23. januar 2004

And that quotation summarises the week "I thought it looked kind of silly" (Howard Dean's shy wife Judy about her husband's "I have a scream" speech on MLK day) 11:59:52 PM    comment []  trackback []

Gay-bashing preacher convicted of soliciting sex from underage boy Reverend Craig Stephen White (picture) in Philadelphia, also known as "Brother Stephen", has been found guilty of criminal solicitation to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and related offenses. He faces a minimum of three years in jail. "Brother Stephen" was notorious for his in-your-face gay bashing and self-rightous condemnations of alleged "sinners" at College campuses and elsewhere, even using a bullhorn to rile up students.Especially gays and atheists were targets of his vile hatred. At one time he argued that homosexuals should be executed.   I wrote about him back in October, when he was arrested. I also found an earlier interview with him, before any charges were made, with this near-prophetic statement: Some students believe Stephen is a repressed gay—how else could he muster such hatred?   As we now know, it was far worse than that. What is it with Christian preachers and sexually abusing young boys? 5:57:56 PM    comment []  trackback []

Political blow-up Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge, a member of the British parliament, has stated that she would consider becoming a suicide bomber, too, if she was forced to live like Palestinians. Find a secluded spot and go ahead for all I care. Funny how the liberal democrats, once a centrist party, has rushed to the left after Tony Blair's new Labour captured the political center. 5:44:49 PM    comment []  trackback []

Clark embraces Michael Moore Wesley Clark embraced the endorsement of lying scumbag author Michael Moore, which is rather odd considering that Moore's fake documentary Bowling for Columbine were implicitly accusing Clark's war against Yugoslavia of somehow causing the Columbine school massacre. Clark embraced Moore's support, calling the best-selling author a "fantastic leader." In the press release, Clark's campaign lauded—in the first line no less—the "Academy Award winning director," whom the general himself described as an "enormous talent." For his part, Moore promised to do everything he could to help get Clark elected. I realise you have to accept endorsements of some unsavatory characters to become president, but Clark's praise appears to be genuine. And Moore seems to genuinly believe that Clark has become a pacifist since the Kosovo war. How touching. Eugene Volokh has more, including this thought-provoking statement: Presidential candidate embraces author of book called "Stupid Black Men": Oh, sorry -- my mistake; it's actually called Stupid White Men. Funny how an author who wrote a book Stupid Black Men (not as an ironic title) would be rightly reviled, while when he writes Stupid White Men, we hear barely a peep? It is very PC to issue bigoted statements about white men, soon the last group on earth you can publicly deride without being assaulted by the thought police. 1:30:36 PM    comment []  trackback []

Ex-spy links Iran to al-Qaeda A surprise witness in a terrorist trial in Hamburg, Germany, has implicated Iran in contacts with al-Qaeda prior to 9/11-01. A former Iranian spy, appearing under the cover name Hamid Reza Zakeri, had statements read in court and the judge interviewed two German investigators about his credibility. The Iranian said he had been in a department of the Iranian intelligence service that was "responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks globally," one of the officers said. "In 2001, a delegation with Osama bin Laden's son was in Iran," the officer said, quoting the witness. [...] He had told them he had left Iran in mid-2001 and warned the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan of the impending attacks, informing officials that he had been employed by the CIA since 1992. The case is the trial against Moroccan Abdelghani Mzoudi, who is charged with aiding the 9/11 hijackers, and it was widely expected to end in an acquittal. Now the surprise witness appearing just before the verdict has thrown it into disarray. There are, however, questions about the spy's credibility. The Iranian leadership, being Shiite extremists, are the natural adversaries of al-Qaeda's Sunni extremists, but history has shown that troubled times can make former adversaries realise they have a lot to gain from uniting against common enemies, in this case Israel and the west generally. For example, there are serious questions about reports from Iran that it has a number of al-Qaeda operatives, including top members, in custody. 10:17:33 AM    comment []  trackback []

Yeeeah! the remixes Howard Dean may have self-imploded his presidential bid with his now-infamous primal scream, but he may well have opened up for a promising career in music. 8:07:53 AM    comment []  trackback []

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