REUTERS PULLS ANOTHER FAST ONE

Reuters. Let me think ... isn't that the news agency that has refused to call Islamic terrorists what they are ... Islamic terrorists! Yes, by golly, I think they're the ones! And Reuters has also been accused of staging photos at the site of the Israeli bombing of that building in Qana?

But Reuters wouldn't do anything like that, would it?

Well ... as a matter of fact, they would.

Fresh off the accusations that Reuters was staging terrorist casualty photos at Qana, they've been caught monkeying with wire photos again. You see, even though news wire photos are usually paid much attention to by newspapers and the like, there are some who have been watching Reuters.

Included in that is Charles Johnson, who runs the excellent blog, Little Green Footballs. You can also see the doctored image at this website ... along with an explanation.

Reuters pushed a photo showing a picture of the Beirut skyline after an Israeli air strike. Evidently the photographer who took it wasn't satisfied with the damage done, because he fired up Photoshop (or some program like it) and decided to expand the reach of the smoke clouds. Not only that, but in the process of using what is called the cloning tool, said photographer decided to add some buildings, too. The result is so laughable you can't even believe Reuters would make such a photo available on their wire service to news outlets.

But they did.

Except as in the case of the staged Qana photos in which a dead girl was used as a prop, they got caught. They got pinched bad this time...with their hand in the cookie jar all the way up to their elbow. For their part, Reuters has yanked the photo, issuing this statement: "Reuters has suspended a photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to a photograph showing smoke billowing from buildings following an air strike on Beirut. Reuters takes such matters extremely seriously as it is strictly against company editorial policy to alter pictures." Uh-huh.

All of this proves one thing. Even photo wire services can be a propaganda machine for the pro-terrorist appeasement forces. The difference these days is if people pay attention, they can call them on it. It will be interesting to see if the suspended photographer is let go.

Peter Jensen illustrates just how easy it is to alter a photo. He did this job in just 12 minutes!

HALF OF US BELIEVES IRAQ HAD WMD

Well it would appear finally the American people are starting to believe the truth about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. You do know that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, don't you? The media and the Democrats like to push the lie that none have been found, but that's not true.

A recent poll says a full half of Americans believe Iraq had the WMD when troops invaded 3 1/2 years ago. This of course leaves the left wringing their hands. How could people believe such lies! Well, for the uninitiated, here is a list of the weapons of mass destruction that have been found in Iraq since Operation Iraqi Freedom began:

1. A 155-millimeter artillery round containing Sarin nerve agent was found, which is a weapon of mass destruction.
    
2. U.S. military units have discovered mustard gas that was used in an IED, or improvised explosive device. Mustard gas is a weapon of mass destruction.
    
3. In all, some 500 weapons containing mustard gas or Sarin nerve agent have been found in Iraq since the invasion. Again, both of these are weapons of mass destruction.

What sort of a lame excuse does the left come up with to explain away these findings? Try this .... These were weapons Saddam had before 1991 ... so they don't count. Now does that make sense to you? We have nuclear bombs we've had since before 1991. Do they not count? If we dropped on on Iran, do you think the world would give us a pass because we had the weapon before 1991?

The mainstream media and the left just can't let go of the lie that there were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. Go ahead, write this one down and enrage your liberal friends!

NO GOOD DEED .....

I saw a pretty nasty accident last week. It happened about a quarter-mile south of my Peachtree Rd. condo. An old SUV full of some rather hefty women (at least I think they were women) left the road, ran across a lawn, plowed through a fence and then took a nose dive about 20 feet straight down to the entrance of a basement parking garage. From the looks of things everyone went right through the front window. One woman wasn't moving when I got there, but the EMTs determined she was alive and transported her to Grady Hospital. Two days later I'm told she was still in ICU.

Anyway ... why am I telling you this story? After all, stupid people not wearing seat belts get thrown through windshields virtually every day.

Well .. it seems that someone who worked at a nearby apartment building was one of the first on the scene. He called 911 on his cell phone. One of the victims who was not horribly hurt asked to borrow his phone to make a call.

When she got through making the call she put the phone in her pocket and refused to return it. Days later calls were still being made on the phone.

When the owner of the phone would call his own number and ask that the phone be returned they would just hang up. The theft of his phone was reported to the police. We'll see if anything happens.

There's some real scum running around out there. Good people die in accidents all the time, but the cretin who stole this cell phone somehow survived. Pity.

GOOD NEWS FOR EUROPEAN EMPLOYERS!

At last ... some common sense out of the European Union! The European Commission has now ruled that employers in Europe are free to refuse to hire smokers. These employers can now use the phrase "smokers need not apply" in their want ads.

An official with one company involved with this ruling said; "If people are smoking on a coffee break or in their own time, they come back into the office and they stink. We have a very small office here and it would make things unbearable for the other staff. If these people can ignore so many warnings and all that evidence then they haven't got the level of intelligence that I am looking for. Smoking is idiotic."

Fantastic! I have company! I've been saying the same thing for years!

Not only is smoking a sure sign of self-hatred, it's also a sign of ignorance. You do your own research on this one (I'm saving mine for "Somebody's Gotta Say It"), but smokers almost always score lower on general intelligence tests than do non-smokers. Given the fact that you have to be a blithering idiot to smoke, this shouldn't come as a surprise to you.

Look around and learn. Sure, there are exceptions ... but smokers generally earn less than non-smokers. Smokers generally work more with muscle and less with brains than non-smokers.

Here's another factoid for you to chomp on. A smoker is more likely to vote Democrat. A non-smoker is more likely to vote Libertarian or Republican.

