this section, delegates from China and Saudi Arabia on Friday insisted that the confidence level be reduced to "high" - which means more than 80% accuracy."

Are these morons expecting us to take any of this seriously? --JZ

• PELOSI SMACKED DOWN BY THE POST

PELOSI'S BEHAVIOR IS SO OUTRAGEOUS EVEN THE WASHINGTON POST CAN'T STAY SILENT

Post editorial rips Pelosi a new one;
Jimmy Z and A Newt One right as usual

Here's the editorial written by the Washington Post - as liberal as liberalism gets - in it's entirety. Pelosi should be ashamed. Ashamed! Her actions to create her own foreign policy and a shadow Presidency are nothing less than treasonous. --JZ

Pratfall in Damascus
Nancy Pelosi's foolish shuttle diplomacy

Thursday, April 5, 2007; Page A16

HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered an excellent demonstration yesterday of why members of Congress should not attempt to supplant the secretary of state when traveling abroad. After a meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Ms. Pelosi announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that "Israel was ready to engage in peace talks" with Syria. What's more, she added, Mr. Assad was ready to "resume the peace process" as well. Having announced this seeming diplomatic breakthrough, Ms. Pelosi suggested that her Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy was just getting started. "We expressed our interest in using our good offices in promoting peace between Israel and Syria," she said.

Only one problem: The Israeli prime minister entrusted Ms. Pelosi with no such message. "What was communicated to the U.S. House Speaker does not contain any change in the policies of Israel," said a statement quickly issued by the prime minister's office. In fact, Mr. Olmert told Ms. Pelosi that "a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel." In other words, Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel's position but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad's words were mere propaganda.

Ms. Pelosi was criticized by President Bush for visiting Damascus at a time when the administration -- rightly or wrongly -- has frozen high-level contacts with Syria. Mr. Bush said that thanks to the speaker's freelancing Mr. Assad was getting mixed messages from the United States. Ms. Pelosi responded by pointing out that Republican congressmen had visited Syria without drawing presidential censure. That's true enough -- but those other congressmen didn't try to introduce a new U.S. diplomatic initiative in the Middle East. "We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace," Ms. Pelosi grandly declared.

Never mind that that statement is ludicrous: As any diplomat with knowledge of the region could have told Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Assad is a corrupt thug whose overriding priority at the moment is not peace with Israel but heading off U.N. charges that he orchestrated the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. The really striking development here is the attempt by a Democratic congressional leader to substitute her own foreign policy for that of a sitting Republican president. Two weeks ago Ms. Pelosi rammed legislation through the House of Representatives that would strip Mr. Bush of his authority as commander in chief to manage troop movements in Iraq. Now she is attempting to introduce a new Middle East policy that directly conflicts with that of the president. We have found much to criticize in Mr. Bush's military strategy and regional diplomacy. But Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.

• USING HER CANCER FOR THE CAMPAIGN?

JOHN EDWARDS IS NOT ABOVE USING HIS WIFE'S CANCER TO GIVE HIS CAMPAIGN A NEEDED BOOST

This is just quite simply disgusting
Jimmy Z, Lost Angeles

I must admit, I felt like this was going to go this way. I kept my mouth shut, because one would like to give the husband and wife, John and Elizabeth, the benefit of the doubt, right? But the fact is - and it is a fact - Edwards is using her cancer to benefit his campaign for President.

On the John Edwards website there are all kinds of links that one can click on to donate money. After all, without money, there is no campaign. Millions upon millions of dollars are needed just to stay afloat during the primaries. The general election? Don't even think about it.

So on John's website, you have more than ample opportunity to click on donation links and send them some money for the Presidential bid. But then down on the right side is a nice little click to 'send a note to Elizabeth and John.' When you click on that, you get a lovely letter of concern and thanks from John Edwards, which reads in part:

"Elizabeth and I have been married for nearly 30 years and we will be in this every step of the way together. We will keep a positive attitude and always look for the silver lining—that's what we do."

Then below that, you get an opportunity to 'send a message to Elizabeth and John,' with a form to fill out.

And isn't that nice? Makes even a 'cold-hearted' Republican like me want to send them a note of encouragement. But watch out.

The fact is that when you fill out the form and send that note, your email is added to their campaign donor email list and you are bombarded with emails requesting money for ___? No, it's not for cancer research, my friend. It's for John's campaign.

Mind you, this is the same guy who was not above 'channeling' the voices of little kids from beyond the grave in court to sue medical insurance companies. Edwards is a whack job, kids. He's a nutball. He'll do ANYTHING.

So he's blatantly using his wife's cancer to drum up more donations for his soon-to-fail campaign. Which is disgusting. And hypocritical. And disturbing.

