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Only Fox News can do this
06.25.05 (6:18 am)   [edit]

Fox News dumbest female reporters and stuipdest stories.  Who would make wine standing on a narrow platform? What kind of conservative news would air an story about thongs?  


Death Touch that is a joke. http://videos.subfighter.com/highlights/other/Dimm ak" title="http://videos.subfighter.com/highlights/other/Dimm ak" target="_blank"http://videos.subfighter.com/...%20Death%20Touch%20Fraud.wmv


Fox Reporter making wine the ending of this clip is very funny. http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=news" title="http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=news" target="_blank"http://www.putfile.com/media....%20lady


Thongs on Fox News, what kind of conservative news shows thongs on their news. http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=fox_news_thong_thre at" title="http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=fox_news_thong_thre at" target="_blank"http://www.putfile.com/media....

 
Insurgency dying or just a lie
06.23.05 (3:08 pm)   [edit]

WASHINGTON - The top American military commander in the Persian Gulf disputed a contention by Vice President Dick Cheney that the Iraqi insurgency was in its “last throes” and told Congress on Thursday that its strength was basically undiminished from six months ago. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8330207/" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8330207/" target="_blank"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8...


So Cheney says the insurgency is in its "last throes".  This is the same message the white house puts out every so many months. But as time goes on, the insurgency seems to keep on fighting. Below is a list of dates, when the white house said something similar to Cheneys remark that the insurgency is dying.  But here we are two years later, fighting an insurgency that seems to have not been defeated.  



  1. June 18, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld: "In those regions where pockets of dead-enders are trying to reconstitute, General Franks and his team are rooting them out."
  2. June 18, 2003, Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary: "I think these people are the last remnants of a dying cause."
  3. August 25, 2003, Rumsfeld: "The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost."
  4. April 9, 2004: Rumsfeld: "You have a mixture of a small number of terrorists, a small number of militias, coupled with some demonstrations and some lawlessness."
  5. June 25, 2004, Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State: "We underestimated the enemy, and we didn't destroy him in our initial attack, and he melted away, and we're seeing him again."
  6. September 20, 2004, Time Magazine: "The deputy commander of coalition forces in Iraq, British Major General Andrew Graham, estimates there are 40,000 to 50,000 active insurgent fighters.
  7. January 3, 2004, Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani, Iraqi intelligence director: "I think the resistance is bigger than the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people."
  8. January 26, 2005, General George Casey: "If you look back over the last year we estimate we have killed or captured about 15,000 people as part of this counter-insurgency."
  9. February 3, 2005, Rumsfeld: "The insurgency has clearly been at a level that has been more intense than anticipated."
  10. February 3, 2005, Senator John McCain: "We went from a few dead enders to killing or capturing 15,000 in the period of a year, and that's why there's a certain credibility problem here as to what the size and nature of the enemy we face...I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing." http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/03-2005/ Article-20050309-87a9219e -c0a8-10ed-0068-2b7295a02 7ba/story.html" title="http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/03-2005/ Article-20050309-87a9219e -c0a8-10ed-0068-2b7295a02 7ba/story.html" target="_blank"http://english.daralhayat.com...

 

 
Why is good dumb?
06.22.05 (1:18 pm)   [edit]







An interesting view of America from the Asia.


















Why is good dumb?
By Spengler

"Lonestar, now you see that evil shall always triumph, because good is dumb," said Lord Dark Helmet in the 1987 lampoon Spaceballs. No Western leader has tried harder to be good, but looked dumber, than America's Lonestar, President George W Bush, over whom evil is about to triumph. His vision is crumbling of a democratic Middle East, with suburban housing tracts and shopping malls spreading across the desert, and mosques that preach something like Methodism. "Many will be the night during his second term that Bush will wish he were still in Texas, and still drunk," I predicted before his re-election, and reiterate the prediction now.

Is Bush personally dumb, or is there something inherently dumb about the good? Exclude the former: every insider account of the Bush White House portrays the president as a crafty operator, very much in control. Besides, now we know that the president earned better grades at Yale than his Democrat challenger, John Kerry. Even if he were dull, clever advisers surround him. No one claims that Vice President Dick Cheney is stupid. Why, then, does Bush seem dumb? Dark Helmet was right. The United States of America is uniquely good, and thus uniquely dumb. Before addressing that issue, let us define "good" and "dumb" in the context of world affairs.

