Month: June 2006

Scrappleface: “Democrats Vow to Fight On After Zarqawi Loss”

I love Scott Ott:

(2006-06-09) — As Blackberry devices and cell phones on Capitol Hill hummed with news of the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi yesterday, Congressional Democrats vowed that despite the loss they would fight on in “the war on the war on terror.”

“Zarqawi will be missed because he put a human face on the futility of the illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq,” said one unnamed lawmaker, who assured a reporter that “Democrats are still optimistic. We’re still looking for the silver lining.”

Rep. John Murtha, D-PA, a former Marine and vocal critic of the military occupation of Iraq, immediately denounced “the Zarqawi massacre” and suggested that the F-16 pilot who dropped the bombs had snapped under pressure and murdered the al Qaeda leader “in cold blood.”

Ott also raises a cogent question: were Zarqawi’s human rights violated? That is, did the F-16 pilots read him a Miranda warning before dumping a half-ton of explosives on his safe house? Did they have a warrant? Did they get their information about Zarqawi’s whereabouts through an illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional wiretap by the NSA? Did the lying filthy neocon Jews engineer all of these violations of this poor guy’s rights?
We need Senate hearings, right now.

Death Brings Hope

Don’t take my word for it.
Take Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim Delly’s of Baghdad:

The death of the Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq and the filling of the last posts in the Iraqi cabinet brings “hope that violence may come to an end,” said the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church here. …more

Para un bistec con queso, habla ingles!

Looks like Geno’s is taking matters into his own hands.
English only at Philly cheesesteak joint

Situated in a South Philadelphia immigrant neighborhood, Geno’s — which together with its chief rival, Pat’s King of Steaks, forms the epicenter of an area described as “ground zero for cheesesteaks” — has posted small signs telling customers, “This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING `SPEAK ENGLISH.'”

You can’t have a policy like that without a journalist taking a swipe:

Of course, it’s not as if native Philadelphians speak the King’s English either. A Philadelphian might order a cheesesteak by saying something like, “Yo, gimme a cheesesteak wit, will youse?” (“Wit,” or “with,” means with fried onions.) To which the counterman might reply: “Youse want fries widdat?”

I would say that learning the word “Cheesesteak” will start an immigrant on his way to enjoying the many gastronomical delights we have here in the USA.
And “yooze guyz” is a perfectly acceptable way of addressing your homies.

Because when you think “enlightened political discourse,” you think of “dog droppings”

Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave’s Greeley office.
Musgrave spokesman Shaun Kenney said someone stuffed the envelope through the mail slot in the door on May 31 and then sped away in a car. Kenney said most of the preprinted return address was blacked out, but staffers used the nine-digit ZIP code to trace it to Kathleen Ensz, a Weld County Democratic volunteer.
Ensz told The Associated Press she left the envelope at Musgrave’s office but said it “wasn’t in the office doors, it was in the foyer.” Asked what she meant by the act, she declined comment. …more

I suppose it speaks for itself. I’m just amazed she admitted to doing something so juvenile, tasteless and unsanitary.