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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Postmodernism is so 20th Century and Jihadism so 8th Century...

... and we are in the 21st. As a wise man once said: yesterday has never defeated tomorrow. So, I remain optimistic.

But we can lose. It is possible for us to lose: by surrendering...

Fjordman has posted a link-filled essay on how postmodernists are doing just that HERE. READ IT!

TAB has long noted that postmodernism is nearly as hostile to modernism and jihadism is.

What makes postmodernism just as dangerous as jihadism is the fact that it permeates the Left and thereby infects the entire West - crippling it, on purpose. WHY DO THEY DO THIS? Because postmodernists feel that the West deserves to be taken down, and they think that they can erect a utopia in it's place; they are willing to see the West defeated by jihadism to make this possible - feeling that THEY will pick up the pieces, and not jihadists.

Together they make a dangerous tag-team - as the Democrat controlled Congress has proven of late: by doing EXACTLY hat al Qaeda and Iran want.

SHIT: They're even cutting NMD spending!

THE ONLY WAY WE CAN LOSE TO THE JIHADISTS IS IF WE HAND POWER TO THE POSTMODERNISTS.

France avoided this in their last election. We must in our next.

TERRORISTS FROM FATAH ATTACK POLICEMEN AT ARMON HANATSIV

Yes, it appears that Fatah was behind this terrorist assault:
(IsraelNN.com) Terrorists attacked Israeli security forces near Jerusalem’s Armon HaNetziv neighborhood Saturday evening. Two security officers were injured and two terrorists killed.

The shooting attack took place in the Sheikh Sa’id neighborhood, an area where construction continues on the Jerusalem section of the Partition Wall. One officer was wounded critically and a security guard moderately. They were evacuated to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital. [...]

Fatah’s Al-Aksa Brigades terror group took responsibility for the attack.
Proof that they're just as evil as Hamas, no?

SYRIAN EXILE TO VISIT KNESSET

An exiled opposition leader from Syria has been invited by one of the Likud members to visit the Knesset:
Syrian exile and opposition leader Farid Gadry, of the Syrian Reform Party, is expected to visit the Knesset. He was invited by MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud), former chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Gadry, who is expected to speak before the committee on June 11, will be the second Syrian expatriate to address it this year. Last month, the committee heard Syrian-American businessman Ibrahim Suleiman. He discussed his contacts with Alon Liel, former Foreign Ministry director general, on a proposed peace deal.

Unlike Suleiman, who is rumored to be in contact with Syrian President Bashar Assad, 51-year-old Gadry is the founder of a political movement aimed at bringing down Assad's regime. The Syrian Reform Party, founded in exile in the U.S. in 2003, aspires to replace Assad's Alawi minority rule with a democratic system that puts power in the hands of the Sunni majority.
This could be a good way of letting people know that no matter what the left and the MSM want people to think, Assad is not interested in making peace with Israel. His father was not, and it's unlikely that Bashar is any different.

Latest Fusion News

Tom Ligon, an engineer who worked with Dr. Robert Bussard, is giving a talk on fusion powered rockets at the International Space Development Conference in Dallas. Here is a link to Tom's Power Point Presentation at ISDC. Scroll down the page and click on the button in the lower right.

In other news Tri Alpha Energy has just raised $40 million in venture capital for nuclear fusion.
Tri Alpha Energy, which hopes to commercialize nuclear fusion technology, has raised $40 million from Venrock Associates and others, according to VentureWire.

The company, which grew out of the University of California at Irvine, says its advanced plasma fusion technologies could be used to generate electricity as well as eliminate waste from nuclear power plants. A plant based on its technology would cost less than a conventional nuclear plant. Tri Alpha was founded in 1998 and has raised funds in the past.

Tri Alpha is working on a generator in which hydrogen chases boron, according to literature from UC Irvine. These atoms then form a helium atom, which is placed in a particle accelerator. Slowing down the helium generates electricity.
I have some links to their proposed design at Easy Low Cost No Radiation Fusion. Scroll down and look for the Hendrik J. Monkhorst information.

Here are some more details on the venture capital deal from UC Irvine.
Norman Rostoker, research professor of physics and astronomy, received $5.2 million from Tri Alpha Energy Inc. to research a plasma electric generator that will use as fuel a mixture of hydrogen and boron. In this generator, hydrogen will chase boron in a cylinder, eventually resulting in helium nuclei that will be made to escape into a particle accelerator. The backwards-running accelerator will slow down the nuclei, turning the energy released into electricity.
Here is the patent for the Monkhorst/Rostoker design.

Cross Posted at Power and Control and at Classical Values

Racist to Criticize China?

A South Korean blogger described what he saw on a recent trip to China:

"In the post, Cha described a scene in China that he had experienced while riding a train from Zhengzhou, the capital of Hebei province, to Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province. This is part of what he saw: a mom let her toddler urinate right on the carriage floor; people disposed of instant-noodle cups by throwing them out the window; men went shirtless when it got hot; people didn't flush after using restrooms; a young couple pulled off the seat cover to shine their shoes before they got off the train.

Cha continued: people hulled sunflower seeds (a favorite travel snack for Chinese) and spat them on the floor haphazardly; some spoke on their mobile telephones at the top of their lungs without any consideration for other people; men smoked everywhere without seeking consent from others.

Cha concluded: "While watching these people, I couldn't help but think that Chinese people solely pursue their own convenience and interest. They utterly lack public morals."

Source

I don't think that there is any doubt that he described accurately what he saw and nobody in fact seems to have disputed the accuracy of his report. But he was nonetheless roundly condemnned by other South Koreans as being "racist" for describing what he saw and describing his response to it.

That all seems nutty enough to be worthy of the American Left. What the blogger was describing was simply the behaviour of very poorly educated rural people and there is no doubt that Chinese customs do differ in some ways (greater toleration of spitting, for instance) but a true report of observations and reasonable generalizations about those observations can hardly be racist.

China is right next-door to Korea and what was happening, I think, is that China is to Korea a bit like Islam is to America -- perceived as dangerous and in need of pacification. If the blogger had filed the same report about a trip in Japan or the USA, he would no doubt have been praised rather than condemned. Hatred of both Japan and the USA is very common in South Korea but neither Japan or the USA is seen as threatening.

As Japan was once the colonial overlord of Korea, Korean hatred of Japan is rather understandable but all America has done is give the blood of its young men and the money of its taxpayers to preserve South Koreans from the Communist horror in the North -- but that is apparently unforgiveable. Rather like France.

For the record, I personally have had a fair bit to do with both Koreans and Chinese and I prefer the Chinese any day. But I guess I am not really allowed to have such preferences. If the Left keep getting their way I might one day not even be allowed to prefer attractive women. The feminist harpies already have a word for that "crime". It is called "Lookism".

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Chinese Feed Americans

This is the most hilarious bit of news I have read for a while. Under Communism, China was a big importer of food -- wheat particularly. Now guess what?

