9/11

Sent to me by a co-worker.

We have a little more than one week and counting to get the word out all
across this great land and into every community in the United States of
America. If you forward this email to least 11 people and each of those
people do the same…you get the idea.

THE PROGRAM IS THIS:

On Monday, September 11th, 2006, an American flag should be displayed
outside every home, apartment, office, and store in the United States.
Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on this
fifth anniversary of our country’s worst tragedy. We do this in honor of
those who lost their lives on 9/11, their families, friends and loved
ones who continue to endure the pain, and those who today are fighting at
home and abroad to preserve our cherished freedoms.

In the days, weeks and months following 9/11, our country was bathed in
American flags as citizens mourned the incredible losses and stood
shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism. Sadly, those flags have all but
disappeared. Our patriotism pulled us through some tough times and it
shouldn’t take another attack to galvanize us in solidarity. Our
American flag is the fabric of our country and together we can prevail over
terrorism of all kinds.

Action Plan: So, here’s what we need you to do…

(1) Forward this email to everyone you know (at least 11 people).
Please don’t be the one to break this chain. Take a moment to think back to how
you felt on 9/11 and let those sentiments guide you.

(2) Fly an American flag of any size on 9/11. Honestly, Americans
should fly the flag year-round, but if you don’t, then at least make it a
priority on this day.

Thank you for your participation. God Bless You and God Bless America

Stix

22 Bombs at Thai Banks

Aug. 31, 2006, 10:13AM
22 bombs explode in Thailand, killing 1

By SUTIN WANNABOVORN Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

BANGKOK, Thailand — Nearly two dozen bombs exploded almost simultaneously Thursday inside commercial banks in southern Thailand, killing one person in a region bloodied by a Muslim insurgency, police said.

The homemade bombs, which were triggered by mobile phone signals, were placed in garbage bins, at newspaper stands and near seats where customers wait for service in the banks in Yala province, said Maj. Gen. Paithoon Choochaiya who heads the provincial police.

One person was killed and 27 people were injured in the bombings, said Maj. Gen. Woraphong Siewpricha, deputy police chief in the south. Fours suspects were detained.

A review of close-circuit video showed that some of the explosives were planted by women, police said.

Some of the apparently small devices were hidden in women’s handbags or inside books carried by teenagers in school uniforms, said Lt. Gen. Ongkorn Thongprasom, the army chief in the south.

"We received some intelligence reports, but we did not anticipate it would happen inside banks, especially on the last day of the month. We don’t believe they are that cruel," he said.

Banks are normally crowded at the end of the month with customers withdrawing funds from their deposited salaries.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he believed the assailants would be arrested.

"I don’t think it will be difficult to catch the suspects from today’s incident because every bank has closed-circuit cameras, and they clearly saw the perpetrators," he said.

Deputy Prime Minister Chitchai Wannasathit said authorities had learned the rebels were planning a major attack to coincide with the founding day of Bersatu, believed to be an umbrella group for Thailand’s rebel groups.

"I ordered them to take precautions and prevention but this incident still occurred," he said.

The bombs were set off in 22 of Yala’s 30 bank branches, both in the provincial capital and outlying districts.

"It’s scary. We can’t estimate the damage yet," said Pridiyathorn Devakula, head of the Bank of Thailand, the country’s central bank.

The Islamic Bank of Thailand was among those attacked, according to reporters at the scene. The bank, set up in five southern provinces by the government, was created according to Muslim law, which prohibits interest.

More than 1,500 people have been killed in the insurgency since early 2004, most of them in the Muslim-dominated southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani. The rebels are seeking to separate from Thailand, where Buddhists form the vast majority.

Targets of the rebels have included in the past government officials, school teachers, policemen, Buddhist monks and many Muslims suspected of collaboration with the government. Bombings, drive-by shootings and beheadings occur almost daily.

Last weekend, suspected insurgents killed the highest-ranking officer to die in the south since 2004. Col. Suthisak Praertsri and another soldier died when a bomb exploded under their vehicle in Yala.  (source)

They even blew up a Muslim bank. 

More at:

Gates of Vienna

Gateway Pundit

Stix

A Good Fisking

Emperor Darth Misha I has put a good fisking of Eric Margolis’ post "The Big Lie About Ilsamic Fascism". 

