Asshatery At It's Finest

From Little Green Footballs:


Makes me sick. These dolts have a cirlce A on their banner. I hate to tell them, but they wouldn't last long if there were no laws protecting them.

Like We Didn't Know This Was Going On

Islamist Website Instructs Mujahideen in Using Popular U.S. Web Forums to Foster Anti-War Sentiment among Americans

In the past few months, Islamists engaged in "media jihad" have increased their efforts to expose as broad a Western audience as possible to their jihad films, which purport to document the growing success of the mujahideen in Iraq
and Afghanistan. As part of this endeavor, they have posted jihad films on popular free video-sharing websites such as YouTube, LiveLeak, and Google Video, hoping that such films will tip public opinion in the West against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan - thus pressuring Western governments to withdraw their troops from these countries.

As part of the campaign to foster anti-war sentiment among Westerners, and more specifically among Americans, a member of the Al-Mohajroon Islamist website with the username Al-Wathiq Billah instructed mujahideen in how to infiltrate popular American forums and to use them to distribute jihad films and spread disinformation about the war.

Here's some snippets (BTW - I hope these jihahders use better engrish that this guy)

"Raiding American Forums is Among the Most Important Means of Obtaining Victory in the Fierce Media War… and of Influencing the Views of the Weak-Minded American"

"There is no doubt, my brothers, that raiding American forums is among the most important means of obtaining victory in the fierce media war... and of influencing the views of the weak-minded American who pays his taxes so they will go to the infidel American army. This American is an idiot and does not [even] know where Iraq is... [It is therefore] mandatory for every electronic mujahid [to engage in this raiding]."

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Indicate You Are an American

"Obviously, you have to register yourself using a purely American name... Choose an icon that indicates that you are an American, and place it next to your nickname [in the forum]."

"In my experience, the areas most visited in American forums... [are titled] 'Random Thoughts' and 'What's going on in your mind?'... [The former] takes priority in the American forums, and is highly popular. You should post your contribution there... This should include films of the mujahideen in Iraq, mujahideen publications in English, and images and films of the Americans' crimes, [such as] killing unarmed civilians in Iraq... etc."


"Invent Stories About American Soldiers You Have [Allegedly] Personally Known"

"Obviously, you should post your contribution... as an American... You should correspond with visitors to this forum, [bringing to their attention] the frustrating situation of their troops in Iraq... You should invent stories about American soldiers you have [allegedly] personally known (as classmates... or members in a club who played baseball and tennis with you) who were drafted to Iraq and then committed suicide while in service by hanging or shooting themselves..."

"Also, write using a sad tone, and tell them that you feel sorry for your [female] neighbor or co-worker who became addicted to alcohol or drugs... because her poor fiancé, a former soldier in Iraq, was paralyzed or [because] his legs were amputated... [Use any story] which will break their spirits, oh brave fighter for the sake of God..."


How to Make Americans Feel Frustrated With Their Government

"You should enter into debate or respond only if it is extremely necessary... Your concern should [only] be introducing topics which... will cause [them to feel] frustration and anger towards their government..., which will... render them hostile to Bush... and his Republican Party and make them feel they must vote ton bring the troops back from Iraq as soon as possible."

"Do not... discuss issues pertaining to Arabs or Muslims at all, whether negatively or positively... because this could be a trap for you... In addition, do not ask people to circulate the material [you have posted] in other forums... as these types of requests will expose you..."

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Now I'm worried. These do-it-yourself jihaders are using The Googles and The Internets to bring the war to America!

Playboy Editor in Indonesia Found Guilty; Protesters Call for Death Sentence

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The editor of Playboy magazine in Indonesia was found guilty and faces a two-year jail term for violating moral norms by publishing pornographic images and stories, while protesters called for him to be hanged.

More than 150 members of the Indonesian People Forum said Erwin Arnada should die for his crimes, chanting "hang him, hang him," according to a Reuters report.

"He was found guilty for violating moral norm that spark people unrest," Prosecutor Resni Muchtar said during a hearing in South Jakarta District Court Tuesday, the Post reported. He said the maximum punishment was two years and eight months.

Arnada manned the magazine, famous around the world for publishing racy shots of scantily clad, if clad at all, women.

Time to Make the Donuts...uhh..I mean DEATH TO AMERICA!

WASHINGTON — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed portrayed himself as Al Qaeda's most ambitious operational planner in a confession to a U.S. military tribunal that said he planned and supported 31 terrorist attacks, topped by Sept. 11, that killed thousands of innocent victims since the early 1990s.

The gruesome attacks range from the suicide hijackings of Sept. 11, 2001 — which killed nearly 3,000 — to a 2002 shooting on an island off Kuwait that killed a U.S. Marine, according to an account released by the Pentagon.