The American president is a good man, in that he wants the whole world to have the same good things Americans have. "Religious conversion is the defining experience of his life, and it is in his nature to convert others. Because he is a 21st-century American and not a 12th-century Crusader, he preaches the ballot box rather than the cross," I wrote under the title George W Bush, tragic character (November 25, 2003). A simple punitive expedition against Saddam Hussein, followed by side-deals with the Kurds and Shi'ites to secure oil supplies, would have served Washington's "imperial" requirements, had that been the objective. Bush actually believes he is building democracy in the Muslim world.

By "dumb" I mean that Bush could not have done more to prepare the grounds for Islamist victory had he set out to do so with malice of forethought. Less than a year ago, overwhelming support for the Iraq war forced the Democratic Party to peddle Kerry as a war hero, while gagging its anti-war faction. Only 37% of Americans now approve of the president's handling of the Iraq war, according to last week's CBS-NY Times poll. Among the Sunnis of Iraq, a sufficient number of young men will commit suicide to add two or three a day to the American casualty list until America's loses its will to fight (Why Sunnis blow themselves up, June 14).

Radical Islam, I have maintained since September 11, 2001, may triumph yet, if only for a while, for its fighting advantage is the desperation of a doomed culture. Washington has made concession after humiliating concession to groups it deemed terrorist, such as Hezbollah, the victor in the south of the country in the ongoing Lebanese elections, and the Palestinian Hamas, before whose electoral strength the Palestinian Authority dare not hold a national vote. The world interprets Bush's recognition of Hezbollah and Hamas to mean that if a nation backs leaders who employ terrorism, their sovereign will legitimizes the use of terror. If suicide bombers drive American troops from Iraq, Bush's "war on terror" will meet an ignominious end. It will, of course, resume before long, but it will be someone else's war.

What makes the US uniquely good is that it is uniquely Christian. I do not mean that Christianity is a unique fount of goodness - far from it - but rather that Christianity proposes a universalized form of good. The Europeans, Latin Americans and Asians who chose to emigrate to America left the blood and soil of their origins behind them, unlike the barbarian invaders who populated modern Europe. Christians worship a God outside of nature who loves all of humankind; by contrast, pagans worship themselves. Self-worship can take the form of adoration of a man-made idol, or the adoration of a blond, blue-eyed Jesus for the Germans or an Indian Virgin for the Mexicans. Spiritual narcissism is the curse of the gentiles, who feel justified in exterminating their neighbors out of a perverse adoration for their own ethnicity. As the only nation with no ethnicity, America is the most Christian, and indeed the last Christian nation in the industrial world as a practical matter.

The Christianity that Bush professes is an American original, a true rebirth without a backward glance. The born-again American Christian expects every individual on earth to respond to divine grace in similar fashion. The kind of evangelical Christians one finds in Midland, Texas, evince a spirit of charity found among no other people in the world, sending money and missionaries to assist the most impoverished people of Africa and Latin America.

Good people cannot as a rule understand wicked people. They do not wish to be wicked, and cannot understand why anyone else would wish to do so. American Christians cannot fathom the kind of wickedness that accounts for the bulk of the butchery in world history, born of the pessimism of dying races who will kill without compunction to delay the hour of their demise.

But hasn't Christianity slaughtered without pity in the name of the faith? Cardinal Richelieu's France offers the worst example, prolonging the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants until nearly half the people of central Europe had died by violence, disease or starvation. This exceptional case of Christian brutality proves the rule. Seventeenth-century France under Cardinal Richelieu first devised the ghastly idea that God had chosen one particular nation as the bearer of Christianity, justifying the most hideous means to achieve its ends. Narcissism at the level of the individual as well as the nation is the French disease, which the rest of Europe caught.

Only one major war in modern history rightly might be called a Christian holy war, namely America's Civil War, which took the lives of two out of five Southern men of military age. Young men from the North marched to their death singing that as Christ "had died to make men holy, let us die to make men free". The slave-holding states constituted an evil entity, somewhat like the great Roman estates, and Southern youth died for an evil cause, namely the right to be rich and idle. Had the North not fought the war, the South would have sought to expand into a Latin American slave empire.

Yet American tourists wander the battlefields of the Civil War, blinking dumbly at the scenes of mass slaughter, mourning Confederate and Unionist alike. Thousands of Americans dress in Civil War-era uniforms and act out the awful battles of the 1860s like a mute chorus in a tragedy written in an antique language none of them can understand. Americans cannot absorb the horror that an evil society grew in their midst, that could be suppressed only by the extermination of its manhood. As a nation of immigrants from failed societies, Americans have lost their memory of what it means when a society fails. In fact, such failure is the typical case, just as extinction is the typical fate of animal species. About 2,000 of the 6,700 languages now spoken on the planet will disappear during the next decade, while French, German and Italian will be in danger within the next two centuries.

