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Found via Right Wing News, JH posted some of the crying and whining from some idiot liberals on Daily Kos on the Iraqis playing hangman with Saddam.
Poor liberals, their favorite dictator is dead, now they will have a poopy New Years.
All of us on the right tomorrow night, should buy a drink for a liberal or at least hug a liberal. Cheer them up.

“Saddam Hussein is dead. He was murdered today by the Iraqi government with the assistance of the United States government. 

…We have done very little to improve the overall condition of Iraq. In fact, some would argue that we have made the country more unsafe and more unstable than it was under Saddam.

….Despite George Bush’s best efforts, the truth will come out and is coming out about the war and the process that lead us to war. It has been revealed that Bush intended to go to war in Iraq as far back as 1999. He was sore over the plot to kill his father and he was determined to make Saddam pay for this act. But instead of being clear about this, Bush used the worst attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor to enact his plan of vengeance.

…Congratulations Mr. Bush, you got your revenge. I hope it was worth the cost.” — abbaanthony

“The missus and I were watching some good trash on ABC when the news broke, and Elizabeth Vargas was anchoring the prepackaged “Saddam was horrible and his reign of terror is now over” propaganda that will make wingnuts and freepers have wet dreams over for weeks. Both of us immediately had similar thoughts (after, “I hope they come back to our trash TV show”). 

Hers was that this was all a bullsh*t show for Saddam trying to kill Georgie’s daddy. And mine was that this was a total farce that is an absolute embarassment and black eye for America.

…This is a mockery of justice. And for a man that has been accused of so many atrocities, the stench of those atrocities now extends to the US.” — clammyc

“They say the greats always go in threes. James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein.” — Rusty5329

“The administration will, in due course, stand to account for a war crime committed in Iraq by executing the Iraqi dictator. 

…As such, the entire government of the US is now at best an accomplice to this crime, and at worst although it can be argued that circumstantial evidence suggests that it was a premeditated crime perpetrated by the administration.” — NicolausCopernicus

BOO FUCKEN HOO! HAPPY NEW YEARS 2007!!!

From the New York Post. Looks like the city of New York is run by a bunch of fucken Nazis!

December 29, 2006 — Does the City Council have too much free time?

Why, banish the thought.

Along with pit bulls.

And a lot of other stuff.

As the new year approaches, Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. wants to ban pit bulls - those snarly pups known for having the occasional toddler for lunch, and other depredations.

Banning things, or trying to, is what the council does best.

Here’s the list from 2006.

* Trans-fats.

* Aluminum baseball bats.

* The purchase of tobacco by 18- to 20-year-olds.

* Foie gras.

* Pedicabs in parks.

* New fast-food restaurants (but only in poor neighborhoods).

* Lobbyists from the floor of council chambers.

* Lobbying city agencies after working at the same agency.

* Vehicles in Central and Prospect parks.

* Cell phones in upscale restaurants.

* The sale of pork products made in a processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., because of a unionization dispute.

* Mail-order pharmaceutical plans.

* Candy-flavored cigarettes.

* Gas-station operators adjusting prices more than once daily.

* Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.  damm liberals!

* Wal-Mart.

Some of these are just silly. (Candy-flavored cigarettes?)

Others are egregious: Outlawing Wal-Mart is tantamount to picking the pockets of New Yorkers who really can’t afford it.

All in all, though, what the council needs is a ban on bills banning things.

Unless it wants to ban . . . itself.

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters - LINK) — A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.

Instead of arriving “down under”, Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.

“I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything,” Gutt told the Bild newspaper. “I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States.”

Gutt’s airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney — an oil town of about 5,000 people — did he realize his mistake.

The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.

“I didn’t notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers,” his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.

 Found this via an Alter Net spam mail. This was put together by Media Matters Just some right wing bashing.
After reading I found it very funny, frankly there is very little that I disagree with.
Liberals have no sense of humor.

How extreme were conservative commentators in their remarks this year? How about calls to nuke the Middle East and an allegation that a “gay … mafia” used the congressional page program as its own “personal preserve.” Right-wing rhetoric documented by Media Matters for America included the nonsensical (including Rush Limbaugh’s claim that America’s “obesity crisis” is caused by, among other things, our failure to “teach [the poor] how to butcher a — slaughter a cow to get the butter, we gave them the butter”), the offensive (such as right-wing pundit Debbie Schlussel’s question about “Barack Hussein Obama”: Is he “a man we want as president when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?”), and the simply bizarre (such as William A. Donohue’s claim that some Hollywood stars would “sodomize their own mother in a movie”). Since there were so many outrageous statements, we included a list of honorable mentions along with the top 11, which, if not for Ann Coulter, we might have limited to 10.

The top 11 (in chronological order):

William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: “Well, look, there are people in Hollywood, not all of them, but there are some people who are nothing more than harlots. They will do anything for the buck. They wouldn’t care. If you asked them to sodomize their own mother in a movie, they would do so, and they would do it with a smile on their face.” [2/9/06]

Fox News host John Gibson: “Do your duty. Make more babies. That’s a lesson drawn out of two interesting stories over the last couple of days. First, a story yesterday that half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities. By far, the greatest number are Hispanic. You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic. Why is that? Well, Hispanics are having more kids than others. Notably, the ones Hispanics call ‘gabachos’ — white people — are having fewer.” [5/11/06]

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter on the New York Times‘ decision to report on the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program and a Treasury Department financial transaction tracking program: The Times had done “something that could have gotten them executed, certainly did get the Rosenbergs (Julius and Ethel) executed.” [7/12/06]

Coulter responding to Hardball host Chris Matthews’ question, “How do you know that [former President] Bill Clinton’s gay?”: “I don’t know if he’s gay. But [former Vice President] Al Gore — total fag.” [7/27/06]

Nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage: “That’s why the department store dummy named Wolf Blitzer, a Jew who was born in Israel, will do the astonishing act of being the type that would stick Jewish children into a gas chamber to stay alive another day. He’s probably the most despicable man in the media next to Larry King, who takes a close runner-up by the hair of a nose. The two of them together look like the type that would have pushed Jewish children into the oven to stay alive one more day to entertain the Nazis.” [8/7/06]