Excerpt:

In the wake of this year's massive pet food recall, China has come under increasing scrutiny for its lax food safety standards. In fact, some have suggested that all food imports from China be banned.... But barring Chinese imports would be potentially damaging to the U.S. economy. Over the past decade, the United States has become increasingly reliant on China as a source of agricultural products and as a market for U.S. exports. According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, China ranks third among world nations as a source of U.S. agricultural and forestry imports, and has held that position for some time.

And the Chinese influx shows no signs of stopping: In the first three months of 2007, Chinese agricultural imports increased by 30% over the same period in '06. Despite such soaring numbers, producers and representatives of four of the biggest Chinese import categories-rice, shrimp, tea, and feeds and fodders-said the United States could still meet the nation's demand for such products should the flow from China cease, most without a huge burden on American consumers.

The graver consequence of an agricultural trade shutoff with China would be on the U.S. export market. Several staple products in U.S. agriculture-soybeans, cotton and lumber, among others-have found the Chinese market ripe for trade. In the past four years, the total value of agricultural, fish and forestry products that U.S. businesses have exported to China has risen from $2.4 billion a year to $7.7 billion. The U.S. soybean industry, the world's largest exporter, is particularly indebted to China. In 2005, the U.S. exported about 25.7 million metric tons of soybeans, nearly one-third of soybeans produced in the country and the equivalent of $2.2 billion worth. Over the past five years, the percentage headed to China has steadily increased; last year, that amounted about 40% of the U.S.'s crop.

Source

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IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION

With deepest, everlasting gratitude and with the solemn pledge that we shall never let their sacrifice be in vain...

Mrs. Bixby Letter

Executive Mansion

Washington, D.C.

November 21, 1864

Dear Madam,

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

Abraham Lincoln




THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

by Julia Ward Howe

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where grapes of wrath are stored;
he hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have built Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps,
His day is marching on.

He has founded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His Judgement Seat'
Oh! Be swift, my soul, to answer Him, be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;

As he died to make men holy,

let us die to make men free,

While God is marching on.

Glory, Glory Hallelujah, Glory, Glory Hallelujah,
Glory, Glory Hallelujah, His truth is marching on.




Friday, May 25, 2007

THE ROOT CAUSE OF JIHADO-THUGGERY

RANT ALERT!

IT AIN'T OCCUPATION:
GAZA AIN'T OCCUPIED.

IT AIN'T ZIONISM:
THERE AIN'T NO ZIONISM IN THAILAND.

IT AIN'T THE IRAQ WAR:
THE IRAQ WAR HADN'T BEGUN WHEN THEY BOMBED BALI.

IT AIN'T BUSH:
CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT WHEN THEY BOMBED THE WTC IN '93, AND KHOBAR, AND OUR AFRICAN EMBASSIES AND THE USS COLE.

IT AIN'T ONLY SOME ISSUE AGAINST NON-MUSLIM INFIDELS:
THEY COMMIT GENOCIDAL TERROR AGAINST SHIAS AND SUNNIS AND SUFIS.

WHAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE?

THEIR DESIRE TO SEE JIHADISM TYRANNIZE ALL NON-JIHADISTS - REGARDLESS OF OUR RACE, CREED, GENDER... ANYTHING.

AND WHEN WE APPEASE THEM ANYWHERE, THEN WE MAKE THEM STRONGER EVERYWHERE.

THE ONLY WAY TO DEFEAT THEM IS TO DEFEAT THEM. AND DEFEAT THEM EVERYWHERE: TRIPOLI; BEIRUT; GAZA; ANKARA; THAILAND; SYRIA; IRAN; IRAQ; AFGHANISTAN; ETC ETC AND SO FORTH AND SO ON.

THIS WILL TAKE A LONG TIME. A FEW GENERATIONS.

IT WOULD HELP IF THE LEFT WAS COMPLETELY ON OUR SIDE IN THIS EFFORT.

I SHUDDER TO THINK WHAT TYPE OF JIHADO-ATTACK IT WILL TAKE TO GET THE LEFT ON OUR SIDE.

I'D RATHER WE JUST "BEAT THE LEFT TO A PULP" POLITICALLY ON ALL THE OTHER ISSUES THEY'RE WRONG ON, (THAN SUFFER THAT KIND OF ATTACK): AGW; TAXES, GUNS; ABORTION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; NMD; IMMIGRATION; TRADE; UNIONS; ETC.

THAT'S WHY I BLOG.

Deniers And Sceptics

There seem to be a lot of deniers and sceptics out there who think that the sun and its influence on clouds are not the cause of at least 80% of global warming.

Just for them (and any one else interested) I have written a longish piece with links to the evidence which includes at least 100 million years of global history. I call it Clouds In Chambers. It follows the study of clouds from the Wilson Cloud Chamber (with links to instructions on how to build your own for a few dollars) in 1912 to the modern experiments done by Dr. Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Center. Along the way I cover nuclear physics, astro physics, solar physics, and other topics that are germaine. All in a light and breezy manner that should not be too hard to follow for those who got at least a C in high school science. If you did not do that well here is an opportunity to improve your education.

I follow the evidence where it leads. Unlike the deniers and sceptics.

Leftist crapola from Amnesty condemns Australia

I used to be a member of Amnesty when they restricted themselves to helping political prisoners everywhere but now they are just another bunch of one-eyed self-righteous preachers who hate America and much else besides. Don't even MENTION Israel!

Australia has NO political prisoners. Illegal immigrants are ordinary law-breakers. There is more on Amnesty boss -- the far-Leftist Ms Khan -- here. By putting John Howard in the same camp as the revolting Robert Mugabe, however, her main achievement is to make herself look absurd.

The screenshot below of the Amnesty USA site (from Taranto's post of May 23) shows how infantile they have become and his post of 24th. has more derisive follow-up. I actually thought that the Amnesty site might have been hacked by outsiders in an attempt to discredit them but it is now clear that the juvenile nonsense was in fact all their own work.

If Amnesty were seriously concerned about human rights, they would be concentrating their attention on things like this



Prime Minister John Howard finds himself alongside Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in an Amnesty International report which says they are among short-sighted fear-mongers dividing the world. The human rights pressure group has accused Mr Howard of portraying asylum-seekers as a threat to national security. The report also criticises Australia's role in the war on terror and its treatment of female victims of violence.

Amnesty secretary-general Irene Khan says the fear generated by leaders such as Mr Howard thrives on myopic and cowardly leadership. Ms Khan included Mr Howard with Mr Mugabe, US President George Bush and Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir in the same scathing paragraph in her foreword to the group's annual report published today. Ms Khan said the fear generated by leaders such as Mr Howard "thrives on myopic and cowardly leadership''. "The Howard government portrayed desperate asylum-seekers in leaky boats as a threat to Australia's national security and raised a false alarm of a refugee invasion,'' Ms Khan wrote.


