Your President Is Lying To You

Yep. No doubt about it. Your President is lying to you. At least according to the Japanese during WW2.

June 29, 2007: U.S. troops have been mystified at how differently the war they fight in Iraq is portrayed by the U.S. media back home. Most just shrug it off as "politics," and yet another reason to not trust what the mass media presents as reliable reporting. But recently, the troops have been passing around an interesting discovery. Namely, that the Japanese psychological warfare effort during World War II included radio broadcasts that could be picked up by American troops. Popular music was played, but the commentary (by one of several English speaking Japanese women) always hammered away on the same points;

1 Your President (Franklin D Roosevelt) is lying to you.

2 This war is illegal.

3 You cannot win the war.

The troops are perplexed and somewhat amused that their own media is now sending out this message. Fighting the enemy in Iraq is simple, compared to figuring out what news editors are thinking back home.

When it comes to the news media you have to ask yourself. Whose side are they on anyway?

H/T Instapundit

Cross Posted at Power and Control and at Classical Values

JIHAD MOUSE BECOMES MARTYR MOUSE

The Hamas killed off its own Mickey Mouse TV ripoff, but unsurprisingly, it seems that they had an Israeli character do it:

Farfur, the Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination and hatred of Jews on a children's television program on Hamas TV was the victim of a "beating death" in the show's final episode Friday.

An actor posing as an Israeli official tried to buy Farfur's "land." The mouse called the Israeli a "terrorist" and defended himself valiantly, with squeaks and grunts. "Farfur was martyred while defending his land," Sara, the teen presenter intoned. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added, helpfully.

NOT helpfully, I would say, rather, what was done was inciteful!

SCOTUS Defends Political Free Speech for Students

It was Leftist speech that SCOTUS defended in this case but it offers a very useful precedent for political speech at schools and colleges generally:

"Putting its recent ruling on student speech into practice, the Supreme Court on Friday rejected a school district's appeal of a ruling that it violated a student's rights by censoring his anti-Bush T-shirt.

A seventh-grader from Vermont was suspended for wearing a shirt that bore images of cocaine and a martini glass-but also had messages calling President Bush a lying drunk driver who abused cocaine and marijuana, and the "chicken-hawk-in-chief" who was engaged in a "world domination tour."

Williamstown Middle School Principal Kathleen Morris-Kortz said the images violated the school dress code, which prohibits clothing that promotes the use of drugs or alcohol.

An appeals court said the school had no right to censor any part of the shirt. On Monday, the court said schools could regulate student expression if it advocated illegal drug use. Justice Samuel Alito cautioned that schools could not censor political speech.

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Drug advocacy is not political? So they tell us. I know many libertarians and Leftists who would violently disagree. But we must be thankful for small mercies. The rules now appear to be that non-drug political speech is protected.

More detail here. Apparently it is OK to mention illegal drugs (cocaine in this case) if you depict the President as using them! That is not encouragement of drug use, apparently. I guess that the Bush-haters would see it that way so maybe it makes some slight sense.

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Worms are killing the planet, says top researcher

Cows and sheep have been in the gun for some time. Now it's worms. Is any life any good? We have been told that trees give off lots of methane so they're no good either. I guess Greenies must be necrophilic (lovers of death). They certainly want to reduce the population of people drastically, so it fits

Worm composting could be doing more harm than good to the environment, a leading researcher claimed today. Jim Frederickson, senior research fellow at the Open Universities faculty of technology [Britain], said: "Worms produce a significant amount of greenhouse gases. Recent research done by German scientists has found that worms produced a third of nitrous oxide gases when used for composting." The `wiggly ones' naturally produce nitrous oxide gases when they are put into the process of composting.

Worms can be used for home grown composting or commercial composting and are typically red worms. They are used to recycle food scraps and other organic material into valuable soil worm compost, otherwise known as vermicompost. This compost can then be used to grow plants.

"We have concentrated on getting waste out of landfill and into worm composting systems but they can actually produce more greenhouse gases than landfill sites produce," Frederickson said. Under the Waste Strategy the Government has strongly supported the composting of waste in efforts to reduce the landfilling of biodegradable waste. This includes encouraging householders to invest in home composting systems. The Government wishes to increase the amount of waste which is composted to 40% by 2010 and 45% by 2015.

Although Frederickson says that worm composting is a positive thing, he claims that not enough research has been done on worms releasing polluting gases.

Frederickson said: "Everybody loves them because they think they can do no harm but they contribute to global warming. People are looking into alternative waste treatments but we have to make sure that we are not jumping from the frying pan into the fire. "We need to investigate all alternative systems for greenhouse potential. "The emissions that come from these worms can actually be 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide and 20 times more potent than methane. In all environmental systems you get good points and bad points."

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SYMBOLISM

I mean, what else can you say? A major BBC executive walks into the sea and dies.

I'm not gonna say anymore than that.

Let the poets write the eulogies:

A BBC executive died in mysterious circumstances after stripping off her
clothes and walking into the sea.

Kari Boto, 53, was plucked from the water by a helicopter crew and
taken to the hospital where her husband works as a doctor.

But staff there were unable to save her. Witnesses had earlier seen the
mother-of-three sitting on the beach at Old Felixstowe, Suffolk, with her head
in her hands.

A pile of clothes and set of car keys were found nearby. Police suspect
she might have committed suicide.

Ok, I have to say something. The BBC is attempting to do the equivalent to all of Western Civilization.

Are you ready to heed the Siren's Song, strip off your clothes and walk out into the sea?

I'm not.

U.S. CUTS FUNDS FOR U.N. COUNCIL

Now that's what I'm talking about!!! This is the U.S.A. I know and love. Huge slap on the back to US lower-house lawmakers, who this week voted to withhold funding from the malignant United Nations Human Rights Council for it's constant obsessive slamming of Israel and ignorance of the other glaring human rights abuses going on all around the planet. It's about time!
The action in the House of Representatives came just days after the US criticised the Geneva-based human rights panel for ending probes into Cuba and Belarus while singling out the Palestinian territories for permanent inquiry.

Democrats and Republicans broadly supported the House measure, which was added to the 2008 State Department budget that passed Friday by a vote of 241-178. The budget now goes to the Senate.

Aren't you glad your tax dollars will no longer be going to this particular unjust and odious expression of dhimmitude?

THE IRAQ-DEFEATISTS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE LONDON ATTACK

THE DEFEATISTS - WHO WANT US TO CUT & RUN FROM IRAQ NOW - ARE THE REASON THE JIHADISTS RECENTLY TRIED TO ATTACK IN LONDON WITH MULTIPLE CAR BOMBS.

WHY DO I REASSERT THIS?

SIMPLE: THE ENEMY NOW SEES THAT LOW-LEVEL URBAN TERROR IS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN MEGA-ATTACKS.

NEED MORE PROOF? HERE:

Officials told NBC that the car was filled with at least 250 pounds of fuel, creating a highly explosive bomb of the type that had been seen in Iraq but not, until now, in the West.

THAT SAYS IT ALL.

AND I EXPECT SIMILAR ATTACKS ALLOVER EUROPE AND IN THE USA.

ONE OF THE SUSPECTED PLOTTERS WAS A SUSPECT IN A MULTI-CITY ATTACK WITHIN THE USA - TARGETING NEWARK, DC, AND NYC.

THESE ARE THE PLACES WHERE I EXPECT THE NEXT BOMB TO GO OFF. SOON. BEFORE THE CELL IS DISCOVERED.