And I could have told you so.

• REUTERS COVERING ITS BETS

SINCE THE SURGE IS SUCCEEDING, REUTERS BEGINS TALKING ABOUT IT

And Reuters is saying that success will be worse than failure - ROTFL!

You aren't going to BELIEVE this! --JZ

Bush success vs. al Qaeda breeds long-term worries
03 Apr 2007 14:28:49 GMT
Source: Reuters
By David Morgan

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's administration has crippled al Qaeda's ability to carry out major attacks on U.S. soil but at a political and economic cost that could leave the country more vulnerable in years to come, experts say.

Even as al Qaeda tries to rebuild operations in Pakistan, experts including current and former intelligence officials believe the group would have a hard time staging another Sept. 11 because of U.S. success at killing or capturing senior members whose skills and experience have not been replaced. "If the question is why al Qaeda hasn't carried out another 9/11 attack, the answer I think is that if they could have, they would have," said a former senior U.S. intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Tighter U.S. airport security, greater scrutiny of people entering the United States and better coordination between the CIA, FBI and Department of Homeland Security also have made it harder for extremists to enter the country, experts said. Home-grown extremists in the United States are believed to be isolated and lacking the will or ability to carry out large-scale operations.

"Make no mistake about it, however, our enemy is resilient and determined to strike us again," said Charles Allen, chief intelligence officer at the Department of Homeland Security. Some experts warn that the successes of Bush's war on terrorism have been undercut by huge security costs, strains on the U.S. military from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and resentment of the United States abroad.

"Look at al Qaeda's plans," said Michael Scheuer, who once led the CIA team devoted to finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. "They're very simply defined in two phrases: spread out America's forces and bleed the United States to bankruptcy. I'd argue America has been under attack successfully every day since 9/11 from that perspective. "If you're looking at it from the cave, or wherever al Qaeda is hiding at the moment, you have to be pretty happy with the way the world is moving," he said.

ATTACKS WANE

The Iraq war has been described by U.S. intelligence as both a cause celebre for new al Qaeda recruits and a militant training ground in explosives and urban guerrilla tactics.

"There may be individuals they've been able to recruit in Iraq who might have the credentials and capabilities to deploy elsewhere, even though the core al Qaeda has been damaged," said John Brennan, former acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center. U.S. intelligence believes that bin Laden and his second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri, driven from Afghanistan when U.S.-led forces ended Taliban rule there in 2001, are now trying to reestablish operations in remote, semi-autonomous tribal areas in Pakistan.

But experts view recent attacks in Europe such as the July 2005 London transport bombings as evidence that al Qaeda-linked groups, while dangerous, lack the advanced skills and organization of militant groups like Hezbollah. "What al Qaeda's left with is a bunch of Sunni radicals in various capitals who get their orders and technology on the Internet. But their contact with home base is not very strong and they're not very disciplined," said former CIA official Robert Baer.

Islamist groups have killed about 1,600 people in 53 attacks overseas since 2001, according to IntelCenter, an Alexandria, Virginia-based intelligence contractor. The number and lethality of the attacks have fallen off since 2004. Last year, there were five attacks and 28 deaths, according to IntelCenter statistics, which do not include attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan or other war zones.

But IntelCenter chief executive Ben Venzke said the chance of an al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil has grown based on the militant network's increasing references to the American homeland in public messages. "Our leading thinking is that we are closer now to an attempt at a major attack in the United States than at any point since 9/11," Venzke said.

• WHO'S THE RACIST AFTER ALL?

Yes, there are very successful blacks in
America who thrive on victimology

Richard Williams, father of enormously successful American tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams, opened his mouth again to show his ignorance and nastiness - his inner moonbat - and the quote is beyond amazing. In fact, it's hard - even in perspective - to believe that this guy has been able to enjoy the freedom he has in America and he ended up such a victicrat!

From blackathlete.net:

''When we first landed we had a layover in Nigeria, and I couldn't wait. I wanted to get out of the plane and just take off my shoes and start running and never come back,'' she said. ``Because I just felt at home and at ease. I mean, I've never felt so comfortable. I've never been in a place where I felt happier, ever.''

Her father had heard her say that and thought he understood why.

Mr. Williams, like Serena, sugarcoats nothing.

''Isn't that something? She's born in America but goes elsewhere and feels more at home. It's simple. If we are Americans we sure aren't treated like it,'' he said. ``Even rabbits are treated better here than we are. If you shoot a rabbit out of season, you get a $500 fine.''

