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Is There a Civil War Going on...in France?

The MSM in America and the liberal establishment use the term "civil war" when referring to Iraq because 1) it makes them feel better, and 2) it gets them closer to forcing the Bush administration to withdraw and cause another Vietnam, which they all want to happen. There was no civil war in Bosnia, or Kosovo, or Korea, because, after all, those wars were fought when Downercrats were in the White House. Can't have Downercrats criticized, you know. It could hurt morale!

The definition of civil war seems to fit in one place the liberals have admiration for: France. Why? Because Muslim thugs in the streets have taken over, and there is anarchy everywhere.

French police the target in urban guerrilla war

PARIS (Reuters) - Stoned, beaten and insulted, their vehicles torched by crowds of hostile youths, French police say they face an urban guerrilla war when they enter the run-down neighborhoods that ring the major cities.

"Our role is to guarantee the safety of people and property but the great difficulty today is that police are having problems ensuring their own safety," said Jerome Hanarte of the Alliance-Police Nationale union.

Bedside television interviews with officers hospitalized after beatings in "les banlieues," or suburbs, support statistics showing a 6.7 percent jump in violent crime in the 12 months to August.

Fourteen officers are hurt every day in the line of duty, unions estimate, and law and order is sure to feature prominently in next year's presidential election.

The head of the French crime statistics body told Reuters the rise in attacks on police was partly due to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's 2002 decision to order police back into tough areas, to disrupt the black economy that fuels crime.

Some residents complain the move spawned constant police harassment which has only exacerbated tensions with local youths, many of whom come from ethnic minorities.

"You can see discrimination in ID controls," complained Kader Latreche, 36, an Algerian with his own photo equipment repair shop in the La Courneuve suburb.

"Why is it always people from the Maghreb or black people who are being stopped and checked? If it happens over and over again, it gets to you. People are frustrated, that's obvious."

Imagine: 14 officers a day are being injured every day.

If this were happening in, say, Iraq, the MSM in America would be on top of it like a fly on dog shit. But because it is fabled France, the story goes unreported.

UN Anti-Semite Nearly Killed...By Palestinian Rocket

Louise Arbour, the Jew-hating UN Commissioner for Human Rights who routinely denounces Israel but has not one bad word for her good friends the Palestinians, was touring a Jewish village, Sderot, the victim of many Palestinian rockets, when one of those peaceful missiles from those peaceful Palestinians* struck right near where she was standing. It missed her.

Darn. Wouldn't that be irony - a Palestinian apologist killed by a Palestinian rocket fired into Israel?

Arbour escapes injury in Palestinian rocket attack

Palestinian militants fired rockets into the Israeli town of Sderot, critically wounding one man on Tuesday, as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour was touring the community.

Arbour, a former Supreme Court of Canada justice, was not hurt when rockets landed a few hundred metres away from her entourage at a factory, but a worker at the facility was seriously injured.

After Arbour's group heard a loud explosion and saw plumes of smoke, Israeli rescue officials immediately rushed to the scene.

"I was on the outskirts of a factory immediately after it was hit," Arbour said.

"I understand somebody was seriously wounded and so I think first of all I want to express my deepest sympathy for the people, for the family of the person who was wounded and say how much I share their sense of hopelessness, and vulnerability and frustration, frankly, to have been so exposed."

The armed wing of the militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack, saying it was not aware that Arbour was visiting the town.

Not one word condemning the Palestinians, or the scumbag Islamic terrorists who fired the rocket.

But, as the story noted with some bitterness:

She angered Israeli officials by condemning Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip and told Palestinians that the world has not abandoned them.

How wonderful it would have been for Louise Arbour, Palestinian terrorism apologist, to have been hit by this rocket. She certainly deserves it.

*Yeah, right.

Shock: Tunisian Writer Says that Muslims "Have Reduced the Koran to a Nauseating Antisemitic Lampoon"

The few Muslims who wish to live in peace in the world must see things as Mezri Haddad, a Tunisian writer, sees them.

But only a few.

Tunisian Philosopher Mezri Haddad: Islamists 'Have Reduced the Koran to a Nauseating Antisemitic Lampoon'

"Arab Public Opinion... Has Found, in Antisemitism, the Perfect Catalyst For All Its Narcissistic Wounds and Social, Economic, and Political Frustrations"

"The young Iranian president's deliberately outrageous, mortifying, and extremist [statements] aiming at Holocaust denial have provoked stupor and indignation everywhere in the world, with the quite symptomatic exception of the Islamic countries... This deafening silence cannot be explained solely by the fear of suffering from terrorist attacks, as in the heyday of Khomeinist obscurantism. It is also explained by the necessity of getting along with Arab public opinion, which, after years of galvanization by the most reactionary forms of nationalist casuistry and Islamist dogmatism, has found in antisemitism the perfect catalyst for all its narcissistic wounds and social, economic, and political frustrations.

"It must be admitted that some Koranic verses, intentionally isolated from their historical context, have contributed even more to the anchoring of antisemitic stereotypes in Arab-Muslim mentalities. Incidentally, one could say the same about the New Testament, certain passages of which served, in the distant past and the not-so-distant past, to give a theological patina to the most abominable of anti-Jewish persecutions. The Church had to carry out its own 'aggiornamento'... in order to deprive Christian extremists of any evangelical legitimacy.

"All this is to say that the petrifaction of Arab-Muslim mentalities is not at all irremediable - provided that Islamic thinkers show intellectual audacity. Since they cannot purge the Koran of its potentially antisemitic dross, they must closely examine this corpus with hermeneutical reasoning...

"If the West's indignation [at Ahmadinejad's statements] is perfectly understandable and justified, their stupor shows, on the other hand, a certain credulity in their very conception of the Iranian regime. Those who were surprised by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's heinous stigmatizations are the very same people who - distinguishing between the regime and the people who comprise it, and swallowing the fable that there are 'moderate' Islamists and 'extremist' Islamists - have long believed in the normalization of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] and in its ineluctable democratization. As Jesus said [John 20:29], 'Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed'...

"It is true that this rehabilitation of the fundamentalist Iranian regime was possible only following the irruption, on September 11, 2001, of a new, mutant form of the most extreme kind of Islamism: Al-Qaeda and its macabre cortege of candidates for martyrdom... Bin Laden's triumph, his true miracle, consists in not only having given a civilized appearance to hideous theocracies, but also in having given a human, or even humanist, face to neo-fascist movements who aspire to power: Hamas in Palestine... Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and their alter egos everywhere in the Arab world...

How come this one man, sitting in Tunisia, makes more sense, and sees the world more clearly, than all of the liberals in the United States and Europe? How can this be?

Now That the Election is Over...

...Out comes that "good economic news" the American media (also known as "Nancy Pelosi's Press Office") was saying was non-existent several weeks ago.

Gas prices? Now the media discovers that they are down. Wages? Heck - they are rising! The stock market is over 12,000, don't you know! It must all be a reaction to the Republicans losing, right?

A brisk rise in American wages

American paychecks are rising again at a pace not seen since the 1990s.

The pay increase amounts to 4 percent on average over the past 12 months, and it comes at a very helpful time for millions of households.

For three years, pay increases haven't kept pace with the rising cost of living. Then came this year's housing slowdown, which has further squeezed family finances.

Those setbacks, however, are now being offset by rising income. Four percent may not sound like much, but you have to look back to 1997 to find a calendar year with a gain that big.

Aw, darn, shucks, incredible! All this good news, unreported for months, because the media wanted you to know how bad things were in Iraq - all because of George W. Bush and those evil Republicans!

I don't think we can stand any more good news!

New Islamic Terror Weapon: Cell Phones for Your Asshole

You have to give Muslims credit - while the rest of the world is trying to improve their economies, the Muslims are working harder than ever to make weapons with which to destroy the rest of the world. To this end, they invented bombs strapped to people, bombs strapped to mules (for Muslims, one and the same), boxcutters on airlines, and other weaponry not seen since the last time Islam rose its ugly head to try to take over the world.

Well, we have a new Islamic invention, aimed at increased communications - at least, that's what it appears to be used for.

What is this new invention? Cell phones lodged in one's anus! Yes! Jam a small compact phone up your asshole for...what? What could the numerous uses for this new form of technology be used for? Your guess is as good as anyone's.

Terror link probed

A SELF-proclaimed British multi-millionaire named Mohammed Islam who was arrested on the Gold Coast with almost $120,000 in cash is under investigation as to whether he has terrorist connections.

Queensland police yesterday refused to comment on their investigation into the man, 22, but at this stage there is reportedly no evidence to link him with terrorist activity. Islam allegedly had $118,000 in $50 notes in a suitcase and a mobile phone concealed in his rectum when he was arrested at a Surfers Paradise bus station on Thursday night.

Islam faced Southport Magistrate's Court yesterday charged with possessing tainted property but police prosecutor Sarah Fox said more serious charges could be laid.

Fascinating...simply fascinating! And, knowing how much Muslims want to bring new economic standards to the world, this fits right in with their "Let's Party Like Its 235 BC" theme.

