What? More Torture?

Now, the Washington elitists and Democrats all over the country still like to talk about the supposed torture techniques being used by our military and other Governmental agencies. I would have hoped by now that they could stop with this Junior High antics of accusing everything the President does as being either 1)illegal, 2)immoral, or 3)inconsiderate. The fact is, is that we as a society are fighting a War on Terror. What these liberals fail to realize is that we must do what we can in order to prevent further acts of terrorism against our country, against our citizens, and against our families. Because the fact of the matter is this: They will stop at nothing to achieve their desired goal of eliminating this world of Americans. We shouldn't sit there questioning our officials as to how we interrogate someone. We shouldn't let this be the sole focus in fighting this War. We can't undermine the officials at every attempt to obtain information from known terrorists. What will people say should we capture someone high level and they give us, what we in the military call a "10-digit grid coordinance" to bin Laden's hideout. We go in SWOOOP and capture him. All because this information was obtained through 2 minutes of Waterboarding. Will people say, "Oh no, we have to give him back...we got this information illegally...it's the Fruit of the Poisonous tree?"

I recently did a little research into "Waterboarding." Waterboarding is this:
"The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt. According to the sources, CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in.[3]"

Now, Merriam-Webster defines Torutre as this: "the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure."

So, I looked up forms of torture that, according to alot of liberals, bears striking resemblence to Waterboarding.
1)Buzzer (chicharra): a method of torture in which the person is repeatedly shocked through wires or other conducting objects that are attached to parts of the body (e.g., ears, eyes, eyelids, genitals, gums, soles of feet)

2)alanga: a method of torture in which the soles of the feet are repeatedly struck with either hard (e.g., canes) or pliable (e.g., wires) objects,

3)Bell (campana): a method of torture leaving no external marks in which the person's head is placed within a pail or other metal container which is then struck repeatedly, causing sudden loud sounds and reverberations

4)Torment of the sticks (Supplice de baguettes): a method of torture in which two sticks are placed through a wire encircling the person's head and are slowly turned, tightening the wire

Now, many of these aforementioned torture tricks are the types that Americans should never use and probably never will (Who knows). But, Waterboarding, by all definitions and purposes, does not hurt the person. It does not leave marks nothing permanent like the ones above.

The War on Terror must be fought in a way that will allow us to win at all costs. Waterboarding is the smallest, most likely not used, form of torture for the bad guys. They would rather cut your heads off on tv. But think of this:
Would you rather have interrogators asking questions of Kahlid Sheik Mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, with no forms of coercion? All while he's sitting there patiently? Mr. Interrogator asks a question. KSM just sits there silently. This process is repeated a hundred times and all hundred times, NOTHING. So, the liberals all over the country are outraged because we don't have answers yet on this person's activity and the whereabouts of bin Laden. They question the need for the CIA and undermine, repeatedly, President Bush's attempts to make this country safer. So, we decide to use a form of Waterboarding. Instantly, KSM begins to understand, through inner fear, unwanted thoughts of death, and the IDEA of instantly dying what it must have been like for the victims of 9/11 in the Twin Towers on that morning. He starts to talk because his mind doesn't want to suffer like that again.. All after only 3 minutes of water being poured on someone's head. Believe me out there reading this, the terrorists ARE NOT GOING to sit there and take into consideration how nice we are to their bretheren once they're captured. They don't give a shit about how much food we give them and how much time they get to read the Quran each day. They will not think about that and they'll reach for the sword, speak to Allah, and then slice your head off. If I was captured by the enemy and I had my choice of torture techniques: Waterboarding or head getting sliced off....I'd say "LET'S GO SWIMMING BOYS, LAST ONE IN IS ROTTEN SCUMBAG!!!"

Hot Rod or Not Rod....hopefully NOT

I'm sure by now, the State of Illinois has seen all the ads done by the proverbial Chicago Machine. But, another thing that is for sure is the lies that a $15 million dollar war chest can finance will go even further. See, what Republican candidate Topinka CAN'T do is play on the same field as Blagojevich in terms of playing stupid, lying commercials. You all know the ones where they play the videos of Topinka standing alongside former Governor George Ryan and that ignorant female voice says "What was she thinking?". They protray her as being apart of the $5 billion dollar deficit that is plagueing Illinois. They say it's her fault the budget isn't correct. Too bad they don't tell you the real truth about the Blagojevich administration. The part where Hot Rod's partly to blame for the deficit being as low as it is himself. She's the Treasurer. She only says how much money this state has. She can't make the fiscal decisions that the General Assembly and the Governor can. Once those decisions are made, the Comptroller, remember him (a Democrat), signs the paycheck and dishes out the funds.

