Under-Reported News Items For The Year 2006

This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Sunday, December 31st, 2006 at 12:50 am. Comments are currently closed.

29 Responses to “Under-Reported News Items For The Year 2006”

1. BillK
   December 31st, 2006 at 8:54 am

   The MSM needs to give themselves a big pat on the back for this one:

   Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007

   Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans’ grim predictions for the United States in 2007.

   But on a brighter note, only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea over the countries’ nuclear ambitions. An overwhelming majority thinks Congress will raise the federal minimum wage. A third sees hope for a cure to cancer.

   [ ... ]

   Six in 10 people think the U.S. will be the victim of another terrorist attack next year, more than five years after the Sept. 11 assault on New York and Washington. An identical percentage think it is likely that bad guys will unleash a biological or nuclear weapon elsewhere in the world.

   There is plenty of gloom to accompany all of that doom.

   Seventy percent of Americans predict another major natural disaster within the United States and an equal percentage expect worsening global warming. Fewer than one-third of people, or 29 percent, think it is likely that the U.S. will withdraw its troops from Iraq.

   Perhaps they should have just headlined it as “Poll: Americans believe the crap we feed them, get depressed.”

2. sheehanjihad
   December 31st, 2006 at 11:45 am

   Ever wonder what happened to Spec.2 Joseph Darby of the 372nd Military Police Bttln.? Ever wonder who he is in the first place? I cannot post a link because the article is “filler” in our local paper with no credits or by lines….but….this is the guy who blew the whistle on Abu Gharib….and exposed everyone but himself to the resulting anti American crap worldwide, and countless innocent deaths because he “did the right thing”.

   Now, it seems as though he cant go home….his home town of Cumberland MD has a price on his head, and a target on his back…..lifelong friends wont talk to him, and his family is treated like lepers. The military didnt help him except advising him to avoid any place where people know him. He is out now, his location secret. But, not for long…..the internet is a wonderful thing.

3. SG
   December 31st, 2006 at 2:48 pm

   Just a note to point out that I have broadened the topic of this thread to include any stories that we feel was ignored by the mainstream media during the last year.

   (I probably should have posted the KGB’s letter about Ted Kennedy here.)

4. SG
   December 31st, 2006 at 6:06 pm

   This article applies as both a missed item of the week — but also of the year.

   From the Copenhagen Post:

   Koran becomes hit Christmas present

   20.12.2006

   Believers and non-believers alike are looking to a new Koran translation to give them insight into Islam

   A new Danish translation of the Koran has been snapped up from bookstores’ shelves, joining the ties, toasters and toys wrapped and waiting to be opened Christmas Eve.

   In the first month since its release, nearly half of the 10,000 copies available have been sold, sending philologist Ellen Wulff’s translation to number two on the non-fiction list.

   Bookstore managers have reported that this translation of the central text of Islam has become a surprise Christmas gift hit…

   http://www.cphpost.dk/get/99633.html

5. sheehanjihad
   December 31st, 2006 at 11:46 pm

   Well, this is news in a sense….HAPPY NEW YEAR S&Lers!!! I do hope the coming year is as informative an interesting as this site has made the past year. The Snag is scheduled to act like a stupid jerk…..oh, that isnt news, is it? Leather faced whore…….anyway….here’s to 2007!

6. clifcrds
   January 1st, 2007 at 10:37 am

   We need people like this to run for office:

   On Your Hands

   J. D. Pendry - Insight of a Sergeant Major (The author, J.D. Pendry, is a retired Army Command Sergeant Major who writes for Random House.)
   September 4, 2006

   Jimmy Carter, you’re the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the runner-in-chief.

   Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.

   John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You’ve accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You’re a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

   John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You’re not a Marine sir. You wouldn’t amount to a pimple on a real Marines butt. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.

   Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanimo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.

   Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraq’s torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated real torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of the perpetrators of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You’re a bloated fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.

   Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam. Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we’ll run away again and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.

   American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

   You are America’s axis of idiots. Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war – this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.

   No Commander in Chief, you don’t get off the hook either. Our country has two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It’s your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots. America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot.

