09.17.06
Posted in Crazy Academia at 5:53 pm by JEG
I give the Buffs a hard time, but normally just when the CU-CSU game comes rolling around each year.
When I read this, however, I found new reason to laugh at the folks down in Boulder. Can anyone give me more of a reason to bust a gut? Here’s what your tuition money can get you at good-old CU.
FEMINIST THEORY
Sociology 5006
http://csf.colorado.edu/gimenez/feminist.html
Professor: Anonymous (name deleted by TTA)
Course Description
This seminar is designed to examine the materialist feminist challenge to postmodern feminist theorizing, tracing the development of materialist and marxist feminist theory, contrasting their assumptions and political implications with those of postmodern feminism, and comparing their relative contributions to the understanding of the connections between class, gender and race and the contradictory implications of identity politics in the context of the global economy.
Huh????
A little brevity might help me discern what the hell this course is supposed to accomplish!
And business leaders have the nerve to suggest that Universities aren’t preparing students for the real world!!!!
YAWN…
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Posted in Politics at 5:28 pm by JEG
OK. I can see hurt feelings and a little bit of outrage. But aren’t we making just a little too much of the Pope’s indiscretion?
“He is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini,” said Salih Kapusuz, the deputy head of Turkey’s governing party, and officials there suggested the pope should reconsider a trip planned for November.
If ever there was a reason for keeping Turkey out of the European Union, this is it. I would certainly reconsider my trip to Turkey if I were the Holy Father.
The pope’s intentions in discussing “holy war” were presumably good—he approvingly quoted an early Qu’ranic “surah” (chapter), which says “there is no compulsion in religion”—and he was right to raise the issue of how to confront and combat the religious extremism that gives rise to terror and violence. Sadly, though, he did so clumsily and obliquely, and, far from opening a constructive conversation, instead exacerbated tensions between Christianity and Islam.
OK, maybe so. But he didn’t command an entire country to kill 6 million Jews! Comparing him to Hitler or Mussolini is the height of lunacy. He quoted a dead guy who lived centuries ago with a marginal lapse in judgment. He also - by the way - quoted the Holy Quran and one of the few injunctions therein that actually makes some sense: “There is no compulsion in religion.”
As for exacerbating “tensions between Christianity and Islam,” give me a freakin’ break! I’m really pretty sure the Holy Father’s comments weren’t needed to exacerbate those tensions. Idiots will blow each other up in the name of God (mostly on the Muslim side, at this point in history). And responding to complaints about Islam being defamed as a violent religion by killing Nuns and blowing up churches doesn’t help your cause.
In the town of Tulkarem, a 170-year-old stone church was torched before dawn and its interior was destroyed, Christian officials said. In the village of Tubas, a small church was attacked with firebombs and partially burned, Christians said. Neither church is Catholic, the officials said.
Palestinian Muslims hurled firebombs and opened fire at five churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Saturday to protest the Pope’s comments, sparking concerns of a rift between Palestinian Muslims and Christians.
So the Pope said something less than judicious. Welcome to life on earth, radical Muslims! I’ll keep these protestations in mind the next time Islamic numb-nuts bitch about “Jew pig-monkeys” or “Crusader infidels.”
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09.16.06
Posted in Politics at 5:10 pm by JEG
I got some commentary from a beautiful, normally apolitical woman who lives on the border and is fed up. She was particularly at the end of her rope with a numb-nut politician who said this.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, said Republicans were trying to confuse Americans into thinking Osama bin Laden is heading north in a sombrero.”
Her response?
All I have to say to Mr. Doggett is ha ha ha, very funny. Personally
I think it is about time a fence is put up. Although I do think it
won’t work. Where there is a will there is a way, but putting up a fence (if
it is enforced) will show we are serious about having people go through
the proper channels in gaining access into America. “DUH” to the House for taking so long and for doing it during an
election year. Like the voters can’t figure this one out for themselves.
How do I know she’s hot? That’s for me to know!
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Posted in Rich White Trash, Who Cares ?, Media Morons at 4:12 pm by JB
I could not possibly care less about Anna Nicole Smith, her kid, her lawyer, her… anything. How this is a major news story baffles me.
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Posted in Humor at 2:54 pm by JEG
Sucks for Jimmy.
Thought you’d all get a kick out of this.
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Posted in Flyfishing, Terrorists at 2:37 pm by JEG
Doggone it. I never have enough time on my hands to riot in the streets over a simple, stupid comment by the Pope. Darn.
Of course, if I did, I’d be doing this. I’d rather flyfish than riot.
The Pope did say one thing that makes some sense.
“God,” the emperor, as the pope quoted, said, “is not pleased by blood — and not acting reasonably is contrary to God’s nature.”
Guess these chaps are screwed!
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Posted in Politics, Economics, "Big Oil", Democrats at 4:39 am by JB
(same link as below) Mary Landrieu is a bonehead more than just about anyone else on the Hill.
