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How sad.
Like many others who have an interest in politics, I am part of a couple e-mail circles that have been circulating, with fluctuating levels of respect and vitriol in our dialogue. It has been fun, antagonizing and antagonozing (they are different words!) at times, but generally very mentally stimulating and enjoyable learning more about others, their views and how they reach their positions.
However, it has sunk to a new low. I know Hitler and Nazism has been used a few times in this dirty campaign season, but it seemed to stop. Until now.
I enthuastically announced to my friends that the DeafRepublicans.com website has been set up, never expecting the type of replies I would get from my friends, fraternity brothers. I know that most of them were probably made in jest, not intending to insult, but imagine if you were very proud of being a part of establishing a political organization that is quickly skyrocketing, and you are considered no better than the Nazis, just because you want to do good for the Deaf community. It is sad, but it is a fact of life that some people just think that way, and we have to accept that, move on and not detract from what is really in my sights. If these crabs happen to get blown away in the wake of our progress, we would be too far away to extend a helping hand. That is why I do not believe that someone should compare DeafRepublicans to Nazis.
Here is the e-mail that I got.
you know what Deaf Republicans remind me of?
Regendes.. Regendes was established by nazis party
for deaf people in Germany in pre WWII era.. nazis
even gave deaf people their own armored vechile outfit
and deafies wore full nazis unifroms.. as Nazis
approach WWII.. you know what happened to those
deafies.. hmm? BEWARE.. Deaf Republicans website is
not written by deaf people.. its language is too
hearing and it is written by Republican party.. that
is my impression.. I will forward you website that
have rebuttal to this Deaf Republicans nonsense..
I still have not gotten that rebuttal website. EVERYONE involved with DeafRepublicans.com are DEAF. Perhaps it is because only smart people are Republican? To write well is to write "hearing?"
Moreover, my other friends did not stick up for me. On the contrary, they added to those Nazi comments with a certain enthusiasm. After I had a good talk with my roommate, who happens to be part of that circle, finally was the first one to stand up for me, even though he is a Democrat and VERY anti-Bush.
That very well goes to reflect the general sentiment we have running amid ourselves, greatly dividing America.
Sacha's blog. He is a Democrat. Listen to him.
A good friend of mine, Sacha Klein, has a blog where I found some interesting stuff. I thought I'd make good use of the copy and paste functions here. Thanks, Sacha!
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998.
VOTING VIDEO A video aimed at educating the deaf population on the importance of voting.
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998.
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998.
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998.
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999.
"There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL,) and others, Dec, 5, 2001.
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
Sen. Carl Levin (d, MI), Sept. 19, 2002.
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seing and developing weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002.
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002.
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force — if necessary — to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002.
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years . We also should remember we have alway s underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
Sen. Jay Rockerfeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002,
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do."
Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002.
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. "[W]ithout question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. And now he has continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003.
NOW THE DEMOCRATS SAY PRESIDENT BUSH LIED, THAT THERE NEVER WERE ANY WMD'S AND HE TOOK US TO WAR FOR HIS OIL BUDDIES?
Something isn't right, don't you think so? [Jason's comment: THIS is a DEMOCRAT speaking.]
By the way, people who say the world is against Bush, need to simply cat with Sacha for five minutes. He is a Deaf Democrat from Belgium. He supports Bush. People say that all Europeans hate Bush. He would tell you with exasperation that it is not true! There ARE Europeans who believe that Bush is doing the right thing (such as Tony Blair) Granted, he might be a minority, but that just proves that not everyone, that means the world, is always correct.
The stakes are HIGH. At stake is not Democratic or Republican pride and ego, but our own SAFETY. Sacha sees that clearly and would vote Bush if he was able to! I wonder why he is still a Democrat, ha! I became Republican for the same reasons.
Voices of Iraq
There's a new film out, called Voices of Iraq, a powerful film about the everyday lives of regular Iraqis. Two MTV producers sent 150 digital camcorders into Iraq, asked them to pass it around, to film everyday happenings amongst Iraqis.
Joel Mowbray's column, had a good review of the film. It will be shown in Washington, DC, so I hope I will be able to catch it. you gotta read this excerpt:
Life in Iraq is normal. Maybe not normal by American or European standards, but certainly for a country barely out from under the thumb of a bloodthirsty tyrant.
Throughout VOI, kids are seen being kids: laughing, playing, teasing, roughhousing. Iraqis are seen being silly: an adolescent boy doing what could only be described as a strange solo dance, an actor who filmed himself taking a shower, and policemen making bizarre sound effects and goofy faces. And boys being boys: young men returning to college last month hitting on pretty girls with lame come ons, such as "The most beautiful girl, come here" and "Come here, I just want to talk to you."
Interspersed with that are painful reminders of Iraq's all-too-recent savage history, including former victims of Saddam's torture having a conversation over dinner and video of Shia in the south recovering skeletal remains from mass graves. Though a few longed for the "stability" and "security" of Saddam's regime, no one seen in VOI was under any delusions about the despot.
During Saddam's pretrial hearing, Iraqis were shooting in celebration, and one man talked about how he danced when he heard the news of the tyrant's capture.
Iraqis' elation at Saddam's demise should not come as a surprise. The most chilling moments of the film were four brief clips from official Fedayeen (Saddam's paramilitary) videotape footage: a blindfolded and handcuffed man thrown from the top of a building, falling to his death; a boy's hand being chopped off; two blindfolded young men, boys really, sitting on a bomb as it detonates; and a beheading.
Lasting no more than 15 seconds and completely silent, those images will haunt even the most jaded for days.
This side of evil, the real enemy of VOI is the mainstream media. Armed with footage that somehow eluded the multimillion-dollar big news operations, the $500,000 film occasionally throws up newspaper headlines-only to show how woefully wrong they were.
From the movie:
- "We can't work on the street anymore..." quoting the Newsweek bureau chief, 4/13/04, which is placed over images of Iraqis casually strolling down those same streets.
- "Fear of Militants Forces Ordinary Iraqis to Stay Home," San Francisco Chronicle, 5/16/04-over video of Iraqis packed into an outdoor marketplace.
- "Iraq may survive, but the dream is dead," New York Times, 5/7/04, which is seen over footage of wedding celebrants jumping for joy, and followed by shots of exuberant youths rejoicing their college graduation.
Iraqis are nobody's fools. They are far savvier and more sophisticated than most would realize, particularly the paternalistic, peacenik left, which thought Iraqis were better off under Saddam. VOI has ordinary Iraqis talking about Saddam's commonly-known harboring of al Qaeda operatives and how foreign governments don't want Iraq's democracy to succeed and are thus helping funnel terrorists into the country.
The Iraqi people understand democracy, but more important, they want democracy. Who knows exactly what form or shape their eventual government will take, but if the ordinary folks featured in VOI have any say, it will be a free society. Throughout, Iraqis define freedom as having a secular government, freedom of speech, or the freedom to partake in technological pleasures like the Internet and cell phones.
For those who read the above and want to label the project a partisan hack job without ever seeing it, many in VOI's team are Democrats. (What else would you expect from Hollywood types?) Anyone still not convinced can go to http://www.voicesofiraq.com/ and see most everything left on the cutting room floor.
But there's plenty in the film to suggest straight-ahead editing, such as several scenes where Iraqis express diametrically opposing views, including about whether or not the country is now better off.
That politics was being openly discussed -on camera, no less- is perhaps the greatest indicator of how much times have changed.
One extended scene showed nuanced political disagreements within one family, spats not that unlike what one would find inside a typical American household. The clan's pre-teen son, Hasooni, bright and smiling, lacked any confusion or inner conflict, though.
When asked what he "wants to be in the future," Hasooni exclaims, "American."
DeafRepublicans gain national attention!
Thanks to Mike McConnell's KokonutPundits blog, we know that America IS aware that the d-Deaf and hard of hearing population is beginning to flex its muscles! We are not the typical "handicapped" group of people who John Edwards can come up and pat on the head. We are a typical, normal American minority group with a diverse set of political, social and academic needs. It is about time that the silent is being heard.
The beautiful thing about this is the fact that for years and years, the Democrats have had a strangehold on the silent people. We were never heard. You would never hear any news about the deaf, unless they were murdered by another Deaf person on the Gallaudet campus.
It requires at least a duality to really make progress- one building on the other. With the emergence of DeafRepublicans, the deaf finally got that much-needed catalyst, the cathode for the anode, if you will, to energize the people as a whole and be HEARD!
Mike is collecting the various articles that appeared on the Internet ever since our emergence:
Deaf Republicans in Uproar Over Kerry 'Endorsement'
US election rivals in war of words over deaf vote
I haven't laughed this hard in so long!
An entry on Craigslist.com made me laugh so hard, harder than I have ever laughed in a good while! Read this, and tell me if this tickles your funny. Warning, graphic prose! If you get offended by certain things, don't read this.
What's with the pussy licking?
I used to figure I like licking pussy about as much as anyone. But once again, Craigslist has expanded my self-knowledge. I see from reading the ads over the last few days that so many of my brothers here like it so much that I'd have to reclassify myself as having only a moderate pussy-licking appetite.