AFTER THE FIRST CAR-BOMB WAS DISCOVERED, PM BROWN SAID: WE MUST BE VIGILANT AT ALL TIMES.

BUT WE MUST DO MORE: WE MUST REMAIN ON THE OFFENSIVE AND STAY IN IRAQ UNTIL THE ENEMY IS DEFEATED.

THAT WILL SEND THE RIGHT SIGNAL AND MAKE US SAFER.

SARKOZY: APPEASING THE LEFT, OR AMERICA?

OR MAYBE SARKOZY IS SO SO SO SOOOOO SHREWD HE CAN ACTUALLY FIND WAYS TO HAVE HIS CAKE AND EAT IT TOO.

EXAMPLE:

THE VERY FIRST PERSON HE GAVE A FRENCH LEGION OF HONOR TO WAS AN AMERICAN AND A JEW.

HE GETS POINTS FROM THE NEO-CON ZIONIST CONSPIRACY.

THIS PERSON WAS ALSO A WOMAN AND A BUSH-BASHING LEFT-WING DOVE.

HE GETS POINTS FROM THE LEFT.

NEED A CLUE?

HE GAVE THE LEGION OF HONOR TO BARBRA STREISAND.

I THINK IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF PANDERING.

HE COULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO MAGGIE THATCHER AND BAT Y'EOR AND NATAN SHARANSKY.

THAT WOULD HAVE SENT AN CLEARER MESSAGE.

AND CLARITY IS IMPORTANT.

SARKOZY IS TRYING TO DISARM HIS OPPOSITION IN ADVANCE OF THE COMING BATTLE OVER ECONOMIC REFORM.

I THINK HE WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE BY BEING LESS ACCOMMODATIONIST AND MORE TRUE TO THE VALUES WHICH ARE THE FOUNDATION OF HIS POLITICAL QUEST.

IN THE COMING MONTHS, WE SHALL SEE IF HIS WAY WORKS...

RECENT HISTORY - WITH BUSH HERE IN THE USA AND BLAIR IN THE UK - THOUGH SHOWS US THAT THE LEFT IS NEVER SATISFIED. THAT'S WHY ONE SHOULDN'T APPEASE THEM. IT GOT BUSH AND BLAIR BUPKUS. I THINK IT WILL GET SARKO BUPKUS TOO.

WE SHALL SOON SEE...

WEEDING OUT THE GOP "DEAD WOOD": HAGEL MUST GO!

THE POPINJAY WROTE:

The Rockefeller Republicans are really turning on the conservative wing and making their displeasure with them known. It's time for action.

What should we do? I think in 2008, the Conservatives should follow this line of action: Get behind the best Republican candidate for President. Face up to the fact that there was only one Ronald Reagan and you're not going to find his clone in this race. Find the guy that comes the closest to Reagan in conservative principles and most importantly who is very hawkish on the War on Terror, whether it be Rudy, Fred or Mitt and do everything you can to get him elected.

As for the Congress, that's where the conservative base needs to take a different approach. It's time to weed out the dead wood. The half-a-loaf approach in the hopes of getting/keeping a majority in either House Chamber has come back to bite us in the ass. It's given us the likes of Lindsey Graham, Mel Martinez, Arlen Specter and the like. Yes, it would suck if the Dems increased their numbers in '08, but sometimes it has to get worse before it gets better.

These are the guys that voted for Amnesty in the Senate: Bennett, Craig, Graham, Gregg, Hagel, Kyl, Lott, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, Snowe, and Specter. You could probably also throw in a few others who would have voted for it, if they thought it was the winning side, the most notable being Senator Sam Switchback and Senator Mitch McConnell who changed their votes. I'm inclined to cut McConnell a little slack as he is the Majority Leader who is somewhat obligated to serve the President and was very much in a no-win situation here. Anyway, the guys on this list have to go. Find a conservative candidate and get them to run in the primary. If they lose, then don't vote for the incumbent in the general election...let him go. If we lose seats, then we regroup and get better candidates in 2010.

Why not send a message with the presidency? Because the president is still the one person that can do the most important job in government: protecting the people. While this Amnesty debate was going on, we might have been inclined to forget that we're also at war with Islamofascists. We need a strong man leading this fight, but what we don't need any longer are guys like Lindsey Graham (who should be target #1) taking us to the dance and then ditching us for the drunk party-girl (for lack of a better metaphor).

Weed out the dead wood.

LET'S START WITH HAGEL.

HERE'S AN INTERVIEW WITH HIS PRIMARY OPPONENT BRUNING. READ IT. THEN SEND HIM MONEY.

WE NEED TO WEED OUT THE DEAD WOOD. TO DO THAT WE NEED TO DEFEAT THE RINOS IN THE PRIMARIES.

LET'S START WITH THE SENATOR FROM FRANCE, CHUCK HAGEL.

WE NEED TO PRUNE THE DEAD WOOD. WE'LL DO SOME PRUNING WITH BRUNING!

THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

The Fairness Doctrine is affirmative action for liberalism.--Newt Gingrich

I haven't bothered to post on the weak attempt by liberals to revive the Fairness Doctrine up until now because I knew it didn't have a chance in he** of passing!! Yet the more it is brought up the more concerned I get about the future. Right now we have enough Republicans to stop it in its tracks and a President that would veto it. Yet, God forbid we end up with a Democrat president and enough Democrat congressmen this could actually become law sometime in the future if we don't speak up.

If you look at this rationally it is beyond absurd. The liberals control 95% of the Drive By Media outlets, they control all the cable news channels except for Fox, they control 95% of the print media but they have panic attacks about the fact that via capitalism Conservatives dominate talk radio.

The bottom line is NO ONE wants to listen to liberal talk radio. Liberals have tried repeatedly and failed. Dennis Miller gives an excellent reason on why liberal talk radio fails, go here to listen to him. He points out that it isn't Conservative vs. Liberal but optimism vs. pessimism and I couldn't agree more. Most liberals are glass half-empty people and the American people don't want to hear ranting from doom and gloomers. This is why I despise Michael Savage and he is in the minority of Conservative talk show hosts. He is extremely negative and offers no positive solutions, no one but angry people want to listen to that.

To read the rest of my thoughts on the subject, including how talk radio listeners are more informed, go here.

IQ AND BIRTH ORDER

The article Explaining the Relation Between Birth Order and Intelligence by Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal (appearing in the journal "Science") seems to have got quite an amazing amount of press so I thought I should say a few words about it. I did not make any comment initially because I thought that it raised no new issues and was not in any way surprising.

To recap briefly, the authors did some very clever statistics on data from Norwegian army recruits which show pretty clearly that being a firstborn raises your IQ by a few points.

I think the reason the article has got such a lot of attention is that the political Left seizes on environmental causes of intelligence like a thirsty man in a desert. All the evidence is of an overwhelming genetic influence on IQ so anything that appears to "undermine" that will be highlighted -- given the traditional but vastly counterfactual Leftist belief in the infinite plasticity of human characteristics.

But the Norwegian findings don't in fact undermine anything. Although IQ is one of the human attributes that is most strongly influenced by genes, nobody has ever claimed that genes alone do the trick. It has always been known and asserted that environmental factors have a subsidiary role -- and stimulation in early childhood has long been agreed to be one of those subsidiary factors.

And firstborns get more attention and hence most stimulation. So a small advantage from being a firstborn was always to be expected.

