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Cosmic Justice Caught On Tape

This is a must-see video clip of three jihadis caught planting an IED on a road in Iraq.

They think they are under Allah's protection, but once again the filthy infidels rule the day. Watch as they work up a sweat digging a hole for their bomb only to be vaporized by a laser guided bomb brought home by a Predator / F-16 team. It's the feel good flick of the summer! CLICK HERE

Hat tip to Strategy Page for hosting the clip and to Airborne Combat Engineer for bringing it to my attention.

I'm All For Profiling...

An excellent editorial from the Patriot Post:

To ensure we Americans never offend anyone -- particularly fanatics intent on killing us -- law enforcement and security screeners are not allowed to "profile" people in public places or security checkpoints. However, they will continue to perform random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year-old congressmen with metal hips and even Medal of Honor recipients. But targeting Middle Eastern male Islamists between the ages 17 and 40 constitutes "ethnic profiling."

Let's pause a moment and review...

In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by: (a) A salesman from Utah (b) An construction worker (c) A college student on Spring Break (d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich Olympics by: (a) Your grandmother (b) A Midwest auto-parts dealer (c) A mom and her 6-year-old son visiting from Indiana (d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by: (a) A bluegrass band (b) Dallas Cowboy fans (c) A tour group of 80-year-old women (d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

During the 1980's numerous Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by: (a) A family on their way to Disney World (b) Jesse Ventura (c) A Boy Scout Troop (d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by: (a) A pizza delivery boy (b) The UPS guy (c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day (d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70-year-old disabled American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by: (a) A girls' choir (b) A hardware store owner (c) A secretary (d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by: (a) A Marine officer with two weeks leave (b) A plumber going to visit his mom (c) A Catholic nun (d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40. FULL POST

Be sure to go read the rest. Hat tip to Big Dog's Weblog.

If the "Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40" don't stop trying to blow up airplanes I vote we ban them from public transportation altogether. This political correctness is going to cost thousands of American lives if we don't get real about this war we are in.

How About A Laugh?

Since I'm a bit burned out from work lately and don't feel much like posting on world events I decided to dust off some old jokes lying around on my hard drive and share them with y'all.

WARNING: CRUDE LANGUAGE AHEAD

This first one is a classic told to me by my grandfather:

Amish Wedding - An Amish man was riding in his buggy on the way to his wedding. When the horse refused to turn when the man wanted him to he walked up to the horse and said "That's one!". With that he punched the horse hard enough that it staggered. The man and horse continued on their way and upon reaching the bride's home the horse did not stop when he was told. The man grew angry and walked up to the horse. He said "That's two!" and clubbed the horse so hard that it almost fell over! The man picked up his bride to be and continued to the church. After the ceremony the husband and wife were riding home when the horse suddenly reared up. The man got down, said "That's three!" and shot the horse dead. The wife was horrified. She told her husband he was a terrible man, and that he had no right to kill that horse." The husband turned to his wife, raised his fist and said "That's one!".

Here's two good ones about the Highway Patrol:

Speed Trap 1 - The Highway Patrol pulled a man to the side of the road after radar clocked him doing 88 in a 65 zone. The officer walked up to the window and asked the man why he was speeding. The man replied that he was on his way to work and running late. The officer asked "What do you do that is so important that you need to go twenty three miles over the speed limit?" The man said that he was a rectum stretcher. "What exactly does a rectum stretcher do?" asked the officer. "Well, I stretch out rectums until they are about 6 feet in diameter" said the man. The officer looked puzzled and asked, "What does anyone do with a 6 foot asshole?" The man smiled and replied "They give them a radar gun and put them in the Highway Patrol."

Speed Trap 2 - The Highway Patrol pulled a man to the side of the road after radar clocked him doing 88 in a 65 zone. The officer walked up to the side of the car and after a brief conversation asks the man for permission to search the car. The man agrees and the officers asks if there is anything in the vehicle he should know about. The man sheepishly admits “Yes officer, there is a loaded gun in the glove compartment.” The officer is a bit alarmed and asks if there might be anything else in the car he should know about. The man thinks for a moment and then blurts out that there is a dismembered corpse in the trunk along with a shovel and some plastic bags. The officer is very alarmed at this point and places the man in the back of his squad car and calls his sergeant out to help investigate the matter. After searching the car thoroughly and finding nothing the sergeant asks the man about what his officer told him he said. The man laughs heartily and says “That's the craziest thing I've ever heard! I suppose he told you I was speeding too.”

Something your you religious types:

A Conversation With God - A man enters into heaven and during his conversation with God he asks “Lord, why did you create Satan?” God replies “Well, I didn't want to get blamed for everything.”. The man thinks for just a moment and says “What about lawyers?” God said “Well Satan didn't want to get blamed for everything either…”

And now the obligatory blonde jokes:

Heather & The Trucker - One snowy night a trucker stops for a red light, a blonde driving behind catches up, jumps out of her car, runs up to his truck, and knocks on the door. The trucker lowers the window, and she says "Hi, my name is Heather and you are losing some of your load." The trucker ignores her and proceeds down the street.

