May 27, 2009 On Saturday night or early Sunday morning, there were several incidents of vandalism using racial slurs. In the 3000 block of Citadel Court, the suspects spray painted the slurs on several cars and broke out windows to vehicles. A swastika was spray painted on the garage door of one residence.

Olympia/Thurston County Crime Stoppers pays up to $1,000 cash for information leading to the arrest and charges being filed of this or any other crime. Callers never have to give their name. Collect calls are accepted. Call 493-2222.

When President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world from Cairo this week, more than 20,000 people outside the U.S. received free text messages about his speech.

A deputy national security adviser, Denis McDonough, said today that the State Department’s free message program helped spread the president’s message of engagement to nations with predominantly Muslim populations............

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The text-messaging service was not available in the United States, however, because law forbids the use of taxpayer dollars domestically for the dissemination of propaganda.

Close the book.

Damn you CW....DAMN YOU TO HECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

way to blow it, Brown blow him, Clown

Discussing U.S.–Great Britain cooperation during the invasion, Brown said, “Next to Obama Beach, we join President Obama in paying particular tribute to the spectacular bravery of American soldiers who gave their lives”.

Sun worshiping vs sonofabitch worshiping.
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“To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened, a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful.”

“This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts, a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history.”

Here all along I’ve assumed that the walking-upright configuration of the Homo pelvis had an advantage over that of the of other Hominidae when it came to physiologically enabling the evolution of the most sophisticated form of culture. You know, Riverdance.
That assumption is clearly unwarranted. (Evidence BTF)

here’s a topic:
Crunchberries are not real berries (nor are they crunchy once smothered in milk).

On May 21, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased “Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries” because she believed “crunchberries” were real fruit.  The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that said “berries” were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls, and that although the product did contain some strawberry fruit concentrate, it was not otherwise redeemed by fruit.  She sued, on behalf of herself and all similarly situated consumers who also apparently believed that there are fields somewhere in our land thronged by crunchberry bushes.

According to the complaint, Sugawara and other consumers were misled not only by the use of the word “berries” in the name, but also by the front of the box, which features the product’s namesake, Cap’n Crunch, aggressively “thrusting a spoonful of ‘Crunchberries’ at the prospective buyer.”........

And Froot loops do not contain real froot.

EricC

Thai police: Carradine death may be accidental

The body of American actor David Carradine, best known for the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu,” was found in a hotel room closet with a rope tied to his neck and genitals, and his death may have been caused by accidental suffocation.........

I ...... applaud his efforts at reaching out to Muslims. GWB would never have done such a thing; he was content to broadly categorize every Muslim as a terrorist and call it a day.
Lisa Kern

10/17/2006:

The end of the Muslim month of fasting is ‘a good time to reflect on the values we hold in common,’ US President George W Bush said Monday night while hosting an Eid al-Fitr dinner at the White House.

The Muslim guests of the president and First Lady Laura Bush included police officers and medics who worked at the scene of the September 11 attacks five years ago in New York City, US diplomats, a military doctor, a Navy chaplain and other military veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Bush welcomed the dinner guests with a greeting of ‘Ramadan Karim.’ Monday was the sixth White House observation of the event during his presidency.

‘On this special evening, we celebrate the millions of Muslims that we are proud to call American citizens. We honour the many Islamic nations that America is proud to call friends,’ Bush said.

‘And we renew the ties of friendship that should bind all who trace their faith back to God’s call on Abraham.’

The White House served a Middle Eastern-influenced menu including spiced carrot soup, mint pesto-crusted halibut and chocolate macaroons. Eid al-Fitr is a celebratory meal to mark the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.

‘America is a land of many faiths, and we welcome and honour the Muslim faith in our nation,’ Bush said.

‘Our society is enriched by our Muslim citizens. Your commitment to your faith reminds us all of the precious gift of religious freedom in our country. America is a more hopeful nation because of the talents and generosity and compassion of our Muslim citizens.’

