January 14, 2009

Unfortunately, and for reasons known only to them, the National Rifle Association has decided not to fight against Obama's nomination of Eric Holder for Attorney General. I really wish they would. If you're a gun owner and you're not sure what to think of Mr. Holder, I direct you to the following statements set forth in an op-ed by Eric Holder:

"We can no longer allow the purchase of firearms through the Internet or a newspaper ad, at a gun show or a flea market, or in any other type of sale from an unlicensed seller, without any background check or other record of purchase."

"Congress should also pass legislation that would give the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale."

Can Eric Holder be trusted to faithfully execute the law as written, or will he inject his own biased view into the performance of his job?

I fully inderstand that Barack Obama is not going to nominate Wayne LaPierre or Fred Thompson to be his Attorney General, but is it really too much to ask that we not have yet another anti-gun zealot?

Shown here with some hot Super Chicks playing the superman Khan Noonien Singh. Leading man and vile villain, actor Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino has passed away.

As Hetz Shahor just commented in email, Corinthian Leather will never be the same.

A tongue-in-cheek idea? Maybe, but it might actually be worth doing.

H/T: Michelle.

Media Splatters blowhard Eric Boehlert, who never misses a chance to blame Bush, the Republicans, conservatives and the "right-wing mainstream media" for each and every problem in the world, is OUTRAGED at the cost of the inaugural celebration and that reporters didn't ask "harder questions" about it:

This week's inauguration story came ready with two interesting news angles: the huge cost (in contrast with the dire situation in Iraq) and the unprecedented security. And in both cases, the political press corps, as has been its habit under the Obama administration, showed little interest in prying. In the days and weeks leading up to the event, the press has largely treated inauguration criticism as partisan and silly, making sure to give Obama backers lots of time and room to defend the unmatched pomp and circumstance.

A complimentary column matching the levels of OUTRAGE at the inaugural costs for Obama's upcoming celebration - which are dwarfing any before them in US history and climbing into the $100 millions - could not be located at Media Matters, Slate or anywhere else.

Where's the outrage, Eric? You have the chance to criticize a truly ostentatious, waste-filled, service-crippling, inconvenient inauguration with unprecedented security and at unprecedented costs - in the midst of the worst economy in 100 million millenia and "dire situations" all around the world - and I just can't seem to find your column condemning this show of ostentaciousness or the press's lack of interest in asking "hard questions" about it.

Funny, that. Let us know when you get around to it, mkay?

A list of Israeli officials, their email addresses, phone numbers, mobile phone numbers, and fax machine numbers has been developed and put into broad circulation for the expressed purpose of "bombarding" those targeted with unsolicited messages, thus rendering their phones, email addresses and fax lines unusable. This is an act of information warfare. The source of the list is the Sabbah Blog:

sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/01/12/action-alert-fax-israel/

Sabbah.biz is operated by and registered to:

Haitham Sabbah
Zain Bahrain
P.O. Box 266
Manama
SEEF
266
Bahrain (BH)
+973.36030198
haitham4u@gmail.com

Mr. Sabbbah says "If you know or come across any mobile number* of any Israeli war criminal, please send it to (haitham.sabbah@gmail.com) so that I can update the list here."

Alas, there is no fax number available for Haitham.

Sabbah.biz is hosted on a server in Dallas, Texas, along with 9 other domains, all associated with Mr. Sabbah - some are active sites, some are not.[1]

Network access to for the site is provided by 1-800-HOSTING, Inc. The use of their services to organize an attack on the communications capabilities of a sovereign nation (Israel) is likely a violation of one or more of their abuse policies. Guidelines for contacting their abuse department will be found here.

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[1] 3rees.com,gatherus.com,palestineactivism.com, palestineblogs.net, palestineblogs.org, palestinediary.com, palestinethinktank.com, palestinevine.com. yallapalestine.com

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No. Food. In. Gaza.

