July 1, 2006
Churches in Vegas (humor)
There are many churches in Las Vegas, not just casinos.
Not surprisingly some worshippers at Sunday services give casino chips rather than cash when the plate is passed.
Since they get chips from so many different casinos, the churches got together and devised a method to collect the offerings.
The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casino of origin and cashed in…this is done by the Chip Monks…
An Ancient Prayer
[found on the wall of an old Inn in Lancashire, England]
Give us, Lord, a bit o' sun
a bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
give us all in th' struggle and splutter
our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
Give us health, our keep to make
an' a bit to spare for poor folks sake;
give us sense, for we're some of us duffers,
an' a heart to feel for all that suffers.
Give us, too, a bit of a song,
an' a tale, and a book to help us along,
an' give us our share o' sorrow's lesson
that we may prove how grief's a blessing.
Give us, Lord, a chance to be
our goodly best, brave, wise and free,
our goodly best for ourselves and others
till all men learn to live as brothers.
Amen.
Revolutionary War battlefield objects pulled from Lake
6/30/2006 N.Y. - Gen. Benedict Arnold led a "wretched, motley" crew of sailors on Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here on Oct. 11, 1776. The rebels lost.
But their dogged fight delayed British movement south for a year, when they would be defeated in the Battle of Saratoga. Historians today consider the Battle of Valcour Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Islan ) a "victory in defeat" that gave Colonial forces a chance to win at Saratoga — and eventually win the Revolutionary War.
Divers who have spent the last seven years combing the lake bottom in search of "battlefield scatter" from the pivotal fight pulled up dozens of artifacts this week. They displayed them by the shores of the battle site Friday: cannon fragments, solid iron cannonballs, a brass powder scoop, a trigger guard, spectacles, bombs… More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/benedict_arnold_artifacts
The longest warAt 58 years and counting, the Karen conflict in Myanmar is the world's longest-running civil war…The Karen National Liberation Army has waged the longest fight for independence in the world. Now, 58 years later, they may be no closer to their goal than when they started. http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs6770
Red Cross laptop with donor data stolen
7/1/2006 DALLAS - A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood donors — including Social Security numbers and medical information — was stolen from a local office of the American Red Cross, but officials said the information was encrypted. (I still don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about this. I've never felt like the Red Cross had any business with my SS number anyway.)
The data included matching names and birth dates of donors from Texas and Oklahoma, as well as donors' sexual and disease histories.
"We haven't viewed this as a security breach at this point," Darren Irby, spokesman for the national American Red Cross office, told The Dallas Morning News for its Saturday editions…
…Local officials alerted police and national Red Cross offices, Lundy said. Donors were not notified about the missing information, and the Red Cross had no legal obligation to do so…
…The Farmers Branch Red Cross also lost a laptop with encrypted donor information in June 2005, Lundy said, but she could provide no details on circumstances of that incident or any follow-up investigation…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_re_us/red_cross_data_stolen
An Outdated Ban
It's time to allow more offshore drilling.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006; A24
FOR THE PAST quarter of a century, the federal government has banned oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters. Efforts to relax the ban have been repelled on environmental grounds, but it is time to revisit this policy. Canada and Norway, two countries that care about the environment, have allowed offshore drilling for years and do not regret it. Offshore oil rigs in the western Gulf of Mexico, one of the exceptions to the ban imposed by Congress, endured Hurricane Katrina without spills. The industry's safety record is impressive, and it's even possible that the drilling ban increases the danger of oil spills in coastal waters: Less local drilling means more incoming traffic from oil tankers, which by some reckonings are riskier. Although balancing energy needs with the environment is always hard, the prohibition on offshore extraction cannot be justified...
(the surprising thing is this is from the Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062701646.html
The wonders of socialized medicine...
Revealed: the true scale of NHS cancer waiting times
THE shocking extent of cancer treatment delays in Scotland has been revealed in official new figures which also lay bare the postcode lottery facing patients across the country.
