You have to love the New York Times and for that matter, all the national and international media for this one. The headline of this article published today in the New York Times and reprinted all over the world by the Associated Press is titled ” Long Range Rockets Fired into Israel.” But what is the focus of the N.Y. Times article? The retaliation by Israel and a six month old baby that was killed.

The people of Israel are sitting back minding their own business when a terrorist organization launches missiles into their neighborhoods. The Israeli Government retaliates and what gets covered? The plight of the terrorists. These people want to kill anyone they perceive as infidels. Jews Christians and anyone else that does not follow the Muslim religion. I am not trying to say that Israel does not stir up the shit down there. I am simply pointing out the liberal terrorists contained in the American Media and their defense of world terror. JD

NY TIMES ARTICLE

JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants in Gaza fired four rockets into the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Thursday, hitting a house, the Israeli police said. Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 11 Palestinians, including four young boys, Palestinian medical officials said.

An Israeli girl suffering from shock after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed just outside the Israeli town of Ashkelon, Israel, on Friday.

No one was hurt in the attacks on Ashkelon, but the attack will probably be seen in Israel as an escalation of the conflict. Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 people, has been an occasional target of rockets in the past, but the scale of attacks on Thursday was unprecedented.

The police in Ashkelon said six rockets were fired, and four landed in the city. It was the first time there had been a direct hit on a house. The Israeli Army said that five rockets had been fired into Ashkelon.

The rockets were manufactured Grad-type rockets, which are based on a Russian design and have a longer range than the homemade, relatively crude Qassam rockets that are usually fired at the Israeli town of Sderot and the farming communities bordering the Gaza Strip. The rockets were made in Iran, according to an Israeli security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give out such information.

Israel kept up its airstrikes Thursday against militants in the Gaza Strip, one day after an Israeli civilian was killed in a rocket attack on Sderot, the first such fatality in nine months.

The Israeli Army said it had carried out five airstrikes since the early hours of Thursday morning against armed men and rocket-launching squads in Gaza. Five militants were killed in those strikes, according to Hamas and Palestinian medical officials, bringing the total of Palestinians killed in Gaza since Wednesday to 17.

Two more militants were killed in two later attacks, according to local reports, and an airstrike in northern Gaza Thursday killed four young boys, aged 8, 9, 11 and 12, Palestinian medical officials said.

Among the dead in Gaza since Wednesday were six civilians, including three other young boys and a 5-month-old boy killed in airstrikes on Wednesday night, the medical officials said.

Most of the dead militants belonged to the military wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades. One of them was Hamza al-Hayya, the son of Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas leader and legislator. Hamza al-Hayya was killed on Thursday morning in what the Israeli military said was a strike against a squad about to launch rockets.

Seven members of the Hayya family and a neighbor were killed in May in an Israeli airstrike that hit the family home. Khalil al-Hayya was not in the house at the time. Military officials said at the time that the army had “identified and hit a five-member terrorist cell” that was the target of the attack. That month, Hamas had intensified its rocket fire from Gaza and two other Israelis were killed by rockets in Sderot.

Rockets again slammed into Sderot on Thursday, leaving the streets mostly deserted and the few people who ventured out running for cover.

Many residents were in a state of panic as a series of rockets fell in the center of town.

A bodyguard of Avi Dichter, Israel’s minister for public security, was lightly wounded by shrapnel when a rocket hit the campus of Sapir College, on the outskirts of Sderot, where the Israeli civilian was killed on Wednesday.

The Qassam Brigades issued a statement in Gaza on Thursday saying they had fired 70 rockets into Israel since Wednesday, with 41 aimed at Sderot.

The latest surge of hostilities started on Wednesday morning, when the Israeli air force carried out a strike in southern Gaza, hitting a minivan on a road west of Khan Yunis and killing five members of the Qassam Brigades.

Southern Israel then came under heavy rocket fire, with more than 40 rockets launched from Gaza on Wednesday, the Israeli Army said. Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, saying it had been retaliating for the Israeli strike.

In a second Israeli airstrike carried out amid the rocket fire, two Palestinian youths were killed and 12 other civilians were wounded, Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, director of emergency medical services in Gaza, said. A third boy died later. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the strike had been aimed at a rocket-firing squad, and witnesses in Gaza told Palestinian news media that the civilians had been hit while watching Hamas militants fire the rockets.

