Sir Elton John may be banned from performing a forthcoming gig on the Caribbean island of Tobago for fears the musical Friend of Dorothy could turn the whole place gay, The Sun reports.

Sir Elton is slated to take to the stage at a jazz festival in April, but his imminent arrival has ruffled a few feathers on an island where homosexuality is “widely condemned.”

“Friend of Dorothy” HA!

Rosie O’Donnell, hosting ABC’s popular “The View” morning show, came to the defense of terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed today, suggesting the government elicited a false confession from the 9/11 mastermind by using torture, robbing him of his humanity and treating him like an animal.

“I think the man has been under custody in secret CIA torture prisons and Guantanamo Bay where torture is accepted and allowed - and he finally is the guy who admits to doing everything,” O’Donnell said. “They finally found the guy, it’s not that guy bin Laden, it’s this guy they’ve had since March 2003.”

Yeah, Rosie.  You’re right.  You’re right about everything.  Oh how I wish you were in charge so the whole world would live in firearm-free harmony.

How about the fact that Khalid was indicted under the Clinton administration for his role in the 1st WTC bombing way back in 1993?  Or his known involvement in Operation Bojinka?

None of that matters to Rosie.  It’s all about BDS.

Rosie is a chigger gnawing at the skin of America.  I wonder how she’d feel about wearing a parachute-size burkha?

Hey - All the cool kids are doing it, right?

hence hens

I give you Marv, the Answer Bird:

I know *I* feel better.

Official says Castro fit to run in 2008

I can’t tell you who it is yet because well, I didn’t ask permission (I’ll let him spill the beans oh say Monday)...but I HAD to share this......and prepare us all in case there’s a need for some bail $$.....

I’m havin’ a dream about three-hundred of us blocking the narrow bridge to the Pentagon…
But without the, you know, six-pack abs.

---Some Hero [ *wink* ]

Ahhhh, but says nothing about the leather speedos.

San Francisco joined the Bay Area cities of Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto and San Jose yesterday when its Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution endorsing creation of a cabinet-level U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence. By doing so, this sixth-largest metropolitan area in the country (encompassing some 5.4 million residents) joined the ranks of 20 cities voicing support for HR 808, legislation that focuses on innovative and proactive approaches to violence prevention.

“We have to remind elected officials of all parties that peace is patriotic....” said HR 808 co-sponsor Rep. Barbara Lee after the bill was reintroduced in Congress on February 5 th. “If we had a Department of Peace, we’d be dealing in a real way with gun violence, and domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, and all the awful violence that’s taking place because of the cutbacks of funding and disinvestment in the American people. In the words of the great warrior for peace Dr. Martin Luther King, peace is not just the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice. A Department of Peace would embody that ideal.”

I think all girl pajamas should be mostly pink.

teh ghey!

Start with Silky Pony, on whom Barack-back has a crush, and now Schwarzenkennedy adds Thooper-Dooper Tuethday?!?

Enough to make Peter Pace plotz…

skiing to a fish… Ulysses to a bear… NCAA to me...

I dunno how this interview came to pass, but this is one courageous man.

He’s sorry that civilians—including women and children—died when he and his men reacted to an attack that killed a comrade in Haditha, but Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich says today he would make the same decision that caused their deaths. Wuterich is charged with killing 18 civilians. He led three other Marines also charged with murder. His interview with Scott Pelley, the first time any of them has spoken publicly about that day, is part of a report to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, March 18

I don’t believe a single word on 60 Minz [tick tick tick]—too many of their stories have proven to be no more based in facts than Dan Ra^ther.  However, I sure do admire Staff Sgt. Wuterich’s attempt to explain the situation to the American people.  I hope some emerge more informed.

And maybe a few “Peace” Wombats will have fits… drop to the floor… do the Curly shuffle…

Weeeeeeellll, it turns out *my* only (formerly) sane senator is a traitor

Harry Reid’s resolution, which called for the withdrawal of all but a limited number of U.S. forces from Iraq by March 31, 2008, has failed. The Senate rejected it by a vote of 50-48.

