God's Warriors. Precisely equal to James Dobson's Focus on the Family organization, just like Christiana "War Whore" Amanapour said.

Without a bit of pressure – indeed, without the appearance of a care in the world – [captured Al Qaeda leader] Medhi, described in graphic detail the other half of his ISI cell’s operations: running an organized al Qaeda Rape ring in Samarra. With a modus operandi of breaking into various houses and either raping women on the spot or threatening the family with death while taking their daughter away to become a hostage and a sex slave, Medhi, a self-described homosexual who engaged in intercourse (via rape) with women “because other members of this group” did, confessed to his cell’s penchant for abducting girls and “holding them [hostage] just for their pleasure.” Most recently, he said, he had taken part in the rape, kidnapping, and/or killing of five women, three of whom were supposedly still alive.

Among these most recent victims was “a twenty-five year old virgin,” who was “alone in her house” when the al Qaeda leaders “raided” it. Breaking into the house, all five members of the cell held her captive in her own home and raped her repeatedly. Finally, when all five had quenched their base desire for that action which they so brutally prohibited others from humanely engaging in, under the guise of enforcing “true Islamic law,” the terrorists departed, leaving the woman alone in her shame and misery.

If there is such a thing as “getting off easy” for a girl who is gang-raped, this first woman did just that. Two others, both age 23, met a much more gruesome fate shortly after the first, as they were taken from their houses (in front of their families), raped repeatedly by the entire al Qaeda cell, and then slaughtered. According to Medhi, their bodies were buried in a cemetery somewhere in the city.

Apparently he asked to be delivered into American custody, fearing what the Iraqi police might do to him.

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Alas, the prosecutor giving the statement claims it was all about "self-promotion and greed," rather than corruptly aiding the Democrats. So much rich savory nuance when a Democrat is on the hook.

"Hsu is charged with perpetrating a massive investment fraud on victims nationwide...

"Hsu is also charged with using others including some of his fraud victims as straw donors to make tens of thousands of illegal campaign donations to various candidates for Congress and US President..."

"There were no legitimate business operations by Hsu's companies. Like all Ponzi schemes, Hsu's collapsed, leaving investors holding millions of dollars in bad checks..."

"In 2006, Hsu provided two individuals with a list of political organizations and candidates to which they should make contributions. These straw donors were instructed to write separate checks for each contribution. Hsu then directly reimbursed the straw donor for those contributions. In this way Hsu circumvented the laws governing the maximum amount individuals may legitimately contribute to any organization or campaign."

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The actual article is more gracious, but they cannot refrain from suggesting they're extremists in the headline.

Their extremism? They want their fellow Senators to stop spending like drunken sailors and to seal the borders.

Senator Tom Coburn spent a good part of last Wednesday trying to stop the federal government from building bike paths. He wanted to redirect the $12 million allotted for them to shoring up U.S. bridges following the collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis that killed 13 people. The amendment failed 80-18. Undeterred, Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, immediately introduced his second amendment of the day: a motion to suspend all earmarks — or pet projects often attached in secret to funding bills — until structural integrity of all U.S. bridges can be verified. There were $2 billion in earmarks in the bill, which, if passed, will fund the Transportation Department next year; the amendment failed 82-14. That same day Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, added his own amendment to suspend a rule that requires the government use unionized workers to make emergency repairs to bridges, which DeMint says raises the cost by as much as 35%. That amendment also failed 56-37.

The fact that DeMint and Coburn's amendments were defeated is nothing new in the Senate, and it does little to temper their enthusiasm as Congress rushes to finish all of the funding bills for next year. At a time when the conservative base is lamenting its choice of presidential candidates as well as the priorities of the Oval Office's current occupant, the two are the leaders of a small group of Republican hardliners working overtime against Democrats and Republicans alike to make a firm stand against what they view as out-of-control spending.

The Republican base is "frustrated with us for not carrying through on the spending issue and over-spending. It's the reason we're not in the majority and it's going to take us a while to earn that trust back," DeMint told TIME in an interview in his offices last week.