To embrace death is the extreme of evil. Iraq's Sunnis, as I wrote last week, have even less hope without control of the country's oil than had the young men of the American South without control of slaves. They are the denizens of a failed culture, and therefore hold their lives cheap enough to trade for a bombing in a restaurant or a bank, let alone the death of an American soldier. Against such radical evil, the good has no natural defenses.

Can we cite no example of a good man who also was clever, for example, Sir Winston Churchill? Churchill surely was clever, but he was not all that good. That is, he was a man of the old British Empire, expert at keeping tribal wars at a low boil in order to maintain British control with sparse resources. That is the sort of thing America might have done in Iraq, but which Bush by his nature never will do.

For all of Churchill's acumen, he did not win World War II as much as Adolf Hitler lost it. Failing to destroy the British expeditionary force at Dunkirk is an obvious case, but decisive German error was accepting war with the US. Suppose that after Pearl Harbor Hitler did not declare war on the US along with Japan, but instead offered himself as a mediator between the two, deploring the Japanese attack but urging American restraint. Would Congress have declared war on Germany as well as Japan? Not likely. Hitler's overconfidence then stood at its zenith, following the easy defeat of France and the spectacular success of Operation Barbarossa, and megalomania got the better of him. That is a comforting thought. Perhaps the Islamists will lose the war. I hope that turns out to be the case, considering that Bush is not going to win it.

(Copyright 2005 Asia Times Online Ltd.

 
Hostettler and god
06.21.05 (5:18 pm)   [edit]

A Republican congressman from Indiana created an uproar in the House on Monday by accusing the Democrats of being anti-Christian.

"Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians," said Rep. John Hostettler.


Well another GOP politican using religion for political gain. I find it odd that a man of faith would need a gun.


"Hostettler, a Christian and social conservative, made headlines last year when he was caught carrying a loaded handgun in a carry-on bag in the Louisville, Ky., airport. He pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon and received a 60-day sentence, which he will not have to serve unless he has other criminal troubles before August 2006."


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/21/po litics/main703204_page2.shtml" title="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/21/po litics/main703204_page2.shtml" target="_blank"http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...


If you really have faith in God, and believe God will protect you and will do harm to you, why do you need a gun? Perhaps your faith in god is not as strong as you claim Hostettler. 

 
The best thing about gays.
06.21.05 (3:28 pm)   [edit]

Well, I found the best thing about gays, that most people don't know.  If you own multiple homes or apartments, rent out your home or apartment out to gay.  Why would you want to rent out your home to a gay one perhaps in their 20s or early 30's or a college student? Just become sterotypical and you can find some good answers.


Because 1, gays tend to be very clean individuals, 2 college gays tend to have jobs and are able to hold their job so they can pay the rent. 3, college gays won't thro w a huge house party that get out of control and destroy the home. 4, gays don't have kids, if you ever had to baby sit kids before, you know kids and their crayola they start to draw on the walls, kids also like to play with matches, lighters, and dig holes in the yard. 5, when gays get into domestic agruements they tend to be non-violent.


Hetro tenents on the other hand, males tend to be dirty and sloppy. 2, hetro males college age tenents tend to move from job to job. 3, hetro males tenents throw huge partys, and their guests tend to vomit all over the place. 4, A hetros male/female domestic argrument most of the time becomes violent, and stuff is thrown at the other person, which hits walls, windows and damage to the home occurs.  5, hetros will invite their friends to come over and live with them, 6 Hetros marrie d couples have kids, and kids draw and walls and start fires.   


I'm sure their are negative reasons why people won't rent their home to gays.  But in the long run a gay tenet would take better care of the home, then a hetro would. 


 

 
Hilarious fight
06.19.05 (7:18 pm)   [edit]

This has got to be one of the most hilarious fight every caught on tape. 


http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=hahahomie" title="http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=hahahomie" target="_blank"http://www.putfile.com/media....


One guy who thinks he "Bald Kid" can fight, but his lateral movement just tells me he does not how to fight.  If you watch his lateral movement he cross his legs when squares off and when he engages with the kung fu kid. 


 


First lesson when you fight you never cross your legs when you square off with your opponent or your opponent is close to you.  Becuase your base is not balanced. The funny part is the kid who thinks he can fight gets knocked out.  The other kid took some kind of martial art, or just watched to many kung fu movies. 


