January 10, 2004 by s.z.

Just When You Thought You'd Met Weird . . . Elizabeth (see comments for the wingnuts piece) and Julia of Sisyphus Shrugged have uncovered a shocking secret about our new favorite nut, Jen Shroder: yes it seems that she is the wacko formerly known as Jennifer Schroeder!  Mrs. Schroeder came to public attention in 2002 when she complained about how her son's junior high was using a social studies book which taught the kids about Islam.  She was mentioned (favorably) in articles in such venues as GOP USA and News for Christians.  Daniel Pipes wrote about her cause for The New York Post; Rod Dreher did likewise for National Review Online.  She appeared on Fox News.  And she cut off the end of her pinkie finger. And now she's back, but with a new name (which is curiously similar to the old one -- I guess she just couldn't think of anything).  As she says at WWW.BlessedCause.com: I've been threatened with lawsuits. The Democratic party has accused me of starting the recall just prior to being framed. The FBI has warned me to be careful.  All because I wrote what is in the textbooks.  All because God has sent a message.  All because the darkness hates the light.  I've changed my name and address at this site.  I've completely changed my name legally offline, for safety sake, I'm considering moving again, and I've taken security measures that I won't name, but best of all, I pray.   So, later today I'll bring you the story of how she was accused of having started the CA governor recall and then FRAMED FOR MURDER!  (Well, of sending a virus -- or having a self-mailing virus in her computer) by the Democratic Party.  And then, just for fun, we'll contrast that with the story of how the Democratic Party framed Rush Limbaugh for Doctor Shopping!  We'll give you the background on how Jen was instrumental in the resolution of the John Walker Lindh trial!   And we will recount the chilling tale of how the International Atomic Energy Agency linked to her site, thus showing that she was the innocent prey of murderous Muslims world wide!  Frankly, we expect to get a Pulitzer for this story.  10:18:12 PM

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American Daily: Furthering the Conservative Cause By Giving WingNuts a Forum  We found a fun new site called American Daily.  It's like TownHall, but without the professionalism or any pretense of sanity.  Of course, a few pundits write for both outlets, such as Gary Aldrich, former FBI agent and professional Clintons hater.  He has an new American Daily piece (written with Ashley Varner) called 2004: Predictions for the Presidential Election Cycle, which gives us some ideas of what the tricksy Hard-Left is going to do in order to try to take the focus off President Bush's "successful foreign policy." For example: A “Health Awareness Crisis” will mount, as over-eager, Hard-Left politicians attack American smokers. These otherwise “champions of choice” will impose more self-righteous, Socialist-like laws to prohibit our decisions to participate in activities we may enjoy, regardless of their health consequences. That means more public smoking bans across the country, as Liberals tell smokers that their superior opinion outweighs one’s ability to enjoy one’s own lifestyle choices – especially when that choice contributes to a national “crisis”. Yeah, I can see how attacking smoking will meet the Hard-Left goals of deflecting attention from the excellent job Bush is doing in rebuilding Iraq, while also keeping Aldrich from participating in the only pleasure he left, now that sex is out of the question.  Those wily Hard-Lefters are criminal geniuses! American Daily also features this example of the fine, old American tradition of "smearing one's opponents."  In NJ Governor Endorses ‘Socialist Loser’ Dean For President, Gordon Bishop, "a national award-winning author, historian and syndicated columnist," boldly asserts, (without actually using the words) that James McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey, is gay.  Bishop's evidence: not only did McGreevey's first wife divorce him and move to Canada ("Significantly, the divorce papers are sealed"), but he just clinched things by endorsing Howard Dean, "the first Governor in America to endorse legislation permitting same-sex marriage in Vermont."  Politics is a dirty, ugly game. Howard Dean has done everything he can to verbally assassinate President Bush, the leader of the free world in the war on terrorism. Bush is not a hypocritical political figure like Dean and McGreevey. He is what he is. What you see is what you get – and what you get is a breath of fresh air and the “real deal.” McGreevey’s endorsement of Dean, a leftist pathological liar, is in keeping with McGreevey’s philosophy of the politics of self-destruction”: Lying, hiding and living the life of the “great pretender.” Yup, Bush is the "real deal," "a breath of fresh air,"and a bunch of other cliches.  He's also Popeye.  So Dean is practically committing treason by maligning such a man while he is busy leading the free world (whether they want him to or not) in a war against terror.  And the fact that McGreevey, a HOMOSEXUAL, would endorse Dean, speaks for itself.  So, let's move on to . . . One Teri O'Brien, who apparently has a radio show.  She offers a column called  Dumb Things Proponents Say About Gay Marriage.  And the main dumb thing they say is that homosexuality isn't deviant.  So O'Brien cites Deviant Expert Rick Santorum, and proves them wrong ("It may make some unhappy to think of their behavior being equated with behavior that they consider deviant, but the senator's logic is air-tight.  Accept it or not, gay rights advocates"!!!)  Teri also offers this scientific justification for restricting marriage to heterosexuals: Marriage, as traditionally defined, binds men to their children and channels the power of testosterone from destructive, pathological behavior (predatory sex, violence) to constructive, community-building activity (work to provide for family, investment in the future). That's the reason, and the only reason, that the state sanctions marriage.  You'd think that a gay marriage, which would bind two of those violent testosterone-laden men into community-building activity, would be especially sanctioned by the state, but apparently it takes estrogen to make the binding effective.  You learn something new about sex hormones every day. And to conclude today's selection, we offer Accused Terrorist Drafted America’s Public School Guidelines, probably the most insane piece I've read for some time.  It's by Jen Shroder, the "founder of BlessedCause, an organization dedicated to restoring sanity to our public schools and exposing the Islamic indoctrination of American textbooks."   Jen's bio also informs us that BlessedCause was publicly named by the California Democrats as "behind the recall" and shortly thereafter a plot to frame BlessedCause was discovered and exposed before fruition. There is evidence that BlessedCause has made political impacts in the John Walker Lindh case.  BlessedCause has been covertly linked to by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, raising questions about the Clinton administration and our public school affinity to Islam. It's hard to follow Jen's latest claims (something about how some guy who used to meet with the Clintons is now being detained for suspected terrorist ties; and while Clinton was President, public school text books started including information about Islam; and since the Muslims are trying to brainwash our youth into abandoning Christianity, Clinton betrayed our kids to Islam, presumably because the Saudis bought him off.)  Anyway, here's one of the more accessible paragraphs: As terrorists executed attacks on America, then President Clinton slashed our defenses, gutted our intelligence, pardoned terrorists, halted investigations of Islamic charities and negotiated for peace, evidently with a powerful bargaining chip, our children through our public education system.  Islam is determined to advance, entering by persuasion within our public schools and by sword at our borders.  President Clinton has clearly provided both doorways as we are swarmed by militant Islamic fundamentalists, courting our children while bombing our buildings. Since Jen "claims God's leading as the only explanation for the success of her website, BlessedCause.org, " I guess I will have to check that website out.  Wouldn't want to offend God or anything.  I'll report back later. 6:38:00 AM

