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D.C. Metro to Get Spanish Signs, New Train to Mexico

by Scott Ott
(2006-06-25) — Officials at the Washington D.C. Metrorail system plan to meet the needs of a growing number of undocumented commuters by installing Spanish-language signs that would direct monolingual aliens to board a new one-way train to Mexico City.

The signs, which will cost from $500,000 to $900,000 per Metro station, will tell commuters who speak only Spanish that they’re boarding a train to take them downtown, or to various D.C. suburbs.

However, about 48 hours later, the express train will make its first stop in Mexico City, and disgorge all of its passengers before making the return trip empty on a parallel track.

Although advocates of English as the national language normally protest the use of taxpayer dollars to produce Spanish signs and literature, so far no complaints have arisen about the proposal.

Pass the Advil

It's just .... inconceivable.

The Media’s War Against the War Continues
The New York Times and Los Angeles Times expose a classified anti-terrorism program.
By Andrew C. McCarthy

Yet again, the New York Times was presented with a simple choice: help protect American national security or help al Qaeda.

Yet again, it sided with al Qaeda.

For the second time in seven months, the Times has exposed classified information about a program aimed at protecting the American people against a repeat of the September 11 attacks. On this occasion, it has company in the effort: The Los Angeles Times runs a similar, sensational story. Together, the newspapers disclose the fact that the United States has covertly developed a capability to monitor the nerve center of the international financial network in order to track the movement of funds between terrorists and their facilitators.

A poster on Lucianne.com summed it up well:

Reply 6 - Posted by: chessycat8, 6/23/2006 12:46:05 PM
Why is it such an outrage for Valerie Plame to be outed, yet compromising our national security is considered patriotic?

My head hurts.

So does mine. I just took a midterm exam in my communications law course, and part of that exam had to do with the infamous Pentagon Papers case .. which is about our esteemed New York Times choosing to publish classified documents leaked from the defense department. In that case, the exposure was mainly just embarrassing to the government--but the documents were still classified. In instances like today, there's simply no excuse whatsoever. That information is classified and vital to the safety of the American public.

The truly monstrous thing about this is, if, god forbid, another terrorist attack takes place on the American homeland, they will blame Bush.

Hey New York Times, why don't you just publish nuclear secrets so terrorists can just build their own? Oh, someone already beat you to it ..

Inconvenient Truths

Came across this Web site, called "The Week That Was", a collection of writings pertaining to global warming and the many myths surrounding it, propogated by the alarmist media.

There's a fantastic rundown of inconvenient truths which, point for point, challenge Algore's movie about Chicken Little--I mean, about global warming.

The money line:

Gore was wrong in 1992 when he wrote that 98 percent of scientists agreed with him on global warming... Now he is wrong when he argues in his movie that there is a complete consensus on global warming today. As proof Gore cites a 2004 study that looked at 928 climate abstracts and found none that refuted global-warming dogma. That says more about the researcher than the scientific community.

On John Murtha & the Democrats

"Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate 'war, pestilence, and famine' than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun. The history of the defeated rebel will be honorable hereafter, compared with that of the Northern man who aided him by conspiring against his government while protected by it. The most favorable posthumous history the stay-at-home traitor can hope for is -- oblivion."

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs

Juneteenth

Happy Juneteenth!

I'm very surprised this holiday doesn't get more play in the media. It's almost like they don't really care that the slaves were emancipated .. they don't want to remember that fact. They'd rather remember that they were slaves in the first place.

Well I for one think that the emancipation of slaves, anywhere, constitutes a cause for celebration and so I'm gonna make the best of it.

(Also on this day, according to Wikipedia, the Garfield comic strip first appeared. Happy birthday, Garfield.)

