JIHAD: IT'S ALL ABOUT SEX, ISN'T IT!?

Funny video and other stuff, (from SUGIERO).
(Great photoshop by Sugeiro.)

ZARQAWI'S LAST WORDS RECOVERED!

It's been widely reported that Zarqawi didn't die instantly from the bombing, but lived a little while longer and was actually mumbling on the stretcher as he was taken away by US forces. Here is a translation of what he said:

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, I WAS JUST ACCEPTED BY YALE!?"

RELIAPUNDIT WONDERED IF THE HADITHA MASSACRE WAS A HOAX ON JUNE 3RD

ON JUNE 3RD, I COMPARED HADITHA TO THE "JENINGRAD MASSACRE HOAX" - AND EVEN RATHERGATE, AND EVEN THE "AL DURA AFFAIR" --- EACH A WELL-KNOWN EXAMPLE OF DISINFORMATION HAPPILY BROADCAST BY THE MSM. ("Fake but accurate" is what THEY call it.)

NOW, NEARLY A WEEK LATER, OTHERS IN THE BLOGOSPHERE WONDER, TOO.

Since the LIARS always get caught - especially now with the blogospheric army of fact-checkers - ya gotta wonder they even try!?

EASY: Just remember that great quote from Churchill (paraphrasing): "A lie can go around the world five times before the truth has its pants on."

To paraphrase another old saying: A spectacular lie is often long remembered by people after the simple truth is forgotten - especially if the lie is a spectacular one which reinforces their ideological prejudice.

SO-CALLED "MONTHLY TRADE DEFICIT" FIGURE RELEASED - JUST THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF THE LEFT'S ANTI-GLOBAL TRADE "BIG LIE"

ABC:

The trade deficit is rising again after two months of declines, pushed by oil prices and a flood of imports from China. Analysts warned that global oil prices above $70 per barrel will swell the deficit more in coming months.The Commerce Department reported Friday that the gap between what the United States sells abroad and what it imports rose to $63.4 billion in April, 2.5 percent higher than the March imbalance of $61.9 billion.

FIRST: It's RIDICULOUS to argue that ANY nation should buy the same amount of goods - or goods and services - as it sells overseas. Therefore the expectation that trade should always be in balance or that balance is best is stupid.

SECOND: The term "trade deficit" IMPLICITLY asserts that the GOODS - (or goods and services) - are WORTHLESS, which is UTTERLY RIDICULOUS. When a USA gasoline company buys 1 billion dollars worth of OIL from an overseas supplier, they have traded ONE BILLION DOLLARS in cash for ONE BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF OIL, (OIL THAT THEY WILL REFINE AND MAKE A PROFIT ON); therefore, this PURCHASE - (one which Conventional Wisdom asserts "adds" to the so-called "trade deficit") - is IN PERFECT BALANCE; (REPEAT: the seller has traded goods for money - IOW: traded a "goods asset" for a cash asset; the buyer will probably turn their newly acquired goods asset into a PROFITABLE SALE). This even-steven TRADE can in no way be logically construed as a deficit, or anything bad for the economy of the USA.

The concept of TRADE DEFICIT is an entirely false one, contrived long ago by anti-trade partisans in order to demagogue trade by ginning up fear - by deliberately misconstruing an even-steven trade into a "loss". As PJ O'Rourke so brilliantly argued:

"... there is no such thing as a trade imbalance. Trade can't be out of balance because a balance is what a trade is. Buyers and sellers decide that one thing is equivalent to another. Free trade is balanced trade. You might as well have free love then claim your partner had sex but you didn't."

If the MSM were objective, then they'd stop using this propagandistic and misleading number. But the MSM is not objective; the MSM is Left-wing, and anti-free trade/anti-globalism.

More HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER - PART 9: CASTRO AND ASSAD

Baathism = socialism. Assadism = Fidelism.

These birds flock together because they hate liberty, love tyranny, and rant about the Great Satan.

WAS BIG IMMIGRANT BUST IN DETORIT TERROR-RELATED?

DETROIT FREE PRESS:

They called it Operation Motor City, and for five days, federal agents working late-night shifts in unmarked cars shadowed illegal immigrants living in towns and cities across southeast Michigan.

