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Al Qaeda confirms WMD expert Abu Khabab killed in US air strike; $5 million bounty

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

 

Splitting hairs

Apparently the raghead-within-ragheads struggle that features stoning women and raping men because God tells them to, now includes one sect shaving the mustaches off another.

Hamas has resumed its policy of shaving the mustaches of rival Fatah members to humiliate them as a form of punishment, The Jerusalem Post reports.

We'll never lose to these gender-confused, 14th century mental defectives, especially after we start using our C-130 gunships during    Ramadan, Ramada, whatever....

And since LM31 is your source of all Edwards Baby Daddy news:

Deceiver.com reports "Lee Stranahan, who posted the first (only?) serious, thoughtful analysis of the whole mess at the Huffington Post, has been banned from the Daily Kos for daring to talk about it there.

As the always deadly Ann Coulter observed: "... there really are 'two Americas.' There's one where men cheat on their cancer-stricken wives and one where men do not cheat on their cancer-stricken wives."

Frankly, the fact that the far left dem hypocrites are trying to cover up for another Bubba Clinton, Jesse Jackson, etc., etc. is hardly a surprise.

But what does concern me the the left's attempt to stifle the free speech of those who would point out the leftist emperor has no clothes.. especially if they are leftists.

Chief among them are San Fran Gram Nan Pelosi whose just-out book hit bottom even worst than the democrat congress. "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters" (gag--would you want your daughter taking advice from this bitch?) is currently ranked #1,287 on Amazon. If her book was an accident victim, they'd pull the plug.

Congressional job approval had dropped to 9% which is far too high... but it recently bumped all the way to 14%. Perhaps that was due solely to the GOP senators staying on the House floor after Pelosi The Witch turned off TV cams, lights and microphones.

I know you been waiting to hear Paris Hilton's mom's take on the McCain ad that used Paris' imagine to ridicule His Obom-oneness as a similar, empty-suit celebrity.

So here 'tis: "... It is a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States."

Hilarious... not one word of defense for her empty-headed daughter having became synonymous with being famous only for being famous.

'Parrently, in the family it's a given.

Truth beginning to stalk dem candidates

With the tank shoulder-to-shoulder full of leftist MSM editors and reporters, some are drifting a bit off the reservation on stories so blatant that even Chris Matthews might even be forced to report them.

I thought it very odd the other day when Team Barack announced that Pentagon canceled Obama's scheduled visit with wounded US troops at  at the Landstuhl Medical Center at Ramstein, Germany

But the military told NBC News they were prepared for The Messiah's visit today, but "for some reason the visit was called off."

Here's the truth: Obama's advance people canceled the photo-op when told political candidates are prohibited from using military installations as campaign backdrops and that "he could only bring two or three of his Senate staff member, no campaign officials or workers."

Furthermore, he "could not bring any media; only military photographers would be permitted to record Obama's visit."

Obama's World Tour '08 staff immediately opted out, but Army officials said didn't know why the request was abruptly withdrawn. "He (Obama) was more than welcome. We were all ready for him."

Obviously the man who wanted these very troops to lose the war in Iraq and worked to undermine their courageous efforts since he entered the US Senate, was very eager to use their empty pant legs and shirt sleeves for the visual "commander-in-chief" part to his campaign's big picture.

Despicable.

Get used to seeing this picture:

Left is the well- known, ambulance-chasing scumbag PI ghoul, and at right is his long-time mistress and more currently, the mother of his love child, Rielle Hunter. 

The MSM has closed ranks to protect one of their own and has ignored the months-long investigation and expose by The National Enquirer, using the excuse that The Enquirer's work is not to be trusted.

'Course the tabloid has never forged documents and used them to try and throw the re-election of a sitting president.

Edwards was tailed by two Enquirer reporters to a Los Angeles hotel July 21 where he stayed with Hunter overnight, apparently spending a lot of time with his illegitimate child. 

Surprised and cornered by the reporters as he was leaving the hotel, Edwards sprinted to a men's bathroom and held the door shut in an attempt to keep them out. This encounter is confirmed by hotel security  guards who became involved and escorted the former senator out of the hotel. 

