May 8, 2008
NARCS Bust San Diego State- Undercover agents posing as college students busted more than 100 drug dealers at San Diego State University recently. The federal agents went to one or two parties but never actually went to class or lived in the dorms. Instead, they merely arranged meetings with suspected dealers and asked about buying cocaine, Ecstasy, methamphetamine, marijuana and other drugs, authorities said Wednesday. “All it took was saying, `Hey, I go to State, can you hook me up?’” said San Diego County prosecutorDamon Mosler. “And then it was off to the races” (News: NARCS Bust San Diego State). The day after the drug sweep landed members of three fraternities in jail and led to the suspension of six frats, investigators revealed how easy it was to penetrate the university’s drug culture. Students who had gotten caught for fighting, drinking, minor drug offenses or other crimes quickly turned informants and used text messages to introduce their drug dealers to undercover agents. Dealers made hand offs in front of dorms, in parking lots or behind frat houses, sometimes in broad daylight in full view of surveillance cameras. The NARCS involved were baffled by the laissez-faire attitude of the dealers who did little to ward off an arrest. However, some of the busts were not small-time, including members of one fraternity who had a sophisticated distribution ring. Well NARCS, are you really surprised to find college kids selling pot and cocaine, or is this the first time you’ve had nothing better to do than bust a bunch of students? Drug use and sales are at an all time high in the US, most notably with grass and cocaine, so why not bother the Colombian or Mexican cartels? Or, even better yet, why don’t you send some guys down to that hole in the fence in southern San Diego County? There are plenty of illegal immigrants passing through that spot. Let’s face it, if it weren’t for the college kids selling drugs, there wouldn’t be much of anything floating around. People in the real world are too worried about getting busted by undercover NARCS.
May 6, 2008
10:57 pm
Pentagon Screws Troops- According to a report from the Pentagon today, Army troops will not be paid beyond June 15 unless Congress acts on an administrative request for more funding. It was the latest argument in a long-running impasse between the Democratic-controlled Congress and the administration over a $108 billion dollar request to fund US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2008 fiscal year. The pay freeze would be eased if Congress authorized funds to be moved from other accounts to pay soldiers, but the Pentagon is pressing for approval of the full budget request. “We run out of money in order to pay soldiers after June 15 unless the Congress acts to pass the supplemental or provide us with the reprogramming authorities to move money within accounts,” said Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell (Politics: Pentagon Screws Troops). Robert Gates, US Defense Secretary, forwarded a request to Congress last week stating that hopes were high for a Memorial Day approval. Of course Gates would put the blame on Congress. He’s one of Little Georgie Bush’s toadies, and his heads up W’s ass too far to realize that Bush is to blame for this one. W and his band of jackals just begged for some $900 billion in foreign food aid and he wants another $2 billion to redevelop a desert in the middle of Afghanistan. Unfortunately Congress will have no choice but to say yes, but they should just tell Georgie to take the money out of his Swiss bank account. He stole that much from us last year.
May 5, 2008
9:40
Pizza Pie in LeBrons’ Eye- Pizza maker Poppa John’s apologized for making t-shirts that ridiculed the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Papa John’s printed t-shirts that featured the Papa John’s logo and had the word “Crybaby” and James’ No. 23 emblazoned on it. “At Papa John’s, we’re huge fans of Cleveland, the Cavs and LeBron James,” the company said in a statement to the newspaper. “Everyone wins, and we wish the same for the Cavs and LeBron through the playoffs” (Sports: Pizza Pie). The shirt was printed after Washington Wizards center Brendan Haywood mocked James, saying that he was crying and complaining about hard fouls in the Eastern Conference first-round series, won by the Cavaliers in six games. To make up for hurting James’ feelings the company will sell customers in its Cleveland-area restaurants a large one-topping pie for 23 cents, the report said. The report also said Papa John’s will donate those 23 cents from every pizza - plus $10,000 - to the Cavaliers Youth Fund. Fans at the Verizon Center all wore the shirts during the Wizards’ 105-88 loss in Game Six on Friday. Blocking out the mockery, James scored 27 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists for the Cavaliers in that contest. Papa John’s didn’t want to alienate the cry baby James, who is one of the NBA’s biggest stars and one of its most marketable faces. Aw, too bad. Somebody hurt poor LeBron’s delicate feelings. Wise up man, and grow some balls for Christopher’s sake. Your supposed to be the next big superstar in the NBA so why don’t you quit crying and focus on choking in the playoffs, again. You’ve been compared to Michael Jordan but you’re acting like Michael Jackson. Get some tissue from Tito and shut your pizza pie hole pal.