By Wednesday, 63 immigrants -- most of them from Eastern European countries and ranging in age from 10 to 60 -- were in the process of being deported in one of the largest roundups yet in an ongoing effort to clear Michigan and Ohio of an estimated 4,500 illegal immigrants. ... Twenty-five of the people targeted during the latest operation, which lasted from May 31 to Sunday, were from Albania, while eight were from Macedonia, officials said. The rest were from 13 other countries. ... he immigrants lived across metro Detroit, including in Canton, Farmington Hills and West Bloomfield. The largest number of arrests occurred in Royal Oak, where eight Albanians were picked up, Baker said.

Targeting eastern Eurpeans from Albania and Macedonia (where many people are Muslim) might mean this raid was REALLY related to the recent terror-bust in Toronto - right across the border from Detroit. Just wondering... After all - if that CBS NEWS report was accurate - maybe the fedas are VERY worried something BIG is about to happen, and they're rounding up anyone who can give them a lead...

DENMARK AND CHINA SIGN WIND-ENERGY DEAL

One reason oil prices are up is because demand is up, in part because the world economy is good, and in part because India and China have become big consumers of oil. And they will need more and more energy as their economies grow. SO THIS DEAL IS POTENTIALLY VERY IMPORANT:

China and Denmark on Wednesday launched a wind energy program, which will be financed by a Danish grant of 45 million Danish Kronur (about 60 million yuan) over the next three years.

In an agreement signed in Beijing on Wednesday, the Danish aid will be used to help China improve its technological and management capacity in wind power development, and to help local authorities develop their own wind energy development plans.

Denmark is leading the world in wind energy development.

The more WIND China harnesses for energy the less oil they will need and the lower OIL prices will become. And remember this: the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Plant will be openIng soon. This will help too. Technology - and not taxes or Kyoto or price controls - is the answer to our energy needs.

BUSH AGREES WITH RELIAPUNDIT: NO IMMIGRATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION

WASH POST:

Continuing his campaign to build support for comprehensive immigration legislation, President Bush on Wednesday emphasized that illegal immigrants who want to stay here should learn English and demonstrate that they are committed to assimilating into American culture.

Founding Fathers, 1776: No taxation without represenation.
Reliapundit, 2006: No immigration withut assimilation.

We have to make English the OFFICIAL language of the USA and all state and federal activities, and forms.

I NEVER EVER want to have to "press one for English" again!

ADDENDUM: Assimilation doesn't mean HOMOGENIETY or the end of pluralism, and diversity - as some on the Left misconstrue in the comments section. It means the end of multicultuarlism and of disintegrative forces. REMEMBER: Even the French Left admitted that one reason they had those HORRIFYING RIOTS was because they do such a HORRIBLE job at ASSIMILATING immigrants. We can do better, too. And those who argue that Mexicans CAN'T assimilate are the real racists - peddling their soft racism of lowered expectations. I think Mexicans can assimilate - if we demand it, and that they'll contribute even more to our economy and our USA culture then they alreadt contribute if they do assimliate. We need MORE ASSIMILATION from them, and English FIRST is where we should start.

ALSO: here's what I wrote a long time ago about AMERICAN CULTURE - (BTW: if you GOOGLE "american cultural hegemony" you get this article FIRST!):

The strength of American culture - so-called - is that it is FREE TO EVOLVE HOWEVER THE PEOPLE WANT IT TO EVOLVE. It absorbs whatever it wants from wherever it wants for as long as it wants - and "it" is the people, the "marketplace" if you prefer.

Within this ever-evolving culture, people are of course free to maintain enclaves of whatever they wish: they can be more devout & conservative (like 50's greasers, or Amish), or they can be xenophiles (like Woody Allen and Michael Moore and their fixation on the pre-eminence of French culture), or they can even be trekkies. This is because a FREE culture doesn't demand that everybody tows the line - heterogeneity and pluralism are fine in an open culture. That's why it evolves. America's culture is open-sourced and free; anti-American elitists are closed-minded and dictatorial.

And, that's why the LAND OF THE FREE is the home of world culture: because here the public determines what culture is (at any given moment) - and not members of the Academy or Mullahs or aristocrats of any stripe.

