Sugar Cookies
An elderly man lay dying in his bed. In death's agony, he suddenly
smelled the aroma of his favourite sugar cookies wafting up the stairs.
He gathered enough strength to get out of bed. Leaning against the
wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom.
With even greater effort, he forced his bony fingers to grab the
handrail and he went down the stairs, one stumbling step at a time.
With laboured breath, he leaned against the doorframe, gazing into
the kitchen. Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought
himself already in heaven.
There, on the kitchen table, spread out in rows upon wax paper,
were literally hundreds of his favourite sugar cookies.
Was it heaven? Or, was it one final act of heroic love from his
devoted wife of 60 years, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man?
Mustering one great final effort, he lunged toward the table,
landing on his knees in a rumpled posture.
His parched lips were slightly parted. The wondrous taste of the
cookie was already in his mouth; seemingly bringing him back to life.
The aged and withered hand, driven by one last gritty effort, shakingly
made its way toward a cookie at the edge of the table, when it was
suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife.
"Stay out of those," she said, "They're for the funeral!"
Update- Paloswinian Martyr
Here's an update and expansion on my post about a Palistinian Misplaced Arab trying to martyr herself in an Israeli hospital, from a story at Arutz Sheva Here's the story. I link, YOU decide.
BAUER: MAJOR TV NETWORKS BOYCOTTED 'HOSPITAL BOMBER' STORY
Despite the distribution of a video of the Arab suicide bomber who
intended to blow up a hospital by the IDF, nearly all foreign news agencies
chose to boycott the story altogether.
An outraged former undersecretary to US President Ronald Reagan and
candidate for Republican Presidential nominee, Gary Bauer wrote a scathing
critique of the world mediaÂ’s decision to avoid the story.
Excerpts from BauerÂ’s letter:
”If you don't get the Fox News Channel then you didn't see any of the
dramatic footage of the Israeli army's arrest yesterday of a 21-year old, female Palestinian homicide-bomber, strapped with 25 pounds of high-explosives, just moments before she was to commit mass-murder by detonating herself inside an Israeli hospital. No other television network featured the story.
”Utterly ignoring the extraordinary video of the homicide-bomber's
arrest, both the BBC and CNN focused extensively on how much ‘damage’
Israel's early morning arrest - for which there was no video - of 55 Fatah
and Islamic Jihad terrorists, described by CNN as ‘Palestinian
activists,’ would cause to today's scheduled ‘summit meeting’ between Israeli
Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
That only one network would air incredible footage of the seizure of a
ticking human-bomb, just moments before she tried to murder hospital
patients, means this story was not simply ignored by the mainstream media
- it was boycotted by the mainstream media. Since nearly every aspect
of this remarkable story contradicts everything the mainstream media has
been trying to tell us about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they
just opted for the easiest way to handle it - denying it ever happened.
[Â…]
Ignoring the story meant the networks didn't need to tell viewers that
yesterday's homicide-bomber was not dispatched by terrorists of Islamic
Jihad or Hamas, groups opposed to President Abbas, but was in fact
working for the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade, which is controlled by the
political party Fatah, whose chairman is none other than President Abbas
himself!
Ignoring the story meant not having to reveal that the
would-be-murderer had been traveling regularly to Israel for years on a valid medical pass, which granted the woman free treatment for burns she received in a home cooking accident, and was thus ruthlessly exploited by depraved
terrorists whose shameless capacity to cynically manipulate goodness,
in their pursuit of murder and death, knows no bounds.
[Â…]
Ignoring the story meant not having to cover comments the
female-terrorist made in a rare army supervised press conference in which she
revealed what her mission was and who sent her. "I believe in death," she
said on Israeli TV. "All my life I have been preparing to be a martyr.
Mother, please forgive me for failing in [my] mission." Sentiments not
exactly consistent with the line long peddled by the liberal media, and
more recently even by the Bush administration, that Israel is the
obstacle to "peace."
Malkin Puts On the SmackdownMichelle Malkin delivers a much deserved smackdown on those that keep asking for Trials/Hearings for Gitmo detainees. They HAVE had a hearing... EVERY
SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
Due to the supposed "non-existant" hearings, over 200 detainees have been released...and 12 of those released were picked up BACK ON THE BATTLEFIELD. How many are back, but not recaptured?!?
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20% Anti Guantanamo
With all the contoversy over Guantanamo lately, I found This Poll interesting. AND also this post over at PowerLine. I would agree with John that if all the Democrats can come up with is a 37% support rate, when they have made an all-out push on this issue, they are indeed in trouble.
