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BREAKING – New Abu Ghraib Photos Released (W/MORE IMAGES)

Can you say “war crimes”?

{SD House Approves Abortion Ban} – “The bill banning all abortions in South Dakota was passed 47-to-22 in the House.

Amendments aimed at carving out exemptions for rape, incest and the health of women were rejected.”

And people call the South backwards. Shit, these insane people in South Dakota don’t even want abortions if incest is involved.

{Ex-U .N. inspector: Iran’s next} – “Ritter also predicted the military strategy for war with Iran. First, American forces will bomb Iran. If Iranians don’t overthrow the current government, as Bush hopes they will, Iran will probably attack Israel. Then, Ritter said, the United States will drop a nuclear bomb on Iran. “

via robotwisdom

Granted, I’ve never been a huge believe in what Scott Ritter has said about anything. But, in hind-sight, he’s been spot on. So the thought of having Bush’s finger on the button, makes me worried.

However, I think it will be different than Ritter’s scenario:

Iran nukes Israel
Israel nukes Iran
USA nukes Iran and Syria.

And that, my friends, scares the ever-living crap outta me.

{ABC News: Evangelicals urge action on global warming} – “e Christian leaders said they were impelled by their faith to launch this campaign out of a growing realization that the threat of global warming was real and that the world’s poor would suffer the most.”

I saw this the other night on ABC’s evening news and they were portraying it as if it were global warming as a pro-life stance. Which absolutely makes sense to me. If you’re “pro-life” and you’re driving an SUV, you’re a walkin’, talkin’, rollin’ ball of hypocritical lovin’.

How can someone sit there and defend driving a gas-guzzler or even loosening environmental standards while saying that they’re pro-life?

I’d like to point out to my riotous Muslim friends, that you didn’t see Buddhists burning down buildings, rioting, and shooting people when priceless, 2,000 year-old Buddha statues were destroyed by Afghanistan’s Taliban government in 2001. Not only were these works of art, they existed way before Muhammad was ever a gleam in Allah’s eye.

Respect is a two way street my friends. You have to give it, to get it. Why should anyone give a shit about a cartoon from 5 months ago, when many Muslims didn’t give a shit about 2,000 year-old pre-Islamic Buddhist statuses.

This isn’t really about a cartoon is it?. It’s about the two worlds that we live in: the western sodom and gomorra as seen by the east and the restrictive spiritual world they live in. They view our lifestyles as being pornographic and the US as the cultural mecca for everything “satanic” in the world. Our freedom of press, is just seen as another example as to what’s wrong with everyone outside of their grasp. How could we put truth and freedom above what Allah said many worlds ago. It didn’t matter if it originated in Europe, to them, the US is still to blame….

….Ana laa Afham

{US plans massive data sweep | csmonitor.com} – “The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity.

The system – parts of which are operational, parts of which are still under development – is already credited with helping to foil some plots. It is the federal government’s latest attempt to use broad data-collection and powerful analysis in the fight against terrorism. But by delving deeply into the digital minutiae of American life, the program is also raising concerns that the government is intruding too deeply into citizens’ privacy.”

And OF COURSE, we can trust this administration to not use this against people NOT involved in terrorism.

{2/8/2006 – Why Can’t My Mother Be Allowed To Die? – And Response – Opinion – Chattanoogan.com} – “What, tell me, is the point of this cruelty? Why can’t my mother die
with dignity and class? Why do we prolong peoples’ lives so they can be out of their minds and miserable when they are ready to die? I know my mother. She doesn’t want nor deserve this complete lack of compassion. How do I allow this great woman to suffer and wither away when she should have eternal peace? How will I deal with allowing this to happen to my mother the rest of my life. I will forever say, “I should have never allowed this to happen to her.”

I have thought of nothing but this for weeks now. I want to know what the argument is on the other side. Is this another right-winged fundamental christian forced upon issue that prevents my mother from leaving this earth with dignity and pride like she had before getting cancer? Is it because Jesus may miraculously heal her? Should I call Ernest Angeley or Benny Hinn? Or, and, I really hope this isn’t the case, is it about money? Are they keeping my mother alive at however many thousands of dollars a day for the love of the dollar?”

Because the people who are in power are scared of people making their own choices. From seat belts to abortion to euthanasia, people are fighting against the free will each of us have inside. Aside from seat belts, the other two decisions aren’t willy-nilly, easy decisions. Do you honestly think that someone with a terminal illness shouldn’t have the ability to select their time to go? And it’s not like the big myth that some women use abortion as birth control….no one ever says that.

We have freedoms from and of religion, we have freedoms to carry guns, we have freedoms on a lot of “things” except when it involves what WE as individuals need.

{Bush Removes Abramoff Prosecutor by Promoting Him to Judge} – “Yesterday President Bush nominated Noel Hillman, the lead prosecutor in the Abramoff case, to a lifetime judicial appointment.

Just to make it even more perfect, Hillman serves as chief of the department’s public integrity section. Must be that special Republican integrity “integrity” that allows you to take a cushy job in return for pulling the investigation off the White House.”

Sickening.

{Commissioner blasts Keith Haring’s art} – “The work of the late artist and Berks County native Keith Haring is obscene and should not be displayed on a public building, county Commissioner Mark C. Scott said Tuesday.

Scott’s argument to keep Haring’s Statue of Liberty mural from hanging on the county services center was won when Commissioner Thomas W. Gajewski Sr. said he feared it would open the door to other groups making similar requests.

The mural was to be displayed to attract attention to an upcoming exhibit of Haring’s art in the Reading Public Museum.

Scott said he concluded Haring’s work is obscene after viewing it on a Web site and seeing graphic depictions of sadomasochistic and homosexual activities. “

So let me get this straight, the mural ISN’T obscene but because Haring created SOME that YOU might consider obscene, this non-obscene art needs to be pulled?

Sure why not? Why don’t we pull this art and just put up some old, bland Norman Rockwell mural of what he saw in his little corner of the country. Because we all know that Rockwell IS America. No Homosexuallity, No Minorities, No Controversy at all. This is why, politicians don’t need to assume that they’re experts on art, just by looking at a website. It would be like me becoming an expert on politics by reading the Drudge Report.

{t r u t h o u t – Democrats: Get Up and Walk Out} – “I have a wild and crazy idea.

George W. Bush’s delivery of the State of the Union address will take place on Tuesday, January 31, a little more than a week from now. It is my strong belief that every single Democrat present in the House chamber for the speech should, at a predetermined moment, stand up and walk out. No yelling. No heated words. Every Democrat should simply stand silently and leave.

No. Instead of appearing like they’re retreating, why not stand up and raise your voice? Why not start asking the President questions, while he doesn’t have his in-ear monitor or PR flacks standing by. Why not verbally attack him, asking questions on everything. You’ll see him backdown and walk off the stage, a horrible image that will be seen on every screen on every video device in the world. This will be far more hurtful than any walkout….walkouts are a Junior High School approach to a PhD level problem.