Notice that they left out a large portion of the real quote, because even blackathlete.com realizes how damned stupid the jackass is:

• From GOPUSA.COM

It’s Time for Rosie to Go

Posted By Bobby Eberle On April 4, 2007 at 5:58 am

Original GOPUSA post HERE.

These quotes by Rosie cannot be more insane or ignorant. She is a living, breathing, gi-normous moonbat. --JZ

What started out as an embarrassment — ABC’s hiring of Rosie O’Donnell — has turned into a disgrace. With each passing day, O’Donnell spews anti-American rhetoric which shows that she is not only a left-wing moonbat, but totally out of touch with reality. We should all tell ABC that it is time for Rosie to go.

Last week, the ensemble of The View decided to venture into the story involving fired U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and the White House.

During the show, Rosie said:

O’DONNELL: Okay, Republican officials who supposedly called these judges that were fired and said, are you going to prosecute this Democratic, and they said, I can’t talk about that because I’m actually a judge, and it’s illegal. And they said “click,” and they got fired.

HASSELBECK: Yes.

O’DONNELL: Now what is really scary, are the ones who they called and said yeah, sure I will. And they’re still on the bench. That’s even more frightening.

Hey Rosie… U.S. attorneys are the government’s prosecutors. They are not judges. They are presidential appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president and who can be dismissed at any time.

As noted in NewsBusters.com, Rosie also tried to say that firing only a few “judges” was actually worse that firing all of them.

O’DONNELL: But wait, but wait, if he wiped out 95 judges the first day, and you don’t cherry pick the ones who are going to hurt your administration. That’s very different. That’s mob tactics. That’s Tony Soprano. We’re going to lean on people. That’s what the president’s doing. That’s scary.

The next day (March 29), during a discussion on Iran, even the other co-hosts took notice when O’Donnell spoke sympathetically about Iran:

BEHAR: This guy Amanidajaja (sic), whatever his name is. He is a bad guy, he is a very bad guy. He stated explicitly he wants to wipe Israel off the map. This guy is a bad guy.

O’DONNELL: I’m not saying he’s a good guy and I want him over for breakfast. No I’m not. I’m saying that in America we are fed propaganda and if you want to know what’s happening in the world go outside of the U.S. media because it’s owned by four corporations one of them is this one. And you know what, go outside of the country to find out what’s going on in our country because it’s frightening. It’s frightening.

Rosie also went down the path of 9/11 conspiracies and melting metal during this exchange (thanks again to NewsBusters.com):

HASSELBECK: Do you believe that the government had anything to do with the attack of 9/11? Do you believe in a conspiracy in terms of the attack of 9/11?

O’DONNELL: No. But I do believe the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself, it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved, World Trade Center Seven. World Trade Center one and Two got hit by planes. Seven, miraculously, for the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.

HASSELBECK: And who do you think is responsible for that?

O’DONNELL: I have no idea. But to say that we don’t know it was imploded, that there was implosion in the demolition, is beyond ignorant. Look at the film. Get a physics expert here from Yale, from Harvard. Pick the school. It defies reason.

The first time fire has ever melted steel??? Hello! How does she think steel is made in the first place. Perhaps she might want to take a look at the response in Popular Mechanics.

These are just a few examples of recent Rosie rants, and it amazes me that ABC will continue to employ someone who is not only blatantly anti-American, but who is keenly unaware of the facts.

Please let ABC know how you feel. It’s time for Rosie to go!

SIGN THE PETITION

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• LA TIMES EDITORIAL

ARE THEY WAKING UP TO REALITY?

'From the terrorist's mouth'
March 16, 2007

(EXCERPTED)

"Mohammed's rationalizations for his actions, it goes without saying, are appalling. He compares the mass murder of innocents at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the War of Independence waged by George Washington against the British. Similarly bogus apologies have been offered by, and on behalf of, terrorists from Belfast to Beirut. Those who make such arguments believe them, and it's distressing that plenty of people in the Mideast will accept Mohammed's reasoning.

"Whether you call it militant Islam, Islamic fascism or a clash of civilizations, there is a movement that has declared war on the U.S. and the West. It is neither a figment of President Bush's imagination nor a byproduct of the Iraq war. Americans disagree about how to engage that enemy, but its existence is undeniable. So is the willingness of its adherents to kill — and die — for the cause. The passage of time since 9/11 may have dulled our appreciation of that reality, especially as partisan bickering consumes Washington. By confessing — and boasting about — his crimes, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has sharpened it."

• REID AND PELOSI

TWO ENEMIES OF AMERICA

Reid: Cutting off funding?

Say what you mean, Harry
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Harry Reid has arrived at his final destination and surprise, surprise - it was where he and many of his fellow Democrats in Congress were heading all along.