Thanks to No One You Know.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Gitmo detainees that many in the world seem to think are "innocent" and who were "just in the wrong place at the wrong time":

When America invaded Afghanistan, they just arrive in Afghanistan cause the[y] hear there enemy. They don’t know what it means al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden or Taliban. They don’t care about these things. They heard they were enemy in Afghanistan. They just arrived. As they heard first time Russian invade Afghanistan. … [T]hey don’t know what is going on. They just hear they are fighting and they help Muslim in Afghanistan.

Muhammad molested a nine year old, so why shouldn't Saudi men be able to have their way with 10 year olds?

A pan-Arab newspaper quotes Saudi Arabia's most senior Muslim cleric as saying it is OK for 10-year-old girls to marry.

Muhammad, the great exemplar, married Aisha when she was six. But he didn't begin molesting her until she was nine.

The good news in the story is that some Saudi Arabians are trying to ban the practice. The bad news is that it remains illegal to criticize Muhammad.

(Diyarbakir, Turkey) Sixteen-year-old Naile Erdas became pregnant because of a rape and her family colluded to murder her to preserve the family honor. As a consequence, five members of the same family have been sentenced to life in prison.

In its verdict Friday, a court in the eastern city of Van sentenced the murder victim's brother to life in jail for the 2006 murder said to have been committed to cleanse the family honor, the Van Women's Association said.

The girl's father, mother and two uncles were also given life sentences for instigating the murder, while a third uncle was jailed for 16 years and eight months for failing to report the murder in one of the heaviest sentences handed down in Turkey for such a killing.

"We can say this verdict is a first in terms of the harshness of the sentences and the fact that the entire family was convicted," Mazlum Ba?l?, a researcher into honor killings at Dicle University in Diyarbak?r....

In summary, the daughter is dead and the family is in prison for life. Some honor, eh?

The new definition of "torture:"

"For 160 days his only contact was with the interrogators," said Crawford, who personally reviewed Qahtani's interrogation records and other military documents. "Forty-eight of 54 consecutive days of 18-to-20-hour interrogations. Standing naked in front of a female agent. Subject to strip searches. And insults to his mother and sister."

At one point he was threatened with a military working dog named Zeus, according to a military report. Qahtani "was forced to wear a woman's bra and had a thong placed on his head during the course of his interrogation" and "was told that his mother and sister were whores." With a leash tied to his chains, he was led around the room "and forced to perform a series of dog tricks," the report shows.

I got news for ya. My fraternity did worse than this every night of Hell Week. This is not torture. Torture is plucking out fingernails or hooking up testicles to car batteries. Torture is breaking bones on a rack or shoving a screwdriver through somebody's hand. Torture is having your throat-slit and being beheaded while your murderers euphorically chant to Allah and send the videotape to CNN. Torture is what is done to people that are captured by the associates and friends of Qahtani.

This sounds more like hazing, and wimpy hazing at that. This guy was the 20th hijacker? Anything he got was too good for him.

Lyrics below the fold. Fatwa?

Hat Tip: Herroyalwhyness.

Via CBS News:

Al Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden says the decline of America's dominance on the world stage was one of the main factors which prompted Israel to launch its offensive in Gaza....

...Bin Laden says Bush has left President-elect Barack Obama with "two bitter choices," and wonders aloud whether the next American leader will be able to keep up the fight against al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

"Can America keep up the war with us for more decades to come? All reports and analysis indicate that this is not possible. In fact, 75 percent of American people are happy with the departure of the president who got them into wars they could not possibly win."

Bin Laden goes on to say President Bush "drowned" the American people in economic woes and "left his successor a difficult legacy, and left him one of two bitter choices… The worst heritage is when a man inherits a long guerrilla warfare with a persevering, patient enemy - a war that is funded by usury. If he (Obama) withdraws from the war, that would be a military defeat, and if he goes on with it, he'll drown in economic crisis."

Anyway, we have the tape. Its is bin-Laden's voice over a still image. All in Arabic with no subtitles. So really there's no point in uploading it.

