No Parasan! gives us a few facts regarding gun ownership and violent crime that are quite noteworthy:
1997 Justice Department report on murders in the U.S. shows that our country has a murder rate of seven victims per 100,000 population per year. There are a number of well-known examples of countries with more liberal gun laws and lower murder rates than the U.S. One is Finland, with a murder rate of 2.9. Israel is another example; although its population is heavily armed, Israel's murder rate is only 1.4. In Switzerland, gun ownership is a way of life. Its murder rate is 2.7.
By contrast, consider Brazil. All firearms in Brazil must be registered with the government. This registration process can take anywhere from 30 days to three months. All civilian handguns are limited in caliber to no more than 9mm. All rifles must fire handgun ammunition only. Brazilians may only buy one gun per year. At any one time, they may only have in their possession a maximum of six guns: two handguns, two rifles and two shotguns. To transport their guns, citizens must obtain a special police permit. CCW permits are available but are rarely issued.
...Incidentally, Brazil's murder rate is 19 victims per 100,000 population per year.
Hmm. And since -
An estimated 24.3% of the 1,430,693 violent crimes (murder, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery) committed in the United States in 1999 were committed with a firearm.
It begs a question - what about the...:
...75.7% of all other violent crimes that don't involve a firearm(?).
Indeed. And Viking Phoenix takes us on a walk through the Gun Control Hall of Fame, reminding us of some of history's other advocates of this misguided policy:
Adolph Hitler's Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 specifically outlawed firearms ownership by Jews and Gypsies and anti-Nazi opposition, successfully eliminating 13,000,000 of his foes and ensuring that Germany would be free of crime. One benefit of Hitler's policies was a series of highly effective population reduction and control programs. Hitler was the leader of one the world's most industrialized nations during his term in office. Under his leadership German leaders finally had a comprehensive policy of sensible gun control. The charismatic Nazi leader pioneered the "sporting use" test for firearms ownership, a concept that remains important to today's gun control advocates. Hitler has many successful U.S. imitators in the Gun Control Hall of Fame, many of them are well-known politicians and public figures.
Quote time! Who said:
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future."
Seems like a speech a Euro-lefty would give, or maybe Hillary Clinton, but no, again, it's Adolf Hitler, 1935...
Let's give some other somewhat famous historical figures a chance to weigh in, shall we?
Mohandas K. Gandhi: "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest..."
Sigmund Freud: "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
Admiral Yamamoto: "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." {It has been theorized that this was a major contributing factor in Japan's decision not to land on North America early in the war when they had vastly superior military strength. This delay gave our industrial infrastructure time to gear up for the conflict and was decisive in our later victory. }
The Dalai Lama: "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."
Israeli Police Inspector General Shlomo Aharonisky: “There's no question that weapons in the hands of the public have prevented acts of terror or stopped them.”
How would the likes of, say, Senator (D) Diane Feinstein {" If I could have banned them all - 'Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns' - I would have!" } respond to the fellow below?
Thomas Jefferson: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Clear enough for you?
วันพฤหัสบดี, ตุลาคม 05, 2549
วันพุธ, ตุลาคม 04, 2549
Better Expect Bad Book Reviews, Tom...
...at the very least, if you keep on saying stuff like this. Personally, I'd be surprised if the liberal intelligentsia doesn't hang Mr. Wolfe from a chandelier the next time he enters a New York drawing room:
TOM Wolfe says a jarring scene he recently witnessed in Tennessee convinced him that writers who live in New York and on the Left Coast are out of touch with the rest of the country.
In the upcoming book, "Telling True Stories," the "Bonfire of the Vanities" novelist says he watched in amazement at a NASCAR race last month as a National Rifle Association honcho got a rousing standing ovation, and was followed by a minister who "asked the Lord to look out for these brave drivers and these loyal fans . . . in the name of Thy Only Son, Christ Jesus."
Writes Wolfe: "Anyone who introduced an event that way in San Francisco or New York would risk arrest for a hate crime. New York writers really must cross the Hudson River, and writers in Los Angeles really must go as far as the San Joaquin Valley. Most of the meaning of America lies in between the coasts, I'm afraid."
Geez, and all this time I thought the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN determined what the "meaning of America" is...
The truth is beautiful - thanks Tom!
TOM Wolfe says a jarring scene he recently witnessed in Tennessee convinced him that writers who live in New York and on the Left Coast are out of touch with the rest of the country.
In the upcoming book, "Telling True Stories," the "Bonfire of the Vanities" novelist says he watched in amazement at a NASCAR race last month as a National Rifle Association honcho got a rousing standing ovation, and was followed by a minister who "asked the Lord to look out for these brave drivers and these loyal fans . . . in the name of Thy Only Son, Christ Jesus."
Writes Wolfe: "Anyone who introduced an event that way in San Francisco or New York would risk arrest for a hate crime. New York writers really must cross the Hudson River, and writers in Los Angeles really must go as far as the San Joaquin Valley. Most of the meaning of America lies in between the coasts, I'm afraid."
Geez, and all this time I thought the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN determined what the "meaning of America" is...
The truth is beautiful - thanks Tom!
