May 31, 2004
Polls, Polls, Polls
I hear many people ranting about how Bush is behind in the polls. I hear many people indicate that ‘his lack of support on the war is causing his poll numbers to slip”. I think that this is comical. It shows that once again how the ‘anybody but Bush crowd’ will use any excuse to pound on their chests and cry victory.
However if you look at the polls from the 2000 election you will clearly see that at this time during the election year Gore had a lead over Bush. http://www.gallup.com/content/?ci=1216
Then about the end of September Bush jumps ahead to lead the rest of the election year. So with this data in mind I could easily make several assumptions on a repeat victory for Bush. I am not going to do that. Instead I am going to pose this question;
The ‘anybody but Bush’ crowd’s favorite mantra is that Bush stole the 2000 election. However Gallup had Bush clearly ahead at the end of the election. So how can they have it both ways? Either Bush did steal the Presidency and the polls don’t mean anything (so they can stop pounding their chest over the current polls) or the polls are correct and Bush didn’t steal the Presidency. (after all Gallup had only been wrong 2 times on the election since 1936 http://www.gallup.com/content/?ci=1258)
May 30, 2004
Memorial Day
From all of us here at Muddysmind.com to all the men and women who fought and died for this country throughout the years, we salute you.
Thank you.
Cosby Speaks Out, Recieves Backlash
Bill Cosby who has always been known as outspoken. Now the NAACP (who might want to read their founder's writings since they've forgotten them) is having a fit with him along with the rest of the black community. Personally I can't see why, he is only relating his experience which I've also experienced.
It reminds me of a situation at a restaurant I used to work at: a black customer asked whyw e didn't have any black people working. I informed him that we had 2 blacks working for us, 1 was a manager and she was off that day, the other came in later that day. He said he was going to talk to the NAACP about our lack of diversity. I told him that he might want to look at the diversity of our applicants first. You can blame white people for other races' problems for as long as you want, just like I can blame you for my problems as long as I want. But you won't get a solution until you try to do something about your own problems. Bill Cosby is trying to do that, why chastise him?
I have a black kid who lives down the street from me (I live in a predominantly black subdivision) and he gets called an Uncle Tom and is yelled at for "trying to be white" because he actually cares about his education and isn't out spending money he doesn't have on a ghetto car with rims that cost more than the car.
Blame that on white people why don't you?
Read the story at Yahoo!
May 28, 2004
What the Heck is Going on?!
A few years ago, the Minnesota state legislature, apparently passed an idiotic law, requiring that gas stations make a minimum profit.
Well, gas stations are currently selling gas for less than they are buying it in Minnesota. I'm presuming that they are making up for this loss with inside sales profit. Regardless, the state is cracking down in what is a hideous attack on personal freedom and the free market.
Someone, tell me what is wrong with a gas station taking a loss in one area and making extra profit in another in order to attract customers, and by God save people money? What is wrong with that? This is my problem with liberals. They love personal freedom, right up until it gets in their way. And in this case, personal freedom made for "unfair" competition in gas prices. Not that I see anything unfair about it. It's a risk for these gas stations, they could lose money in the long haul, but they're trying something to potentially make more money. To quote a high school student that I heard at a recent graduation: "There is no gain without risk, you will onlyregret the risks you didn't take." And by God we should encourage behavior such as this, not punish it.
If that is unfair, then I'm sorry but deal with it.
Read the story at Yahoo!
May 27, 2004
Remembering Saddam
How many of you have seen the pictures of the prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib? How many of you have at least heard of the controversy surrounding Disney’s refusal to release the latest crap produced by Michael Moore? The reason you have probably have heard about this is because the liberal media is using this to fuel their agenda. That is no secret.
But have you heard about the other prison abuse videos that were released from Arab-language news network Al Hurra on Wed May 19th? You know the ones that showed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of Saddam?
No? I am not surprised. The reason is simple. The liberal media does not want you to see them. They are sitting on the story because that would not help their agenda. I cannot find the video’s themselves so I can only provide links. Here are 2 good ones on this story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1139796/posts
http://rogerlsimon.com/archives/00000969.htm
If that isn’t bad enough have you at least heard about the new documentary from Don North about the Iraqi prisoners? You know the documentary that follows a group of 9 Iraqi males who were jailed because they used American currency? They were sentenced to amputation of their right hands from the word Saddam himself. The amputated hands were shipped to Saddam as his trophies. Then after the coalition liberated Iraq, Don North found 6 of these men and had them flown back to the US and were given prosthetic hands at no cost to these men. All of the money was paid by US businesses and donated time from doctors.
