January 31, 2012

12/20/2011 Update by SH: Thank you all very much for your continued prayers. I will be back.

Merry Christmas and Chag Chanuka Sameach to all.

Oh, and Xariif, I have a special holiday message to you and your followers. It's below the fold:

01/06/2012 Update by SH: Happy New Year everyone and again thanks for your prayers and well wishes.

Yes, Xariif, I will be back.

I can wipe up the floor with you and your kind Xariff.

Again, thank you everyone for your prayers and well wishes, they mean a lot and have "done a lot". You have given me strength with your prayers and well wishes to the detriment of Xariiif and other assho*les. Stupid sh*ts don't realize I also gain strength from their bs!

BTW, I would "really" like really awesome dudes in their best and stuff. I know some of you posted stuff, but really I need "stuff" like biceps and stuff ... not naked but "awesome bods"!! I especially like IDF soldiers. Not that I don't like our (US) military soldiers cuz I do but I like IDF, their eyes put me in a trance and stuff.

Again, thank you all .... I am humbled and hope to be back again with really snarky sh*t and stuff.

Oh and Xariif...fuck you!

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January 28, 2012

Heather Chaisson

Apparently, there was significant flirtatious relations between the boy and Chaisson in addition to numerous graphic sexual text messages.

Chaisson faces a misdemeanor charge of prohibited sexual conduct between an educator and a student. A younger victim would likely have warranted a felony charge.

Note that many state jurisdictions prosecute teacher-student sex cases across-the-board as felonies despite the age of the student. To illustrate, check out 22-year-old Sarah Holmes, an attractive Pennsylvania teacher accused of felony indecent relations with a 17-year-old student.

Tip: Frederick Barbarossa

A lot of people are concerned about the next election and whether Obama can be defeated. I'm concerned too. But then, I'm an eternal pessimist. I hope for the best, yet there's always a nagging doubt.

Just think about this: How many people do you know who voted for McCain and now say, "You know what? Obama turned out to be a good President. I think I'll change my vote next time and vote for him."?

I don't know any. Not even one.

Now, how many people do you know who voted for Obama and, realizing the mistake he was for America, plan to vote against him in the next election?

I know quite a few.

Sure, there are always the die-hard supporters who are going to support Obama no matter what. But there are not very many who have changed their mind in favor of Obama.

The pessimist I am, I still have difficulty seeing Obama win again.

In this video, a few Obama-generation college students give their opinion. It's worth a watch.

January 27, 2012

If this doesn't make you misty eyed, you are either 1. A Commie. 2. An Islamist. 3. A ginger who has no soul.

Happy Friday. I'd be a little more enthusiastic about Friday if I didn't have to work on Saturday.

I know, I know, reserve a suite down at the Pity Me Pines Resort.

Evidently, the school has a zero-tolerance policy for students using cell phones, but no policy against teachers sleeping during class hours. And I'm sure the OK teachers' union will make certain the teacher receives no punishment.

Your tax dollars hard at work.

Story at KOCO.com

March in Norway? Naturally, it will be cold, quite nippy.

Congratulations to our own Xariif, who made it past this week's round on "Fear Factor"!

BTW, what they ultimately decided not to show was Xariif attempting to drink the other contestant's "punch" as well. Xariif did have one comment: "It's not quite as good as camel."

Today he starts his new fitness program.

I don't see how its much different from his old fitness program but I'm not the one always demanding to be addressed as Professor around here.

Hat Tip: Danny.

Goes to Josh White of WAPO:

Yonathan Melaku was sneaking through Fort Myer and Arlington National Cemetery, his backpack filled with plastic bags of ammonium nitrate, a notebook containing jihadist messages, and a can of black spray paint. The 23-year-old former Marine was heading to the graves of the nation’s most recent heroes, aiming to desecrate the stones with Arabic statements and leave handfuls of explosive material nearby as a message.

no one knows for sure what led Melaku — a naturalized U.S. citizen from Ethi­o­pia, local high school graduate and former Marine Corps Reservist — down that path or what message he was trying to send.

How about Allahu Ackbar! dumbasses.

Ya reckon we'll clear that bridge?

Two spans of a southwest Kentucky bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship that carried aviation parts. No injuries were immediately reported, state transportation officials said.

The Delta Mariner struck the main span of the Eggner Ferry Bridge on Thursday evening at U.S. Highway 68 and Kentucky Highway 80, said Keith Todd, spokesman for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. State inspectors are on their way to determine how much of the bridge, which opened to traffic in 1932, was damaged.

