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A Prayerful Thanks to all "Sheepdogs"

 
This poem was inspired by this poem by Russ Vaughn
God bless ya'all sheepdogs

The wolves at bay,
All thanks to you,
No one can say,
How much they'd do,
In damage done,
To liberty,
But for sheepdogs,
She's history.

Keep safe now,
And win the war,
And have no cow,
Because some bore,
Speaks lies so sour,
To countrymen,
Unaware this hour,
Could bring their end.

Just slog away,
Good fights fought good,
You die today,
So others would,
Be left to know,
Or not,their fortune,
They reap,you sow,
Dead from the scorchin'.

And when it's done,
Survivors grateful,
Hail every one,
Of brothers fateful,
End in battle,
No love has us,
As those sans rattle,
Saying,"Victory or bust".

Merry Christmas Sheepdogs,past and present,living and dead - and thank you from the bottom of my heart,for the freedom and security that is all too easy to take for granite
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In a Death Match,The Committed Always Prevail

  I've been yelling for a long time that when people like John F'n kerry -who do things that would make the rest of us seek our own death in shame for having done them- do these(as informed as,if not more so,than the rest of us) acts in support of the enemy,that they are clearly being traitorous. But if no one of any status actually states it in those terms,why would they stop? No stigma = no motive to correct the behavior = a further emboldened enemy incurring ever increasing death and mayhem on the American Fighting Man and countless innocents.

  It is not necessary to know that you could convict someone of treason if you are making the case,that they are exibiting all of its traits,for the purpose of stifling their destructive behavior.If it is true,and it is most obviously true,that, "In the realm of practical effect, Kerry has given aid and comfort to his nation's foes",then the act of applying pressure to shut such a person up is in fact great patriotism,and deserving of applause and encouragement.

  If the definition of insanity is "The repeated application of failed principles,and expecting success anyway",then why should our side,the side that is serious about dealing with islamo-fascism,continue to treat those giving "aid and comfort to this nations foes" as though they are solid patriots who only want the best,when we know they will use our lack of clearly defined condemnation as license to continue in their destructive behavior that could very easily lead to our total destruction?

  These are deadly dangerous times that we live in and our enemies,both foriegn and domestic,are demonstrating greater boldness in getting what they want than we,their alleged opposition, are.We have the greatest military that has ever existed,and that military deserves better than what they get from "their side" when they are defamed because,the fact is,in the eyes of too many,the defamers and liars are winning the propoganda war,which is one war the military can do virtually no fighting in.

  If the American public,led by the great thinkers and pundits of the day,gets fired up and P'd off at the realization that they have been lied to about the virtue of their own American Fighting Man and the righteousness of his mission,then it will be far more likely that a vote conscious politician will get up enough nerve to insist that America take it to ALL of her enemies,for the sake of her very survival.

  Anything less and we are just biding our time until the day when the "aiders and comforters" have incorporated enough appeasement into the political system,to allow for "The Big One" to hit us,which would be akin to NOT having used every resource at our disposal,ie:The A-Bomb,to end the war in the Pacific. Something that most rational people realize saved Japan and the U.S. from even greater death and destruction.

  My fellow lovers of freedom, all I am suggesting is that we "go nuclear" on the collaborators before they bring their own brand of negotiated destruction to the,ever expanding as time goes by,masses of people who always get it when leaders don't lead,and thinkers don't act to compel them to.

the above is my response to this post by Josh Trevino at www.hughhewitt.townhall.com

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'Twas "Michelle the Marauder"

                                    In appreciation of Michelle Malkin

     From beyond the horizon,There arose such a clatter,Such a whining of sorts,And I said, "What's the matter?"

