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-Short Attention Span Theater-
I Want to be Major of New Orleans! from Akmar Obl
Well, it is kinda WOT related, as seen through the eyes of a.... funny

Dear Ms. Governor,

My name is Akmar Obl. I recently moved to the United States from Afghanistan. As you know America recently helped over throw the Taliban and Al-Qaida there and now there is a new Democratic Government. However, things in my region got to be a little too hot because of the American troops and their search for terrorists, I decided to leave the country and immigrate to America, too dangerous for me!


I have learned a lot about Democracy in Afghanistan. I like the way all citizens can vote and participate. Then I recently saw where Arnold was elected Governor of California. I hear every children in America can be President one day. Then I see where some people want to change the law so Arnold can be President. I read this and I say to myself, Akmar, this is the country for me. A land of opportunity for everyone.

I originally wanted to move to Dallas. But I read everyday about the Hurricane, Fratina, in the city of New Orleans. I say to myself, Akmar , you can help these people. You have many construction skills, have run own business, and are great leader of men before the war.

Then I see where the Mayor of New Orleans moved to Houston to a new house. I decided with all my special skills I can be a mayor. Why not? I run company of hundreds of men. I build roads and move mountains before. I have perfect skills for job of fixing new city of New Orleans. I even have good plan in head how to rebuild city and solve problem for floods. Build whole city underground in tunnels. City no flood, because water can't find city. I am very good tunnel builder. I even build hospitals in tunnels.

I have good experience in dealing with violence, so I can easily get city under control. In no time, no fighting, city rebuilt better than before, no more worry about floods.

Another reasons I want to move to New Orleans is good port access. I like a place to live where can have many different ways to access city. It never good to only rely on one way to travel around. It is bad for business, bad for times of danger.

If you don't think people like city in tunnels, even though would be very beautiful tunnels, I can build good walls to keep out water. I have experience here too. I build many strong walls all over Middle East. I am also good fund raiser. I see American newspaper and news stations good source to send messages to the people. They always know everything. I know how to use the news people to get out my message. I know I can use them for my goal in my new job!

I respectfully wait for your reply. I am living in some abandon tents and trailers in Crawford, Texas. I tried to buy Mr. Bush's ranch but he say it not for sale. So I see these trailers outside his ranch and no one is living in them. They very nice new trailers and tents too! Plenty room for me and my wife and 54 kids. People here very nice to me and my family. Only schools don't have teachers speaking Arabic. If I am Mayor in New Orleans I will make sure everyone can speak Arabic. How you say it, multicultural life, I really like that idea. Anyway, If you send my mail to:

Akmar Obl, trailer by road to Mr. Bush house, I know mailman can find my trailer. It is only one in whole area. Thank you for everything, Akmar Obl.
Posted by: Sherry || 09/15/2005 16:43 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I know, that was suppose to be Mayor. Bad fingers.
Posted by: Sherry || 09/15/2005 17:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I sure he'll do a better job than the current incompetent incumbent.
Posted by: DMFD || 09/15/2005 22:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ROFL! Killer parody.
Posted by: .com || 09/15/2005 22:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Not fair, Sherry-- I almost fell off my chair!
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/15/2005 23:22 Comments || Top||


Britain
Britain's descent into madness
From Melanie Philips, columnist for the Daily Mail, she tells the story of Dorn Almog's near-arrest in London. She outlines the treason of the Israeli group Yesh Gvul and the stooges in London who do the bidding of the Paleos. The link is for part 2, scroll down in her diary for part 1.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/15/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another reason why we should NEVER EVER join the world court. The imagination runs wild how this would play out on the world stage. We would actually be forced to use arms to free the odd member of Congress that found themselves arrested for voting a certain way.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 09/15/2005 18:09 Comments || Top||


Europe
Europe’s Not Working
Posted by: Clailing Spens3772 || 09/15/2005 20:14 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
"America is an obscenity" : Traitors in the Cradle of Liberty
The "cheering their own deaths" is so true, much of that leftist, multiculturalist, tranzi, relativist, etc, etc... rethoric is actually self-loathing, and a nihilistic deathwish.