Perhaps the most amusing part of the coverage given to the findings is the way that old scientific fraud, Frank Sulloway, has managed to insert himself into the discussion. Sulloway is a great advocate of birth order as an influence on human behaviour so I suppose it had to happen but Sulloway's own theory is that birth order determines your politics and, among social scientists, I think it is only the credulous who believe that these days. Sulloway's sustained attempts to block publication of evidence contradicting his theory probably tell you all you need to know about that.

Just a footnote: Did you know that your politics are even more heavily determined by your genetics than is how tall you are? Some people (Leftists) are just born crybabies. See Eaves, L.J., Martin, N.G., Meyer, J.M. & Corey, L.A. (1999) Biological and cultural inheritance of stature and attitudes. In: Cloninger, C.R., Personality and psychopathology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press. Pesky things, those genes!

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Free Speech Victory in Washington State

We read:

"A unanimous Washington state supreme court ruling, issued this morning, reversed a lower court ruling that held radio commentary by Seattle's KVI-570's Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson made "in-kind" contributions when they promoted an anti-gas tax voter initiative on their shows in 2005.

This is all a bit hard to follow at first but it is a case of politicians attacking a radio show with the claim that political comments made on the show are a form of advertising and should be treated as such -- with all the restrictions that implies. It was a heavy attack on free speech but the State court unanimously gave it the boot. The judges said:

"Today we are confronted with an example of abusive prosecution by several local governments. San Juan County and the cities of Seattle, Auburn, and Kent (hereinafter Municipalities) determined to file a legal action ostensibly for disclosure of radio time spent discussing a proposed initiative. This litigation was actually for the purpose of restricting or silencing political opponents and was quickly dismissed after the filing deadline for the initiative

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TERRORISTS SEND MESSAGE TO PM BROWN

BBC:

Police avert car bomb 'carnage'

Police say the area will be closed for some time

Haymarket: A car bomb planted in central London would have caused "carnage" if it had exploded, police sources have said. Officers carried out a controlled explosion on the car which was loaded with petrol, gas cylinders and nails at 0200 BST in Haymarket.

Police were alerted by an ambulance crew who spotted smoke coming from the silver Mercedes, which was parked near the Tiger Tiger nightclub.

"International elements" are believed to be involved, the BBC has been told.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, said: "It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been significant injury or loss of life."

The area was cordoned off while police examined what they described as a "potentially viable explosive device".

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Britain faces "a serious and continuous threat". He added the public "need to be alert" at all times.

I EXPECT THIS IS JUST THE VERY FIRST OF A BARRAGE OF LIKE BOMBS WHICH ARE BEING PLANNED A ND PLANTED BY TERRORISTS ALL OVER EUROPE - AND THE USA.

WHY?

THE WEST'S DEFEATIST REACTION TO THE CONTINUOUS LOW LEVEL CARNAGE IN IRAQ HAS TAUGHT THE ENEMY THAT THIS IS THEIR BEST TACTIC.

WHICH IS WHY TO STOP IS WE MUST STAY AND WIN IN IRAQ.

AND DEPOSE ASSAD AND THE MULLAHS OF IRAN.

WE MUST NOT ONLY BE ALERT AT ALL TIMES; WE MUST REMAIN ON THE OFFENSIVE.

FASTER, PLEASE.

Friday Art - Roni Golan

Roni has more fine art at Underground Studios. He lives in Rockford, Illinois and is a friend of mine.

About the artist.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

BOLTON ON IRAN

John Bolton once again speaks sanity and reason in this article from the Jerusalem Post (via Melanie Phillips):

Sanctions and diplomacy have failed and it may be too late for internal opposition to oust the Islamist regime, leaving only military intervention to stop Iran’s drive to nuclear weapons, the US’s former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Worse still, according to Ambassador Bolton, the Bush administration does not recognize the urgency of the hour and that the options are now limited to only the possibility of regime change from within or a last-resort military intervention, and it is still clinging to the dangerous and misguided belief that sanctions can be effective. As a consequence, Bolton said he was “very worried” about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel’s predicament, he said, ‘I’d be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington…

‘The current approach of the Europeans and the Americans is not just doomed to failure, but dangerous,’ he said. ‘Dealing with [the Iranians] just gives them what they want, which is more time… We have fiddled away four years, in which Europe tried to persuade Iran to give up voluntarily,’ he complained. ‘Iran in those four years mastered uranium conversion from solid to gas and now enrichment to weapons grade… We lost four years to feckless European diplomacy and our options are very limited.’

Yup, only the military option can really help in a case like this, and not "diplomacy". That's why it's time now to start readying the armies of democratic nations to deal with this nuclear threat looming from Iran. And most important of all, if you ask me, is to depose of Islam within Iran too.

HAGEL MUST GO!

WE WANT BRUNING.

NEBRASKANS DESERVE A SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA WITH NEBRASKA VALUES, NOT A SENATOR FROM FRANCE.

MORE ABOUT BRUNING HERE.

SEND HIM MONEY!

PUTIN'S LATEST GAMBIT: THE ARCTIC LAND-GRAB

UK GUARDIAN:

Russia has the world's largest gas reserves. It is the second largest exporter of oil after Saudi Arabia. The Kremlin is keen to secure Russia's long-term hegemony over global energy markets, and to find new sources of fuel.

But the latest scientific findings are likely to prompt Russia to lodge another confident bid - and will alarm the US, which is mired in a 13-year debate over ratification of a UN treaty governing international maritime rights.

... On Monday ... a group of Russian geologists returned from a six-week voyage on a nuclear icebreaker. They had travelled to the Lomonosov ridge, an underwater shelf in Russia's remote and inhospitable eastern Arctic Ocean.

According to Russia's media, the geologists returned with the "sensational news" that the Lomonosov ridge was linked to Russian Federation territory, boosting Russia's claim over the oil-and-gas rich triangle. The territory contained 10bn tonnes of gas and oil deposits, the scientists said.

PUTIN IS A BAD MAN: HE ASSASSINATES HIS OPPONENTS AND ARMS AND BUILDS NUCLEAR REACTORS FOR OUR ENEMIES - AND USES ENERGY AS A WEAPON.

HE'S A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE. IT'S TIME SOMETHING SERIOUS WAS DONE ABOUT HIM.

NEW MARRIAGES DECLINE IN ENGLAND TO THEIR LOWEST AMOUNT EVER

The UK GUARDIAN reports that there were fewer marriages in the UK last year than the year before - AND THAT IT WAS THE FEWEST ON RECORD EVER - and that fewer of them were performed in churches.

I guess the Brits are a dying breed after all.

Cause there's only one way to make them... and if fewer get married and fewer have kids - and those that do are Muslims - then the UK as we know shall die within our lifetimes.

It's just unavoidable demographics.

Pity.

FRED THOMPSON TALKS STRAIGHT ON THE UN, DARFUR AND AGW

FRED TALKS. WE LISTEN. AND LOVE IT.

COURAGEOUS TRUTH-TELLERS LIKE FRED ARE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR.

WE MUST HELP MAKE THIS MAN POTUS!

SOUNDS LIKE THE ABBAS REGIME IS TOUGHER ON HAMAS THAN BUSH

HAARETZ:

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad delivered a stern warning Thursday to hundreds of Islamic preachers, including Hamas supporters, saying his government will not tolerate incitement in mosques.

Fayad's warning also included his government's intentions to collect all weapons from Palestinian militants.