Late Wednesday night, Israeli aircraft fired more missiles into Gaza, hitting the empty building of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry and metal workshops in Gaza City and Khan Yunis. The 5-month-old boy, Muhammad al-Burei, was killed by shrapnel from the attack on the Interior Ministry, and several civilians were wounded, Dr. Hassanein said. The ministry building is in a residential area.

The army spokeswoman confirmed strikes against various locations in Gaza, and said they were all aimed at Hamas compounds and headquarters used by militants to plan or launch attacks.

The Israeli victim, Ronnie Yichia, 47, was struck in the chest by shrapnel from a rocket that landed in the parking lot of the Sapir College campus on the outskirts of Sderot. According to Israeli police figures, he was the 14th civilian to die from rockets fired from Gaza since 2001.

Wednesday’s rocket fire also struck Ashkelon. One rocket fell in the grounds of Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. A 10-year-old boy from Sderot, hurt in a rocket attack on Monday, was recuperating there after surgery.

Israel is engaged in what Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called a “daily war” against the militants launching rockets from Gaza. Responding to Wednesday’s events from Japan during an official visit, Mr. Olmert said that “no one in Hamas, neither the low-level officials nor the highest echelon, will be immune in this war.”

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Mr. Olmert in Tokyo on Thursday morning and said afterward that Hamas rocket attacks against Israel “need to stop,” The Associated Press reported.

Palestinians said two of the militants killed in the first Israeli strike were Abdullah Edwan, a rocket engineer, and Muhammad Abu Aker, a rocket squad commander. Residents said the men were going to a training camp in southern Gaza. Two were masked, they said, and returned from Iran three weeks ago.

Relatives of Mr. Edwan, who was said to have been the main strike target, said he was trained in Syria and Iran. Two other militants were wounded, medical officials said.

The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, told Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday that Gaza militants had undergone intensive training in Syria and Iran and had taken advantage of the recent 11-day breach of Gaza’s border with Egypt to return to Gaza.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Arye Mekel, called the Hamas practice of firing rockets at Israeli civilian centers from areas populated by Palestinian civilians a “war crime that hurts Israelis and Palestinians alike.”

Another militant group, Islamic Jihad, said that Israeli forces killed one of its gunmen near the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza early on Wednesday.

But the army spokeswoman, who spoke on condition of anonymity under army rules, said that a Palestinian had been spotted approaching the border fence and had tried to lay a bomb, but that he was killed in a blast probably caused by explosives he carried.

Hamas took over Gaza last June after routing forces loyal to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. The two groups, which had shared power, are now bitter rivals. Mr. Abbas was quoted Wednesday in the London-based newspaper Al Hayat as saying that members of Al Qaeda had infiltrated the Gaza Strip with Hamas cooperation.

“I can say without doubt that Al Qaeda is present in the Palestinian territories and that this presence — especially in Gaza — is facilitated by Hamas,” he said.

Mr. Abbas has called for a halt to the rocket attacks from Gaza.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, said Mr. Abbas’s statements gave “justification for the Israeli aggression.” He forecast an escalation in violence.

Ms. Rice is to arrive in the region on Monday to follow up on talks that Mr. Olmert and Mr. Abbas began at the peace conference in Annapolis, Md., in November, Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman, said Wednesday.

A Palestinian member of the armed wing of Fatah was killed Wednesday in a raid in Nablus by undercover Israeli commandos, the Israeli military and Palestinian officials said.

The Israeli forces were there to arrest five wanted men from the Fatah military wing and opened fire when they tried to escape, killing one of them, Ibrahim Masimi, 22, Israeli military officials said. They said Mr. Masimi was armed and had recruited suicide bombers in the past.

Omri Sharon, a son of Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, began a seven-month prison term on Wednesday after being convicted in 2006 of violating party campaign finance laws, fraud and perjury. The sentence had been delayed because the elder Mr. Sharon, 80, had a severe stroke.

