You've been around the block. Take a guess where this bus is headed.

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The headline charges "bullying" against those who thought the evidence supported a conviction, but that seems like whining to me. Jury duty is a civic obligation and if you're going to fold under someone's "criticism" and "attacks," you're sissy. Even if you're a woman, you're weak and have failed to do your duty.

Still, the article does highlight the fact that the juror so proud to have gotten terrorist associates off is a fuckin' prick.

Neal, a graphic artist, apparently felt the same way about others wasting his time. He was interviewed by Dallas radio and television stations within days of the trial and by the Dallas Morning News. Thus far, his assertions have provided the only detailed insider assessment about the prosecution case.

Neal made his disdain clear two days after the mistrial in an interview on Dallas radio station KRLD.

"A lot of the jurors couldn't even say words that had four syllables," Neal said on the Ernie and Jay show on KRLD 1080 AM. "They just picked the jury based on socio-economical reasons. A lot of these people are blue collar, you know, working UPS, working food, cafeteria cashier. You had people [from] secluded lifestyles. They had no idea of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They had no idea about worldly affairs. To get them and you show them bombs and show them kids – that's not our lifestyle so we've got to vote them guilty because of that. That's the whole reason."

The Dallas Morning News noted Neal "also had difficulty calling Hamas a terrorist group. ‘Part of it does terrorist acts, but it's a political movement. It's an uprising.'"

He reinforced that assessment in the IPT interview, saying he read the Hamas charter twice during deliberations. "They haven't always been a bombing kind of group," he said.

Hamas' first actions involved shootings and stabbings. Its preamble to the charter includes this: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."

So, to Neal, what is Hamas?

"It is marked as a terrorist organization. My personal viewpoint, I didn't know too much before. I see it as a political struggle. Our country was founded on a terrorist act. The Boston Tea Party wasn't a tea party, dude. It was a rebellion against the king's wrath. They fought back against an oppressive government."

Enjoy this quote from a pro-Hamas juror:

"If you're going by the evidence in this room," she recalls him snapping, "then you need to go home."

...which I take to mean that Neal and his asshole buddies were looking at "context" and "nuance" beyond the actual evidence presented in court, thus violating the rules of juror deliberation.

I'm pretty pissed at the people who buckled under this guy's "bullying" and signed what they say now is a false verdict.

Hey, jerkoffs? If you have to hang the jury, hang the fuckin' jury. Don't go along to get along and then whine about a "bully" in the jury room later on.

Thanks to CJ.

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I find out about all the good stuff too late.

The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock's split- level home, which has a group sex room and attracts as many as 100 people to swinger parties featuring "Naked Twister" nights.

But the festivities could soon be over. In response to neighbors' complaints, the city has outlawed sex clubs in residential areas. Citations have been issued, and search warrants may be next.

"It's crazy that they want to force their morality down our throats," said Dawn Burton, 45, a regular guest at the parties. "We're all frustrated."

So are those who complain of the noise, traffic and parking problems that occur in their otherwise quiet, upscale neighborhood every Friday and Saturday, when Trulock's home is transformed into "The Cherry Pit."

Duncanville, which proclaims itself "The Perfect Blend of Family, Community and Business," is an unlikely venue for a neighborhood swinger club. The city of 36,000 just southwest of Dallas has about 50 places of worship and not a single registered sexually oriented business.

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The case against the swinger parties "does appeal to a lot of people's sense of morality," said Lewis, the city spokeswoman. "That's been a lot of complaints we've gotten from residents: 'I came to Duncanville to have a family. I didn't come here to live next to a sex club.'"

Can't you do both?

Thanks to Alice H.

I wanted... to link the "Internet Friends Gang Bang" opening from Old School, but it's not on YouTube. This is, however, and I guess it's close enough.

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It's not increasing my confidence in her claims to learn that she also alleges that prior to the gang-rape her supervisor used the fact that her mother needed expensive surgery to "extract sexual favors from [her]."

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See Allah's last update.

Can the MSM lay off the Christian-hatred given that it's producing an anti-Christian backlash with a bodycount?

Oh: The parishoner who stopped the shooting was not a "rent a cop" but rather simply a lawfully armed private citizen toting her own gun.

But armed private citizens never stop crimes.

UPDATE [Dave in Texas]: Commenter EF links the news conf video.

Awesomely, she notes the serious disadvantage in firepower. News reports said he had an "assault rifle", and two handguns. Given the inability of the media to understand firearms, we might not know for months what he was carrying. But I'll note this FWIW, say he had a cheap commie SKS.

Goddamn. She took him on with a handgun. And took him out.

Kick ass.

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Are you kidding me?

Fred Thompson knocks him for flip-flopping -- not supporting the Cuba embargo after calling for it to be lifted as late as 2002 -- but what is jaw-dropping is this:

Since then, Huckabee said, he had been able to find new markets for the rice market by going to Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea to find Asian markets for the stateÂ’s rice. Another reason for the policy change, explained Huckabee, was that he was "really not that aware" of the issues that exist between Cuba and the United States. "Being in Arkansas, thatÂ’s not one of the issues I am in close proximity with," he said.

I'm sorry, but Arkansas is located on Planet Earth isn't it?

It's astonishing to me that he believes this level of ignorance is a defense. And even more astonishing to me -- I halfway believe he's as ignorant as he claims.

Has he heard of Afghanistan? Just checking.

Update (Slublog) - Dave at Garfield Ridge points out this article.

