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Reader Ron Thomas, a Vietnam Vet who served on the USS Oriskany, may be on Discovery Channel, tonight, in a show on the sinking of the ship during the Vietnam War, “Sinking of an Aircraft Carrier.”
Ron writes:

Since you’re the daughter of a Vietnam Era Veteran, you might be interested to know that the Discovery Channel tonight at 7:00 p.m. Central is having a show which I might be on. It’s called the “Sinking of an Aircraft Carrier”. It’s the story of my old ship the USS Oriskany.

USS Oriskany

I spent 28 months serving on this carrier, and did two Vietnam Combat Cruises. It, along with another ship, was the most utilized Aircraft Carrier of the Vietnam War. She was the ship that Senator John McCain flew off of, and was shot down from, and has been in a couple of military movie classics. One is “Bridges of Toko Ri”, starring William Holden. More recently and less dignified. serving as the “gates of hell” in the Robin Williams movie, “What Dreams May Come.”
I was interviewed along with others on what we thought about the ship being sunk. Whether I make the final cut, or be on the cutting room floor, I will find out tonight. Possibly you will have a chance to watch it.

We hope Ron made the cut for the show. But he already made the cut by serving our country on the ship. Check out the show. Yet another reminder that freedom isn’t free.

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Hard to believe someone paid money for this study, but someone did: A Canadian study found that women who get breast implants are more like to commit suicide.
That’s no surprise, since it’s quite likely that if you surgically sew large foreign objects inside your chest, you probably have little self-worth–and the operation won’t change that.
The New York Times reports that researchers from the Universite Laval Favulty of Medicine and the Public Health Agency of Canada studies almost 25,000 women who had implants from 1974-1989. During that time, 480–or almost 2%–of them died. Upon investigating the reasons for death, they found that that the percentage of the 25,000 who committed suicide was 73% higher than the rate of the those committing suicide in the general population.

More Likely to be Suicidal
The obvious point that we made above–that women who get implants are more likely to have low self-esteem (and to be mentally ill)–is the conclusion of the researchers. The implants are just another manifestation of Darwin Award winning female material.
Which money was less well-spent–the money for this useless study or the few thousand for the implants that still didn’t stop natural selection from taking place?
Fortunately, in this case, it looks like Canadians–not U.S. taxpayers–footed the bill.
More interesting details at Cosmos.

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Readers of this site know that I’m a big fan of 7-Eleven and Slurpees. My writing on both is , , and .
But, then, one reader, “Smudge,” rained on the parade and and exclusively sold CITGO gas at its stations. I checked and “Smudge” was correct. I’d never knowingly recommend a product, service, or business that has dealings with America’s enemies, including Chavez. Until now, Venezuela supplied 15% of U.S. oil through CITGO and 7-Eleven gas stations, which are also really CITGO stations, many of which bear the CITGO sign.
We’re happy to report that 7-Eleven is ending its relationship with Chavez and CITGO. 7-Eleven also took an unusual, but courageous step for corporate America. It basically denounced Chavez’s comments, last week, at the United Nations (see statement, below). We applaud that.

Okay to Get Slurpees Again: 7-Eleven Dumps CITGO
The story was broken by Bud Hedinger of Orlando’s WFLA-AM 540, a station on which I frequently appear. Pat Campbell, the station’s awesome morning host, sent the tip.
I confirmed this with Janey Carpenter, Consumer Affairs Manager for 7-Eleven, who sent this statement:

7-Eleven stores 20-year supply agreement with CITGO Petroleum Corporation, a U.S.-based company, ends next week, and 7-Eleven, Inc. is now making the switch to its own branded gasoline. Distributors for the gasoline that 7-Eleven stores begin selling in October is provided to us by U.S. companies, such as Tower Energy Group in Torrance, Calif., Sinclair Oil of Salt Lake City and Frontier Oil Corporation of Houston.
Customers will begin seeing the signs changing – with the CITGO signs coming down from the gas canopy and off the gasoline dispensers, and the 7-Eleven brand going up — at our more than 2,100 gasoline convenience-retail locations around the U.S. starting this month. While most of the signs will be changed by the end of next year, this is a large undertaking, and not all CITGO signs will be off our gas canopies until 2008.
Regardless of politics, we sympathize with some Americans’ concern over derogatory comments about our country and its leadership recently made by Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez.