This part of the story, however, is most telling:

A check with Interpol revealed Islam had supplied police with a false address in London.

Constable Fox told the court Islam had a criminal history in England relating to fraud, theft, public disorder and drug offences.

So, to sum up: A Muslim flies into Australia with lots of money he does not declare, with a cell phone jammed up his ass, and he ran from England where he had given a false address and has a lengthy criminal record.

Yep, it sounds like one of those peaceful Muslims just doing their holy Islamic duty of fucking up the world. What is so wrong with that?

Palestinians Now Using Old Woman as Suicide Bombers

Good news from those subhumans known as Palestinians - they have decided that using young men, young women, and children as suicide bombers is not enough...so, they are now using grandmothers as their weapons of choice.

Grandmother in first Hamas suicide attack in two years

JABALIYA, Gaza Strip (AFP) - A Palestinian grandmother blew herself up in the Gaza Strip, lightly wounding three Israeli soldiers, in the first suicide attack claimed by Hamas in almost two years.

The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57, selecting as her target troops operating near her northern Gaza home in Jabaliya, seeking to curb near-daily rocket attacks on Israel.

"Troops saw a woman approaching them in a suspicious manner and identified her carrying an explosive device," an army spokeswoman said.

"They then threw a stun grenade in her direction but she managed to blow herself up," she added, adding that three soldiers were lightly hurt.

Within minutes the armed wing of the Hamas claimed the bombing. This was the Islamist group's first suicide attack since January 2005, when a bomber wounded seven Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

"The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades claims the martyr operation carried out by Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, aged 57, in the middle of a group of Zionist soldiers," an online statement said.

You have to hand it to the Palestinians - just when you think they have reached a low that could not go any lower, they do something like this. After all, they have used mules as bombers - why not grandmothers.

Just for reference, check out this photo of the (former) grandmother, now sitting in hell with her smelly pantyhose:



To be honest, if we looked this bad at 57, we would blow ourselves up, too.

Islamic Terrorist Apologizes for Beheading Three Girls

An Indonesian Muslim who murdered three Christian girls for no reason apologized. Now read on for his reasoning why he apologized. It is hilarious beyond reason.

Suspected Muslim militant apologizes for beheadings of Christian girls in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia: A suspected Islamic militant told judges Wednesday he took part in the beheadings of three Christian girls on an Indonesian island wracked by sectarian violence to avenge the deaths of Muslims, but apologized to their families.

"We are not cold-blooded killers," Hasanuddin, 34, told the Central Jakarta District Court. "We just wanted revenge."

Yep, he is a "suspected Muslim militant" despite the fact that he confessed to the murders.

Next, John Kerry will be labeled as "a suspected imbecile."

But, he is not a "cold blooded killer." He is just a 3 time murderer who beheaded 3 innocent children.

You Gets What You Deserves, Part I Revisited: Chuckie Rangel and The Return of the Draft

It appears that just days after we posted the story that Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Delusional) said he wanted to bring back the draft, to "make the military more fair to the poor," the Downercrats put their fingers to the wind and saw that this was not such a good idea.

Wait. They think it is a good idea, but because it has less support than the clap, they have decided to shelve it.

Top House Democrats to bar military draft plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A reinstatement of the military draft, being pushed by a senior Democrat, will not be slated for consideration in the House of Representatives, the chamber's newly elected top leaders said on Monday.

"We did not include that" in legislative plans for early next year, said Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, who will be House majority leader when the new Congress convenes in January under Democratic control for the first time in 12 years.

New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, who is in line to chair the House Ways and Means Committee next year, has renewed his call for the draft, saying the war in Iraq is being fought by American soldiers who disproportionately are from low-income families and minorities.

Over the weekend, Rangel said he would seek passage next year of the universal draft legislation he has long sought. "If we're going to challenge Iran and challenge North Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops to Iraq, we can't do that without a draft," Rangel said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California told reporters on Monday that she does not support reinstating the draft, which was suspended in 1973 near the end of the Vietnam War and replaced by the all-volunteer army.

As Ways and Means panel chairman, Rangel will have a significant role in U.S. tax and health-care policy. That post will not necessarily give Rangel an effective forum for pursuing his military draft legislation, Pelosi observed.

You can imagine how bad things are: the Downercrats won the majority three weeks ago, and already they have disobeyed their leader and picked a different majority leader, and now they have to shelve one of their leading issues because, well, it just ain't popular.

Watching the fight over Alcee Hastings as the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee ought to be fun.

You Gets What You Deserves, Part II: Bend Over, America; the Downercrats Have a Gift for You

As part of our series "You gets what you deserves," today we concentrate on another tip-top, important issue that Downercrats have decided needs to be addressed now that they will be in the majority in the US Congress.

Taxes? Health care? Not at all - it to protect gays in the military. Leading the way - 2 more assholes from Massachusetts, Marty Meehan and Barney "Bendover" Frank.

Meehan targeting 'don't ask, don't tell'

WASHINGTON -- Two leading House Democrats said yesterday that they intend to reverse the 13-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians in the military when Congress comes under Democratic control in January.

Representative Martin T. Meehan, a Lowell Democrat, said he plans to hold congressional hearings early next year of the House Armed Services Subcommittee, which he is likely to chair, on a bill that would allow homosexuals to serve in the armed forces.

"We will have hearings, and then we can have an honest dialogue with members of Congress," Meehan said.

"I believe, and have always believed, that once people see the facts, it will become clear that this is a policy that actually hurts national security and hurts the military."

Meehan said the incoming Armed Services Committee chairman, Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, is considering him to lead the new subcommittee on oversight. Meehan would bring the issue before his subcommittee and could press for the full committee to examine it as well.

Meehan's proposed change was backed yesterday by Representative Barney Frank, a Newton Democrat who is openly gay.

This offers the American people another reason why they will be rudely shocked at what Downercrats do with the power of the majority come January. However, the Republicans warned what would happen if you put this sicko crowd in control. So, America, "you gets what you deserves."

John Kerry: Is He Stupid, Or Just Psychotic?

John Kerry (DuMass) says that he sees no reason why the recent kerfluffle over his joke-telling abilities and his desire to label our military forces as imbeciles is any hindrance to his ability to run for President in 2008.

Unfortunately for Kerry, he is the only one. You can stick a fork in Johnny, because he is done.

Kerry: Botched Joke Won't Affect 2008

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry insisted on Sunday his "botched joke" about President Bush's Iraq policy would not undermine a possible White House campaign in 2008.
"Not in the least," Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in said when asked if the furor over his comment had caused him to reconsider a 2008 race. "The parlor game of who's up, who's down, today or tomorrow, if I listened to that stuff, I would never have won the nomination."

Isn't there anyone in Massachusetts who is ashamed that their two US Senators are a murderer who avoided prosecution and a war criminal who calls our military morons? Is that state so empty of politicians that they need these 2 representing them?

Islamic Terrorist, Offered Free American Health Care, Turns It Down

How dumb are Muslims? Imagine if you were an Islamic terrorist, and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. You have a bad heart - but the dumb Americans offer you free health care and a free heart operation to get you back to good health.

What is your response? Like the rest of the dumb Muslims of the world, you turn it down.

Like we said - here is one more dumb fucking Muslim.

Guantanamo inmate nixes heart procedure

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A 59-year-old Guantanamo Bay detainee has refused to have a required heart procedure at the U.S. military base in Cuba, one of his attorneys said Sunday.

Saifullah A. Paracha, a Pakistani multimillionaire, will not agree to have a cardiac catheterization done at the base because he thinks its medical facilities and backups are inadequate, said Zachary Katznelson of the London-based human rights group Reprieve.

"This is a completely new procedure for Guantanamo. Mr. Paracha very well might need open heart surgery, and that has never been done before at Guantanamo," Katznelson said.

Paracha, who is accused of laundering money for al-Qaida and plotting to smuggle explosives into the United States, already has had one heart attack while in U.S. custody and has recently suffered chest pains, according to his lawyers.

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Paracha's family has urged Pakistan's government to seek his return home for medical treatment.

Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, said Guantanamo has a "first class medical facility for detainees" and rejected the charge that the detention center was not equipped to successfully perform the catheterization.

"The assertion that this detainee's medical condition is 'completely new' at Guantanamo is patently false. A detainee was treated successfully for a serious heart condition by a team of doctors at Guantanamo in 2003," Gordon said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

So, this thug has had one heart attack already, and now has chest pains. And when offered a free heart operation (with the best doctors the military can offer), the moron turns it down.

This is why the world laughs at the United States: only here do we offer free heart operations to the same people who are trying to destroy us. Pathetic.

Report: Israel has spies inside Iran

Israel has smuggled spies into Iran, and they are reporting back to Jerusalem that Iran has tested a nuclear trigger.

How long before Israel acts to stop this incredible threat that continues to grow, day by day, is anyone's guess.