Fayad's meeting with some 800 Muslim clergy marked the latest attempt to stem the influence of Hamas in the West Bank, following the goup's violent takeover of Gaza earlier this month. ...

In his meeting with clergymen Thursday, Fayad was accompanied by Abbas' top security official, Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yehiyeh. "We will collect weapons and replace them with pens and books," the minister told the crowd. "The phenomenon of militants is very dangerous, and we want to stop it in all forms."

Fayad told the preachers to take politics out of their sermons. "We won't allow them (mosques) to be turned into places of incitement and intimidation," he said. "It's the responsibility of men of religion to ... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed."

MEANWHILE, BUSH GOT HIS NOSE BROWN WHILE CODDLING JIAHDO-TERRORIST ENABLERS AND PROMISING TO SEND AN ENVOY TO THE OIC. FROM LGF:

Terrorism expert Steve Emerson is just as dismayed by President Bush’s pandering to radicals at the Islamic Center of Washington DC as I am: Radical Outreach.

The President’s idea of an envoy who will “learn” from the Organization of the Islamic Conference is simply ludicrous.

At Wednesday’s rededication ceremony of the Saudi-funded Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., President Bush missed a perfect opportunity to repudiate apologism for radical Islam, and instead announced his latest plan to get the Muslim world to stop hating America: appoint a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

Bush praised the OIC, saying, “We admire and thank those Muslims who have denounced what the Secretary General of the OIC called ‘radical fringe elements who pretend that they act in the name of Islam.’” The special envoy’s mission, Bush said, would be to “listen and learn” to OIC ambassadors.

While this may sound nice, it is rooted in complete ignorance of the rampant radicalism, pro-terrorist, and anti-American sentiments routinely found in statements by the OIC and its leaders, including referring to “Islamophobia” — and not the mass slaughter of innocents in the name of Islam — the “worst form of terrorism,” as OIC did last May.

In 2002, the OIC published its “Declaration on International Terrorism.” Therein, the authors stated, amongst other outrageous claims, that there was no such thing as Palestinian terrorism, writing, “We reject any attempt to associate Islamic states or Palestinian and Lebanese resistance with terrorism.” To the OIC, groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and Hezbollah are not terrorists, but “freedom fighters.”

I THINK BUSH SHOULD BE AT LEAST AS TOUGH ON THE JIHADO-THUGS AS ABBAS.

RIGHT NOW, THIS AND SHAMENSTY MAKES ME SICK WITH DISGUST WITH BUSH.

I WOULD NEVER EVER VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN - UNLESS HE RAN AGAINST GORE OR KERRY. OR ANY OTHER DEMOCRAT!

HEY YOU OUT THERE: LET'S NOMINATE SOMEONE BETTER THAN BUSH!

LET'S NOMINATE FRED THOMPSON.

PROOF FROM ISRAEL: LEAKING STATE SECRETS HAS HUGE NEGATIVE EFFECT ON SECURITY

HAARETZ:

Ex-Mossad head: Israeli reports led to death of Egyptian agent

Former Mossad head Zvi Zamir has said that reports in Israel about Dr. Ashraf Marwan, Israel's Egyptian agent who warned of the pending outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, led to his death.

"I have no doubt that reports published about him in Israel caused his death," Zamir told Haaretz Thursday, in response to Marwan's mysterious death in London on Wednesday.

Zamir, who questioned Marwan during a secret meeting held in London on the Friday on the eve of the 1973 war, said he had no idea whether the Egyptian had committed suicide or had been assassinated.

"This is a matter to be investigated by the British police. But it is clear that the reports and the exposure of his name by Eli Zeira [who was head of Military Intelligence in 1973] have led to his death," Zamir said.

Four years ago, Zamir and two retired senior Military Intelligence officers - Brigadier General Amos Gilboa and Colonel Yossi Langotsky - had asked Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to initiate an investigation against Zeira. Mofaz refused the request and directed the three to the Attorney General's office. The group filed a complaint with Menachem Mazuz but nothing came of it.

Recently, Supreme Court Justice Theodore Or ruled in arbitration over a law suit Zeira had filed against Zamir for slander. Or ruled that Zeira had indeed leaked the name of the agent to the press.

Zamir insisted that "the attorney general should indict Zeira. He has our complaint and he also has the evidence from the ruling of the arbitrator [Or]."

The former Mossad chief also said that, "The tragedy of this case is that the defense and intelligence establishment, including the defense minister and the law enforcement bodies, have proven to be impotent."

According to Zamir the real damage concerns the implications the case has for the future. "There are serious concerns about our ability to recruit quality sources in the future," the spy master said.

THIS CASE PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE SWIFT LEAK AND THE NSA LEAK AND THE RENDITION LEAK.

BUT THE BOTTOM-LINE IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME: LEAKS HURT INTEL' GATHERING AND RECRUITMENT OF HUMINT AND THEREFORE DIRECTLY HURTS OUR SECURITY.

MORE PROOF FROM CANADA: SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE SUCKS

AMNESTY DEAD; NOW A PLAN OF ACTION FOR 2008

Well, that was quite a ride. It started with Ted Kennedy and President Bush and then got some help from the McCainiacs...McCain, Graham, Martinez and Kyl. They tried to push an amnesty bill through in the dead of night like the Baltimore Colts in a Mayflower truck. The Conservatives in America responded and responded with a vengeance. If you'd thrown in Harriet Myers, you might have had an all-out civil war.

But then it got weird. Conservatives jammed phone lines, talk radio covered the story and the blogs gave us second-by-second updates. That's not the weird part. What gave us all double-takes was the amount of vitriol aimed at the blogs, talk radio and the grassroots from Republicans. We saw Trent Lott, Trent Lott of all people bashing talk radio, the very talk radio hosts that were his only defenders during the Strom Thurmond fiasco. He says the likes of Rush and Hannity are running America and "we've gonna have to deal with that problem." He also accuses his constituents and other across the country who have been calling his offices of practicing "intimidation." George Voinovich of Ohio, no conservative I grant you, but still a Republican who admits he hasn't read the bill but accuses those who have (i.e. talk radio hosts) of being simplistic.

Does this mean there would be Republican support for the Fairness Doctrine? Maybe. I've always been doubtful that it could ever really come back due to the one ultimate factor in any legislation: money. The National Association of Broadcasters and other TV/Radio lobbying groups will fight the Fairness Doctrine tooth and nail. If it were actually made law, it would destroy AM radio, and money talks in D.C. However, while I still think it won't happen, I'm not as confident as I once was after what has transpired in this Amnesty debate. The Rockefeller Republicans are really turning on the conservative wing and making their displeasure with them known. It's time for action.

What should we do? I think in 2008, the Conservatives should follow this line of action: Get behind the best Republican candidate for President. Face up to the fact that there was only one Ronald Reagan and you're not going to find his clone in this race. Find the guy that comes the closest to Reagan in conservative principles and most importantly who is very hawkish on the War on Terror, whether it be Rudy, Fred or Mitt and do everything you can to get him elected.

As for the Congress, that's where the conservative base needs to take a different approach. It's time to weed out the dead wood. The half-a-loaf approach in the hopes of getting/keeping a majority in either House Chamber has come back to bite us in the ass. It's given us the likes of Lindsey Graham, Mel Martinez, Arlen Specter and the like. Yes, it would suck if the Dems increased their numbers in '08, but sometimes it has to get worse before it gets better.

