Here's An Example For You: I've never liked whiners and complainers who want to tell you how tough they've had it and why it's not their fault that they failed. Your life is your responsibility and if you make a mess out of it the only person responsible is the person you look at when you're brushing your teeth in the morning. If you think you've had it tough, think about how tough Christina Santhouse has had it. Who's Christina Santhouse you ask?

"Doctors diagnosed Christina with Rasmussen's encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease, usually found in children, in which the body attacks the brain, killing off cells. There are fewer than 1,000 cases in the United States.

...Treating the seizures sounded worse than the disease. Doctors said she would have to get a hemispherectomy, a procedure in which the diseased half of the brain is surgically removed. In short, Christina would be left with half a brain."

So here's this young girl. She's terribly sick, having 150 seizures a day and the only treatment that holds any promise is cutting out half of her brain. Can you imagine the terror she must have felt? How would you feel if you were a sick and weak kid and the doctors wanted to crack your skull open, scoop out half of your brain, and put you back together again? But Christina and her mom sucked it up and went through with it. How tough was it after the operation was over?

"After the operation, Christina's left hand would become only a "helper hand," she'd have a limp on her left leg, and no peripheral vision on that side. So prior to the operation, her mother — who is a teacher — tried to prepare her daughter for the loss of some of the functioning on her left side.

Santhouse-Catarro wrapped the left part of her daughter's body so that she could not use it much, and had her practice putting on socks, and cutting sandwiches with one hand. They would have races to see who could get dressed fastest with one hand. Still, the abstract was nothing like the reality."

Now how is the kid doing today? She has a 94.7 GPA and "(n)ow she is going into her sophomore year of high school, is on the varsity bowling league, and took four academic honors at the end of last year." If this kid can take an illness and a "cure" that traumatic and can outperform 98% of the kids of her age, what excuse does anyone else have not to succeed?

What Would Golkorxx Think?: If you took a bunch of aliens in space and allowed them no other knowledge of the US other than what they could gleam from reading Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, & John Pilger columns along with reading the other left-wing online mags out there like the Yellow Times, Indy Media, and Warblogger Watch, here's about the impression they'd have of the US...

...The imperialistic hegemony known as America continued to implement their ruthless campaign of annihilation against the rest of the world today just as they've done for the last century. The mind numbed robots that make up the citizenry of the United States are too busy eating their Big Macs and polishing their guns to pay attention to the press or to their much wiser neighbors in Europe who only have America's best interests at heart. Only a brave band of rebels called al-Queda, two dashing heroes named Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat, and a press facing relentless persecution have dared to stand up to Emperor Bush.

A brave US journalist today dared to ask the man secretly referred to as the "Overfiend" in the press pool a simple question, "Mr. Bush, what do you intend to do about Iraq?" A sneering Bush replied, "Hussein? Bush Smash! Har, Har, Har" and then the reporter was drawn and quartered on the spot as the rest of the reporters in the room were dragged off to prison labor camps in the Arizona desert, never to be heard from again. Then Bush went back to his normal agenda, putting arsenic in the water of school children, stealing old people's social security money to give to WorldCom, and ferreting out anyone on the planet who disagrees with him so he can have them executed en masse on the White House lawn.

Meanwhile, in another part of the White House, John Ashcroft tosses a 79 year old grandmother into an Iron Maiden for not having an expensive enough Bible. Ashcroft then breaks into maniacal laughter as he burns the original copy of the Bill of Rights and plans to put 1984 style telescreens in every American's house.

America in 2002. Freedom? It's gone. Disagreement with the Bush administration? It's not allowed. The United States itself? It's a pulsating black rock of evil, more dense than a black hole, sucking all decency and goodness out of the world into the cold, dark, recesses of it's satanic heart...

N'Cobra Vs. The Nazis: You know earlier today in the latest episode of A.C.P.O.T.I. I posted some racist garbage from a bunch of white power goons and Nazi sympathizers. However, the silliness of the parasites who are pushing the Reparations movement is every bit as ridiculous as the stuff that those morons were saying...

