HATE CRIMES: JEWS AND MUSLIMS

SO... WHICH GROUP IS VICTIMIZED BY MORE HASTE CRIMES IN THE USA, JEWS OR MUSLIMS? Jews. By 7-t0-1! - even though Muslims OUTNUMBER Jews. (Via Memeorandum.)

Jews are also targeted more than Muslims in the EU, and these attacks are increasing. And on top of that, Muslims are - more often than not - unpunished for their crimes, for their riots, for their EU intifadas in Paris and Gothenberg and Windsor and Brussels.

And yet the Left still blames the JOOOOOZE and/or the so-called "The Israel Lobby" and/or the neocons. Sheesh. As the song asked: When will they ever learn? When will the ever learn?

[I'LL TELL YOU WHEN: When they accept the fact that the West and the Jews are VICTIMS of islamofascist jihad, and not at all deserving of their attacks. When they accept the fact that global jihad is NOT a response to Western hegemony, but the thousand year old goal of a religion which spread ONLY through its use of militancy and terror: Islam. That's when.

I'm not holding my breath. The truth about Islam (that it is - in its current state - largely incompatible with democracy and universal human rights), is as hard for Leftists to accept as is the truth about socialism, (that it is a bankrupt ideology which was an abject failure everywhere it was tried).

Our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq are in some measure an effort to reshape the Islamic world into one which IS compatible with democracy and universal human rights. This is a HUGE project and a noble cause. One we shouldn't abandon when the going gets tough.

But, if you don't believe that Islam can ever be reformed, or that Muslims don't deserve their univeral human rights, and if you choose to forget that 9/11 proved that we cannot withdraw to safety behind a moat, and if you want to ignore the fact that denial of a threat doesn't make one safe, then by all means VOTE DEMOCRAT - the party of denial, delusion, and ultimately defeat for our side. But they are the terrorists last best hope.]

MOST POLLUTED NATIONS: USA MISSES TOP 10!

People who entertain anti-American prejudice will be disappointed to learn that the US does not figure on the latest list of the 10 worst polluted sites in the world. Hanford - the site of much of the Cold War nuclear weapons manufacturing - and post Katrina New Orleans do figure on the list of 25 nominees.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: Great post, NS. And a quick look at the list proves another thing: The top ten are all in nations which became polluted while under true Leftist/socialist regimes. This is just more PROOF that socialism was and remains an utter failure: unable to deliver the goods (a better standard of living), and unable to protect the environment and the workplace. WHY?! Leftist policies hinder the efficient production and distribution of goods and services, and cut the profits necessary to be able to invest in cleaner production while still delivering value to the consumer.

OLMERT-PERETZ-LIVNI GOVERNMENT CONDUCTING 'DIALOGUE' WITH SAUDIS

Middle East Newsline is reporting that the Olmert-Peretz-Livni government is conducting a 'dialogue' with the Saudis that is predicated upon Israel's acceptance of the 'Saudi initiative.' As I noted in a post last Tuesday, the 'Saudi initiative' calls for Israel to leave Judea and Samaria, for a 'Palestinian' state reichlet to be established in Judea and Samaria, and for the Arab world to recongnize Israel's existence (but not its 'right to exist' - contrary to what you see reported in most of the media). I cannot help but wonder why the government is so desperate as to be willing to accept this terrible plan that recognizes a 'right of return' for 'Palestinian refugees.'

Western diplomatic sources said Olmert, with the help of Jordan's King Abdullah, has met Saudi officials to discuss Riyad's vision of ending the Arab-Israeli conflict and ensuring stability in the Middle East. The sources said Riyad has offered its peace plan as a basis for Saudi-led Arab cooperation with Israel.

"Olmert has accepted the principle that the Saudis have become a key player in any effort to stabilize the Middle East," a diplomat said. "The Israelis and Saudis have joint interest in ensuring stability after the expected U.S. withdrawal from Iraq."

Over the last month, Olmert's political ally, Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit has endorsed the Saudi plan, first presented in 2002. The minister said Israel should hold peace negotiations with the Arabs based on an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders.

Sheetrit is even a bigger leftist than Olmert. Still, I have to wonder whether (and why) the rest of the government would go along with this. The 'Saudi inititiative' is a suicide plan for Israel. If Olmert is so tired of fighting, let him pack up and leave and join his sons abroad.