More here

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BIBI ADVISES DIVESTMENT FROM IRAN

Excerpt:

Today, the American people are invested in Iran. Not directly, of course. That is against US law. Rather, through pensions, savings plans, and other diversified investments, American money is invested in companies - mostly European companies - that do business in Iran. By insisting that their investment dollars not be used in Iran, the American public can send a powerful and effective message.

For pension funds and other savings investments, divesting from companies doing business in Iran will be relatively painless. In most cases, it will only entail substituting a few companies in a diversified portfolio. For some major European companies, a decision to pull the plug on investing in Iran will be more painful, but for most companies, Iran represents a tiny share of their revenues. These companies will adapt quickly to a divestment environment.

But for the regime in Teheran, the blow of divestment could prove fatal. Fewer and fewer companies will enter Iran. More and more will leave. Investment dollars and the technology it buys will dry up. The lifeline of the regime will be cut. Teheran will face a stark choice: Change its polices and win back investment, or maintain its policies and risk economic collapse.

The effort to divest from Iran could quickly bear fruit. Few people today have any idea they are supporting a regime inciting to genocide. When they do, they will want to stop that support. There are efforts underway in a number of individual American states to divest state pension funds from Iran. Similar divestment initiatives are being pursued against Sudan, a country in which genocide is actually taking place in Darfur. I see no reason why they cannot be combined -- why those working to stop genocide and those working to stop a regime inciting to genocide cannot work together. We in Israel must do our part as well. While the power of our investment dollars is infinitesimal compared to the US, if we hope to persuade the world to divest, we must lead by example. Therefore, I have submitted a bill in the Knesset that will outlaw investing in companies that invest in Iran and Sudan.

I know that there are some who are afraid of mounting a divestment campaign since there have been attempts in the past to divest from Israel. Some are concerned that by supporting divestment, we will be establishing a precedent that will later be used against Israel.

But divestment against Israel is wrong not because divestment per se is wrong. It is wrong because it is directed against Israel -- a democratic state that yearns for peace with its neighbors. Divestment against Iran and Sudan is right for the same reason why divestment from Nazi Germany in the 30s and 40s would have been right.

I said last year that it was 1938. But today, we have the lessons of the 1930s to guide us, and the power to choose a different course that will make all the difference. We must mobilize the power of the free world to confront the dangers in time. We must, as the old saying goes, put our money where our mouth is.

Source

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CHIRAC'S TROUBLES ARE JUST BEGINNING

Though the US media, it seems, would rather you not know. Here's the story from The Scotsman (Hat tip: Media Lies):
LONG-STANDING rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to have been confirmed by files seized from the home of a senior spy.

Papers seized by two investigating magistrates from General Philippe Rondot, a former head of the DGSE, France's intelligence service, show Mr Chirac opened an account in the mid-1990s at Tokyo Sowa Bank, credited with the equivalent of £30 million. It is not known where the money came from, nor whether it is connected to various kick-back scandals to which Mr Chirac's name has been linked over the past decade.

Last year, Mr Chirac "categorically denied" having a bank account in Japan.

The seized documents have been described by the magistrates as "explosive" and are believed to contain copies of the former president's bank statements.

A magistrate close to the investigation told the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaîné: "Subject to verification of the documents, there is enough material to open a new judicial investigation for breach of trust or for possession of money received from corruption. Moreover, the investigating judges have everything necessary to trace the network back to its ringleaders."

Mr Chirac, who was succeeded by Nicolas Sarkozy last week after 12 years as president, looks certain to be questioned about the account - as well as several other alleged corruption scandals dating from his time as mayor of Paris - when his presidential immunity runs out on 16 June.
I can't wait! I can't wait to see Chirac get the misery he deserves. And what if, as Austin Bay Blog wonders, the money turns out to be a gift to Chirac from Saddam? I'd say that calls for serious punishment then.

REAL TORTURE



This is what REAL TORTURE looks like. Al Qaeda's torture manual shows how ridiculous Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Rosie and so many other liberals were when they compared Abu Ghraib to regimes of horrific torture.

To read how I feel about Democrats and how serious they take national security, go here!

Thursday, May 24, 2007

SARKOZY AND KOUCHNER WASTE NO TIME REGARDING LEBANON AND SYRIA

IHT:
The new French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, flew to Beirut on Thursday, pledging that Paris would stand by the Lebanese government amid the worsening political crisis and the new bout of violence there.

It was Kouchner's first visit outside of Europe since being appointed last week and a strong signal to a former French colony still linked to Paris through close cultural and linguistic ties.

Vowing continuity in the two Kouchner also used his trip to demand swift action to set up an international tribunal countries' relations,to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a proposal that is still stuck both in the Lebanese Parliament and in the UN Security Council.

"The international community must never accept threats and terrorism and we are determined to vote in the UN Security Council a resolution to establish the international tribunal," Kouchner said in Beirut, according to a spokesman traveling with him.
On Thursday, Kouchner met Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Speaker Nabih Berri, parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri and Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani.

Kouchner concluded his first day in Lebanon by visiting Hariri's grave in Downtown Beirut.

"The international community will never accept threats and terrorism, and we are determined to vote at the [UN] Security Council on a resolution to establish the international tribunal," he told reporters.

A draft put forward by the US, France and Britain to set up the proposed court to hear the Hariri case is currently before the 15-member council. No date has yet been set for a vote.

Kouchner said he had delivered to Siniora a letter from Sarkozy expressing support for Lebanon and for the "quick" establishment of the international tribunal.
PENINSULA - QATAR:
His visit comes at a time when the country's army and a tiny Islamist militia are facing off at a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country after three days of fighting that killed at least 69 people.
ASSAD AND HIS GENOCIDAL HENCHMEN ARE LONG OVERDUE FORSOME SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR CRIMES. NOW - WITH FRANCE ON OUR SIDE - THIS MAY SOON HAPPEN.

NANCY PELOSI'S FIRST 100 DAYS



Hat tip: Marie's Two Cents

TOMORROW IS NATIONAL MISSING CHILDREN'S DAY - COURTESY OF RONALD REAGAN

BUSINESSWIRE.COM:
National Missing Children's Day will be observed tomorrow, May 25, 2007.

The wireless industry, in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice, suppo
rts this important day and reminds wireless consumers of the vital role they can play to aid in the recovery of abducted children by registering to receive free Wireless AMBER Alerts™.

Nearly 30 wireless carriers which collectively serve over 93% of all U.S. wireless subscribers currently offer the Wireless
AMBER Alerts™ program to their subscribers.

“National Missing Children’s Day is a critical reminder of the dangers facing abducted children,” said Steve Largent, President of The Wireless Foundation and President and CEO of CTIA-The Wireless Association®. “Through the Wireless AMBER Alerts™ program, the technology millions of people use every single day to catch up with friends and family can now be used to help catch a child abductor.

I encourage all wireless users to go to www.wirelessamberalerts.org and sign up at no cost to receive free text messages anytime an AMBER Alert has been issued in their area.”


... President Ronald Reagan designated May 25 as National Missing Children’s Day in 1983. Since then, every acting President has honored the day.