"Studies show that black Americans are more at-risk for certain diseases and ailments than whites, on average, prompting some black leaders to blame slavery's lingering effects and demand tax-funded reparations.

Tyehimba and other reparations proponents, like Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran, believe that slavery, along with subsequent Jim Crow laws and other formerly legal forms of discrimination, have prevented black Americans from achieving economic and health parity with whites.

So according to this Kibbi Tyehimba kook, slavery that occurred over a century ago causes blacks in the US today to eat too many Big Macs, drink too much Mountain Dew, and start smoking!?!? I thought the Reparations movement couldn't descend any further into pathetic victimology but I guess I was wrong.

The Top 10 al-Queda Excuses For Why We Haven't Heard From Bin Laden Since Tora Bora: You can't help but notice that we haven't heard from Osama Bin Laden since December and his "new video" that was supposed to be released on July 4th never materialized. Yet, al-Queda claims he's alive and kicking. If so, why hasn't he shown himself? If we could pull an al-Queda spokesman out of whatever filthy cave or backwater village hut he's hiding in, I'm sure that these would be the top 10 excuses he'd give for why we haven't seen Osama since Tora Bora...

Sure, We Now Know That Fighting The Germans Was A Huge Mistake: It's been a while since we've since we've done a Stormfront edition of A.C.P.O.T.I. and I'm sure many of our readers have been wondering what the hatemongers and Nazi sympathizers over there have been up to. As always, if you're looking for racism, anti-semitism, and discussions about what a great guy Hitler was, Stormfront never disappoints. So get ready for another entertaining edition of A.C.P.O.T.I....

More Things To Ponder: I spent four hours driving back from a July 4th vacation this weekend and during that time I pondered a few things I thought were worth sharing...

• Despite what many people believe, the Constitution does not use the phrase "separation of Church and State." What it actually says about religion in the First Amendment is "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Keeping that in mind, could someone explain which religion is "established" by merely uttering the words "under God" in the Pledge? (Cont)

The Republic Of Stevietopia: I ran across a post in the Utopia Politics Forums from a guy named KindFluffySteve who's a hard core socialist and I decided to chime in with my opinion of his ideas. He never directly responded to me but there were 90+ posts responding to his ideas....

kindfluffysteve: anybody want to help me write the constitution for this wonderful fictitious new country???? Stevietopia is a democractic state without an upper house.

1) Elections are Held every 10 years
2) Citizens presenting X number of signatures may force a referendum on any issue.
3) No changes to constitution without a referendum.
4) formulaic enshrinement of socialistic style policies in the constitution. (minimun limits set to ensure progressive taxation and state power forever)

Archfiend: 1) All Conservatives have to work 16 hours a day in the acid mines!

2) Anyone who argues against socialism gets dragged off to a gulag along with all those Falun Gong guys.

3) Socialistic principles guarantee that everyone gets the same number of rocks and the same amount of mud in their daily feeding at the government kitchen.

4) Except on Sundays when it's free ice cream for everybody! Hooray!

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kindfluffysteve: "kfs, while I admire your attempts to find a better way of doing things, enshrining socialism in a country constitution is a retro step. How about making as few rules as possible, and just let peole live their lives without the governmnt telling them how to do everything? "

because in my opinion that leads to too much freedom. Too much freedom in urban societies is freedom to be a nuisance. In stevietopia, Nobody is alowed to be a nuisance. great eh? free trade with suitable states, others up for negotiation. for example: You Will let Unionisation Happen in your country if you want to trade with mine. but this flexible.

Archfiend:Too much freedom?

I think you need a better, more representative name for your country than the Socialist Republic of Stevietopia..

Maybe something like...

- Prisonville
- Oppressionland
- Empire of the Chained
- The All Smothering Realm Of Stevietopia
- Prison Campotopia

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kindfluffysteve: "...drugs such as pot...?" pot will be legal. Socially harmful drugs not. I think coke is too damaging for future health care. commercial enterprise is welcome to build theme parks however the people will through taxation be paying for the worlds greatest space program.