Report: Israeli spies active in Iran

Iran has developed and tested a trigger device for a nuclear bomb, Israeli agents stationed there have told the White House, according to a report published in The New Yorker Monday morning.

According to the report, written by Seymour M. Hersh, the White House received the information but did not pass it on to the CIA.

The report also stated that in the past six months, Israel and the United States had been working together to support a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan.

Then again, Seymour Hersh is such a liar and fanatic that it is probable he is making the whole story up.

Terror "Farce" in England...Do They Take the Threat of Islamic Terrorism Seriously Over There at All?

For some reason, the British, from PM Tony Blair down, have some voice in their heads telling them that in the end Islamic terrorists won't try to carry out some God-awful attack on the UK, because, after all, they are not the United States. The US possibly deserved 9/11, so the theory might go, and since the British are not us, something like that could not possibly happen to them. To this end, they almost don't take seriously the fight to root out Islamic terrorists in their midst.

Wait - you don't believe this theory? Here is some evidence to digest...a man the Blair government says is a wanted Islamic terrorist from the July 7 bombings in London last year cannot be identified - and the Home Secretary John Reid says that despite the fact that the police are looking for him, nno description of him can be released.

Terror farce over refusal to unmask 7/7 suspect

The war on terror has descended into farce after the Government refused to identify a July 7 suspect on the run from the security services.

The Home Office insists the British Muslim, who describes himself as a 'Holy warrior', is such a grave threat to national security he must be under a control order.

But, despite the 25-year-old committing a serious crime by repeatedly breaching the order and making himself a fugitive, John Reid will not take steps to lift his veil of secrecy.

The Home Secretary's refusal to act is in spite of fears the man is a possible 'missing link' to the London plot.

Investigators have linked him to two of the four bombers who claimed 52 innocent lives last year - ringleader Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer.

The Daily Mail knows his identity, his shocking links to terrorists and has a photograph, but is unable to publish.

Critics said it had reduced Labour's so-called war on terror to farce.

Ministers were told the fanatic - who also spent seven months in detention in Pakistan and is feared to have links to al Qaeda - either was an enormous threat to the public, and should be named to he could be caught.

Alternatively, the Home Office must come clean he is not a danger and drop the pretence the man - and other control order suspects like him - must be kept under hugely-expensive surveillance.

Mr Reid has powers to ask the courts to lift the terror suspect's anonymity - granted to protect his rights - but Home Office officials say they have 'no plans' to act.

The stubborn refusal denies the police and security services the chance to benefit from a sighting by the public, who may have seen the London-born extremist since he escaped through the window of a mental hospital two weeks ago.

So, the Daily Mail knows ths suspect's identity, but "cannot publish" it? Why the hell not?

So, here is what we have in this fucked up world: in America, we have The New York Times, which basically runs stories which can only aid and abet al Qaeda stay on the run and protects their phone calls and their civil liberties, and in England we cannot divulge the name of a wanted terrorist for some unknown reason.

When a nuclear weapon smuggled in by al Qaeda goes off somewhere - and it will - who do we blame? The piece of shit media, or the piece of shit government officials who seem intent on allowing it to happen?

You Gets What You Deserves, Part I: Here Come The Scumbag Downercrats

We have a new name here for the party which the American people decided 2 weeks ago to make the majority party in Washington despite their having no plan for anything except to raise taxes: the Downercrats. Because if you listen to them closely, and see what they intend to do with this country, you will feel like a downer.

This is part 1, the first installment, of "You Gets What You Deserves," a look at what the morons known as the American people voted for in Congressional elections in 2006. We will examine the true face of the Downercrat Party as they make this country into a rotting stinking shithole.

Does anyone remember, say, 2 years ago, during the 2004 campaign, when Downercrats claimed that President Bush would reinstate the draft if he got re-elected? Despite the fact that such a claim never came to pass, the Downercrats in the House in 2005, then in the minority (oh, those blessed days!), decided that they wanted to reinstate the draft, and, led by Bonehead Du Jour Charles Rangel, pushed for a vote on a draft reinstatement - a vote that, as it was going down to extraordinary defeat, even Rangel voted against it.

Now that the Downercrats are in the majority, what is one of the first pieces of business for them? Withdraw from Iraq? Raise taxes? Make gay marriage legal? No - it is to reinstate the draft.

As we say, America: You gets what you deserves for voting for this crowd of sickos.

Rep. Rangel will seek to reinstate draft

WASHINGTON - Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 under a bill the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says he will introduce next year.

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said Sunday he sees his idea as a way to deter politicians from launching wars.

"There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way," Rangel said.

Rangel, a veteran of the Korean War who has unsuccessfully sponsored legislation on conscription in the past, has said the all-volunteer military disproportionately puts the burden of war on minorities and lower-income families.

Rangel said he will propose a measure early next year. While he said he is serious about the proposal, there is little evident support among the public or lawmakers for it.

In 2003, Rangel proposed a measure covering people age 18 to 26. It was defeated 402-2 the following year. This year, he offered a plan to mandate military service for men and women between age 18 and 42; it went nowhere in the Republican-led Congress.

How hilarious - somehow, Rangel now finds the evidence used to go to war "flimsy," which seemed to rope in John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Steny Hoyer, etc. Must be a lot of dimwits in the Downercrat Party, eh?

Here is what the Republican minority should do: push for an immediate vote on the Rangel draft resolution. Demand a vote, and publicize it wherever tv cameras show up. On the floor of the House, rail against it and accuse Downies of trying to suck American boys and girls into war.

Then, watch as the resolution gets voted down overwhelmingly again. Then, put on commercials how the first piece of business by Nancy Pelosi's Gang was to try to draft American boys and girls into the military. See how that plays amongst the middle class who voted for these whackos.

Let America see: you gets what your deserves.

Leftwing Nutcase: "Republicans Really Won the 2006 Midterms"

Oh, how being a leftist allows you to speculate, to turn rumor into fact without any foundation, and to make shit up. And, incredibly, people with severe mental problems can become voices for the Left.

Here is one such nutcase: Lloyd Garver, a CBS "contributor," says that Republicans really won the elections in 2006.

Nancy Pelosi (D-Fruitpie) may differ with Mr. Garver.

The Republicans Really Won

Democrats stop celebrating, and Republicans, don't despair. I know the Democrats won the recent election on paper, but in the long run the Republicans just might be the big winners of Election 2006.

In fact, I think the Republicans set the whole thing up so the Democrats could fail over the next two years, which will bring about a big Republican presidential win in 2008.

What other explanation is there? I mean, do you think that Karl Rove and the rest of the Republican brain trust suddenly got stupid? I don't think so.

Garver, in serious need of mental help, then goes on to list areas of policy which the Downies now need to address: Iraq, health care, etc.

Perhaps Mr. Garver needs to understand what being in power truly does mean. It is not like the last 12 years where Downies made faces and stood for nothing, Lloyd. It means that now they have to run things, as they have been asking to do. And if they fail, they get voted out. It's called "democracy," Lloyd. Look into it on your way to the nuthouse, willya?

Pakistan Tries to Change Its Rape Laws; Extremist Muslims Scream And Walk Out

In the Islamic world, if you are a woman, you are subject to rape, and if you are raped the law blames you, not the man, and punishes the woman. God help you if you can prove you were raped.

Pakistan is trying to amend the laws which say that a woman must have 4 witnesses to the rape to bring them into modern times. Extremist Muslims, however, who are happy with subjugating women to the point of slavery, are pissed to hell. They walked out of the Pakistani Parliament.

Pakistan to amend rape laws

Pakistan lawmakers passed amendments to the country's contentious rape laws, making it easier for victims to prosecute their attackers, and dropping the death penalty and flogging as punishments for extramarital sex.

Islamist fundamentalists, however, were furious and stormed out of parliament in protest at Wednesday's vote.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf applauded the lawmakers and said it was necessary to amend the "unjust rape laws" in order to protect women.

The changes, which must still be approved by the Senate, give judges discretion to try rape cases in a criminal rather than Islamic court, where women have to present at least four witnesses for a conviction. Musharraf urged the Senate to pass the Protection of Women Bill within days.

The new legislation comes amid Musharraf's efforts to soften the country's hard-line Islamic image.

The amendments won cautious support from human rights activists, but they urged the government to take bolder steps and scrap the law, known as the Hudood Ordinance.

Pro-Islamic lawmakers, however, threatened to block the bill's passage in the Senate.

"We reject it," Maulana Fazlur Rahman, a top Islamist opposition leader, told reporters after the vote, which he described as a "dark day" in Pakistan's parliamentary history.

Strict Islamic laws dictate that a woman who claims rape must produce four witnesses in court, making a trial of the alleged rapist almost impossible because such attacks rarely happen in public. Those who admit that sex took place outside of marriage but cannot prove it was rape risk being charged with adultery.

Under the changes, consensual sex outside of marriage is still considered a crime, but punishable by five years in jail or a 10,000 rupees (US$165; euro129) fine instead of death or flogging, said a parliamentary official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Hina Jillani, a top female Pakistani human rights activist, said the government was moving in the right direction, but had not gone far enough. "We wanted a total repeal of the 1979 rape law, but the government has not done it."