Coulter on Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., an African-American: “Congresswoman Maxine Waters had parachuted into Connecticut earlier in the week to campaign against [Sen. Joseph I.] Lieberman because he once expressed reservations about affirmative action, without which she would not have a job that didn’t involve wearing a paper hat. Waters also considers Joe ’soft’ on the issue of the CIA inventing crack cocaine and AIDS to kill all the black people in America.” [8/9/06]

Nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh, blaming America’s “obesity crisis” on “the left,” “liberal government,” and “food stamps”: “Because we are sympathetic, we are compassionate people, we have responded by letting our government literally feed these people to the point of obesity. At least here in America, didn’t teach them how to fish, we gave them the fish. Didn’t teach them how to butcher a — slaughter a cow to get the butter, we gave them the butter. The real bloat here, as we know, is in — is in government.” [8/29/06]

Coulter on Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I.: “They Shot the Wrong Lincoln.” [8/30/06]

Conservative pundit and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan: “Look, [Rep. Jim] Kolbe [R-Ariz.] is gay. He is an out-of-the-closet gay. [Rep. Mark] Foley [R-Fla.] was gay. The House clerk who was in charge of the pages [Jeff Trandahl] was gay. Foley’s administrative assistant, Mr. [Kirk] Fordham, the New York Times tells us, was gay. You hear about a lot of others. What’s going on here, Joe [Scarborough, MSNBC host], is basically these, this little mafia in there looked upon the pages, I guess, as their — sort of their personal preserve. And it stinks to high heaven what was done. And it stinks to high heaven that it was not exposed and these types of people, thrown out by the Republican Party.” [10/9/06]

CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck to Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn.: “OK. No offense, and I know Muslims. I like Muslims. … With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, ‘Let’s cut and run.’ And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.’ ” [11/14/06]

Right-wing pundit Debbie Schlussel on Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.: So, even if he identifies strongly as a Christian … is a man who Muslims think is a Muslim, who feels some sort of psychological need to prove himself to his absent Muslim father, and who is now moving in the direction of his father’s heritage, a man we want as president when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?” [12/18/06]

Honorable mentions (also in chronological order):

Beck: “Cindy Sheehan. That’s a pretty big prostitute there, you know what I mean?” [1/10/06]

Republican strategist Mary Matalin: “I mean, you know, I think these civil rights leaders are nothing more than racists. And they’re keeping constituency, they’re keeping their neighborhoods and their African-American brothers enslaved, if you will, by continuing to let them think that they’re — or forced to think that they’re victims, that the whole system is against them.” [2/8/06]

Pat Robertson, host of the Christian Broadcasting Network’s The 700 Club: “But it does seem that with the current makeup of the court, they still don’t have as many judges as would be needed to overturn Roe [v. Wade]. They need one more, and I dare say before the end of this year there will be another vacancy on the court.” [3/7/06]

Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and host of the daily Christian radio show The Albert Mohler Program: “Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether it’s Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or dialectical materialism for that matter, Marxism, that keeps persons captive and keeps them from coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, is a demonstration of satanic power.” [3/17/06]

Nationally syndicated radio host Neal Boortz on Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s (D-Ga.) hairstyle: “She looks like a ghetto slut. … It looks like an explosion in a Brillo pad factory. … She looks like Tina Turner peeing on an electric fence. … She looks like a shih tzu!” [3/31/06]

Boortz on McKinney’s hairstyle (again): “I saw Cynthia McKinney’s hairdo yesterday — saw it on TV. I don’t blame that cop for stopping her. It looked like a welfare drag queen was trying to sneak into the Longworth House Office Building. That hairdo is ghetto trash. I don’t blame them for stopping her.” [3/31/06]

Limbaugh discussing a videotape released by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the then-leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq: “[I]t sounds just like the DNC (Democratic National Committee) is writing his scripts now.” [4/26/06]

Beck: “Blowing up Iran. I say we nuke the bastards. In fact, it doesn’t have to be Iran, it can be everywhere, anyplace that disagrees with me.” [5/11/06]

Jonathan Hoenig, managing member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto: “I think when it comes to Iran, the problem is we haven’t been forceful enough. I mean if you — frankly, if you want to see the Dow go up, let’s get the bombers in the air and neutralize this Iranian threat.” [6/5/06]

Fox host Geraldo Rivera: “I’ve known [Sen.] John Kerry [D-Mass.] for over 35 years. Unlike me, he is a combat veteran, so he gets some props. But in the last 35 years, I’ve seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry. And for a smart man like that in a political ploy to set a date certain only aids and abets the enemy, and the Democrats are at their own self-destructive behavior once again.” [6/22/06]

Savage: “I don’t know why we don’t use a bunker-buster bomb when he comes to the U.N. and just take [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] out with everyone in there.” [7/21/06]

Boortz: “I want you to think for a moment of how incompetent and stupid and worthless, how — that’s right, I used those words — how incompetent, how ignorant, how worthless is an adult that can’t earn more than the minimum wage? You have to really, really, really be a pretty pathetic human being to not be able to earn more than the human wage. Uh — human, the minimum wage.” [8/3/06]

Syndicated columnist and Fox News host Cal Thomas on businessman Ned Lamont’s victory in Connecticut’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate: “It completes the capture of the Democratic Party by its Taliban wing. … [T]hey have now morphed into Taliban Democrats because they are willing to ‘kill’ one of their own, if he does not conform to the narrow and rigid agenda of the party’s kook fringe.” [8/10/06]

Fox News host Sean Hannity, two months before the November midterm elections: “This is the moment to say that there are things in life worth fighting and dying for and one of ‘em is making sure [Rep.] Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.] doesn’t become the [House] speaker.” [8/29/06]

Beck: “The Middle East is being overrun by 10th-century barbarians. That’s what I thought at 5 o’clock this morning, and I thought, ‘Oh, geez, what — what is this?’ If they take over — the barbarians storm the gate and take over the Middle East (this is what I’m thinking at 5 o’clock in the morning) — we’re going to have to nuke the whole place.” [9/12/06]

Savage: “My fear is that if the Democrats win [in the November midterm elections], and I’m afraid that they might, you’re going to see America melt down faster that you could ever imagine. It will happen overnight, and it could lead to the breakup of the United States of America, the way the Soviet Union broke up.” [10/13/06]