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"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement read Saturday during a Combatant Status Review Tribunal at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed's confession was read by a member of the U.S. military who is serving as his personal representative.


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Pentagon Transcript of Gitmo Confessions (pdf)

Our new frapper map.

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Pam Hess

Want to know what a real Journalist looks like?

Scientists: Gore Goes Too Far in 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Several experts on climate change, including both proponents and skeptics of the man-made global warming theory, question former Vice President Al Gore's assertions in his Academy Award-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth."

"I don't want to pick on Al Gore," said Don J. Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, told an annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, according to a report in The New York Times. "But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data."

In the slideshow presentation that is the central part of "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore lays out what most researchers consider to be the worst-case scenario for global warming, with total melting of polar ice caps, a sea-level rise of 20 feet and catastrophic flooding and droughts.

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DEMAND THEIR IMMEDIATE SAFE RETURN!

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Moonbatalooza

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Experts in Latin American affairs are saying they aren't surprised at the negative reaction President Bush is receiving as he begins a seven-day tour through the region to push for an ethanol alliance with Brazil.

"His real challenge, however, is that there is an enormous rejection of U.S. foreign policy in the world and America," said Arturo Valenzuela, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.

"In other words, there is very little affinity for the president's policies in Iraq and the ways in which he has conducted international relations over these years."

On Thursday, police and protesters clashed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, hours before Bush arrived Thursday evening, The Associated Press reported. No protesters were visible on Bush's route to the city from the airport, but earlier about 6,000 people gathered for a largely peaceful march against Bush, the AP said.

Riot police fired tear gas at protesters, sending hundreds fleeing and ducking into businesses to avoid the gas, the AP said. Several protesters said police beat them, according to the news agency.

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Largely peaceful? WTF are they talking about? The AP is a pack of idiots. Fake photo publishing, riot downplaying freaks. If you're clashing with police and they are forced to use teargas on your dumb-ass, you are NOT largely peaceful. You're a bunch of raving lunatics that need to be billy-clubbed to figure out that fighting with the police is a bad idea, not matter have much you hate the President of some other country.

Here's some more photos of the "largely peaceful march".





















Trust me, I freakin' love it when they spell Bush with a swastika. God, it gives me goosebumps. How original. That shit don't even look like no "S" anyways. Damn. Looks more like some bent up, misshapen X. I'm still trying to figure out what George Bush and Hitler have in common? Maybe it's something to do with the hair style or maybe it's George Bush's hate for the Joos. Wait a minute, it's the liberal-left that hates the Joos with all of their free Palestine and anti-Jewish garbage they spew. It's nice to see moonbattery is international. I don't feel so bad living here in the states knowing that everyone has to put up with filthy hippies.

Is it bad to call a Jew a Joo? I mean they sound the same and everything. Atleast I'm not spelling it with a swastika.

"The American taxpayer has been very generous about providing aid in our neighborhood, and most of that aid is social justice money -- in other words, it's money for education and health," Bush said in an interview with CNN En Espanol. Since he took office, U.S. aid to Latin America has gone from $800 million (euro609 million) to $1.6 billion (euro1.2 billion), the president said.

"And yet we don't get much credit for it," he said.

Is it racist to condemn fanaticism?

How my eyes were opened to the barbarity of Islam

Is it racist to condemn fanaticism?

Once I was held captive in Kabul. I was the bride of a charming, seductive and Westernised Afghan Muslim whom I met at an American college. The purdah I experienced was relatively posh but the sequestered all-female life was not my cup of chai — nor was the male hostility to veiled, partly veiled and unveiled women in public.

When we landed in Kabul, an airport official smoothly confiscated my US passport. “Don’t worry, it’s just a formality,” my husband assured me. I never saw that passport again. I later learnt that this was routinely done to foreign wives — perhaps to make it impossible for them to leave. Overnight, my husband became a stranger. The man with whom I had discussed Camus, Dostoevsky, Tennessee Williams and the Italian cinema became a stranger. He treated me the same way his father and elder brother treated their wives: distantly, with a hint of disdain and embarrassment.

In our two years together, my future husband had never once mentioned that his father had three wives and 21 children. Nor did he tell me that I would be expected to live as if I had been reared as an Afghan woman. I was supposed to lead a largely indoor life among women, to go out only with a male escort and to spend my days waiting for my husband to return or visiting female relatives, or having new (and very fashionable) clothes made.