Archfiend: "commercial enterprise is welcome to build theme parks however the people will through taxation be paying for the worlds greatest space program."

That would make for a great election slogan...

- You may be shipped off to concentration camps at any time...but we have the worlds greatest space program!

- I live in a palace and eat caviar off of naked peasant girls while you eat radiated blackberries you found around the Stevienobyl nuclear plant...but we have the worlds greatest space program!

- You stood in line for three hours waiting to get toilet paper today...but we have the worlds greatest space program!

- Our intelligence agencies made your cousin Lenny disapear because he said he didn't like comrade Stevie...but we have the worlds greatest space program!

- Half our nation's defense budget is spent for thugs, land mines, walls, and attack dogs to keep people from fleeing the country...but we have the worlds greatest space program!

There's plenty more in the thread here but it'll be off the board soon enough.

Oooooh...Ann Coulter Pics: Check out the Ann Coulter homepage. It covers all of her press appearances and has pics like Coulter and Reagan...

And the picture that should be under the word "saucy" in the dictionary...

Michael Jackson: Fairy Tale In The Flesh: Michael Jackson is perhaps the sickest, most ridiculous freakshow walking the planet today. He's a human fairy tale that with a moral that goes "this is how far out of touch with reality you can get when you become a celebrity."

Jackson has literally been a star since he was a young child. He was the star of the Jackson 5 and as he matured he became one of those rare talents who come along once a decade or so. His career really has been comparable to the Beatles and Elvis and without a doubt he is immensely skilled at what he does. But when you're the type of person who's literally capable of generating hundreds of millions of dollars every time you make an album, people cater to your every whim just to get a little piece of that money. Even if the sycophants and record company executives don't hand you everything you want, when you have as much money as Jackson does, there is no fetish you can't indulge, no type of discomfort that you have to endure, and no fantasy you can't afford to explore. The more you're feted, the more often you expect it and the more you start to gather people around you who's only desire seems to be to please you in every way. Eventually, because you never hear the word "no" and because you are totally surrounded by "yes men", you start to believe that you can do no wrong.

Then when you remake the world around you into a surreal, delusional dreamscape with personal petting zoos and your own "Neverland Ranch", it seems to make perfect sense to you. That's what you want and your agent, and your "friends", and your hangers on tell you what a great idea is. Then things start to get weirder and weirder. You start having one plastic surgery after another, dressing like some sort of French super-hero, and you sign up for a sham marriage to help your career. Then you start to hear a little hesitation in your "friends" voices when you ask them what they think. But they still give it the thumbs up and besides, you're Michael "freaking" Jackson, the man who made Thriller. It's all good right? Then it's on to the kids. I don't even want to know about the kiddie version of "Indecent Proposal" that Jackson must be running over and over on kids who'll probably spend the rest of their lives in therapy. Any parent who hands their kids over for quality time with Michael Jackson at his little pedophile theme park should be publicly flogged until the whip hits spine. Yet, you almost always see Jackson surrounded by cheering little kids. I bet Jackson has doled out more hush money to molested kids in his career than the GNP of Lebanon was last year. But since he's Michael Jackson everyone stays quiet, the music execs keep smiling, and Michael keeps thinking it's all OK.

So when you hear Michael Jackson talking about a "conspiracy to turn the public against him", understand that he believes it. When Jackson goes on TV saying the music industry turned against him because "broke Elvis' record and the Beatles' record in sales", know that he's not just shooting off his mouth. One day, as Jackson's money starts to run out, he'll start hearing the truth from all of his "friends" and his whole little world will collapse around him. Either he'll end up in jail for child molestation, in an insane asylum, or he'll finish his life living like a recluse in some secluded mansion far away from the people in the "conspiracy" who "destroyed his career." If anyone thinks money and fame alone will solve all your problems or even that celebrities know more than you do just because they're "famous", let Jackson's life be a sad warning to you.

Cold Fury...Indeed!: This post from Cold Fury has so many great points in it I'm tempted to ask permission just to post the whole thing here but let me hit some of the high points...