It was on May 25, 1979, that six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared from a New York City street corner on his way to school.

This high profile case, the tragic abduction and murder of Adam Walsh from Florida and the 29 murdered children and young adults of Atlanta served as catalysts for new laws to protect children from those who would harm them and sparked the creation of NCMEC.


“This National Missing Children’s Day we celebrate the strong partnership between the public and private sectors who work together to recover abducted children,” said Regina B. Schofield, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs and the National AMBER Alert Coordinator. “Through the Wireless AMBER Alerts initiative anyone with a cell phone can play a vital role in keeping our children safe.”

AMBER stands for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response” and was created in 1996 when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with local police to develop an early warning system to find abducted children.

The AMBER Alert Program was soon adopted across the nation and is a legacy to Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then murdered. All 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington DC have since established AMBER Alert programs.


President Bush authorized the national AMBER Alert program as part of the PROTECT Act signed in 2003.
And there's this:
The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) is pleased to join with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and focus attention on Take 25, a national preventive safety campaign.

NCMEC’s Take 25 program encourages parents and guardians to devote at least 25 minutes on May 25th, National Missing Children’s Day, to talk to their children concerning things they can do to be more safe. Take 25 is designed to be an ongoing program that aims to promote frequent discussions within families and communities about child safety.
Let's not forget Madeline and her family:
The parents of a British girl who vanished 20 days ago during a family vacation in Portugal prayed Wednesday at the holy site in Fatima for her safe return. Gerry and Kate McCann were greeted by kisses and good wishes from other visitors to the Roman Catholic shrine in central Portugal, where three shepherd children claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to them 90 years ago.

The McCanns' 4-year-old daughter Madeleine disappeared May 3 after they left her and her brother and sister, 2-year-old twins, alone in their room while they went to a restaurant inside their hotel complex in Portugal's Algarve region.

WE MUST PROTECT OUR CHILDREN.

UPDATE:


THE MCCANN'S HAVE JUST RELEASED THIS - THE LAST PHOTO THEY TOOK OF MADELINE JUST HOURS BEFORE SHE WAS KIDNAPPED. SHE IS ON THE RIGHT.

THERE ARE REPORTS SHE WAS SEEN SEVERAL DAYS AGO IN MOROCCO.



PRAY FOR HER AND HER FAMILY.

HOW TO CHEAPLY GET RID OF THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

JUST PASS THE RIGHT LAWS AND THEY WILL LEAVE ON THEIR OWN:
we can get illegal aliens to deport themselves. All we need understand is that man operates based on incentive, on reward and consequence, and devise policy accordingly. I now propose a foolproof five-point plan that would put an end to the invasion of America.

1. Enact laws ensuring that employers who hire illegals will be punished harshly enough to deter the behavior; this will take the illegals' jobs away.

2. Enact laws prohibiting illegals from receiving any government benefits.

3. Eliminate the standard that confers citizenship on children born to illegals on our soil.

These three measures alone will eliminate the incentive to be here, causing most to return to where they belong. But this is just the removal of the carrot; now we need application of the stick.

4. Enact a law stating that any alien in violation of our laws caught on our soil beyond a certain date will be subject to severe criminal penalties.

5. Enact a law stating that, in addition, if they are found in the US after that time, they will forevermore be prohibited from entering our nation.
... Politicians who won't embrace it aren't looking for solutions, only excuses.
FROM THE AMERICAN THINKER - VIA HYSCIENCE.

Aussie Drought: UN'S IPCC Wrong; 15 yr old American Right

Newsbusters: The UN has predicted an Aussie drought for another 20 years.

This 15 yr old correctly predicted the end of the Aussie drought. MORE:

Kristen then addressed why so much of the alarmism is based on specious science:

The reason that computer climate models do not work is because they cannot predict volcanoes, ENSO and solar variance. They also do not understand how water vapor and clouds work.

Another rule in climate is that El Nino warms the average global temperature and La Nina is the opposite. During normal conditions the trade winds at the equator blow cool water off the coast of Peru to the east and cause warm water to pile up near Indonesia, the wind pressure actually causes sea water levels to be higher there. During La Nina, the winds blow even harder and pile the water up even more. During El Nino the winds slow down and the warm water flows back to Peru.

The result is, during La Nina (cool event) the cold water coming from the bottom of the ocean near Peru is blown across the surface to Indonesia. The Earth's normal circulation that takes heat from the equator towards the poles has less heat to move to the poles.

On the other hand, when there is an El Nino, the warm water spreads across the surface back to Peru. More warm water is in contact with the air above and the Earth's circulation takes that heat toward the poles.

From about 1944 to 1976 the ENSO was mostly negative and solar increased then decreased. Temperatures during this time cooled a little. Since 1976 the ENSO has been more positive. This along with increasing solar activity has combined to warm the globe. What is expected over the next few years is for the ENSO to move back to a negative phase and for solar activity to level off then go down. That is why the weather guy said that in 5 years global warming will be a joke.

Kristen continued:

I am already seeing signs that the climate is cooling. Since 2001 the oceans have not warmed. 2005 was supposed to be the warmest year on record but ENSO went a little negative that year. That means the base temperature (the oceans) was as warm as it is going to get because 2006 was an El Nino year and it was the 6th warmest on record. Keep in mind that for the last 70 years there has been an 11,000 year solar high. It takes time for all that heat to build up in the oceans, but it seems that the oceans are as warm as they will get from this 11,000 year solar high. This year will be cooler than last year because it will be an ENSO negative year and the solar cycle still has not started yet.

Also keep in mind that just because there is no El Nino or La Nina, there is still heating or cooling. ENSO positive that does not get to the level of El Nino will still warm the climate, just a lot less. Same with ENSO negative that does not make the level of La Nina.

UPDATE: MORE ON ENSO HERE - FROM THE AMERICAN THINKER, AND IT COMPLETELY DEBUNKS THE AGW/CO2 BS: THERE IS NO GW IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, AND THE REST THE GLOBE'S RECENT WARMING IS SOLAR/ENSO-BASED.

MITT, EDWARDS AND BURKE

LISTEN TO AN AUDIO HERE OF MITT BASHING EDWARDS AND THE DENIALIST-APPEASERS OF THE LEFT.

RANT ALERT:
ESSENTIALLY, WHAT MITT IS SAYING (BY CITING BURKE'S FAMOUS QUOTE) IS THAT

EDWARDS - AND HIS ILK, (WHO NOW DOMINATE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY) - ARE GOOD MEN WHO WOULD DO NOTHING IN THE FACE OF EVIL, THUS ALLOWING IT TO TRIUMPH.

JIHADISTS ARE LITERALLY ATTACKING NON-JIHADISTS WORLDWIDE.

WITH DEADLY VIOLENCE, TERROR AND INTIMIDATION TACTICS.

WE MUST FIGHT BACK. DOING NOTHING IS NOT AN OPTION.
UNLESS YOU WANT TO LOSE.

