The finalists are out, and here are your choices. I can’t imagine why my entry wasn’t among the finalists. Apparently it isn’t over until people vote for the best one.
Related link: Newspaper Defends Outing Of Anonymous Forum Poster
Cartoon by Andy Marlette
update 10/28/07: PNJ declares their winner
They didn’t tackle their biggest problem, like who owns what of the Caspian Sea? But Putin wants an agreement on a defensive alliance against foreign military forces or attack on any single member of the Caspian Summit. OK, he’s acting paranoid, but he’s just getting tight with Iran while keeping the Caspian Sea off limits to all vessels not under a member state’s flag. This is Putin’s move to put more distance between Iran and any supply route that the U.S. might use in case they need to pay a visit to Tehran.
And then there’s this gem from Tehran Times. A sister paper to the New York Times I think.
First Vice President Parviz Davudi said on Wednesday
that the Iranian government is willing to develop relations with other countries and foster political, economic and social cooperation with all countries excluding the illegitimate regime of Israel.
From the reporting of the summit it seems that Putin is driving the bus.
The sale of Harry Reid’s attack letter (signed by 41 senators, some presidential wannabes, all Democrats) on the free speech of a private citizen, Rush Limbaugh, breaks eBay’s record for a charitable donation sale. Previous to this the record was $800,000 for one of Jay Leno’s motocycles. This historic document, four pieces of paper, went to Betty Casey for $2,100,100 yesterday. Limbaugh’s press release here, including the philanthropic background of Betty Casey.
And for the most ridiculous item of the day (MRIOTD), Sen. Harry Reid’s pathetic attempt to take some credit for the eBay auction.
Have you noticed the virtual blackout on this letter and what exactly it represents in the mainstream media?
PDF of the infamous and historical letter, signed by Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Charles Schumer, and my own Bill Nelson among others.
Have you seen this much in the newspapers? On TV? She said it last week in a little town meeting to an audience of about 300 people. That’s 300 people in South Carolina. Speaking to the threat of Tehran interfering with oil supplies she said . . .
“I will make it very clear to the Iranians that there are very serious consequences attached to their actions,” Clinton said. The presidential candidate spoke at a town hall meeting with 300 people at a high school in a Democratic stronghold in early voting South Carolina.
The New York senator, responding to a question, said blocking oil shipments “would be devastating to the world economy.”
If the U.S. took military action as a result, she said, “I would hope that the world would see that was an action of last resort, not first resort. Because we need the world to agree with us about the threat that Iran poses to everyone.”
Forgetting the fact on how this issue is demagogued by the rabid left, who say it is about taking their oil for ourselves, it is good to see she is coming around to making sense. I’m sure much to the chagrin of the Soros wing of her party. Then again, it remains to be seen if she would utter the same words in California.
That ridiculous statement came from Muslim Brotherhood Leader in Sudan Sheikh Sadeq Abdallah bin Al-Majed during an interview on Al-Jazeera TV dealing with Darfur. That’s not all he said. There’s this gem from him, “Islam does not permit a non-Muslim to rule over Muslims.”
Any questions?
Here’s one. If Islam wants to control the world both physically and spiritually, and blow up people trying to accomplish that goal, does defending yourself against that constitute a War on Islam? Isn’t a War for Islam more correct?
Link to transcript and video.
One of my favorite professors in real-life and on talk radio, is Dr. Walter E. Williams. “Black by popular demand” is a slogan he uses when guest-hosting for Rush. Regardless of your opinion of talk radio and the many and varied radio personalities, Dr. Williams puts the whole phony controversy into perspective which is something the mainstream media cannot be accused of doing.
Over the span of some 20 years, Rush has been attacked from just about every leftist corner, as would anyone who tirelessly espoused the founding principles of our nation — private property, rule of law and limited government. What has made Rush so effective with this message has been his ability to put things, and ask questions, in a manner that the average citizen can understand and relate to, and do so with a bit of humor. Humor creates madness among leftists who want their interventionist agenda taken seriously.
Link to post: Attacking Talk Radio
The Pensacola News Journal became their own version of ‘deep throat’ last week when they outed a poster on one of their forums. Now a week later they still find themselves defending that action. The nut of the PNJ’s position is this:
Not only did Godzilla support Bergosh’s positions, he even praised him(self) by name. Does anyone, Bergosh included, not understand the deception involved? But he was outraged to be exposed.
Who’s “deception” tramples freedom of speech? Bergosh’s, or the newspaper’s? It wasn’t that long ago that a President of the United States was given kudos by the media for how well he could lie. He was called clever for that. Now, a forum poster gives his real identity a pat on the back and its like he cut off some one’s leg.
I couldn’t let this pass, my response in their forum follows.
UPDATE 10/15/07 (below)
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The so-called mainstream media (MSM) was all over Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez speech, or so you may have thought. We heard his criticism of the Bush administration for inadequate strategy and prosecution of the war. But these so-called journalists couldn’t bring themselves to tell you what else Sanchez had to say in the same Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention last week.
For starters . . .
Sanchez opened by criticizing the U.S. news media, saying he was unfairly labeled “a liar” and “a torturer” because of the Abu Ghraib scandal, and he alleged that the media have lost their sense of ethics. He said that members of the media blow stories out of proportion and are unwilling to correct mistakes, and that the “media environment is doing a great disservice to the nation.”
Democracy Project link
They refuse to run an ad that points out Moveon.org’s participation in campaigning against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Oh really? Suddenly, Google is more than a platform. I don’t like what I’m seeing. Here’s the ad. What’s the problem? Wouldn’t have anything to do with their tax status as a non-political 501c would it? Well it should. More at Michelle Malkin.
Senator Susan Collins has a long record of success, based on her ability to work across party lines to do what is right for this country. From healthcare to national defense, Susan Collins has taken a measured and moderate approach that has yielded an admirable record of bipartisan accomplishment.
Senator Collins has worked hard for the people of Maine, but now extreme contributors from the Far Left have decided to attack her. MoveOn.org has contributed more money to her opponent than all of the presidential candidates combined, $250,000 already, more than a year before the 2008 election. They have run 9 attack ads against her, almost $1 million worth, including one featuring children dressed in military fatigues, forced to crawl under barbed wire.
We’ve seen the destructive effect of MoveOn.org’s dirty politics many times, including their recent outrageous attack on U.S. General David Petraeus in the New York Times.
Now MoveOn.org and other extremists have focused on Susan Collins, and they are using the same ruthless methods they’ve always used.
MoveOn.org has decided that Susan Collins is their number one target for 2008. Your contribution of any size will help send a message to MoveOn.org that their extreme, destructive political tactics will not be accepted.
When it comes to Hillary Clinton, you don’t have to make anything up. When it comes to Rush Limbaugh, you do have to make things up, as liberals do.
“I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq,” stated Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group.
and
“All Americans must vote Democrat,” stated Jihad Jaara, an exiled member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and the infamous leader of the 2002 siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity.
The Iraqi government doesn’t want us to leave yet, not prematurely. The terrorists do want us out, as does every democrat in the democrat presidential primary. Hillary has a choice to make as to which of these two she chooses to support. Our ally or our enemy.
One thing about these quotes that need to be vetted, if the ‘progressives’ around us are to believe them. And that is, whether are they being financed by Rupert Murdoch? Because you know, according to them, he and the neocons own the media and all that they report. I know it makes no sense, but that’s what they say they believe.