In America, my husband was proud that I was a natural-born rebel and free thinker. In Afghanistan, my criticism of the treatment of women and of the poor rendered him suspect, vulnerable. He mocked my horrified reactions. But I knew what my eyes and ears told me. I saw how poor women in chadaris were forced to sit at the back of the bus and had to keep yielding their place on line in the bazaar to any man.

saw how polygamous, arranged marriages and child brides led to chronic female suffering and to rivalry between co-wives and half-brothers; how the subordination and sequestration of women led to a profound estrangement between the sexes — one that led to wife-beating, marital rape and to a rampant but hotly denied male “prison”-like homosexuality and pederasty; how frustrated, neglected and uneducated women tormented their daughter-in-laws and female servants; how women were not allowed to pray in mosques or visit male doctors (their husbands described the symptoms in their absence).

Individual Afghans were enchantingly courteous — but the Afghanistan I knew was a bastion of illiteracy, poverty, treachery and preventable diseases. It was also a police state, a feudal monarchy and a theocracy, rank with fear and paranoia. Afghanistan had never been colonised. My relatives said: “Not even the British could occupy us.” Thus I was forced to conclude that Afghan barbarism was of their own making and could not be attributed to Western imperialism.

Long before the rise of the Taleban, I learnt not to romanticise Third World countries or to confuse their hideous tyrants with liberators. I also learnt that sexual and religious apartheid in Muslim countries is indigenous and not the result of Western crimes — and that such “colourful tribal customs” are absolutely, not relatively, evil. Long before al-Qaeda beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and Nicholas Berg in Iraq, I understood that it was dangerous for a Westerner, especially a woman, to live in a Muslim country. In retrospect, I believe my so-called Western feminism was forged in that most beautiful and treacherous of Eastern countries.

Nevertheless, Western intellectual-ideologues, including feminists, have demonised me as a reactionary and racist “Islamophobe” for arguing that Islam, not Israel, is the largest practitioner of both sexual and religious apartheid in the world and that if Westerners do not stand up to this apartheid, morally, economically and militarily, we will not only have the blood of innocents on our hands; we will also be overrun by Sharia in the West. I have been heckled, menaced, never-invited, or disinvited for such heretical ideas — and for denouncing the epidemic of Muslim-on-Muslim violence for which tiny Israel is routinely, unbelievably scapegoated.

However, my views have found favour with the bravest and most enlightened people alive. Leading secular Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents — from Egypt, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, Syria and exiles from Europe and North America — assembled for the landmark Islamic Summit Conference in Florida and invited me to chair the opening panel on Monday.

According to the chair of the meeting, Ibn Warraq: “What we need now is an age of enlightenment in the Islamic world. Without critical examination of Islam, it will remain dogmatic, fanatical and intolerant and will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.” The conference issued a declaration calling for such a new “Enlightenment”. The declaration views “Islamophobia” as a false allegation, sees a “noble future for Islam as a personal faith, not a political doctrine” and “demands the release of Islam from its captivity to the ambitions of power-hungry men”.

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I can't even imagine living in a society that treats its women this way. Our mothers, sisters and wives. It's disgusting. I don't even want to think of how I would react if one of these so called "men" did anything to disrespect my wife in the way they disrespect the women of their country. That is why I've vowed, now that I am married to never revisit one of these countries ruled by Sharia law. I believe if I ever went to one of these places again. I would never come home.

BREAKING: Al Gore and John Kerry are shitty tippers.

According to the website bitterwaitress.com.

Sen. John Kerry visited a restaurant in St. Louis and added only 2 percent to the signature line, while former Vice President Al Gore left only 8 percent at a restaurant in Alexandria, Va.

“Al and Tipper Gore were regulars in the restaurant I used to work at,” wrote one bitter waitress. “You'd think this would be cool, waiting on a former vice president. And it would be, if not for the fact that Al Gore is cheap.”

More on the craptastic tippers here - Maybe her name should be Tipless Gore?

Nooooooooooooo!

This...This can't be. It must be some sort of a hoax. Who did this? After 60 year Roger goes out like this? Hero of America's Greatest Genteration?

One of America's most patriotic superheroes has died.

Marvel Entertainment killed off its oldest character, Captain America, in a comic book that hits stands Wednesday.

The former World War II soldier is gunned down on the steps of a courthouse in Captain America No. 25 by a sniper's bullet, a victim of a war on terror.

"We've had deaths in the Universe, but with Cap being our oldest character, it gives it a little more resonance," Dan Buckley, the president and publisher of Marvel Entertainment's publishing group, told FOXNews.com.

The decision has already angered the character's creator, Joe Simon, who told the New York Daily News that the death comes at a time when "we really need him now."

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Captain America embodied the ideals of the Greatest Generation, standing as a pillar of morality and honesty — doing the right thing at the right time, Buckley said.

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Someone better check John Murtha's alabi.

Egyptian Blogger Sent to Prison for Speaking Out Against Extremism

Arab Bloggers: Living in a Virtual World Behind Prison Bars!


