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Huckabee Has Anti-War Protesters Arrested
Mike Huckabee called “the fuzz” on a bunch of shrill anti-war protesters today at his campaign office in Iowa. Of course, the liberal blogs are incensed by the Governor’s audacity.
Eight members of the Iowa Occupation Project and Voices for Creative Nonviolence arrived at Huckabee’s Locust St. campaign office early Monday afternoon, waiting for the former Arkansas governor’s reply to a letter delivered two months ago that sought his pledge to completely withdraw from Iraq within 100 days of assuming office; halt all military actions against Iraq and Iran; fund the rebuilding of Iraq as well as health, education and infrastructure needs in the U.S.; and “…the highest quality health care, education and jobs training benefits for veterans of our country’s Armed Services.”
Brian Terrell, director of the Catholic Peace Ministry in Des Moines, said approximately 35 reporters, including a number of international journalists, were at Huckabee’s office during the protest.
Terrell said in addition to the “Who Would Jesus Bomb?” banner, the eight protesters held signs that read, “End Iraq War” and “No War with Iran,” sang the refrain from “Auld Lang Syne,” chanted ‘Who Would Jesus Bomb?’ and then read names of Iraqis and U.S. soldiers killed in the war.
Sgt. Vincent Valdez of the Des Moines Police Department said officers responded to an early afternoon complaint from the Huckabee Campaign office and arrested Robert Braam, Mona Shaw and Kathy Kelly, on charges of trespassing. He said the three were among a group “holding signs, singing and reading aloud, basically making a disturbance.” Valdez said the officers had no trouble making the arrests and the three were taken to the Polk County jail.
Huckabee was within his rights to call “the fuzz” on the protesters. As I have said numerous times on this site, protesting is fine within reason.
It would have been perfectly acceptable for the group to stand outside Huckabee’s office for as long as they wanted and sing, picket, or smoke a peace pipe.
Where they crossed the line was going into his office to protest. It’s absurd to think you can walk into someone’s office and basically hi-jack the place and start protesting.
They were standing in his office singing, chanting, and holding signs, which undoubtedly prevented work from being done.
Having anti-war protesters thrown in the clink is doing God’s work as far as I’m concerned. I only wish there had been a couple of members of Code Pink involved.
-Chris Jones
Video Conclusively Shows Bhutto Was Shot
It looks like we have a classic cover up on our hands with the Pakistani government. This video was shot from a different angle and it absolutely shows Benazir Bhutto being shot seconds before the suicide bomber detonated himself.
The most likely reason for the cover-up is that Musharraf is embarrassed at what little control he apparently has over security in Pakistan. The fact that both a man with a gun and a man with a bomb strapped to him were able to get within feet of Bhutto and assassinate her is unthinkable.
-Chris Jones
The NY Times Hires Bill Kristol And The Left Goes Wild
A day after the Huffington Post first reported it, The New York Times has announced that it has indeed hired conservative pundit, and Fox News analyst, Bill Kristol, as a new regular op-ed columnist.
I’m not sure what prompted The Times to finally make an attempt to balance out their egregiously left-wing Op-Ed section, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
Of course the epicenter of “free speech” (as long as it’s liberal free speech) known as the Far-Left Blogosphere is going wild at the news. Liberal bloggers are firing off angry letters threatening to cancel their subscriptions, and posting attacks on the editorial page editor of the Times, Andy Rosenthal.
Nothing outrages left-wingers more than not being able to shout-down or in someway silence opposing viewpoints. Just knowing that Bill Kristol’s words will actually be printed in the Times will simply render the paper unreadable going forward for some liberals.
What I find amusing is that Andy Rosenthal actually called out his fellow lefties for being the intolerant ideologues they are.
Times’ editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal defended the move. Rosenthal told Politico.com shortly after the official announcement Saturday that he fails to understand “this weird fear of opposing views….We have views on our op-ed page that are as hawkish or more so than Bill….
“The idea that The New York Times is giving voice to a guy who is a serious, respected conservative intellectual — and somehow that’s a bad thing,” Rosenthal added. “How intolerant is that?”
Kristol was asked about the liberal uproar, and he said it gave him some pleasure to see their “heads explode.”
It really is wonderfully ironic that the party that almost daily accuses Republicans of being intolerant fascists, are themselves trying to crush any and all viewpoints that don’t line up with their “progressive ideology.”
