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Sunday, November 30, 2008

STEYN ON FALLACI, KHOMEINI SHEEP-SHAGGING AND LEFT-WING DISNIFORMATION: ABSOLUTELY THE MOST "MUST READ" PIECE OF THE YEAR

READ THE WHOLE THING.

TWICE.


THEN SEND IT TO EVERY LIBERAL YOU KNOW.


EXCERPTS:

This is a long piece but it does have underage sex and bestiality in it. So enjoy!

The other day I had an e-mail from M J Murphy, who blogs as Big City Lib, saying only this:

I think you owe Dr. Miller an apology.

There followed a link to a post called Steyn Gets Punked By 28-Year Old Literary Hoax:

Remember the kerfuffle between Mark Steyn and journalism professor Dr. John Miller from a few weeks back? Dr. Miller accused Steyn of taking material for "America Alone" from illegitimate sources like the infamous Little Green Book: Sayings of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Actually, I don’t think Dr Miller has accused me of any such thing, though I admit, given his shifting accusations, that I’m no longer quite sure what he’s accusing me of. Just to recap, said “kerfuffle” arises from this passage in a review I wrote for Maclean’s of Oriana Fallaci’s final book The Force Of Reason:

Signora Fallaci then moves on to the livelier examples of contemporary Islam -- for example, Ayatollah Khomeini's "Blue Book" and its helpful advice on romantic matters: "If a man marries a minor who has reached the age of nine and if during the defloration he immediately breaks the hymen, he cannot enjoy her any longer." I'll say. I know it always ruins my evening. Also: "A man who has had sexual relations with an animal, such as a sheep, may not eat its meat. He would commit sin." Indeed. A quiet cigarette afterwards as you listen to your favourite Johnny Mathis LP and then a promise to call her next week and swing by the pasture is by far the best way. It may also be a sin to roast your nine-year-old wife, but the Ayatollah's not clear on that.

A cheap joke en passant. Indeed, insofar as I dwelt on the ovine fornication, it was to suggest to La Fallaci that, even for us flagrant Islamophobes, it was not perhaps the most useful avenue of attack:

I enjoy the don't-eat-your-sexual-partner stuff as much as the next infidel, but the challenge presented by Islam is not that the cities of the Western world will be filling up with sheep-shaggers. If I had to choose, I'd rather Mohammed Atta was downriver in Egypt hitting on the livestock than flying through the windows of Manhattan skyscrapers. But he’s not.

And that’s it. That’s all I said. And no one would remember had not El Mo’s sock puppets included the sheep-shagging line in the dossier they submitted to the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission. Whereupon Dr Miller …actually, I’m not sure he is a doctor: He calls himself “The Journalism Doctor”, but the title seems to be entirely self-conferred. Anyway, at this point, Doc Miller, Prof Miller, Herr Baron von Miller or whatever he is got interested in the case and asked the British Columbia “Human Rights” Tribunal if he could intervene. Silly ol' me assumed that he wished to intervene to argue the cause of free speech. But no: he wanted to intervene to argue that I was not a “responsible journalist”, and so it was entirely appropriate for the state to censor me. As Rory Leishman notes, since this thought-police racket got going, “Most journalists have either condoned censorship or cowered in silence.” Canadians who still value liberty should know that, if they rely on anemic PC flunkeys like Professor Miller, they’ll lose their country.

... Oriana Fallaci is a hundred times the man John Miller is

... what I find even more perplexing is why Prof Miller, M J Murphy and the nellies at Law Am Cool are so weirdly obsessed with insisting that somehow the Ayatollah's rulings about eating shagged sheep and having sex with nine-year-olds must be some malicious rumor got up by Oriana and me and a couple of other neocon buffoons. No one who knows anything about Khomeini or Shia jurisprudence would be in the least bit surprised, so why would a prissy PC drone like Prof Miller be so cavalier as to expose himself as entirely ignorant of the subject he’s loftily pontificating on? Not for the first time you realise that, for the lazy white liberal, driving around with a "CELEBRATE DIVERSITY" sticker absolves one from having to take the slightest interest in other cultures.
RTWT. NOW.

PAKISTAN CONTINUES TO DEVOLVE: 17 DEAD, SCORES WOUNDED IN KARACHI RIOTS

NZ NEWS:
At least 13 people were killed and more than 70 injured when activists from rival political parties clashed in Pakistan's largest city Karachi , officials said on Sunday.

Troops were authorised to use guns to quell the violence as members of the ruling coalition party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) clashed with the Pashtun nationalist Awami National Party.

"In different incidents of firing by rioters, 13 people have been killed and dozens of others injured," Karachi police chief Waseem Ahmed said.

The rioters set shops on fire at the city's Timber Market and also torched push-carts in other areas of the city, witnesses said.

Doctors at Karachi's main state-run hospital said they had seen 77 people wounded in the riots since late on Saturday.

The provincial government has deployed about 800 paramilitary rangers in the sensitive areas to help police control the situation, but intermittent gunfire continued in different parts of Karachi on Sunday afternoon.

Authorities shut down petrol stations across the port city, fearing further damage after mobs set fire to cars.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the provincial government to deal sternly with rioters, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan said.
IBN:
Seventeen people have so far been killed in various incidents of firing and violence during the last 24 hours in the city and the situation still could not be controlled.

The series of violence and terrorism, beginning from Banaras Chowk on Saturday evening, continues so far in various areas of the city.

Unknown persons torched 19 vehicles, six shops, one warehouse and a marriage hall in various areas of the metropolis.

Dead bodies and wounded persons were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Qatar Hospital.

Situation is still tense in various areas including Banaras Colony, Orangi Town and North Nazimabad.
THINGS WERE BETTER UNDER MUSHARRAF.

MUMBAI: NOT UNIQUE AND NOT A NEW PLATEAU IN THE ENEMY'S STRATEGY OR TACTICS

SOME PEOPLE ARGUE THAT:
"The Islamists showed a degree of organisation and co-ordination which are more akin to commando raids by an army than acts of terrorism."
THIS IS UTTER BULLSHIT.


THEY USED THE SAME TECHNIQUES HERE AS IN IRAQ AND ELSEWHERE.

BILL ROGGIO:
"A unique attack

The Mumbai attack differs from previous terror attacks launched by Islamic terror groups.

Al Qaeda and other terror groups have not used multiple assault teams to attack multiple targets simultaneously in a major city outside of a war zone.


Al Qaeda and allied groups have conducted complex military assaults on military and non-military targets in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Algeria, and Pakistan.

But these are countries that are actively in a state of war or emerging from a recent war, where resources and established fighting units already exist."
ROGGIO MAKES ONE HUGE ERROR:

HE IS USING A WESTERN DEFINITION OF WAR ZONE.

BUT, THE ENEMY ISN'T!

  • THE ENEMY DEFINES ALL AREAS NOT UNDER CONTROL OF MUSLIMS AS DAR EL HARB -
  • SO, MUMBAI AND LONDON AND MADRID ARE ALL IN A WAR ZONE, ACCORDING TO THE ENEMY
  • AND "FAIR TARGETS" FOR THIS ENEMY,
  • AS SUBJECT TO ANY TECHNIQUE THEY CHOOSE - AS FALLUJAH AND RAMADI AND SOUTHERN THAILAND AND THE MOROS AND CHECHNYA AND BESLAN PROVE.
THEREFORE; THIS ATTACK IS NOT UNIQUE AND REPRESENTS NO CHANGE, NO NEW PLATEAU FOR THE ENEMY.

THAT'S JUST A FACT.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT ... WELL, THAT'S EFFIN' TOO BAD.

REPEAT: EVEN ROGGIO ADMITS THE ENEMY HAS USED THESE VERY SAME TECHNIQUES IN MANY PLACES MANY TIMES BEFORE; ONLY HE ARGUES THEY WERE ALL USED IN "WAR ZONES".