PARIS INTIFADA CONTINUES UNABATED

If your media hasn't already buried this story you should know that the Paris Intifada is still smoldering. I doubt these activities are spontaneous expressions of discontent a la mauvaise de pauvre arab. This is a tiny skirmish in the millennial-war which began in Iran and may not see its end in our lifetimes. (More on the Paris Intifada HERE.)

First, the islamofacists see that much of Europe will not aid American efforts to democratize the Middle East. Second, they know that Europe - especially the French - barely defended themselves the last time their democracies were threatened in WW2!

What makes it more threatening are these two facts: (1) the enemies of freedom are patient; their timeline is not marked by mid-year elections. And (2), these enemies are also willing to suffer greater casualties while attempting to inflict their hideous ideology on others than the West seems to be willing to accept in defense of its own civilization. In other words, Bush's well-meaning policies are failing - not because casualties are too high - but because they are too low. The insurgents in Iraq and the Taleban have Rope-A-Doped the West and are now threatening their counter-attack. Bush and Blair seem exhausted by the onslaught of the media and their constant negativity and defeatism. Which leads me to ask: How will the West respond to the enemy's October Surprise? We shall see...

The Jihadis Want You To Vote Democrat

From the great Pamela, at Atlas Shrugs:

"If the Muslims of America believe that they don't want Bush to have a free hand for the next two years, then the Muslims of America need to get organized and make sure they get out to vote for Democrats for both the House and the Senate. Every Muslim in the Middle East who has a relative in the U.S. should get the message across to their relatives. They need to make sure that all their friends vote against Bush."

The American TV station that broadcasts JIHAD SERMONS ON U.S. TV here is urging Americans to vote for the DEMOCRATS:

American-Muslim TV Network Host Urges Votes for Democrats

The Islamic Television Network that is busy getting out the vote for the Democrats is also busy broadcasting sermons calling for the overthrow of the United States Constitution, and its replacement with Sharia:

Bridges TV, an American-Islamic TV channel "seeking to improve the image of Muslims in the United States" and to "offer a unique perspective on the Middle East and the war on terrorism," has extended its availability into six states, creating a potential audience of nearly 2 million.

A religious figure who appeared on the channel on Oct. 3 said Muslims have a duty to change America and to increase their numbers to 50% of the population from 2%. He recommended that Islamic law be implemented in American courts.

Oh yes, and, of course, they are above spreading the old canard about Jews controlling America:

"I have news for the Muslim community," he said. "All American politicians are in the pocket of the Jewish lobby today because they control a lot of money, and they spend a lot of money in politics.

Really, they ought to get it together with the Jews, because the truth is, Jews overwhelmingly go right along with the wishes of the Jihadis and vote Democrat.

A vote for the Democrats is a vote for the Jihad.

JOB APPROVAL AND THE POLLS

BUSH AND CONGRESS HAVE LOW JOB APPROVAL NUMBERS IN ALL THE POLLS.

BUT, DOES THIS MEAN THAT VOTERS WILL VOTE FOR THE OPPOSITION? NO. MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE UNHAPPY WITH BUSH AND CONGRESS ARE PEOPLE WHO WOULD NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT: CONSERVATIVES. IN FACT, ALL OF THE SLIPPAGE WHICH BUSH AND CONGRESS HAVE SUFFERED THE LAST TWO YEARS IS SLIPPAGE OF THE GOP BASE; (Bush hasn't lost support among Democrats and liberals because he never had it to begin with!). WHY HAVE BUSH AND CONGRESS LOST CONSERVATIVE SUPPORT? Simple:

Conservatives are unhappy with the Bush and Congress for many reasons: Harriet Miers; immigration; slow amd weak handling of both Syria and Iran; lack of support for Israel in their war against Hizballah; too much multi-lateralism in regard to North Korea; bad handling of ther Jefferson corruption scandal; and so on.

NONE of the people unhappy with Bush and Congress on these issues would EVER vote Democrat. All the GOP has to do is get them to the polls and the GOP will hold both bodies of Congress.

To get them to the polls the GOP merely has to remind people that if the Democrat Party gets control things will get even worse: Higher taxes at home, and appeasement abroad; NO CONSERVATIVE JUDGES; less support for Israel and Afghanistan and Iraq; more kowtowing to the UN and the EU. If that's what you want, then by all means stay home. You'll be sending a message alright: that Conservatives would cut off their noses to spite their faces.

