If You Really Loved Me You'd Let Me Eat Your Brain

I'm really getting sick of this lady.  But then again, she keeps making my laugh out loud every few days.

Now she wants the troops out of occupied New Orleans. Yes, New Orleans is occupied by those mean old men and women with guns.  They were late getting there, so damn their hides, and they should go now, so anarchy can rule.  Good call!  (Thank Dog you'll never have this woman calling the shots in your life.)

Sheehan is supposedly a grass roots, groundswell kind of popular voice, eh?  All homespun and angry?  Then why did she sign a deal for speaking fees via the Speaker's Bureau?  Any legitimacy she may have had goes out the window with that calculated act!  Capitalizing on her son's death by gaining fame was in bad taste, but fortune to boot?  She's ruined her life for her liberal PR Svengalis!  Huzzah to her hubby who bailed at the first sign of liberal vacuity.  I'd like to buy that man a drink.

She drones on:

It is a Christ-like principle to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless. That's what is happening in Algiers and other places in Louisiana...but by the people of America, not the so-called "Christians" in charge.

So...the Christian ethic is to be applauded unless it's being applied by Christians?  So the kind-hearted people who happen to have a Christian background are to be mistrusted and vilified because they have faith in a God that the liberals can't stand?  It must burn her, and a lot of other liberals, that religious organizations are providing relief to so many people.  That's the job of the government!  So now she's moved on to judging religions.  Good call, that's a way to really win over support with Mr. and Ms. America!

I don't care if a human being is black, brown, white, yellow or pink. I don't care if a human being is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or pagan. I don't care what flag a person salutes: if a human being is hungry, then it is up to another human being to feed him/her.

And her socialist roots are revealed.  No, Cindy, I don't owe you a meal if you're hungry.  That's the kind of thing that makes people like me hold back donations from people who need them!  I'll feed and clothe someone of my own free will, but the second they demand it of me and lay claim to my property and hard work they'll be cut off.

George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his [sic] self from power.

Well, he did accept responsibility for the mistakes of everyone down the chain.  What more do you want?

I suppose it was just a matter of time...news coverage of Katrina drops off and Sheehan's handlers let her out to emote some more of her stream-of-stupidity anti-American nonsense.

"When I left, it thrived, and it grew, and it's because I'm not alone," said the 48-year-old mother of Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year while serving in Iraq. "I'm not the only one who wants answers to these questions."

I don't recall her asking any questions, at least none that were designed to create a constructive debate over Iraq.  I've heard plenty of demands from her, plenty of inane cry-whine-shout-babbling, but no questions anyone in any position of importance would have any reason to address.

Sheehan's main demand was to have Bush come out and talk to her, right?  Then she'd just go home?  Isn't that what she wanted originally?

"If George Bush came out and spoke to me today, and we went home, this wouldn't end," she said. "It will be impossible to put out."

Great.  Could someone please write out her goals on her forehead so she can eventually meet them and go home?

Sheehan said she respects the opinions of those who disagree with her and her belief that the war is "illegal and immoral."

Right. Illegal.  I've never understood how the war is illegal.  I'd be interested in someone tracing this whine back to it's Ur-whine.  It's the liberal/Anti-whatever equivalent of an urban legend.

Shocking Time cover story reveals horrific torture of the 20th hijacker!

The log reads like a night watchman’s diary. It is a sometimes shocking and often mundane hour-by-hour, even minute-by-minute account of a campaign to extract information. The log records every time al-Qahtani eats, sleeps, exercises or goes to the bathroom and every time he complies with or refuses his interrogators’ requests. The detainee’s physical condition is frequently checked by medical corpsmen—sometimes as often as three times a day—which indicates either spectacular concern about al-Qahtani’s health or persistent worry about just how much stress he can take. Although the log does not appear obviously censored, it is also plainly incomplete: there are numerous gaps in the notes about what is said and what is happening in the interrogation booth beyond details like "Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes," TIME reports.

