Scott Ritter, the mouthy U.N. weapons inspector who became a vocal critic of the Bush administration, is a bad man. A very bad man.
Scott Ritter uses sign language to answer the question, "What are my odds of staying out of jail?"
Scott Ritter, the mouthy U.N. weapons inspector who became a vocal critic of the Bush administration, is a bad man. A very bad man.
The Pocono Record reports the dirty details:
A former chief United Nations weapons inspector is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera.
Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., who served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98 and who was an outspoken critic of the second Bush administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq, is accused of contacting what turned out to be a Barrett Township police officer posing undercover as a teen girl.
The police affidavit gives the following account:
Officer Ryan Venneman was posing as 15-year-old “Emily” in an online chat room when he was contacted by someone using the name “Delmarm4fun.” This person, later identified as Ritter, told “Emily” he was a 44-year-old male from Albany, N.Y.
“Emily” told Ritter she was a 15-year-old girl from the Poconos, at which point Ritter asked for a picture other than the one “Emily” had posted on her account. Ritter then sent her a link to his Web camera and began to masturbate on camera.
“Emily” asked Ritter for his cell phone number, which he provided.
Ritter again asked “Emily” how old she was. Told she was 15, Ritter said he didn’t realize she was 15 and turned off his webcam, saying he didn’t want to get in trouble.
Ritter told “Emily” he had been fantasizing about having sex with her, to which she replied: “Guess you turned it off …”
Ritter then said: “You want to see it finish,” reactivated his webcam and continued masturbating and ejaculated on camera.
Ritter reportedly blamed the incident on faulty intelligence. His own.
NASA Spaceport officials found a small bag containing cocaine next to a bathroom in a restricted hanger. The hanger houses the Space Shuttle Discovery which is set to launch in March and deliver “supplies” to the International Space Station.
Cocaine. Or as they call it at NASA, booster rockets.
NASA astronauts are bringing a whole new meaning to the term “space dust.”
Spaceport officials report that they found a small bag containing cocaine next to a bathroom in a restricted hanger. The hanger houses the Space Shuttle Discovery which is set to launch in March and deliver “supplies” to the International Space Station.
The Register UK reported:
Because access to the hanger requires a security badge, officials know about 200 NASA workers and contractors were around the facility at the time the drug was found. NASA said that while there are “no indications” that anyone was high on cocaine while working on Discovery, drug testing of employees in the area have been conducted.
Embarrassingly, the incident came on the same week space shuttle workers took a half day off work to participate in NASA’s employee “Safety Stand Down,” held each year to “reinforce the importance of maintaining a strong and focused commitment to safety.” Evidently, someone wanted a little extra focus for it.
NASA spokesperson Allan Beutel said, “People know how serious this is and how serious people take it. And it’s not acceptable. That’s the bottom line.”
May we suggest, Mr. Beutel, that this is an inappropriate time to be discussing lines?
That major shift to the left that was supposedly heralded by the election of Barack Obama seems to have fizzled in a big way. Self-identified conservatives now hold a 2-to-1 lead over liberals in a new Gallup poll.
That major shift to the left that was supposedly heralded by the election of Barack Obama seems to have fizzled in a big way. Self-identified conservatives now hold a 2-to-1 lead over liberals in a new Gallup poll.
Here’s how Gallup tells the liberals’ tale of woe:
The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup’s initial reporting: conservatives (40%) outnumbered both moderates (36%) and liberals (21%) across the nation in 2009.
More broadly, the percentage of Americans calling themselves either conservative or liberal has increased over the last decade, while the percentage of moderates has declined.
C’mon, President Obama, you can do it. Keep doing what you’re doing and you can get that conservative number up over 50%.
To tell the truth, we were relieved when we heard Danny Glover blame the Haitian earthquake on global warming. It may be a sign that the left’s Bush Derangement Syndrome is finally fading.
To tell the truth, we were relieved when we heard Danny Glover blame the earthquake on global warming. It may be a sign that the left’s Bush Derangement Syndrome is finally fading.
Of course, we also realize that if you asked Glover what caused global warming, he would say, “It’s Bush’s fault.” So it’s really only one degree of separation.
For most Americans, ObamaCare demands that you either carry insurance or face substantial fines. But there is a way around it! Become Amish.
There's nothing Brother Barack enjoys more than raising a barn. Unless it's tearing down an economy.
For most Americans, ObamaCare demands that you either carry insurance or face substantial fines.
But there is a way around it!
Become Amish.
Sure, the black clothing gets a little hot in the summer and the facial hair is itchy, especially for the women, but religious groups, like the Amish, can opt out of the draconian ObamaCare health insurance measures about to be foisted on the American people.