Despite repeated promises and billions of pounds invested, the hospital-by-hospital breakdown reveals some patients are waiting more than a year between GP referral and treatment....
read the article at: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=927752006
Flex Fuel Fuzzy Math
Washington's ethanol addiction is giving cynicism a good name
6/28/2006 -The sticker looks mighty tempting -- a full-size, seven-passenger SUV with a V-8 engine rated at a hybrid-like 33 mpg! Too bad it's a sham.
Unfortunately, the shuck and jive isn't well-known, or apparent to consumers -- who might be gulled into believing they're helping cut down on energy consumption (and saving the planet to boot) when in fact all they're doing is supporting the latest government boondoggle for the sole and exclusive benefit of the politically powerful ethanol lobby.
Here's how it works: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10011
Man, not beast
The mysterious tracks spotted on Clearwater Beach in the late '40s caused quite a stir. Were they left by a monster? A giant penguin? The answer eluded everyone. Well, almost everyone.
...The monster was the talk of Clearwater. A few citizens stepped forward to announce they had seen something mysterious on the beach that night, something alien, and if you didn’t believe them, why, you could jump in a lake.
...The Clearwater Monster was clever. The fiend left tracks, inflamed imaginations, then vanished. Just when people stopped thinking about him, he crept out of the surf again.
...Scientists were interrogated about the monster.
One said, “It couldn’t be real.’’ Another thought the tracks might have been left by a giant salamander.
“Plaster casts were made of some of the tracks,’’ Bothwell wrote, “and it was estimated by some that the beast — if beast it was — might have weighed some 2,000 pounds.’’
It was left to Ivan Sanderson , a self-taught zoologist, author and WNBC radio commentator, to render an intelligent opinion. As the flash bulbs popped he studied the tracks, furrowed his brow, did some measuring. He was photogenic, a Douglas Fairbanks for the beach set, with slicked-back hair, a pencil-thin mustache and wardrobe that all but announced “Adventure!’’ Only an ascot could have improved his look.
“Definitely not a hoax,’’ Sanderson announced. The tracks were so deep and wide, he opined, that only something heavy and tall could have made them.
“A giant penguin,’’ was his theory. (jump forward some 60 years…)
...“I'm 85 years old ….Back in, I want to say 1946, though it could have been '47, Al gets his hands on a National Geographic. There was a picture of dinosaur tracks. Al said, 'You know, we could have fun with this.'’’
…“We made them in the shop,’’ Tony said, looking at the weird boots his son lay on the table. “They were plaster at first, but you couldn't make a good track with plaster. It just didn't sink in the sand deep enough to look authentic.
We went to this blacksmith shop and poured lead in our molds. Each track weighed 30 pounds. We bolted black high-top gym shoes to each track.’’
“Al and I rowed out to the beach. I put on the shoes. I jumped out of the boat in shallow water. I was young then, about 25 or so, and much stronger than I am now, an old man. I had to kind of swing my legs out to the side and then forward to get going. Somehow I didn't break my legs. I left deep tracks about 6 feet apart. I made this big loop from the surf, up the beach, and then back into the water to the boat.’’
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Floridian/Man__not_beast.shtml
September 24, 2001 the NY TIMES Demanded Bush Admin Get Tough on Terror Financing... read http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014523.php
When Will NYT Reveal One of al Qaeda's Secret Programs?
6/28/06 Ann Coulter- The federal statute on treason, 18 USC 2381, provides in relevant part: "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States ... adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000."
Thanks to the New York Times, the easiest job in the world right now is: "Head of Counterintelligence -- al Qaeda." You just have to read the New York Times over morning coffee, and you're done by 10 a.m.
The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency -- our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home. And the greatest threat at home isn't traitorous liberals -- it's patriotic Americans, also known as "Republicans," tut-tutting the quaint idea that we should take treason seriously.
(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15823&o=ANN001
Were We Really Unified After 9/11?
