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Saturday, August 04, 2007

EX-BIN LADEN SISTER IN LAW: OSAMA ALIVE ...


... AND IN TOUCH WITH HIS FAMILY IN SAUDI ARABIA - WHERE HE IS AS RESPECTED AS EVER.

More on her here. Her book HERE (2004).

IN OTHER BIN LADEN FAMILY NEWS: his son's FIRST wife is going to ditch him for marrying a 51 year old British granny, (who slept with George Best!).

HEY OSAMA: YOUR FAMILY IS A FREAKIN' JOKE!

APPEASEMENT: IT'S A CAUCASIAN THING

By Seth Franzman:
A recent article by a Caucasian ignoramus entitled ‘Four young Americans on a Journey into Islam - which appeared in the Herald Tribune on Friday, August 3rd, 2007 - noted how four white Americans had taken a ‘journey’ with a professor named Akbar Ahmed to a number of Muslim states including Pakistan and Egypt to understand the other.

Jonathan Hayden (of Alabama), Hailey Woldt (a ‘blonde Texan’) and Hadia Mubarek (an American born Muslim) were among the students that Ahmed brought with him to meet with Muslims and build cultural bridges.

We are informed of the lengths the whites went to please the other.


Woldt dyed her hair brown.

“As the trip progressed she began dressing more traditionally. Reaching Jinnah’s mausoleum [in Pakistan], she realized she had forgotten a head scarf, or hijab, and refused to enter. Ahmed and some Pakistani women assured her she did not need one, but she held firm until she could borrow a scarf.”


Hadia Mubarek, who wears a head scarf in America and in Muslim countries was almost refused entrance to a university in Istanbul because she was covering her hair, something secular Turkish institutions frown upon.

All the Muslims spoke about how their role model was Mohammed.

The group made sure to meet with all the anti-western, Jihadist organizations it could including members of the Deoband madrasa.

When, after many days of meeting with the friendly Islamists, one of the Islamists named Aijaz Qasmi, finally stopped referring to them as “American barbarians” the white women, Hailey, “was moved by Qasmi’s gesture and by what it portended.”

The white woman noted that “it’s like changing the rotation of the Earth.”

The moronic author of the article noted that Ahmed’s book ‘Islam Under Siege,’ “talks about dialogue, common humanity and the need for understanding."
Its always interesting to see how Westerners, particularly Western women, always think that the only way to have understanding between cultures is for westerners to become part of the other culture, to dress like it and act like it.

The western woman on the trip never once bothered to ask why she alone, rather than her male counterparts, had to dress differently in order to please Islam and why one should change their dress just to please others’ conception of ‘morality’. Note the hypocrisy of these actions. The Muslim women, Hadia, doesn’t conform to the west by taking off her head scarf when she comes to a western country. But the white woman, Hailey, makes sure to don the headscarf and even wears it when Muslims don’t.

The Westerner rejoices at getting people to perhaps not call them ‘barbarians’ to their faces. The westerner thinks that a book entitled ‘Islam under siege’ is really a book that speaks of a ‘common humanity.’

Can anyone imagine a black student who is interested in ‘building cultural bridges’ going up and spending a weekend with the KKK at one of their retreats and being ‘overjoyed’ because the KKK members stop calling her ‘nigger’?

Oddly enough, we don’t see too many blacks doing that.

But while blacks don’t show much interest in embracing their former slave masters and colonial overlords who still hate them, the whites seem intent on always embracing any culture that hates them, especially Muslims who formerly colonized half of Europe and enslaved its people.

Cross-posted here

FIDEL, MUGABE, CHAVEZ, CARTER AND HILLARY: LEFTISTS WITH A CAUSE

I think it is important top remember that when Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980 he was seen as a benign force. BBC:
1980: Exiled Mugabe returns to Rhodesia

Rhodesia opposition leader Robert Mugabe has made a triumphant return to his home country after five years in exile.

Cheering crowds greeted Mr
Mugabe's arrival in the capital, Salisbury, from Mozambique where he has been gathering support for his Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) or Zanu (PF) party.

The Rhodesian black nationalist leader, who spearheaded a guerrilla war against the Salisbury government, told a tumultuous rally of supporters there would be no more injustice based on race and colour. An estimated 200,000 or more people were at the Zimbabwe grounds in the Highfield black township of Salisbury to greet Mr Mugabe.

It was by far the largest crowd to attend a rally given by any of the black political parties taking part in next month's election.

"We will not seize land from anyone who has a use for it" -
Robert Mugabe
Mugabe LIED.

Chavez gave a similar assurance. Chavez LIED, TOO - though commies claim it was an "evolution":
But the statement of Chavez that he is a Trotskyist reflects the leftward evolution of his political thinking and his personal growing radicalisation. At the beginning of the Venezuelan revolution in 1998 Chavez quite openly admitted that he was in favour of the "third way" and did not in any way challenge capitalism as such.

It was only in January 2005, at the time of the expropriation of Venepal, that he first said that "within the limits of capitalism there is no solution to the problems facing the Venezuelan masses" and that the revolution must go towards "socialism of the 21st century".

This change in his political thinking came about as a result of several things, he said, of the experience of the Bolivarian Revolution (trying to apply basic reforms such as free healthcare and education for all and being confronted by an armed uprising on the part of the capitalist class), reading and discussing.

Shortly before he declared himself to be a socialist, he had bought a copy of Trotsky's Permanent Revolution, at a meeting in Madrid where he spoke in front of an audience of workers and youth at the headquarters of the Workers' Commissions trade union (the CCOO). He obviously became very interested in the ideas of Trotsky, as these provided a socialist ideal, which was completely opposed to the Stalinist caricature that had fallen in the Soviet Union.


More or less at the same time, in an interview with Al Jazeera he explained that in his view, what had fallen in the Soviet Union "was not socialism, what was there had moved away a lot from the original aim of Lenin and of Trotsky, particularly after Stalin".
JUST LIKE FIDEL LIED:
Fidel Castro insisted his ideology was, first and foremost, Cuban. "There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy," he said at the time.


The current crop of leftists running for the Democrat Party nomination have given similar assurances - or have claimed that they only intend to:
raise taxes on the rich, or on hedge fund managers, or just lower the ratio of manager-to-worker pay, or just raise taxes on CO2. Or just on Big Oil. Or just on Big Pharma.







IT IS A MISTAKE TO BELIEVE ANY LEFTIST WHEN THEY CLAIM THEY HAVE A LIMITED AIMS AND MERELY WANT "ECONOMIC JUSTICE."


Or that they don't want less free speech, and just seek a return to the "fairness" doctrine.


















These lies are the exit ramp to the road to serfdom.


And as Zimbabwe once again proves, the road ALWAYS leads to a reduction in freedom and to poverty - for abundance is a by-product of liberty: ONLY FREEMARKETS CREATE ABUNDANCE.




