From CNN.com:

“Jamming systems play secret role in Iraq”.

Shouldn’t it read “Jamming systems play formerly secret role in Iraq”?

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CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) — As thousands of students marched in the streets in support, a Venezuelan television channel denied accusations that it was inciting violence against the government.

President Hugo Chavez’s administration shut down one station that was critical of him, and has opened an investigation into the remaining opposition station, Globovision.

Globovision’s director, Alberto Ravell, was unimpressed. “We are not going to change our editorial line that we are not afraid of the threats from this government,” he told CNN.

God bless this patriot. But he is up against certifiable left wing nut (and left wing democrat America’s good buddy) Hugo (that’s “Oo-go”) Chavez.

Perhaps Michael Moore can swing down there and do his next crockumentary on human rights under Chavez and why the people there are more free than the people in the USA. He’d win every freakin’ award that Cannes has to give out, and then some.

And where is “Jimma” Carter when we need him? Relaxing at Prince Bandar’s mountain retreat in Aspen? Come on, Jimma, Oogo is going through a tough time. Get down there and investigate so you can reassure us that he’s a legitimate freedom lover.

Ba-Ba Walters? Cindy Sheehan? Anyone???

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It’s a beautiful morning here in the outdoor solarium of The Magnificent Trutherosa. Princess Goddess, my soon to be possibly 8th wife, is visible in the distance, riding her ATV through the rhinoceros preserve, and my beautiful daughter by my fourth wife, Macheteia, is getting packed for her third attempt to summit Mt. Everest (she has decided to attempt to become the first female to make the climb during the summer storm season, unless I can talk her out of it.) I’m sure I can.

Meanwhile, it’s official: there is no crime in the State of Illinois, and the Blagojevich administration has money to burn. That’s why law enforcement is concentrating on ticketing drivers and passengers who aren’t wearing seat belts (fifty big ones if they get you) and spending a fortune on commercials advertising same. That’s good government. However, since the money that they’re spending on the advertising is money not going into maintaining the roads, everyone has to wear a seatbelt anyway. Otherwise, when you hit one of the many canyon-magnitude potholes, your head hits the roof of the car so hard, you’re likely to pay a permanent visit to that big bureaucracy in the sky.

So, let’s just stick with the first reason to be positive today; that being, the glorious spring weather. And let’s not be deterred by the ignorance around us, let’s go out there and make the world a better place today.

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• The Problem With Labeling Those Who Oppose The Senate Immigration Bill
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Courtesy of the WSJ(registration required):

Did you know…?

During the first 64 months of the Clinton economic recovery, real average hourly wages fell 0.2% and unemployment dropped to 5.5%; during the first 64 months of the Bush economic recovery, real average hourly wages rose 1.8% and unemployment dropped to 4.4%.

And as a Webloggin side note, WSJ also said:

The Misery Index was first employed by Jimmy Carter in 1976 to unseat President Gerald Ford. That year, the index, which is calculated by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate, averaged 13.2%. Four years later it had climbed to 18.2%, and Ronald Reagan used it to unseat Mr. Carter.

Today the Misery Index isn’t revealing much misery. As of February 2007, it was only 6.8% (4.5% unemployment plus a 2.3% 12-month increase in the PCE deflator) — a level bettered in only four years since 1967, and all those years were in the so-called “bubble economy” of the …

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No. He and his ilk are a menace to society. And we’re being way too easy on the lowlife who accused the Duke Lacrosse players. She should be prosecuted. But, that said, when are we going to wise up to another rogue prosecutor, political hack Ronnie Earle, he of the fake Tom Delay charges?

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From Opinion Journal:

“Yesterday we noted that Kerfuffle Gal Valerie Plame testified she did not know whether she was a “covert” CIA agent as defined under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in 2003, when her supposedly secret identity surfaced. Reader Jim Lucas makes a crucial point that we missed:

The Intelligence Identities Protection Act makes it a federal crime to intentionally reveal the identity of an agent whom one knows to be covert. So how can anyone be accused of knowingly revealing Valerie Plame’s identity as a covert agent if Valerie Plame herself didn’t know if she was covert according to the law?”

One point of clarification, though. While it’s true that the Intelligence Identities Protection Act makes it a crime to intentionally reveal the identity of an agent whom one knows to be covert, there is another condition necessary; that is, the culprit must also know that he or she is acting illegally. One more time, with emphasis: THE CULPRIT MUST KNOW THAT HE OR SHE IS BREAKING THE LAW!!! That’s a very high legal standard to meet, and it’s meant to be that way. Interestingly, after covering the Plame matter for three years, DNC operative Chris Mathews of MSNBC, admitted on his show Hardball that he was not aware of that last condition. Given all of this, it’s obvious that no one broke the law in the Plame-Wilson farce. Just as it’s obvious that Joe Wilson was blowing smoke out of his rear pie-hole when he said he and his wife were in danger. [Well, I guess flashbulbs can be dangerous…can’t they?]