According to the Watertown Daily Times, the Amish will be allowed to opt out of health care reform.
“The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a “religious conscience” exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.”
The Amish, after all, teach personal and civic responsibility. We wouldn’t want that lesson to creep into the big nanny government.
So, it may be time to convert to the old time religion–the old, old time religion.
And, think how much thou wouldst save on the electric bill.
There are so many inappropriate liberal comments that we’re thinking of opening The Liberal Bigot Hall of Fame to honor the best of the best. Each of the following liberal icons would get a nice brass plaque featuring their face and most bigoted quotes.
Do not make the mistake of thinking Harry Reed’s recent comment that President Obama might be electable because he’s light-skinned and doesn’t have a negro dialect is an isolated event.
In fact, there are so many inappropriate liberal comments that we’re thinking of opening The Liberal Bigot Hall of Fame to honor the best of the best. Each of the following liberal icons would get a nice brass plaque featuring their face and most bigoted quotes.
Of course, Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a unanimous first round selection into the Hall.
Price of admission:
Adults $10
Children $5
Blacks, Jews, Indians and any other minorities not allowed.
And now, without further delay, here are 20 remarkably bigoted comments made by liberals.
“You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.” – Senator Fritz Hollings
Blacks and Hispanics are “too busy eating watermelons and tacos” to learn how to read and write.” – Mike Wallace
“In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master … exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.” – Harry Belafonte
“A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.” – Spike Lee referring to Clarence Thomas
“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” – Robert Byrd
“I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.” – Robert Byrd
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“You f*cking Jew b@stard.” – Hillary Clinton
‘Hymietown.’ – Jesse Jackson describing New York City
“Jews — that’s J-E-W-S.” – State Senator Bill McKinney explaining why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002
“Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” – Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights
The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.” – Louis Farrakhan
“White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” – Rev. Al Sharpton
“The white race is the cancer of human history.” – Susan Sontag
These negros, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they’ve never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. – LBJ
“I am not going to use the federal government’s authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.” – Jimmy Carter
I mean, you’ve got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” – Joe Biden (referring to Barack Obama)
Harry Reid’s son Rory Reid, a Democrat who’s running for governor of Nevada, has poll numbers nearly as anemic as the old man.
Corrupt U.S. Senate leader Harry Reid trails all three of his potential Republican rivals by significant margins in every poll. And it looks like it may be a family trait.
Harry’s son Rory Reid, a Democrat who’s running for governor of Nevada, has poll numbers nearly as anemic as the old man.
According to Pollster.com, the younger Reid has just 20 percent and 24 percent of the vote in two possible three-way matchups. In head-to-head races with likely Republican candidate and former federal judge Brian Sandoval, he’s down by 22 points, 53% to 31%.
Yup, it’s genetic. Rory Reid has his mother’s eyes and his father’s poll numbers.
British meteorologist David Viner predicted back in 2000 that “Britain’s winter ends tomorrow.” He was from climategate’s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit.
100% of Great Britain is now covered with that cold, white stuff that was supposed to be a thing of the past
If you’re anything like us, you watch the daily weather forecast and wonder how your local weatherman can get it wrong so often? You also think to yourself, “My boss would fire my butt if I did my job as poorly as that guy does.”
With that in mind, take note of what one noted British meteorologist predicted back in 2000.
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.
In light of the fact that all of Britain is now buried under several feet of global warming (formerly known as snow), you might wonder what kind of lunatic made that prediction.
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Yes, the same East Anglia Climate Research Unit currently embroiled in the ClimateGate scandal.
So how has this incompetent boob been dealt with? Surely, you might think, his career is in ruins. Well, you’d be incorrect, because he is now head of the British Council’s Climate Change Programme.
Nice to see that gross incompetence is no reason to hold down a man’s career.
Here’s former mayor of New York Ed Koch, a Democrat, talking to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto. For a guy who says he supports Obama, Koch doesn’t sound much like a guy who supports Obama.
Here’s former mayor of New York Ed Koch, a Democrat, talking to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto. For a guy who says he supports Obama, Koch doesn’t sound much like a guy who supports Obama.
Lord almighty! Katie Couric and CBS News have actually done a hard-hitting report on congress’ profligate spending at the recent Copenhagen global warming confab. And it came perilously close to actually slamming Democrats.
Lord almighty! Katie Couric and CBS News have actually done a hard-hitting report on congress’ profligate spending at the recent Copenhagen global warming confab. And it came perilously close to actually slamming Democrats.