The Senate majority leader said on Monday that if President Bush carries out his pledge to veto an Iraq war spending bill as long as it contains firm deadlines for troop withdrawals, Reid (D-Nev.) will stand behind an effort to yank all funding for the war effort within a year.

Well, at least now he’s being honest about his intentions. Or is he?

The White House quickly pointed out Reid’s comments of barely four months ago: “We’re not going to do anything to limit funding or cut off funds,” he said then. And a White House spokeswoman lamented the “shifting sands” among Democrats over the war spending measure.

It’s clear Reid’s trying to send a message. But at the moment the troops are the ones getting sand kicked in their faces.

Pelosi: Kowtowing to Islam - This is NOT her job

From KNX 1070 AM

The Californian Democrat spoke to reporters shortly after talks with Assad at the end of a two-day visit to Syria, which the White House has criticized as undermining American efforts to isolate the hard-line Arab country.

She said the delegation gave the Syrian leader a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert whose essence was that Israel was ready to hold peace talks with Syria.

She did not say more about the message, but Israel has previously made such talks conditional on Syria's cutting off its support for hardline Palestinian groups and Hezbollah.

''We were very pleased with the assurances we received from the president that he was ready to resume the peace process. He's ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel,'' Pelosi said.

*Laughing* Pelosi: Peace negotiator. The fact is, she's over there selling out the US and telling these terrorists that 'we will be in the White House soon. Be patient, we democrats LIKE you.' --JZ

• BEGINNING OF THE END

Britain kneels before fascist Islam

As you read this, Not-so-Great-anymore Britain is teaching a different kind of history. How will they get the Holocaust out of the library books? Why isn't Steven Speilberg raising hell?! --JZ

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.

It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques. The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.

The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools. It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework. The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'. It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.

"But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques." A third school found itself 'strongly challenged by some Christian parents for their treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict-and the history of the state of Israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination'.

The report concluded: "In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship." But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said: "History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."

The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers - particularly at primary level - was leading to history being taught in a 'shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning'. Lessons in difficult topics were too often 'bland, simplistic and unproblematic' and bored pupils.

Check out the story source HERE.

Also, some great letters (except for one bonehead who wrote 'There is more than one truth, there are many truths, each version is true to the individual.' OOFAH!) if you click HERE.

• THE EVIL WITHIN LEGOS

SCHOOL BANS KIDS FROM PLAYING WITH LEGOS
Can Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs be far behind?

Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos.

A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of "Rethinking Schools" magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.

According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership." According to the teachers, "Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation."

The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown "their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys." These assumptions "mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

They claimed as their role shaping the children's "social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity ... from a perspective of social justice."

So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers' anathema to private property ownership. "If I buy it, I own it," one child is quoted saying. The teachers then explored with the students concepts of fairness, equity, power, and other issues over a period of several months.

At the end of that time, Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that "All structures are public structures" and "All structures will be standard sizes." The teachers quote the children:

"A house is good because it is a community house."
"We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes."
"It's important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building."

Given some recent history in Washington state with respect to private property protections, perhaps this should not come as a surprise. Municipal officials in Washington have long known how to condemn one person's private property and sell it to another for the "public use" of private economic development. Even prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, Connecticut, which sanctioned such a use of eminent domain, Washington state officials acting under their state constitution were already proceeding full speed ahead with such transactions.

Officials in Bremerton, for example, condemned a house where a widow had lived for 55 years so her property could be used for a car lot, according to the Institute for Justice. And Seattle successfully condemned nine properties and turned them over to a private developer for retail shops and hotel parking, IJ reports. Attempts to do the same thing in Vancouver (for mixed use development) and Lakewood (for an amusement park) failed for reasons unrelated to property confiscation issues.

The court's ruling in Kelo, however, whetted municipal condemnation appetites even further. The Institute for Justice reports 272 takings for private use are pending or threatened in the state as of last summer. It's unclear if Legos will be targeted. But given what's being taught in some schools, perhaps it's just a matter of time.

Wow, as I have said over and over again - liberalism (and socialism and all that rot) is a result of INDOCTRINATION, and conservatism is the result of EDUCATION. This is liberalism in its most vile form. --JZ

Click HERE to read the original story.

• POLITICALLY INCORRECT

Offensive! Humor from decades ago ...

Would Ray be able to record this song today??

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• Pure Evil

• NEW SONG PARODY!