MUMBAI AND ATOCHA AND LONDON AND NYC AND DC ARE ALL IN DAR EL HARB - THAT MEANS WAR ZONE TO THE ENEMY.
  • NOTE: ROGGIO SAYS THEY HAVE DONE THIS ONLY "where resources and established fighting units already exist."
  • THESE "FIGHTING UNITS" CAN BE ANYWHERE, AND BE "SLEEPERS" RIGHT NOW - HAVING CROSSED INTO THE USA YEARS AGO.
  • OR THEY COULD BE ON THEIR WAY OVER THE MEXICAN BORDER RIGHT NOW.
VIA GVDL:




Avinu Malkenu
Chanenu v'anenu
Ki ain banu ma'asim
Asseh imanu
Tsadaka v'chesed
Asseh imanu tsadaka vichesed v'hoshi'ainu

Our Father Our King
Be gracious unto us
And answer us
for we are wanting
in good deeds
Deal with us in charity
And save us
OUR FATHER, OUR KING

BACKGROUNDER: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN INDIA

HERE.

MORE APPEASEMENT FROM THE CORRUPT OLMERT

BBC:
The Israeli cabinet has approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners after an earlier promise from outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The prisoners, some of 11,000 held by Israel, will be freed in the West Bank.

An Israeli official said the move aimed to help bolster Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas's West Bank administration against Hamas, which rules in Gaza.

Israel freed 198 other prisoners in a similar move in August.

Mr Olmert made the gesture after a meeting with Mr Abbas on 17 November.

Israeli cabinet member Gideon Ezra was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying the aim to help Mr Abbas "earn the co-operation of the population" without harming Israel's security.

The decision also follows a temporary lifting of the blockade of Gaza earlier this month to allow deliveries of humanitarian aid into the territory.

But the prisoner release has also drawn criticism from some Israelis.

Trade and Industry Minister Eli Yishai, from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said it sent out the wrong message while an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 was still being held.
  • ISRAEL KEEPS GIVING THE ARABS STUFF AND KEEPS GETTING NOTHING IN RETURN.
  • THIS IS IDIOTIC.
  • AND DANGEROUS: IT MOTIVATES THE ENEMY TO CONTINUE THEIR ATTACKS.

GOOD NEWS: IRAN WANTS TO GIVE NUKE TECHNOLOGY AID TO ALL ARAB NATIONS!

FOX:

Iran's official news agency says Tehran has proposed building joint light-water nuclear power plants with neighboring Arab countries.

Sunday's IRNA report quotes the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh. He says Iran is ready to offer a proposal to Arab countries if they are interested.

THAT WILL MAKE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE. SURE.

  • THIS IS ANOTHER BIG REASON TO MILITARILY ATTACK IRAN'S NUKE ASSETS, AND SEND A MESSAGE: "YOU CAN'T EFF WITH US, AND IF ANYBODY ELSE DOES THEY SHOULD BE AWARE OF WHAT'S WAITING FOR THEM!"
  • YOU'D THINK THEY'D OF HAVE GOTTEN THE MESSAGE FROM THE IAF'S TREATMENT OF ASSAD'S NUKE ASSETS. GO FIGURE... I GUESS THEY'RE JUST AWFULLY DENSE PEOPLE.

THE NEW DEAL: EPIC FAIL

THE NEW DEAL WAS AWFUL.
The assumption is that the New Deal vanquished the Depression. Intelligent, informed people differ about why the Depression lasted so long. But people whose recipe for recovery today is another New Deal should remember that America's biggest industrial collapse occurred in 1937, eight years after the 1929 stock market crash and nearly five years into the New Deal. In 1939, after a decade of frantic federal spending -- President Herbert Hoover increased it more than 50 percent between 1929 and the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt -- unemployment was 17.2 percent.

"I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started," lamented Henry Morgenthau, FDR's Treasury secretary. Unemployment declined when America began selling materials to nations engaged in a war America would soon join.

In "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," Amity Shlaes of the Council on Foreign Relations and Bloomberg News argues that government policies, beyond the Federal Reserve's tight money, deepened and prolonged the Depression. The policies included encouraging strong unions and higher wages than lagging productivity justified, on the theory that workers' spending would be stimulative. Instead, corporate profits -- prerequisites for job-creating investments -- were excessively drained into labor expenses that left many workers priced out of the market.

In a 2004 paper, Harold L. Cole of the University of California at Los Angeles and Lee E. Ohanian of UCLA and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis argued that the Depression would have ended in 1936, rather than in 1943, were it not for policies that magnified the power of labor and encouraged the cartelization of industries.
YET OBAMA WANTS TO USE THE NEW DEAL AS HIS MODEL.

GO FIGURE.
  • WELL... IT DOES FIGURE:
  • SOCIALISM HAS ALWAYS FAILED - EVERYWHERE, YET LEFTIES PERSIST IN ADVOCATING IT.
  • JUST AS THEY PERSIST IN ADVOCATING AGW - THOUGH IT IS TOTAL BS.
  • AS THEY STILL SAY WE LOST IRAQ. WRONG.
  • AS THEY SAY BUSH TAX CUTS WENT MOSTLY TO THE RICH. WRONG.
THE ELECTION OF OBAMA REFLECTS NOT SO MUCH THE MAJORITY OF THE ELECTORATE'S DESIRE FOR CHANGE AS THE PREDILECTION MANY AMERICANS STILL HAVE FOR FANTASY IDEOLOGIES.

AND FANTASY IDEOLOGIES WON'T IMPROVE ANYTHING IN THE REAL WORLD.

(MORE ON FANTASY IDEOLOGIES HERE AND HERE.

"MUMBAI = EPIC FAIL", AND NOT AN ISI OPERATION


INSTAPUNDIT IS RIGHT:

MUMBAI — AN EPIC FAIL: Plan was to kill 5,000. Underperforming by 95%.

Posted at 9:48 am by Glenn Reynolds
THESE WERE NOT HIGHLY TRAINED (ISI TRAINED) PRO'S.
  • THEY WERE JIHADISTS.
  • THEY DID HORRIFIC DAMAGE IN THE SERVICE OF A HORRIFIC IDEOLOGY.
  • BUT THIS ACTION WAS MORE LIKE ATOCHA AND THE LONDON METRO BOMBINGS THAN NOT.
  • IT DIFFERED IN SELECTION OF WEAPONS. PERIOD.
  • SINCE THE ENEMY CONSIDERS THE ENTIRE WEST DAR EL HARB, WE ARE ALL SUBJECT TO THESE KINDS OF ATTACKS.
  • WE NEED TO REMAIN ON OUR UTMOST GUARD.
  • SADLY, OBAMA WILL RELAX OUR GUARD BY LESSENING OUR USE OF INTERCEPTS, RENDITION, HARSH INTERROGATION AND BY CLOSING GITMO.
  • ALSO, THE POOR 3-DAY RESPONSE BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES PROVES THAT NATIONS LIKE INDIA HAD BETTER GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER; THEIR POLICE RESPONSE SUCKED BIGTIME.
  • WHICH IS WHY SEVERAL OF THEIR LEADERS ARE RESIGNING.
  • MORE ON THE RESIGNATIONS HERE.

Canada still trying to protect Aboriginal hate speech

"Native Americans" are "First nations" in Canada and one of their leaders unleashed a classic antisemitic tirade a few years ago. Anybody else who did that in Canada would have been convicted of an offence but the Canadians have been straining their brains ever since to find some way of getting such a privileged person off the hook. They have managed so far but it is still going all the way through the judicial system.

"The second hate-crime trial for disgraced former national aboriginal leader David Ahenakew began yesterday in Saskatoon, and already there is speculation the high-profile case will eventually wind up at the Supreme Court.

The case began on Dec. 13, 2002, when Mr. Ahenakew, 75, told a Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter that Jews were a "disease" and Adolf Hitler was trying to "clean up the world" when he "fried" six million of the "guys" during the Second World War. The conversation was taped.

In 2005, the former head of the Assembly of First Nations was convicted of the rare crime of willfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group and fined $1,000. The original trial judge rejected arguments by Mr. Ahenakew's lawyer that his client considered the conversation he had with the reporter to be private and never intended for the comments to be published.