UPDATE: Since Bush got 52% of the vote last time out, his current numbers mean that about 25% of his supporters are pissed off at him. The GOP must identify these voters and get them to the polls. If they do, then the GOP will do very well, (And the Democrats will claim ANTOHER election was stolen!)

UPDATE #2 - K-LO/NRO: "Newsweek poll puts Democrats far ahead in Congress" — should anyone be shocked that Dems come out ahead when only 28 percent of your poll is made up of Republicans, and 35 percent Democrat... ? Reliapundit: This "poll" OVERSAMPLED Democrats bya WHOPPING 20%! If this "poll" had sampled either the average number of Dems who voted in the last THREE elections, or an equal number of Dems and GOP'ers, then the GOP, and BUSH would be coming out ahead. COMPLETE ROUND-UP HERE, AT MEMEORANDUM.

NON-EXISTENT 'PALESTINIAN HISTORY'

Three weeks ago, Rashid Khalidi, who holds the Edward Said chair in Arab studies at my alma mater, Columbia University, wrote an article in the Boston Globe in which he decried the history of the 'Palestinians' having "disappeared under the powerful impact of the painful and amply recounted story of the catastrophic fate of the Jews of Europe in the 20th century." In other words, according to Khalidi, the fact that there is no 'Palestinian' history is the Jews' fault. At The American Thinker, Rachel Neuwirth has a more plausible explanation... Continue reading...

[ASIDE: Reliapundit adds: "Palestine" was liberated - in 1948 when Jews won their independence! Ever since, Arabs have been trying to obliterate the only pluralistic democracy in the entire Middle East - Israel. When Arabs say "liberation" they actually mean genocide of Jews and Islamic totalitarianism. If you support genocide of Jews and totalitarianism then you should support Arabs who oppose Israel.]

EGYPTIAN POLICE INTERCEPT LARGE ARMS SHIPMENT BOUND FOR GAZA STRIP AS IDF TRIES TO FIND HUNDREDS OF WEAPONS TUNNELS

Egyptian police have intercepted a large arms shipment that was bound for the Gaza Strip today from the Egyptian controlled Sinai peninsula. The interception comes as IDF officers have openly noted that they fear that a weapons tunnel from the Gaza Strip may be used to attack one or more of the Kibbutzim on the border between Israel and Gaza. IDF sources noted yesterday that a raid inside Israel, through one of the tunnels being dug in the Gaza Strip, would be considered a substantial operational gain for the terrorists and would help them score a propaganda victory.

This is not the first time that large weapons smuggling operations have been stopped since Israel surrendered the Gaza Strip to the 'Palestinians' in August 2005. A total of 13 tunnels have been uncovered during IDF operations in Gaza in the last three days, along with a number of shafts for not yet completed tunnels. Some of the uncovered tunnels originated inside homes close to the border with Egypt. Homes like the one Rachel Corrie died protecting (yes, this is the same area where Rachel Corrie decided to try to block a bulldozer with her body and earned the name "St. Pancake").

Six tunnels have been destroyed in controlled demolitions by IDF sappers. Arms and explosives smuggling from Egypt into the Gaza Strip is worse than originally estimated, IDF sources said yesterday. In January, they estimated 3000 rifles a day. I wonder how many there are now. According to the same sources, dozens of tunnels have been used for uninterrupted smuggling activities during the past year. Continue reading....

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS WEEKLY R&R REVIEW - week #4

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 our opinions on some of the cultural things we're into, things we think you might also find entertaining, enriching, and stimulating. Good for "Rest & Relaxation" - "R&R".

Please check it out every week - and tell your friends. We just might turn you on to something cool. After all, 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!

POPINJAY: FOOTBALL

My parents were in town visiting me this week, so I haven't been able to get much "me time" but as they have now made their way back to Nebraska I was able to sit down and watch some of the big game: Nebraska v. Texas. The Cornhuskers are what life is all about in my home state and despite living in Nevada for the past 5 years, Saturday afternoons are still a stressful time for me. The Huskers played valiantly, but came up short in the end. Still, Coach Bill Callahan is doing a great job and brining in some great recruits and they're on their way back to national prominence. There's nothing like a Fall Saturday afternoon.