REMEMBER: Mugabe's rise to power was facilitated by the same horrible leftist man who facilitated the rise of KHOMEINI: the "liberal" James Earl Carter. (Hat tip YID WITH LID.)






Hillary, and Obama and Edwards - the front-runners for the Democrat nomination - ALL promise similar policies to Carter - and Mugabe and Chavez:
more taxes; more regulations (less freedom in freemarkets); and appeasement abroad.
It will have the same results:
the MISERY INDEX will soar, and tyrannical regimes inimical to the USA and the Free World will proliferate.
We must do whatever we can to prevent such a disaster.

Some crime statistics

Post recycled from Dinocrat and Ralph Peters

In the 19-month period - over a year and a half - from Jan. 1, 2006 until the morning you read this, misbehavior by our troops resulted in a total of 59 scheduled court-martials in Iraq - 21 of them general court-martials, which are reserved for the most-serious crimes (murder, rape, robbery, assault, arson and so forth). The other 38 were special court-martials, invoked for lesser offenses, such as disciplinary infractions or petty theft.

OK: 59 trials in 19 months, among an average troop population of almost 140,000. Compare that to civilian crime statistics back home, and it's clear that any of us would welcome the chance to live among such model citizens - even though our troops are overwhelmingly within the age window where criminal behavior is most frequent.

Start with a city that Money magazine rated as "one of the 10 best places to live" in the United States: Ann Arbor, Mich. Home to a great university, the town has a population of about 113,300 - about 20,000 lower than our pre-surge troop numbers in Iraq.

In 2005 (the last year for which statistics are available), that ideal place to live recorded 1,476 crimes that, if committed by a soldier, would have required a general court-martial - plus a further 2,282 thefts and similar infractions that, depending on the details, would have been handled by either a general or a special court-martial.

Twelve months in Ann Arbor, 3,758 court-martial-equivalent trials. If all the crimes had been taken to court, which one doubts. Nineteen months in Iraq, under the complex stresses of combat? 59 court-martials. Guess that bastion of ethical liberalism in Michigan needs to go through basic training.

But let's give peace a chance: The most dogmatically left-wing city in the United States is undoubtedly (the People's Republic of) Santa Cruz, Calif. With a population of some 55,000 - about a third of our current troop numbers in Iraq - Santa Cruz, where the Age of Aquarius reigns, had 503 violent crimes in 2004 (the latest statistics available) and a total of 3,665 crimes that would qualify for court-martials.

Extrapolate those numbers to match our current troop strength, and you'd have a requirement for more than 10,000 court-martial equivalents. If Santa Cruz were as serious about punishing its criminals as our military is.

Source

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Coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef in record cold snap

Hey! Wasn't coral bleaching supposed to be caused by global WARMING?? And what's this about record cold? Another case below of heads I win, tails you lose, it seems



A RECORD cold snap across southern Queensland has triggered coral bleaching normally associated with the extremes of hot weather linked to climate change. Scientists say the bleaching has been caused by a combination of cold waters, winds and air temperatures hitting exposed reefs around the Capricorn-Bunker group of islands at the southern end of the reef.

While other sections of the reef appear to have been spared by being fully submerged or far enough north to avoid the worst of the cold snaps in June and July, bleaching has been recorded by University of Queensland researchers on Heron Island, near Rockhampton. The area is regarded as having some of the most pristine sections of accessible reef. Coral expert Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, from the University of Queensland's Centre for Marine Studies, warned researchers along the reef to look for bleaching after Townsville experienced one of its coldest days on record, on June 20.

Strong and sustained southerly winds that brought heavy rain to much of southeast Queensland in June and July exacerbated the chilly conditions for coral exposed at low tide and weakened the algae on the coral needed to keep it healthy. Professor Hoegh-Guldberg said the comfort zone for coral was between 19C and 27C but temperatures had fallen to 8C. While bleaching from extreme heat affects entire reefs, the cold bleaching appears to be isolated to the tips of wide areas of coral exposed to the chill. Professor Hoegh-Guldberg said the extreme variation in temperature might be more common as climate change caused hotter summers and colder winters. [Really? Funny warming then. Sounds like no warming at all on average]

CSIRO oceanographer David Griffin said the only noticeably cold currents were further south, around Fraser Island, suggesting water was being cooled at the surface by the air temperature.

Source

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Friday, August 03, 2007

EXPOSED: ANOTHER BIG LIE AT THE NYTIMES

THE BIG LIE IS ALL THE LEFT HAS LEFT, EVIDENTLY.

BEAUCHAMP AND TNR WERE EXPOSED THIS WEEK AS LIARS. LIKE CBS AND RATHERGATE.

NOW IT'S THE NYTIMES CHANCE.

A FEW WEEKS AGO, THE NYTIMES AND THEIR GUEST COLUMNIST, NOAH FELDMAN, DELIBERATELY MISLED THEIR READERS ABOUT AN IMPORTANT FEATURE ARTICLE PENNED BY FELDMAN.POWER LINE HAS THE DETAILS.

THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE MSM ALTERING THE FACTS TO FIT THEIR TEMPLATE.

LYING SCUM.

LET'S ATTACK A SYMBOL OF ISLAMO-MISOGYNY: BAN THE BURQA

We can strike a blow against islamo-misogyny right here in the West; PIPES:
Once-exotic forms of Muslim women's head and body garments have now become both familiar in the West and the source of fractious political and legal disputes.

... The practice of covering the face derives from tribal customs that build on Islamic law, not the law itself.

For example, some tribeswomen in Saudi Arabia's Al-Kharj region put on the burqa at puberty, then never take it off – not for other women, not for their husbands, and not for their children. These family members typically see the woman's face only when viewing her corpse.


... Nothing in Islam requires turning females into shapeless, faceless zombies; good sense calls for modesty itself to be modest.

The time has come everywhere to ban from public places these hideous, unhealthy, socially divisive, terrorist-enabling, and criminal-friendly garments.
Pipes has details and links. RTWT.

I believe that the root cause of islamo-terrorism is islamo-misogyny: a people whose ideology teaches that woman must never be seen in public or have the freedom to dress as they please, and teaches its young men that it's okay (1) to beat their wiveS (PLURAL!), and (2) force their daughters to marry their cousins, and (3) kill their sisters for "dishonoring" their family, will of teach these same young men that it is okay to commit genocidal terror against infidels.

We need to begin to go on the offensive against islamo-misigyny. Banning these sexist garments would be a start.

We must make Muslim women feel free and safe enough to dress as they please, and to marry who and when they please.

Real Sunflowers

My first mate did this:

Real Sunflowers
Click on image to see a larger version.

THE UK: BROWN TO GO?