At about the time Pelosi was unveiling the “New Direction” brochures, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) was out on the Senate floor, accusing Democrats of aiding the terrorists. “Al-Qaeda,” he said, sees “the lack of resolve in some of our leaders, and they seek to exploit it.”
The charge enraged Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who had come to the floor to talk about education.
“America is not tired of fighting terrorism,” she retorted. “America is tired of the wrongheaded and boneheaded leadership of the Republican Party that has sent $6.5 billion a month to Iraq when the front line was Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, that led this country to attack Saddam Hussein when we were attacked by Osama bin Laden.”
The Dem’s have hit bottom, and started to dig. GOP will be picking up seats in November….
Not sure when OBL became the leader of Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia- SAUDI ARABIA ??- but OBL’s organization has operative in all those regions. These stupid Democrats don’t understand 9th grade civics, and it’s embarassing. But they have been so successful in dumbing down the schools and keeping poor people in poverty, they don’t rely on an educated and involved electorate.
We should be tough with the Saudi’s, but we can’t, because we need their oil, and since the Witch Senator from Louisianna won’t let us drill more in the gulf, or tap ANWR…. we’re kinda screwed in that regard, Mary.
This stuff wouldn’t make me so mad if it made any sense. Democrats usually don’t make sense. One point sounds great, and so does the next, but that’s soundbites, not policy.
And every policy they kinda come up with is more government control of people’s lives. “Energy independence, but don’t drill for more oil, but mandate 150 MPG in cars, but stop importing oil”.
You just killed probably 1/3 of the economy. The car manufacturers will shut down (starting to do that anyway), the oil prices will skyrocket, which increases prices on everything. The poverty numbers will go through the roof, because gas is more expensive, goods aren’t moved, services aren’t rendered, and that is the ultimate “trickle down economics”. The entire economy trickles down to nothing….
Do Democrats have any knowledge of economics at all ? NO ! They elected Smiling Jimmy “Malaise” Carter.
But again, I suppose if we get OBL all terrorism will go away. Damn these people are stupid.
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Posted in Politics, Unhinged, 2006 Races, Democrats at 4:21 am by JB
But this makes me want to- to take a cue from Mary Landreiu- punch Nancy Pelosi in the face.
Her opening statement covered a full range of Democratic issues: fiscal responsibility. The minimum wage. The trade deficit. Student loans. Health care. Energy independence. Social Security. Medicare.
Then came the questions. “This is now the third election in a row in which they’ve raised security issues just before the election,” the first questioner said of the Republicans. “Why won’t it work for them a third time?”
“We won’t be Swift-boated on the national security issue,” the minority leader maintained.
“As you know,” came the follow-up, Republicans “are citing past votes by you and other Democrats.”
Pelosi was defensive. “I have five children,” she said. “Five grandchildren, going on six. And I consider myself the ultimate security mom.” By way of clarification, she felt compelled to add: “Democrats are committed to hunting down Osama bin Laden.”
A third questioner pointed out that Republicans have regained the lead on national security. “This is what, I guess, campaigns will be about,” Pelosi conceded with some reluctance. “It shouldn’t be about national security.”
This woman, and in turn and in toto the Democrats, are so completely out of touch. I will revisit this later, but to say an election shouldn’t be about national security is…. there hasn’t been, in 2000 years of developing language, and lots of recent Democratic trying…. a word hasn’t been invented yet to describe how stupid that thought is.
It’s like saying cooking shouldn’t be about ingredients. It’s ridiculous on it’s face. And this is the moron the Dem’s are embracing to be the next Speaker. Come on guys…. you have to be kidding.
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Posted in Pop Culture, Television at 4:04 am by JB
but it’s kinda funny…. The GOP is taking on Rosie O’Donnell.
Is this a huge surprise ? You knew she was a lib, guys. The only conservative on the show is Hasselback, and she gets shouted down constantly.
This show will be gone soon, because the ratings suck, and even stupid women don’t want a gab-fest. Smart women certainly don’t.
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Posted in Politics, Terrorists, War on Terrorism, Iranian Menace at 3:43 am by JB
These are the faces of people demanding tolerance.
Has it ever occured to them to embrace modernity, start a business, build a family for purposes other than creating little suicide bombers ?
This is the “Arab street” you always hear about- and I don’t care about.
Why is it that Muslims can kill 3000 innocent Americans, and we are supposed to practice tolerance… on 9/11 Americans lit millions of flames, but they were on candles of prayer and remembrance….. the PLO/PLA Muslims danced in the streets.
The Pope says something- I repeat SAYS SOMETHING- and the Islamic fringe loses their mind. There is a fundamental disconnect here in the value of life and liberty.
This is the war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. And they don’t deserve negotiation, they don’t deserve dialogue… they deserve to be killed before they kill us.
If you can’t see it, you can’t be taken as a serious person. Sorry. Go to the back of the line.
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Posted in Politics at 12:35 am by JEG
I’m not sure what I expected, but I HOPED for something better than this.
Here’s the twisted logic from the presiding Judge, according to the Defendant.
In his court martial, he said, the Navy judge enforced that policy by declaring worshipping in public is not the same as public worship.