When the truck stops for another red light, the girl catches up again. She jumps out of her car, runs up and knocks on the door. Again, the trucker lowers the window. As if they've never spoken, the blonde says brightly, "Hi my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!" Shaking his head, the trucker ignores her again and continues down the street.

At the third red light, the same thing happens again. All out of breath, the blonde gets out of her car, runs up, knocks on the truck door. The trucker lowers the window. Again she says "Hi, my name is Heather, and you are losing some of your load!" When the light turns green the trucker revs up and races to the next light. When he stops this time, he hurriedly gets out of the truck, and runs back to the blonde. He knocks on her window, and as she lowers it, he says... "Hi, my name is Steve, and I'm driving a SALT TRUCK!

The Blonde & Her Husband - A blonde and her husband are sitting on the couch with their children late one evening. The blonde looks at her husband with a sly grin and says “Honey, why don't we tell the kids to go P-L-A-Y so we can fuck?”

Feel free to register your complaints or accolades in the comments section below. That's all I got at the moment. (-;

Fun With Treadmills

Wow. I'm really impressed with these guys.

Dancing with treadmills... who'd a thunk it could be cool? Anybody know who the music is by?

Pallywood

This is a must-see video clip. CLICK HERE

Depeche Mode Cancels Tel Aviv Gig

Well, it's not often I get to combine my passion for current events with my favorite band, but I guess today is the day!

Depeche Mode announces the cancellation of its scheduled Tel Aviv concert following the latest developments in Israel. The reason for the cancellation is the technical team's refusal to come to Israel

[...] The British band apologized to fans and asked for their understanding. Organizers said that unfortunately, at present there is no way to reschedule the concert, as this is the end of the Depeche Mode world tour. More than 40,000 ticket holders will get their money back. FULL ARTICLE

There is also a short statement on the Depeche Mode website. CLICK HERE

This is kind of disappointing really... You have to wonder if the band just chickened out, or if they share the distorted world view of most entertainers and don't want to "take sides".

I would have preferred these Brits to show some Churchillian spirit and go play for FREE just to show some solidarity with the only party in the conflict that would allow them to play in the first place. I mean, do you think an Islamic state would allow a concert by the band who recorded the song "Blasphemous Rumors"?

Euro weenies I guess... but I still love their music and with 40,000 tickets sold in Tel Aviv it sounds like I am not alone. Let's hope they find a way to make it right before they lose those 40,000 fans.

UPDATE: Sounds like they are just politically correct Euro weenies after all:

[...] Depeche Mode canceled it’s Tisha B’Av concert that was scheduled to be played in Tel-Aviv. The band stated that too much of its technical staff were refusing to fly to Israel due to “recent developments” in the war - possibly alluding to the Kfar Kana incident - and Israel’s “image in the world” did not help. This announcement came late last night and only a day after promoters told Israeli media that only rockets falling in Tel-Aviv would stop the concert from going on. FULL POST

UPDATE: Fans chime in on the message forums at Depeche Mode's website. CLICK HERE Ironically this is the image found at the top of the forum page:

Status Report

Posting is light at the moment because I'm in the last week or two of a year and a half long expansion project at my work. Twelve and thirteen hour days don't leave much time to post or keep abreast of current events... I should be back in the game shortly.

Must See TV

MsUnderestimated found a great clip from a talk radio show hosted by Neal Boortz on You Tube. A self described "listener" who is a mulsim calls to complain about Neal's treatment of the "religion of peace" and Neal hits a homer with his irate response. People need to hear more of this and we all need to stop pretending it's not about Islam. CLICK HERE for the video.

Here's her breakdown of Neal's argument:

• Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.
• A Muslim attacks a missionary children’s school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.
• Let’s go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage
• Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.
• Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged.

Yeah... that pretty much sums it up.

UPDATE: Where is the Muslim outrage over Hezbollah loading their rockets with ball bearings in an attempt to massacre Israeli men, women and children on the street? And what would be the "proportional response" to such savagery anyways? Hat tip to Isaac Schroedinger.

Darth Vader Is Straight Pimpin'

CLICK HERE to see Darth Vader in a new light, ya dig?

Israel's Strategy?

In From The Cold has posted an excellent theory on Israel's strategy for dealing with the current imbroglio:

[...] As a part of their overall strategy, the IDF is implementing steps to isolate its enemies and limit their military options. The highly-publicized strikes against Beirut International Airport serve a two-fold purpose: first, to prevent the air transfer of captured Israeli soldiers to Iran, and secondly, to cut off the "air bridge" from Damascus and Syria, used to move supplies and reinforcements to Hizballah units in the Bekka Valley and southern Lebanon.

