Editors in Pajamas

Just for the Record...

2008-01-04T11:55:00.000-08:00

This Evangi is endorsing Teh Fred!

Give him some dough.

Back from the Dead

2007-09-14T08:05:00.000-07:00

Just to bring you this. Luckily, I haven't given any money to Republicans since the 2004 election, however, I do like this one possible strategy by a commentor over at Hot Air:

Iam tempted to call up and offer to make a donation just so that minutes
later I can call and withdraw my donation.

m0nkeyb0y on June 26,
2007 at 7:23 PM

ON TOP 'TIL HE'S CAUGHT/KILLED (UPDATED: POSSIBLE SIGHTING IN TEXAS)

2007-09-13T16:45:00.000-07:00

Meant to put this scum's face up yesterday, but didn't get around to it. I was reminded today by Ace's post and pledge. This place is not safe for you, Adnan.

WANTED: MOSTLY DEAD, BUT ALIVE WILL DO

UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!! 9/15: Ace has the scoop.

DO YOU YOU HAVE THIS GUY'S PHOTO UP ON YOUR BLOG? WHY NOT? DO IT NOW!!!!

MORE!!!: Rusty received an email from the same commentor over at Ace's place.

UPDATE 10/17: Here.

UPDATE 10/18: Homeland Security has issued a friendly warning to 7 NFL Stadiums regarding a dirty bomb threat for this Sunday's games that was posted online. DHS is calling it "not credible. I hope they're right because 1) dirty bombs suck monkey balls and 2) I'd have more confidence in DHS and their intel gathering. If they are wrong....

The message was originally posted on thefriendsociety.com forums (not sure what that is). I'm getting a 404 message. UPDATE: Rusty's got extensive coverage.

Chad has a good point about the playing schedules and how it discredits the threat. I feel much better, now.

The A-Team

2006-11-11T20:44:00.000-08:00

Leadership... our second go at DhimmiTube

Resign...

2006-11-04T12:56:00.000-08:00

Editor Productions debut YouTube...

We report. You laugh your arses off.

2006-10-12T11:13:00.000-07:00

First, The Outtakes: Via the Jawas

Then, it's the cartoon Truthers

Patriotic Eskimos go out on a limb

2006-10-09T14:21:00.000-07:00

It's the principle, stupid!

And yet a few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."
....Dimitri Philemonof, president and chief executive of the association, said accepting the aid would be "compromising ourselves." "I think we have some duty to our country, and I think it's loyalty," he said.

I have a pretty strong connection to Alaskan Eskimo villages (not these specific villages), and these aren't just any ol' Eskimo villages. Mapqest them and you'll see where they are situated. Yeah, waaaaay out there.

This is what you call sacrafice. More than rationing during WWII? Could be, since this would be free to the villages.

I don't have the blog power that some of you biggies have, but it might be a good time to set-up a fund for these villages to show them we appreciate their loyalty and pricpled stand against tyranny & cheap parlor tricks.

Here is the APIAI's official statement.
However, after continued anti-American remarks including the scathing comments made at the United Nations by Venezulan President Chavez toward the United States and President Bush, it is essential we reconsider our position. During a meeting with APIA Board Members, APIA’s President/CEO, and Tribal residents from the affected communities on Wednesday September 27, it became clear that we must decline the offer. The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association and the Tribal communities of St. George, St. Paul, Nelson Lagoon, and Atka made the decision not to accept this donation to patriotically support the United States Government and President Bush.

Even though this fuel prospectively provides a basic essential need for our people, the leaders feel compelled to make this sacrifice. One of our Tribal Council Presidents said it very well, “The fuel barge has not yet arrived, and we are now having to ration what fuel we have left. The price is almost $5 per gallon. But we just cannot in good conscience accept fuel from someone who has so denigrated our country and our President”. Despite the critical need for fuel in our region, the Unangan (Aleut) people are Americans first, and we cannot support the political agenda attached to this donation.

Brings tears to my eyes.

UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!!: The APIAI has already set-up a donation fund. I think this is definitely one to keep on your list. They've earned it.