Let me see if I understand this. Does this make sense? “Urinating in public is not the same as public urination.” Yeah, that’s what I thought. I’ll need a good lawyer to explain the fallacious reasoning behind that opinion.
There’s no such thing as a stupid question. Until now. And here it is. How can someone be accused of disobeying an order when he has written permission from his commander to the contrary?
The relatively minor penalty - $3000, as reported in this article - doesn’t excuse the blatant imposition of political correctness on a man who did NOTHING but pray to his God.
Makes me sick.
Any ranting civil libertarians out there wanna back me on this one? Or is this one OK because it involves a member of the oppressive regime?
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09.15.06
Posted in Media Morons, Crime Blotter at 8:11 pm by JB
I haven’t followed this story much, because I don’t care all that much. I want the best for the child, but children disappear every day it seems, and it’s only the select few the the media pounces on. And that’s my problem. The pouncing.
Nancy Grace is an obnoxious woman who needs to return to Georgia or wherever she grew up and chase ambulances.
She has onscreen prayer vigils for a missing child, but attacks the poor mother to the point where the mother commits suicide. That is just bizarre. Is the mother guilty ? Who knows at this point. Is that still in incredibly bad taste, and not only poor law, but poor journalism ? YES !!
Nancy Grace is actually a DISgrace, and that CNN keeps her on payroll….. doesn’t really surprise me. And her response ?
In an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America” today, Grace said that she takes no responsibility for Duckett’s suicide.
“If anything, I would suggest that guilt made her commit suicide,” Grace told ABC News’ Chris Cuomo.
So now we have a missing child, and who Nancy obviously thinks was the main suspect has killed herself, so we’ll never know what that woman knew. What did it ? “Guilt.” Of course it wasn’t a ludicrous lawyer-turned-talking head berating the poor woman.
If you want to be a prosecutorial bitch-from-hell, you need to get back in a courtroom, Nancy. If this child shows up alive (I HOPE) or deceased with no connection to the mother, you will have hell to pay.
Nancy, your TV days are numbered.
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Posted in Politics, Economics, WalMart Rocks at 4:15 pm by JB
There is a group out there called “Wake Up Wal-Mart“. They have, I’m sure, non-noble intentions. Groups like this are a scourge on the body politic.
Wal-Mart provides low-cost goods for people who don’t shop in high-priced antique shops, who can’t afford- or don’t want- grain fed organic food. Wal-Mart also is the largest private employer in the country. The second largest employer in the nation behind the federal government.
Does that not tell you something ?!
Most Wal-Mart employees are teenage kids or second-earners. Wal-Mart pays better than minimum wage very quickly, and treats their employees very well overall.
This ridiculous “Wake Up” group says this:
Wal-Mart has become much more than just a small corner store in rural America. In the past 10 years, Wal-Mart has grown into the largest retailer in the world — number 1 among the Fortune 500 — and is America’s largest employer.
Wal-Mart was never intended to be a small corner store, and hasn’t even tried for over 30 years.
Wal-Mart was a leader in the “Buy American” movement, and whenever possible buys products from American producers. I know this from experience. There is a shop in Marion, Arkansas that makes lamps and lighting equipment almost exclusively for Wal-Mart, and the Sharp microwave plant in Memphis makes almost exclusively for Wal-Mart.
But this is one of the most egregious claims:
# In Wal-Mart’s America, wealthy companies shift their health care costs onto taxpayers like you and your families.
# In our America, corporations live up to their responsibility and provide their employees with adequate and affordable health care coverage.
This shows a staggering lack of knowledge of how business works. “Corporations live up to their responsibility.” This is juvenile tripe. Business who can’t make money fail. Companies who can pass on their costs to their customers. If Wal-Mart falls victim to unionization (see all the auto manufacturers or airlines choking under union pressures) or raises their prices beyond the reach of normal consumers, 3 million or more people will lose their jobs immediately.
And when did these silly groups decide health care was so important ? That’s just gonna fund insurance companies, and they hate those organizations as well.
This is a socialist movement- the hatred of Wal-Mart- and it shows a frighteningly shallow and stupid understanding of markets, economics, and responsibility.
Any politician who sees Wal-Mart as a threat, but wants to appease Iran, Iraq, Al Queda, doesn’t deserve a single vote, and anyone who supports those people doesn’t deserve to vote. You crazy-ass people who vote against Wal-Mart aren’t smart enough to deserve a voice.
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Posted in Humor, 9/11 at 3:13 pm by JB
Just read this whole thing and watch where it goes…. (by the way, I agree about cell phones):
I HATE CELL PHONES.
Well, hate is probably too strong a word.
No, it’s not. I hate them.
I know they’ve become as essential for all of us as deodorant and bottled water, and that without our phones, we would all sit very still for half a minute or so, then begin drumming our fingers, then roll our necks a couple of times, take a deep breath in and out, quietly whistle a bar or two of “Arriverderci, Roma,” then suddenly vault up, screaming, and dive out the nearest tenth story window.