That's democracy of culture, and like democracy in the political realm: it only frightens tyrants. As well it should.

WHY ARE LEFTISTS SO OPPOSED TO ASSIMILATION!?

Simple: Leftists are basically statists who want the state to pre-determine outcomes in the marketplace, and one CHIEF way Leftists have always done this is to allocate goods to people based on which groups they belong to. If people assimilate they become LESS a part of any group and this make them less susceptible to these kinds of Leftist statist schemes.

The Right believes that the marketplace is the most accurtate a fair allocator of goods and services, and that each person should be treated according to their character and ability and not membership in any group or class or race. Human Rights are INDIVIDUAL, and not dependent on an individuals membership in any group. In a fair and open society, people jn one group should not have more - or less - rights than any other persons. That's why we want assimilation and an end to affirmative action. BOTH ARE RACIST. And Leftist. BOTOM-LINE: today's reactionary Left is the home of racism and anti-Semitism.

ZARQAWI KILLED IN IRAQ BY TARGETED US BOMBING RAID

BBC:

The head of US-led forces in Iraq, General George Casey, said Zarqawi was killed at 1815 (1415 GMT) on Wednesday, in an air strike against an "isolated safe house... approximately 8km (five miles) north of Baquba.

"Iraqi police were first on the scene after the air strike," he said, followed shortly afterwards by coalition forces. Zarqawi was said to have been in a meeting with associates at the time. Several other people were reported to have been killed in the raid. General Casey said Zarqawi's body was identified through fingerprints, facial recognition and known scars.

OIL DROPS BELOW $70. AL QAEDA ON THE RUN. DEMOCRACY ON THE MOVE. LEFTISTS DISAPPOINTED.

GOD BLESS THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

BTW: We will get Binladen and Zawahiri, too. More HERE. And HERE. IRAQ THE MODEL comments HERE.

UPDATE: As PROOF that the Arab world and Iraq's immediate neighborhood is increasingly on OUR side, this item from "REUTERS":

Jordanian intelligence helped in the operation that led to the killing of al Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Thursday, a Jordanian spokesman said. "There has been early exchange of intelligence information with the United States that helped in the operation that killed Zarqawi," government spokesman Nasser Joudeh told Reuters.

Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who had sworn loyalty to Osama bin Laden, had come to symbolise the radical Islamic insurgency against U.S. occupation in which thousands had been killed.

As Binladen once said, when peple see a weak horse and a strong horse they are naturally drawn to the strong horse. We are the strong horse.

ADDENDUM - via POWERLINE: Casey:

“Tips and intelligence from Iraqi senior leaders from his network led forces to al-Zarqawi and some of his associates who were conducting a meeting approximately eight kilometers north of Baqubah when the air strike was launched."

TIPS. The Iraqis want to be free. Just like most people.

UPDATE: FITTING COINCIDENCE (Via GATEWAY): THE USS COLE DEPARTS FOR THE PERSIAN GULF. Like the death of Zarqawi, this shows the evil-doers they cannot defeat us.

DESPITE THE LEFT'S PERVASIVE NEGATIVISM - AND THE CONSTANT ATTACKS FROM THE MSM - BUSH'S AGENDA IS SUCCEEDING

THE EXAMINER:

“President Bush’s leadership is achieving a steady flow of results that do not always dominate the day’s headlines on their own but that together represent real progress for the American people,” Bartlett said. ... “In today’s political climate, daily headlines and fast-moving events make it easy to lose the forest for the trees,” Bush counselor Dan Bartlett wrote in a memo this week. “But there is a clear tide of positive developments that reflect the president’s ability to get things done.”

Things are far from perfect: al Qaeda refuses to surrender in Iraq; gasoline prices remain high; the federal budget is filled with pork. Nevertheless, despite all that - and the constant negativity from the MSM - the Bush Administration's policies are advancing (see the article for some of Bush's recent successes). WHICH MEANS: be patient; be resolute; don't worry; don't overreact; keep the faith.