Anyway if you need/want a copy, email Howie. When a full translation becomes available, we'll run it here.

Update: Obama has vowed to find and kill UBL and the al-Qaeda leadership that attacked us on 9/11/2001. That's one goal he's set that I can support. Well, Go get him kid.

The Lightworker works in mysterious ways.

January 13, 2009

Muslim Google*. It's like Gaza, only on the internet. What could possibly go wrong?

Hat tip: Robert Spencer.

(*Before you ask, that would be Turkish)

I don't mind closing Gitmo. House the SOBs somewhere else. Better yet, hang them for violating the Geneva Conventions. I really don't care.

But please -- I'm on my knees begging you -- don't suffer any illusions about who these guys are:

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.

10 forgotten conflicts: Colombia, Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, Sudan (Darfur), Somalia, East Timor, and Chechnya.

And that's just noting 10, a nice round number. That's not counting the Philippines, Indonesia, India (Kashmir), Morocco, Turkey, and Thailand. The list really goes on, but I came up with those in 15 seconds.

Civilians die every day in armed conflilcts around the world, yet the U.N. yawns, the media ignores, and protesters don't seem to have it in them to scream "fascist".

Why is it that its only when Americans or Jews are involved that the world becomes outraged?

Via IHT:

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed as "returning to the fight" and 43 are suspected of having done in a report issued late in December by the Defence Intelligence Agency.

"Until enough information is provided to allow the press and the public to verify these claims, they need to be viewed with a healthy degree of scepticism," said Jennifer Daskal, a Washington-based lawyer for Human Rights Watch.

Rights advocates contend that many Guantanamo detainees have never taken up arms against the United States and say the Defence Department in the past has described former detainees as rejoining "the fight" because they spoke out against the U.S. government.

"The Defence Department sees that the Guantanamo detention operation has failed and they are trying to launch another fear mongering campaign to justify the indefinite detention of detainees there," said Jamil Dakwar, human rights director at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Bill Roggio has the background and the video here.

I guess he was just "speaking out"? Maybe the ALCU has become so busy protecting the rights of foreign terrorists that they just forgot about the Iraqis right to, you know, breathe?

What? You mean mosques don't come with AA cannons as standard equipment?

Five seriously injured from gunfire, dozens ill from tear gas and over 50 arrested.

IHT: Riot police in Yemen wounded five demonstrators in the southern city of Aden when they opened fire to disperse a crowd of thousands of army veterans demanding their old jobs back, said Yemeni hospital officials....After Yemen's 1994 civil war, many soldiers from the southern part of the country fled to neighboring Saudi Arabia, returning only when the government issued an amnesty and promised to readmit them to the army — a promise southern Yemenese say has not been kept.

That's not actually what's going on. Since the civil war, southerners allege they have been treated like a vanquished enemy. Protests in the south broke out a year ago calling for an end to the discrimination and theft of property. The Yemeni regime, dominated by President Saleh's family and northern tribal allies, responded with violence and arrests, further inflaming tensions. Public opinion developed a strong separatist sentiment in light of the fact that the government is unable and unwilling to reform. Yemen is in the bottom five for poverty globally, largely a result of massive corruption, and child hunger is at a critical level. The following video shows people being shot in the street earlier today and is graphic. This happens at nearly every protest.

Do you think it's coincidence that the NY Times revealed last week that the U.S. had authorized covert operations in Iran and then today Iran arrested four men said to be involved in a "coup" attempt? You'd have to be a fool to think so. "Leaks" have consequences. In this case, those consequences will no doubt be the death of four individuals in Iran.

It's highly doubtful in my mind that the four are guilty as charged. It's far more likely that the Times leak sent the Mullahs scampering to find someone -- anyone -- to accuse. And no doubt there is a long list of suspected enemies of the Islamic Republic who could be arrested on any flimsy pretext.

