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RUN, DICK!  RUN!

The Hag is at it again. 

Anyone who has watched White House press conferences with any regularity for the last 150 years knows who Helen Thomas is. Formerly of United Press International, and now a syndicated columnist, she's been covering the White House since the Lincoln administration (actually, JFK..but it seems like forever.)

Anyway, in recent years, Helen Thomas has been putting on her tinfoil hat and conducting her Bush-bashing tirades from the White House briefing room and in her columns.  Tiring of her act, George W. Bush decided in 2003 to make a few changes.  He moved Thomas from the front row of the press corps to the back.  Helen didn't like this very much.  Already a leftist Bush-hater, she cranked up the rhetoric even more. Now today we get word that she's finally lost her mind.

A Washington newspaper is reporting that Helen Thomas said she would kill herself if Vice President Dick Cheney ran for president.  Here's the quote:

"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself.  All we need is one more liar.  I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."  No it wouldn't, sweetie.  Not if you whacked your sorry self. 
 
First of all, a couple of things.  Dick Cheney is not going to run for president.  He has this abundantly clear.  Once his term is up in January 2009, he's out of there.  No more politics.  So he's not running and doesn't want to run.  This is just another of Helen's straw man arguments, although one she is using to threaten to kill herself. Read into that what you will.

Then there's the snide "liar" remark.  This refers to the leftist fantasy that "Bush lied" about the war in Iraq.  Unable to produce a single shred of evidence that any such lie exists, Democrats like Thomas just repeat the accusation over and over again, hoping one day it will come true.

Typical Helen Thomas rant...but moderately entertaining.

Hey ... Helen.  If you do it, make it pay-per-view, with the proceeds going to some suicide prevention organization.  I'll watch. 

MUSLIMS CONDEMN TERROR...OR DO THEY?

Good news yesterday.  Muslims finally publicly condemned terrorism.  Islamic scholars in the U.S. and Canada issued a "fatwa" (an Islamic ruling, for you government school types) stating that targeting innocent people is forbidden and that those who commit such acts of violence are criminals, rather than martyrs.  American Muslim leaders say they're frustrated that many equate the Islamic faith with terrorism.

So this seems to be a bit of good news.  But wait! If you actually start to look at the messenger, you begin to realize that all is not as it seems.  As a number of bloggers noticed, the press conference announcing the Fatwa was organized by CAIR, The Council on American Islamic Relations.  The group making the announcement was something called the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA.)  Here's just a sampling of some of the people affiliated with these groups, and their ties to terrorism:

--Taha Jaber Al-Alwani, Chairman of the FCNA, named in court papers as being associated with Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian terror group.

--Sheikh Muhammad al-Hanooti (such long names aren't they?,) who serves on the Fiqh council, has in the past called for jihad against the United States and Great Britain.  Among his greatest hits:  "Allah, the curse of Allah will become true on the infidel Jews and on the tyrannical Americans."

As for CAIR --- this crowd has  repeatedly covered for the Islamic terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.  They have called the War On Terror a "War Against Islam." 

So just in case anybody is getting all warm in fuzzy inside about American Muslim groups finally condemning terrorism, you'll have to consider the source on this one. Good sign?  Yes ... let's see if the follow-through is there, or if this is just a PR response to increasing anger toward the wonderful, peaceful religion of Islam.  When they turn in a few Al Qaeda cells operating in the United States perhaps I'll start to believe them.

TEDDY KENNEDY ON NOMINEES

Among the great mysteries of our time include how they constructed the pyramids in Egypt, whether or not there is intelligent life on other planets and just how in the hell Edward M. 'Teddy' Kennedy has been elected and re-elected to the United States Senate by the voters of Massachusetts for 43 years running.  At any rate, back to the present....Ted Kennedy is on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will be considering the nomination of George Bush's Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.

Kennedy has said that Roberts will be expected to answer questions about how he might rule on certain cases before the court.  This includes areas of liberal concern like affirmative action, abortion and other hot button topics. It's become the rallying cry of the leftists on the committee like Kennedy, Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer.  Roberts will have to answer.

But it seems Kennedy was singing a different tune back when it was a liberal nominee by a Democratic president.  Speaking in 1967 about Thurgood Marshall's confirmation hearings, Kennedy had this to say:

"We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters, which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.  This has been a procedure which has been followed in the past and is one which I think is based upon sound legal precedent."

Of course, it's only sound legal precedent if it's a Democrat making the nomination.

Neal is being nice today.

One of the girls in the programming department will be celebrating her birthday soon. So, I told her that she could post a link to a dog rescue, Second Chance Animal Rescue Group, where she adopted her wonderful rottie from. She would like those of you in Atlanta to check it out if you are looking for a new best friend. Or, maybe you would just like to make a donation to a great cause! Thanks for the help! www.secondchancedogs.org.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

If you have a drill or even some sort of sharp, pointy object you can avoid paying a locksmith to fix your lock. Yep, there's no end in sight for the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's some nice reading material about the shady characters that run the FCNA and CAIR, the two Islamic organizations that supposedly are denouncing terrorism.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is breaking with the Bush administration over federal funding for stem cell research.  The media will no doubt play this up.

The fight for John Roberts' confirmation is gearing up.  Will he be confirmed?  David Limbaugh says probably so...even the Democrats can't stand in the way of this one.

Resident Bush-basher and conspiracy nut film director Oliver Stone is planning a movie about 9/11.  More nonsense from another unhinged Hollywood leftist.

According to Forbes magazine, Condoleezza Rice is the most powerful woman in the world.  If she were a liberal, the rest of the media would agree.  Otherwise, Oprah heads their list.

People would be outraged is a feeble 85-year-old were permitted to be a commercial airline pilot, writes Jeff Jacoby.  Why on Earth then do we let people who are obviously in a declining state remain on the Supreme Court?

Peter Arnett, former CNN reporter, still is a huge fan of Saddam Hussein.  The Media Research Center reports.

Oliver North has something to say about Jane Fonda's tour of the United States in her vegetable oil-powered bus.

During the presidential campaign, The Poodle and the Democrats said North Korea was more of a threat than Iraq.  Mona Charen says it's funny...we haven't heard much about it since.

Great Britain has a problem.  Charles Krauthammer reports that a large portion of the UK's Muslim population is siding with the July 7 bombers. 

Looks like CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has managed to get a talk show host thrown off the air because of his comments on Islam.  Thus far we aren't aware of CAIR trying to have any Imams removed from their Mosques because of their comments about infidels or the United States.

Dog vs Porcupine. I think the porcupine won this one...

Heather's Reading Assignments

The suicide bombers don't eat pork or kill pigs, right? Well, someone from University of Tennessee has come up with a diversion from having their car bombed. Would you like bacon on that?

I rode Marta for the first time last weekend. There were mice. Personally, I don't think I would WANT to eat in a metro station, but all she had was a fry and that was 5 years ago. Judge Roberts upheld Metro's policies saying that neither the 4^th or 5^th amendments were being violated.

I'm a practicing Christian too, but should you really rub someone else's nose in it? I'm not a supporter of Islam at all, but this just might go too far. The people of his church can believe this all they want within their church, this hinges on straight-up-rude.

Sunni Muslim joining the Marine Corps , it may not be too late for them. The discipline and tradition mirror his beliefs, says Rahman. Hey, whatever straightens them out, but how do we know who we are to trust? His mosque won't even let him go inside.

This just frustrates the mess out of me! So the piece of the shuttle that fell off may have hit the wing. Now, why couldn't they have taken the delay and launch in September they could repair this thing?

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