Brand new "Bats Of The Moon"
based on "Cats In The Cradle"

Lyrics: The Knight
Guitar, Voice, Production: Jimmy Z

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Previously released song parodies:
Hillary The Bitch (I Am)
I'm So Liberal I Could Cry

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• PIECE BY PIECE

THE DEMOCRAT TIMES OF
LOST ANGELES' STEVE LOPEZ

The lies and nasty rhetoric that come from a moonbat with a column

(Stay tuned: we'll be recording a webcast analyzing this vile little column in the next day or two.)

Discussing an ugly war on a lovely day
Steve Lopez
March 30, 2007

We sat under a tree in Patrick Briggs' frontyard in Pasadena on Thursday, next to a row of pansies, on a spring day so lovely it seemed strange to talk about war.


It's called hateful obsession, Steve. Note here, readers of Jimmy Z's EXTRA: Lopez and Briggs are blowing a perfectly beautiful day making themselves miserable. They can't enjoy the lovely weather - hell no! "Let's talk about how we hate Bush and all that!"

"Yeah, and how he lied and stuff!"

"Yeah! Heh-heh! And how war is bad and stuff!" They just couldn't wait to be miserable. That's what leftwingers do - they like to be angry and miserable.


"It's like the 'The Americanization of Emily,' " said Briggs, recalling a character in the 1964 movie who was living the good life while others died in World War II.

I had heard about the small antiwar rallies Briggs occasionally stages at Hill and Orange Grove and stopped by to meet him. He's the guy who had a run-in with Pasadena City Hall in 2004, when officials ordered him to take down a banner hanging over his front door because it was too big.

It said: "War Starts With W. Bush Lied; People Died."


This cracks me up. This nasty, ignorant old fool with his meaningless, dishonest bombast - "Bush Lied, People Died" - is the best he can do? We're fighting a war for the very existence of freedom in the world, and this Briggs twit boils his political view into a bumper sticker-ism of such trite proportion? A lowest-common denominator thinker on the left; that's a big surprise.

Briggs: Look pal, there was no LIE. You're the one LYING. Read THIS, and tell me how you are going to go about refuting it. You too, Lopez. Read it and refute it. I freakin' DARE you. You won't though - you are all too comfortable, relaxing behind your desk at the Lost Angeles Times, hiding out with the moonbat, leftwing mass media, pushing your poison while the world faces the very real danger of Islamo-Fascism - you braindead fools. Holy mackerel.


Briggs, a database analyst, sued the city and won. These days, though, he and his wife, Maddie Gavel, who writes advertising copy, have a different sign up. This one says:

"Those Who Exchange Freedom for Security Deserve Neither and Ultimately Lose Both."


Ah, the perfect anti-American couple, Patrick and Maddie, with another sign now, advertising their idiocy for all the world to see. If we don't fight the war; if we don't WIN this war, there won't be any freedom to worry about. Don't these two realize they'd be among the first cretins to have their heads chopped off?

I can see them now: "Oh, we are all about live and let live, Mr. Muslim. You don't have to worry about us." *CHOP! . . . CHOP!*


Not much subtlety there, but the disaster in Iraq and continued bickering in Washington cry out for blunt declarations.


Disaster? As the President's plan is showing real signs of progress, you dare to tell your readers it's all a disaster? This is blatant lying. This is the best you can do, with your anti-war view, is to lie? And YOU are best the Times can find to write a column? Bah! You're a phoney, Lopez!


Briggs has spoken out against the war from the beginning, a voice of reason amid the cheerleading from Washington and the mainstream media.


Hmmm... voice of reason? If all he's got is "Bush Lied People Died" then he's not very reasonable; hell, he's not even a voice of truth.


Briggs, a member of All Saints Church, attended large rallies in the war's early days, but he didn't appreciate the extremists who insisted the U.S. was evil and other countries could do no wrong. "That's no different from what Bush does," he says.

Though he aggressively opposed the war, Briggs recognized the complexities of history in the Middle East. He wanted to rally for economic and diplomatic leadership, not tribunals.


Briggs should get his ass OVER THERE and start this dialog with the terrorists. That's gonna work. *L*


He said it doesn't matter whether 200 people or only five show up at the rallies he helps organize. In the time he's been out there, the tide has turned, with polls showing that six out of 10 Americans favor a pullout from Iraq by next year.


Thanks to dishonest reporting by this Lost Angeles Times and the rest of the mainstream leftwing media. The fact is, and this is an undeniable fact - if the US begins succeeding and moving FORWARD (something you and the democrats in DC cannot allow to happen!), America's citizens WILL BE behind the President. No question about it.


I told Briggs that one of the things I'm angriest about [Your very first big mistake, Lopez, is getting emotional about an issue like this war. Your anger serves no purpose.] is that staying in Iraq guarantees continued carnage, and leaving could mean even more. It would be hard to walk away from a mess we created by having gone it alone when trusted allies and common sense warned against.