The story of Edward's infidelity has been around for a long time; the Enquirer broke the story of Edwards' adultery and the child last year, when Rielle was still pregnant and Edwards was still considered a strong candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

After the story broke, Edwards denied the affair with Rielle, a former campaign worker, and concocted an elaborate cover story; in a bizarre twist, a well-known dem political operative Andrew Young, 41, a close friend of Edwards for years and a key member of his presidential campaign, claimed the baby was his.

Young is married and has children.

And Edward's wife, Elizabeth, is dying of cancer.

It's Bill Clinton and Monica all over again. The MSM had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the story which would eventually lead to Clinton's impeachment--just the second time in American history. 

And the dem apologists will trot out The Bubba Excuse: "It doesn't matter... it's his personal life."

Wrong... Edwards (until this little bimbo eruption) was apparently on Obama's list of possible VPs. Just another example of the type of people with whom he surrounds himself... Wes Clark, the America-hating con man, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and among others, domestic Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

And of course... it's just one more indictment of the MSM's overwhelming bias for democrats and other leftists and against conservatives and Republicans:

Exhibit A: Rep. Larry "Toe Tapping" Craig.  

Here's an example of Obama support from his hometown.... Chicago.

'Seems a recent prostitution sting by Chi-Town's Finest netted not one, but two johns who couldn't tell a cop from a real prostitute, and out came the 'cuffs.

Their mug shots:... story here.

Enemies foreign and especially.... domestic

The overwhelming left bias of the media is no longer debatable, and never more than in this election cycle. 

Investor's Business Daily reports that journalists contribute money to democrat issues or candidates by a ratio of 15:1

"Two-hundred thirty-five journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans — a margin greater than 10-to-1. An even greater disparity, 20-to-1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.

"Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10-to-1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709.

Hardly a surprise then that The NYT rejected McCain's response to Obama's position op-ed last week. In refusing to run the piece "as written", an NYT editor wrote:  "Let me suggest an approach. It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece."

Such unmitigated news media arrogance is unprecedented, and yet another indication that the left no longer makes even the slightest effort at objectivity or journalism's ethical standards of fairness.

The Times, et al, used to perform a journalistic "watchdog" role for America, collectively, as "The Fourth Estate."

Now it's the "Fifth Column".

In Obamanation News: The State Dept. ruled that its employees are not to attend Obama's speech in Berlin because it has been deemed "politically partisan".

The leftists at State (90% of everyone who draws a paycheck) are outraged. It's 5:1 many will go anyway; they can always get jobs at the Times.

The Weekly Standard reports that via MSNBC, former Gen. Wesley Clark continues his inability to open his pie hole without encouraging our enemies, attempting to undermine our war effort and slandering the troops he used to "lead".

His explanation for the overwhelming success of "the surge": "Actually, the surge was about Baghdad and it was not about Anbar province," he said. "They didn't bring more troops out to Anbar."

(Wrong, you four-star idiot, 4,000 of my jarheads performed up to the Corps' fabled battle tradition in clearing Anbar.)

A minor mouthpiece for Obama, Clark insisted that the US surge accomplished little, and that the defeat of al-Qaeda was orchestrated by the Iraqi Army after the Saudis bribed the Sunni tribes. 

Fellow Marine: 

The UK's second-highest combat award, the George Cross, will soon be awarded to a British Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher who threw himself on an enemy grenade to save his comrades.

Left--he holds the tattered remains of his pack which was shredded in the explosion.

The action occurred last February in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

While on recon patrol, Croucher realized that he had activated a trip wire; he immediately dropped and smothered the grenade. The explosion blew him into the air.

“I felt the tripwire hit my shins," he said. "You know immediately what that means. All I could do in the moment was shout out, ‘Grenade’ before diving on top of it.”

For five “agonising” seconds he lay on his back, certain he would be killed or seriously injured, before the device went off. He was thrown into the air by the force of the explosion but survived with minor injuries as his rucksack cushioned the blow. “It was incredible. I escaped with only a nose bleed and a headache,” he said. 

And in Hollywood Hypocrite News: 

 

Do as we say... not as we do

I'd venture to say that the modern day Air Force comes in for more inter-service jibes, jokes and criticism than any other branch.

Zoomies have a rep for being a more militarily "relaxed" than their sister services, cleaner and perhaps less physical and more refined as a group. 