These guys will write an ad and it will sort of go like this: I like licking pussy. I like to lick pussy. Are you not getting your pussy licked, but would like to? I would like to lick your pussy. Those women without pussies, or who do not like them licked, need not respond. But if you like having your pussy licked as much as I like licking pussy (which would be nearly impossible, because I really like licking pussy) then I'm the guy for you. Cause I've licked a lot of pussies. I'm great at it. And I like it. Mmmmmmmm, pussy, pussy, pussy . . .
You've probably seen some of these ads yourself. Now don't get me wrong. A man should have hobbies he's passionate about. Take my father, for instance; he loved horseshoes. Any evening he got the chance, he'd slip out to the back yard to the horseshoe pit and for the next hour or so, or until it got dark, you'd hear the soft clinking sound of horseshoe hitting post. It got on my mother's nerves a little bit, especially when we had company. As soon as the guests were in the door, the first words out of my dad's mouth would be, 'Come on out back, let's pitch a few.' He'd sometimes say it even if it was raining out. My mother would tell him, 'John, not everyone likes horseshoes the way you do. And I don't want them to feel like they have to play.' But it never sunk in. Dad just couldn't believe that anybody wouldn't benefit from an hour or so of pitching shoes. And people who knew my dad came to love that quirky sort of passion he had for the horseshoes.
I expect it's the same for these pussy-licking guys. Company comes over and next thing you know, they're flapping their tongues and winking at the ladies and giving them the old, 'what do you say you let me lick that pussy' line. Their wives or girlfriends probably just shake their head and say, 'Oh, he's like that. You may as well let him lick it, because he won't shut up until you do.'
I'm not criticizing these guys. I admire the honest and straightforward way they write these ads. But I do wonder how the women view them. Now I'll say right up front, I don't have a pussy. If I did, I imagine I'd like getting it licked. I expect it's gratifying in more ways than one. It's probably quite physically pleasurable to have a guy expending a little energy on a pussy. And, it might help restore my faith that God knew what he was doing when he gave men tongues in the first place to see a guy using it for something other than complaining about my driving or scarfing down cheeseburgers.
But a couple of thoughts do come to mind. Perhaps most importantly, it strikes me that I might read one of these ads and say to myself, gee, that guy sounds like he's licked about every pussy between here and Lubbock. Do I feel comfortable having him lick mine next?
And the second thought that would come to mind is, am I worthy of this man's pussy-licking talents. I don't have some sort of "Super Pussy." Asking this pussy-licking machine of a man to lick my plain old pussy would be a flat out insult.
Like I say, I don't have a pussy so I can't really be sure of any of this. I'm really just drawing on my feminine side to try and stand in the shoes of a woman with an actual pussy. And, as anyone would tell you who's actually met me, there's not a lot of femininity in me so I'm kind of groping in the dark here - which is another activity I enjoy.
This also may be a generational thing. I'm a 40 year old married man whose looking for a discreet affair. Discretion is pretty big with my generation. We also tended to reign in a lot of our passions to avoid dying. So while I've had experiences with a few women, I can't really claim to be the top expert on something like pussy licking. When I'm with a woman, and I do something that she likes, I figure she probably knows I learned it from someone else, that I didn't just stumble on it myself. But I don't generally go telling her, 'that thing I just did that you seemed to enjoy, I've been perfecting that for years. Usually when I do it, I hear a little more moaning. But maybe you're just a little more reserved than most women." And by the same token, if she does something I like, I don't generally say, 'I'd like to shake the hand of the man who taught you that.' No, for me, a little mystery is a good thing.
A Rumination.
If you need anything, just go to craiglist.com! They usually have what you need, for example, a replacement computer monitor.
They have a "Best of the Craig's List" page, and this page,recent college grads seek entourage, really made me stop and really consider the thought of doing something like this. After all, I have simply too much on my hands. It would be so great if I could delegate some of these things. That is exactly what Thomas Edison did- he had too many ideas, so he gathered together a group of brilliant scientists, funded them, and let them loose in his state-of-the-art lab.
In order to get the TECHNOLOGY we, the silent ones, need to emulate these who did the same for their respective hearing populations. Edison gave the hearing the light bulb, movie projector, sound recorder and player, just to name a few.
It has been 100 years overdue. High time to catch up!
Abraham Lincoln's warning to the future:
"The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to be acting in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time."
This is saying a lot, coming from one of our most revered Presidents!
Abraham Lincoln, after the Union defeat at Bull Run - where 14,000 soldiers from the north perished - carried an enoromous weight on his shoulders, with a heavy heart, guiding America through its biggest crisis in its lifetime. This is when he wrote this, after taking the time to meditate.
It is exceedingly crystal clear to me: Our Lincolnesque candidate is our incumbent, President George W. Bush. Indeed, Lincoln's quote is the formula to use in which to weigh Kerry vs. Bush. We have both JFK and GWB, both may be wrong. However, that does not mean we can have a candidate that is both for and against the same thing at the same time. This is spooky, Abraham Lincoln's warning to the American Presidents of the future!
Al-Qaeda's de-facto endorsement of John Kerry for President.
This is surreal. I can't believe my eyes. I feel like I am living in a dream world. I ought to be, because it is 6:20 AM. I feel like if I go to sleep, a nuclear bomb will go off. That way, if I stay awake I will be able to evacuate at a moment's notice.
I know that amid all the blather with the election less than 100 hours away, some real bovine excrement has been flung around. but SERIOUSLY!!! A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Osama Bin Laden! I said this before, and that was heated rhetoric with a strong basis. Here we have evidence of an Al-Qaeda endorsement of John Kerry!
Nothing makes my blood run colder than when an American citizen (recall John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban), named Azzam al-Amriki -Azzam the American-
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Azzam al-Amriki
Azzam, allegiant to Osama bin Laden, had something to say to us, his fellow Americans: "No, my fellow countrymen you are guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. You are as guilty as Bush and Cheney. You're as guilty as Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Powell. After decades of American tyranny and oppression, now it's your turn to die. Allah willing, the streets of America will run red with blood matching drop for drop the blood of America's victims." [emphasis mine]
Voters voting against President Bush should keep in mind neither the candidates in our 2000 election would have made a difference in Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's plans to hit America on 9/11. Was that their only salvo against us? No. President Bush understood that because Osama bin Laden officially declared a holy war against us. A war does not start and end with one shot. Accordingly, President Bush declared war on terrorism.
Now, with that critical nuance in mind, Azzam al-Amriki also had this to say: "People of America, I remind you of the weighty words of our leaders, Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri, that what took place on Sept. 11 was but the opening salvo of the global war on America," said Azzam. "And that Allah willing, the magnitude and ferocity of what is coming your way will make you forget all about Sept. 11."[emphasis mine] Now, what could do that? The modern Russian technological marvel that is capable of making Azzam's delusion come true: suitcase nuclear devices. Also consider this comment: "America will mourn in silence because they will be unable to count the number of the dead." What else can do that? Or will God, in the form of Allah, come down and send us to our damnation? No way, we are a Chirstian nation. Hmm... then maybe we are no longer a Christian nation and since we reject God, as a growing portion of the American population now believe, God is now their Allah? Think carefully about the implications of this.
Regardless of the situation, we got a religious war on our hands. A global war aginst America (not terrorism) as our al Qaeda-American traitor so clearly elucidated, being fought by religious zealots, the ones whom John Kerry has shown quite some sensitivity toward. The only way to defeat religious fanatics hell-bent on getting to Paradise and its 72 virgins is to kill them first and send them on way to Hell, fight them with the same fanatic religiosity with no end in sight, or lose and convert to Islam and the sword of Allah. The problem is if you kill them, they immediately fornicate with these virgins in delusional martyrdom instead of going straight to Hell.
As I understand of Islam, you are immediately sent to Hell if you come in contact with a pig before you die. No judgement. No justice. Play their game. We should start fighting with pig-lard-soaked bullets. That was very effective in the early 1900's when General "Black Jack" Pershing, governor of our colony, the Philippines, executed 49 of 50 Muslim terrorists with pig-blood-soaked bullets. After sending the 49th terrorist on his way to Hell, he released the 50th prisoner. They never saw another terrorist attack for 42 years. I got this information from this source, an Muslim-American organization's website. This article says nothing to refute these charges, so it must have some truth.
Unfortunately, the security of this country depends on the confidence that our enemies will not nuke us to oblivion. Unlike our former Soviet adversaries, our Islamofascist fanatics will not hestitate to atomize himself and the city around him with the holler allahuakbar (God is Great!)
America does not neogitate with terrorists. That has always been our policy. So, Al-Qaeda is telling us that a vote for Bush will make our streets "run with blood?" so, should we give in the demands of our terrorist enemies and vote for Kerry or Nader?
FUCK YOU, OSAMA BIN LADEN! I AM VOTING FOR BUSH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!!!
Voting President Bush out of office will send a clear signal to the terrorists that the Americans, regardless of their true voting intentions, the terrorists told the entire world, gratis ABC News, who their preference NOT to be president.