You mean you have not heard about this documentary? How could that be? Oh wait, Of course. That would not fit into the liberal media’s agenda, would it? No the liberal media would rather have you upset that Michael Moore can’t get Disney to release his latest round of lies and propaganda. (Maybe Disney isn’t so bad after all).
I plead with everyone who has seen even one of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse photos to watch this documentary. Here is a link to the entire film and an interview with these men, thanks to The Heritage Foundation.
And finally I have both obtained and watched the Nick Berg video. It was very hard to watch. However I believe that it is important to put things into perspective. If you would like to see it you can download it from my server. It is located here. Beware however that this is very graphic.
Fantasia Wins American Idol
LOS ANGELES - Summertime promises to be sweet indeed for Fantasia Barrino, the newly crowned "American Idol." Barrino, who wowed viewers with her rich, gospel-tinged performance of pop tunes, including the Gershwin standard "Summertime," claimed the victory Wednesday for her 2-year-old daughter, Zion.
Read the story at Yahoo!
*Comment*
I preferred Diana DeGarmo personally. I think, and I'm coming from the background of performing concerts in a band at various positions and having assisted friends in recording albums (not mentioning other credits I have in this area), Fantasia had a beautiful voice for singing with a group. Which makes sense given her background (Father is a preacher so she probably sang in the church choir.) DeGarmo has a great solo voice. Both lacked stage presence.
Both had great voices, but given that this is a solo competition DeGarmo should have won in my not so humble opinion.
Al-Sadr Offers to Remove Troops
NAJAF, Iraq - The U.S.-run coalition will "honor and respect" a deal to remove Shiite militiamen and American soldiers from Najaf, an Iraqi official said Thursday, even though fine points of the agreement fall short of previous U.S. demands to end weeks of fighting.
Read the story at Yahoo!
*Comment* This is a big mistake and a misunderstanding of Arab/Muslim military tactics. Al-Sadr is making this offer because he is weak and needs to regroup. What they should be doing is using this as an opportunity to increase our troops strength and mount a major offensive. But I guess that doesn't show an honorable, moral high ground does it?
Al Gore Does His Howard Dean Impression
NEW YORK — Reaching decibels usually reserved for ball games and boxing matches, former Vice President Al Gore (search) on Wednesday denounced the Bush administration policy in Iraq and called for the resignation of three central players in the War on Terror.
Delivering a fiery speech at New York University, Gore said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (search), CIA director George Tenet (search) and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (search) should immediately step down.
Read the story at Fox News
*Comment*
He blames Bush for the actions of US Army Reservists. I'm here to tell you that those Reservists knew what they were doing was wrong. They, due to their jobs, had special training on matters of the geneva convention. Well, as a Marine, I was told at Parris Island the rights of POWs accoording to the Geneva convention and I have to tell you that theirs were violates. How the heck do you relieve them of responsibility of their actions and put them on another person?! Frankly, Rumsfield, Tenet and Rice have done their jobs exactly as directed, and all within the limits that previous administrations placed on them. (Can you say Church commission?) Why should they resign for doing their jobs correctly?
May 25, 2004
Iraq’s “Ignorant Men”
BASRA, IRAQ — Even though I know schwayya Arabic, I sensed the Iraqi truckers squatting in the shade of an 18-wheeler weren't happy. After all, seated on the sidewalk opposite them, a foreigner was chatting with a beautiful Iraqi woman whose beige scarf, worn with a maroon blouse and tan-colored slacks, indicated she was Muslim. As they waited to drive their vehicles through the British checkpoint, the truckers' stares burned holes through us. My friend, Nour Al-Khal, a 20-something press liaison for an American NGO, felt it too, but advised me to do what she did when confronted by what she called her country's "ignorant men" — ignore them. "Believe me, Steve," she said, stretching out her legs and crossing them at the ankles. "There's nothing you can do."
Full Story @ National Review Online
President Bush Speech
Since the non-cable networks decided they are far to liberal to broadcast a speech by the President, I have made it available.
It's 42 megs, in divx format and small, very small, but it's a speech how much video quality do you need? :-)
You can get it Here.