'Twas liberals they was,Cryin' "Racist!" and "Biggot!",But the sound they condemned,Held the truth and I dig it

'Twas "Maraudin' Michelle",Ridin' fast through tall grasses,She'd come to raise hell,And unleash it on a**es

She said "Let there be light",And the truth shone like gold,What a beautiful site,Now the truth starved behold

And so it would go,With this ruthless marauder,Lies shown as themselves,Good people applaud 'er

Ridin' in rightin' the issues,Six gun of truth at the ready,There's none fairer around,With or without lefty yetis

I've but one wish for mine own,My dearest sweet daughter,That she grow up to be,True to self,like "Michelle the Marauder"!
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Treasonous Traitors & the Traitorous Treason they Spew

    Unfortunately,many so called conservative thinkers go along with the "conventional wisdom" that says Iraq is a disaster and in so doing, legitimate the driveby medias constant attack on the psyche of decent Americans who rely on them("conservative" commentators)for bold insite as they don't have time to read fine columnists like Mr. McCullough here and all of the informative links he provides.

  And that is what leads to my greatest frustration: If even 50% of the USA was actively united against the enemy,and the other 50% would just stop saying terrible things about us,our militsry,and our President,then we would be unstoppable and our enemies,both foriegn and domestic,know it.

  And that is what leads to my greatest anger: Those who speak out in public,ie:Democrat senators,congressmen,unexplainably respected celebrities and your occasional republican turncoat, claim to be speaking in the best interests of the nation by telling the "truth" of how evil/incompetent WE are(while never even mentioning the truly evil acts of the enemy,let alone condemning them,but that's a whole other subject),are NEVER confronted with the simple question,"If you are really concerned for the good of the nation,wouldn't it be best to try and affect change behind the scenes and directly at the source,as in,the President,the Pentagon etc.?" And then the inevitable follow up,"Who else can it possibly help but the enemy when America is seen as a divided country,that with just enough sensless killing will eventually lean all the way over and fall into full surrender,now that so called U.S. leaders are willing to show more allegiance to the stance of our enemy,than to supporting their fellow countrymen and women in uniform?"

  Our own war to maintain the Union was a "disaster" that should've been aborted.
WWII was in doubt for years and America was not the preeminent superpower that she now is.
The Revolutionary War was "A terrible idea" that would only lead to needless death and destruction of property.
We were through in "The war of 1812".
The first Gulf War "Would require 100,000 body bags".

  I guess things never change.If it were easy and everyone agreed,I guess this wouldn't be America. It just seems to me that there is an unprecedented tally of LEADERS in CONGRESS who openly show disdain for their own country and its leadership during time of war and I can't help but wonder if this is not the time when we have finally pushed our preference for freedom of EVERYTHING,including sedition and out and out treason(see:NY Times/their sources,Joe Wilson,Pros.Fitzgerald etc.),over a natural desire for self preservation.

  Iraq IS doing good,relatively good.
We lost thousands on "D-day",we were doing good.
Antietam was horrific,we still had 3 more years of that horror.America didn't quit because the cause was virtuous.Now people who believed in this mission enough to make a fully informed vote for it,are savaging the effort and giving the enemy their most effective I.E.D.(Inspiration to "Educate" through Destruction)by sanctioning their evil work. Because if the enemy were to lose,(You know,as in America wins?)then everything the democrats say would be proven wrong,thus illustrating why they must speak as loudly and as publicly as possible so as to bring about the failure of this effort,because if it's one thing a politician cannot stand to be seen as,it's being wrong about something.

  Yes,we need more positiveness like this work by Mr.Kevin McCullough,but we also need a whole lot of shame directed at the forces of defeatism as their way of nonthinking is spreading and can only lead to the REAL worst thing about Viet Nam: Acquiescing to a great evil.

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...and let Allah sort 'em out.

Ah yes,this takes me back to when father would tell stories of how insane little German guys in train stations,back in the early to mid forties,would scrunch their(wearing a horribly foreshortened mustache) lips all up and make a scene by threatening to sue because of the prying questions porters would lay on them for "lookin' like daze a bit owtta plase in dese heaya pots".