If this all is a hoax, this is a SICK, dead SICK election-manipulating ploy. We should still vote for Bush in defiance of the old media and shut ABCCBSNBCTIMEWARNER out of business by boycotting them and letting the free markets do its job.
One way or other, a LOT of Americans are deadly pissed off now in addition to being afraid. Either Al-Qaeda or a sick hoax has put a sizable percentage of the population on guard. A scared animal is deadly when cornered and on the defensive.
My beloved fellow Americans, we seriously, do not need this during a wartime election. Elizabeth Edwards, our presumptive Second Lady, said in response to a question whether if there would be riots after the elections, "not if Kerry wins."
We now know that Al Qaeda wants to slay as many Americans in our homes and streets if Bush wins the election. The correct message to send to our enemies: Elect Bush to a landslide victory and continue relentlessly hunting them, inside and out! One day, they will realize that Allah has really abandoned them if they persist in attacking us, but keep on facing miserable failure AND its millions dead all in Hell, courtesy of pig-fat bullets.
WARNING! I just had this visualization in my mind. If you hate Bush with all your heart, vote Kerry, and if Bush wins by a close margin, BE CALM. Don't riot. maybe Al Qaeda is using propaganda to deepen our divide, bring the animals out of us, and make the angry folks riot. When these people riot, they become easy targets for whatever firepower these sadists have. Or, that would be a prime location to detonate a nuclear device, in the middle of a massive protest. Remember that they said that it is a war against America, so it does not matter who wins. They still will try their best to attack us. Stay home on November 3rd.
Reagan: A Dagger aimed at the heart of our republic.
Michael Reagan, son of our late President, wrote a powerful article where he warns of the dangers facing America from within. He wrote:
John Kerry, CBS, the New York Times, the U.N.'s Mohamed El Baradei, the other networks and most of the mainstream media surmised they had a dandy "October Surprise" to spring on President Bush just days before the election - but their surmise fizzled...
The story is a shocking revelation that the strong ties that exist between the liberal media and John Kerry and his corrupt political party actually amount to a conspiracy to hoodwink the American people by whatever means are necessary, be they fair (which they never are) or foul (which they usually are). The Times and CBS are nothing less than an integral part of the Kerry campaign - they are his willing stooges being used to defeat the president of the United States.
Here's what the president said today at a rally in Pennsylvania: "After repeatedly calling Iraq the wrong war, and a diversion, Sen. Kerry this week seemed shocked to learn that Iraq is a dangerous place, full of dangerous weapons ..."
"If Sen. Kerry had his way ... Saddam Hussein would still be in power. He would control those all of those weapons and explosives and could share them with his terrorist friends. Now the senator is making wild charges about missing explosives, when his top foreign policy adviser admits, quote, 'We do not know the facts.' Think about that: The senator is denigrating the actions of our troops and commanders in the field without knowing the facts ..."
America has a problem here – a serious problem. A major segment of the media have allowed themselves to become part and parcel of a political campaign, promoting the interests of their candidate and seeking to smear his opponent, the president of the United States. And that's more than a scandal – it's a dagger pointed at the heart of this republic.
Standing against evil
This article by Rebecca Hagelin is so well-written I would be doing this topic an injustice if I did not plagarize her words. I do not pull off a Jayson Blair, so she gets the proper credit.
He was a brutal dictator, a crazed man, the personification of evil.
He massacred, brutalized, tortured and mutilated more people than you and I will ever meet in our lifetime. His victims were political opponents, people of faith, average citizens on the street, innocent men, women and children. He victimized anyone he chose to - for any reason.
He invaded neighboring countries, raping and murdering along the way. He threatened to destroy others.
He was, himself, a weapon of mass destruction.
The world began to notice his atrocities. Decent people in many countries said it was time to stop the madman.
Yet, many liberal religious leaders in America said that to intervene would be a mistake - to confront a madman in another land would be wrong.
Take for instance, the arguments of Ernest Fremont Tittle of the Methodist World Peace Commission:
In a world that is suffering from injustice piled upon injustice, the immediate overcoming of evil may be impossible. There may be no escape from the wages of sin. The question then is, what course, if faithfully followed, would eventually lead to a better state of affairs? War, I am convinced, is not the answer. War can overcome a dictator; it cannot rid the world of dictatorship. It can stop an aggressor; it cannot put an end to aggression. On the contrary, it can only provide new soil for the growth of dictatorship and aggression.
When America and her allies finally did defeat the madman, instability filled the region. While the victims rejoiced at being free, those who supported the madman created havoc and mayhem. The religious leaders shook their heads at the "liberation," pointing to the mayhem as proof they had been right.
Yet, in the months that followed the liberation, mass graves containing the beaten and starved bodies of civilians were found. Torture chambers were discovered. Diaries and records of unspeakable atrocities against the innocent surfaced. Horrific stories of brutality from survivors struck the hearts of even the hardest of men.
Eventually the world began to ask, "Why didn't we intervene sooner? Why did we let evil reign for so long?"
Who was this madman? Hitler.
We still ask ourselves, "Why didn't we intervene sooner?"
The voices of the religious pacifists eventually fell silent about America's involvement in fighting the madman that was Hitler. But today, the same cries for pacifism have arisen once again.
Today's madman was different, and so were his tactics. But the consequences for the victims reek of the same insidious evil.
America and her allies removed the brutal, crazed dictator known as Saddam Hussein. He was taken out before he could carry his rampage against humanity through a continent and beyond. Yet, the liberal religious pacifists still cry fowl. The arguments above by the Reverend Tittle, made in 1941, are eerily similar to what we hear today.
As our nation seeks to define her political and moral responsibilities around the world, perhaps it's time we take a closer look at the similar debate that occurred during the rise of European fascism.
Perhaps it's time to see what history says about intervention, madmen and securing peace.
Joseph Loconte, my colleague at the Heritage Foundation, has just released what I believe to be one of the most important books of the year. "The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm" contains a collection of arguments by the religious leaders of the day -- both pro and con -- for American intervention against the Third Reich. There are priceless lessons to be learned from the debates and consequences of non-action vs. military intervention during World War II. These are lessons that must not be lost to the dusty shelves of forgotten history.
Hitler was not the last madman to gain power and inflict untold damage and destruction on mankind. Nor will Saddam Hussein be the last.
Loconte's book is "must-reading" for every religious and political leader in the civilized world. And it's must reading for the rest of us, too. War affects all of us, and as the conventions and tactics of warfare change, we must remember that the key moral issues do not.
As Loconte writes in the introduction to "The End of Illusions,"
The United States eventually would join Britain's struggle, but waited until it was almost too late. The ensuing debate over U.S. engagement proved to be one of the most contentious in the history of the American church. Only a handful of religious leaders realized the blackness of the evil that had been let loose in the world. Few could imagine the sacrifices that would be required to meet it. And fewer still dared to predict the consequences of shrinking back from the duties assigned to America, Britain and their allies.
"A penalty is attached to non-action in such a situation," warned Lewis Mumford as most of Europe lay in ruins. "A human society in which men will not help their neighbors to resist evil and struggle for justice, will presently cease to exist as a society, since it will lack even the animal loyalties that are necessary for survival." Perhaps their example can help us avoid that chilling judgment in the present hour of crisis.
We will be able to read Deaf people's minds. Literally.
In the near future, in a decade or more, we will have seen our technology progress to the point where we will be able to read brain waves in order to manipulate the movement of machines.article
Logically, that means we will be able to read the minds of Deaf people! Deaf people will be able to communicate telepathically. It is very simple when you think about it.
I am working on research that will enable the computer to automatically recognize sign language. Sign language uses gross body movements. Research on the manipulation of remote machines using the brain is rapidly progressing. As the article says:
"Picture a monkey sitting with his arms bound behind his back and a helmet of wires covering his skull. The wires connect a computer to dozens of tiny sensors called microelectrodes that were surgically implanted in the animal's brain. Over and over again, the monkey reaches for and feeds itself chunks of zucchini using a robotic arm that is powered by signals from nerve cells in its primary motor cortex -- the part of the brain that controls movement.
"This deceptively simple demonstration of how complex thoughts can be captured and translated into action by a computer is the culmination of a decade of research by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine neurobiologist Andrew Schwartz that could change the lives of people with neurological disorders."
So, if we will be able to create prothestics that will do as a good job as our original limbs, controlling them by mere thought, we will be able to enable a deaf person who lost both arms to sign. Conversely, we would be able to "track" a Deaf person's signing - then transmit to the viewer. I do not know if we will be able to directly input signals into the brain. My grandchildren probably will, but for now, we can use virtual reality viewers to telepathically communicate with one other. You would simply think of what you want to say; you will visualize what you want to sign, and that would be detected by the computer!
This technology is inevitable. I would much rather to be on the side where we develop the technology, so I won't ever lose control of my freedom of thought! ;-)
The baseball gods have spoken.
There are certain things that we will never be able to prove using the scientific method. God is still one of them, though we are rapidly approaching that epoch with particle accelerators. Despite overwhelming evidence cited by both people who believe in God and atheists, this debate will rage on till we are able to travel faster than 186,000 miles per second. (A quick lesson in Einstein's theory of relativity: when you travel at the speed of light, time stops. When you go faster, time goes backward.)