May 23, 2004
Muddy Forced to Speak to Great Satan
Oh boy, this day sucked.
I had to speak to the great satan, Micro$oft.
Since part of my job is to call our customers when their circuits crash I had no choice. It was yucky.
Now I need a shower.
XMLTV is Broke Again
It seems my mythtv is not updating the shows anymore. Did some digging and found zap2it changed their site, again. Xmltv is no longer supporting the old grabber but a new tv_grab_na_dd grabber I have not yet tried. Since I'm running gentoo and use the emerge system I'll update once I have it working and what I had to do.
May 21, 2004
May 20, 2004
Thunderbird Down
Hearts and Minds: We shouldn’t bother trying so hard.
You probably thought Nick Berg was slaughtered by Islamic militants, didn't you?
ust because, in an Arab country teeming with jihadists who target Americans every day, an American got butchered by hooded assassins who read a proclamation of grievances, laced with allusions to Islam, in Arabic, before hacking his head off while his shrieking agony was drowned out by that now-familiar soundtrack of atrocity, the Allahu akbar ("God is great!") chant, you probably rushed to judgment, right? Just because the barbarians recorded their handiwork and the tape, voila, instantly ended up on a website that reliably promotes militant Islam, which bragged that the decapitation was executed by none other than Abu Musab Zarqawi — whose extensive jihadist rap sheet defies accurate accounting in our limited space — you no doubt found yourself leaping to the rash conclusion that Berg's killing was carried out by Muslim extremists.
Full Story @ National Review
USAF in secret garage door jamming trials
The USAF has successfully deployed a two-way radio garage door jamming system at its Eglin Air Force base in Florida, according to the state's news-journalonline.
The $5.5m Motorola system is apparently keeping garage doors firmly shut in the surrounding Niceville, Valparaiso and the Crestview communities. Although technicians have said they will try and address the issue by running the system at "slightly different frequencies from those used by garage door openers to try to eliminate or reduce the interference when another test is conducted Friday through Monday", the Air force is unrepentant and insists it is in compliance with its licence.
Full Story @ The Register
Revisting Alice's Wonderland
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor
The news from Iraq, as it is being presented in the major media, is all bad. Car bombings, firefights, mounting US casualties, massacres and torture of American civilians, the prison scandal and the beheading of Nick Berg by al-Qaeda operative Abu Musad al Zarqawi.
The most recent atrocity occurred when an al-Qaeda jihadist drove a car bomb into a line of Iraqis waiting to enlist in the new Iraqi Army. At least fifteen potential recruits were killed in the attack; scores more were wounded.
The attack underscores both truths about Iraq in a single stroke. The first is that we continued to be engaged in a real, honest-to-Pete hot war with the Iraqi jihadists under Zarqawi's command, while simultaneously fighting Iraqi insurgent forces organized under the banner of Moqtada al Sadr's militia.
The second truth was ignored by the press. The attack took place at a coalition-friendly Iraqi army recruiting station. It was selected as a target-rich environment. But what MADE it a target-rich environment were the hundreds of Iraqis waiting in line to enlist in the Army -- to fight the insurgents alongside the coalition.
This is a must read article. Click here to read the rest
May 19, 2004
9/11 Commission - A Response from NY
Tell us your thoughts on the 9/11 commission: What do you expect to learn? Who do you blame? Do you think the commission is necessary?
Maria from Eastchester
Wednesday May 19, 2004 at 17:02
Don't forget how helpless we all felt on 9/11 - don't forget George Bush's words - we are on a mission to wipe out terrorism --this is all the explanation we need to be at war. Can you imagine if such a tragedy struck us smack in the middle of that Monica Lewinsky mess??? What would be the liberal excuse then??? God Bless our troops and God Bless our President.
Corey
Wednesday May 19, 2004 at 16:56
I am sick of the 9/11 families. It is clear that they have a political agenda to help John Kerry. I wonder how fast for the women to collect their husband's life insurance and to throw away his belongings.