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ATTORNEY GENERAL SEEKS RESIGNATIONS FROM PROSECUTORS

March 24, 1993, Wednesday

By DAVID JOHNSTON, (Special to The New York Times);

Attorney General Janet Reno today demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys, leading the Federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton. Jay B. Stephens, the …

Hmmmmmmmmm….. I don’t recall this getting as much attention from the mainstream media as the Bush administration is now getting for firing only eight federal prosecutors. Of course, back then, the alternative media wasn’t in full swing, so stories like this could be “covered” but not “COVERED”. Fortunately, today we have Fox News, blogs, Drudge and a power network of truth tellers on talk radio.

See, and you wondered how Janet Reno spent her time when she wasn’t ordering the incineration of women and children…

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‘’We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance.” John F. Kerry on terrorism during the 2004 presidential campaign.

Is this what (see below) he means by “a nuisance”?

BIRMINGHAM, England (CNN) — A major anti-terrorism raid in the UK was intended to foil a plot to kidnap a Muslim soldier serving in the British Army, and behead him, according to a security source.
Police arrested eight people during a series of early-morning raids in Birmingham, central England, early Wednesday, according to statements released by police and the Home Office.
The Home Office said the eight were arrested in Birmingham by West Midlands police under the country’s anti-terrorism laws.
The arrests did not involve a plot to cause mass casualties, but instead the kidnap of a British Muslim soldier who has served in Afghanistan, a senior security source told CNN.

Having one’s head cut off would definitely qualify as a nuisance. And since the plot “did not involve a plot to cause mass casualties”, I think it fits Kerry’s criterion quite nicely. Gee, if only he’d won the Presidency in 2004. I’d feel so much safer…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, on a collision course with Congress over Iraq, said Friday “I’m the decision-maker” about sending more troops to the war. He challenged skeptical lawmakers not to prematurely condemn his buildup.

“I’ve picked the plan that I think is most likely to succeed,” Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with senior military advisers.

The president had strong words for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are lining up to support resolutions opposing his decision to send 21,500 troops to Iraq. He challenged them to put up their own ideas.

“I know there is skepticism and pessimism and that some are condemning a plan before it’s even had a chance to work,” the president said. “They have an obligation and a serious responsibility therefore to put up their own plan as to what would work.”

Oh yeah, that’s going to happen. Congress is going to put forth their own plan, and I don’t mean calling for vaguely defined “benchmarks” and murky timetables and all of that other nonsense. (Or deploying our Middle East units to Okinawa, as Jack Murtha so idiotically suggested– he couldn’t get that one past even democrat operative Tim Russert without being called on it.)

And that’s why we’re positive today, Truthites. In these times of stress and challenge, we have a leader with the courage of his convictions. And, at the end of the day, that is always one of the most potent weapons with which to defeat any enemy.

Now, you know the drill. Get out there and make the world a better place!

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My colleague visiting from Brazil posited at lunch today that he was really afraid of global warming. He’d just seen some stuff on TV showing the ice shelf melting, or some such garbage, and he was afraid that the earth was becoming a place where human life was in danger of being extinguished in the not too distant future.

My other colleague, visiting from the Netherlands, agreed, until I told him that Al Gore has identified cigarette smoking as a prime contributor to global warming. Like almost all Europeans, he smokes, and pooh-poohs the anti smoking movement, seeing it as an offshoot of American hysteria.

Neither of them had heard of Michael Crichton, which surprised me, so I suggested that they buy “State of Fear” and read it on their flights home. The take home lesson is this, Truthites. Like Michael Crichton, we must try to educate, but we must do it tactfully. I personally do not dismiss the threat posed by global warming, but I have serious doubts as to the role of man as the primary cause.

As a matter of fact, my colleague from Brazil pointed out that he read an article by a scientist who believes that if it weren’t for the increased emissions of greenhouse gases, we would be entering a very damaging era of periodic global cooling, as witnessed throughout the existence of our planet since prehistoric times. I hope everyone agrees that global cooling would really suck.

Remember the late ’70’s through mid ’80’s in Chicago? For those of you who are too young, let me assure you that winters in those years were nothing like we’ve experienced before or after. I remember a wind chill factor of an astounding 84 below zero in 1980. 84 freakin’ below zero, for heaven’s sake. And I remember having my car buried in a snow drift in the parking lot of my apartment complex for three days in 1978. So, I guess the thought of global warming scares me a lot less than the thought of an oncoming new ice age, which is what the junk scientists were pushing back then. And, that reminds me, what happened to that hole in the ozone layer?

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More Info:
Heartland Institute, CFP, Myths of Global Warming, Green Myths on Global Warming - Debunked

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