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Woods Apology
In the "You won't see this in the MSM" section, Douglas Wood, the Australian engineer that was rescued last week in a combined US/Iraqi "cordon sweep" apololgized to both President Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard for his "statements made under duress". Mr. Wood had been held hostage for nearly seven weeks by members of the Iraqi Insurgency Islamofacist movement. During the course of that captivity, Mr. Wood had made a televised plea for coallition troops to withdraw from Iraq.
"I actually believe that I am proof positive that the current policy of training the Iraqi army ... works because it was Iraqis that got me out," he said."
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I would tell Mr. Woods that we understood that he was under duress, and hold no fault with him for saying what he had to, to survive. The fact that his first act on arriving home was to make a public apology shows that he is a class act.
Too bad some of our own people in leadership positions don't have the same class.
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Unlike Durbin, this guy doesn't even have to apologize in my book. The simple explanation of "I had to say that drek or the bastards were going to cut off my head, but I didn't mean a word of it" is plenty enough for me.
Posted by: Graumagus at June 23, 2005 05:34 AM (z53Wt)
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I also appreciated that apology. The government couldn't answer the demands, because by doing so they would have put every Australian (and other foreigners) in Iraq in graver danger of kidnapping. The apology acknowledges that they acted rightly.
As an aside, Wood upset a lot of people in Australia by announcing just after that apology that he was probably going to head back to Iraq because 'the money is really good'. (Seriously, what is his life worth to him?!) His family (who were ready to hock their homes and lives to pay ransom for him) were less than impressed, as was the public in general. He has since changed his mind.
Posted by: chosha at June 26, 2005 06:41 PM (DsXU5)
Etiquette Class
During a good manners and etiquette class, the teacher says to her
students :
"If you were courting a well educated young girl from a prominent
family and during a dinner for two you needed to go to the toilet, what
would you say to her?"
Mike replies : "Wait a minute, I'm going for a p***."
The teacher says : "That would be very rude and improper on your
part."
Charlie replies: "I'm sorry I need to go to the toilet, I'll be back in a minute."
The teacher says : "That's much better but to mention the word ''toilet'' during a meal, is unpleasant."
And Billy says: "My dear, please excuse me for a moment. I have to
go shake hands with a personal friend, whom, I hope, to be able to
introduce to you after dinner. "
The teacher passed out..
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The Birds & the Bees...V2.0
Little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?" The
father answers: "Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway!
Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set
up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive.
As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us
had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button,
nine months later a blessed little Pop-Up appeared and said: You've Got
Male!"
Quotes of the Day
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
~Mark Twain~
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
~G. Gordon Liddy~
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
~Ronald Reagan (1986)~
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
~Winston Churchill~
There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.
~Mark Twain~
Another "Martyr" Halted
Any pretense at making believe that the Palestinians Misplaced Arabs are a civilized people should be shattered by a story like this, in fact that pretense is belied by her own words:
"My dream was to be a martyr," she said, adding that she was recruited by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. "I believe in death."
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Ok. An Arab female wants to kill herself to make a statement. The Left loves people like her because without them, they'd have to actually do something. So why would the left who are all about peace, love and happiness (when not protesting, burning flags, or destroying property) and life, support Palestinians who want to commit themselves to death? if the left wants everyone to get along, and live happily ever after then why in the heck are they supporting a culture of death and destruction?
Posted by: maggie kimura at June 21, 2005 02:02 AM (Y+qjr)
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Why?
Um, 'cuz they're Lefties? All leftists are concerned with is destruction of the current order. That's all they've been about historically, and it's all they offer now.
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oh happy happy death death.
ahhh...death...a lifelong dream....
Posted by: roklobsta at June 21, 2005 12:44 PM (kPmXY)
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Maggie:
The Left also sees history as a process pushed by social movements and liberation. Liberation philosophies are very insidious, because they see nothing but imprediments in a life process to nowhere. You never arrive anywhere in leftism, you just keep going and removing obstructions, restraints and self-denials along the way. Death is the utlimate liberation, and I'm serious about this.
The Left also isn't about peace and love, either. It's about comfort, and because most of them can afford comfort, the nasty process of liberation is left to others less fortunate. Those willing to pay a price. Most leftists are spectators to the processes they set in motion.
Posted by: Rhod at June 21, 2005 10:13 PM (6krEN)
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The should go ahead and let her martyr herself, on a row-boat out at sea.