Republican pollster Frank Luntz on Nancy Pelosi’s appearance: “I always use the line for Nancy Pelosi, ‘You get one shot at a facelift. If it doesn’t work the first time, let it go.’ ” [10/31/06]

Limbaugh on the Middle East: “Fine, just blow the place up.” [11/27/06]

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly (on his radio show): “Do I care if the Sunnis and Shiites kill each other in Iraq? No. I don’t care. Let’s get our people out of there. Let them kill each other. Maybe they’ll all kill each other, and then we can have a decent country in Iraq.” [12/5/06]

New York Post columnist Ralph Peters on Iraq Study Group co-chairman James Baker: “The difference is that [Pontius] Pilate just wanted to wash his hands of an annoyance, while Baker would wash his hands in the blood of our troops.” [12/7/06]

Conservative syndicated radio host Michael Medved on the animated movie “Happy Feet”: The film contains “a whole subtext, as there so often is, about homosexuality.” [12/11/06]

Fox captions

Additionally, although these are not examples of specific conservative commentators making outrageous comments, we would be remiss if we did not mention that Fox News made a regular practice of attacking Democrats or repeating Republican talking points in on-screen text during its coverage of political issues. Some examples:

“All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?” [2/23/06]

“Attacking Capitalism: Have Dems Declared War on America?” [2/18/06]

“Dems Helping the Enemy?” [5/22/06]

“A Lamont Win, Bad News for Democracy in Mideast?”

“Have the Democrats Forgotten the Lessons of 9/11?”

“Is the Democratic Party Soft on Terror?” [8/8/06]

“The #1 President on Mideast Matters: George W Bush?” [8/14/06]

“Is the Liberal Media Helping to Fuel Terror?” [8/16/06]

This Via Drudge and The New York Post. I don’t know what bitch I hate more. Cynthia McKinney or Rosie, they are both running neck and neck.
At least McKinney will fade away noW that she is out of political life, THANK GOD!

*** 

 THE holiday cease-fire between Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump ended with new bombs dropped yesterday.

O’Donnell, who’d been quiet since her nasty spat began with Trump last week, called him “the comb over” on her blog yesterday - and suggested he was acting like a “pimp” for Miss USA, Tara Conner.

“a young girl in nyc,” O’Donnell wrote in a poetic, no-punctuation style she uses on her rosie.com website.

“meets a pimp
he cons her into a life of illusion
she works for him
no fun - no f—g - no life
she is owned
when she sneaks out on her own
to party the night away
he freaks
he roughs her up a bit
shames her in front of the others
teaches her to behave
for his own benefit”

the rest here…

What I found more amusing was this entry found on Piglet Rosie’s blog, I’m reading this crazy shit and I’m thinking, is this person on drugs or in need of good meds?

The grace with which you have handled the attacks from that so-called 5 billion-air is quite, awe-inspiring.

GRACE, FUCKEN GRACE? She can’t be taking about Rosie… 

The comments you made, were well, pretty plainly truth, and his response, frankly shows the true character of the man and what he, sadly holds as important. (And pretty much, confirmed everything you said in the first place… It’s pretty grand how that works)

Your beauty, both outward and inward, is painted perfectly every single day-

Excuse me while I clean up the coffee I just spit up on my keyboard… :-) 

when you use the gifts you’ve been blessed with to help those who can not help themselves. It’s inspirational and amazing.

In this world, when for so long, we’ve been bombarded with images of wealth and life lived in a self centered existence… You’re willingness to give of yourself and BE yourself AND your honesty is something this world, and country need more of.

Thank you. THANK YOU.

It’s strange, I know I don’t know you in anyway, but the realness and integrity with which you use your celebrity, is so deeply wonderful, I can not gush enough.

When you speak, we all can know that you are speaking from your heart,

Let us pause here and insert the Vent piece from Michelle Malkin (click on photo):

Rosie Ching Chong O’Donnell
Rosie: “Loosen up”
NYC councilman presses Walters
Newsbusters

 

 

Watch this you idiot bitch and tell me fat ass Rosie was speaking “from the heart” 

more: caring from your heart, and sharing yourself in a way that really does inspire folks to look, think and care. And again, in a world, or at least nation, that has stolen via the media’s definition of what’s important, and further, a nation that has quietly stolen (or maybe not so quietly) people’s ability to choose AND THINK FOR THEMSELVES… you have no idea how awesome it is to watch you in such a brilliant and real way get people to think, just by being yourself.

(quite the run-on there)

So, your beauty…

This crazy ass can’t be talking about Rosie, or am I missing something?

 transcends. Never loose site that your beauty, IS beauty, because you’re not even trying, you are just real. And there are QUITE a few folks out there, who see it for what it is…and aren’t blinded by politics, sexuality, or “defined” beauty.

I hope and trust your holiday is filled with love, rest, and the magic of family. And… hope you are currently snuggling your gorgeous children sipping on eggnog in matching PJ’s.

Much love and support.
Katie

IDIOT PSHCHO! This is why the View’s ratings are so high. Apparently there are lots of deranged idiot women who like this fat ass idiot, loudmouth, bastard.   

Via the Blog Ankle Biting Pundits. Where is El Borak!? These sound like fightin’ words… :-)  

Next time some libertarian friend of yours tells you that there isn’t a dime’s worth of different between liberal Democrats and “big government conservative” Republicans, slap him upside the head.

Irwin M. Stelzer has a rundown in the Daily Standard of some of the delightful things the new Democratic Congress will treat them (and us) to. They include: a minimum wage hike; pharmaceutical price controls; tax increases, protectionism, and lots and lots of frivolous investigations into corporate “price gouging.”

But hey, those damned Republicans tried to keep that girl in Florida alive, so screw them, too, right?