We’re happy to note that for 7-Eleven’s 80th birthday next year, on 7/11/07, the company will be Chavez free. And even happier to note that it’s okay to buy Slurpees again.
**** UPDATE: 7-Eleven’s Janey Carpenter also sends this statement:

In response to your email, the agreement with Citgo only allows us to use their signage until we have re-branded all of our gasoline locations. Effective midnight September 30, 7-Eleven, Inc. will no longer be purchasing its gasoline from Citgo.

Again, this is great news. I’ll Slurp to that. (No juvenile sex jokes, please.)

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Earlier today, the falsely-named and Muslim-dominated American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sent out a phony story and press release claiming that Islamic Charity was cleared of all wrongdoing by the FBI. The charity was not cleared, and the story is phony.
Unfortunately, this is a lesson in “you can’t believe everything you read.” For some reason, MSNBC published this phony story allegedly from the website of Detroit’s NBC affiliate, WDIV-Channel 4, claiming the FBI cleared LIFE of all criminal activity. That is not the case, and the phony MSNBC story is not on the site of WDIV as MSNBC claims, nor has it been reported by any other news outlet.

Islamofascist Debbie Schlussel Fan Club: “Former” Terrorist Imad Hamad, Anti-Semitic Author Mohammed Alomari, Lawyer for Terrorists Shereef Akeel
(Debbie Schlussel Islamofascist Fan Club by David Lunde)
LIFE remains under investigation, and my columns ( and ) on it stand. The group is tied to HAMAS and Al-Qaeda. It would have been impossible for the FBI to have even made a dent in going through the truckloads of computer equipment, files, whole file cabinets, and other items they seized from the charity and homes of those connected with it near Ann Arbor, Michigan and in Missouri.
In addition, two LIFE officials, LIFE CEO Khalil Jassemm and Mujahid Al-Fayadh, resigned from the mosque with which they were associated, the Hidaya Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor. They would not have resigned if they were “cleared.” They were not. It’s doubtful the FBI would clear Al-Fayadh of having $134,000 cash in his house, including a shopping bag stuffed with over $75,000 of that. Talk about ripping off money that was supposed to go to alleged “refugees” and “orphans.” If it’s in cash in the guy’s home, it would be no surprise that, as believed, the money is going right to terrorists (and to Mr. Al-Fayadh’s own personal “relief”).
Finally, it appears that another top LIFE official, Muthanna Al-Hanooti, has fled the country. He is reportedly in the United Arab Emirates. With this advanced warning from the FBI and U.S. Attorney a/k/a Abu Porno that Hanooti is under investigation, don’t look for him to come back.
We’ve heard a million stories from LIFE friends and defenders. First, they said, through in-house counsel Ihsan Al-Khatib, that it was a tax matter. Then, they said that it was to see if they violated the embargo against trade with Saddamist Iraq. But, the fact is that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is the agency investigating this (an investigation they should have done years ago and which, because of their malpracticed delay, may have allowed this charity to reportedly fund terrorist insurgents who killed Americans). And they aren’t ever involved if it doesn’t involve terrorism.
Ditto for the records the FBI sought, which included records involving LIFE and Human Appeal International, Jordan’s HAMAS operation to which LIFE gave millions. Another organization about which the seizure sought records from LIFE is the Kansas City-based Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), shut down by President Bush for funding Al-Qaeda. Ironically, IARA’s lawyer, Shereef Akeel–a CAIR Michigan board member–is now acting as LIFE’s outside attorney–a clear conflict of interest (see his ugly mug at the press conference above), and he is best friends with LIFE’s nutty anti-Semitic spokesman Mohammed Alomari. Akeel filed a silly grievance against me as an attorney for a “crime of fashion” (because I dressed in a hijab at an Islamic event), harassed the radio station on which I had a show, and lied about his own client, Ismael Ahmed’s status as a Vietnam Vet in a letter to me. (The guy never served a day in Vietnam.)
I find it of interest that that all of these guys who defend LIFE are a “Who’s Who” of Islamic extremism, terrorism supporters, and Debbie Schlussel haters. I am on the right side with these guys–on their wrong side.

