Here is the “ManCrunch” Super Bowl ad that has everyone so upset. I have seen it, and I think its kind of stupid. It has nothing to do with being homophobic, I just think its lame because I am not gay, and it doesn’t make me want to purchase the product.

It occurs to me that ManCrunch.com is just looking for free publicity and a law suit. I would bet money that they don’t even have the financial ability to pay for the ad if CBS was to run it. Ed

John Travolta in a file photo next to one of his personal aircraft

John Travolta piloted a plane laden with aid supplies and Scientologists to Haiti today to bolster the US-based group’s disaster relief effort.

The actor and leading Scientologist flew his own Boeing 707 to the capital, Port-au-Prince, and helped unload six tonnes of ready-to-eat military rations and medical supplies. “We have the ability to actually help make a difference in the situation in Haiti and I just can’t see not using this plane to help,” he said.

The delivery came as impatience with food distribution sparked a small riot in front of the national palace and President Rene Preval announced he would move into a tent in solidarity with hundreds of thousands left homeless by the magnitude 7 quake on 12 January.

Aid continued building up at the airport with planes and helicopters landing and departing every few minutes. The jumble of US troops, western aid workers, Chinese rescue teams, UN staff and wounded Haitians turned even more eclectic with the overnight arrival of Travolta.

The actor, who has a pilot’s licence, flew from Florida accompanied in the cockpit by his wife, Kelly Preston. He compared the mission to their visit to New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. “We were there right away, with this aeroplane, because you know we have the ability and the means to do this so I think you have responsibility on some level to do that.”

There is a backlog of at least 800 aircraft awaiting permission to land at the overloaded airport, which can handle just 130 flights daily, prompting recriminations from some aid agencies

The Church of Scientology has dispatched several hundred “volunteer ministers” in yellow T-shirts to other disasters, including September 11. They use a process called “assist” in which the power of touch purportedly reconnects nervous systems shaken by trauma. Since last week several hundred have fanned across Port-au-Prince. “Our volunteers are coming from all over. From Puerto Rico, Mexico, the US, everywhere,” said Frank Suarez, from Puerto Rico, as colleagues set up a camp at a gymnasium. “The need is huge here.”

The group, which critics say is a cult peddling quack treatments, has received a mixed reaction to the light “touching”, through clothing and bandages, of fractures and infection.

“All the patients are happy with the technique,” a volunteer named only as Silvie told AFP. “But some doctors don’t like the yellow T-shirts. It’s a colour thing.”

One US doctor, who declined to be named, said it was more a credibility thing. “I didn’t know touching could heal gangrene.”When asked about the Scientologists, an Oxfam spokesperson said: “All aid agencies need to co-ordinate and ensure help that is given reaches benchmark standards and follow best practice.” Delays continued to hamper the response to a disaster which, according to the Haitian government, has killed more than 150,000 and left 3 million needing aid.

Only 10,000 of a needed 200,000 tents have arrived, leaving many to shelter under grubby sheets in settlement camps. The president, who lost his home in the quake, said he would move into a tent on the lawn of the collapsed national palace.

A daily handout of rice and soy oil in front of the palace degenerated into chaos on Monday when 4,000 people overwhelmed Uruguayan UN troops in charge of the distribution.

“Whatever we do, it doesn’t matter – they are animals,” one soldier, who declined to be named, cried in Spanish, as he tried to hold back the crowd with a shield.

The troops, who did not speak French or Creole, waved pepper spray and fired rubber bullets in the air from atop an armoured vehicle.

They carried off a pregnant woman who vomited and collapsed amid the chaos. After the troops had withdrawn, the crowd jostled over 50 rice sacks left behind. Those too slow or weak for the struggle were left to pick up the remaining rice grains from the street.

Trust me, the Christmas day bomber has hurt Obama. Polls show that people are now more concerned about national security than health care. This was exactly what Obama DIDN’T want. Distractions from his socialist agenda. Obama has ignored national security from day one, choosing instead to turn America into France, a nation of cowards. Obama’s poll numbers continue to plummet, and democrats are now beginning to defect and announce that they will not seek re-election. Keep up the good work Obama. JD

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House was poised to release a report on Thursday that top aides said will shock Americans about security lapses that allowed a Nigerian man to come close to blowing up a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25.

President Barack Obama, in 3 p.m. EST (8 p.m. British time) remarks, was set to outline steps the U.S. government is taking to try to shore up airline security, mindful of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States involving hijacked airliners.

The White House was due to release a declassified review of what went wrong to allow the Christmas Day bombing attempt in which Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, is accused of trying to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear.

By releasing the review, Obama may be seeking to limit the political damage to his administration ahead of expected congressional committee reviews of the attempted attack.

Republicans have sought to portray the Democratic president as weak on national security issues. Obama already has acknowledged a security “screw-up” in the December 25 incident.

White House national security adviser James Jones told USA Today of the report: “Once people read it, I think, there’s a certain shock to it. … The man in the street will be surprised that, you know, these correlations weren’t made.”

What was shocking, said another official, was the fact that various strands of intelligence were available that, if put together properly, would have made clear that the bombing suspect should have been put on a “no-fly” list preventing him from boarding.

“We know what happened, we know what didn’t happen, and we know how to fix it,” Jones said. “That should be an encouraging aspect. We don’t have to reinvent anything to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Among the lapses was the fact that Abdulmutallab’s father had gone to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria and told officials that his son had taken up radical views. This information was never properly acted upon.