The thugs of Islam say that any changes making women human is "Un-Islamic."

Well, there you go, folks: just a small view of what awaits women when Islam tries to take over the world. Nice, ain't it?

Breaking News: Jack Abramoff Fingers Harry Reid as One of His Corrupt Senators

When Jack Abramoff was pointing out crooked Republicans, Downies were thrilled to go to cameras and denounce the Republican "culture of corruption." And one of those with the loudest voices was Harry Reid, the lowlife thief from Nevada who had made millions from shady land deals.

But now Jack Abramoff is pointing to Harry Reid as one of those in the US Senate who he paid to get Indian casinos slanted legislation.

As we said yesterday, turnabout is fair play. Harry Reid called for Republicans with ties to Abramoff to be prosecuted. Now, Reid needs to be prosecuted, to the fullest extent of the law.

Abramoff Reports to Prison; Officials Focus on Reid, Others

As convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff reported to federal prison today, a source close to the investigation surrounding his activities told ABC News that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was one of the members of Congress Abramoff had allegedly implicated in his cooperation with federal prosecutors.

A spokesperson for Reid, elected yesterday as the Senate Majority Leader, said the senator had done nothing illegal or unethical.

"We have no idea what Abramoff is telling prosecutors to save his skin, but I do know that these kind of old allegations are completely ridiculous and untrue," Sen. Reid's spokesman Jim Manley told ABC News.

A source close to the investigation says Abramoff told prosecutors that more than $30,000 in campaign contributions to Reid from Abramoff's clients "were no accident and were in fact requested by Reid."

Abramoff has reportedly claimed the Nevada senator agreed to help him on matters related to Indian gambling.

Sorry, Harry. You do not pass Go, you do not collect $200 - you should just go straight to jail. Where you belong, you hypocritical crooked fuck.

Add Another Group to Those That the BBC Hates: The Elderly

The BBC, the anti-American and anti-Semitic broadcasting network whose own members have recently admitted that the company, which robs billions of pounds from British taxpayers, is run by homosexuals and those who hate capitalism and Christianity, apparently does not just hate Americans, Jews, Israelis, and President Bush.

It also hates the elderly. And doesn't give one thin shit what older people have to say.

BBC radio phone-in silences the elderly

The BBC was accused of ageism yesterday after a leaked memo revealed that phone-in presenters on a local radio station have been barred from allowing callers who sound old on air.

Mia Costello, managing editor of BBC Radio Solent, told her broadcasters: "I don't want to hear really elderly voices."

She instructed presenters to appeal to an imaginary couple she called "Dave and Sue", who would typically be aged between 45 and 64. "Only do caller round-ups about people in this age range," she said.

Her memo was leaked after she axed several of her older broadcasters, including the BBC's disability affairs correspondent Peter White, who had a Saturday breakfast show on the station until last week. Other presenters to go included Pippa Greenwood, the gardening expert.

Mr White, 59, one of the corporation's most experienced broadcasters, condemned the policy. He started his BBC career on Radio Solent, which broadcasts to a large area of central southern England, from studios in Southampton in 1971.

Like other BBC local radio stations, many of Solent's regular listeners are aged in their sixties and above.

Mr White, who is a presenter on the Radio 4 You and Yours programme as well as a commentator on disability matters for BBC television and radio, described the memo as "condescending and contemptuous of older listeners who are as entitled to contribute to programmes as any other age group."

He questioned whether it was in the remit of the BBC, as a publicly funded broadcaster, to "disenfranchise a section of listeners who contribute to that funding as licence payers".

"I am disgusted by this," he said. "It is ageism, and one wonders who is leaning on the managing editor from a more senior level for her to write such a memo."

In it, Ms Costello said "only talk about things that are positive and appealing to people in the 45 to 64 age group". She said listeners were deserting Radio Solent for "more upbeat sounding stations".

How the British government continues to demand with a straight face that British taxpayers must pay for this leftwing Marxist and biased crap is beyond me.

Nightmare of Nightmares: The Return of Hillarycare is Coming!

In 1993, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton decided that she would remake the US health care system into some megalomaniacal socialist nightmare. When her grandiose plan failed, Downies went down to defeat in the 1994 midterm elections, and her husband, The Rapist© Willy Clinton, had to moderate his policies to avoid being defeated in 1996.

Now, Hillary, a US Senator, finds herself in the majority in the US Senate. What does she want to do? Bring back Hillarycare, that's what.

What has she learned from her 1993-94 experience? Apparently nothing.

Clinton Outlines Legislative Priorities

Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday outlined an ambitious agenda of legislative priorities while continuing to deflect questions about her presumed presidential ambitions.

"I will look at the possibilities, but I ... haven't really had the time to talk to people about it," Clinton told a breakfast gathering hosted by the Association for a Better New York. "It's been a busy election season that worked out well, so I will think about it. I'm open to thoughts."

[...]

She also said Democrats would focus on improving the quality and affordability of health care _ a touchy matter for the former first lady, who in 1993 led her husband's calamitous attempt to overhaul the nation's health care system. The failure of that effort helped Republicans win control of both the Senate and House the following year.

"Health care is coming back," Clinton warned, adding, "It may be a bad dream for some."

Actually, Hillary, it will be bad news for you and your fellow Downies, because we remember what it took to defeat your Socialist monstrosity...



TIME TO BRING BACK HARRY AND LOUISE!

And here's a lovely story about what the stakes in this fight are all about: what socialist health care would become here in America. A man in England, where health care is a joke, not a right, had a problem: His tooth fell out, and he could not get an appointment with a dentist. What did he do? He glued it in with Superglue.

Hillarycare 2007: Get your Superglue ready, America.

Dentist shortage leads man to superglue own tooth

A man fixed his front tooth with superglue after failing to find an NHS dentist.

Gordon Cook, 55, has used the bizarre "DIY dentistry" technique on a loose crown for the last three years - with each fresh application of glue lasting around two months.

What a fucking joke that this shit has to be defeated again. Pick up your pitchforks, America, for the fight is upon us.

Islamic Scumbag Asks Why Muslims Don't Win Nobel Prizes

It's racist, says Samir Ubeid! Plenty of Jews who invented things got the Nobel Prize, but Arabs in general, and Muslims in particular, don't seem to win any. What could be the cause, asks Ubeid?

Samir Ubeid, an Iraqi Researcher Living in Europe: The Nobel Prize Is Racist and Stems from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Why has the prize been awarded to 167 Jews, and to only four Arabs out of 380 million Arabs – and all four are considered traitors? For example, Al-Sadat got the prize during the normalization process, and as a price for Camp David, together with Begin, who carried out the Deir Yassin massacre, and who was in the "Hagana" gangs. Later, the prize was awarded to [Ahmad] Al-Zewail, in order to buy his invention, and Al-Zewail has disappeared since.

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Democracy does not explain how it was awarded to 167 Jews, from among those 15 million scattered around the world, while abandoning 1.5 billion Chinese, a billion Indians, and 380 million Arabs. This is racism.

Actually, there is a pretty clear reason why Muslims don't win Nobel Prizes:

Muslims are stupid. Their only inventions are bigger and better bombs and suicide belt packs.

Nobels, especially for scientific advances, are not awarded to imbeciles. So that leaves Muslims out.

Downies are Corrupt as Hell: A Primer

Here is a wonderful, heart-warming story about a Downie scumbag who has decided to throw all ethics aside.

We covered the story in January of this year of Sowande Omokunde, the son of US Rep Gwen Moore, and his buddies who, while working for the John Kerry for President campaign in 2004, went out and slashed the tires of vans owned by the local Republican party so that the GOP could not get their voters to the polls. The thug son of Moore got a four month prison sentence (how much he served is anyone's guess), but as soon as he got out his mother hired him as a "consultant" to her campaign and paid him $1,500. Moore also paid her sister, Brenda, $40,000 to also serve as a "consultant."

The question then is, where is the US House on this matter? Imagine if a Republican politician whose son plead guilty to slashing the tires of Downie vans and served time in jail was paid as a "consultant" to his campaign, which also features the pol's sister being paid as well. Nancy Pelosi (D-Nutjob) would scream at the top of her lungs at this "Republican culture of corruption." But from Nancy when it is a fellow Downie? Silence.

Ties that bind

.S. Rep. Gwen Moore's campaign is quickly becoming a family business.

Not only does the Milwaukee Democrat have her sister Brenda on the campaign payroll to the tune of nearly $40,000 annually, as we reported last year, but Moore now has brought on her 27-year-old son, Sowande Omokunde, also known as Supreme Solar Allah.

Recent campaign reports show Moore, who was easily re-elected to a second term, paid her son $1,500 in October for political consulting. Omokunde told others that he was the campaign's deputy field director.

Neither the congresswoman nor her sister returned calls Friday.