I TOLD you so!
One of my reasons to be such a vehement supporter of the 2nd Amendment is that it puts the means of self protection into our hands. The GFW's say that "that is what we have police for", disregarding the fact that that personal protection really isn't in their jub description. In fact, they can't even protect themselves from the ragages of crime. When the head of the police department in our nations capitol can't be assurred that his official vehicle can remain untouched, just what hope do us lowly peons have?
Yeah....I want to depend on THESE guys when it's life or death in the next two minutes!
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Steyn Slams Durbin
Back in the Campaign, Democrats were protesting that we couldn't queastion their patriotism, even though such allusions were never made against them.
Mark Steyn has a great post questioning Dick "the Turbin" Durbin on his patriotism, and makes a great case showing it's non-existance.
Paraphrased from the article:
As Sen. As Leahy implicitly acknowledges, Guantanamo is about "image" and "perception" -- about how others see America. Around the planet, folks naturally figure that, if only 100 people out of nearly 300 million get to be senators, the position must be a big deal. Hence, headlines in the Arab world like "U.S. Senator Stands By Nazi Remark." That's al-Jazeera, where the senator from al-Inois is now a big hero -- for slandering his own country, for confirming the lurid propaganda of his country's enemies. Yes, folks, American soldiers are Nazis and American prison camps are gulags: don't take our word for it, Senator Bigshot says so. This isn't a Republican vs Democrat thing; it's about senior Democrats who are so over-invested in their hatred of a passing administration that they've signed on to the nuttiest slurs of the lunatic fringe, and providing our enemies in a time of war with the juciest propaganda coup that they could have ever wished for.
I don't question the good Senator from Illinois's patriotism, he's already settled that question in my mind.
There is are words for such as "the Turbin" Quisling Or to be even more blunt, Traitor, come to mind...
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There are some pretty shocking reports coming out regarding torture and the like (from a country that is supposed to be above that kind of behaviour/thinking). There have also been some very inappropriate photos taken by US soldiers treating prisoners like an attraction at some kind of sick theme park.
No, that doesn't make them Nazis.
However...
A person who calls to others' attentions the actions of their own government or military, when those actions are contrary to the stated ideals or standards of that nation is NOT a traitor. In some respects they are actually a patriot.
Posted by: chosha at June 26, 2005 07:06 PM (DsXU5)
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I agree Chosa, that calling attention to not meeting the ideals of a society isn't being a traitor, BUT there is a CORRECT way to do it, and Durbin sure didn't do it that way.
He went far beyond calling attention to something that we shouldn't be doing. THAT is where the "traitor" part comes in.
Posted by: delftsman3 at June 26, 2005 10:27 PM (vooSr)
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Actually I disagree, and I get the impression that you are so busy being outraged at him that you have not considered what he said objectively. (And at least read to the end of the comment before you reply.)
From the Washington Post:
"During a speech Tuesday, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat quoted from an FBI agent's report describing detainees at the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay as being chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures.
"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings," Durbin said."
In other words, the man is saying 'If I just read this out, you would assume I couldn't be talking about Americans. You think that Americans don't do this; that it is in fact what we fight against. You would surely assume I was reading from a report about nations we normally associate with having no concern for human life, like the Nazi, Pol Pot, etc.'
Isn't that true? Or would you have heard the report and thought, 'yeah that could as easily be US soldiers as any others...'??
Your post accused him of 'slandering his own country'. If the FBI report from which he was quoting is accurate, in what way did he slander his own country. If the FBI report is accurate, then he is perfectly justified in saying:
"This administration should apologize to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorizing torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure."
Because if that report is correct, that is exactly what they have done.
Posted by: chosha at June 26, 2005 11:02 PM (DsXU5)
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By the way, an FBI report is hardly "the nuttiest slurs of the lunatic fringe". You said there is a "right way" to go about holding the government and its military to account for their actions - what would you have considered "the right way" to handle this situation? He read a disgusting report. Should he have denied the report? Hidden the report? Is it fair to say that he has "provided our enemies in a time of war with the juciest propaganda coup"? Hasn't the military at Guantanamo Bay actually done that?
Posted by: chosha at June 26, 2005 11:10 PM (DsXU5)
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It's the comparision that's out of line. He had every right to read the report, and every right to call everybody's attention to the report. If anything it's his duty as an opposition senator. It's the Nazi cracks that were out of line, and it's those that he needs to pay for.