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How can we trust Ahmadinejad to negotiate in good faith over nuclear materiel when he can’t even be trusted in a simple weightlifting competition?
The Iranian team–for the World Weightlifting Championships in the Dominican Republic, to begin Friday–was forced to withdraw after nine of eleven Iranian weighlifters tested positive for doping.
The country cheats in every arena imaginable.
Oh, and what ever happened to that August 31 deadline we gave Ahmadinejad? More of the Model that will be our death.
Rodney Dangerfield is laughing from his grave. No wonder we now get less respect than he did.

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Even though 9/11 mastermind Ramzi Youssef blew up a passenger (and nearly an entire plane) on a flight in 1994–and had plans to blow up multiple planes the same way–we’ve been allowed to carry liquids on planes.
Suddenly, in August, an Islamic plot in Britain to is uncovered, and those are banned.
As of yesterday, liquids and gels are no longer banned, so long as they are limited to 3 ounce bottles in quart-sized plastic bags. This latest policy was announced yesterday by Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Michael Jackson, a former lobbyist. But it might as well have been announced by bizarre pop singer Michael Jackson. Because it makes no sense.

Michael Jackson, Deputy DHS Secretary or Michael Jackson, Bizarre Pop Singer: Hard to Tell Which One is Running Homeland Security
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Jackson and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley are quoted as saying the new rules are being implemented because “small amounts of liquids ‘don’t pose a real threat.'” They claimed that FBI testing determined that it would take more explosive liquid to do “significant damage to an aircraft.”
But Ramzi Youssef proved that it took very little liquid to kill a passenger and nearly blow up a plane. And that it would take very little liquid to do so again. In addition to killing the passenger next to him, his bomb blew a hole in the plane’s floor, severed the cables controlling the plane’s flaps, and disabled the plane’s steering.
What if five Islamic terrorists each take their quart full of plastic containers with dangerous liquids and mix them together in the plane bathroom (where Youssef made his bomb)? Hawley claims that this scenario “does not worry us.” Well, it should. That was part of the plan in the British plot. TSA official Mike Restovich tells the Wall Street Journal that “mixing liquids in an airport or onboard an airplane isn’t easy to do.” It isn’t? Again, tell that to Ramzi Youssef, the British plotters, etc.
Then, there’s the other ridiculous assumption in the new rules–that it is okay to buy liquids in the airports. At Detroit Metro Airport, many of the shops and restaurants are owned and operated by extremist Muslims who openly support terrorist groups. A whole group of restaurants, for example, is owned by the wife of a man imprisoned for a money laundering and theft scheme that Customs agents believed was tied to Hezbollah. But these people would never sneak dangerous liquids into the airport, right?
To counter this, the TSA’s Hawley says TSA officials

would be stepping up random inspections of items sold inside the secure areas of airports and increasing security checks on workers in the areas.

Ri-i-i-i-i-ight. Like the “security checks” the TSA did on and –two TSA baggage screeners who openly support Al-Qaeda and remained on the job, respectively, for a year and half a year?
The new rules regarding liquids are silly. Just let innocent Americans carry the amount and volume of liquids they need, as before. And start profiling Muslims, Middle-Easterners, and Arabs.
Until we do that–as the Israelis do–we will never be safe. It is not about the materials. It is about the people carrying them. And all of the inconsistent, constantly “evolving” rules on liquids and gels won’t do a damn thing to make us safer.
It’s simply a PR move to make Jackson, Hawley, and DHS chief Michael Chertoff look like they are doing something. Mere cosmetics won’t do much to make the pig look more attractive.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security remains a bloated do-nothing bureaucracy in disarray. Next time, you are deemed to be carrying too much shampoo, think of that.