…I know this is going to offend some people on the left -- but there are people in this country, elected and in the Drive-By Media, who are actively seeking to sabotage our effort and ability to win against this enemy and even wage war against him. I know this offends some of you. "Are you challenging our patriotism?" Say whatever you want. If you think it sounds like I'm challenging your patriotism, then yes. I'm challenging your patriotism, challenging your judgment and everything else. "Well, we're not doing it [undermining the war]." Well, then let me ask you a question. How would your actions be any different if you were trying to undermine our effort? Tell me that, you on the left. How in the world would your actions be any different than they are if you were trying to undermine? Senator Kennedy, it's one thing to go out there and be critical of Abu Ghraib. It's quite another to say it's worse under us than it was under Saddam. Dick Durbin, to go out there and criticize what's going on at Club Gitmo, okay, fine, to compare it and analogize it to Soviet gulags and Pol Pot and others, that's not by accident. That is not by accident. And don't think that it doesn't create harm and don't think that it doesn't provide impetus and morale for the other side in this. --Rush Limbaugh
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_063006/content/across_the_fruited_plain.guest.html
A Muslim Constitution in Europe (so much for assimilation)
6/21/2006 -The European Council for Fatwa and Research, a Muslim Brotherhood front group led by Tariq Ramadan and Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, is working on a special constitution for European Muslims.
Islamists in Europe are working on a special legislation for muslims, that will be above national legislation. The initiative comes from the Fatwa-council for Europe, who claims that a “constitution for European muslims” is on its way. The Fatwa-council has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood organization. It’s spokesman is Tariq Ramadan, who among many westerners has a reputation of representing a more liberal european Islam.http://www.dr.dk/P1/P1Morgen/Udsendelser/2006/06/21/094932.htm
Poll shows Muslims in Britain are the most anti-western in Europe
see http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1804078,00.html
Multiculturalism’s reward
The UK Guardian is reporting the results of a Pew poll that looked at relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in thirteen countries. The survey yielded some startling findings for Britain. It found, for example, that its Muslim population is among the ‘most embittered in the western world’ with most viewing westerners as ‘selfish, arrogant, greedy and immoral.’ In fact, so bitter these people are that their attitude ‘more resembled public opinion in Islamic countries in the Middle East.’
This may come as a surprise, since Britain is one of the most multiculturalism-conscious societies in Europe, often going into extreme lengths to accommodate its minorities and Muslims especially.
Obviously, this goodwill is grossly unappreciated and repaid with abiding hatred, with bloody carnage resulting on occasion.
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5432
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow: 'The New York Times and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public's right to know in some cases might override somebody's right to live.'
Congressman urges: Indict N.Y. Times!
King says for paper to release info on secret operations is 'treasonous'
U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., wants the New York Times and other newspapers indicted for reports on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told the Associated Press.
King is critical of last week's story that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to study messages within an international database of money-transfer records.
King, who serves as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he'd contact Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging him to "begin an investigation and prosecution of the New York Times – the reporters, the editors and the publisher."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50784
Yet another…What part of ‘classified’ doesn’t the NYT understand
According to a classified briefing at the Pentagon this week by the commander, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the number of American combat brigades in Iraq is projected to decrease to 5 or 6 from the current level of 14 by December 2007.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/world/middleeast/25military.html?ex=1308888000&en=f51dc3bd1a5ff247&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead
Wed Jun 28, 2006 GAZA - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday...
...The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-06-29T013909Z_01_L29258645_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-ROCKET.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
The terrorist-tipping Times
The New York Times (proudly publishing all the secrets unfit to spill since 9/11) and their reckless anonymous sources (come out, come out, you cowards) tipped off terrorists to America's efforts to track their financial activities.
Guess what? It isn't the first time blabbermouth journalists have jeopardized terror-financing investigations since Sept. 11, according to the government.
entire article at http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2006/06/28/202909.html
David Bennett<><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
There are many churches in Las Vegas, not just casinos.