No long ago they had that little problem of a B-52 flying around with six nukes that the crew wasn't aware of; as the top AF four-stars and SecAF were summarily sacked by SecDef Gates.

And this doesn't help the image of the Boys in Blue:

What you're looking at is a "luxury pod" which is designed to provide AF brass with rock-star accommodations when flying here and there.

These "comfort units" are to ensure that leaders can talk, work and rest comfortably in the air. Uh-huh.... Air Farce top brass demanded that the self-contained units be "aesthetically pleasing and furnished to reflect the rank of the senior leaders using the capsule," with beds, a couch, a table, a 37-inch flat-screen monitor with stereo speakers, and a full-length mirror.

Somehow, the mirror bothers me the most; oh, and by the way... the Air Force is fighting to use "counter-terrorism" funds to pay for the $7-16 million price tag.

The WaPo has more details.

By contrast, 24th MEU Marines (left) were forced to relocate their "comfort pods" in Afghanistan recently due to the slight inconvenience of incoming Taliban rockets.

A Mind is a terrible thing when it's wasted:

The Gore family must be in seclusion after learning that the former vice president has had a psychotic break during an speech the other day. The poor man insisted that the US could "end its dependence on carbon-based fuels and replace every kilowatt of electricity in the country through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within the next 10 years.

Is there anything the man can't do?

The drive-by news media continues its MessiahFest, being absolutely giddy over the fact the Obamanation spent "188 minutes in the gym yesterday – making three separate stops to Chicago gyms over the course of one day."

And they ridiculed Bush for crashing his mountain bike and going on "vacations".....

With all the athletic ability I'm shocked... shocked I tell you, that he never served a day in the military. 

No. 2 on The Obama Watch:

From his pandering speech to his amigos in the National Council of La Raza (The Race):

“The system isn’t working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies; when children come home from school to find their parents missing; when people are detained without access to legal counsel.”

Presumably his remarks were delivered in English.

No. 3

Looks like the Krauts bitch slapped His Holiness after he informed them he would be speaking at the Brandenburg Gate during his little international tour designed to show how presidential he is.

Reejeected.... ain't happenin'.

Nien! Du bist nicht! (or thereabouts).

Yo, Barry... that sorta thing isn't for callow, deficient candidates, you have to earn that spot after accomplishing something major, and after you've been elected president.

You may recall that he cited all his superior foreign policy experience with the following:

Obama: "[M]y experience in foreign policy is probably more diverse than most others in the field. ... You know, I majored in international relations." (ABC's "Good Morning America," 1/24/07)

But... his official MySpace page lists his major as "Political Science." (MySpace Website, http://www.myspace.com, Accessed 4/10/08)

And just to reassure you that the Associated Press is maintaining its reputation as an objective news source:

McCain gets Social Security but criticizes system

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security "a disgrace," he still cashes his own retirement check every month.

McCain's 2007 tax return shows Social Security benefits of $23,157 for the year, an average of $1,929.75 a month. He said he started receiving the payments "whenever I was eligible."

The Vast, Left-Wing Monolith

Dennis Prager, the clearest thinker in the media, this morning pointed out the truly monolithic nature of the Left media in the country with a simple observation.

With the exception of the WSJ, he said, no major newspaper lend editorial support to Bush's proposed Constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman. Yet that is decidedly not reflective of any national poll on the question... yet another indication of the Left's disconnect from the vast majority of America.

If you've read the New York Times, you've read the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, the SF Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas-Ft Worth Star-Telegram, etc., and seen and heard ABCCBSNBCPBSCNN, ad nauseum.

There are two "public" sources of independent thought, Prager observed--"talk radio and churches." However, he added that even the latter does include a number of denominations just as left as NPR and the Teamsters.

Think about it.... the Left controls the K-12 education system, the unions, the professional organizations, colleges and universities, all major newspapers, televisions networks, publishing houses, magazines, environmental groups, trial lawyers, the federal judiciary.

Yet the Left howls about the influence of talk radio and that it does not adhere to the lock-step of the Left media propagandists. This is all so predominant that liberal and Left views are considered the default setting, and conservative positions must then be "right-wing."

... we have to continue to fight for the hearts and minds.