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I think a fun thing to do with Lympians when they go on and on and on and on and on and on about “all their rights” that BOOOOOOOOOSH took away from them (in between screaming for fairness doctrines and gun control and having right wing pundits dragged away to the gulags) is to ask them if they’ve gotten them rights restored yet..............

heh...

...Obama’s speech is designed to tell Muslims he understands and empathises. ... Of actual proposals to solve anything he has few. He’s offering not plans but himself.

...I think Obama has given in, and, hoping to be liked, will earn only contempt..
[emph mine e!C]

shows his fundamental misapprehension of history

Also, his ass.

...America’s strong bonds with Israel are well known.  This bond is unbreakable.  It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied. ...Holocaust…

uh, not so much.

In 1922 the League of Nations mandated Great Britain to facilitate the reconstitution of the Jewish commonwealth in the Land of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River. The international community’s decision to work towards the reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in Israel owed to its recognition of the Jewish people’s legal, historic, and moral rights to our homeland.  [RTWT]

ok.  one thing.  But Wait!! ...

I think I’m gonna need a cabin mate slash spotter.
Wollf has the scoop, among other things.

Internet radio host Hal Turner — accused of inciting Catholics to “take up arms” and singling out two Connecticut lawmakers and a state ethics official on a website — was taken into custody in New Jersey late Wednesday after state Capitol police in Connecticut obtained a warrant for his arrest.

Turner, who has been identified as a white supremacist and anti-Semite by several anti-racism groups, hosts an Internet radio program with an associated blog. On Tuesday, the blog included a post that promised to release the home addresses of state Rep. Michael Lawlor, state Sen. Andrew McDonald and Thomas Jones of the State Ethics Office.

“Mr. Turner’s comments are above and beyond the threshold of free speech,” Capitol Police Chief Michael J. Fallon said in an e-mail announcing the warrant. “He is inciting others through his website to commit acts of violence and has created fear and alarm. He should be held accountable for his conduct.”

damn these slow thumbs

Welcome to the 21^st Century:  The Cairo Speech on Twitter.  TOTES.

Obama: America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.

Jake Tapper: POTUS cites the"1 rule that lies at the heart of every religion – that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us”

AllahPundit: I’m telling you, he really missed an opportunity not delivering this one from the top of the Sphinx’s head

The new phone book’s here!
No, wait. I mean the new season of Burn Notice starts tonight! (USA Network, 9pm)

Guy TV — but girls are allowed to watch, too.

Or should I say reverse-profiling.

...as two young U.S. soldiers stood in front of the Army Navy Career Center in west Little Rock, Ark., a black pickup pulled in front of the office and the driver opened fire on the two, killing one and critically wounding the other… the suspect [is] Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a 21-year-old African-American man who had changed his name from Carlos Leon Bledsoe after converting to Islam. In Arabic, the word mujahid is the singular form of mujahideen, and it literally means one who engages in jihad.
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The fact that the FBI was investigating Muhammad but was unable to stop this attack illustrates the difficulties that lone wolf militants present to law enforcement and security personnel, and also highlights some of the vulnerabilities associated with using law enforcement as the primary counterterrorism tool.
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...the FBI has a culture that is very conservative and risk-averse. Many FBI supervisors are reluctant to authorize investigations that they believe may have negative blow-back on their career advancement. In light of this institutional culture, and the order to be careful in investigations relating to Black Muslim converts, it would not be at all surprising to us if a supervisor refused to authorize a full-field investigation of Muhammad that would have included surveillance of his activities. Though in practical terms, even if a full-field investigation had been authorized, due to the caution being exercised in cases related to Black Muslim converts, the case would most likely have been micromanaged to the point of inaction by the special agent in charge of the office involved or by FBI headquarters.

Question: careerism or policy from somewhere up the food chain?
via Mere Rhetoric

OBL circa 2001-2009

“You have, you know, the leader of the free world speaking from one of the great cities in the world, and you have, you know, bin Laden speaking from an undisclosed… location,’’ said Philip J. Crowley, assistant secretary of state for public affairs. ”That speaks volumes in terms of the contrast.’’