Mr. Ahenakew appealed the conviction and it was overturned in 2006. The Crown appealed that decision to the province's top court. Earlier this year, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal and unanimously ruled that while Mr. Ahenakew's remarks about Jews were "shocking, brutal and hurtful," that didn't mean he broke the law.

Source

Note that James Keegstra said similar things and his conviction was upheld by the Canadian Supreme court. But Keegstra is white. And Ernst Zuendel, also white, was deported for saying similar things.

The "out" that the Canadians are trying to manufacture for the privileged person is that what he said was more private than what the white guys said -- even though Mr Privilege in fact said it to a reporter interviewing him.


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St Andrew's day

I mentioned yesterday that St Andrew's day is Scotland's national day and am pleased to report that Anne and I did do something towards celebrating it. We had Forfar Bridies for our evening meal and listened to Scottish music both then and afterward. And the songs we listened to were the in the main the old favourites that are so deeply felt among the Scots -- Scottish Soldier, My Ain folk, Loch Lomond, Skye boat song, Scots wha hae etc. etc.

I have spoken a little lately of how conservatives have few inhibitions about group loyalties (such as patriotism) and mentioned the Eton Boating Song as an instance of how such loyalties can be deeply felt. And I also noted at the time that loyalty or a feeling of connectedness to your own group does not necessarily imply contempt for other groups or a wish to dominate them. And the Eton Boating Song exemplified that well. And so does the Scottish song I put up yesterday. Although it is called "Scotland the Brave", it again contains no aggression or hostility towards others. It just talks about Scottish people and the beloved Scottish landscape. But it is still capable of bringing tears to Scottish eyes. The feelings it conveys are intensely felt.

So I am going to press the point a little further by putting up the words of another beloved Scottish song: Scottish Soldier. I am sure that any Leftist would immediatey assume that such a song must be glorying in the crushing, dominating and extermination of other people. But it does none of that. As a song about a soldier it does indeed refer with pride to his distinguished military past but the song is not about that at all. Once again it is about his memories of his own country whilst serving aboad and how his dying wish to be buried in Scotland was honoured.

Scottish Soldier



1). There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
There was none bolder, with good broad shoulders,
He fought in many a fray and fought and won
He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But now he's sighing his heart is crying
To leave these green hills of Tyrol.

Chorus: Because these green hills are not highland hills
Or the Islands hills their not my lands hills,
As fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home.

2). And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier,
Who wandered far away and soldiered far away
Sees leaves are falling, and death is calling
And he will fade away, on that dark land
He called his piper, his trusty piper
And bade him sound away, a pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside but Scottish hillside
Not on these green hills of Tyrol

Chorus:

3). And now this soldier this Scottish soldier
Who wanders far no more, and soldiers far no more
Now on a hillside, a Scottish hillside
You'll see a piper play this soldier home
He's seen the glory, he's told the story
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious
But he will cease now, he is at peace now
Far from these green hills of Tyrol

Chorus:
A point I was waiting for people to bring up was the fact that, right up to JFK, Leftists were patriotic too -- almost crazily so in the case of people like Theodore Roosevelt and the followers of Hitler. And Scots too are a very socialistic people. So how come they are so patriotic?

I think Obama worship gives us the answer. Because Leftists are more emotional, their POTENTIAL for group loyalty generally and patriotism in particular is unusually great. But the more there are things that they hate in the world about them, the more they are inhibited from giving rein to any such feelings. But when something arises that they can give undivided loyalty to, they go overboard -- as we saw in Fascism, Nazism and now in Obama worship.

So the Leftist is in perpetual conflict: He WANTS connectedness but so many things in the world about him are unsatisfactory to him that he ends up as a rejectionist rather than as a participant. In the past, it was only "The Bosses" who were the focus of his ire and he could kid himself that most of the people around him were not responsible for the "injustices" that bother him so much. Now, however, when it appears to him that even "rednecks" and "NASCAR dads" are on the side of what upsets him, he is completely alienated. He once felt that "the workers" were on his side and appointed himself as a spokesman for them. That illusion is now gone and the whole country is on the wrong track from his viewpoint. So how wonderful for him it was when the Obamessiah came along to rescue him from that dreadful dilemma and offered the prospect of reshaping the country into his desired mould!

In the case of Scotland, however, the old illusions live on. Scots still hate "The bosses" but most of all they hate England. The song that comes nearest to being their national anthem is "The Flower of Scotland". It was written quite recently but is concerned with something that happened in the 14th century! So what is going on? The secret is hatred of England. The event referred to is the Scottish victory over the King of England, Edward II, at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Very few English people would today know anything about the North/South wars of the 13th and 14th century but the Scots have not forgotten. So again for a Scot the enemy is externalized and he can happily be patriotic. Hitler found the Jews useful in the same way. The English are Scotland's Jews.

In case I seem to be just blowing smoke in saying above that Leftists tend to see patriotism as implying hostility towards others, I might mention that there is a very large academic literature in psychology which assumes exactly that -- starting with the work of Adorno et al. (1950) on "ethnocentrism". I might also mention that my own survey research into exactly that question showed repeatedly exactly what I have asserted above -- that patriotism does NOT in general imply hostilty towards others. See e.g. here.

Reference: Adorno,T.W., Frenkel-Brunswik, E., Levinson, D.J. & Sanford, R.N. (1950). The authoritarian personality New York: Harper.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

MUSLIM JOURNALIST FROM DUBAI CRIES OUT AGAINST THE MURDERERS OF MUMBAI

WE NEED TO SEE AND HEAR MORE LIKE THIS: No Time to Hide for Muslims - Aijaz Zaka Syed (View from Dubai)
Watching the terror nightmare unfold in Mumbai over the past three days with me on television, my kids have repeatedly asked me: “Who are these terrorists and why are they doing this?” And every time I wished I could offer them a convincing answer.

What could I tell them? For one, I was equally clueless why these guys had taken over India’s financial and cultural capital and were targeting people who had nothing to do with them and had done nothing to harm them.

For two, I was too ashamed to tell them these guys were ostensibly Muslims and came from a country that was created in the name of Islam.

At work, while my colleagues went about covering the madness in Mumbai and laying out special pages with the images of the incredibly beautiful hotel, Taj, with its Islamic arches and domes, go up in smoke, I find it hard to look my colleagues in the eye.

And this happens all the time. Every time innocents are targeted in the name of Islam around the world, one can’t face one’s non-Muslim friends and colleagues. I feel like burying myself in the ground. Growing up in a religious family, one never thought one would see the day when being a Muslim could be a source of shame.

... How many innocents have to die in the name of Islam before Muslim leaders and countries take effective action to deal with the nuts, who are out to destroy us all with their nihilistic cult?

... And, pray, why is India increasingly being singled out for this savagery? What do they think this country is? A Hindu country or an anti-Muslim nation?

Do the ignorant dummies repeatedly being sent out on the so-called jihad know that this great country is home to the world’s largest Muslim population? Almost twice the size of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan! India’s greatest superstar is a Muslim, not to mention the countless achievers in other fields.

Why are our friends across the border bent on destroying the whole world with themselves? Is this what Islam and the noble Prophet teach and stand for?

It’s all very well for us to say Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism. We can go on deluding ourselves these psychopaths do not represent us.

However, the world finds it hard to accept this line of argument because it sees the extremists increasingly assert themselves and take the centre-stage while the mainstream Islam remains silent.

... And, as my friend says, only Muslims can solve this problem. Only Muslims can confront these anarchists in their midst.

Only they can get their faith freed from the clutches of extremism. This is no time to hide. It’s time to stand up and speak out. For the terrorists will continue to speak on our behalf, until we do not speak up. This is no time for silence. Enough is enough!
IT'S NOW OR NEVER...

MUSLIMS MUST STOP BLAMING OTHERS FOR THE ROT WITHIN THE CORE OF THEIR FAITH.

AND MUSLIMS WHO WANT TO BE A PART OF THE MODERN WORLD MUST EITHER ERADICATE THE IDEOLOGY OF THESE NIHILISTIC ISLAM, OR ERADICATE ITS PRACTITIONERS.

