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Brian Ledbetter’s Snapped Shot blog has been shut down because the AP (Associated Press) sent him a cease and desist order.

Those who read my blog will know Brian because his blog is where I get many of the images I use for fauxtoshopping my anti-jihad sentiments. Brian is the tits, and Snapped Shot is tits-up right now, so if anyone knows a way to help him fight the bogus allegations from the AP, please contact him at brian.ledbetter@gmail.com.

Bigger blogs are helping him out, but every voice (even my squeaky, tiny blog-voice) should be heard. Speak up for Brian on your blog!

Elder of Ziyon - Snapped Shot shut down (and at Jewish Blogging, Israelated)
The Jawa Report - Snapped Shot Shut Down by AP (and here, and Blog Net News, Twitter - Conservatweet)
Little Green Footballs - Snapped Shot Snaps Shut After AP Lawyer Letter
The Nose On Your Face - Top 9 Reasons The AP Is F***ing With Brian Ledbetter At Snapped Shot
The Nose On Your Face - TNOYF Analyzes Letter From AP Lawyer To Brian Ledbetter At Snapped Shot
The Nose On Your Face - Transcript of AP Meeting Where Decision Was Made To Take Action Against Snapped Shot
Gateway Pundit - Snapped Shot Blog Shut Down?
IsraelForum.com - Snapped Shot shut down
Minx.cc - AP Goons Force SnappedShot.com To Shut Down
PC Perspective - snapped shot Closed Down?
American Pundit - AP Forces Snapped Shot to Shut Down
Atlas Shrugs - Shutting Down the Truth Tellers
Daily Pundit - More Evil Crap From the Associated Press
DoublePlusUndead - Blogroll Updates and Moronosphere Links [B - last item]
Ace Of Spades HQ - AP Goons Force SnappedShot.com To Shut Down
The National Review Online - Un-Snapped Shot?
This Goes To 11 - Douchebag AP lawyer threatens Snapped Shot into shutting down (updated continually…”flashbacks” added)
This Goes To 11 - How To Avoid Threats From Slimy AP Lawyers
Confederate Yankee - AP Lawyers Down Snapped Shot (mirrored at myLot)
Riehl World View - AP Shuts Down Blog
The Pirate’s Cove - Aside: Snapped Shot
Newsbusters - AP Beginning New Crack Down on Blog Critics? Shuts Down Blog With Legal Threats (Warner Todd Huston article further posted on Stop The ACLU, Grizzly Groundswell, Blogger News, Publius Forum, RightNation.us)
Winds Of Jihad - Associated Press With Terrorists Shuts Down Snapped Shot
Slashdot - Associated Press: Fair Use? What’s Fair Use?
A Second Hand Conjecture - Snapped Shot Shuts Down
Protein Wisdom - Freedom Of The Press…
Al Salibiyyah - AP Attacks Blogger
Lamplighter - AP Goes On Attack - Free Speech On The Run?
Note To Self - Trouble In Paradise
Black Velvet Bruce Li - Another Blogger Gets Legal Threats
Support Your Local Gunfighter - Attention Bloggers!
This Ain’t Hell, But you can see it from here - Blogger under attack from AP
Free Republic - AP Beginning New Crack Down on Blog Critics? Shuts Down Blog With Legal Threats
AP Check - AP Threatens Media-Ethics Site with Lawsuit
Scott’s Morning Brew - snapped shot blog closed indefinitely - Threatened with legal action
Bob’s Bites - AP Abusing The First Amendment?
Jules Crittenden - Legal Jihad
Anorak - AP Sets Lawyers On Photojournalism Blogger Snapped Shot
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler - Must’ve Hit a Nerve
Media Backspin - Whiter Snapped Shot?
Small Dead Animals
Instapundit - ASSOCIATED PRESS SENDS THE LAWYERS after a blogger who’s criticized them for photo-fakery.
SWAAC Girl - ODBA member “Snapped Shot” shut down by Associated Press
Infidel Bloggers Alliance - Associated (With Terrorists) Press Shuts Down Snapped Shot
Digg - Snapped Shot Snaps Shut After AP Lawyer Letter
Mark’s Soap Box - AP attacks Bloggers
Freedom Folks - Saturday Round-Up!
Technoratti - Snapped Shot
Spank That Donkey - LG Don Beyer To Arise From the Politically Dead?
Wolking’s World - The Associated Press pulls a Hugo Chavez
Moonbattery - MSM Lawyers up To Silence Critics
Bill Hobbs - newsflash: AP Sues Blogger
Blonde Sagacity - From The Blogroll: Things You Shouldn’t Miss…
Mister Snitch! - Looking for signs of journalistic hope
Likelihood For Confusion - This is a job for…
Isophorone - Islamic Rage Boy Interns At The Associated Press

I told Brian to contact Ezra Levant to see if he had any U.S. contacts for lawyers, since Ezra has started — or is thinking about starting — a blogger legal defense fund in Canada. Hopefully Brian’ll get some good info from Ezra.

Kick ass, Brian!