We saw a similar uproar when Newsweek hired Karl Rove as a political commentator for the upcoming elections. What made that interesting is that Newsweek also hired Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas to give the other viewpoint.
So basically, Newsweek hired the most right-wing guy on the planet and the most left-wing guy on the planet to give a balanced commentary. Sounds pretty fair right?
Not to the left-wingers! They were outraged that Newsweek would dare to print the words of Karl Rove. It’s almost like liberals think they might be at risk of being converted to a Republican against their will if they accidentally read something Karl Rove or Bill Kristol writes.
I think far-left columnist Paul Krugman who writes for the Times might be the most dishonest and repugnant little weasel that has ever written an Op-Ed, but I don’t want to silence him. I think it’s important to understand the mindset and viewpoints of the opposition.
Why is it that liberals don’t share that philosophy?
-Chris Jones
A Close Look At Bush Derangement Syndrome
The NY Times lead editorial today is left wing lunacy at its very finest. Every despicable word of it paints a perfect picture of far-left hysteria, and reveals the author to be suffering from late stage “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”
The whole “America is the real terrorist” routine is a constant theme that surfaces time and time again especially among those suffering from BDS.
It is these very sick “Americans” that are left sitting up nights fretting over the possible mistreatment of terror suspects in far away lands.
As they sip their winter coco, they imagine how frightened Al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah must have been as he was being waterboarded by those damned CIA thugs. If they actually believed in god, they would pray that one day Mr. Zubaydah sees justice for the horrible crimes committed against him.
Those inflicted with this terrible illness often times just sit and weep uncontrollably thinking of the many “victims” locked away in secret CIA prisons.
Hundreds of men, swept up on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, were thrown into a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, so that the White House could claim they were beyond the reach of American laws. Prisoners are held there with no hope of real justice, only the chance to face a kangaroo court where evidence and the names of their accusers are kept secret, and where they are not permitted to talk about the abuse they have suffered at the hands of American jailers.
In other foreign lands, the C.I.A. set up secret jails where “high-value detainees” were subjected to ever more barbaric acts, including simulated drowning. These crimes were videotaped, so that “experts” could watch them, and then the videotapes were destroyed, after consultation with the White House, in the hope that Americans would never know.
For those with Bush Derangement, life in America can be a pretty scary place. These individuals often see sinister intentions behind each and every anti-terror measure the Bush Administration uses.
The White House used the fear of terrorism and the sense of national unity to ram laws through Congress that gave law-enforcement agencies far more power than they truly needed to respond to the threat — and at the same time fulfilled the imperial fantasies of Vice President Dick Cheney and others determined to use the tragedy of 9/11 to arrogate as much power as they could.
Even something as innocent as making a phone call can be a terrifying task indeed, as they imagine an NSA operative listening in, recording, and placing their conversation into a secret file that was opened on them the morning of Sept. 12, 2001.
The infected imagine conspiracies both big and small involving every level of government. Hallucinations are also common and can include seeing Blackwater contractors peeking in the window.
These thoughts of conspiracy often lead to more uncontrollable weeping as they think about how other countries must think of us. They imagine all the beautiful international treaties that President Bush stomped all over, and then Dick Cheney using the tattered pieces to light his cigars.
It is the very late stages of the illness that are often the most disturbing. Patients can sometimes sit for hours banging their head against the will mumbling something about “impeachment.”
These “impeachment episodes” as they’ve become known usually happen just before the patient begins to vomit out the kind of editorial prominently featured in today’s NY Times.
Fortunately, there are ways to protect yourself from becoming infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome:
- Avoid far-left websites and other far-left propaganda
- Avoid anti-war rallies, strikes, or protests of any kind
Avoid watching CNN or MSNBCAvoid all news channels except Fox News- Avoid Global Warming events and Al Gore
- Avoid Rosie O’Donnell at all cost
- Avoid the NY Times
- Vote for Republicans or Joe Lieberman
- Occasionally watch footage of the Twin Towers falling
- Avoid hippies or any hippie-related bullsh*t
- Avoid “progressive” causes or self-described “progressives”
-Chris Jones
Elizabeth Edwards’ Autograph Signing Interrupts Husband’s Event
Few Iraqi’s Mark Anniversary Of Saddam Execution
Small groups of mourners have gathered at the grave of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to mark the first anniversary of his execution.
Saddam loyalists visited his grave in Ouja, the deposed dictator’s birthplace. Walls in the nearby city of Tikrit were marked by fresh graffiti honoring the dead leader.