วันอังคาร, ตุลาคม 03, 2549
How's that tenuous grip on reality?
The Mainstream Media is losing it, and the good Senator from Oklahoma is calling them on their lies:
On CNN American Morning today, Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, engaged in a heated exchange with CNN newsman Miles O’Brien over CNN’s biased and erroneous coverage of global warming. Senator Inhofe questioned the journalistic integrity of CNN anchor for, ‘scaring a lot of people’ with hyped climate reporting. Senator Inhofe also questioned O’Brien about his 1992 CNN report regarding fears of a coming ice age. O’Brien responded by citing the 2004 fictional Hollywood global disaster movie, “The Day After Tomorrow” to back up his science reporting. “This is "The Day After Tomorrow" scenario that we're talking about,” O’Brien said after being confronted by Senator Inhofe on his climate reporting.
Senator Inhofe demanded equal time following a CNN segment by O’Brien last week that attempted to discredit the Senator 12 times in a several minute long report....
The Senator accused the media in his speech last week of dismissing “any pretense of balance and objectivity on climate change coverage and instead crossed squarely into global warming advocacy.” This despite the fact that there is no scientific “consensus” that humans are causing a climate catastrophe, as a letter sent to the Canadian Prime Minister on April 6 of this year by 60 prominent scientists who question the basis for climate alarmism clearly explained:
“‘Climate change is real’ is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified. Global climate changes occur all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural ‘noise.’
Jeez, so sorry that the facts contradict your favorite movie...er, "news story". Get a clue, ladies, and let us all say together: “‘Climate change is real’ is a meaningless phrase !
On CNN American Morning today, Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, engaged in a heated exchange with CNN newsman Miles O’Brien over CNN’s biased and erroneous coverage of global warming. Senator Inhofe questioned the journalistic integrity of CNN anchor for, ‘scaring a lot of people’ with hyped climate reporting. Senator Inhofe also questioned O’Brien about his 1992 CNN report regarding fears of a coming ice age. O’Brien responded by citing the 2004 fictional Hollywood global disaster movie, “The Day After Tomorrow” to back up his science reporting. “This is "The Day After Tomorrow" scenario that we're talking about,” O’Brien said after being confronted by Senator Inhofe on his climate reporting.
Senator Inhofe demanded equal time following a CNN segment by O’Brien last week that attempted to discredit the Senator 12 times in a several minute long report....
The Senator accused the media in his speech last week of dismissing “any pretense of balance and objectivity on climate change coverage and instead crossed squarely into global warming advocacy.” This despite the fact that there is no scientific “consensus” that humans are causing a climate catastrophe, as a letter sent to the Canadian Prime Minister on April 6 of this year by 60 prominent scientists who question the basis for climate alarmism clearly explained:
“‘Climate change is real’ is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified. Global climate changes occur all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural ‘noise.’
Jeez, so sorry that the facts contradict your favorite movie...er, "news story". Get a clue, ladies, and let us all say together: “‘Climate change is real’ is a meaningless phrase !
Ramadan Riots Rock Paris, Again...
Because it is a religion of peace, any evidence to the contrary must be ignored...that's why when the nightly Ramadam riots commence in France, no one reports on it:
Seven French police officers were hurt during clashes with scores of youths that broke out after a car chase in Les Mureaux, in the western Paris outskirts, justice officials said Monday.
There were around 250 people — very angry and very hostile," police officials said. The prosecutor's office said the number was around 130.
Some of the police were hurt when a stone hurled into their car detonated a tear-gas grenade. One of the police cars was gutted by fire. There were no arrests.
No mention of the race or nationality, which in this case almost definitely means Muslim youths... sad to make an assumption like that, but it is one the media has brought upon itself (and upon the Muslim community, ironically).
Update: Sweetness and Light has more, illustrating the above points:
The attacks underscored continuing concern over violence in Paris's depressed suburbs, where riots broke out nearly a year ago.
In a letter sent to French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy last June, a senior government official warned of a sharp spike in crime and the active incitement of Islamic radicals in the northern suburbs.
Ah, to spend Ramadan in Paris, among the "Islamic Radicals"...
Seven French police officers were hurt during clashes with scores of youths that broke out after a car chase in Les Mureaux, in the western Paris outskirts, justice officials said Monday.
There were around 250 people — very angry and very hostile," police officials said. The prosecutor's office said the number was around 130.
Some of the police were hurt when a stone hurled into their car detonated a tear-gas grenade. One of the police cars was gutted by fire. There were no arrests.
No mention of the race or nationality, which in this case almost definitely means Muslim youths... sad to make an assumption like that, but it is one the media has brought upon itself (and upon the Muslim community, ironically).
Update: Sweetness and Light has more, illustrating the above points:
The attacks underscored continuing concern over violence in Paris's depressed suburbs, where riots broke out nearly a year ago.
In a letter sent to French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy last June, a senior government official warned of a sharp spike in crime and the active incitement of Islamic radicals in the northern suburbs.
Ah, to spend Ramadan in Paris, among the "Islamic Radicals"...
It's Getting Late Early for Menendez in New Jersey...