Thank you New York Times! How many more will die because of your lack of self-restraint?

We reported last month that Washington state jihadi Ruben Shumpert (a.k.a. Amir Abdul Muhaimeen) was recently killed in Somalia fighting for the al Qaeda linked al Shebaab. You'll recall that Shumpert actually called the FBI from Somalia mocking their efforts to capture him. All's well that ends well, eh?

The group has now released a "biography" of Shumpert which recounts his childhood in a rough neighborhood, how he converted to Islam in jail, and how he eventually went to Somalia for the jihad. You can read the entire bio here.

But perhaps the most important piece of the story is an admission that Shumpert turned to the Salafi strand of Islam after he met with some Muslims in Washington who had recently returned from fighting the jihad in Chechnya:

Allah guided him to the path of righteousness, when he met some brothers who had returned from Chechnya. He became acquainted with them, and they provided him with some educational and jihadi video recordings. Our knight was very fond of Shaykh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may Allah have mercy on him, and he hoped to join [Zarqawi] in Mesopotamia.

So, who are Ruben Shumpert's friends who had been to Chechnya and are they still on the loose in Washington?

Poor little guys. All Hamas wants are supplies and blood money. Why can't Israel just die already?

Does this surprise anyone except for Nour?

Hamas on Monday raided some 100 aid trucks that Israel had allowed into Gaza, stole their contents and sold them to the highest bidders.

The IDF said that since terminal activity is coordinated with UNRWA and the Red Cross, Israel could do nothing to prevent such raids, Israel Radio reported.

Oh this story just keeps getting better. Apparently other pirates on shore were waiting for those coming ashore and wanted a "tip"?

Via CNN: NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- One of the pirates who held a Saudi oil supertanker off Somalia before releasing it for ransom has told CNN how five in his group drowned when the boat in which they left the ship capsized as they tried to evade rival pirates seeking a cut of the money.

..."Other pirates on the shore wanted a tip from the pirates on the Sirius Star, so they started to fire in the air as our people approached the land," Libaan Jaama told CNN. "When our pirates heard the shots, they thought they would be robbed, so they tried to return to the tanker. In that quick turn the boat capsized."

January 12, 2009

Above: Sunni Islam's top scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi (left), who this week called for the killing of all Jews in Israel, with Ohio imam Salah Sultan (right).

Central Ohians Against Terrorism has more exclusive photos and much more information.

Hooray for giving religious worker visas to Muslims from countries that outlaw non-Muslim proselytizing!

As you may recall, a Yemeni Jewish rabbi, father of nine, was slaughtered last month in Yemen in cold blood after demands to convert to Islam. Yemeni human rights organizations are demanding protection of the Jewish community's rights. Of course, this stance comes at considerable risk due to agitation by extremists within and out of the government.

The killer's family is harassing and threatening the victim's family in court, and Jewish residents have been abused and physically injured since the rabbi's murder. Plans are afoot to relocate the Jewish community to a secure complex in the capital, but when Jewish families were relocated from Sa'ada to Sana'a, they received no monetary compensation for their property left behind. Also the HR orgs make the valid point the Jews should be able to live anywhere in Yemen that they choose.

The harassment and targeting of Jews in Yemen is new and a result of the continuing Talabanization of Yemen fostered in part by that lunatic President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who promotes and legitimizes the jihaddist ideology.

Sahwa Net: The National Committee for Defending Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) has demanded the Justice Minister to render the killer of a Yemeni Jew, Masha Yaish, from Amran province into the Capital , Sana'a , in order to have a just trial. HOOD said that relatives of the killer had threatened Yaish's family, provoked confusion inside the court and assaulted a soldier inside the courtroom.

HOOD Online: The Yemen Human Rights Observatory (YHRO)... said that tens of students at Al-Zahra School in Raida assaulted members of the Jewish minority during a random demonstration in protest against the ongoing Israeli attacks in Gaza.