"And for all the folks whining about "censorship" and "authoritarianism" every time a conservative or libertarian pokes around a little at the Swiss-cheese holes in your ideological consistency: deal with it. REAL authoritarians don't just deride your ideas in public forums (and allow you to post retorts in the comments section, for god's sake); they drag you from your home and shoot you in the street in front of your children, or toss you in a filthy cinder-block cell and hook up auto batteries to your testicles."

"(S)creaming about civil liberties over your high-speed Internet connection from your comfortable middle-class home as if you were a half-starved Anne Frank cowering in the attic listening to the boots coming up the stairs is just plain silly. Not to say it couldn't ever happen here, but the point is it isn't happening now, or at least no more than it was under any previous Administration, and acting as if having to remove your shoes at the airport security checkpoint or having your views dissected on the Internet is the moral equivalent of the Kristallnacht isn't helping your credibility any, because it isn't anywhere close. It just isn't."

There's actually another two or three paragraphs I'd like to post but I'm not going to for brevities sake. But, I would encourage you to head over to Cold Fury to check out the rest of this post.

Holy Can Of Canadian Whoop@ss Batman!: Hell is now frozen over, pigs are flying, and the Democrats in the Senate started telling the truth today in recognition of two positive stories about Canada going up on RWN in the same day. Apparently the Canadians have been watching a few too many John Wayne movies because they weren't content to merely waste terrorists in Afghanistan. Now they're actually tearing down crackhouses with their bare hands....

"Exasperated neighbours had been trying to get authorities to do something about the garbage-strewn party house on their tiny, dead-end street for two months.

By the time Victoria police arrived, water was pouring from ruptured plumbing, doors had been torn off their hinges and all but a couple of the windows in the two-storey house had been smashed. Holes were punched through inside walls and toilets ripped out."

Who'd have thought Canadian street justice was possible? I know some people will probably think it's horrible that I'm applauding this but I totally understand where these people are coming from. If you have a crackhouse in your neighborhood and the police and the landlord won't do anything about it, then I don't see anything morally wrong with wrecking that crackhouse. So once again let me say, "Canada, RWN salutes you."

Atta Boy Eh?: A frightened al-Queda terrorist moves from tree to tree, his throat dry and body caked with nervous sweat. His breath is shallow and he has almost given up hope that he'll make it back over the Pakistani border alive. He looks out across the hills and sees nothing that seems out of the ordinary. But somewhere out there, watching and waiting, are the dreaded...Canadian snipers....

"Canadian snipers are being credited with more than 20 kills in Afghanistan, including one from 2,400 metres away -- almost a mile and a half. If validated, the kill would be the longest shot made by a military sniper in combat, according to the latest issue of Soldier of Fortune magazine....Robert Brown, Soldier of Fortune editor and publisher, said, "The Canadians did a hell of a good job over there and we've got this from a number of sources. We felt we ought to give them, an 'atta boy.'"

Hey all you Canucks out there, RWN salutes you! Way to kick @ss!

It's An Ann Coulter Lovefest On RWN: People are coming out of the woodwork to slam poor Ann Coulter (well I shouldn't say poor, Slander was #4 on Amazon last time I looked). Lot's of people including the Indepundit and Meryl Yourish has taken shots at her lately.

Liberals obviously don't like Coulter because not only does she not agree with them, but she also is perhaps the most vicious critic of the left on the national scene. But some Conservatives and Libertarians don't like her either because of her arguing style. You see, she debates like a Democrat. Now what do I mean by that? The left and the right tend to have two different styles of debate. The right tends to "logic bomb" everything. If the debate is on Social Security, the Conservative will take five minutes explaining why the Social Security trust fund really doesn't exist and why privatizing part of the fund will extend the life of the program for decades. He'll then talk about how we're going to have to do something within a decade or we'll be forced to raise the age limit or cut benefits. Then he may even regale you with the history of the program if you haven't already fallen asleep. Then when a Liberal is asked for his response he'll reply with something like "SEE! SEE! Those Republicans want old people to eat dog food and live in cardboard boxes! They want to take your Social Security checks and give them to Enron so Ken Lay can buy a bigger yacht! Your grandfather is going to die on the street in front of the hospital because these Republicans want to take his corpse and grind it up to make soap!, etc,etc,etc."