...or why else would his people be busting out the race card already? True, some in New Jersey were pushing that meme a few weeks back, but here come the heavy hitters - via Enlighten New Jersey:
Jon Corzine’s former campaign blogger and “progressive” political gadfly is blaming recent revelations about Bob Menendez on racism:
"NJ Press in a Feeding Frenzy (Matt Stoller) - The NJ press and political establishment is simply racist. That's why Menendez is constantly painted as 'perceived as corrupt' without proof, and Kean is considered a man with integrity, despite clear dishonesty and shaking down corporate executives for campaign cash. Way to go gossip mongers!Stoller offers no proof for his outrageous claim, other than the fact that the press has just begun to scratch the surface of corruption cases involving Bob Menendez. "
Back in December when Governor Corzine appointed Menendez to the Senate the New York Times wrote: "There have been 75 corruption indictments in New Jersey over the last four years. The public has a right to yearn for a break from the past, and Mr. Menendez does not represent a clean slate."
Are we to believe the editors of the New York Times are racist too?
Well, I'll be shocked if they endorse Kean, but certainly the Times realized when Corzine made this ill-advised appointment that there could be trouble down the road for Menendez. Seems like Stoller is desperate to protect the judgement of his old boss, and if that means crying "racism", then Stoller has no problem with it - hey, when's the last time the Democrats actually tried to win an election by bringing people together instead of underscoring their differences, anyway?
And speaking of lies, and Menendez, I picked up this beauty of a letter to a local New Jersey paper the other day (although it is dated June 23rd 2006):
MENENDEZ VOTES AGAINST HEALTH BENEFITS PACKAGE FOR NEW JERSEY SMALL BUSINESS
As a small business owner suffering with double digit health insurance premium increases for my employees, I contacted Senator Menendez to seek his support of the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act (S.1955) which would have allowed small business to form groups to purchase insurance at the discounted rates that large corporations enjoy.
I was not surprised when the Senator voted with the rest of his party to prevent the bill from becoming law, even though it had majority support. However I was appalled when I received a letter from the Senator espousing the benefits of the bill as if he supported it.
In his letter he said, “As you may know there are an estimated 1.2 million New Jerseyans – and 46 million Americans – who are uninsured and those numbers continue to rise. Most people in the Untied States who have health insurance obtain it through their own and a family member’s employer as a workplace benefit. Unfortunately, small business owners are far less likely to provide health insurance to their workers, and almost half of the uninsured in America are employed by small businesses. This is a serious problem facing our health care system and I believe Congress has a responsibility to support small businesses, the engine or our economy, so that they can afford to offer the health insurance their employees need.”
Well, I do know that. What I don’t understand is why since the Senator apparently also knows it too, why he would vote against the bill. Why would he vote against it and then try to lead me to believe that he supported it?
I was disappointed that the Senator did not support me and thousands or other New Jersey small business owners in providing better and more affordable health insurance to our employees. Worse, I am deeply offended by his duplicity and his distain for the intelligence of his constituents.
Art Gallagher Gallco Enterprises Inc. Belford, NJ
Attached is a pdf copy of the Senator’s letter.
And the poll numbers continue to drop for Menendez; with Kean showing some of his largest gains to date...
What more of Menedez's sleaze? Check out Trochilus Tales ; where the latest scandel involving influence peddling on contracts for psychiatric work with jail inmates (is every aspect of New Jersey public life touched by sleaze??) is dissected quite carefully - Trochilus has links to audio of taped conversations where we can hear:
...lifetime Menendez pal and highly politically connected attorney, Donald Scarinci, verbally muscling a psychiatrist and former FBI informant, Dr. Oscar Sandoval, into rehiring another psychiatrist, Dr. Vincente Ruiz (who Sandoval had previously fired) to be a full partner with him in working on Hudson County contracts for psychiatric care.
On the tape, Scarinci is clearly heard requested this all as a favor to Bob Menendez. The implication of Scarcini’s "request" was that if Sandoval didn’t go along, he ran the risk of losing those Hudson County contracts....
Although Menedez has now "severed ties" with Scarinci; it seems like even he knows it is just a matter of time before the next "shoe" drops. Trochilus notes with disdain this New York Times story which basically hands the Senate to the Democrats (stay home, likely Republican voters! No need to cast your vote!!); seems like they are ignoring the Menendez story, as well as the meltdown of Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill in Missouri. Gateway Pundit reports, linking to local blogger Pubdef:
Black Businessmen Raise Funds for Talent, Give McCaskill "F" on Issues
Republican Sen. Jim Talent continues his push to make inroads with black voters. A group of African-American business leaders held a breakfast fundraiser for Talent this morning at the offices of Midwestern Construction Company in old north St. Louis.
While Talent made only a couple of indirect mentions of his Democratic challenger, State Auditor Claire McCaskill, his supporters took a more direct approach. Darryl Jones held up a glossy poster which read: "...Let's See Claire's Report Card", an answer to the NAACP's report card which is often referenced by McCaskill supporters.
On this report card, paid for by Jones and Kirkwood, McCaskill scored F's in three categories relating to black St. Louis and an F minus in the more general "Fighting for Our Communities" category (click here to see the card).