UPDATE 10/11: We received word that the APIA will have a Paypal account setup within a few days. Check the donation fund page for the link.

Kim's playing with the football, now

2006-10-09T12:25:00.000-07:00

Bryan puts out the call and we oblige.

"Oh, rook who's praying footbrarr, now, Hans Brix."

Jihadi personal ads and the friends who help the shy

2006-09-29T13:23:00.000-07:00

The circus comes to town...

2006-09-25T21:22:00.000-07:00

Oh lord - someone let the hyena out of the cage. That, combined with THE interview, has made for some of the most entertaining, if not pathetic, news of the last 5-years.

About the name change

2006-09-18T10:12:00.000-07:00

Yes, we've changed the name of this blog to "I Will Not Submit". Pretty obvious, huh.

There, I've addressed it.

Yeah, there are reasons, but none of you probably really care. It won't bother me if anyone who has this blog listed in their blogrolls does not change it, either. I'm not even going to request a change at the TTLB Ecosystem.

I'll give props to Michelle for the original image that was the inspiration for the title image here. We'd been looking for a new name and image for a couple months now and it was the perfect fit.

I will not submit to... David Gregory

2006-09-15T13:42:00.000-07:00

I'm really not concerned about the President's poll numbers. I think it has little to do with what the outcome of the elections will be. But since his number seem to be climbing, recently, I'll say one reason is because of his demeanor in cases like this. Give 'em hell, W.

Gotta love that, "I'd hate to see what unfriendly is", line. That's GW. He should start writing his own speeches.

What's a little domestic violence amongst friends?

2006-09-15T09:25:00.000-07:00

Hey, Zawahiri - didn't your momma ever teach you not to hit a woman?

Wait - my bad.

UPDATE: Victim defends suspect - says, "It's not his fault. I still love him."

To those opposed to the President's interrogation/tribunal plan...

2006-09-15T08:53:00.000-07:00

Grow the eff up!

To the likes of John McCain who says he understands jihadis don't play by the rules, but they oppose the President's plan because they're worried about our troops in future wars the United States will "undoubtedly" be involved in, I say: NOT IF WE DON'T WIN THIS ONE, DIPSH*TS!

I will not submit... to Matt Lauer

2006-09-12T10:58:00.000-07:00

So, like, can we get this GW more often, please? Via Allah.

5-years and the memories are still strong

2006-09-11T08:37:00.000-07:00

Thank God for that.

Five years ago I had been back in the country for a few months after a stint in Australia. I'd been working at a new job (with my current employer) for exactly 2-months and met the girl that would become my wife, though we wouldn't start dating for another 6-months. I'll admit I was living with my parents at the time (just for another week) when this all went down.

It was just after drying off from my morning shower I could hear my mother call from her room, "(Editor), you've got to come see this. They say a small plane has hit the World Trade Center." It was the urgency in her voice that persuaded me to come take a look, because in my head a small plane would not be a big deal. I expected to walk into her room and see on CNN maybe the tail of a Cessna sticking out or the spot where the "small plane" hit the building and then shots of it on the ground below where it would have landed, but that of course is not what I saw.

I looked at my mother and said, "There's no way that was a small plane." I didn't know what it was for sure, but a "small plane" it was not. Was it an accident? Maybe, but I doubt it.

Almost immediately after making that declaration United's Flight 175 767 smashed into the South tower. This was no accident. It was clear and deliberate.

About 30 minutes passed while I finished prepping myself for work and eating breakfast. I had no time to stick around and watch it on television. It was time to get started on my morning commute into the city. I don't care what was going on, it wasn't going to change my routine. I'd turn the radio on in the car and listen for any updates. Of course, it wasn't just updates - it dominated the morning news stations, even here on the West Coast.

Just minutes after setting out on the commute I recieved a call on the mobile spanning the Pacific Ocean from my ex-girlfriend in Melbourne, Australia. In her thick Aussie accent, panicke she asked, "Are you watching this?" I was a little annoyed at the time because I'd been trying to listen to the radio for all the latest info, but since she could watch it live I kept her on the line. We speculated on what was going on, then, while I was waiting in line to get on the interstate, she gasped.