El Borak’s Response…

Apparently the Ankle-biters are not paying very close attention to those they wish to slap, because the areas they point the finger at the Dems for are precisely the areas the libertarians are pointing the fingers at them:

First, a minimum wage hike. Of course it’s stupid economics, as are all price controls, and yet I note that it is an this area where the current GOP President has already signed on with the Dems. True, Bush is not “all Republicans” or even most of them, yet the lack of distinction lies not in how high each party wants to set it but the fact they wish to set one at all. I note the complete absence (despite 6 years of GOP rule) of a move to eliminate government mandated wages, so while the GOP may think raising the current arbitrary level is bad - depending upon how high and how fast it’s raised - they are perfectly willing to live with the current badness. It’s like the old joke that if the Dems wanted to burn down the Library of Congress, the GOP would insist that it be phased in over three years.

Second, pharmaceutical price controls. Yes, the Dems want to do that, yet I remind the ankle-biters that the GOP is the party that last implemented price controls. And is not the socialization of pharmaceuticals via Medicare Part D, wherein the government contracts with the company to provide medicines free of charge to the user, any different in result than direct price controls? If it is, the distinction is very minor. Under the Democratic plan, the shareholders get screwed, under the GOP one, it’s the taxpayers.

Third, tax increases. The Ankle Biters studiously ignore the fact that there is no such thing as a free lunch. So the Dems want to pay for their spending binges via taxation (theft) while the GOP pays for theirs via inflation (theft). The real problem is the spending, not how it’s paid for.

Fourth, protectionism: Yes, the Dems are protectionist and that ultimately hurts consumers to the benefit of government and politically-connected companies. Yet the GOP does the same thing when they need votes. I hope the move backfires on the Dems as it did on Bush, but let’s not pretend the Republicans are paragons of free trade. If one wants free trade, all one has to do - all one can truly do - is remove one’s own tariffs. I note that we have yet to do so.

And last but not least, frivolous investigations. Like this one, I suppose.

In each case, the Democrats are wrong, but the GOP is a party that does the same things, just to a lesser extent. If the argument is an argument over extent - as it appears to be for the ankle biters - then the GOP is quite distinct from the Dems. But if the argument is over whether we ought to have price controls, investigations, protectionism, wages mandated by law, or trillions in government spending in the first place, then there is no significant difference between the parties, all the yapping of the ankle-biters notwithstanding.

Joe Rago of the Wall Street Journal has this column bashing the blogosphere.

Here is a sample.

The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.    

Wizbang also has this Debating a Dinosaur 

I’m seeing more and more mainstream media bashing of the blogs and I find it amusing.
But all of this anger and angst against bloggers stems from one major thing. DOLLARS AND JOB SECURITY.
The more credibility blogs are given as a literary source of news and information the more pissed off these shitty journalists will be.

I am not a “serious” blogger, in the sense that I am this wannabe journalist and write a bunch of original stuff for public consumption.
I see my blog as a bridge, I recycle some news stuff that interest me and pass the interest on to others and sometimes adding my own two cents to what I have read.

I leave it up to some of the people on my sidebar, the more serious bloggers to come up with the original material worthy of placing it on my very own little bulletin board.

I love blogs, (on the left and right and some in between) some are more interesting than others, many are silly and some are boring, hell some blog snobs may put PPP in both categories, but I don’t care.

But I for one strongly encourage blogging, when I read blogs I get a sense of individuality and insight into the person.

If you like cooking, theater, music, goth stuff, business whatever there is a group of people with the same interests

Now me, I doubt there are that many 40 something, black conservative bloggers with my particular take on society. I’m a bit weird, but more than that I am brutally honest with my opinions and I have no problem sharing them.
My only focus is to show people who visit that this particular black individual takes on things is different that what most whites may think they should be for the typical black dude.
Let’s face it, how many black folks are there in the media and on the talking head shows?
We are not in newsrooms, on TV, we don’t own networks so if you wanted to get a black persons perspective ON ANYTHING just where would you get it? 

Thomas Sowell is one of the countries greatest conservative thinkers. You have other blacks like Deborah Dickerson, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Larry Elder who many have never heard of, far smarter and infinitely more brilliant than just about anybody Chris Matthews would have on his show for example.  

Without blogs and other web sources the MSM would still be successfully keeping these folks out of sight and out of mind. 

When I read news sources I know I am not getting the entire story, blogging and bloggers make up that gap, particularly as it applies to political issues.

Journalists also believe they have the monopoly on the truth which is frankly laughable.

Bottom line to all of this is, the more I see these anti-blog articles I simply smile and laugh.
These journalists are fighting to remain relevant, hence the venom.

Just think how terrified you would be to have thousands, heck millions of folks potentially auditioning for your livelihood.

Remember the old NFL dissing the upstart AFL.

There are a lot of journalists who are losing opportunities to some of these bloggers, particularly in the political arena.
That can’t make them very happy.  

Townhall Blog: Liberals attack little girl singing a Christmas song for her brother in Iraq. — John_Hawkins

Outside the Beltway: What could be sillier than getting upset about how much CEOs are making? — John_Hawkins

Wizbang: Debating a dinosaur–why George Will doesn’t understand the blogosphere.

Check out more at Conservative Grapevine 

This via Fox News 

His pardoning of Richard Nixon:

“There are no historic or legal precedents to which I can turn in this matter, none that precisely fit the circumstances of a private citizen who has resigned the presidency of the United States. … Many months and perhaps more years will have to pass before Richard Nixon could hope to obtain a fair trial by jury … But it is not the ultimate fate of Richard Nixon that most concerns me … but the immediate future of this great country. … Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, president of the United States … have granted and do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he … has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from Jan. 20, 1969, through Aug. 9, 1974.”

Repeating his truth in government philosophy, 1974:

“I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.”

On his pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate:

“It can go on and on, or someone must write ‘The End’ to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.”

1974:

“Our inflation, our public enemy number one, will, unless whipped, destroy our country, our homes, our liberties, our property and finally our national pride as surely as will a well-armed wartime enemy.”

“When I talk about energy, I am talking about jobs. Our American economy runs on energy. No energy — no jobs.”

On becoming vice president, December 1973:

“I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.”

On Ronald Reagan:

“He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations.”

Following the two assassination attempts on him:

“The American people want a dialogue between them and their president … And if we can’t have that opportunity of talking with one another, seeing one another, shaking hands with one another, something has gone wrong in our society.”

Other Quotes:

“The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?”

“All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.”

“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”

“All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.”

“It’s the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It’s a quality to be proud of. But it’s a quality that many people seem to have neglected.”

