want some tips eh? here's a hard-hitting news story that makes fun of Harvard and brings the funny:

ht tp://kdka.com/water/watercooler_story_096104624.html

... simple $50 murderers who would do everything in the name of Islam.

WOW!!! GREAT POST!!!

Best news in eons! I found it particularly revealing that even those who believe the prisoners were coerced into confessions still believed they had really done it!

Uh, hey, Ace....

you forgot to change the "posted by" name. You're speaking as Hoke but we know it's you. The tawdry ruse is over.

You're just sucking up to LauraW for giving up on haiku contest results.

Anti-Whites riot in France...media says nothing.

Via Instapundit

you forgot to change the "posted by" name. You're speaking as Hoke but we know it's you. The tawdry ruse is over.

Damn your Holmes-like attention to clues!

So whatever did happen to Michael Moore? Haven't heard from him lately.

Not that I've missed him or anything...

Hoke, quit pretending you're Ace of Spades. We know it''s really you. You'll never be the Ace, you're just the Joker.

That's funny if you have a Puerto Rican read it, because the J in Spanish sounds like...

Never mind, morons. Hoke, I don't know what you did with Ace, but quit pretending to be him. All these posts with Ace's name on them are clearly as infantile and ridiculous as the Hoke ones. I mean, my one-year old could blog better than you, and she just points at things and poops and drools on the keyboard.

Ace retired. He got in his RV and drove to Branson. And Ace wouldn't lie to us. He's gone. So don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk, if you know what I mean.

And "Ivana Mandic"? Please. Do you think we're so foolish we won't see through your transparent ruse? Ace may have called his readers "stupid morons" and "semi-retarded", but he respected us like you'll never do.

P.S.: you do realize that the post as now written calls LauraW "the top Ace of Spades Digital Brownshit Informer."

No wonder people don't send you stuff, Hoke.

PPS I want to bring this show to America and have it dubbed into English. I would get cable solely for the purpose of seeing terrorists humiliated.

Now that is the kind of news I need. And using the same format of those disgusting televised beheadings - a stroke of genius!

See-Dubya, I'm with you! I wanna subscribe to that on cable!!

Thank you Ace ya 'ol Hoke ya ;)

DelphiGuy's link to Instapundit's link to the Weekly Standard's article: a must read. If EUrope is a bellwether, we need to close down the borders, ASAP.

Regarding the victims in the effected country: to quote Ward Churchill: "Les poulets sont venus à la maison au perchoir"
Or something like that.

Excellent work Lauraw

Great article, lauraw, and thanks, hoke, for posting it.

A few observations:

1) Anybody like this fun sentence?

Broadcast on al-Iraqiya, the state-run network set up by the U.S. occupation authority in 2003, "Terrorism in the Hands of Justice" has become one of [the] most effective arrows in the government's counterinsurgency propaganda quiver.

Did Caryle Murphy or Khalid Saffar write that beautfiul metaphor?

And notice the placing of the words "set up by the U.S. occupation autority" at the beginning of the sentence and the words "the government's propaganda" near the end. Clearly they mean the current interim Iraqi government, but the implication is that the show and the Iraqi government are somehow puppets of the US coalition troops. But the bias in this sentence just stinks to high heaven. The implication is that the show is pure propaganda and nothing else (it seems like a fairer assessment would be that it is a mix of visceral revenge and way for the viewers to blow off steam after seeing their loved ones murdered by thugs).

They get many sides to this story, but make no attempt to really dig in to whether the show is fundamentally accurate. In other words, they constantly question that these are real thugs, are actual terrorists, and at many moments try to make them out to look like victims.

They mainly quote Iraqi government spokesmen, guys and gals on the street that watch the show, Human Rights Watch (Joe Dork I believe is his name, from D.C. no less; kind of gets an on-the-ground view of things) and the TV show producer to tell this story.

They expect us to assume, with them (the WaPo writers), that it's propaganda and that it's staged.

There's so much more to criticize, but look at this standalone sentence:

In recent reports, the State Department and Human Rights Watch have criticized the use of torture by Iraqi police.

That's sandwiched right in between:

A) An implication that the priosoners were abused (with a denial by the Interior Ministry spokesman of such abuse, but that observation is juxtaposed with "The bruised faces and the death of at least one prisoner after his appearance on the show have raised questions about the men's treatment in custody.").

B) And Joe Dork (I mean Stork) saying "In light of our recent findings about the prevalence of torture in Iraqi prisons, we have serious concerns that these confessions were not also coerced and that the Iraqi authorities failed to provide essential due process protections."

That makes it look like the State Department agrees with the asshole from Human Rights Watch.

The only thing I can feel good about is that no matter how hard the bastards tried to spin this, your average Joe and Jane are smart enough to read it and draw their own conclusions. This article proves Ace's point that the fun part of writing a new article is the story-telling part, not the data-collection part.

Biased bastards.

I have little doubt that the captured terrorists are being terribly abused. Frankly, I hope it will be over soon and that they can reform their prison system to new civilized norms ASAP.
But first those new civilized norms have to actually exist.

Its not hard to imagine what our thoughts on brutal retribution would be if we were in a similar situation over here (imagine schoolbuses getting blownup by foreign radicals, and roving criminal hit squads in our own streets).

The writer doesn't seem to fully accept that these people are fighting terrorists in Iraq, not jaywalkers in Vermont.
You cannot fight terrorism with anything less than utter brutality.

They should put the habits of the past behind them when it comes time to mete out justice to their own citizens. For once, I am not optimistic about something. I'm really not sure they can do it.

I agree with Laura, when I read that unquestionably biased reporting, yeah, I do buy into the fact that these "suspects" are tortured and that they are not being treated in a civilized manner, but as KC has pointed out:

"... no matter how hard the bastards tried to spin this, your average Joe and Jane are smart enough to read it and draw their own conclusions."

especially when the agenda of the "reporter" is soooooo blatently obvious ...

I dunno about you folks, but I am not seeing this reported everywhere a la Abu Ghraib-scale scandal -- I think the majority of Americans would, even if they disagree with the means, secretly applaud this type of, uhhhh, "information handling" when terrorist murderers are involved.

Do you all remember a resounding outcry when Musharraf was doing the same type of sh!t to the Al Qaeda folks? I sure don't ...

p.s. as far as "putting the methods of the past behind them", I agree with you Laura, but that would be a 360 degree turnaround from anything known in the Muslim world. We westerners can try and try to "bring democracy" to them, or "help them achieve it," but until it comes from the people - a la French Revolution - it just ain't gonna happen - my 2 cents.