The U.K. is under enormous pressure and Gordon Brown isn't going to be the leader she needs, despite his relatively good relationship with the U.S. He has been left in between a rock and a hard place by the departure of Tony Blair. While a large majority of Brits want to distance themselves from the U.S., in reality, cutting the trans-Atlantic ties would be a revolutionary change to the foreign policy that has stood through the world wars of the last century. For reasons of his own, Brown has opted to strengthen the ties despite public opinion. See here. However, pressure from the E.U. is pulling in the opposite direction.

This is the other conundrum facing Brown; the increasing demands from the Merkel-Sarkozy led E.U. The ever more centralizing superstate want to cut out the voice of British citizens by referendum and expect to dictate to the MPs of Britain instead. Brits naturally are not keen on this either. See here.

A Brown seen to be leaning towards an increasingly centralized and dominating E.U. is unlikely to impress voters before the next elections. But one observer believes Brown may even be considering bailing out:
"

"There is another reason he may go early, it's the stock mkts and the problems coming from the Houseing mkt, in the US.


So far this has all been nothing much to anyone not in the mkts, but believe me there is a very serious problem in the US mortgage mkt, which is spreading to all the credit mkts. Assets worth Trillions have gone to Zero overnight. Anything other than Gu'mint debt is allmost frozen, there is no mkt for it, so all that Private Finance buying/flipping is over, no-one will lend to them.

There is also smoke comming out of the Hedge Fund World and a very nasty smell....some funds are stopping redemptions...ie you can't get yr money out and no-one has any idea, just what most have on their books. This is what is spooking the Stock mkts, which themselves are way overvalued on an historical dividend yield basis.

The old adage is that if the US catches a cold we get pneumonia, well the problems in the US involve trillions of Dollars, so they may get pneumonia this time, which means we probably die."

The U.K. is being torn from several directions and now it looks as though a political vacuum may possibly develop at the top. I have to wonder at the chances the U.K. has of retaining some vestige of sovereignty in the face of its internal and external pressures. In my opinion, the destruction has been the handiwork of the Marxist institutions such as the BBC which have worked tirelessly at tearing down the British spirit and common sense that made Britain the great empire it was.



Cross-posted at The Midnight Sun

More Proof that we're WINNING IN IRAQ

University of Michigan via HOT AIR:

Aug. 2, 2007

Iraqi attitudes continue to shift toward secular values

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The political values of Iraqis are increasingly secular and nationalistic, according to a series of surveys of nationally representative samples of the population from December 2004-March 2007.

Findings from a July 2007 survey are expected to be released before the end of the summer.


So far, the surveys show a decline in popular support for religious government in Iraq and an increase in support for secular political rule, said sociologist Mansoor Moaddel, who is affiliated with Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR).
WE ARE WINNING. THE ONLY WAY WE CAN LOSE IS IF THE DEMOCRAT CONGRESS CUTS & RUNS AND HANDS IRAQ TO AL QAEDA.

ANOTHER REASON WE'RE HAWKS: The Late Shirley Horn

There's more to life than war, taxes and politics - and a lot of it's more fun, too! That's why every WEEKEND, here at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, we post on some of the cultural things we're into, things we think you might also find entertaining, enriching, and stimulating. And who knows: We just might turn you on to something cool.

REMEMBER: the arts - ALL ARTS, not just fine arts - are a big part of what our liberty is for, and what we're fighting to defend! SO here's goes:

Here's one of the very few videos of one of the greatest jazz singers and jazz pianist of all time - and Miles' fav' (and one who would've been BANNED by the mullahs!): SHIRLEY HORN:

"Soot From Cooking Fires Melting Himalayan Glaciers" - AND NOT MAN-MADE CO2

VIA NEWSBUSTERS:

Scientific American elaborated on the study's findings (emphasis added):

The primary culprit seems to be the black carbon in soot, which soaks up any sunlight it can, thereby warming whatever it touches. And the dominant source for all this black carbon is cooking fires, [Scripps climatologist Veerabhadran] Ramanathan says. All these cooking fires are, in effect, drying the region, both by contributing to the melting of glaciers that feed Asia's major rivers as well as by decreasing the evaporation that drives rainfall. Aerosols across the board, from black carbon to sulfates, appear to be increasing across Asia as it industrializes.

Wonderfully, the solution is likely much simpler than trying to reduce CO2 emissions, and doesn't require raising taxes or destroying economies:

But the problem can be solved by swapping other fuels and methods for the wood in cooking fires. "The aerosol lifetime is two weeks," Ramanathan says. "If the world pays attention and puts resources to it, we will see an effect immediately. I'm talking weeks, at most a few months, not decades or centuries."

That contrasts with solutions for CO2 emissions, which will require much longer periods to show effects. Because the brown cloud appears to be at least as important, eliminating it could buy time to implement more far-reaching solutions before catastrophic glacial melt and other climate change impacts occur, Ramanathan argues.

BOTTOM-LINE: MAN-MADE CO2 - SPECIFICALLY MADE BY THE USA AND THE INDUSTRIAL WEST - IS NOT THE CULPRIT. PERIOD. END OF STORY.

SCHEMES TO LIMITS OUR CO2 EMISSIONS WILL THEREFORE HAVE ZERO EFFECT ON THE CLIMATE.

Frederick Forsyth: BIG BROTHER'S CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA

DAILY EXPRESS:
Thirty years ago we were all being told to rush out and buy ­thermal underwear for the coming New Ice Age.

What happened to it?


Two years ago we were assured that “global warming” would give us warmer, wetter winters but long, hot, dry summers.

Is that what has been happening in Tewkesbury?


Now we are told global warming has given us the wettest summer since records began. Maybe. But this year’s downpour is just one inch more than nine other years and eight of them took place when there wasn’t a car or jet engine on the planet. So what caused the broken records?

It is clear the climate is changing and man is a contributory factor. But as to man’s exact percentage contribution, we simply do not know. Climate has simply billions of variables which even huge computers cannot solve.

... It is clear the climate is changing and man is a contributory factor. But as to man’s exact percentage contribution, we simply do not know. Climate has simply billions of variables which even huge computers cannot solve.

What effect on ­climate does violent solar activity (in this area the sun has been going crazy for several years) have?

And why do Pacific currents such as El Nino and La Nina have such a staggering effect on the entire global climate when they mal­function (as they both just have)? And why do they do it? We just do not know.

But we do know some things. We know that there have been rhythmic warmings and coolings of the climate. And we know they occurred when mankind had nothing to burn more than a few logs from the forest.

...No, I do not believe man is doomed.

Nor do I believe he should behave as if he is insane.

But I do believe our Big Brothers will use the headless chicken hysteria to rip vast quantities of money from our ­pockets, shouting “save the planet, save the planet” while they gorge themselves on our sweat and labour.
YUP: BIG BROTHER IS A GREEN LEFTIST TAXING US FOR THE COMMON GOOD.

THE CLIMATE WON'T KILL US, BUT THEIR TAXES WILL.