These are the guys that voted for Amnesty in the Senate: Bennett, Craig, Graham, Gregg, Hagel, Kyl, Lott, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, Snowe, and Specter. You could probably also throw in a few others who would have voted for it, if they thought it was the winning side, the most notable being Senator Sam Switchback and Senator Mitch McConnell who changed their votes. I'm inclined to cut McConnell a little slack as he is the Majority Leader who is somewhat obligated to serve the President and was very much in a no-win situation here. Anyway, the guys on this list have to go. Find a conservative candidate and get them to run in the primary. If they lose, then don't vote for the incumbent in the general election...let him go. If we lose seats, then we regroup and get better candidates in 2010.

Why not send a message with the presidency? Because the president is still the one person that can do the most important job in government: protecting the people. While this Amnesty debate was going on, we might have been inclined to forget that we're also at war with Islamofascists. We need a strong man leading this fight, but what we don't need any longer are guys like Lindsey Graham (who should be target #1) taking us to the dance and then ditching us for the drunk party-girl (for lack of a better metaphor).

Weed out the dead wood.

THE INFIDEL BLOGGERS ALLIANCE RADIO SHOW

And now, coming to you live from beneath the burqa of a hot Muslim babe in Tehran, it's the Infidel Bloggers Alliance Radio Show.

Look, my friends, the time to fight is coming closer and closer. Our enemy is wrapping his hands around our throats. What are we gonna do, just lay back and let them choke the life out of us?
Fuck that!

I, for one, reject the idea of handing over the keys to Western Civilization to a bunch of motherfucking barbarous savages.

If our governments won't do the work of defending us against the encroachment of Islamofascism, then we will have to pick up our torches and pitchforks and do it ourselves.
On the newest IBA Radio Show, we interviewed Aeneas, from the Center for Vigilant Freedom - UK (CVF-UK).

The CVF is, in my opinion, the European equivalent of the American Sons of Liberty who instigated the American Revolutionary War.

All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth are born endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights; we own our lives as our own property, and we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

If the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then regime will become necessary.

The first step towards regime change is assembling the government which will take over from the failed regime.

If I were a member of the established Tory and Labor parties in Britain, I think I'd be picking my forehhead up off the bar for a few seconds and taking note.
You motherfuckers are going down.

Click here to listen.

AHMADINEJAD JOINS THE WAR

Iran's fool is determined to provoke somebody and he's not taking 'no' for an answer.

For months Iran has been taunting Israel; then there was the British marines incident and now (just like buddy Chavez) this demented leader has set his sights on the NATO forces:

Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, The Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday.

Britain's defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report, with a spokesman declining to comment on "intelligence matters".

An unidentified intelligence source told the tabloid: "It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran -- but nobody has officially declared it."

"We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us. It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot."

The Sun said that radar sightings of Iranian helicopters crossing into the Iraqi desert were confirmed to it by very senior military sources.

In response to the report, a British defence ministry spokesman said: "There is evidence that explosive devices used against our troops in southern Iraq originated in Iran."

This is a big deal. This idiot has basically said, "If you're going to ignore me, I'm coming to wipe you out." How thin can we spread ourselves?

SOURCE

SCOTUS gets a couple of things right

Rules on Campaign Ads Eased by High Court

We read:

"The Supreme Court yesterday substantially weakened restrictions on the kinds of television ads that corporations and unions can finance in the days before an election, providing special interest groups with the opportunity for a far more expansive role in the 2008 elections."

Source

A small victory for free speech. Supreme Court Protects Faith-Based Subsidies from Suit -- We read:

"The Supreme Court on Monday closed the courthouse door on a lawsuit challenging the Bush administrations use of taxpayer money to support its Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives."

Source

More pseudo-psychology with the same old pseudo "findings"

Newsweek has just given a big plug to a book called "The Political Brain" (by Drew Westen of Emory University) that purports to tell Democrats how to win elections. The writer of the review does not know the difference between "discreet" and "discrete" so the intellectual level to be expected is not high -- and so it turns out. Note the paragraph below . It combines very old news with a bald-faced assertion:

"When voters are hooked up to brain-imaging devices while watching candidates, it is emotion circuits and not the rational frontal lobes that are most engaged. When voters assess who won a campaign debate, they almost always choose the candidate they liked better beforehand. The rationality circuit "isn't typically open for business when partisans are thinking about things that matter to them," Westen notes. Yet "this is the part of the brain to which Democrats typically target their appeals."

So emotions matter in politics! Give the writer a cookie! But what is the proof for the second assertion -- that Democrats target their appeals to rationality? As far as I can tell it is the opposite. For instance, "All men are equal" may be emotionally satisfying but it has no status as a fact.

Hot Air and Ace have some further comments.

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THE MEDIA LIES- CIVILIANS IN GAZA MYSTERIOUSLY APPEAR IN DESOLATE WARZONES, REAPPEAR IN MEDIA COVERAGE

We wish we could just invent things that make no sense and get them treated as "our side" of the story. "Omri Ceren today claimed to have the best-read blog on the planet, but other bloggers cast doubt on that claim". That would be awesome. But alas, we're not Palestinians:

An air strike was called in near the Karni crossing between Gaza and Israel after gunmen were spotted approaching Israeli forces in the area. The army said the activity was against "terror threats" in Gaza, where Hamas fighters overran security forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian president Abbas on June 15, effectively creating an Islamic enclave on Israel's doorstep. Medics said 11 Palestinians were killed, including eight fighters in the armed Islamic Jihad, Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades linked to Abbas's Fatah party. Three civilians were killed, including a 12-year-old boy.

Naturally, this is a lie. All the Palestinians killed in the firefight were gunmen. Now why would we believe Israel and not the Palestinians? Mostly because we're able to ask questions like "hey, how would a 12 year old end up in the no-man's land next to the Gaza fence?" Unless he was actually one of the gunmen, which isn't exactly unheard of.

It is nice to see that the international media is paying attention to Gaza civilians though. For some reason that phrase hasn't come up much in the last two weeks - apparently no civilians in Gaza were getting killed during that time, huh? Oh - and it's also nice to see that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades still have some fight left in them. Not enough to prevent Hamas from rolling over them, killing their leaders and dragging their bodies through the streets, and destroying their schools and homes. But enough to try to kill Israelis.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]

SUSPICIOUSLY INCONSISTENT BRITISH BOYCOTT OF THE DAY - BRITS NOT BOYCOTTING THE SIDE THAT STRAPS SUICIDE BELTS TO BRITISH JOURNALISTS

Israeli and Jewish organizations are devoting enormous resources to countering the myriad British boycotts - from journalists and doctors and trade unions and academics - that have recently been leveled against the Jewish state. You know who doesn't have to worry about British boycotts? The Palestinians who strap suicide belts to British hostages and force them to plead for their lives in front of cameras.

It's almost like there's a double standard at work here.

Or - even more unbelievably - that British animus towards Israel is being driven by something other than level-headed analysis regarding the genuine scope of imagined Israeli human rights violations.

While we're on the topic of hypocrisy, make sure you check out the photogallery of Hamas insanity that Anne has up at Boker Tov, Boulder. Safe for work and somewhat less nauseating than some of the other images that have come out of that train wreck - more "they're totally batshit crazy" than "that is a stomach turning and inhuman atrocity".

[Read an extended version of this post at Mere Rhetoric]

TONY BLAIR'S FAREWELL

Some may belittle politics. But we who are engaged in it know it is where people stand tall. Although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster.

