Dems Shake Up Nominating Calendar - And Continue to Make no Sense

By JIM KUHNHENN

CHICAGO (AP) - Democrats shook up tradition on Saturday by vaulting Nevada and South Carolina into the first wave of 2008 presidential contests along with Iowa and New Hampshire - a move intended to add racial and geographic diversity to the early voting.

The decision by the Democratic National Committee leaves Iowa as the nation's first presidential caucus and New Hampshire as the first primary, but wedges Nevada's caucuses before New Hampshire and South Carolina's primary soon afterward.

The move also packs all four state contests into a politically saturated two weeks in January. The change means a potentially huge cast of Democratic presidential candidates could winnow quickly by the beginning of February.

Party officials embraced the change, though New Hampshire Democrats joined several likely presidential candidates and former President Clinton in opposing the move.

"It's an opportunity for the candidates to speak in a broader way to Democrats across the country," said Alexis M. Herman, co-chairman of the DNC's rules committee that drafted the change. "It will be a plus for the candidates and I think they will take advantage of it."

Driving the decision to alter the schedule was a long-held worry within the party that Iowa and New Hampshire, which are predominantly white, were not representative of the country's population and key Democratic constituencies. Blacks and Hispanics have complained they haven't had an adequate voice in the early contests.

In choosing to squeeze Nevada caucuses between Iowa's Jan. 14 caucus and New Hampshire's Jan. 22 primary, party leaders kept in mind the state's large Hispanic population as well as its heavy labor union presence.

South Carolina, with its large black population, could hold its primary as early as Jan. 29.

But the primary calendar may not be final.

New Hampshire objected loudly to the lineup and has threatened to leapfrog over the other contests to retain its pre-eminent role.

"The DNC did not give New Hampshire its primary, and it is not taking it away," New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch said.

Secretary of State William Gardner, also a Democrat, emphasized again Saturday that it will be his office, not Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who picks the state's primary date.

"That's going to be based on state law, and it will be a date that honors the tradition," Gardner said after the DNC action. "It appears that he's in the driver's seat taking the Democratic National Committee on a collision course with the New Hampshire tradition."

Gardner, who has said he will decide next year when to schedule his state's primary, also said the plan to punish candidates who campaign in New Hampshire was an affront to a state with a long history of promoting greater participation in the political process.

"It's pretty insulting and disrespectful to the potential candidates and to the people of the state that they're being threatened," said Gardner.

Eager to avoid such a rebellion, Democrats also adopted sanctions to penalize presidential candidates who campaign in states that cut in line by denying them delegates from those contests.

But party officials acknowledged the effort was a gamble. Candidates eager to curry favor with Democrats in the early states could simply ignore the sanctions, particularly if the states jumping ahead are small and have few delegates to offer.

"Will the DNC enforce the rules?" asked Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer. "If New Hampshire doesn't follow the rules, then nobody should have to follow the rules. This is just the first step, we're not going to know the final calendar probably until November of '07."

Brewer said he agreed the schedule needed change, but argued the new lineup ignored the populous and union heavy industrial rust belt.

"Unless we have a candidate who can win in the industrial states, we can't win the presidency," he said.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who led efforts to move his state earlier in the voting, said: "This will be an enormous undertaking, but our state party is up to the challenge."

And South Carolina Democratic Chairman Joe Erwin praised the move, saying: "There's great regional diversity in four events strung out over a period of a couple weeks."

Democrats rejected a proposal that would have boosted the number of convention delegates for states that don't leapfrog into an early position.

Opponents complain that adding contests in Nevada and South Carolina crowds the early stages of the nomination process and the party's nominee could be determined by the beginning of February, before most states even get a chance to vote.

Other Democrats agreed the schedule needed change, but argued the selection of Nevada and South Carolina ignored the populous and union heavy industrial rust belt.

"Unless we have a candidate who can win in the industrial states, we can't win the presidency," said Mark Brewer, the chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party.

Dennis Goldford, a political scientist at Drake University in Des Moines, said the proposed schedule would make Iowa's influence even more disproportionate.