An Egyptian court sentenced Blogger Abdul Karim Nabil Sulaiman, also known as Karim Amer, to a four year prison term. Three years for blasphemy and another for slandering the President.

This unprecedented sentence against the young Blogger who criticized both Egypt's religious educational institutions (of promoting extremism), and the ruling authorities in Egypt is probably a culmination of the numerous confrontation between Bloggers and the ruling and traditional institutions in our Arab world, which in the past has resulted in arrest, imprisonment, torture and sometimes death.

The last few months has seen a rise in the pursuit, arrest, and detention of Bloggers, as in the case of Amir, but that was preceded by a number of criticisms, from the conservative and hard-line establishment regarding the role of the Internet and Internet users in the Arab world, which boils down to the oversimplification that the Internet is time-wasting medium and a podium for debauchery.

To these accusations I add another, namely that the Internet has become a new weapon in the hands of hardliners, and that is a reality.

Today, as the number of Arab Bloggers increases, along with their causes and boldness, sensitivity and doubt over their role and influence have intensified.

Bloggers contributed to rising questions, issues and ideas that were not addressed as explicitly or as publicly in cyberspace as the case is now. Until very recently, Islamist-oriented groups took the lead in their presence and usage of the World Wide Web.

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I normally stay away from Asharq Alawsat but this caught my attention.

Ann Coulter, Daily KoS and that story About the Pot and the Kettle

Let me lay this out before I get going here. I am no fan of Ann Coulter, she says some things I agree with but then she says some stuff that I don't agree with. I'm not fan of John Edwards either, he's a a little too shady for me. Plus that 1980's Alex P. Keaton look really creeps me out.

It seems Ann said some bad things about Mr. Edwards over the weekend and the Liberals are up in arms. Of course they are, atleast some of them are.

I just read on cnn.com that one of their members started posting some of the advertisers that Ann uses on her website. That's cool, do what you have to do. And quite honestly, I think Ann should feel some pain over her remarks. Normally I would be done with this, but a member of the Daily KoS? COME ON! Some of the most vile disgusting crap that is floating around on the web these days is from the Daily Kos.

Another one of John Edwards....errr...uh..."bloggers" (psst.. It's his wife) gets in on the act:

http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/3/3/133240/0355

So, now a John Edwards "blogger"

So where was this "blogger" when two employee's (Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan) of John's were bashing the holy crap out of Christians?

Here's an interview with Wolf Blitzer on the subject:

BLITZER: "There, there was a little bit of an uproar recently when you hired two bloggers who had written critical comments of the Catholic Church before they started to work for you. Since then, they've both resigned from your campaign. Let me read to you one of those things that Amanda Marcotte wrote. ‘The Catholic Church is not about to let something like compassion for girls get in the way of using the state as an instrument to force women to bear more tithing Catholics.’ What do you make of this, this controversy? And what, what does it say about your campaign?"

EDWARDS: "Well, I said, as soon as I found out about this, that a number of the statements that had been made by these women before they ever came to work for my campaign were statements that I rejected, strongly disagreed with. I spoke to them directly and personally. They both assured me they had no intention of denigrating anyone's faith. They apologized. They said they would not do it in the future while working for me. I took them at their word and I stood by them because of that. They made a personal decision, because of a lot of the heat they were coming under, the fire they were coming under, particularly from people on the far right of the political spectrum, that this was not something they wanted to go through. Speaking for me, I took them at their word when they said they did not mean to denigrate anyone's faith."

BECK: "So you learned a lesson from this. What is that lesson, Senator?

EDWARDS: "Well, the lesson -- you learn lessons in everything you do in life, including in political campaigns, Wolf. And the lesson is we're entering a new brave world with the net and with the blogosphere. And it's a powerful world. It's a world that's going to have a huge impact and should have a huge impact on the way we do politics in America. Because the Net and the blogosphere is grass roots politics at its best. But candidates can't control what people say. We believe in free speech in this country. And this is democracy. People have a right to express their opinions."

-from NewsBusters-

Wasn't paying attention to the time. I have to go to work!

60 Minutes - Terrorists Take Recruitment Efforts Online

(CBS) Recently the Bush administration acknowledged that al Qaeda is reorganized and gaining strength. As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, that’s been possible, since the fall of Afghanistan, through the explosive growth of al Qaeda on the Internet. Last week, word spread on the web that Vice President Cheney was in Afghanistan. In hours the base where he was staying was bombed. It’s not clear the bomber was targeting the vice president, but U.S. Intelligence noted the coincidence.

It is certain that virtual reality is doing real damage with intelligence, recruiting, fund raising and the spread of Islamic extremism. This assault may start with bytes, not bullets, but American generals will tell you, it’s a hot war all the same on a battlefield called "jihad.com."

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