If it is on occasion the place of low skullduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes, and I wish everyone, friend or foe, well.

-- British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Conservatives may not agree with Tony Blair on a lot of issues but he has been a great friend to the U.S. and he "gets it" when it comes to the war on terror. I thought the above quote by him was an excellent quote to say in his farewell speech. Pretty impressive!!

Gateway Pundit also points out how Tony's wife, Cherie Blair got a little dig in at the media on her way out. You go Cherie!!

To top it all off, Bush got a great dig in about Jimmy Carter in his remarks on Tony Blair.

ANN COULTER--CONTEXT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT

Ann Coulter on GMA 6/25
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I found this video over at Flopping Aces, Curt did an excellent post on Ann Coulter's comments in context and showing what a hypocrite Elizabeth Edwards is.

The rumors are just swirling about what Ann Coulter has and hasn't said. Even Conservatives are condemning her before knowing the whole context. Take the time to watch the video and see what Ann Coulter actually says about John Edwards and the terrorist attack. She is quoting what Bill Maher said about Dick Cheney and of course, as always, that is left out. It also helped me to see her comments about Bush in context about how she views him on immigration and how he has handled the war on terror.

I find it ridiculous that Elizabeth Edwards has the audacity to lecture Ann Coulter about being mean-spirited when we see all the vitriol from the left that they are never held to account for.

SENATOR KIT BOND AND MY THOUGHTS ON THE IMMIGRATION BILL

In Defense of Senator Kit Bond

In a strange turn of events, my Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill had seemingly voted to kill the immigration bill and my Republican Senator Kit Bond had voted to continue debate on it. Kit Bond has been a stellar senator on almost every issue so I checked into his reasoning. Over the years I can't remember ever disagreeing with him on any issue, he is a Conservative's dream Senator.

This is what Kit Bond had to say about his vote:

"First, I voted to allow this debate to occur so I could force a vote on my amendment that cuts the heart out of amnesty. My amendment would cut the path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

"I think it is critical that my colleagues go on-the-record regarding whether they support giving U.S. citizenship to illegal immigrants. That is the heart of the amnesty that I, and a majority of Missourians, oppose.

"Citizenship is the most precious gift America has to offer. It should not serve as a reward to those who broke the law to enter or remain in this country.

"Also, the more this bill is exposed to the light of day through debate, the more people will see its fundamental flaws -- like the amnesty provisions and the $25 billion in new mandatory entitlement spending for illegal immigrants.

"Many people don't realize that the 12 million illegal immigrants legalized in this bill will eventually qualify for Medicare, Social Security and other entitlements. This will cost a lot of money and not even half of it will be covered by the new fees impose in the bill.

"The more my colleagues and the public understand what is really in this flawed bill, the better chances we have at ultimately defeating it.

"It is important to understand that yesterday's vote on the motion to proceed is just one of several 60 vote chances we have to kill this bill.

"I agree with Missourians who are outraged with this bill in its current form and I will vote against waiving the budget act to allow this bill's mandatory new entitlement spending on formerly illegal immigrants - that requires 60 votes.

"I will also vote against the motion to end debate, which also requires 60 votes.

"I want to be clear - unless the bill's fundamental flaws are stripped from this bill - such as amnesty for illegal immigrants and the $25 billion in new entitlements -- I will vote to kill this bill."

To hear his comments about it yesterday, go here, to hear his comments about his vote on Sean Hannity's show, go here.

My Thoughts

This issue just continues to make my heart sick. I hope the bill is killed today like many are predicting. I am upset with the President for pushing this so hard when he knows so many are against it. I am upset with the likes of Lindsey Graham and John McCain for turning a deaf ear to their constituents. I am upset with those on our side who are so hysterical and irrational on this. Hearing Ann Coulter trash my President hurts my heart tremendously.

I don't care how important an issue is, it isn't worth the vitriol and eating our own. I hate the immigration debate for that very reason, it seems to bring out the ugliest side of all people. I hope next time around our Representatives listen better to what the American people are saying and I hope Conservatives will be a bit more rational and civil on how they handle the debate.

THE REAL AXIS OF EVIL: PUTIN; AHMADINEJAD; CHAVEZ; ASSAD AND THE RED CHINESE

BBC:

Mr Chavez has chosen his allies carefully. Iran has nuclear expertise to offer, while China represents a very attractive market for Venezuelan oil.

In Russia, Mr Chavez has found a partner that has no problem disregarding Washington's worries and selling him weapons. ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Russia, where he will meet his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for talks on military co-operation.

Mr Chavez is expected to visit a helicopter factory and discuss the possible purchase of diesel submarines.

This is Mr Chavez's second visit in under a year to Russia, which he has designated as a "strategic partner". ... But perhaps the symbolism of what follows Mr Chavez's visit is what matters most. After leaving Russia, he will travel to Belarus and Iran.

CHINA - BLOCKS AID TO AND INTERVENTION FOR DARFUR.

RUSSIAN ARMS SYRIA AND BUILDS IRAN'S NUKES.
VENEZUELA EMBRACES AHMADINEJAD AND CASTRO AND MUGABE.

WHAT A CREW.

WE NEED TO BE MUCH HARSHER WITH THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM.

HARVARD STUDY: MULTICULTURALISM AND IMMIGRATION SPUR SOCIAL DISTINTEGRATION

SEEMS LIKE A NO BRAINER TO ME.

OBVIOUSLY, SOCIAL COHESION NEEDS ASSIMILATION.

WHAT'S REALLY FASCINATING ABOUT THIS STUDY IS THAT ITS LIBERAL HARVARD AUTHOR IS SUPRESSING IT.

GEE... I WONDER WHY?!

MORE HERE.

VIA HERE.

JIHAD'S GLOBAL DEATH COUNT

Terror committed in the name of Global Jihad has killed more people around the world each year since 9/11 than US troops have died since 2003.

Put another way: the USA has lost less troops in combat in Iraq the last four years, than the so-called "religion of peace" has MURDERED in TERRORIST ATTACKS in EACH year since 9/11.

Global Jihad MURDERS more civilians each year than anything else.
AND THIS EXCLUDES SOMALIA.

Read all about it HERE - at THE RELIGION OF PEACE.

As of TODAY, there have been 8709 ATTACKS since 9/11, killing TENS OF THOUSANDS.

They update a list of jihado-terrorist attacks EVERYDAY. And their information comes via the MSM.

MY POINT: anyone who says there is "no global war on terror" is an assh*le.

And anyone who thinks we can end the GWOT by withdrawing from Iraq or getting Israel to give up MORE land for peace is a fool.

Here's a great visual from ROP:

So, you think the Ku Klux Klan and the Spanish Inquisition are bad? So do we, but... Put the Numbers in Perspective
More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. (source)	Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. (source)
More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (source)	19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years. (source)

GROOVY INFIDEL SONG

VIA NOISY ROOM:

FRANK SINGS TO THE FLYING IMAMS.

News re: flying imams HERE.

SARKOZY IS OFF TO A VERY BAD START

FIRST OFF... HE APPOINTED WAY TO MANY SOCIALISTS TO HIS CABINET. IT COST HIM AT THE POLLS: THE LEFTIES TURNED OUT AND VOTED, BUT SARKO'S BASE DID NOT; AS A RESULT, HE LOST SEATS IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

SECOND, HE HAS SENT SIGNALS THAT HE WILL NOT INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING AS HE PROMISED ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL; INSTEAD IT WILL BE CUT.