More Leftist Hate Speech

A Leftist site -- Firedoglake -- describes Republican supporters:

"Imagine a whole two hour debate composed entirely of questions from men lovingly cradling their assault rifles, matronly polyester-swathed frumps of much avoirdupois braying and squawking about abstinence-only education and the danger of Harry Potter in our schools, angry old men taking a break from standing on their porches shouting, "Get the hell out of my yard!" to stare Mike Gravel-like into the camera and demand to know what the candidates plan to do about "th' dayumn Mexicans".

Source

Stereotyping anyone? As Tigerhawk comments:

"Folks at Firedoglake enjoy mocking the middle-American crackers, even if they would never humiliate an African-American, Hispanic, French, or Muslim idiot for fear of social isolation. There are plenty of fools on both the left and right, but it is only safe for the media to make fun of poor white trash.

Source

It also shows how hollow is the Leftist claim to represent "the little guy". Leftists are in fact elitists who hate poor whites.

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More slippery Leftist talk about race

The conclusion of a recent article by Matthew Syed in "The Times" is as follows: "The conclusion is unavoidable: those who invoke race as an explanation of real and perceived differences between humans have an agenda that is other than scientific"

How does he arrive at that conclusion? By pointing out, quite correctly, that there are well-known differences WITHIN races. West Africans are better at sprinting and East Africans are better at long-distance running, for instance. So therefore, he thinks, in a breathtaking overgeneralization, all talk of race is misleading.

That is an old quibble, however. While it is true that statements such as "Blacks make the best sprinters" are much less precise than they could be, they are nonetheless true statements -- as are other generalizations about race -- such as: "African-Americans commit violent crimes about 9 times as often as white Americans". Such statements are simple statements of fact and saying that anyone who utters such statements "has an agenda that is other than scientific" is just indulging in the usual fact-ignoring Leftist abuse.

Insofar as I can find any logic at all in Syed's pontification, I think he may be pointing out that what is true of any group is not necessarily true of all members in that group. I know of no-one who would dispute that, however, so Syed's attack is an attack on a straw man.

Syed also seems unaware that the usual racial classifications are well-reflected in the DNA of the people concerned. See e.g. here and here.

From his surname, I suspect that Syed is a Muslim. So let me give him another generalization to chew on: "The statements of prominent Muslims are not notable for their reliance on logic". That statement is of course a generalization and, as such, does not preclude some prominent Muslims from being very logical -- but Syed is clearly not one of those.

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THE REAL MICHAEL MOORE


Hat tip: Wake Up America

This is a powerful video that exposes just a few of the many lies Michael Moore has foisted upon the American people through his propaganda movies and his life. It is well worth watching.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

NUKES AND MIDGET SUBS: HOW AND WHERE IRAN MIGHT USE THEIR NUKES

Just a guess:

First: it's gotta be obvious to anyone with an IQ that Iran is only interested in enriching uranium to make bombs.

NEED PROOF: As the Guardian asked last week, why rush to enrich uranium for peaceful uses when the nuclear power plant they're building isn't finished and can't used what they're making? And why did they keep it secret and lie about for all those years? And why have they been running it NONSTOP on a blitz to produce enriched uranium? QUOTE:
For the time being, the wires are back in place at Isfahan, along with two IAEA cameras that stare down from high perches on either side. But the degree of international control is tenuous at best.

The very fact that the machinery is humming at Isfahan puts Iran in contravention of UN security council resolutions, calling for all work related to uranium enrichment to be suspended…


There is another huge question mark hanging over Isfahan and Natanz: why is the government in such a rush to enrich fuel, when it has no nuclear power plants in which to use it?
Okay then... let's say they build a few nukes...



WELL: HOW WILL THEY USE THEM?


I would guess that they WON'T load them on missiles and launch them at anyone.









WHY? Because, the missiles could be intercepted.

And because missiles are TRACEABLE. A missile is - after all - QUITE LITERALLY A HUGE SMOKING GUN! And that will invite a massive retaliatory nuclear strike against Iran - at the very least.



So, to avoid that mess, the mullahs MIGHT dispatch the nukes via a islam-ikaze jihado-terrorist. They maintain deniability that way.


Perhaps in a suicidal-submarine attack against a major port - (Norfolk, New York, LA, Haifa). They have subs. MIDGET SUBS.

I think they would love to sneak a nuke inside of Israel. Right now, the Iranians are looking for Hebrew speakers; they claim to do propaganda. But I think they need them in order to get inside of Israel: I think they might want these Hebrew speakers to smuggle a nuke into Israel piece by piece, and build it there. And sneak in the uranium in via the sea - in a midget sub. Perhaps they'd do this during a major Hizballah and Hamas attack - an attack staged as a diversion.

Just a guess. Just gaming it. Just a scenario.



Update/other scenarios - 8/2/07: (1) Iranians could also try to attach a submersible nuke to a commercial ocean liner heading for a major port.

Or (2) they might have 19 jihadis take an ocean cruise from NYC to the Caribbean. All they'd take aboard in NYC (where there's ample security) would be the non-radioactive parts for a nuke. They'd get the radioactive parts and the trigger - (disguised as some silly tourist crap) - at one of the island stops, and smuggle back on board down there - where there's next to no security. They'd blow it up upon their return.

IT'S JUST SCENARIO... but I wonder how we'd stop either of these operations?

WHY THE US CONSTITUTION MADE THE PRESIDENT- AND NOT CONGRESS OR THE COURTS - COMMANDER IN CHIEF

LATIMES:
A special court that has routinely approved eavesdropping operations has put new restrictions on the ability of U.S. spy agencies to intercept e-mails and telephone calls of suspected terrorists overseas, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The previously undisclosed ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has prompted concern among senior intelligence officials and lawmakers that the efforts of U.S. spy agencies to track terrorism suspects might be impaired at a time when analysts have warned that the United States is under heightened risk of attack.
IF WE'RE ATTACKED BETWEEN NOW AND 8/11 - RAJAB 27 - THEN I'LL BLAME CONGRESS AND THE COURTS.

JOHN KERRY DOESN'T KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD "VICTORY"

Yahoo/AP:
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, argued that the Bush administration's lack of planning for the occupation of Iraq shows Congress needs to be involved in planning the withdrawal.

"The Pentagon ought to be planning to save lives, not save face," Kerry said.
Planning withdrawal!?!? Before the job is done. SHEESH. Did Ike do this in 1944!?

No, Senator; the Pentagon ought to planning how we win.

WINNING: now that's a word which Kerry has probably never used in relation to any US military effort. He only knows about retreating and then slandering the troops.

Kerry is left-wing dove scum. Like Obama and Edwards and Hillary.