It's part of that stupid vs. not stupid thing.

For the life of me I can't figure out why someone would want to hire a smoker anyway .. unless, of course, she has huge breasts (see next item).

Smokers are sick more often than non-smokers. On the average they're less productive on the job than non-smokers, and they certainly give an employer's health insurance costs a swift kick in the ass. Besides ... as the man said .. .they can sure smell up an office.

Congratulations to European employers. You now have official clearance to engage in affirmative discrimination against stupid people. And that's a good thing.

THERE IS A GOOD SIDE TO SMOKING ........

Well, actually there might be more than one positive consequence from smoking. I can think of two:

1. Smokers tend to die sooner than non-smokers. When the ignorant die out at a faster pace than those with some modicum of intelligence, it has to be good for the gene pool. The problem is smokers, with their tendency to be of lower intelligence and their proclivity for engaging in risky behavior, tend to reproduce, though accidentally, at a lower age. Insofar as the gene pool thing is concerned, these two trends might negate each other.



2. Every high school and college-age male can tell you this, but young girls and women who smoke are much, much more sexually active than those who do not. If you're a young male and you're interested more in sex than you are in an actual relationship with someone, look for the woman with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. It's almost a drop-dead guarantee that you can have her legs wrapped around your waist by the end of the evening unless you're covered with open, running sores or you smell like a Hezbollah bomb shelter.

Note to fathers of high-school aged girls. If you find out your daughter smokes, please make sure she's on birth control. It's virtually guaranteed she's an E-ticket for some high school stud this coming weekend.

Sent in by Phil

SOME HATE MAIL FROM WADE

Wow .. this one really got to me. I mean ... I'm used to getting hate mail and all ... but Wade really hung me out to dry. When I first read this on Saturday I went on a drinking binge that lasted until late last night. I was suicidal! Thank goodness I looked in the mirror and saw all that I have to live for. Here you are .. enjoy this email from Wade!

Neal,

I know you run low on hate mail from time to time. Here's one to make you feel better.

1) I'm never going to listen to you again.

2) You're a hate-mongering bigot.

3) Your show sucks.

4) You're a hypocrite.

5) You're a liar.

6) You're a right-wing, conservative kool-aid drinker.

7) You're a tool for the religious right.

8) You're a left-wing, liberal putz.

9) You're a God-hating Christian basher.

10) You're a Muslim hating infidel.

11) i dont need 2 use grammer in emails

12) You're so ugly, I don't want to have your baby anymore.

13) Why don't you ever put me on the air.

14) Why don't you ever call me, anymore?

15) Get a life.

16) You screen your calls because you're afraid of me.

17) Your radio show isn't on live in my area.

18) You're a pig.

19) I don't even like your voice.

20) Oh yeah, you're bald. So there.

I hope I didn't miss anything. Have a great day.

-Wade

Ouch!

I AM NOT WORTHY

Someone has compiled a list of Neal Boortz quotes. I am not worthy. Did I really say all these things?

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

It's not too late for a summer BBQ. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Last week we talked a bit about stupid people.  Stupid people seem to get quite agitated when you talk about them.  You should see some of the emails I got!  Gotta love it!  Anyway ... thanks to the wonderful listener who sent me this link!  "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity."  The First Basic Law is "Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation."

It's 1974.  On June 24th Time Magazine comes out with an article titled "Another Ice Age?"  Today the rage is all about global warming.  Wonder what the rage will be in another 32 years?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has weighed in on whether or not we're going to invade Cuba, now that Fidel Castro's health is in decline.  The answer: absolutely not. 

The Crawford Crackpot Cindy Sheehan has returned to her namesake, setting up shop some 7 miles from the Bush ranch.  Bad news for Cindy this time, though.  Neither Bush nor anyone from his staff has any plans to meet with her this time.

Democrats have stopped using the line 'culture of corruption' to describe Republican rule in Washington.  The reason is very simple....they have a corruption problem themselves.   William Jefferson, anyone?

If this doesn't tell you that college faculties have some real nutcases in their ranks, nothing will.  You know all those crazy 9/11 conspiracies floating around?  They're being supported by, you guessed it, actual college professors.  How about the one about the towers being brought down by explosives from within?  Click more to find out.

Voters go to the polls for the Democratic primary tomorrow in Connecticut and decide whether or not Joe Lieberman will be running for re-election as a Democrat.  All the polls say he is going to lose.  Yet, despite that, he still maintains his support for the war.

Those who are against Israel's' war against Hezbollah seem to think that if Israel were to stop fighting, that peace would be at hand.  Jonathan Chait explains why that theory doesn't hold any water.  After all, there's been no peace there for almost 60 years.

Then you have the people that say Israel's response to Hezbollah's firing rockets at Israel and kidnapping its soldiers is "disproportionate."  Mark Steyn wants to know what exactly would be proportionate?   Always a good read.

Robert Novak takes the temperature on support for Israel in the Congress.  He says aside from Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel, support for Israel seems to be uniform across party lines.  Especially since Mel Gibson took Qana off the front page.

Professor Mike Adams details a recent exchange he observed between some out of control teenagers at a Wal-Mart store and an actual real, living, breathing adult who wasn't standing for their behavior.  [WARNING: Contains politically incorrect naughty words your boss might not like.]

With the west engaged in a global war against terror, Suzanne Fields wonders where the next Winston Churchill is.  You know, the kind of articulate, profound public speaker that can rally people to the cause.

Better get a DNA test on that fish dish before you order it.

The five stages of drunkenness.

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