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Well, This is Disturbing Transcript of interview with Vice President Dick Cheney by M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News Q: SIR, I was one of the embedded reporters with the 101st in Iraq.... CHENEY: Were you. That must have been a tremendous experience. Q: It was amazing, yeah. When I was in Iraq, some of the soldiers said they believed they were fighting because of the Sept. 11 attacks and because they thought Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaida. You've repeatedly cited such links. I heard your speech in Denver a while back. But even Secretary of State (Colin) Powell now says there's no smoking guns or concrete evidence proving that connection. I wanted to ask you what you'd say to those soldiers, and were those soldiers misled at all? CHENEY: Well, there are two issues here. First of all, I don't want to speak to Colin's statements. I'm not familiar with what he said yesterday. Two issues in terms of relationship. One is, was there a relationship between al Qaida and Iraq, between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, or the al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence service? That's one category of issues. A separate question is, whether or not there was any relationship relative to 9/11. Those are two separate questions and people oftentimes confuse them. On the separate issue, on the 9/11 question, we've never had confirmation one way or another. We did have reporting that was public, that came out shortly after the 9/11 attack, provided by the Czech government, suggesting there had been a meeting in Prague between Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker, and a man named al-Ani (Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani), who was an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague, at the embassy there, in April of '01, prior to the 9/11 attacks. It has never been -- we've never been able to collect any more information on that. That was the one that possibly tied the two together to 9/11. With respect to the other question, the general relationship, I would refer you...There are several places you can go. One place you ought to go look is an article that Stephen Hayes did in the Weekly Standard here a few weeks ago, that goes through and lays out in some detail, based on an assessment that was done by the Department of Defense and forwarded to the Senate Intelligence Committee some weeks ago. That's your best source of information. So, the only link Cheney can cite to 9/11 is the story about Mohammed Atta meeting an Iraqi intel officer in Prague, a claim discounted by the FBI.  And his evidence of the general relationship between Iraq and al Qaida is that Weekly Standard article based on the leaked document with cherry picked "data points" of intelligence designed to bolster Doug Feith's claim that there was an ongoing relationship between the two.  As you will recall, the Department of Defense decried the leak, and said that leaked document was "not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaida, and it drew no conclusions."  And the idea of recent dealings between Saddam and al Qaida was reportedly contradicted by a high-level Iraqi official, who said that Saddam wanted to distance himself from the terrorist group.  Don't the DOD and the FBI talk to Cheney?  Doesn't he read the newspapers?  Or is it that he's just so invested in proving that he was right about everything that some kind of cognitive dissonance is going on? Anyway, despite the flimsy-to-nonexistant evidence, Cheney stands by his statements linking Iraq with 9/11, and feels that going to war with Iraq was totally justified: CHENEY: Given the information we had, given his past use of weapons of mass destruction and the possible link-up if you will in Iraq between state sponsored, sponsoring (sic) terrorists on the one hand and and (sic) possessing weapons of mass destruction on the other, I think we were perfectly justified in doing what we did.  I think the American people support it overwhelmingly.  And I don't have any qualms at all about the decisions that were made. No qualms at all.  Maybe that's the scariest thing at all. P.S.  You know, Cheney urging people to read that Weekly Standard article makes me wonder anew who leaked the classified document it was based on?  If this leak is ever investigated by the FBI (a crimes report was forwarded to the DOJ by the CIA in November, but I haven't heard anything about it since), I'd advise the Bureau to focus on Feith and Scooter.  They might even solve the Plame leak while they were at it! 3:46:21 AM