Robert Mings
Wednesday May 19, 2004 at 16:48
Who are these commissioners? One of them set policy which helped 9/11. The feds' intelligence caused 9/11. New Yorkers' response was admired around the world. Ex-president Clinton wanted to leave a legacy and wondered what it would be (Besides, perhaps chasing young girls). The legacy of him and his administration (which includes ugly b--- wife), is 9/11. Deal with it you Arkie hillbillies.
vincent calderon
Wednesday May 19, 2004 at 16:41
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO THE COMMISSION,,INSTEAD OF BLAMING NYPD AND FDNY OR EVEN THE PAPD IS APPAULLING ,,MY BROTHER ED CALDERON WS MURDERED IN THOSE BUILDINGS, HE WORKED ALONG SIDE THE FIREMAN AND NYPD DOING HIS JOB,WHILE ALL ON THE COMMISSION WERE EITHER IN THEIR PLUSH HOMES IN THE HAMPTONS OR IN THEIR LIMOS COMING INTO THE CITY,HOW DARE YOU ALL COMPARE THESE BRAVE MEN TO BOY SCOUTS,,HOW DARE YOU,,I DONT THING ANYONE OF YOU WOULD HAVE THE BALLS TO HAVE EVEN BEEN IN THE AREA MUCH LESS TRY TO SAVE THE LIVES OF ALL THAT DIED,,STOP THE GRAND STANDING JUST TO GET YOUR NAME ON A NEWSPAPER,,THIS IS WHAT IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTRY TODAY,,
Many, Many more @New York Post Online
May 18, 2004
Kosovo Good, Gulf War 2 Bad
I got this from Boortz today.
Why are the architects of Kosovo so down on Gulf War 2?
Read the story here.
May 17, 2004
No WMDs in Iraq
As we all know, there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Read the story at Yahoo!
May 16, 2004
Judge orders couple not to have children
ROCHESTER, New York (AP) -- A couple has been ordered not to conceive any more children until the ones they already have are no longer in foster care.
A civil liberties advocate said the court ruling unsealed Friday was "blatantly unconstitutional."
Monroe County Family Court Judge Marilyn O'Connor ruled March 31 that both parents "should not have yet another child which must be cared for at public expense."
Full Story @ CNN.com
May 15, 2004
Forums Are Live
Muddysmind.com Forums are officially up and running.
Now don't everyone go post at once. :-P
Jesus' name banned
In deeply religious Porterville, the name of Jesus Christ is now banned from prayers that open City Council meetings, and a Lindsay ban probably is on the way.
Porterville moved recently to follow a court decision that bars official invocations from naming a specific deity. The decision permits words such as "God," "Lord" and "Father" but bars terms such as "Jesus," "Allah," "Yahweh" or "Buddha."
read the entire story here
May 14, 2004
Food for thought with July 4th approaching
“[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
[letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress]
- John Adams
May 13, 2004
Happy Birthday Muddy!
Well, some folks may not know but today is Muddy's 32nd birthday! Everyone wish him a happy brithday! Happy birthday big guy!
May 12, 2004
Mexican Air Force pilots film UFOs
A videotape made widely available to the news media on Tuesday shows the bright objects, some sharp points of light and others like large headlights, moving rapidly in what appears to be a late-evening sky.
The lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 3,500 meters (11,480 feet), and allegedly surrounded the Air Force jet as it conducted routine anti-drug trafficking vigilance in Campeche. Only three of the objects showed up on the plane's radar.
Full Story @ CNN.com
May 11, 2004
Graphic Abortion Dislay Takes to the Air and Highways
****Mrs. muddy's warning: If you decide you actually DO want to check out the rest of the 'The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform' website, I would HIGHLY advise that you do so withOUT children in the room. Really, that should go without saying but being a parent myself, I try *very* hard to cover ALL bases when it comes to the welfare of children. You have been warned.....*****
An anti-abortion group had an airplane fly over Southern California beaches towing a giant banner depicting what the group said were two photos of a 10-week-old aborted fetus. It is part of a national campaign that includes big rig trucks and billboards plastered with the same extremely graphic pictures.
Full Story @ CBR / Poynter Institute
DID YOU KNOW?
This is an email that I received that I thought I would share. Usually I dont get into the email jokes and stories thing, but this one made me think.
DID YOU KNOW?
As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme
Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law
givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward
with a full frontal view - it is Moses and he is holding the Ten
Commandments!
DID YOU KNOW?
As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have
the Ten Commandments engraved on the lower portion of each door.
DID YOU KNOW?
As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where
the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!
DID YOU KNOW?
There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings
and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
DID YOU KNOW?
James Madison, the fourth president, known as "The Father of Our
Constitution" made the following statement: "We have staked the
whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for
self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the
Ten Commandments of God."