Lopez: You should be thankful that the 'carnage' is as little as it is. You should be on your knees thanking God that the numbers of dead are so minimal - not tolerable, minimal. Get it right, don't lie about what I've said when and if you respond.


"It's a hard thing to do," Briggs said, "but it's hard to ask our troops to continue to get killed."


Briggs: You know nothing of our troops. You are disgusting! You act as if the troops are going unwillingly. You have no idea do you! Amazing! You pipe up with such horrible ignorance! Our troops are willing. Our troops are only dismayed by the American left, who does not want to let our troops do what they are there to do - WIN THE *!@?*! WAR!

To my readers, the following is not Briggs, but Lopez; you can hear the echos within his empty head as he writes this kind of hateful copy for his mindless column:


What's even harder is to hear Bush talk about honoring our troops, as he frequently does, or to suggest that others do not. No one has done greater dishonor to our troops than President Bush, who didn't hesitate to send soldiers into battle without a clear signal to them or the American public as to the reason. Now he's threatening to veto a bill passed by the Senate on Thursday that ties war funding to a commitment to withdraw troops by 2008.


As well he should - if for nothing else but all of the democrat pork added to it in order to get enough votes to pass it. You are quite nearly completely ignorant!


We know that critics of the administration have been smeared, that soldiers have been asked to risk their lives without benefit of the best armor available, that wounded soldiers have come home to scandalously inadequate medical facilities. And yet, here was Bush on Wednesday: "If Congress fails to pass a bill to fund our troops on the front lines, the American people will know who to hold responsible."


Which is totally, completely and 100% correct. The American people need to know that you have been LYING all this time, and that we need to win this war. We must win this war, we have no choice.


Yes, Patrick Briggs told me, he too had bristled at that quote.

A warm breeze kicked through the camphor trees and stone pines at Loma Vista and Hamilton. In Iraq, the death toll topped 130 on Thursday, one of the deadliest days in years.


I hope W continues to make mind-numbed left-bots like Briggs bristle. I looked up Briggs on the internet; I googled he and his goofy Maddie and found out that they are not at all the middle of the roaders that Lopez would like you to believe. They're involved in far left anti-war anti-American activity. They are the haters in this little passion play. Briggs and his wife are active within Pasadena Progressives, a far left anti-Bush (it all comes down to hating the President for these people) group who get together and watch leftist movies and talk about how evil America is.

What a disgusting group of 'Americans.' This is yet another reason I ended my subscription to the Lost Angeles Times a decade ago.

• DR. LAURA RIPS INTO PORTLAND PROTESTERS

TELLLING IT LIKE IT IS, DR. LAURA FLAYS MOONBATS

Transcribed from her radio program

What Kind Of Creeps Would Burn
In Effigy A U.S. Soldier?
March 28, 2007 on 12:54 pm

I got an e-mail recently which just about made me throw up. I don’t throw up easily. I like to keep what’s inside of me there, unless it’s supposed to leave, but this pretty much almost put me over the edge, because my baby’s over there.This is from Kathleen. She says:

I hope you inform your listeners about the anti-war protestors in Portland who burned in effigy a United States soldier. I can’t even find the words that would be printable to describe how I feel.

Well, I have the words, but let me finish her letter:

A car was allowed to pass through a checkpoint in Iraq, because the car had two children in the back seat. The adults got by the checkpoint, left the car, and blew it up, with the children in it.

Now, I realize in my position, I need to behave appropriately as a role model, but I am so enraged that most of America is so damned “wussy-weak” that you people actually allowed protestors in Portland to burn in effigy a US soldier, with not a greater counter-demonstration. How could you do that??

Let me just explain what kind of bugs, what kind of animals, what kind of creeps would burn in effigy a US soldier? Why aren’t they burning in effigy a Muslim terrorist? How about burning in effigy a Muslim terrorist who hides behind civilians, so that when American or international forces have to deal with them, they allow civilians to be killed, and then say, “See? America’s bad!” How about burning in effigy a Muslim terrorist who uses children to get through a checkpoint, because they know Americans won’t stop or fire on a car with kids, and then they blow the children up as part of a car bomb?

Instead, we have bugs in this country like Jane Fonda, Rosie O’Donnell, Martin Sheen, Bill Maher, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon….the list goes on and on and on in Congress and all over the United States. You’ve got people blowing up their own people praying, shopping, going to school? These Muslim terrorists are murdering people by the scores every day, and we have people in the United States burning in effigy a US soldier? What in the hell has happened to this country, that we quietly stand by and just go “eh.”