May 3, 2008
9:35 pm
Microsoft Shuns Yahoo- In a shocking move today Microsoft withdrew it’s $42.3 billion bid to purchase Yahoo Incorporated. Microsoft was willing to pay $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, up from the bid’s current value of $29.40 per share, according to a letter from Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang. But Yahoo demanded at least $53 billion, or $37 per share, according to Ballmer. That would have been nearly double Yahoo’s stock price of $19.18 at the time Microsoft first made its bid a little over three months ago.”Clearly a deal is not to be,” Ballmer explains (Technology: Microsoft Shuns Yahoo). This decision came as a surprise to many industry experts who believed Microsoft would eventually strip the Yahoo board of its power in a hostile takeover. However, Microsoft will not be too far away should Yahoo’s stock continue to tumble in the near future, a sure sign they will not be able to hold off another Microsoft challenge. Well, Jerry (Yang, Yahoo CEO). Looks like you and the rest of the geeks at Yahoo have some job security, at least for a little while. Though a hostile takeover was predicted, you can bet your pocket protectors that this deal ain’t over just yet. Yahoo stock will continue to tumble till it hits the mid to high teens, then Bad Boy Billie Gates will be there with a knife and fork waiting to cut into your lifeless corpse. You should have listened to reason Jerry. You just put another hole in Yahoo’s sinking ship, and the pirates at Microsoft are waiting in the shadows to come aboard and pillage your booty.
May 2, 2008
11:03 pm
Bush Wants More War Money- Earlier today our beloved Georgie Bush pushed a $70 billion dollar request to congress today. The money is to fund further operations in Iraq and Afghanistan until next spring when the new president will be burdened with previous mistakes right out of the gate. Congressional analysts say Bush’s request would bring the total spending since Sept. 11, 2001, to fight terrorism and conduct the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to $875 billion. The request comes as Democrats on Capitol Hill are struggling to move Bush’s pending $108 billion request for the current year. “Democratic leaders say they’re likely to add the $70 billion for next year to that measure, which would allow them to avoid a politically painful vote on war funding in the heat of campaigning for the November elections” (Politics: Bush Wants). Anti-war Democrats are frustrated at their inability to force the president to scale back war operations and hate to vote to keep the Iraq war going. At the same time, Bush has promised to veto the war funding bill if Democrats add money for domestic programs and present him with a bill over his request. The majority of the new money, $45 billion, would fund U.S. combat operations, but there’s also $3 billion to deal with roadside bombs and $2 billion to cope with rising fuel costs. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, Congress has provided $526 billion for the Iraq war alone, with the two pending requests coming on top of that. Operations in Afghanistan have cost $140 billion. Goddamn it, George. Have you completely lost your mind son? It seems like every time we wake up in the morning your asking the American people for more of their hard-earned loot, blood money that’s all going to cover up your f*# ups in the Middle East. You just cut big funding for education, health care and a flock of social services and now you want extort us even more? I just don’t see how anyone can be so mentally lifeless. It’s like your a square peg whose been trying to jump in a round hole for eight years, but you still haven’t scribbled the picture in your pea-sized head. “It’s time to get the Bush clan out of the White House once and for all, before another member of their wretched dynasty cheats his way into the presidency.”- Hunter S. Thompson on George W. Bush
May 1, 2008
10:07 pm