It's hard to tell if these black businessmen are actually in agreement with the Republican agenda or just have a sense which way the political winds are blowing, and are staying tight with present and future Senator Talent.
But if McCaskill cannot even drum up strong support within what is supposed to be her "natural" base, then the candidacy is doomed, as is Menedez's, as is the liberal fantasy of retaking the Senate come this November...
UPDATE: Looks like the Times knows its place; here's a puff-piece on Menendez (the Cuban angle; it's always about race...sigh...) that paints him as heroic and his Republican opposition as simpleminded conservative racists (gee, that's a new twist...). One interesting nugget, however:
...the money raised in Florida for his current campaign amounts to almost as much as Mr. Kean has raised over all from political action committees in this race.
The Times tells us this is not important, because -
Yet the star power of Mr. Menendez, 52, cannot be measured by dollars alone...
Yuk.
But imagine - exchange the word "Cuban" with "Jewish"...I wonder how the left, and the media, would feel about his out-of-state funding under those circumstances...
Jon Corzine’s former campaign blogger and “progressive” political gadfly is blaming recent revelations about Bob Menendez on racism:
"NJ Press in a Feeding Frenzy (Matt Stoller) - The NJ press and political establishment is simply racist. That's why Menendez is constantly painted as 'perceived as corrupt' without proof, and Kean is considered a man with integrity, despite clear dishonesty and shaking down corporate executives for campaign cash. Way to go gossip mongers!Stoller offers no proof for his outrageous claim, other than the fact that the press has just begun to scratch the surface of corruption cases involving Bob Menendez. "
Back in December when Governor Corzine appointed Menendez to the Senate the New York Times wrote: "There have been 75 corruption indictments in New Jersey over the last four years. The public has a right to yearn for a break from the past, and Mr. Menendez does not represent a clean slate."
Are we to believe the editors of the New York Times are racist too?
Well, I'll be shocked if they endorse Kean, but certainly the Times realized when Corzine made this ill-advised appointment that there could be trouble down the road for Menendez. Seems like Stoller is desperate to protect the judgement of his old boss, and if that means crying "racism", then Stoller has no problem with it - hey, when's the last time the Democrats actually tried to win an election by bringing people together instead of underscoring their differences, anyway?
And speaking of lies, and Menendez, I picked up this beauty of a letter to a local New Jersey paper the other day (although it is dated June 23rd 2006):
MENENDEZ VOTES AGAINST HEALTH BENEFITS PACKAGE FOR NEW JERSEY SMALL BUSINESS
As a small business owner suffering with double digit health insurance premium increases for my employees, I contacted Senator Menendez to seek his support of the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act (S.1955) which would have allowed small business to form groups to purchase insurance at the discounted rates that large corporations enjoy.
I was not surprised when the Senator voted with the rest of his party to prevent the bill from becoming law, even though it had majority support. However I was appalled when I received a letter from the Senator espousing the benefits of the bill as if he supported it.
In his letter he said, “As you may know there are an estimated 1.2 million New Jerseyans – and 46 million Americans – who are uninsured and those numbers continue to rise. Most people in the Untied States who have health insurance obtain it through their own and a family member’s employer as a workplace benefit. Unfortunately, small business owners are far less likely to provide health insurance to their workers, and almost half of the uninsured in America are employed by small businesses. This is a serious problem facing our health care system and I believe Congress has a responsibility to support small businesses, the engine or our economy, so that they can afford to offer the health insurance their employees need.”
Well, I do know that. What I don’t understand is why since the Senator apparently also knows it too, why he would vote against the bill. Why would he vote against it and then try to lead me to believe that he supported it?
I was disappointed that the Senator did not support me and thousands or other New Jersey small business owners in providing better and more affordable health insurance to our employees. Worse, I am deeply offended by his duplicity and his distain for the intelligence of his constituents.
Art Gallagher Gallco Enterprises Inc. Belford, NJ
Attached is a pdf copy of the Senator’s letter.
And the poll numbers continue to drop for Menendez; with Kean showing some of his largest gains to date...
What more of Menedez's sleaze? Check out Trochilus Tales ; where the latest scandel involving influence peddling on contracts for psychiatric work with jail inmates (is every aspect of New Jersey public life touched by sleaze??) is dissected quite carefully - Trochilus has links to audio of taped conversations where we can hear:
...lifetime Menendez pal and highly politically connected attorney, Donald Scarinci, verbally muscling a psychiatrist and former FBI informant, Dr. Oscar Sandoval, into rehiring another psychiatrist, Dr. Vincente Ruiz (who Sandoval had previously fired) to be a full partner with him in working on Hudson County contracts for psychiatric care.
On the tape, Scarinci is clearly heard requested this all as a favor to Bob Menendez. The implication of Scarcini’s "request" was that if Sandoval didn’t go along, he ran the risk of losing those Hudson County contracts....
