Of Whom Are The Newspapers Really Afraid?

Andrew Tallman gives us 5 posible reasons why this picture was published in no newspapers.

Update on Joe Arpaio

I got this via an e-mail froma good friend:

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER





THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV ! until h e found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.



More on the Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the! tents for 1 year . "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete! it.

Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Hail The (Re)Conquering Hero!

From Captain's Quarters:

Guess who's the most popular belle at the Democratic ball in DC? None other than Joe Lieberman, who had to run as an independent after party activists defeated him in the primaries with neophyte Ned Lamont. After having to endorse Lieberman's opponent, and in some cases campaigning against their long-time colleague, Democrats now line up to shake his hand ... or kiss it:

“It was all very warm, lots of hugs, high-fives, that kind of stuff,” said Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado.

Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon marveled, “One senator after another kept coming up and shaking his hand.”

And Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas noted, “I gave him a hug and a kiss.”

Mr. Lieberman received a standing ovation at a caucus luncheon after Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who is poised to become the majority leader, declared, “We’re all family.”

I'm tempted to ask where exactly Lincoln kissed Lieberman, but at least symbolically, every Senate Democrat has their lips pursed and aimed directly at his nether regions. Why? Lieberman himself gave them reason this past weekend on Meet The Press when he told Tim Russert that he would stick with the Democrats ... for now.

Duke Lacrosse Rape Update: 7:54 am | Manager: Duke accuser passed out

Now we know where she got the scratches:

DURHAM - Days before a woman said Duke University lacrosse players raped and beat her, she was passed out cold at a Hillsborough strip club and had to be carried to the parking lot, according to the club's former manager.

In that gravel parking lot on the night of March 11, the four people carrying the woman accidentally dropped her, said Yolanda Haynes, the club's former manager.

The Times and Reality

the WSJ's Holman Jenkins provides us with a look at the journalistic standards of the NY Times, and includes these thoughts:

The real question is why do Times editors allow such stuff into the paper? Do they wave it through because it might prove personally inconvenient to try to stop it? Do they believe they have more pressing things to worry about than what appears in the newspaper?

For this reason, it's hard to resist the urge to cheer on Hassan Elmasry. He's the mutual fund manager who last spring organized 28% of the shares to withhold their votes from Times directors at the company's annual meeting and last week proposed to put before the next annual meeting the question of whether to end the special voting rights that allow the Sulzberger family to control the company while owning less than 5% of the shares.

Mr. Elmasry is a fund manager associated with Morgan Stanley's Van Kampen outfit, but he's based in London and began his campaign long before the Mack allegations emerged (so forget the idea that his motive is anything but to rescue his fund's long investment in the New York Times Co.). The selling point of his fund is its disciplined focus on buying a handful of companies (no more than 40) with unique franchises, holding them for the long term and watching them carefully. The New York Times Co. has been in his portfolio for a decade.

This hasn't stopped the usual kibitzers from suggesting that his Times campaign is just a "typical" Wall Street effort to squeeze out short-term profits at the expense of journalism. But Mr. Elmasry actually has a record of taking a dim view of companies that don't protect and burnish the long-term franchises that attracted him to invest in the first place. Thus when he writes to Times shareholders that the company's voting-rights rules are "eroding the foundations of the enterprise which they were created to protect," it's worth considering, in light of all the accidents the Times has inflicted on itself lately, whether he might be right.

Meet the New Boss John Murtha and Congress's "culture of corruption."

John Fund has a devastating summary of the whole sorry Murtha Abscam mess:

Gary Ruskin, director of the liberal Congressional Accountability Project, told Roll Call that "when it comes to institutional policing of corruption in Congress, John Murtha is a one-man wrecking crew."

Libertarian Asshole: Sanchez

This is one of the main reasons why I find doctinaire Libertarians disgusting piles of human debris.

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Liberal Blogs & Al Qaeda, both sending the same message.

The Nature of the Abaya

I wonder why feminists don't care.

Donna put on an Abaya and then walked down a New York street talking and walking normally. She was criticized by Muslim men.

"Among those who observed Donna, however, were some Muslims, Arabs, and even some Saudis. The Saudis were upset by what they saw and told Donna so. When she asked why, they explained that she was using the abaya in an invalid way. She then became curious to find out what they considered a valid way to use it. They explained to her that she must walk slowly, must look down when walking and keep her eyes more or less in front of her - no glancing from side to side, in other words. She must not talk to anyone or laugh loudly and certainly must not address any remarks to anyone lest they misunderstand her purpose in doing so.

To say the least, Donna was astounded by their remarks and realized that they were not simply talking about a garment to be worn but about their perceptions of what an abaya symbolized. They seemed determined to deny that a normal human being was under the black material. The truth is that those Saudi men articulated something that the Saudi lifestyle and customs have created. The abaya indeed covers a typically weak and frightened character (a woman of course), who views herself as a sexual entity confined in a well-defined space she can never escape from. This is why the whole culture of the abaya imposes so many restraints upon women. One of the restraints is that she must walk as if her feet were hobbled and she was unable to move easily and normally. Nor is she allowed to look around and observe the surrounding world comfortably, as slowly or quickly as she might like. The abaya has also contributed directly to preventing certain basic movements; for example, she can no longer move her hands normally. Aside from that, ordinary free conversation is forbidden and is replaced with low and often unclear speech that makes little sense."


"The Abaya Makes Women Appear Humiliated, Submissive, and Blindly Obedient to Men"

A perfect storm may be brewing in Lebanon.

The Lebanese government says Syria and Iran aim to overthrow the elected government in Beirut and reconquer the country.