“We … declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.”

“Things are more like today than they have ever been before.”

“I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.”

“Teddy Roosevelt … once said, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’ Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.”

“When I became president, I did not want to have a powerful chief of staff. Wilson had his Colonel House, Eisenhower his Sherman Adams, Nixon his Halderman, and I was aware of the trouble those top assistants had caused my predecessors.”

“If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.”

“The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.”

Found this on Little Green Footballs, with hat tip via Powerline.

The next time this dolt makes some stupid statement like he is considering running for president again, this photo needs to circulate. Kerry is a loser, does not have respect for our troops and MOST of America has no respect for him either.  

 Scott Hennen posts this poignant picture from [tag]John F. Kerry’s trip to Iraq[/tag], showing the ex-candidate sans magic hat—and breakfast companions. (Hat tip: Power Line.)

The soldier who took the photo included this note:

This is a true story…..Check out this photo from our mess hall at the US Embassy yesterday morning. [tag]Sen. Kerry[/tag] found himself all alone while he was over here. He cancelled his press conference because no one came, he worked out alone in the gym w/o any soldiers even going up to say hi or ask for an autograph (I was one of those who was in the gym at the same time), and he found himself eating breakfast with only a couple of folks who are obviously not troops.

What is amazing is Bill O’Reilly came to visit with us and the troops at the CSH the same day and the line for autographs extended through the palace and people waited for two hours to shake his hand. You decide who is more respected and loved by us servicemen and women!

 Here is an article from the Boston Globe that focuses on the impact of blogs and their impact on passing on 411 about music legends after they pass on.
I like the fact that people want to pay their own small tribute in their own personal way whether it the passing of an         ex-president or a musical icon.
There are countless articles on Brown; what could I say here that has not already been said.
So here are some takes from other fans of the Godfather of Soul.   

Mp3 blogs fill up with sympathies, tributes, and thoughtful exchanges when a musician dies. Since James Brown died Christmas Day, the mp3 blog community has been lighting up with posts about the Godfather of Soul, along with some of his songs. Many of them are tracks from his holiday albums such as “James Brown’s Funky Christmas.” His presciently titled “Christmas in Heaven” has been a favorite the past two days.

Excerpts from some of the blogs:

Ear Farm (earfarm.blogspot.com ) “Brown was one of the most elite and influential musicians of the past century. He brought the funk (he invented it) but he also sang and acted with the goal of bettering the lives of African Americans and poor people across the country. These are the things we should remember James Brown for — let’s make Christmas mean something this year.”

Fluxblog (fluxblog.org ) “James Brown’s greatest gift to the world was his ability to express an undiluted yet highly stylized sexuality via a funk so intense and visceral that it served as the foundation for entire genres of music, but that was not the limit of his talent, only just the summit of his achievements. His performance on the standard ‘Cottage for Sale’ is a perfect example of his fearlessness as a vocalist — whereas most everyone who has recorded the tune has done so with a mannered stiffness that is far too polite and aloof for a song expressing such great sorrow and regret, Brown presented the lyric with a robust, wounded humanity that absolutely nailed its sentiment without any trace of over-emoting.”

Howard Who? (howardwho.com/blog) “The Godfather of Soul. The Great-Grandfather of Hip Hop. His every grunt was musical and expressive and funky. And he taught us how to feel good.”

Culture bully (culturebully.com ) “I have only really been a fan of the man’s music for the better part of a decade; I can’t even imagine what impact he has had on those who have followed him throughout his entire career. James Brown was human and he fell, especially in his later years, but he continually attempted to use his celebrity to help those around him.”

Armagideon Time (armagideontime.blogspot.com ) “My fondest memory (my only fond memory, come to think of it) of junior high is of the time I got to bust out some of my nerdy, sixties-inspired dance moves in front of an adoring crowd while ‘Living in America’ blared in the background. At the end of the song, I leapt off a cafeteria table and into the hands of my cheering classmates. For a brief moment, all the petty [expletive] of junior high life faded away, and I felt invincible. Because of that, I’ll always feel indebted to the Godfather of Soul.”

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Mrs. Snoop and I were talking about this the other night. I was asking why the hell is Phil Kline maintaining the abortion Jihad AFTER dude was resoundingly booted from office and risking any small glimmers of a political future.
Well the answer is below; look at all of these articles about what is frankly a non-issue.
Dude is getting coverage on the issue.
Here is the Google results for all of the articles. I just don’t get it.

I’m as against abortion as the next right wing guy. But this is a case where throwing all of your eggs at one particular issue starts to be counterproductive and you actually start do more damage to the very issue you are trying to fight for.
Kline is another right wing dude that has not grasped the concept that you absolutely and positively can’t legislate morality.

Another reason why folks think people in Kansas are crazy. 

I peeped the headline above and read some of these, but frankly most of them are common sense things.
Shame on ole Snoop for assuming that all people had common sense.
So if you are in need of money travel tips, you will like these little tidbits.   

1. Airlines: Paper tickets
What it is You remember actual airline tickets, don’t you? If you aren’t comfortable with an electronic flight record, you’ll pay a steep price for an old-fashioned paper version.

What’s so bad The paper-ticket fee is all about forcing you to go electronic, thus saving the airlines money.

Ouch! $75 at United; $50 at American, Continental, Northwest and US Airways

What you can do Embrace change. When airlines routinely let you use a ticket on another airline if your flight was canceled, carrying a paper ticket was the safest bet. Today, flights are so full you probably won’t be able to get on another carrier. Plus, most major airlines have e-ticket agreements with competitors, so there’s no drawback to going paperless.

Check out the rest at CNN Money

Ok, I’m scanning blogs and there is just too much seriousness. I’m bored  so I started to look for funny stuff and I found the following from the blog Whiplash Smile.
This piece is on [tag]Rachael Ray[/tag].
I had no idea that Rachael was the anti-Christ.
I don’t know if this is just women drinking lots of “hater aid”, but damm with TV personalities like Rosie O’Donnell how could a cute female with a big smile and one who loves to cook be the target of a “haters” campaign?

***

…and that nerve would be the one that many other people have. It seems I’m not the only one who thinks Rachael Ray should shove one of those big burgers of hers into that weird looking mouth whole and choke to death during a taping of “30 Minute Meals”.

