hat tip The Political Teen for this nice find

Not that surprising, but still disturbing, 393 readers of the DailyBS (typo?) answered a poll (obviously not scientific) asking who they despised more, Bush or Bin Laden and guess what? 41% actually despise Bush more.

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Okay, I'm not a cartoonist, but I do like sketching little toons out on occasion if there is something to inspire it. Not being an "artist" I generally do this on printer paper and with a regular, grocery store bought, black pen and then I later scan the piece of paper. Threw this little sketch together earlier... hope you enjoy.

Anyway, this is how I imagine Bin Laden after his obvious recent extreme makeover, causing him to offer a truce to the United States.

Bongs Not Bombs, Man

 

Why doesn't this hypocritical Kool Aid Guy stunt double just give it up? Ah well, anyone really surprised at this Drudge Exclusive: Teddy's Last Gasp On Alito:

DRUDGE Exclusive: Teddy's Last Gasp On Alito Fri Jan 20 2006 13:29:15 ET

THE DRUDGE REPORT has learned Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) office is behind a last ditch effort to stop Judge Samuel A. AlitoÕs confirmation before next week's vote using a 2004 recusal request.

THE DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a complaint filed by H. Gerard Heimbecker of Upper Darby, PA accusing Alito of not properly listing the Heimbecker v. 555 Associates case in his Senate questionnaire.

Kennedy legal aide James Flug is behind the efforts to push this latest attack. The veteran aide has been criticized for Sen. Kennedy's misfires during the Alito hearing last week. Flug was reportedly behind the attacks Kennedy used against Alito related to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) and Vanguard recusal case.

In the 2004 case, Heimbecker not only filed a request for Alito to recuse himself but also the entire Third Circuit as well.

One Capital Aide aware the situation challenged Heimbecker's credibility. "The individual who filed this complaint is clearly a serial litigant. It will be interesting to see how far the Democrats will push this and what the mainstream media will make of it."

Developing...

By the way, this comes on the heels of his other last ditch effort...

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin on that one. She has the rundown on that whole situation, including video, so check it out.

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While I've only gotten a few of the unhinged breed of moonbats, I've seen them in action elsewhere. They come in mass and fill up blogs and forums with comments full of such hate and language you wouldn't otherwise know existed, it's almost hard to believe.

It seems no one is safe, and apparently the Washington Post had to shut down one of it's own blogs because this type of behavior took over.

AP via Breitbar reporting:

In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties," prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.

There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.

UPDATE: Kokonut Pundits has some great coverage of this whole situation, including links to those "lost" posts.... if you can stomach it... But he goes a lot further. Nice work.

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***UPDATE 2:17CT*** The sites I said weren't working, are now, with the exception of LGF.
It seems like a weekly event that we are seeing these sorts of things from these far left groups, and Code Pink decided it was their turn. Publius Pundit, who seems to have spearheaded this, sent me this link on the situation, but for some reason their site is down. Wanting to learn more I did a technorati search and came to the Swanky Conservative, who's permalink seems to be down too, just that link though, their index is fine. Odd thing is they were linking to Little Green Footballs as the other one out in front on this, and they were down when I tried to follow the link, and are still as I type this. Does code pink have some hackers out there attacking those who busted them? Wouldn't it be easier to take down their photo fakery instead?

Anyway, here's what happened... The insanely left anti-war, anti-American, anti-sanity Code Pink has taken a photo of Iranian women protesting the Islamic regime before Iran's presidential elections last year, and photoshopped it to use for their own anti-Iraq war purposes... What do Iranian women protesting an Islamic regime have to do with Iraq, you ask? Good question. Since none of the "busters'" sites were working, below are the before and after I obtained from Michelle Malkin.
Before (real):

So again, who does this group think they are using unrelated people for their own political gain, to further their unrelated agenda? Again this is just one of many, but a particularly disgusting example of one of these fringe groups pulling this crap.

Remember Moron.org (typo?) getting busted using British troops in an ad about bringing American troops home. Later trying to cover it after getting busted, they went as far as to try to (poorly) photoshop the still image on their site, to add pants to someone wearing shorts. The ad was pulled, but I just noticed that it's still available from the web site today! (although the photoshopped still isn't). Don't you love how they show the image of the Brits right when they say "...a hundred and fifty thousand American women are stuck in Iraq... Anyway, if you didn't catch that story, those links have all the pics and such, to fill you in.

Anyway, back to Code Pinks offense... It's unacceptable, period. But I don't understand why they messed with the woman's mouth? It looks like the same eyes, etc. to me.. but they made her mouth really weird. I'm no photoshopping pro, and don't have any great software or anything, but it looks like they created some weird mouth simply using Windows paint or something. Anyway, the girl from the original is actually not bad looking, but I don't know what they were attempting to do to her... other than misrepresent who she and the crowd with her are.

