The Guardian is reporting on a second hunger strike byIslamist terrorist detainees at Git-mo:

More than 200 detainees in Guantánamo Bay are in their fifth week of a hunger strike, the Guardian has been told.

There demand? Here:

they publicly desecrated the Qur’an (again)¹. Saad from Kuwait was ERF’d [visited by the Extreme Reaction Force] for refusing to go (again) to interrogation because the female interrogator had sexually humiliated him (again)² for 5 hours _ Therefore, the strike must begin again.”

Wow, that sounds like severe abuse, unless you consider:

1- That this is the “desecration”:

Jamil el Banna, another British resident, described how the guards were again searching the Qur’an by hand, which they had agreed to stop.

2- Remember, they considered a woman in a short skirt coming onto these “holy men” as “humiliation”

Here’s what I have to save: We let them kill themselves, they go to their imaginary God and get their imaginary virgins and we don’t have to deal with the constant flak of “concentration camp” from the left and don’t have to spend $$$ keeping theseMedieval idiots alive.

Newsbusters

Maybe dude will get back to blogging if we give his hit counter a nudge. Me and Rodge are in!

Video of yesterday’s follow up story: click [courtesy of Political Teen]

HUME: Standing by, ready. Why didn’t FEMA send the Red Cross into New Orleans when we had all of those people there on that bridge overpass and elsewhere?

GARRETT: At the Superdome, at the convention center…

HUME: Lack of water, right. Why not?

GARRETT: First of all, no jurisdiction. FEMA works with the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and other organizations, but it has no direct control to order them to go one place or the other.

Secondarily, the Red Cross was ready. I just got off the phone with one of their officials. They had a vanguard, Brit, of trucks with water, food, hygiene equipment, all sorts of things ready to go, where? To the Superdome and the convention center.

Why weren’t they there? The Louisiana Department of Homeland Security told them they could not go.

HUME: Now, this is the Louisiana - this isn’t the Louisiana branch of the federal Homeland Security? This is…

GARRETT: The state’s own agency devoted to the state’s homeland security. They told them, “You cannot go there.” Why? The Red Cross tells me that state agency in Louisiana said, “Look, we do not want to create a magnet for more to come to the Superdome or the convention center. We want to get them out.”

So at the same time local officials were screaming, “Where is the food? Where is the water?” The Red Cross was standing by ready. The Louisiana Department of Homeland Security said, “You can’t go.”

[And, it turns out, the Salvation Army also says about the same thing]

If you can’t figure it just pull your eyes out at edges as if you’re turning Japanese… ;-)

Berger to Pay $50,000 Fine for Taking Papers

“I believe this lapse, serious as it is, does not reflect the character of myself.”

H/T: Andre3K

I’m with John on this one.

Ok—who’s the 11 jokers who voted against the Katrina relief funding bill?

UPDATE: Just heard Scott Garret [?] Rep NJ on [against] this vote—and he made great sense.  Terms like “accountability” and “is $63,000 / family too much?” Absolutely.

Hey—it’s Jersey.  I can vote for this fella, right?

In a campaign flier, candidate Marilou Rickert said Sheldon “voted to close a facility for the developmentally challenged.” Sheldon’s complaint to the commission asserted that he was the only legislator who voted to keep it open.

Sheldon said the ruling would result in more political dirty tricks.

Staff at the Public Disclosure Commission said a possible appeal would be considered at its next meeting on Sept. 15.

ACLU spokesman Doug Honig, whose organization brought the lawsuit on Rickert’s behalf, said defamation laws could be used instead, and that broader laws to protect political candidates were not needed.

*oops, that doesn’t apply here. I’m just saying it cause it’s true.

With Cheese

a statement by Abu-Mus’ab al-Zarqawi’s al-Qa’ida Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers [Tanzim al-Qa’ida fi Bilad al-Rafidayn]:  O God, strike the head of infidelity, America; O God, punish them at our hands and send Your punishment down on them; O God, send down on them floods and earthquakes; ...; O God, watch over the leaders of jihad and the mujahidin Abu-Abdallah Usama [Bin Ladin], Mulla Mohammed Omar, and Shaykh Ayman al-Zawahiri; O God, defeat any person who plots against them and make this person kill himself with his own hands.

Worth noting; Iraq has offered $1 million in aid for Katrina; $100,000 offered by Afghanistan.

Russia has offered 10,000 travel rations.

The tiny bullet actually starts to buzz every time your mobile phone is activated: about thirty seconds for a text message or the entire duration of a call.

Can you hear me now?

CraigC