The U.S. military says it has not noted any increase in violence attributed to the anniversary.
Bin Laden Releases New Audio Tape Warning Iraq
Osama bin Laden warned Iraq’s Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terror group’s holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening “blood for blood, destruction for destruction.”
Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently al-Qaida’s latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a time when the U.S. military has dealt severe blows to al-Qaida’s Iraq branch in recent months.
In Iraq, a number of Sunni Arab tribes in western Anbar province have formed a coalition fighting al-Qaida-linked insurgents that U.S. officials credit for deeply reducing violence in the province. The U.S. military has been working to form similar “Awakening Councils” in other areas of Iraq.
Bin Laden said Sunni Arabs who have joined the Awakening Councils “have betrayed the nation and brought disgrace and shame to their people. They will suffer in life and in the afterlife.”
In the audiotape, bin Laden denounced Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the former leader of the Anbar Awakening Council, who was killed in a September bombing claimed by al-Qaida.
“The most evil of the traitors are those who trade away their religion for the sake of their mortal life,” bin Laden said.
Bin Laden talked about U.S. and Iraqi officials attempt to set up a “national unity government” joining the country’s Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.
“Our duty is to foil these dangerous schemes, which try to prevent the establishment of an Islamic state in Iraq, which would be a wall of resistance against American schemes to divide Iraq,” he said.
He called on Iraq’s Sunni Arabs to rally behind the Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent umbrella group led by al-Qaida. Besides the Awakening Councils, some Sunni insurgent groups that continue to fight the Americans have rejected the Islamic State.
What this tape shows is that Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are getting desperate. He has all but lost popular support among the populace in Iraq, which is the most critical factor in sustaining an insurgency. Anyone that continues to say we’re losing the war in Iraq is either a fool, or just doesn’t want to see the truth.
We were on the wrong track for the first few years in Iraq, but thanks to General Petraeus we are now finally turning things around. Even people who were and are against the Iraq war should be able to get behind a winning strategy. People like Harry Reid who continue to call for withdrawal are bitter, ignorant, and partisan Democrats who care more about undermining President Bush than about a victory for America.
The anti-war crowd are a very small, albeit shrill minority whose power doesn’t extend much beyond the Blogosphere. Democrats who continue to pander to their 1960’s era hippie base are making a big mistake. Most Americans even those against the Iraq war still want to see their country succeed.
We finally have a strategy that’s succeeding and we need to come together as Americans and see this thing through to the end. When the end might be is not clear yet, but as long as we continue to move forward and make progress we should support the Iraq effort for as long as it takes.
-Chris Jones
Girl Won Hannah Montana Tickets With Fake Essay
An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”
The problem is that the entire story was a big lie, and the girl may lose her tickets now that the mother has admitted it.
The sponsor of the contest was Club Libby Lu, a Chicago-based store that sells clothes, accessories and games intended for young girls.
The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
The mother had told company officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
“We did the essay and that’s what we did to win,” Priscilla Ceballos, the mother, said in an interview with Dallas TV station KDFW. “We did whatever we could do to win.”
She had identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar, but the Department of Defense has no record of anyone with that name dying in Iraq. The mother has since admitted that she made the name up.
The store that sponsored this contest is now discussing the matter and is considering taking the tickets away.
I think the store should take the tickets away. That is such a horrible example for a mother to set for her 6-year old daughter. Not only was submitting a fake story bad, but to make it about her daughter’s father being killed in Iraq is just despicable.
I think the company taking the tickets away could potentially turn this ugly situation into a good lesson for the 6-year old. It would teach her that there’s consequences in life if you lie, cheat, and steal to get what you want. Whether it’s Enron, steroids in baseball, or pretending your father was killed in the war.
-Chris Jones
Letterman To Return Next Week
The WGA and David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants have reached an agreement that will allow “Late Show with David Letterman” and “Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson” to return to the air next week with their writers.
WGA issued a statement Friday confirming the agreement, citing the deal as proof that its demands aren’t unreasonable.
“This is a comprehensive agreement that addresses the issues important to writers, particularly new media,” the Guild said. “Worldwide Pants has accepted the very same proposals that the Guild was prepared to present to the media conglomerates when they walked out of negotiations on December 7.
Today’s agreement dramatically illustrates that the Writers Guild wants to put people back to work, and that when a company comes to the table prepared to negotiate seriously a fair and reasonable deal can be reached quickly.”