Although Menedez has now "severed ties" with Scarinci; it seems like even he knows it is just a matter of time before the next "shoe" drops. Trochilus notes with disdain this New York Times story which basically hands the Senate to the Democrats (stay home, likely Republican voters! No need to cast your vote!!); seems like they are ignoring the Menendez story, as well as the meltdown of Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill in Missouri. Gateway Pundit reports, linking to local blogger Pubdef:
Black Businessmen Raise Funds for Talent, Give McCaskill "F" on Issues
Republican Sen. Jim Talent continues his push to make inroads with black voters. A group of African-American business leaders held a breakfast fundraiser for Talent this morning at the offices of Midwestern Construction Company in old north St. Louis.
While Talent made only a couple of indirect mentions of his Democratic challenger, State Auditor Claire McCaskill, his supporters took a more direct approach. Darryl Jones held up a glossy poster which read: "...Let's See Claire's Report Card", an answer to the NAACP's report card which is often referenced by McCaskill supporters.
On this report card, paid for by Jones and Kirkwood, McCaskill scored F's in three categories relating to black St. Louis and an F minus in the more general "Fighting for Our Communities" category (click here to see the card).
It's hard to tell if these black businessmen are actually in agreement with the Republican agenda or just have a sense which way the political winds are blowing, and are staying tight with present and future Senator Talent.
But if McCaskill cannot even drum up strong support within what is supposed to be her "natural" base, then the candidacy is doomed, as is Menedez's, as is the liberal fantasy of retaking the Senate come this November...
UPDATE: Looks like the Times knows its place; here's a puff-piece on Menendez (the Cuban angle; it's always about race...sigh...) that paints him as heroic and his Republican opposition as simpleminded conservative racists (gee, that's a new twist...). One interesting nugget, however:
...the money raised in Florida for his current campaign amounts to almost as much as Mr. Kean has raised over all from political action committees in this race.
The Times tells us this is not important, because -
Yet the star power of Mr. Menendez, 52, cannot be measured by dollars alone...
Yuk.
But imagine - exchange the word "Cuban" with "Jewish"...I wonder how the left, and the media, would feel about his out-of-state funding under those circumstances...
วันจันทร์, ตุลาคม 02, 2549
Ramadan Attack on America - All Systems Go?
We spoke here and here on the rumors of a nuclear attack on the United States within the timeframe of Ramadan (September 24th thru October 23rd this year). Haven't posted on the threat in almost two weeks; despite monitoring the story, there seemed to be little new or breaking information.
Until today, via Gateway Pundit - we have a claim by the man (Hamid Mir) who reported the upcoming Ramadan attack that the recently released video showing the 9/11 hijackers whooping it up with Osama bin Ladin is the go signal for the Ramadan attack on America:
Hamid Mir said that the Atta video was the signal to operatives to go ahead with the planned terror strike!
Al Qaeda completed its "cycle of warnings" and today's Atta video is the signal for terrorists to strike!
Fox News concurs:
Bin Laden said a few years ago that he was saving Atta's last testament to release for a special occasion...
This is what Mr. Mir said on the subject in an interview approximately two weeks ago:
...he was told that the terrorists working to carry out this attack are not using Muslim names, they are hiding behind Western sounding names and related documents, such as passports.
...Say's that Osama has completed the "cycle of warnings." Under Islamic law, the defender is given three warnings before being attacked. Says that Osama is trying to legitimize his actions with Islamic scholars who criticized him for 9/11.
"very dangerous materials" have been smuggled over the border. Doesn't specify what.
Hot Air has a six minute video clip of Mir's interview; The Jawa Report provides some a summary of salient points - a few as follows:
Osama is alive, and won't do video because the CIA can target him anywhere in the world based on the video.
Reiteration of the call for all Muslims to leave America. Why? Because American Muslims are a "shield." However, if they stay, the attack will go on anyway.
Hamir doesn't claim Adnan Al-Shukri Jumaa smuggled nukes across the southern border, he uses the phrase "dangerous materials."
Says it's an "open secret" that AQ is in Lebanon, and is allied with both Iran and Hezbollah. Says that Osama forged an alliance with Hezbollah when he was still in the Sudan. Says that Iran is providing arms and money to both AQ and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
More info here on the alleged attack in the Canada Free Press , dating back to 9/16 from Mr. Mir's interview with Abu Dawood, one of the commanders of the al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan. But here's even scarier stuff from an interview with Mir back in May:
It has been reported that you believe Al-Qaeda has nuclear weapons. How did you come up with this conclusion?
Mir: I came up with this conclusion after eight years of investigation and research in the remote mountain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan . I traveled to Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Russia and met dozens of people. I interviewed not only Al-Qaeda operatives but met scientists and top U.S. officials also. At least two Al-Qaeda operatives claimed that the organization smuggled suitcase nukes inside America. But I have no details on who did it. But I do have details about who smuggled uranium inside America and how.
Curious about what a suitcase nule might look like, and how we might identify a possible terrorist with genocidal aims? Well, far be it for our mass media (or even our government, which fears a panic more than a holocaust, apparently) to keep us informed about anything important, so try this:
The bombs look like a suitcase and they can also fit inside one. They only weigh 60-100 lbs and if you see a man carrying one it will look like he is carrying a suitcase. I believe it was mentioned than in terms of nuclear energy, the bombs were 1 kiloton. They were initially designed to destroy a large enemy military base but if they are detonated in an urban center it could kill 50,000-100,000 people.