As you may recall, Omokunde was one of four Democratic staffers who pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for slashing tires on 25 vans hours before Republican Party officials were to use them to drive voters to the polls on election day 2004. In April, Omokunde was sentenced to four months in jail and fined $1,000 for his role in the much-publicized caper.

But he obviously had a soft landing. How many other criminals can walk out of jail and into a job on a congressional campaign payroll?

Supreme Solar! The fucking crook is "supreme"!

We as Republicans deserve this. We allowed Pelosi and her gang of disgusting asshole liberals to beat us over the head with our crooks, while we let her and her party skate free and clear from the stories of her own Downie crooks.

Now that we are in the minority, turnabout must be fair play. Here's what Republicans need to do from here on out, at least for the next year:

1. Hold daily press conferences and mention the Democrats' "culture of corruption." Have people at the press conference hold up signs with the names of Dem lawmakers, like Pelosi, Murtha, Hastings, Mollohan, Jefferson, etc., who are in ethical trouble, with words connected to them like "thief" and "crook" and "criminal."

2. Demand that the House Ethics Committee investigate each and every troubling allegation. Make each allegation a separate investigation. When the Dems stonewall, go on tv and scream about Pelosi's cover-ups of corruption. Every time CNN or MSNBC invite on a Republican, that politician should start off the interview with "We tried to get Pelosi to investigate Representative ______, but she is stonewalling to protect the culture of liberal corruption in the House."

3. Write letters to the Justice Department asking for the opening of investigations and grand juries into the allegations against Downies. When there is no response, hold more press conferences. Scream louder and louder until someone hears it.

4. Have Republicans go to the House floor and condemn the "culture of corruption" and name each crooked Dem involved. Highlight each allegation. When Downies demand apologies, have more Republicans go to the floor and condemn the strong-arm tactics as a cover-up of criminal activity.

5. Start a website: Crookeddems.com. Post the "10 Most Wanted Dem Crooks" with their pictures, and hand out bumper stickers with the web address.

This and other little measures will make the Downies squirm like they made the GOP squirm when we were in the majority. And it will show how utterly hypocritical the Downies truly are.

The NY Times: Do as We Say, Not as We Say

Before last week's election, The NY Times joined other slavishly liberal newspapers in the United States to make note day after day of the problems in Iraq, making sure to highlight every death of an American soldier, every death of an Iraqi civilian, to call the violence a "civil war," and to make the average American believe that the war in Iraq is lost. Pull out now, these newspapers piped every day. Why waste any more lives and money in a failed effort? they asked. When Downies called for "redeployment" (a fancy word for "withdrawal"), and timetables, and how the war was lost and that we needed to get out now with our tails between our legs, these liberal rags (whose sales continue to plummet for some unknown reason) were there to give voice to these calls for surrender. George W. Bush, calling for us to remain in Iraq and to win the war, was mocked as "staying the course." We can't follow this strategy anymore, the liberal newspapers sounded in their clarion call. Something must be done so we get out sooner rather than later.

Downies ate up this message, and in the elections last week the party took control of Congress. Time to do as the papers said and withdraw, er, redeploy, right?

Not so fast, says The Times. It could be a mistake...it could make us look bad...it could open the region up to civil war.

How interesting. Where was The Times before last week with this message?

No where - that's where. Because now they can trumpet the same thing President Bush has been saying because the election is safely over.

Get Out of Iraq Now? Not So Fast, Experts Say

One of the most resonant arguments in the debate over Iraq holds that the United States can move forward by pulling its troops back, as part of a phased withdrawal. If American troops begin to leave and the remaining forces assume a more limited role, the argument holds, it will galvanize the Iraqi government to assume more responsibility for securing and rebuilding Iraq.

This is the case now being argued by many Democrats, most notably Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who asserts that the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq should begin within four to six months.

But this argument is being challenged by a number of military officers, experts and former generals, including some who have been among the most vehement critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.

Anthony C. Zinni, the former head of the United States Central Command and one of the retired generals who called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, argued that any substantial reduction of American forces over the next several months would be more likely to accelerate the slide to civil war than stop it.

“The logic of this is you put pressure on Maliki and force him to stand up to this,” General Zinni said in an interview, referring to Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister. “Well, you can’t put pressure on a wounded guy. There is a premise that the Iraqis are not doing enough now, that there is a capability that they have not employed or used. I am not so sure they are capable of stopping sectarian violence.”

Instead of taking troops out, General Zinni said, it would make more sense to consider deploying additional American forces over the next six months to “regain momentum” as part of a broader effort to stabilize Iraq that would create more jobs, foster political reconciliation and develop more effective Iraqi security forces.

Yep, it is time to send in more troops - an argument completely different than the one that the Times has been making.

Just who are they kidding? All of us, naturally. Because now they can give cover to the Downies who don't want to surrender but do want to pull our troops out now, which has the same effect.

The New York Times: Do as we say, not as we say. More liberal bullshit from the paper not worth wrapping fish with.

Islamic Terrorist Found in UK...Working for Tony Blair's Government

Imagine for a moment if a member of a banned Islamic terrorist group which wants sharia law imposed on Western countries and supports al Qaeda was found working in a sensitive job in the Bush administration - the media in this country would be falling all over themselves mocking President Bush, the administration, and calling the President incompetent for allowing it. And, to be honest, if that had happened, it would look really bad.

So, what is the response when this did happen in Great Britain, when a member of the banned group Hizb-ut Tahrir, banned by the Blair government for advocating sharia law and supporting terrorism worldwide, is found working - get ready for this one - in the office which oversees asylum requests and passport issues?

Holy fucking shit!

Leading member of Muslim extremist group working at the Home Office

A leading member of an extremist Islamic group is working as a senior official at the Home Office, it emerged.

Abid Javaid is a 'senior executive officer' in the IT department at the scandal-hit Immigration and Nationality Directorate which processes tens of thousands of asylum and visa applications every year.

But he is also an activist in the fundamentalist Islamic group Hizb-ut Tahrir which believes in a worldwide Islamic state under Shariah law.

This is despite Tony Blair calling for the group to be banned last year.

The group's smartly dressed spokesmen have caused repeated outrage over their refusal to condemn terrorist attacks including last year's London bombings.

One of their leaflets called for Jews to be murdered and for the destruction of Israel.

Another spokesman, Dr Imran Waheed, refused to condemn the July 7 suicide bombs, saying he would only do so after Western leaders apologise for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last night the Tories described Javaid's employment as a 'disgrace' and said it was further proof that both the Home Office and the IND remained 'unfit for purpose'.

Patrick Mercer, the party's Homeland Security spokesman, said: 'I am amazed that this man has managed to infiltrate such a sensitive government department.

'I find it deeply worrying. This is an insidious and dangerous organisation that is clearly trying to worm its way into as many government organisations as possible.

'In August 2005, the Prime Minister said that these people should be banned.

'Now, less than 18 months later, they are, to all intents and purposes, legal. This is a clandestine organisation which seeks to infiltrate wherever it can.

'This is further proof, if any were needed, that both the IND and the Home Office are unfit for purpose.'

Javaid works at Lunar House in Croydon, South London.

The tower block processes many of the tens of thousands of claims for asylum which are made to this country every year.

The IND has been at the centre of a series of recent scandals including the failure to deport foreign prisoners and claims that case workers offered a premium service to migrants if they agreed to perform sexual favours.

In another case, one senior official was sacked after being caught on camera offering to help a Zimbabwean rape victim with her claim in return for having sex with him.

Hundreds of thousands of claims for visas and asylum are stacked in cardboard boxes and the IND has been accused of losing track of applicants.

Javaid's dual role was revealed by a joint investigation by BBC2's Newsnight and File on 4 into 'Islamic infiltration' in to everyday UK life.

The probe reveals that the civil servant is a prominent Hizb-ut Tahrir activist in South London.

He has represented the group in talks with the Croydon Mosque - which has been trying to kick out radical influences.

Tony Blair made his pledge to ban the group in a tough talking speech after the July 7 bombings in London last year.

He vowed to outlaw extremist groups and said: 'Let no one be in any doubt that the rules of the game are changing. People can't come here and abuse our good nature and our tolerance.

'They can't come here and start inciting our young people in communities to take up violence against British people here.'

Last year, the group said suicide bombers were no worse than moderate Muslims. Their articulate spokesmen frequently appear on TV as the 'respectable' face of Islamic extremism.

Although Tony Blair has been a firm supporter of the US and the War on Terrorism, he has been an abysmal failure when it comes to cracking down on Islamic terrorism inside his own country. He is worse than Neville Chamberlain in the appeasement of England's enemies. He should resign tomorrow over this story. It is a disgusting sign that codding Muslims does not work. We in the US will soon find that out, as we just elected the same imbecilic-thinking retards to a majority in the US Congress.

Downies: Corrupt as Usual

The Downies won control of Congress by yelling the words "corruption" and having the morons in the MSM mouth their every utterance. (The Republicans can be faulted, for having the crooks like Duke Cunningham and Tom DeLay in control of things.)