"If there was a big stretch between the caucuses and New Hampshire, you have time to recover from a stumble and, if you do well, you have time to show some real weaknesses further down the road," he said.

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FYI

The winner of the Rust Belt States in the Dem Primary in 2004:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries%2C_2004#State-by-state_results

Michigan - Kerry (52%) Feb 7
Indiana - Kerry (73%) May 4
Ohio - Kerry (52%) Mar 2
Pennsylvania - Kerry (74%) Apr 27
New York - Kerry (61%) Mar 2
West Virginia - Kerry (70%) May 11
Illinios - Kerry (72%) Mar 16
Wisconsin - Kerry (40%) Feb 17

By Mid-March, the field had winnowed to Kerry, Edwards, and Kucinich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries%2C_2004#Candidates

Withdrew:
U.S. Senator D. Robert Graham (Fla.) (October 7, 2003)
Former Ambassador and former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun (Illinois) (January 15, 2004) endorsed Howard Dean
U.S. Rep. Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt (Mo.) (January 20, 2004) endorsed John Kerry
U.S. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) (February 3, 2004)
Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark of Arkansas (February 11, 2004) endorsed John Kerry
Former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean III, M.D., (February 18, 2004) endorsed John Kerry on March 25, 2004
U.S. Senator John R. Edwards (N.C.) (March 3, 2004) endorsed John Kerry
the Rev. Alfred Sharpton Jr. of New York (March 15, 2004) endorsed John Kerry¹
U.S. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (Ohio) (July 23, 2004) endorsed John Kerry¹

Officer Hurt, Several Arrested During Anti-Immigration Rally

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=4349432

HOLLYWOOD, July 9, 2006 - An officer was injured and six people were arrested during an anti-illegal immigration march involving the Minuteman Project and other groups Saturday evening in Hollywood, police said.

One female officer suffered a minor injury, apparently to her ankle, after clashing with protesters, said Officer Sandra Escalante, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Counter-protesters stood along the sidewalks shouting as anti-immigration demonstrators, including members of the Minuteman civilian border patrol group, marched along Hollywood Boulevard. The Minutemen, many of them carrying American flags, had a permit to march.

Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist was among the marchers.

Angry counter protesters, some wearing bandannas to cover their faces, yelled at the Minutemen and called them racists.

They also tried to join the march, but since they did not have a permit, police stopped them, sometimes forcefully.

Escalante said several people were arrested, though it wasn't immediately clear if they were part of the anti-immigration march or the counter-protest.

Police estimated the number of marchers at 200 shortly after 7 p.m. The march began at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, Escalante said.

Why don't these people want to be known? Are they THAT ashamed of their illegal status that they're ready to hide who they are?

Wouldn't it be just easier to tell who was arrested? Were they hiding their face like a coward or were they letting everyone know who they were?

What is this woman's problem?

Doing my blog reading today, I come across a couple of links from Hot Air about a young Phych(o) Professor from the University of Arizona who decided that she didn't like what another Blogger said so much that she has threatened his 2 year old boy.

Those links on Hot Air led me to a couple others, such as BLACKFIVE who actaully saved the comments.

Deb Frisch's Comments from BLACKFIVE

Now, why is this still news?

The target, Jeff Goldstein has suffered 3 Denial of Service attacks since the bruhaha started.

A Denial of Service attack is a hacker tool to take down a website wi so many hits on the site that the server can't show it to anyone else. For more information read here.

Now, back to Ex-Prof Frisch's comments, and me shamelessly copying a couple of choice comments from BLACKFIVE shows how far a Professor will go to make her point.

as I said elsewhere, if I woke up tomorrow and learned that someone else had shot you and your “tyke” it wouldn’t slow me down one iota. You aren’t “human” to me.

And...

Ooh. Two year old boy. Sounds hot. You live in Colorado, I see. Hope no one Jon-Benets your baby.

And...

I reiterate: If some nutcase kidnapped your child tomorrow and did to her what was done to your fellow Coloradan, Jon-Benet Ramsey, I wouldn’t give a damn.

More...

Give your pathetic progeny (I sure hope that mofo got good genes from his mama!) a big fat tongue-filled kiss from me! LOTS AND LOTS OF SALIVA from Auntie MOONBAT, if you don’t mind!