Not surprisingly some worshippers at Sunday services give casino chips rather than cash when the plate is passed.
Since they get chips from so many different casinos, the churches got together and devised a method to collect the offerings.
The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casino of origin and cashed in…this is done by the Chip Monks…
An Ancient Prayer
[found on the wall of an old Inn in Lancashire, England]
Give us, Lord, a bit o' sun
a bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
give us all in th' struggle and splutter
our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
Give us health, our keep to make
an' a bit to spare for poor folks sake;
give us sense, for we're some of us duffers,
an' a heart to feel for all that suffers.
Give us, too, a bit of a song,
an' a tale, and a book to help us along,
an' give us our share o' sorrow's lesson
that we may prove how grief's a blessing.
Give us, Lord, a chance to be
our goodly best, brave, wise and free,
our goodly best for ourselves and others
till all men learn to live as brothers.
Amen.
Revolutionary War battlefield objects pulled from Lake
6/30/2006 N.Y. - Gen. Benedict Arnold led a "wretched, motley" crew of sailors on Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here on Oct. 11, 1776. The rebels lost.
But their dogged fight delayed British movement south for a year, when they would be defeated in the Battle of Saratoga. Historians today consider the Battle of Valcour Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Islan ) a "victory in defeat" that gave Colonial forces a chance to win at Saratoga — and eventually win the Revolutionary War.
Divers who have spent the last seven years combing the lake bottom in search of "battlefield scatter" from the pivotal fight pulled up dozens of artifacts this week. They displayed them by the shores of the battle site Friday: cannon fragments, solid iron cannonballs, a brass powder scoop, a trigger guard, spectacles, bombs… More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/benedict_arnold_artifacts
The longest warAt 58 years and counting, the Karen conflict in Myanmar is the world's longest-running civil war…The Karen National Liberation Army has waged the longest fight for independence in the world. Now, 58 years later, they may be no closer to their goal than when they started. http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs6770
Red Cross laptop with donor data stolen
7/1/2006 DALLAS - A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood donors — including Social Security numbers and medical information — was stolen from a local office of the American Red Cross, but officials said the information was encrypted. (I still don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about this. I've never felt like the Red Cross had any business with my SS number anyway.)
The data included matching names and birth dates of donors from Texas and Oklahoma, as well as donors' sexual and disease histories.
"We haven't viewed this as a security breach at this point," Darren Irby, spokesman for the national American Red Cross office, told The Dallas Morning News for its Saturday editions…
…Local officials alerted police and national Red Cross offices, Lundy said. Donors were not notified about the missing information, and the Red Cross had no legal obligation to do so…
…The Farmers Branch Red Cross also lost a laptop with encrypted donor information in June 2005, Lundy said, but she could provide no details on circumstances of that incident or any follow-up investigation…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_re_us/red_cross_data_stolen
An Outdated Ban
It's time to allow more offshore drilling.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006; A24
FOR THE PAST quarter of a century, the federal government has banned oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters. Efforts to relax the ban have been repelled on environmental grounds, but it is time to revisit this policy. Canada and Norway, two countries that care about the environment, have allowed offshore drilling for years and do not regret it. Offshore oil rigs in the western Gulf of Mexico, one of the exceptions to the ban imposed by Congress, endured Hurricane Katrina without spills. The industry's safety record is impressive, and it's even possible that the drilling ban increases the danger of oil spills in coastal waters: Less local drilling means more incoming traffic from oil tankers, which by some reckonings are riskier. Although balancing energy needs with the environment is always hard, the prohibition on offshore extraction cannot be justified...
(the surprising thing is this is from the Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062701646.html
The wonders of socialized medicine...
Revealed: the true scale of NHS cancer waiting times
THE shocking extent of cancer treatment delays in Scotland has been revealed in official new figures which also lay bare the postcode lottery facing patients across the country.