Arkansas played a part in the international drama of 1980, when 125,000 Cubans left their homeland for a new life in the United States. Roughly 25,000 of these Cuban refugees—called Marielitos because they had departed Cuba from the port of Mariel—were housed for a time at Fort Chaffee in Sebastian County. Their presence in Arkansas created social and political tension widely thought to have had an impact on the Arkansas governor’s race of 1980.

Update [Ace]: I wasn't going to post this, finding it a bit tenuous, but since Sluey has done so, I'll note that Dan Riehl has similarly flagged this as an inconsistency.

I dunno. This was years before he became political. Furthermore, I am sort of accepting his country-bumpkin act as basically legit. What with him claiming Bush had the NIE just released last week for four years and all.

Which is not a good thing, mind you.

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I find it hard to believe the US or even the evil Halliburton would cover up a gang rape. Doesn't the US have an interest in ferreting out such malefactors and duly punishing them?

Apparently not. The Narrative says that gang rape is actual government/corporate policy.

I can't say this is nonsense, but it does all seem a bit hard to believe. And very convenient in terms of a multimillion dollar lawsuit against a very deep-pocketed corporation against whom a significant portion of the public is willing to believe literally anything at all.

A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.

"Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.

She was gang-raped, I'm to believe, and the men covering up her gang-rape by Halliburton employees believed that no longer allowing to work at the place at which she was gang-raped would serve as an effective threat?

In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.

"It felt like prison," says Jones, who told her story to ABC News as part of an upcoming "20/20" investigation. "I was upset; I was curled up in a ball on the bed; I just could not believe what had happened."

Finally, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.

"I said, 'Dad, I've been raped. I don't know what to do. I'm in this container, and I'm not able to leave,'" she said. Her father called their congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.

"We contacted the State Department first," Poe told ABCNews.com, "and told them of the urgency of rescuing an American citizen" -- from her American employer.

Poe says his office contacted the State Department, which quickly dispatched agents from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to Jones' camp, where they rescued her from the container.

According to her lawsuit, Jones was raped by "several attackers who first drugged her, then repeatedly raped and injured her, both physically and emotionally."

Jones told ABCNews.com that an examination by Army doctors showed she had been raped "both vaginally and anally," but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.

And do these Army doctors have names? Why are they silent?

It feels all un-PC to call a woman alleging a gang-rape a liar but it sure seems convenient that there is no evidence whatsoever for this, all apparently destroyed by a large conspiracy of men who, for whatever reasons, feel a burning passion to cover-up and abet a brutal gang-rape.

'Cause that's what we men do. We help each other get away with gang-rape all the time.

I used to snark about liberals' strange beliefs about what someone's "Republican buddies" were willing to do for them. They always claimed George Bush invaded Iraq just to help his "Republican buddies."

So: A friend will help you move a couch.

A best friend will help you move a body.

But a Republican friend at Halliburton will illegally invade a country and help you gang-rape women.

You know, I've got Republican friends. They're nice people. But they're not quite that willing to lend a hand, you know?

I guess I'm not the only one saying it: Rusty Schacklelford's bullshit alarm is also beeping.

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In Afganistan:

A SUICIDE bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a schoolbus near an air force base in northwest Pakistan today, killing himself and wounding about nine people, including several children.

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"Because of the timely reaction of the driver, the children were saved. Only about six or seven children were injured," he added.

"It was outside the Kamra air base. It was specially targetting the schoolchildren's bus."

The Taliban also forbids any outside medical help in areas of Afghansitan they control. Coalition/American patrols have begun moving into Taliban areas just to get medics to sick children.

Each patrol was a foray into villages regarded as Taliban sanctuaries. Each began with tension and the possibility of violence. But the Taliban did not confront the heavily-armed paratroopers, and within minutes the mood of the patrols shifted.

Once the villagers realized that the platoons were accompanied by medics, they pushed forward sick children and pleaded for help.

A catalogue of pediatric suffering quickly formed into queues: children with grotesque burns and skin infections, distended scrapes and scorpion and spider bites, bleeding ears, dimmed eyes or heavy, rolling coughs. Some were bandaged in dirty rags. Others were brought forward in wheelbarrows because they lacked the strength to walk.

In one village, Zarinkhel, the villagers begged Captain Christopher DeMure, the commander of B Company of 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry, for vaccines. Seven children had died of measles in the last three days, they said, including two the morning that the patrol had arrived.

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To limit the government's influence and prevent it from achieving even its modest development goals, the villagers and the Afghan and American authorities said, the insurgents have sacked schools, threatened teachers and students, scared off private contractors and sharply restricted medical care.

"The Taliban has made it abundantly clear that no outside doctors, no outside medical help, can work in this district," DeMure said.

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Its degree of poverty is complete. The villages have no electricity. Many people use the same ditches to wash, clean their plates and butcher meat, brush their teeth and drink. The canals are lined with animal waste. Few of the children are seen wearing winter clothes.

The only known doctor in the district, the American officers said, is a man named Dr. Nasibullah, who, according to several intelligence reports, almost exclusively treats Taliban fighters.

Thanks to dri.

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That's disturbing, man.

Thanks to DaveF.

Not Quite As Disturbing As... A trailer for "Machine Girl," a Japanese schoolgirl revenge flick. Gruesomely violent. Decapitation/dismemberment plus ridiculously powerful arterial spray warning.

Thanks to Sharkman.

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Thanks, Nancy!

eenaged congressional pages performed oral sex in front of their colleagues for weeks before they were caught and expelled from the program, according to a new report in Roll Call newspaper.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has pledged to reform the page program, which brings dozens of 15- and 16-year-old students to live and study in Washington, D.C., while working as aides in congressional offices.

Thanks to CJ.

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