Further...

Somehow, Jeffy boy, I think you get off on the possibility of Frenching your pathetic progeny, even if it is a boy. You seem like a VERY, VERY sick mofo to me, bro.

Now, of course, a couple of choice comments aimed at a 2 year old would drive me to call the police on it. But, she ain't skeered!

Finally...

I am SHAKING, I tell you, SHAKING!!! in my boots at the prosect at an FBI and/or state police trooper tromping down my driveway to see if I was a threat to the progeny of the pissant name of Jeff “pissant” Goldstein of the pathetic, neutered, sissified, state of Colorado. I don’t give a rat’s ass whether the pissant’s progeny live or die, but I have no intention of snuffing the mofo’s chillen myself.

Finally, after even her own readers decided she had gone too far, she suddenly finds SHE'S the victim.

white flag

I wrote some inflammatory comments at a blog by a guy named Jeff Goldstein called protein wisdom that infuriated many bloggers and commenters. Many of these bloggers emailed my boss at the University of Arizona to tell on me.

In hindsight, the things I wrote were over the line of nastiness. I apologize to Mr. Goldstein.

I have resigned from the University of Arizona so there is no need for other enraged people to write to administrators there. I am a temporary worker there and I am in Oregon for the summer.

Some blogs have posted comments that I perceive to be physically threatening. I have contacted the FBI and the Pajamas Media staff to determine how to proceed with this aspect of this unbelievable experience.

My intention in this post is to de-escalate the situation. The comments that started this all were nasty, not threatening. But I feel very threatened by the response.

Jeff - I lost my job. You won. Could you call off the troops?

UPDATE: I have been receiving emails alluding to the fact that I got fired. I was not fired. I resigned. I was not pressured to resign. I just sent my boss an email explaining what was happening and told him I thought it was best for all involved if I resigned.

Protein Wisdom has been down since this all started so it is not possible to see all the comments and everything that led up to this. People are posting snippets of what I posted that have been embellished with references to french kissing and other things I didn't say.

When and if protein wisdom comes on line again, it will be hard to tell what Jeff added or deleted to the transcript.

I have been trying to get in touch with Pajamas Media to discuss some of my concerns about what has been published at Black Five about this issue. I feel threatened by some of the comments there.

If someone at pajamas media or better yet, froggy from Black Five, could email me, that would be great.

UPDATE (11:20 a.m.): Comments are turned off. I get the drift.

55 Comments before she turned off the comment feature. Many of them were not in support of her.

Notice how she laughs at the thought of having the police called on her for her comments, but she's just fine with calling the FBI when those comments are turned on her.

Can you say hypocrit?

As my last on this little missive, I find this especially funny.

Jeff - I lost my job. You won. Could you call off the troops?

UPDATE: I have been receiving emails alluding to the fact that I got fired. I was not fired. I resigned. I was not pressured to resign. I just sent my boss an email explaining what was happening and told him I thought it was best for all involved if I resigned.

She asks if he's happy she "lost her job." Then, she mentions that she actually quit. Later (and I'm looking for it now) she mentions how she actually was planning on quitting so she could go back to Oregon "with the rest of the Moonbats."

I'll update when I find it.

Update: Found it Here.

And I misquoted Mama Moonbat:

I want to stay in Eugene, OR where moonbats rule instead of living in Tucson, AZ where moonbats are in the minority.

An Open Letter to Congresscritter (and ex-Marine) Murtha

Gysgt Kurt G. has written an excellent letter to Congresscritter John Murtha, ex-Marine, current moron.

Read it here.

http://rightequalsmight.blogspot.com/2006/06/lets-talk-sir.html

The Gunny has a way with words.

Hadji Girl Song

I wish I wrote this, but I did not. A good friend of mine (morrisrs) did:

I'm sending this letter to HQMC concerning the Hadji Girl song. Enjoy:

Dear Sir-As a former Marine, I’m disappointed in the reaction of the Marine Corps to the recent “Hadji Girl”song sung by Cpl. Belile. The United States is in a death struggle with Islamofascists and its Marines such as Cpl. Belile who are putting their lives on the line for the rest of us enjoying the good life in America.

