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If What Really Happened and Art Bell don’t give you enough conspiracy theories, or if you don’t get enough up close and personal terrorist apologizing and anti-semitism, you might want to drop by and check out this asshole’s site. Sorry for the language, but this guy earned it.

I have been reading him for a little bit, and his writing and logic remind me of what Herb Brooks once said to one of his players. This is paraphrased, but essentially he told a player that ” each day you are playing worse and worse and today you are playing like it is next week.” Jak’s view is written like it is the next millenium.

** Update **

Jak’s Views responds:

I’m not sure I’ve actually been called an “asshole” online before. But I guess it was just a question of time.

At least this guy has the common decency to label his site as “ill-informed.”

[dripping sarcasm] Gee. I never would have thought someone might disagree with me and then make some pithy comment about my title being accurate. I better hurry up and change it. [/dripping sarcasm]

This is why this guy is a drooling idiot terrorist sympathizer who deserves any venom I desire to heap on him. In his daily ‘log,’ he once again refers to all the people killed, bemoaning that Palestinian deaths are not reported (god knows how our intrepid leftist got the ‘unreported’ stats he has posted if they were not widely available in the mainstream media). Check out this little sentence:

This morning, a Palestinian militant and 3 Israeli civilians were killed during an attack in Tel Aviv.

This is the story he is referring to:

At about 2:15 a.m. a lone gunman armed with an M-16 assault rifle fired into a popular Tel Aviv night spot, killing three Israelis and wounding 30 before he himself was shot, the police said.

BTW- in Jak’s world, the word ‘militant’ means what everyone else in the world would call ‘suicidal, homicidal maniac.’

Thanks for keeping us posted, Jakass.

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Uthant is back, with their take on the shadow government.

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Another obnoxious Orwell quotation here….

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Damned If You do…

On October 31, 2001, the BBC reported comments from several of the leading newspapers in the states that the terror warnings issued by the administration were pointless and needlessly scaring American citzens, Here is a sampling of what the BBC reported observing in these papers of record:

Washington Times

“It is certainly a cause for worry when the attorney-general of the United States shows up on national television, ashen-faced and puffy-eyed, heaving heavy sighs before going into a hastily called news briefing on terrorism.”

USA Today

“No one was given information to guide rational decisions. Even some police agencies, which can do far more to thwart an attack, were complaining about the vagueness of the warning.”

“Yet despite the generalised anxiety such imprecise warnings induce, this almost certainly isn’t the last one the country will receive.”

The Boston Herald

“With each ambiguous warning, another wave of anxiety sweeps through an already jittery nation, causing many Americans to stay close to home and cancel travel plans,” the paper says.

“It’s generating massive amounts of anxiety,” local clinical psycologist Dr Thomas Tokarz tells the paper. “It’s the uncertainty of what will happen next,” he adds.

The New York Times

The New York Times believes that “the Bush administration must continue to keep the public informed, even when the information is unpleasant and unsatisfactorily vague.”

“There is, of course, the danger that too many warnings could become mere background noise, and that somewhere down the road the public would wind up ignoring the one that really matters,” it adds.

“But the nation is better off frightened and informed than left happily in the dark,” it concludes.

Shouldn’t the current administration be widely praised for refusing to panic New Yorkers with bogus stories about nuclear devices? Not according to Mr. Bloomberg.

I am taking bets as to how long it will be before Maureen Dowd uses this as evidence of the evil-doings of the ‘shadow government,’ or ‘secret government,’ as Idiot Extraordinaire and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is now fond of calling the contingency plan

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Our Friends, the Europeans

Recently, pundits have been musing that one of the reasons Eurocrats have been so bitter towards the US, in particular this current administration, is because of the imptence that Europe suffers militarily. When your supposed ally and NATO partner is attacked and goes to war, and only ONE country has the military hardware to really participate in any meaningful way, one would think that increases in military budgets to help carry the load would be appropriate. Au contraire. The first option is ratchet up the rhetoric, and point out that the United States in simplistic and acts unilaterally. Much whining will follow. Option #2 appears to be to spend vast amounts of money to improve your satellite technology and your space based intelligence capacities. That sounds reasonable, and I was shocked to find out that the Europeans might actually be doing something productive. But then I came across this gem:

Galileo will be dedicated to civilian rather than military use so there will never be a risk the system could be unavailable or abused because of US military and security needs…

We have to think big. Britain led the design and building of the path-breaking Envisat which will provide the most extensive environmental monitoring of our planet ever mounted. The US thinks environmental concerns are a socialist conspiracy against middle America, as George Bush has declared. The results from Envisat will supply the environmental evidence that the US refuses to gather. It is the EU, now going it alone with the Kyoto Treaty, that is paying to acquire this information – and showing a readiness to act on the results.

In other words, we are not going to use this for our own safety and security, nor are we going to use it to aid the U.S., which has essentially guaranteed our safety and security for almost 60 years. Instead, we are going to use this technology to scream about Kyoto.

Wankers.

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The other day, while criticizing the President and the war on terror, Tom Daschle stated:

“Congress has a constitutional responsibility to ask questions. We are not a rubber stamp to the president or to anybody else. We must do what the Constitution and what our best judgment requires,” he added.

The question is, however, whose constitution? The United States Constitution, or Tom Daschle’s? Put aside what Daschle and his ilk intend to do to the Bill of Rights with their various gun control measures and campaign finance reform. Remember this story?

In mid-December, Tom Daschle said that Eugene Scalia, President Bush’s nominee to be solicitor general of the Labor Department, didn’t have the votes to be confirmed. “I don’t think he has the 60 votes that would be required for as controversial a nominee as he is,” he said on This Week. Daschle isn’t trying to sink the nomination, you understand; the votes just aren’t there. But Daschle can’t wipe off his fingerprints so easily. His claim is true as far as it goes, but it ignores the fact that 60 votes are “required” only by Daschle’s say-so. Scalia would need 60 votes to break a filibuster, true, but having 40-odd “no” votes is not the same as having enough senators willing to mount a successful filibuster. Besides, a filibuster would proceed only if Daschle wanted it to.

Or this story?

Last week, Daschle was blasting Lott for running a “dictatorship” (i.e., not letting him grandstand on guns as much as he wants). He brought the Senate to a halt in order to air his bogus procedural arguments. (For example: Daschle seems to be under the impression that appropriations bills have to move through the House before the Senate. The constitutional requirement he has in mind concerns tax bills.) Daschle has threatened to shut down the Senate before if he doesn’t get his way.

The next time you hear that Tom Daschle is ‘protecting the constitution’ or acting within his ‘constitutional authority,’ remember, the constitution means whatever he wants it to mean.

I have said it before. Tom Daschle, Mainstream Media’s Mild-Mannered Moron.

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