A top Yemeni official said on Thursday that Abdulmutallab was recruited by al Qaeda in London and met a radical American Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, in Yemen. Awlaki has been linked to the gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood army base in Texas in November.

‘A FEW ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS’

An Obama administration official said on Thursday that Customs and Border Protection officers had planned to question Abdulmutallab upon arrival in Detroit, acknowledging that they had found a record about him in an intelligence database.

“They were going to ask him a few additional questions after he landed before allowing him admission into the country,” the official said, noting that no new information about Abdulmutallab had emerged while the plane was airborne.

The official said Abdulmutallab would not have been barred from boarding the plane in Amsterdam or selected for additional screening because he was not on any of the government’s watch lists.

“We had in our possession information that likely could have prevented or disrupted the incident on the 25th of December from happening,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.

Despite the security lapses and miscues, there has been no sign of any staff shake-up looming, although Obama has heavily criticized the “intelligence community” and said there must be accountability.

The Nigerian suspect was indicted on Wednesday in Detroit on charges of attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction to kill the 300 people on board the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

MIAMI—An airline passenger who yelled “I want to kill all the Jews” on a Detroit-bound plane was arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, but authorities said Thursday the incident didn’t appear terrorism-related.

Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday night after a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight returned to a gate at Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade police said. After a confrontation with officers, Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.

FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said there were no indications the incident was connected to terrorism. The bureau was initially brought in to look into the disturbance but is no longer involved in the investigation and is treating the case as a local matter.

The disturbance came the same day as military jets escorted a commercial jetliner bound for Hawaii back to the Portland, Ore., airport because of a disruptive passenger. The FBI said there was no known terrorism link in that case. The passenger, identified only as a 56-year-old man from Salem, Ore., was released.

Asad’s son, 27-year-old Mickey Asad, told The Associated Press that his father suffered from bipolar disorder and was in and out of mental institutions when he was younger.

“He’s far from a terrorist,” said the younger Asad. “He just lost his temper. There’s no excuse, but someone had to have pushed his button”

Mansor Asad, who owns an appliance store in Toledo, was returning home from a vacation in Miami with his sister and his 14-year-old daughter.

His son said his father has a short temper and extensive criminal record. He also said his father had been doing better in recent years. “This is such a strange turn,” he said.

Asad was being held pending a Friday bond hearing, with his arraignment date scheduled for Jan. 27. Court officials said Asad asked a judge for 24 hours to hire an attorney.

Witnesses told investigators who boarded the plane that Asad was loud, disruptive and claimed to be Palestinian. His son said he was an American citizen of Palestinian descent.

Officers didn’t find any weapons or explosives on Asad, who police said was agitated and aggressive at times, according to an arrest affidavit. Authorities used a stun gun to subdue Asad on the jet bridge after he charged at an officer with fists clenched. He also chanted in a foreign language and threatened officers during a search.

“I’m not afraid of you cops, I’ve gotten in fights with cops in Ohio and broke their arms in three places,” he said, according to the affidavit. “I’ve broken skulls too!”

The affidavit noted that alcohol didn’t appear to be a factor during the incident.

The Transportation Security Administration said three of Asad’s companions were also taken off the plane and questioned. The plane later departed without incident after a search using police dogs.

Delta Air Lines owns Northwest.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Another two-ton ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore is back in front of a Fairbanks liquor store.

“Frozen Gore” is a dig at Gore’s beliefs about climate change.

The first statue went on display last year. This year’s version is hooked up to the exhaust of a pickup truck to make it appear Gore is spouting hot air.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the smoke drew laughs from a crowd Tuesday as a Gore speech on climate change played over a loudspeaker.

The sculpture was commissioned by two businessmen, Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora, who want Gore to discuss global warming in Fairbanks.

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?

Virgil Goode should be commended for his candor and honesty. Keith Ellison should be publicly flogged and run out of town on a rail. JD

Virgil Goode sparks a nationwide controversy with a letter sent to a hundred of his constituents.

It said in part, “If American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.” The letter went on to say, “I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America.”

His e-mail was in response to Representative-Elect Keith Ellison’s decision to take the oath of office using a Koran instead of the Bible. Ellison, who is from Minnesota was born and raised in America and converted to Islam. Goode’s office received dozens of complaints about Ellison’s decision to use the Koran.

Goode’s letter has some Muslim groups asking for Goode to apologize, but those calls aren’t coming from around here.

In Rocky Mount, Goode’s hometown, there are streets and buildings named for his father, Virgil Goode, Sr. In this part of the Commonwealth, you aren’t likely to hear any criticism of the congressman.

“The people of Franklin County love Virgil,” said Sue Wallis of Boones Mill.

At Hazel’s Beauty Salon, they cut Goode some slack.

“I think Virgil would not do anything that he did not think was right for his people,” said Hazel Jones, the owner of the shop. “I think he’s trying to protect his people.”

Wallis added, “I think Virgil is an honest man and he tells things like he feels.”

Over at The Franklin Restaurant, the food was steaming and so were the opinions.

“This country was founded on Christian religion, not Muslim religion,” said, Fred Stump of Boones Mill.

Once again, people think Goode is justified.

“He’s right. I don’t want them in here,” said Dot Weiss of Ferrum. Her husband, Harry, said, “We have a culture, it’s not very old, but by god it’s ours. And if they can’t respect it then stay away.”

Goode will not apologize for the letter.

He was re-elected to his sixth term in 2006 with 59-percent of the vote.