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Q: How is a Hate Crime by Muslims in New Jersey Like WMD in Iraq?

A: Neither of them exist, but right-wing nutbags believe every erroneous report that they do.

Mithras, via Atrios

Reading Mithras’ post brought to mind this example from the now-infamous GOPUSA website, home of ex-White House Bureau Chief Jeff James Gannon Guckert, which also hosts a…well, writer, whose bio reads like a Who’s Who of righty piety:

Barbara Stock is a working registered nurse with 24 years of experience.

She is the mother of two grown sons and two grandchildren.

Barbara will be contributing editorials and articles to her local Women’s Republican Party for the upcoming election cycle.

Barbara is a regular contributor to AmericanDaily, ReNewAmerica, Bushcountry, RepublicanDailyNews, The Judson Cox Newsletter, and Prudent Politics. She has also been published on Intellectual Conservative, TownHall, New Republic, Israeli News, and even the Retired NYCFD website.

Barbara has her own webpage called Republican and Proud, thoughtfully linked by GOPUSA.com. Notice the lovely little graphic in the lower left that Barbara uses to decorate her website:

Former U.S. Rep. Sam Gibbons:

“I just wanted to tell them you better wake up to the fact that one day MacDill is going to close. They’re worried about the oak trees and bar licenses and things like that. But in the long run there’s nothing more important than what’s going to be done with MacDill.”

Giuliana Sgrena speaks:

Sgrena, the 56-year-old correspondent of the communist daily Il Manifesto, told Italian investigators the US troops’ intense fire had been in no way justified by the speed of her car, ANSA news agency said.

“Our vehicle was running at normal speed which could not be misunderstood,” she said, rejecting US fears of a possible suicide attack.

“It wasn’t a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us,” Sgrena said.

The US military said Friday Sgrena’s convoy had ignored signals to stop, and that US soldiers had waved their hands and arms, flashed white lights and fired warning shots in a failed attempt to get the vehicle to stop.

But Sgrena told RaiNews24 television Saturday that a “hail of bullets” rained down on the car taking her to safety at Baghdad airport, along with three Italian intelligence officers, killing one of them.

“I was speaking to (officer) Nicola Calipari (…) when he leant on me, probably to protect me, and then collapsed and I realized he was dead,” said Sgrena, who was being questioned on Saturday by two Italian magistrates.

“They continued shooting and the driver couldn’t even explain that we were Italians. It was really horrible,” she added.

Il Manifesto chief editor Gabriele Polo branded the intelligence officer’s death a “murder”.
[…]
“The Americans and Italians knew about (her) car coming,” Pier Scolari said on leaving Celio hospital.

“They were 700 meters (yards) from the airport, which means that they had passed all checkpoints.”

Friday’s shooting was heard by Berlusconi’s aides who were on the phone with one of the intelligence officers, said Scolari. “Then the US military silenced the cellphones,” he charged.

“Giuliana had information, and the US military did not want her to survive,” he added.

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Here’s an interesting site, gathering information on war resistors, IE. soldiers who refused orders, draft resistors etc., none of this “fighting for our freedom” crap;

We honor those soldiers who risked loss of liberty, economic deprivation, and social ostracism. Each of these men and women of the military have at some point refused orders in this immoral, illegal, unjustified war the United States is currently waging in Iraq, or the occupation in Afghanistan. They obeyed their conscience over illegal orders.

The State-worshipping warmonger known as Ann Coulter has struck again. Defending the White House from allegations that it’s policy of issuing ‘press passes’ is partisan, Coulter suggests that “that old Arab” Helen Thomas is allowed in. That wasn’t really a response to the charge, which, as I have noted, was of partisanship, IE. left vs. right. What does Thomas’s Lebanese descendancy have to do with … but never mind. All Coulter was trying to do was generate publicity for herself, to sell more garbage-er I mean books to glazed-eyed Fundies.
Coulter is to political commentary what Madonna is to music. Their real talents are in stirring up hypocritical outrage to sell … dare I call it music and literature?
Thomas’s credentials are infinitely superior to Coulter’s, of course, and the 84 year-old Thomas has Coulter beat in another way; physical attractiveness. What sort of a creature is Coulter anyway? I’ve studied her image, on TV and in pictures, and I’ve decided that she’s not human, or female in any sense that I know the terms. She makes Karen Carpenter look fat. If I saw Coulter standing nearby, I’d have to start looking for the mothership.
Rather than a human being, I think Coulter is a physical manifestation of the fear and hatred inspired by neoconservatism, worldwide. Perhaps if we ignore her, like a failed marketing slogan, she’ll go away. I will try to do so, from now on, but I can’t guarantee results.