Reliapundit: POETRY

I'll be RE-memorizing my two favorite poems this weekend. I've put the full poems in the comments section. Here are the first lines:

Matthew Arnold's THE BURIED LIFE

Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet,
Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet!
I feel a nameless sadness o'er me roll.

RM Rilke's FOR THE SAKE OF A SINGLE POEM

...Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.

Pastorius - MUSIC

I'm listening to the album Voodoo by D'Angelo. D'Angelo is known as an R&B artist (Neo-Soul is what they tend to call him), but in my opinion, Voodoo is to R&B what Miles Davis' Bitches Brew was to Jazz. It is a complete re-imagining of the genre.

The album opens with a tune that will go down in the history books. Playa Playa preps us in the opening bars with a polyrhythmic groove which is both tight and loose at the same time. And, if you thought that groove elusive wait til you get slammed by D'Angelo's chorus of vocals. With his vocal inflections and nuanced phrasing, he tricks the groove every which way, until your body is literally twitching in a ceremony of ecstacy, like the Voodoo of the album's title. Other standout tracks include Devil's Pie, Chicken Grease, The Root, Spanish Joint, and Africa.

D'Angelo, on the strength of this one album has taken his place among the pantheon of great black music innovators; James Brown, Sly Stone, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, etc. That's an audacious thing for me to say, probably, but listen, and tell me I'm wrong. This album is a wonder.

LAWMAKER OUTRAGED BY SNIPER FOOTAGE ON CNN; CALLS FOR OUSTER

Good:

SAN DIEGO -- CNN has become "the publicist for an enemy propaganda film" by broadcasting a video showing an insurgent sniper in Iraq apparently killing an American soldier, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said here Friday.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon) called for the Pentagon to oust any CNN reporter embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq. "I think Americans like to think we're all in this together," Hunter said. "The average American Marine or soldier has concluded after seeing that film that CNN is not on their side."

CNN said it broadcast the brief video to show the threat that insurgent snipers posed to U.S. troops. "Whether or not you agree with us in this case, our goal, as always, is to present the unvarnished truth as best we can," CNN producer David Doss wrote in a blog on the network's website.

Unvarnished truth? How about showing the Twin Towers falling to their death? That's pretty unvarnished, isn't it? Oh, that's right, that might get Americans mad and behind the president. The MSM wouldn't want that, would they! MORE HERE.

GEORGE BUSH CHANNELS TOM PETTY

AP (via Drudge):

Despite calls for change [in Iraq policy], Bush said, "Our goal has not changed. Our goal is a country that can defend, sustain and govern itself, a country that which will serve as an ally in this war. Our tactics are adjusting." ... Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said that while Bush might change tactics, he would not change his overall strategy. ... Bush, at a political fundraiser in Washington for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, railed against Democrats who criticize the war. Calling the Democrats the party of "cut and run," Bush said voters need to ask: "Which political party has a strategy for victory in this war on terror?'" ... [REPEAT:] Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said that while Bush might change tactics, he would not change his overall strategy.

Tom Petty:

Well I wont back down, no I wont back down.
You can stand me up at the gates of hell, But I wont back down

Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around, and Ill keep this world from draggin me down. Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down

Hey baby, there aint no easy way out. Hey I will stand my ground, and I wont back down.

Well I know whats right, I got just one life. In a world that keeps on pushin me around, but Ill stand my ground and I wont back down

If you want your country to backdown while under attack by the jihadothugs, then vote Democrat. If you want to fight until we win, then vote GOP. It's that simple. Just ask Ned Lamont.

Diane Sawyer: Another Liberal Who Is Cool With Genocide

Diane Sawyer went over to North Korea and got the Potemkin Village tour:

Diane Sawyer wants you to know that the North Korean puppies are really cute too.

On Thursday's World News on ABC, Diane Sawyer checked in from North Korea, but she proved little more than a conveyor belt for the repressive communist regime's propaganda. Talking to a North Korean Army General, she relayed how “he said to us, 'make it clear to everyone in the United States, if there is another nuclear test, the person responsible is George Bush,' because he said, 'the Bush administration is backing North Korea into a corner with its pressures and its sanctions.'" Sawyer helpfully added that “the General said to us, he does want peace. And he also said, again, reiterated, North Korea will not be the first to use a nuclear weapon.” How reassuring.