THE LEFT: PARANOID ABOUT BUSH AND FALWELL; IN DENIAL ABOUT GLOBAL JIHAD

LILEKS:

You're an enlightened world citizen. Your T-shirt says "9/11 was an inside job." You're pretty sure we're living in a fascist state, that President Bush taps the Dixie Chicks' phones, Christian abortion clinic bombers outnumber jihadis, and the war on "terror" is a distraction from the real threats: carbon emissions and Pat Robertson.

Then you learn that 17 people were arrested in a terrorist bomb plot. How do you process the information? Let's take it step by step.

Gosh, that's horrible, you think. But no -- that's what they WANT you to feel. Recall the prime directive: Question Authority (unless he's a college professor). The plotters must have been impoverished olive farmers radicalized by the removal of Saddam Hussein.

It would be funny if it weren't so so so so SO very VERY true. RTWT.

INCONVENIENT FACT: FLORIDA COOLEST EVER

Via DRUDGE/WUNDERGROUND:

Statement as of 8:55 am EDT on June 7, 2006
record event report
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
855 am EDT Jun 7 2006

... Record low temperature shattered at Tallahassee Florida!...

AR 6:51 am EDT this morning... the temperature at the Tallahassee
Regional Airport dropped to 54 degrees. This obliterates the old
record low of 57 degrees set in 1991.

This is one more bit of proof that man-made global warming is definitely false, and it might even prove that global warming itself might be false. I think that the whole hysterical effort to curb so called greenhouse gases is really an effort by the reactionary post modern Left - who dominate the Democrats and the MSM - to curb industrialization and global trade and to hobble and diminish the West.

POLL PROVES UNILATERALISM IS THE ONLY PRACTICAL PATH FOR ISRAEL

IBLOGA:

The poll result that will not make the mainstream media at all is the fact that only 4% of Palestinian Arabs reject terror altogether. The question is ambiguously worded, but what is entirely clear is that the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs want to see continued attacks against Jewish civilians (what is euphemistically called "resistance.")

The poll - by Bir Zeit University - also shows that 61% support Hamas in their refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist.

OBVIOUSLY, the Palistanis want war, the destruction of Israel, and genocide against Jews. This makes them unfit partners for peace. This makes them fit for nothing - except to be shunned. Unilateral separation allows them to be shunned. By Israel and the rest of the civilized world.

THE OMEN - SYRIAN VERSION: MAJOR US OIL COMPANY WITHDRAWING FROM SYRIA

MORE PROOF THINGS ARE LIKELY GOING TO GET HOTTER FOR BASGAR IN DAMASCUS REAL SOON:

YA LIBNAN:

Marathon oil company, America's largest investor in the Syrian oil and gas sectors will soon quit after selling its shares, fearing further U.S. sanctions against Damascus.

ARUTZ SHEVA:

"The decision was sparked by fears from additional sanctions that U.S. President George Bush is seeking to impose on Damascus in addition to problems between the U.S. company and the Syrian government," according to a source quoted by United Press International (UPI). "At any moment President Bush can increase sanctions on Syria to cover investments."

MIDDLE EAST ONLINE:

Industry sources said Marathon Oil, based in Houston, Texas, was seeking to sell virtually all of its interests in Syria by 2007.

Handwriting on the wall... the Brammertz Report is due in a few weeks... the clock is ticking... on Assad's murderous regime...

ONCE AGAIN, THE MSM SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS

THE BBC AND CTV REFERRED TO THE FLIGHTS WHICH TOOK SUSPECTED AL QAEDA TERRORISTS TO SECRET PRISONS AS "TERROR FLIGHTS".

GOOGLE NEWS HITS FOR "ANTI-TERROR FLIGHTS": ZERO.

THIS REVEALS, ONCE AGAIN, THAT THE LEFTIST DOMINATED MSM REGARDS ANTI-TERROR EFFORTS WITH CONTEMPT, WHILE IT IGNORES THE ATROCITIES OF THE ENEMY. OR BLAMES THEM ON THE USA.

WHICH HELPS THE ENEMY. THE MSM: A FIFTH COLUMN FOR AL QAEDA.

CHE: TOTALITARIAN AND LEFTIST ICON SUBJECT OF MUSEUM EXHIBIT IN LONDONISTAN

THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM IS HAVING A SHOW ABOUT CHE. Those who admire this murderous racist promoter of tyranny are dupes. Of course, the museum blurb conveniently leaves out the fact that he and Fidel promoted tyranny - in Cuba and abroad.