And Just Who the Fuck is THIS Anti-Semite Fuckwit?

Filed under: Idiotarians

Reader and LC anomdragon wishes to know, and we wish we could answer.

Well, not really, now that we’ve actually read the slobbering snotwit’s drivel, but you get our drift. Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you the retarded rantings of one Eric Margolis:

The latest big lie unveiled by Washington’s neoconservatives are the poisonous terms, “Islamo-Fascists” and “Islamic Fascists.” They are the new, hot buzzwords among America’s far right and Christian fundamentalists.

So new, in fact, that His Majesty clearly remembers using them back in, say, 2002. But mayhap all that was old is new again? Or maybe Eric is just too much of a dumbass to pay attention to those he is trying to write about?

President George W. Bush made a point last week of using “Islamofacists” when recently speaking of Hezbullah and Hamas – both, by the way, democratically elected parties. A Canadian government minister from the Conservative Party compared Lebanon’s Hezbullah to Nazi Germany.

The National Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany was, by the way, democratically elected, something that would seem to make the comparison even more apt, even by Eric’s exacting, pro-Islamofascist standards. No, the Austrian Maniac (and we’re not referring to Arnold Schwarzenegger here) didn’t come to power via a Putsch, or coup. He tried that once, which is how he ended up with a lot of time to write that heap of execrable crap known as Mein Kampf while occupying a cell in Landsberg.

Instead they got themselves elected for the Reichstag, after which the paper-hanging son of a bitch managed to talk Hindenburg into appointing him Chancellor.

So obviously Adolf Hitler, having duly observed the rituals of democracy, shouldn’t be called a fascist either. At least according to Eric Margolis. Just so we’re clear on just where he stands. By the way, Eric, that brown shirt really does make you look fat.

The term “Islamofascist” is utterly without meaning, but packed with emotional explosives.

Something that most reasonable people would agree is vastly preferrable over the very real explosives that the Islamofascists use.

It is a propaganda creation worthy Dr. Goebbels,

Who, by the way, was appointed by a democratically elected Chancellor, so why Eric is using it as a pejorative here is a bit unclear. Apparently only some duly elected fascists are really fascists.

We’re much more simple in our worldview: A fascist is a fascist no matter how he managed to slither his way to power and should be promptly disposed of in any way possible, without mercy or remorse.

read the rest here.

Stix

This is sick

A National Guardsman was beaten up by a bunch of idiaotic moonbat assholes.  They were calling him "baby killer".  I anyone has any information on these punks call the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department at 253-591-5959.   

National Guardsman Brutally Attacked In Pierce County

POSTED: 4:33 pm PDT August 30, 2006

UPDATED: 6:15 pm PDT August 30, 2006

PARKLAND, Wash. — The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department is searching for five people who allegedly attacked a uniformed National Guardsmen walking along 138th Street in Parkland Tuesday afternoon. The soldier was walking to a convenience store when a sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside him and the driver asked if he was in the military and if he had been in any action. The driver then got out of the vehicle, displayed a gun and shouted insults at the victim. Four other suspects exited the vehicle and knocked the soldier down, punching and kicking him. “And during the assault the suspects called him a baby killer. At that point they got into the car and drove off and left him on the side of the road,” Detective Ed Troyer with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The suspects were driving a black Chevy Suburban-type SUV. “This is something new for us, we have not had military people assaulted because they were in the military or somebody’s opposition to a war or whatever,” Troyer said. The driver is described as a white male, 25-30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, heavy build, short blond hair, wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, and armed with a handgun. The vehicle’s passengers are described as white males, 20-25 years old. Some of the suspects wore red baseball hats and red sweatshirts during the attack. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and charging of the individuals involved. Informants can call 253-591-5959, and callers will remain anonymous.   (source)

Stix

Clinton was Arroganter than Bush part 3,982

The Anchoress , with her usual clear eye, compares Methodist GWB’s recent respectful behavior at a Catholic wedding to the egregiously disrespectful behavior of the Bubba-in-Chief at a Catholic Mass in South Africa in 1998. 

