Karadzic Arrested!… so now they caught him,

… when is anyone going to find Bin Lauden?

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http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=56f74973b6d4753455e4a70590c05e37ca5a1ce4

One of the world’s most wanted war criminals, Radovan Karadzic, was arrested in Belgrade.

Forgotten War Escalates!

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THE FORGOTTEN WAR! 500+ and counting!

Last month more U.S. soldiers died fighting in Afghanistan than in Iraq, reflecting the escalating violence in the region.

Opinion Please– Why do we owe him healthcare?

After suffering a traumatic brain injury in a car crash, Luis Jimenez was deported not by the federal government, but by a Florida hospital.

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Outsource THIS, Rednecks

Ralph Nader has an excellent prescription for the outsourcing going on in America:

Outsource The CEOs

Help The Grievance Project Disbar Sampson and Goodling (its a start)

My friend EM at The Grievance Project is carrying forward on his idea of filing grievances against all the crooks who have hijacked America’s justice departments, especially the Gonzales’, now Mukasey’s cover-upped criminal institute. I hope that you will go visit the Grievance project and help any way you feel you can. EM is a patriot and worthy to be on B’Man’s Patriot Watch.

I have had mixed feelings regarding attorneys, but EM (and those he seems to respect, like Jonathon Turley, who I have long linked to and respected myself) is a different breed. I believe he is doing what he can to make real change and I support him (even though he writes above my legalese head, at times).

You all know about AG Mukasey’s horrendous decision to not prosecute Sampson, Goodling, et al.  Although expected, that’s not good enough.  These attorneys are an embarrassment to the legal profession and this country deserves better.  I’ve long had enough.  Have you had enough?

My grievance strategy is based on sound legal theory and can begin to restore some credibility to the legal field.  My concept has also been advocated by Prof. Jonathon Turley.  On an episode of Countdown a few weeks ago when the OIG/DPR report was released, Prof. Turley strongly argued that grievances should be filed against Goodling and Sampson.

Please help me promote this important project.

Obama’s Hillbilly Half-Brother Threatening To Derail Campaign

From The Onion:

BOONEVILLE, KY—Barack Obama’s once-commanding lead in the polls slipped to two points Monday, continuing a month-long slide that many credit to the recent appearance of the Democratic candidate’s heretofore unknown half-brother, Cooter Obama.

Long kept a family secret, the overalls-clad, straw-chewing Kentuckian first entered the public spotlight in July, when he drove his 1982 Ford flatbed pickup through the press corps at an Obama rally in order to inform his brother that he caught the skunk that had been living under his front porch. According to witnesses, Cooter’s skunk proceeded to spray Washington Post political reporter Michael D. Shear in the face.

“Sorry ’bout that, mister! Some tomater juice’ll take care of the stank,” Cooter said as his mortified younger brother led him off the stage. “Shoot, Barack, you didn’t tell me you was runnin’ for president!”

Since Cooter’s emergence on the national scene, the Obama campaign has downplayed the brothers’ relationship. A statement issued last week by Obama’s top adviser, David Axelrod, claimed that the two lived together only for a brief period in 1981, shortly before Barack left to attend Columbia University and Cooter had to drop out of chicken-killing school because an air conditioner fell on his head.

Nonetheless, political experts said Cooter’s increased visibility in recent weeks has hurt Obama’s polling among urban, upper-middle-class, non-straw-hat-wearing voters. The Obama camp has scrambled to control the damage caused by Cooter’s penchants for loudly practicing his banjo during Obama’s speeches, repeatedly referring to Barack by his childhood nickname, “Ol’ Jelly Legs,” and chasing his troublemaking pig, Mbogo, in the nude in the background of Obama’s CNN interview on the importance of education.

The problem came to a head last week, advisers said, when Cooter arrived unannounced at a $100-a-plate fundraiser, slipped past security, and proffered a jug of moonshine to the high-society donors, claiming it would “straighten their curlies.” In addition, dozens of would-be attendees at a Cedar Rapids, IA town-hall meeting Sunday were turned away at the door by the elder Obama, who was sitting at the entrance in a rocking chair and brandishing a double-barreled shotgun.

“What Sen. Obama’s half-brother meant to communicate was that he was pleased that the candidate’s message of change is fostering vigorous dialogue,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said following the incident. “In no way was his proposal to ‘fill y’all’s backsides with rock salt’ intended to be taken in any other way.”

In the past two weeks, Obama has lost support from such groups as PETA, which withdrew its endorsement when Cooter punched a swan in the face, claiming it was “one of them mean ones”; the Clean Energy Group, which protested Cooter’s recent attempt to fry a squirrel in a flaming 20-gallon barrel of diesel fuel; and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), whom Cooter mistook for an outhouse Monday and urinated on for 35 seconds.