Will that wake America up to the fact we are at war with a implacable foe who will not relent until we submit to Islamic Sharia law? Or will the remnents of the media wake up the next day and somehow find a way to fault Bush for the Islamofacist's bloodlust?
Until today, via Gateway Pundit - we have a claim by the man (Hamid Mir) who reported the upcoming Ramadan attack that the recently released video showing the 9/11 hijackers whooping it up with Osama bin Ladin is the go signal for the Ramadan attack on America:
Hamid Mir said that the Atta video was the signal to operatives to go ahead with the planned terror strike!
Al Qaeda completed its "cycle of warnings" and today's Atta video is the signal for terrorists to strike!
Fox News concurs:
Bin Laden said a few years ago that he was saving Atta's last testament to release for a special occasion...
This is what Mr. Mir said on the subject in an interview approximately two weeks ago:
...he was told that the terrorists working to carry out this attack are not using Muslim names, they are hiding behind Western sounding names and related documents, such as passports.
...Say's that Osama has completed the "cycle of warnings." Under Islamic law, the defender is given three warnings before being attacked. Says that Osama is trying to legitimize his actions with Islamic scholars who criticized him for 9/11.
"very dangerous materials" have been smuggled over the border. Doesn't specify what.
Hot Air has a six minute video clip of Mir's interview; The Jawa Report provides some a summary of salient points - a few as follows:
Osama is alive, and won't do video because the CIA can target him anywhere in the world based on the video.
Reiteration of the call for all Muslims to leave America. Why? Because American Muslims are a "shield." However, if they stay, the attack will go on anyway.
Hamir doesn't claim Adnan Al-Shukri Jumaa smuggled nukes across the southern border, he uses the phrase "dangerous materials."
Says it's an "open secret" that AQ is in Lebanon, and is allied with both Iran and Hezbollah. Says that Osama forged an alliance with Hezbollah when he was still in the Sudan. Says that Iran is providing arms and money to both AQ and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
More info here on the alleged attack in the Canada Free Press , dating back to 9/16 from Mr. Mir's interview with Abu Dawood, one of the commanders of the al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan. But here's even scarier stuff from an interview with Mir back in May:
It has been reported that you believe Al-Qaeda has nuclear weapons. How did you come up with this conclusion?
Mir: I came up with this conclusion after eight years of investigation and research in the remote mountain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan . I traveled to Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Russia and met dozens of people. I interviewed not only Al-Qaeda operatives but met scientists and top U.S. officials also. At least two Al-Qaeda operatives claimed that the organization smuggled suitcase nukes inside America. But I have no details on who did it. But I do have details about who smuggled uranium inside America and how.
Curious about what a suitcase nule might look like, and how we might identify a possible terrorist with genocidal aims? Well, far be it for our mass media (or even our government, which fears a panic more than a holocaust, apparently) to keep us informed about anything important, so try this:
The bombs look like a suitcase and they can also fit inside one. They only weigh 60-100 lbs and if you see a man carrying one it will look like he is carrying a suitcase. I believe it was mentioned than in terms of nuclear energy, the bombs were 1 kiloton. They were initially designed to destroy a large enemy military base but if they are detonated in an urban center it could kill 50,000-100,000 people.
Will that wake America up to the fact we are at war with a implacable foe who will not relent until we submit to Islamic Sharia law? Or will the remnents of the media wake up the next day and somehow find a way to fault Bush for the Islamofacist's bloodlust?
วันอาทิตย์, ตุลาคม 01, 2549
Speak Freely and Die in Dhimmi France...
Those Muslims are just a paragon of respect for other folk's beliefs...like the belief in a freedom of speech. But they have learned well that the mere threat of violence can force their new subserviants in Europe to quake in fear and and toss aside what they claim to value most...
Fausta reported Friday on "The article that may cost a man his life, and that of his family ":
Robert Redeker, a French 52-yr old philosophy professor, wrote an op-ed article in Le Figaro stating that Islam is violent, and denounced the violence in the Koran. After receiving several death threats in the mail, Prof. Redeker and his family have had to go into hiding. The police are taking the threats very seriously and are keeping watch of his now vacant home.
Fausta links to Judeoscope with the orignal article; but provides the translation herself...
But the funny part is the French response; and as usual they show not an inkling of what a "moral value" might be - via No Parasan!:
There have been death threats against a courageous philosophy professor, Robert Redeker, and his family. It is serious enough that a Special Services branch of the Anti-terror Police instructed him to not sleep in the same place twice...
Robert Redeker has just announced that none of the teachers labor union will be supporting him in any way, and nor would the Ministry of Education.
The anti-this, anti-that crowd is caving-in to the notion that free speech is not worth defending if you think you can buy yourself another day here or there. The first of those idiots who claims to care about human rights should have to think about what they’re doing when they won’t come to the aid of a confrere savant who’s life is being threatened.