August 30, 2006

“How a Non-Catholic respectfully communes at Mass”

Filed under: Bride at every wedding, corpse at every funeral, Catholicism

Thus says from my Li’l Bro Thom, no Bush-lover, he, who very much appreciated seeing this:

Non-Catholics, and Catholics who have not yet gone through the process of formally receiving the sacrament of reconciliation and their first communion, but who wish to “participate” in that part of the Mass are invited to process to the minister dispensing the Holy Eucharist with their hands crossed upon their chest (not a humiliation, but a practical measure, so that there may be no confusion on the priest’s part that they are NOT receiving the Eucharist), whereupon the priest will simply touch his hand to their head and ask God’s blessing upon them. Here we see President and Mrs. Bush doing it the way we ask it to be done, and believe me we surely appreciate and honor their respectfulness.

That “arrogant” president, Bush, did Catholics the world over honor when he respected our ways.

And here we see how a Non-catholic disrespectfully communes at Mass:

Bill Clinton, obviously. A Southern Baptist with a penchant for carrying around big bibles took communion during a Roman Catholic Mass in Africa in 1998. When New York’s Cardinal John O’ Connor, doing his job, called Clinton on it, he was told that his (Cardinal John O’ Connor’s) understanding was deficient. “They do things differently in Africa,” was the answer from the Clinton administration. When pressed on the fact that even the African Bishops Conference complained about it, things devolved into “well, we understood it this way…”

The transcript: Clinton Press Sec’y Mike McCurry and the press (all boldface emphasis added – admin)

Q: …as you know, Cardinal O’Connor had some very strong things to say yesterday about the President’s taking of communion. In that light, I wanted to ask you three things. One, the Cardinal suggested that no one should take communion who’s not in a state of grace. Did the President feel he was in a state of grace, one? Two, does he regret taking communion? And three, the White House suggested it had contact with officials at the church who thought it appropriate but the pastor has said he was not one of them. Can you give us some names of who said it was okay?

MCCURRY: …our team on the ground indicated that the conference of bishops in South Africa had a more ecumenical view of the holy eucharist and had advised members of the traveling party it was appropriate for baptized Christians to share in communion. And the President acted on that guidance…And that includes the priest, and I thought also the bishop who officiated as well, is my understanding, but we can double check that.
[…]
Q: It’s a question about what the Cardinal is saying.

MCCURRY: Cardinal O’Connor may not be familiar with the doctrinal attitude towards the holy eucharist that the conference of bishops in South Africa brings to that question.

Q: The South African bishops have apparently now criticized the minister for having offered communion to the President or permitted him to take it. Does the White House have any reaction?

MCCURRY: I’m not aware of that. That’s contrary to the guidance that the President and his traveling delegation were given at the time of the service.

Q: Well, apparently they say he was supposed to have asked the local bishop for permission before permitting the President to take communion.

MCCURRY: Our understanding was that the invitation was extended on behalf of the Conference of South African Bishops.

Q: Mike, can you be specific about who extended it?

MCCURRY: I can find out if our advance people have got any idea who they spoke with.

Q: As I understand it, only Catholics are supposed to receive Catholic communion. Did that come up in the President’s mind?

MCCURRY: That is the attitude and posture of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, but our understanding is that the Conference of Bishops in South Africa have a different view of holy communion.

All so very vague, all so very arrogant…”someone told us…this was indicated…I’ll have to see if we know any names…” and “I’m not aware of that,” which seems to mean “that can’t be true…” It was all so very typical of that president and his administration which never admitted a mistake, not even one time. And boy, the press sure hates the Bush administration for not “admitting to mistakes…”. But different presidents, different letters after the name…they get treated differently, after all.

But you know, I don’t think I ever heard the besotted press call Clinton arrogant. “Not even one time.”

Most of you are aware that Clinton graduated from Georgetown, a Jesuit school, the first Catholic University in the US.   Because of that, he certainly knows that Catholics around the world believe the same thing about the Eucharist. To say that "Cardinal O’Connor may not be familiar with the doctrinal attitude towards the holy eucharist that the conference of bishops in South Africa brings to that question" is ignorant to the extreme – all conferences of Catholic bishops around the world hold the same doctrinal attitutudes or they are no longer "Catholic".     If "the Conference of Bishops in South Africa have a different view of holy communion" they would no longer be bishops in union with US or Rome  or the rest of the Roman Catholic world, and they most assuredly are still in union with Rome.   