They verbally assaulted Jews, threw stones at their houses, and intimidated their women and children. According to the statement, Jew Zaher Gafri sustained critical injuries, his face swelled up, and his appearance was stained with blood. Other Jewish citizens were subject to various injuries while on the street. The protestors hurled stones at houses of Jews Haim Yaeesh, Shakr Sulaiman, Salem Shaghdari, and Yahya Jaradi, and the houses’ occupants were intimidated.

The human rights organization held the security authorities responsible for what happened to the Jewish citizens in Raida, accusing them of being indifferent toward Jewish minorities. It continued that the authorities only asked Jews to move to Sana’a, which is another violation against their right to settle wherever they want.

This AP story on the firebombing of a Jewish synagogue in France cites a "new wave of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attacks" in France. Yet I can find no news items about attacks on Mosques or Muslims in France since Israel started its offensive against Hamas in Gaza?

But the reporter states that Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said there have been

Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said France has faced a "very clear increase" in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks since Israel started an offensive against the militant group Hamas in Gaza on Dec. 27.

Does the AP reporter Nathalie Genatz just have an active imagination, or is this just more of the same PC Associated Press bull trying to excuse the raging anti-Jewish violence of Muslims?

Good news if it pans out. Ansar al-Sunnah (alt spelling: Ansar al-Sunna) was the chief rival of al Qaeda in Iraq for sheer brutality. Both groups were on the cutting edge of beheading hostages. While AQI focused on high profile foreigners, Ansar al-Sunna specialized in capturing truck drivers and other civilians and then brutally beheading them, with the occasional dozen or two off duty cops thrown in for good measure.

Not surprising, since both AQI and Ansar are both offshoots of Ansar al-Islam which once sheltered Abu Musab al-Zaraqawi in the long forgotten days when Saddam Hussein was in power. After Hussein fell, Zarqawi went out on his own and the rest, as they say, is history.

A side note here is that over the past year Ansar al-Sunnah began to call itself Ansar al-Islam once again. Significance? None that I can find, but worth noting nonetheless for those that follow the ins and outs of Salafi terror organization in Iraq.

Let's hope Tha'ir Kadhim Sraiwi gets what he deserves.

Bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, was released in Yemen this week, Yemeni authorities confirm. The US Military Tribunal sentenced Hamdan to five years, including time served, and returned him to Yemen in November. He served the next and last month of his sentence in jail and is now free.

Follow up measures by the Yemeni government are likely to be lax, considering even terrorists convicted of murder in Yemen get amnesty. (I am referencing the perpetrators of the 2000 USS Cole terror attack that killed 17 US sailors. The terrorists, according to the WaPo, are all free.) Like the terrorists Yemen has already freed, Hamdan gave a pledge to refrain from violence. Yemen's rehabilitation program strives to convince the jihaddists that President Saleh is not an apostate. The program is widely understood to be a mechanism of expedited release.

The sentence meted out to Hamdan is in stark contrast to that given to that given to Ali Hamza Bahlul, who was sentenced to life in prison for solicitation to commit murder. Bahlul created jihaddist recruiting videos for bin Laden. The reasoning behind his conviction is very similar to that used by the International Criminal Court to convict Rwandan radio station operators of incitement to murder for broadcasting calls to kill Tutsis's duing the Rwandan genocide. Bahlul is both clearly guilty and clearly a continuing threat. Next up for the Military Commissions is al-Nashiri, allegedly a major figure in the USS Cole bombing along with several other terror attacks and plots. If there is another trial.

Focusing on the Military Commissions themselves, its clear they have been conducted with a high degree of professionalism. As one of the victims' family members told us, "Thank God we have individuals who are willing to see that justice is served... We are extremely proud of the prosecutions professionalism, dedication and their diligence in their work."

In Yemen, the same backwards farce continues. The latest outrage by that psychotic mafia is the attempted assassination of a blogger and the imprisonment and torture of several others. Torture in Yemen is real torture. See our earlier report, Witness Testimony From the Dungeons of Yemeni Prisons and note some of these victims are 10 and 12 year old children. What is the Obamamessiah to do?