The Governor's newest ad protrays the Treasurer as opposing a Veteran's Health Care initiative. The commercial has her soundbite saying "You gotta do more than just attend funerals." There's alot there that I hate about politics. It's easy to cut soundbites from anyone and then proclaim it's their normal statements on the subject. I mean, Michael Moore made millions off movies where he takes people's words and then turns it against them to benefit his on radical views. Besides, how can a candidate for Governor oppose a Veterans's Initiative when her own son is a Major in the JAG Corps out of the 110th Mountain Division, US Army??? Rod's handlers don't say that. His commercials are only doing one thing and that is DEFLECTING AWAY FROM HIS OWN PROBLEMS AND PLACING BLAME ON SOMEONE ELSE SO NO ONE NOTICES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING HIM . It's easy to be someone as high as the Governor and have your cronies deny your actions and blame someone else for it.

State politics are different than federal politics. It appears as though state politicians do not have to endorse their commercial ads. Under the McCain-Feingold Law, federal politicians must endorse their ads that their campaigns put out. "I'm George Bush, and I endorse this ad."....remember that?

BTW, that ad that Topinka put out, the one that had Rod stuttering and stammering about the $1500 check that was given to his daughter, was legititmate. Too bad Rod can't answer for that. Can't explain why a personal friend's wife was given a DNR job and then a week later his daughter, who's 7 or 8 years old, was given a $1500 check "for her birthday.' Learn what you will, but within the next 6-10 years (if not sooner) Rod Blagojevich will come under more federal indictments for his hiring practices and other racketeering crimes. Then, people will say, "We shoulda voted for that Topinka lady."

Hypocracy and the Left Wing

Now, with all the hoopla centered around the recent "discovery" of a gay Congressman trying to solicit underage pages with his email, it's been seen by many of the Left Wingers as an opportunity to seize control of the House of Representitives thus advancing whatever agenda they have. Many Democrats are now calling for Speaker Hastert's resignation from the House. Sen. Durbin nearly reprimanded Rep. Shimkus, a fellow Illinoisan, for his role in overseeing the Page program. Now, while I may not agree that what Congressman Foley did, I do however, disagree with the hypocracy that the Left somehow enjoys on a routine basis. Take a column from Ann Coulter for example. Now Ann has a very difinitive way of expressing her Conservative ideology and in ways that either pisses people off or in a way that speaks to everyone the way they wanted it said.

Quote:
"Foley didn't claim he was the victim of a "witch-hunt." He didn't whine that he was a put-upon "gay American." He didn't stay in Congress and haughtily rebuke his critics. He didn't run for re-election. He certainly didn't claim he was "saving the Constitution."

She goes on to say,
"In 1983, Democratic congressman Gerry Studds was found to have sexually propositioned House pages and actually buggered a 17-year-old male page whom he took on a trip to Portugal. The 46-year-old Studds indignantly attacked those who criticized him for what he called a "mutually voluntary, private relationship between adults."

Now, what she says is true passed events that happened. While several key Reps. and Senators may not have been in office then, it strikes at the very center of the conversation on "Do as I say, NOT as I do."

More:
"When the House censured Studds for his sex romp with a male page, Studds — not one to be shy about presenting his backside to a large group of men — defiantly turned his back on the House during the vote. He ran for re-election and was happily returned to office five more times by liberal Democratic voters."

Now, back to Speaker's situation. Many people on the Left, including some Republicans, called for the Speaker's resignation. Tom Kaeding, a candidate in some Senate race in the south, is still calling for the Speaker to resign. I'm not even going to say what would happen to a first timer candidate trying to score cheap points against a career politician like Hastert.

Anyways, Coulter goes on to say:
"No one demanded to know why the Democratic speaker of the House, Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, took one full decade to figure out that Studds was propositioning male pages."
"But now, the same Democrats who are incensed that Bush's National Security Agency was listening in on al-Qaida phone calls are incensed that Republicans were not reading a gay congressman's instant messages."

An so it goes, she's getting better now. This is the hypocracy at it's best:
"Let's run this past the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: The suspect sent an inappropriately friendly e-mail to a teenager — oh also, we think he's gay. Can we spy on his instant messages? On a scale of 1 to 10, what are the odds that any court in the nation would have said: YOU BET! Put a tail on that guy — and a credit check, too!"

"When Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee found unprotected e-mails from the Democrats about their plan to oppose Miguel Estrada's judicial nomination because he was Hispanic, Democrats erupted in rage that their e-mails were being read. The Republican staffer responsible was forced to resign."

"But Democrats are on their high horses because Republicans in the House did not immediately wiretap Foley's phones when they found out he was engaging in e-mail chitchat with a former page about what the kid wanted for his birthday."

"The Democrats say the Republicans should have done all the things Democrats won't let us do to al-Qaida — solely because Foley was rumored to be gay. Maybe we could get Democrats to support the NSA wiretapping program if we tell them the terrorists are gay."