Of course, back then we weren't blessed with great organizations working for the cause of diversity by obscuring any semblance of common sense,like cnn and the Atheistic Criminal Lawyers Union,so anyone ig'nant enough to commit such a "flagrante delicto",was just beat into the pavement.You see,America was under the quaint little dilusion back then that uniting against the enemy was good and virtuous,and people who mocked that sentiment deserved neither our respect nor much consideration from the local authorities. Somehow, we threw that baby out with the "Jim Crow Water".

Hears to at least a good old fashioned intellectual beatdown from now on(every time one of these inconsiderate, insensitive, 'strategerically' knocking our guard down,tryin' to shake someone down for money and takin' it for granted that we are ALL just a bunch of veal calves,waiting to be led to slaughter,types) being the overwhelming response America sends as a message to those who would erode our sense of self preservation.

Oh yeah,and a very merry Christmas to the good Doc and his family(and a fiery new year to satans impish lieutenants with the bomb vests and rusty knives).

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Sedition,Thy Name is "MSM"

   If this story about Sandy Bergler was about a republican stealing and destroying sensitve classified documents, on behalf of his convicted of perjury former president boss,the socialist advocacy conglomerate known as the "MSM" would not have stopped until every Haldeman,Ehrlichman,etc. right up to the "big cheese" was indicted and or destroyed.

Don't tell me the MSM only goes for the "sexy" story because the Clinton crew had EVERYTHING Watergate did plus a REAL deapthroat.

If and when this country is lost,it will be at the hands of those lying to us from birth about every aspect of American life current and past.

Informed Americans = Defeat of Nazi Germany and imperialist Japan.
Misled Americans = We lose(are about to lose) almost every major conflict ever since.

Why is it more exemplary of Americanism to tear down this country with the force of virtually every form of conventional dissemination of information,than it is to be a President trying to protect U.S. from outside forces who have already killed thousands of us on American soil ?

Your thoughts:

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And Jihad Shall Inherit the Earth? 1Mil Dead Indeed

 This post by "Carnell Knowledge" can not be proved wrong in any logical way that I can see. One can't disagree with what he says accepting for "When we are fighting for our survival and not just for control of the senate, house, or presidency then maybe, we will wake up but somehow I don’t really think so. Even after there are one million dead, the usual suspects will blame us first, make excuses for our enemy, and thwart our attempts to save ourselves." The reason why I still have hope is because of the fact,as he so brilliantly illustrates,that the American people ARE being fooled with lies and pro-enemie propoganda.Once they know they've been lied to,they will get behind the fight for their own survival, which they are not even aware of,is a fight the American Fighting Man is already engaged in.
 
I do fear however,that it could be more of a "Red Dawn" kind of response if we do not act soon and with a merciless slaughter by American forces, the likes of which has not been seen since WWII and Dresden or heaven help us,even Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The simple fact is the answer to his question, "How many fewer civilians in Iraq would be dead if we had hit them with overwhelming force?",is likely in the thousands.It IS time to take the gloves off but unfortunately,America does not have the stomach(ie:We haven't been slaughtered in high enough civilian numbers right here at home/nor recently enough)and niether is the public educated sufficiently to support what must be done even if our leaders did have more Churchill than Chamberlain running through their vains.
 
This post by Dean Barnett, is an illustration of American positive thinking and a belief in the inate tendency of freedom loving people to rise up when pushed just a bit too far. When Mr. Barnett says,"Today and for the foreseeable future, America will face great challenges. The forces of darkness are gathering, this week literally as they’ve convened a Holocaust denial conference. They can only be defeated by force. Prevailing will require willpower. And it will have to be a communal effort; the upcoming struggle will be of such a scale that it’s likely that every American household will feel its impact.",he draws it all down to the reality of what we are facing. It is just a matter of sooner rather than later. Hopefully it is not a matter of,"Too lttle too late" and the world is left with having to start civilization all over again after a thousand year dark age under the rule of the sword as understood by the very commited and very capable islamo fascists who now beckon the gates of hell be opened onto this,in many ways,ever improving human existence.
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The "Iran & Syria Goforit" committee

"Iran & Syria, Goforit" committee
One little,two little, 3 appeasers.