Philosophical blather aside, we just witnessed something that brings joy at first sight, a lunar eclipse. It is that rare tangible cosmological event. A tangible event is one that inspires awe from religious people and scientists alike. It is something that commands a gasp from you when you first see it, despite knowing about it in advance, such as happened to me when I was leaving my night class at GW. I saw the Moon, just in its beginning stages of the eclipse, and immediately it looked peculiar, peculiar so that no human would see it and not notice anything out of the ordinary.
At home, I was feeling the pulse of the blogosphere when I came across an article about the eclipse. It had a table showing the times of the precession and recession of Earth's shadow onto the Moon - the "maximum," or total, phase of the eclipse was timed to end at 11:45 pm. I glanced over to the TV with the World Series game on. It was the 9th inning with one out.
Let's rewind here a little bit. On my way home from GW, I was at a higher risk of an accident because I was moon-gazing through my sunroof (OK, OK, I only did that at red lights and extended stops at quiet stop signs) and pondering the universe. That was when a light came on in my head, Boston was playing to win their first Series in 86 years tonight! What a serendipitous stroke of sheer coincidence if they win tonight, playing with a lunar eclipse raging overhead. Ruminating as I usually do..
Fast forward to bottom of the 9th, 2 out. 3rd out, pandemonium broke put. I was so happy for the Sox and their fans, finally they break out of this long blue period of self-inflicted pyschological curse. I then glanced back at my monitor, saw the time. 11:40 pm. 5 minutes before first light of the Moon was going to show, ending the peak of the eclipse. Wow! Talk about the cosmic sign heralding the ending of a long, dark curse! What's the odds of a team winning its first championship in eight decades
(Buckner, anybody?) with its last out under a total lunar eclipse at its peak, the last eclipse till 2007?
God has a great sense of humor brimming with transcendental wisdom! If it is of any condolence to the Yankees fan, He probably was smirking when He did this for the Bambino.
Our counterinsurgency
ProtestWarrior.com is a great site if you want to become an anti-antiwar-protestor protestor. My logic might be more than superficial, but, after all, I never met an ignorant Bush supporter. 80% of Kerry's supporters have no grasp on the issues at all. Yoy have to have a certain level of intelligence to really understand that Bush is not bad, he is not Hitler, the war against terrorism is necessary. That is not to say that the Left is devoid of intelligent creatures.
As that website's mission statement says:
War IS an ugly thing, but as long as nations and leaders exist that detest freedom, sometimes it is the only way to secure a lasting peace. Most leftist anti-war protesters and pundits don't understand this. They state that this use of force is always unnecessary -- that war, ANY war, is never good. Some of them, born into the luxury of American freedom, believe that liberty can exist passively, that somehow the world's natural state will always settle into utopian harmony. Others, in an attempt to absolve themselves from the unearned guilt they harbor living in a nation of prosperity and wealth, try to buy morality on the cheap by pronouncing themselves for the 'good'. To them, the derivation of the 'good' is based on a simple, yet peculiar standard: the powerful and competent are wicked, while the feeble and impotent are innocent - regardless of the context. That is why they defend Iraq instead of America, and the Palestinian "resistance" instead of Israel.
These leftists usually carry the loudest megaphones. And left unchallenged, their voices are heard disproportionately, demoralizing our troops, and emboldening dictators around the world - dictators who dream of the day the "Great Satan" disappears from the face of the earth.
However, their self-righteous messages go silent quickly when the truth of history and reality is thrown back in their face. It's time to turn up the juice on OUR megaphones, as we will never keep our supreme values of liberty and justice without the will to fight for them.
If Bush wins, there might be riots. Kerry WILL NOT concede if the margin is close, which it is widely expected to be. Kerry will smell power from the masses of people who will scream for him to be President. AS I recall, there were hundreds of thousands (150-250,000?) protestors at Bush's inaugauration, and I remember it as especially rabid. With four years in the preessure cooker factored in, we are looking at millions marching at the Capitol.
I live just a quick bird's stroll from the U.S. Capitol. I live in an area where saw extensive damage from the MLK riots. I am legitimately concerned for my safety if Kerry doesn't concede the election, even though Bush clearly shows a victory, however close. We cannot let that happen. If you see people marching on Nov. 3rd or sooon thereafter, revisit ProtestWarrior.com.
How fitting is it that the Manchurian Candidate movie was just remade?
The Others. (who Kerry beat in the primaries)
Elisa's blog has a good commentary about her impressions of the democratic candidates' personalities. We all know Kerry's dry, sonorical style, but what about the others? I, for one, would have much preferred Dean torun for president. We would truly have an opposition candidate, an anti-war candidate, so our choices would be real clear. John Kerry, deep inside, is a sheep in wolf's clothing.
Hypo-Allergenic Cats: Bengal Cats: All Natural, no engineered genes.
This is disgusting! The future is now here today. Even though I am a futurist, I think that some things go too far. Just look at this website- they are creating genetically engineered cats that are hypoallergenic. Allerca: The Hypo-Allergenic Cat
There is a good reason for my strong reaction when I learned about the fact that genetically engineered animals are no longer the subject of science fiction authors, especially when the cat, whose genes were spliced together by man, cost $3,500. That might not be a big deal, you might say.
But, I ask you this: Is it really a good reason to engineer an animal's genes to remove its allergenicism, especially when there are hypo-allergenic cats already available, all natural, no genetic modifications (apart from natural animal husbandry), much cheaper then the $3,500 price tag of the engineered cat.
If you are allergic to cats, like my roommate is, simply get a Bengal cat. They are hypoallergenic. I know this because Akhenaten my cat, is a Bengal. I have done field tests with severaly feline-allergic people sniffing Ake's fur. All had nary a allergic reaction!
The nice thing about Bengals is that they do not cost anywhere as much as the $3,500 Allerca engineered cat, and they share the same hypoallergenic characterstic. They can cost in the neighborhood of $400-700, more for breeders and prizewinners, not so bad a price for an exotic cat. I would definitely prefer a cheaper, more exotic-looking, a playful, dog-like hypoallergenic, all-natural cat rather than shelling out 3,000 bucks to tamper with Mother Nature especially for something so trivial as hypoallergenism. I would prefer to engineer the genes which will cause Ake to not start spraying, as tomcats do, when he reaches that age very soon! Ake is lucky I have this habit of proscrination, because he still has his balls. Inevitable neutering is something that he will eventually have to come to grips over. :)
Handsome cat, no?
 
Deaf Republicans: Vote for Bush!
Deaf Republicans: Vote for Bush!
I was thrilled when I learned about the existence of a Deaf Republicans website! I am glad that the few Republicans in my circle of friends are not alone as islands of refuge amid the roiling seas of blood-red illogical hatred toward our President of the United States. Amid all the turmoil and tempest, President Bush remains our beacon of light and we will remain united toward our ultimate goals. As the DeafRepublicans website put it:
Deaf Republicans is a grassroots organization formed to foster the principles and values of the Republican Party within the deaf and hard of hearing community.
The mission of Deaf Republicans is to build a national grassroots network within the deaf and hard of hearing Americans community through which Republican ideals and beliefs can be articulated and embraced. Deaf Republicans believe that for our issues and concerns to be heard by politicians, the deaf and hard of hearing community must be represented on both sides of the political spectrum. We will seek to develop and nurture relationships between the deaf and hard of hearing community and Republican leaders.
Together we will address issues and policy matters of importance to the deaf and hard of hearing community, and resolve them in ways consistent with the pull-yourself-up-from-your-bootstraps Republican ideals that enable members of our community to
- achieve their goals on level playing grounds,
- eliminate barriers to opportunities and participation in society,
- accomplish self-determination and self-reliance,
- attain economic empowerment, and
- free themselves from dependence on government services and entitlements.
These ideals are exactly what drew me to the Republican party in the first place. As Benjamin Franklin succinictly said, "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
I just hope that my silent voice will be loud enough to be heard to effect some positive change.
Thanks, Mike McConnell and Rayni Kaika, for introducing me to this website! Check their blogs out.
Foreign Leaders DO Support Kerry.
Our Democratic presidential candidate, John F. Kerry, said that several foreign leaders support him. Apparently, he kept the identities of these leaders secret. Now, with the passage of time, history's best judge, those who support Kerry are clearly known.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (official name for North Korea, yes, really): Kim Jong Il
Iran-Mullohcracy Kerry wants to GIVE them nuclear fuel?!
China-Communists
Palestinian Authority-Yasser Arafat
Malaysia-Mahathir Mohamad, their former PM who said "Jews rule the world by proxy."
Spain-Socalist: PM Zapatero wants Kerry to win The Spanish, tails between their legs, immediately quit our coalition and got out of Iraq right after Zapatero took power.
France-pro-Saddam Jacques Chirac
Germany
Vietnam-Communist victors of the war; honors Kerry in their War Remnants Museum
In addition, al-Jazeera and Communist Party USA endorse Kerry.
Now, who actually supports President Bush?
