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May 04, 2005

"Bring me the head of Osama Bin Laden"

Right after 9/11, former CIA officer Gary Schroen was sent to Afghanistan to help the Northern Alliance in their fight against the Taliban, who was harboring Osama Bin Laden.

He told National Public Radio in an interview broadcast on Monday and Tuesday that he stopped by the office of then-CIA counterterrorism director Cofer Black for final instructions.
He said he was told: "'your basic marching orders are to link up with the Northern Alliance and get their cooperation militarily and they will take on the Taliban.
"'When we break the Taliban, your job is to capture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice.'"
He said he told Black, '"Sir, those are the clearest orders I have ever received, I can certainly make pikes out in the field but I don't know what I'll do about dry ice to bring the head back but we will manage something."

As we now know, the mafia-esque mission didn't succeed, but the notion of Osama's head in a duffle bag isn't the worst idea I've ever heard.

Two different flicks come to mind: Joe Pesci's "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag," and the legendary Warren Oates flick "Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia."

(More coverage from Outside The Beltway & others)

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May 03, 2005

VW Popemobile bringing big bucks on eBay

A VW Golf which once belonged to Pope Benedict XVI while he was still a cardinal, is fetching big bids on eBay Germany.

The car, a 1999 VW Golf in mint condition, started at $16,500. As of Tuesday night, the current bid was more than $100,000.

The car is offered for sale by 21 year-old Benjamin Halbe, who got the car in January from a used car dealer, not knowing that Joseph Ratzinger would shortly be elected the new Pontiff. Halbe says the car is a "heavenly ride."

There's no word whether the exhaust gives off white or black smoke.

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It's official. Michael Eric Dyson has lost his damn fool mind

Loud-mouthed author, moonbat bomb thrower and defender of the soul patrol, Michael Eric Dyson has completely lost it. His new book, Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has The Black Middle Class Lost It's Mind, continues the hand-wringing that the so-called black leadership uses to absolve the mediocre behavior by so many in black America.

Dyson has a background mired in the brick-tossing and name-calling that comes about whenever anyone black dares to step outside of the "blame Whitey" mindset that so many subscribe to. His new book continues in the same direction.

Dyson showed up on NPR's Talk of the Nation today to continue his blather. The interview is streamed on NPR's site - listen for yourself, if you can stomach it.

(Courtesy Cobb)

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1 u know im sick of these people, why do they get airtime? i know people in the black community who neglect their chidlren and continue to have more and its not the "man's" fault. he said on fox news that we should be scared of condoleeza and clarence. he is a dumb fool.

Posted by: shari at May 03, 2005 08:35 PM (VY7Fq)

2 Dyson is running for HNIC/President of Black America. He has a whole bunch of bodies to step over to get there: Tavis, Rev. Al, Jessie, Min. Farrakhan.

Posted by: Curtis at May 04, 2005 11:57 AM (LGBfp)

3 Lost his mind?!?!? In my humble opinion, he has hoodwinked several institutions that know nothing of blackness that he is a black thinker. Has anyone heard his NPR interview? He makes up words! He doesn't even try to coin a phrase. No. He.Makes.Up.Words! Noted black thinker...Ha!

Posted by: stephen johnson at May 05, 2005 09:19 AM (h49cq)

4 You are an idiot. I don't have time to go into the details of your idiocy. The problem is that you know nothing about being black in America, yet you try to speak for what I am supposed to think or feel. Responsibility goes both ways and I will certainly uphold my end of it, if those who are responsible for discrimination, prejudice, oppression will hold up their end and admit their biasness based on color. There are millions of African Americans who deal with being black in America everyday on the job, at the gas station, or paying their power bill, or the cruelest place--at school. Yet we go on because we have to. Bill Cosby was right--we do have to be responsible, and most of us are. Michael Dyson and many others are also right. Many whites and blacks continue to oppress blacks, other minorities, and most of all, poor people of all colors. Look in the mirror and point the finger there, instead of at someone who will speak out against discrimination. I am so sick of people like you villifying Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others who don't hesitate to speak up for the continuously downtrodden. The bottom line is that God is watching!

Posted by: janice at May 10, 2005 03:39 PM (JNNcz)

5 I know nothing? Because I won't allow myself to be painted as a victim? Sorry. It doesn't work that way. The majority of people do not go out of their way to opress blacks or anyone else for that matter. And instead of looking for the boogieman behind each door, corner and tree, how about taking personal responsibility and showing others how to do the same thing? But Dyson is so wrapped up in creating a class of black America so mired in victimhood that everything becomes the fault of white people or conservatives or rich people or some combination of all three. That's not the way things work. And yes, anyone who thinks that Dyson is on the money is as off kilter as he is.

Posted by: Michael at May 10, 2005 06:01 PM (bJ0qq)

6 Michael Dyson's comments on Bill Cosby's comments. July 13, 2005 I just listened to Michael Dyson's opinion on Bill Cosby's comments. I Reluctantly have to agree with so many other post that Michael is so out of touch on this issue that this event has rendered him irrelevant even beyond the edges. He appears to be stuck in a binary mind set that can only see two values - good/bad; for me/against me. This cerebral failing of Michael Dyson prevents him from seeing the Cosby remarks for what they are, as Dr. Cornell West stated, "...comments from a brother who clearly loves his people and as a result speaks to the truth. Michael is of the group of blacks who are able to get public exposure who in Reality stands in our way of betterment. Using Michael's logic, the teacher that tells his or her student who answered the question "what is 2 + 3" with "5" is a "Sefl-hating, classist, elitist". Blaming the victim African American. What's telling is the public opinion within the black community. From what I have seen through, albeit unscientific, polls is that the overwhelming majority of the African American public agrees with Dr. Cosby. You could say it boils down to this: Dr. Cosby has courage and love for his people, enough to try to guide them righously versus Michael Dyson who only thinks he has courage but in fact is pandering to the victim minded members of our peoples. A small minority but large enough to make a splash. Michael is out of touch. And this from an independent.