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It’s long been evident that Oprah doesn’t like White people.
At her falsely-named “Legends Ball,” no Whites were invited (an exception was made, though, for half-Whites like Mariah Carey and Halle Berry, who were raised by their White mothers but identify with the Black fathers abandoned them). At the Legends Ball, there were all kinds of statements against Whites made by Oprah in the ABC primetime special produced by Oprah. And there were the various comments she and her bizarre “correspondents” made on her shows regarding Hurricane Katrina, in which they said that President Bush would never have let this happen if they were White people (which many of the victims, indeed, were).

Racist Oprah artwork by David Lunde
And there have been many other cases of this over the years.
Now, in case anyone missed the many examples, Queen Oprah HRHSBoTU (Her Royal Highness, Supreme Being of the Universe) has made it clear, once again, that she enjoys that all but one of the employees at the Harpo Productions Plantation are White. On her Oprah and Friends XM channel debut yesterday, she and significant other Gayle King had this conversation:

Gayle King: You could work for some good White folks.
HOprah [in a put-upon Black slang accent, making fun of her grandmother]: I hope you get some good White folks like I did ‘cuz I worked for some good White folks.
Gayle: They’re so nice to me. They give you clothes and food.
HOprah [still in Black slang accent]: They give you clothes and you get food to take home. And they give you good clothes, too, not all worn out. That’s what my grandmother used to say to me. And I now say that I wish she had lived to see that I did grow up to get some good White folks–[yelling:]WORKING FOR ME!
Gayle [also yelling]: WORKING FOR YOU!
HOprah [still yelling]: WORKING FOR ME!
Gayle: Hehehehe! [laughs at “White folks”]
HOprah: All these good White folks.
Gayle: There’s [sic] White people everywhere.
HOprah: [“White folks”] Everywhere–only one Black man in here.
Gayle: [“White folks”] Working. Hehehehe! [laughs again at “White folks”]
HOprah: There’s one [“White folk”] everywhere you look. There’s George [a “White folk” employee of HOprah]. More White folks, thumbing up. Yeah, George is giving the thumbs up
Gayle: “I’m a Good White Folk.”
HOprah: Hehehehe! [Laughing at her “White folks.”]

Listen to the audio. Oprah’s racism is evident and disgusting.
Well, at least, she didn’t call us “Crackers” or “Honkies.” That we know of. Oprah said that her conversations aired on XM are taken from her nightly phone conversations with Gayle, and that they are heavily edited because a lot of the information can’t go out over the air. We’d bet she’s a lot less “generous” to us “White folks” in the part that didn’t make it to XM’s airwaves.
We wonder how “all these White folks” who watch her show and made her a billionaire enjoy being known her derogatory comments and epithets. Well, they probably don’t care because Oprah got it wrong. Those who work for her, watch her show, and buy her silly magazine are not simply “all these White folks.” They are “all these stupid, moronic White folks” . . . which is not to be confused with the rest of us who have the good sense not to honor or worship at the alter of this billionaire, racist psychobabbler.
And, by the way, don’t think Oprah is a crusader for Black men, either. Few of them (and few men of any color, for that matter) are portrayed as good guys on her show. Black men on her show are criminals, rap stars who hate women, gospel artists addicted to porn, married, cheating bisexual men on the “down low,” and NBA stars who abandoned their kids.
She doesn’t like Jews or Israel, either, but loves Islamofascists. More on that at Oprah Sucks.