Cpl. Belile’s song is a stress relief that has been used by American troops in the field since the founding of the Republic. Cpl. Belile used that song to entertain and provide a valve of relief to his fellow brothers in arms. He should not be punished, investigated or otherwise be ostracized by the command because of his song.

Far from making good public relations with the Muslim community, the Corps has shown its weakness which the enemy will exploit. One of the advantages which the Marines have over our enemies is superior morale and esprit de corps. This lack of resolve from HQMC will trickle down to the Marines in the field. These Marines will now feel threatened when they go back in the rear to relax because they might be punished for “offending” the enemy. American’s center of gravity is its morale and the actions from HQMC have just weakened it.

The Marine Corps issuing a statement that they were investigating the origins of the song plays right into the hands of America’s enemies. The instigator of this is CAIR, which has been known to be have sympathetic ties to Islamic terrorist groups around the world. Responding to this group gives it legitimacy and makes it grow stronger. Make no doubt, the actions of HQMC will only spur more “statements of concern” from CAIR as it tries to weaken America’s and the Marine’s resolve to fight the war against Islamofascism.

I was always proud of the fact that the Marine Corps defined themselves as defenders of an ancient warrior code and would not let political correctness seep into the fabric of its ethos. I feel that this code has stood the test of time in many battles that the Corps has won for its country. Unfortunately, the Marines’ response to CAIR has demonstrated that not “offending” the enemy is more important than standing up for what is right.

Overall, I’m deeply saddened by the actions of some officers at headquarters. Marines in Iraq are risking their lives daily and the Marines at HQMC should at least stand up to a group that threatens America’s values. Unfortunately, it seems that some Marines at HQMC are more concerned for their careers then for the safety of the Nation and the morale of the Marines in the field.

If you haven't heard of this...what rock do you live under? Most rocks these days even have cable.

Here's the song.



Rainbow on Vimeo

Illegal Immigration Reform Bill

I have written a bill to finally (hopefully, but I doubt it) solve the illegal immigration problem we have in this country.

Sorry, I don't use WHEREAS, HERETOFORE, etc...this is in plain english.

1. Anyone coming into the United States of America without proper documentation (Visa, citizenship papers, etc) are felons.

2. Anyone currently residing in this country without proper documentation are felons.

3. Anyone found guilty of this crime will be subject to spend 5 years in prison and/or pay a fine of $20,000. This is the minimum.

4. The home nation of the person convicted will be billed all costs to house and feed those convicted, either through real money, lessening of foreign aid, or international trade benefits.

5. Anyone aiding and abetting any illegal immigrant, at any time, if convicted will be subject to 10 years in prison or a $30,000 fine. This is the minimum.

6. Anyone without proper documentation will have a 6 month window to leave the country without incurring any penalties.

7. Amnesty in this bill will not be given unless 4 items are completed.
a. Service of a minimum of 4 years in any branch of the US military.
b. Passing an English speaking and writing exam.
c. Severing all ties to their home nation, before military service, and becoming a US citizen only after completion of Citizenship paperwork and oath.
d. Passing the current Citizenship Exam.

8. Once these 4 items are completed, they will be considered to be US citizens with all rights due to them.

9. Until these 4 items are completed, no rights aside from those of an International Citizen will be extended, with the exception of being under the UCMJ during military service.

10. Anyone who knows of a person in the US illegally is required to notify, or turn them into the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Border Patrol, Federal or local police departments.

11. All hospitals are required to be shown proof of citizenship before any treatment can begin. If not proof is shown, they are required to notify the INS, Border Patrol, or federal or local police immediately and not allow the person to exit the premises until taken into custody.

12. Anyone in the US illegally that is detained by the police for any crime, misdemeanor or felony, are required to notify the INS, or Border Patrol immediately to begin processing.

13. Any Government service is hereby denied without proper citizenship paperwork.

14. Proper citizenship paperwork consists of a birth certificate, Social Security Card, and proper State or Federal issued ID card. Naturalized Citizenship paperwork consists of any documents given by the US Government. Any suspected forgeries are to be reported to the FBI or Secret Service, depending on the type of paperwork offered.

