November 15, 2005 by s.z.

Just Google It! Courtesy of  Michelle Malkin's blog (but posted by some guy who apparently isn't Michelle). comes a spiffy graphic that we are encouraged to use on our own blogs.  I've made my own inexpert version of it by also stealing Google graphics, and then modifying the search terms slightly, and I think it is indeed a great tool to get people thinking about this topic. Did Bush Mislead? Just It.  Iraq + Bush + Nuclear Our first hit:  President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat.  Here are some highlights from it (emphasis added): Tonight I want to take a few minutes to discuss a grave threat to peace, and America's determination to lead the world in confronting that threat. The threat comes from Iraq. It arises directly from the Iraqi regime's own actions -- its history of aggression, and its drive toward an arsenal of terror.   . . .   We agree that the Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons. . . . Some ask how urgent this danger is to America and the world. The danger is already significant, and it only grows worse with time. If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today -- and we do -- does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons? . . . We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States. . . . If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.  . . . He would be in a position to threaten America. And Saddam Hussein would be in a position to pass nuclear technology to terrorists.  . . . Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. And so on.  So, thanks, Michelle's blog, for reminding us of this speech. 4:55:44 PM

News Flash Old News: 'Pajamas Media' Changes Name to 'Open Sores Media' (OSM) And this is how the new $3.5 million venture works: using highly advanced "computer" technology, OSM will post a story from the discredited and obsolete Main Stream Media (for instance, something like this  A.P. article, "Web Site to Blend Journalism With Blogs" ), and then somebody with a web log (or "blog," as the kids are calling them these days) will comment on it.  It's brilliant, I tell you, brilliant!  However, we do have to point out that, once again. the MSM got everything wrong, since they should have titled their story, "Web Site to Blend News Feeds With Nitwits.  LittleGreenFootballs Guy and Faded Mystery Novelist Come Up With Business Plan To Deliver Ads for Currency Scams, 24/7") Anyway, here at Wo'CM, we hate the MSM very, very muich, and so we rip it off on a daily basis.  Therefore, we feel compelled to quote from that A.P. article: Some 70 Web journalists, including Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds and David Corn, Washington editor of the Nation magazine, have agreed to participate in OSM _ short for Open Source Media. OSM will link to individual blog postings and highlight the best contributions, chosen by OSM editors, in a special section. Bloggers will be paid undisclosed sums based on traffic they generate. The ad-supported OSM site will also carry news feeds from Newstex, which in turn receives stories from The Associated Press, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and other traditional media organizations."We're deliberately trying to do something new by affiliating blog and mainstream people," said Roger L. Simon, a blogger and the venture's co-founder. Affiliating blogs and mainstream people?  Why, what a novel and totally unique concept!  But it's one which we doubt will ever fly -- if God had wanted mainstream people to blog, He wouldn't have invented kerning.  Anyway, we can now see why it was the nutty/flaky California types who invested in this thing, since only they would believe in such a far-out idea. Although Simon and co-founder Charles Johnson are often described as conservative, Simon said the site will transcend labels and include bloggers of all political leanings. Simon added that the site will then transcend all physical constraints, become a being of pure energy, and rule the universe.  It will then kill all taxes, government regulations, Moslems, liberals, feminists, secularists, and Clintons, and usher in a golden age such as the world has never seen. As you already know, Roger Ailes is on this story like chocolate on peanut butter, so I'm sure he'll have more about the new and exciting name change, and you should turn to him for all your OSM-related snark. P.S.  I coulda been a contender in bringing you this breaking news (and could have been credited with coming up with the obvious "Open Sores" crack) if only RadioUser's server hadn't been malfunctioning again.   I blame the main stream media. 1:53:40 PM

Where Are They Now?   Dobson Edition When we looked at Ryan Dobson (tattoo enthusiast, extreme surfer, author of the book Be Intolerant, and son of James "Focus on Somebody Else's Family" Dobson) back in June 2005 he had just gotten married to Laura, the fellow surfer whom he met circa December 2004.  (Well, it was a second marriage for Ryan, who was divorced in 2001.  And since his former wife is still alive, Ryan is apparently committing adultery, if you go by what Jesus said). As we noted back then, Ryan graduated from Biola University in 1995, previously having dropped out of another Christian university and spent a period of time as a loser.  After graduation, Ryan's Dad got him a job at the Family Research Council, and he reportedly married Cezanne in 1999.  Dad bought the newlyweds a nice condo in Southern CA (well, it should have been nice for the price).  But the marriage didn't last, and the couple were divorced in 2001 Anyway, the latest news (from Washington State's Daily Record Online) is that Ryan has reportedly grown up. Ryan Dobson, the son of Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, said the core of his message to young and old around the nation is that the hunger for absolutes in life can only be satisfied with God. Dobson, 35, spoke Monday to a crowd of 248 at the fund-raising banquet of the Care Net Pregnancy Care Center that has operated in downtown Ellensburg since 1995. Dobson said for years he was only introduced as the son of Dr. James Dobson, the influential and sometimes controversial founder of the Focus on the Family national ministry. Ryan now has his own ministry, Internet radio show, and has published books that have done well among younger readers. And he accomplished all that without ever using his family name or connections!  Well, sure, his books are published by the Focus on the Family publisher (and pushed on his Dad's radio show and website ); Ryan's ministry is based on being James Dobson's son; and he's introduced as the son of James Dobson at every appearance he makes.  But still, he's not just the son of James Dobson, 'cause he's somebody on his own! He married four months ago and will move soon from Orange County, Calif., to Colorado Springs, Colo. But, but ... there is no surfing in Colorado!  So why would he give up his radical Southern California lifestyle and move to Colorado Springs?  Oh, right, it's the headquarters for Focus on the Family.  I guess now that Ryan has a wife to support, his Dad found him another job (one that pays better than doing Internet radio shows). But we think it's kind of a shame that Laura has to give up surfing too, since it sounded like she was better at it than Ryan. “I guess you could say I’ve grown up,” Ryan said with a laugh before attending the local banquet on Monday. Ha ha!  It's funny when the sons of privilege don't have to grow up until age 35!  (Or even later, in some cases.) Ryan said as he has gotten older his respect for his father has grown, despite many groups who oppose Focus on the Family ministries. [...] He said it was likely his father will be called before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in connection with the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court. He said it has become known the White House called James Dobson about Miers before announcing Miers’ nomination. Yes, it has.  And it's been alleged that Karl Rove gave James Dobson secret assurances about how Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade.  But hey, that's all water under the bridge now, because as we learn at Focus on the Family site, Dobson 'Extremely Pleased' by Alito Nomination.  So, he must have gotten some GREAT secret info from Rove about Alito. But anyway, we wish Ryan all the best in whatever job they find for him at Focus on the Family, and hope that his leather jacket and tattoos don't shock the other employees too badly.  And we hope this marriage goes better than the last one -- we'd recommend some tolerance this time. 4:32:58 AM