Australia -John Howard, recently elected over his anti-war opponent in a landslide
United Kingdom-Tony Blair. Britain has been one of America's closest allies through high or low, regardless of our President's party affilation. Blair is just about as much vilified as Bush is.
Russia -Vladimir Putin
Italy -Silvio Berculsoni
Israel -Ariel Sharon, who is withdrawing from the occupied terriorities and settlements, giving the Palestinians what they always wanted.
Japan -PM Junichiro Koizumi
The Philippines -President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Taiwan This democratic country finally received the weaponry they long sought, and denied, in order to deter a communist Chinese invasion.
Poland -Aleksandr Kwanieswski, who called Kerry immoral for calling them "coerced and bribed"
Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania and all of the ex-Communist Eastern European countries
And this is just a partial list...
when you cast your vote, just keep in mind who is rooting for John Kerry. How many evil ones are rooting for President Bush? None. All of them are rooting for Kerry. I for one, abhor the prospect of a new President who has the enthuastic support of our worst enemies.
FrontPage magazine.com :: The Axis of Evil Endorsement by Ben Johnson
The World Hates Bush; I Don't.
One of the biggest reasons I am a staunch Bush supporter is because of the heavily illogical hateful vitriol that is slung at Bush on a daily basis. Granted, it is our American duty to keep the President in check. I, for one, would never unconditionally support a president because of a blind loyalty to a party. There are different kinds of leaders for different times. But, oh how I wish we all could come to a compromise, vote Bush to office for two more years, then have a whole new election without an incumbent to bash relentlessly.
It does not create a conductive atmosphere to exchange political views and possibly carrying some sway if you are confronted with a constant barrage of "IT'S THE OIL! HALLIBURTON!" whenever you try to have a productive debate on the merits of our presidential candidates. I want to hear WHY John Forbes Kerry would make a BETTER choice than George Walker Bush. To this day, I have never heard more than one convincing argument at a time. I do not want to be grabbing at hopeful "plans", blind of Kerry's "big picture." It seems like only Kerry knows the details for his multitudes of "plans."
I really want to debate why or why not we should drill for oil in Alaska, so we can cut off our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. I do not support the drilling of oil in the ANWR, but what other choice do we have, save for a revolutionary discovery of free energy tomorrow? I do not want to see "HALLIBURTON!" screamed into my eyes. Debating the role of Halliburton in our government is completely legitimate, but a one-way argument about "CHEATNEY AND HALLIBURTON!" without considering my input does not convert any voter knowledgeable of all kinds of issues to the Kerry side.
Now, with Kerry not being able to show WHY and HOW he will be a better president than Bush, and the constant excrement that is flung at Bush just makes me defend my position more vigorously. The constant attacks without letting us get our 2-cents worth in just makes us more deeply entrenched in our positions. How do you expect to have an "unity" if Kerry wins? It was not us that started the dividing. It was a doctor, Dr. Dean, who created the first incision of the American Great Divide.
Take this article as an example. How do you expect an American to feel if the world says they hate America? It does not make me want to be their friends. It is just like being bullied in elementary school, but it is funny, the roles are reversed. The one, big bully giant is surrounded by hundreds of tiny, scrawny little children, and the bullies' few smaller, but still big allies, are surrounded by the same nippy crowd. But what to do if the big bullies are good and the small bullies are bad?
I do not consider the world's hatred of Bush a great thing. Consider the article I just linked to- the author says in the article:
"Throughout the debate, John Kerry, for his part, looks and sounds a bit like a haunted tree. But at least he's not a lying, sniggering, drink-driving, selfish, reckless, ignorant, dangerous, backward, drooling, twitching, blinking, mouse-faced little cheat. And besides, in a fight between a tree and a bush, I know who I'd favour.
On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
When reading the article, I was digging my trench even deeper, but when I got to that point where he openly called for an assassin, my blood instantly chilled. I really hope that the Secret Service follows up on Charlie Booker. We do not need people in foreign countries openly calling for the assassination of President Bush. That only emboldens those who would actually do it, with the idea that the world would be supportive of the murderer of our President.
Friends and allies do not openly call for the murder of other friends. Enemies do. That is NOT the way to get me to discard my vote for President Bush.
By the way, it would be VERY easy for me to do just that. Please just give me a better candidate than John F. Kerry. In all truth, there is not very much in President Bush's favor on the scales, but Kerry has barely any counterweight. Saying that a Bush victory will disprove the existence of God is not very helpful for the feather- like weight Kerry is holding.
Osama bin Laden WILL be caught! part II
San Bernardino County Sun - News
I recently wrote a blog in which I explicitly declared that I believed that Osama bin Laden will be found. My belief has just been strongly buttressed by the revelation of 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman that the whereabouts of bin Laden is known. The San Bernardino Sun interviewed former Navy Secretary Lehman, and he said that bin Laden is in South Waziristan in the Baluchistan Mountains of Pakistan's Baluchistan region. I went a bit further and investigated where Baluchistan is. Interesting. Baluchistan borders Afghanistan AND Iran. source
As I recall, there were reports of bin Laden being in Iran. Other reports say that he was in Afghanistan, and another Pakistan. Baluchistan is the piece that makes the jigsaw puzzle complete.
Read the article yourself, it is always best to read the original source of information. However, I will enlighten you with what the article has to say.
We KNOW where he is. But we can't catch him. Because that would ignite a really huge bomb, in a sense. Lehman said, "There is an American presence in the area, but we can't just send in troops. If we did, we could have another Vietnam, and the United States cannot afford that right now."
Lehman also explains that President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has survived three assassination attempts, plus the Pakistani government is literally brimming of Al-Qaeda sympathizers and outright collaborators.
Recall that military is at a very advanced stage of research and development of their directed energy weapons, which are optionally lethal. In Osama's case, we could literally zap him and his entourage of camels (or in Afghanistan, goats?) into instant unconsciousness from 30,000 feet. As in a few days from now. That could be THE "October Surprise" so much hyped for a good while. If not, then someday soon, SOON the lasso will finally be tightened around the Prophet Muahammad's most fervent, faithful and loyal follower in contemporary times. Allah will then have spoken. That Osama is not fornicating with 72 virgins, but festering (he would, only if not for the ACLU!) in a solitary cell somewhere in Attica.
That is exactly why I do not condone the death penalty for Osama and Saddam, even though I am not completely against the death penalty. the only thing that will result in their executions will be their literal martyrdom.
I propose an unique sentence, for unique times. Sentence Osama and Saddam to life imprisonment. Where would they be jailed? In a glass box suspended 10 feet above the ground, in the front of the White House. People could come and say anything they want to them. Families could come to Osama and show how he really sent their lives to hell instead of heaven. Likewise for Saddam. Have the Chippendales dance in front of Osama, I am sure he's have a hit! Lastly, sentence them to 9 hours and 11 minutes in the stockade daily, with full public access (with prior security inspections to prevent their assassination). Exceptions would be on Sabbaths, when they instead will have to take a bath in liquefied pig lard. Ramadan would especially be a feast, with pig roto-roasted on a spit. That'd definitely enthrall Allah, knowing his fetishy love of anything pig.
That way, both we and our enemy can witness that we are ultimately the victors. That is probably the best way to declare complete, utter victory against terrorism and alas! no more war, the peaceniks get their wish.
Bush Gets Endorsement From Iran
Bush Gets Endorsement From Iran
"The head of Iran's security council said on Tuesday the re-election of President Bush was in Tehran's best interests, despite the administration's axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country's nuclear ambitions.
Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body. "We haven't seen anything good from Democrats," Rowhani told state-run television in remarks that, for the first time in recent decades, saw Iran openly supporting one U.S. presidential candidate over another.
"We should not forget that most sanctions and economic pressures were imposed on Iran during the time of Clinton," Rowhani said of the former Democratic president. "And we should not forget that during Bush's era - despite his hard-line and baseless rhetoric against Iran - he didn't take, in practical terms, any dangerous action against Iran."
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Some Scary Stuff
"...we have declared jihad against the US, because in our religion it is our duty to make jihad so that God's word is the one exalted to the heights and so that we drive the Americans away from all Muslim countries." -Osama bin Laden
"We--with God's help--call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it." -Osama bin Laden
"Acquiring [nuclear and chemical] weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so. And if I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty. It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons..." -Osama bin Laden
"We are confident that the Muslim nation would rid Islamic countries of the Americans and the Jews." -Osama bin Laden
"And so I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord." -Adolf Hitler
"It is the duty of every Muslim to fight. Killing Jews is top priority." -Osama bin Laden
"In times of distress a wave of public anger has usually arisen against the Jew; the masses have taken the law into their own hands; they have seized Jewish property and ruined the Jew in their urge to protect themselves against what they consider to be a scourge of God. Having come to know the Jew intimately through the course of centuries, in times of distress they looked upon his presence among them as a public danger comparable only to the plague." -Adolf Hitler
"the struggle we are now waging in Iraq and Palestine is not a struggle over land and resources...it is a struggle between two civilizations." -Tariq Aziz, Saddam's long-time spokesman for the West
"[to liberate Palestine from] the claws of the lowly Jews, who are descendants of monkeys and pigs and worshippers of the infidel tyrant." -Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's deputy.