Four little,five little, 6 appeasers.









Seven little,eight little, 9 appeasers.









All in sink with ("canNOTSEEanything wrong with talking to terrorist states") Jim ! -------------------------------------->
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Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the MSMs Curtain of Omission

Hugh Hewitt linked to this post by Colossus first. It's only the most important issue of our time, so I thought I'd weigh in with the following comment in response re: Is Iran/it's leader(s), a party to the pitchfork wielding crimson one ?

  We must also be aware and vigilant regarding the evil that is embraced(or at least accepted as "normal") right here at home.If the likely affects of a just Creator are to be heeded,then the killing of millions of innocents and the national acceptance of homosexuality,as "just another lifestyle", needs to be confronted and corrected(or at least a change of direction made)along with a laundry list of other issues.
 
  Can it not be said that we stand by and let these attrocities occur just as the German people did? I lived in Germany for 2 years back in the very early '80s.Those people suffer the affects of there crimes to this day much like America is still feeling the reverberations from slavery.Once,we accepted the possession of one man by another as "normal" and now look back on it with horror. America needs to hurry up and get horrofied over the slaughter of all of those innocents before our soul is further degraded and sinking to a more equal plane with some of the less blessed nations of the world.Certainly,there are many in congress who are the virtual allys of our blood enemies even now.
 
  We have,in my opinion,the best(or certainly as good as has ever existed)human beings yet gifted to this planet by our Creator,in the form of The American Fighting Man, and we are not doing him or his efforts justice.If they(Americas fighting men) are not allowed to do what they do best -kill lots of bad guys- then many many more will die unnecessarily for the lack of their best.

  How many casualties do they estimate we would have taken had we made an assault on the mainland of Japan in order to win WWII? A million? That's the devils best trick."No! Don't fight,negotiate or at least don't be so overwhelmingly brutal.Think of all the collateral damage.Being moderate will save lives and besides,why are you all such a bunch of bloodthirsty $#%!*&#%!! animals anyway?".
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Up 'Christ creek' without a Menorah

   So a tradition of having an airport festooned with Christmas trees is worth threatening a lawsuit huh? Of course it is! For shame America! Do you have any concept of how insensitive you're being just by buying those evergreen symbols of racism,capitalism,sexism,homophobia and an unflinching devotion to a belief in something not necessarily muslim,jewish,hindu,budhist,scientoligist etc.?
 
 America is obviously the most insensitive country full of successful jews,gays,blacks,muslims,handicapped er,um,disabled,Asians,Mexicans,Pakistanis,Iranians,Africans, Iraqis,Russians,Frenchmen,Canadians,peace marchers,deserters,ex-cons and communists that has ever existed.History will surely speak derisevly of your cruelty and closedminded bigotry.No wonder why your rightwing fanatics are trying to build a wall to keep people in,who would want to live there?
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If "Surrender Gran'pas" Win,Good Will Lose

 This column by Mark Steyn is hysterical and right on the enemy, er, money.I'd like to see the old "Vulture Courier" himself,Bill O'rielly,on whose own side he is always on, try to say something as mealy-free in the mouth as this concise scewering of the "Surrender Grand'pas" as Mr. Steyn calls them.It'll never happen, just like we'll never see that "paragon of the right",Fox News Channel, employ a host as uncompromisingly to the right as one Mr. Mark Steyn.
 
Here's a small sample of Steyns brilliance in case the site is crashing from all the people trying to read it:
 "RECOMMENDATION 5: The Support Group should consist of Iraq and all the states bordering Iraq, including Iran and Syria . . ."