The ones who astonish me are the people who wear hidden, hearing-aid-sized models and strut down the street yakking to no one and looking for all the world like escaped mental patients. (By the way, do we even have mental patients who escape anymore? If so, do guards in all-white uniforms still chase them down with butterfly nets? You know, where by the time they catch the guy he’s already talked himself into being the head of Ford or something? And everyone’s shocked to find out he was just crazy? On the other hand, maybe that explains why they made a car called the “Probe.”)
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Posted in Politics, War on Terrorism at 2:11 pm by JB
A breath of fresh air in the heart of Europe:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday weighed in on the controversy caused by Pope Benedict XVI in Germany earlier this week with his remarks about the concept of holy war in the Islamic faith.
In the Saturday edition of the mass-circulation Bild newspaper, Merkel defended the pope against accusations of blasphemy and provocation, saying: ‘Those who criticize the pope have misjudged the intention of his speech.’
I’m sure my most of my German friends would disagree, but that’s what makes arguing them fun. 
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Posted in Terrorists, War on Terrorism at 1:09 pm by JB
Since when did these fanatic Islamists need any real reason to freak out ?
The furore over comments made by Pope Benedict about the Islamic concept of Holy War continues to grow. Today British Muslims joined in, fiercely criticising his remarks.
The pontiff was accused of falling into “the trap of bigots and racists” with the comments he made on a visit to Germany. 
Better step up that security though…. remember this guy ?
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Posted in Sports at 12:13 pm by JB
From ESPN.com:
Reggie Bush and his family “appear” to have received more than $100,000 in financial benefits from marketing agents while Bush played at USC, according to a report posted Thursday night on Yahoo! Sports.
The Web site reported that the benefits, which could lead the NCAA to retroactively declare Bush ineligible and level sanctions against the Trojans, were supplied by two groups that were attempting to sign Bush as a client. Bush also could be stripped of his Heisman Trophy.
$100 grand ?! That’s kinda hard to miss, isn’t it ? Did these people not know the rules, and that it would never go unnoticed ?
What is it about USC players losing their Heisman (one way or another) ? At least Reggie didn’t cut anyone’s head off.
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Posted in Humor at 3:13 am by JB
A medical professor was giving a lecture on “Involuntary Muscular Contractions” to his first year medical students. Realizing that this was not the most riveting subject, the prof decided to lighten the mood slightly.
He pointed to a young woman in the front row and said, “Do you know what your asshole is doing while you’re having an orgasm?”
She replied, “Probably deer hunting with his buddies.”
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Posted in Politics, 2006 Races at 2:53 am by JB
squarely on the head. I don’t agree with everything in the piece, but this part is solid.
The Democrats’ mistake–ironically, in a year all about Mr. Bush–is obsessing on Mr. Bush. They’ve been sucker-punched by their own animosity.
“The Democrats now are incapable of answering a question on policy without mentioning Bush six times,” says pollster Kellyanne Conway. ” ‘What is your vision on Iraq?’ ‘Bush lied us into war.’ ‘Health care? ‘Bush hasn’t a clue.’ They’re so obsessed with Bush it impedes them from crafting and communicating a vision all their own.” They heighten Bush by hating him.
One of the oldest clichés in politics is, “You can’t beat something with nothing.” It’s a cliché because it’s true. You have to have belief, and a program. You have to look away from the big foe and focus instead on the world and philosophy and programs you imagine.
Mr. Bush’s White House loves what the Democrats are doing. They want the focus on him. That’s why he’s out there talking, saying Look at me.
Because familiarity doesn’t only breed contempt, it can breed content. Because if you’re going to turn away from him, you’d better be turning toward a plan, and the Democrats don’t appear to have one.
Which leaves them unlikely to win leadership. And unworthy of it, too.
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Posted in Politics, War on Terrorism at 2:36 am by JB
Mark Levin makes a great point:
If we get attacked again, we know who to blame. Not the administration, which has worked overtime to defend the homeland, but the lawyers, courts, and members of Congress who are responsible for disastrous policies that lead to situations like this — counterterrorism officials having to purchase insurance against lawsuits by, among others, terrorists.
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Posted in Politics, 2006 Races at 12:23 am by JB
May be a miserable Tuesday in November for the loyal opposition.
Forty-seven percent (47%) of American adults approve of the way that President Bush is performing his job. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. Those are by far the best numbers for the President since mid-February.
I stand by my prediction…. GOP will pick up seats in both houses.
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Posted in Politics, Unhinged, Democrats, WalMart Rocks at 12:19 am by JB
Great overall piece, but here are some numbers:
The median household income of Wal-Mart shoppers is under $40,000. Wal-Mart, the most prodigious job-creator in the history of the private sector in this galaxy, has almost as many employees (1.3 million) as the U.S. military has uniformed personnel. A McKinsey company study concluded that Wal-Mart accounted for 13 percent of the nation’s productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s, which probably made Wal-Mart about as important as the Federal Reserve in holding down inflation. By lowering consumer prices, Wal-Mart costs about 50 retail jobs among competitors for every 100 jobs Wal-Mart creates . Wal-Mart and its effects save shoppers more than $200 billion a year, dwarfing such government programs as food stamps ($28.6 billion) and the earned-income tax credit ($34.6 billion).