And another thing….I’m a little tired of CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations. They spend their time, it would appear to me, trying to silence radio, television and print who make any comments about Islam, Muslims, Mohammed - anything - so that everybody will be intimidated into silence. Why? Well I don’t think they understand that in this country, we’re entitled to opinions. I know in totalitarian theocracies, they’re not entitled to opinions except those approved by the state - they’re beheaded. I would like to see CAIR mobilize every Muslim in the world to close in on the Middle East and squash the bugs who blow up innocent people praying, shopping, going to school, sleeping in their beds. That’s what I want CAIR to spend its time and money on. I hear rumors that CAIR’s money goes to terrorism things - I don’t have any facts on that - I just hear the rumors. But still, the best way to have good relationships with America is to have all the Muslims in the world stop the terrorists. I am told that the terrorism faction of Islam is very small, so I think that this would be an easy thing for them to do. 98% are pro-peace, pro-love, pro-freedom - go for it! Stop the bugs, so that we don’t have to. Stop the people who blow up children for power. Stop the people who blow up the police, the people who clean in the street, and mothers holding their babies. That’s what I want to see CAIR do, instead of intimidating talk show hosts all over America. I’m bored with that. I don’t know if anybody else is, but I’m bored with that. Scaring people out of speech?

So, it’s not that I think the protestors in Portland who burned in effigy a US soldier shouldn’t have speech rights, but this is so ignorant, so stupid, so off the mark that it should be intolerable to some extent. I know we allow Nazis to parade in the streets, because we’re supposed to have free speech - I understand that. But what I don’t get is that there wasn’t an equal and opposite protest. It’s the bad guys who have the giblets, the energy and the will, and if the good guys don’t get into gear and stop the bad guys - if the good Muslims don’t stop the bad Muslims, if the good Americans don’t stop the bad Americans - we’re going to lose the world and lose our country, and lose freedom in the world, because we’re pretty much the center of it.

Burning in effigy a US soldier. Mind you, our young men and women volunteer to live under disgusting conditions, and be paid almost nothing - they have to buy their own freaking uniforms to go into training and into battle — they come back maimed or dead, changed forever, to free people to create a democracy. And there are people in this country who dare to sneer at that? I’m a proud mother of an American soldier. My boy Is over there risking his life with a bunch of other people’s boys and daughters to stop people from blowing up children, blowing up worshippers in a mosque, blowing up people in their villages and in their markets - that’s what our children are doing. And for all you morons and creeps and bugs who burned in effigy a US soldier - what are your children doing that’s of any value whatsoever?

So I’m making a challenge. I want all you decent people who have a grip on reality to get out of your comfortable homes and stand up against this. Come out with your banners, come out with your music, come out with your flags. I want to see Patriot Guard, Hell’s Angels, everybody out there on their bikes…whoever. I mean, Rosie O’Donnell on “The View” makes a comment that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who said he was responsible for beheading Mr. Pearl, who was responsible for 9/11 and all this stuff, she had the nerve to go on her show, using her vast understanding of counterterrorism operations and in-depth knowledge, to cast doubts on his confession, when there is information confirming everything he said from a number of sources. Why is her knee-jerk thing that we’re hurting somebody? Does she realize that this guy killed thousands and she’s protecting him? Does she not realize that, as a lesbian, she’d be one of the first ones eliminated by these people? They’re not very pro-gay rights! Even that doesn’t stop her! And I understand somebody else is giving her yet another TV show. Soon, there’s going to be nothing on television, in the newspapers, because what is it? What is the percentage of people in this country who can’t and don’t read?

I’m done. I’m done. I don’t really care to take time on my radio show to talk “politics.” I don’t see this as politics. I call this “survival of America.” This is way past politics. I don’t really give a damn if it’s a Democrat or a Republican who gets into office as long as they will protect the United States….with force, if necessary. Gosh darn, we had these kind of morons out there, even in World War II, but they crossed the line, and you have to let them know they crossed the line. Bringing death to our American soldiers who volunteer to protect this country and everybody in it for the right to even be a moron - there has to be a line. I am the proud mother of a deployed American paratrooper. Hoo-ah! And I spit on people who use kids as shields, and I spit on people who burn US soldiers in effigy. I spit on you both.

• SECRET SERVICE LISTENS TO RUSH!