Despite repeated promises and billions of pounds invested, the hospital-by-hospital breakdown reveals some patients are waiting more than a year between GP referral and treatment....
read the article at: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=927752006
Flex Fuel Fuzzy Math
Washington's ethanol addiction is giving cynicism a good name
6/28/2006 -The sticker looks mighty tempting -- a full-size, seven-passenger SUV with a V-8 engine rated at a hybrid-like 33 mpg! Too bad it's a sham.
Unfortunately, the shuck and jive isn't well-known, or apparent to consumers -- who might be gulled into believing they're helping cut down on energy consumption (and saving the planet to boot) when in fact all they're doing is supporting the latest government boondoggle for the sole and exclusive benefit of the politically powerful ethanol lobby.
Here's how it works: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10011
Man, not beast
The mysterious tracks spotted on Clearwater Beach in the late '40s caused quite a stir. Were they left by a monster? A giant penguin? The answer eluded everyone. Well, almost everyone.
...The monster was the talk of Clearwater. A few citizens stepped forward to announce they had seen something mysterious on the beach that night, something alien, and if you didn’t believe them, why, you could jump in a lake.
...The Clearwater Monster was clever. The fiend left tracks, inflamed imaginations, then vanished. Just when people stopped thinking about him, he crept out of the surf again.
...Scientists were interrogated about the monster.
One said, “It couldn’t be real.’’ Another thought the tracks might have been left by a giant salamander.
“Plaster casts were made of some of the tracks,’’ Bothwell wrote, “and it was estimated by some that the beast — if beast it was — might have weighed some 2,000 pounds.’’
It was left to Ivan Sanderson , a self-taught zoologist, author and WNBC radio commentator, to render an intelligent opinion. As the flash bulbs popped he studied the tracks, furrowed his brow, did some measuring. He was photogenic, a Douglas Fairbanks for the beach set, with slicked-back hair, a pencil-thin mustache and wardrobe that all but announced “Adventure!’’ Only an ascot could have improved his look.
“Definitely not a hoax,’’ Sanderson announced. The tracks were so deep and wide, he opined, that only something heavy and tall could have made them.
“A giant penguin,’’ was his theory. (jump forward some 60 years…)
...“I'm 85 years old ….Back in, I want to say 1946, though it could have been '47, Al gets his hands on a National Geographic. There was a picture of dinosaur tracks. Al said, 'You know, we could have fun with this.'’’
…“We made them in the shop,’’ Tony said, looking at the weird boots his son lay on the table. “They were plaster at first, but you couldn't make a good track with plaster. It just didn't sink in the sand deep enough to look authentic.
We went to this blacksmith shop and poured lead in our molds. Each track weighed 30 pounds. We bolted black high-top gym shoes to each track.’’
“Al and I rowed out to the beach. I put on the shoes. I jumped out of the boat in shallow water. I was young then, about 25 or so, and much stronger than I am now, an old man. I had to kind of swing my legs out to the side and then forward to get going. Somehow I didn't break my legs. I left deep tracks about 6 feet apart. I made this big loop from the surf, up the beach, and then back into the water to the boat.’’
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Floridian/Man__not_beast.shtml
September 24, 2001 the NY TIMES Demanded Bush Admin Get Tough on Terror Financing... read http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014523.php
When Will NYT Reveal One of al Qaeda's Secret Programs?
6/28/06 Ann Coulter- The federal statute on treason, 18 USC 2381, provides in relevant part: "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States ... adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000."
Thanks to the New York Times, the easiest job in the world right now is: "Head of Counterintelligence -- al Qaeda." You just have to read the New York Times over morning coffee, and you're done by 10 a.m.
The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency -- our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home. And the greatest threat at home isn't traitorous liberals -- it's patriotic Americans, also known as "Republicans," tut-tutting the quaint idea that we should take treason seriously.
(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15823&o=ANN001
Were We Really Unified After 9/11?
