Or at least it used to, today liberal wankers have to bend over backwards for people who would plot to kill hundreds of thousands of people.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A military and intelligence investigation into possible security breaches at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is under way following the arrest of a U.S. Army Islamic chaplain, Bush administration sources said.

Capt. James Yee, who has not been charged, is being held in the brig in Charleston, South Carolina, on suspicion of espionage and treason.

Sources said the investigation is looking at whether other U.S. military personnel may have been involved.

U.S. military authorities took Yee into custody September 10 at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station while in possession of classified documents “that a chaplain shouldn’t have,” said an official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The official said the documents included “diagrams of the cells and the facilities at Guantanamo,” where the military is holding about 600 suspected al Qaeda and other so-called enemy combatants.

Yee also allegedly was carrying lists of the detainees as well as their interrogators, the official said.

In addition, Yee is suspected of having ties to radical Muslims in the United States that are now under investigation, the official said, adding that he couldn’t elaborate.

Yee, who was assigned a military defense lawyer, can be held for 120 days before the military charges him with any offense, officials said.

He appeared September 15 before a military magistrate, who ruled there was sufficient reason to hold him in pretrial confinement.

Army officials with the U.S. Southern Command, which controls the Guantanamo Bay facility, said that they could not comment on the status of the investigation.

However, they confirmed Yee is a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. They said he became an air-defense artillery officer and left the Army some time later. Yee also served in the Persian Gulf War.

Yee then moved to Syria, where he lived for four years studying Islam and was married, apparently to a Syrian woman, according to U.S. government sources.

A U.S. State Department document available on the Internet confirms Yee’s time in Syria, saying he “spent four years studying Arabic and Islam in Damascus.”

The same document quotes Yee as saying, “An act of terrorism, the taking of innocent civilian lives, is prohibited by Islam, and whoever has done this needs to be brought to justice, whether he is Muslim or not.”

A Southern Command official said Yee returned to the Army as a Muslim chaplain after his conversion to Islam and was assigned in November to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Yee is one of about a dozen Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military, according to officials.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Sunday described as “uncivil” Sen. Edward Kennedy’s remarks critical of the administration’s policies in Iraq.

Kennedy said last week the case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud “made up in Texas” to give Republicans a political boost. The longtime senator also alleged that the money for the war is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send troops.

In an exclusive Oval Office interview with Fox News’ Brit Hume, Bush said that while he respected Kennedy, the senator “should not have said we were trying to bribe foreign nations.”

“I don’t mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that’s fine and that’s fair game,” Bush said in the interview that will air Monday night. “But, you know, I don’t think we’re serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people say — use words that they shouldn’t be using.”

Kennedy’s comments, part of the drumbeat of criticism Bush has received lately from Democrats, were described as a “new low” by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Kennedy dismissed DeLay’s comments, saying that once again GOP leaders are avoiding questions about Bush’s policies “by attacking the patriotism of those who question them.”

Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, elaborated on his comments in an interview on CNN on Friday, saying the administration is announcing an $8.5 billion loan to Turkey, and that country will then provide military assistance in Iraq.

“It didn’t have to be this way,” he said. “We wouldn’t have to be providing these billions of dollars to these countries to … coerce them or bribe them to send their troops in, if we’d done it the right way, if we’d gone to the United Nations, if we had built an international constituency.”

From Willow:

“Wanna Breed?”

Ok, new logo design with pics of some of the wetwired people kinda a mix of stuff. Let me know what you think. The date went well last night, I took pics of the Alamo Quarry. Sunday I’ll be bringing my camera down to Houston to meet up with Kitty Hawk, the long awaited meeting between us. Yes, yes, you thought the day would never come.. well actually it hasn’t yet, its tomorrow, but regaurdless were going to putz around in houston, find something to get into trouble and take pictures.

Well folks, we made it. After another 5 days worth of hell here we are at the edge of 2 days of work free bliss. I for one am super happy. This is really the first weekend I’m not taveling something like 500 miles over the weekend. Though, tonight I am going to travel, but only an hour down the road to San Antonio to go out on a date. I’ll be going to the Alamo Quarry, which is a shopping center they made out of a rock quarry. What is really intersting is one of the main manufacturing/smoke stacks is the movie theatre, so there are all these large iron beams and peices they left behind and painted. The movie theatre itself is huge, a 1st and 2nd story, and several consession stands. I think I’ll take a picture this evening just so I can show you guys how damn cool it is. Yes, I’m bringing my new camera on the date, hopefully she’ll play along and take some pictures. Aside from that, I unfortunatly am working overtime on Saturday, but Sunday you can bet your sweet ass I’ll be doing absolutly nothing and making sure it is everything I thought it could be.

