1 She should thank God she is a woman. But that didn't help Margret Hassan.
 
On the positive side, it looks like our dogs aren't the only ones we are tracking when they get out. Before any lib trolls go off on that last statement, keep in mind we track all manner of animals on every continent on this earth, using similar methods. These animals want us dead. I think that warrants having a pinger stuck somewhere in their body. I hope we are doing that to every piece of dirt we cycle through Gitmo as well.

2 http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/carroll/QA/index.html

Question and Answer with Jill Carroll. Watch it! Every American should!

Q."Because of your well-known support of everything Muslim, many of your fellow Americans, including myself, believe your capture was not real, but was in fact conducted and staged with your cooperation, and, that you are a traitor to your country as well as to your family and friends. What is your response to those allegations?"
– I. Macias Jr., San Antonio, Texas
A."Well, of course, it's absurd that I would arrange for this to happen. Alan was my friend, and like a brother to me. I don't know how anyone could ever think that anyone would ever wish to torture their family and their friends like this. It's not possible. I don't see what that has to do with my living in the Middle East, I don't see what that has to do with my work or with Islam or anything like that. But how could anyone ever put their family and their friends and their newspaper and everyone else through all this, and watch their friend get killed. I mean, no way. I can't imagine the kind of person that would ever want that to happen.

So, just because I live in the Middle East and care about understanding the Middle East and helping Americans understand the Middle East in the fairest most objective way possible, I don't see how that makes me a traitor. In fact, I do it because as citizens of a democracy it is our duty to be well-informed. And we can only express our wishes through our representatives of government properly and effectively in our best interests if we are properly informed. So, the reason I'm there, actually, is because I believe so much in our country's need to have good, fair, truthful information so they can make their own decisions about what we want our policies to be and who we are as a country.

It's really easy to say you're patriotic by doing what's easy. By hearing what everyone else wants to hear, saying what they want you to say, being what everyone wants you to be. But, like raising a child, you don't give them candy, and spoil them. You have to make them go to school every day, make them do their math homework every day. That's what's good for them. Not allow them to play on the playground all day long. So, that's kind of how I see it."

3 Amen Jill!

4 Jill Carroll says "It's really easy to say you're patriotic by doing what's easy..." blah blah blah


Jill Carroll is now going to school us about patriotism? because she has absolute moral authority after the abduction? And how does she explain the fact that she made an appointment when it was so obviously a stupid thing to do?

And what's up with the dyed red hair?

There is something very odd about this self-assured, arrogant young woman.

5 "I don't know how anyone could ever think that anyone would ever wish to torture their family and their friends like this. It's not possible. I don't see what that has to do with my living in the Middle East, I don't see what that has to do with my work or with Islam or anything like that. But how could anyone ever put their family and their friends and their newspaper and everyone else through all this, and watch their friend get killed."

I try to be as objective as I can but that kinda screams out at me. I don't know about the rest of you, but all of my life "putting their family and friends...through all this, and watch their friend get killed" has seemed about par for the course for the middle east. Things like the next topic on the girl probably going to be killed for getting raped...though it usually seems to be in relation to women being tortured by men instead of the other way around.

6 You haven't heard, Dreamer? The world is now officially upside-down, so stupid is the new smart, and treason is the new patriotism.

7 Heh,  Death cult.