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You just gotta love the hypocrisy of CNN.

In their story “Two dead in Pakistan anti-cartoon rioting,” they end the article with a disclaimer that “CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.”

Get over yourself CNN. If you really and truly believe that all this rioting business is about some cartoons, then you have lost focus somewhere.

These extremists couldn’t care less about the cartoons. (If they cared all that much, there would have been much yelling and gnashing of teeth when they were originally published in October 2005!) All they care about is the fact that this is a potential trigger. A mechanism to stir the nut jobs out there to do violence, destroy stuff, and kill people.

All the while, they claim it’s about the cartoons, and the blasphemy therein. Get a clue, CNN. Do a little research. Take a little stand. Make a statement.

Whatever you do, CNN, don’t sit there and give me any higher-than-thou attitude. You don’t want to offend people of the extreme religion of Islam, so you don’t post the cartoons? What makes you take that attitude towards Islam, but when it comes to Christianity, all bets are off, and you’ll repost whatever you feel like, because, y’know, it’s just Christians.

What about your article about “Kanye West as Jesus Christ?” You didn’t create that photo, but you found no conflict of interest posting it. Hey, it’s just some wacko wearing a thorny crown, making himself out to be the Savior. What do you care? It’s news. Post it.

You shouldn’t be able to have it both ways. You want to report the news, then report it, photos or no photos. But don’t sit there and give me that poo that you don’t want to offend the extremists that might go and break things, so you won’t post the pictures, and then turn around and follow a different line of logic for a different religion.

Let’s say what it really is, CNN: You’re scared. You don’t care about offending anyone; You just don’t want any extremists coming over to your building and killing people, destroying property, and whatever else. But Christians are ok to offend, because you can bet they won’t react with violence and destruction.

You’re scared and you’re bowing to the people that hate the United States. Why don’t you start acting like Americans, and have a little more pride.

Nope. Can’t have that. Wouldn’t want CNN to appear biased, would we?

RLR

Over at the blog “Rantings of an Egyptian Sandmonkey,” our writer reports that the cartoons - you know, Those Cartoons that are so evil that they cause people to kill - looked familiar to him.

Then someone mentioned that it was because they’d been printed in an Egyptian paper back in October 2005.

Gee… you think maybe that all this fuss about these cartoons now is just a bunch of poo created by extreme radicals that just want an excuse to hate and kill everyone [that isn't "them"]?

Nah. Couldn’t be that.

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin

RLR

Bob Carlisle has recently released a song called “Keep The Light On.” For the troops and their families, it’s what I’d call a heart-string song.

Visit Bob Carlisle’s site, to find out more, and to hear the song for free. (Best do so now, since there is no telling how long “free” will last.)

RLR

Britney Spears. Driving. With baby.

NITWIT BRIT ENDANGERS
HER BABY

By BILL HOFFMANN
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February 7, 2006 — Oh, baby! Britney Spears is taking her son’s life in her hands.
The blond pop tart cruised down the Pacific Coast Highway yesterday in her SUV with 16-week-old Sean on her lap.

That’s a no-no in California, whose law says kids “must be secured in an appropriate child-passenger restraint [a safety or booster seat] until they are at least 6 years old or weigh at least 60 pounds.”

(Get the whole article at the New York Post’s online site.)

I just hate stupid people.

From BBC News:

Pop star Britney Spears has defended photos of her holding her baby son on her lap while driving, saying she was trying to escape the paparazzi.
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“I instinctively took measures to get my baby and me out of harm’s way, but the paparazzi continued to stalk us, and took photos of us which were sold to the media.
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“I love my child and would do anything to protect him.”

Bullchips.

From FoxNews.com:

The agency that snapped the photos, X17, had a different account.

“These pictures were taken in a very peaceful context, in which photographers exhibited no aggressive behavior,” the agency said in a statement released to “Access Hollywood.” “We believe that the pictures speak for themselves.”

I can think of few moms that would toss a child in the front seat with them while they’re driving, but nevermind that.. I see a bodyguard talking on the cell phone in the passenger seat. A bodyguard! Give him the baby, and put them both in the back seat, if you’re pressed for time.

Otherwise, all moms I’ve met would take the time to put that baby in a childseat, in the backseat, before driving off. And certainly, never in their lap.

I just hate it when stupid people make stupid statements.

RLR

Someone please have the cajones to tell me that Mohammed supports this, because I can’t think of any “prophet for peace” that could agree with this.

From the front line in the war is Michael Yon. See his article “Little Girl,” and say no more.

RLR

Michelle Malkin has an interesting video. You should check out her article, First, They Came….