In a second segment, Sawyer was taken to a school which she favorably described as “a world away from the unruly individualism of any American school." She gushed: “Ask them about their country, and they can't say enough." A teenage girl declared, in English: “We are the happiest children in the world.” Sawyer ended her piece with video of her and the class singing "Do-Re-Mi" from the Sound of Music. Far from being embarrassed by Sawyer's obsequious approach, anchor Charles Gibson proposed: "A fascinating glimpse of North Korea."

Yeah, isn't that friggin' fascinating? It's fascinating that Diane Sawyer doesn't acknowledge that Kim Jong Il is gassing his own people, you know, just like Adolf Hitler used to do:

In the remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China, is Haengyong. Hidden away in the mountains, this remote town is home to Camp 22 - North Korea's largest concentration camp, where thousands of men, women and children accused of political crimes are held. Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them.

Look, let's be honest, Diane Sawyer knows this. It is common knowledge. Diane Sawyer is just doing her part in the media's full court press against the Republicans here in these last weeks before the election. The truth is, she just hates George Bush more than she cares about the people Kim Jong Il is killing. Isn't that fascinating?

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ARIZONA'S PHOTO ID LAW FOR ELECTIONS

Bad news for the Democrats via The Arizona Republic:

Arizona voters will have to present identification at the polls on Nov. 7 after all.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Arizona can go ahead with requiring voters to present a photo ID, starting with next month's general election, as part of the Proposition 200 that voters passed in 2004. The ruling overturns an Oct. 5 decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which put the voter ID rules on hold this election cycle.

The Supreme Court on Friday did not decide whether the new voter ID rules are constitutional. That decision is still pending in federal district court.

Instead, the court decided that the 9th Circuit made a procedural error by granting an injunction to put the new rules on hold without waiting for the district court to explain its reasons for not granting an injunction.

This is excellent news and definitely one for our side. Nothing is fool-proof, but if people are required to show a photo-ID to vote, it makes voter fraud that much harder. Let's hope the court eventually make the right decision on the Constitutional question. [Complete round-up HERE at Memeorandum.]

CHICAGO TERRORIST TRIAL STARTED THURSDAY

The trial of Abdelhaleem Ashqar got underway in a Federal court in Chicago Thursday. Ashqar was a professor at Howard University in Washington DC until 2003 when the university refused to renew his contract. Ashqar is charged with funneling thousands of dollars to Hamas terrorists through a Mississippi bank account.

What's unusual about this case is that the money was funneled before the US designated Hamas a terrorist group in Jnauary 1995. The indictment lists no activities after March 1994 other than refusing to testify before grand juries. Ashqar is being charged under the Federal Racketeering laws (RICO), which are typically used against the Mafia or other organized crime. Ashqar's argument boils down to "if the government hadn't designated them a terrorist group, there's nothing wrong with sending them money." Continue reading....

ANOTHER MAJOR SCIENTIST DEBUNKS MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING

US SENATE:

One of the most decorated French geophysicists has converted from a believer in manmade catastrophic global warming to a climate skeptic. This latest defector from the global warming camp caps a year in which numerous scientific studies have bolstered the claims of climate skeptics. Scientific studies that debunk the dire predictions of human-caused global warming have continued to accumulate and many believe the new science is shattering the media-promoted scientific “consensus” on climate alarmism.

Claude Allegre, a former government official and an active member of France’s Socialist Party, wrote an editorial on September 21, 2006 in the French newspaper L'Express titled “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” detailing his newfound skepticism about manmade global warming. ... Allegre wrote that the “cause of climate change remains unknown” and pointed out that Kilimanjaro is not losing snow due to global warming, but to local land use and precipitation changes. Allegre also pointed out that studies show that Antarctic snowfall rate has been stable over the past 30 years and the continent is actually gaining ice.

Man-made global warming is a hoax concocted to give Leftists an excuse for raising taxes and attacking industrialism and capitalism.

IS THE GOP REALLY TRAILING? OR: NUMBERS DON'T LIE; THE MSM DOES

WHY IS THE GOP TRAILING IN THE POLLS? Simple:

Republicans have staggered in recent weeks under a barrage of painful publicity ranging from plunging fuel prices, to record stock market closes, to the Bush administration’s failure to produce inflation despite growing employment, reduced tax rates and soaring tax revenues.

Meanwhile, Democrats ride a wave of public adoration due to the party’s clear, positive vision for protecting the civil rights of foreign terrorists, retreating from Iraq so that rival Muslim sects can work out their differences without American interference, and restoring the Clinton era “spirit of cooperation” with North Korea.