DID YOU KNOW?
Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said,
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great
nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on
religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ".
DID YOU KNOW?
Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher,
whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
DID YOU KNOW?
Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the
established orthodox churches in the colonies.
DID YOU KNOW?
Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority
and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law....an
oligarchy.......the rule of few over many.
DID YOU KNOW?
The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said, "Americans
should select and prefer Christians as their rulers."
How, then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for
220 years in this country is now suddenly wrong and unconstitutional?
May 10, 2004
Steelers Videos "MiniCamp" Day 3
This video is 77Mb zipped and can be downloaded Here.
Short clips of interview with Billy boy.
Downtime, Oops.
Well I did it again, that's two times in two years I've uploaded some videos I wanted to share and it used up all my daily bandwidth (5 gigs) and took down my site.
It's fixed now.
Enjoy.
May 09, 2004
Steelers Videos "MiniCamp" Day 2
This video is 75.8Mb zipped and can be downloaded Here.
Covers Safties and secondary mainly.
May 08, 2004
Steelers Videos "MiniCamp" Day 1
Due to popular demand I'm cutting out the steelers clips from "Pittsburgh Sports Tonight" and posting them for Steelers Fans around the world who don't have access to FSN.
The first video is 58Mb zipped and can be downloaded Here.
The second video is 20Mb zipped and can be downloaded Here.
Video is in mpeg4 format should play in divx or any video player that deals in mpeg4. Audio is standard 128k mp3 so there should be no problems there.
May 06, 2004
Urgent Response Needed!
Well, I'm tired of these scammers sending emails requiring me to send them money so I can get my hands on some more... money.
So I replied in kind to the latest moron to send me spam scam.
Here is his email, my response I sent follows.
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Attn: Dear,
I am Dr. Christopher Eyadi, the Director, Treasury Department Stallion
Finance company, Togo. My recent position was as a result of the death of
the former Director.
When I was going through the companies classified papers, I discovered
that Mr. Michael Rees, a national of your country, who incidentally
was a contractor with Togolese government had at the close of balance a
deposit of US$12,500,000.00 with our company.
Unfortunately, as he was travelling on 21st of April 2002, along with
his wife and two children, they were involved in a car accident. All
occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.
My efforts to locate any of our customer’s extended relative has proved
unsuccessful. After other several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
track his last name over the Internet, with the hope that I may luckily
get a member of his family, hence I contacted you. I have contacted you
to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by our
customer before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by our
company, the Stallion Finance Company where his US$12.5 Million is
deposited.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over a
year now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this
account valued at (US$12,500,000.00) can be paid to you and then you
and me can share the money 60% for me and 40% for you. I will provide all
necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may
make.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Do send your reply to my email above or: eyadichris@voila.fr
Best regards,
Christopher Eyadi.
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and Muddy's response.
You sir are THE dummest scammer I've seen yet.
Allow me to demonstrate.
#1. Your using the name of a company who has not used that name since July 15th 2003 when it was changed from STALLION TRADE & FINANCE LTD. to ESQUIRE MONEY GUARANTEES LTD.
#2. Your sent your email from a "free" email account from a web portal based in Warsaw Poland. (not your company email)
#3. Your optional email is, shockingly another free email account this time from a web portal based in Paris France. (for comment see #2)
#4. No moron in his right mind goes out to the internet sending mass emails to countless people just so he can get the warm fuzzies by doing some dead guy and his dead family good. Get real pal.
#5. My last name is NOT the same as this pretend dead guy.
There are more things I noticed when I traced your email history. I've notified the proper authorities in France, Poland and America and I suspect you will not be in business long.
Please get a real job and while your at it, give your life to Jesus, it's obvious you've done a piss poor job with it so far.
Good day.
Linux in action: A public library's success story
Over the past year, the Howard County (Md.) Public Library has migrated more than 200 public PCs from Windows 98 and Windows NT to Linux. These PCs are used both to surf the Internet and to access the library's catalogues. NewsForge recently spoke with Brian Auger, associate director of the library, and the IT team responsible for the migration. We wanted to learn more about why and how it was accomplished, and how pleased they are with the results.
Full Story @ NewsForge
May 05, 2004
New Forum
I'm setting up a forum, if anyone is interested it's located here.
