WASH POST: "House Passes Bill Ending Ban On Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling"

BRAVO!

TAB has been calling for this ever since KATRINA PROVED that off-shore drilling is ENTIRELY SAFE (links to a 9/25/05 post); (there were NO oil spills related to off-shore platform which weathered the WORST of Katrina's cat 5 winds and storm surge).

Now we gotta get this pandering piece of crap Democrat Senator Bill Nelson to GET OUT OF THE FREAKING WAY so the Senate can pass a similar bill and get it to GWB to sign into law.

There is NO RATIONAL REASON TO OPPOSE OFF-SHORE DRILLING: REPEAT: We need the oil; we need DOMESTIC energy sources, and it's ENITRELY SAFE AND ENTIRELY CLEAN.

LEFTIES ARE FREAKING INSANE: A QUICK ROUND-UP OF TODAY'S LEFT-WING LUNACIES

YEAH: TODAY'S!

Sept. 11 claim stirs U.W. probe: Professor says U.S. planned 9/11 to provoke war; al Qaeda a tool of Cheney

Hollywood makes Superman un-American

Sulzberger attacks the WSJ

Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times: Did Bush commit war crimes?

Blaming Israel for the current Gaza conflict

Washington made "a small and fractious al Qaeda a global threat" - from NEWSWEEK!

That's just their lunacy from TODAY! They're freaking insane!

G-8 BACKS EU3: GIVES IRAN A DEADLINE. AND THEN WHAT!?

NYTIMES:

Diplomats from the world's richest countries set a deadline of next Wednesday for receiving a "clear and substantive" response from Iran to the package of incentives offered by major powers in exchange for its suspending its enrichment of uranium.

In the first explicit timetable for Iran to formally respond to the offer, foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized economies issued a statement that "We are disappointed in the absence of an official Iranian response to this positive proposal." They said that Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, and the European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will meet on July 5, adding that they expect "to bring these discussions to a rapid conclusion."

AND THEN WHAT THEY DO IF IRAN STALLS?! WILL THEY HAVE ELBARADEI JUST SEND IRAN ANOTHER VERY TOUGH-WORDED LETTER!?

The time for talking and letter-writing and diplomacy uis OVER. It is time to act. I think that we need to start cranking up our preemptive military "machinery": meaning, it's time to get our forces deployed and missiles ready.

Iran has it coming to them! Especially when we couple Iran's nuclear ambition with this:

WASH POST: Iranian Gunmen Caught in Iraq:

Iraqi security officials said Iranian fighters had been captured in the fighting, in which a sniper shot dead the commander of an Iraqi quick reaction force and two of his men. They did not say how the Iranians had been identified.

And with this: Iran was behind KHOBAR - which occurred 10 years ago, this week.

THEY'RE BACK: JAWA!!!!

YOU MUST GO TO JAWA - NOW!
YOU MUST GO THERE EVERYDAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
NOW MEANS NOW!

FIRST KELO, NOW HAMDAN: THE LEFTIES ON THE SCOTUS HAVE SCREWED US AGAIN:

THE FIRST MAJOR ASSAULT BY THE SCOTUS AGAINST AMERICA CAME IN THE KELO DECISION (FITTINGLY, IT JUST HAD IT'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY):

... in the Kelo decision the Supreme Court diverged from centuries of precedent by declaring that cities could seize private property and turn it over to another private party, so long as the action was taken in the name of “economic development.” If there was even a possibility that the transfer would result in greater tax revenues, the seizure could be justified, the Court ruled.

In her dissent, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor blasted the decision: “Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party… The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms.”

The decision had immediate and unsurprising results. According to a just-released report by the Institute for Justice, in the wake of Kelo, “local governments threatened eminent domain or condemned at least 5,783 homes, businesses, churches, and other properties so that they could be transferred to another private party.”

NOW - WITH HAMDAN - THE LEFTIES ON THE COURT HAVE JUST MADE IT HARDER FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE US SAFE FROM THE JIHADOMANIACS:

The ruling was by a 5-3 majority; Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito were the dissenters. The Chief Justice did not participate since he was one of the judges who decided the case in the D.C. Circuit.

Scalia's dissent accuses the majority of ignoring the plain language of Congress's enactment providing that:

[N]o court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Scalia further argues that the majority substitutes its own judgment as to "military necessity" for that of the executive branch.

THESE DECISIONS ARE AS SOUND AND AS GOOD FOR OUR NATION AS THE DRED SCOT DECISION WAS - IN OTHER WORDS: THEY ARE "DRED"-FUL DECISIONS... (PUN INTENDED: DREDFUL = DREADFUL).