Er, OK. I suppose that's what you famously hardheaded "realists" mean by realism. But wait, we're not done yet. For this "Support Group," we need the extra-large function room. Aside from Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait, the ISG -- the Iraq Surrender Gran'pas -- want also to invite:

". . . the key regional states, including Egypt and the Gulf States . . ."

Er, OK. So it's basically an Arab League meeting. Not a "Support Group" I'd want to look for support from, but each to his own. But wait, Secretary Baker's still warming up:

". . . the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council . . ."

That would be America, Britain, France, Russia, China. A diverse quintet, representing many distinctive approaches to international affairs from stylish hauteur to polonium-210. Anybody else?

". . . the European Union . . ."

Hey, why not? It's not really multilateral unless there's a Belgian on board, right? Oh, and let's not forget:

". . . the Support Group should call on the participation of the United Nations Secretary-General in its work. The United Nations Secretary-General should designate a Special Envoy as his representative . . ."

Indeed. But it needs to be someone with real clout, like Benon Sevan, the former head of the Oil for Food Program, who recently, ah, stepped down; or Maurice Strong, the Under-Secretary-General for U.N. Reform and godfather of Kyoto, who for one reason or another is presently on a, shall we say, leave of absence; or Alexander Yakovlev, the senior procurement officer for U.N. peacekeeping, who also finds himself under indictment -- er, I mean under-employed. There's no end of top-class talent at the U.N., now that John Bolton's been expelled from its precincts.

So there you have it: an Iraq "Support Group" that brings together the Arab League, the European Union, Iran, Russia, China and the U.N. And with support like that who needs lack of support? It worked in Darfur, where the international community reached unanimous agreement on the urgent need to rent a zeppelin to fly over the beleaguered region trailing a big banner emblazoned "YOU'RE SCREWED." For Dar4.1, they can just divert it to Baghdad.

Oh, but lest you think there are no minimum admission criteria to James Baker's "Support Group," relax, it's a very restricted membership: Arabs, Persians, Chinese commies, French obstructionists, Russian assassination squads. But no Jews. Even though Israel is the only country to be required to make specific concessions -- return the Golan Heights, etc. Indeed, insofar as this document has any novelty value, it's in the Frankenstein-meets-the-Wolfman sense of a boffo convergence of hit franchises: a Vietnam bug-out, but with the Jews as the designated fall guys. Wow. That's what Hollywood would call "high concept." end segment

God bless this man and his fellow plain spoken folk in the new media. Now,would one of you please run for office !?!

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Jihad on the Truth: MSMs True Mission

   We just had the "Iraq Surrender Group" report. Imagine an equally RIGHT leaning "Bi-partisan" group coming up with its pro-American victory/non anti-Israel report. Can you then imagine that same MSM not running a virtual anal exam (of every member in the "study group"),"proving" the conclusion that it was all just a conservative "dog & pony show" worthy of the circular file?

   Their(the lapdog,liberal advocate MSMs)total desire to not speak the truth every day is proof that they are ALL liars who should never be noted accept to illustrate their occasional out and out treason.Their lies of omission have worked in conjunction with the spoken ones,in the last 4 decades at least,to produce an electorate that is undereducated at best and floating on the winds of emotion at worst,ie:perfect liberal voters.

   Whenever I hear the "MSM" or any of its components (Rather,Kouric,NY crimes,cnnjazeera,msdnc etc.) mentioned, I automatically think, "Liars". Until we understand that they have an agenda and that is to fool the American people with pro-socialist/anti-American propoganda (see:"6 Iraqis Burned Alive" story), then we will continue to be fooled as well. Get your info from Hugh,Rush,Michelle,Claudia etc and let the MSM "wither on the vine".


This was going to be a response to this post by "scatbug",but why type so much w/o posting it?