By Rocco DiPippo

Boston's Fanueil Hall, built in 1742, is known as the "Cradle of Liberty." It was there that Samuel Adams and other patriots fomented the American Revolution.

On Tuesday, Sept 13, 2005, British Member of Parliament (MP) George Galloway, flanked by a bust of John Adams and a portrait of George Washington, defiled Fanueil Hall by bouncing a torrent of anti-U.S, anti-West pro-Islamist invective off its hallowed walls.

The event, sponsored by the radical-Left Traprock Peace Center, the International Socialist Review, and the anti-Israel National Council of Arab Americans, began with a cavalcade of minor anti-U.S., anti-Western, and anti-Israel speakers.

Annie Zirin, a Marxist and self-hating Jew who once wrote, "The U.S. Constitution has prevailed not because of its inherent greatness, but because it has continued to meet the needs of the (capitalist) class that wrote it," took the stage first and compared the Hurricane Katrina disaster to the Iraq War by saying, "How can we transport 250,000 soldiers to Iraq but we can't evacuate the poor and sick from New Orleans?" Zirin did not mention that 250,000 troops were not transported to Iraq in a matter of days, while Katrina's victims were transported out of New Orleans in less than a week.

Up next was Eriko Nagai representing the Campus Anti-War Network, a group at the forefront of the leftist-run Counter-Recruitment drive that is sweeping through U.S. high schools and universities. During her brief speech, Nagai spoke about the New Orleans disaster in terms of race and class, saying both played a major role in determining the fate of people in post-Katrina New Orleans. Racism was at least a subtle component of everyone's speeches, and in that respect Nagai's speech hinted at what was to come.

The crowd rose to its feet and howled its approval when Boston City Councilman Chuck Turner took the stage categorizing America as "an obscenity". Said Turner, "The reality is, we have to cleanse the soul of America. Our soul is covered in militarism, economic exploitation and racism. We need to cleanse ourselves. We need to acknowledge the obscenity that America is. We need to acknowledge that people around the world acknowledge that America the beautiful is America the obscene...we are obscene, we are a joke to the rest of the world." Turner then went on to claim that local, state and federal officials plotted and carried out the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. When he said this, many people in the crowd nodded in agreement. Turner left the stage to a thunderous ovation. He was followed by long-time leftist activist, avowed Socialist and Brown University Professor of English Literature William Keach.

Keach is known for controversial remarks he made shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. While addressing a student protest against the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan - a protest he helped organize and cancelled classes to attend - Keach said, "What happened on September 11 was terrorism, but what happened during the Gulf War was also terrorism."

During Tuesday night's event, Keach gave a rambling speech filled with leftist platitudes concerning the Iraq war and the Bush administration. He urged the crowd to confront the "war criminals in the Oval Office" and encouraged them to oppose the "pro-war Democrats" who helped make Operation Iraqi Freedom a reality.

When he finished speaking Keach passed the microphone to Prof. Naseer Aruri of the National Council of Arab Americans, a virulently anti-Israel organization with close ties to the leftist International ANSWER.

Conveniently ignoring the fact that there hasn't been an Islamist terror attack on U.S. soil since September 11th, 2005 Aruri accused the Bush Administration of making the U.S. less safe from terrorists. In the course of his speech Aruri repeatedly referred to Islamist terrorists as "so-called terrorists," and blamed the existence of Israel, and U.S. support for Israel as the primary causes of Islamist "so-called" terror. Aruri castigated the Bush administration for denying terrorist suspects "human rights," classifying them as "enemy combatants," and housing them in "gulags." He also accused Bush of creating far more terrorists than had existed before the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

When Aruri finished speaking, George Galloway took the stage and began a withering verbal assault on the U.S., Great Britain, Israel, and the West at large.