Just in Time for Our Sacred Consumer Holiday  Radio host Tammy Bruce has a new book out which, per WorldNetDaily, "explains how to defeat the 'Hate America First' ideology -- and the moral and cultural decay wrought by the Left." And since we're all about defeating decay, I thought we should learn more about it. "It's time," [Bruce] declares, "to swing back the curtains and invite the light in. And that light is American Nationalism, perennially shunned by the Left, condemned by Socialists, and without any special interest group fighting for its rebirth. It has no legitimate advocates." Well, now this poor, lonely light has Tammy.  For, as  NewsMax explains: For the majority of her readers, Ms. Bruce has created a political refuge, giving definition to their orphaned beliefs. It's so sad to think of those shunned, condemned, orphaned beliefs, with their big, dark eyes and their thin, pinched faces.  We think they look something like this: Here's more about Tammy's book from WorldNetDaily: A sampling of Tammy Bruce's revelations and recommendations: How "Global Government" is simply a euphemism for a world without the United States as we know it And why it's actually part of the omimous New World Order, which has awarded its black helicopter contract to Halliburton. The malignant narcissism of George Soros and other key figures of the Left Is malignant narcisissim one of Tammy's revelations, or one of her  recommendations? The vehement, unashamed hostility to Christianity displayed by the New York Times and the liberal media in general How Hollywood has been so intent on mainstreaming the marginalized that mainstream Americans are now marginal Wow, an anti-liberal book which reveals that the New York Times hates religion, and that Hollywood is out to destroy mainsteam Ameria!  Tammy's revelations rock! Why people on the Left very rarely allow themselves to reflect critically on their own beliefs -- and avoid conservative publications like the plague Well, many of those publications do have icky, pus-filled sores, so you can understand why some on the Left would want to avoid them. The hidden reason why so many liberals believe that conservatives must be demonized and eliminated A hidden reason for demonizing?  I'm guesing that Satan is involved.  (Unless Tammy is just talking about our secret plan to rise up on Christmas Eve and kill all conservatives, in which case the reason is simple: we just thought it would be fun.) How Bill Clinton has angled to become UN Secretary General -- despite the fact that his inability to deal properly with international challenges still haunts the world Hitler and Mussolini: how they are actually manifestations of core leftist principles And why Bill Clinton is the Beast of the Book of Revelation, and therefore much worse than either of his co-leftists, Hitler or Mussolini.  (It's all part of that thing about liberals demonizing conservatives.) How socialist influences in America have brainwashed generations of Americans into believing that compassion means that success is somehow immoral Yes, when did it become immoral to lie and cheat your way to wealth?  And why did we ever accept the idea that it was uncompassionate to step on the poor as we looked out for our own economic interests? I'm just glad that Tammy wrote a book to counter the brainwashing of socialists like that Jesus guy! The pervasiveness of socialism in American public life -- so that even Bill Clinton felt comfortable articulating blatantly socialist sentiments on many occasions Tammy was on Fox News yesterday, pushing the line that the Democratic claims about the Bush administration's distortion of pre-war intelligence are ‘So 18 Months Ago.’  So, I have a news tip for her: Tammy, obsessing about Bill Clinton is so five years ago -- and anyway, Ann Coulter does it much better than you do. The cancer of multiculturalism: how this dangerous philosophy is designed to erase our very history and identity as Americans Why, for the sake of women and children everywhere, the world should look like America   Because not only is our American WASP culture the best culture ever, but we also just look better than other people, what with our white skin and all, and so the world should look like us.  An extraordinarily ominous statement revealing a larger agenda of labeling any use of a firearm by any individual as a terrorist act: made by a very high Bush Administration official The Bush Administration wants to call target shooting and deer hunting terrorist acts?  Geez, they are really reaching to make us feel constantly threatened by terrorists (terrorists who can only be combatted by Republicans), aren't they? Why Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl was not an insignificant incident given the Left's larger cultural agenda Because Janet Jackson is in the pay of Geroge Soros, and unleashed her boobie of mass destruction as part of a plot to destroy middle America at the behest of the New World Order? Why so many liberals today are resorting -- and reveling in -- the politics of hate, sometimes without even realizing it Because of books like Tammy's?  Anyway, apparently we liberals are not allowed to hate Tammy, because she's "not a conventional conservative," being instead "a self-described Democrat and pro-choice feminist" -- as well as being a lesbian.  So, I guess all we can do is pity her. 3:17:33 AM