. . . and nails a college professor

I love this story - some knucklehead college professor (teaching a computer class!) professed his desire to hang President Bush, and a disgusted student called Rush Limbaugh to talk about what he might do. Though Rush gave him some suggestions, Rush also told the student that he would not have to do anything - that the Secret Service was probably already on it because they listen to his show. Sure enough, the Secret Service called Limbaugh and the kid, and no doubt either have had or will have a little talk with the stupid moonbat leftwing computer professor. Dig:

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Do you remember the call we got on Tuesday from Ron in Port Huron, Michigan? This was the student at a university or college there whose computer class professor said to him that if he had the power he would assassinate or kill President Bush, and Ron wanted to know what I thought he should do about it. I said, "Well, first thing is you're not going to have to do much because you're going to be hearing from the Secret Service." When the Secret Service hears about stuff like this, they're very interested. But we went on to discuss it and he was going to write a letter to the dean and say, "Look, this is not what I paid tuition to come here for, and this is reflecting poorly on the school," and I urged him to copy the professor as well. I got this note from him last night.

Dear Rush,

I just got on my friend's computer. (She's a 24/7 member. I'm soon going to be.) I spoke with you on Tuesday about my instructor. Needless to say, the Secret Service met with me today. I don't think my professor will be professing his beliefs anymore. [Little smiley signal here] Thank you so much for your time yesterday. You really are a strong influence in my life.

Ron.

If you have any questions about anything, please contact me.

He gives me his number here to get a hold of him. So I knew this was going to happen. The Secret Service got hold of him. There's a reason I knew it was going to happen is because they called us, and they wanted a tape of the segment and so forth. I know they're out there monitoring this program. It has a lot of big fans out there in the Secret Service. I don't know anything more than that. But I just know the Secret Service does not take this stuff lightly.

• HYPOCRITE FEINSTEIN

GAG: WHAT A FILTHY SCOUNDREL
Wait, she's a democrat. Same thing.

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Here's the Dianne Feinstein story, and this is from a website that is in suburban San Francisco. It actually has not been picked up by the Drive-By Media yet, which is fascinating in and of itself. Peter Byrne writes the story.

"Sen. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein. As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp."

"Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she couldn't take the heat generated by this newspaper's exposé of her ethics, or was her work on the subcommittee finished? Because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapon manufacturing firms in late 2005. Now, the military construction appropriations subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees quality-of-life issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to dissociate herself from the military construction appropriations subcommittee incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers. Two years ago, before the Washington Post became belatedly involved, the online magazine Salon.com exposed the horrors of deficient medical care for Iraq war veterans. While leading the military construction appropriation subcommittee, Dianne Feinstein had ample warning of the medical care meltdown, but she was not proactive on Veterans Affairs. Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problem for surfacing in the media and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan."

Now, Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters also references this story today, and his take on this is right on the money. "The new Congress has barely made it past its start before a new face has been put on lobbyist influence. Dianne Feinstein, senior senator from California, has resigned her leadership position on a subcommittee which put billions of dollars into her family business. This is culture of corruption Democrat style." Now, wasn't it the Democrats who insisted that the Republicans jumped into bed with lobbyists and special interests? Now we have a senior Democrat who made sure that over a billion dollars of federal money got routed through her own checkbook with her husband as proxy. When can we expect to see a Democrat investigation into this brand of corruption?

Hint: We won't, folks.

"During the 2006 election, Feinstein's party made a lot of hay out of none competitive contracting by the government. Democrats railed about Halliburton, even though Halliburton won 95% of its contract dollars by full and open competition. Now we see that Feinstein herself had no problem with noncompetitive practices as long as it meant stuffing her own pockets with taxpayer money. Take a look at the percentages. I'll go through those here in just a second.] In 2005, CB Richard Ellis, one of the companies, made $100 million in federal contracts, only half of which had been part of full and open competitive building. As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and www.FedSpending.org, three corporations in which Feinstein's husband's financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock, won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

"Here are the three. Boston Scientific Corporation, $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies. 85% of contracts awarded without benefit of competition. Kinetic Concepts, Incorporated, $12 million, medical equipment and supplies, 28% noncompetitively awarded. CB Richard Ellis, the Blum controlled international real estate firm holds congressionally funded contracts to lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs. It's also involved in redeveloping military bases turned over to the private sector." This is "Culture of Corruption Democrat Style." So the bottom line here to the question is, the Democrats are not going to shut down the Navy.

Look at Murtha. Murtha has enriched himself and who knows how many people in his own district, via the Department of Defense budget and various projects and so forth. The military exists for that purpose as far as the Democrats are concerned. As far as Feinstein is concerned, she's resigned MILCON for whatever reason, but you won't hear much about this. There's a clear double standard. The Democrats are simply incapable of "corruption," folks. They're simply incapable of it. If anybody got on this path in an elected official, you would see the Democrat Party set out to destroy that person like the Clinton, Inc. bunch tried to destroy Ken Starr.