AND THEY COME COURTESY OF THE LEFTIES ON THE COURT: SOUTER; KENNEDY; STEVENS, AND BREYER, GINSZBURG.

THEY HAVE EXTENDED RIGHTS NOT EVEN GUARANTEED TO UNIFORMED POW'S WHILE THE CONFLICT IS ON-GOING TO UN-UNIFORMED, NON-SIGNATORY PARTIES.

IF IT WASN'T SO SURREAL AND SO FRIGGIN' OUTRAGEOUS IT WOULD BE HILARIOUS.

THIS IS A DARK DAY FOR AMERICANS WHO WANT US TO WIN THE GWOT - A WAR AGAINST THE MOST VICIOUS AND BLOODTHIRSTY AND LAWLESS ENEMY WE HAVE EVER FACED.

THE MURDERERS OF KRISTIAN MENCHACA AND THOMAS TUCKER SHOULD NOT GET KIND OF TREATMENT THAT THE LEFT HAS ORDERED WE GIVE THEM.

THEY DESERVE WHAT PUTIN HAS PROMSED THEM FOR MURDERING BY DECAPATATION) THE FOUR RUSSIANS IN IRAQ: THEY DESERVE TO DIE.

KELO AND HAMDAN: NAMES THAT WILL REMAIN IN INFAMY - LIKE DRED SCOT.

HERE'S a MUST READ that spells it ALL OUT!

More HERE and HERE and HERE. COMPLETE MSM/BLOG round-up HERE - at MEMEORANDUM.

AL AKSA CLAIMS IT USED A WMD AGAINST ISRAEL

"Reuters":

A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement.

The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket. "The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead" at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.

THIS CLAIM IS UNCONFIRMED. BUT WHAT DOES IT TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THE UTTER DEPRAVITY OF THE PALIS, THAT THEY'D BRAG ABOUT USING WMD!? AND THAT THE BRAG MIGHT BE A LIE!?

ISRAEL'S RESPONSE MUST HAVE THE EFFECT OF DESTROYING THE ENEMY'S ABILITY TO RETALIATE, AND THEIR WILL TO RETALIATE. THE ENEMY MUST BE VANQUISHED, UTTERLY - THEIR LEADERSHIP ENTIRELY ERASED, THEIR ABILITY TO INFLICT AN ATTACK WIPED OUT, ALL THEIR WEAPONS CONFISCATED.

AND THEN THEY MUST ADMIT DEFEAT AND SIGN AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

THIS IS HOW WARS END.

(More on the claim HERE.) MORE HERE AND HERE AND HERE AT ATLAS SHRUGS. Complete round-up HERE at MEMEORANDUM.

WHAT SHE SAID.

ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL:

Nearly 40 years of pin-point targeted response to Arab rabid hostilities has lead to this perverse situation where the West pays the Palestinian officials, which is synonymous with the term 'terrorists', billions of Dollars so that they can keep spitting into Israel's face.

End this charade now and break up the evil. Stop worrying about public opinion in the West - it's a no-win effort anyway. Kill the cancer dead now, once and for all.

SENATE COMMITTEE SMACKS DOWN ANOTHER WILD GORE CLAIM

SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT:

AP INCORRECTLY CLAIMS SCIENTISTS PRAISE GORE’S MOVIE

June 27, 2006

The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled “Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy” by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP’s bias and methodology.

AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”

[...]

Here is a sampling of the views of some of the scientific critics of Gore:

Professor Bob Carter, of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia, on Gore’s film:

"Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention."

"The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science." – Bob Carter as quoted in the Canadian Free Press, June 12, 2006

Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, wrote:

“A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse.” - Lindzen wrote in an op-ed in the June 26, 2006 Wall Street Journal

Truth is not decided by majority vote. Man-made global warming is merely a hypothesis; it is not a fact.

Perhaps a majority of ecology pro's in the academy have faith that this hypothesis is true, but that might say more about them than the truth: I'd bet that most of these ecologists were drawn into the field by their experiences in the 1970's when idiots like Paul Ehrlich were screaming (like Gore is today) about how the population explosion was gonna mean we were all gonna starve to death and how pollution was gonna cause GLOBAL FREEZING AND A NEW ICE AGE THAT WOULD KILL BILLIONS!