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Hip hop billionaire, Russell Simmons, is mad that Americans are upset by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s outrageous, anti-American comments at the UN and around New York.
Instead of attacking Chavez’s comments, Simmons–the man who made billions from American consumers of his Def Jam records and his Phat Farm clothes–attacked Americans.
Today’s New York Daily News reports that Simmons made these absurd comments:

“The name-calling . . . perpetuates the cycle of violence. We have freedom of speech in this country, and he was expressing an opinion. It wasn’t the most eloquent way to say it, but all this outrage because someone has an opinion is just negative. We should promote love and understanding.”

Hip Hop Billionaire Russell Simmons Pimps for US-Hater Hugo Chavez
Uh, “name-calling”? Chavez called Bush “the devil” and an “alcoholic.” Simmons’ Rodney King can’t-we-all-just-get-along? philosophy is anachronistic in this day and age. Leave it to a “trend-setter” like Simmons not to have a clue.
And by the way, Simmons made this ludicrous statement at

the Clinton Global Initiative conference at the Sheraton, where former President Bill Clinton pushed his stands on climate change, poverty and disease.

Figures. Simmons is hardly one to lecture anyone about promoting love and understanding, since his Hip-Hop Summit Action Network promotes Islamofascism and anti-Semitism, as I detailed .

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Guy’s mag Maxim Magazine has a list of “TV’s Least Appealing Ladies.” And guess who’s #10?
Why, it’s none other than pro-Islamofascist, far-left reporter with that snooty hybrid-English/Iranian accent, Christiane Amanpour. While it doesn’t say whether or not the list describes looks or content, we’d say Amanpour’s “presentation” in favor of Islamofascists at every step of the way is the ugliest thing about her, bar none. Get this woman off the airwaves–for our sake and that of the guys who read Maxim.
Others on the list include Peggy Hill–she’s a cartoon character–and an actress from “The L Word,” a show about lesbians (no explanation necessary). FYI, Maxim states atop the list:

Yes, we left Rosie O’Donnell off this list because she was too obvious.

Christiane Amanpour: Maxim Says She’s Ugly on the Outside;
We Say She’s Ugly on the Inside
Don’t forget that Amanpour’s girlie-man, all shrewed-up hubby (yes, she managed to get a sucker to marry her) is former Clinton State Department spokesman and fellow Islamofascist apologist, Jamie Rubin, whom Rush Limbaugh appropriately calls “Mr. Amanpour.”

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One of the biggest criticisms of Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff a/k/a Mr. Burns is that he’s done nothing to secure power, chemical, and munitions plants. And apparently, he doesn’t really care about the complaints.
While it’s the responsibility of private companies to secure their plants, it’s also DHS’ responsibility to make sure they are doing so. And they aren’t. That’s evidenced by the lax security and a break in, recently at Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tennessee–breaches of which are detailed in an AP story.
Unlike most private weapons producers, Holston is government-owned facility, but operated by a private contractor–Royal Ordnance, a division of English defense giant BAE. Its security falls under the jurisdiction of not only the Army, but also the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security, the latter of which is too lazy, apparently, to be involved.

It is the largest capacity supplier of high performance explosives in the country. Among the many unique products produced here are the explosive powders used to trigger nuclear weapons.
The plant, which houses one of the military’s major suppliers of explosives, is a sieve. Guards at the plant say boaters have entered a restricted area on a river that runs by the property, that there are holes in the fense, that hunters have repeatedly entered the grounds, and that two teens recently trespassed on the site, right near the explosives. But, according to AP, supervisors complained that the company has ignored their concerns:

“We’re really not prepared,” Ron Nitrio, a security officer at the plant for 15 years, said in an interview. “If somebody wants to get in the base – they can get in almost anytime, almost anywhere.”

While some Senators wrote the U.S. Army’s Inspector General to complain, they should be writing to Chertoff, too. It seems on-again, off-again liquid and gel restrictions are far less important than completely insecure explosive factories that are ripe for terrorist pilfering of materiel to be used against Americans at a later point in time.
More on Holston.