Of course, the entourage was lead by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who also had the final decision on who could attend. The guest list included House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. And embattled noted corrupt negro Congressman Charles Rangel.
They were joined by Democrats Waxman, Miller, Markey, Gordon, Levin, Blumenauer, DeGette, Inslee, Ryan, Butterfield, Cleaver, Giffords, and by Republicans Barton, Upton, Moore-Capito, Sullivan, Blackburn.
(For the record, let’s point out that that’s a total of 15 Democrats and only 5 Republicans. And shame on the Republicans.)
The corruptocrat delegation was so large that it required three military jets — two 737’s and a Gulfstream Five — to haul their fat asses across the Atlantic in luxury.
Throw in a few Senators and a passel of staffers (most of whom were forced to endure the indignity of flying commercial at up to $2000 each) and CBS News figures there were at least 101 Congress-related attendees. They booked more than 321 total nights in Copenhagen’s luxurious 5-star Marriott Hotel.
We’re not sure if it’s caused by global warming, but we’re starting to get a little hot under the collar.
The American people hold you in such low regard that they think 535 people randomly chosen from the phone book could do a better job running the country.
Bad news for congress. Especially the Democrats who control the House and Senate.
The American people hold you in such low regard that they think 535 people randomly chosen from the phone book could do a better job running the country.
Rasmussen reports the demoralizing details for Democrats:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 45% of likely U.S. voters now think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress. That’s up 12 points from October 2008, just before the last congressional elections. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree, and another 19% are not sure.
Rasmussen continues:
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters now say Congress is doing a poor job. That’s the highest negative finding since Rasmussen Reports began surveying on the question in November 2006.
The phone book? Hell, 535 random criminals, derelicts and perverts could do a better job. But it would be tough to tell the difference.
The Chinese may be building toward the biggest bubble in human history. Instead of erecting a building or even a complex, they’re building an entire city.
The Chinese may be building toward the biggest bubble in human history. Instead of erecting a building or even a complex, they’re building an entire city. And with the economic downturn, it’s emptier than Al Gore’s soul.
According to New York magazine, “An employee at Brides magazine was fired from Condé Nast because she showed her new breast implants off to close friends in the privacy of her office.”
According to New York magazine, “An employee at Brides magazine was fired from Condé Nast because she showed her new breast implants off to close friends in the privacy of her office.”
C’mon, what the hell is the point of getting breast implants if you can’t show ’em off?
Besides, breast implants are just bags of silicone. Hardly anything to get all excited about. It’s not like the employee was cavorting around her office in a sports bra displaying the new improved models.
What’s that? She was? Okay then, never mind.
NOTE: In an effort to alleviate the nation’s nagging unemployment problem, IHateTheMedia.com would like to offer this poor, unfortunate woman a job interview. We don’t actually have a job opening, but we’d be interested in reviewing her…uhhhh…resume. Compassion is our middle name.
In this interview, BBC host Andrew Neal absolutely puts global warming proponent and Met Office chief John Hirst on the hot seat for his office’s abysmal weather forecasting record and outrageous salaries.
Back during the Depression, a newspaper reporter asked Babe Ruth how he could justify making more money than the president of the United States. Ruth responded, “I had a better year than he did.”
Unfortunately, that explanation won’t work for top British government climate guru John Hirst. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has had an awful year, but it shines in comparison to Hirst’s.
In this interview, BBC host Andrew Neal absolutely puts the global warming guru on the hot seat for his office’s abysmal weather forecasting record and outrageous salaries.
It’s almost laugh-out-loud-funny to watch Hirst squirm while trying to answer questions such as, “Since you can’t the summer or the winter right in your forecasts, why should we give any credence to your forecast to what the temperature will be in the 2050 or 2020, which is what you do.”
Thanks for our friends over at ClimateGate.com for finding this gem.
You know Barack Obama is about to tee off on another 18-holes when he informs the world that he’ll never rest until something-or-other happens.
President Barack Obama announced today that he will not rest until he plays another 18 holes
You always knew Bill Clinton was getting ready to deliver some bad news when he started a sentence with the words, “I’ve never worked so hard in my life….”
Similarly, you know Barack Obama is about to tee off on another 18-holes when he informs the world that he’ll never rest until something-or-other happens. As in:
“Obama ‘Will Not Rest’ Until Healthcare Reformed”–headline, Agence France-Presse, May 11
“Obama: ‘I Will Not Rest’ Until Businesses Are Hiring”–headline, RealClearPolitics.com, Nov. 23
“Obama Says ‘We Will Not Rest’ Until Plotters Found”–headline, Bloomberg.com, Dec. 28
it turns out that the detainees would rather stay in Guantanamo than be transferred to President Obama’s preferred prison in Illinois.