THIRD, HE IS ALREADY BACKING DOWN IN THE FACE IS REACTIONARY OPPOSITION TO HIS EDUCATION REFORMS.

AT THIS RATE HE WILL MATCH BUSH'S 6 YEAR COLLAPSE IN THE POLLS IN HIS FIRST YEAR!

PITY. I GUESS NOTRE DAME WILL BECOME A MOSQUE AFTER ALL.

(I THINK SOME OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT BUSH AND SARKOZY WANT THEIR OPPONENTS TO LIKE THEM. INSTEAD, THEY SHOULD FOLLOW THE PRINCE'S ADVICE: IT IS BETTER TO BE FEARED.)

FRED THOMPSON ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DEATH PENALTY

HE TALKS. WE LISTEN. AND LOVE IT.

WE MUST HELP MAKE FRED THOMPSON PRESIDENT.

BUSTED: MSM LEFT-WING HYPOCRISY EXPOSED

WARNING: THIS POST IS NOT SAFE FOR LIBERALS!

Two incredible stories from the invaluable NEWSBUSTERS:

1 - CARLSON OUTS ALTER AND OBAMA:

On this afternoon's "Tucker Carlson" on MSNBC, the eponymous host mentioned that Barack Obama had travelled to NYC to seek the support of Charles Barron of Brooklyn.

Carlson knows Barron well, the NYC Councilman being a frequent guest on Tucker's show.

Carlson described Barron as a "pretty straightforward racist, pretty straightforward black nationalist, anti-white character, exactly the kind of person you would not expect Obama to be courting." He then asked guest Jonathan Alter: "What is Obama doing?

SENIOR NEWSWEEK EDITOR JONATHAN ALTER: "Well, I think Obama wants the support of everybody, and I think the question is whether he can have a tent that's actually as big as the United States . . . The whole point of his campaign Tucker is to say "don't judge me by any one of my supporters, I'm trying to get a super-big tent here" . . . I think it would be unfair to hold any of his supporter's politics, you know, hold him accountable for what Charles Barron thinks.

Tucker wasn't buying, and drew the logical analogy.

MSNBC HOST TUCKER CARLSON: If Rudy Giuliani went down and asked David Duke for his support, would you say, "you know, it's unfair to hold Rudy Giuliani accountable for what David Duke said?" No, of course not! You'd write a cover story attacking him. That's a ludicrous point.

ALTER: Charles Barron is not David Duke, so let's not let that slide through, he's not David Duke.

CARLSON: I would say he's pretty close.

ALTER: If he was David Duke, you really wouldn't have him on your show, Tucker. Even you have limits.

CARLSON: No, actually, I don't.

2 - IDIOT LEFTIE AND OLDTIME DEM OPERATIVE CHRIS MATTHEWS OUTS HIMSELF:

... during Chris Matthews's ambush of Ann Coulter last night ... an off-hand remark by the host ... established (as if there was any doubt) his elitist left-wing mentality.

Despite his stacking of the deck against Coulter, many in the audience continued to support the conservative author. The fact that Matthews hadn't managed to turn the audience into an anti-Coulter mob clearly befuddled the former top Democratic aide, prompting him to compare them to the violent, inbred, backwoods characters from the 1972 movie "Deliverance."

MATTHEWS: Welcome back to "Hardball." We're back at the "Hardball" plaza with the inimitable Ann Coulter.

(Applause)

MATTHEWS: And what deeply concerns me, more than the very existence of Ann Coulter, is the presence of many like-minded people here.

(Applause)

MATTHEWS: My God, is this "Deliverance"?

The hypocrisy is staggering. On the same program in which he let Elizabeth Edwards berate Coulter for being uncivil in her jokes, Matthews jokingly smeared conservatives as characters from "Deliverance."

Obviously, for Matthews, civility is only a one-way street.

THE MSM IS SO FAR TO THE LEFT, WHEN THEY LOOK RIGHT THEY'RE STILL LOOKING LEFT. AND THEY LIE ABOUT IT.

ON TOP OF IT, THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR TALK RADIO.

WHY?

THEY KNOW THEY CAN'T WIN A FAIR FIGHT.

BLAIR WILL ONLY HURT THINGS AS AN ENVOY

Will Blair help or hurt in his new job as an envoy? That's what this JTA article is asking, but I think the answers can pretty much be figured out:

Tony Blair's frequent calls for the need to create a Palestinian state and his vital support for the Iraq war raise major questions for officials in Jerusalem and Arab capitals.

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Tony Blair brings a lot to his new job as a peace envoy: His hands-on experience as British prime minister in dealing with Middle East issues, the confidence President Bush places in him as a loyal supporter of the Iraq war, a long-held view that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is vital to stabilizing the region.

The question in this case is whether "a lot" constitutes useful experience or debilitating baggage.

Answer: he will only bring baggage that we in Israel will have to carry as our horrid burden.

And I don't agree at all with this article that says that Blair is leaving a legacy of support for Israel. Not at all.

CALL ME OLD FASHIONED: DICK DURBIN CALLS FOR FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

Via Power Line:

"It’s time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine," said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). "I have this old-fashioned attitude that when Americans hear both sides of the story, they’re in a better position to make a decision."

John Kerry joined the mix as well with very much the same words. These people are just having us on right? They're not actually so demented as to truly believe that the liberal/socialist point of view is not being heard, are they? I'm not sure I know anymore.

Having opinions about race is not the same as racism

The article below is a typical rant about racism from a Left-leaning Australian newspaper. Typically, it makes no distiction between opinions about race and racism. To do so would deprive the author of much of the warm inner glow of righteousness she got from writing it. But, as any psychologist can tell you, attitudes are not the same as behaviour and it has been known since the 1930s that, in this field particularly, attitudes and behaviour are often very different. My favourite example of the disjunction is a neo-Nazi I once knew who was great friends with a very dark-skinned Bengali. I also once knew a very kind man who spoke very ill of Asians but who was in fact happily married to one.

We all have opinions about groups of people. What do most men think about busty women, for instance? And what do women think about tall men? There is rarely indifference in either case. So there is nothing wrong about opinions of racial or ethnic groups either. It is only when people are ill-treated solely because of their race that there is cause for concern and the label "racism" is justified.

The article below mentions the multifarious prejudices that the English typically have -- class prejudices and regional prejudices particularly. They even mock redheads! As an Australian who has spent some time in England, I have myself experienced the mocking comments that the English sometimes direct at Australians. I just directed a few mocking comments back which were received with perfect good humour and which moved the conversation onto a perfectly amicable level.

People will always be mocked by someone for something and it is about time everyone grew up enough to handle it. So let us hear from the self-righteous one:

I was at a smart party with a bunch of people I hadn't seen for years. Suddenly there was a yelp at my elbow. Fabulous Miss C, tanned to the gills, absolutely cured. She'd also done something to her face. "I hear you're living out at Springvale now. P told me. She said there aren't any dogs out there, because the chinks have eaten them all." And off she went into a squealing peal of laughter. It's a long time since I heard someone say "chinks" and make a joke like that. I told her that what she said was ridiculous, that of course there are dogs in Springvale, hundreds of them. I should have also told her she was revoltingly racist, that talk like that is not acceptable. But I did not.

A friend was dining at the home of "aristocrats" when the hostess rattled her jewels and complained about all the new immigrants from Africa, crowing that they should "send them back up the trees". The company laughed indulgently - such a rabid old eccentric. One simply could not take her seriously. No one told her off.