IF YOU WANT EVIL TO TRIUMPH, THEN EDWARDS IS YOUR MAN.

SADLY, SO IS EVERY OTHER DEM IN THE RACE.

FREE MARKET IMMIGRATION?

The other day, we had a debate here at TAB during which M. Simon was stating his position, if I am not mistaken, that the massive illegal immigration of Mexicans into the United States has occurred as a natural consequence of the free market system.

I am naturally amenable to such an argument, because I am a big believer in free market capitalism.

However, I don't think the argument holds water in this case.

Why?

Because, we are a nation of laws before we are a nation of businesses. The people make the government, and the government makes and enforces the laws. The free market system does not make law.

There is no such thing as laissez faire legislation. Law requires wisdom and discernment, and is judgemental by nature. It is the opposite of laissez faire. Presumably, law is moral. Business is not moral.

The constitution says, "We the people," not "We the markets."

"WE PRAY ISRAEL WILL RULE US AGAIN"


That's what one of the Arabs in Gaza whom you see interviewed in this video recording says. Via Judith Apter Klinghoffer at History News Network.

IDF ARRESTS SENOIR HAMAS MEMBERS, AND BLOWS OUT A TERRORIST FUNDING FRONT

A much needed apprehension of criminals has been made, and a funding front for terrorism has been blasted too:
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops in the West Bank arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members early Thursday, including a Cabinet minister, legislators and mayors - pressing forward with an offensive against the Islamic militant group.

The roundup came hours after Israeli planes struck what the military said were money changing offices and other businesses in Gaza used to channel funds to Hamas.

Israel has been attacking Hamas targets for more than a week in retaliation for repeated rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli border towns.

The Israeli army said it arrested 33 Hamas leaders in its overnight sweep. The most prominent official taken in the roundup was Education Minister Nasser Shaer, considered a pragmatist in the movement.
Yeah, right, I'm sure. I'm sure he really believed in the sanctity of life, didn't he? Forget it. Typical AP whitewash.

They also blabber on about Fatah/Hamas working on a "truce" with Israel:
Israeli aircraft on Wednesday demolished two money exchange shops in Gaza City used to channel funds to Hamas militants, the military said. The army said the shops served as a conduit for millions of dollars sent from Iran, Syria and Lebanon. [...]

The airstrikes came as Abbas and Haniyeh were making a new push to restore a truce with Israel. [...]

Israel, however, sees no point in extending to the West Bank a truce its says has failed to prove itself in Gaza.

"Israel has always said that if a cease-fire is kept in Gaza we're willing to extend it to the West Bank," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said. "The trouble is that a cease fire in Gaza has never been kept ... It has been a sham. The idea of extending a failure is flawed one."
The problem is that with Olmert still in, could a failure still be extended?

HAVING BABIES PROTECTS WOMEN FROM SKIN CANCER

So if you have the sort of "olive" skin that predisposes to melanoma, should you throw away your pills? Not really. The sampling below is impressive but the effects noted were small and melanoma has a very low incidence in most populations anyway (Estimated lifetime risk of 1 in 75 for American Caucasians). The word "parity" below is used in a peculiar medical way -- meaning the number of kids you have had. It's sort of fun that having kids seems to protect men too! Perhaps that's another reason not to take the findings too seriously. If families tend to go out in the sun less than singles, it would make sense, though. That big ball in the sky is the main cause of melanoma. It's nice to see "may be" used in the conclusion to an epidemiological article. We would have got a lot more definiteness if the article had been about "obesity". Journal abstract below:

Reproductive History and Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma: A Comparison between Women and Men

By Jeanette Kaae et al.

To evaluate whether previously observed associations between parity and cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) risk in women reflected a biologic mechanism or resulted from uncontrolled confounding by lifestyle factors associated with parity (e.g., patterns of sun exposure), the authors investigated the effect of reproductive history (parenthood) on CMM risk in both women and men. Using information from Danish national registers (1968-2003), the authors established a population-based cohort of more than 3,500,000 persons with information on parenthood and CMM. Relative risks were estimated using Poisson regression models. Overall, number of children was significantly associated with a woman's risk of CMM (p = 0.004), with the lowest risk being seen among women with many births. Women aged 25 years or older at their first birth had a 24% (95% confidence interval: 16, 33) higher risk of CMM than younger women. Ten or more years after the birth of her youngest child, a woman had a 15% (95% confidence interval: 5, 27) higher risk of CMM than she did in the first 10 years. Similar results were observed in men. The similarity of effects for men and women suggests that lifestyle factors, rather than exposure to pregnancy hormones, may be responsible for the observed associations between reproductive history and CMM risk in women

Source

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Raunchy airline ad pulled, 'insults women'



We read:

"Spanish airline Iberia has pulled a cartoon video ad that depicts a baby boy frolicking on a beach with big-breasted black Cuban women after complaints it insulted women and encouraged sexual tourism.

The two women, with huge lips and tiny, tight shorts on broad hips - massage and pamper the white Spanish infant after he arrives in Havana on a free trip from Iberia.

At one point, lounging at a seaside bar, he sings "Come on honey, take me to the crib", the Associated Press reported.

Source

It rather escapes me why it was a cause for complaint that the women were busty. Perhaps it takes a Leftist to see why that is offensive. And I cannot see that the women depicted were busty anyhow. I suspect that the women being brown with large lips while the baby was white was the only cause of the "problem" -- which would seem to make the protest "racist" -- why should skin-color matter?

You can see the original ad via the link above.

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Discriminatory University Caves In

They attempted to discriminate against a Christian group because it was Christian. But in the usual Leftist projective way they said that it was the Christans who were discriminatory!

"Southern Illinois University in Carbondale has settled a lawsuit brought by a Christian group whose student organization status had been revoked because members must pledge to adhere to Christian beliefs.

As part of the deal with the Christian Legal Society, the Carbondale school says it officially will recognize the group and its long-standing membership and leadership policies.

Christian Legal Society sued SIU in April 2005 after the university revoked the group's registered status, meaning it no longer could use the university's facilities or name and wasn't eligible for school funding.

The group claimed SIU's decision violated its constitutional rights to free speech and free exercise of religion.

SIU said the society's requirement that members adhere to basic Christian beliefs was discriminatory.