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U.S.Enemies:You're Dead -U.S."Leaders":We'll Try Harder

Response to this post  by "TheWayWeAre"
 You're right about our leaders,they're all cowards and appeasers trying to find "the big middle" where they can safely live in perpetuity as lifetime elected officials. Unfortunately the cut and run conservative retard brigades have left us with a dem congress who only get excited when it comes to attacking our president and the American Fighting Men he leads.As far as the pundits go,I've been begging Hugh Hewitt for years to call traitors traitors but Rush does it and it doesn't matter because as big as he is,he still doesn't get to the masses of the truly brainwashed.The only hope we have is an actual leader who stands up and tells it like it is.
 
  The worse the times,the greater the leader we need.In my opinion we need someone even greater than Reagan OR Churchill.Rick Santorum speaks like a Churchill but he doesn't have the force of personality to get it across.Keep fightin' brother but I'm afraid we will have to get hit and hit big,right here at home,a couple of more times before America unites herself anything like when we were able to say things like "Japs" and little boys would dayream about bombing the hell out of German cities and even draw pictures of such in class.Can you imagine if a kid drew a picture of a U.S.Marine standing over the body of a dead islamo-facist? I know it sounds silly,but that speaks to where our culture has gotten.You have to hate your enemy to defeat him.You have to revel in his destruction. They get that. America doesn't need every single man woman and child in it to win it, but she does need every Congressman,Senator,highschool/college professor,newspaper and television network to stop working for the complete failure of this effort to defeat our blood enemies who are sworn to destroy us.
 
   Shelby Steele has spoken of our "white guilt",many others have spoken about the lefts ethos of multiculturalism that has so openly sought to degrade our great American culture, even sought to show that there is no singular American culture, by showing that we're all just a bunch of unassimilated parts in the "Great diversity pot". The leaders of these beliefs,some of us think, want us all to look at everyone equally.No culture is any better or worse than any other. We're all just different. But the fact is, the only ones who get targeted for derision and hate by the Amnesty Internationals,the A.C.L.U.s,the "People for the American Way" and virtually the entire U.N. are those who live in freedom and prosperity and are the true benefactors of those that hate them the most. America and Israel. The leaders of Great Britain and Australia have a pair but they won't last with their nutty populations so they get a pass for now.
 
   America and Israel are the targets. Just look at the Iraq Surrender Report:1)America should not,no, can not, win the war there. 2)Israel, should not continue to exist in it's current unfair and "occupational" form. Stop these two over reaching and occupying nations, and that will stop the aggression against them. See? It's simple.Decent countries living in freedom are offensive to the Nazi muslims. If we would just retreat -and maybe even appologize for good measue- then they would stop behaving poorly.
 
   It makes me want to puke when this panel of self congradulatory dimwits are hailed as brave by the MSM. Also, the ones who should know better, "our" pundits (when on national tv anyway) and socalled leaders in congress, respond to this swill as if it were a serious attempt at solving the problems of the middle east (not to mention winning the war...which it doesn't mention) instead of calling it what it is, an anti-semitetic/anti-liberty document of appeasement and cowardice that Jimmy "Israel practices aparthied" Carter himself could have written.
 
   We're at war folks. The time for worrying about hurting peoples feeling has long since past and we are still advancing such beliefs as "Profiling won't be allowed to be used when trying to identify the killers". I'm afraid those who believe American cities will burn again before we react properly are looking more and more like they are right. Our Churchill cannot arrive too soon. Come to think of it, wasn't he laughed at until it was almost too late? Your thoughts:
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Miss of the Week: Breyers' Equivocation

In his own muddled way, Justice Breyer is drawing an analogy between interned Japanese Americans and terrorists in this exchange on last weeks Fox News Sunday.Isn't he ?

WALLACE: You have voted at least twice to limit the power of the president to fight terrorists.

You talk about consequences. How do you satisfy yourself, as a justice in that white marble building up there, that when you vote to strike down a tool that the president, as commander in chief, is using in the war on terror, that you're not endangering the country?