Now, should the Democrats win the majority in the House back for the first time in 12 years, their agenda is this:
--Begin impeachment proceedings against bush for the Iraq War. The same war in Iraq that most of them voted for.
--Implement policies that that 9/11 commission recommended, but wasn't due to Bush
--Raises taxes to pre-2000 times, in accordance with raising the minimum wage to $7.25/hr.
---there are others to lenghy to list.
But it's the same song and dance by the Democrats:
Do as we say, not as we do.

The polls that have been out there suggest that the Democrats still have no idea on how to adequately protect America the way Republicans do.

Just When You Thought....

Afternoon filth star Jerry Springer couldn't get any worse, in comes Maury Povich. Today, I saw an episode where a black female was testing 4 men to see who the father was. Now, typically the audience jumps all over one of the two guests. Today, they got on the male "father." Keep in mind that she is testing the 4th person...FOURTH!!!!

MP: "In the case of 7 month old ******, so-in-so, YOU ARE THE FATHER."
Black Male: *sighs*
Black Female: "Whutchu going to do? Whutchu going to do? Whutchu going to do? Whutchu going to do?"
BM: gets up and leaves while audience gets mad at him.

Now, my question is this? How can that woman question him about what he's going to do. WHY ARE YOU (lady) ON MAURY POVICH NEEDING TO GET 4,5,6,10 MEN TESTED???

Some people's priorities are really not in line.

2006 Fantasy Champ!!!!

As the title suggests, I laid claim to my first ever Fantasy Baseball championship beating out a worthy opponent. Now, the week doesn't "officially" wrap up until Sunday night, but due to a substantial margin of victory in about every major catagory THAT COUNTS, I am calling the win Saturday morning.

I did start out the season tied for first with the league commish, but due to some outstanding managing skills and great play by my team, I quickly took the lead and stayed in first up until the All-Star break. It was then that my lead flaundered and i quickly dropped that lead and was left in 6th place. Not knowing whether I was playing for the Toilet Bowl championship or the real title, my team played some good ball and I was given the 4th seed by the end of the regular season. The commish and my current opponent both wound up with bye weeks. I started out against the commish once again and played good the first part of the week. That failed me as we ended in a tie with me getting the tie-breaker due to regular season victories. I then took on another worthy opponent but all for not as I kicked his ass to. Unfortunately for him, he gave up on the rest of the play-offs and off-loaded his players to free-agency/waivers. A good general manager that I am, I quickly picked up two great players in Abreu and A. Jones. Both players have contributed great success to this title victory. I have done some calculations, I have determined that after and 8-4 lead, my worst score can be 7-5. At best, I can finish the week 9-2. I need some strong bullpen support with some Saves and I need the other team to commit 2 more errors to earn that column's point to garnish the 9-2. K's and Holds aren't going great since two of my Hold guys are currently closers for their teams. He's got 5 starters the next two days, 2 maybe 3 SP have decent teams that still want the Wild Card. Better hope they ALL win their games in order to take that coloumn away. Every other column has my name written all over it and there is no mathmatical possibility with the next two days of a drastic come-from-behind win. I may say right now that it wouldn't come down to a tie. But, I could be wrong (rarely, I'm not).
BUT, as it stands with the "other team," I am, as of Saturday morning, declaring victory of the 2006 Fantasy Baseball League.

"Cubbie Faithful!!!, now that you won the 2006 Fantasy season, what are you going to do?"

"I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!"

Is she Presidential material?

“I’m certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,’ he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team,” she told reporters on Capitol Hill.

I guess she failed to remember that 6 months after first taking office, B. Clinton had all Presidential Daily Briefs and CIA Intel briefings cancelled. Read almost any credible book about the past 15 years concerning the War on Terror and there is something in each book that talks about that very tidbit that this President-wannabe always forgets.

Golf and Tiger Woods

So, my question is this: Are the Europeans desperate in having the US Team at a lower level of play? I mean, Tiger has been on a ROLL the last 6 out of 7 tournaments. He won the British Open and the US Open.

Sergio Garcia calls out Tiger. Big misstake rook. The definition of Golf: Playing an 18 hole game at least 3 days out of the week (if not 4) against 75 other players. You play against the course...not the players. There's a difference Surge. Count the trophies in your case versus Tigers and we'll see who is the best golfer in the WORLD.

BOTTOM LINE:
You're the European team worried about Tiger. So, a host country dimes his wife out in tabloids who happens NOT to be the woman pictured just to rattle his cage. Good job people. GREAT sportsmanship. BTW Surge, your Preperation H Open trophy still isn't as shiny as Tiger's WGC NEC Invitational from 2001. Quote from Tiger Woods.com:
Woods was selected as 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 Player of the Year by the PGA TOUR (Jack Nicklaus Award), the PGA of America, and the Golf Writers Association of America. (All years in which he won at least 2 of the 4 majors)

Once again the title reign vs. Garcia's:
Well, put it this way...Tiger has more titles at number 1 and perhaps number 2 to run circles around Sergio Garcia 57 times.