Not only does Yemen torture its children, but it has been documented to be committing crimes against humanity by withholding food and medicine from the civilian population in the war torn Sa'ada region, while bombing them. Tom Joscelyn of the Long War Journal sent me a breakdown of the remaining Yemeni detainees by "red flags". And the vast majority have three of more indicators. Some of them are bad dudes (and some not), and recidivism rates are high for committed jihaddists.

News today from the Obama camp is Gitmo will be closed within weeks of his ascention to power. What the plan is after that is unclear. If they come onto US soil, and are found not guilty, they will be able to apply for political asylum to remain in the US according to current law. If they are relased to Yemen, they will be freed to operate in an environment that lacks of counter-terror restraints and encourages jihaddists mentality.

Update from Wyatt in the comments: President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office—and perhaps his first day—to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.

....stays together.

Hat Tip: PatriotinFreedom

Perhaps we are seeing the emergence of a new strategy to fight al Qaeda's Somali affiliate, the al-Shabaab, and their on-again off-again allies of the Somali Taliban, the Islamic Courts Union? Since it appears that our strategy of funding an Ethiopian proxy to do our fighting for us has failed, I can't help but wonder to what extent groups like Ahlu-sunah Wal-jamea, who fashion themselves as more "moderate" Islamists, are getting our help? Democracy certainly hasn't worked out so great in Somalia, neither did our return to proxy interventionism.

If we are now backing certain Islamist and tribal factions over others in Somalia, I can't help but worry about what "moderate" means? Some may recall that just a few short years ago many were calling for the U.S. to recognize the Islamic Courts Union government since they appeared to have many "moderates" in the group.

I'd adopt the it's none of our damn business attitude that is so appealing in the face of a country which seems intent on cannibalizing itself. But it was that same attitude that gave us the Taliban in Afghanistan. Any of you willing to risk that again?

UPDATE: Let me throw in Brian's thoughts from the comments since they're a) worth the read; and b) probably will get overlooked if they don't get moved to the actual post:

I don't think that our use of Ethiopia as a proxy was a failure. It was actually very successful - if short lived. I do not think we expected the Ethiopians to control the country long term. But, we did not have to expend much blood or treasure, we bought a few years and killed a lot of bad guys. The islamists also know we can do it again if we want to (which might "moderate" the islamist's behavior in the future).

I think it is becoming very evident that civilized nations can only hold the line or delay the advance of islamists at this point. None of the civilized nations (even Israel) has the will do mete-out the kind of violence that would be required to beat back the islamists long term.

Given that the goal has now been reduced to "hold the line" or "delay the advance", I think the realpolitic treatment calls for us to divide our enemies. That will require us to get into bed with some of the islamists.

Now back to the story.......

What strikes me about these "peace talks" between the Pakistan army and Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah is that if they met with him doesn't that kind of imply that they knew where he was? I mean, this is the same Maulana Fazlullah who's followers kidnapped and beheaded 13 Pakistanis a couple of years ago, including some members of the Pakistani military, so you'd think they'd be out for revenge.

Typical of the Pakistanis: never let the opportunity to let the Taliban regroup and resupply pass.

The two brothers, Rehman Rauf and Asfandyar Khattak, were murdered by the Taliban for "spying" for the U.S. I get the distinct feeling that "spies" in Pakistan's "tribal" areas are much like "witches" were in pre-Enlightenment Europe: just kill whoever is unpopular to placate the paranoid population. No doubt the "trials" in the two cases would be eerily similar as well.

More evidence the far greatest killer of Muslims around the world are other Muslims.

The Jawa Report has been voted #3 for " Best Original Reporting By A Blog" and #9 for "The Best Blog Overall" at Right Wing News' 7th annual Conservative Blog Awards* . I didn't even know we were nominated but thanks for the accolades!