 

 
Schiavo autopsy
06.15.05 (2:51 pm)   [edit]

Well, it Terri's autopsy was released today.  Apparently Terri was in a persistent vegetative state.  Terri was also blind, the sad part is all of those physicaians which said Terri was responding to visual stimulus was incorrect in their diagnosis. I wonder how do you get a blind person to follow hand movement, and watching a ballon go from one side to another.  "Her eyes appear to follow a balloon around the room"http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/28/news_pf/Ta mpabay/Understanding_Terr i_S.shtml" title="http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/28/news_pf/Ta mpabay/Understanding_Terr i_S.shtml" target="_blank"http://www.sptimes.com/2003/1... 


So all of those physicaians who went on national TV telling the people the Terri is alive, and she is responding to visual stimulus, you now lack credibilty as a compentent physician.  Someone should find out who all of the physicain a re and place there names on the net, as a pontential incompentent neurolo gist. When people start experienceing neurological problems.  I wonder if those individuals would want to get their diagnosis from a physician that made a mis-diagnosis on Terri Schaivo.  I don't think many people would want to see a physicain who could mis-diagnosed a cerebral aneurysm, as a migraine headache. 


As Terri Schaivo being abused by her husband was proven wrong. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8225637/" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8225637/" target="_blank"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8...


The medical examiner’s conclusions countered a videotape released by the Schindlers of Terri Schiavo in her hospice bed. The video showed Schiavo appearing to turn toward her mother’s voice and smile, moaning and laughing. Her head moved up and down and she seemed to follow the progress of a brightly colored Mickey Mouse balloon. 


Maybe this video was staged or just coindence, a tape a family wanted to use becuase they could not handle the emotional pain of burying a child. I have allways said emotional instability makes you do crazy things.  The Schaivos still want to contest this case through their lawyer.  "He said they plan to discuss the autopsy with other medical experts and may take some unspecified legal action"


This controversy will not end, untill the Terri Schaivos parents hear what they want to hear. 


 


 

 
AIDS,
06.14.05 (6:50 pm)   [edit]
From: Travis Fulton
Date: 06/13/05 10:50 PM
Member Since: 01/01/2001
742 Total Posts Ignore User

For years I have predicted how the next great plague will come about. I think that it will come in the form of HIV/AIDS
Now with the US jumping over the 1 million mark in HIV/AIDS we are a step closer to my prophecy coming true.

Ive stated numerous times that the rise in interacial sex mostly white women with black or hispanic men, will initiate the next great plague.

With blacks accounting for 51% and hispanics 28% of the US HIV population. The crazy thing is that blacks represent over half of the US AIDS cases, but only account for 11% of the US population.

How often do you see black men with black women anymore? It is only a matter of time before these infected white women in turn infect white men.

Now of course HIV is highest in homosexuals. Well once again, homosexuality is booming right now. Everybody knows or has met somebody who is gay. There are also tons of bisexual men out there as well. They will also in turn infect the white women who will in turn infect white men.

Now I know Im going to take a lot of slack from the liberal idiots out there who say Im a racist for stating such facts, and they will also say that AIDS is higher in the minorities because they grow up in the projects, or some dumb excuse like that. So have at me.

Anyways, just thought Id pop in on the OG and speak my mind.


http://www.adcombat.com/ubbADCC_Forum/ubb/For um1/HTML/039491.html" title="http://www.adcombat.com/ubbADCC_Forum/ubb/For um1/HTML/039491.html" target="_blank"http://www.adcombat.com/ubbAD...


 

 
Draft
06.13.05 (2:05 pm)   [edit]
A draft video, you need flash to view it.   http://toccionline.kizash.com/films/1001/138/index.php" title="http://toccionline.kizash.com/films/1001/138/index.php" target="_blank"http://toccionline.kizash.com...
 
Ex-Oil Lobbyist Was In Charge Of Global Warming Reports
06.12.05 (1:00 pm)   [edit]
WASHINGTON -- The White House is playing down changes made in government reports on global warming by a former oil industry lobbyist.

Spokesman Scott McClellan said the revisions were part of a normal review and did not violate a pledge to rely on sound science.

Documents provided to the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit group, showed that a White House official who once headed the oil industry's lobbying on climate change edited reports on the topic in 2002 and 2003.




The edits -- published in The New York Times -- play up doubts on whether so-called "greenhouse gases" from human activity really cause climate change.

Philip Cooney's changes in several federal reports tended to emphasize the uncertainty of climate science and the environmental impact of climate change, according to a summary of the documents provided by the advocacy group.

McClellan rejected suggestions that Cooney had "watered down" the reports.

McClellan said the resulting reports were still "scientifically sound."

