So. The Money Grubbing Piece o’ Shit

…won out after all.

Ruth Graham, the ailing wife of evangelist Billy Graham, fell into a coma Wednesday morning and appears to be close to death, a family spokesman said.
“She appears to be entering the final stages of life,” said Larry Ross, Graham’s personal spokesman.
The news came the same day Billy Graham said he and Ruth will be buried at the recently dedicated Billy Graham Library in Charlotte.

If you’ll remember, we covered this last December. Ruth was pretty specific.

…Ruth Graham has told her children that she doesn’t want to be buried in Charlotte. She has a burial spot picked out in the mountains where she raised five children, and she hopes her husband will join her there.
Ned Graham has been working to convince his three sisters, Gigi, Bunny and Anne, that their mother’s wishes should be followed.

Well, she’s ‘entering the final stages of life’, so what does she know? And old Billy is in no shape to battle the financial Franklin forces:

… Graham, who is 88 and suffers from fluid on the brain, prostate cancer, Parkinson’s disease and age-related macular degeneration, responded by saying the decision would be his and his wife’s alone.

They make me sick.
UPDATE: Bless her sweet, sweet heart ~ she’s gone.

So Beautiful It Makes Me

…cry.

Happy Flag Day.

Just What We Want Near The Panama Canal

Hugo’s buying some Russian subs

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected to finalise a deal on buying up to nine Russian submarines during a visit here later this month, a Russian newspaper reported on Thursday.
Caracas has already ordered five 636-type diesel submarines and four of a new model of diesel submarine, the 677E Amur, the Kommersant broadsheet said, quoting unnamed sources in the ship-building and arms export sectors.
Chavez may have to settle for the older 636 submarines for the time being as the new 677E Amur has not yet been presented to Russia’s own navy, a source at the arms export agency Rosoboronexport said.

The 636 ain’t no slouch.

Type 636 is designed for anti-submarine (ASW) and anti-surface ship (ASuW) warfare and also for general reconnaissance and patrol missions. The Type 636 submarine is considered to be to be one of the quietest diesel submarines in the world. It is said to be capable of detecting an enemy submarine at a range three to four times greater than it can be detected itself.

Think of these every time you fill up at Citgo. Or Lukoil.

Hello Hamas, Goodbye Fatah

The RoPs are shooting
Captives in Gaza

“We are telling our people that the past era has ended and will not return, ” Islam Shahawan, a spokesman for Hamas’ militia, told Hamas radio. “The era of justice and Islamic rule have arrived.”

And “justice and Islamic rule” means

Hamas fighters overran one of the rival Fatah movement’s most important security installations in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen from the building and killed them in the street.
…A witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, said the men were being killed in front of their wives and children.
“They are executing them one by one,” Abu Ayad said. “They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting.”

Nice. But it’s all the Jooo’s fault, remember.
And Chimpy’s, natch.

Ninety Grand in Every Freezer

…and two chickens in every pot!

Supporters of a Democratic congressman charged with bribery and money laundering harkened to their civil rights days on Wednesday as they denounced the allegations against U.S. Rep. William Jefferson.
The group, including ministers and the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, alleged the 16-count corruption indictment was the work of a Republican White House and Justice Department scheming to target black Democratic leaders and shift attention from legal troubles of Republican congressmen.
“When it’s all over, Bill Jefferson will stand up like Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. He will stand up in the South and he will be victorious,” said the Rev. Samson “Skip” Alexander.

I’m getting my Ouigi Board warmed up now, because something tells me old Booker T. gonna have sumpthin’ to say just as soon’s he stops spinning.

Now Open! The Nifong School of Justice

…New Jersey campus.