Since that post down there wasn’t the first time I’d said the ho should just fuck off and die, I’d run into some of the anti-Ray gang before. I pulled a search this morning to see if I could find the Rachael Ray Sucks community and found quite a few more places where others needed to do something to make the bitch bearable.

1. The Rachael Ray Sucks Community at LJ–This one’s a nifty mix of lampoon, satire, rants, Photoshopping and just plain “What the fuck?” I spent hours reading this the first time I found it, and it looks like an entertaining revisit when I have some time.

2. Apparently FMH isn’t the only place where Rachael’s ho-baggery shows. Dirty Minute Meals gets right to where the bitch shit in the buckwheat, with highly specific lists of double-entendres that are captured for all time on the DVDs of each season of her shows.

3. If you’re fond of the idea of really obliterating that face from your mind and that voice from your ears, nothing says “forgettable” like a good drinking game. I found this one through Google and from the looks of it there’s plenty to keep you busy if you’re forced to watch any of her programs. Done quietly, you could easily play this game solitaire while surrounded by family that includes that aunt of yours who just won’t shut the fuck up about “what a wonderful girl that Rachael Ray is!” If you stick to the rules you’ll even be able to smile and nod when your auntie declares that you should marry this:

 Found on the blog Protein Wisdom

Via Terry Hastings comes this, from Opinion Journal:

Wilson Goes Quiet

“Former ambassador [tagJoseph[/tag] Wilson asked a federal judge Wednesday not to force him to testify in the CIA leak case and accused former White House aide I. [tag]Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby[/tag] of trying to harass him on the witness stand,” the Associated Press reports from Washington:

“Mr. Libby should not be permitted to compel Mr. Wilson’s testimony at trial either for the purpose of harassing Mr. Wilson or to gain an advantage in the civil case,” Wilson’s attorneys wrote

.Hmm, for a guy who burst onto the scene three years ago as the most garrulous figure since Ted Turner, and who then wrote a book called “The Politics of Truth,” Wilson is awfully averse to testifying under oath.

Here is some of the ballad:

Oh, Yellowcake Joe, Yellowcake Joe, went to Niger don’t you know?
Yellowcake Joe, Yellowcake Joe went there on a mission.

There once was a great ambassador by the name of Yellowcake Joe,
A kind of travelling minstrel in a one-man mistrel show.
His wife was a secret agent who was secretive and sly,
The vice-pres wants someone to go, my husband is the guy.

He knows the folks in Niger land who know the story well,
If Saddam’s sought uranium then surely Joe they’ll tell.
He knows the local customs and he drinks a lot of tea,
So tell Dick Cheney that he’ll go, I ask on bended knee.

Oh, Yellowcake Joe, Yellowcake Joe, went to Niger, don’t you know?
Yellowcake Joe, Yellowcake Joe, did a little fishin’.

The minstrel went to Niger land and sat in the cafe,
And interviewed the folks at hand and chatted all the day.
He came back to the USA and gave us his report,
That Saddam probably had conspired the substance to import.

Read the rest here, good stuff

 Not posting for any particular reason, just an interesting article.

By Rinku Sen - In These Times

Rather than saving democracy or liberating the working class, the argument goes, progressives have been forced by narrow-minded people of color to obsess about whether they have one of each kind on their conference panels or college faculties. In this narrative, identity politics is to blame for the inability of progressives to stick together, thereby making room for the rise of conservatism. Michaels says as much, barely acknowledging any other factors, including the right wing’s brilliant (and highly racialized) campaigns to establish its ideas in the American consciousness.

For 20 years, I have worked as an organizer and journalist in racial justice organizations owned and operated by people of color, hoping to contribute to a vibrant larger movement. My current employer, the Applied Research Center, holds that it’s important to be “explicit about race but not exclusive.” That’s not diversity; it’s a sensible analysis for a complicated world.

Analysts like Michaels repeatedly harp on “diversity” as if that’s the only measure of racial progress. That reflects their deep lack of connection with actual communities and their cluelessness about the role that race plays in economics and democracy. They want to write off racism as a distraction from universal solutions, or as a divide-and-conquer tactic to split the working class.

Universal solutions, however, have to deal with discrimination if they’re to be truly universal. Policies designed without racial justice goals can actually deepen the divide, while creating the illusion that they’ve taken care of everyone.

I also often hear that rather than highlighting racial disparities in healthcare, rampant though they are, we should fight for universal healthcare. But if public healthcare were enough to prevent discrimination, then Canada and the United Kingdom wouldn’t have any health disparities. But they do. A study published in July’s American Journal of Public Health reported that nearly twice as many non-white Canadians needed medicines but could not afford them as their white counterparts, and that 18.6 percent of non-whites had unmet healthcare needs as opposed to 11.1 percent of whites.

Racism leads Americans to make political decisions that undermine their own interests. The current attack on our civil liberties was tested on non-citizens, not after 9/11 but as early as 1996 with hardly a peep out of anybody. That year’s Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act allowed the president to label organizations “terrorist” without any appeal or review, lifted a restriction against the FBI on investigations based on speech or beliefs, and let the Federal government deport or jail immigrants indefinitely for their affiliations or political activity. This is not divide and conquer; it’s about getting white folk used to the practice of shrinking rights for others—so that they will eventually tolerate it for themselves.

In 2003, when Howard Dean said he wanted to reach out to southern men who had Confederate flags on their pickups, he was forced by both southerners and blacks to apologize. Dean was on the right track but unable (perhaps from lack of practice?) to articulate what needed to be said—that white southerners had allowed racism to lead them to vote against their own self-interest. White people who absorb racist ideas always think they’ll be exempt from the loss.

If [tag]racism[/tag] dilutes progressive solutions, racial justice can improve life for everyone. Racial justice activists have learned all we could from identity-based movements. First, identity is key—we all start with what is in front of us, as true for white men as for anyone else. But identity doesn’t replace ideas, hence, the difference between “diversity” and justice. Racial justice is about changing the rules of society according to a set of standards: resisting discrimination and violence, not abiding huge disparities, and expanding the role of government to protect economic, social and political rights.