Day By Day

McGovern Resurrected

Technology as Mephistopheles

Belmont Club. Worth reading and following the links.

Say It Ain't So, W!

Powerline analyzes leaks about the Iraq Study Group. If the reports are true, I will have the same feeling of moral disgust as I did when we abandoned the Viet Namese and Cambodians to their killing fields and death camps.

No one should be ashamed of their country twice in a single lifetime.

So, under the Baker Commission's recommendations, what will become of the 12 million Iraqis who voted for freedom and for a normal life? President Bush has said more times than I can count, in speeches spanning the last four years, that all people want to be free, and that freedom is God's gift to all mankind. If he doesn't believe that, then what does he believe?

If the Iraqis are to be sold out, at least let them be sold out by the Democrats. No one expected anything better from them.

I have an idea, let's not sell them out at all.

Doubling Down in Iraq

From the Weekly Standard; read the whole thing.

The picture is clear: More soldiers mean less violence, hence fewer casualties. The larger the manpower investment in the war, the smaller the war's cost, to Iraqis and Americans alike. Iraq is not an unwinnable war: Rather, as the data just cited show, it is a war we have chosen not to win. And the difference between success and failure is not 300,000 more soldiers, as some would have it. One-tenth that number would make a large difference, and has done so in the past. One-sixth would likely prove decisive.

Counterinsurgency warfare is more about protecting than killing--like a nationwide exercise in community policing. And the lesson of the 1990s in American cities is that the best way to reduce the level of criminal violence is to put more cops on the street. The lesson of the past three years in Iraq is the same: If the goal is to cut our losses, the best move is not to pull back, but to dive in--flood the zone, put as many boots as possible on the most violent ground. Do that, and before long, the ground in question will be a good deal less violent.

War is not poker; the stakes in Iraq are much higher than a little money or a few chips. But war's psychology bears some resemblance to a well-played game of cards. The only way Americans lose this war is to fold. That seems likely to be the next move, but it is the last thing we should do. Far better to call and raise. Our cards are better than theirs, if only we have the nerve to play them.

TAWFIK HAMID: Stop it before they kill you

From NRO online:

Thus the extreme brand of Sunni Islam that spread from the Kingdom to the rest of the Islamic world is regarded not merely as one interpretation of the religion but the only genuine interpretation. The expansion of violent and regressive Islam, he continues, began in the late 1970s, and can be traced precisely to the growing financial clout of Saudi Arabia. "We're not talking about a fringe cult here," he tells me. "Salafist [fundamentalist] Islam is the dominant version of the religion and is taught in almost every Islamic university in the world. It is puritanical, extreme and does, yes, mean that women can be beaten, apostates killed and Jews called pigs and monkeys.

Hamid is infuriated by the Western reponse to this challenge: "Stop asking what you have done wrong. Stop it! They're slaughtering you like sheep and you still look within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with what they want."

U of Michigan: Screw the Constitution, We Are the Rulers!

One of the few good things that happened on Black Tuesday was the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which makes state racial preferences unconstitutional. Unfortunately, U. Michigan “President” Mary Sue Coleman believes her institution is above the law, and is openly boasting of her intent to ignore it. Here are a few lowlights from the speech she delivered the day after the election, and has subsequently spammed to U Mich student accounts (h/t: Discriminations commenter M.J. Wise):

I am deeply disappointed that the voters of our state have rejected affirmative action as a way to help build a community that is fair and equal for all.

Join the frickin’ club. Me, I’m deeply disappointed that voters of your state re-elected Jennifer Granholm, and that voters of our country have rejected the rule of law by electing a Senate that’s guaranteed to bork any judicial candidate worth nominating. I’m even more deeply disappointed that my former state, California, rejected eminent domain reform and parental notification for abortion, while re-electing a gun-grabbing, abortion-obsessed court-packer who passes herself off as a moderate only because the other Senator is even more off her rocker than she is. I’m deeply disappointed by a lot of things that happen in a democracy. A dictatorship would be much better, as long as I get to be the dictator.


But we will not be deterred in the all-important work of creating a diverse, welcoming campus. We will not be deterred.

Translation: screw the law, we’ll do what we want.

Climate chaos? Don't believe it

In 1988, James Hansen, a climatologist, told the US Congress that temperature would rise 0.3C by the end of the century (it rose 0.1C), and that sea level would rise several feet (no, one inch). The UN set up a transnational bureaucracy, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The UK taxpayer unwittingly meets the entire cost of its scientific team, which, in 2001, produced the Third Assessment Report, a Bible-length document presenting apocalyptic conclusions well beyond previous reports.

This is the same James Hansen who is today the leading proponent of human caused global warming. There is a very good living to be made by predictions of doom.

Iraqis Fearful of Dems Victory

From the Seattle Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Across the capital Wednesday, Iraqis balanced hopes against fears about how U.S. policy will change on the ground in the wake of the Democrats' overwhelming election successes Tuesday night and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's sudden resignation.

Rasha Tariq, 23, said she found herself near tears when she awoke Wednesday to the news that Democrats had won the House and were on the cusp of taking the Senate.

Tariq said she worries that the Democrats' victory will mark the beginning of a gradual U.S. pullout from Iraq and the disintegration of what little order is left on the dangerous streets of Baghdad.

The article also quotes

Dr. Sami Ismael, 58, said he hopes the Democrats' victory will push Republicans to make necessary changes in tactics.

"Whatever they do, it can't get any worse," Ismael said.

I wonbder if this is the same Sami Ismael who was arrested in Israel

Ismael was arrested and jailed by the Israeli authorities on a charge of having contact with terrorists. More specifically, the Israelis said he had taken terrorist training in Libya. Ismael denied the charge.