HERE IS A LINK TO MY FAVORITE PHOTO OF CHE.

What's next, a show honoring Zarqawi!?

More from Paul Berman:

Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. ... The present-day cult of Che—the T-shirts, the bars, the posters—has succeeded in obscuring this dreadful reality.

A real cool t-shirt here, and here.
More on CHE here. And here. And here.

AND MUCH MORE HERE.

THE AGE OF OIL IS OVER... soon

VIA INSTAPUNDIT: G.E. HAS DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE HYDROGEN AS CHEAPLY AS GAS:

Researchers at GE’s Global Research lab in Niskayuna, NY, have developed a system that produces hydrogen at a fraction of the cost and could be available commercially in just a few years. ...GE’s breakthrough comes from a proprietary material called Noryl, a highly chemical- and temperature-resistant plastic developed by the GE labs, that lowers the cost of hydrogen production to hundreds of dollars per kilowatt, according to Bourgeois.

...Although GE has only built a prototype in their lab, Bourgeois believes that demonstrations can come as soon as the end of next year, and commercialization will follow that. The goal of the project, according to Bourgeois, is to bring down equipment costs enough to take the cost of hydrogen from $8 per kilogram to $3 per kilogram—comparable in energy and price to a gallon of gasoline.

If it pans out, it means that OPEC and Chavez and the Mullahs are THROUGH! Good riddance.

GORE: "LYING ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS OKAY"

Gore thinks lying is okay. Key graf - from DISSECTING LEFT:

"Wednesday's Washington Times ran a column on global warming by Cato's Patrick Michaels in which he quoted Al Gore as saying, "I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience." As a public service I will now translate this politically obtuse statement into English; It is alright to lie to people in order to scare them into doing something that is against their own interest.

"OVERREPRESENTATION OF FACTUAL PRESENTATIONS"?!?! Er, um... I think that this is pseudo-intellectual jargon for for "fake but accurate!" - or "getting too far out in front of the TRUTH cycle." Heh.

Gore is a Leftist and since the advent of post-modernism Leftists don't believe that objective truth exists, so OF COURSE lying is okay. (Which is why the Left is so very VERY good at lying - just observe the MSM: according to the MSM, the economy sucks, even though by all historical standards and OBJECTIVE measures it is better now than during the Clinton Era.)

DEMOCRAT DEMENTIA / LEFT-WING LUNACY

LEFTIE DEMS ARE MORE AFRAID OF GLOBAL WARMING - (WHICH HAS KILLED NO ONE - AND WHICH IS PROBABLY A NATURAL EVENT AND NOT EVEN MAN-MADE AND WHICH WE COULD NO MORE STOP THEN WE CAN STOP THE SUN FROM RISING), THEN OF GLOBAL JIHAD - WHICH HAS KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS.

They're LOONS!

More proof HERE. And HERE.

WHAT A DEMOCRAT VICTORY WILL MEAN

If you want to:

cut & run from al Qaeda in Iraq, appease the enemy, and defer to the UN;
filibuster the judicial nominees;
repeal tax cuts/raise taxes;
raise domestic spending, and cut defense spending;
and open the border -

THEN VOTE DEMOCRAT. Or stay home and don't vote: same effect.

IOW: "Go ahead, make Zarqawi happy - VOTE DEMOCRAT!"

More HERE and HERE.

SYRIAN OPPOSITION COALESCING IN ANTICIPATION OF BRAMMERTZ REPORT AND ASSAD'S IMMINENT OUSTER

alJazeera/Qatar:

The National Salvation Front, a Syrian opposition group founded in exile, has ended its inaugural congress in London saying there was no doubt that the Syrian government would fall.

In its final declaration at the close of the congress on Monday, the group called on Syrians to "break down the barriers of fear" and overturn the government of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, but not through violent means. ...

"The National Salvation Front also invites the armed forces to shoulder national and historic responsibility, to be the army of the people," the statement added. It urged the security forces, especially "officers used by the regime to inflict injustice on the citizens ... to live up to their moral and national responsibilities and refuse to obey the orders of the corrupt group that all of you know is corrupt and oppressive."