…I know this is going to offend some people on the left -- but there are people in this country, elected and in the Drive-By Media, who are actively seeking to sabotage our effort and ability to win against this enemy and even wage war against him. I know this offends some of you. "Are you challenging our patriotism?" Say whatever you want. If you think it sounds like I'm challenging your patriotism, then yes. I'm challenging your patriotism, challenging your judgment and everything else. "Well, we're not doing it [undermining the war]." Well, then let me ask you a question. How would your actions be any different if you were trying to undermine our effort? Tell me that, you on the left. How in the world would your actions be any different than they are if you were trying to undermine? Senator Kennedy, it's one thing to go out there and be critical of Abu Ghraib. It's quite another to say it's worse under us than it was under Saddam. Dick Durbin, to go out there and criticize what's going on at Club Gitmo, okay, fine, to compare it and analogize it to Soviet gulags and Pol Pot and others, that's not by accident. That is not by accident. And don't think that it doesn't create harm and don't think that it doesn't provide impetus and morale for the other side in this. --Rush Limbaugh
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_063006/content/across_the_fruited_plain.guest.html
A Muslim Constitution in Europe (so much for assimilation)
6/21/2006 -The European Council for Fatwa and Research, a Muslim Brotherhood front group led by Tariq Ramadan and Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, is working on a special constitution for European Muslims.
Islamists in Europe are working on a special legislation for muslims, that will be above national legislation. The initiative comes from the Fatwa-council for Europe, who claims that a “constitution for European muslims” is on its way. The Fatwa-council has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood organization. It’s spokesman is Tariq Ramadan, who among many westerners has a reputation of representing a more liberal european Islam.http://www.dr.dk/P1/P1Morgen/Udsendelser/2006/06/21/094932.htm
Poll shows Muslims in Britain are the most anti-western in Europe
see http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1804078,00.html
Multiculturalism’s reward
The UK Guardian is reporting the results of a Pew poll that looked at relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in thirteen countries. The survey yielded some startling findings for Britain. It found, for example, that its Muslim population is among the ‘most embittered in the western world’ with most viewing westerners as ‘selfish, arrogant, greedy and immoral.’ In fact, so bitter these people are that their attitude ‘more resembled public opinion in Islamic countries in the Middle East.’
This may come as a surprise, since Britain is one of the most multiculturalism-conscious societies in Europe, often going into extreme lengths to accommodate its minorities and Muslims especially.
Obviously, this goodwill is grossly unappreciated and repaid with abiding hatred, with bloody carnage resulting on occasion.
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5432
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow: 'The New York Times and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public's right to know in some cases might override somebody's right to live.'
Congressman urges: Indict N.Y. Times!
King says for paper to release info on secret operations is 'treasonous'
U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., wants the New York Times and other newspapers indicted for reports on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told the Associated Press.
King is critical of last week's story that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to study messages within an international database of money-transfer records.
King, who serves as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he'd contact Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging him to "begin an investigation and prosecution of the New York Times – the reporters, the editors and the publisher."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50784
Yet another…What part of ‘classified’ doesn’t the NYT understand
According to a classified briefing at the Pentagon this week by the commander, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the number of American combat brigades in Iraq is projected to decrease to 5 or 6 from the current level of 14 by December 2007.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/world/middleeast/25military.html?ex=1308888000&en=f51dc3bd1a5ff247&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead
Wed Jun 28, 2006 GAZA - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday...
...The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-06-29T013909Z_01_L29258645_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-ROCKET.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
The terrorist-tipping Times
The New York Times (proudly publishing all the secrets unfit to spill since 9/11) and their reckless anonymous sources (come out, come out, you cowards) tipped off terrorists to America's efforts to track their financial activities.
Guess what? It isn't the first time blabbermouth journalists have jeopardized terror-financing investigations since Sept. 11, according to the government.
entire article at http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2006/06/28/202909.html
David Bennett<><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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