"They do things differently in Africa"??? Perhaps Bubba thought that black Catholics in Africa are more like the black Baptists he knows back in the US and don’t share the same views as the honkey Catholics. How disrepectful to the many black Catholics around the world, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, to name just two.   But the story’s not over yet.

For doing his job, Cardinal O’ Connor was also, apparently, targeted by the Clinton White House for surveillance.

This huge Clinton surveillance scheme was VAAPCON, the Violence Against Abortion Providers Task Force. According to the U.S. Justice Department, VAAPCON “was charged with determining whether there was a nationwide conspiracy to commit acts of violence against reproductive health care providers.” The more than 900 targets of all this surveillance included the Christian Coalition…the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and even then-Roman Catholic Cardinal of New York John O’Connor.
[…]
So if you were close to the late Cardinal O’Connor, or called him to discuss personal or family problems – even personal sins – to him, you may have been wiretapped and recorded by the Clinton’s VAAPCON surveillance. In that sense, the Clinton administration may have literally bugged the confessional.

WOW  How did the MSM miss this instance of pay-back against the Cardinal via abuse of a surveillance scheme by Bubba  —- when Bush is constantly being criticized for monitoring foreign terrorists trying to contact connections within our borders?   I guess it’s dumb to even wonder about the justice of the disparate treatment of Bush. 

Julia 

Conservatives vs Liberals

I have just seen one of the best explanations of the differences between Conservatives and Liberals of today at Ron’s Musings.  I found him through Blonde Sagacity. She is on vacation, so she has guest bloggers on her blog all week. 

Conservatives and Liberals

26 August 2006

I am a book worm. I love books and almost never turn loose of them. As a result, I have almost all of my college text books from courses I cared about. If you’ve read my profile you know I was a double major in political science and religion. So I have all my books from both majors.

I’ve been thinking about my definitions page and the need to define liberal and conservative. I’ve done a good bit of reading on the web, particularly at Dean’s World, about what constitutes a liberal. Dean prefers the classical definition of liberal and applies it to himself, though most today would consider him a conservative in the modern sense.

I’ve also gone back to the textbook from my intro to poli-sci class in college and done some re-reading there. What I’ve come up with boils down to two words. One applies to liberals (in the modern usage of that word) and the other applies to conservatives. The two words are rights and responsibilities.

Liberals focus on rights and find new ones all the time. In addition to the rights spelled out in the Bill of Rights, liberals find a right to health care, a right to food, a right to happiness (as opposed to the pursuit of happiness mentioned in the Declaration of Independence), and others. For liberals everything is about rights and the government exists to protect and extend those rights. What ever action the government needs to take in the name of rights is always justified. If that means higher taxes – that’s fine. If that means taking property – that’s okay. Of course it never seems to occur to liberals that this is an incoherent position because everything the government does in this regard tramples of the rights of one in the name of another.

Conservative, on the other hand, focus on responsibility. Conservatives certainly believe in rights, particularly those enumerated in the Bill of Rights, but they believe that rights can only exist in tandem with responsibility. For example, we have a right to our personal property but unless we take responsibility for obtaining property we will have none to protect. For a conservative rights cannot exist unless citizens take responsibility for themselves and act in responsible ways. Thus, a person should take responsibility for making a living for himself. He should put money back for his retirement and he should plan for medical problems by getting medical insurance or a medical savings account. The role of government is to set up the conditions for people to prosper and then get out of the way and let them take care of themselves.

read the rest here.

Stix

August 31

1939: Germany prepares for invasion of Poland

At noon, despite threats of British and French intervention, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signs an order to attack Poland, and German forces move to the frontier. That evening, Nazi S.S. troops wearing Polish uniforms staged a phony invasion of Germany, damaging several minor installations on the German side of the border. They also left behind a handful of dead German prisoners in Polish uniforms to serve as further evidence of the alleged Polish attack, which Nazi propagandists publicized as an unforgivable act of aggression.