Alongside Khaddam and the Muslim brotherhood, Kurdish parties, independents and communists took part in the London meeting.

Yahoo/AP:

Key Syrian opposition figures Monday urged Syrians to work to oust President Basher Assay by using acts of civil disobedience reminiscent to the upheaval that freed nations behind the Iron Curtain. Describing Assay's regime as oppressive and corrupt, the leaders pledged to bring democracy to Syria, which has been ruled by Assay since the death of his father, Haze, in 2000. ... A representative from the Kurdish minority as well as liberal and democratic groups also attended the London meeting.The alliance has pledged that the proposed transitional government would abolish Syria's 1963 state of emergency and release all political prisoners.

Syrians deserve self government, government by consent of the governed, self-determination as much as anybody else. Soon, the Syrians will have it. Because of Bush, and the Brammertz Report, and because there is a diverse and united opposition to Assad's murderous baathist/socialist regime.

The Bush Doctrine is working and Democracy is on the advance - and democracy will bring prosperity and peace.

WW2, VIETNAM, AND IRAQ

BARONE WROTE A MASTERPIECE. RTWT. HERE'S A MONEY GRAF - COURTESY ECONOPUNDIT:

Americans are in a sour mood, a mood that may be explained by the lack of a sense of history. The military struggle in Iraq (nearly 2,500 military deaths) is spoken of in as dire terms as Vietnam (58,219), Korea (54,246) or World War II (405,399). We bemoan the cruel injustice of $3 a gallon for gas in a country where three-quarters of people classified as poor have air conditioning and microwave ovens. We complain about a tide of immigration that is, per U.S. resident, running at one-third the rate of 99 years ago.

George W. Bush has a better sense of history.

In a post below I explain why I think so many are in a sour mood - I blame the MSM's BLANKET negativity going allthe back to "Gore V. Bush."

But I think some ADDITIONAL historical perspective is in order. Let me put it this way: JUST HOW STUPID IS THE VIETNAM-IRAQ ANALOGY THE LEFTIE DOVES USE ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME!? It's NOT just the fact that the Iraq War casualty rate is miniscule compared to Vietnam - and EVERY previous war. It's this:

When I was young and a dove and a Leftie - (and wrong about just about everything!) - I protested the Vietnam War. Let's say it was... 1970. PKAY?! Well, back in 1970 WW2 seemed like ancient history to us: no jets; no UN; no color movies, (well: not many!); no TV - you get the idea: THE WORLD HAD CHANGED ENORMOUSLY IN THE 25 YEARS between the end of WW2 and 1970.

WELL... Vietnam was MORE than 25 years ago! YUP: that means that WW2 was more temporally proximate to 1970 than Vietnam is to us today. But it's more than just the years: The world has changed more since Vietnam than between WW2 and Vietnam, and it continues to change at an evermore rapid pace, too. IOW: WW2 was more relevant to Vietnam than Vietnam could possibly be to Iraq. And WW2 wasn't very relevant to Vietnam.

WW2 and VIETNAM are ONLY RELEVANT to Iraq ON THIS LEVEL: In all THREE wars the USA defended democracy and liberty and fought against totalitarianists.

VIETNAM IS ONLY RELEVANT TO IRAQ ON ONE OTHER LEVEL: If given the chance the Dems/doves will do the same thing to the Iraqis (and perhaps the Afghanis) that they did to the South Vietnamese: ABANDON THEM TO TOTALITARIANISM.

If you support democracy and self-government for all peoples of the world, then vote GOP.

If you support Binladen, totalitarianism, appeasement and isolationism, then vote Democrat.

The choice is yours.

BUSH ECONOMY BOOMING

HERE ARE THE FACTS YOU WON'T READ IN THE LEFT-WING DOMINATED BDS-AFFLICTED IN THE BAG FOR THE DEMS/DOVES MSM.

I challenge any and all Lefties to provide ONE fact that counters any of the facts in the article I linked to, or to prove that one fact in the article is false.

ABBAS CAN'T NEGOTIATE WITH HAMAS, SO WHO CAN REASONABLY EXPECT ISRAELIS TO!?