Cooney led the American Petroleum Institute's fight against greenhouse gas limits before he joined President George W. Bush's Council on Environmental Quality in 2001.

The Times said Cooney has no scientific training. But McClellan calls him a "policy person" whose editing is "part of the interagency review process."

Environmentalists have accused Bush and top aides of claiming doubt about mankind's role in global warming -- when the vast majority of scientific evidence supports a link. http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/irresistible/4588210/ detail.html" title="http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/irresistible/4588210/ detail.html" target="_blank"http://www.thehawaiichannel.c...
 
dateline
06.10.05 (10:16 pm)   [edit]

I just watching dateline and these group of rich kids "311 boys
" think there tuff so they jump two guys.  Anyone can fight if you outnumeber them, what bunch of wimps, You outnumber your oponent and you have beer "liquid courage". Rich kids who can only fight when they outnumber their opponents. These rich kids they think their tuff, strength in numbers, rich kids come into projects see how tuff you are, when the numbers are even.  Well these so called tough ri ch kids I wonder how tough you will be in prison? 


Nine kids were charge with attempted murder and three of the rich kids are going to prison. The sad part is now the three rich kids you are really going learn how to fight in prision, becuase now you don't have your friends to help you.  


The worst part is these rich kids video tape their fights, and Dateline was showing some footage of them fighting. The sad part is they have no idea on how to fight.  The video that I have seen of the kids fighting is WWF wrestling moves such as a single leg take down.  You can't watch tv and think the moves on tv will work in real life,  Well it work in real life if the guy you are fighting does not know how to defend.  Back the WWF single leg take down, these rich kids don't even know how to excute a single leg take down. First of all anyone who ever wrestle either in middle or high school knows, you don't attempt a single leg take down or double leg take down when your opponent is moving away from you and must be in a clinch inorder for that takedown to work effectively.  Second of all you don't shoot on your opponent leg with your head on the outside, because you leave yourself open to a guillotine choke.  Third of all on your shoot, you grab the calf of your oponent, n ot the leg, you as the shooter will have better control of the person you are shooting on, if you control your opponents calf grabing the calf prevents your opponet from sprawling properly. 


The other footage I've seen was two guys in a clinch, and one guy was just boring into the other guy.  The guy that was getting bored into could one go for under hook and over hook and excute a lateral drop, http://www.themat.com/coachescorner/techniq ue/lateralunderhook/clip.gif" title="http://www.themat.com/coachescorner/techniq ue/lateralunderhook/clip.gif" target="_blank"http://www.themat.com/coaches... or he could of side step and go for a Osoto Guruma http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/blu e/osotoguruma.htm" title="http://judoinfo.com/images/animations/blu e/osotoguruma.htm" target="_blank"http://judoinfo.com/images/an... 


I just find it entertaining watching guys who think they can fight, but they really can't fight, Well they fight if their opponent does not know how to fight, but if you opponent knows hows to fight becuase they took some form of martial arts or even wrestling, the guy thats thinks he can fight is going to be in trouble.


 

 
Who is protecting who.
06.05.05 (4:12 pm)   [edit]

The Federal government ran a hijacking drill recently.  BOSTON Jun 4, 2005 Authorities staged an elaborate anti-terrorism drill Saturday at Logan International Airport, responding to a simulated hijacking reminiscent of the December 2001 plot to detonate a shoe bomb aboard a trans-Atlantic flight. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=82001 2" title="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=82001 2" target="_blank"http://abcnews.go.com/US/wire... 


The odd part is the day before (6/03/05 - WASHINGTON)Canadian fighter jets intercepted an airliner over the Atlantic on Friday after the aircraft emitted a signal indicating a hijacking was in progress. The pilots later said there was no hijacking.  http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/nat_world/0 60305_APnat_planediverted .html" title="http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/nat_world/0 60305_APnat_planediverted .html" target="_blank"http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/n...


Is the candian armed forces a part of Americas Department of Homeland Security?  How can the federal government conduct a drill involving a hijacking. But when an actual possible hijacking signal is sent, Canadian fighter jets intercept the aircraft in question. Where is the American fighter jets? The aircraft in question was headed towards New York US airspace, you think that american jets would do the escorting not canadain.  Perhaps American homeland security dept is not as prepared as they claim?   


What was the purpose of the June 4 hijacking drill, to upstage the candian jets intercepting the Virgin Atlantic plane.  Don't worry US citzens the Department of Homeland security is capable of protecting you, you don't have to worry, the Department of Homeland Security does'nt have to depend on the candian airforce to protect America.  We just conducted a Hijacking drill to show you we are capable of intercepting trans atlantic flights.