Perhaps this is why it is so difficult to maintain a strong alliance with France. They simply cannot imagine suffering the slightest personal inconvience for anything as obscure as a "belief", or a "value". Americans fight and die for what we believe is "right"; France will abandon even their most basic cherished freedoms (or closest allies) if only to placate their enemies for a few hours longer. France's blitzkrieg-like surrender to the Nazis in WWII stands as a metaphor for their collective soul - take our liberty, kill our Jews, just as long as we can continue to pontificate meaninglessly over an afternoon glass of wine in a sidewalk cafe....
The Brussels Journal has more from Robert Redeker - in a letter he has written from hiding to the philosopher André Glucksmann:
There is no safe place for me, I have to beg, two evenings here, two evenings there. [...] I am under the constant protection of the police. I must cancel all scheduled conferences. And the authorities urge me to keep moving. [...] All costs are at my own expense, including those of rents a month or two ahead, the costs of moving twice, legal expenses, etc.
It's quite sad. I exercised my constitutional rights, and I am punished for it, even in the territory of the Republic. This affair is also an attack against national sovereignty – foreign rules, decided by criminally minded fanatics, punish me for having exercised a constitutional right, and I am subjected, even in France, to great injury.”
And the French continue to pay for their dhimmitude...
Fausta reported Friday on "The article that may cost a man his life, and that of his family ":
Robert Redeker, a French 52-yr old philosophy professor, wrote an op-ed article in Le Figaro stating that Islam is violent, and denounced the violence in the Koran. After receiving several death threats in the mail, Prof. Redeker and his family have had to go into hiding. The police are taking the threats very seriously and are keeping watch of his now vacant home.
Fausta links to Judeoscope with the orignal article; but provides the translation herself...
But the funny part is the French response; and as usual they show not an inkling of what a "moral value" might be - via No Parasan!:
There have been death threats against a courageous philosophy professor, Robert Redeker, and his family. It is serious enough that a Special Services branch of the Anti-terror Police instructed him to not sleep in the same place twice...
Robert Redeker has just announced that none of the teachers labor union will be supporting him in any way, and nor would the Ministry of Education.
The anti-this, anti-that crowd is caving-in to the notion that free speech is not worth defending if you think you can buy yourself another day here or there. The first of those idiots who claims to care about human rights should have to think about what they’re doing when they won’t come to the aid of a confrere savant who’s life is being threatened.
Perhaps this is why it is so difficult to maintain a strong alliance with France. They simply cannot imagine suffering the slightest personal inconvience for anything as obscure as a "belief", or a "value". Americans fight and die for what we believe is "right"; France will abandon even their most basic cherished freedoms (or closest allies) if only to placate their enemies for a few hours longer. France's blitzkrieg-like surrender to the Nazis in WWII stands as a metaphor for their collective soul - take our liberty, kill our Jews, just as long as we can continue to pontificate meaninglessly over an afternoon glass of wine in a sidewalk cafe....
The Brussels Journal has more from Robert Redeker - in a letter he has written from hiding to the philosopher André Glucksmann:
There is no safe place for me, I have to beg, two evenings here, two evenings there. [...] I am under the constant protection of the police. I must cancel all scheduled conferences. And the authorities urge me to keep moving. [...] All costs are at my own expense, including those of rents a month or two ahead, the costs of moving twice, legal expenses, etc.
It's quite sad. I exercised my constitutional rights, and I am punished for it, even in the territory of the Republic. This affair is also an attack against national sovereignty – foreign rules, decided by criminally minded fanatics, punish me for having exercised a constitutional right, and I am subjected, even in France, to great injury.”
And the French continue to pay for their dhimmitude...
Why Did They Hate...Bill Clinton?
A new release from the video archives of al-Qaeda tells an interesting story between the lines:
FILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his “martyrdom” will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage...
Dates on the tape show Atta was filmed on January 18, 2000, together with Ziad Jarrah, the pilot of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently stormed the flight deck....
January 18th, 2000 - this was:
-before Bush was even nominated to run for president
-before the attack in Afghanistan
-before the invasion of Iraq.
Mr Clinton was the president. Why did they hate America after it helped save the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo?
Don't ask the Democrats; for them, their was no Islamic terror in the world until March of 2003...
FILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his “martyrdom” will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage...
Dates on the tape show Atta was filmed on January 18, 2000, together with Ziad Jarrah, the pilot of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently stormed the flight deck....
January 18th, 2000 - this was:
-before Bush was even nominated to run for president
-before the attack in Afghanistan
-before the invasion of Iraq.
Mr Clinton was the president. Why did they hate America after it helped save the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo?
Don't ask the Democrats; for them, their was no Islamic terror in the world until March of 2003...
วันเสาร์, กันยายน 30, 2549
Jimmy "Dhimmi" Carter gets a beatdown!
Victor Davis Hanson brutally dissects the failure and immorality of America's worst President:
Jimmy Carter... almost immediately was back in the news claiming that the United States was one of the world’s great abusers of civil rights (I wonder how our internecine body count in Plains, Georgia stacks up with that in Rwanda, Kosovo, or Dafur?).