Patton knew what wars were about and how they're WON :
  • War is a killing business. You must spill the enemy's blood or they will spill yours.
  • ... The pacifists are at it again. I met a 'visiting fireman' of great eminence who told me that this was to be the 'last war'. I told him that such statements since 2600 B.C. had signed the death warrants of millions of young men. He replied with the stock lie, 'Oh yes, but things are different now'. My God! Will they never learn?
  • The pacifist actually refuses to defend what defends him; his country. In the final analysis this is the most basic immoral position.
  • ... Politicians are the lowest form of life on the earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.
HOW TRUE: Politicians are the lowest form of life on the earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.

And Kerry and Edwards and Hillary and Obama are the LOWEST form of liberal Democrat.

JOHN EDWARDS VERSUS DAVID LETTERMAN: WHO IS RUDY GIULIANI?

EDWARDS: "RUDY IS BUSH ON STEROIDS."

LETTERMAN: "RUDY IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF COURAGE."

RELIAPUNDIT: "EDWARDS IS A FAIRY. RUDY IS NOT."

MORE HERE.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER - Part 40

Hmm, what do you know? Forty! The number which basically means spiritual trial in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The Israeli's suffered for forty years in the wilderness. Jesus was tempted for forty days in the desert. Noah tossed and turned 40 days on the storm that flooded the entire world.

Forty is the number of spiritual struggle.

Oh, and gee, it also happens to be the number of this post about Sean Penn, who is truly a spiritual struggle for all of us who have to support his art and his defiant personlality.

Check it out:


CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised Sean Penn for his critical stance against the war in Iraq, saying the two chatted by phone and soon plan to meet in person.

Chavez said Penn traveled to Venezuela this week wanting to learn more about the situation in the country and walked around some of Caracas' poor barrios on his own.

"Welcome to Venezuela, Mr. Penn. What drives him is consciousness, the search for new paths," Chavez said Wednesday in a televised speech. "He's one of the greatest opponents of the Iraq invasion."

Chavez read aloud from a recent open letter by Penn to President Bush in which the actor condemned the Iraq war and called for Bush to be impeached, saying the president along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are "villainously and criminally obscene people."

The socialist president, who shares those views, said he and Penn talked by phone — "with my bad English but we understood each other more or less."

Chavez said the two plan to meet Thursday. He called the actor "well-informed about what is happening in the United States and the world, in spite of being in Hollywood."

What's more, Chavez said, "he's made great films." The Venezuelan leader said he recently watched Penn's Oscar-winning performance in the film "Mystic River."

For his part, Penn on Wednesday toured Venezuela's new film studios on the outskirts of Caracas. Penn, whose visit was unannounced, did not speak publicly.
Reliapundit: It's truly AMAZING how idiot Lefties like Penn admire true tyrants like Chavez and Castro and defend true murderers like Che and Saddam, but attack Bush - who has liberated 50 million people. IDIOTS.

CAIR Tries to Censor YAF Talk

We read:

"The Council on American-Islamic Relations is demanding that the Young America's Foundation cancel a planned speech Thursday by author Robert Spencer. Mr. Spencer, author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam" and founder of Jihad Watch, is scheduled to speak on the topic, "The Truth About CAIR," at 4 p.m. today at YAF's national student conference at George Washington University.

Calling Mr. Spencer "a well-known purveyor of hatred and bigotry against Muslims" with a "history of false and defamatory statements," an attorney for CAIR on Wednesday wrote a letter (click here to see the letter in PDF format) to"demand that YAF cancel the subject session, or else take steps to ensure that false and defamatory statements are not disseminated at that session."

"CAIR has consistently taken a principled position against terrorism and extremism," Joseph E. Sandler, attorney for CAIR, wrote in his letter to YAF. "Our clients have instructed us to pursue every available and appropriate legal steps to ensure that false and defamatory statements are not disseminated" during Mr. Spencer's speech, wrote Mr. Sandler.

"We're not going to be intimidated" by people "who are opposed to free expression," YAF spokesman Jason Mattera told The Washington Times. "Not only are we going to have [Mr. Spencer] speak, but [we] are opening the session up to more interns and we will publicize the event further." More than 400 conservative college students from around the country are attending the weeklong YAF conference..........

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YAF have told them to get lost. Needless to say, it is CAIR who are uttering hate speech against Mr Spencer, who is very careful what he says about Muslims on his blog -- sourcing everything from Muslims themselves

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Leftists worldwide are moving Right -- except in America

The excerpt below comments on European developments but it perhaps even more so in Australia -- where the Leftist leader (Rudd) sounds very conservative indeed on most issues. He even seems to be a genuine Christian

In Europe, reforms are in vogue. Though many special interests are fiercely resisting change, it is striking to see just how many European Social Democrats have come to recognize the need for structural reforms to welfare states.

Witness Gerhard Schroeder, the center-left former chancellor of Germany: in 2003, he called for a "change of mentality" in his own party, the SPD, as well as in German society as a whole. "Much will have to be changed to keep our welfare and social security at least at its current level," he added, as he argued in favor of reforms that would trim entitlements, and cut taxes. The chairman of the SPD, Franz Muentefering, supported Mr. Schroeder by saying that "we believe that things must be rearranged and restarted in Germany in this decade." Not long thereafter, Mr., Schroeder took the lead in making German labor laws more flexible.

In France, Socialist former prime minister Lionel Jospin shocked the left several years ago: When asked on TV what he was going to do to help laid-off factory workers beyond the public assistance already on the books, he said that "the state cannot do everything." It was not so much the truth of the statement that came as a shock; it was that a leader of the French left would say it so candidly. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Jospin privatized numerous state-owned companies, including Air France, even as he criticized capitalism.

Labour former British prime minister Tony Blair became famous for his "Third Way" philosophy, which he said moved "beyond an old left preoccupied by state control, high taxation and producer interests."

And in Italy, on July 20, center-left prime minister Romano Prodi announced a deal raising the retirement age to 61 from 57. Though the deal was a somewhat watered-down version of the pension reform plan originally passed by his center-right predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi, it shows that the Italian left is aware that structural reforms are urgently needed.

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NOW IN CONTROL OF GAZA, THE JIHADISTS KILL EACH OTHER

BBC:
Two people have been killed in clashes overnight between gunmen from the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, reports from the Gaza Strip say.

The incident follows clashes on Wednesday in which one Hamas fighter died and several others were injured.

Hamas says the clashes come after its men tried to detain Islamic Jihad men violating a ban on celebratory gunfire.

Hamas banned such gunfire, at weddings and funerals, after it seized control of the Gaza Strip last month.

Correspondents say the incidents are an indication of the growing animosity between the two Islamist groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, now that their common enemy, the secular Fatah has been vanquished in Gaza.
No celebratory fire, but using guns to kill each other is OK. Sheesh. THESE JIHADISTS ARE ALL FREAKIN' ANIMALS.

No. That's an insult to animals. Wild beast are better them them, too. These people are scum. And their ideology/religion is evil.

People who claim that Hamas is popular because they deliver social services are idiots and dupes.

Jihadists in Gaza - whether Hamas or Islamic Jihad - are no different than the Taliban or al Qaeda. They're all terrorist scum. The sooner we annihilate them the better.