Larry Peterson fought for more than 17 years to overturn his conviction on charges of rape and murder. DNA testing led a judge to do just that, in 2005.
…after DNA testing of the physical evidence used at trial revealed no trace of Peterson.
…But in April 2006, Robert Elder, a key witness for the prosecution, dropped a bombshell: He recanted his testimony.
Elder was a chronic drunk and drug abuser and had spent years in and out of county jail. He said that he made up the story that he told police in 1987 — that Peterson confessed to Harrison’s murder — to get out of an interrogation that had lasted for three days.
…Without Elder’s key testimony, the state’s case was finished. In June 2006, nine months after Peterson’s release from prison, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi issued a statement that he would no longer seek to retry Peterson.
But he framed his decision in the negative: There was not enough evidence to persuade a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, leaving the question of Peterson’s factual guilt open to argument.

What physical evidence they have completely exonerates him. Anecdotal evidence has been recanted. No other evidence connects the man to the crime.
Mr. Peterson is looking for compensation, not surprisingly. “No one wants to hire a man who has been in prison for so long.” Snapped up in the prime of his life, his earning years are behind him.

…Buckman is moving to have Peterson’s record expunged. He is also filing two lawsuits: one for damages under federal civil-rights law and another under the New Jersey law that compensates people who can prove in court, by “clear and convincing evidence,” that they were wrongly convicted and incarcerated.

He has to PROVE his innocence, even though the evidence that proved his guilt has been disproved and discredited. Is NO evidence ‘clear and convincing’ evidence? Where do you go from there?
Statements from the victim’s family should sound vaguely familiar to those who followed the Nifong rampage.

…Despite the DNA results and Elder’s recantation, she still believes Peterson raped and murdered her sister.
“If I had my way, Mr. Peterson would be dead,” Harrison says. “At minimum, he would be still in Trenton State [Prison].”

And justice for all.

Given the U.S. Open Starts at Oakmont Tomorrow

…AND given the course’s devious, crippling, water hazard free layout…

Golfers would do well to stock up before reaching No. 8 at this week’s U.S. Open. Grab some water, a few bananas, maybe an energy bar.
Better yet, hire a Sherpa

.
…coupled with the club’s logo…

…one might be tempted to say this is an omen….

Angry Squirrel Finished Off by Crutch
An unusually aggressive squirrel attacked three people in a German town before its last victim finished it off with a crutch, police said Wednesday.

…if one believed in that sort of thing.
Mynd you møøse skvirl bites kan be pretti nasti.

The Best Line of Last Evening’s World News Tonight

…went to Charlie Gibson, hands down. In the lead-in for this story…

D.C. law judge broke down in tears and had to take a break from his testimony because he became too emotional while questioning himself about his experience with a missing pair of pants.

…(a $54 MILLION dollar pair of pants), he explained the lost pants and that the dry cleaners eventually found the pants, offering them plus $12,000 to this emotional, pantless person to settle things. But all for naught, Charlie intoned, as said plaintiff was still intent on…

“…pressing his suit.”

major dad groaned audibly. Huzzah, Charlie!

Human Rights Abuses and WAR CRIMES?

Get the F*CK out!

‘Palestinians committing war crimes’
Armed Palestinian groups have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, in some cases amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday morning.
…On Sunday, Hamas military forces captured 28-year-old Muhammad Swairki, a cook for President Mahmoud Abbas’s presidential guard, and executed him by throwing him to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.

Only in that particular TWSH*, would the call to action be: “Anybody moves, the cook gets it!”
Maybe HRW does now, too.
Nah.
*Third World Shit Hole

Boom, Boom!

Out go the lights.

An explosion, apparently from a bomb-rigged car, rocked Beirut’s seafront Wednesday, killing an anti-Syrian lawmaker and three others, local media reported. The lawmaker, Walid Eido, was the seventh opponent of Damascus to be killed in two years in this conflict-ridden country.
Eido’s son and two bodyguards were also killed in the explosion, according to Future TV, a station allied with anti-Syrian figures. Security officials had reported that the explosion killed four people and wounded 10 others.
A car was in flames and black smoke was seen rising from a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara, which is in the Muslim sector of the capital. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station said the explosion came from a bomb-rigged car, a method that has been used to assassinate opponents of Syria over the past two years.

“Look! Nuthin’ up my sleeve!”