RLR

I’m continually amazed at some of the extremism in this world. I always disagree with it. I began disagreeing with it during the Clinton administration, when al-Qaeda would bomb an embassy in Africa, or the USS Cole, and our response would be “oops, my bad.” But I digress…

Now there is this cartoon - caricature really - of Mohammad out there that has Muslim extremists not only upset, but mad to the point of wanting to kill people. I mean, give me a break.

First off, let’s consider Mohammad. I know nothing about religion, and am not pretending to know anything now. But I’m sorry: even Jesus had a sense of humor. In fact, humor is a trait that can no doubt be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. So, I’ll assUme that Mohammad had a sense of humor.

But let’s move past that. These cartoons are living in the world of satire. That is to say, they have a religious or political statement to make.

In particular, there is one cartoon depicting the prophet wearing a turban, shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. Ok. Not the nicest of images, but a far cry from something that deserves death. In fact, it pales in comparison to what some of the Arab world have published in regards to anti-Semitic cartoons.

See for yourself. Here’s a page of hateful Arab cartoons. Compare that to the page of Mohammad caricatures that has the extremists up in arms (literally). Which one do you think is more hateful and mean?

But above and beyond all of that… does a satirical cartoon deserve retribution on a scale that involves murder? Ultimately, a satirical cartoonist is usually only repeating - or saying - that which few others would say aloud. Oftentimes, there is a smidgen of truth involved. Even in the anti-Semitic cartoons, the truth there is the hypocrisy of Arabs and/or Muslims. (Although I suspect that wasn’t what the original cartoonist intended.)

The extremists have been heard chanting “Long live Islam! We are Muslims! We don’t let anyone insult our prophet!”

Really? Well, I put it to you - the Islam Extremists that give your religion a bad name - that by murdering innocents, you insult Mohammad.

In the final analysis, what we have here is much ado about nothing. And even “nothing” sets off the extremists.

Talk about a warped sense of humor.

RLR

Google having problems with their stock prices? Hm. Maybe if they worked with, and not against, the country that made them money, that might not be the case.

See Amy Proctor’s articles on Google:
Google Teams up with the ACLU
Google Loses Round 2
Google Stock Falls Again

RLR

Taken from the AP at FoxNews.com:

Saddam Not Present at Trial Session
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein and four other defendants refused to attend their trial Wednesday, and their defense attorneys boycotted the proceedings, demanding the removal of the chief judge they claim is biased against the former Iraqi leader.

The last time I mentioned this cheeseball’s antics in court, I said plainly that it might be a good idea if the judge started taking control of the courtroom.

Well, the powers that be took care of that by replacing the judge.

I guess nothing says miffed like a judge that takes control over you, and you used to be dictator Saddam Hussein.

Y’know, here’s an idea: Drag Saddam’s sorry ass into court, and set him down. Give him a lawyer. Don’t. Doesn’t matter. Take control. Let Saddam know he does NOT have control anymore.

If Saddam doesn’t like that, then suggest this solution to him and see if he likes it better: Tie him in a chair, his hands behind his back, and set the chair in the middle of Baghdad. Hand out free baseball bats. Pinata, baby!

Am I suggesting that physical harm be placed upon a evil dictator that murdered his own people? No. Of Course Not.

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Batter up!

RLR

I love it. I love it! I just LOVE IT!

An AP news release taken from FoxNews.com:

Activist Sheehan Arrested at State of the Union
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

WASHINGTON — Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush’s State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.

Sheehan, who was invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. The charge was later changed to unlawful conduct, Schneider said. Both charges are misdemeanors.

Sheehan was taken in handcuffs from the Capitol to police headquarters a few blocks away. Her case was processed as Bush spoke.

Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to the speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said.

Police handcuffed Sheehan and removed her from the gallery before Bush arrived. Sheehan was to be released on her own recognizance, Schneider said.

“I’m proud that Cindy’s my guest tonight,” Woolsey said in an interview before the speech. “She has made a difference in the debate to bring our troops home from Iraq.”

Woolsey offered Sheehan a ticket to the speech — Gallery 5, seat 7, row A — earlier Tuesday while Sheehan was attending an “alternative state of the union” press conference by CODEPINK, a group pushing for an end to the Iraq war.

Sheehan, wrapped in a bright pink scarf against the cold, protested outside the White House with a handful of others before heading to the Capitol Tuesday evening. There were no cameras around, but the small band faced the executive mansion and repeatedly shouted, “You’re evicted! Get out of our house!”

Sheehan was arrested in September with about 300 other anti-war activists in front of the White House after a weekend of protests against the war in Iraq. In August, she spent 26 days camped near Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he was spending a working vacation.

Good ol’ Cindy.

I’m sure she would have just sat in her chair, and not said or bothered anyone.

I’m equally sure that the moon really is made of cheese.

Maybe when she gets out of jail, she can go and cry on the shoulders of someone that really cares.

Hugo Chavez. (See articles here and here.)

RLR