Gitmo detainees praying to Allah that they don't get transferred to Illinois
Remember Guantanamo? That hideous American Gulag hidden away in Cuba so we could torture prisoners using unimaginably cruel techniques far from the prying eyes of noble, crusading newsmen?
Now it turns out that the detainees would rather stay there than be transferred to President Obama’s preferred prison in Illinois.
Michael Isikoff reports in Newsweek:
But the final irony is that many of the detainees may not even want to be transferred to Thomson and could conceivably even raise their own legal roadblocks to allow them to stay at Gitmo.
Falkoff notes that many of his clients, while they clearly want to go home, are at least being held under Geneva Convention conditions in Guantánamo. At Thomson, he notes, the plans call for them to be thrown into the equivalent of a “supermax” security prison under near-lockdown conditions.
“As far as our clients are concerned, it’s probably preferable for them to remain at Guantánamo,” he says.
Waterboarding, apparently, is one thing, but going to Illinois is something else.
CareerCast.com has done some research. Some very comprehensive research. And when they came out of the other end of the process, they had determined the ten worst jobs in America.
Dairy farmer is a bad job? C'mon, who wouldn't want to rub up against 1200-pound manure covered animals?
CareerCast.com has done some research. Some very comprehensive research. And when they came out of the other end of the process, they had determined the ten worst jobs in America.
This is all very scientific and based on five specific criteria – environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress. So without further delay, here are the ten worst jobs in America:
10. Mail Carrier
9. Meter Reader
8. Construction Worker (Laborer)
7. Taxi Driver
6. Garbage Collector
5. Welder
4. Dairy Farmer
3. Ironworker
2. Lumberjack
1. Roustabout
Hey, c’mon, there are some really bad jobs that didn’t show in the bottom ten that should have. Like the guy who cleans out porta-potties. Or the guy who gives Rosie O’Donnell her Brazilian wax. Or Democrat Senator from North Dakota. Or host of the Keith Olbermann Show.
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) announced Tuesday night that he would retire rather than run for reelection this year, a surprise move that imperils the Democrats’ 60-seat majority next year.
We won't miss Byron Dorgan, but we will miss his comb-over
Reality has left the building over at Politico.com. Here’s how they reported the announcement by North Dakota’s Byron Dorgan announcement that he was retiring from the senate:
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) announced Tuesday night that he would retire rather than run for reelection this year, a surprise move that imperils the Democrats’ 60-seat majority next year.
Dorgan wasn’t facing serious opposition in what would have been a campaign for his fourth term, but North Dakota’s popular Republican Gov. John Hoeven is considering a bid and was leading in early polls.
No serious opposition? To say that Hoeven is leading in the early polls is like saying the Indians had a slight lead on Custer. Here’s how Rasmussen reports that non-serious opposition:
Incumbent Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan may have a serious problem on his hands if Republicans recruit Governor John Hoeven to run for the U.S. Senate in North Dakota next year.
The first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of likely voters in North Dakota finds the popular Republican governor leading Dorgan by 22 points – 58% to 36%. Just six percent (6%) are undecided in that senatorial contest.
Other polls show Dorgan trailing by more than 30 points. How much more serious can the opposition get, Politico?
In this video clip, Homer lists “The Top Ten things I’ve learned from the last 20 years of television.” We like Homer Simpson a lot more than we like David Letterman. But then, who doesn’t?
In this video clip, Homer lists “The Top Ten things I’ve learned from the last 20 years of television.”
We like Homer Simpson a lot more than we like David Letterman. But then, who doesn’t?
Here’s Ed Schultz pretending to be emotionally overwhelmed. Hilarious. Yet here he is on MSNBC with Alex Witt, revealing the fact that he’s been approached to run for Byron Dorgan’s senate seat.
Here’s Ed Schultz pretending to be emotionally overwhelmed. Hilarious. Yet here he is on MSNBC with Alex Witt, revealing the fact that he’s been approached to run for Byron Dorgan’s senate seat.
Witt: We’re going back to Ed right now because you got a pretty important phone call, and what did they ask of you, the Democrat Party? Schultz: Well, last night when Sen. Dorgan was talking to me, he asked me how old I was. And I went, “Uh-oh!” Witt: This is not for a birthday card. Schultz: Yeah, I did get a phone call this morning from Merle Boucher who is the House Democratic Leader and he asked me to consider to run for the United States Senate seat in the state of North Dakota. I asked him very point blank, “Is this an official ask?” He said, “Yes it is.”