January 26, 2012

Another example of political correctness being the death of us all.

Expulsion? For a BB gun?

I have nothing else to say, except that my headline would have been more relevant back in December.

Oh, and our daughter brought home something called an energy detective. She's supposed to go around the house for the next week trying to find where we are wasting energy (i.e. being mean to Gaia). Seriously, one of the questions she's asked is "how many incandescent light bulbs" do we have. Outside of the outright indoctrination they're attempting, what a freaking invasion of our privacy. It's none of their business how many light bulbs we have, or how much energy we "waste." We're paying for the energy and if we waste it we pay more for it. DUH!

Good news? She knows it's crap too.

Daily Mail via Jihad Watch:

A Muslim man who raped women to 'teach them a lesson' for being on the streets at night was jailed indefinitely today because of the danger he poses to women.

Sunny Islam, 23, who comes from a strict Muslim family, dragged his terrified victims - including a 15-year-old - from the street at knifepoint, bound and assaulted them during a two-month reign of terror.

If Sunny is a "strict" or "practising" Muslim as he claims, then it should be noted that Muhammad is his perfect example of conduct. Muhammad made the rape of non-Muslim women a legitimate form of jihad by his own words and examples.

Now! blog via Jihad Watch:

A Salafi sheikh in Egypt has reportedly issued a fatwa that buying [or driving] a Chevrolet vehicle is haram because the American brand’s logo looks like the Christian cross.

Video, although in Arabic, can be viewed HERE.

Here you go.

There's a Doonesbury cartoon in there that you may want to skip. Personally, I didn't get it.

So, let me see if I have the score straight. This is just for today, mind you.

1) Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, aka Abu Pippi Longstocking pleads guilty to planning to bomb military recruiting stations near Boston.

2) Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virgina:

pleaded guilty today to damaging property and firearms violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in northern Virginia between October and November 2010 and attempting to injure veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery....

Melaku admitted today that during the second shooting at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, he set up a video camera within the interior of his vehicle to record the shooting incident. The video shows Melaku repeatedly firing a handgun out the passenger-side window, and he narrates the incident on the video and states, among other things: “That’s my target. That’s the military building. It’s going to be attacked,” and at the conclusion of multiple shots exclaiming, “Allahu Akbar,” repeatedly....

During the pursuit, he dropped a backpack that contained numerous spent 9mm shell casings; four bags containing ammonium nitrate, and a spiral notebook with numerous Arabic statements referencing the Taliban, al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, “The Path to Jihad,” as well as a list of several other individuals associated with foreign terrorist organizations.

Melaku admitted that, at the time of his apprehension, he was attempting to enter the area of Arlington National Cemetery containing graves of deceased Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, intending to desecrate and injure the grave markers by spray-painting the markers with Arabic statements and by leaving the ammonium nitrate he was carrying at the sites of the grave markers.

And, need I mention yesterday?

Coloradan Jamshid Muhtorov indicted for attempting to join terror organization in Pakistan.

And the day before?

In Maryland Shkumbin Sherifi & Nevine Aly Elshiekh charged with plotting to murder a witness who testified against a convicted terrorist -- who, BTW, many who attended their mosque claimed was just an innocent victim of the overactive imaginations of the Islamophobes at the FBI.

Innocent, right. That's why he was plotting with his friends on the outside to murder a witness at his trial.

If my math is right, that's five arrests, indictments, or convictions of homegrown terrorists in three days.

And, to be honest, those headlines were gleaned from a rather cursory glance at my twitter feed. The actual numbers might even be higher.

So, the next time some Leftist claims that there is no "homegrown terror" problem please point these inconvenient facts out to them.

Dude, the hair. I mean, really?

You're never going to get any street cred with the akhis in prison with that hair.

Boston.com:

Antonio Martinez entered the plea to the charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal property. The plot to bomb the Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Catonsville in December 2010 was foiled by an FBI sting....

Martinez wore a burgundy jumpsuit and his hair in two braids in court, and he smiled and hugged his defense attorney. The U.S. citizen born who was born abroad preferred to be called Muhammad Hussain after his conversion to Islam and signed the plea using both names....

In the plea agreement, Martinez acknowledges that he wanted to pursue jihad to the United States "to send a message that all American soldiers would be killed so long as the country continued its `war' against Islam."

An FBI informant first communicated with Martinez on Facebook after seeing public posts "espousing his extremist views" and recognizing him from a mosque he attended, according to court documents.