Galloway is best known for his support of terrorists whom he refers to as "the Iraqi resistance," his admiration for Saddam Hussein, his allegedly substantial involvement in the "Oil-for-Food" scandal, and his seething hatred of the West. "It’s not the Muslims who are the terrorist," says Galloway. "The biggest terrorists are Bush, and Blair, and Berlusconi, and Aznar, but it is definitely not a clash of civilizations. George Bush doesn’t have any civilization, he doesn’t represent any civilization." During Tuesday's speech, Galloway reinforced many of these points. He lambasted Israel and U.S. support for it and lamented that though Israel has the biggest cache of WMDs in the Middle East, it has never been brought before the U.N. to face sanctions. (Galloway conveniently ignored the fact that Israel has never used its WMDs, even though it has been under assault by homicidal Palestinians intent on its destruction for more than forty years). Galloway praised Cindy Sheehan and urged the crowd to attend nation-wide antiwar rallies planned for September 24 and 25. He laid blame for the Katrina disaster on George Bush. He blamed the cause of the 9/11 attacks on U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed as being responsible for having "created the swamp of radical Islam" from which the 9/11 attackers arose. He blamed the creation of "hundreds of thousands" of "new terrorists" on Bush's War on Terror. He finished the speech with a rhetorical declaration of war against the U.S. by saying, "You are either with your country going around the world occupying countries and stealing their things or you're against it."

Galloway left the stage to a long standing ovation. Since he clearly sides with the suicide bombers, the beheaders and other psychopaths that murder civilians in Iraq and elsewhere, a wave of horror washed over me when I realized that the people in the generally well dressed, well educated crowd cheering Galloway were, in essence, cheering for their own deaths.

Afterwards, people lined up to have copies of Galloway's booklet, "Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington," signed by him. The book-signing line stretched to the back of the hall where there was plenty of Marxist and other leftist literature for sale.

I've never been truly bothered by street-protest crowds of predominantly young people wearing silly costumes, marching with signs and mouthing platitudes like, "No Blood for Oil!" Most of them will abandon such pursuits as life's responsibilities mount. But watching the mostly older adult audience in Fanueil Hall cheer Mr. Galloway, who sides with Muslim fanatics, was disturbing to the extreme -- as was watching these same adults, ensconced in the "Cradle of Liberty," rise to their feet in approval as speaker after speaker told them what an evil, unworthy, racist oppressive place America is.

Rocco DiPippo, a free-lance political writer, publishes The Autonomist blog and is a contributor to David Horowitz’s Moonbat Central group blog.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/15/2005 11:30 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, seeing how the local media (including THE GLOBE) didn't feel the need to cover it, I don't think this was exactly the first shot of the Lefty American Revolution.
Around here, when Chuck Turner's listed as one of your speakers, that's usually an admission that you've got a Looney Tunes convention on your hands.
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/15/2005 13:03 Comments || Top||

#2  You know, if we're SOOOO oppressive, Let them get the F*&K OUTTAHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY || 09/15/2005 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ARMYGUY, They're too "noble" for that. They want to stay here and try to fix it from within. Think of it as taking one for the team.

/bitter sarcasm
Posted by: Xbalanke || 09/15/2005 15:41 Comments || Top||

#4  I so love it when the moonbats rant like that.

Makes it really hard for them to win general elections out in the real world (not the reality-based one).
Posted by: Dreadnought || 09/15/2005 15:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I hope that Hillary invites them all to the Democrat convention in 2008. Furhtermore I hope the hold it in San Francisco so ALL the moonbats can attend and exposed for America to see. Fanueil Hall has seen the best in America and it will survive this worst of the world. Too bad the MSM didn't cover this but I hear they are trying to find Cindy Sheehag. She got lost about the time Katrina hit.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 09/15/2005 18:04 Comments || Top||

#6  The next time Boston City Councilman Chuck Turner is up for election, I hope that television and radio ads are run in his district which just show his picture and repeat his words "America is an obscentity", over and over again.

Then, at the end, have a softer voice say, "If you don't think America is an obscentity, please don't vote for Chuck Turner."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/15/2005 19:26 Comments || Top||

#7  How 'bout we re-create the Boston Tea Party. Galloway gets to play the part of the English tea.
Posted by: DMFD || 09/15/2005 22:28 Comments || Top||


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Normally I'd dump this item, but it got me thinking: who knew that Irish War bagpipes and drum major maces came from Pakland? Do the proprietors ever get in trouble with the Islamists? Or is it secretly run by a retired ISI general?
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More questions: Does M. Aslam secretly read Rantburg, or did a spambot find its way in?

