Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Good Ol' Google
...Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth
GORDON COOPER
Monday, October 04, 2004
Words Fail Me . . .
In June 2002, the police say, members of a high-status tribe sexually abused one of Ms. Mukhtaran's brothers and then covered up their crime by falsely accusing him of having an affair with a high-status woman. The village's tribal council determined that the suitable punishment for the supposed affair was for high-status men to rape one of the boy's sisters, so the council sentenced Ms. Mukhtaran to be gang-raped. As members of the high-status tribe danced in joy, four men stripped her naked and took turns raping her. Then they forced her to walk home naked in front of 300 villagers. In Pakistan's conservative Muslim society, Ms. Mukhtaran's duty was now clear: she was supposed to commit suicide. "Just like other women, I initially thought of killing myself," said Ms. Mukhtaran, now 30. Her older brother, Hezoor Bux, explained: "A girl who has been raped has no honorable place in the village. Nobody respects the girl, or her parents. There's a stigma, and the only way out is suicide." ...But instead of killing herself, Ms. Mukhtaran testified against her attackers and propounded the shocking idea that the shame lies in raping, rather than in being raped. The rapists are now on death row, and President Pervez Musharraf presented Ms. Mukhtaran with the equivalent of $8,300 and ordered round-the-clock police protection for her. Ms. Mukhtaran, who had never gone to school herself, used the money to build one school in the village for girls and another for boys - because, she said, education is the best way to achieve social change. The girls' school is named for her, and she is now studying in its fourth-grade class. ...Meanwhile, villagers say that relatives of the rapists are waiting for the police to leave and then will put Ms. Mukhtaran in her place by slaughtering her and her entire family. A Postscript, Oct. 1: Readers have asked how they can help Ms. Mukhtaran and her schools. If you send me a check, made out to Mukhtaran Bibi, I'll make sure she gets it. My address: Nicholas Kristof The New York Times 229 West 43rd St. New York, NY 10036
ThanQ! WHP
THEY DID IT!!!
[Piloted by Brian Binnie] The carrier plane took off from a desert runway and the plane was released in midair and fired its rocket to continue on its own to an altitude of just over 62 miles - generally considered to be the point where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins. Richard Branson, the British airline mogul and adventurer, announced that beginning in 2007, he will begin offering paying customers flights into space aboard rockets like the SpaceShipOne. He plans to call the service Virgin Galactic.
USA! USA! USA! Individual! Capitalism! Perseverance! Freedom!! It's an historic day.
Hmm -- whaddya know . . .
Who'd a thunk it? Who would have even suspected?!?CNSNews.com - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. ...One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Somalia. The memo was written nine months before U.S. Army Rangers were ambushed in Mogadishu [Oct. 3, 1993] ...The memo [dated Jan. 18, 1993] includes Saddam's directive that "the party should move to hunt the Americans who are on Arabian land, especially in Somalia, by using Arabian elements ..." Among the organizations mentioned are those affiliated with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Al-Zawahiri is the top lieutenant of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, allegedly helped plan the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist strikes on the U.S., and is believed to be the voice on an audio tape broadcast by Al-Jazeera television Oct. 1, calling for attacks on U.S. and British interests everywhere. ... They detail the Iraqi regime's purchase of five kilograms of mustard gas on Aug. 21, 2000 and three vials of malignant pustule, another term for anthrax, on Sept. 6, 2000. The purchase order for the mustard gas includes gas masks, filters and rubber gloves. The order for the anthrax includes sterilization and decontamination equipment.
This oughta be interesting. Or might the MSM Rather talk about something else? More: one translated memo
Oh fer cryin' out loud . . .
Hi, my name is John Kerry and I am a Man of Privilege. And what I mean by that is it is my privilege to do whatever the fuck I feel like no matter what I've promised. Simply because I know better than you.
Section 5, pages 4-5 of the binding "Memorandum of Understanding" that was negotiated and agreed upon by both political campaigns states: "No props, notes, charts, diagrams, or other writings or other tangible things may be brought into the debate by either candidate.... Each candidate must submit to the staff of the Commission prior to the debate all such paper and any pens or pencils with which a candidate may wish to take notes during the debate, and the staff or commission will place such paper, pens and pencils on the podium..." So what did Dem presidential contender John Kerry take out of his jacket as he approached the stage [with his back to the auditorium's audience]? What did Kerry place on the podium?
Pen? Cheat sheet? Xanax? PitaPet? Rubber chicken? Mirror? Magic hat? Chinese rifle? Ego-sphere controller? You guessed it -- Drudge. video links there.