MORE HERE VIA GLENN - WHOSE LINK IS BAD.

OPEC: NOT CUTTING OIL PRODUCTION

NO CUTS - FOR NOW.

GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS ARE GOING UP ON MONDAY - BIGTIME...

CITIZEN CONSUMERS DOING THEIR PART: BLACK FRIDAY SALES UP OVER LAST YEAR!


NYTIMES/AP:
The nation's retailers got a much-needed sales boost during Black Friday's traditional shopathon as consumers spent more money than they did last year.

According to preliminary data released Saturday, sales on the day after Thanksgiving rose to $10.61 billion.

That's up almost 3 percent from last year's sales of $10.3 billion.

The preliminary figures are from ShopperTrak RCT Corp., a Chicago-based research firm that tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets.
CONSUMERISM AND CONSUMER SPENDING ARE GREAT THINGS - FOR CONSUMERS AND PRODUCERS.

REMEMBER: WHEN PEOPLE BUY STUFF, THEY'RE USUALLY BUYING THINGS THE WANT, THINGS THEY THINK ARE GOOD FOR THEM

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL THE STUFF WE BUY GOODS!

GLOBAL JIHAD IN NIGERIA: NEARLY 400 DEAD

AFP:
Hundreds of people were killed in the central Nigerian city of Jos when Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election, witnesses said Saturday.

"I was at the central mosque this afternoon and I counted 378 dead bodies but just as I was about to leave, 3 more bodies were brought, a correspondent for Radio France Internationale in Jos, Aminu Manu, told AFP.

"Hundreds of people have been killed in the last two days since the riots started. Remains of burnt bodies litter some parts of the town; it is so terrible," Christian clergyman Yakumu Pam said.

Local Radio Plateau said the governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, had placed four districts of the city placed under a curfew and ordered police to fire on anyone who broke it following the clashes on Friday.

Aminu Manu said incidents of violence were still being reported in the city Saturday.

"So far over 10,000 people have been displaced from their homes and are now seeking refuge in churches, mosques and army and police barracks," a Nigerian Red Cross official in Jos said.
REUTERS:

Authorities imposed a night-time curfew on the capital of the central Plateau state and soldiers deployed on the streets after rival gangs burned churches, mosques and homes in a dispute triggered by a local election.

The unrest is the most serious of its kind in Africa's most populous nation, roughly equally split between Christians and Muslims, since President Umaru Yar'Adua took power in May 2007.

"Over 20 people died. Churches and mosques and 100 houses were burned down," a senior Red Cross official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. He said more than 300 people were injured.

Youths with machetes hacked to death a policeman and burned tires in one part of the city, sending plumes of thick black smoke into the air, witnesses said.

"All law-abiding citizens are assured that government is on top of the situation and should go about their normal lives," Jonah Jang, governor of Plateau state of which Jos is the capital, said in a broadcast.

NEWS WITH BACKGROUND HERE:

Nigeria: Muslims Protesting Election Loss Riot, Hack Police Officer to Death With Machetes, Torch Churches....Christians Respond by Burning Down Mosques....

Nigeria

I know we're supposed to turn the other cheek, but when you've been attacked repeatedly by Muslim goon squads, you have the right to defend yourself.....

At least 20 people, including one policeman, have been killed in riots in the Nigerian city of Jos after local elections, aid workers say.

A local journalist told the BBC that Muslim opposition supporters had gone on the rampage when they heard their candidate to head the council had lost.

This sparked unrest in the religiously divided city, with Christians burning mosques and Muslims burning churches.

MUMBAI, NIGERIA, GAZA... HMMMM... WHAT DO ALL THESE HAVE IN COMMON?

TACTICS? NOT ALWAYS.

GOAL?

YES. IT'S GLOBAL JIHAD, STUPID

*******UPDATE: BBC:

The mostly Christian-backed governing party, the People's Democratic Party, was declared to have won the state elections in Plateau state, of which Jos is the capital city.

The result was contested by the opposition All Nigeria People's Party, which has support from Muslims.

Violence started on Thursday night as groups of angry youths burnt tyres on the roads over reports of election rigging.

Bodies from the Muslim Hausa community were brought into the central mosque compound.

The local imam, Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, said more than 300 dead bodies were brought there on Saturday alone.

Those killed in the Christian community would probably be taken to the city morgue, raising the possibility that the total death toll could be much higher.

Police spokesman Bala Kassim said there were "many dead," but couldn't cite a firm number.

Despite the overnight curfew, groups in some areas took to the streets again as soon as police patrols had passed by.

Troubled past

In 2001, more than 1,000 people died in religious clashes in the city, situated in Nigeria's fertile "middle belt" that separates the Muslim north from the predominantly Christian south.

Gateway has more.

THE WAL-MART TRAMPLING TRAGEDY; TYPICALLY/PREDICTABLY, THE NYTIMES BLAMES CAPITALISM NOT PERPS

NYTIMES:

... we may come to remember scenes like the one at a Long Island Wal-Mart in the dawn after Thanksgiving, when 200 frantic shoppers trampled to death an employee who stood between them and the bargains within.

It was a tragedy, yet it did not feel like an accident. All those people were there, lined up in the cold and darkness, because of sophisticated marketing forces that have produced this day now called Black Friday. They were engaging in early-morning shopping as contact sport.

American business has long excelled at creating a sense of shortage amid abundance, an anxiety that one must act now or miss out.

This year, that anxiety comes with special intensity for everyone involved — for shoppers, fully cognizant of the immense strains on the economy, which has made bargains more crucial than ever...
AS A LIB HEAD-FAKE THE NYTIMES EVEN USES A PHOTO OF WHITE PEOPLE FROM ELK CITY OKLAHOMA TO ILLUSTRATE THE STORY.

NYTIMES PHOTO:
REAL PHOTO:
HEAD-FAKE; YOU ASK!?!? YEAH. HERE'S WHY:
  • THIS IS THE SAME KIND OF LIBERAL BULLSHIT WE HEARD IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES WHICH BLAMED GANG CRIME ON POVERTY - INSTEAD OF THE PERPS.
  • AND WHICH BLAMES ISRAEL OR FIRST WORLD'S TREATMENT OF THE THIRD FOR JIHADO-TERRORISM.
  • IT'S BULLSHIT.
  • IT SCAPEGOATS THE PERPS.
  • IN TYPICAL LIB FASHION, IT TOSSES ASIDE ANY PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY.
  • THE ARTICLE FAILS TO MENTION EVEN ONCE THE MOB WAS NEARLY ENTIRELY BLACK, AND THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS NASTY.
[THIS IS NOT RACIST. IT IS A CULTURAL COMMENT WHICH ANYONE WHO LIVES IN NYC KNOWS IS AS TRUE AS IT IS UN-PC. MANY YOUNG BLACKS ARE - GENERALLY REPEAT GENERALLY - RUDER AND PUSHIER THAN MOST OTHER PEOPLE; WHEN YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY CAR AND IF YOU'RE WHITE YOU'D BETTER NOT EVEN LOOK AT A YOUNG BLACK MAN. THEY'RE MEAN AND TOUGH - OR WANT TO SEEM THAT WAY - AND THEY WILL GET VERY TESTY VERY QUICKLY. THAT'S JUST A FACT. SORRY. THE TRAMPLERS/MURDERERS WERE BLACK - AND THEY PROBABLY ALL VOTED FOR OBAMA. FACTS THE NYTIMES LEFT OUT OF THEIR COVERAGE - AND EVEN OBFUSCATED BY USING A PHOTO OF WHITE IN OKLAHOMA! ]

BOTTOM-LINE: THE LIB NYTIMES IGNORES THE UNDERLYING CULTURE OF THE PERPS AND INSTEAD BLAMES THE WHOLE CULTURE, FREE ENTERPRISE AND THE ECONOMY AT LARGE.

THEY TURN A MOB'S MEANNESS INTO LEFT-WING PROPAGANDA. SCUM.

HERE'S A VIDEO OF THE VICTIM AS POLICE TRY TO BRING HIM BACK TO LIFE...