So after the trip I washed my car again since it got pretty dirty from going down to New Orleans. I decided when I got home today that i’d do a quick detail again. Below are the finished results.

(9/17/03 - BELLINGHAM, WA)

Ok, so I’ve gone with the new design, I’m actually not going to keep the current logo, its only temporary. I am working on a few other things on the site, you’ll see subtle changes and you’ll also see the archives re-appear. I’ll also be spending today working on the links section as well so keep your eyes peeled. The photoblog is up, very cool, we have the ability to update it from anywhere, as in I can just take my phone camera with me and snap a picture and email it to buzznet to instantly be posted.

Ok, so the site is going to have some changes to it very shortly, I’m going to be adding a photoblog side bar on the front page - http://pylorns.buzznet.com/user/?id=6208 . This will come mostly from my cell phone, I will also be updating it so others can upload to it as well I may do away with the cam page if I get this working correctly.

CLICK HERE FOR THE PICS You can comment on these pictures if you want, I didn’t remeber anyones name so if ya know just comment and I’ll change the title etc… Don’t forget to check out the forums either.

Ok, we’re back, I spent this evening recounting the trip with my roommates and showing them the crazy video I took on the walk from Burbon Street to the Car at the Casino. They couldn’t stop laughing. Next I spent 2 hours going through some 250 pictures and resizing and editing and deleting in order to post them up on the gallery in a chronological order. Tomorrow they will be posted and I’ll be adding the commentary. The video, well, that will take a while, I have to merge 15 clips together and do a bunch of editing a week or two I’ll be done with that.

Well, for those of you we met last night, it was pretty cool meeting you guys! The pics of our entire trip including the crazy evening, like scuba steve and his bottle of everclear, and Britney the shot girl, or our waitress who we bought the shirt off her back… I’ll have the pics up tonight when I get back to Austin and have time to fix them, crop cut down size etc.

CNN) — Actor and comedian John Ritter, who gained stardom in the 1970s sitcom “Three’s Company,” died of heart failure Thursday night after collapsing on the set of his current TV series. He was 54.

Ritter was rushed from the set of the ABC series “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter” to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, after suffering from aortic dissection, an unrecognized and undetected flaw in his heart, according to a statement from his publicist Lisa Kasteler.

“Surgeons at the hospital tried to save the Emmy Award-winning actor but, sadly, were unable to do so,” the statement said.

Ritter, who would have turned 55 next week, is best known for his role as Jack Tripper on the long-running television sitcom, “Three’s Company,” which brought him an Emmy.

He was the youngest son of Western film star and country music legend Tex Ritter, according to his biography on ABC’s Web site.

He was born on September 17, 1948, and is survived by his wife, Amy Yasbeck and their daughter Stella and three children, Carly, Tyler and Jason, from his first marriage to Nancy Morgan.

WebMD.com describes an aortic dissection as “an abnormal separation of tissues within the walls of the aorta” caused by high blood pressure, family history of the condition, disease of connective tissue, or severe trauma to the chest.

“Aortic dissection results in a weakened blood vessel wall that may also rupture,” the Web site says.

Ritter guest-starred on many popular television series, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his appearance on “Ally McBeal.”

Proving his versatility, he also provided the voice of Clifford on the PBS animated series “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” a role for which he received two Emmy nominations.

He is best remembered for his goofy physical humor on “Three’s Company,” but showcased his penchant for serious acting in Billy Bob Thornton’s 1996 cinematic hit, “Slingblade.”

That role opened the door for future serious acting roles. He recently co-starred with Sigourney Weaver in Miramax’s “Tadpole,” directed by Gary Winick.

He also appeared in the independent feature “Manhood,” which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

Ritter will also be seen in Miramax’s “Bad Santa,” opposite Thornton. The film is scheduled for release on November 26.

Johnny Cash

CNN) — He was a poor sharecropper’s son from Kingsland, Arkansas, who sang to himself while picking cotton in the fields — then later sang to millions through recordings, concerts and his late-’60s TV variety show.

He became a country music statesman who found a home with rap-rock producer Rick Rubin’s American Recordings.

He was called the “Man in Black,” who once sang “I shot a man in Reno/Just to watch him die,” but opened his concerts with the friendly, modest greeting, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”

Johnny Cash — legend, model, icon — died Friday. He was 71.

Cash died of complications from diabetes at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, hospital spokeswoman Nicole Bates said. He had just been released Wednesday after entering the hospital August 25 with an undisclosed stomach ailment.

Cash’s wife of 35 years, June Carter Cash, died June 12.

Perhaps the most widely recognized voice in country music, Cash recorded more than 1,500 songs. His career spanned more than four decades with trademark hits like “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues, “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.”

