Ervin Kosch

If you read an article on AlterNet you would think that a Sunni tribe leader was the next George Washington. Kaissar Saady al-Juboory killed two US soldiers and injured three others when he says he was a pregnant women being dragged out of a house by her hair. The Sunni tribes are having a hay day with this. They think Kaissar is a national hero. Here’s where they’re wrong.

Kaissar broke his oath as a soldier when he shoot his own colleagues. This woman was in no apparent danger other then being dragged. Sharia law also states that a woman is worth 1/3 of a man so he he shouldn’t have been so outraged. Early reports have come out saying that guy may be part of an extremist Sunni independence organization.

This man is a killer. He has killed his own comrades. He should be put up for trial for his war crimes.

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Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.

Source: New York Daily News

Claims have been flying around that Ms. Rhodes has been mugged while walking her dog. Further speculation was that the attack was by a conservative group or individual. All that is known is that Randi was recently injured. In early versions of her story she was attacked while walking her dog. She never filed a report.

If you put two and two together you get a classic case of spouse abuse. The victim makes up lies to cover what really happened. Said victim will usually not go to the police until the victimization reached a fever pitch and possibly threaten their life.

My alternatives plausible explanations include that wounds were either invited or self-inflicted. The resulting pain and sympathy gives the individual a needed emotional boost to add to their self worth. My final plausible explanation is that it could be something so mundane as she tripped down stairs while intoxicated and couldn’t face her fans or employers without a cover story.

Either way, please pray for Randi and that the truth will come out, because the truth will set her free.

Update 1: I thought I would check out what the ‘blogospehere’ had to say about the incident. The rumor going around now is that Randi was intoxicated and fell, causing the injuries.

In an AP story entitled “Obama calls campaign memo on Clinton ties to India a ‘dumb mistake’” we find out exactly how the press release is used.

Two lines stand out in the article. The first “Last Thursday, Obama’s campaign sent the memo to reporters, demanding that it not be attributed to their campaign.” You see politicians no longer try to stand on their personal strength. Rather its easier to kneel on their competition’s weaknesses. Obama didn’t say why outsourcing to India was bad for the US No he tried to make the Clinton camp look bad for taken foreign interests money.

Don’t think I’m a Hillary supporter. I have no love for the Clintons because of the next line in the article, “The Clinton campaign obtained the document and sent it to journalists. Since then, it has created a furor in the Indian-American community and raised questions.” The Clinton camp used Obama’s own tactic against him. Instead of saying why they thought it’s had been a good idea take extra-national money they spit in Obama’s eye.

I know that Republicans engage in the same strategies. Its just that this slash and burn tactic didn’t come up in this article. It is about time the nation wakes up and look hard at the meat grinder we call our media. We letting other’s tear our lives apart.

Addendum:
While not worthy of a complete post I thought I would scratch down a supporting point of how indirectly the media is attacking our daily live. I recently finished reading the two Transformers books. I grew up with the ‘robots in disguise’ cartoon and had high hopes for the new movie. So I consumed the books in hopes of gleaming some deeper insight into the characters that a 100 minute film couldn’t offer up.

I was sad to find the new revisionist story a thin story line with plot holes so big you could drive an Optimus Prime through ‘em. There’s a point in the book where the president was treated as four year old, feed milk and polluted ding-dongs. Read the book, you’ll understand. Why couldn’t the shortsighted media at least treat the office of the presidency with some respect? If things keep going the way they are, they’ll have that office soon and whole generation will have learned to hate the media’s supporters for their continuous betrayal/portrayal of the office.