In other words, I'd bet that most of the ecologists who now worry about MAN-MADE global warming are preselected from the general population and reflect the segment who are hyper-worried about man's effect on the environment, and people who are PREDISPOSED to blame industry and capitalism - the twin bogeymen of the Left.

Another of example of this might occur of you were take a poll of SOCIAL WORKERS and ask them if welfare payments were good. I'd bet that the "yes" response would be higher for social workers than for the general population, AND NOT BECAUSE THEY KNOW BETTER.

Likewise, if yopu polled astroscientists on the importance of space exploration.

So let's NOT out too much stock on polls of environmental scientists.

Let's base our policies on FACTS. And MAN-MADE global warming is NOT A PROVEN FACT.

DID THE TRAITOROUS LEAKERS FORCE THE NYTIMES HAND?

I just read this tidbit over at HUGH's BLOG:

Lichtblau of 'NYT' Explains Attempt to Halt His Bank Records Scoop

by Hugh Hewitt

The national security cannot possibly come before the race for the next Pulitzer:

"I don't think we could reasonably be accused of moving too quickly," he said. "We waited so long that the competition caught up to us."

This comment referred to the Los Angeles Times' posting a story about the bank records program on its Web site last night.

I read this comment - about the competition cathcing up to them - a little differently. After all, the LATIMES didn't sniff-out the story; they were merely contacted by the very SAME leakers.

So, it seems what REALLY happened was that the traitorous leakers FIRST took the story to the NYTIMES. And that then the NYTIMES took some time and did some due diligence and got some feedback from the WH and the 9/11 Commissioners. And then, THE LEAKERS GOT IMPATIENT, and decided to go to the LATIMES with it, TO SQUEEZE/THREATEN THE NYTIMES, IN EFFECT SAYING: "PRINT IT NOW OR WE GO TO THE LATIMES." This forced the hands of Keller and Pinch, who decided the scoop was more important than the nation's security. But they barely beat the LATIMES, anyhow.

IOW: The NYTIMES is well-known to be very VERY eager to get stuff that hurts President Bush; this makes them an easy mark for the anti-Bush rogues within the Pentagon, the CIA and FBI and other US agencies. And if the NYTIMES doesn't move fast enough, then the rogues just move on to another BDS-afflicted part of the MSM - like the LATIMES. This quote from Lichtblau proves it to me.

The GREAT ROGER L. SIMON has similar thoughts.

PATRIOT MISSILE SYSTEMS TO BE DEPLOYED A.S.A.P. IN JAPAN

WASH POST:

The Pentagon is reportedly speeding up plans to deploy advanced Patriot interceptor missiles on U.S. bases in Japan for the first time, a countermeasure seen as a response to the increasing threat of North Korean missiles.

Kim Jong Il is a genocidal madman willing to starve his own people to death. His desire to have long-range missiles - and NUKES - is a bald-faced attempt to intimidate the West. Deploying Patriot missile systems, Aegis battle groups and NMD to protect the our key allies in the region is an essential first-step.

This episode PROVES that Bush was 100% right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty - according to terms permitted under the treaty.

NYTIMES REVEALS ITS PRIORITIES: AIDING AND ABETTING THE ENEMY

The NYTIMES REFUSED TO POUBLISH THE MOHUMMED CARTOONS, BUT INSISTED IT HAD TO PUBLISH THE DETAILS OF THE NSA SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM AND THE SWIFT SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM.

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE NYTIMES?

DR. SANITY (who links to the NYTIMES' own expanation for each):

Thus we can conclude that--from the perspective of the NY Times editorial staff-- protecting the feelings of Muslims is far more important than protecting the lives of Americans.

Pinch and Keller should be arrested for treason, tried, convicted, and executed. Sound harsh?! Well, er, um... THIS IS WAR! And they have REPEATEDLY aided the enemy.

NYTIMES AND JOHN MURTHA: COPPERHEADS

WHAT'S A COPPERHEAD? HERE:

"The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates ... They were also called "Peace Democrats" ... The most famous Copperhead was Ohio's Clement L. Vallandigham, who was a vehement opponent of Lincoln's policies."

VALLANDIGHAM:

... denounced "King Lincoln," calling for Abraham Lincoln's removal from the presidency [Sounds like Feingold and Sheehan and Moore]. ... To those who supported the war he declared, "Defeat, debt, taxation [and] sepulchres - these are your trophies." [Sounds just like Dean and Kennedy and Pelosi and Reid.] ...

On May 5 he was arrested as a violator of General Order No. 38. ... General Ambrose E. Burnside had issued General Order Number 38, warning that the "habit of declaring sympathies for the enemy" would not be tolerated in the Military District of Ohio...