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I still fear the pushback we've been seeing from the administration over the past few months, has come a little too late... but it can't hurt. I just wished they had been doing it all along, and not tried to be the bigger people by ignoring the most insane and unprecedented attacks we've been hearing from the left for a number of years now.

Anyway, I like how the President has been handling the NSA situation, except I think he could come out harder personally going after Dems who've made ridiculous attacks on him over the policy. But this today from the AP via Yahoo! News, is great:

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is opening a campaign to push back against criticism of its domestic spying program, ahead of congressional hearings into whether President Bush has the legal authority to eavesdrop on Americans.

President Bush will visit the ultra-secret National Security Agency on Wednesday, underscoring his claim that he has the constitutional authority to let intelligence officials listen in on international phone calls of Americans with suspected ties to terrorists.

What a slap in the face to these libs and their media who thought they were really going somewhere on their most recent of contrived "scandals".

Anyway, it would seem that all Bush has for these crybabies is a box of tissues and a promise that we'll keep listening in on communications with suspected terrorists.

Another interesting side point to this is that despite the steady drumbeat of the phrase "domestic spying" from the media and the left, it's not accurate. For the millionth time libs, these are communications between suspected terrorists abroad, and people in the U.S., not conversations between you and your grandmother. Cheney did a great job of explaining it at the Manhattan institute the other day, and Michelle Malkin has a partial transcription in her post on the matter. I specifically liked:

Let me emphasize that, because you frequently hear this called a "domestic surveillance program." It is not. We are talking about international communications, one end of which we have reason to believe is related to al Qaeda or to terrorist networks affilated with al Qaeda. It's hard to think of any category of information that could be more important to the safety of the United States than international communications, one end of which we have reason to believe is related to al Qaeda...this program is critical to the national security of the United States.

Exactly.

It should be noted that they continue the "domestic" language in this article, as well as the URL which is:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_domestic_spying_2
And I doubt they'll stop anytime soon.

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Just a couple weird stories of whales turning up in odd places this week.

First we have a mother and baby briefly visiting Corpus Christi, TX:
via Reuters:

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Reuters) - Researchers were surprised this week by the sudden appearance -- and quick disappearance -- of two rare Northern right whales in the busy industrial port of Corpus Christi Bay.

"It's a most extraordinary event," said oceanographer Tony Amos of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.

"They're almost unknown in the Gulf of Mexico. Why they would come into the bay, I don't really know."

Amos said a 50-foot (15-meter), 60-ton adult female and her 15-foot (5-meter) baby calf apparently became lost and popped up on Monday in the bay, which is protected from the Gulf of Mexico by a narrow barrier island.

Then today a whale gave the people of London a show... The BBC has video.
Via BBC:

A whale has made its way up the River Thames to central London, where it is being watched by riverside crowds.

The northern bottle-nosed whale, which is 16-18ft long and is usually found in deep sea waters, has passed Parliament and is moving upstream.

 

ABC News is reporting that we may get a second terror tape release, this one by al-Zawahiri.:

Jan. 20, 2006 — Security is being stepped up across the country today after the release of a new audiotape in which Osama bin Laden threatens to attack the U.S. homeland — though the government is not elevating the national alert level.

The new security measures are being taken as ABC News learns that al Qaeda Web sites have posted messages saying yet another tape is about to be released — this one from al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who apparently escaped a missile attack that targeted him in Pakistan a week ago. The Web sites say he will mourn his colleagues who were killed in that attack.

And incase you didn't catch Scott McClellan's reaction to the UBL tape yesterday:

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said it was a sign of weakness.

"We do not negotiate with terrorists," McClellan said. "We put them out of business."

That's a classic line. I'd like to hear more statements like this from the White House.

 

The Political Teen has video of CNN's always crazy Jack Cafferty insinuating that the new Bin Laden tape might be some sort of administration pr plot. Basically the moonbat theory is that if the President is in serious trouble they release a Bin Laden tape because that will generate a quick boost in needed support.

JACK CAFFERTY: The last time we got a tape from Osama bin Laden was right before the 2004 presidential election. Now here we are four days away from hearings starting in Washington into the wire tapping of America’s telephones without bothering to get a court order or a warrant, and up pops another tape from Osama bin Laden. Coincidence? Who knows.

People like Cafferty have been saying things like this for a while, particularly when a Bin Laden tape came out shortly before the 2004 election. Most notably would be Walter Cronkite on Larry King Live on October 29, 2004:

...I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

Michelle Malkin instructs the class to get out their tin-foil hats...
Uh, too late Michelle. Looks like the fellas didn't waste any time...

Cafferty: What's her point?
Cronkite: Don't worry about it sonny, we know we're right... Besides, how cool do we look in these? Anyway, we all know Bin Laden is the good guy here. Dan Rather and I ran in to him a few months back, as you can see in our vacation photos, and he was just a delight.

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