"The saying that (history repeats itself) means, among other things, that aspects of the past could be repeated though they assume the colours and names of their stages...They repeat themselves should they be re-analyzed, revived and dissolved into their primary elements and ingredients as to their strength and weakness, ascent and descent, climbing and falling into abyss, good and bad, climbing to peaks and falling into abyss, pursuit of good will and virtue against pursuit of evil and vice, those who hate people and bring harm to them against those who love people and work for their welfare, the destroyers and the constructors and the like in the series of the images and their contrasts, up and down, bad and good." -Saddam Hussein source of his Mein Kampfesque2003 speech
"Iraq has fulfilled is obligations under the security council resolutions and has fully applied them. It is utterly unacceptable that the security council should not acknowledge these sacrifices of Iraq, and in turn fulfill its obligations by lifting the embargo once and for all, completely and comprehensively." -Saddam Husseinspeech
"The enemy is aware of this. Will the concerned Arabs ever know that the enemy understands? Our enemy understands but will the other concerned Arabs ever realized that the enemy is serious? Are those who are directly involved in games of politics serious enough over what is a national and honorable (issue)? Are they capable of protecting their sanctities now that the Zionists are openly insulting the messenger of mercy and virtue, the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him) and are seizing his place of flight, the holy Quds? 'Our lord decide between us and our people in truth, for You are the best to decide'[Koranic verse - emphasis added]
Allah is great
Allah is great
Let the despicable be despised." -Saddam Hussein
"The statement that history repeats itself means that the images of the past are repeated, but may be with different colors and different names. In its history, Baghdad represented the eye of Arabs and Muslims and the spear of God on Earth. It represented the skill of Arabs and the storage of their wisdom and their heritage. It represented their capabilities in their civilization and its great shining on humanity. When the Mongols ascended on basis of their power, conquering China, India, Persia, and other countries, they couldn't change their destructive power into a capability of construction and civilization. Thus, when Holago and his Mongol soldiers entered Baghdad for forty days (in 1258), they destroyed it. The reason they could do so was because the rulers of Baghdad were not ready for them. However, the Mamluks of Egypt learned the lesson and prepared themselves and battled the Mongols in Ain Jalut, and poked their eyes.
Jews played a role in leading Holago to Baghdad in the past, just like what the Zionists are doing right now. They have been leading the American government, not to be a constructive power, but to ascend as a destructive power in the world arena." -Saddam Hussein, in a separate speech
" In its history, Baghdad represented the eye of Arabs and Muslims and the spear of God on Earth." -Saddam Hussein
"The new birth of Baghdad brought with it the birth of a new position, a new sword, a new pen, and a new flag. The call of Allahu Akbar (God is greater and more powerful) blessed these positions, swords, pens, and blessed the flag. Baghdad has been protected so far, and it will be protected from those who are preparing to advance to its walls, in a naked and unprovoked aggression." -Saddam Hussein
" Israel [is] the single greatest threat to regional and global peace and security." -Kamal Kharrazi, Iranian Foreign Minister
The U.N., through its legitimacy and ever-increasing effectiveness, must be the instrument of the universal conscience of which it remains the crucible." -Michel Barnier, French Foreign Minister
DeafPolitics.com
Without much ado, I just made my first posting on DeafPolitics.com, a site I set up to catalyze some political debate between the members of the Deaf community.
I have too many things on my hands, and by the de facto prioritiy queuing done in my cerebrum, DeafPolitics.com lingered for a while, when the heat of the impending election spurred me to finish my manifesto that I have been working on for a while. I just posted the introduction to the manifesto. I will try to separate my political rantings, restrict it to that site, so this site can be of real benefit without any partisan "poison."
Russia finishes building Iran's nuclear plant
Russia finishes building Iran nuclear plant
My heart skipped a couple beats when Russia and Iran announced that they just finished building the nuclear power plant. As I recall, Iran kept on insisting that the plant would not be completed till 2006 at the least, and Russia said no, no, it's gonna be completed in early 2005. Israel swears that they will not allow Iran have nuclear capabilities.
So, you can imagine the fibrillation that my heart went through when it was quietly announced that the Iranians have achieved their nuclear capability, WAY, WAY ahead of schedule. "We're done," said a spokesman for Russia's Atomic Energy Agency. "All we need to do now is work out an agreement on sending spent fuel back to Russia."
Now that Iran has already tore up their agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency and began highly enriching uranium, it would be very easy for Iran to quickly divert their nuclear fuel "on loan" from Russia, convert it into uranium hexafluoride gas, pump it through their already-active centrifuges. They would have weapons-grade nuclear material on their hads in a day. ONE day. That is how long it will be before they lob their new Shihab-3 missiles to Tel Aviv and Haifa.
According to The guardian, a British newspaper, Iran's Shehab-3 missiles were rolled out painted with the messages, "We will crush America under our feet' and "Israel must be wiped off the map."
Another article by BBC.com shows a picture of an Iranian Shehab-3 missile with the slogan "THE U.S.A. CAN DO NOTHING."
That BBC article quotes an Israeli Knesset member, Ephraim Sneh, talking about pre-emptive strikes: "I am talking about the possibility, if we have no choice, of a pre-emptive strike with conventional weapons." As I understand it, Israel did exactly that with Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981- which proved to be the ultimate factor that prevented Saddam Hussein from getting a nuclear weapon. Saddam would have used a nuke, no question about it. He had already used all the WMDs he had in his arsenal at one point or other, either against his own people or the Iranians.
Moreover, the U.S. has just shipped 500 bunker busters to Israel, part of a 5,000 smart-bomb purchase. Israel has completed training for the operation needed in order to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities.
Time is of essence. Russia and Iran say that everything can be finalized by November. That is when the nuclear reactor will go active. If they attack, Israel HAS to do it BEFORE the nuclear fuel rods go into the core, just like it was with the Osirak reactor, a French-built reactor, by the way. That is the only way to prevent a radioactive disaster. It will require a blitzkrieg-style attack, with waves and waves of aircraft, perhaps hundreds, with a high possible casualty rate. But it is doable.
The reality on the ground indicates that all hell's gonna break loose. Very soon. Regardless of American politics.
Kurzweil's Quest For Eternal Youth Sets Group Abuzz (washingtonpost.com)
Gallaudet Aviation History!
The Gallaudet Motor
I was astounded that there's a Gallaudet associated with aviation history! I have no idea whether if that Gallaudet is related to our Gallaudet, it should spur someone to follow up on this, it would really be cool if it was indeed associated with our Gallaudet...
There is even a Gallaudet Kite at the National Air and Space Museum!
Later, when I did some Googling for some Gallaudet pictures, more airplanes kept on coming up. Another one is a planed called Gallaudet Chummy, from 1917. Check it out here
I did some quick Google research- "Edson F. Gallaudet was a contemporary of the Wright brothers who was investigating aerodynamics during the late 1890s. Probably his greatest contribution to the field was the development of "wing warping" which he applied to kites he was experimenting with in 1898." Link
Interesting, his company, Gallaudet Aircraft Company, was one of the companies that ultimately consolidated into Lockheed. There even was a Gallaudet Aviation School.
Hmm.. Why don't some of us likeminded Deaf pilot wanna-bes try to resurrect the Gallaudet Aviation School?
A peek into the mind of a swing voter
While I was surfing the Web and semi-simulatenously trying to start my long-overdue homework, I came across a friend's blog, and thought that it was a nice peek into a mind of a swing voter, someone who is unsure wheter to vote for Bush or Kerry. An excerpt from Oscar's blog:
"...regardless of what the news says, the news is biased one way or other. i've been reading and watching different newspapers and TV
shows---all of them espouse information that is either pro-kerry and anti-bush or anti-kerry and pro-bush.
from my observations of recent dialogues, it seems that all that can be said regarding Iraq, Saddam, Osama, outsourcing of work, etc. has been said.
however, i want to throw a different type of chip into the pot here. I'm a registered democrat, but i've had some thoughts that have given me pause to think...check this out.
let's focus on OUR rights as deaf individuals... if you take out all the hoopla within policy, and look at the bottom line--this is my take on it:
the democratic party believes in giving us jobs, resources, everything we need in order for us to succeed in today's world (for instance,welfare programs--we can sit and have ourselves taken care of, just by collecting that monthly check).
the republican party believes in giving us resources that we need in order for us to succeed in today's world. however, the difference is that we must be proactive in job-hunting, and not just sitting and taking welfare.
i'm curious--you tell me what you would prefer to see your children do--stand up as respectable citizens of our country and go out there, roll up their sleeves and find opportunities for success, to make a living for themselves.