Source


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DIPLOMATIC SHOCKER: IRAN WILL NOT GIVE UP THEIR NUKES

Last week TAB's Reliapundit passed on a NYT story that firmly established the weapons-related nature of Iran's nuclear program. So naturally, this week they've announced that they're not giving that program up:
Iran continues to defy UN Security Council demands to scrap its uranium enrichment program and has instead expanded its activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday, in a finding that sets the stage for new council sanctions. The report from Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency, also faulted Tehran for "blocking IAEA efforts to probe suspicious nuclear activities, saying that meant it could not provide assurances about ... the exclusively peaceful nature of its atomic program." And, in new and worrying phrasing, it expressed concern about its deteriorating understanding of unexplored aspects of the program, despite four years of a probe sparked by revelations that Tehran had been clandestinely developing enrichment and other nuclear activities that could be used to make weapons for nearly two decades.
We'd better get the UN on this as soon as possible. You have no idea what could be happening there. They could be doing anything - even developing nukes! Not that there's any reason to believe that they are, but, you know - hypothetically.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]

PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT MAKES GOOD ON PROMISE TO BOMB ISRAELI SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS - TIME TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY

At least they're honest:
After a relatively quiet day in southern Israel, at least four Qassam rockets were fired Wednesday evening from the Gaza Strip. Two rockets landed shortly after 8 pm in the Sderot area, one of them inside the city. One woman suffered from shock. Another two rockets landed south of Asheklon, one of them killing a mare in Kibbutz Nir Am. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, claimed responsibility for firing a one of the rockets Wednesday evening.
Now some of you might be saying "given these attacks, plus Hamas's promises to keep firing rockets - this would be an especially stupid time for certain European countries to begin giving Hamas direct aid". Very obviously, it seems to be the perfect time:
Norway is set to make the first transfer of direct aid to the Palestinians' new government, the foreign minister said Monday - more than two months after the Nordic country broke with most Western nations by recognizing the Hamas-led coalition. "Palestinian Finance Minister Fayyad has now structured a financial account by which we can channel our support," Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said. Norway soon will transfer $10 million to that account, Stoere said.
Because really - beside ubiquitous genocidal promises, systematic child brainwashing, and actual war crimes - what has Hamas done to make you think that they shouldn't get money? How biased and one-sided of you.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]

YOU GO ELISABETH HASSELBACK!!


Why is Elisabeth finally dishing it back to Rosie and not holding back??

1) She's got nothing to lose, because Rosie is on her way out.

2) She's got pregnancy hormones that are helping her be a little more aggressive :-)!

3) She's probably tired of people accusing her of not defending herself.


I am very impressed with Elisabeth!! She is in a lion's den where she is the lone conservative against 3 other liberals. The audience is also clearly liberal and yet she holds her own, she doesn't back down, and she's articulate with facts to back up what she says.

Rosie on the other hand is a bully who tries to badger her opponents into agreeing with her and validating her. She sat there and accused Elisabeth of betraying their friendship when Elisabeth takes her crap every single day. To be honest, I think Rosie is a bully who dishes out hateful stuff but has such a low self-esteem that she can't take it when its dished back to her.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

LEBANESE DEFENSE MINISTER TO JIHADISTS: SURRENDER OR DIE

HAARETZ: Lebanese Defense Minister to militants: Surrender or die
Lebanon's defense minister issued an ultimatum Wednesday to Islamic militants barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp to surrender or face death in a military onslaught, as the army reinforced its positions, raising fears of what could be a bloody showdown.
I WISH BUSH WAS THIS TOUGH ON AL QAEDA IN IRAQ AND AL SADR. THE WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN OVER THREE YEARS AGO.

THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PSYCHOPATHOLGY OF ISLAMISM

JOHN JAY RAY, QUOTING PAT SANTY:
the treatment of women under Islam is not only the key to understanding the pathology of the culture, but also the key to developing an antidote to its most poisonous and toxic elements.
EXACTLY. WORTH REPEATING:
the treatment of women under Islam is not only the key to understanding the pathology of the culture, but also the key to developing an antidote to its most poisonous and toxic elements.
RTWT.

NON-KINETIC/DIPLOMATIC ANTIDOTES HERE. (More on the general issue HERE.)

UK DESPERATE TO FIND 3 WOULD-BE TERRORISTS WHO HAVE ESCAPED SURVEILLANCE

BBC: Scotland Yard are hunting three men who are believed to have absconded from control orders imposed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Police say Lamine Adam, 26, his brother, Ibrahim, 20, and Cerie Bullivant, 24, have been missing for more than 24 hours and may be together. Members of the public are being warned not to approach them, but to call 999. ... Control orders place a type of house arrest on those suspected of international terrorism.

Police launched the appeal for help tracing the men by releasing their names, descriptions and pictures after all three failed to make contact with authorities.
... The Adam brothers did not contact a monitoring company on Monday evening. ...

The Home Office said there are 17 people currently on control orders. In total, six people have absconded from control orders.
Earlier on Wednesday, in a break with the practice adopted after the previous incidents, Mr Reid asked the High Court to lift the three men's anonymity to help with the police investigation.
The fact that they lifted anonymity of these three (out of the six) means to me that they are considered more dangerous.

Is a plot afoot? One we've been warned about?

THE ISLAMO-THUGS OF GAZA ARE FREAKIN NUTS

BBC:
Militants reject Gaza truce call
Palestinian militants say there will be no ceasefire until Israel stops attacks in Gaza, despite an appeal by Mahmoud Abbas.
Er um, one bunch of islamo-thugs will murder another bunch of jihado-thugs unless and until Israel relinquishes her right to self-defense agaunst the Kassam rocket attacks upon her civilians!?!?

These Arabs are completely meshuganah (nuts).

IT'S A NEW BALLGAME AT THE UN

THERE'S A NEW UNSG - A SOUTH KOREAN, BAN KI MOON.

WE HAVE A MUSLIM AS OUR UN AMBASSADOR.

AND FRANCE IS ON OUR SIDE AGAIN.

MAYBE NOW WE CAN GET THE UNSC TO FORGE UNIFIED AND TOUGH ACTIONS AGAINST IRAN AND SYRIA.

AND SUDAN AND ZIMBABWE.

AMNESTY INTL. OPPOSES STOPPING TERRORISM

Once again, Amnesty International shows why it's otherwise just a criminal organization that tolerates crime:
LONDON (AP) - The United States is treating the globe like a giant battlefield in its war on terrorism, eroding rights worldwide, a leading human rights group said Wednesday.

Amnesty International's Secretary-General Irene Khan said the United States and its allies' behavior was setting a destructive example for other nations, and that other countries were using the war on terror as an excuse to violate human rights and stifle dissent.

"One of the biggest blows to human rights has been the attempt of Western democratic states to roll back some fundamental principles of human rights - like the prohibition of torture," Khan told The Associated Press, speaking before the launch of her organization's annual report on the global state of human rights.

While Amnesty International has highlighted rights issues that have erupted since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, little of the 337-page report dealt with the terrorist threat itself or attacks linked to the al-Qaida terror network.

The report condemned the United States' response to international terrorism, saying it had done little to reduce the threat, while deepening mistrust between Muslims and non-Muslims and undermining the rule of law. The Bush administration's policy of extraordinary rendition - the alleged practice of secretly flying terror suspects to countries where they could be tortured - came in for particularly scathing condemnation.

"The U.S. administration's double speak has been breathtakingly shameless," the report said. "It is unrepentant about the global web of abuse it has spun in the name of counterterrorism."

In Washington, Deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the report reads more like a political document than an honest review of human rights around the world.