HARRY REID IS WRONG: we're winning in Iraq

CNN:
The Mosul leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was shot to death by Iraqi soldiers during a combat operation in the northern Iraqi city Wednesday, a U.S. military statement said.

U.S. and Iraqi troops have been taking on militants in the Baquba area and throughout Diyala province

It comes as the U.S. records its lowest monthly troop death toll since November, reflecting military hopes that the recent military buildup is making strides.
Killed by IRAQI soldiers. Lowest troop death toll since last year.

THE POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION--ALBERTO GONZALES

Remember Hillary Clinton whining about how her enemies were engaged in the "politics of personal destruction". It was the ultimate pot calling the kettle black since the Clintons have perfected the "politics of personal destruction".

Yet, this is exactly what is going on when it comes to the purely political witch hunt against Gonzales. How is any of this even logical? Clinton fired all the U.S. attorneys upon entering the White House and yet hysteria erupts over Bush and Gonzalez firing 8, years into Bush's 2nd term.

Kudos to Dick Cheney for calling this exactly what it is, a witch hunt. Here is an excerpt:
"First of all, there's no charge," Cheney said. "What's the allegation of wrongdoing here? Frankly, there isn't any."

"They keep rolling over rocks hoping they can find something, but there really hasn't been anything come up that would suggest there was any wrongdoing of any kind," Cheney told CNN's Larry King.
Rush brought up that Chris Wallace lambasted Russ Feingold on this issue this past weekend on Fox News Sunday. Here is how Rush described it and some of the actual exchange between Wallace and Feingold:
Chris Wallace says, "Senator, according to this morning's New York Times, Alberto Gonzales may actually have been right. The dispute may have been over -- it's very technical -- the computer searches of databases not the interception of phone calls. But in any point it's a very technical issue we're discussing here. Does this really rise to the level of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the attorney general for perjury?"

FEINGOLD: You bet it does. This is technical, and it is classified, but there's really nothing more important than not having the attorney general of the United States tell false statements to Congress about these programs and about what's going on. Now, the truth is that the attorney general, in my view, has at least lied to Congress and may have committed perjury. And I think we need to have somebody who is able to look at both the classified and non-classified material in a way that he can actually determine whether or not criminal charges have to be pursued.

RUSH: Chris Wallace then says, "Senator, wouldn't the American people rather see Congress do something about lowering drug prices, about energy policy, about student loans, all part of the Democrat agenda that you haven't passed so far rather than engage in this political theater?"

FEINGOLD: That's just not true. We have passed a major energy bill in the Senate. We have passed major legislation on student lowers and higher education.

WALLACE: Forgive me, Senator, but none of it has gotten through Congress.

FEINGOLD: Well, the fact is a minimum wage increase got through Congress.

RUSH: (Laughing.) Whoop-de-doo! Yip yip yip yip yahoo. Wallace says, "Can you point to a single smoking gun, any hard evidence that the White House has done anything illegal?"

FEINGOLD: I think clearly with regard to the NSA surveillance program --

WALLACE: No, I'm talking about the US attorneys, sir.

FEINGOLD: I believe they probably have. I can't give you anything definitive on that, but I do believe there's been terrible misconduct and misleading approaches here.

WALLACE: But I think the question is, "Is this really going anywhere?" Is this substantive oversight, or is this political theater? I mean, the point is, on the US attorneys which we're talking about, six-, seven-month investigation, 8500 pages of documents, 14 witnesses, and you say yourself as a member of the Senate judiciary, you haven't found any hard evidence that the White House has broken the law.

FEINGOLD: Well, I happen to think they probably did break the law here --

WALLACE: But do you have any evidence?

FEINGOLD: -- over until we -- well, that's why we're asking for people like Karl Rove and others to come down and testify so we can actually examine the evidence.

RUSH: They don't have anything, and he had to (grumbles), "Well, we did pass a minimum wage." My guess is that Senator Feingold does not know how shellacked he was when he left the Fox News broadcast complex on Sunday.

Even Feingold admits that they have nothing and that this is no more than a fishing expedition.

Kimberly Strassel from the Walstreet Journal also talks about how this is about politics, not the law in her column entitled, Beneath Contempt.

Is it any wonder as Chris Wallace pointed out that this "do-nothing" Congress has such low approval ratings? They aren't accomplishing anything but wasting our taxpayer money and time by trying to dig things up on Bush to try and smear him and his administration.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

DHIMMITUDE STRIKES AGAIN: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

NRO/CORNER:
... under threat of a law suit, Cambridge University Press has just agreed to pulp all unsold copies of the 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World.

... this is the fourth such book on terrorism funding to be pursued by a libel action.

... In a blog post entitled, "Attention Authors: Be afraid, very afraid....especially if you write about the Saudis and their support of terrorism," Emory University professor, Deborah Lipstadt elaborates.

In addition to the links within Lipstadt’s post, you can find related stories at the website of Ehrenfeld’s American Center for Democracy.

Given MSM’s silence, this looks like one for the blogosphere.
THIS IS LIKE THE MOHAMMED CARTOONS. THE ENEMY IS ENCROACHING ON OUR LIBERTIES.

WE MUSTN'T LET THEM.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER - PART 39: OBAMA AND AL QAEDA LEADER AL LIBI BOTH ATTACK MUSHARRAF

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:
In his speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., — billed as a major foreign policy address — Obama said that as commander in chief he would remove troops from Iraq and put them "on the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

He offered harsh words to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who has been the target of assassination attempts for his efforts to aid the United States in rooting out terrorist havens in the northwestern region of his country.

"I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges. But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again," Obama said. "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."
AL QAEDA LEADER AL LIBI:
Al Qaeda Commander Calls for Overthrow of Pakistani Government

CAIRO, Egypt — An Al Qaeda commander who escaped from a U.S. prison called on Pakistanis in a new Web video to overthrow President Gen. Pervez Musharraf as revenge for the killing of a pro-Taliban cleric in the Red Mosque showdown.


The video was issued by Abu Yahia al-Libi, who broke out of the Bagram Air Base prison north of Kabul in 2005 and who Western and Afghan intelligence officials believe has since worked training suicide bombers in a camp in eastern Afghanistan.

"O people of jihad (Holy War) in Pakistan ... hurry up and get rid of this corrupt and tyrannical apostate and his secular infidel rule. Destroy the fortifications of his weak army and the nests of his filthy intelligence agency and the core of his infidel rule," al-Libi said.
FUNNY HOW THE DEMS AND AL QAEDA ALWAYS SEEM ALIGNED, AIN'T IT: WHAT'S GOOD FOR ONE IS GOOD FORE THE OTHER.

What's bad for them is good for the Free World and the GOP. WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?

This is why we won't defeat the jihadist enemies abroad until we defeat the Leftist enemies at home.