   They need you to do it now.
   Copyright © J.D. Pendry 2006

   http://jdpendry.com/2006/09/04/on-your-hands/

   I think the good Sergeant Major pretty well sums up what happened (or did not happen) in 2006. The leftist Defeatocrats, aided by their liberal loving sycophantic lapdog mouthpieces the main-stream media, were AGAIN allowed to throw aside their fiduciary duty and use their selective reporting to help the Defeatocrats gain power in both the House and the Senate.

   The Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell hit the nail on the head when he called the main-stream media “a laughingstock when it comes to the idea of objective journalism.” http://newsbusters.org/node/8949 AND If we rigidly applied truth-in-advertising laws to the national media in their coverage of the 2006 campaign, we would have first declared that the stuff between the commercials wasn’t “news” as much as a boatload of free infomercial advertising for the Democrats. The news reports should have led with the sentence, “I’m Nancy Pelosi, and I approved this newscast.” http://newsbusters.org/node/8998

   And you haven’t seen anything yet folks. Get ready for the upcoming battle in 2008 when the Defeatocrats and their allies the main-stream media prepare to gain full control of the government (well at least the elected branches of government – once they do that it is only a matter of time when the cement their hold on the Supreme Court) when they run the combination of Hillary and Obama!

7. DW
   January 1st, 2007 at 1:45 pm

   Is it just me, or does the above article sound like it could have been written by SJ (if you salted the Sgt Major’s writing with the odd “snag”, “tater” and “dick with ears”)?
   Great article either way.

8. DEZ
   January 1st, 2007 at 2:37 pm

   Its not just you DW.
   It does read like an SJ post without the colorful metaphors.

9. sheehanjihad
   January 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pm

   yeah…you guys are right! I agree with it too…good article, great observations. Where’s that grizzly bear?

10. sheehanjihad
    January 1st, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    Ok, I need help here….no, not that kind of help!! There is a conference scheduled for the week of the 12th or something in Memphis Tennesee? Every liberal leftist worth their lying scrotes is scheduled to be there, and it is going to address…..get this…..Bushco’s control of the Mainstream media!!

    If someone in the neighborhood or skilled with searching….like most of you….please verify this whing ding….and I have someone who is so enthralled with liberalism and hates bush so much, he is going! I need to get him a camera….so we can see reverend jesse’s face…gina davis….tim robbins… Mahmood amadinejad’s representatives…

    Anyway, my source is questionable…being liberal and stupid….so if anyone has heard of this Democracy for the airwaves conference….lemme know. we may have an unwitting plant for photo ops and what was discussed.

11. doingwhatican
    January 1st, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    Irritating, Worn-Out Words of ‘06 Banned

    http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1020007

    I’m sick of:

    “at the end of the day” - the media and politicians mumble this incessantly.

    “no problem” - as in when you say “thank you” to anyone for anything.

    “like” - as in “he like told me”

    “goes” in place of “said”.

    “democrat” - they don’t exist anymore. Dems are replaced with leftoid, socialist, communist, marxist, progressive.

    “Hillary Clinton” - ’nuff said.

    Now, it’s y’all’s turn….”What say you?” (ugh)

12. DW
    January 1st, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    SJ,
    Just type in “media conference memphis tennessee”
    Lotsa hits. Here’s one:
    http://www.freepress.net/conference/

13. DW
    January 1st, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    Oh Christ -what a loon fest ! You should see the “confirmed speakers” list.
    Jane Fonda, Phil Donohue, Helen Thomas (with a very flattering photo of Ms. Thomas…if you’re a member of R-CALF…), Danny Glover, Jesse Jackson, assorted others that I’ve not heard of but most of y’all likely have.

14. wirenut
    January 1st, 2007 at 6:22 pm

    Happy New Years everybody! I’m late on everything but let’s get to it.
    #1 As SG’s earlier post went, should’nt the Koran be filed under fiction rather than non-fiction.( 12/31/06/ 6:06pm?
    #2 Yes we should all be quaking in our boots, the nut-cases have temporary control.
    #3 Not too worried, as things always work out over time. Such as global cooling, warming, ALGORE and Paris who???? Much to-do about nothing at all. After the crap dries out, it’s in the wind.

15. NotStuckOnStupid
    January 2nd, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Happy New Years folks!

    Doingwhatican, that is a great link. My 2 favorite paragraphs:

    “Critics piled on the media’s practice of combined celebrity names such as “TomKat” or “Brangelina.” One said, “It’s so annoying, idiotic and so lame and pathetic that it’s “lamethetic.”