15. Government Service is any agency who receives any money from the Federal, State, County, or City Government.

16. Any Government agency that does not abide by the above rule is subject to losing any and all government funding.

17. Any business that employs any illegal immigrant will immediately lose any and all tax breaks as well as suffer a $100,000 fine for the first illegal immigrant, $500,000 for the second, $1,000,000 for the third, $5,000,000 for the forth, and $5,000,000 for each additional illegal immigrant employed. In addition, the employee who hired the illegal immigrant will be jailed for a minimum of 5 years for each illegal immigrant hired.

18. The immediate hiring and training of Border Patrol Agents and INS Agents is demanded. Final personnel numbers for Border Patrol Agents will be equal to one agent for every 300 feet of land border area. Final personnel number for INS agents will be equal to one agent for every 10 miles of land border area.

19. An immediate training of Volunteer Border Watch personnel is demanded. The total is to be the difference between the total number of Border Patrol Agents required and the current at the time number of Border Patrol Agents. This number will be decreased as more paid Border Patrol and INS Agents are trained.

20. All funding for this must be offset from cuts to existing government programs. All funding on the Federal level will be taken from Federal programs. All funding on the State level will be taken from State programs. Same for County and City levels.

Iran warns US, Britain of reprisals

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1137605933468

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran

Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief Saturday warned the United States and Britain that Iran would respond with its missiles if attacked, a clear threat to Israel, which lies within easy range of such a launch.

"The world knows Iran has a ballistic missile power with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles)," Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said on state-run television.

Iran's improved version of Shihab-3 missile can strike more than 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles) from their launch site, putting Israel and US forces in the Middle East in easy range.
"We have no intention to invade any country. We will take effective defense measures if attacked," he said. "These missiles are in the possession of the Guards."

The Guards were equipped with the missiles in July 2003.

"We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that," he said. Iran announced last year that it had fully developed solid fuel technology for missiles, a major breakthrough that increases their accuracy.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards are a separate organization from the regular armed forces.
Founded after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Guards have their own air, naval and ground components.

Safavi also accused US and British intelligence services of provoking unrest in the oil-rich southwestern Iran and providing bomb materials to Iranian dissidents. He said the US and Britain were behind bombings January 21 that killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, near the southern border with Iraq where 8,500 British soldiers are based.

"Foreign forces based in Iraq, especially southern Iraq, direct Iranian agents and give them bomb materials," he said.

Safavi said Iran was monitoring dissidents and their alleged links with the US and British forces.
"We are aware of their meetings in Kuwait and Iraq," he said. "We warn them (US and Britain), especially the MI-6 and CIA, that they refrain from interfering in Iran's affairs."

Mexico Condemns Immigration Bill - I'M SHOCKED!!!!!!!

The Associated Press released a story Saturday that says that the Mexican Government is completely against any immigration reform. (insert sarcastic tone here) This is SUCH a surprise.

The Mexican Government has long been in favor of their citizens heading north of the border to work in America. The money sent back (over 2 billion US dollars in the past year alone) has helped to prop up the Mexican Economy at a time when their government is preforming more corruption than any American government ever has.

There are currently 12 Mexican National Legislature Members that have been indicted this year alone. But, the good news is this is fewer than the past 5 years. The bad news is there are another 4 under investigation.

All 12 are still in office, as are 30% of those indicted, convicted, and sentenced. They haven't resigned, although they are currently in prison. They don't have to.

So, to prop up the economy, the Mexican Government has started to enlist Americans to aid Mexicans to cross the border.

The Mexican Foreign Relations department said,"The U.S. executive branch publicly expressed its commitment to an integral immigration reform, with a new program for temporary workers." Apparently they fail to realize that the Executive Branch makes the policy, the Legislative Branch has to pass the laws to put it into practice. But, the Executive Branch has given their blessing to building a wall between Mexico and the United States, giving the highest priority to the area around Laredo, Texas.