Now those are of course very broad generalizations but they're generally accurate. If you listen to John Pilger, any editorialist in the Guardian, Robert Fisk, Ernest Hollings, Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, Jimmy Carter, Robert Byrd, Helen Thomas in her editorials, Paul Begala, Bill Clinton since he got out of office, Al Sharpton, Charles Schumer, James Carville, anyone from Peta, Christopher Dodd, and most of the Democratic party around election time that's about what they sound like. Well Coulter has adopted their style moreso than any other right-wing editorialist or pundit out there. She's not the only one who does it and it's not the only thing she does (you'll hear more logic and rational arguments from Coulter than any of the Democrats mentioned above), but it's her style. She comes in with both barrels blasting and doesn't hesitate to paint Democrats with a broad brush in much the same way many Democrats hit Republicans. Many Democrats will tell you that Republicans are racist, in the pocket of big business, war mongers, want poor people to die, etc, etc, etc. Coulter has no problem telling you that she thinks Democrats are pork gobblin', anti-American, wallet stealing, pro-criminal, anti-religious, unpatriotic, arrogant swine.

So you may ask me, "Hawkins, then what's the difference between Coulter and all those Democrats you mentioned then?" Easy, Coulter's right 90% of the time and they're wrong 90% of the time. Plus, Coulter is dead sexy ;)

The Poster Child For Left-Wing Atheists: Michael Newdow is the man who managed to convince the left-wing extremists on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to declare that the Pledge of Allegiance is illegal. However, there are a few things that you may not know about Newdow because the press hasn't given them the coverage they deserve...

- Newdow's eight year old child IS NOT an atheist. According to this article, Newdow's kid attends Calvary Chapel church and she also "decided she could say it (the Pledge) under her breath and no one would know the difference." If this is true, the whole basis of Newdow's complaint is a sham to begin with since this whole case was supposedly about his daughter being "injured" because the Pledge was performed in her school.

- Newdow also has some other changes he'd like to make including...

* 'The Mike Newdow dictionary would replace "he" and "she" with "re," "his" and "hers" with "rees" and "him" and "her" with "erm."'
* Prayers at presidential inaugurations
* The Phrase "In God We Trust" on money
* Getting rid of the phrase 'the best interests of the child'

- Is Newdow someone who really believes in this issue or just a publicity hound looking for his 15 minutes of fame by thumbing his nose at society? Well I think this answers that question,

"Okay," Newdow smiles as he closes the door, "now I'm worried." And he sits back down with his guitar, singing a song he penned himself -- the Pledge Of Allegiance Got Some Old Religion Blues -- while threats of death and hellfire play on in the background."

If you ever catch me singing the "School Vouchers Are Right For America" song for a Time Magazine reporter then assume I'm a pod person who needs to be captured and forced to reveal the location of the real John Hawkins.

Media Bias On Display: First off, take a look at this Newsday headline, "Candidate Calls Incumbent Too Liberal." What's your first thought after reading that? Probably some Republican ripping on a Democrat right? Well actually, a Democratic challenger is going after a Democratic incumbent. I'm now going to post some of the things he said and I want you to see which comment jumps out at you...

"Rep. Sander Levin's opponent in a Democratic primary says the incumbent shouldn't represent the redrawn Detroit-area congressional district because he is liberal and Jewish.

"I mean, that man has never owned a Christmas tree. He's not a Christian. And I'm thinking, `Jeez, how can he represent me then?'" Callahan said in an interview. "And how can he if he believes in abortion and I don't or I'm an avid hunter and gun owner and he doesn't believe in it, how can he represent me?"