It is white [tag]progressives[/tag] who are stuck on identity politics; progressives of color have long since moved on. The resulting agenda requires far more from the nation, and from our movement, than representation. The failure to incorporate racial justice into a progressive program has deprived progressivism of its true potential—to build a better world for all of us.

From La Shawn Barber

I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.

Reasonable people would be hard-pressed to find the “hate” in that quotation, but certain liberal types and conservatives have got their knickers in a twist.

Last week, U.S. Congressman Virgil Goode wrote those words in a letter to constituents in reference to newly-elected Muslim Keith Ellison in Minnesota. What makes Goode remarkable in my book is not that he had the ba*** to say what needed to be said, but that he refuses to apologize for saying it. (Yes!)

In a world where men are afraid to say what they mean, mean what they say, and stand behind their words like men, it’s a refreshing change to see a politician with integrity. It’s a rare sighting.

Goode, like any good American, is concerned about Muslims in office. People are missing the point. It’s not about swearing on the Bible or the Koran. Even though we have so-called freedom of religion in this country, America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Islam is a religion that does not embody these principles, at least not in practice. It is one thing to permit people to worship whomever and whatever they will; it’s quite another to allow adherents of anti-western religions to start changing the way things are done in America.

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Found via Wizbang 

In the UK, a Muslim woman offered an alternative message to the Queen’s Christmas message. She said that the veil liberates her.

A veil-wearing Muslim convert today claimed the way she chooses to dress makes her feel “liberated” as she delivered an alternative Christmas message.
Khadija, the great-granddaughter of a suffragette, rejected claims that the niqab that covers her face is a mark of separation.

She said that remarks by Leader of the Commons Jack Straw about the veil earlier this year were not helpful to Muslims “trying to live quite peacefully in this society”.

But she also said that Britain is the best country to live in for people who want to practise their religion freely.

Mr Straw said in a newspaper article that he asked Muslim women visiting him at his constituency surgery to remove their veils.

Later, Prime Minister Tony Blair described the veil as a “mark of separation”.

Khadija, a British woman, today told how she converted to Islam 10 or 11 years ago.

“To look at me you would never guess that my great-grandmother was actually a suffragette,” she said.

“One of the great things about Britain is that it is very, very tolerant and I believe it’s the best country to live in if you want to be able to freely practise your religion.”

Two years after converting, Khadija decided to wear a niqab.

“We are seen as oppressed,” she said. “Since I’ve started covering I feel much more liberated, which I know a lot of people possibly won’t be able to understand.

Yep, nothing says “women’s liberation” quite like becoming a shadow of her former self.

WHAT THE HELL IS UP WIT HER FACE1?

Do you have Sean John under your tree?, Then it must look like this cute creature…  :-)

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writer - Story Link
 

NEW YORK - Macy’s has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation’s largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from a certain species of dog called “raccoon dog.”
 
“First these jackets were falsely advertised as faux fur, and then it turned out that the fur came from a type of dog,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.

Pacelle added that the issue is an “industry-wide problem” and its investigation demonstrated that retailers and designers “aren’t paying close enough attention to the fur trim they are selling.” He added that the issue is especially problematic when “the fur is sourced from China where domestic dogs and cats and raccoon dogs are killed in gruesome ways.”

Raccoon dogs — which are not domestic animals — are indigenous to Asia, including eastern Siberia and Japan, and have been raised in large numbers because their fur closely resembles raccoon, Pacelle said.

Orlando Veras, a spokesman at Macy’s, a division of Federated Department Stores Inc., confirmed Friday that the retailer had removed the jackets, releasing a statement saying that it has a “long-standing policy against the selling of any dog or cat fur.” He continued, “This policy is clearly communicated to all suppliers.”

The Sean John jackets — one a snorkel style, the other a classic version — had been labeled “raccoon fur,” but were advertised as faux fur, Pacelle said.

In a statement by Sean “Diddy” Combs released by his publicist Hampton Carney, the designer said: “I was completely unaware of the nature of this material, but as soon as we were alerted, the garments were pulled off the Macy’s floor and Web site. I have instructed our outerwear licensee to cease the production of any garments using this material immediately.”

Macy’s removal of the coats comes on the heels of other tests conducted by the Humane Society of the United States on a range of fur-trimmed jackets from retailers such as Burlington Coat Factory, Bloomingdale’s, J.C. Penney and Saks Fifth Avenue as well as from designers and clothing lines such as Baby Phat, Andrew Marc, MaxMara and Calvin Klein. Those tests revealed that most of the jackets labeled as “raccoon” or coyote” from China in fact contained fur from raccoon dogs.

Of the 10 garments tested by the Humane Society, nine tested positive as raccoon dog fur and were mislabeled, a violation of federal law.

The Humane Society is also calling upon Congress to amend the Dog and Cat Protection Act — which bans the sale of dog or cat fur in the United States — to include raccoon dog, since the organization says these dogs are so “inhumanely” killed and their species are similar to domesticated dogs.

I don’t give a shit about these Racoon Dogs, but I found this funny on so many levels. 

ANNE GEARAN - (AP)

WASHINGTON - America is ready to elect a black president, says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The nation’s highest-ranking black government official, Rice has said repeatedly she will not run for president despite high popularity ratings and measurable support in opinion polls.

“Yes, I think a black person can be elected president,” Rice said in an Associated Press interview Thursday.

Read the rest, but why bother…

Ya know there is a fair amount of people who peep Poop, and those who peep me here fairly frequently has heard me say over, and over and over that this country not only is not ready for a Negro President and there will not be one in my grandbaby’s lifetime.

Why can’t the news media, politicians, radio talks show hosts, bloggers be honest about this topic? I’m serious, I’m perplexed and confused.

As much as I love Ms. Rice and I respect her intellect, wisdom and what she has accomplished. She can’t possible believe this.

Is this to sell books, boost ratings on news shows, to provide fake buzz, I don’t know.

• We can’t fix the Black incarceration rate.
• We see record crime and drug use in areas saturated by black folks.
• We have 30 plus percent unemployment rate amongst young black men.

The post below Are black men retarded? Highlights our own failings.

Then you have these reasons, listed in this post

The Reasons Why Blacks Are Not Hired: THIS IS WHAT WHITE EMPLOYERS ARE SAYING ABOUT BLACK FOLKS!