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission described the U.S. measure as "part of a tendency to criminalize migration with a wall that calls to mind the Berlin Wall." And, the Mexican National Human Rights Commission is such a good judge of...well...Human Rights.

This is a group that has turned a blind eye to the recent deaths of Mexicans who have crossed the border. 415 in the year ending September 30, according to the US Border Patrol.

How about trying to keep their citizens going along with the law, instead of encouraging their people to walk to their death while trying to break the law.

But, then Mexico would implode from a lack of funds. Apparently, some things are worth a couple of lives.

If Pearl Harbor Happened Today

Our elected officials today are more interested in scoring points against the Bush Administration than it is in supporting...well...America.

In the past few months, many of us who support the War in Iraq have been waiting on President Bush to show some guts and strike back at those who don't support our country. In the past few weeks, its begun to happen.

The whole problem is, we need to limit the terms of service of our Congresscritters. They feel as long as can keep getting elected, no matter what happens, they will have no serious opponents, then they can do and say whatever they want. No harm will come to them politically, so why even try?

Congress long ago limited the term of the President to two-four year terms, or 11 total years if they, as Vice President came into the Presidency. Otherwise 8 years total. Why can't this be done to the Congress?

Oh, the Congress has to vote it in. They'd never do it to themselves. Too much money and power involved.

But, they support the troops? The Senators, and the Democratic Chariman, in the picture above have called the troops "terrorists" (Kerry), "losers" (Dean), "criminals" (Kennedy), and "immature children" (Kennedy).

But, their fellow Democrats have started to distance themselves from these "spokesmen."

Therefore, the Republician Party came up with an advertisement, a picture of which is here:



An "unidentified" Democratic Strategist, after having it described to her, said “This is way over the top but we have no one to blame but Dean, Kerry and others who continue to pander to the anti-war activists within our party.”

Democratic Representative Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota went a step farther when he said simply, "My words to Howard Dean are simple - shut up,"

The leading spokespersons in the Democratic Party are under fire for their views showing their true colors.

But, until their terms are limited, there's nothing to be done.

I'm not just against those against the war that I'm against having an unlimited term of office. The problems in this country cannot be solved by those who just show up, get TV time, and get re-elected, no matter their party. Immigration, Health Care, National Defense, Jobs, Crime, Education, and a host of other issues, need a fresh look. And we can't do that with career politicians.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it

Yesterday was December 7. 64 years ago, over 2000 people were killed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, starting World War II and eventually killing and wounding over 500,000 Americans.

Today is December 8. 25 years ago, John Lennon, and only John Lennon, was killed.

Which do you think got more airtime?

If you looked at the national news, the quote by Stalin is quite correct. "One death is a tragedy; a million (or 2000) is a statistic."

The Face of the Enemy - What the Arab World Thinks

WHAT THE ARAB WORLD THINKS
By Brigitte Gabriel


Torture is accepted and even expected in the Arab world. Yes, I know what you're thinking-that's not politically correct in most mainstream media. And you know some nice Arabs who have immigrated to America. But it's the truth in the Arab world. Might makes right. Real men don't eat quiche. They prove their manhood by the way they treat their enemy. After all it's what Muhammad did to the unbelievers - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians in the Quoran - the 'holy book' allegedly mishandled in Guantanamo prison.

Arab Muslim men gain honor by shaming, belittling, abusing and torturing their enemy in the most horrific ways. Just look at how the Palestinians treat so-called collaborators by disemboweling them and hanging them upside down in Manger Square in Bethlehem. Look at the terrorist torture chambers that the coalition forces recently uncovered in Iraq.

When people refer to the prisons of Saddam Hussein and his regime they think he is the extreme exception. Not so! The truth is his torture tactics are quite the norm in the Arab world. If you want to see torture that is beyond what any Westerner can ever imagine please go to ( http://www.masada2000.org/impalement.asx ) Yes, you read it right, impalement. You'll get a glimpse of what the Arabs do to their own people.