Posted by: phnxfire54 at June 27, 2005 01:06 AM (uTM33)
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"Because if that report is correct"
Remember that key word IF.
Just because it was an FBI report,doesn't make it true. There is no context to judge it's veracity. AND the context in which the supposed "atrocities" had been done.
Go to any prison in the US and I believe that you will find things that would be labeled "atrocities", and far worse than anything reported having been done at Gitmo.
And you have to remember just WHO we are dealing with at Gitmo, these aren't misunderstood Sunday school dropouts.
These people live in better conditions than most of our soldiers in the field, and FAR better than a great many of their compatriots in their places of origin.
We are SO brutal that they get released in better physical condition than they've probably been in their lives.... and the fact that over 200 HAVE been released proves the lie that "there is NO system of evaluation". 12 of those released were recaptured on the battlefield, seems the system might have been a little lax...
Posted by: delftsman3 at June 27, 2005 01:17 AM (vooSr)
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"It's the Nazi cracks that were out of line, and it's those that he needs to pay for."
Actually, in context, those comparisons make sense. The report indicated that these prisoners were being treated in ways in which it is unacceptable to treat a human being.
But let's assume for a moment that the comparison IS totally out of line...aren't you still focussing on the lesser evil. Is a careless REMARK really more serious in your mind than the crimes he is describing.
And on that note, delftsman, there is no context to consider. Those actions are not acceptable in any context - at least not if you truly believe what the US claims to stand for. The fact that similar or worse may happen in a US prison is cause for shame, not justification. And your soldiers in the field are not chained to a floor without food and water. Trying to argue that the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are living a better life for being there is ludicrous, and it only highlights your subjectivity.
You are right to say that it is important whether or not the report is accurate. However, apart from your deep desire for it to be untrue, have you any evidence to suggest that the report is false? Can you think offhand of any reason the FBI would seek to falsify a report to make it look like the US is ignoring the Geneva Convention? I'm open to evidence, and I'd be very happy to find that prisoners are not being tortured, but it's not the first report of this kind of unacceptable behaviour, and I haven't seen any reason to assume this one is false.
Posted by: chosha at June 27, 2005 10:38 AM (DsXU5)
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Chosha,might I suggest that you go to Terrorist Media, register, and see what REAL torture and Nazi's look like?
Posted by: delftsman3 at June 27, 2005 12:13 PM (vooSr)
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"I'm open to evidence, and I'd be very happy to find that prisoners are not being tortured.."
OK Chosa, Would you believe a Marine Lieutenant that was at Gitmo for over a year?
Let's see...an unnamed FBI agent vs a Marine Lt. that speaks on the record...WHO do I believe?...it's not like the FBI would ever "play politics" that would reflect badly on a President..at least not since "Deep Throat"...
"Trying to argue that the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are living a better life for being there is ludicrous..."
Lets see...average weight gain among detainees is between 20 and 30 lbs...there are more medical staff than detainees...they have three square meals a day, exercize on a daily basis..access to their scripture, with prayer call five times a day...clean beds to sleep in..Yep, its a real Gulag, allright!
May I quote the Lt.?: "For starters, the food is good. ("To be honest with you," says Hegseth, "I think their food is better than what my guys got.") Detainees get top-notch medical care, along with dental care -- which some have never had before. Many detainees correspond with family members, and have access to soccer fields and other recreational facilities."
"My men and I once spent nine hours on a runway trying to get a detainee on a plane to take him home. He refused to get out of the van. He was being well-treated, and he knew what torture and maltreatment were like back home."
Hegseth puts it like this: "Critics ask, 'How are we to win if we are conducting ourselves this way?' I think the opposite: If we're conducting ourselves this way, it's evidence that our cause is just."
"Actually, in context, those comparisons make sense"
Amnesty International recently compared the U.S. Guantanamo prison to the Soviet Gulags under Stalin. Here are the facts that they used to draw their conclusion:
Individuals Detained:
Gulag -- 20 million.
Guantanamo -- 750 total.
Number of Camps:
Gulag -- 476 separate camp complexes comprising thousands of individual camps.
Guantanamo -- five small camps on the U.S. military base in Cuba.
Reasons for Imprisonment:
Gulag -- hiding grain; owning too many cows; need for slave labor; being Jewish; being Finnish; being religious; being middle class; having had contact with foreigners; refusing to sleep with the head of Soviet counterintelligence; telling a joke about Stalin.
Guantanamo -- fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan; being suspected of links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Red Cross Visits:
Gulag -- none on record.