A Colorado man arrested last week as he was leaving the country to join the Islamic Jihad Union in Pakistan has been indicted:

Jamshid Muhtorov is charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization....

The government in Central Asia accused Muhtorov of supporting the Islamic Jihad Union, a militant group fighting the regime in Uzbekistan.

Pakistan: our "ally" in the war on terror.

Remember I told you that the interview with one of Newt's ex-wives on ABC had pushed me out of the Gingrich camp? That I thought that the truth might not be that Newt had asked for an "open marriage", but that it was plausible for an egotistic and ambitious politician to ask his wife not to divorce him because it would hurt his political career. And that how asking to stay married, to keep up appearances, but yet saying that no, he will not stop sleeping with his mistress, could reasonably be interpreted by a hurt spouse as something akin to asking for an "open marriage".

Ummm, I'm thinking that I was pretty close with that:

“Tonight, after persistent questioning by our staff, the Gingrich campaign concedes now Speaker Gingrich was wrong — both in his debate answer, and in our interview yesterday,” King said on tonight’s edition of John King USA. “Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says the only people the Gingrich campaign offered to ABC were his two daughters from his first marriage.”

And Gingrich's answer, that he had witnesses who could vouch that he didn't want an "open marriage", um, how exactly does that work?

If I understand the accusation, there were two people involved in the conversation. How can a witness back up either side of the story? At best this is a he said/she said kind of deal. There's no way of proving either version of it.

And, yes, it was a stupid question to ask at the debates. And I love Gingrich's response to John King's stupid question.

But let's face it: this is the treatment Republicans are going to get.

There's no way to change that. No amount of complaining about the media will make them more even handed in their treatment of candidates.

Which is why Gingrich's personal life is such a disaster. Did you know the guy's first wife was his .... get this ... high school math teacher?

Sure, Mr. E. Blogger, Vinnie, Ronin, Howie, and me are much more likely to vote for a guy who we know was porking one of his teachers. We don't get tens of thousands of hits each month for people searching for "hot teachers student sex scandal" because we don't get it.

But we're not you're typical independent voter. For most people, bangin' your high school math teacher and then leaving her for a younger and more attractive spouse, only to leave her for yet another younger and more attractive spouse isn't considered a bonus on your resume.

I know Gingrich doesn't want to talk about this. I don't want to talk about it.

But you know what? It's going to be talked about.

In fact, as un-newsworthy as this is it's still more newsworthy than the near hour by hour polling updates that we are constantly bombarded with.

People, the personal lives of the candidates do tell us something about their character. I know in the post-Clinton era we have been led to believe that it doesn't, but consider this: the "popular" and "likable" Bill Clinton never managed to muster enough support to get a majority of the vote.

I'm not saying that personal attributes are the most important variable in determining the outcome of an election. But they are a variable which could, in a very close race, mean the difference between winning and losing.

Personally I'm not all excited about another four years of Barrack Obama, crusader for "fairness".

If Newt is our nominee, of course I'll support him. But at this point, I'd really like voters in the next few primaries to reconsider the "winnibility" factor and to remember that on most major issues all three of the real candidates (sorry Paultards, the guy isn't really running for President) basically agree.

I know you're wondering why all the sudden angst over Newt, Rusty? It's because I fear that America as we know it cannot stand another four years and another 7 trillion dollars in debt that the first four years of Obama gave us.

Remember when the national debt was a measly $9.3 trillion, way back three years ago at the end of the George W. Bush administration rather than the $15.3 trillion in debt we are now in three quarters of the way through one term of Obama?

Yeah, good times. Good times.

“Muslims don’t come close or you will be killed.”

This was reportedly what the gunman shouted during his killing rampage.

The Afghan soldier who gunned down nine Americans in a shooting rampage at a military compound in Kabul last April targeted and killed his U.S. mentors after they took away his wings and cut his salary nearly in half because he was unable to learn English, a longtime colleague of the killer has told FoxNews.com. [...]

A U.S. Air Force Special Investigation report on the attack that was released last week concluded that Gul, 46, acted alone, and it found no evidence that the attack was connected to the Taliban or insurgents. It noted reports of Gul’s mental and financial problems, but it did not mention Gul’s failure to learn English as a possible motive.

The report also failed to mention any ideological motivation.

Just another lone, mentally ill, frustrated victim.

Lol, Vice President Biden was speaking in New Hampshire and, during the speech, he starts to mimic an Indian accent. He abruptly stops in mid sentence, apparently realizing it was not the proper forum.