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Apparently to prove that the US is filled with Muslim hating Yahoos, ABC went on the hunt to find “Islamophobia” in America and the result is “Witness to Discrimination: What Would You Do?” Since they didn’t really know where to find any, ABC News decided to create their own prejudice against Muslims by hiring an actress to put on Muslim dress and get “confronted” by a Muslim hating coffee store server — also an actor hired by ABC. Then, they rolled the cameras, opened the doors to the public and, viola, ABC “found” prejudice in America. How hard is it to “find” something that you invented in the first place? Let’s find out…

ABC is “shocked” to find that their little manufactured moments revealed how some customers reacted. “Bystanders Turn Away When Muslim Actor Hired By ‘Primetime’ Encounters Hostility,” ABC proclaimed.

ABC begins their report assuring us all that “Islamophobia” is rampant in America.

The Sept. 11 attacks, the Iraq war and suicide bombings worldwide have changed not only the way we live but the way we look at those around us, especially Muslims. “Islamophobia” has entered the American vernacular, and the anti-Muslim attitudes and prejudice it describes remain common.

Prejudiced attitudes against Muslims “remain common”? Does it really? Is ABC telling us that Muslims are being widely discriminated against in this country since 9/11?

Well, ABC may be claiming this is so, but the FBI sure isn’t. According to Investor’s Business Daily, the FBI has found that anti-Muslim crimes in the USA is not so “common” as ABC wants to make us believe.

Not only are anti-Islamic hate crimes way down, but they’re a fraction of overall religious hate crimes. The overwhelming majority of such crimes target Jews, something CAIR and other Muslim groups don’t seem all that concerned about.

In 2006, a whopping 66% of religiously motivated attacks were on Jews, while just 11% targeted Muslims, even though the Jewish and Muslim populations are similar in size. Catholics and Protestants, who together account for 9% of victims, are subject to almost as much abuse as Muslims in this country.

So, how the heck did ABC find all this “Islamophobia” in America? They created it out of whole cloth and then stepped back to see people “react” to it.

ABC’s production crew outfitted The Czech Stop, a bustling roadside bakery north of Waco, Texas, with hidden cameras and two actors. One played a female customer wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf, or hijab. The other acted as a sales clerk who refused to serve her and spouted common anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs.

ABC then filmed the outcome of their set-up, their entrapping situation, and reported that… gasp… there is prejudice in America. But, even at this they only found one guy that expressed any measure of support for the anti-Islamic sentiment. And even that lone guy was more in favor of a business owner being permitted to run his business how he wanted to run it.

What ABC apparently found most “shocking” was that most regular folks would simply turn away, essentially trying to ignore the situation. ABC seemed to read this as some sort of inherent racism on the part of the stunned customers.

Even though people seemed to have strong opinions on either side, more than half of the bystanders did or said absolutely nothing. This is a familiar reaction for many Muslims such as Javed. “I was shocked because when these things happen to me in real life … I never see what happens after I walk out of that store,” she said. “I would try to justify … that they probably didn’t hear it … when I watched it, I realized, no, they hear it and they see it and they’re okay with it.”

No, sir, they weren’t necessarily “OK with it.” For most people who aren’t confronted with such situations on a daily basis, the shock of the altercation will leave them stunned, bewildered, and unable to act very quickly to such a situation. This is human nature, not any innate “Islamophobia.” Most people just fear getting themselves involved in any sort of altercation. It’s called the “flight” reaction. Many people just want to shrink from trouble and run away to preserve themselves.

In any case, even as ABC tried to pretend that everyone hates Muslims in America, even their own report revealed people who stood up for the young “Muslim” woman that they thought was being discriminated against.

So, in the end, what we have here is ABC sensationalizing a “racism” that doesn’t exist at the sort of so-called high rates that they are trying to make us all believe it is happening. ABC wanted to find “Islamophobia” so it went out and created it.

No wonder they “found” it, huh?

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The Idea that Ms. Lohan would even attempt to compare herself to Marilyn Monroe sickens me. The only thing that they have in common is alcoholism and drug abuse. JD

In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose.

The photos endure partly as artifacts—as the last visible evidence of the living woman (a legacy reinforced by Stern’s decision to publish the contact sheets Monroe herself had crossed out in red marker). But the pictures are also remarkable for the raw truths they seem to reveal. In them, we see an actress whose comedic talents were overshadowed by her sex appeal, a woman who is cannily aware of her pinup status, yet is also beginning to show her 36 years. In many shots, she is obviously drunk. This was an unhappy time for Monroe. Notorious for her on-set antics, she had been publicly lambasted by Billy Wilder after Some Like It Hot, then fired from the production of Something’s Got to Give; she’d endured two recent divorces and, in 1961, a brief stint in a psychiatric ward. To see the entire slideshow click here.