With the airport now closed, Israeli jets are now concentrating on choke points along the Damascus Highway, the major east-west supply route between terrorist sponsors in the Syrian capital, and their operatives in Lebanon. Latest media reports indicate that the IAF has struck at least five major bridges along that route, attempting to cut off the primary land route between Syria and terrorist bases in central and southern Lebanon. An Israeli naval blockade has been imposed off Beirut, isolating the city from the sea.

In the next phase of the operation, Israel will likely expand their attacks in southern Beirut (where Hizballah) has created a substantial infrastructure, as well as the Bekka Valley, another terrorist stronghold. At this point, Israel faces a greater chance of a direct confrontation with Syria, given their continued military presence along the Lebanese border. Syrian air defense sites east located of the valley could potentially engage Israeli aircraft in the area, raising the possibility of engagements between Syrian SAMs and the IAF. FULL POST

Go read the rest. That's an order.

The Middle East

Take a good look at this picture:

This is what the entire Middle East will look like if the so-called "religion of peace" doesn't soon cleanse itself of the islamofascists like Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas et al.

These terrorists are becoming more and more proficient at their craft and at wrapping themselves in the human body armor of a civilian population. They do this because we in the West take great pains to avoid hitting civilians, but someday when the risk to our own population becomes great enough the gloves will come off, have no doubt. Eventually even the "politically correct" among us will realize that a civilian population that allows terrorists to operate from within their midst is just as culpable as the terrorists themselves. Israel had forgotten this fact, but they just got a little reminder from Hezbollah and what you see in the photo above is just a small taste of what ensued.

Sure the islamofascists can behead hostages, they can gleefully mutilate corpses, they can bomb cafes and schools, they can even hijack airliners and knock down skyscrapers but do they think the West incapable of responding in kind? If the U.S. wanted to take down a pair of buildings in Tehran do they doubt that we could? How about a score of buildings all across the Middle East? How about fifty cities flattened into rubble and the tens of millions of corpses burned into ash? We could accomplish this all in one afternoon if the need (desire?) arose. If there ever were to be a true clash of civilizations does anyone doubt the West's ability to deal death and destruction of biblical proportions?

I don't enjoy the idea. It gives me no pleasure to contemplate or write about, but I feel the time is running out for the people of the Middle East to wake up and remove the parasite of terrorism before it kills them. Do they have the nerve to stand up to the madmen? Do they even want to? Some people doubt the people of the Middle East have a true desire for peace. These people point to the region's long history of bloodshed, barbarity and institutionalized hate mongering and say it's hopeless. I am not among them, but if the facts don't change soon I could be persuaded.

Parting Shot For The Paper Of Wreckage

Hat tips to GM's Corner and Grouchy Old Cripple.

Ilario Pantano On The Daily Show

Euphoric Reality has posted a must see video of Jon Stewart sitting snarkless for once as proud veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom Ilario Pantano explains what combat is like and why he did what he did and has no regrets. CLICK HERE

Rush On MSM/DNC Cabal Hypocrisy

Rush Limbaugh shared this observation about past and future MSM/DNC cabal hypocrisy on his radio program earlier this year:

If a Democrat wins the White House he can surrender the war on terror and blame it all on George Bush. A Democrat president could do no wrong. Every terrorist attack that happens after Bush, the left will blame on Bush – because there was no war until Busch started one and angered the terrorists. September 11 never happened in the minds of the left – or we deserved it anyway.

They will seek to inoculate any Democrat president from responding from attacks if he doesn’t want to, since the Democrat president didn’t start it. Let’s say a Democrat president decides he will strike back after a terrorist attack. He will be backed 100% by the Democrats in congress and the drive-by media. He could bomb Iran off the face of the earth and the liberals in congress and the media, who stabbed Bush in the back, would approve of the Democrat action completely.

Truman dropped a nuclear bomb – twice – and the liberals in the press had no problem with that. If it had been a Republican president that did it, we would still be hearing stories about the horrific things that president caused.

Let Clinton bomb citizens and infrastructure in Serbia and he is a liberator. He doesn’t have to go to the UN for permission. Nobody questioned Clinton’s worthless Defense Secretaries. Most people don’t even know who they were.

He can agree to let the Chinese take over the Panama ports – no problem.

He can let Bin Laden go three times – no problem.

He can arm the Red Chinese and North Koreans – no problem.

He can sit on his hands while 800,000 Rwandans are slaughtered but still be hailed as the first black president – no problem.

Hat tip to Liberal Quicksand for retrieving this gem from the memory hole. Thanks Hank!

The Power Of Makeup

Okay, time for a diversionary post... First let me state that I do feel sorry for celebrities who are stalked at all hours by the paparazzi. Second I have never seen ABC's Desperate Housewives show. In fact, I watch network TV so rarely I can't remember the last time I tuned in to anything on the big three.

Now that we've got that straightened out let me present this illustration of the power of the makeup artist:

When I see Eva Longoria dolled up I still think she's smokin hot, but this does put a new spin on it don't you think? I hope she's giving half her earnings to her hair and makeup team because obviously they are doing an amazing job with what they've got to work with.

Hat tip to The Superficial.