A religion of peace?

Well, apparently as long as you're not drawing any cartoons that could be found offensive. Draw something deemed offensive by the islamists and you'll get some death threats, at least, from our brave hooded friends. Check out Michelle Malkin's blog, it's entertaining, at the least, considering how we're being force fed from CAIR that Islam is the religion of peace....

Are we losing?

Well, if you read the AP or Reuters, we're losing our asses in Iraq. Is it really any surprise that the President's approval ratings are low and the average sheep, I mean, American thinks we're losing the war?

A search of AP stories in the past week, since the Iraqi vote shows 43 stories concerning Iraq. Not one of them could be considered positive. NOT. ONE. Do you find it odd, dear reader, that there has not been ONE story with a positive shine on Iraq coming to us from the AP? A quick glance to Reuters' stories shows the same thing. NOT. ONE.

You know, I think the press would be completely at fault if all it wrote was glowing, supportive stories of our efforts on the war - nothing is perfect. The opposite is true as well. I find it hard to believe, nay, impossible to believe that nothing is going our way in this war. And you know what, a lot is going our way. Why is it that we don't hear about it?

At least the good folks at CENTCOM are TRYING to get the story out. It's just too damn bad no one is listening.

In case you're too lazy to check the link, there's some interesting facts (not the bloated, overpaid opinions you'll find on CNNABCCBSMSNBC) to be found.

The number of applications for poll workers increased by more than 4x. Sounds like someone is buying into the new system.

Approximately 60% of registered voters voted. Hell, that's more by far than vote in THIS country.

Attacks, suicide bombers, and violence are all slashed massively since the January vote.

You have to ask why this has not been reported.

I'm sure it's not because of any liberal bias in the media.

RIM ruling risks U.S. Blackberry shutdown

Nerd alert!

This could be serious. I know at least 3 of the authors of this blog are Blackberry junkies. This would suck.

Houston hotel vacancies might be rare

Nothing like a heaping helping of hubris for Houston.

The Houston Astros make it to the World Series for the first time in their history, and thousands of fans will flock to the City for the games. They're gonna need hotel rooms.

Hotel vacancies in Houston are tight but loosening up as thousands of Katrina evacuees are finding other places to live.

That may help in the long term for business travelers, but it may not be enough to satisfy Chicago White Sox fans who want to be close to Minute Maid Park if a World Series comes to town.

That's because nearly all the rooms booked next week near the park are already sewed up by more than 50,000 quilters attending a convention

Quilters? Quilters.

"We are asking hotels, all 500 hotels, to tell us what their availability will be on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday," Tollett said.

Sucks to be from Chicago to begin with, but this is icing on the cake. Enjoy your stay at Bubba's Flophouse Steakhouse.

Welcome to Texas. Now go home.

Report: U.S. Troops Burned Taliban Bodies

I am outraged by this! I think an investigation should be started to find out why these soldiers did not have the proper supplies to do the job right. Why were these bastards not wrapped in pig skin before they burned them? I suggest we ship some pigs over there immediately so they can do an even better job than they are already doing.

IS AVIAN FLU BEING OVERHYPED?

From Glenn Reynolds, via Instapundit.

As a medical researcher, I want to make a gentle but sincere plea to the blogosphere to calm down this flu hysteria just a bit. The main way that flu kills is by predisposing its victims to "superinfection" by bacterial illnesses - in 1918, we had no antibiotics for these superimposed infections, but now we have plenty. Such superinfections, and the transmittal of flu itself, were aided tremendously by the crowded conditions and poor sanitation of the early 20th century - these are currently vastly improved as well. Flu hits the elderly the hardest, but the "elderly" today are healthier, stronger, and better nourished than ever before. Our medical infrastructure is vastly better off, ranging from simple things like oxygen and sterile i.v. fluids, not readily available in 1918, to complex technologies such as respirators and dialysis. Should we be concerned? Sure, better safe than sorry, and concerns about publishing the sequence are worth discussing. Should we panic? No - my apologies to the fearmongers, but we will never see another 1918.

Patrick Cunningham M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Nephrology
University of Chicago

I've been hesitant to post about this, because I've been observing the progression of the bird flu around the world, and have been waiting for confirmation of human-to-human transmission of the disease. I've heard none.

I've got a special interest in this story. My great-grandmother died in 1918 in New Orleans, one of the 25 million or so victims of the Spanish Influenza. Lucky for me, her offspring survived.

I suspect that while it's prudent to cull birds, get flu shots, and generally be aware of the danger that influenza presents to the young, elderly, and those with supressed immune systems, it's just as prudent to keep this thing in perspective.

The sky is not falling (yet).

U-S Senator Edward Kennedy attempts to rescue six fishermen

"Don't - ah - worry there, fellas. I'll get ya some help!"

"Help? Who are YOU?"

"Senator Ted Kennedy"

"Aw, crap."

Criminal sluggers:Thugs turn to baseball bats

Nice little editorial about the folly of gun control.

All this makes us wonder, will anti-gun types soon begin calling for the registration and regulation of ball bats? Will Louisville Slugger adopt the slogan, "Baseball bats don't kill people, people do"?

Of course, if any of the victims of these attacks had been carrying concealed firearms, the results might have been very different. But then, we can't have people walking around with guns under their belts, now can we?