I’m missing what the bad parts are…. Ahhhhh yes:
People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart — it has one-fifth of the nation’s grocery business — save at least 17 percent. But because unions are strong in many grocery stores trying to compete with Wal-Mart, unions are yanking on the Democratic Party’s leash, demanding laws to force Wal-Mart to pay wages and benefits higher than those that already are high enough to attract 77 times as many applicants than there were jobs at this store.
On another, and the closer…. And Will has a prediction on the next round:
What is this focus of evil in the modern world? North Korea? The Bush administration? Fox News Channel? No, it is Coca-Cola (number of servings to Americans of the company’s products each week: 2.5 billion).
When liberals’ presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled “What’s the Matter With Liberals’ Nominees?” No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” Notice a pattern here?
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09.14.06
Posted in Crime Blotter at 4:32 pm by JB
How did someone not see THIS coming ?!
A man with a black trench coat whose shooting rampage in a Montreal college killed one person and wounded 19 others before he was slain by police said on a blog in his name that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine shootings.
Well that’s just great. A new generation of whackos gets inspired by a past (and thankfully passed) generation of whackos. But there’s more.
In postings on a Web site called VampireFreaks.com, blogs in Gill’s name show more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses holding a rifle and donning a long black trench coat and combat boots.
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He said on the site that he was drinking whiskey in the morning and described his mood the night before as “crazy” and “postal.”
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“Before our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team. Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives,” he said.
So the dude was a nut-case…. no surprise…. the Montreal police act with force and preemption ?! That’s a HUGE surprise.
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Posted in Television, Crime Blotter at 4:18 pm by JB
And now’s he get’s to spend some time in a Mexican prison….
MSNBC has learned that U.S. officials have arrested TV reality star Duane “Dog” Chapman and two family members in Hawaii for extradition to Mexico.
Chapman’s wife told MSNBC’s Rita Cosby that heavily armed U.S. marshals arrived at the family’s house today and took away Chapman, his brother, Tim, and son, Leland.
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In 2003, the Chapmans went to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to retrieve Max Factor heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted in the U.S. on rape charges.
Bounty hunting is considered a crime in Mexico.
At that time, Mexican prosecutors maintained that Luster’s capture violated their sovereignty.
The Chapmans each could face up to 8 years in prison if they are returned to Mexico and convicted on kidnapping charges.
Luster is now in jail, serving a 124-year term, but at the time, the Chapmans were also jailed by Mexican authorities for a brief time three years ago.
The three returned to the United States after posting bail of their own.
Wow… a bail-jumping bounty hunter. The irony.
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Posted in Politics, Economics, "Big Oil", 2006 Races at 1:50 pm by JB
Gas prices at 1/2 the mark now ? Talk about an economic boost.
The recent sharp drop in the global price of crude oil could mark the start of a massive sell-off that returns gasoline prices to lows not seen since the late 1990s — perhaps as low as $1.15 a gallon.
“All the hurricane flags are flying” in oil markets, said Philip Verleger, a noted energy consultant who was a lone voice several years ago in warning that oil prices would soar. Now, he says, they appear to be poised for a dramatic plunge.
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Posted in Crime Blotter at 1:35 pm by JB
This guy needs to suffer the wrath of the long arm of the law:
AIDS timebomb Everson Banda lured women for sex sessions at his holiday campsite caravan.
The African asylum seeker — who was in Britain illegally and nicknamed himself Ace — bedded scores of women trippers and 13 co-workers in three seasons at the resort.
But immigration officials arrested him in a targeted July swoop. And a search of his caravan found letters from lawyers of women who claimed he had given them HIV.
They named up to five distraught lovers infected with the virus — which causes deadly Aids — after having sex with Banda.
This is serial murder, plain and simple.
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Posted in Unhinged at 1:26 pm by JB
and evidently Al Franken delivers what he’s worth:
Is Air America Radio going belly up? The troubled left-leaning network is dismissing yesterday’s report by Think Progress that it plans to file for bankruptcy on Friday. But you know things must be bad when even your top star can’t get paid.
“I don’t know if that’s true or not,” Al Franken told Radar late Wednesday, when asked about the bankruptcy report. “We do know that there have been cash-flow problems. I haven’t been paid in a while. Like, there’s no cash flowing to me.”
If Air America fell in a forrest, would anyone really care ?
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Posted in Politics, Prez '08 at 1:18 pm by JB
This guy is such a joke…. can’t you just hear him saying this:
Kerry says the only reason he didn’t compete in more states in 2004 was that he ran out of money. He says this was also the reason he did not adequately respond to a series of devastating TV ads by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, a group that questioned Kerry’s service in Vietnam and criticized his later opposition to the war.
“They had money behind the lies, and we did not have sufficient money behind the truth,” Kerry laments.