IF MSM PROPAGANDA WAS A SONG, THEN WHAT WOULD IT SOUND LIKE?

THIS.

(HAT TIP MARK LEVIN.

FOR YOU TUNED-OUT FOLKS, IT'S THE THEME FOR NBC'S MTP, HOSTED BY LIFELONG DEM AND UBER LIB TIMMIE RUSSERT.

WHENEVER YOU HEAR THIS MUSIC YOU SHOULD BRACE YOURSELF FOR AN HOUR OF BDS BS.)

BASS-AKWARDS: OBAMA BARACK WON'T BOMB IRAQ, BUT HE WOULD ATTACKISTAN PAKISTAN

JPOD AT NRO:

Obama's Foreign Policy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to be: Make nice with nightmarishly bad regimes that have effectively or rhetorically declared war on the United States (North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba) but invade an erstwhile, problematic ally (Pakistan).
Obama just wanted TO SOUND TOUGH, and thought he could temper the sound of his redeployment idiocy by saying he'd be bolder elsewhere.

I think the US military would rather kill the enemy in Iraq's plains then in Pakistan's mountains.
MORE HERE.

TERRI SCHIAVO NEVER GOT THIS CHANCE...

NYTIMES:
A 38-year-old man who spent more than five years in a mute, barely conscious state as a result of a severe head injury is now communicating regularly with family members and recovering his ability to move after having his brain stimulated with pulses of electric current, neuroscientists are reporting.

“I still cry every time I see him, but now it’s tears of joy,” said the man’s mother, in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday; her name was withheld, to protect the patient’s privacy. “He can speak, he can watch movies without falling asleep, he can say Mom and Pop, and ‘I love you, Mommy.’ ”

The new report, which appears in the journal Nature, provides the first rigorous evidence that any procedure can initiate and sustain recovery in such a severely disabled person, years after the injury occurred. An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 Americans subsist in states of partial consciousness, and most are written off as beyond help. ...

“He has regained his personhood, his personal agency,” said Dr. Joseph J. Fins, chief of medical ethics at Cornell, and a coauthor of the study. The patient has amnesia and cannot yet fully represent his interests, Dr. Fins added, “but now he’s got interests to represent.”
TERRI SCHIAVO NEVER GOT THIS CHANCE. Her mother never got the chance to hear her say "Mommy, I love you."

Instead - in the absence of any clear instructions from Terri herself - the state followed the wishes of her estranged husband, (who was living with another woman - the mother of his children), and stopped feeding her, and stopped giving her liquids.

If you or I did that to a dog, then we'd be arrested for cruelty.

If we did it to a Gitmo prisoner then we'd be pilloried by the Left for inhumane torture. If Bush did it, then he'd be called Bushitler and impeached.

But, if you're a Leftist, then you can do that to your ex-wife. And you get to call it painless and humane.

May Terri Rest In Peace.

And may her leftist murderers repent or rot in hell.

GERMAN SANCTIONED INCEST AND PEDOPHILIA PARTS 1 & 2

GERMAN GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDS INCEST AND PEDOPHILIA - part 1

July 31st, 2007 by Aurora


Father and little girlThis needs no comment from me. I’m appalled and nauseated:

BERLIN, July 30, 2007 - Booklets from a subsidiary of the German government’s Ministry for Family Affairs encourage parents to sexually massage their children as young as 1 to 3 years of age. Two 40-page booklets entitled “Love, Body and Playing Doctor” by the German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung - BZgA) are aimed at parents - the first addressing children from 1-3 and the other children from 4-6 years of age.

“Fathers do not devote enough attention to the clitoris and vagina of their daughters. Their caresses too seldom pertain to these regions, while this is the only way the girls can develop a sense of pride in their sex,” reads the booklet regarding 1-3 year olds. The authors rationalize, “The child touches all parts of their father’s body, sometimes arousing him. The father should do the same.”

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Posted in Liberalism, Moral Breakdown in the West, Western Europe, Morality

PART 2

To address the criticism that the story on the German government's publication on incest and pedophilia is an urban myth and not typical of liberalism. Here is some further information on it.
First: a) How did the sexualisation of children become sanitized enough to be introduced at a government level in Germany?

German sociologist Gabriele Kuby said that "the German Federal Health Education Center (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung - BZgA) has in almost all their publications promoted the sexualisation of children as young as one year of age.

THE NEW YORK TIMES' WAR ON NEWSCORP

There's a great quote with an FBI Agent in Curt Gentry's excellent biography, "J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and The Secrets." By now we know what kind of man J. Edgar Hoover was and how he was able to hold onto the Directorship of the FBI for nearly 50 years. An agent said under Hoover it was their job "to find out what he wants and to create the world he believes in."

Now, in the 21st Century, the New York Times has become the J. Edgar Hoover of the MSM. They've pretty much given up all pretense of journalistic ethics and unbiased reporting. No, they won't plainly state, "yes, we're liberals (or "progressives") and we hate conservatism and it's various factions. We're going to do what we can to destroy it and those that don't follow the blueprint of the way we think the world should be, we're gonna take them out," but their actions convey those exact words.

When word came down a few weeks ago that Rupert Murdoch wanted to buy Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, it must have been the equivalent of hearing that Voldemort is back in the New York Times building. They were in a panic. They put a group of reporters on the job to find anything damning about Murdoch that could derail the deal. They failed. He got it.

Well, they're not giving up on doing what they can to put as many chinks in the media giant's armor as they can. Drudge is reporting that the Times is now looking into any and all connections between Murdock, Roger Ailes and Presidential frontrunner Rudy Giuliani. Reports Drudge:

Having failed to thwart a Murdoch purchase of the WALL STREET JOURNAL, the NEW YORK TIMES intensifies battle with the NEWS CORP. empire on Thursday, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

The paper is preparing a provocative examination of Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani's relationship with FOX NEWS chief Roger Ailes.

Is this journalism? Many will say, sure it is. It's the job of the media to keep the big boys honest and hold their feet to the fire. True enough, but when you pursue a story with the intention of finding dirt that will damage a certain person's reputation, are you practicing journalism or something else entirely. Yellow Journalism? Not quite. That's scandal-mongering for the sake of scandal-mongering with little concern over who the target will be.

What the New York Times is practicing is pure agenda journalism with the intent to destroy. And why? Because people like Murdoch, Ailes and Giuliani work against the world that the New York Times believes in.

The MSM is out of control, and it's only going to get worse until a massive segment of the public says enough.

After Pakistan



The song at the left is meant to parody the right wing obsession with bombing every thing in sight where the right observes international political problems.

Except that it seems like, in the words of the great Jimmy Durante, "Everyone is trying to get in on the act." It appears that my esteemed Senator from Illinois and Presidential Contender Barack Obama is trying to get in on the act.
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists, an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.

The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.