Bush Has Lost His Mind- For the second time in a month Little Georgie Bush has lost his mind. In a ballsy act today, W pushed congress to approve his $720 million emergency global food aid bill. Bush’s first proposal asked for some $200 million in aid that would be sent to Africa to help cover the increasing cost of food. Another order for $350 million was given shorty thereafter, but both are still pending. “In some of the world’s poorest nations, rising prices can mean the difference between getting a daily meal and going without food,” Bush said. “The American people are generous people and they’re a compassionate people. We believe in the timeless truth to whom much is given, much is expected” (Politics: Bush). The new funds are aimed at meeting immediate needs with direct shipments of food aid, and the White House said they would allow for millions more people to get help. Emergency aid accounts for $620 million of the request, said Steve McMillin, deputy director of the president’s Office of Management and Budget. The funds also have long-term aims, with $150 million aimed at boosting U.S. programs to help farmers in developing countries increase productivity and make cash purchases of local crops, so communities are less in need of emergency help in the first place. Some have blamed the food crisis in part on Bush-backed policies that push food-based biofuels such as ethanol as alternative energy sources. Bush says diverting corn and soybeans into fuel is still a smart approach, though he favors increasing funding for research into eventually using wood chips or switchgrass rather than food crops. Geezus tap dancing Christopher Georgie. Have you gone completely insane pal? Every week you seem to be digging a deeper hole for this country and you have little or no remorse for your stupidity. This whole issue is a direct result of your brilliant idea to push ethanol as a new fuel source. Sure, that stuff works but it gets less miles per gallon than good old Saudi crude and the push for this technology has driven up the price of cheap staples like corn and wheat, not to mention energy costs at the plants that produce it. Once and for all stupid, get your head out of your ass and get with the program. You have absolutely no idea what you are doing and your special interest governing has the US in debt up to our eyeballs. “There is no doubt in my mind that that no-brained jackass George Bush, son of Satan himself, should be impeached for just being plain stupid.” Hunter S. Thompson on George W. Bush.
Apr 30, 2008
10:00 pm
Iran Sponsors Terrorists- A government report released today cites Iran as the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism as it tries to gather allies against the USA. Officials also said terrorist attacks doubled last year in frontline US counter-terrorism ally Pakistan, mainly on its northwestern border with Afghanistan, and that they also rose in Afghanistan. The State Department report added meanwhile that Al-Qaeda and associates “remained the greatest terrorist threat” to the US and its partners especially now that it has a “safe haven” in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas (Politics: Iran Sponsors Terrorism). Other countries who made the list include Syria, North Korea and Sudan but Iran is the most troublesome because they threaten regional stability by backing anti-Us and Israeli terrorist cells as well. Of course they back anti-American and Israeli groups. They are war mongering Jihadists who spread lies about anything that does not coincide with their radical Islamic viewpoints. If you’re from the West, Iran hates you, regardless of your race or religious beliefs. Now is the time for the leading world powers to align themselves against the Iranian goverment while there is still time. We all know they are building weapons of mass destruction and their goal is to infiltrate Western democracies by any means necessary. I say round up all of the terrorists we can find, then let Israel do the dirty work for us. They’ve got a lot more hatred for Iran than any other country, and they’ve got the military force to do the job right.