Now that the Downies are running the show, and Jack Murthafucker is trying to become Majority Leader, some in the media are having second thoughts. Why, you ask? Because Murthafucker is a crook - he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ABSCAM scandal in 1980, and he has spent his years in Congress lining his and his brother's pockets with pushing for aid to groups in his district who then donated to his campaigns, making him a rich man.

And Nancy Pelosi (D-Nutjob) wrote a letter this week...urging her fellow Downies to vote for Murthafucker as Majority Leader.

It appears that Nancy Pelosi is upset about Republican corruption, but Downie corruption is just fine for her.

Pelosi backs Murtha for majority leader

Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threw her support behind Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for majority leader Sunday, giving a significant boost to Murtha in his race against Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).

"Your strong voice for national security, the war on terror and Iraq provides genuine leadership for our party, and I count on you to continue to lead on these vital issues," Pelosi wrote Murtha Sunday in a letter obtained by The Hill. "For this and for all you have done for Democrats in the past and especially this last year, I am pleased to support your candidacy for majority leader for the 110th Congress."

As the House Democrats’ unchallenged leader, Pelosi has considerable sway over her colleagues. She and Murtha have long been close allies, but until now, she had not interfered in the majority leader race.

Her endorsement has the potential to turn the race,especially if she chooses to campaign on Murtha’s behalf. Pelosi’s decision to back Murtha is the most significant move she has made since Democrats scored a historic victory on Election Day.

What is the reaction to this move? The liberal watchdog group CREW - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington - which named Murthafucker as one of the 20 most unethical members of Congress, threw the sink at Pelosi for endorsing Murthafucker.

CREW Blasts Pelosi Endorsement of Unethical Murtha for Majority Leader

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) questioned soon-to-be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) commitment to eradicating corruption with her endorsement of one of the most unethical members in Congress, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), to be Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.

Rep. Murtha was listed in CREW's report Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch). As reported in the study and by the news media, Rep, Murtha has been involved in a number of pay-to play schemes involving former staffers and his brother, Robert "Kit" Murtha.

Sounds bad, right? Well, The Washington Post, which did its utmost to make sure Downies were elected and Republicans defeated is also not keen on Murthafucker being 1 step below the Speaker of the House.

A Choice for Democrats: Steny Hoyer should be the new House majority leader

LOYALTY IS an admirable quality, but sometimes it can be taken too far. That is the case with the decision by the incoming House speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to offer a public endorsement of the bid of Pennsylvania Rep. John P. Murtha (D) to become majority leader. Ms. Pelosi's preference for Mr. Murtha was no secret; he managed her campaign for minority leader against Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), now Mr. Murtha's rival for the majority leader post. What was surprising was that Ms. Pelosi would weigh in publicly on Mr. Murtha's behalf, albeit -- as she pointedly noted at the beginning of her letter -- in response to his request.

On the merits, Mr. Hoyer is by far the better choice for the job. He is a moderate and highly capable legislator whose selection would reinforce Ms. Pelosi's announced commitment to govern from the center.

Mr. Murtha's candidacy is troubling for several reasons, beginning with his position on the war in Iraq. A former Marine, Mr. Murtha deserves credit for sounding an alarm about the deteriorating situation a year ago. But his descriptions of the stakes there have been consistently unrealistic, and his solutions irresponsible. Just last week he denied that the United States was fighting terrorism in Iraq, though al-Qaeda is known to play a major part in the insurgency. He said the United States should abandon even the effort to train the Iraqi army and should "redeploy as soon as practicable," an extreme step that most congressional Democrats oppose. He claimed that "stability in the Middle East, stability in Iraq," would come from such an abrupt withdrawal; in fact, virtually all Iraqi and Middle Eastern leaders have said that it would lead to a greatly escalated conflict that could spread through the region.

Mr. Murtha would also be the wrong choice as majority leader after an election in which a large number of voters expressed unhappiness with Washington business as usual. Mr. Murtha has been a force against stronger ethics and lobbying rules. He was one of just four Democrats whose votes helped kill a strong Democratic package of lobbying reforms this spring.

As a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, he has been an avid participant in the orgy of earmarking, including numerous projects sought by a lobbying firm that employed his brother. During the Abscam congressional bribery investigation in 1980, Mr. Murtha was videotaped discussing a bribe with an undercover FBI agent. ("You know, we do business for a while, maybe I'll be interested, maybe I won't, you know," Mr. Murtha said.) He wasn't indicted, but it's fair to say the episode raised questions about his integrity.

Mr. Hoyer says he has the support of a majority of members of the Democratic caucus. We hope they aren't persuaded otherwise by Ms. Pelosi's letter.

And liberal columnist Ruth Marcus also sounded the alarm:

Unfit for Majority Leader

The videotape is grainy, dark and devastating. The congressman and the FBI undercover agents -- the congressman thinks they represent an Arab sheik willing to pay $50,000 to get immigration papers -- are talking business in the living room of a secretly wired Washington townhouse.

Two other congressmen in on the deal "do expect to be taken care of," the lawmaker says. But for the time being -- and he says repeatedly that he might change his mind and take money down the road -- he'd rather trade his help for investment in his district, maybe a hefty deposit in the bank of a political supporter who's done him favors.

"I'm not interested -- at this point," he says of the dangled bribe. "You know, we do business for a while, maybe I'll be interested, maybe I won't, you know." Indeed, he acknowledges, even though he needs to be careful -- "I expect to be in the [expletive] leadership of the House," he notes -- the money's awfully tempting. "It's hard for me to say, just the hell with it."

This is John Murtha, incoming House speaker Nancy Pelosi's choice to be her majority leader, snared but not charged in the Abscam probe in 1980. "The Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history," Pelosi pledged on election night. Five days later she wrote Murtha a letter endorsing his bid to become her No. 2.

Not the most promising start.

For years Murtha has relied on the Abscam bottom line to argue that the case is not a problem for him: He wasn't indicted. But he was named a co-conspirator in the bribery scheme. The feckless House ethics committee didn't take action against him, though the outside investigator it hired quit in disgust after the panel rejected his recommendation to file misconduct charges.

"I am the guy that didn't take the money," Murtha said this summer when his opponent raised the issue.

Yes, but: He's the guy who, brought into the deal by two other House members -- Frank Thompson (D-N.J.) and John Murphy (D-N.Y.) -- agreed to meet with men offering money in return for official action. He's the guy who knew these two colleagues expected a payoff and even vouched for them with the would-be bribers ("Both of them are solid.")

Read the whole thing - how this guy continues to be interviewed on tv and yet is never questioned about anything he was involved in is amazing. Then again, he appears on liberal talk shows, where he knows softball questions are the rule for Downies.

So, one week after Downies won control of Congress claiming to clean up corruption, Nancy Pelosi is set to name bribe-taker and impeached judge Alcee Hastings as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and she wants Jack Murthafucker, an unindicted co-conspirator in the ABSCAM case, as Majority Leader.

How long before the media takes off on Nancy Pelosi's corruption in her own life? Who knows - but if the past is any measure, the liberal media will continue to cover for their fellow crooked liberals who they worked for 12 years to get control of Congress. They will not mess with that now, no matter how bad the stench of liberal corruption.

How to be a Liberal Fruitcake: Demand Your Spouse Join in the "9/11 Truth" Movement or Divorce Them

We tried to come up with words for this, but we at a loss for some.

This post on a chat room is from August. It is still funny.

Some moron is upset that his wife has not watched "Loose Change," a film by 3 college imbeciles claiming that President Bush engineered 9/11. Using smilies (a lot of them, in fact), this doofus says that if his wife continues to resist watching this piece of crap, he will ask for a divorce.

Insanity must make life very lonely for liberals.

It's hard for me to believe, but after all this time my wife has still not watched Loose Change. I think the among those of us not present in this world in 1941, 9/11 event was the defining moment of of portion of history. I'm obviously not apathetic, otherwise I would be here, but my approach usually is "Look, here's what I think, here's where to find the info, check it out if you're interested." Sometimes I add "If you're not interested in 9/11, what ARE you interested in?" I mean really, one does not have to make history and politics the centerpiece of his/her own life, but one would think it should matter to some degree. After all, history is essentially the story of our world, and we are a part of that greater collective. Certainly we need not be, and certainly there is some good argument to the notion that any individual would be better off without the mad affairs of the collective, but on the other hand don't we have some sort of collective responsibility for the greater good? And if so, if there is any moment that our participation matters, wouldn't 9/11 be the moment?

With that all said, I wondering if I shouldn't just go ahead and say to my wife "Okay look, you're either going to watch Loose Change or I file for divorce." What do you think? I mean hell, I don't push my opinions on people, but I would think I could at least get my own damn wife to watch the show, eh?

I'm not much the preacher , more the help desk info type person . Frankly I kinda think most people in the world are just sheep anyways so why bother? I mean you can preach to a sheep all you want, but if you get any response at all it will always just be baa.

Anyways on a happier note, I did watch V for Vendetta last night . Really fun, nice little tidbits sneaked in there. My wife watched it too, so a minor victory anyways.

