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Mr. Rogers puts in wrong tape

Add comment July 25th, 2007

Looks real to me?

WARD CHURCHILL FIRED! Better Late then never

1 comment July 25th, 2007

Let’s remember some of the statements made by this wretched person: Ward Churchill Quotes

They were targeting those people I referred to as ‘little Eichmanns.’ These were legitimate targets.
– Ward Churchill - On 9/11

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn’t be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
– Ward Churchill - On the Iraq War

As for those in the World Trade Center, well, really, let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire, the “mighty engine of profit” to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved and they did so both willingly and knowingly.
– Ward Churchill , Some People Push Back

If I defined the state as being the problem, just what happens to the state? I’ve never fashioned myself to be a revolutionary, but it’s part and parcel of what I’m talking about. You can create through consciousness a situation of flux, perhaps, in which something better can replace it. In instability there’s potential. That’s about as far as I go with revolutionary consciousness. I’m actually a de-evolutionary. I don’t want other people in charge of the apparatus of the state as the outcome of a socially transformative process that replicates oppression. I want the state gone: transform the situation to U.S. out of North America. U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether.
– Ward Churchill , Dismantling the Politics of Comfort

For those of you who do, as a matter of principle, oppose war in any form, the idea of supporting a conscientious objector who’s already been inducted in his combat service in Iraq might have a certain appeal. But let me ask you this: Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn’t conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? … Conscientious objection removes a given piece of cannon fodder from the fray. Fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.
– Ward Churchill , Statement at Portland OR talk

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Reincarnation - PROVEN!

Add comment July 19th, 2007

Former Saturday Night Live cast member, and comedy great, Chris Farley passed away 10 years ago. He has been missed by his many fans, no doubt.

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Now, his legacy lives on in Christine Farley!!!

The trouble with Islam

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Possible Cure for Cancer but you can’t have it!

1 comment July 13th, 2007

Researchers at the University of Alberta believe DCA is the cure for cancer. But big pharmaceutical companies aren’t interested because DCA is not patentable, meaning there is no money to be made, so they will not spend millions for clinical trials.

Taser XREP delivers wireless shocks from 100 feet away

Add comment July 11th, 2007

This Taser XREP can deliver a wireless electric shock from over 100 feet away, and from the looks of it, you don’t want to be on its receiving end. Its Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation (NMI) is the same disabling effect delivered by wired Taser weapons. Loaded into an ordinary 12-gauge shotgun, it’s designed into a 14-gram package small enough to fit into a gun barrel, yet it can travel at 300 feet per second.

As the self-contained XREP wireless Taser round exits the shotgun barrel, three fins pop out to stabilize it as it flies through the air. Its four electrodes on the front each have a barb that can penetrate clothing and embed itself into the body of its victim. It will continue shocking its victim for 20 seconds, giving the officers enough time to apprehend the suspect. Field testing for this scary weapon begins this fall, but it probably won’t go into widespread use until a year later. We’ll behave ourselves, officer, but please, just point that thing somewhere else. — Charlie White

Civilians turn against al Qaeda in Iraq

Add comment July 11th, 2007

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Civilians helped coalition and Iraqi forces conduct a massive raid on an al Qaeda hideout in the town of Sherween, leaving 20 suspected terrorists dead and 20 more in coalition custody, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

A member of a Sunni militia guards two suspected al Qaeda member in Diyala province Wednesday.

The militants were caught off guard when U.S. aircraft dropped eight 2,000-pound bombs and 14 quarter-ton bombs on river crossings and a bridge in the town northeast of Baghdad, said Staff Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem.

Kareem, who commands the Iraqi Security Forces in Diyala province, said the bombings isolated the terrorists who had infiltrated Sherween. The town’s residents fought alongside the Iraqi forces during the raid, helping them kill and capture the terrorists, a U.S. military news release said.

“This operation was very important for the people of Sherween because we were able to find a very big hideout for the terrorists,” Kareem said of Operation Saber Guardian, which began early Tuesday. “It was a very big surprise for the terrorists and the people that support them.”

The raid will have a political impact on Diyala, which the U.S. military says has become a hotbed for al Qaeda terrorists who fled Baghdad after the U.S.-led security crackdown there, said Maj. John Woodward, executive officer of the U.S. troops involved in the operation.

The raid will help “facilitate Sunni resistance fighting in the Muqdadiya area as the people have grown tired of the destruction al Qaeda offers,” he said.

The U.S. military continued to target al Qaeda in raids early Wednesday, killing two suspected terrorists and arresting 22.

In one southwestern Baghdad raid, forces arrested a “suspected secret cell terrorist” believed to have connections to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army, which is suspected of launching attacks in the capital.

In Mosul, troops detained five suspects believed to be members of al Qaeda in Iraq, the military said. Another terrorist was killed after threatening troops with a knife, according to the military.

Coalition forces killed another suspected terrorist in western Baghdad after he “continued to resist and made threatening motions toward the ground force,” the military said. Troops also arrested an insurgent suspected of involvement in Baghdad bombing operations.

In Samarra, raids netted the arrests of four people suspected of kidnappings, assassinations and mortar attacks on coalition forces, the military said.

Various other raids resulted in the arrests of 11 suspected terrorists thought to have ties to al Qaeda in Iraq.

AT&T, Your world. Delivered. To the NSA

Add comment July 5th, 2007

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, 2006, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans’ communications. On July 20, 2006, a federal judge denied the government’s and AT&T’s motions to dismiss the case, allowing the lawsuit to go forward.

The EFF lawsuit arose from news reports in December 2005, which first revealed that the NSA has been intercepting Americans’ phone calls and Internet communications without any court oversight and in violation of the privacy safeguards established by Congress and the U.S. Constitution. This surveillance program, purportedly authorized by the President at least as early as 2001, apparently intercepts and analyzes the phone and Internet communications of millions of ordinary Americans.

But the government did not act—and is not acting—alone. EFF’s lawsuit alleges that AT&T has given the NSA unchecked backdoor access to its communications network and its record databases. On behalf of a nationwide class of AT&T customers, EFF is suing to stop this illegal conduct and hold AT&T responsible for violating the law and the fundamental freedoms of the American public.

AT&T moved to dismiss the case, basically arguing that it should be immune from suit because “whatever we did, the government told us to.” The U.S. government also moved to dismiss the case, arguing that allowing the case to go on would necessarily reveal “state secrets” that would harm national security. But in July, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker issued a decision denying both motions.

As Judge Walker wrote when dismissing AT&T’s immunity claims, “AT&T cannot seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal.” Judge Walker also flatly rejected the government’s secrecy argument: “The compromise between liberty and security remains a difficult one. But dismissing this case at the outset would sacrifice liberty for no apparent enhancement of security.”

The case is now on appeal before the 9th Circuit.

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Al Gore Jr. Busted for drug posession

Add comment July 5th, 2007

Maybe Al Gore should pay a little more attention to his kid and less time hyping his global warming scare campaign.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 24-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was stopped for speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff’s official said.

Al Gore III — whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight global warming — was driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy at about 2:15 a.m.

The deputy smelled marijuana and searched the car, said sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino. The search turned up a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. There were no prescriptions found, he said.