His success crossed well over onto the pop scene. He had 48 singles on Billboard’s pop charts, rivaling both the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.

His 11 Grammys included a lifetime achievement award and the 1998 Grammy for country album of the year (”Unchained”). It’s said that more than 100 other recording artists and groups have recorded “I Walk the Line.”

“Johnny Cash was not only a giant in our business, but he was one of those guys who had grown to become a cultural icon in American,” Ed Benson, executive director of the Country Music Association, told WTVF-TV in Nashville. “People associated him with values that I think they held near and dear to their hearts.”

‘I don’t think I could have made it’
A child of the Depression, J.R. Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. Cash’s parents took advantage of a New Deal farm program, moving their large family to Dyess Colony in northeast Arkansas. There they farmed cotton during the day and sang hymns on the porch at night.

When he was 12, his 14-year-old brother, Jack, died after an accident. Cash acknowledged the death had a profound impact on his music, and he noted it may have been once reason for his music’s melancholy tinge.

After high school, he enlisted in the Air Force. The military wouldn’t accept initials, so Cash chose John as his new first name. While stationed in Germany, Cash bought his first guitar and started a band.

“All through the Air Force, I was so lonely for those three years,” Cash told The Associated Press during a 1996 interview. “If I couldn’t have sung all those old country songs, I don’t think I could have made it.”

When his hitch was over, Cash moved to Memphis where he sold appliances door-to-door while trying to break into the music business. In 1954, he auditioned for Sam Phillips at Sun Records, hoping to record some simple gospel songs. Instead, Phillips — who had discovered Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis — pushed Cash toward a more commercial sound.

Cash’s first single, “Hey Porter,” had a disappointing debut. But his follow-up, the 1955 “Cry, Cry, Cry,” drew national attention. “Folsom Prison Blues” went into the Top Five in country singles in 1956, and “I Walk the Line” became Cash’s first No. 1 country hit. In 1957, he made his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. And by 1958, he’d published 50 songs, sold more than 6 million records and moved to the Columbia label.

It was at the Opry that Cash became known as “The Man in Black.”

“Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkle clothes and cowboy boots,” he said in 1986. “I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I’ve worn black clothes ever since.”

(CNN) — Two years after the September 11 attacks, people are gathering across the United States and around the world for ceremonies honoring the 3,016 people killed when four hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

At Ground Zero in New York, thousands of people, many of them clutching pictures of their loved ones, held a moment of silence at 8:46 EDT, when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Afterward, children began reading the names of the 2,792 victims of the World Trade Center attacks in alphabetical order. Each child had a relative who died in the attack.

“I love you daddy, I miss you a lot,” said Christina Maria Aceto after reading the name of her father, Richard Anthony Aceto.

Mourners paused again at 9:03 to mark the time when United Airlines Flight 175 hit the south tower.

During the ceremony, family members walked down a ramp to the lowest level of the site to pray and reflect. Two square pools of water that resembled the footprint of the two buildings quickly filled with flowers. The route was lined by dozens of posters made by children of the victims. One said, “I remember riding on my daddy’s shoulders.”

Overnight, hundreds of people marched by candlelight from Manhattan’s Union Square to Ground Zero.

In Washington, President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, along with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne, emerged onto the White House lawn for a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m.

Earlier, Bush told reporters: “We remember lives lost. We remember heroic deeds. We remember the compassion, the decency of our fellow citizens on that terrible day.”

New York Gov. George Pataki, looking at the thousands gathered at Ground Zero, said the “sense of loss is like it happened yesterday.”

“I don’t think that sense of sorrow will diminish, but at the same time, you can’t help but feel pride. You look down and see the firefighters, you hear the bagpipes. You see the people, and you have a tremendous sense of pride that the heroism and courage that New Yorkers showed on September 11th.”

At the State Department, Secretary of State Colin Powell read a proclamation from Bush in which the president vowed the United States “will continue to bring our enemies to justice or justice to them.”

Services are also planned at the Pentagon for the 125 people killed in the attacks and the 59 passengers and crew members of American Airlines Flight 77 — a total of 184 people who died in the Washington attacks. A stained glass window that Pentagon workers helped assemble will be dedicated.

In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, ceremonies were held with memorial speeches and songs overnight in the Flight 93 chapel. A memorial is set for today as well — bells will toll for the 40 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, who are credited with preventing another attack by causing the plane to crash into a field.

Back from tennessee, you can check out the pics in the gallery section off the forum if your interested. This weekend I’m off to New Orleans to hook up with a bunch of the other wetwired peeps for a weekend of fun, laughs and a bit of drinking.