Stern excavated and preserved the poignant humanity of the real woman—beautiful, but also fragile, needy, flawed—from the monumental sex symbol. In our armored, airbrushed age, his achievement feels almost revolutionary.

Forty-six years later, Stern has revisited his classic shots with Lindsay Lohan, another actress whose prodigious fame is not quite commensurate with her professional achievements. Stern, who shot the photos on film rather than digitally, told me he was interested in Lohan because he suspected “she had a lot more depth to her” than one might assume from “those teenage movies.” Indeed, many in the film industry believe that Lohan has yet to pursue projects equal to her gifts. Without putting too fine a point on it, you might say Lohan has, like Monroe, a knack for courting the tabloids and tripping up her career. (Readers will remember that Lohan had her own Billy Wilder moment two summers ago on the set of Georgia Rule.) Stern said the project also grew out of his interest in “controversial women,” or “bad girls,” like “Britney, Paris, and Lindsay.” Monroe was, in a sense, the original tabloid queen.

Though Lohan’s willingness to reprise the photos might seem a sly nod to her scandalous past, the actress offered a straightforward explanation. “I didn’t have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? When is that ever going to come up? It’s really an honor.” During a break in the daylong shoot, Lohan sat cross-legged on a bed in the four-room suite and spoke to me, in that familiar throaty voice with its staccato rhythms, about her abiding obsession with Monroe. Her interest took root a decade ago with multiple viewings of Niagara during the London filming of The Parent Trap. She has even purchased an apartment where Marilyn once lived. “If you saw my house … I have a lot of Marilyn stuff,” she told me, including a huge painting of Monroe.

“It’s eerie,” Lohan said of the painting, a Christmas gift, “because it’s this picture of her, and it’s kind of cartoony, and there’s a big bottle of pills next to her, and they’ve fallen over.” Lohan called Monroe’s suicide “tragic,” and then added, elliptically, “You know, it’s also tragic what just recently happened to someone else.” I asked whether she was referring to Heath Ledger. She nodded: “They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone.” Why some and not others, I asked, since it has often seemed that the thrice-rehabbed Lohan might meet a similar fate. Lohan replied with a flicker of annoyance: “I don’t know. I’m not them. But I sure as hell wouldn’t let it happen to me.” Still, one wonders whether Lohan’s participation in this project, given all the spooky parallels, isn’t the photographic equivalent of moving into a haunted house. (Which, in fact, she may have already done.)

Lohan viewed the shoot as a theatrical performance, as a chance to inhabit the role of an idol. “I wanted to portray the book and get it point-on as much as I could, to bring it back to life,” she said. Hence the strict mimesis: scarves, nudity, and all. “Not more than fifteen minutes had passed since she’d arrived, and already she had agreed to take her clothes off!” Stern writes of Monroe in his swaggering introduction to The Complete Last Sitting, the book in which all 2,571 photos have been collected. He might have said the same about Lohan. “I was comfortable with it,” the actress remarked of the nudity (though she did confess to doing “250 crunches” the previous night). All made up, in winged eyeliner and shellacked blonde wig, Lohan, who has returned to her former voluptuousness, at times appeared more Marilyn than the thin, somewhat diminished woman of the original Marilyn photos. “It was very similar, déjà vu you might say, like revisiting an old street,” said Stern.

The original photos, however, were distinguished by an almost claustrophobic intimacy between photographer and muse. In the first session, Stern persuaded the entourage of stylists to leave him alone with Monroe. The shoot thus took on the symbolic (if not the actual) contours of a liaison. The rise of the celebrity industrial complex has rendered this sort of tense pas de deux all but impossible. At the Lohan shoot, the crowd included Lohan’s manager, her security guard, and her younger sister, Ali; a makeup artist and assistant, a hairstylist and assistant, a stylist, a manicurist, a sentry to watch the borrowed diamonds; Stern, his manager, and two photo assistants. Lohan and Stern worked in an adjoining room, while the rest of us hovered outside like groupies at a backstage entrance.