"Let me make this clear," Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005.
You can't make this stuff up. I'm surprised he didn't mention Saudi Arabia. For that matter we know Iran is "holding" some pretty high level Al Queda members. Perhaps it is past time that Obama got on the bomb Iran bandwagon.

Update: I found out why he didn't mention Saudi Arabia. Edwards already has it.

Cross Posted at Classical Values

PUTIN PLANTS FLAG AT NORTH POLE AND CLAIMS THE TERRITORY FOR RUSSIA

What the heck? I mean, America owns the moon, right?

(That's sarcasm, if you didn't get it.)

The next statement is not sarcasm, although it will sound outlandish.

One has to wonder if Putin is set on starting a world war. That sounds outlandish, right? Ok fine. But, if that is simply an outlandish idea, then why the hell is he doing this?

An audacious Russian mission to claim the North Pole for Moscow is due to reach its climax in the next 24 hours, after a week-long journey through thick ice-sheets.

Two Russian vessels - including an atomic icebreaker - are expected to reach the Pole this afternoon.

There they will release two mini-submarines which will drop a metal tube containing a Russian flag onto the seabed. The release is likely to take place tonight or tomorrow morning, according to organisers.
The gesture, while symbolic, marks an escalation of the growing international dispute over who owns the Lomonosov Ridge, a 1,240 mile underwater mountain range that crosses the polar region. It is thought to contain rich oil and gas deposits.

Moscow believes the research mission will prove that the ridge is a geological extension of Russia, and can therefore can be claimed by Russia under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Denmark believes that the ridge is in fact an extension of the Danish territory of Greenland.
The US and Canada are also anxious to defend their Arctic territory, with both planning billion-pound investments in new patrol ships.

More than 100 Russian scientists are on the Akademik Federov, the expedition's research vessel.

While on their dive the mini-submarines are due to collect specimens of Arctic flora and fauna, as well as researching the geography of the Lomonosov Ridge.

They will reach a depth of 14,000 feet before dropping the flag cannister.

The most difficult part of the mission, scientists say, will be getting them back to their point of departure to avoid them being trapped under the ice.

The expedition comes amid an outpouring of nationalist fervour after Russian scientists claimed in May that they had evidence to back up a long-held claim to nearly one million miles of the Arctic.

If upheld, Russia could have access to oil and gas deposits potentially worth more than £1 trillion.

In a speech on a nuclear ice-breaker earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin urged greater efforts to secure Russia's "strategic, economic, scientific and defence interests" in the Arctic.
Reliapundit wrote me to say, "This is not unlike Saddam's claim on Kuwait."

That's true.

It's also not unlike Germany's claim on Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Anti-illegal-Immigration Minutemen are "Nazis"

A fevered Washington State "human rights" honcho is out of real arguments so abuse and accusation has to do:

"It is sad to see that the Minutemen and similar groups have succumbed to using hate propaganda to undermine basic tenants of American democracy - opportunity and tolerance....

Unfortunately, it seems like the Minutemen have made progress in some of our communities, including in Everett. The Minutemen rely on the use of hateful speech, the Big Lie, and fear of people who are different to corrupt and coarsen political dialogue, just as their Nazi forebears did.

The so-called Minutemen, like their former fellow traveler Tim McVey, are precursors to domestic terrorism and vigilantism. The federal government is charged with enforcing the immigration laws of the United States. Let the federal government do its job, without "assistance" from gun-toting, self-appointed know-nothings.

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It's pretty clear who is uttering the hate speech there. As Larry Simoneaux comments:

"Really? Have the Minutemen offered a "Final Solution" to the problem of illegal immigrants? Is it in any way similar to what SS Lieutenant General Reinhard Heydrich proposed in the Wannsee Protocols?

Have the Minutemen called for the establishment of places like Aushwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Sobibor, or Treblinka?

Have the Minutemen called for the wholesale death of illegal immigrants? Have they called for the killing of mothers and children, fathers and sons, the sick and the old? Have they experimented with various poisonous gases? Have they suggested that "bath houses" be built in close proximity to ovens?

Does the term "Nazi" also apply to those who say that the influx of illegal aliens needs to be stopped immediately, our borders secured, and a hard look be taken at those who are here to determine what would be best for the nation? Does it apply to those who argue that what our "representatives" in D.C. have allowed to happen is both disgraceful and outrageous?

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The name of the "human rights" wacko is Marc Brenman. The surname means "burning man" -- which is amusing given my diagnoss of fever in him.


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Interesting war review

Excerpts below:

In a wider sense, the war is as most wars: an evolution from blunders to wisdom, the side that makes the fewest and learns from them the most eventually winning. Al Qaeda and the insurgents in 2004-6 developed the means, both tactical and strategic, to thwart the reconstruction, but we, not they, have since learned the more and evolved.

As in the Civil War, WWI, and WWII, the present American military - which has committed far less mistakes than past American forces - has shifted tactics, redefined strategy, and found the right field commanders. We forget that the U.S. Army and Marines, far from being broken, now have the most experienced and wizened officers in the world. Like Summer 1864, Summer 1918, and in the Pacific 1944-5, the key is the support of a weary public for an ever improving military that must nevertheless endure a final storm before breaking the enemy.

The irony is that should President Bush endure the hysteria and furor and prove able to give the gifted Gen. Petraeus the necessary time - and I think he will - his presidency could still turn out to be Trumanesque, once we digest the changes in Europe, the progress on North Korea, the end of both the Taliban and Saddam, and the prevention of another 9/11 attack. How odd that all the insider advice to triangulate - big spending, new programs, uninspired appointments, liberal immigration reform - have nearly wrecked the administration, and what were once considered its liabilities - foreign policy, the war on terror and Iraq - may still save it.

Source. Note also below:

Honest reporting at last: "On Monday this week Rush Limbaugh talked about all the members of the mainstream media who are now coming to the conclusion that the surge is working. I think Burns and his fellow Times correspondent Michael Gordon have done more than anyone to change those attitudes and they did not do any of it as partisans. It is especially ironic that these two men of integrity work for the paper that has done its worse to insure defeat." [See also here]

The Left are afraid of success in Iraq: "As I predicted earlier in the day, the left wing blogosphere has turned on the Brookings scholars who went to Iraq and noted the results of the surge. Glenn Greenwald, a.k.a. “The Lion of Jalalabad”, penned a characteristically windy attempt at character assassination. Thankfully, Matthew Yglesias showed more brevity. Characteristically, both pieces didn’t take issue with what Brookings-men Kenneth Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon reported seeing in Iraq but instead attacked them personally. If you’ve studied the moonbats in their native habitats as I have the past several years, this comes as no surprise. After all, what is the chickenhawk meme but an attempt to win an argument by attacking your opponent rather than engaging his ideas? Has anyone come back from Iraq recently and not seen progress? Wouldn’t an effective rebuttal of O’Hanlon’s and Pollack’s article sought out such friendly sources?

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