Asked if he dreads the prospect of being “Swift-Boated” all over again, Kerry counters that he would relish such a fight.
“I’m prepared to kick their ass from one end of America to the other,” he declares. “I am so confident of my abilities to address that and to demolish it and to even turn it into a positive.”
Puh-leaze…. Can’t you just hear that annoying, nasal monotone voice saying this ? He couldn’t kick anybody’s ass anywhere. KISS their ass, maybe.
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Posted in Sports at 12:10 am by JEG
HATS OFF to whoever put this video montage online. Anyone who has ever played soccer will tell you that the skills these two display are off-the-charts sick! Zidane v. Ronaldinho. Doesn’t get any better.
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09.13.06
Posted in Politics at 8:46 pm by JEG
As proud as I am of our armed forces, this makes me a little peeved.
“In Jesus’ name.” Apparently three taboo words nowadays, especially if you’re a Chaplain in the military.
I’ll start by saying that I’m far from being a religious fanatic. I’m proud to live in a country where citizens - all citizens - are allowed to worship freely without fear of retribution from governing authorities. I’d be scared to death if the government were to issue an edict declaring one faith or another to be the “official” religion of the people.
Not even close to what has happened in this case. A Navy Chaplain - trained, I assume, in Christian theology and personally committed to his faith - said a prayer and ended with a typical, common closure that millions of Christians around the world are accustomed to. In fact, to a Christian, this closing is almost an automatic reflex.
Suppose the Chaplain were a Muslim offering a prayer in similar circumstances. Would we fault him for reciting the common Islamic supplication, “In the name of Allah, the benificent, the merciful (forgive me if I got that slightly wrong)?” I would hope that we would not. Were I in attendance at such an occasion, I can say without hesitation that I would not be the least bit offended.
In both of these cases - the first reality, the second hypothetical - claiming that we are somehow “establishing” a government-mandated religion is ludicrous on its face. And now we’ve gone so far as to convict this gentleman of a crime, misdemeanor though it is?
I know, I know. You’re all saying, “he didn’t get convicted for worshiping. He got convicted for disobeying an order.” Silly argument that totally misses the point. Any mindless troglodyte can follow an order. The point is, it’s a stupid order based upon adherence to a code of ridiculous political correctness over which most people couldn’t give two rat’s asses.
Here’s what he is facing:
Klingenschmitt could forfeit two-thirds of his pay per month for one year and receive a reprimand as punishment.
I’m floored. This is, in my opinion, an instance where the ACLU could profitably earn its keep by defending this soldier and man of God. We’ve lost our bearings if we are worrying about a Chaplain who closes a prayer by individually praying in the name of his God. Citing the 1st Ammendment to quash the 1st Ammendment. We can all see the fallacy in that, can’t we?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Elegant in its simplicity. No room for interpretation. Everyone clear?
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Posted in Pop Culture, Music, Humor at 7:45 pm by JEG
If you’ll remember, not too long ago I showed you this.
Could this be the first step?
Of course, I can’t blame her. If I had to do this, I’d consider divorce myself.
Perhaps most memorably, Houston, best known for her tender ballads “I Will Always Love You” and “The Greatest Love of All,” once recalled on the program how Brown once manually assisted her in a bowel movement (emphasis added - like it needed emphasis).
Usama’s got to have a king-sized erection over this bit of news! Inquiring (and obviously sarcastic - I don’t need a lawsuit from Whitney’s people) minds want to know, will he now make his move in between bouts of jihad fever?
I don’t know about y’all, but I’m anxious for more updates!
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09.12.06
Posted in Politics at 9:18 pm by JB
Here’s what The Nation has to say:
Has the Republican Party suddenly caught a case of jungle fever? This year Republicans will most likely run three African-Americans in statewide elections: Kenneth Blackwell (for governor in Ohio), former NFL star Lynn Swann (for governor in Pennsylvania) and Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, who is seen as the frontrunner for the Republican Senate nomination there.
So the GOP can’t have black candidates ?
Maybe finally the blacks in this country are tired of being lied to, patronized, treated as insignificant children.
Steele and Blackwell are completely competent candidates, and Swann is on the rise even if he isn’t quite ready.
For The Nation to negate their possibilities and potential is just embarrasing.
If a conservative said anything even close to that, all hell would break loose. But The Nation will have Harry Reid and whoever at their next dinner, with no reprecussions whatsoever. Thank GOD nobody reads their magazine.
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Posted in Pop Culture, 'House' at 9:03 pm by JB
This is gonna be an interesting one. Not sure where this case is gonna go, but it is looking fascinating so far.
20:16- What the hell ? There is something in there !!!
20:30- This just keeps getting freakier. But in a good way. The way it’s written keeps ya on the trail. It never gets boring, never gets all touchy-feely like ER does, never gets all “serious” like the CSI things do… and especially it doesn’t have that dude from CSI: Miami who takes 10 minutes to say his name, because he is so INTENSE ! Liking this episode so far.
20:41- Can we all agree that there are some neurological issues now ? The kid is floating around ? Maybe there are aliens. Someone call Alex Jones. He’ll know. He knows everything. Of course he’ll tell you the aliens are all plants by Cheney and Rove.