So what's the big story here? Is it that he criticized the guy for being liberal or for being Jewish? What do you think that headline would of looked like if a Republican had said a man wasn't fit to represent a district because he was Jewish? Maybe, "Right-Wing Extremist displays anti-Semitism" or "Republican hatemonger makes controversial statement." But since Callahan is a Democrat we get a **YAWN** and a headline declaring that the incumbent is "too liberal." But that left-wing media bias is just in the right's imagination right?

Another Argument Against The ICC: For you Euroskeptics out there who still don't understand why we absolutely refuse to be a part of the ICC...

"A Washington Times dispatch out of Zagreb, Croatia reports the Balkans war crimes tribunal "is examining whether charges are warranted against former President Bill Clinton and his aides for supporting a 1995 military offensive by Croatia that recaptured territory then held by Serbian rebel forces.”

"The story quotes a spokeswoman for a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as saying there is an active investigation of the charge."

Are you still wondering why we have no interest in these ridiculous courts? Today it's Croatia and tomorrow it'll be the ICC...

The Big-N Nutjob: In this interview with Gore Vidal, the interviewer says Vidal might be "might be America's last small-r republican." Actually I've always thought Vidal was one of America's many big-n nutjobs and his unhinged rambling in this interview proves me right. Get ready to enjoy some of the best quotes from Gore Vidal in the latest celebrity edition of A.C.P.O.T.I....

New Hope For Aids Vaccine: When it comes to a cure for Aids, I'll believe it when they have a working vaccine that's ready to be distributed. But a "US biotechnology company" called Vaxgen has produced a vaccine that IAVI president Dr Seth Berkley hopes will one day, "put an end to this terrible disease."

Now certainly this vaccine would be a tremendous boon to mankind. It would save tens of millions of lives across the world especially in Africa where AIDS is cutting a swath of destruction unseen since the heyday of the Bubonic Plague.

However, there is a big downside to this vaccine from a left-wing perspective. The wrong people have come up with it. It wasn't some group of Communist researchers in China or even a group of European scientists who created this vaccine on a government grant. This vaccine is being developed by a corporation which is probably run by some fatcat CEO who liberals would undoubtedly think is being paid too much. Furthermore, they didn't work on this vaccine for purely altruistic reasons, they developed it so they could make huge Mt. Everest sized piles of cash selling the drug. The animal rights whackos will probably be outraged when they learn that Vaxgen tested this drug on chimpanzees! PETA certainly won't approve of that. Worst of all in many people's eyes will be the fact that the vaccine was developed by the nation they view as the source of all evil in the world, the United States. Sometimes the left must think fate is quite a cruel mistress.

The Comments Section Is Toast: I've been having constant problems related to the comment section taking down the page or slowing it up big time. I can deal with an occasional problem but we've having almost daily issues that I felt needed to be addressed. I am looking for another program that can get the job done but if worse comes to worse, I have a great idea for a "group forum" I could put together. Ideally I'll have something back up this weekend but I don't have a definite ETA on when the comments or a forum will be back up. However, I do want to get something in place ASAP.

It's Not The Jewish Lobby: If you read the Muslim press there is this idea floating around that the American people are being given a bad impression of Islam by the American "Zionist controlled" press. Well even if the press were "Zionist controlled" they wouldn't need to do anything but report the news to put Islam in a bad light. Let me give you a quick tally of just some of the "Muslim related" stories that have broken lately...

The MUSLIM terrorists we're at war with, al-Queda said there were going to be terrorist attacks against us on July 4th as well a video from old tall, dark, and ugly himself, Osama Bin Laden. Unfortunately, he was apparently too busy being eaten by worms at Tora Bora to make it. However, there was an "attack" by an Egyptian MUSLIM in LA. While it still hasn't been determined whether he was affiliated with a terrorist organization or not, he did have a Read the Koran bumper sticker on his car. Speaking of terrorist groups, the MUSLIM terrorist group Hamas and another MUSLIM terrorist group, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades recently suggested that killing Americans was a great idea. A MUSLIM Pakistani Tribal Council last week also thought it would be a great idea to have a woman gang raped because her eleven year old brother was guilty of walking with a woman from a "higher class tribe." Furthermore, Louis Farrakhan, one of the most prominent MUSLIMS in the US, went to Iraq, a nation run by our sworn MUSLIM enemy, and said, "the MUSLIM American people are praying to the almighty God to grant victory to Iraq."