Had the PEACE CANDIDATE and DEMOCRAT presidential nominee in 1864 - George McClellan - won the election, the confederacy or slavery or both would have survived. There would have been NO "NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM." There would have been no USA to win either WW1 or WW2 or the Cold War.

Today's so-called "peace Democrats" would have a similarly DISASTEROUS effect on the GWOT. Freedom and suffrage and democracy for 1/6th of humanity would be setback for many MANY generations to come. And we would be made less safe - because retreat would encourgae the enemy by proving to them that their tactics work.

Perhaps it's time that the DOJ enforced our laws as assiduously as Lincoln and Burnside did.

HOW THE DAILY KOS PRESSURED THE NYTIMES INTO TREASON, AND TOWARD MARGINALIZATION

The NYTIMES withheld what it knew about the NSA Surveillance Program for a year before publishing it - (COINCIDENTLY just before they published a book about it, in 2005).

Because of the delay, the NYTIMES took HELL from the Left.

Basically, Leftists charged that the NYTIMES deliberately withheld the info to help Bush win re-election, (AS IF "PINCH" TOOK ORDERS FROM ROVE!). The Left would've preferred it if the NSA leak had been published just before the election - like the "FAKE BUT ACCURATE" T.A.N.G. documents. The Left thinks that if the NSA leak 's publication had been properly timed, it might've helped Kerry defeat Bush. (This is probably what the NSA leakers had wanted and wished for when they leaked the info.)

I think the attack by the Left against the NYTIMES on the NSA leak has made the NTIMES shyer of holding back sensitive info, and had a major influence on their decision to publish info about the SWIFT Surveillance program - even though the program has lead to the capture of terrorists, is entirely legal, and only monitored INTERNATIONAL & INSTITUTIONAL transactions and had absolutley NO effect on the privacy of a single solitary American citizen.

In effect, the NYTIMES decided it was better to pander to their base than do the right thing. JUST LIKE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.

By driving the Democrats and media outlet like the NYTIMES and the LATIMES teven further to the Left, all the DAILY KOS types are really accomplishing is the MARGINALIZATION of the Democrat Party and the MSM. Which will only hasten their demise. GOOD RIDDANCE.

MORE PROOF - FROM THE NYTIMES! - THAT WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ

NYTIMES:

Enrollment in Iraqi schools has risen every year since the American invasion, according to Iraqi government figures, reversing more than a decade of declines and offering evidence of increased prosperity for some Iraqis. ... while life in Baghdad grows more paralyzed — it was the only province in the country where primary school enrollment fell — the figures for the rest of Iraq show that everyday life goes on, particularly in the largely peaceful south, which experienced the biggest jumps, with some regions having above 40 percent enrollment increases since 2002.

... the growth is too broad to be explained only by migration patterns. According to American government estimates, Iraq's population grew by about 8 percent to 26 million from 2002 to 2005.

Even in provinces that have experienced population declines, for example, school enrollment is still up. In Anbar — the large desert province in western Iraq, where insurgents regularly battle American soldiers, causing residents to flee — enrollment in primary school is up by 15 percent, and in secondary and high school it is up by 37 percent.

We are winning.

The only way we can lose is if the Democrats - dominated by doves, defeatists, demagogues and isolationists - win Congress and then do to the Iraqis what they did to the South Vietnamese and the Contras: abandon them to totalitarianism.

DID THE NYTIMES LEAK TO PROTECT NGO-FRONTS FOR TERROR?

A recent HUGH HEWITT SHOW (transcript and link to MP3) - discusses the traitorous leak by the NYTIMES about the international, institutional financial surveillance program.

During a segment with Professor Reynolds, the INSTAPUNDIT related the fact that S.W.I.F.T keeps track of institutional transactions - (and not those of individuals), and that these include international transactions by many isnitutions, INCLUDING NGO's.

This set off an alarm, for me: NGO's include many organizations which aid and abet terror. (MORE HERE.) Many might LAUNDER MONEY FOR THE TERRORISTS. And now - courtesy of the NYTIMES - corrupt NGO's will avoid transfering money in the normal way. And it will be harder for us to track the terrorists.

Tracking the NGO's money tranfers through SWIFT, might have been especially important in order to prevent money from being transfered to Hamas.

BUT THE NYTIMES MAKE IT MOOT.