Great episode. Still the best written show on TV…. or close to it anyway.
And Jennifer Morisson is a BABE !
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Posted in Music, Unhinged at 5:36 pm by JB
From Ms. Natalie Maines:
The international press won’t get their first look at the documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing until its gala premiere at the Toronto Film Festival tonight. But EW.com got an early look at the sure-to-be-controversial doc in Los Angeles and can attest that the film will continue to bring the (ex?) country trio more plaudits from progressives and further condemnation from conservatives. And if you think singer Natalie Maines had some harsh words for President Bush in public, wait till you hear what she had to say about him behind the scenes.
In one memorable scene, Maines watches news footage of the president being interviewed about the furor that followed the singer’s on-stage comment that she was ‘’ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas,'’ which resulted in the group being dropped from most radio stations, as well as protests and plummeting sales. ‘’The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind,'’ Bush told Tom Brokaw at the time, adding, ‘’They shouldn’t have their feelings hurt just because some people don’t want to buy their records when they speak out. You know, freedom is a two-way street.'’
After watching this footage, Maines repeats the president’s comment about how the group shouldn’t have their ‘’feelings hurt,'’ incredulous, and then says, ‘’What a dumb f—.'’ She then looks into the camera, as if addressing Bush, and reiterates, ‘’You’re a dumb f—.'’
For Ms. Maines:
Listen you whiney little barely-talented shrew-bitch. It should say something to you that you have had to cancel concerts, move events, and the only people that really give a rats ass what you think are Canadian slackers and Sheehan-worshipers.
Nobody wants to hear your opinions on global policy. The majority of the people who bought your last album are liberal snot-noses who will never listen to it, but wanted to help you save face. It wouldn’t shock me to find out you bought a few thousand yourself.
You make your snide comments to get attention. If your music didn’t suck 10 kinds of ass you could sell records on talent, and not on your pathetic views on the way the world should work, when you clearly have staked your career on the talent of your band mates. You can’t sing, you can’t play, you are annoying as hell to watch.
Shut up and sing, indeed.
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Posted in Unhinged, 9/11, Alex Jones at 3:28 pm by JB
Alex Jones is right, because Hugo Chavez agrees with him.
President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that it’s at least plausible that the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Chavez did not specifically accuse the U.S. government of having a hand in the Sept. 11 attacks, but rather suggested that theories of U.S. involvement bear examination.
The Tinfoil-Hat Society can open their Venezuelan branch office now.
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Posted in General, Politics at 3:05 pm by JB
The Dem’s went ape-shat over the need for “first responders”… more money, more unions, after 9/11. The responsibility in a disaster, of course, must be handled by those who can put boots on the ground first in a situation that arises with no warning….
But in hurricane Katrina- of which there was ample warning- Bush and Cheney and Chertoff needed to be down in the Big Easy tossing sandbags ? No mention, or at least no recognition, of the glaringly-obvious role of the much-vaunted “first responders”.
And why doesn’t the Mississippi coast, which received as much if not more damage, not receive any mention ? Could it be that Haley Barbour is a good governor with an R next to his name, and Blanco is a moron with a D ?
Again, just an idle thought. Resume your lives.
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Posted in Unhinged, 9/11 at 2:52 pm by JB
Sonny Bunch (great name) takes on a book meant to debunk the conspiracy theories.
The conspiracy theories are legion: the twin towers were brought down by a controlled demolition and not airplanes; the towers were brought down by airplanes, but the airplanes were laden with explosives; the Pentagon was struck not by a passenger jet, but by a missile; United Flight 93 did not crash, but was shot down by an F-16. All of these theories incorporate tiny pieces of “evidence” (or the absence of evidence) and lead to the same conclusion: that a massive conspiracy was orchestrated by a shadowy faction of the United States government in order to draw the country into a global conflict with Islam.
Evidently Popular Mechanics has done the heavy lifting to crunch these conspiracy kooks.
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Posted in Politics at 2:27 pm by JB
Tell the world what the readers of TTA think.
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Posted in Unhinged at 2:07 pm by JB
Everything is Karl Rove’s fault !
Attorneys for a man accused of fraud say he was charged at the behest of presidential adviser Karl Rove in retaliation for a flood of spam e-mails sent to a campaign Web site. A federal prosecutor says the claim is “absurd.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Siegal urged U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Monday to reject arguments that Rove caused the criminal investigation that led to charges against Robert McAllister.
Siegal said lawyers for McAllister made the “patently absurd argument that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District is a shill for Karl Rove and has arrested and indicted their client in some sort of vindictive retaliation.”
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09.11.06
Posted in Politics at 9:02 pm by JB
Bush went to New York (and didn’t go to Scores), then flew to Pennsylvania, and then flew back to Washington to visit the Pentagon ceremony…. and NEVER made a public speech until now.
This will last about 15 minutes. Does anyone think Clinton wouldn’t have milked this for every second of speech-time he could ?