"What?" I asked.
"There's a big fire at the Pentagon."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, they're showing it right now. It was an explosion of some sort."
"We're at war."

I wanted to get off the phone. I didn't think she would understand how I felt. In fact, I'm certain of it. She certainly did not want to come to grips with the "We're at war" comment, but she could not deny it, either. I was right and she knew it. Just like the right-left relationship of today.

Not long after news of the Pentagon "explosion" I had the worst exchanges I've ever had with a person. There were no hostilities - it was the shear helplessness of it all.

"Oh my god!" She screamed.
"What? What?!"

There was silence for a few seconds.

"What?" I demanded.
"One of the buildings just collapsed."
"What do you mean 'collapsed'? A few floors came down on each other?"
"No. The building collapsed."
"The whole building?"
"Yes."
"The whole thing just came down, all the way?"
"Yes. It crumbled. There's just a huge cloud of dust forming, now."
"The whole thing?"
"Yes."
"Both or just one?"
"Just one, I think. I can't tell."
"Did it fall over? What? Did it fall into other buildings?"
"I don't know - it just came straight down."
"That couldn't have happened. Something must have collapsed and just hidden the rest of building in dust or smoke."
"No. The building is completely gone."

There's no way to explain what I was feeling. Here I am in the car on the interstate getting live updates from someone in Australia on the attrocities in New York & Washington. All I wanted to do was get to a television, but that wasn't going to be possible for another 30-minutes or so, if even then.

It didn't seem very long between that South tower's collapse and the North's. Everything was so surreal getting the information over the mobile. All I wanted to do was fight & kill - exterminate the petulance.

At the office, I spent the rest of the day watching Fox News via the web. They were live streaming at the time and I don't know how I would have got through the day without it. In fact, I don't know how I would have got through those first few months without their live stream - not just Fox, but everyone.

So, that's where I was when it happened.

Here is where I am, today: "I will not surrender/I will not submit."

No photoshop required...

2006-09-07T16:51:00.000-07:00

Um, can you hear me now?

Dead Terrorists show up on video. Is that like way creepy or what?

2006-09-07T14:43:00.000-07:00

You choose: Rusty or Allah

UPDATE: Looks like Osama had quite the hostess back in the day.

"Hey y'all. Welcome to our humble crib."

"Dude, Osama. Is that Whitney Houston?"

"Ugh. Yeah - you should see the mess she's made in the head."

Preschool in SoCal

2006-09-07T09:37:00.000-07:00

"You can tell the Armenian kids because they start smoking at 2."

Look, I don't know what reason more you need to be reading Doug TenNapel.

Must watch TV

2006-09-07T08:06:00.000-07:00

Well, I wasn't that interested in the ABC miniseries "The Path To 9/11"... but I am, now.

UPDATE: Or maybe not.

Some peoples' kids

2006-09-04T17:53:00.000-07:00

Here's my 2-bits on Steve Irwin... to add to the apparant blog swarm.

Some public personalities you just don't realize how much you appreciate until they're gone. Like Ronald Reagan. Even knowing it would be any moment for Ron did not make it any easier and my reaction was far more emotional than I had expected - even with the admiration and love I had/have for the man.

People like that are the special ones - the incredible types. Steve Irwin was one of those very few.

Cheers, mate!

Sunday Sun blogging

2006-09-03T20:01:00.000-07:00

We found the sun to be blood red Friday evening on the eastern side of our state. It was spectacular.

Islam means "submission"

2006-09-01T11:51:00.000-07:00

Sorry, Pinocchio - that means no "boyhood" for you.

Ya'll enjoy your weekend, you hear!

Doomsday 101: For the frivolous audiences

2006-08-31T12:14:00.000-07:00

I believe Hitchens would call this, "Brilliant."

I'm sure we're all totally taking it out of context...

2006-08-31T10:30:00.000-07:00

It's much too nuanced for me, anyway.

Pussies!

UPDATE: So, my question is, what exactly did the director have in mind when adding an intimate moment shared by James Carville and Mary Matalin in the scene?

Guess I'm just not feeling it.