In my opinion, the ONLY explanation is that BOTH the NYTIMES and their leakers KNEW THAT THIS WOULD AID THE TERRORISTS. And that this was the CHIEF REASON THEY DID IT.

WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO HURT THE USA AND AID THE TERRORISTS?!

Because they are Arabists who hate Bush and Israel.

ITALY'S NEW PM - PRODI, AN APPEASER AND A SOCIALIST - ADMITS HE IS PRIMARILY MOTIVATED BY FEAR

WASH POST:

Speaking in accented but clear English, Prodi said that "the conflict of civilizations must be tackled with knowledge and cooperation" as well as with security policies. Europe in general and Italy specifically share U.S. concern about jihadist terrorism, he noted, adding:

"Public opinion in Europe is not anti-American," even though there are many protests and negative comments about U.S. policy. What motivates the protests and negativism "is maybe fear, deep fear, the idea that we are so close to this area of fire. . . . After all, it was fear that guided us against the war in Iraq, and it is fear that guides us against terrorism as well."

FEAR. COWARDICE. The WASH POST CONTINUES:

American and British troops undertake nearly all the combat duties while other partners look for less risky roles or just depart.

The socialist appeasers of Europe - like Zapatero and Schroeder and Prodi - who look for less dangerous roles in the GWOT are pitiful ingrates.

The USA and the UK are carrying the burden here EXACTLY AS WE DID IN WW2 and the Cold War. WHY"! Because we are less motivated by fear than by duty, honor, pride, faith, and a strong sense justice. God Bless Our Troops.

FEINGOLD'S ASTROLOGICAL CHART: "HIS MARS MAKES A SQUARE TO URANUS" - or - COULD A CHART BY JEROME ARMSTRONG CREATE A BETTER "CONJUCTION"

FROM BLOGGER "Astrological Musings":

What do the planets show about Russ Feingold?

He has a Pisces Sun, not a common placement for a politician, but he also has a strong Aries influence. Pisces people are ... empathetic and sensitive to the needs of others, and one of Feingold's campaign promises when he ran for state Senator was to hold listening parties to stay in touch with constituents. His positions on the issues show a tendency to side with the needs of the people rather than corporations.

Mercury in Feingold's chart is in Aries, as is Mars and Venus. Aries is god of war, ruled by Mars (the Roman counterpart of the god Ares). Mercury in Aries shows Feingold's courage to speak out where others fear to, and is not afraid to stand alone in the face of battle. ... His Mars makes a trine (harmonious aspect) to Pluto, connecting the will of the individual self (Mars) with the god of personal power (Pluto). This is a powerful aspect that propels him effortlessly into the accumulation of real power.

His Sun makes a trine (harmonious aspect) to Uranus, showing that he is an individualist: he is also inventive and concerned with social issues (Uranus). His Mars makes a square (challenging aspect) to Uranus, showing that this individualism can be expressed in impulsive (Mars/Uranus) ways.

Feingold has a complex system in his chart called a Grand Cross (a stressful combination of planets with two oppositions (180 degrees) square each other). This Grand Cross includes Mars which is conjunct Venus, both in Aries opposite Saturn and Neptune, both in Libra and both retrograde. ... Men with Venus in Aries tend to want dominion in the home and that can be a problem in today's world.

The Grand Cross creates many challenges, but also teaches lessons that build strength of character. My sense is that Feingold's world is primarily the realm of politics and public life, and this helps him to sublimate the need for a personal life.... During Pluto transits we tend to lose relationships that no longer serve us, and this shows that the end of his marriage will ultimately be a positive influence for him.

Feingold will undergo a series of positive planetary events this year, including several Jupiter cycles that began last December and will continue through August of this year, bringing him opportunities (Jupiter) and expanding his influence. With the exception of a few short challenges, it looks like the planets will be kind to Feingold. Could he be the candidate to watch?

Maybe it would be a good idea if FEINGOLD purchased ANOTHER very EXPENSIVE chart from astrologer and stock touter JEROME ARMSTRONG?! He might get the added bonus of an endorsement from Kos!? Even though Feingold is a TRUE LEFTIST - like Kos - Kos seems to be leaning to Warner, ever since Warner hired his "partner" Jerome Armstrong. Coincidentally, of course. Heh. More here.

PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS ANNOUNCE THEY HAVE WMD AND WILL USE THEM ON ISRAEL

BREAKING: JPOST:

Aksa Martyrs Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel.