At dawn the next morning, 58 German army divisions invaded Poland all across the 1,750-mile frontier. Hitler expected appeasement from Britain and France–the same nations that had given Czechoslovakia away to German conquest in 1938 with their signing of the Munich Pact. However, neither country would allow Hitler’s new violation of Europe’s borders, and Germany was presented with an ultimatum: Withdraw by September 3 or face war with the Western democracies.

At 11:15 a.m. on September 3, a few minutes after the expiration of the British ultimatum, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared on national radio to announce solemnly that Britain was at war with Germany. Australia, New Zealand, and India immediately followed suit. Later that afternoon, the French ultimatum expired, and at 5:00 p.m. France declared war on Germany. The European phase of World War II began.

History Channel

Stix

More news from Iraq

NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894

Marine medics race time to save a local girl

Wednesday, 30 August 2006

By Cpl. Antonio Rosas 1st Marine Division

CAMP AL QA’IM — For a 12-year-old Iraqi girl in need of a kidney and liver transplant, time is the enemy. Her friends are a team of U.S. Marines and Sailors who have applied their medical skills to help the keep the girl alive. 

Hadael Hamade is in desperate need of surgery, say U.S. Navy physicians who have treated her in recent months.

The girl first befriended Marines from 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, months ago when the Marines were on patrol in Karabilah – a city of about 30,000 near the Iraq-Syria border.

“When we first saw Hadael several months ago, she was walking,” said Navy Lt. Mark D. Rasmussen, an anesthesiologist with the surgical suite here. “Now she can’t move much. The Marines needed to carry her from her house to the Humvee, and from the Humvee to the surgical suite here.”

read the rest here

Stix

More news from Iraq

NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894

For new recruits, a new home

Wednesday, 30 August 2006

By Norris Jones Gulf Region Central District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

BAGHDAD — Hundreds of cadets broke into celebration after graduating from Baghdad Police Academy’s 10-week basic course this summer. In all, 444 Police cadets successfully completed a program that included training in human rights, firearms, tactics and democracy.

Lt. Col. Joel Holtrop, with the Gulf Region Division’s Project and Contracting Office, noted that U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad designated 2006 as the year of the police.

With the focus on training come updated facilities. Soldiers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, GRD, continue to work on improvements to and expansion of the Baghdad Police Academy structure.

“Baghdad Police Academy has definitely been a top priority,” Holtrop said. “It’s a very exciting time as the cadets move into the new structures.”

The academy’s capacity has been significantly expanded with a $73 million investment. When finished, the facility will feature: seven new classrooms, eight cadet barracks, six new instructor barracks, a new dining facility, library, forensic laboratory, range control building, firing ranges, guard towers, motor pool, warehouse, armory, contractor shop and new site utilities – water, sewer and an internal power grid.

In all, the expanded campus now has the capacity to train 10,000 Police recruits per year.   (source)

U.S. Central Command

Public Affairs

1Lt. Anthony Deiss

Spc. Patrick Ziegler

Spc. Chris Erickson

Stix

Ooops. Murtha was wrong

Looks like Murtha got the whole scenario about the soldiers killing in cold blood all wrong.  Frank Wuterich is getting recommened for a medal in his action on the day the supposed cold blooded murders were supposed to take place.

Marine Who Led Haditha Attack Was Recommended for a Medal

By Josh White

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 30, 2006; Page A05

The platoon commander for the squad of Marines who killed as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians during an attack in Haditha last year recommended later that the sergeant who led the attack receive a medal for his heroism that day, according to military documents.

Lt. William T. Kallop wrote in a praise-filled memo that the incident on Nov. 19, 2005, was part of a complex insurgent ambush that included a powerful roadside bomb followed by a high volume of automatic-weapons fire from several houses in the neighborhood. He lauded Sgt. Frank Wuterich for his leadership in the "counterattack" on three houses while the unit received sporadic enemy fire.

The proposed citation indicates that Kallop — the only Marine officer at the scene as the incident unfolded — believed the unit was under a coordinated insurgent attack when Marines stormed civilian homes and opened fire, killing women and children. Whether Marines felt threatened and believed the homes to be hostile is a central element of their defense against potential criminal charges.

read the rest here.

H/T to The Jawa Report

Stix