Yeah, there are lots of over-seas call center operators named "Nancy." Nice save, Joe. ;)

Update: Tjexcite in comments reminds me of this Discover commercial. Joe probably meant "Peggy," not "Nancy."

Hollywood star Liam Neeson is considering giving up his Roman Catholic beliefs and becoming a Muslim. [...]

He told The Sun, "The call to prayer happens five times a day, and for the first week, it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit, and it's the most beautiful, beautiful thing." (Source)

Another idiot actor I used to enjoy.

This isn't the first time Liam has made such comments. He also compared Narnia's Aslan the Lion to Muhammad. I guess he didn't quite understand the role of Calormenes in the series.

Related: 25 things you need to know about repetitious brainwashing

The Blaze via IHateTheMedia:

“For more than two years, the Michigan Education Association [MEA] has had a manual that urges its members to use students as propaganda in contract negotiations and also lays out how to organize strikes,” writes Tome Gantert of Michigan Capitol Confidential. [...]

While much of the rhetoric in this “crisis planning” handbook is unsettling (”The worst time to plan for a crisis is when you are in the middle of one, so crisis planning should commence at the same time that planning for actual bargaining begins”), perhaps the most disturbing moment occurs when one section appears to quote almost verbatim Saul Alinksy’s “Rules For Radicals.”

Alinsky instructs his followers to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Likewise, the MEA manual instructs teachers to “Pick a target—personalize—and polarize the opposition [pg. 17].” And those are just the verbatim quotes; the entire manual is a handbook for creating, managing, and profiting from crises.

It's for the children, you know.

JPost: Muslim Brotherhood repeats: No talks with Israel --Spokesman says dialogue with Jewish state ‘not up for discussion.’

Reuters: Obama set to speed up aid to Egypt-official -- Obama considers redirecting aid to Egypt

Thanks to Dan Friedman

Including our own, Jane Novak:

Testifying to the global reach of the cyber activists, Jane Novak, a New Jersey housewife, has established herself as a highly-regarded source on all things Yemen, even, at one point, consulting with the U.S. State Department. Her Twitter feed and blog, armiesofliberation.com, are consulted by activists and journalists. She is well-known among policy makers, activists and reporters in the country's besieged capital, Sana'a. And she has never been to Yemen.

"She doesn't speak a word of Arabic, she hasn't set foot in the Middle East, but she still became an authority," Weddady says. He claims her influence helped secure the 2008 release of Yemeni journalist Abdulkarim al-Khawaini, who had been convicted of defaming President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The internet: just enough anonymity for world movers like Jane to be fooled into hanging out with a pathetic geek like me.

Thanks internet!

A 65-year-old man shot one teenager dead and wounded another after they pushed him off his bicycle and tried to rob him in Pennsylvania, police said. [...]

Cops arrested a third boy at the scene and took him in for questioning. The 15 year old was later taken to a county youth center in nearby Bern Township where he was held on unspecified charges. (Source)

Next time, aim more carefully. With better gun control, it could have been three thugs dead instead of one.

Doesn't the court understand that He is above the court, above the law? He's the ruler, not the rulee. How dare they treat Him like a common peon.

President Obama will ignore an order by an Atlanta judge to appear in court Thursday for a hearing in a case challenging his qualifications under the Constitution to be president. (Source)

Three words: Contempt of Court.

Danny Dietz, who would have turned 32 today, was a member of the SEAL team that participated in Operation Red Wings. Only team member Marcus Luttrell survived. His teammates Danny, Matt Axelson, and Michael Murphy perished after they were attacked by Taliban fighters who were alerted by a goatherd and his son. 13 more were lost when a rescue helicopter that was sent was downed by a Taliban RPG. The details of this fight can be found in Marcus Luttrell's book "Lone Survivor." There's also a book about Lt. Michael Murphy titled "Seal of Honor." If you haven't read them, I highly recommend that you do.

Happy birthday Petty Officer Dietz, I look forward to meeting you someday.

January 25, 2012

Here's Newt on President Bush's adoption of Gen. Patraeus's surge strategy in Iraq:

Bush was opposed by many of the top generals, by some Republican leaders who feared the surge would hurt in the 2008 elections, and of course by a slew of Democrats and media commentators. Here again Gingrich provided no support for his party’s embattled president, testifying as a private citizen in 2007 that the strategy was “inadequate,” contained “breathtaking” gaps, lacked “synergism” (whatever that means), and was “very disappointing.” What did Gingrich propose? Among other things, a 50 percent increase in the budget of the State Department.