Racism is a disease found among people of all incomes, education levels and ethnic types. Even within the same ethnic type: in London Australians are patronised, treated as "dumb colonials" with the wrong accent. A German friend lived there for many years and waited for the inevitable swipe at every dinner party. "It was relentless," she told me. "Germans are seen as humourless, efficient manufacturers of precision instruments. We are disliked but we are taken seriously. Australians are not taken seriously. My only defence was to get ahead of them, tell a joke against Germans before they got theirs in."

I was warned a guest I had from the Balkans was sure to be a "broken and scarred person". When I suggested that such stereotyping was racist the response was angry. How dare I accuse them. My years working in the Jewish community have elicited "concern" from some. "Do they - uh - pay you properly?" When I return a quiet, withering gaze they too get angry: "Oh for God's sake! I just wanted to make sure you were alright!"

More here

Perhaps two small examples of mocking the English back might help someone. The first is of my own devising and the second I owe to the inimitable Barry Humphries. The two examples spring from derogatory comments about Australian wine and comments about Australian male friendships being suppressed homosexuality. The two comments I make on such occasions are:

"Australians are much like the French. They make a small amount of good wine and a lot of rough wine. And the stuff that is too rough even for them they sell to the English"

"That's just a rumour put out by Australia House to attract all the English immigrants"

I have always found that both comments get a "Touche!" response.


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OK for a Leftist Icon to Use "Homophobic" Language?

We read:

"Gore Vidal is up in arms over a new play that imagines him being sexually attracted to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Edmund White's "Terre Haute," which recently finished a successful run in Britain, involves the relationship between a thinly veiled, Vidal-like writer named James and a McVeigh-like killer, Harrison.

Vidal, 81, told the London Observer: "Edmund White will yet be feeling the wrath of my lawyers. It's unethical and vicious to make it very clear that this old faggot writer is based on me, and that I'm madly in love with Timothy McVeigh, who I never met."

Source

Ann Coulter was condemned all over the net for using the same word. Listen for the silence about Vidal using it. And Vidal is using it in an abusive rather than a descriptive way, unlike Coulter. And Isaiah Washington lost his TV job for using the word too.

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Police run riot in Arkansas

Despicable acts of police brutality appear to have been committed on Go Skateboarding Day by the Hot Springs, Arkansas Police Department. Young skateboarders were choked and knocked around for skateboarding. Video of the incident here. After you watch it, help flood their phone lines and email their police chief with complaints regarding the main policeman involved, Officer Joey Williams. Data: Hot Springs Arkansas Police Department, Phone: (501) 321-6789, Fax: (501) 321-6708, Chief of Police, Bobby Southard, 641 Malvern Avenue.

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PALESTINIAN FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER

The above video is a shocking tale of a Palestinian female suicide bomber who had been cared for at an Israeli hospital. She was willing to kill the very doctor who saved her life. She was unsuccessful, but it is a glimpse into a culture few can comprehend.

Icognito posted this video and has done several excellent posts recently on Palestinian and Israeli issues. They are all worth checking out:

**Insight into the mind of an ordinary Hamas-lover
**The Truth about Israel and Palestine
**You get what you ask for: Palestinians and the escalating violence

BBC EMPLOYS A HAMAS TERRORIST

They also once employed a man who was a member of a British mafia syndicate, so I guess this shouldn't be too surprising. (Via Little Green Footballs and Michelle Malkin.) Nor is it surprising to me that the British government is letting the Beeb get away with it.

FRED THOMPSON DISSECTS "UNIVERSAL" HEALTHCARE

FRED TALKS; WE LISTEN. AND LOVE IT.

HE DEMOLISHES THE RATIONAL BEHIND TAXPAYER FINANCED SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.

SIMPLE VERSION: IF IT DON'T WORK THERE, THEN WHY IMPORT IT HERE!?!? IT MAKES NO SENSE.

WE MUST MAKE THIS MAN POTUS.

WHAT IF KIM IL SUNG AND THE RED CHINESE HAD USED AL QAEDA'S TACTICS?

If they had then the Dems in Congress would have pulled the plug on South Korea in 1955.

But we hung in there. SH*T: WE STILL HAVE 50,000 TROOPS THERE!

TO GOOD EFFECT: South Korea ia not only a reliable ally and a line-in-the-sand against the commies, but a DEMOCRACY and the 6th LARGEST economy on the freakin' world.

Thanks to OUR perseverance.

Yet for years the Dems - and now a few more chickenSH*T GOP scum like Lugar and Hagel and Voinovich are calling on the USA to exit Iraq.

WILL THIS DISCOURAGE THE SPREAD OF JIHADO-TERROR?

WILL THIS SEND A MESSAGE TO OUR ALLIES THAT THEY CAN DEPEND ON US THROUGH THICK AND THIN?!

Nope.

It is a RECIPE FOR DISASTER. A recipe which Chef Dubya helped cook up with his military half-assery.

THE WORST PART: we are FINALLY kicking al Qaeda's ass in Iraq and the Sunnis are coming our way. We need to show resolve HERE AND NOW - MORE THAN EVER. We're on the verge of winning - and will if the chickensh*t politicians in DC don't give it away!

And Bush is wasting his political capital on FREAKIN' AMNESTY.

IDIOT.

Bush is a freakin liberal hawk idiot.

THE SADDEST PART: Bush was the best of the whole lot of chikensh*ts who ran in 2000 and 2004.

PATHETIC.

Now, there's only a few acceptable candidates: ALL GOP: Mitt, Rudy and Fred - with Fred being FAR AND AWAY THE BEST.

God Help Us.

Please.

What you can to do if THE GOPissed you off!

Don't send them a dime. Until Fred gets the nomination and he replaces Martinez, and the heads of the GOP House and Senate campaigns.

Tell the GOP to GO Piss off!

Watch this video to find out how you can do just that... HECK: IT'S BETTER THAN NOT GIVING THEM A DIME!

DO THE GITMO PRISONERS DESERVE ANYTHING?

The Geneva Convention is NOT international law; it is a TREATY which ONLY applies to SIGNATORIES.

To gain certain rights for its POWS a signatory must guarantee the same rights for all POWS of other SIGNATORIES.

These rights are limited to POWS, and POWS are defined as UNIFORMED fighters.

Non-uniformed fighters from third-party nations are NOT covered by Geneva -- no matter what the liberals on the SCOTUS might say.

But NO SANE SUPPORTER of Geneva could RATIONALLY argue that NON-UNIFORMED FOREIGN FIGHTERS FROM THIRD-PARTY NATIONS ARE ENTITLED TO MORE RIGHTS THAN POWS.

But this is EXACTLY what they argue.

After all. POWS are NOT given attorney's or the right to sue their captors in court. They are held until the cessation of hostilities.

SO... WHY GIVE ENEMY COMBATANTS (non-uniformed third-party fighters who are NOT covered by Geneva) MORE RIGHTS THAN POWS!?!?!?!?

It makes no freakin' sense. ZERO. Bupkuss. Zilch.

But it's exactly what the Left has successfully argued.

It sickens me.

Especially since these foreign fighters obey NO RULES OF WAR THEMSELVES.

All this effort (to give these enemy combatants MORE rights than POWS) does is HELP THE ENEMY.

Those who underwrite and undertake these efforts are traitors.

Traitors not only of the USA, but CIVILIZATION.

MORE FROM THE WSJ/TARANTO HERE.