Now there is wisdom: "I mean you can preach to a sheep all you want, but if you get any response at all it will always just be baa." Maybe if he divorces his wife, he can find some sheep to bed down with.

Evidence of "Moderate Muslims" - Death Penalty Demanded for Advocating Recognizing Israel

We always hear from the moonbatty left: there are moderate Muslims out there, somewhere. Their moderation should be made public and rewarded.

Well, folks, here's your moderate Muslim: an editor in Bangladesh, which refuses to recognize Israel, called on his country to change their attitude to try to end the violence in the Middle East.

The response? Debate? Questions? Civility? Of course not. Muslims demand that he get the death penalty for speaking out.

Bangladeshi Muslim editor faces death penalty for moderate views

A Bangladeshi Muslim journalist arrested in the past for advocating ties with Israel now faces charges of sedition, a crime punishable by death in Bangladesh, and will likely be put on trial by the end of the month, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

In a court session on Tuesday in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, a state-appointed judge ruled that the government's case against Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury could proceed to trial and that the hearings would commence within 15 days.

As editor of The Weekly Blitz, an English-language newspaper published in Dhaka, Choudhury aroused the ire of Bangladeshi authorities after he printed articles favorable to Israel and critical of Muslim extremism.

Bangladesh does not recognize Israel's existence and refuses to establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

In November 2003, Choudhury was arrested at Dhaka's international airport just prior to boarding a flight on his way to Israel, where he was scheduled to deliver an address on promoting understanding between Muslims and Jews. His visit to Israel would have been the first by a Bangladeshi journalist.

Choudhury was charged with sedition, held in prison for 17 months and was reportedly tortured before being freed in April 2005. But the authorities in Bangladesh, which is ruled by a coalition government that includes Islamic extremists, decided to continue pursuing charges against him.

Dr. Richard Benkin, an American Jew who led the fight to win Choudhury's release, told the Post that the situation facing the beleaguered journalist was dire.

"Choudhury has angered the Islamists, who both engineered his arrest and continue to see this as an important case," Benkin said. "He is a pro-Israeli, anti-terrorist Muslim who will not be cowed into silence."

There is no "moderate" Islam. There are human beings, and then there are Muslims. And Muslims want to change the world into followers of their sick cult, or they will destroy thw world trying.

How About a Word from Another Scumbag Liberal?

This letter was sent to National Review Online (NRO) in September, but we found it again going through some old links, and we felt it should be posted for all to see: it is the true face of liberalism in America today...racist, anti-Semitic, with a burning hatred of this country.

Not A Parody

Hi Jona

I would like to introduce myself,I live in Jacksonville Fla,your article was in todays paper about the so called conspiracy nut cases.Quite interesting but it was just the usual disinformation put out by the eleit who run the world,you know the ones you work for.I am a 63 yr old VietNam vet,high school education only that makes me one the stupid one s of your hit piece,right?Wrong Pal,I dont know which anti america fascist group you work for,CFR,Bilderbergers,Zionist Mossad,ADL, the list is very long.

All I know is the pressure in on you traitors,cause the fascist/Zionist press is attacking the 911 truth movement every day on the Zionist(Redstone)tv and press,and Hollywood all Zionist owned and controled.I am a Patroit american,Christian,which really scares you,not one of the phoney tv preachers like fat boy Hagee,or Robertson a 33 degree mason,all bent on spelling out disinformantion about how the christians should bow down and worship you Zionist jews as the choosen race,I mean your the most rascist bunch of bastards in the world.

Lets see you want to exterminate the Arab world,like the Nazies tryed to do to your race,right.You back the Bush nazi crime family,this is in the govt records,Prescott Bush,jr Bush grand dad,finianced Hitler in the 1930s to end of WW2,along with his partner Wall St banker Harriaman(jew).Gee thats funny a jew paying to kill jews,boy you love money,its your god,not mine.

They sleeping american masses are starting to wake up to the eleit New World Order/Illuminati/Zionist bull s**t.Yes you think we dumb ass americans are all Joe six packs,sex and movies and sprots nuts,your wrong again boy.Thru the blood of these wakeing up americans by the millions,you know the ones who past generations made the greatest country (Christian Republic) in the world,till you Zionist bankers ,oh am I picking on the jews,lets see.No I am not,Jesus Christ warned us to be carefull of the jews who call thereselves jews but are not,you being a jew can understand that from a dumb ass High School grad.I got education as a 21 yr drafted by the Democrate party(Communist Party),you see I am not a demorate lefty,I am a regerestied Rep,but did not vote for Bush/Chenny of Cabal/and PNAC jewish plan for world control.I spent my first 90 days in Vietnam in the rain with the bugs and without a bath,it was fun,you see I got a education.That war which was a lie,No Gulf of Tonkin attack,your other Rockefellers jew pimp ,so called Dr Kissinger,mass murder of millions in far east for oil, and drugs of the cia,hell these are not even the big boys,right.How about the most rich and powerfule family in the world.Thats right boy,those famous Rothschilds of London and EU.These roaches dont like the light shinned on them,do they??I as a Consitution American and Christian am going to expose you f***ers to the death,and thanks to Alex Jones and hundereds of others,even young kids who made the movie Loose Change exposing the lies of 911 coverup,are smarter than you,gee they got 10 million hits on the web last week,how maney did your disinformation fascis/zionist/commi hit peace get??I know you got one,here I am son,with your little college prep glasses and your little chin wiskers dont make you a man,boy.But running around in Vietnam at 21,with a locked and loaded M16,or in Iraq does.In parting why aint you in Isreal young man fighting those evil Lebonise,you know Danny Thomas s realtives,you remember him of tv fame right? I could go on and on with my conspiracy theories,but I think you get my drift,by the way I am still a crack shot and am totally prepared for Bush s Marshall Law,after they do another CIA/MI6?Mossad attack on American,we by the millions know you did it and we will know when you try it again.Hell I cant wait till the f***ing shooting starts jew boy. Brian Terry,I fear you traitors,I got the Love of Jesus on my side,you a***holes already lost.How about them apples from just a poor old retired dumbass realman Vet.

Remember, folks: if you vote Downie, this is what you get.

Liberals Come to the Rescue...of al Qaeda Fundraisers

Remember Susan Estrich, the extremely ugly liberal who was Michael Dukakis' campaign manager? How about Harvey Silvergate, the disgusting liberal who defended child murderess Louise Woodward so she could escape being sent to prison for life for killing a small child? Well, these two lowlifes have gotten together to defend the right of 2 al Qaeda sympathizers to raise money for terrorists worldwide - because, as they argue, it is part of their Muslim duty.

What evil will liberals not defend?

Jihadists and Jews

Democratic strategist and former Michael Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich, and the former American Civil Liberties Union president in Massachusetts, Harvey Silvergate, recently joined the attorneys representing two alleged Boston al Qaeda funders.

Emadeddin Z. Muntasser and Muhammed Mubayyid face charges in U.S. District Court of Massachusetts for the soliciting and expenditure "of funds to support and promote the mujahideen and jihad, including the distribution of pro-jihad publications." Their Care International "charity," a now-defunct Boston-based al Qaeda front organization, published, among other things, the English version by al Qaeda co-founder Abdullah Azzam of "Join the Caravan," which states: "[t]he obligation of Jihad today remains [individually required] until the last piece of land, which was in the hand of the Muslims, but has been occupied by disbelievers, is liberated."

In their Oct. 5 request for a dismissal, the defendants effectively -- and unwittingly -- explain all the reasons why the federal government should outlaw Islamic charitable giving in the United States.

In their motion, attorneys Mrs. Estrich, Malick Ghachem, Norman Zalkind and Elizabeth Lunt, argue that the defendants merely exercised their religious freedom and obligation to give "zakat" (Islamic charity).

Their motion cites Chapter 9, verse 60 of the Koran, which describes "those entitled to receive zakat." According to the definition of zakat in The Encyclopedia of Islam, "category 7" of eligible recipients are "volunteers engaged in jihad" for whom the zakat cover "living expenses and the expenses of their military service (animals, weapons)."

Incredibly, the suspects' attorneys also argue that such charitable giving, to support the jihad and mujahideen, is rightfully tax-exempt under U.S. constitutional protection of religious freedom. Moreover, they compare their support of Islam's "holy war" to the Jewish National Fund (JNF) appeals for tax-deductible "donations to finance the purchase of bulletproof vests, helmets and firetrucks in connection with the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict."

Equating the supply of bulletproof vests to defend Israeli civilians from Hezbollah's jihad with the funding of weapons and martyrs (holy warriors) for the jihad is preposterous. The JNF does not promote religiosity. Rather, it was incorporated in the United States in 1926 to develop the ancient Jewish homeland and to maintain and encourage the connection of the Jewish people to it. In contrast, Care was established to promote and advance al Qaeda's version of Islam.

Just imagine the number of liberals who would line up to defend Usama bin Laden if he were captured and put on trial.