First Pimp and Now Sugar Daddies

If you haven’t read this yet, schmaybe you should. It’s not anything we didn’t suspect already, but dang if it isn’t laid out pretty as a picture.

Who Are CAIR’s Paymasters?
Recent tax filings reveal an Islamist group that claims to speak for millions of Muslims in America actually boasts just 1,700 members. So whose interests does it really represent?
…Citing IRS records, the Washington Times reports that CAIR has suffered a whopping 90% decline in membership since 9/11. Its official number of members shrank to 1,700 last year from 29,000 in 2000. As a result, CAIR’s annual income from dues sank to $59,000 from $733,000.
Yet over the same period, CAIR’s revenues have bounded ahead, reaching $3 million last year. Meanwhile, it has managed to open 25 new chapters in major cities across the country.
So where’s it getting its money?

Maybe where Bullwinkle gets his rabbit.
A Swill salute to the the Blogfaddah.

Now, Back to (Pimp) Daddies Who Love Their Little

…girls.

…Page Six has learned that the celebutard’s [Paris] doting daddy, Rick Hilton, was recently shopping a “Get Out of Jail” bash for his little girl to the top Las Vegas clubs, including Pure, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Palms.
“He was originally asking for a $50,000 cash fee to be paid, as well as accommodations and flights,” said our source. “Pure and Hard Rock said ‘no’ flat out, but George Maloof, who owns the Palms, didn’t say yes or no. He’s very good pals with Paris and is the one who once hooked her up with Britney Spears.”
But following last week’s Paris pingpong match – in which the L.A. Sheriff’s Dept. sprung her from the slammer because of a “medical condition,” only to have a judge order her back inside – Rick’s big party-push has been put on hold. Still, insiders say they’re positive an out-of-the-slammer soiree remains in the works and will be even more expensive than Rick originally had in mind. “Her cost has gone up,” said our informer.

Oh, you GO, Dad!

How

…inconvenient.
(Oh, God, beat me with a wet noodle. That was soo easy cheezey to do, it’s ashamed I should be.)

Study: Kilimanjaro’s shrinking snow not sign of warming

The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania have been diminishing for more than a century but probably not due to global warming, researchers report.
While the retreat of glaciers and mountaintop ice in the mid-latitudes — where much of the world’s human population lives — is definitely linked to global climate change, the same cannot be said of Kilimanjaro, the researchers wrote in the July-August edition of American Scientist magazine.
…Most of the retreat occurred before 1953, nearly two decades before any conclusive evidence of atmospheric warming was available, they wrote.

Commonsense Reigns Supreme

But color me shocked. (We are talking Londonistan.)

Father in ‘honor killing’ found guilty of murder
Brit ordered his daughter strangled for falling in love with wrong man
A father who ordered his daughter brutally slain for falling in love with the wrong man in a so-called “honor killing” was found guilty of murder on Monday.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was strangled with a boot lace, stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a back garden.

Her death is the latest in an increasing trend of such killings in Britain, home to some 1.8 million Muslims. More than 100 homicides are under investigation as potential “honor killings.”

Newsflash, scumbag: you’re not in Kansas your Third World sh*thole anymore.
It’s a shame your beautiful, beautiful daughter didn’t stand a chance.

“Missile Is Launched By An Enemy Of The US”

Because, as everyone at the BBC knows, Europeasers have no enemies, and so this defense system does nothing for Europe.

Nope, No Civil War Here

Just standard “Peaceful People Oppressed By Those Zionists” hijinks

GAZA CITY (AP) — Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings.
Hamas militants kidnapped an officer in a Fatah-linked security force, took him to the roof of a 15-story apartment building and threw him off. Mohammed Sweirki, 25, from the Presidential Guard of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, was killed in the plunge.
That set off skirmishes through the city, including gun battles and shelling. Fatah militants surrounded the house of a Hamas mosque preacher and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the four-story building.
They then entered, shooting at preacher Mohammed al-Rifati, 40, and taking him away. Later, his body was brought to a hospital. Hamas pledged revenge.
Just before midnight, a Hamas activist was thrown off the 12th floor of a building and killed, security officials said. Four other Hamas men in the building were shot and wounded, bringing the day’s toll to three dead and 36 wounded, medical officials said. Also, a Hamas militant wounded on Friday died Sunday.