Senator Edward (we assume he would begin going by the more formal name) Schultz. Funniest thing we ever heard. Except for when we heard that Al Franken was running for the senate. Anyone heard how that turned out?
By the way, has there ever been a senator with a stranger name than Byron Dorgan? It sounds like someone speaking nonsense Swedish.
President Obama tried to look a little more presidential by playing a little fast and loose with the truth about the Christmas Bomber terrorist. And the Allied Pilots Association called him on it.
If you'd been flying on Christmas day, wouldn't you have wanted your pilot to know about the potential danger?
President Obama tried to look a little more presidential by playing a little fast and loose with the truth. And the Allied Pilots Association called him on it.
Here’s what the President said in his comments about the would-be Christmas airline bomber:
First, I directed that we take immediate steps to ensure the safety of the traveling public. We made sure that all flights still in the air were secure and could land safely. We immediately enhanced screening and security procedures for all flights, domestic and international. We added federal air marshals to flights entering and leaving the United States. And we’re working closely in this country, federal, state and local law enforcement, with our international partners.
Not so fast there, buckeroo. Turns out the Allied Pilots Association thinks the president is taking off on, shall we say, flights of fancy. They disputed his comments in an official statement:
The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines pilots, says most airborne flight crews weren’t notified of the Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines A330. The group is calling for changes after what it describes as “communications failures” left the majority of airborne flight crews in the dark about the attempted bombing. In a message to members, the APA’s security committee said the Transportation Security Administration specifically told airlines to notify only the crews of airborne westbound trans-Atlantic flights of the attack on the Northwest flight on approach to Detroit. “The TSA should have mandated that information about this security event be passed on to all airborne flights,” says the message, which was passed to AVweb by a reader. The note says American complied with the directive but the APA says the airline should have told all of its in-flight crews of the incident “so that all of our captains would have been aware of the threat and could have made the proper adjustments to their in-flight security procedures.” The APA says it noted other communications failures in the chain of events.
The APA claims the initial notification of the incident came from the FAA and that the first direct contact between the airline and the TSA was about 12 hours after Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab allegedly injected an ignition substance into a package of PETN explosive sewn into his underwear. “Clearly, we have seen a large-scale communications breakdown concerning this terrorist event,” the note says. The APA says it has contacted the House Committee on Homeland Security with an eye toward making it policy that all airborne flight crews be notified immediately when there are serious security threats (Level 3 or Level 4). “It is essential in times like these that we act swiftly to ensure our crews are prepared to thwart any terrorist attack,” the association said.
Bottom line: The TSA only notified flights westbound for the United States, but no flights originating in the Unites States nor elsewhere.
In effect, it left hundreds of pilots flying blind. Because, apparently Janet Napolitano has already forgotten that homegrown terrorists like the Fort Hood shooter are out there.
Consider it more evidence that “the system worked.”
Rather than cite the Botox Queen of Congress for her recent lies and damn lies about transparency, it be fun to travel back in time to watch Nancy Pelosi hoist herself on her own petard.
Rather than cite the Botox Queen of Congress for her recent lies and damn lies about transparency, it be fun to travel back in time to watch Nancy hoist herself on her own petard.
When we watched it, we couldn’t decide whether to laugh or cry.
We really are torn on the Greenpeace vs. Japanese whaler issue. On one hand, there’s really seems to be no good reason to slaughter whales. On the other hand, Greenpeace opposes it, so we tend to root for the whalers.
We really are torn on the Greenpeace vs. Japanese whaler issue. On one hand, there’s really seems to be no good reason to slaughter whales. On the other hand, Greenpeace opposes it, so we tend to root for the whalers.
This video shows the Greenpeace lunatics putting their boat, the S.S. Minnow Sea Shepherd, directly in the path of a large Japanese security ship. The Japanese need the security ships, by the way, to prevent harassment from the Greenpeace lunatics during whaling operations. The security ship “shoots” the protesters with high-pressure hoses to keep it at bay.
Naturally, the Greenpeacers now claim that they were “rammed.”
In a technical sense, it may be true since one ship did, in fact, hit the other one. But it ignores (a) the fact that the smaller boat put itself directly in the path of the larger ship, and (b) the fact that the 491-ton Shonan Maru 2 (maximum speed 12 knots) could outmaneuver Greenpeace’s nimble 13-ton, 45-knot trimaran.
Far as we’re concerned, the optimum outcome of these situations would be if the whales all got away, but the Greenpeace boats didn’t.
Anyone out there ever eat whale meat? Does it taste anything like chicken?
Bad news for congress. Especially the Democrats who control the House and Senate. 