“Here is a woman who is giving herself to the public,” Lohan said, about the Monroe photos, when we spoke the next day by phone. “She’s saying, ‘Look, you’ve taken a lot from me, so why don’t I give it to you myself.’ She’s taking control back.” Like any tabloid veteran, Lohan understands the potency of a photograph, and that the best way to respond to a society that views you only as an image might just be on its own terms.

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I can’t believe anyone even watches this show! It’s totally contrived and the main characters are a bunch of saw toothed crackers. That wife of his is straight out of a trailer park and his family is like a three ring circus. If Dog came at me with his paint ball gun and taser I would grab one of those braided bead things in his hair, pull him to the ground and kick his teeth in. I always wondered why he didn’t carry actual firearms. Its because he is a convicted felon. So A&E will put this drivel back on T.V. and get that whopping one share of the Neilson audience and all of the hillbillies in America will be happy once again.

JD

Duane “Dog” Chapman will be back in business and back on the air on A&E. Woof!

A network official confirms that the show is going back into production, but they’ve not yet set a premiere date. As of now, they’re gearing up — big time — in Hawaii and production will begin ASAP. Makeup artists and camera crews have been hired, and houses and cars have been rented, all for the return of the show.

A&E had suspended production on “Dog the Bounty Hunter” indefinitely after a recording surfaced featuring Chapman making racial slurs. Chapman immediately began a tour of forgiveness, working with CORE and other groups to promote racial equality. We’re told network execs were “very pleased” with Dog’s attempt to make amends and his reaching out to members of the African American community.

A&E isn’t just making this decision out of the goodness of their hearts either. The show was insanely popular for the network, here and internationally — airing in over 20 countries.

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This should drive gasoline prices up a buck a gallon. JD

BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) – An explosion rocked an oil refinery today in a violent blast that shook buildings miles away and injured at least one person, the company said.

All workers were accounted for about an hour after the explosion, said Blake Lewis, spokesman for refinery owner Alon USA. The injured worker was in the hospital, but the person’s condition was not known, Lewis said.

The fire sparked by the blast was under control Monday morning, Lewis said. The Dallas-based company does not know what caused the explosion, he said.

The blast sent black smoke billowing into the sky, shut down a major interstate and left residents rattled.

“It was extremely scary. You shook you were so scared,” said Laura McEwen, the wife of Mayor Russ McEwen who lives about two miles from the refinery. “Our walls shook. It jolted your bed. It was like an earthquake.”

John Moseley, managing editor of the Big Spring Herald whose downtown office is also about two miles from the refinery, said, “I thought it would knock the walls down.”

The refinery employs about 170 people and produces about 70,000 barrels a day.

Interstate 20 was shut down near the plant, Big Spring police spokesman Roger Sweatt said.

“There’s some fire and a whole bunch of smoke,” Sweatt said.

Big Spring is about halfway between Dallas and El Paso.

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Okay. This is one of my favorite groups to bash … Firemen. I am sick and tired of of these idiots living vicariously through the 343 firemen that died in New York on 9/11.

I have read many reports on 9/11 and in a nutshell, there were many people in the hierarchy of the NYFD that were saying that they could not be sure of the structural integrity of the World Trade Center after being hit by a jumbo jet airliner. Understanding this, one would assume that the men that ran into that building on that fateful day knew the risk and chose to do so anyway.

Does this make them heroes? I don’t know. What I do know is in that same 9/11 report that the NYFD had been told that all but the people in the floors of the WTC had been evacuated with the exception of those that were trapped above the point of impact.

Now, understanding that fire burns up not down, I would be reluctant to try to save those people above those floors. They were as good as dead. Unfortunately the firemen thought that they could get to them and they paid the ultimate price.

This brings me to the crux of this article. Firemen and the way they latch on to this seemingly preventable tragedy. I have to deal with these guys all the time. Now, I don’t know how it is where you live, but out here in Los Angeles we have firemen that walk the earth demanding respect merely because they are firemen.

Its almost comical. They walk around in gear that says LACFD, or Los Angeles County Fire Department. Not just shirts. No, shorts hats and socks too. They have stickers on their “fire engine red” trucks as well as personalized license plates that tell all that see them that indeed, they are firemen. I go to the gym and these guys are walking around like they own the joint. I go to bars and here them telling “fireman fish stories ” to the young ladies about running into burning buildings and narrowly avoiding death while carrying small children, cats and teddy bears out of an otherwise certain death.