    Arrrggghhh! No kidding! More than tiresome idiocy from our all-glitz, no-substance popular culture.

    “It wasn’t hard to find the phrase “gone/went missing” in 2006. “It makes ‘missing’ sound like a place you can visit, such as the Poconos. Is the person missing, or not?” asked Robin Dennis of Texas.”

    LOL! true.

16. 1sttofight
    January 2nd, 2007 at 6:17 pm

    As soon as I sober up I will wish everyone a Happy New Year.

17. DW
    January 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 pm

    Well that’s fine 1st, but people are going to wonder why you’re wishing us a Happy New Year in August :-)

18. 1sttofight
    January 2nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    Is it August already? What happened to global warming?

19. DEZ
    January 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    LMAO guys.
    Its July, Sheesh.

20. Warmonger Infidel
    January 3rd, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Fox News Channel just reported that al-snaggo and her minions have disrupted the dhimmi caucas news conference demanding the troops be brought home now. Rham Emanual (former and forever clintonista) cancelled the news conference saying they would come back later when the anti-war protestors are gone. I love it….they are turning on each other, soon to implode. The blood of the mooselimb animal sacrifices will be nothing compared to the blood shed by the dhimmis.

21. SG
    January 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    “Fox News Channel just reported that al-snaggo and her minions have disrupted the dhimmi caucas news conference demanding the troops be brought home now.”

    I saw that and another report in passing earlier. But I still haven’t found any articles on the wire services.

    It sounds like the usual suspects, Cindy Sheehan, Medea, The World Can’t Wait and the other Communist front groups.

22. Warmonger Infidel
    January 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    sg….apparently they have been making the rounds of capitol hill dhimmi offices spreading the message to cancel the domestic agenda set by the dhimmi leadership (dhimmi leadership=oxymoron) of domestic bill passed in the 1st 100 hours and replace it with immediate withdrawal of the troops. They are putting the dhimmi leadership in a very bad position since the left claims they put them in power to do just that….bring the troops home now. I think this is going to be very good theater.

23. SG
    January 3rd, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    All I have found so far was their press release, which I decided to post anyway.

24. 1sttofight
    January 3rd, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    Piglosi and the dems are caught between reality and the looney left.

    Good for them.

25. Warmonger Infidel
    January 3rd, 2007 at 5:09 pm

    Here’s a link to the FNC story and video of PMS snaggo doing her thing. Freaking asshats one and all. And the democrats in Congress deserve what they’re getting from her.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,241137,00.html

26. BillK
    January 3rd, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    Hey, it worked so well to demonize Big Tobacco, let’s keep comparing the oil companies to them:

    ExxonMobil cultivates global warming doubt: report

    In case you forgot the Democrats’ mash note to ExxonMobil, demanding they stop this and make big contributions to greenie groups:

    Energy giant ExxonMobil borrowed tactics from the tobacco industry to raise doubt about climate change, spending $16 million on groups that question global warming, a science watchdog group said on Wednesday.
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    “ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer,” Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists said at a telephone news conference releasing the report.

    An ExxonMobil spokesman did not respond immediately to calls for comment.

    The union, a nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest publicly traded corporation, had succeeded in parlaying a relatively modest investment into unwarranted public doubt on findings that have been overwhelmingly endorsed by mainstream science.

    Yes, raising doubts about science that is more of a religion than anything based on actual facts.

    Here’s a fun test for any scientist who claims their research is impartial: try to get funding for a study that will look into whether Global Warming is actually happening and whether it can definitively be proved it is caused by man. Good luck with that one.

    Funding for a study to show how bad Global Warming is getting? No problem.

    In many ways, the scientific community is no different today than it was in the time of Galileo, with the governments of the world and the “scientific community” playing the role of the church.

27. DEZ
    January 3rd, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    kucharsk .
    I have two fairly large telescopes, Not near large enough to see melting ice caps on distant worlds,
    But enough to keep me interested in space.
    So I read about it, And what they never tell you in the media is that a neighbor planet known as Mars is warming up as well at nearly the same rate to Earths.
    Man may have some effect on earths climate, But we sure as hell have no effect on Mars.
    But that’s a little big fact that some will never acknowledge, They can find no profit or politcal advantage in pointing to our biggest supplier of radiant heat, A small star we call the sun.