Sunday, October 03, 2004
Pulling the Ol' Switcheroo
A diversion for a Sunday afternoon in October
Saturday, October 02, 2004
Killing Osama Will End the WOT
and pixies are right now finishing my choresSan Diego Union Tribune A man arrested by U.S. authorities in Iraq had a computer disk in his possession containing a public report downloaded from a U.S. Department of Education Web site on crisis planning in school districts, including San Diego Unified. The man was described as an Iraqi national with connections to terrorism and the insurgency that is fighting U.S. forces in Iraq. Officials in San Diego said the man's intentions were unknown.
Shall we invite this guy to your summit, Johnny Talk-it-over? ThanQ! Jihad Watch
Blast from the Past
whozat? what pants?!? Whatinhell happened to Sandy Just-Don't-Look-in-My-Pants Berger? Is it now okay for ex-Secreteries to remove top top Secret documents from the National Archives and shred them?!? "investigations continuing" And as if that weren't enough for him to do......Chosunilbo - Korean News Sandy Berger, former White House National Security Advisor and key foreign policy and security advisor to Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry, hinted Wednesday that should Kerry win the U.S. presidential election in November, it was possible that the decision to reduce U.S. troops in Korea would be reconsidered. ...He said he strongly wondered whether John Kerry, if elected, wouldn't reconsider the reduction. ...Berger indicated once again the need for direct talks between the U.S. and North Korea to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, stressing that sitting face-to-face with North Korea was not surrender. ...the next U.S. president would have to focus on eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons development project and make clear to China that the use of arms against Taiwan would not be tolerated.
In one swell foop he turns China from an ally in talks with NK into an enemy to whom we will "make things clear." China. The country with the largest population and possible nukes [?] and the economy which is turning capitalistic... Good choice in enemies -- schmeckie. Oh, and nice coalition building, while yer at it. Hey, Sandy -- weren't you the NSA advisor at the time talks with NK failed utterly and they started getting nukes?!?!? hmmm? Just checking.
The Council Has Spoken ! ! !
I thank the Council and the Watcher for their support in voting my post the winner this week. The Watchers Council is a group of very good, sharp writers/bloggers, so their votes mean a lot to me. Thanks, y'all. The winner of the non-member vote is: Update 11 - The Sep. 12 Attack by Citizen Frank Full results of the vote are over at The Watcher's, along with this week's entries! Lots of good reading: Go See . . . Spambots: byte hot bits and die!! [Thanx, Watcher!]Friday, October 01, 2004
Random Debate Questions Arise
answers welcomedKERRY: I have a better plan to be able to fight the war on terror by ...reaching out to the Muslim world, ...and beginning to isolate the radical Islamic Muslims, not have them isolate the United States of America.
Does Kerry actually believe he can converse -- negotiate -- with Zawqari? I invite him to give it a shot. G'head -- do a Jessie and wander on over to Iraq to negotiate the release of any one or all of the kidnapped Americans or Brits or ... Wouldn't that be an October surprise?!?
KERRY: And I believe that a fresh start, new credibility, a president who can understand what we have to do to reach out to the Muslim world to make it clear that this is not, you know ...
No *comma* I do not know. Why don't you tell me. Johnny I-think-I'm-credible-just-cuz-I'm-credulous?
-- Osama bin Laden uses the invasion of Iraq in order to go out to people and say that America has declared war on Islam.
I've never seen that. I have seen some Moonbat [dot] orgs say that. What Osama said is that he declared war on US. Pay some attention, Johnny Too-busy-for-security-briefings. That started more than a decade ago. [and, btw, just cuz "people" think something don't make it factual. Perception is not reality, no matter how it feels, m'kay?]
We need to be smarter about now we wage a war on terror. We need to deny them the recruits. We need to deny them the safe havens.
Ya mean like, oh, say ....Iraq?!?!? How, exactly, do we deny them the recruits -- pre-emptive bombing? Or, perhaps by creating a bit of freedom and a goddam economy tied to the rest of the world, hmmm? And how is this not more of what Bush has done? [no copying, putz]
We need to rebuild our alliances. I believe that Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, and the others did that more effectively, and I'm going to try to follow in their footsteps.
Now you're a Reaganite?!?!? Perpetuating the notion that they are just like us is not only naive but will get us all killed. In that weird dance of projection the DNC is doing I think the comments about Bush living in a "fantasy land" along with "his puppet, Alawi," are the most telling. Kerry's apparent inability to comprehend the essential, core differences between the Islamic world view and the Western world view is his Achillies heel. He failed to grasp the same thing in relation to Communism, too, believing - testifying - that 3,000 people "might" be in danger were we to leave Viet Nam when it was 3 million who were slaughtered. If given his head, he would lead us into slavery of some sort without even recognizing it. Slavery by way of blindness and ignorance -- what a way to go.
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