THIS MAN WAS A VICTIM OF A BLACK MOB - NOT WAL-MART OR FREE ENTERPRISE.

MUMBAI: JUST ANOTHER BATTLE IN WW4... JUST ANOTHER JIHADOTERROR ATTACK AGAINST DAR EL HARB

A BREATHLESS INSTAPUNDIT ROUND-UP ON MUMBAI:

SOMETHING DIFFERENT: Bill Roggio on the Mumbai attacks. “The Mumbai attack is something different. Foreign assault teams that likely trained and originated from outside the country infiltrated a major city to conduct multiple attacks on carefully chosen targets. The primary weapon was the gunman, not the suicide bomber. The attack itself has paralyzed a city of 18 million. And two days after the attack began, Indian forces are still working to root out the terror teams.” If lots of ordinary people in the hotels had been armed, it probably wouldn’t have worked as well . . . . (Via Jules Crittenden, who has much more).

UPDATE: Some further analysis. “Since the period of suicide terror, terror organizations have upgraded to include paramilitary fighting units, as opposed to singular acts of terror. . . . The events taking place in Mumbai must act as a warning and turning point in the world’s treatment of the local terror armies that base themselves in various parts of the world, and threaten the world’s stability as a whole.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Related item here.

MORE: Reader Tom Holsinger emails: “This was not an Al Qaeda operation. This was planned and conducted by Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence Agency.” Well, possibly. Stay tuned.

WRONG.
  • THE MUMBAI ATTACKERS DID NOT USE NEW TACTICS;
  • THEY'VE USED THESE BEFORE - FREQUENTLY IN IRAQ,
  • AND SPORADICALLY ELSEWHERE - THE MOROS, THAILAND, MOROCCO, THE HOLY LAND, PAKISTAN, KENYA, SOMALIA, ETC.
  • AND SINCE MUSLIMS CONSIDER THE WHOLE NON-MUSLIM WORLD DAR EL HARB,
  • IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE THAT THEY USE THEM OUTSIDE OF WHAT NON-MUSLIMS TRADITIONALLY CALL A WAR-ZONE.
THOSE WHO SEE THIS AS A "BREAKTHROUGH ATTACK" IN TERMS OF TACTICS HAVE MISUNDERESTIMATED THE ENEMY AND/OR PAID TOO LITTLE ATTENTION TO THEIR ATTACKS AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS - ESPECIALLY IN NON-WHITE/NON-WESTERN NATIONS.

AS I WROTE YESTERDAY:
... [MANY] QUESTION WHETHER AL QAEDA IS INVOLVED, AS IF IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE: " ... probably not a cell or group linked to Al Qaeda." [NYTIMES]
  • IT DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF THEY WERE "LINKED" TO AL QAEDA OR NOT.
  • IT MATTERS NOT ONE WHIT WHETHER THIS ATTACK IN MUMBAI WAS PERPETRATED BY ONE JIHADOTERROR GROUP OR ANOTHER.
  • THERE ARE MANY JIHADOTERROR GROUPS - ALL OVER THE WORLD, FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO MOROCCO.
  • WHAT LINKS THEM ISN'T A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION, BUT AN IDEOLOGY WHICH IS PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE:
  • ISLAM.
WE MUST RETALIATE ACCORDINGLY.
*******UPDATE: Mark Steyn agrees with me ENITELY:
... we’re in danger of missing the forest for the trees.

The forest is the ideology.

It’s the ideology that determines whether you can find enough young hotshot guys in the neighborhood willing to strap on a suicide belt or (rather more promising as a long-term career) at least grab an AK and shoot up a hotel lobby.

Or, if active terrorists are a bit thin on the ground, whether you can count at least on some degree of broader support on the ground.

You’re sitting in some distant foreign capital but you’re minded to pull off a Bombay-style operation in, say, Amsterdam or Manchester or Toronto. Where would you start? Easy. You know the radical mosques, and the other ideological-front organizations. You’ve already made landfall.


It’s missing the point to get into debates about whether this is the “Deccan Mujahideen” or the ISI or al-Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taiba.

That’s a reductive argument. It could be all or none of them.

The ideology has been so successfully seeded around the world that nobody needs a memo from corporate HQ to act: There are so many of these subgroups and individuals that they intersect across the planet in a million different ways.

It’s not the Cold War, with a small network of deep sleepers being directly controlled by Moscow.

There are no membership cards, only an ideology.

That’s what has radicalized hitherto moderate Muslim communities from Indonesia to the Central Asian stans to Yorkshire, and coopted what started out as more or less conventional nationalist struggles in the Caucasus and the Balkans into mere tentacles of the global jihad.
RTWT!

BTW: I beat the great Steyn to the punch, first posting this point Friday, HERE.

Unprecedented cold weather endangers sea turtles; many being rescued

Recent cold weather caught sea turtles off-guard before they could reach warmer Gulf Stream waters, and that has led to nearly 25 rescues along the North Carolina coast in the past week. Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center on Topsail Island has rescued numerous cold-stunned sea turtles since Thursday, said Jean Beasley, the hospital's executive director. "We're overwhelmed, this has never happened before -- at least not since the turtle hospital has been in existence," Beasley said. "We had 11 turtles come in last Thursday, 12 on Saturday and six (Sunday). We're frantically trying to make more space."

"Cold weather started it all -- with the precipitous drop in temperature, these guys can't regulate their body temperature," volunteer Karen Sota said, adding that most have been green turtles around 2 years old. There are also a few loggerheads.

Beasley expects that there could be more turtles in trouble. People can help by looking for turtles in the shallow waters -- particularly in marsh grasses, where they aren't easily spotted. Beasley said that turtles should be brought to a sheltered place and that they need to slowly warm up. "Those caught in shallow water are going to be in real trouble because they have no ability to produce any body heat," she said. "We've had some who came in with body temperatures in the 30s ... Normally they need to have body temperatures over 70."

Sota recommends taking any found turtles home and putting them on a towel in a utility room. "Do not put it in warm water," she said. "We're warming them up slowly, giving a course of antibiotics and trying to get them to eat."

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Amazing Japanese Prime Minister

This gives me new respect for Japan. I don't agree with what he said but am delighted that someone in his position felt free to say it.

"He has ridiculed doctors, mocked the mentally ill and made light of wartime atrocities, but this time Taro Aso may have taken things too far: the Prime Minister of the world's fastest-ageing nation has condemned Japan's elderly as a bunch of "hobbling malingerers".

Having shattered a sacred taboo, the nationalist Mr Aso, who is 68, added: "I pay my taxes, so why should I pay money for people who laze around eating and drinking and never do anything?"

Members of Mr Aso's own party told The Times that the attack on seniority and ill-health was "completely irresponsible" in a country where one in five voters is over 70 years old, where the healthcare system is in crisis and a general election is looming. "He seems to be saying that old people should feel guilty for visiting the doctor," said one ruling coalition MP. "He must have said it without realising how many people that would upset."

Others believe that the comments were entirely predictable, given Mr Aso's previous form. His attack on old people for their lack of exercise and for "always tottering off to the doctor" was blurted out during a ministerial meeting on the economic crisis and marks probably the most spectacular gaffe of a political career strewn with increasingly baffling clangers.

Doctors, he said recently, tended to lack common sense; Japan, he declared on another occasion, should make itself attractive to "rich Jews". He was once made to apologise for a joke about people suffering from Alzheimer's, and quipped to victims of a flood that it was lucky for everyone that the city nearby had not been hit.

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MUMBAI DEATH TOLL NOW 195 AND LIKELY TO RISE

AP.

IT'LL BE 200+ IN TWO DAYS. CIVILIANS. OUTSIDE OF ANY WAR ZONE.

IF THEY HAD BEEN US SOLDIERS IN IRAQ THEN THE LIBS WOULD BE CALLING FOR US TO RETREAT.

BUT RETREAT FROM THE ENEMY IN INDIA- AND IRAQ AND EVERYWHERE ELSE - WOULD BE EXACTLY THE WRONG THING TO DO.