UPDATE: The Gregg Amendment, which I understand calls says that Congress should not eliminate or reduce funds for troops in the field, has passed 82–16. The Murray Amendment, which I understand calls for Congress to provide funds for training, equipment and other support for troops in the field, has passed 96-2.

JOHN adds: The roll call on Reid’s resolution is here. The only Republican who voted for it was Gordon Smith of Oregon. Democratic defectors were Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson and Mark Pryor.

Can I trade him for Joe?

Being a geek of Scottish ancestry I had to post this vid.

Click

If it ain’t Scottish it’s crap!!!!

make-up posting

Well if we aren’t allowed to patronize them whatinhell are wogs good for?!?”

A junior school production of the children’s story [Three Little Pigs] has been renamed the Three Little Puppies for fear of offending Muslims…

waait for it....  BACKFIRE!

Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra from the Muslim Council of Britain branded the move ‘bizarre’.

..."There’s an issue about the eating of pork, which is forbidden, but there is no prohibition about reading stories about pigs. This is an unnecessary step.”

That’s gonna leave a mark.

Local councillor Terry Lyons added: “I can’t believe that Muslims would be offended by this. This is pandering to a few extremists. People will take umbrage at this decision, making it easier for the BNP to recruit.”

...Which would be a bad thing how, again? I was wrong [see Piglet in comments.] It’s a bad thing. 
Piglet

Allah, who sings about pigs all the time

I am really starting to like this guy.

From his article on Gandhi.

Besides coolers and mattresses, protesters have brought along a giant paper mache statue of Mahatma Gandhi, who is pretty much the symbol of the anti-war movement. Code Pink was founded on his birthday, and when Saddam Hussein was being given a last chance to open Iraq to U.N. weapons inspectors, posters appeared around America asking “What would Gandhi do?�

And that’s a pretty good question. At what point is it okay to fight dictators like Saddam or the al Qaeda terrorists who want to take his place?

It turns out that the answer, according to Gandhi, is NEVER. During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,� he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.� “Collective suicide,� he told his biographer, “would have been heroism.�

I’m sorry, I know that we all are supposed to revere Gandhi but he really is the patron saint of the intentionally extinct. 

So Gandhi, after the jews “heroically” sacrificed themselves and the Brits surrendered what would you expect the Nazis to do, start a theme park?

from the padded room:

The Eloquence of an Enemy Combatant

KSM makes a statement that many in a liberal arts college would find familiar; that it is often the winner of a war that dictates its history. If Britain had beaten out the colonies in the Revolutionary War, he insinuates, George Washington would not be a hero, but an ‘enemy combatant:’ a terrorist.  KSM seems genuinely troubled at the CIA’s broad use of the ill-defined term, and continually points out that the language of war is, unfortunately, killing.  He is saddened by the deaths of the 3000 civilians in Sept. 11, especially the lives of children, but points out that America too, when pursuing a target, will knowingly bomb houses with children and innocents inside.  What then, is the difference between terrorism and unfortunate, but justified, civilian casualties sustained during US bombing raids?  Now we are calling killing terrorism, he says, whereas centuries earlier we called it “manifest destiny” as America wiped out Indian populations.  A shrewd point.

He is likewise preoccupied by making the point that Islam is not a bloodthirsty religion.  The Qur’an, he says, stems from the faith of Jews and Christians, and it is not a violent book.  Jews, Christians, Muslims, all “people of the book” worship “one God,” but, like the exceptions to the rule that the CIA and FBI have recently been using to chip away at civil rights to protect against terrorism, there are exceptions to injunctions against violence found in the Qur’an.  It is our “bad luck,” he says, to be included in that exception.

“ Weasel Chipper” quips in comments:
..........please tell me you are not serious, this is the worst written, piece of shit, I have ever seen on here!!!  Writing this crap will really turn people off the Kos.

LGF

4,400 pieces of women’s underwear stolen by a construction worker are displayed by police in Hiroshima, western Japan, March 13, 2007. Police found more than 4,000 pieces of lingerie in the home of a Japanese construction worker who used climbing skills developed on his job to steal women’s underwear.

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