*Actually, we tied with Patterico but apparently tie goes to the Jawa or something like that.

Gaza is about 41 kilometers (25 miles) long, and between 6 and 12 kilometers (4–7.5 miles) wide, Professor Rashid Khalidi. Not "ten or eleven miles by two."

(UK) A 42-year-old British computer geek, Gary McKinnon, who illegally accessed and damaged 97 U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, Pentagon and NASA computers, is seeking to avoid being sent to the United States by confessing to a non-extraditable crime.

The U.S. military also accuses McKinnon of disabling 300 U.S. Naval weapons systems computers immediately after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. He faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted in the U.S.

McKinnon hopes his signed confession to a charge under the Misuse of Computers Act will preclude being extradited. Analogously, it appears McKinnon is willing to admit culpability to vehicular homicide while only pleading guilty to speeding.

Just from a criminality perspective, prosecution to less than the full extent of the law doesn't make a lick of sense to me. I contend that McKinnon should be put on a plane and face his accusers in America. In any event, the case will be heard before the British High Court on January 20. (more)

$103 000 for blogging about living on Hamilton Island, sailing, snorkling, feeding some fish and collecting mail. Sounds a million times better then blogging about shoveling my driveway of snow two times a day. Fuck it I'm applying, hopefully by February I'll be blogging about how horrible it is spending the day on the beach in Hamilton Island. BBC

Tourism officials in Australia are describing it as "the best job in the world".

They want someone to work on a tropical island off the Queensland coast.

No formal qualifications are needed but candidates must be willing to swim, snorkel, dive and sail.

In return, the successful applicant will receive a salary of A$150,000 ($103,000, £69,000) for six months and get to live rent-free in a three-bedroom villa, complete with pool.

A couple weeks ago, a Google spycam caught the image of a woman urinating behind a parked car on a street in Madrid, Spain. Obviously, virtually anywhere in this day and age, there should be no expectation of privacy. Surveillance cameras are everywhere.

Story and pic here and here. Caution: possibly NSFW!

Here's Yousef al-Khattab of Revolutionmulsim.com laughing at one of our veterans, a former POW.

Here's Yousef al-Khattab laughing at the death of Jews in Israel caused by a Hamas Suicide bomber.

Here's Yousef al-Khattab smiling at the thought of Korean hostages being murdered/beheaded by the Taliban.

Here's quote from Yousef on Hamas' murder of 8 Jewish students.

Sorry Howie, I am to busy celebrating yesterdays blessed events in al-Quds, subhanallah!!

Where do you think he got those ideas? :-)

Here's Yousef al-Khattab dancing and singing about the Murder of these same Jewish students. (note the news report that al-Khattab linked was from Iran)

Now, all the sudden Yousef is sad and serious about the death of Palestinians in Gaza. Pleading for "action" to stop the fighting and death of his "Bothers and Sisters in Gaza".

Karma is a tough thing is it not Joosef. You have supported Hamas's murder of Israeli civilians and children, even smiling and celebrating their death.

You and the voters of Gaza have supported the occupation of of Gaza by Iran's proxy Hamas. In fact Iran is forbidding Hamas from making any agreement to end the fighting. Iran feels it owns the lives of Hamas and the other terrorists it supports in Gaza. Iran is not about to let these Palestinians to keep the lives that Iran's money has bought and paid for. Yes Iran is more that willing to spend the blood of the Palestinians in its proxy war against Israel, but has forbid its people from spilling any of theirs for the cause.

Ironic is it not?

The blood of these civilians is the hands Yousef al-Khattab and those like him who support the terrorist murder of Israeli citizens. Why do you not dance and sing for these shaheeds Yousef? Why are you now so serious and outraged at the deaths you have worked so hard to help create?

January 11, 2009

Did you hear that Marvel just went sloppy for Obama?

I think Uncle Ben just turned over in his grave.

More insights from Greg Gutfeld here.