YAHOO :

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he will call a referendum on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel after he failed to persuade Hamas to agree to the idea.

The Islamic militant Hamas, which heads the Palestinian government, strongly opposes a referendum. "President Abbas will set a date for the referendum after the meeting Tuesday of the PLO Executive Committee and parliamentary caucuses," his office said in a statement.

Abbas had set a midnight deadline for agreement. But a participant in late-night talks with Palestinian factions said the president determined they had failed an hour before that.

... The Palestinian infighting has turned deadly in recent weeks. Sixteen people have died in clashes between Hamas and Fatah loyalists, including five killed on Sunday. Five Palestinians were wounded in two clashes in the southern city of Khan Younis on Monday, security officials said. Hamas has stuck to its tough line on Israel despite the crushing international boycott, which has left the government unable to pay the salaries of tens of thousands of civil servants for three months.

If Hamas and Fatah cannot strike a deal - but instead resort to murdering each other in the streets, then how can Israel EVER make a deal with them?! OBVIOUSLY THEY CANNOT. WHICH IS WHY A UNILATERAL ARRANGEMENT IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO FORWARD. KADIMA.

MORE HERE.

MORE PROOF OF GLOBAL JIHAD - and why Binladen is rooting for the Democrats

BREITBART/AP VIA DRUDGE:

"This investigation is not finished," Mike McDonell, deputy commissioner for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday. "Anybody that aided, facilitated or participated in this terrorist event will be arrested and prosecuted in court."

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day also predicted more arrests. Another senior government official told The Associated Press on Sunday that more warrants were being gathered and that arrests were likely, possibly this week.

Although both Canadian and U.S. officials said over the weekend there was no indication the purported terror group had targets outside Ontario, McDonnell told National Public Radio on Monday that the inquiry has expanded beyond Canada.

"We are working with and sharing our information with our allied countries," he said.

A U.S. law enforcement official said investigators were looking for connections between those detained in Canada and suspected Islamic militants held in the United States, Britain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark and Sweden.

American authorities have established that two men from Georgia who were charged this year in a terrorism case had been in contact with some of the Canadian suspects via computer, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

This is absolutely a World War - (either 3 or 4, depending on if you include the Cold War).

And the Dems/doves/appeasers of the Left are ready to turn either Afghanistan or Iraq (or both, given the chance!) into modern day Sudatenland.

I PRAY the American electorate doesn't give them the chance. But, the way the polls look right now, the electorate just MIGHT!

AND TO ME, it just doesn't figure: the enemy has attacked us and our allies with terror at home; they're more brutal and repressive than the Nazis were, (and given the chance would commit genocide on a "grander" scale!); our casualty rate is miniscule compared to Vietnam, (and yet the Vietnam War had GREATER public support TEN YEARS INTO THE CONFLICT THAN IRAQ DOES after three!).

SO WHAT GIVES?! And it ain't just the MSM - after all, the MSM is LESS concentrated now than in the late 1960's-70's. So, why are Americans less resolute, less patient now than then?

For one thing, the Democrat Party is ENTIRELY a party of Leftie dove appeasers now; there is NOT ONE HAWK among them. (In the Vietnam Era, there were some hawks in the Democrat Party.) SO, the opposition to the war is MORE PARTISAN now than then, and the Dems are more desperate for power now than then, so they unabashedly demagogue the Iraq War day in and day out. Of course, they have willing comrades in the MSM. And their spin on the news - ALL NEWS - is more partisan: they never report good economic news, or good news in the GWOT, or good social news - like the fact that drug use and crime continue to decline.

I think this COMPREHENSIVE BLACKOUT OF ANY GOOD NEWS has a powerful overall effect: the bad news from Iraq is compounded EXPONENTIALLY because people are LED TO BELIEVE that the whole world is going to pot - (AND A POT THAT WILL SOON BE BOILING BECAUSE OF MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING, TOO)!

The comprehensive blackout of all good news is essentially driven by Leftists who believe that Bush stole the election IN 2000; they have been "gunning" for Bush ever since, relentlessly slanting ALL NEWS against him. When a little good news gets out (like the fact that the unemployment rate is now 4.6%), it is spun into bad news and gets no traction.