Guantanamo -- regular visits since January 2002.
Deaths as a Result of Poor Treatment:
Gulag -- multiple millions.
Guantanamo -- no reports of prisoner deaths.
Daily Diet:
Gulag -- meager portions of swill.
Guantanamo -- two hot religiously correct meals per day with constant supply of snacks.
Work Requirements:
Gulag -- forced labor.
Guantanamo -- none.
Medical Treatment:
Gulag -- none.
Guantanamo -- better than the 20 million report "uninsured" American citizens.
Torture Methods:
Gulag -- starvation, beatings, exposure to elements, slave labor.
Guantanamo -- humiliation, standing on the koran.
Get the picture?
Posted by: delftsman3 at June 27, 2005 01:16 PM (vooSr)
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1. "Chosha,might I suggest that you go to Terrorist Media, register, and see what REAL torture and Nazi's look like?"
You can't justify torture but comparing it to worse torture. It's like justifying a rape by giving an example of a rape/murder and saying, 'at least he didn't kill her'.
Argue, by all means. But argue well.
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)"...an unnamed FBI agent vs a Marine Lt. that speaks on the record...WHO do I believe?...it's not like the FBI would ever "play politics" that would reflect badly on a President..at least not since "Deep Throat"..."
I'm not going to claim that the Lt is lying. I don't know that one way or the other. But I do know that he is a subjective source. Anyone even vaguely familiar with military culture should recognise that military personal lying to cover the military's ass is not remotely new or unusual, loyalty and obedience being the paramount virtues of the military. As for the FBI, you had to go back a long way to find an example of them having a reason to discredit a president. And in that case they were discrediting that president personally. A little different. Obviously I can't say definitively which is true, but I do think it's pretty easy to say which is more likely to have occurred. I wouldn't say he's lying about most of what he said. I just think it's fair to consider he may not be honest about torture methods that occur.
3. Now the Amnesty International report is a better, much more objective source. That I can take on board, and it does suggest lend more weight to the idea that the other report could be false. I'd much rather believe that was the case.
If, however, it ends up being accurate, you might want to note that would add 'starvation' and 'exposure to elements' to your list of torture methods, which both appear on the gulag list. (Therefore again backing up the reasons the senator used that comparison for the acts described in the report...as you've just pointed out from the AI report, they are gulag style practices.)
Posted by: chosha at June 28, 2005 11:15 PM (Zzc10)
Democracy
We are swamped in the MSM with stories of how the war in Iraq has inflamed the Arab Street, and that our standing in the world has sunk to an all time low.
So how come when there is evedince that President Bush's policy of Democratization DO show signs of bearing fruit, there is a deafening silence from the MSM and those pundits declaring that our detention center at Gitmo "a Gulag"?
This protest march, which I found out about from the Florida Cracker, should be a sign that President Bush just may not be the war-mongering idiot the Left portrays him:
BAKU, Azerbaijan - Thousands of demonstrators chanting "Freedom" and carrying portraits of President Bush marched across Azerbaijan's capital Saturday, demanding the resignation of the government and free parliamentary elections — in the biggest protest in years.
Note the man whose picture appears in the cry for freedom...sure isn't Dick "the Turbin" Durbin, is it? Maybe the "Arab Street" really does know just WHO has the best hopes and wishes for them in his heart?
It's a Gulag, I Tell You!
With all the breast beating by the MSM, Amnesty International, and some members of the Dimwit™ Party over the supposed "brutality" of the conditions at Gitmo, I thought that it might be interesting to see how the "Minutemen" of Iraq (as the Moron from Michigan has described them) treat those that they consider as enemies.
Just an excerpt :
"But he still had been hurt badly. Marks from beatings criss-crossed his back, and deep pocks, apparently from electric shock burns, were gouged in his skin."
"The shocks, he said, felt "like my soul is being ripped out of my body." But when he would start to scream, and his body would pull up from the shock, they would begin to beat him, he said."
"In an interview with an embedded reporter just hours after he was freed, he said he had never seen the faces of his captors, who occasionally whispered at him, "We will kill you." He said they did not question him, and he did not know what they wanted. Nor did he ever expect to be released."
"They kill somebody every day," said Mr. Fathil, whose hands were so swollen he could not open a can of Coke offered to him by a marine. "They've killed a lot of people."
But at least they didn't play Christine Agulara tapes! Note that the prisoners didn't have to worry about the Queran being desecrated, they weren't provided any. Nor were they allowed to make their required prayers in the manner prescribed....kinda hard to do when your chained up on a wall.