This comes on the heals of the DELIBERATELY provocative kidnapping of and IDF soldier; (SEE BELOW). It seems to me that the jihadomaniacs - backed by IRAN - are desperately trying to provoke an all-out Arab-Israeli war - to divert attention from Iraq and Afghanistan - where the jihadomaniacs are being routed and cornered - and from Iran's nuke program.

Stay tuned.... (MORE HERE FROM ATLAS! And here from C&R.)

ASIDE: Here's a link to what I blogged on this - as a likelihood of this "DOOMSDAY SCENARIO" - back in March - and it's tied into what I predicted back in September of 2005.

UPDATE: ONE HOUR LATER AND THERE'S NOTHING AT THE NYTIMES, WASHPOST, OR GOOGLE NEWS. Zero. Bupkuss. Nada. Zilch.

UPDATE #2: THE CAPTAIN WEIGHS IN: as always an absolutely MUST READ. NOW! He points out that AL AKSA CLAIMS to have developed these WMD over THE LAST THREE (3) YEARS. Hmmm... 3 years... is that a coincidence!? Here's an excerpt:

... They do not have the research facilities to have developed WMD on their own. ... What country stocked them, until three years ago? And where does Hamas and Islamic Jihad, at least, have themselves established? Syria -- who has long rumored to have received the Iraqi stockpiles in 2002 and 2003, just ahead of the American invasion.

The Captain raises the fascinating possibility that AL AKSA has some of Saddam's WMD. RTWT.

UPDATE #3: Some in the blogosphere have questioned whether al Aksa would use these WMD if they have them - after all, The Holy Land is a very small geographic area, and Arabs and Muslims are bound to be killed in any WMD attack. THE ANSWER IS YES. Here's the proof of just how brutal these uncivilized savages are (from 5/30/06):

Masked Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades gunmen on Tuesday publicly executed a Palestinian man and woman they suspected of having spied for Israel. The man was shot dead in the main street of a refugee camp, with a large crowd looking on. The woman was later shot to death by her relatives in the courtyard of the West Bank's largest hospital.

CONJECTURE/GAMING:

WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THIS? SIMPLE: the IDF must make a PREEMPTIVE attack - destroying all the stockpiles and as many al Aksa terrorists as possible - ASAP. HOW? SIMPLE: The IDF should DEMAND that "President" Abbas turn over a list of the terrorists and their location - or face execution himself. DITTO the Hamas "PM."

The alternative is that Olmert would allow them to make a WMD attack - and then respond with a justifiably MASSIVE, "end-game" retaliatory counter-attack, which would utterly annihilate the enemy once and for all.

WHAT WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED TO STAND: A Hamas administered Palistan with WMD. And therefore, since the Palistani jihadomaniacs must KNOW this, they MUST.... USE THEM OR LOSE THEM.

That's why I expect that this ramping up of the stakes will be resolved in DAYS rather than weeks. AND WELL BEFORE IRAN MIGHT RETALIATE AGAINST ISRAEL WITH NUKES. Unless the Iranians have them ALREADY, as some have conjectured. Then, Iran will nuke Israel, and perhaps Baghdad - and the Green Zone. And then the Mullahs and Sheehan and Buchanan and Scheuer and Joe Wilson and Larry Johnson and Larry Wilkerson and David Duke and George Galloway and Assad and Saddam and Binladen will blame the JOOOOOOOZE!

UPDATE #4: Three hours later, NOTHING ON CNN. And nothing at GOOGLE NEWS, and only one (1) relevant hit in a word search for either "AKSA" or "WMD" in GOOGLE NEWS. And it's for an article at Israel's ARUTZ SHEVA - not even for the JPOST.

I guess this is unimportant news to the MSM - jihadists armed with WMD and threatening genocide against Jews just ain't news to the Leftist dominated MSM.

UPDATE#5: ROUNDUP HERE AT MEMEORANDUM.

STAY TUNED...

[BTW: Check out everyone else's time-stamps; you'll see that Reliapundit was FIRST! And Relipundit was before that FAMOUS blog - who backdated their story, too!]

IRAN - THROUGH ITS SURROGATE HAMAS - IS TRYING TO PROVOKE AN ARAB-ISRAELI WAR

NYTIMES:

Israel threatened strong military action today after Palestinian militants, including those belonging to the ruling faction Hamas, emerged from a long tunnel dug 300 yards into Israel, killed two soldiers, wounded three and kidnapped a fourth wounded soldier at an Israeli outpost near the Egyptian border.

Two of the eight Palestinians were killed; the rest escaped back into Gaza with the Israeli soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, who is believed to have been wounded and whom they may want to try to exchange for jailed militants. He was the first Israeli soldier kidnapped in more than a decade.