BREYER: I don't think it was argued in — well, perhaps — but the case, for example, that we had, which was several years ago, probably the main one, was whether a person who is held as a prisoner in part of the United States, even if he was an alien at Guantanamo, had a right to come to court. And we held that he did have a right to come to court.

And there are...

WALLACE: But there's also the interrogation of prisoners, there have been other issues.

BREYER: We haven't gone into the — there have been a lot of issues, but, I mean, you're asking what we, in particular, have taken...

WALLACE: What I guess I'm asking...

BREYER: But your basic question is, how does the judge know? And the answer is that the judge has to look at the record and the testimony and what's being elicited, just as he does in all difficult cases.

Ultimately we have a Constitution that guarantees a democratic system and that guarantees certain individual rights. I show that in this book. I discuss some of them. The rights are important.

Of course, as Justice Goldberg said, as Justice Jackson said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Everyone understands that. And that's why that Constitution in the Fourth Amendment uses words like "reasonable." There is flexibility in it.

The court has made terrible mistakes sometimes in its history, now recognized. Eighty thousand Americans, Japanese Americans, citizens of the United States, were brought during the early parts of World War II to camps, camps where they were held against their will, even though J. Edgar Hoover said there's no need to do that and even though every historian says there was no need to do that.

But it happened, and the court ratified it over three votes — Jackson, Murphy, Roberts — who said, "Don't do this."

So what you've done, Chris, which is correct, is that you've shown how difficult that problem is. We can't ignore the civil liberties aspect. You can't ignore — you can't ignore the security aspect.

And what judges try to do in that situation is to listen to what they're told by the lawyers, the witnesses and the others, and then they do their best not to make a mistake.

Not as mistake as to their personal opinion, by the way, but a mistake as to how those words that guarantee freedom in the Constitution apply to this situation. END

The above exchange led to this post.

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Borat Hamilton Report:"Throw Israel Down the Well"

 excerpted from the NY Times
   In what is being hailed -from Demascus to Terahn- as a bold move the new Borat/Hamilton Report has come up with the ultimate solution to all problems middle eastern: Exalt the Jews of Israel (remember,there are many palestinians who live there) to a height not seen since the days of Masada. Yes, the official findings of the "Cruddy Iraq Group" show that if 79 jews are allowed to be kept in captivity for study and "experimental" purposes, the cause of there natural ability to annoy otherwise non-exploding muslims will eventually be discovered and then corrected by very sophisticated methods of "brainstems jelled research" before they are shot at the edge of a ditch.
 
  These are just a sample of the hilights from this, instantly awarded the Nobel Prize for peace, humanitarian document which provides for the very compassionate cleansing of the defective "jewjewgean" as it was coined by a lead contributor to the study, Dr. Howard "Howlin' Howie" Deangala. "Vell, as a pdoduct uf a veddy suksezfull invitdo futalizaztion expediment gone hodibly fontostic, HA HA HA HA HA !!!, I can attest to za accudacy of zeze techniques (now sounding just like Dr. Strangelove)...Yah mien Fuehrer !!! I haff completed za taaask!" The good doctor was then rehooded and wheeled back to his laboratory to continue research into the insidious jewjewgene.
 
   Once the ovation -by the adoring throngs of journalists and dnc members- for Dr. Deangala subsisted, a participant in the cleansing was brought out for a viewing. Although we were all assured that he was safely resting in that vat of formaldehyde, it was still a harrowing experience being that close to one just the same. Later we imbibed on the blood of little pigs and monkeys and sang an impromptu  chorus of "Throw Israel Down to Hell !"
 
   Peace in our time is surely at hand, and this reporter is not ashamed to display joy and relief in print, now that the Nation of Islam has been freed from their bondage of so many hundreds of years. Jihad to all, and to all a sharp knife (well,sharp enough to get it done anyway).
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