SO WHAT DO WE DO?! (1) We have to remain committed and get out and vote GOP despite any differences some might have with Bush on immigration or spending. The War Against Global Jihad trumps everything else.

Not only will a Dem Congress abandon Iraq and Afghanistan, but they will raise taxes, cut defense spending, and block conservative judicial nominees. And try to impeach Bush.

And a Democrat Party victory will effectively VINDICATE BINLADEN. WHY?! Because ever since Clinton abandoned Somalia, Binladen has been arguing that America doesn't have what it takes to keep fighting a long war with combat deaths. Binladen's ENTIRE strategy is predicated on this; he has said so. If the American people vote the Democrats into power, then they will prove Binladen correct.

IOW: If you support Binladen then vote Democrat.

UK TO DEMAND ASSIMILATION FOR IMMIGRATION

BBC:

Immigrants coming to Britain must learn English, Gordon Brown has insisted. He argued that people entering the UK should "play by the rules" and that means learning the language in order to get work, the chancellor says. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that those who refused to learn English should be made to do so.

GOOD. My saying: NO IMMIGRATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION.

IRAQ: NOT CIVIL WAR, BUT WAR AGAINST JIHADOTERRORISTS

There is no friggin civil war in Iraq. There is no friggin sectarian war, either. The killings and reprisals are not sectarian. It is a war between civilization and brutal barbaric jihadoterrorists.

FACT: The attacks are by carried out by - and instigated by - al Qaeda against Shias, and NOT merely Sunnis on Shias.

FACT: The Kurds are MOSTLY Sunni, and they are NOT attacking Shias.

FACT: Zarqawi has OPENLY called for Sunnis to kill Shias, but not a single Sunni cleric or Sunni politician has done the same. Not a single Sunni politician has left the Iraqi government or civil service to support Zarqawi or al Qaeda. The Iraqi nation has not split, and the Iraqi government has NOT collapsed due to sectarian differences; in fact, the Kurds and the Shias - who have the ability to retaliate and to commit genocide against the Sunnis any time they want to - have been extraordinarily patient, and have worked tirelessly for national unity despite the constant attacks BY AL QAEDA.

HEY LEFTIE SKEPTICS, STILL NOT BUYING IT?!
WELL THEN, LOOK AT IT THIS WAY:

If some KKK and Aryan Church radicals carried out a series of attacks - (burning dozens of black churches and murdering dozens and dozens of blacks in, let's say... Indiana) - it would not be right to call it a race war or a religious war - even though that's EXACTLY how the KKK and Aryan Church would want it portayed. It would properly be called a series of racist attacks by a couple of dangerously radical and fanatically extreme fringes groups bent on igniting civil war.

Well, that what's happening in Iraq: a fringe group - al Qaeda in Iraq - is carrying out extraordinarily brutal and barbaric attacks on Shias in an attempt to foment a civil war and destroy the constitutional democratic republic of Iraq and take over a chunk of it and turn it into a Taliban-like base from which to carry out global jihad.

NOTHING could more clearly PROVE that the Iraq War is the most important front in the GWOT.

Nothing could more clearly argue the case for STAYING AND HELPING THE IRAQIS DEFEAT THE ENEMY.

Now is the time to ramp up our defense of the Iraqi democracy, not talk of withdrawal.

Withdrawal is what the enemy wants. And the US Left, the doves. The Dems.

But maybe I'm being REDUNDANT: the Left and the Jihadoterrorsts are "Birds of a Feather": they are both enemies of liberty, and democracy. And both want the USA defeated.

The Left is carrying the water for Zarqawi, preaching his version of events and supporting his goals.

Which is why, to make Jihadoterrorism history we have to first make the Left history.

AND REMEMBER THIS: THIS STORY IN THE NYTIMES PROVES THAT SADDAM WAS A TERRORIST. He murdered more Iraqis on a daily basis than have been killed on average each day since liberation.

SYRIAN OPPOSITION HOLDS 2 DAY SUMMIT IN LONDON

They're getting ready for the BRAMMERTZ REPORT, and the end of Assad's murderous Baathist/socialist tyranny.(Hat tip Prairie Pundit.)