Another excerpt:
His town has always been a good place, he said, but the militants have made it hell.
"These few are destroying it," he said, his face streaked with tears. "Everybody they take, they kill. It's on a daily basis pretty much."
Mmmm and just how many fatalities at Gitmo?.....
Lets see: Insurgants Islamofacists treatment of prisoners:
1 chained to the walls.
2 beaten on a daily basis.
3 fed once a day.
4 Subjected to electric shock.
5 kept in a darkened house.
6 Prevented from practicing their religious duties.
Treatment of detainees at Gitmo:
1 Kept in cells equivelent to any modern prison
2 May be subjected to uncomfortable heat or cold, to break down resistance for questioning--DONE with close medical supervision to ensure no physical damage.
3 Fed three meals a day, of religiously appropiate food, including chicken ala'orange, peas and dates (average weight gain of detainees is 20-30 lbs since arrival)
4 Allowed access to Queran, arrows to indicate East, prayer rugs furnished, and a bell rung to indicate the proper times to pray.
5 Allowed access to a fenced yard to excersize and be in the fresh air.
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Delfts,
Gitmo is a gulag and you know it is. What good is the Q'Ran if it's soaked from being pissed on in the toilet?
What do you think the Iraqis are going to do? Just let us come in there and take their country over?
You extremists really make me sick.
RWR
Posted by: RightWIngRocker at June 20, 2005 01:34 PM (xbFVR)
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great post. why is it so hard for some people to understand the difference. and, oh yeah, we are in a WAR.
Posted by: roklobsta at June 20, 2005 02:15 PM (kPmXY)
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Let's see how the Dick Durbin's of this country survive in Iraq or anywhere else in the ME without our military support and protection. The Dimmo's own John McCain could tell them a thing or two about POW's and POW treatment and how the United States treats their POW's versus how other countries treat their prisoners, that's only if John is credible.
Imagine any prisoner getting better care than the the captors own soldiers in the field, I suppose that's the reason Americans get attacked for doing the right thing.
Posted by: Jack at June 20, 2005 06:20 PM (uJtYk)
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From the The Federalist Patriot No. 05-25
"According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, some 15 million to 30 million prisoners died in the Soviet gulags. By comparison, Guantanamo at its peak held 750 prisoners; currently, there are 520; none have died in captivity, and, as I wrote 3-1/2 years ago, it has the distinction of being 'a camp where the medical staff outnumber the prisoners.' You'll get swifter, cleaner and more efficient treatment than most Canadians do under socialized health care. It's the only gulag in history where the detainees leave in better health and weighing more than when they arrive. This means they're in much better shape when they get back to their hectic schedule of killing infidels: Of the more than 200 who've been released, around 5 percent -- that's to say, 12 -- have since been recaptured on the battlefield." --Mark Steyn
Posted by: Jack at June 20, 2005 06:44 PM (uJtYk)
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Isn't there a rule against our government establishing any law giving favor to one religion over another?
I want to know if rules require government agents to handle the Christian bible, or the bloody Tao Te Ching for that matter, with similar obsequiousness-- rubber gloves etc.
Maybe it's just that "Congress shall enact no law..."
"We's Sgt.'s Now"
Two boys from the mountains, Leroy and Jasper have been promoted from privates to sergeants. Not long after, they're out for a walk and Leroys says, "Hey, Jasper, there's the NCO Club. Let's you and me stop in."
"Now, Jasper, I'm a-gonna sit down and have me a drink."
"But we's privates," says Jasper.
"You blind, boy?" asks Leroy, pointing at his stripes. "We's sergeants now."
So they have their drink, and pretty soon a hooker comes up to Leroy. "You're cute," she says, "and I'd like to date you, but I've got a bad case of gonorrea."
Leroy pulls his friend to the side and whispers, "Jasper, go look in the dictionary and see what gonorrhoea means. If it's okay, give me the okay sign."
So Jasper goes to look it up, comes back, and gives Leroy the big okay sign.
Three weeks later Leroy is laid up in the infirmary with a terrible case of gonorrhoea.
"Jasper," he says, "what fo' you give me the okay?"
"Well, Leroy, in the dictionary, it say gonorrea affects only the privates." He points to his stripes. "But we's sergeants now!"
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Deheh.
That one gets a chuckle.
My grandfather had the unpleasant task of testing soldiers for gonorrea during the latter days of WW2. I'll leave the method he had to used to test to your imagination.