A Former BBC Cameraman Admits: The BBC is a "Stalinist, Sloppy" Organization

Chris Harnett, a former BBC cameraman, weighs in on the far left bias of the anti-American and anti-Semitic BBC:

Mourning the loss of impartiality on the BBC

Like John Simpson, who this week leapt to the defence of BBC "impartiality", I began my near 40-year broadcast career in BBC TV news. It was impartial then; it certainly isn't now. I have seen my own visual material presented in an entirely different timeline, totally distorting the actual event that I witnessed, and at no time did the intellectually lazy journalists ask me what I witnessed. I also have seen raw camera material destined for both BBC and ITN come out in completely different forms on air. The bias in both cases was pro-establishment during the Thatcher years.

As we expect politicians to declare an interest, should we not expect ourselves to do the same when asked to comment on a system that has provided succour to ourselves and our families as it has in John's case?

I believe that few employed by the BBC can have a truly objective view of the BBC's political and social bias.

We on the outside do not like the PC Stalinism, urban bias, sloppy technical, artistic and journalistic standards that BBC News now represents, and if you really want examples, I can point to a Newsnight interview with the PM on a train. Neither the cameraman, reporter, editor, sub or indeed tea lady noticed that between cutaways and the body of the interview the train direction reversed. It is called crossing the line, it is as basic in TV news as learning your alphabet. That the BBC sought to defend its gross incompetence is again a glaring example of how those within have lost all objectivity about the system that they are in. Precision with words and pictures is vital in a political world that seeks to distort both.

Chris Harnett, Southampton

How long will it be before someone finally admits the obvious - that the BBC is one pile of leftwing dung?

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Yesterday's Election Was A Serious Defeat: Not just for President Bush and the Republicans, but for the cause of freedom all over the world. The world will become even more dangerous, just as it did after the 1974 and 1976 elections. If we believe Michael Scheuer, Osama bin Laden is, even now, celebrating in his cave. And given how long Scheuer was following bin Laden, we should take his opinions on this question seriously.

But it is also a defeat I have been expecting, not necessarily in this last election, but some time soon. The grim future that I have foreseen for a decade — at least a century of fighting off terrorist attacks from radical Islamists — is not something most voters want to accept. (For that matter, I don't want to accept it myself, but the facts are too clear for me to come to a different conclusion about what we should expect in the next hundred years.) Eventually, most voters were sure to tire of the struggle and to gamble that we can somehow drop out of it.

But we can't drop out of it. As I have said before, the terrorists will teach us, however reluctant we are to learn, about the nature of this struggle. I fear that our tuition bill has just gotten even higher.

The BBC Admits It: "We Are Biased"

Finally, we get a dose of reality from the Marxist fanatics who run the BBC: they are biased towards the Left, against the center and the Right, and that the entire anti-American and anti-Semitic network is "dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism."

Oh, and they are also biased in favor of making all news from America and Israel to be bad (unless liberals win something, like gay marriage), and showing the Muslims are just poor misunderstood people who really don't mean to blow people up but are forced to because of evil Americans and evil Jews.

Let's not forget those evil Jews, BBC.

We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News

It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.

A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.

It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it discloses that the BBC's 'diversity tsar', wants Muslim women newsreaders to be allowed to wear veils when on air.

At the secret meeting in London last month, which was hosted by veteran broadcaster Sue Lawley, BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities, deliberately promotes multiculturalism, is anti-American, anti-countryside and more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims than Christians.

One veteran BBC executive said: 'There was widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness.

'Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC's culture, that it is very hard to change it.'

In one of a series of discussions, executives were asked to rule on how they would react if the controversial comedian Sacha Baron Cohen
) known for his offensive characters Ali G and Borat - was a guest on the programme Room 101.

On the show, celebrities are invited to throw their pet hates into a dustbin and it was imagined that Baron Cohen chose some kosher food, the Archbishop of Canterbury, a Bible and the Koran.

Nearly everyone at the summit, including the show's actual producer and the BBC's head of drama, Alan Yentob, agreed they could all be thrown into the bin, except the Koran for fear of offending Muslims.

In a debate on whether the BBC should interview Osama Bin Laden if he approached them, it was decided the Al Qaeda leader would be given a platform to explain his views.

And the BBC's 'diversity tsar', Mary Fitzpatrick, said women newsreaders should be able to wear whatever they wanted while on TV, including veils.

Ms Fitzpatrick spoke out after criticism was raised at the summit of TV newsreader Fiona Bruce, who recently wore on air a necklace with a cross.

The full account of the meeting shows how senior BBC figures queued up to lambast their employer.

Political pundit Andrew Marr said: 'The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias.'

Washington correspondent Justin Webb said that the BBC is so biased against America that deputy director general Mark Byford had secretly agreed to help him to 'correct', it in his reports. Webb added that the BBC treated America with scorn and derision and gave it 'no moral weight'.

Former BBC business editor Jeff Randall said he complained to a 'very senior news executive', about the BBC's pro-multicultural stance but was given the reply: 'The BBC is not neutral in multiculturalism: it believes in it and it promotes it.'

Randall also told how he once wore Union Jack cufflinks to work but was rebuked with: 'You can't do that, that's like the National Front!'

Quoting a George Orwell observation, Randall said that the BBC was full of intellectuals who 'would rather steal from a poor box than stand to attention during God Save The King'.

There was another heated debate when the summit discussed whether the BBC was too sensitive about criticising black families for failing to take responsibility for their children.

Head of news Helen Boaden disclosed that a Radio 4 programme which blamed black youths at a young offenders', institution for bullying white inmates faced the axe until she stepped in.

But Ms Fitzpatrick, who has said that the BBC should not use white reporters in non-white countries, argued it had a duty to 'contextualise' why black youngsters behaved in such a way.

Andrew Marr told The Mail on Sunday last night: 'The BBC must always try to reflect Britain, which is mostly a provincial, middle-of-the-road country. Britain is not a mirror image of the BBC or the people who work for it.'

The most hilarious part of this story is that if similar meetings were held in the newsrooms of CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC, they would find ideas and thinking not too different. The media in this country hates Jews and Christians and anything to the right of Nancy Pelosi, and want to make Americans feel bad about poor, innocent Muslims.

NY Times: Saddam was ONE YEAR AWAY from a Nuke...in 2002!

The NY Times, in their zeal, their zest, to nail anything connected with George W. Bush, reported on a website which had displayed some of the documents found in Iraq. One of these was a manual on how to build a nuclear weapon. When the story got out, the site was pulled down.

What The Times missed in the story was that the same document also showed that in 2002 Saddam Hussein was one year away from having a nuclear weapon.

U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”

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Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.

Who reported this, outside of The Times? No one, that's who.

It figures. This could make George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq make sense, and that is something liberals cannot tolerate.

Is Liberal Hero Barack Obama About to Have His "Jack Abramoff Moment"?

Two weeks ago, Downies were saying that Barack Obama (who Ted Kennedy refers to as "Osama Barama...Barama...Barama Omama") was the next coming of Christ - that this black US Senator would make a great US President, despite the fact that in 2 years in the US Senate he has done absolutely nothing to get him a party's nomination, much less the presidency itself.

Two weeks is a long time in politics. Now it appears that future President Obama may be in deep doo doo. It seems that he is involved with a scumbag real estate developer in Illinois who may bring down the Downie Governor there.

Can we all say "Bye bye Obama"?

Sen. Obama linked to accused fundraiser

CHICAGO --Responding to a newspaper report, Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that arrangements he had with a political fundraiser accused of shaking down companies might have raised the appearance of impropriety.

Antoin "Tony" Rezko, whom Gov. Rod Blagojevich has described as a friend and a fundraiser, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he plotted to squeeze millions of dollars in kickbacks out of investment firms seeking state business. He also has pleaded not guilty to obtaining a $10.5 million loan from General Electric Capital Corp. through fraud and swindling a group of investors.

Obama and his wife closed on a $1.65 million home last year in Chicago; the same day, Rezko's wife closed on a $625,000 lot next door, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.

Both lots were once part of the same estate but were listed for sale separately. A city ordinance required Rezko to fence the dividing line.

Obama paid Rezko $104,500 in January for part of the lot, to create more space between his house and the fence. Obama has said the arrangements were ethical and proper.

However, he acknowledged Saturday that he "misgauged" the implications suggested by his purchase of the additional land.

"It was simply not good enough that I paid above the appraised value for the strip of land that he sold me," Obama said. "It was a mistake to have been engaged with him at all in this or any other personal business dealing that would allow him, or anyone else, to believe that he had done me a favor."

Rezko and his companies donated nearly $20,000 to Obama's state Senate races and federal fund.

Obama has said he would divest the federal donation.

Since Downies were so kind as to accuse every Republican who ever met Jack Abramoff to be investigated, and accused them of every crime under the sun, it is only fair play that we ask today for the US Justice Department to launch a federal investigation into Senator Obama and his ties to this sleazebag Rezin. Perhaps Obama should resign, since, according to liberals, once stained with corruption you must not be doing the people's business.