Apr 28, 2008
10:50
Iran Blast Barbie- Earlier today an Iranian official warned against importing Western toys such as the Barbie Doll calling them culturally and socially destructive. In yet more anti-Western propaganda, in the latest salvo in a more than decade-old government campaign against Barbie, Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi said in an official letter to Vice President Parviz Davoudi that the doll and other Western toys are a “danger” that need to be stopped. In recent months the Iranian black market has been swamped with many items from the West due to increasing purchase power from oil profits. Though importing such items is not illegal, the government is considering intervention. “The irregular importation of such toys, which unfortunately arrive through unofficial sources and smuggling, is destructive culturally and a social danger,” said the letter, a copy of which was made available to The Associated Press. “The displays of personalities such as Barbie, Batman, Spiderman and Harry Potter … as well as the irregular importation of unsanctioned computer games and movies are all warning bells to the officials in the cultural arena,” claims Najafabadi (Culture: Iran Slams Barbie). This certain distaste for Western culture dates back to the mid-90s when heads of government called the Barbie a trojan horse for Western influence. Are you serious Mr. Prosecutor? Are you so far up Ahmadinejad’s ass that you don’t know left from right? Barbie, Spiderman, Batman and even jolly old Harry Potter are non-violent cultural icons that are as much a part of Western culture as art and politics. They are products of the imagination, signs of creative thinking and have looked upon as symbols of strength and happiness. Why is it that the government of Iran and other Middle East countries are so dead set against Western influence? Have you no cultural icons that indicate creative thought and individualism, or is your God against using the imagination? Baby dolls and cartoon characters are no more a threat to your culture than Western food and music. The only threat I see here is the threat of a Jihadist regime who hides the truth from its people. You harbor terrorists and use your exportation of oil to spread fear and lies in the name of Allah. Wake up Iran. Join the 21st century like the rest of the world.
Apr 27, 2008
7:50 pm
Saudi Blogger Freed from Jail- Fouad Farhan, a Saudi blogger, was released after four months of captivity, without ever being charged. Farhan has been detained in a Riyadh jail since early December after allegedly financing militant groups, but it is believed that the charges stem from the belief that he was running an online campaign encouraging pro-reforms. Saudi authorities blocked Farhan’s website (https://www.alfarhan.org) earlier this month but have failed to give reason for their actions. “I spoke to him and he’s in good spirits. He said he was treated really well,” said Ahmed al-Omran, who published the news on his website (https://www.saudijeans.org). “It was surprising. After blocking his website, I thought his detention would go on longer. It’s good news” (Technology: Saudi Freed). The Saudi Interior Ministry declined any comment but the jailing of reform supporters seems to be the latest trend in Saudi Arabia where there are no elected officials or political parties. As of late, many electronic forums protesting goverment control have been blocked or shut down. Once again we seen slantist goverment control in an Arab country, one that has become a key US ally in the war on terror. Despite such allegiances with democratic nations, it would appear that billions in oil money cannot buy public opinion or produce a fair political election due to governemental spending. The Saudi goverment owns airlines, banks, courts and all the telecommunications companies as well, yet there is no transfer of economic initiative to the people who serve their nation. What did you expect from a country where gasoline is 35 cents a liter and princes pay $14 million dollars for used US license plates?
Apr 25, 2008
11:30 pm
Crooked Cops Cleared in NYC Killing- Three New York City police officers accused of killing an unarmed man in 2006 have been cleared of all charges. In a non-jury trial Justice Arthur Cooperman drew shouts of “murder” and “kkk” when he set the men free earlier today in a New York City courthouse. Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man, was killed outside a strip club in Queens in 2006 as he was leaving his bachelor party with two friends. The officers, undercover detectives who were investigating reports of prostitution at the club, said they thought one of the men had a gun. In announcing his verdict in the non-jury trial, the judge said that the inconsistent testimony, courtroom demeanor and rap sheets of the prosecution witnesses disrupted their credibility. Though the officers still face civil trials and the looming possibility of being fired, Rev. Al Sharpton demanded an investigation by federal authorities. We are going to close the city down in a nonviolent, effective way,” Sharpton said. “We’re going to hit the pocketbooks. We’re going to let you know that we are not going to be in any way diverted from exercising our civil rights” (News: Crooked Cops). Despite solid points made from both the defense and prosecution, something smells rotten in New York folks. Sean Bell was shot 50 times at near point blank range by all three of these police offers, one of whom shot Bell 31 times, because he was believed to be reaching for a gun. When the smoke and blood cleared, Bell was dead and no gun was found in the car. Is 50 shots at an unarmed man from 5 feet away murder or police procedure? You decide.