Hmm, frequent doctor visits, food and water, a place to sleep. That's torture all right.

From a CNN report on the Time story:

The interrogation techniques included refusing al-Qahtani a bathroom break and forcing him to urinate in his pants.

"It's not appropriate," said Sen. Chuck Hagel on CNN's "Late Edition." "It's not at all within the standards of who we are as a civilized people, what our laws are.

"If in fact we are treating prisoners this way, it's not only wrong, it's dangerous and very dumb and very shortsighted," the Nebraska Republican said.

"This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world."

Uhhh, having a terrorist suspect piss himself isn't torture. And this is precisely how we should treat prisoners when they're being interrogated if A) it works and B) it isn't torture. I see nothing dangerous, dumb, or shortsighted about it. I further disagree with Sen. Hagel that these kind of interrogation tactics are going to alienate Muslims. Any reasonable Muslim is going to understand that the terrorist suspects are being held for a good reason and that they aren't being mistreated. Unreasonable Muslims are going to hate the US no matter what we do. Hagel's view is based on the stereotype of Muslims being uneducated and conservative. Far from it, they're highly educated and nuanced political thinkers.

What is shortsighted and dangerous is MSM outlets sensationalizing the treatment of prisoners, printing outright lies, and failing to fully explain just how fair the prisoners are actually being treated!

There was more info today from the Pentagon on Koran mishandling at Gitmo. (AP: U.S. Confirms Gitmo Soldier Kicked Koran) Read on and ask yourself if these are the actions of A) assclowns, or B) murderous Gulag thugs.

The Pentagon on Friday released new details about mishandling of the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, confirming that a soldier deliberately kicked the Muslim holy book and that an interrogator stepped on a Koran and was later fired for "a pattern of unacceptable behavior."

Kicked. Check. Stepped on. Check. This doesn’t scream Gulag to me. It sounds like the work of assclowns, not a pattern of behavior aimed at starving people, working them to death, or outright murder.

In other confirmed incidents, water balloons thrown by prison guards caused an unspecified number of Korans to get wet;

Water balloons. Check. VERY assclownish. I don’t think they allowed balloons in Gulags.

a guard's urine came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Koran. In that case, an unidentified guard had left his observation post and went outside where he urinated near an air vent and the wind blew his urine through the vent into the cell block. His supervisor reprimanded him and assigned him to gate guard duty where he had no contact with detainees for the remainder of his assignment at Guantanamo Bay.

Urine. Check. Not some kind of poison or acid, just urine. Not an official policy of torture or humiliation, just an assclown taking a leak in the wrong place. Verdict: Assclown. Props to Gitmo brass for getting the jarhead away from the general population.

Hood said in a written statement released Friday evening, along with the new details, that his investigation "revealed a consistent, documented policy of respectful handling of the Koran dating back almost 2 1/2 years."

Were there similar Gulag policies requiring guards to be respectful of inmate property or religious materials? I hardly think so.

and in a confirmed but ambiguous case, a two-word obscenity was written in English on the inside cover of a Koran.

This could have been the work of a prisoner. They've been known to desecrate Korans for political gain. Read on:

Hood also said his investigation found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own Korans. "These included using a Koran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Koran, attempting to flush a Koran down the toilet and urinating on the Koran," Hood's report said. It offered no possible explanation for the detainees' motives.

I repeat my earlier claim: The terrorists are far more disrespectful of their holy books than are the U.S. soldiers. The latest reports make it clear that the verified cases of Koran mishandling can be counted on one hand. The military has taken appropriate steps to punish those who deviate from their stated policy of treating prisoners and their religious effects with the utmost care and respect.

Calling Gitmo a Gulag is not only an insult to the victims of the Gulag system, it is a lie of Hitlerian proportions that insults the hard-working professionals that make up our all-volunteer military.