"It's pretty clear that Amnesty International thought that we'd make a convenient ideological punching bag," he said.
Yeah, and look who's crying "double-speak", none other than Amnesty! They also make no distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims, voicing endless moral equivalence, and they should be shunned as the phonies they are.

LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST MAURITANIAN DICTATOR FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING

Here's a newsletter I got from SliwaNews regarding the situation in Mauritania:
For Immediate Release:
May 22, 2007

Mauritanian Exiles File Lawsuit Against Former Dictator For Ethnic Cleansing

New York, NY - Mauritanian exiles living in New York filed a class action lawsuit yesterday against Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya, for the crimes committed during a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Black Mauritanians from 1989 to 1991. The lawsuit was filed in United States Federal Court by attorneys from the Refugee Defense Alliance.

A press conference will be held on Thursday, May 24th in New York at 6:30 pm at the Global Information Network, 146 W 29th Street, Suite 7E. For more information contact Wesley O'Brien at wesley.obrien@gmail.com.

Mauritania, situated on the edge of the Sahara along the west coast of Africa, is divided ethnically between the Arab north and Black-African south. Black-Africans in Mauritania have long resisted the policy of Arabization and continued practice of slavery in the country.

Using a 1989 border skirmish with neighboring Senegal as a pretext, government forces acting under the command of defendant Taya used torture, murder and large-scale deportation to establish Arab domination of the land, military and government. By 1991, thousands of Black-Africans were murdered and more than 120,000 were deported.

Defendant Taya, who is also under indictment by the International Court of Justice, led a dictatorial regime for 21 years with Ely Ould Mohamed Vall acting as chief of his secret police. In August 2005, Vall seized power through a military coup, but has since permitted elections and the transfer of power to a newly elected president.

Lead plaintiff Abda Wone stated, "Some people say that we should not open old wounds after the country has experienced what was characterized as a democratic election and a peaceful transfer of power. But until the thousands of Black Mauritanians living as slaves are free and the refugees can return home, we have a country that is neither democratic nor peaceful. At least now we might have justice."

Lisa Vives
Executive Director
Global Information Network
146 West 29th Street Suite 7E
New York, NY 10001
www.globalinfo.org
212-244-3123 (voice)
212-244-3522 (fax)

GLOBAL INFORMATION NETWORK distributes news and feature articles on Africa and the developing world to mainstream, alternative, ethnic and minority-owned outlets in the U.S. and Canada. Our goal is to increase the perspectives available to readers in North America and to bring into their view information about global issues that are overlooked or under-reported by mainstream media.
The blacks of Mauritania most definitely should have justice after what they've been through. The Muslim dictators dominating the country do not belong there, and should be shown the door!

TWO SITES WORTH VISITING

In Ponder the Maunder we find a 15-year-old High School student speaking more sense about global warming than you will read in most newspapers.

In Apocaholics Anonymous you will find an amusing catalogue of all the prophecies of doom that have got major media attention in the last 50 years or thereabouts. There were an amazing number of such false prophecies.

(For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, DISSECTING LEFTISM, IMMIGRATION WATCH and EYE ON BRITAIN. My Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here.)

THE MUSLIM TERROR OF SEXUALITY

Excerpt:

The men of Islam are obsessed with sex beyond even the wildest imaginings of the Western male's mind. And the obsession is far from healthy and even further from reality. We frequently joke about men's preoccupation with sex and female body parts in the West, but our fascination with "T&A" is nothing when you consider that the Muslim world is literally consumed by female sexuality and with their fear of it. It is ironic that both Muslim men and women are under the mistaken impression that Western society is oversexualized compared to them, when in fact, it is practically impossible to be more obsessed with sexual matters than they are in Muslim communities.

Consider for a moment a culture that would prefer to let young girls die in a burning building than to risk having them run out of said building not clothed in properly modest dress; and tell me that such a society is less preoccupied with matters of sex than we are in the West.

Enormous effort goes into veiling women, dressing women modestly, silencing women, covering women's bodies, punishing women, controlling women, reviling women, humiliating women, beating women, subjugating women, avoiding the dishonor of women, keeping women uneducated, policing women, infantilizing women--in short, dehumanizing women in every way possible -- all under the guise of "protecting" and "honoring" them as they relegate them to animal-like status.

The women in this misogynistic Islam are brainwashed from birth into thinking that this cultural preoccupation somehow is necessary and that it "liberates" them in some bizarre manner.

Amazingly, this medieval culture has grasped the fundamentals of both Orwellian and postmodern rhetorical rationalizations, that are so prominent in certain intellectual quarters within our own culture! I have heard the canned rationalizations coming from their lips of muslim women myself; and they all claim that it frees them from having to be "sexual objects."

On the contrary, in Islamic society that is apparently the only role open to women. That, and breeders for the jihad.

This societal psychopathology poisons all interactions between the genders; takes up an incredible amount of time and effort in so-called "intellectual" circles and is the subject of religious edicts and innumerable rules and strictures on women's behavior and in the religious and social life; and causes the pseudoscientific rantings of arrogantly pathetic men (like the one above) who try to justify their misogyny so that they don't have to deal with the reality of their frightened and impotent masculinity.

Women become mere possessions-vessels/repositories of the impotent and inadequate male's honor. That men and women could relate equally in every sphere of human endeavor is a concept that is so alien and so threatening; I suspect it is what partly drives the rage the males feel toward western culture in general.

Without the subjugated woman, the entire house of cards of Islam and Arab culture will come tumbling down. And with at least 50% of their population de-humanized, is it at all surprising that Islamic culture wherever it has taken root inevitably evolves into backward, primitive, violent, and non-productive societies?

I have said it before and I will say it again here: the treatment of women under Islam is not only the key to understanding the pathology of the culture, but also the key to developing an antidote to its most poisonous and toxic elements.

Source

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MCCAIN'S MELTDOWN HAS BEGUN

John McCain has been losing it lately. Dare I say that if Ron Paul is the Republicans' Dennis Kucinich then John McCain is the Republicans' Howard Dean. It has been common knowledge that McCain has a temper but to lose it at people in your own party is pretty sad. Rush mentioned yesterday that he told a friend of his that was worried about McCain getting the nomination that it would only be a matter of time before he imploded. It looks like that process may have begun.

THE MELTDOWN

1) McCain drops the F bomb on a fellow Republican Senator over the Immigration bill.
McCain somehow thinks he is a god and if he and Teddy Kennedy work up an immigration bill then everyone must jump on the bandwagon with no questions or debate. Yet, what really seemed to tick him off was the fact that Cornyn mentioned he hadn't been around because he's out running for President. Ouch, the truth hurts!!

2) He said some pretty harsh things to Romney after Romney also dared to disagree with him over immigration.
"Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn."

MORE ON MCCAIN

1) Why Dennis Prager says John McCain is disqualified!
Prager used to support McCain but no more!!

2) Reliapundit wonders if McCain will run on a 3rd party ticket once he loses the Republican nomination.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Hollywood to Remake Barbarella




















I hope they do it WITHOUT Hanoi Jane this time.