(Boston, Massachusetts) Prefacing a study led by Dr. Jonathan Winickoff of Harvard Medical School is that babies and young children are harmed by "third-hand smoke" which is defined as toxins left on surfaces after the smoke has cleared. The danger of the toxins, or clinging pollutants, was not addressed by the study, rather the study polled the public to determine how many people agree with Dr. Winickoff.

Therefore, the Winickoff study is a focus group-type effort to collect baseline data ostensibly for future socio-political initiatives. The medical study was simply a public opinion poll.

In a nutshell, I gather that people were asked if they thought it was more harmful for children to lick table surfaces in rooms where someone had smoked vs. licking table surfaces in rooms where there was no smoking. Results varied depending on who was asked.

Frankly, I believe it's a bad idea for kids to lick tables in the first place but, if never-say-no parents want to allow it, the licking tables should always be sponged clean first. Also, I'd suggest that the risks associated with ingesting harmful bacteria during table-licking far outweigh the supposed danger from dusty smoke residue.

In any event, the Winickoff public opinion study is being reported by the mainstream media as finding that third-hand smoke is harmful. Every article I've read says that researchers found third-hand smoke to be harmful.

On the contrary, the study assumes that third-hand smoke is harmful without supporting the assertion and then people are asked what they think. Realistically, the study found nothing about third-hand smoke. It merely collected opinions. (more)

(UK) The oppressive hand of the British government will assure that incandescent bulbs will soon disappear from the United Kingdom.

Britain has signed up to an European Union decision to replace conventional 100-watt bulbs with supposedly greener, low-energy alternatives.

It means that the staple household item is vanishing from the high street after 120 years.

Leading supermarkets and DIY chains, including Sainsbury's, Asda and Homebase, have already sold all their final stocks of the bulbs.

Other stores have reported that the only have enough to last until the end of next week.

And the global warming fantasy train chugs along.

Meanwhile, the parliamentary putty-brains in London have not bothered to check the weather. Forget global warming. Data indicate it's getting colder. Of course, data become moot when public opinion is deemed an acceptable alternative to science.

File photo of Prince Harry (R) as he passes a donkey while on patrol in Afghanistan. The prince has apologised for using racist language after a Sunday newspaper reported he had filmed himself calling an army colleague a "Paki" and telling another he looked like a "raghead".

So Prince Harry is apparently Republican? Or just on the right I guess? Maybe they just thought you may confuse Prince Harry with the other bowl head on the Donkey?

Both those bowls are kinda neat, you can wear em or eat your Cheerios out of em. Cool!

Anyway, you know the game. Fatwas will be issued.

Fatwas issued!...

The "i will cut ur neck" fatwa issued against US Beast for

Nice ass.

The "devil will do meetballs from your bodies" fatwa issued against FishFearMe for

Look! That donkey has an extra asshole!

The "why u insult holly quoran" fatwa issued against Anonymous for

Blimey Abdul, is that dynamite in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Hat Tip: KafirAlalazoo

Cross-posted from Shots on the House, originally authored by OSU student Justin Higgins:

Welcome to the world of Academia, right? A friend of mine contacted me and tipped me off that an Ohio State Assistant Professor was interviewed during an anti-Israel rally in downtown Columbus and staunchly defended Hamas, a radical Islamic terrorist organization. He also railed against what he called a "colonial occupier" in Israel. Hourglass 1941 has a pretty in-depth online report, including this video which features the OSU staff member, Pranav Jani:

It's mildly sickening that some portion of my tuition has contributed to employing Pranav Jani, who was quoted as leading the chant "Long live the Intifada" at the rally in downtown Columbus. In his mind, Israel (which showed tremendous restraint over the past year) is the bad guy and Hamas (which uses children as human shields and wires their women with explosives to make a point) is the regional good guy. Ohio tax money, perpetrating this twisted world view.

January 10, 2009

If Good Lt Kryos. can get away with that Stones post......