Sick, Sick, Sick

The Hamas television show that featured a ripoff of Mickey Mouse named Farfour indoctrinating children to jihad has ended its run. With the mouse getting beaten to death by an actor portraying an Israeli. This is beyond sick.

 Hamas TV on Friday broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children's show featuring "Farfour," a Mickey Mouse look-alike who had made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters.

In the final skit, Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, Farfour called the Israeli a "terrorist."

"Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.

The weekly show, featuring a giant black-and-white rodent with a high-pitched voice, had attracted worldwide attention because the character urged Palestinian children to fight Israel. It was broadcast on Hamas-affiliated Al-Aksa TV.

Station officials said Friday that Farfour was taken off the air to make room for new programs.

And Jimmy Carter wants to provide funds to these people. Presumably then they could make even more sick programs. It is utter and complete depravity to treat children like this.

And Jimmy Carter wants to provide funds to these people. Presumably then they could make even more sick programs. It is utter and complete depravity to treat children like this.

Rampaging Through The Media

The Albany, Oregon Democrat-Herald newspaper got a first-hand look at the Animal Uprising™ this week. They were, of course, oblivious to the implications.  

Employees of the Democrat-Herald received a surprise visit Tuesday morning from a wandering blacktail deer. Pictured are Cathy Ingalls, left, Cheryl Surendra and Gregg Burgess. Albany police chased the deer around downtown for some time, eventually using a Tazer in an attempt to stop the animal. The deer pulled free of the Tazer probes, however, and continued running, eventually making its way toward the river. Officers lost sight of the deer at Water Avenue and Main Street.

Yet another Taser-proof animal and they report it as just a deer wandering about. The animal overlords have been sending these shock-proof shock troops out for some time, of course. Obviously, the newspaper has been cowed by the deer and is ducking out of reporting the truth.

“Get Your Buns Outta That Car”

That was the line the police presumably had to use when they pulled over what they thought was a stolen vehicle. A suspicious officer had run the plates of the vehicle and it came back as stolen, so he did his duty. Yep, he popped the Wienermobile.

MADISON, Wis. - Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer … car thief? An Arizona Highway Patrol officer who ran the Wienermobile's plates as the vehicle traveled for a promotion briefly thought the giant hot dog on wheels was, well, hot

The Wienermobile was on the road for a promotion in which contestants sing the Oscar Mayer jingle for a shot at appearing in a commercial and winning "American Idol" tickets.

The 27-foot-long, 11-foot-tall vehicle was in a construction zone in downtown Tucson Wednesday, slowing traffic. Officer Korey Lankow caught up to it and ran its "Y-U-M-M-Y" license plate to make sure it was street legal.

The plate came back as stolen. Lankow pulled over the Wienermobile, and two more officers arrived to help.

It turns out someone had indeed stolen the "Y-U-M-M-Y" plate off the Wienermobile in Columbia, Mo., back in February. Oscar Mayer officials reported the theft to police there, company spokeswoman Syd Lindner said. The company got a replacement YUMMY plate that same month and notified police in Missouri, Lindner said.

Officer Lankow is now the target of merciless ribbing from his fellows. This will undoubtedly go down as the wurst experience he's ever had. Who says cops only chase doughnuts?

North Korea To Shut Down Reactor

The International Atomic Energy Agency and North Korean officials have reached an agreement on how to monitor the shutdown of the reactor at Yongbyon to ensure compliance with the agreement North Korea has reached with the US and allies.

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency returned Friday to the North Korean capital from a two-day trip to the Yongbyon nuclear complex, broadcaster APTN reported. It was the first IAEA visit to the facility since U.N. monitors were expelled from the country in 2002.

"We have concluded this understanding, what our monitoring and verification activities are in principle," IAEA Deputy Director Olli Heinonen said in footage shot by APTN. He did not provide specifics of the agreement.

Heinonen said his team, which was scheduled to leave Pyongyang for Beijing on Saturday, was preparing to report to the IAEA board of governors within one week, but noted that the timing of the shutdown was up to the six countries involved in North Korea nuclear talks.

"This is for the six parties to decide," he said in the APTN footage. "You have to ask them the time scale. When they do (decide), we will be ready."

An IAEA official in Vienna, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment to media, said that a board meeting would likely take place July 9, with the 35 member nations expected to approve sending the first inspection team to the North as quickly as possible.

North Korea pledged to close and seal Yongbyon in exchange for economic aid and political concessions in an agreement with the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. The purpose of the IAEA trip was to discuss how the agency's inspectors would monitor and verify a shutdown.

Not that anyone should be naive enough to trust the North Koreans not to cheat if they think they can get away with it, but it is at least a step in the right direction.

Back From The Shadows

I don't know who is worse, the bloviating politicians who use idiotic descriptions of illegal immigrants "living in the shadows" or the fawning press that reports things like that with a straight face. Kathryn Jean Lopez points out a picture carried in the New York Times showing a group of illegal immigrants brought to the Capitol building by advocates of the failed immigration "reform" bill. There they are, sitting in the Capitol lounging on benches. Five of them sitting in the "shadows".

I think that is one of the reasons there was so much grassroots opposition to the Senate bill. Everyone but the Senators in Washington are about tripping over all the illegals. There are so many of them that they are casting a shadow at this point, not hiding in them. But if Washington will not first get serious about enforcing existing immigration law, then the public will have to find elected representatives that will. If the argument is true that we desperately need a huge number of workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do" then our nation should be able to handle a large influx of legal immigrants. We do not need a tidal wave of people flooding over the borders without any control.

Car Bomb Found In London

What police are deeming a potentially very deadly car bomb was found in central London. It was defused by bomb experts but could have cause significant casualties had it detonated. The device was inside a Mercedes and consisted of propane cylinders, gasoline and nails.

Police have defused a car bomb found near Piccadilly Circus in London's West End.

The "explosive device", discovered at 2am, posed a real and substantial threat to the surrounding area, according to a police source.

Specialist officers have made the bomb safe and loaded the car, a silver Mercedes, onto a lorry to be taken from the scene.

Police were alerted this morning to a suspicious vehicle in The Haymarket area in the heart of theatreland, close to Regent Street's popular shopping area.

A witness reported seeing gas canisters being removed from the car, believed to be a silver Mercedes, at around 4am.

The vehicle was covered in a blue tarpaulin as forensic teams examined it.

The area, including Piccadilly Underground station, has been cordoned off and will remain closed for some time, police said.

Scotland Yard said detectives from Counter Terrorism Command were investigating the potential bomb plot.

There is no indication yet who built the device or why. While the British press is calling it a car bomb, the New York Times is only calling it a "suspected" one. You know, it might be any number of things when propane cylinders, gasoline and lots of nails are wired together with a detonator. Maybe a planter, right NYT?