Its fucking pathetic. I know a retired fireman that once told me that in his 36 years on the department, in LOS ANGELES COUNTY, home of 13 million people, that he only entered three burning buildings and only once rescued a person from one. He swears that its mostly cardiac arrest, traffic accidents and gang violence.

The way most firemen carry on you would think they were curing cancer while flying the space shuttle. And they think they know everything! I used to own a swimming pool maintenance and building company. We built and maintained swimming pools. Its a very lucrative business in Los Angeles. We had probably forty or so firemen on service. Every last one of them thought they knew everything, yet they couldn’t keep their pool from going green.

They would call me out and tell me that they have tried everything yet the pool kept going green. So I would go in their and clean the thing up and make it look like drinking water in twenty four hours and invariably they would come out and tell me the reasons why it worked for me and not for them. They would evaluate my chemicals and tell me why I shouldn’t use them …. er …. duh WHAT? Thats some funny shit because I would ask them what the properties of any one given chemical was and they didn’t know.

One more thing and then I am done with the tirade. I never see doctors wandering around with shirts that tell everyone they are doctors. They save lives every day. I never see law enforcement wearing gear that tells all around them that they are cops. They too save lives routinely. I don’t see any other professional walking around trying to prove to everyone that they are somebody and deserve respect.

Respect is something you earn. It doesn’t come by default because you are a fireman. When someone talks to me like I am an idiot and has such a condescending demeanor about them that I want to vomit, that doesn’t get my respect. It gets my pity. I feel sorry for you. Your like that guy you see at the market with the parrot on his shoulder. The parrot is his personality. He uses the parrot to facilitate the fact that he has no people skills, and thats how I view most firefighters. JD

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The Scooter Store ! Call for your free battery powered power chair ! Paid for in full by Medi-Care. Have any of you seen these commercials telling people to call a tool free number for their “free power chair?” How can it be free if in the next sentence these companies make claims that it will cost you “little or no money” and that it is paid for by Medi-Care?

This is yet another slap in the face to the American tax payer. Why? Because its the U.S. tax payer that is footing the bill for this scam on society by telling people that they are free in the first place. So here’s how it works. Some charlatan has this idea to buy these power chairs in bulk wholesale. He then pays for commercial time on television to proclaim to the masses that they are “entitled” (yes, The Scooter Store actually uses the word “entitled”.) to their free power chair. Then they mark these things up 500% and makes a killing un an unsuspecting public.

I actually talked to a rather obese woman at the supermarket yesterday after I overheard her telling the cashier that she had just received one of these $10,000.00 power chairs for free from The Scooter Store and was proclaiming its greatness. $10,000.00 dollars!!! So I asked her why she needed it in the first place. She said because she has “bad knees.” I almost said to her that perhaps if she lost three hundred pounds she wouldn’t have bad knees.

Which brings me to my next point. It seems that most of the people I see in these power chairs are morbidly obese. So I guess now it has become incumbent of our “compassionate” society to pay for people that have eaten themselves into a such a state of fatness that they can no longer walk on their own. This would mean that essentially its societies fault that they are fat.

What are we doing here? It would occur to me that the last thing you would do to a heroin addict is give them enough “free” heroin to overdose and die. If we were truly a compassionate society we would dupe these obese people into ordering the power chair only to find out upon delivery that in reality they ordered a fucking treadmill! Thats right! I said it! A treadmill so they can get the exercise they need and loose the weight! And the contract should read that if they take the treadmill they have to go to a gym and diet as well.

Its the typical convoluted ideology I would expect from the liberal American public at large. Or maybe its because the liberal idiots that allow this nonsense to go on are really hoping to facilitate and early and untimely demise of the morbidly obese. After all for every one American in the hospital for smoking related illnesses there are nine fat people in the hospital for weight related health issues.

It’s sheer lunacy and it pisses me off that they can claim these things are free in the first place. Congress should pass a law that says that EVERYTHING that is call free yet paid for with tax money should have to say at the end of each commercial something like “paid for by the tax payer of the United States of America.” JD

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