Month: October 2005

Cross-posted at MyLeftWing.

Kicking off what should prove to be a very interesting week.  

Today’s cartoon deals with something I don’t get.  The Right makes such a big deal about border security and how easy it was for the 9/11 hijackers to get in and stay in the U.S. after their visas expired, yet now it turns out that illegal immigrants have been found to be working at military bases across the country and you don’t hear much of anything about it in the MSM.  Why not?  

It seems to me this once again puts the lie to Bush’s claims of “making America safer” whether it is regarding disaster preparedness (Katrina and New Orleans) or illegals on bases.  If honest people who are just looking for a better life can slip past security, what about someone who really means to do us some harm?

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Political Animals – Featuring an All-Nude Cast!

[cross-posted over at DEMbloggers.com]

I’ve been hearing of these racist twins for the past few days on the blogosphere but I just read the full ABC report on them and I’ve never been so grossed out by such hatred.

First a little on the twins and then some input from me.

The twins are 13 years old and if it weren’t for their hatred and bigotry they would be fairly attractive. The two girls, Lamb and Lynx, have grown up around a Nazi household where the father worships Hitler and other racist/Nazi bastards. The twins have begun making a career out of singing racist songs and the twins have become so popular spewing their hate that David Duke has jumped on the bandwagon. They sound like your typical racist fucks but remember that they are only 13 years old!

Now this is the part that really got me about this entire deal:

Anyways as I was finishing reading the article I started thinking about freedom of speech and racists or “white nationalists” as they like to be called. I know this may ruffle some feathers and piss a few of you off but I have no sympathy for white supremacists and racists, NONE. Their ideas are equal, if not worse than the ideas of Osama bin Laden. It may sound harsh but these white supremacists and Nazi organizations who sponsor the twins and others like them are terrorist organizations. There is no other name for these neo-Nazis that are silently creeping up across America.

Now if you’re thinking that these terrorists don’t affect your life check out this map put our by the Southern Poverty Law center to track hate groups around your community.

In Fahrenheit 9/11 I remember seeing those elderly peace activists being targeted by the FBI because they opposed the Iraq war through peaceful means. If our government has any brains left it would end it’s assault on peaceful activists fighting for their agenda and start going after these domestic terrorists who support an agenda of hate, bigotry, murder and racial violence.

by Patrick Lang

Walid Moallim, the former Syrian ambassador in Washington, says that he did not “threaten” Rafik Hariri a couple of weeks before Hariri was killed. He says that he had known and “worked with” Hariri for many years and thought of him as a friend.

That could be since Rafik Hariri was variously a “friend” to Saudi Arabia, the CIA and the Baathist government in Damascus.

He was also a friend to the Lebanese clique of his”friends” who together hold 75% of the country’s national debt, “a gift that keeps on giving.”

His many friends also included the Sunni zealots on behalf of whom Rafik spoke from the minbar of mosques in Lebanon claiming that he stood between the Sunni population and victimization by the rest of the Lebanese.

Learning who it was who killed Hariri is a daunting task for a serious investigator. There are so many candidates for the blame.

Nevertheless, Fox News Sunday (FNS) has already “moved on” from assumption of official Syrian government guilt in this matter to beating the war drums along the Potomac in a “riff” identical to that played as overture to the opera now “on the boards” in Iraq.

Today, 23 October, 2005. Brit Hume and Bill Kristol substantially made the following statements on FNS:

America is better than this.  Animal rights activists celebrated a victory recently when both the Senate and House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to ban horse slaughter in the USA, through amendments to an agricultural appropriations bill.  But now we learn that the bill is likely to be stripped of these amendments while it is in committee awaiting a final vote by the Congress.

From the Humane Society of the United States:

The Ugly Truth of Horse Slaughter
More than 90,000 horses are slaughtered for food yearly in the United States. Many thousands of live horses are also transported across the border to Canada for slaughter. Show horses, racehorses, foals born as a “byproduct” of the Premarin© industry (a female hormone replacement drug), wild horses, carriage horses, and family horses are victims of the horse slaughter industry. Horses have never been raised for human consumption in America. However, American horses are being killed to feed the palates of overseas diners in Italy, France, Belgium, and Japan.
Irresponsible owners seeking an easy and profitable means of disposing of their animals provide the slaughter industry with horses. Thousands more are stolen every year for the horsemeat trade. Documents obtained from the Bureau of Land Management, the agency responsible for protecting America’s wild horses, show that federally protected wild horses have been sent to slaughter for years. Still others are purchased at auction, where equines have been found for sale who are sick, sore, lame, disabled, blind, or pregnant. Killer-buyers and slaughterhouse operators would like you to believe that all of the horses they slaughter are old and past recovery and have arrived there legally. In truth, some horses may be sick or injured because of neglect but many more are sound and in good health.
Horses bound for slaughter plants are shipped, frequently over long distances, in inhumane conditions. They are typically given no food, water or rest. Often, terrified horses and ponies are crammed together and transported to slaughter in double-deck trucks designed for shorter animals such as cows and pigs. The truck ceilings are so low that horses are not able to hold their heads in a normal, balanced position. Inappropriate floor surfaces cause slips and falls, and sometimes even trampling. Some horses arrive at the slaughterhouse seriously injured or dead. Transportation accidents where upper floors have collapsed or double-deckers have overturned have caused human fatalities as well as terrible suffering and death for the horses.
Under federal law, horses are required to be rendered insensible to pain prior to slaughter, usually with a captive bolt pistol, which shoots a metal rod into the horse’s brain. However, undercover footage has shown that some horses–struggling as they are shackled and hoisted by a rear leg–are improperly stunned and may still be conscious when their throats cut.

Action opportunity follows:

Those who’ve followed the Internet’s history knows that its management has always been, at best, troubled. At worst, it’s been downright controversial. Recent moves by the Bush administration and Congress have attempted to derail an international effort to put management of the world’s largest network in the hands of people who represent more than a small fraction of the world. The consequences of this could range from further erosion of the US’s foreign influence to network fragmentation to a major blow to the Bush administration’s credibility and authority.