Israeli tanks moved a short distance into Gaza, the first tank incursion since Israel pulled its settlers and soldiers from the territory last summer. Israeli officials talked of serious retaliation for the raid, which was weeks in the planning and for which the ruling Hamas faction took partial responsibility, along with other militant groups like the Popular Resistance Committees and a newly formed group called the Army of Islam. ... A spokesman for Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, defended the attack on the Arab television ...

Mr. Regev, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said: "What part of Hamas is responsible is irrelevant. Hamas as an organization has endorsed it. And maybe for those in the international community who are talking about whether there is a new, pragmatic Hamas, this is a wakeup call." ... Mr. Regev added: "Abu Mazen goes to foreign capitals and says, 'I'm the partner you want. I'm the address.' But if he's not a partner in stopping violence, how can he be a partner for peace?"

If the soldier "isn't returned immediately then Israel will have to act," Mr. Regev said. ...

Hamas spokesman, Mushir al-Masri, now a member of the Palestinian Parliament, welcomed the attack. "We consider this operation a part of the natural response to Zionist crimes, especially after the series of killings of children, women, old men and whole families in Gaza," he said. "It is the right of our people to defend themselves with all the means available."

The spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, Abu Mujahid, said the attack was carried out to avenge Israel's assassination of the group's leader, Jamal Abu Samahdana, on June 8. Mr. Samahdana, who had been wanted by Israel, had also been serving the Hamas government as the commander of a new "executive force," a mostly Hamas militia that has engaged in a series of clashes with Fatah-dominated forces like the Preventive Security.

Iran wants to scuttle any deal between Abbas and Hamas, and to distract the world from maintaining the focus necessary to halt their nuclear weapons program.

REMEMBER: Israel is LITTLE SATAN to Iran - (and to anti-Semitic isolationists in the USA). Their MAIN goal is to get NUKES in order to defeat the GREAT SATAN - the USA. Iran (and al Qaeda) have been attempting to start a regional war in order to distract us from this - their ULTIMATE goal.

ANALYZING LEFTIST IDEOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS - or - IRRATIONAL AND INCONSISTENT MORAL RELATIVISM AS A LEFTIST STRATEGY

DR. SANITY: THE LEFT'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY

For a group that wholeheartedly subscribes to moral relativity and subjective ethics, you've got to wonder about the left and their constant search for some kind of "moral authority" to justify their beliefs.

After all, if morality is relative; if truth is subjective and there is no objective "good" or "bad"; then why bother? ...

[The Doctor then describes some famous anti-war Leftists and their arguments - READ IT!]

What these three examples [Murtha, Sheehan, and the Jersey Girls] (and there are many more) have in common is both a breathtaking subjectivism and relativism in one breath; and ideological absolutism in the next.

This is as good a demonstration as any of the inherent philosophical and psychological contradictions that the postmodern left exploits in order to achieve political power.

They are perfectly aware that their positions don't make any sense and can be refuted by anyone with basic knowledge of logic and logical fallacies; but their goal is to maintain the psychological denial necessary to believe in the left's ideology.

Interpreting this defense and exposing it is essential to countering that ideology.

Stephen Hicks asks this important question (page 184):

The pattern therefore raises the question of which side of the contradiction is deepest for postmodernism.

Is it that postmodernists really are committed to relativism, but occasionally lapse into absolutism?

Or are the absolutist commitments deepest and the relativism a rhetorical cover?

The possibility that the relativism is primary can be ruled out with some thought. If the modern leftist truly embraced relativism, then you would not see the uniformity of their politics. Hicks again:

If subjectivity and relativism were primary, then postmodernists would be adopting political positions across the spectrum, and that simply is not happening.

Indeed. Thus we must conclude that the moral relativism that characterizes the left's equation of terrorism with America; deliberate targeting of innocents with herculean efforts to spare innocent life; Bush with Hitler; Iraq with Vietnam; etc. etc. are simple rhetorical devices being used to manipulate and forward their socialist / totalitarian agenda.

There's plenty more: RTWT.

[BTW: isolationists, appeasers, defeatists, hard-core libertarians and anti-Semites use many of the same illogical tropes. IOW: you DON'T have to be a Leftist to be irrational. But if you ARE a Leftist in 2006 then you are irrational.

OR LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: when people don't have the facts on their side - or logic - and when they are unable to admit that their ideology is bankrupt or amoral, then they often resort to contradictory and illogical arguments.]