OR
would you like to see your children take it easy, knowing that their ever-so-reliable check is coming in, and that's the work thats being done by our government, FOR your children.
in short: under a democratic administration--we would be given jobs, opportunities to make a living for ourselves.
under a republican administration--we would be pointed towards career expos, hiring agencies and then we would have to assert ourselves and do the work in competing with other citizens in getting a job for ourselves.
which would affect you as a proud deaf individual? being spoon-fed or grabbing ahold of the spoon yourself and feeding yourself?
a point that seems to have been cast aside--we have both of the democratic and republican administrations to thank for our access to information and the world today---Carter (D) for enabling IDEA in '75 and then Bush, Senior (R) for ADA in the early '90s.
just my 2 cents. all lofty aspirations aside--i know i'd want to grab that spoon and feed myself. "
Hmm.. That once again confirms my long-simmering feeling that Democratism and Republicanism is full of BS. It is the pressing issues of the day, and their REAL priorities is what we deserve to work to resolve. For example, however important the issue of gay marriage is, it is not as critical as, say, national security is! By the way, whatever Bush or Kerry says, they both believe that marriage is for a man and woman, so I do not really understand why the Log Cabin Republicans hate Bush. The marriage amendment NEVER will pass, anyway.
Instead of fighting Bush and furthering the split we see in our nation today, I think those who hate Bush simply because of his stand on gay marriage, is really deceiving themselves. Kerry is against gay marriage, so that issue is neutralized. Then move on to the next priority. I honestly would understand if Kerry was pro-gay marrage, but the fact is he is not. It is probably wiser to maintain national unity at this critical juncture. History books are being written. We will have a new president in 2008, and it is not going to be Bush or Kerry (if Kerry wins, hes a one-termer). That president will probably be one who's much more geninuely symathetic to gays, which Kerry, at heart, is not. If you see the goal in sight, you probably will miss if you lunge at it. It is better to be patient and move towards it at the same speed. Arnold Schwarzenegger, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giulani are all more sympathetic towards gays, and these people are probably the most likely candidates for president the next time around... If this nation is too far divided, the damage may be too irreparable to maintain optimism.
As for me, I am very keen to succeed on my own. I was "spoon-fed" by the government for a good while, while I was in college, and I am very grateful I had the spoon feeding me. Otherwise, I would never had the chance to focus on school and get where I am today.
Hmmm... a thought... Why not make SSI universal for all college students, including normal, hearing people? Limit it to 4 years, and attach strict requirements, such as maintaining a 3.0 GPA. That way, college students who show geninue promise will have the means to not have to work, and instead focus on their academics. On the condition they find a job, which the federal government would ensure they get. The students would then be more compelled to pursue more challenging majors, such as mathematics, science, computer science, those majors that will give the students the REAL skills to really stand out in today's monochromatic society.
It s probably gonna cost trillions. Ah, a noble idea at that.
I gotta stop ruminating and get back to my homework! Adieu.
Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties
Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties
It is moot to continue to claim that Saddam actually had WMDs, there has been two inspections, nothing was found. Nonwithstanding any future discoveries (recall my recent blog about the buried jet!), I think that this report by CNSNews requires some serious consideration, as they're a trusted alternative news outlet. After all, the main networks cannot be fully trusted ever again, including FOX, CNN, most of them.
One part from the article:
"Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.
One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Somalia. The memo was written nine months before U.S. Army Rangers were ambushed in Mogadishu by forces loyal to a warlord with alleged ties to al Qaeda.
Other memos provide a list of terrorist groups with whom Iraq had relationships and considered available for terror operations against the United States. "
They even detailed the clear connection Saddam had to Somalia, and that Saddam issued a directive that "the party should move to hunt the Americans who are on Arabian land, especially in Somalia, by using Arabian elements, or Asian (Muslims) or friends.
Watch this story develop. It's gonna be big news soon. Thank God for the blogosphere!
I KNOW Osama bin Laden WILL be caught.
Osama bin Laden will not die as a martyr and have his pleasures with 72 virgins. He will be caught. Justice will be served.
I know that the government has been saying that they WILL catch him with the conviction I had in the previous sentence. And I know that nearly every sane person has doubted the authenticity of these claims. But, I found it interesting that the intensity of the emphasis put on these claims has really intensifed for a while. Simply Google "bin laden will be caught" and see what results you get.
The dots fell in place, then it all connected, making sense. I read an article a couple years ago that the military has been developing some sort of directed energy weapon, a focused microwave beam that is able, from a distance, incapiciate people by creating a disabling burning sensation. (original article)
Then, I read about this, which details further the extent of the advancement of our "exotic" weapon programs that include lasers and microwave weapons. In addition, it is widely known that the government actually "hoards" technology decades ahead of its time. Take the B-2 stealth bomber, for instance. It was kept under wraps for 40 years till it was publicized in the '80's. In dire circumstances, our government has been known to "unveil" or quickly press into service new technologies. For example, the war in Afghanistan used armed unmanned drones - Predators armed with Hellfire missiles- a technology conceived and developed in mere months, because there was a need for that type of technology.
Everyone knows that if bin Laden comes to even a hundred yards from being approached from any type of forces, he will immediately martyr himself. I read that his entourage usually travels around, transporting huge bombs strategically placed amongst themselves, so if they are apprehended, they will all ignite in one massive explosion. The chances are slim. The Russians tried to inacpaciate the Chechen terrorists who took over that Moscow theater by using sleeping gas. Indeed, they were able to prevent the terrorists from blowing the whole place up and kill each one of them, but as a result, half of the people died.
The U.S. military does not have the benefit of using a "sleeping gas" to catch bin Laden. That IS literally using chemical weapons. We would never be caught dead doing that.
What options remain, other than massive deaths on both sides? A non-lethal weapon, a prototype pressed for deployment, that is able from far up in the sky, away from al-Qaeda's eyes, shine a beam of massive microwave energy in the direction of Osama's entourage. They all drop like flies, unable to press their "self-destruct" button, and we swoop in with helicopters to pick em up. Osama and Ayman will never know what hit them! That explains the military brass' unusual confidence. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said they got him "cooped up". They KNOW where he is. They are tracking him, keeping a noose around them without them knowing it, and as soon as the weapon is ready, *ZAP!*
If it actually happens, remeber who said it would happen!
Modern Iraqi MiG-25 Found Buried in Sand
Iraqi 'Mach 3' MiG Buried in Sand
I am dead serious here. Take a REAL look at these pictures in the article and dont just "eyeball" the article in blind rage and fury.
I sincerely hope that Bush deosn't lose on account he "lied" about WMDs then the WMDs are eventually found buried in the middle of the desert. That is exactly why I would very much prefer to stay on this horse till the end of the race.
The jet, was one of over two dozen (translation: more than 24!) unearthed. It might be argued that most of them were from the Gulf War period, but what can one make of this fact in mind?
"The Russian-made MiG-25 Foxbat being recovered by U.S. Air Force troops in the photos is an advanced reconnaissance version never before seen in the West and is equipped with sophisticated electronic warfare devices.
U.S. Air Force recovery teams had to use large earth-moving equipment to uncover the MiG, which is over 70 feet long and weighs nearly 25 tons.
Click here to see troops digging the MiG out of its hole.
Click here to see troops towing the jet away.
The Foxbat is known to be one of Iraq's top jet fighters. The advanced electronic reconnaissance version found by the U.S. Air Force is currently in service with the Russian air force. The MiG is capable of flying at speeds of over 2,000 miles an hour, or three times the speed of sound, and at altitudes of over 75,000 feet.
The recovery of the advanced MiG fighter is considered to be an intelligence coup by the U.S. Air Force. The Foxbat may also be equipped with advanced Russian- and French-made electronics that were sold to Iraq during the 1990s in violation of a U.N. ban on arms sales to Baghdad."
Ally Alienated by Kerry
Poland's leader thinks Kerry is "immoral"
The s*** has hit the fan! Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said, in an excerpt from the linked article, "There is one thing which should be stated clearly: this coalition is not just the United States, Great Britain, Australia alone; it also involves participation of Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers who have died. It is immoral not to recognize the involvement we contributed based on our conviction that there should be unity in fighting terrorism, that there was a need to display international solidarity and that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous individual of this world."
Kerry disses our allies while brownnosing our enemies. signs are beginning to emerge that it is gonna make our job even harder if Kerry wins next month, because we would be working to gain even more allies to compensate for our current allies that Kerry is now alienating. That is, if he can convince French and German soldiers to be the last ones to die for bush's so-called "mistake." Tell me, what other ally might help us? Canada? Mexico? Liechenstein?
Kerry mocked with analogy to the deaf
Telegraph: Kerry's got a strategy: it's summit for everyone
A British writer had some insights into the debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry-- he even used the deaf to mock Kerry, saying that he seemed to be simulatenously speaking and signing! Funny. Here's the paragraph as an excerpt:
And yes, it's true, if you hadn't been following the election campaign closely till Thursday night, Senator Kerry wasn't as pompous or as boring or even as orange as some of us had led you to believe (his sudden tan had been much remarked on in the days beforehand) - though his lipstick was a slightly distracting shade and he would have been better advised to ease up on what was either his simultaneous signing for the deaf or an amusing impression of the stewardess pointing out the track lighting to the emergency doors. Perhaps the hand movements were just to show off the manicure he'd had during the day, while Bush was out putting his arms round Florida's hurricane victims
Hmm.. This makes me wonder.. This guy thought of the deaf before thinking of a stewardess to describe Kerry's gesiculations- I have never seen that coming from an American writer.