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Posted in General, 9/11 at 6:58 pm by JB
From a DNC email I got today:
Today we remember many things.
We remember where we were. We remember the scenes on television.
We remember the victims who were murdered. We remember the families and loved ones they left behind.
We remember the heroes who charged into danger to save lives.
We remember a moment of unity at home and around the world, where people rallied around a single mission and a common sense of justice that must be done.
Today we face many challenges at home and abroad. And too often it’s too easy to be distracted by the politics, the pundits, and the posturing.
We must always remember that the dangers we face know no political party, and the solutions and leadership we need now go beyond ideology.
We must meet these challenges head-on — remembering to stand together in action as we live together under threat. We are all Americans.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
We will not be silent.
Today we remember many things.
And tomorrow, back on the campaign trail, we will remember to take with us the plain truth and a commitment to true justice for all those whose lives were transformed on this day five years ago.
Thank you.
Governor Howard Dean, M.D.
Well said, doctor. Well said.
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Posted in Politics, 9/11, War on Terrorism at 4:58 pm by JB
First time I’ve seen this, but it’s worth reading in toto. (All emphasis mine)
My friends, it’s time to face a hard, cold fact. Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we’re alive and don’t believe as they do. They’ve been killing us for decades. So it’s time to stop pretending these terrorist incidents are mere episodic events and face the reality that our way of life is in grave danger. This threat is not just going to go away because we choose to ignore it. Some say we should try diplomacy. Yeah, well, tell me, how do we negotiate with people whose starting point is our death? Ask them to wait for ten years before they kill us? When good negotiates with evil, evil will always win and peace follows victory, not words issued by diplomats. But some Americans, sadly, not interested in victory, and yet they want us to believe that their behavior is patriotic.
Well, it’s not. When the critics are more interested in punishing this country over a few incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay than they are in defeating those who want to kill us; when they seek to destroy a foreign surveillance program which is designed to identify those who want to kill us and how they intend to do it; when they want to grant those who want to kill us U.S. constitutional rights, I don’t call that patriotic. Patriotism is rallying behind the country, regardless of party affiliation to defeat Islamofascism. Patriotism is supporting our troops in the battlefield, not undermining the mission and morale. Let there be no doubt about this: America will prevail. We’re the same country that survived a bloody civil war, defeated the Nazis and the Soviets. Each generation has a responsibility to the next, our generation will not disappoint.
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Posted in Politics, 9/11, War on Terrorism, Democrats at 4:45 pm by JB
Byron York of NRO wrote this a while back. It’s a good thing to remember. It also bolsters the “docu-drama” that everyone has their panties in a twist about. The summation:
Clinton then asked, “What do I need to do to be first tier?” “I said, ‘You can’t,’“ [pollster Dick] Morris remembers. “‘You have to win a war.’“ Clinton then asked what he needed to do to make the second or third tier, and Morris outlined three goals. The first was successful welfare reform. The second was balancing the budget. And the third was an effective battle against terrorism. “I said the only one of the major goals he had not achieved was a war on terrorism,” Morris says. (This is not a recent recollection; Morris also described the conversation in his 1997 book, Behind the Oval Office.)
But Clinton never began, much less finished, a war on terrorism. Even though Morris’s polling showed the poll-sensitive president that the American people supported tough action, Clinton demurred. Why?
“He had almost an allergy to using people in uniform,” Morris explains. “He was terrified of incurring casualties; the lessons of Vietnam were ingrained far too deeply in him. He lacked a faith that it would work, and I think he was constantly fearful of reprisals.” But there was more to it than that. “On another level, I just don’t think it was his thing,” Morris says. “You could talk to him about income redistribution and he would talk to you for hours and hours. Talk to him about terrorism, and all you’d get was a series of grunts.”
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Posted in 9/11 at 2:33 pm by JB
Today is 5-years…. This is Jonah’s take at one. Have a lil’ taste.
Let’s face it. It wasn’t all funereal bagpipers, terror alerts, and the righteous boom of the arsenal of democracy in far-off lands. I still get chuckle when I think about the special-forces troops who modified their standard headgear for urban warfare. While storming a nest of al Qaeda members in downtown Kabul, the good guys donned New York Yankee caps for a little payback from the Big Apple. And, truth be told, I still grin whenever I hear President Bush talk about “getting the evildoers” because, from the way he says it, I always hear “getting the evil Dewar’s”; “We’re going to find the evil Dewar’s”; “When it comes to the evil Dewar’s, there’s no place to hide…,” etc. Don’t even get me started on Johnny Walker.
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Consider Mohammed Atta who had the intestinal fortitude to carve up innocent men and women in order to crash a plane into more innocent men and women, but who went to his grave shaking with terror that a woman might touch his man-panties, even after he died.
Classic G-File.
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Posted in Media Morons at 2:20 pm by JB
From Drudge:
Katie Couric CBS ‘EVENING NEWS’ premiered with a 9.1 household, metered market rating and fell continuously thereafter: 9.1–7.0–6.5–4.9. Friday’s household ra