Tho she was VERY hot back then.

WHO SHOULD THEY CAST A BARBARELLA?

  • Heather Graham?
  • Beyonce?
  • Salam Hayek?
  • Halle Berry?
  • Denise Richards?

IRANIAN "SURROGATES" TO CLANDESTINELY STRIKE EUROPE

THE AGE; (VIA NO PASARAN):
Iran is attempting to draw up plans to strike targets in Europe and has reconnoitered European nuclear power stations, a security analyst told a meeting at Britain's parliament.

Claude Moniquet, president of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre, a private think-tank in Brussels, said his organisation also had evidence Tehran has increased the number of its intelligence agents across Europe.

"We have serious signals that something is under preparation in Europe," Moniquet said. "Iranian intelligence is working extremely hard to prepare its people and to prepare actions."

The centre, which he said deals directly with European intelligence agencies, believes Iranian operatives have carried out "reconnaissance of targets in European cities, including nuclear power stations," Moniquet said. He mentioned no other specific targets.

...
Conservative parliamentarian Patrick Mercer told the meeting that Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, in a debate in December, had acknowledged worries about Tehran backing terrorist activity inside Britain.

There were "concerns about the scale and nature of terrorism in this country, and about whether some of that is inspired or funded in any way by forces in and around Iran," Beckett told MPs.

Parliament's intelligence and security committee, a panel of MPs which reviews the work of Britain's MI5 and MI6 domestic and foreign spy agencies, also warned last year of an "increased threat to UK interests from Iranian state-sponsored terrorism".
I'D GUESS THESE IMPENDING STRIKES - WHICH WILL MOST CERTAINLY BE UNDERTAKEN IN A WAY TO ENSURE IRAN DENIABILITY - WOULD BE "REPRISALS" FOR WHATEVER THE ACTION THE WEST TAKES WHICH PISSES OFF THE IRANIAN ISLAMO-TOTALITARIANS: COULD BE SANCTIONS AGAINST THEM OR SYRIA, OR AN UNBRIDLED ATTEMPT BY ISRAEL TO WIPE OUT HIZBALLAH.

IF WE DO NOT TOPPLE THESE ISLAMO-FASCISTS, IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL THEY STRIKE EUROPE, OR BEGIN A WIDE-SCALE INITFADA THERE.

MEANING... WE SHOULD STEP UP OUR AID TO THE REBELS AND RESISTERS THERE.

MORE ON THE RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AT GATEWAY. (SCROLL DOWN.)

OR... WE SHOULD PREEMPTIVELY ATTACK THEM BETWEEN THIS FALL AND NEXT WINTER

REAGAN VERSUS RFK

POWER LINE HAD THE LINK, TO A GREAT ESSAY AT NRO DESCRIBING A DEBATE BETWEEN REAGAN AND RFK IN 1967 - A DEBATE WHICH EVERYONE SAID REAGAN WON HANDS DOWN.

TAB HAS THE VIDEO EXCERPT.



REAGAN WAS RIGHT - IN 1967 - ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL, AS HE WOULD BE AS PRESIDENT WHEN HE CHALLENGED GORBACHEV TO "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" IN 1987.



BOTH TIMES IT SCARED THE BAJEEEZUS OUT OF THE LEFT.

BOTH TIMES - HECK: ALL THE TIME, REAGAN WAS RIGHT. AND THE LEFT WAS WRONG.

THE LEFT IS WRONG TODAY, TOO - ABOUT EVERYTHING: NMD AND IRAQ AND THE DRAFT AND IMMIGRATION AND ABOUT TAXPAYER-FINANCED "UNIVERSAL" HEALTHCARE COVERAGE AND GUN CONTROL AND TAXES.

IF WE ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO ELECT A LEFTIE TO THE WHITE HOUSE THEN WE WILL GET WHAT WE DESERVE.

THE CARTER CENTER FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CHRISTIAN/JEWISH ALLIANCE

You see, Jimmy Carter is a "born again Christian," and thus one of his primary concerns is making sure that Jews and Christians do not support each other:
Sabeel, a group trying to promote the view that Christians should not offer support to Israel, announces the opening of the Carter Center on the West Bank. This is nothing less than an attempt to weaken Christian support for Israel

This is a new low from you-know-who.

This support is based, in part, on a view that God has a covenant with Jews that Christians are Biblically bound to honor. The Sabeel group has been propagandizing the view that this Covenant between God and the Jews is broken and that Christians (in particular, Palestinian Christians) have replaced Jews as the group that God honors. Carter has now announced that he supports this effort. Carter has clearly embarked on an effort to erode support for Israel among Christians-this support has become increasingly important to Israel and therefore a target for Carter.

See "Splitting the Evangelicals from Israel" for some background. Also, this.
The idea that the Carter Center is trying to promote is called Replacement Theology. Replacement Theology was the foundation upon which Christian anti-Semitism grew throughout the millenia.

Here's what the Christian Bible (Romans Chapter 11) has to say about God's relationship in the days after the Messiah Jesus Christ died and was resurrected:

1I say then, God has not (A)rejected His people, has He? (B) May it never be! For (C) I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God (
D)has not rejected His people whom He (E)foreknew (F)Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

25 For (
AL)I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this (AM)mystery--so that you will not be (AN)wise in your own estimation--that a partial (AO) hardening has happened to Israel until the (AP)fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

26 and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,

"(
AQ)THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB." 27"(AR)THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, (AS)WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.

29 for the gifts and the (AV)calling of God (AW)are irrevocable. "

Thus, replacement theology is a heresy. American Protestants began the work of doing away with this heresy in the nineteenth century. The Vatican II formally renounced Replacement Theology, and Pope Benedict has written eloquently on the subject of the Jews place in God's larger plan for mankind.

Now, here we see Jimmy Carter, in conjunction with his Muslim allies, attempting to resurrect the discredited heresy. Jimmy Carter is a politician who is attempting to wade into Theological waters. By what authority has he set about redefining Christian doctrine?

TWO MORE HAMAS CAMPS LEVELED

More takedowns of Hamas HQs, and a point is made:
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli airstrikes Tuesday targeted two camps used by the Islamic militant group Hamas, one day after a Palestinian rocket attack killed a woman in southern Israel, and Israeli leaders suggested even the Palestinian premier could be targeted in reprisal strikes.
If we're talking about Abbas, he certainly should be. He was a financier for the massacre at the 1972 Munich olympics.
After Monday's night's deadly rocket strike, Israeli defense officials said the army would step up its attacks on Palestinian militants, warning that Hamas' top leaders, including Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, could be in danger.

"They are just terrorists in suits. This doesn't exonerate him," Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh told Israel Radio. "There is no one in the leading, commanding circle of Hamas who has immunity."
While he may be a leftist, we'll still have to credit Sneh for making a valid point about how both Fatah and Hamas officials are just terrorists in suits, which even Saddam wore when he was still alive and ran his reign of tyranny in Iraq.