“I thought we would be able to escape controversy by leaving the country for a week and visiting Iraq and Europe,” an unnamed source in the Obama camp told reporters. “Little did we know that Cooter would command just as much attention back home by getting drunk with the Russian ambassador, lighting off fireworks, and crashing Obama’s campaign limo into a creek in the Ozark Mountains.”

Despite the setbacks he has caused, Cooter has secured a small but devoted following, and has occasionally managed to reflect well on the campaign. At a speaking engagement to which Obama arrived two hours late, Cooter kept the crowd’s spirits up by breaking out a washtub string bass and a washboard and holding an impromptu hoedown.

Although his primary focus has been to support his brother, Cooter Obama said he is not without political aspirations of his own.

“Shoot, I’m helpin’ because I love my brother,” Cooter said. “Maybe if he gets elected he can make me Secretary of Moonshine. Course, that don’t mean I ain’t votin’ for the other fella. Ol’ Jelly Legs wants to take my guns away.”

What Makes Morals?

My buddy Brian has a great post up today where he expresses how he handles a Christian’s insistence that God provides a person’s morals. Nicely done:

Sometimes a Christian will ask me, “how can you be a moral person without God? What’s the motivation to live a moral life if you’re not accountable for it anyway? Where do your morals come from?”

Rather than go through an exhaustive analysis of why these questions are flawed, I’m going to make a list. See, God may tell Christians not to murder or steal and all that good stuff, but really, not murdering and stealing is really basic human common sense. If we’re going to praise God for all those great rules he supposedly came up with, what about all those nasty morals he came up with? I would argue that my lack of a belief in God makes me a more moral person than someone who is religious. My moral choices aren’t made out of fear of eternal punishment. Just as I don’t have a reason to have “good” morals, I don’t have an excuse for bad ones, either.

1. I don’t have a religious justification to hate gay people, so I don’t hate gay people.
2. I don’t have a religious justification to believe that women are inherently inferior to men, so I don’t believe women are inferior to men.
3. I don’t have a religious justification to not see a doctor when I’m sick, so I see a doctor when I’m sick.
4. I don’t have a religious justification to hate someone for having the “wrong” religion, so I don’t hate people because they follow a certain religion.
5. I don’t have a religious justification to hate someone for being a member of the “wrong” race, so I am not a racist.
6. I don’t have a religious justification to support certain wars due to a belief that it will fulfill some sort of ancient prophecy, so I oppose needless death and destruction.
7. I don’t have a religious justification to strap a bomb to my chest and blow myself up in a crowded market, so I don’t strap a bomb to my chest and blow myself up in a crowded market.

Mexican Drugs: So Far From God

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Last year five severed human heads were thrown onto a dance floor in a town in western Mexico. This was “divine justice” said the armed drug gang who made the gruesome delivery. It was also a turning point in government attitudes towards drug violence; more than 5000 troops have now been dispatched to stem gang warfare in the suffering state of Michoacan, torn apart by drug trafficking and mass emigration. Troops versus traffickers. Elsewhere in the country battles between drug gangs and security forces are escalating at an unprecedented rate as President Felipe Calderon has ordered troops to root out traffickers. Nick Caistor takes a closer look at the causes and effects of the drug violence which is reaching alarming proportions in parts of the country.

USS New York… finally in the water

http://www.ussny.org/

USS NEW YORK (LPD-21) is coming home in the Fall of 2009. Constructed with seven and a half tons of steel from New York City’s fallen World Trade Center, the ship will take a part of New York with her wherever she sails. The ship symbolizes America’s commitment to defend freedom through its motto: “Strength Forged Through Sacrifice. Never Forget!” She will be coming to New York for her formal ‘Commissioning,’ or placement into active military service. It is a ceremony steeped in naval tradition where the order, “Man our ship and bring her to life!” is given to her officers and crew. There is no better place for the ceremony than New York. In the week preceding the commissioning, the community of New York will pay tribute with a series of events designed to properly send the crew off in their mission to defend the freedoms Americans enjoy and cherish. After the commissioning, the ship will go to sea in defense of freedom, taking with her both the steel and spirit of the people of New York.

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center .It is the fifth in a new class of warship – designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft. Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship’s bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, ‘those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,’ recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. ‘It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.’
Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the ‘hair on my neck stood up.’ ‘It had a big meaning to it for all of us,’ he said. ‘They knocked us down. They can’t keep us down. We’re going to be back.’

The ship’s motto? ‘Never Forget!’

http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/ussnewyork.asp