It's mostly about the linux proggies I use, I thought I might be able to help people and/or they could help me. ;-)
May 04, 2004
Hating America: The New World Sport
Soccer has been known to inflame many fans' national passions, but a game last February in Guadalajara, Mexico, takes the prize. There, the U.S. team lost to Mexico in the Olympic men's qualifying soccer match, and was met with a stunning display of "sportsmanship": The Mexican fans — delirious with victory — celebrated with biting cries of "OSAMA! OSAMA!"
Can such hateful anti-Americanism — from a very well-treated neighbor, no less — be dismissed as a disproportional response to a sport notoriously emotive the world over? Perhaps.
John Gibson, however, would probably disagree. In his view, such hateful anti-Americanism is the world's favorite sport.
This, at least, is the premise of his newly released Hating America: The New World Sport. In it Gibson — host of The Big Story on the Fox News Channel — details the extent to which, in a post-9/11 world, irrational anti-Americanism is the tie that binds the "international community": Germany with France, Belgium with South Korea, Canada with the "Arab Street."
Full Story @ National Review Online
Kerry 'Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief,' Say Former Military Colleagues
Hundreds of former commanders and military colleagues of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry are set to declare in a signed letter that he is "unfit to be commander-in-chief." They will do so at a press conference in Washington on Tuesday.
"What is going to happen on Tuesday is an event that is really historical in dimension," John O'Neill, a Vietnam veteran who served in the Navy as a PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) boat commander, told CNSNews.com. The event, which is expected to draw about 25 of the letter-signers, is being organized by a newly formed group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
"We have 19 of 23 officers who served with [Kerry]. We have every commanding officer he ever had in Vietnam. They all signed a letter that says he is unfit to be commander-in-chief," O'Neill said.
Full Story @ Cybercast News Service
May 01, 2004
Porn-o Pete says Just say NO!
April 30 - Pete would prefer that parents pass on pornography. Pete is repulsed by porn, and he’s prepared to proselytize. But Pete’s not a person—Pete’s a puppet. Meet Pete the Porno Puppet, coming soon to a Public Service Announcement near you.
Part “Sesame Street,” part “Odd Couple,” Pete is the brainchild of two pastors and a pornographer. It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but to hear Craig Gross, Mike Foster and James DiGiorgio tell it, it could just be a match made in heaven. Gross, 28, and Foster, 32, are the founding ministers of Fireproof Ministries, a nonprofit Christian outreach group that has launched a crusade against the multi-billion dollar pornography industry. Not content to preach to the converted, the duo took a more unorthodox tack: they launched XXXchurch.com, a “Christian porn site” to educate Web surfers about the addictiveness of porn and the damage it can do to a person’s life. (Their first PSA ran on cable featuring a cast of dwarf actors, but the nonprofit organization Little People of America demanded Gross and Foster kill it because they found the tag line—“porn stunts your growth”—offensive.) They also host booths at adult film industry conventions in Las Vegas. “We debuted our site at a porn show,” says Gross. “We’re not yelling at people...We kept going back to these shows because they kept asking us back.”
Full Story @ MSNBC
Iraqi Prison Photos Mar U.S. Image
I must first of all say that I am totally disgusted with these soldiers. Second, this is not representative of our typical soldiers. Third I want to point out that there are not Marines. This is the type of soldier that John Kerry was talking about in his now famous speech.
Most democrats including Ted Kennedy and John Kerry would like for you to believe that this is another Vietnam. John Kerry would like for you to believe that the acts that went on in these pictures were common events in Vietnam and that our service members are nothing more than thugs and killers. This is evident in their belief that the United States is somehow evil and needs the likes of an outside organization to keep us in check. An organization such as the UN. This is the belief of John Kerry.
I say that if this kind of action from our service members were common in Vietnam, like John Kerry would have you believe, than this could not possibly be another Vietnam. Otherwise you would never have seen these pictures. Instead now you ARE seeing these pictures and the difference is that these soldiers ARE being punished and the Army HAS been scolded by the President.
Perhaps a better question is why did John Kerry wait until he was out of the service to speak out on these issues? Why didn’t he do something about it while it was going on in front him? (after all he was a commander, so he obviously had enough brass to do something about it) Why did he throw his medals at the White House and now, years later, campaign on them?
If you would like to see the pictures then click here. This is the only place that I could find them. I am not sure if this is all of the pictures or just some of them. Either way they are pretty disturbing to me. Again this is not representative of our typical soldiers.