WE NEED TO STEP UP BOTH OUR KINETIC AND DIPLOMATIC ATTACKS ON THE ALL ELEMENTS WITHIN THE MUSLIM WORLD WHICH EITHER PROMULGATE OR ABET THE EVIL-DOERS.

MORE HERE.

AND HERE.

MORE HERE, TOO. HERE AS WELL.

SEE THIS, TOO.

Friday, November 28, 2008

GORBY: OBAMA IS THE AMERICAN GORBACHEV

YUP. HE SAID THAT.

AND HE'S RIGHT - IN A WAY:

LIKE GORBY, OBAMA WILL TRY ANYTHING TO SAVE AND EXPAND SOCIALISM IN AMERICA.

REMEMBER: GORBY WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM, NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION.

I BETCHYA THIS WEEKEND'S RETAIL SALES NUMBERS ARE GONNA BE GREAT ...

AND THAT THE STOCK MARKET PICKS UP ANOTHER 900 POINTS NEXT WEEK...

WOULDN'T IT BE WILD IF THE DJIA IS 10,000 BY 1/20/09!

ANTI-ZIONIST SAMANTHA POWER IS BACK WORKING FOR OBAMA

VIA HOT AIR.

SHE'S BACK.

SHE HATES ISRAEL. JUST LIKE OBAMA AND SCOWCROFT AND ZBIG AND BAKER AND WRIGHT AND AYERS AND FARRAKHAN.

MORE FROM FOX:

A former adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign who once called Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster" is now working on the transition team for the agency that Clinton may lead.

State Department officials said Friday that Samantha Power is among foreign policy experts the president-elect's office selected to help the incoming administration prepare for Clinton's anticipated nomination as secretary of state.

The Obama transition team's Web site includes Power's name as one of 14 members of the "Agency Review Team" for the State Department.

During the Democratic primary campaign, Power called Clinton "a monster" in an interview. She then resigned, calling her remarks inexcusable and contradictory to her admiration for Clinton.

THIS MEANS HILARY IS OFF THE LIST - OR THAT SHE IS VIRTUALLY GUARANTEED TO QUIT OR GET FIRED, UNLESS SHE SWAPS SPIT WITH SAMANTHA AND SUHA - AND MICHELLE OBAMA SO-TO-SPEAK.

HERE'S SAMANTHA IN HER OWN WORDS:



MORE ON POWER HERE - WHERE SHE BASICALLY SAYS SHE'S FOR IMPOSING A SOLUTION ON ISRAEL AND INSERTING US TROOPS TO ENFORCE IT, AND ALSO FOR SUSPENDING AID TO ISRAEL AND GIVING IT TO FATAH, EVEN IF IT PISSES OF THE "ISRAEL LOBBY" AND A LOT OF RICH JOOOOOOOZE!

*******UPDATE: GATEWAY CONCURS.

MAJOR SIGN THE ECONOMY IS READY TO REBOUND - BIGTIME: NON-STOP DITECH MORTGAGE COMMERICALS!

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

DITECH IS AT IT AGAIN!



CAN COUNTRYWIDE BE FAR BEHIND!?

MUMBAI IS MERELY GLOBAL JIHAD: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS STEYN BY A DAY

MARK STEYN TODAY:
All jihad is local: If rockets are fired at Israel, it's a failure to settle the Palestinian question. If an NHS doctor drives a flaming Cherokee into the check-in desk at Glasgow Airport, it must be Tony Blair's foreign policy. The Jerusalem Post's headline writer poses the question:

Homegrown Terror Or International Jihad?

False choice. The answer is: Homegrown terror in the service of international jihad. Clearly, India has had a Muslim problem to one degree or another in the 60 years since partition, but increasingly those locally driven grievances have been absorbed within the global pan-Islamic ideology.
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS YESTERDAY:
MOST LIBS JUST DON'T GET IT; THEY DON'T REALIZE WW4 IS THE WAR OF CIVILIZATION AGAINST GLOBAL JIHAD.

SOME MUMBAI HEADLINES PROVE IT ONCE AGAIN; THE NYTIMES:
Sophisticated Attacks, but Al Qaeda Link Disputed

By ALAN COWELL and MARK McDONALD 30 minutes ago

Experts said that they had never heard of the group that claimed responsibility for the Mumbai attacks and that it was probably not a cell or group linked to Al Qaeda.

THEY QUESTION WHETHER AL QAEDA IS INVOLVED AS IF IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE: " ... probably not a cell or group linked to Al Qaeda."
  • IT DOES NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF THEY WERE "LINKED" TO AL QAEDA OR NOT.
  • IT MATTERS NOT ONE WHIT WHETHER THIS ATTACK IN MUMBAI WAS PERPETRATED BY ONE JIHADOTERROR GROUP OR ANOTHER.
  • THERE ARE MANY JIHADOTERROR GROUPS - ALL OVER THE WORLD, FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO MOROCCO.
  • WHAT LINKS THEM ISN'T A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION, BUT AN IDEOLOGY WHICH IS PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE:
  • ISLAM.
REGULAR READERS KNOW THAT WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

WE DON'T FOLLOW THE PACK - WE LEAD.

SPREAD THE WORD. BLOGROLL US.

DID THE MUMBAI TERRORISTS HAVE TO BE STATE-TRAINED? NOPE...

The Mumbai terrorists didn't do anything which wasn't already done by other jihadists in Fallujah or Ramadi or so many other towns they took over using TERROR. So I think they might have easily been the enemy's Iraqi War vets, and not jihadist trained by rogues within Pakistan's ISI.

More importantly, I think hypothesizing about the terrorist's organization and organizational means is a total distraction.

I think the key to winning the WAR is demolishing the ideology which motivates them to attack.

That is ISLAM.

I think there are a few non-military means of attacking that ideology we should use:

1 - ON CLASSICALLY LIBERAL AND STRICTLY HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS we can and should isolate all nations which permit islamo-misogyny. Kick them out of every Western club: the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, GATT/WTO. We should no more accept islamo-misogyny than accept slavery based on race.

Islamo-misogyny in the Muslim home is the matrix in which jihadism grows; it's the how they turn children into jihadis; it teaches them that a class of humans - women in their own family - are mere chattel. This is one of the first lessons they learn. They first learn to dehumanize the women in their family and then the men outside their tribe. After that they learn that the men and women outside their religion are - in their minds - justifiably targets of genocide.

As long as Muslim children learn islamo-misogyny Muslim adults will commit terror.

2 - We should stop buying anything from these nations. YES; ANYTHING -INCLUDING OIL. This means we have to build nuclear and coal power plants and wind farms etc. And it means we have to extract all the oil we can from ALL domestic sources. ALL - including ANWR.

3 - We need to demand that RELIGIOUS FREEDOM is available to all humans everywhere, and shun all nations which don't allow religious freedom. AND THIS MEANS SAUDI ARABIA, TOO.

4 - Military counter-attacks have a place to - wee MUST stay on the offensive and be willing to use ANY weapon in our arsenal - and we have to make the enemy realize we will. ALL WEAPONS - AND HARSH/SEVERE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES.

This will give us a better deterrent with many of them - especially the state sponsors who have some degree of "plausible deniability". For example, we have to tell Pakistan that if they cannot control the FATA that we shall consider it non-territorial and feel free to attack at will. (As it stands now, the Pakistanis get to have their cake and eat it, too: arguing we cannot have free-range in their territory, but then failing to police it themselves).

This strategy could actually win WW4.

THE USA NEEDS A "CAR MAX" FOR THE HOUSING INDUSTRY

CAR MAX:
Corporate Profile

CarMax, a FORTUNE 500 company, and one of the FORTUNE 2008 "100 Best Companies to Work For," is the nation's largest retailer of used cars. Headquartered in Richmond, Va., CarMax currently operates 99 used car superstores in 46 markets. The unique CarMax consumer offer provides our customers the opportunity to shop for vehicles the way they shop for items at other national retailers, and it is structured around four customer benefits: low, no-haggle prices; a broad selection; high quality vehicles; and a customer-friendly sales process. During the fiscal year ended February 29, 2008, the company retailed 377,244 used vehicles and sold 222,406 wholesale vehicles at its in-store auctions.
THE HOME-INDUSTRY NEEDS THIS RETAIL APPROACH APPLIED TO THE DEPRESSED HOME INDUSTRY:

A LARGE RETAILER WHO CAN BUY A LARGE PORTFOLIO OF HOMES AT LARGE DISCOUNTS AND THEN SELLING THEM AT BARGAIN PRICES.

