Wednesday, May 05, 2004

******************** Those funny Canucks! number 1 number 2 number 3 number 4 8:08:35 PM

******************** Iraqi Bloggers React A SAMPLING OF REACTIONS to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story from Iraqi bloggers. Well I am an Iraqi, and hate what I saw, but I would like to say in all honesty that compared to the practices of the old Baathists, this is a drop in an ocean. The terrors of Saddam torture houses make this isolated condemned practice by a small group of perverted individuals seem nothing, awful as it is. And more important, the outrages of the Saddam regime were sanctioned and perfectly well known and approved from the highest levels of the state and there was no question of any criminal investigations of the practices, the victims simply buried in any convenient ditch near by. But we never heard any righteous and noisy protests from Any Jazeera or Arabiya, nor did we witness much “Arab” anger during many years when torture, rape and murder were going on a regular basis and massive scale. Perhaps those hundreds of thousands of victims were not “Arabs” and did not deserve the righteous pity of the brotherly Arab masses. [Citizen Smash - The Indepundit] 7:48:48 PM

******************** Purple Heart Kit 1:46:45 PM

******************** Oh! The Abuse! "Oh the abuse! The humanity! My God, what have we done? Please, please let me rend my hair and clothes, cover myself in sackcloth and grovel in the dust to beg the Arab world for forgiveness. Oh horror! Oh horror!... And let's not forget that those same people were the ones whom, a little over a year ago, were cutting off people's genitals and stuffing them in their mouths. Where was the Muslim "outrage" at the naked prisoners then? I recall them trying to stop us from stopping it in the first place. So no, I don't really believe that it is "humiliating" for Muslims to be naked and made to pose in humiliating homosexual acts any more than it is humiliating for most men all over the rest of the fucking world. Frankly, what about the offenses I feel at all this outrageous crap being flung around in the media about this entire affair? Did anyone ask me how I feel about hearing that I should be murdered along with everyone I happen to engage in and know? No. Nobody asked me. I'm not Muslim. I don't count. You could string me up naked in Saudi Arabia, have a whole lot of really barbaric Islamists cheering it, and it would be mentioned as a slight "diplomatic incident".    [Shining full plate and a good broadsword] 1:31:49 PM

******************** 40 Reasons 1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need guns. 2. Washington DC's low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis' high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control. 3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are "just statistics [Curmudgeonly & Skeptical] 1:00:29 PM

******************** Engrish of the Day Wonder what these are suppose to do for your OLD ASS? 8:51:34 AM

******************** 5/5/2004   Day By Day Cartoon by Chris Muir 8:40:49 AM

******************** Being Ted Rall    [Cox & Forkum] 8:40:01 AM

******************** A One-Two Punch for Kerry Like John Kerry, I served in Vietnam as a Swift Boat commander. Ironically, John Kerry and I served much of our time, a full 12 months in my case and... [American RealPolitik] 8:39:06 AM

******************** Astronomy Picture of the Day NGC 6302: Big Bright Bug Nebula 8:34:45 AM

******************** Speaking of Wartime Lies.... Doctor who treated Kerry's "wound resulting from enemy action" exposes it as yet another Kerry lie: ? [Reality Hammer] The fact that Kerry was collecting scratches as fast as he could so he could run home doesn't freak me out at all.  I was there for a year and know how easy it was to collect the Purple Hearts.  They tried to get me to fill out an application for one because I stubbed my toe getting out of a helo.  It made me sick that they had cheapened it so much just so some pansie ass whiners could go home early.  I told them to go to hell! The part that really freaks me out is finding out that this dickwad Kerry was at the same place I was and I may have accidentally rubbed shoulders with him.  I'm going to take another shower now. 12:04:22 AM