Monday, August 07, 2006

Monday Evening in Paradise

"They want the grand finale in your country ", said Walid Shoebat, author of a new book out, "Why I Left Jihad". Well, that's a pleasant thought rambling around in my head to end the day with, don't you think? He was on a talking heads tv show and explaining how it is in Islamo Facist societies, the raising of children to hate Jews and westerners.

How about that blogosphere, huh? Taking down another lying journalist shoving his world view/agenda on an unsuspecting public. Reuters, no real friend of democracy, had to apologize for its photographer, a Lebanese man caught in his tricks yet again, and fired his sorry butt today. Adnan Hajj thought using photoshop was a legitimate journalistic tool apparently in reporting the crisis in Lebanon and Israel.

Remember it is Reuters that refuses to use the word "terrorist" in its news stories.

Cindy Sheehan, an anti-Semite according to remarks credited to her speeches blasting Jews with "cabals" and trying to run the world, is doing her thing in Crawford now. Doesn't look like that whole fasting thing resulted in weight loss. Hey, there's a photographer who could take care of that for her...

James Meigs, an editor with Popular Science magazine, has written a book "Debunking 9/11 Myths" and discredits all the wacky conspiracy theorists enjoying some spotlight now. A poll was taken and over 30% of the American public thinks it's true that our government staged the whole 9/11 tragedy and the evil Bush administration wanted the war on terror. It's incredible, I know. This scientist takes argument after argument and scientifically disclaims it all. The first clue should have been when Charlie Sheen was interviewed on the radio and brought up the whole thing as facts he'll swear by.

The scientist pointed out that facts don't have politics. Kevin Barrett, University of WI lecturer on the history of Islam and devoting a week to the conspiracy theories as he is a believer, is in the forefront of the group. Among his claims are that cell phones don't work on airplanes so the passengers on the jets couldn't have possibly made calls as the jets were being hijacked. Even I know this is ridiculous. I am far from a scientist but I have been on the receiving end of calls from planes and I am fairly certain I wasn't hallucinating.

Hubby should arrive back home tomorrow night. I have dry beans soaking overnight, as the man loves a pot of beans with rice or cornbread. I'm making both. I like to make stuff like that which will keep for whenever he gets home. Also baking a chicken, same theory. I won't be serving cabbage in the near future! As an old Soviet country, the folks in Kazakhastan serve it pretty much every day there, so he will have had more than his fill of that vegetable!

I highly recommend you check out a blog I list on my blogroll, Atlas Shrugs, if you want a first hand view of the struggles in Israel now. Pamela, the blogger, is there and writing lots of what she sees and her experiences on her trip there.

3 comments:

Me said...

Re; Adnan the photographer... he worked for the Associated Press before Reuters... wonder how many he 'doctored' for them first!?

srp said...

And to think we used to trust the news media of all types? The REAL journalists, all dead and gone now, have to be rolling over in their graves!

Sheri & SuZan said...

So scary when journalists and photographers twist the truth (oh wait...they have been doing that forever it seems).

An actors should keep their big trap shut...they have no credibility with me.