For a while now I’ve been reading the blog Atlas Shrugs by Pamela Geller.  Early on I recognized the female “Screech Factor”, which is high emotional content in words.  This emotional writing can REALLY get on my nerves, and I attribute it to my lack of ability to deal with emotional women.  I drop ‘em like hot rocks.

Does Pamela write well?  Mostly.  Does she write about stuff I want to know?  Yes, otherwise she’d be off my blog reading list.  Do I trust everything she writes?  Not at all.  Why?  Emotional writing; it’s just open yellow journalism.  Drives me bonkers.

But, like I said, I still read her because she talks about Jewish issues and is sort of in-line with my general way of thinking.  However, if I had a choice between reading Atlas Shrugs and Solomonia, it’s Solomonia all the way (even with the bastardized shortened RSS feed which pisses me off).

“But Fogey B,” you ask, “why write about Pamela Geller and women bloggers in general today?  Why not a while back?”

Decent question, O imaginary questioner.  I have written about Pamela before, but today I read something from another female blogger that kinda pissed me off.

Debbie Schlussel wrote a piece about Neil Diamond writing the song “Sweet Caroline” and questioningly calling him a pedophile (Neil Diamond, Pedophile?).  What the fuck?  Okay, good headline, gotta read… aaaand we get that emotional writing that makes my short hairs stand.

Neil Diamond says he wrote the song “Sweet Caroline” about Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, JFK’s daughter after seeing a pic of her in LIFE Magazine, “dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony” when she was a little girl.

To Debbie Schlussel, this is pedophilia.

Debbie points to some lyrics to make her point:

Hands, touching hands, reaching out
Touching me, touching you
Oh, sweet Caroline . . . .
And now I, I look at the night, whooo
And it don’t seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two, oh . . . .
How can I hurt when holding you
Oh, one, touching one, reaching out
Touching me, touching you
Oh, sweet Caroline

Now I’ve written poetry and song lyrics, and I know that a photograph or painting or even a simple scent or sound can inspire art.  Such inspiration doesn’t even have to be ABOUT what inspired me, it can simply evoke a feeling, and it’s a seed that germinates and grows.

Those lyrics could be about Neil wanting to tap some prepubescent ass, but they’re FAR FAR FAR more likely to be about a feeing he had when viewing the photo, something that made him feel good to be alive, and that photo summed up that feeling for him.  From there, you can get those lyrics from anywhere.  Touching isn’t always physical touching (that painting touched my heart), or Neil could be thinking about some hot piece of road tail he just banged in the hotel and he’s feelin’ “teh luv”, or he could be lying his publicity-seeking ass off because he’s old and his career is slowing down and more press about him means more sales, which equals steady mortgage payments.

Next, Debbie mentions Diamond’s divorce and says the divorce may’ve occurred because “Maybe she had something like this on him . . . ?”, meaning he’s a pedophile and that’s why the ex got huge money from Neil Diamond.

What… the… FUCK?!  I don’t have the ability or the patience to tell-off this hag in such a complete way that she deserves.  I may stoop to Photoshop, but I’m trying to hold back.

So when a female blogger whips out her fallopians and screeches “PEDOPHILE” about some innocent-seeming lyrics, then tries to back up her scummy assertions with innuendo, I just get full-on pissed.  Debbie Schlussel was “female-blogger screechy” before, but this is just way too much.

She’s off my blog reading list for good.

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

Thanks to Brian at Snapped Shot for tabulating the results (figuring out what images were being talked about in the article), and telling me that I have had a perturbing influence on Islamic Rage Boy!

I rule.

Here’s the link to Snapped Shot:
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1348-Rage-Boy-Photoshop-Contest-The-Results-Are-In!.html

And here’s the image mentioned in the article:

Update: Little Green Footballs mentions Brian’s post about the rageboy Photoshop contest. My influence extends! TASTE MY BEERFULL WRATH!!

AdviceGoddessBlog.com

In an open letter, one of bin Laden’s most prominent Saudi mentors, the preacher and scholar Salman al-Oadah, publicly reproached bin Laden for causing widespread mayhem and killing.

“How many innocent children, elderly people, and women have been killed in the name of Al Qaeda?” asked al-Oadah in a letter on his Web site, Islamtoday.com, and in comments on an Arabic television station.

“How many people have been forced to flee their homes, and how much blood has been shed in the name of Al Qaeda?”

This is a big deal, it has Muslims mumbling, and none of the blogs that I read (and I read many) have said anything about this.  WTF?

The open letter to bin Laden has received considerable publicity in the Arab media, including the Al Jazeera network and Islamonline.com, and has already elicited angry reactions from Al Qaeda supporters.

Indeed, the attack on bin Laden and his group by a respected religious authority is lethal, especially coming at a critical juncture for Al Qaeda and like-minded militant factions worldwide.

Fawaz A. Gerges - IHT.com

This is what I think, too.  This guy Mike just had the ability to write it out coherently.  :>

Off Topic: Dog Fighting and Meat Eating

Whether we admit it or not, other entities (and this
includes animals) have value only to the extent that they are useful to
us. Living things do not have value to
themselves, as Immanuel Kant would not
have argued, but rather have value as means to our ends.