Now in this same period of time, the number of threatened terrorist attacks, wishes for Iraqi victory, and endorsements of gang rape made by Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Catholics, Sikhs, Baptists, Falun Gong members, etc, etc, that I heard about was zero. Not that practitioners of these religions are flawless or never do anything wrong, but other religions seem to be much more sensitive about what's being done in the name of their faith. For example, if a Mormon came out and said that the Mormon faith advocated murdering women and children over land disputes, what do you think the reaction would be? That's right, they'd be verbally shredded the way the Catholic Church has been for months and the way Jerry Falwell was after his stupid 911 comments.

That is what the Muslim world's reaction to terrorism is missing; a sense of outrage and a willingness to unconditionally condemn terrorism. Yes there have been some people who have spoken out against terrorism in the Muslim community, but they're outnumbered 10 to 1 at least by prominent Muslims speaking out in favor of terrorism either explicitly or implicitly. This has already had a tremendous impact on the way people view Islam and it's only going to get worse over time unless Muslims get serious about standing up to the vast numbers of pro-terrorist Muslims out there who say Islam condones terrorism.

Just Go Go, Now Now: George Michael is getting ripped to pieces for his newest song which depicts George Bush and Tony Blair as gay lovers and Blair as a poodle following Bush around. He had to know that was going to happen right? You'd think so, but Michael had this to say,

"I would never knowingly disrespect the feelings of a nation which has suffered so much loss, so recently," he said in The Sun. "I am definitely not anti-American. How could I be? I have been in love with a Texan for six years."

The thing that really chafes me about this is that Michael made millions in the US and to this day has homes here. There are so many "stars" and well known figures who have this sort of attitude. They live here and they got rich here, but they don't like America and look down their noses at the people who made them wealthy and famous. It seems like we have some celebrity ripping on America or threatening to leave the country every few weeks. You can just go down the list; George Michael, Louis Farrakhan, Tom Cruise, Jane Fonda, Rosanne Barr, Noam Chomsky, Robert Altman, Ed Asner, Zach De La Rocha, Ted Turner, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Alec Baldwin, Danny Glover, etc, etc, etc.

Cubans who hate Cuba risk their lives crossing the ocean on almost anything that will float on the slim chance that they'll be able to get away from Cuba. Mexicans who want opportunities elsewhere risk their lives evading border guards and crossing deserts with minimal supplies to get out of Mexico. Before the Berlin Wall came down (thank you Ronald Reagan), East Germans risked being blown up by landmines, getting mangled by attack dogs, and getting shot by guards to get out of their country.

Yet in a country like America, where there are multiple flights to Europe and Canada leaving 24 hours a day, seven days a week and we can't get Tom Cruise or Danny Glover to buy a one way ticket on any of them. Just in case any of these people think we can't get along without them, let me assure them that we will all somehow manage to live out our lives without seeing Vanilla Sky 2, Lethal Weapon 5, or hearing a new "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" dance mix. If these people REALLY think it's so terrible and awful here, why don't they hit the road like Pierre Salinger who moved to France? At least he had the guts to put his money where his mouth was...unlike the rest of these people...

Proof That Bin Laden Was Framed!: RWN's sources in Afghanistan have gotten their hands on a tape found in the deepest recesses of a cave in Afghanistan. This tape proves Osama Bin Laden WAS NOT responsible for 911!!! We have transcribed this tape here but I warn you...do not read this transcript unless you want your entire to be world shaken like a rat in the jaws of a rottweiler!

Bush Sets Great Fitness Example: Here's a quote from the article,

"Perhaps the government needs to buy ads to remind people what their legs were made for. "Remember walking? It's what you did before you got wheels, before escalators and drive-throughs popped up everywhere, before you turned into a lazy butt. Walking -- try it again and bring those memories back to life!"