WHO KILLED MORE IRAQIS: SADDAM AND AL QAEDA; U.N. SANCTIONS; OR THE PENTAGON?

ANSWER: #1 = SADDAM; #2 = UN SANCTIONS; #3 = AL QAEDA; #4 (LAST) THE US MILITARY.

Saddam murdered and tortured more than one million Iraqis. Sanctions might have caused 100,000 Iraqis to die prematurely. Al Qaeda has murdered TENS OF THOUSANDS in Iraq since 2004 - mostly Shias and Kurds. And since 2005, thousands of Sunnis have been murdered in retribution - something which did not happen under Saddam, when all the murdering was Sunni and Kurd/Shia.

BONUS FACT: Except for Baghdad, Iraq is NOT now experiencing murder at a rate higher than most major US cities. Baghdad is the central front in the war against al Qaeda; (Afghanistan is now the second major front). [Subtract Baghdad from the murder rate and you can see that OVERALL the murder rate/terrorism rate in the geographic nation of Iraq is largely under control. REPEAT: the war is centered in and around - if not limited to - Baghdad and parts of the Sunni provinces]

BOTTOM-LINE: Sadam and al Qaeda in Iraq have murdered 33 TIMES more Iraqis than the US and its coalition have killed - and the OVERWHELMING majoprity oif thiose killed by the US and our allies have been enemy fighters, and NOT CIVILIANS.

SO... besides liberating the Iraqis and helping them establish a constitutional democracy by mutual consent of the governed (and thus allowing Kurds and Shias in Iraq to have self-determination), the US led war has also actually LOWERED the death rate in Iraq; IOW: the war has increased freedom, prosperity and saved LIVES.

AND WE HAVE KILLED A LOT OF JIHADOTERRORISTS TO BOOT!

All-IN-ALL: the Iraq War - though it has been VERY tough, and rife with setbacks, (many as a result of imperfect strategies which had to be continuously revamped) - has been a great triumph for humanity: 25 MILLION PEOPLE liberated from tyranny and a murderous regime.

Details at POWERLINE. (Disinformation at the LATIMES.)

[NOTE: most of the Saddam statistics are based on a NYTIMES article which was written and filed/published BEFORE the war.]

TENET - NOT BUSH OR ROVE OR POWELL - RESPONSIBLE FOR BAD WMD INTEL

WASH POST:

In briefing Powell before his U.N. speech, George Tenet, then the CIA director, personally vouched for the accuracy of the mobile-lab claim, according to participants in the briefing. Tenet now says he did not learn of the problems with Curveball until much later and that he received no warnings from Drumheller or anyone else.

"No one mentioned Drumheller, or Curveball," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Powell's chief of staff at the time, said in an interview. "I didn't know the name Curveball until months afterward."

TENET WAS A CLINTON APPOINTEE.

The CIA is still a joke - a useless bureaucracy which fails to fulfil its mission and leaks anti-administration secrets. MOYNIHAN WAS RIGHT, perhaps: the CIA should be abolished.

UPDATE: Though certainly NOT a "slam-dunk", the mobile-labs claim is hardly DISPROVED.

INSIDE THE CONFUSED, CONTRADICTORY AND PARANOID MIND OF THE LEFT-WING MSM

HERE'S THE PROOF.

[ASIDE: THIS EXAMPLE OF "BDS" IS NOT UNLIKE THE OFT HEARD REFRAIN THAT BUSH IS SIMULTANEOUSLY CONTROLLED BY THE JOOOZE/NEOCONS OF LIKUD, THE WAHHABIST HOUSE OF SAUD, BIG OIL AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT.

AND IT IS RELATED TO THE LEFT'S INSISTENCE THAT "BUSH LIED" EVEN THOUGH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE FACT THAT THE FAMOUS 16 WORDS FROM THE SOTU (ABOUT SADDAM, AFRICA AND URANIUM - AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE) ARE STILL TRUE, AND THE CHARGES BY JOE WILSON - A PROVEN LIAR - ARE UTTERLY FALSE.

THE LEFT DEPENDS ON DISINFORMATION AND LYING. AND THEY'RE CONSTANTLY GETTING TRIPPED UP IN THEIR OWN LIES ALL THE TIME.

IF THE MSM WERE NOT DOMINATED BY LYING LEFTISTS, THIS FACT WOULD BE POINTED OUT, DAY-AFTER-DAY.

BUT HEY: THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE. GLAD TO BE OF SERVICE]