And finally, a pipe band has three types of instruments: the bagpipes, the snare drum, and the bass drum. Which one would YOU play? Discuss...
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/15/2005 12:15 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Laddie, d'ye not realize that the bagpipe is an instrument of war?
Posted by: Mike || 09/15/2005 14:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I've been looking for a place to get a replacement Pith Helment. And my Spats are looking a little threadbare lately....
Posted by: Steve || 09/15/2005 15:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Masonic jewelry??!!?!!

(Okay, they say Jewllery, but I think that's what they mean)

It's a dead give away. The International Zionist Conspiracy is announcing that it has taken over Pakland, too. It's a code telling their minions (masons, JEWS, get it?) that Pakistan is ripe for the picking, that they can come and get their "bags" and "pipes" now. It's perfectly obvious once you know how to read it. "Kitchner pith helmets" and "spats" indeed! As if anyone outside the inner chamber of initiates even knows the difference between "glengarries" and "balmorals."

When something doesnt make sense, it usually does.

/jello-headed conspiracy theorist
Posted by: Baba Tutu || 09/15/2005 18:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Actually, after I posted a link to a story about a Marine in Fallujah who was a bagpipe player, and found it immeasurably inspiring that he was piping men into battle, I did get a couple of links and e-mails about this--- including one from a fine purveyor of bagpipes, etc. in Pakistan. A hold-over from the glory days of the British Raj, I thought. (I think, thanks to B. Skolaut, that the Marine in question was fitted out with a proper camo-kilt) It was a bit ago, and I am on my third glass of Chablis.) No, someone in Paki-land has internet access, and an eye toward commercial prospects, and a romantic fondness about the fine old days of the British Raj.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 09/15/2005 19:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Count yourself lucky. It seems like I've gotten thousands of spam emails, all offering "penis enarglement(sic)".

I have no idea what penis enarglement is, but it sounds terribly painful.

Second place goes to some young woman named Christi, "who soils her panties when she gets excited".

Now there is a person I do not want to hang out with.

You bring her flowers, she soils herself.

Ecch. Poster child for 'Depends'.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/15/2005 19:17 Comments || Top||

#6 
I think, thanks to B. Skolaut, that the Marine in question was fitted out with a proper camo-kilt)
I tried, Sgt. Mom, but somebody else took care of it first.

What's important is he got his cami-kilt. Wonder where he is now? I'd love to hear him play - once. (Bagpipes are nice in theory, at a great distance. ;-p)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/15/2005 19:54 Comments || Top||

#7  You've got to respect a man who can finger, blow and squeeze - all at the same time.

Posted by: SC88 || 09/15/2005 23:48 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2005-09-15
  Zark calls for all-out war against Shiites
Wed 2005-09-14
  At least 57 killed in Iraq violence
Tue 2005-09-13
  Gaza "Celebrations" Turn Ugly
Mon 2005-09-12
  Palestinians Taking Control in Gaza Strip
Sun 2005-09-11
  Tal Afar: 400 terrorists dead or captured
Sat 2005-09-10
  Iraq Tal Afar offensive
Fri 2005-09-09
  Federal Appeals Court: 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect Can Be Held
Thu 2005-09-08
  200 Hard Boyz Arrested in Iraq
Wed 2005-09-07
  Moussa Arafat is no more
Tue 2005-09-06
  Mehlis Uncovers High-Level Links in Plot to Kill Hariri
Mon 2005-09-05
  Shootout in Dammam
Sun 2005-09-04
  Bangla booms funded by Kuwaiti NGO, ordered by UK holy man
Sat 2005-09-03
  MMA seethes over Pak talks with Israel
Fri 2005-09-02
  Syria Arrests 70 Arabs Attempting to Infiltrate Iraq
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