ONE STOP SHOPPING.

WHY NOT WAL-MART!?

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BUYING AND SELLING HOMES IS ONE OF THE LEAST CENTRALIZED MARKETS IN THE NATION.

AND I DON'T MEAN WE NEED ANOTHER NATIONAL AGENCY - LIKE RE-MAX.

WE NEED AN OUTFIT THAT WILL SCOOP UP THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HOMES FROM BANKS AND THEN RE-SELL THEM. A WHOLESALE BUYER OF HOMES AND A RETAILER OF THEM.

AND IT SHOULD BE A PRIVATE COMPANY OR COMPANIES, NOT THE GOVERNMENT.

MORE PROOF AGW IS BS: CO2 AT ITS HIGHEST BUT TEMPS AT THEIR LOWEST

Greenhouse gases hit record levels last year
Gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in the atmosphere last year, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.

Concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) touched new highs after more steady rises in 2007, and methane had its largest annual increase in a decade, the World Meteorological Organization said.

"The major greenhouse gases -- CO2, methane and N2O -- have all reached new highs in 2007. Two of them, CO2 and N20, are increasing steadily and there is no sign of leveling off of those two gases," WMO expert Geir Braathen told a news briefing. He said it was too early to tell if methane would keep rising.
WE FIRST REPORTED THIS HERE.

DESPITE ALL THIS CO2, THE EARTH IS COOOOOOOOOLER THAN IT HAS BEEN IN A LONG TIME:

GTA Shivers Through Coldest Day Of The Fall
Friday November 21, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff

Talk about a frosty Friday.

Residents in the GTA woke up to the coldest day of the season, with temperatures below freezing and wind chills touching the -18 mark. And it didn't get any better during the day.

October was coldest for five years
DUNDEE experienced its coldest October in five years, the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie said yesterday.
October’s average air temperature reached 14.5C, compared to the usual long-term average of 9.2C.

On the coldest day of the month, the 30th, temperatures plunged to –5C. The warmest days were recorded at 17C on the October 10 and 12.

A spokesman from the SCRI said last month saw the lowest air mean temperature since 1994 resulting in the coldest October since 2003.
East records coldest October in 15 years
PATRICK LOGUE

It was the coldest October in 15 years in the East of the country, according to figures released by Met Éireann today.

Average air temperatures were one degree below normal everywhere after a severe cold spell at the end of the month. October was the first month with below normal average temperatures at all stations since October 2004.

There were between 12 and 17 ground frosts recorded in some inland areas during the month, more than twice the normal amount for October, with severe ground frost in places at the end of the month.

Dublin Airport’s minimum air temperature of -1.3 degrees C on the 28th was its lowest for October since 1948.
Anchorage suffers one of coldest Octobers ever
Anchorage Daily News

Anchorage has logged the eighth coldest October on record, the National Weather Service said today.

With an average temperature of 29.7 degrees, October landed a spot in history as one of the 10 coldest out of the roughly 90 years since records have been kept in Anchorage.

The coldest October on record was in 1996, with an average temperature of 25.5 degrees. The 10th coldest was in 1965, with an average temperature of 30.7 degrees.
Coldest October weather since 1974
by ROSS MCGUINNESS - Wednesday, October 29, 2008
We may be getting used to stories about weird weather, but yesterday was one of the weirdest October days in living memory.
Autumn blizzards give us the coldest October day since 1934
Thursday, 30 October 2008
From bah to to burrr: Sheep huddle together in north Antrim

Snowfall and plummeting temperatures have brought the coldest October temperatures to Northern Ireland since 1934. Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down and Tyrone were among the worst hit areas yesterday with falling snow making untreated roads close to impassable.

A Met Office spokeswoman said: “These are the lowest (October) daytime high temperatures since 1934.”

Snow
Grinding: Traffic backs up on the A40 in Oxfordshire

Snow came down in London - the first October dusting since 1934 - and Birmingham, Coventry and Nottingham got a white covering too.

There was also a hefty sprinkling in Hertfordshire.

Thousands of homes in the south and east were left without power after the cold snap damaged cables.
Coldest October night for 11 years
WINTER showed its face in west and north Wiltshire this week bringing with it hail showers, thunderstorms and freezing temperatures.

Despite the clocks only going back an hour on Sunday, Tuesday night saw the lowest temperatures in the area for 11 years.

Amateur weatherman Geoff Witts, who lives in Steeple Ashton, said the mercury dropped to -3 degrees Centigrade overnight on Tuesday, the lowest since the -4.5 degrees Centigrade recorded in 1997.

In addition, it looks as though temperatures for the whole of October will be below average.

The coldest October night Mr Witts has recorded was in 1955, when the temperature plunged to -7.8 degrees Centigrade.
AGW IS BS.

CARBON TAXES, CAP&TRADE SCHEMES, AND CARBON SWAPPING ETC ARE MORE DANGEROUS TO OUR HEALTH THAN CO2!

DON'T MISUNDERESTIMATE OBAMA

Commentators and pundits seem to think that Barack Hussein Obama is tilting to the center, as he fills up his administration with recycled inside-the-beltway hacks from the Clinton, Carter (and Reagan!) administrations.

Others are laughing when Obama says that he personally is the change that he promised.

Don't be fooled. Professor Jacobson is closer to the mark when he observes that these moves have the appearance of a classic city ball head fake.

To a still undefined extent, Obama's pose as a radical leftist was a disguise concealing his inner "empty suit" identity. But concealed within that "empty suit" is a narcissistic, ruthless Chicago politician who has repeatedly shown that he will stop at nothing.

If he can solve the constitutional "emoluments" problem putting HRC in charge of State removes her from an independent power-base in the Senate. And if she does not execute policy the way BHO likes, she's gone, and back out in the cold. Same with the others.

Don't misunderestimate the man.

I think he is going to use the window-dressing provided by Volcker, HRC, Gates, Geithner and the other inside-the-beltway front men to conceal an attempt to remake the United States into a euroweenie, anti-Christian, anti-Western socialist plaything for the Mullahs, the jihadis, and the Bolivarian Revolucionaries to toy with.

Without making any drastic moves himself, he will allow the radical leftists in the Congress to move to take away your guns, shut down conservative talk radio, guarantee government-funded abortions in even Catholic hospitals, dismantle the nascent missile defense, abandon our allies, and overturn significant parts of the Patriot Act.

He will try to slow all of this down so that it doesn't cause a 1994-style backlash in 2010. But the angry left will force their representatives in Congress to move faster.

Just watch.

IF YOU WANNA SAVE THE WORLD'S ECONOMY, THEN SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!

Because we're the freest economy in the whole world, because we are both prosperous and have the lowest trade barriers, the entire world's economy depends on USA consumption; if we consume less then they sell less and the world goes into a recession.

That's why all we have to do to get the world's economy moving again is BUY BUY BUY!

Go out and buy anything you think is GOOD FOR YOU TO HAVE!

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL THE STUFF YOU BUY "GOODS", ANYWAY!!?!?

It's a buyer's market out there: prices are cheap.

Take advantage of the seller's weakness AND BUY BUY BUY!

As Glenn says, "It’s up to the Retail Support Brigades, once again!"

MUMBAI'S CHABAD HOSTAGES WERE KILLED

Indian commandos found two bodies at Mumbai's Chabad center on Friday which appear to be of hostages, the country's National Security Guards chief said.

Chabad first raised the alarm Wednesday night, when the city-wide attacks began, saying it had failed to make contact with Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his Israeli wife, Rivki. At least 143 people have been killed and hundreds others wounded in the attacks, which appeared to target locations popular with foreigners.

Israel's ambassador to India, Mark Sofer, told Sky News on Friday evening that it was unclear how people had been inside the building when the siege began.