28. rocketman
    January 6th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    ANOTHER GUESS THAT AFFILIATION QUIZ

    From our friends at The Boston Herald:

    ‘Shamed’ Finneran admits shenanigans in redistricting plan

    By Dave Wedge

    Choking back tears, former Speaker Thomas M. Finneran - once the state’s most unflappable power broker - groveled for forgiveness in a federal courtroom to dodge jail for giving “misleading” testimony in a racially charged House redistricting case.

    “I shamed myself. I shamed my family,” Finneran said yesterday, his voice shaking as he stood before a room packed with media, former colleagues and friends in U.S. District Court. “I apologize to my constituents. I apologize to the people of Massachusetts.”

    Facing up to 10 years in federal prison for obstruction of justice, Finneran ducked jail and instead was given 18 months of unsupervised probation and fined $25,000. He also agreed not to seek public office for five years.

    The charges stemmed from “misleading” testimony Finneran gave in a 2003 federal suit filed by minority voter groups upset over a House plan to redraw legislative districts along racial lines. Finneran denied knowledge of the plan but actually played a “key role” in crafting the new districts, prosecutors said.

    “Mr. Finneran abused his position. At the time, he was seen as one of the most powerful people in Massachusetts,” United States Attorney Michael Sullivan said. “I hope today’s conviction sends a powerful message.” …

    Finneran, 56, is also expected to be barred from practicing law in Massachusetts and lose his $31,000-a-year pension as a result of the conviction. …

    Sources say Finneran will leave that job, but MBC chairman Michael Webb would only say that the board “understands the seriousness” of the conviction and will meet to determine Finneran’s future. Sources said the ex-speaker is in the final stages of hashing out a multi-year deal to host a morning talk show on WRKO (680 AM).

    The legislative redistricting plan resulted in Finneran’s district being “whitened” by picking up white neighborhoods in Milton, but Sullivan said prosecutors found no “racial motivation” by the ex-speaker. Investigators determined the districts were redrawn not to racially discriminate, but rather to protect incumbent lawmakers, Sullivan said.

    Finneran, who represented a largely minority district for 26 years, said he misled the court about his knowledge of the plan because he was “offended” that he was being accused of “racial manipulation.”

    “I acknowledge, clearly and without hesitation, my errors in judgment concerning my conduct in court that day,” Finneran said. “If I could erase that day, I would do so in a moment.”

    http://tinyurl.com/yz8rl9

    DEMOCRAT!

29. SG
    January 6th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    Nuthingbettertodo has forwarded this under-reported minor victory.

    From the AP:

    Cleveland Muslim Leader Convicted of Lying About Terror Ties Deported

    Friday , January 05, 2007

    DETROIT — A Muslim leader from Ohio who was convicted of lying about his involvement with a group the U.S. government designated a terrorist organization has been deported to his native Palestinian territories, immigration authorities said Friday.

    Fawaz Damra, 46, was convicted in June 2004 of concealing his ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad when he applied for U.S. citizenship in 1994.

    Damra, who served imam at Ohio’s largest mosque, the Islamic Center of Cleveland, was deported on Thursday, said Tim Counts, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was flown to Amman, Jordan, then crossed to the West Bank…

    Damra immigrated to the United States in the mid-1980s and is married with three U.S.-born children.

    In Ohio, he had become involved in interfaith activities, particularly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. But soon after, a tape of a 1991 speech in Chicago became public in which Damra said Muslims should be “directing all the rifles at the first and last enemy of the Islamic nation and that is the sons of monkeys and pigs, the Jews.”

    Damra apologized and said he made the remarks before he had any interaction with Christians and Jews.

    At his 2004 trial, prosecutors showed video footage of him and other Muslim leaders raising money for an arm of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The State Department placed the group on its list of terrorist organizations in 1989.

    Damra had been imam of a Brooklyn, N.Y., mosque in the mid-1980s that became a focus of fundraising for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan. His replacement there, Omar Abdel-Rahman, was convicted in a 1995 foiled plot to blow up New York City landmarks.

    http://tinyurl.com/y8dzwc

    As Nuthingbettertodoso aptly adds: “if you don’t report, you must deport.”