MADONNA WARNS: ALL WILL GO TO HELL IF DON'T TURN FROM WICKED BEHAVIOR

Ring.........Ring.........Ring.........
Hello.
Hello, is this the Kettle?
Yes.
This is Madonna. You're black!

"I refer to an entity called 'The Beast'. I feel I am describing the world that we live in right now. To me 'The Beast' is the modern world that we live in."

I think "The Beast" is the crap that MTV is trying to pass off as normal behavior to our young people. Back when MTV actually played music videos, the fine work of Madonna was a big player. Her videos depicted sexual fetishes, homosexuality, out of wedlock pregnancy, sexual promiscuity, and depictions of religion that had the Catholic Church protesting her. Now, MTV has a separate channel called Logo that is a "cable channel providing programming geared towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults." MTV's current programming has soap opera type shows that depict high school age kids involved in the things depicted in Madonna's videos. They also have game show and reality type shows where the whole premise is based on kids hooking up.
The latest statements by Madonna on "The beast" would lead people to believe that she no longer condones this behavior and wouldn't support something that promotes it or tries to pass it off as normal behavior, but no. She was just on MTV promoting her new album.

Hypocrite.

Can I get a springroll with my "Toxic Soup?"

Say it ain't so. Again. The media might have over-dramatized the toxicity of the water flooding New Orleans after Katrina.

Although some experts and many news stories had warned of long-term contamination from the floodwater, yesterday's report was one of two suggesting that those fears were unfounded.

Surprised? Me neither.

‘Ninja' prompts helicopter search in McKinney

The McKinney PD's crack forces, including a K-9 unit and a DPS helicopter, were called upon this week to search for a mysterious assassin. High-tech was even used:

Redden said in the e-mail that one of the K-9 dogs found a scent but eventually lost it. He also said the helicopter searched the wooded area with a ”Forward Looking Infrared“ or thermal camera but no one was found.

Fortunately for the police, they received a call:

Just as police were about to call off the search, officers received a dispatch call from a man who said his 13-year-old son had been playing with his Ninja sword in the area and believed he might have accidentally scared the lady. Officers went to the man's home had ”a nice little chat with the father and his son,“ Redden said.

As Chief Wiggum would say, "Nice work, boys."

'Today' Reporter Paddles in Shallow Water

In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera _ making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep.

You would think after all the stories of rape, murder, and hundreds dead in the Superdome were found to be sensationalized BS that these people would learn their lesson.

Later, an NBC News spokeswoman explained that Kosinski had been riding in deeper water near an overflowing river down the street, but there were concerns that the current was too strong for her.

How stupid do they think we are?

Video

I pulled a link to the video off The Political Teen's blog.

'I'm in the nude for dancing'

HUNDREDS of clubbers are descending on the country's only nude disco everySaturday night.

I really have no interest in seeing the big glittery disco balls!

And for any male clubbers worried about the temperature taking its toll on their manhood, the venue boasts "excellent heating".

DEATH BEFORE NAKED DISCO!

Modern Americans: A Rude, Boorish Lot?

I wonder what cousin-marrying, 2 bucket of chicken-eating, mouth-breathing, pantywaist "scientist" did this study?

A whopping 93 percent in the AP-Ipsos poll faulted parents for failing to teach their children well.

"Parents are very much to blame," said Newfield, whose Atlanta-based company started teaching etiquette to young people and now focuses on corporate employees. "And the media."

Where do people get these nutty ideas?

Now hand me my latte' and get the hell out of my way, I'm late.

Postage Paid Envelope Revenge

I would never advocate this sort of thing. But it is pretty funny, in a really mean way.

West's response condemned as slow and inadequate

And there it is. Didn't take long, did it?

The United States, which was under pressure to increase a pledge of $500,000 (£280,000) considered almost derisory by many Pakistanis when it was made over the weekend, announced it intended to give $50m in emergency aid.

The gesture, intended to make up for the resentment caused by an initial pledge which, along with the British offering of £100,000, was labelled as "peanuts" by Qazi Hussain, the leader of the Pakistani opposition party Jamat Islami, was greeted as a major boost to the struggling relief effort.

Comments?

New Orleans Police Beating Caught on Tape

I'm gonna go on record on this one, and tell you what's going to come of this: nothing. nada. zip. Not one damned thing. Know why? Because it's no different from any other night in the Vieux Carré. I've seen NOPD come into the police station, all bloodied up, carrying in ne'er-do-wells, looking a far sight better than the bad-asses they were bringing in. Sucks to be the bad guy there.

That's the way it is in New Orleans. Behave, or pay the price. Don't like it? Party elsewhere.

Smoking ban hits politicos' private spot

Well, now. The shoe's on the other foot, ain't it? Liberal candy-asses.

India quake survivors complain of slow aid

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were unavailable for comment, and FEMA was nowhere to be found.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre tops horror poll

We're number one! WOOOO!!!

This article says the Leatherface character is based on Ed Gein, a nutjob from Wisconsin. He was also the model for other characters like Norman Bates (Psycho) and Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs). Apparently, he had a penchant for amateur butchering, mostly of people. His collection included wastebaskets and lampshades made of human skin, and even a belt made of nipples. His master-craft was a full human suit. Nice, huh?

Hey, it's October. I'm getting ready for Halloween. BOO.