Heh. Actually the polls are wrong. And you can prove it by helping to GOTV!

Lamont Losing On Anti-Iraq War Monomania

Ned Lamont is Ahab and the Iraq War is his white whale. And, thus far, it has looked like he is absolutely willing to go down with the ship. But, now he is finding he needs to widen his focus:

WILLIMANTIC, Conn. - A single towering issue — Iraq — powered Ned Lamont in his dramatic primary victory over Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman. Now Lamont is letting voters know he's got more to talk about than that, because Iraq alone isn't doing it for him in the fall campaign.

Lamont is ticking off plans for expanded health care, universal preschool education and curbs in the influence of lobbyists. He's decrying U.S. addiction to foreign oil. To be sure, Iraq is no more settled than when he tapped the anger of so many Democrats over the war's course, securing the Democratic place on the ticket from an 18-year veteran who almost became vice president.

But Lamont's post-primary glow has faded and he trails Lieberman, who is running as an independent in a state with a vast pool of independent, if Democratic-leaning, voters.

Lesson: Running on opposition to the Iraq War will not win you the vote, even in the bluest of states. Americans know we must win the War on Terror and that is why Lamont is losing, and that is why the Republicans will continue to win.

Meanwhile, at the same time Lamont is learning he has to focus on other issues, the Republican Party is narrowing its focus down to a specific issue. And, what is that? Why it's the War On Terror. A new television ad put out by the Republican National Commitee takes a bold approach:

The Republican Party will begin airing a hard-hitting ad this weekend that warns of more cataclysmic terror attacks against the U.S. homeland. The ad portrays Osama bin Laden and quotes his threats against America dating to February 1998. "These are the stakes," the ad concludes. "Vote November 7." Brian Jones, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said the ad would run on national cable beginning Sunday, but he declined to discuss specifics of the buy. The commercial tracks with Republican Party strategy to make the war on terrorism a central theme of this election.

And, at the same time, in a move that I think is tied to this knowledge that the War on Terror is central in the mind of the voter, the Republican Party is murmuring about possibly losing seats in the Senate:

By holding their breath, for starters. With party strategists increasingly afraid the Senate is slipping away, Republican officials are moving money around in high-stakes triage. Republican officials are trying to project confidence about keeping the Senate by spending heavily, and forcing Democrats to do the same, in blue states like Michigan, Maryland and New Jersey.

What I believe is happening here is the Republican Party is taking a carrot and stick approach to motivating the electorate, by holding their record on the GWOT out in front with the TV ads, and using the possibility of a Democrat-controlled Senate as a way to drive home the point that everyone has to get out and vote or our chances in the war will be imperiled.

Because the Democratic Party has so narrowly focused its energies on opposition to the war, the Republican Party knows that, in this election, the more people vote, the more Repubs will win.

MESSAGE TO CONSERVATIVES: STOP WHINING AND GOTV!

THE BOTTOM LINE:

... there is enormous discontent among conservatives with this Congress and even with the President. But conservative angst about their performance and translating that dissatisfaction into Election Day pouting absolutely must take a back seat to what the alternative would be. For if the Democrats take control, the blame for such a turn of events will be shared by both Congress itself and those who believe that reforming the party takes precedence over the safety and security of the United States. Those are the stakes. Now quit your griping and go vote.

Ifd you go out and vote then we will WIN. NEED PROOF?! Then, RTWT. And don't believe crap like this.

FRANCE, DREYFUS AND AL DURA

The DREYFUS AFFAIR remains an archetype of organized injustice. It was inflicted by France upon a Jew. Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of espionage in 1894. Dreyfus was pardoned in 1896 - almost exactly 100 years before the latest example of French anti-Semitism: THE AL DURA AFFAIR. In the Dreyfus Affair, exonerating evidence was suppressed. In the al Dura trial, the evidence (which was OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of the defendants) was presented and just freakin' ignored.

This unjust decision is dhimmitude, pure and simple. The French - who have ignored their festering Muslim problem for decades - have again chosen to suck up to the islamothugs - at home juast as they have in the Middle East (where they are more threatening to the IAF than they arfe to Hizballah!). This of course will only encourage the islamothugs.

I pray that the DEFENDANT is eventually exonerated - just as Dreyfus was.