No wonder. When I visited London last summer, I was astounded to find out that they had regular TV programming for the deaf. I mean, TV programs with deaf people in them, such as Deaf Mosaic. One show talked about a Deaf person who got to become a pilot. And it was on BBC. In the UK, they got only 5 channels, BBC 1 to 5. AND it is not just one show. There are several daily shows - news, politics, entertainment, and so on. Quite several regular programming are both captioned and interpreted (with that small box in the corner).
In the U.K., sign language is recognized and protected as an official language. When I was going through customs, this customs officer who stamped my passport could sign, however rudimentarily.
I gotta study the British mindset towards the Deaf, and see how we all can, united, help change the collective mindet of Hearing America that looks down at Deaf people just as like we all look at someone who had just woke up from a 15-year long vegetative coma.
Winners Never Cheat
Did John Kerry Cheat?
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It appears that Senator Kerry pulled something out of his jacket pocket, unfolded it and put it on his podium before hte debate. According to the "Memorandum of Understanding," an agreement between both the campaigns, that was a proscribed action. Section 5, pages 4-5 of the memo says:
(c) No props, notes, charts, diagrams, or other writings or other tangible things may be brought into the debate by either candidate.
(d) Notwithstanding subparagraph 5(c), the candidates may take notes during the debate on the size, color and type of paper each side prefers. Each candidate must submit to the staff of the Commission prior to the debate all such paper and any pens or pencils with which a candidate may wish to take notes during the debate, and the staff or commission will place such paper, pens and pencils on the podium, table or other structure to be used by the candidate in that debate.
I know that this will cause the Left to howl in protest, but the rule clearly rules that "...[no] tangible things may be brought into the debate..." [emphasis mine]. Even if all Senator Kerry took out of his jacket pocket was a pen, he clearly did not abide by the rules. I am sure he did not take the time to carefully review these "guidelines."
This further shows the consistency in Senator Kerry's character in that he sincerely believes that rules are mere rules of which he is entitled to be above.
I would have to say that at least, of trying to be presidential all his life, John Forbes Kerry finally had his moment to look like it. He may have looked the most presidential that night, but like Ronald Reagan said, politics is all about acting. At heart is the conent, and for that Bush still wins.
Kerry would make a great Abraham Lincoln in a movie! After he loses the election next month, he can start growing, true to his Lincolnesque persona, a Lincoln beard! I know, I know. I am sorry, but it is 29 days 'till the election and the nitpicking has begun to start. ;-)
Now, you may start lynching me.
Tuskegee Airmen
I'm watching a flick on History Channel called "Tuskegee Airmen," and it is about an elite squadron of black pilots, during WWII. I am being very inspired.
Just as blacks faced doubts, prejudices, barriers and outright oppression, they were still able to fight as pilots in the segregrated days. They still gave for their country. Yet they faced a lot of venom from whites. But they preservered and proved themselves through their actions.
I am imagining that the Deaf will be able to do just such a thing. With technology so ingrained in our lives, it is incumbent on ourselves to ensure that the technology is created to facilitate communication for deaf pilots. With the globalisation of data communications, video relay, IP relay, IM technology, all that, it is a mere software engineering task to create a software that allows deaf pilots to communicate to other pilots in the air and air traffic control using relay services and instant messaging. If the worst comes to the worst, in emergencies, there's always Morse code, speech synthesis and speech recognition.
Until these technologies are readily available, we the Deaf cannot realistically argue that we are entitled to be in the military or NASA. It is my dream that a group of Deaf astronauts go up in space on one of the first commercial space missions. That is only a few years from now. Did ya know that Virgin Atlantic airlines just established a new off-shoot, Virgin Galatical, and they are now taking reservations for space flights starting in 2008, I believe. Cool, eh? If so, then the time is NOW to start training, fundraising, and gaining support/publicity to be ultimately allowed into space. Meanwhile, I'm gonna start working on the technology needed to do it.
Sign language in zero gravity. An interesting concept. I say that it is a theory that can be realistically tested in space.
Godspeed, my fellow Deaf citizens.
New Soldier - by John Kerry
New Soldier - by John Kerry
Read this seditious piece of work written by our presidential candidate, John Forbes Kerry. The blatant blasphemy of the American flag on the cover is basically what the book is all about, lies and vitriol created by proven frauds.
Recall that General Vo Nguyen Giap attributed anti-war activities such as Kerry's as the main factor behind the Communist victory. After the war, he wrote, in retrospect, "if not for the disunity created by such stateside protesters, Hanoi would have ultimately surrendered."
That's exactly why the media were severely censored and restricted during World War II. Otherwise, a majority of Americans would have cried bloody murder to FDR for his wanton slaughter of 600,000 American soldiers and millions of Germans (including innocents.) But that was not the case. We beat Hitler. We lost to Mr. Vo.
In WWII, we had to literally pulverize entire cities into submission, cities such as Dresden. Back in those days we did not have JDAMS or Tomahawks. Hitler had V-2 rockets, while we had radar, the top technologies of these days. With stratofortresses, we carpet-bombed these cities day and night, with no regard to the innocent Germans.
Certainly, smart weaponry are still dumb. Shahids are probably the best weapons of all, but nonwithstanding an American battalion of kamikazes, we try our best to use technology that minimizes civilian casualties. But, smart bombs are BOMBS. Instead of tasking 1,000 planes to destroy an industrial center back then, we can just take one B-52 and unload its payload of JDAMS on the same center, achieving the same result that 1,000 planes were required for 50 years earlier.
So, I figure, if one bomb may cause five casualties (2 deaths, 3 hurt, etc), with smart bombs, if we have 1,000 innocent casualties in the Iraq war, that would probably translate to 200 errant bombs. That is probably three full B-52 payloads. Remember that we have a 1,000-1 aircraft advantage compared to WWII technology, so it would require at least 3,000 B-52 payloads' worth of innocent deaths, 200,000 bombs that missed its target rather than 200. If you take in the original figure of 5 casualties per errant bomb, (a very conservative estimate) and multiply that by 200,000, we are confronted with a staggering death toll of a million, all because of bombs that missed their mark.
Both of these bombing techniques are bloody, but I prefer the modern method with a substantial less amount of blood. Unfortunately, in these modern times, technology enable the media to act like pack foxes fighting over the actual carcasses, the innocent dead in the war today, in order to gain ratings. If not for the media, the cancers in Fallujah would have been extricated by now and these areas smoldering ruins, with the terrorists buried under the mud bricks ever so prevalent in Iraq. But, no, in this politically-correct atmosphere, the Marines were forced to pull back and the terrorists, political correctness the least of their concerns, promptly pumped bullets into the sky, thanking Allah for their victory over the infidels. Fallujah is still their stronghold.
Without the media clamoring over each other to show the most innocent dead children on TV, without Al-Jazeera showing the beheading of American contractors, the terrorists do not have an effective way to spread their propaganda. Victory will then come swiftly and decisively. Peace then beckons us.
A fission bomb packed inside a bunker-buster would probably have done the job at Tora Bora. We wouldn't have these headaches today if all the Al-Qaeda hornets were instantly atomized in their caves, once for all? Let that be a lesson learned.
Give the Fallujahese citizens 48 hours to pack it and get out. Certainly, the terrorists, the al-Zarqawi folks, would stick in their trenches. Drop a MOAB on their heads. One bomb, one target, with .011 the power of a small atomic bomb. The task of excriating the Zarqawi cancer will be instantly completed, minus the radioactivity and innocent casualties!
Scare Tactics by the Democrats
Democrats using scare tactics! Elisa made some excellent points regarding the possibility of the military draft being reinstated. She did some research, and guess what? It's all DEMOCRATS who are pushing the draft reactivation bill through Congress.
It is one thing to falsely warn the people that Republicans, or specifically, President Bush, is going to bring the draft back. It is another thing if it is actually the DEMOCRATS who's pushing for it to become law. Just read Elisa's blog if you feel you need some evidence.
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me, this site will be less of a personal diary and daily pulpit,
rather, it will focus strongly on being an e-soapbox for my
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Formerly Known As An Embryonic Stem Cell, Jason C. Lamberton.
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THE LAMBERTON REPORT
Not Wanting to Earn Their Wings: Graying Pilots Lament Decline in Interest Among Young
CNN.com - Mergers proposed for schools for blind and deaf
Getting More Than 'Halfway to Anywhere'
SPACE.com -- Mars Analog on Earth: Taking a Trek in the Outback
LiveScience.com Blogs - Sex in Space: Getting a Grip on Gravity
Storms push firefighters off front lines
FDA Says No to Bionic Eye (why don't they say NO to the Cochlear Implant?!)
Amateur Farmers Find A Paradise, Unpaved
Gadgets get the feel of the tactile world
LiveScience.com Blogs - Half of All Languages Headed for Extinction
LiveScience.com - What a Trip: Psychedelic Drug Study Recalls the '60s
Washingtonpost.com - Drug's Mystical Properties Confirmed
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