As someone who came from the Arab world and knows how they think, it frustrates me to see self-appointed righteous minded politicians and media pundits oblivious to Arabic culture and thinking, criticizing America's actions at Guantanamo. These are a bunch of al Qaeda jihadists who were captured while bent on killing us - the kaffirs or 'unbelievers. They laugh watching our government bend over backwards, forwards and sideways trying to appease the critics. The more we stumble over ourselves questioning our goals and tactics, the more they think we are weak and easy to defeat.

They smirk because they believe that Americans have demonstrated how stupid and weak they are by caving in to stories about maltreatment of Guantanamo detainees. They are watching our critics in this country and counting on them to embolden the radical Islamic cause and weaken our resolve.

Actually, Gitmo is a joke as far as the Arabs are concerned. Prison? You call that a prison? Let me tell you what some of the prisoners call Guantanamo , "Al muntazah al-dini lilmujaheden al Muslimin ," The Religious Resort for Islamic Militants.

They are given three halal meals a day in accordance to their religious dictates. How many kosher prisons are there in the Arabic world? None. Jews captured in the Arab world are butchered like those obscene pictures taken in Ramallah during the frenzied slaughter of two Israeli reservists who got lost. Remember the Palestinian man holding his red, Jewish blood dripping hands, high above his head in victory?

Remember Nick Berg's head being held high also?

Most of these detainees never had three meals a day in their entire life. They are gaining weight, and are living in what they refer to in Arabic as "Al-Jannah ," paradise. They have radio, television, soccer games, air-conditioning, clean clothes, servants, meaning American GIs, who wait on them hand and foot. They have Islamic chaplains and handed Qu'rans, the social hate guide against Infidels, by people so concerned as not to offend that they wear latex gloves and carry the book with two hands.

Many Muslims in the Middle East would gladly give up their poverty, dictatorial governments, corrupt leaders and social bondage to enjoy the relative luxuries Guantanamo offers. They have free medical care, better than millions of uninsured Americans and our military men and women serving on the jihadists' battlefield. Some of them who couldn't afford to see an optometrist now have glasses and can see and read their Qu'ran. Others who never had the opportunity to see a dentist now have a free dental plan. It has become such a joke; we even stop interrogations to let them take prayer breaks demanded by their religion.

As an Arab, I can tell you that Illinois Democratic Senator Richard Durbin is aiding and abetting the goals and strategy of Islamic jihadists who have declared war on the United States. Where was Durbin's comparison to the Nazis when we found the torture chambers in Iraq ? Where was Durbin's comparison to Soviet gulags when we found the hundreds of thousands of bodies in Saddam's mass graves?

Where was Durbin's head when he compared prisoners captured on the field of battle to the internment of Japanese American civilians during WWII? OK, apologize to unarmed citizens, not fighters with weapons in their hands. Where was Durbin when he compared Gitmo and Abu Ghraib to the industry of death that murdered 6 million Jewish men, women and children during WWII? If anything his heart and mind were in the jihadists terrorists' camp. If you see what story is being downloaded and shared by viewers of the al Jazeera web site you will find the story on Durbin's comments the winner.

If I were an Islamic terrorist I would be thanking Durbin and forwarding his views to all my fellow fanatics. His reckless comments fuel the fanatic frenzied jihadists, motivating them to blow themselves up in the midst of innocent civilians, savagely cut the heads of helpless hostages and devote themselves to killing the infidel who could be your neighbor stationed in Iraq. Just like the Quran says they should.

Dick Durbin is an unwitting champion of Islamic radical fundamentalists. His comments should be known from this day forward as a " Durbinization" of the facts. To demonize something grossly out of proportion to what the enemy is doing is to Durbinize. Gitmo and Abu Ghraib have been Durbinized and the Arab world loves it. They laugh at Durbin because he's supporting their belief in the destruction of our country and civilization.

The shame is Durbin doesn't have a clue as to what he's done. As far as he's concerned, he did the right thing for the Islamic radical detainees living high on the proverbial hog in Gitmo . What he really did was made them laugh; laugh at us for being fools and not real men. Now it's time to see if the voters in Illinois and his fellow members of Congress are men and women enough to tell the Moslem world Durbin isn't our real man.