Abrams point in this article -- in which he also points out that Newt opposed many of Reagan's Cold War policies -- is that Newt is not the visionary that he seems to think himself.

To give Newt his due, I also had serious reservations about the surge. The strategy was brilliant and should be remembered as one of the bravest political acts in US history. I, like Newt, was wrong.

The difference between the two of us? I'm not running for President.

I don't think being wrong disqualifies him from being President, but his misremembering of history -- in which in his own mind he seems to think he was not only front and center in all of the major battles of the last quarter of a century but also on the right side of those battles -- causes me more than a bit of trepidation over his candidacy.

Hump day edition.

He's so awesome, his speechwriters write his speeches at an 8th grade level.

The University of Minnesota's Smart Politics conducted an analysis on the last 70 State of the Union addresses and found that President Obama's three addresses have the lowest grade average of any modern president. "Obama's average grade-level score of 8.4 is more than two grades lower than the 10.7 grade average for the other 67 addresses written by his 12 predecessors," they conclude.

Now, I'll grant that the 10th grade average isn't exactly the greatest either, but it's clear that, as Rush says, Obama is the least qualified guy in any room that he walks into. And as far as the 10th grade average goes, it just shows that the inside the beltway types figure us for stupid. Yeah, I get that they want to get their message out to the broadest amount of people as possible, but the majority of Americans don't read at a 10th grade level. Except maybe Rusty's students. Personally, I find it insulting.

More fun with POTUS' SOTU. If this clown (God forbid) gets reelected, his last SOTU is simply going to be an amalgam of all the previous speeches by that time.

NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a fucking retard deluxe.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has severely criticized the New York Police Department (NYPD) for using a controversial movie The Third Jihad, to portray American Muslims as terrorists in their training of police officers.

Here's one

Daily Mail reports the video showed the White House with a black flag flying over it, and the message "Islam will dominate."

No, one of the featured Muslims in that section of the film is Younes Abdullah Muhammad who is currently being held on terrorism charges.

Here's the next complaints

The movie which was played to police recruits in counter-terrorism training seminars, also showed Christians being shot in the head by Muslim extremists and car bombs set off by Islamic militants. According to Huffington Post, it included footage of the Beslan school massacre in Russia, and the Al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, saying that he believes the entire world must be ruled by Islam. The video shows other scenes of Muslim violence and a narrator saying: "This is the true agenda of much of Islam in America. A strategy to infiltrate and dominate America...This is the war you don’t know about."

Was there a massacre of Children in Beslan? Of course there was. Has Abu Yaha al-Liby actually said that? Well hell yes.

WTF were they thinking? Its madness! Why We can't have the people tasked with protecting us and fighting terrorism actually study the truth about Islamic radicals. That's totally outside of CAIR approved public discourse!

Here is an abridged version of the film. See for yourself.

Part II
Part III
Part IV.

You can purchase the full version here.

Prepare for riots in 3, 2, 1... wait. This was a disrespectful act against Christians, so there will be no retaliations, outrage, riots, or "hate crime" accusations.

As you were.

Okay, I added the "bi-atch," but you know that's what Newt was thinking.

"There is something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him that's their prerogative," said Congresswoman Pelosi. "I don't even think that's going to happen." [...]

"I have a simple challenge for Speaker Pelosi...you know, put up or shut up. I mean, I have no idea what she's talking about. I don't think she has any idea what she's talking about, but bring it on," [Gingrich] said.

The Democrats are terrified of Newt for some reason. Maybe it's because they think he'll be harder to beat in the next election. Maybe they know their Dear Leader, the Great Orator, won't last two minutes in a debate with Gingrich. They want Romney to win the GOP nomination. Their attempts to get Gingrich out of his way reeks of desperation.

They are terrified of Newt, and that alone is reason enough for me to vote for him.

Update: This is why I don't like Romney. Instead of condemning Pelosi's threats, he is exploiting the situation to further attack Gingrich. His ultimate agenda is to benefit himself, not to oppose the failed Obama Administration, not to help restore America to its former Glory, but his own selfish end.

I know most every politician is self-serving, but I believe there are still a few who sincerely want a stronger America before all else. When it comes to Newt and Mitt, it is my opinion that Newt cares more for this country than Mitt. Gingrich may not be the perfect candidate, but I think he's the best choice among those running.

The GOP candidates need to stop thrashing each other and focus on Obama's ethics, qualifications, and records. Then let the American people decide who will be the best leader for this great nation. Some may disagree, but that's how I see it.

Update 2: BigGovernment has more on Romney's curious insistence that Gingrich releases records already made public.