Posted by: phnxfire54 at June 20, 2005 05:57 PM (uTM33)
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Heh heh heh, We Sgt.'s is supposed to prevent that from hapenning to our men. I've heard screams that would wake the dead.
Posted by: Jack at June 20, 2005 06:26 PM (uJtYk)
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I've had "The Pleasure" due to a little indiscretion in college.
OUCH.
In another example of excellence performance of women in the military,The Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron announced on Thursday the selection of Capt. Nicole Malachowski as the teamÂ’s No. 3 right wing pilot, making the 1996 Air Force Academy graduate the first female demonstration pilot in the ThunderbirdsÂ’ 52 year history.
CONGRATULATIONS on your new Assignment, Capt. Malachowski!
Siver Star Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester of the 617th Military Police Company/Kentucky Nat. Guard is the first woman to receive a Silver Star for heroism in combat since WW11, for her actions in an ambush on her patrol on March 20. 27 Insurgents Islamofacists were killed, 7 others wounded/captured, with no loss of life of any American soldiers.
CONGRATULATIONS Sgt. Hester! Job well done.
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Canadian Health Care
I once got engaged in a dicussion with some members of the other side of the aisle on the topic of health care, and inevitably, they came up with the old argument: "they have it("universal" healthcare) in Canada, we need to do it here too". All my statistics and facts could not dissuade them from their contention that Canada's system was far superior to ours.
Too bad that the Canadian Supreme Court disagrees with them. I'm sure that will still not dissuade the lemmings of the Left from trying to convert our health care system to the Socialist model, but just maybe it will wake up the "Great Undecideds" to the situation, and help to get them to support REAL health care reform instead of sound/feel good socialist pap.
The NHS in Britain is in the same boat, but at least they DO allow "private pay" to decrease waiting times. But think about it, for the women in the story, there was STILL a two week wait for an MRI; IF she payed for it herself...In any American hospital, she would have received one as a matter of normal emergency room trauma treatment. She may have been deep in debt afterwards it's true, but she would have received treatment that may have precluded two years of suffering. I find it enlighteniong that the hospital where my wife works hase more MRI units that there are in ALL of Canada, and it's only one of seven hospitals in the metropolitan area that have such units.
Getting government out of health care would be a first good step. All too often medical personell spend more time on mandated paperwork than real patient care.
Secondly,setting reasonable caps on malpractice awards would help lower costs in far higher ratios than the awards themselves, just by lessening the incidents of doctors ordering non essential cya tests just to protect themselves from law suits.
And I know I've harped on this subject, but implementing the Fair Tax would increase the amount of money availible for the poorer members of our society to afford at least basic health care coverage.
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Efficiency, workability, good sense and economy make no difference to lefties because NO issue is ever about those things. Particularly with nationalized health care, which is a disaster in the making in Canada, and nearly a financial and medical calamity in Britain.
Nationalized health care satisfies several compelling requirements for a lefty:
First and foremost, it's a vehicle to expand their already swollen self-righteousness. Second (and most insidious), it penalizes everyone who by effort and talent is outside the requirements of the insanities of radical egalitarianism. Third, it removes one impediment to the lefty compulsion to "feel" as if the world is a really nice place.
Point Three is made even more sublime by the increase in the magnitude of Point One, which is that the world is a nice place BECAUSE OF ME.
All these fetishes and needs, in fact, underpin
everything in the life of a lefty.
Posted by: Rhod at June 19, 2005 02:15 AM (6krEN)
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Introducing more competition into the medical field would also lower patient costs so that fewer people would need health insurance.
Canada's a joke when it comes to healthcare.
RWR
Posted by: RightWingRocker at June 20, 2005 03:44 AM (GC8w1)
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Tort reform would also lower costs, how many tests do you recon are ordered to cover the doctors ass against lawsuits, it's known as defensive medicine. RWR is entirely correct when he says Canada's a joke, the only good thing I experienced when travelling there was the fact that you could obtain OTC medications you'd need a prescription for here.
Socialised medicine is no panacea nor are medical facilities ran only to satisfy the stockholders.
Posted by: Jack at June 20, 2005 04:12 AM (8ly+q)
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If these morons from CanaDUH were serious about healthcare, they'd get down to GITMO.
Must Read!
Jim, of Smoke on the Water, has been a little lax on posting of as late, but you have to admit after reading his latest, it was well worth the wait.
I concur with Jim, we are at that "awkward" stage where it just might be too late for the present system to last, but too early for the final defense against the coming collapse.