Brigitte Gabriel is the former news anchor of World News for Middle East television, and now a Contributing Editor of FamilySecurityMatters.com and the founder of AmericanCongressforTruth.com

Communist Agenda, Liberal Agenda

The following list was written through the 30s, 40s and 50s, published in 1958 by W. Cleon Skousen, a 16 year vetern of the FBI and one of the foremost experts on Communism and finally published into the Congressional Record by Congressman Albert S. Herlong, Jr. (D-Fl) on January 10, 1963.

The book was called The Naked Communist. (Barnes & Noble Link Amazon.com Link)

After reading the list, think of each one, figure out of its happening, has happened, or hasn't happened. Then think of who the leaders were, and their political affiliation, that brought it about. Google is allowed.

Remember, this was from the middle of this century. 40-60 years ago.

1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of "moral strength."

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

PETA says, "Save the fish...hate your Daddy!"

PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has declared war of humans in general. This is not new. Its been going on for years.

Now, they have targeted your father. Didn't you know he was a homicidal maniac?

I'll get to that in a minute. They began as a group fighting against animal testing. They later graduated to throwing blood (real and fake) onto people wearing fur (real and fake).

What humanitarians.

Oh, I forgot, they're against humans.

They began handing out a pamphlet, with a man happily eating a fish, telling kids to keep their puppies and kitties away from daddy because he's "hooked on killing."

PETA's response to the problems everyone has with this?

"The scientific facts are that fish feel pain in the same way as dogs and cats. It's no more acceptable to hook a fish through the mouth and drag them into your boat and slice them in half than it would be to do the exact same thing to a dog or a cat," said Bruce Friedrich, vegan campaign coordinator for PETA.

Straight from the horses mouth...or another body part.

Never mind that scientists that have studies this have said that fish do not have feelings of pain in this manner. In fact, the only pain sensors fish have are no where near their faces.

Moms, don't think you got away free on this one. PETA recently ended a campaign calling Mommy a "chicken killer."

PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing children's eating habits.

And that's done by turning kids against their parents? Where do I sign up?

Why, right here. http://www.peta.org/

You can also send e-mails to the head honchos. But, practice your zen-like patience. I've been waiting for 2 weeks now for a response to my questions on this subject.

Its amazing how eating animals is considered cruelty. I bet, when these people were kids they would kill for a nice juicy steak. Speaking of, its dinner time.

Its all about the giving!

Woman, 73, says she was knocked down, stepped on during 'Black Friday' at Sawgrass Mills

By Joseph Mann Sun-Sentinel
Posted November 25 2005, 9:26 AM EST

"Black Friday," the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, began in South Florida early today with a 73-year-old woman being knocked down as a crowd at an electronics store rushed a metal security gate to get inside.

The crowd of shoppers outside BrandsMart USA in Sawgrass Mills, angry at being forced to wait by security personnel, pushed their way under the security gate and down a hallway into the store, forcing dozens of people against the walls and trampling the woman.

This is just one story of what is going on this first weekend of the Christmas Shopping Season.

At one time, the Christmas season was all about giving, kindness, and spending time enjoying the company of friends and families.

Now, its a mad rush to buy everything before its gone.

The big item this season is the XBOX 360, the newest entry into the video gamer's wet dreams. When it was announced that it would be released in time for Christmas, it was immediately the "must have" of the year.

But, its not just the XBOX that everyone wants. Its EVERYTHING. While the woman above was sitting there, bleeding from the head, the manager asked if they needed any help, her daughter called the police, and every other shopper just streamed by in a mad gluttonous rush.

Ah, the almighty dollar, being spent in a rush that would give Alexander Hamilton a woody.

Fights have broken out, people sent to the hospital, all in the name of capitalism.

BrandsMart personnel tried to keep the total number of shoppers in the store to about 500 to meet fire department regulations, he said.

"There is more than enough for everybody. The sale is going on all day," he shouted as frustrated shoppers shouted back, complaining they were tired of waiting.

"We have your money out here," one woman responded angrily. "We need to go to other stores. I can't stand here all day."

There are 29 days of shopping left until Christmas. I'm sure sometime in the next 29 days they can find a couple of spare minutes to go to the store and make their purchases.