The “militant toss.” Look for it in next years Pan-Arab Games.

Some Required Reading

Robert Spencer is Blogging the Koran at HotAir.

Sometimes Headline Editors Need To Look Around

…and see what other headlines are on the front page. Case in point: NewsRadio 88’s (CBS 880 AM) homepage right now, which has a story titled “Black Tie Boxing Coming to Wall Street” right above a story titled “Young Women Take Action Against Abusive Relationships”…
Hehehe.

It As If Millions of Voices Suddenly Cried Out in Terror

…and were suddenly silenced.

Until they suddenly showed up on millions of boards, bitching about the Sopranos series finale. Snap to black.
I loved it.
major dad is bitching.

You Gotta LOVE a Religion Where EVERYBODY

…gets VIRGINS!! The New York Times thoughtfully prints a few jihadi rules. Of course, not without the obligatory whacko-scary moment while interviewing these scary whackos.

We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants about their distribution of recruitment videos when one of us asked one too many questions.
“He’s American?” one of the militants growled. “Let’s kidnap and kill him.”

Now, back to those rules! Rule number two?

…Rule No. 2: You can kill children, too, without needing to feel distress.
…True, Islamic texts say it is unlawful to kill children, women, the old and the infirm. In the Sahih Bukhari, a respected collection of sermons and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, verse 4:52:257 refers to Ghazawat, a battle in which Muhammad took part. “Narrated Abdullah: During some of the Ghazawat of the Prophet a woman was found killed. Allah’s Apostle disapproved the killing of women and children.”
But militant Islamists including extremists in Jordan who embrace Al Qaeda’s ideology teach recruits that children receive special consideration in death. They are not held accountable for any sins until puberty, and if they are killed in a jihad operation they will go straight to heaven. There, they will instantly age to their late 20s, and enjoy the same access to virgins* and other benefits as martyrs receive.

* I have played ‘Ask the Iman’ with make-believe mullah major dad, who explains:

“Those worthless female catmeats who are gloriously blown to bits for Islam are immediately transformed into succulent, 20 year old virgins! Allah akBAR, baby!!!”

From this:
…to this…

…just like that! NOW we’re talkin’ MIRACLES.
(Print version here)

I Know God Will Punish Me

…but, sweet baby Jesus, this headline on Drudge is just tickling me to death.

Screaming Paris Hilton Sent Back to Jail…

I can’t stop snickering.
And that’s so wrong.
BUT I CAN’T MAKE IT STOPPPPPP!!!!!

There’s a Special Place in Hell For Dogfighters

…but what REALLY frosts my hide is sh*t like this…

…“What is foreign to me is the federal government getting into a dogfighting case,” Poindexter said. “I know it’s been done, but what’s driving this? Is it this boy’s celebrity? Would they have done this if it wasn’t Michael Vick?”

This particular squandered talent, multimillionaire ‘boy’ is 27 years old. When does that magic ‘man-flip’ happen now-a-days?

That Would Be Young AMERICAN Muslims

…Muqtedar Khan, an assistant professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, said it’s important to consider how the question was framed: whether suicide bombing could be justified “in defense of Islam,” a powerful phrase for a community that believes the West is waging a war against Islam.
“When you ask people these questions, people are not just answering, they’re answering to suit their politics,” Khan said. “They do not want to extend any legitimacy to the U.S. war on terror.”