Whoa.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is its twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran

Good news for the world = bad news for Democrats

Zarqawi Found, but Bin Ladin Still Eludes US - Reuters
The Left and the Death of Zarqawi - Front Page Magazine
Surprise: Old Media Downplay Zarqawi's Death - Townhall.com
Withdrawn Democrats - American Spectator

No instantaneous rejoicing. No thankfulness that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was sent to his maker courtesy of 1,000 pounds of American-made munitions delivered via F-16. No, the first reaction of many Democrats was either worry or disdain. Worry over how to spin a response so that it brings maximum political advantage, and disdain that the U.S. military had a victory on President Bush's watch. The other reaction was incredulity. Some Democrats believe the whole story was fabricated by the military to distract from the "truth" of Bush's failure as a President.

Consider the following comments made by actual Democrats:

Am I the only one who thinks this is one big scam on America and the world, to make it look like they "killed a main terrorist" and rid the world of an evil person?"

They said they identified the so called body with his fingerprints, where did they get Zarqawi's finger prints? I know he was supposedly jailed in Jordan for a while. Do they keep fingerprints on everyone in the world? This news comes as the marriage amendment failed....again Bush's poll numbers are slipping faster then a speeding nascar. I don't buy it."
-- "Wahoo," a poster on Democrats.com

Understandably, there is a lot of media coverage on Zarqawi today. In all the hours and hours of coverage, has anyone mentioned that the President could have killed Zarqawi before the Iraq War but chose not to?
-- "Georgia10," a poster on DailyKos

Zarqawi was quite probably a psy ops job in the first place, so what does that make his "death"?

Keep your eyes on the prize:

Gay marriage?
Haditha.

Flag burning?
Haditha!

Brangelina?
HADITHA!

Zarqawi?
HADITHA!!!"
-- Christopher Day, a poster on DailyKos

I do not believe this al Zarqwai bullsh**, because it is all too convenient. It's another wave of propaganda from the Bush cabal. He was likely killed years ago, or is still alive. Something smells rotten.
-- "Liberalmuse," a poster on Democratic Underground

Just as the American public begins to look into Haditha, this happens.

I'm going to be interested as to how Bush's approval rating changes, as well as how long we've known where this guy was.

I'd like to think that it was just a coincidence, but it would be valuable to know all the facts.
-- "Imagine1989," a poster on Democratic Underground

Trash

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For the rest of the story .... click here. Give em hell, Evan!

Ding-dong, Zarquawi's dead

Some wonderful news this morning.

Insurgent Leader Killed in Iraq

"Through his every action, he sought to defeat America and our coalition partners and turn Iraq into a safe haven from which al-Qaeda could wage its war," Bush said. " . . . Now Zarqawi has met his end, and this violent man will never murder again."

Congratulations troops. Very proud of you today.

No liberal bias here.

I lifted this from Taranto's Best of the Web. Andrew Sullivan is an unabashed liberal, no question, but the transparency of his mindset is just so typical of the mainstream media today (Sullivan's blog appears under the auspices of Time magazine). Nobody illustrates this better than James Taranto.

Selectively Excitable
Monday, June 5, 2006 3:15 p.m. EDT

"A reader captures what has been in my mind and gut for the last few days: 'The BBC just released a video alleging yet another covered-up massacre of civilians by American personel [sic] in Iraq. 5 women, 4 children, and 2 men in Ishaqi in March. Just when I think I'm totally numb, I find out a fellow American may have executed a 6 month-old baby in the name of protecting me, and I can't hold back tears. What country are we in?' The same country that now practices torture. Cheney country."--Time magazine's Andrew Sullivan, June 2, 2:55 p.m.

"Raw Story has now posted some photos of the corpses of children murdered in Ishaqi. Don't go there if you are squeamish, or believe that possible war crimes should not be covered by the media. Investigations continue, and exactly what happened has not been established. But the omens are grim. And these pictures of infants with bullet holes in their skulls simply defy my comprehension of what has happened to this country."--Time magazine's Andrew Sullivan, June 2, 3:49 p.m.

"The conclusions about Ishaqi also seem to me to be provisional. More evidence may yet emerge. We should be cautious about drawing any firm conclusions yet."--Time magazine's Andrew Sullivan, June 2, 7:54 p.m., responding to the news that an investigation has cleared U.S. troops of wrongdoing at Ishaqi