Who is the greatest American? Nikola Tesla
Inventor
1856 - 1943
"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has
as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity."
—Nikola Tesla
While looking through my referal logs at Site Meter, I noticed a visit from Annika of Annika's Journal. I went over to check her out and found a post about "who is the greatest American". Annika nominated Willis H. Carrier for his invention of air conditioning. I can see her reasoning and I agree that Mr. Carrier did, indeed, make a contribution to the world that is taken for too much for granted.
HOWEVER, I believe I have say that there is a man who made an even greater contribution, and who is all but forgotten. That man is Nikola Tesla. WHO, you say? Well, you would not be reading this without the contribution that Mr Tesla made to the benefit of the entire world, and Mr. Carriers air conditioning would be useless without Mr. Tesla. Edisons light bulb would still be a limited curiosity without it. In fact, most of the modern convienences that we take so for granted depend on it
Mr Tesla invented the first practical, safe, system to generate and transmit alternating current. Without alternating current, the modern world would not be possible.
Thomas Edison always fought the idea of alternating current as "too dangerous", despite the fact that direct current severly limited the distances that power could be carried, making it impractical for widespread use.
Mr. Tesla also developed in rapid succession the induction motor, new types of generators and transformers, fluorescent lights, and a new type of steam turbine. He also became intrigued with wireless transmission of power. Had his financial backer not deserted him, we may have had broadcast power now, without need for transmission line cluttering up the landscape. Engineers today are exploring the possibility of using microwaves for just that purpose. With Tesla's genius, I wonder if we wouldn't already have had it. Imagine the impact that THAT would have had. Totally electric cars would have been practical within the first decade of the twentyth century, forstalling many of the pollution problems we have now.
At the time of his death on January 7, 1943, he held over 700 patents.
Tesla was well known in his time, hundreds of admirers attended his funeral, but as with so many, he's all but forgotten today, eclipsed by another great genius of the time, Thomas Edison. Tesla was a loner, not interested in anything but his own work; Mr. Edison had not a little of the showman in him, with the result being that he is remembered and Tesla has faded into obscurity, despite his great contributions to the modern world.
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Tesla rocks. Good choice man; he's not well known outside the geek community but a talented man he was.
I still don't think his "Death Ray" was a hoax. I think he had one and just destroyed it for the good of mankind.
Posted by: phnxfire54 at June 18, 2005 11:41 AM (uTM33)
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thanks for the link. i saw a tesla coil in operation once. it's an awesome sight. isn't there an urban legend that edison was against AC because he invented the electric chair, which used DC?
Posted by: annika at June 18, 2005 05:45 PM (fpito)
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Interesting choice; I of course, would have to go for my father being the greatest American. Sometime after he retires and no longer works with the Department of Defense, I will tell you why.
Posted by: Andy T. at June 18, 2005 10:54 PM (jMADI)
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Excellent choice, I own the book by Thomas Commenford Martin "The inventions. Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla". Tesla was light years ahead of the pack, reading it today still leaves me awestruck.
Other greats come to mind also:
Edwin Armstrong, we wouldn't have modern communications without his inventions.
Edward Teller, it all started at Stagg Field in Chicago
)"...an unnamed FBI agent vs a Marine Lt. that speaks on the record...WHO do I believe?...it's not like the FBI would ever "play politics" that would reflect badly on a President..at least not since "Deep Throat"..."
I'm not going to claim that the Lt is lying. I don't know that one way or the other. But I do know that he is a subjective source. Anyone even vaguely familiar with military culture should recognise that military personal lying to cover the military's ass is not remotely new or unusual, loyalty and obedience being the paramount virtues of the military. As for the FBI, you had to go back a long way to find an example of them having a reason to discredit a president. And in that case they were discrediting that president personally. A little different. Obviously I can't say definitively which is true, but I do think it's pretty easy to say which is more likely to have occurred. I wouldn't say he's lying about most of what he said. I just think it's fair to consider he may not be honest about torture methods that occur.
3. Now the Amnesty International report is a better, much more objective source. That I can take on board, and it does suggest lend more weight to the idea that the other report could be false. I'd much rather believe that was the case.
If, however, it ends up being accurate, you might want to note that would add 'starvation' and 'exposure to elements' to your list of torture methods, which both appear on the gulag list. (Therefore again backing up the reasons the senator used that comparison for the acts described in the report...as you've just pointed out from the AI report, they are gulag style practices.)