…he’s talking about. They just need to explain what is rational about three suicide jetliners or a suicidal Ryder truck bomb in the basement or(fill in the blanks). How your religion trumping your citizenship goes hand-in-hand with being AMERICAN. Maybe it goes with being the citizen of some sh*thole, third world, misogynist cave society. Or a Somali cab driver in Minnesota. But it sure as HELL doesn’t go with AMERICAN. (I also notice no Catholics were polled: “Can suicide bombing ever be justified in defense of fish on Friday?” Nor were evangelicals: “Can suicide bombing ever be justified in defense of Jesus when he fights with Santa on South Park?” No one would DARE ask those questions.)
On a lighter note, as of late April, New York City is forging ahead with it’s first state sponsored madrassa. Yes, you heard me right ~ an Arabic speaking public school, which will help reinforce the all-American ideals of…well..being AMERICAN before being…um…anything else. It will, right?

Come September, an Arabic-language public secondary school is slated to open its doors in Brooklyn. The New York City Department of Education says the Khalil Gibran International Academy, serving grades six through 12, will boast a “multicultural curriculum and intensive Arabic language instruction.”
…Franck Salameh taught Arabic at the most prestigious American language school, Middlebury College in Vermont. In a column for the Middle East Quarterly, he wrote: “even as students leave Middlebury with better Arabic, they also leave indoctrinated with a tendentious Arab nationalist reading of Middle Eastern history. Permeating lectures and carefully-designed grammatical drills, Middlebury instructors push the idea that Arab identity trumps local identities and that respect for minority ethnic and sectarian communities betrays Arabism.”

And dang if the new principal of this school isn’t out testifying that Muslims distrust the AMERICAN legal system!

Many New York Muslims are deeply distrustful of the American legal system, three local Muslim leaders said at a panel discussion yesterday in Brooklyn.
During the hour-long event, sponsored jointly by the Kings County Courts Community Outreach Program and the Interfaith Center of New York, the panelists said Muslims here, fearing government and press scrutiny, frequently fail to report domestic abuse and hate crimes.
“This is a serious issue based on a lack of trust and fear that exists in the community,” a Yemen-born public schools educator, Debbie Almontaser, told several dozen judges who attended the discussion.
Ms. Almontaser, who has been named principal of the city ‘s planned English-Arabic secondary school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, said she participated in the panel as a Muslim American, not as a representative of the Department of Education.

Well, when Paris Hilton gets to go home after only 3 days in the cooler, I think we all distrust it to a certain extent. But I’m still not gonna vote in a poll that suicide bombing is justified in defense of the heiress, no matter what her mother or US Weekly says is cruel and unusual.
How does your religion trumping your citizenship goes hand-in-hand with being AMERICAN? ‘A lack of trust and fear that exists in the community’ ~ oh, yeah it does ~ because Islamics feel I’m inferior in my own country and seem willing to overlook the occasional bomb burst defensive Muslims set off when they’re feeling…defensive. What will be the question on the lips of all those elitest, leftoid parents who send their children off to serve in The Silky Pony’s Army of AMERICAN Love…?

Senator Edwards is outlining a new national security strategy that hinges on the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries.
Mr. Edwards’s plan, which he presented in Manhattan yesterday, comes less than a week after he called President Bush’s war on terror a “bumper sticker slogan” and said the current national security strategy has not made America safer.

You know ~ when they wind up getting snatched up off those same unstable, weak, third world sh*thole streets like the hot light’s on at the Krispy Kreme and sawed off heads’re rolling like so many donut holes on a conveyor that YouTube seizes? Do you wave your cancelled check to the Khalil School building fund in outrage?
Nah. I’m dreaming. It won’t be Al Franken’s kid The Silky Pony’s Army of AMERICAN Love left unprotected in Khartoum. Or any of the Jolie-Pitt’s. Not the ones who send money enabling others to do the WORK of their ’causes’ for them. You could call the concept the ‘conscience offset system’…if they had one. It’ll be the same kids from the same families that are serving and dying now ~ the ones who believe in something.
And what happens when the guy in the video holding the head turns out to have graduated from a NYC public madrassa?

This Was Kind of a Surprise

…in Cindy Adams’ column today.

. . . Claus von Bulow, of that famous attempted murder trial (wife Sunny still lies comatose a quarter of a century later), battling prostate cancer . . .

I thought she’d left this world long ago.