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[Their frequent objections to unanimous consent motions] do not usually kill the bills, but they invariably launch negotiations with the bills' authors or the leadership on what can be done to appease DeMint's or Coburn's concerns; usually all they are asking for is a chance to debate and amend the bill — even if their amendments fail they still serve as a symbolic line in the sand. Increasingly, though, the group has started winning votes. Although the group's signature concern has been spending, their biggest victory was killing the immigration bill. They also held up the lobbying reform bill until much more stringent controls on earmark spending were included. Last December, just days after he was elected head of the Steering Committee, DeMint brought down his own party's attempt to pass the remaining 2007 appropriations bills, saving the government $17 billion by forcing it to resort to 2006 levels. And in 2005, Coburn led the campaign against what he called the "Bridge to Nowhere," one of Senator Ted Stevens's earmarks that sought $200 million to build an Alaska bridge to an island with a full-time population of 50.

Stevens, an Alaska Republican, was outraged that the attack came from his own party, and he is not alone. Along the way DeMint and Coburn have angered the leadership of both parties and a lot of senators. Senator Trent Lott, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, was so incensed at the role they played in killing the immigration bill that he revoked the $7,500 in funds they get from the leadership to help maintain their offices (the bulk of their funding, however, comes from fees that senators pay to be members). While he recognizes what they're trying to do, Lott notes that their talents need to be "channeled in a more constructive way," in a way where their own party isn't taking embarrassing votes. "A lot of their amendments when they're offered don't make a lot of senators happy," Lott said. "I mean senators voting for bicycle paths instead of bridge repairs? That's not the smart vote substantively or politically."

But you do it anyway, don't you?

The GOP will lose more seats in Congress and they deserve to, and no one will mourn this. They're cutting their own throats and spurning the people trying to keep the razors from them.

For every DeMint or Coburn or Vitter we have a dozen McConnell's, Lott's, and Stevens'. I will support the Republican Presidential candidate wholeheartedly, but I can't support Republicans for Congress generally. They somehow think we sent them to Washington to take payoffs and waste taxpayer money, and no matter how loud we scream that's precisely the opposite of what we want, they refuse to listen.

There are good candidates out there deserving of support, but there is no hope of cleaning this Augean Stables of pigshit out in time to win back Congress. Only by turning our backs on them do we have any chance to at least get some real conservatives elected by say 2012.

Oh... I like Time's claim that conservatives are "lamenting" their choices for presidential candidate, despite the fact we've actually got one of the strongest fields in a long time.

Lamenting? What, that my first two choices don't win and I have to settle for Mitt Romney, who I rather like? Or that my fourth pick John McCain wins? Even on that one I'd be supportive (if skittish).

The Democrats, in Time's estimation, are in no way "lamenting" their pathetic choices, but are indeed elated, despite the fact that the front-runner is Hillary!, whom the leftist base despises as "too right wing."

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Seems to be his style. Not that he's "unilateral" or anything like our Fascist Dictator in Chief.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source tells Eyewitness News that the decision may not stop him.

A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.

The source says regardless of the NYPD's rejection of the request for a Ground Zero tour, Iran's president and his entourage will be accompanied by a Secret Service protective detail, a detail provided to all heads of state when they visit the United States.

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Kelly said that Ahmadinejad had not indicated why he wants to visit the site of the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

Mayor Rudy Giuliani released the following statement on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

"Under no circumstances should the NYPD or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden's son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero - hallowed ground for all Americans - is outrageous."

Deny Him A Visa: Seems unlikely, but Congressman Broun has issued the following press release: more...

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Co-host of The View, whatever that is, Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she tried to keep her cool and her emotions in check during her on-screen confrontation with Rosie O'Donnell earlier this year.

In an interview in Pregnancy magazine (?), she says she felt a lot of pressure, but crying would have been showing weakness. "I'm very lucky that tears didn't come out".

I'll tell you what else is lucky, she didn't rip your unborn child out of your tummy and eat it, that's what's lucky.

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Everyone disproved them except for the organization Dan Rather's suing, which pretended at doubt in order to cover its own ass and to preserve a bit of dignity for a senile old fellow-traveler twenty years past his expiration date.