To any liberals out there, especially in the MSM, please tell me, in which nation would you most like to be a prisoner who is suspected of being a terrorist and helping to murder thousands of it's citizens? Cuba? Iran? China? North Korea? The U.S.?

Tim Blair has an entry pointing to a post by Iowahawk on Chutch, supposedly a 70s TV show inspired by Ward Churchill.

This stuff is in the same league as The Onion on a good day. Truly hilarious.

Mr. and Mrs. America and all ships at sea:

You'll sleep well tonight knowing that the head clown at the UN has finally outlined his master plan for defeating terrorism.

3.5 years after the 9/11 attacks, almost to the day, Kofi Annan delivered a speech of staggering importance to an international conference on terrorism in Madrid. You can read a summary of the plan as reported by the UN here.

His five-point plan to defeat global terrorism:

Dissuade disaffected groups from choosing terrorism as a tactic to achieve their goals;
Deny terrorists the means to carry out their attacks;
Deter states from supporting terrorists;
Develop state capacity to prevent terrorism;
Defend human rights in the struggle against terrorism.

America has been doing all five since 9/11, and even before that though with a few notable intelligence failures. This is just another useless position paper, but what can you expect from an organization run by a secretary?

I take issue with a few things Annan said:

So of course the United Nations must be at the forefront in fighting against [terrorism], and first of all in proclaiming, loud and clear, that terrorism can never be accepted or justified, in any cause whatsoever.

By the same token, the United Nations must continue to insist that, in the fight against terrorism, we cannot compromise the core values I have listed. In particular, human rights and the rule of law must always be respected. As I see it, terrorism is in itself a direct attack on human rights and the rule of law. If we sacrifice them in our response, we will be handing victory to the terrorists.

Proclaim all you want but I’ve never heard of a terrorist group backing off because some frog in a powder blue helmet said “please” very nicely. The UN is the asthmatic wheelchair-bound genius kid in the bad reality show we call life who never gets out of his bedroom. He can issue all the writs and resolutions he wants but without some goons to go beat the snot out of people once in a while his followers will be the socially impotent who make up the ranks of the Chess Club, the D&D Club, and the Dr. Who Club at school. As 3XHAR is always quick to remind, the UN is a debating society and nothing more.

In the past the United Nations has not shrunk from confronting states that harbour and assist terrorists, and the Security Council has repeatedly applied sanctions. Indeed, it is largely thanks to such sanctions that several states which used to sponsor terrorists no longer do so.

Ahhh, sanctions. I’d forgotten about those. “Stop, or I’ll ask you to stop again!” How many terrorists have been killed by paper cuts, Mr. Annan?

I regret to say that international human rights experts, including those of the UN system, are unanimous in finding that many measures which States are currently adopting to counter terrorism infringe on human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Ahh yes, Human Rights. The ultimate obstructionist wild card. What about the human rights of the victims of terrorism? I’m not inclined to give them many. But I agree that we can’t go around killing people for the heck of it, like, say, a bunch of terrorists. So we need a policy on how to handle this new type pf enemy. That’s exactly what Gonzales was doing in the so-called torture memos. The brass wanted to know how far we cold go and they got an answer that I don’t disagree with. Panties on the head, stripping, human pyramids…these are all sound tactics to break down a suspect and get them to talk. The terrorists aren’t wearing the uniform of a recognized sovereign power in a declared war, so they’re not given all the protections of the Geneva Conventions. I think the US has done a wonderful job of handling their prisoners, but the media, the lefties, and the global offendigentsia have done a better job of crippling our interrogators. It’s sad, really.

I wonder, if the UN really had an army, would they fight with bullhorns and wear paper armor? All in all I’ll sleep safer tonight knowing that there are tens of thousands of US and Iraqi soldiers putting their lives on the line to make the world a safer place.

George Soros needs to shut his pie-hole, IMHO. On the topic of his recent pro-terrorist statements:

Speaking on Spanish radio station Cadena Se the day an international conference on terrorism opened in Madrid, Soros said Spain had "a very different response to terrorism - a healthier response".