J.K. Dutt also told Indian television that the commandos had killed two militants in operations at the center.

"We have neutralised two terrorists," Dutt said. "Along with that we have also found two bodies. Those bodies appear to be of hostages."

The Israeli Orthodox rescue service ZAKA also said Friday that staff it had sent to Mumbai to help at the siege believed that hostages in the center had died.

"Apparently the hostages did not remain alive," the Zaka service said in a brief statement quoting its staff in Mumbai. It did identify the hostages nor say how many may have died. A rabbi and his wife had been believed to be held hostage.
*******UPDATE: JPOST: Five hostages in Mumbai's Chabad House have been killed, an Israeli diplomat in India was quoted by Reuters as saying Friday afternoon.

*******UPDATE: CNN:
The bodies of five hostages have been found at a Jewish center in Mumbai, according to reports, but fighting still rages at a hotel in the city two days after terrorists launched a series of deadly attacks. ... Video Watch chaos at Jewish center »
IT'S TIME TO RETALIATE TEN-FOLD AGAINST ALL STATE AND NON-STATE ELEMENTS.

IOW: IT'S TIME TO END "PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY" OF THE ENEMY.

Australia. An old-fashioned responsible father: Good to see

Boy, 5, made to walk two-and-a-half hours to school



A NORTHERN TERRITORY man has been making his five-year-old son walk two-and-a-half hours to school every day, after he was kicked off the school bus. When Jack Burt confessed that he'd been banned for five days for hitting the bus driver in the head with an apple core, dad Sam thought he should learn the hard way. He and Jack last week were getting up at 5.10am for the dusty 13km-hike from the Darwin rural area of Herbert, all the way to Humpty Doo. Mr Burt also took the wheels off Jack's bike so he couldn't be tempted to ride to school.

At the end of the old-fashioned punishment, Mr Burt, 38, took out a public notice in the Northern Territory News. "Jack Burt and his dad wish to thank all the kind people who stopped to offer them lifts in the past week," the ad read. "It's good to see a number of good people in the community. Jack hopes to be allowed back on the bus on Monday."

But in the battle of wills between tall and short, the smart money's on Jack. "Shame it didn't work," Mr Burt told the Northern Territory News. "He got back on the bus Monday, and within three stops he was in trouble again. I couldn't believe it. "I don't understand - he's good at school, he gets awards all the time."

However, a breakthrough might be in sight. When Jack this week said he didn't mind walking - because it made him strong for fighting - he was told if he started fighting he might have to walk home in the afternoons too. Jack's eyes got a little teary. He said he might not get home before dark. Mr Burt told him not to worry - they'd leave the key out for him.

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Obama supporters were ignoramuses

Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly.

The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President-Elect Joe Biden. The telephone survey of 512 Obama voters nationwide was conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points. The survey was commissioned by John Ziegler, author of The Death of Free Speech, producer of the recently released film "Blocking the Path to 9/11" and producer of the upcoming documentary film, Media Malpractice...How Obama Got Elected.

"After I interviewed Obama voters on Election Day for my documentary, I had a pretty low opinion of what most of them had picked up from the media coverage of the campaign, but this poll really proves beyond any doubt the stunning level of malpractice on the part of the media in not educating the Obama portion of the voting populace," said Ziegler.

Ninety-four percent of Obama voters correctly identified Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter, 86% correctly identified Palin as the candidate associated with a $150,000 wardrobe purchased by her political party, and 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned. When asked which candidate said they could "see Russia from their house," 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of "none" or "Palin" was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin.

Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden -- 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.

Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.

In addition to questions regarding statements and scandals associated with the campaigns, the 12-question, multiple-choice survey also included a question asking which political party controlled both houses of Congress leading up to the election -- 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.

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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS MALKIN: GIVEN THE ECONOMIC CRISIS, SHOULD OBAMA HAVE ANY INAUGURATIONAL FESTIVITIES?

  • SHE WONDERED WHY NO ONE HAD SUGGESTED OBAMA CURTAIL OR CUTBACK HIS INAUGURAL FESTIVITIES BECAUSE OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD. BLOGROLL US.

HIGH TIME TO REJECT "PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY"

An excuse that has to be rejected. An attack launched from ships on the high seas, with coordinated strikes against several different targets, was not the work of disaffected amateurs.

The operation has every hallmark of a well-planned military operation. *******UPDATE (Relipaundit):

Officials in India, Europe and the United States said likely culprits included Islamist networks based in Pakistan that have received support in the past from Pakistan's intelligence agencies.

Analysts said this week's attacks surpassed previous plots carried out by domestic groups in terms of complexity, the number of people involved and their success in achieving their primary goal: namely, to spread fear.

"This is a new, horrific milestone in the global jihad," said Bruce Riedel, a former South Asia analyst for the CIA and National Security Council and author of the book "The Search for Al Qaeda." "No indigenous Indian group has this level of capability
Major terrorist operations require the cooperation of nation-states. It is high time to hold them accountable.

Do you remember what Don Corleone told Sollozzo?



"But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane show fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here."
It's time to get superstitious.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

If the name is "Obama," you can get a free pass on even obeying the rule of law.

Excerpt from this article in the Washington Post:
Nicanor Obama began to realize he might be on to a good thing when he didn't get a speeding ticket not long ago. After stopping the 28-year-old for a little lead-footing near the Verizon Center, a District police officer looked at his driver's license and put the citation book away.

"He said, 'Well, I'm going to let you go because you have the Obama name' " is how the Arlington County resident recalled the encounter....
Yet another manifestation of the Cult of Obama.

TWO MUST SEE VIDEOS: KENYAN AMBASSADOR SAYS OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA - AND- OBAMA HAS NPD


VIA HYSCIENCE.


OBAMA HAS NPD AND IS A PSYCHOPATH.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

MSM GETS A THANKSGIVING CARD FROM SARAH PALIN

I THINK SARAH PALIN MUST HAVE APPROPRIATED AN OLD PHOTO OF JOE BIDEN AND BARRY OBAMA...

INDIA SEIZES TWO PAKISTANI MERCHANT SHIPS SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT IN MUMBAI ATTACKS

THEY CAME BY SEA: CNN:
Gunmen who arrived by boats launched attacks on at least seven locations in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday night, killing more than 120 people, authorities say.

By Friday morning, authorities believed militants still were in two luxury hotels and a Jewish center in the city.

The following is what is known about the attacks:

• Gunmen arrived by boats at the Mumbai waterfront near the Gateway of India monument on Wednesday night, police said. The gunmen hijacked cars, including a police van, and split into at least three groups to carry out the attacks, according to police.
THE MOTHER SHIPS MAY HAVE BEEN SEIZED: Pakistani ships seized after Mumbai attacks
The Indian navy has seized two Pakistani merchant ships as authorities try to track down those responsible for the Mumbai attacks.

Authorities believe the Mumbai attackers came ashore in a series of small boats, and all the merchant ships that have passed through Mumbai in the past few days have come under particular scrutiny.

According to Indian news agencies, intelligence sources pinpointed one particular cargo vessel that had stopped there briefly before leaving for Karachi and Pakistan.

By luck, Indian navy and coastguard vessels were engaged in routine exercises off the coast of Gujarat and were immediately dispatched to intercept the vessel.

Both it and another Pakistani freighter have now been boarded by Indian forces, but it is not yet clear if they found anything suspicious on board.
  • INDIA WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ATTACK, AND PUNISH ALL THE CONSPIRATORS THEY CAN.
  • IT MATTERS NOT WHICH PARTICULAR JIHADIST GROUP THEY BELONG TO. OR IF THEY WERE STATE-SPONSORED.
  • BECAUSE WE KNOW THE ROOT CAUSE - AND IT'S IDEOLOGICAL:
IT'S THEIR "RELIGION", STUPID.

IF BY RELIGION WE MEAN THE TOTALITARIAN AND MARTIAL IDEOLOGY THEY CALL ISLAM.

LET'S FACE IT FOLKS, ISLAM IS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR.

WE IGNORE THIS AT OUR PERIL.