WGA’s decision to strike a deal with Letterman is unique, because Letterman owns his own shows and is not at the mercy of the big studios. However, similar deals with the large studios are unlikely because they have considerably more at stake than Letterman’s World Wide Pants does.
I have mixed emotions about this WGA strike. I can appreciate what the writers are asking for and I can’t say that it’s unreasonable. There’s just something about strikes of any kind that I find irritating. Maybe it’s not so much the strike itself, but just the gratuitous picketing that I find so irritating.
What’s wrong with having a strike and just staying home or going on vacation? Is is really necessary to stand in the street with a dumb sign and a megaphone? The fact that all the late night shows went off the air made a pretty significant statement by itself without the stupid picketing.
Of course I could be wrong, so if I’m missing something and this whole picketing thing is necessary than please do tell.
-Chris Jones
John Edwards: Poverty Guru and Foreign Policy Expert
In an obvious attempt to give the illusion of foreign policy experience, John Edwards called Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf yesterday after the Bhutto murder.
Amazingly, Musharraf actually took his call. Edwards reportedly told him to allow an international inspection team to investigate the Bhutto murder, if he wants to have any credibility left. This was of course before the body was even on ice and details were still sketchy.
Clearly this was a political stunt to be used on the campaign trail. Edwards had no business calling a world leader to tell them to do a damn thing. I’m surprised that Musharraf even took his call to begin with. John Edwards doesn’t know anything about foreign policy, or Pakistan, or the War on Terror.
I have to laugh every time I hear one of Edward’s stump speeches. He truly is the phoniest candidate that has ever run for President. It’s amazing that anyone could take a filthy rich trial lawyer seriously when he howls about corporate greed, “two Americas,” and the middle class.
John Edwards often talks about our “broken system” and our “corrupt system” that’s totally “rigged” against the little guy. But what I’m wondering is how John Edwards the “son of a mill worker” got to be so damn successful under such a corrupt and broken system?
The system was good enough for him, but now that he has his 30,000 sq. ft. house, it’s time to change the system for the rest of us.
John Edwards is a far-left phony who should leave foreign policy matters to the grown-ups. His “shtick” is pretending to identify with poor people and he should just stick to that.
-Chris Jones
Transcript of Al-Qaeda Intercept Discussing Bhutto Assassination
The Pakistani authorities claim they have proof that Al-Qaeda was responsible for the Bhutto assassination. The alleged proof is a telephone conversation between two Al-Qaeda operatives that was intercepted by Pakistani intelligence. Here is the official transcript of that phone intercept released earlier today.
The conversation is between militant leader Baitullah Mehsud, who is referred to as Emir Sahib, and another man identified as a Maulvi Sahib, or Mr. Cleric.
Maulvi Sahib: Peace be on you.
Mehsud: Peace be on you, too.
Maulvi Sahib: How are you Emir Sahib?
Mehsud: Fine.
Maulvi Sahib: Congratulations. I arrived now tonight.
Mehsud: Congratulations to you, too.
Maulvi Sahib: They were our men there.
Mehsud: Who were they?
Maulvi Sahib : There were Saeed, the second was Badarwala Bilal and Ikramullah was also there.
Mehsud: The three did it?
Maulvi Sahib: Ikramullah and Bilal did it.
Mehsud: Then congratulations to you again.
Maulvi: Where are you? I want to meet with you?
Mehsud: I am in Makin. Come I am at Anwar Shah’s home.
Maulvi Sahib: OK I will come.
Mehsud: Do not inform their family presently.
Maulvi Sahib: Right.
Mehsud: It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed her.
Maulvi Sahib: Praise be to God. I will give you more details when I come.
Mehsud: I will wait for you. Congratulation once again.
Maulvi Sahib: Congratulations to you as well.
Mehsud: Any service?
Mauvliv: Thank you very much?
Mehsud: Peace be on you.
Maulvi: Same to you.
-Chris Jones
Mischa Barton arrested for DUI
Actress Mischa Barton was arrested in West Hollywood Thursday morning on charges of drunken driving and marijuana possession.
The former “O.C.” was pulled over at 2:46 a.m. by police who saw her weaving between two lanes of traffic on La Cienega Blvd. after they spotted her failing to signal when turning, a spokesman for the L.A. County sheriff’s department said.
She posted $10,000 bail and was released to her mother. The 21-year old is due in court on Feb. 28th.
-Chris Jones
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