A healthier response? We should all lie back and think of the UN while radical Islamists slam jetliners into skyscrapers!? Read the full report here.

So Spain's response to the railway bombing was healthy? How would Soros rate Spain's counterterrorism efforts with regards to the ETA and Basque separatists? The ETA killed 817 people, 339 of them civilians, between 1968 and 2003. Plenty of other attacks have been thwarted due to Spain's counterterrorist tactics. And again, the French get no love from me for aiding and abetting the ETA terrorists.

I wonder how Soros feels about the IRA and their recent bank robbery. Kwik2jujj has said many times over the past decade that movements like the IRA eventually devolve into common criminality, and I agree.

Gosh, if only I were black, filled with hatred for America, and had very little talent I could be the Poet Laureate of Wisconsin like Amiri Baraka in New Jersey.

I know what you're thinking. They have a poet laureate in New Jersey? He's just another pro-terrorist, anti-American guy who uses white liberal guilt to extort grant money from Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Read Michelle Malkin's piece on Baraka, then give me the high sign when you're ready to help me storm the NEA.

I heard a good interview with Dr. David A. Yeagley on Up Front with Vicki McKenna today. Dr. Yeagley used to teach at Oklahoma State University (OSU) until he proposed a curriculum to about the concept of patriotism in public schools. He presented his proposed curriculum to the Oklahoma State legislature. Despite the endorsement of Governor Frank Keating the legislature didn’t act on his proposal. OSU, however, did. They told him he they wouldn’t be needing his services anymore.

Dr. Yeagley’s story and viewpoint are interesting because he’s an actual Native American, unlike Ward Churchill, and sounds pretty conservative. His recent blog entry The End of Ward Churchill is good, and just below it he shares his thoughts on his recent appearance on Bill O'Reilly's The Factor. Isn't it funny how no one in AIM is speaking up for Churchill?

Some good background on Churchill’s past activities in the Native American movement can be found in this entry by Suzan Shown Harjo, herself a Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee.

Finally, Ann Coulter has a funny piece about Churchill called The Little Injun That Could. It's a little sharper but that's her style.

For those of you not located in Wisconsin, Ward Churchill is scheduled to come speak at one of our state schools, UW-Whitewater. The campus is between Madison and Milwaukee, south of the I-94 corridor connecting the two, and is best know for its business program.

One complaint might be that the state is spending money bringing someone of Churchill's caliber, which I don't think is very high, to spread his volatile views. The funds to pay him to speak are coming from what the UW system calls segregated fees. This is money that UW students pay as part of their tuition though the students hardly have any say on how the money is spent. So a student group invited Mr. Churchill and supposedly state funds aren’t being used to get him here. Splitting hairs, I say. One positive outcome: This puts the spotlight on segregated fees and how they’re spent. I expect the next wave of student government elections on UW campuses to focus on segregated fees ($306.08 per student per semester at UW-Madison) and control over them.

What I keep hearing from liberal-leaning news outlets and the pro-terrorists apologists goes something like this:

Sure, what he’s saying is repulsive, but he has a right to say it and we shouldn’t censor his speech.

Repulsive, I agree. Right to say it, I agree. Censor, I disagree. We, as in the collective government-by-the-people we, shouldn’t censor his speech. We, as in the private we, can choose to listen or not listen to whatever we like. I censor people all the time by changing the channel, turning the page of the New York Times, or not picking up books by Paul Krugman or Robert Rubin. Self-censorship rules.

I think the liberals and pro-terrorist apologists need to go one step further and put the issue in the correct context. Ward Churchill has a right to say just about anything he wants, but his right to free speech doesn’t obligate us to listen to it.

I don’t plan on spending much more time thinking about this Churchill fellow. I might be interested in going to videotape the protest that’ll happen if he does speak at UW-Whitewater as planned.