Posted by: Jeffrey Barnes at July 13, 2005 08:07 PM (uMvX/)

7 I just heard about this guy so I went ahead and listened to that interview. dyson has addressed all of the issues you all think he hasn't. He isn't any of the things you accuse him of. You just didn't listen closely enough to that interview. I'm no expert in anything but I listened for those things you all are talking about and he does address them. listen again. someone here said "instead of looking for the boogieman behind each door, corner and tree, how about taking personal responsibility and showing others how to do the same thing?" in the interview dyson says to do exactly that! how did you miss that? It seems to me if you listen to this casually you might think he talks about blame whitey, but if you listen carefully he talks about how doing that is dangerous. How did you all miss that too?

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May 02, 2005

911 transcript: Runaway bride made up story as she went along

The time? 11:37 MT last Friday night. The place? 7-Eleven on Solano Street in Albuquerque, NM. Who? Jennifer Wilbanks, the now-legendary runaway bride that has been plastered all over the news this past week. What? The 911 phone call where Wilbanks concocted her half-assed story of kidnapping.

Dispatcher: Alberquerque 911. Operator 45. What is your emergency?
Wilbanks: I'm at the ... I don't know where I am. I'm right here beside Solano Street at the 7-Eleven.
...
Dispatcher: What is your name, ma'am?
Wilbanks: Jennifer.
Dispatcher: Were you hurt, Jennifer? Do you need any medical attention?
Wilbanks: No I don't need any medical attention. [inaudible] I told them my name.
Dispatcher: Do you know who did this to you?
Wilbanks: No.
...
Dispatcher: Do you know where your location is?
Wilbanks: At some street ... I, I don't even know who I am. And I'm just sitting here.
Dispatcher: Did they hurt you in any way? Jennifer, do you need medical attention?
Wilbanks: No, they didn't hurt me. I'm talking to them right now...
...
Dispatcher: Who did this to you?
Wilbanks: I don't know.
Dispatcher: Did they just drop you off right now?
Wilbanks: I don't know how long ago it was. They didn't drop me off here. Away from here. On some street, I don't know where I am...It was a Hispanic man and a Caucasian woman. It happened in Duluth.

Wilbanks' story vascillated even over the course of her 911 call.

Other evidence indicates that Wilbanks had purchased a bus ticket several days prior to her disappearance last week. So she planned this thing -- at least the runaway if nothing else -- in advance. Mind you, this isn't the first time she's bailed out of the engagement.

She's a stupid, spoiled brat, and that, certainly isn't a crime. And arguably, she didn't actually file a false police report (which would actually have been a crime). But she was the root cause of time, effort, energy and money being spent to find her -- even though that wasn't a crime in and of itself, what it does do is leave her open to a civil suit. And that's what the local officials are contemplating.

I'd leave her be -- until she signs the contract for the inevitable Lifetime Made-For-TV, "ripped from the headlines" movie and book deal. Then I'd sue her for every single penny of that money.

(More coverage from LaShawn Barber, Wizbang & others)

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Crews of two F/A 18 jets missing in Iraq

Crews of two F/A 18 Hornet jets are missing in Iraq.

The jets were flying a routine mission in what was termed "bad weather" from the carrier USS Carl Vinson.

The Navy believes the jets collided with each other as a result of the bad weather. It is not known whether the jets were over land or over sea when the incident occured.

The crew of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson lost contact with the planes about 10:10 p.m. (2:10 p.m. ET), a U.S. military statement said.
"There was no indication of hostile fire in the area at the time contact was lost," the military statement said.
The Boeing-built F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather fighter and attack aircraft, versions of which can carry either one- or two-person crews.

The crews have not been identified as of yet.

They will be included in my prayers tonight.

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"LA, Mexico" billboard update the second

LA talk radio giant KFI has fired their own salvo in the "Los Angeles, Mexico" billboard mess started by Spanish-language television station KRCA with their news billboard last week.

Just to clarify, you are here: Los Angeles, CA USA
Gracias, KFI AM640

How long before people start to whine about the billboard being hateful toward Spanish-speaking people in Southern California?

(More coverage from Michelle Malkin & others)

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"Los Angeles, Mexico" billboard altered

Remember the bruhaha about the television station billboard in Los Angeles last week?

Well, the billboard has been altered.

While we wait for the MSM (Main Stream Media) such as CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN to show America the offensive billboards in LA to America, concerned citizens and activists protested outside of the TV 62 KRCA studios today to demand they remove the Los Angeles, Mexico billboards. Now we have a new breaking story!
SaveOurState.org and Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) have worked with other organizations to arrange the protest. During the peak of the protest a supporter of both groups raced with his camera to the billboard (located at Orangethorpe and State College in Fullerton) to take the picture presented below.