1. Uncooperative
2. Bad attitude
3. Unmotivated
4. Lack initiative
5. Rude
6. Negative
7. Lazy
8. Lower Family Values
9. Lingering racism (racial discrimination)
10. Illiterate
11. Uneducated
12. Dishonesty
13. Psychologically unstable due to being identified with negative thoughts and feelings
14. Poor role models
15. Unskilled
16. Involved in Drugs and gangs
17. No Charm
18. Short temper
19. Uncompassionate
20. Unsympathetic
21. Sexually harassing co-workers
22. Intimidating Co-workers
23. Low Morality level

Someone tell me what the hell I’m missing.
It’s virtually impossible to fine positive black role models on TV as I pointed out here.
No black mentors in schools because our young black folks are educated by a bunch of racist liberals.

Speaking of schools, the most poignant fact is this;
In 1940, the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites, 80 percent for blacks.
For all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were nevertheless literate.
Six decades later, at the end of the twentieth century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks
can’t read at all. Black illiteracy has doubled!
Lets’ not forget that we spend three to four times as much real money on schooling as we did sixty years ago, but sixty years ago virtually all blacks could read.

The future is bleak for black folks unless something major changes, particularly as they continue to ride the coattails of the Democratic Party and you people want to convince me that through all of this somehow white America is going to anoint a Negro to run this country? Plez.

I’m not trying to be an asshole and stir up shit, but damm I’m just being honest.
We need to fix our families, get educated, black women need to stop having babies by broke ass Negros, and we need to say out of fucken jail.
Once that is achieved then we can start worrying about getting a darkie elected to the presidency.

Hello! Is this thing on!!? Or are you people deliberately being contrary for the hell of it?

By Randy Hall CNSNews.com  - Link

(CNSNews.com) - The Republican lawmaker who sparked a storm with comments about Muslims and the need to tighten immigration laws is the latest target of an Islamic advocacy group’s “victimization game,” a political analyst said Thursday.

It’s a game that the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has “mastered,” Daniel Pipes, a critic of the group and director of the Middle East Forum, told Cybercast News Service.

CAIR is calling on Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) to apologize for writing in a letter to constituents that says, “we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt” strict immigration policies.

Pipes said CAIR was “perpetually on the prowl for any incidence of anti-Muslim sentiment, real or imaginary, spontaneous or provoked, major or minor.”

The organization’s goal, he said, was “to make the United States like so many other countries - a place where Muslims, Islam and Islamism cannot be freely discussed.”

“It is imperative for Americans to retain their freedom of speech about Islam — as it exists in relation to other religions — and resist these many demands for remorse.”

CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said Thursday the organization had “a long history of disagreement” with Pipes.

“He’s free to have a hostile view towards the American Muslim community,” Hooper told Cybercast News Service.

“He’s free to say, as he did to the American Jewish Congress on Oct. 21, 2001, that the growth and enfranchisement of American Muslims is a threat to this country. He’s free to do all these things, and we’re free to defend against defamatory attacks on our faith and community.”

In his Oct. 2001 address, Pipes said: “I worry very much, from the Jewish point of view, that the presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims, because they are so much led by an Islamist leadership, that this will present true dangers to American Jews.”

Amplifying later, Pipes said: “You must note that this was spoken to a Jewish audience. I make the same point respectively to audiences of women, gays, civil libertarians, Hindus, Evangelical Christians, atheists, and scholars of Islam, among others, all of whom face ‘true dangers’ as the number of Muslims increases.”

The latest CAIR controversy began when Rep. Goode wrote a letter in response to a constituent’s concern about reports that Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, may take the oath of office with his hand on the Koran rather than the Bible.

“When I raise my hand to take the oath on swearing-in day, I will have the Bible in my other hand,” Goode wrote. “I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way.

“The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran,” he said.

“I fear that in the next century, we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped,” Goode wrote.

According to Goode spokesman Linwood Duncan, the letter was sent in error to the chairman of a Sierra Club group in central Virginia, who had written to Goode about environmental issues. The Sierra Club member then made the letter public.

The national legislative director of CAIR, Corey Saylor, called the remarks “Islamophobic” and said they “send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office.”

The call for an apology from isn’t the first time CAIR has pressed for action regarding the Ellison issue. When radio talk show host Dennis Prager wrote in a commentary last month that the Minnesota Democrat should not be allowed to take the oath of office using a copy of the Koran, CAIR called for Prager to be removed from the governing council of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“No one who holds such bigoted, intolerant and divisive views should be in a policymaking position at a taxpayer-funded institution,” it said of Prager.

Despite the Muslim group’s letters to the museum’s council chairman, Fred Zeidman, to President Bush and to members of Congress who serve on the museum board, Prager remains on the council, although the museum’s board did vote Thursday to distance itself from his remarks.

Prager told Cybercast News Service he did not understand how such activities fit CAIR’s mission “to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.”

“I don’t believe it’s a moral organization,” Prager said of CAIR. “It says it represents Muslims, but it has caused more friction than love between Muslims and non-Muslims. It seeks to find Islamophobia among the American people, the most tolerant, open people in the world.”

Busy year

CAIR has sought apologies and other specific actions from several individuals and organizations during 2006, with mixed results.

Earlier this month, the group called on Wal-Mart to stop selling the “Left Behind: Eternal Forces” video game because it promoted a message of “religious intolerance.” The nation’s largest retailer is still selling the product.

In October, CAIR complained to KDWB-FM in Minnesota after the radio station broadcast a segment entitled “Muslim Jeopardy” that had such contest categories as “Infamous Infidels” and “Smells Like a Shia.” After the station managers apologized for the skit, the group thanked them for “reacting positively” to the situation.

Ken Murray, the mayor of Redding, Calif., drew the organization’s wrath in September, when he told an audience attending a 9/11 commemoration ceremony: “Either the Judeo-Christian philosophy will survive, or the Islamic philosophy will survive.” CAIR called on Californians to repudiate Murray’s comments.

The group succeeded in March in having a four-minute video entitled “Hadji Girl” pulled from the youtube.com website.

It also received an apology in February from Bill Handel of KFI-AM a