Gold, Rather’s lawyer, maintained that “nobody’s proved the documents were forgeries. The way we look at it, it’s more than likely the documents are authentic.”

It's more than likely you've experienced a psychotic break.

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Via Allah's headlines, probably soon to be deleted into the Great Kos Graveyard of posts that honestly reveal his fans' beliefs, so here it is in full. I've bolded stuff so you can skip to the highlight reel.

I Don't Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it
by lurxst
Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 04:27:34 PM PDT

This has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don't know, being called mean. Or, un-American. Or something.

Supporting the troops essentially means supporting the illegal war. It seems that us anti-war types have been doing all sorts of mental and philisophical gymnastics to try and work around this. What has emerged is a sort of low impact, mealy-mouthed common wisdom that is palatable to everyone but is ultimately going to allow us to stay in Iraq for years to come.

Even Jim Webb's shelved equal time legislation carries the scent of this erroneous wisdom.

Now, I don't intend to demean Jim Webb. He is determined and impressive in his stance against the war and the crippling of our military. But this kind of legislation allows us to comfortably continue to support acts of aggression, as long as we give the troops a long enough break in between.

Until we have another draft, this is a volunteer armed services. I am not even beginning to count the numerous mercenaries that are involved in the occupation. You signed up, you get to go to the desert and risk being shot at by brown skinned people who don't believe the lies you've been told. A war of aggression is immoral, period. If you believe in God, you can damned well be sure you are going to hell for your participation in it. The only troop I support is the man or woman who refuses to be deployed so that they can make the middle east accessible to profiteers who don't give a flying F about morality or democracy. Or a soldier's life.

When Sunni tribes got paid off enough to stop shooting at GIs and instead shoot at Al-Qaeda (in reality themselves) it is funny how they suddenly became Freedom Fighters. During WWII, French resistance fighters were also called terrorists and insurgents by their German occupiers. Can an anti-war proponent look at these Iraqi resistance fighters with the same admiration, even though they worship differently than us and when they eventually win are likely to install a distasteful (to Americans) theocratic tinged state. Can a person who doesn't believe in violence support that people's right to govern themselves, perhaps violently.

I am sorry but supporting the troops means supporting this illegal war.

So there you go. Do not dare question &c.

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Last month Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's record of 755 home runs. After paying $752,467 for the record-breaking ball, fashion designer Mark Ecko is holding an online vote to determine the ball's fate. The options are:

(1) Send the ball to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

(2) Brand it with an asterisk and then send it to Cooperstown.

(3) Launch it into space to "banish it."

At the moment there are 3,225,550 votes (I voted for number 2).

Says Bonds of Ecko, "He's stupid. He's an idiot. He spent $750,000 on the ball and that's what he's doing with it? What he's doing is stupid."

But Ecko is apparently a humorist in addition to his fashion work. He offered to make Bonds a shirt which reads, "Marc Ecko paid $752,467 for my ball, and all I got was this 'stupid' T-shirt."

People who follow baseball probably care about this more than me. But I appreciate the humor.

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The PRC is apparently going to try Nixonian price controls to stem inflation. Those of you old enough to remember Tricky's price controls know what's coming next...its what always comes next when some retard tries this.

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Reverend Jesse Jackson (apparently he's still around?) criticised Senator Barack Obama during a South Carolina interview on Tuesday for "acting like a white man" with regard to the "Jena Six."

If you (like me) missed all the hubbub about the "Jena Six," apparently six black students were charged for the racially motivated assault of a white student in December of 2006. Five of the six were originally charged with attempted murder, a rather outrageous treatment for a school-yard brawl, even in Louisiana. One of the six was controversially tried as an adult. His conviction has recently been overturned.

The situation has become something of an important cause in the black community. However, the fact that a news-phile like me can remember hearing nothing about it is not good.

Jackson later said he couldn't remember making the remark. He obviously wasn't thinking of white men like David Bowie, who just today gave £5,000 to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund operated by the NAACP.

To steal some words from Obama: Jackson is one of the reasons "we still have a lot of work to do as a nation to heal our racial tensions.”

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