A SMOKING GUN

There has always been something flawed in the 'Palestinian' narrative. To put the end of the story first, the flaw is that the entire 'Palestinian' narrative has been invented by the Arab-Islamist world, with the complicity of most of the West, in order to maintain the hope of one day destroying the Jewish state and either replacing it with an Arab state or incorporating Israel into Syria and/or Jordan. The reason for this is to avenge the Arab-Islamist 'honor' and pride that were lost in the 1948 War of Independence (which they call the Naqba - tragedy), and because the Arab world will not tolerate one small, democratic country of Jews infidels in their midst.

The truth is that there are no 'Palestinian people' and that there is no such country or territory as 'Palestine.' The 'Palestinians' are a fiction that was created by the Arabs to oppose Zionism.

In order to maintain the fiction that there is a 'Palestinian' people who exist to lay claim to the land of Israel, it is necessary to keep Arabs who claim to have roots in 'Palestine' - and their progeny - imprisoned in refugee camps. Nearly sixty years after the War of Independence ended, the 'refugees' continue to multiply, languishing in 'camps' maintained by a corrupt United Nations-sponsored bureaucracy, that costs nearly half a billion dollars per year (aside from other international aid given to the 'Palestinians').

What I'm about to present to you is not the first smoking gun that will prove to you that everything I said above is true. It's at least the second. The first smoking gun I know of was a statement made to a Dutch newspaper in March 1977 by Zuhair Mohsen, then a leader of one of the PLO factions. In an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw, Mr. Mohsen explained the origin of the 'Palestinians.'

Continue reading....

TET AND IRAQ: THE TRUE PARALLELS

MANY ARE POSTING ABOUT TET AND IRAQ - AND FRIEDMAN AND BUSH AND STEPHANOPOULAS. [SEE HERE AND HERE AND HERE.]

I POSTED ON TET AND IRAQ ON JANUARY 15, 2006. (More about the true parallels between the "anti-war" Left THEN & NOW HERE and HERE and HERE.)

Tthe effort to paint Iraq as an unwinnable quagmire and a mistake is being done by the very same Left-wing dominated MSM which propagandized for the Vietnamese Marxist tyrants in 1968. Their deceitful and defeatist efforts are NOT analogical; they are indentical! Which is why I say - over and over: To defeat the enemy abroad we have to defeat the Left at home.

UPDATE: Popinjay adds: I urge you to read this interview from Front Page Magazine back in the Spring of 2004 with a former North Vietnamese Colonel. It will open your eyes. The terrorists are not fools. They read the newspapers, they know the drill. Propaganda is the key.

BBC ENDORSES TERROR-APPEASING THAI JUNTA

NO SURPRISE HERE: The BBC rounds up a bunch of other Leftist NGO types and gets quotes favoring the coup which deposed the elected PM and replaced him with a Muslim who favors appeasing the jihaodterrorists who have murdered 2000 Thai's since 2004. TWELVE MORE THIS VERY WEEK. Yet the BBC portrays these developments as positive:

Already there are signs of a change in policy from that of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The new government has signalled a willingness to talk to the Islamic rebels who are behind the violence - something Mr Thaksin always refused to do.

So, these Leftists who run the BBC - (and who tirelessly run biased propaganda for anti-Semitic jihadists in the Middle East) - are now openly and explicity praising miltary juntas which appease jihadoterrorists in SE Asia. This once again demostrates the very deep affinity that Leftists have with jihadism: Both are elitist and anti-individualist, and both are pro-statist utopianistic. They use each other, and that's why I have often said: to defeat the jihadist enemy abroad we must defeat theLeftist enemy at home. The Leftists who dominate the MSM are Public Enemy #1.

10/19/06 UPDATE: MORE PROOF APPEASEMENT DOESN'T WORK:

Gunmen attack military station insouthern Thailand -

A group of gunmen attacked a military station in southern province of Yala Wednesday morning, killing one soldier and injuring another four, a military source told Xinhua. The attack took place ... in northeastern Yala, one of the three Muslim-dominant southernmost provinces in Thailand, where insurgency-related violence has claimed more than 1,700 lives since it reemerged in January 2004. ... In nearby Pattani province, suspected insurgents burned a strategically located police outpost with Molotov cockails in Waeng district late Tuesday night.

I wonder if and when the MSM will report these islamoterrorist attacks - and how they will blame Bushitler and the Joooooooze?!