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Chirac: Is that anti-Americanism in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Schroeder: Why can’t it be both?

**UPDATE**

Congrats to caption contest Mark J @ Tempus Fugit.

Ha! Someone sounds a little upset he isn’t taken seriously by serious people (if you can call the MSM “serious people”). Another one of those “PLEASE LOVE ME” types.

Via WizBang!

Well, people wondered whether the Iraqi people would start taking charge and it appears that they are doing that in spades in a very short amount of time.

First, this week, we have civilians beating the daylights out of a would-be homicide bomber. Now, the Iraqi security forces are turning the tables on the terrorists – giving them a taste of their own medicine.

MOSUL, Iraq, Feb. 4 – In one scene, the videotape shows three kidnappers with guns and a knife, preparing to behead a helpless man who is gagged and kneeling at their feet.

In the next, it is one of the kidnappers who is in detention, his eyes wide with fear, his lips trembling, as he speaks to his interrogators.

“How do I say this?” says the kidnapper, identified as an Egyptian named Abdel-Qadir Mahmoud, holding back tears. “I am sorry for everything I have done.”

In the first week after the elections, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and the Mosul police chief are turning the tables on the insurgency here in the north by using a tactic – videotaped messages – that the insurgents have used time and again as they have terrorized the region with kidnappings and executions.

But this time the videos, which are being broadcast on a local station, carry an altogether different message, juxtaposing images of the masked killers with the cowed men they become once captured.

That makes me smile a great big “take that, you terrorist bastards” smile.

What does the NY Times think of this type of action against terrorists?

The broadcast of such videos raises questions about whether they violate legal or treaty obligations about the way opposing fighters are interrogated and how their confessions are made public.

We don’t know what they think about using this type of action against terrorists because in the eyes of the NY Times they are “opposing fighters.” Would someone at the NY Times care to enlighten us when the number of beheadings and mass murder bombings crosses their threshold from “opposing fighters” to terrorists?

This is what these people understand. I say humiliate them into the ground and be done with it. Violate “legal or treaty obligations” to TERRORISTS? Are you kidding me? You have to be human to get human rights These murderous animals do not qualify as human.

So instead of building my Mom another computer, I broke down and had her order a Dell. I was planning on dropping in her current CD-RW but I goofed and forgot the form factor of the Dell is not the same. In other words, it won’t fit. So when my Mom got here, I had her order a drive that would (or so I thought) and I just opened it up to install it when, guess what: it is the same exact drive as the one that won’t fit.

Why Dell even bothers to ask for a service tag is beyond me. One would think that when you give them the service tag their system would filter out things THAT WON’T FIT IN THE F’ING CASE! But NO. They ship me the same damned style drive and now I have been on hold for 20 minutes waiting to talk to someone, likely in India, that probably have never even SEEN the computer I am ordering for.

CNN President Jonathan Klein bemoaning how expensive it is to attempt to take advantage of a horrific tragedy for professional gain by firmly planting two feet in his mouth in as many days.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – By the time the last American TV crews have left Asia, the networks will have spent millions of dollars covering the tsunami tragedy.

Exact figures were hard to come by Tuesday, but the networks likely have spent several hundred thousand dollars since the story broke Dec. 26. And it will cost more before it’s over.

The disaster area’s far-flung, remote locations force TV crews to bring everything with them. They either have to haul in or share satellite-uplink equipment, which is expensive even beyond the thousands of dollars per half-hour of satellite time needed for the nightly news or live or videotaped reports to be sent to East Coast control rooms.

“It’s expensive to do this,” said CNN President Jonathan Klein, whose network is going almost wall-to-wall with coverage of the tsunami. (ed. emphasis added)

Nice one Johnny Pajamas.

Read down a little further in the article and you see the reason for the headline Network news brass not stingy on tsunami: the “we’re doing it for the story” BS line.

Slavin said it’s something they look at every day. “We make very hard decisions every single day, knowing that the next day we may have to spend millions of dollars on another (breaking-news) story,” he said.

None of this will provoke a budget crisis or complaints from higher-ups. News executives say the story comes first.

“Nobody gets in trouble for (spending) on something like this,” one exec said. “We spend what it takes to cover it.”

Said another news executive: “No one’s asked Word 1 about what we’re spending. That gives you an idea of the enormity of the story.”

Cry me a f’ing river!!!You cover the story for ratings so you can make a profit by selling advertising. That’s NOT generosity or nobility, THATS BEING A PROSTITUE.

Don’t pretend for one f’ing minute you are not going to get every single dime back, and then some, by feeding some people’s morbid desire to give up their own lives to watch others in misery 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Which, by the way, is a good example of a parasitic relationship.