In his dotage, Carter is proving once again that he is as malicious and mean-spirited a public figure as he is historically ignorant. And for all his sanctimonious Christian veneer, and fly-fishing, ‘aw shucks blue-jeans image, he can’t hide an essentially ungracious and unkind soul.
And can Carter point to just one aspect of current American life where civil liberties are materially curtailed, in which an American can’t do what he wants? Getting on a plane without shampoo doesn’t count—or not having your family at the gate when you land either: all thanks to al Qaeda, not George Bush.
Contrast our enemies: the pope, an opera, a novel, a cartoon, a film—all either muzzled or intimidated by the mere fear of Islamic violence. Carter should reread Aristotle’s Ethics and learn what true morality is: action to combat evil, not sermonizing from the Carter Center or campaigning for a Nobel Prize at a time of war by trashing his own government.
There is another disturbing element to Cartesian maliciousness. He asks us to forget all the dilemmas of being President, the necessity of making bad choices when the alternative is usually worse. And, of course, he seems to have amnesia about his own failings that put this country in grave jeopardy. He sanctimoniously lectured us on our Cold War fixation on communism—and got a murderous Soviet invasion of Afghanistan....
He wept for the middle class, but adopted policies that led to double-digit interest rates and inflation, ensuring that only the upscale could borrow for a house or ensure their salaries would keep up with the cost of living. No need to mention his energy policy or gas lines.
Carter’s Waterloo, of course was the Iranian hostage crisis. It was not just that his gutting of the military helped to explain the rescue disaster. Far more importantly, we can chart the rise of radical political Islam with the storming of the American embassy in Teheran and the impotent response of Jimmy Carter.
Long before George Bush was elected to anything, crowds in Teheran gave us the genesis of the Great Satan and “Death to Carter”. Does he remember that so great was the Iranian Islamist hatred of him, that Iran deliberately delayed the brokered release of the hostages until he was out of office—a lesson that appeasement wins contempt as the additional wage of its failure.
One of the great failures of the Democratic Party in 2004 was giving this mangy ex-President such a high profile. Most Americans know intuitively what Hanson states above, that Carter's immoral inaction in the face of Islamic terror some 27 years ago gave rise to the perception of America as a paper tiger that could be taunted and defeated. How many innocents have died, and how many wars have we had to fight, since Carter gave fuel to the Islamic fire?
Yet the Dems let this guy speak at the convention...what kind of memories did they think he would invoke? And sitting him in a place of high honor, right next to fellow America-basher Michael Moore...well, entirely appropriate, to be sure, but I can't imagine how these two could inspire any but the already die-hard to vote Democratic...
Well, the 2006 election cycle is upon us. Let us hope we see much more of this sanctimonious moral prostitute pimping the candidates of the left - the more America sees of Jimmy Carter, the less likely they are to pull the "D" lever, knowing what type of policies he (and they) represent...
Jimmy Carter... almost immediately was back in the news claiming that the United States was one of the world’s great abusers of civil rights (I wonder how our internecine body count in Plains, Georgia stacks up with that in Rwanda, Kosovo, or Dafur?).
In his dotage, Carter is proving once again that he is as malicious and mean-spirited a public figure as he is historically ignorant. And for all his sanctimonious Christian veneer, and fly-fishing, ‘aw shucks blue-jeans image, he can’t hide an essentially ungracious and unkind soul.
And can Carter point to just one aspect of current American life where civil liberties are materially curtailed, in which an American can’t do what he wants? Getting on a plane without shampoo doesn’t count—or not having your family at the gate when you land either: all thanks to al Qaeda, not George Bush.
Contrast our enemies: the pope, an opera, a novel, a cartoon, a film—all either muzzled or intimidated by the mere fear of Islamic violence. Carter should reread Aristotle’s Ethics and learn what true morality is: action to combat evil, not sermonizing from the Carter Center or campaigning for a Nobel Prize at a time of war by trashing his own government.
There is another disturbing element to Cartesian maliciousness. He asks us to forget all the dilemmas of being President, the necessity of making bad choices when the alternative is usually worse. And, of course, he seems to have amnesia about his own failings that put this country in grave jeopardy. He sanctimoniously lectured us on our Cold War fixation on communism—and got a murderous Soviet invasion of Afghanistan....
He wept for the middle class, but adopted policies that led to double-digit interest rates and inflation, ensuring that only the upscale could borrow for a house or ensure their salaries would keep up with the cost of living. No need to mention his energy policy or gas lines.
Carter’s Waterloo, of course was the Iranian hostage crisis. It was not just that his gutting of the military helped to explain the rescue disaster. Far more importantly, we can chart the rise of radical political Islam with the storming of the American embassy in Teheran and the impotent response of Jimmy Carter.
Long before George Bush was elected to anything, crowds in Teheran gave us the genesis of the Great Satan and “Death to Carter”. Does he remember that so great was the Iranian Islamist hatred of him, that Iran deliberately delayed the brokered release of the hostages until he was out of office—a lesson that appeasement wins contempt as the additional wage of its failure.
One of the great failures of the Democratic Party in 2004 was giving this mangy ex-President such a high profile. Most Americans know intuitively what Hanson states above, that Carter's immoral inaction in the face of Islamic terror some 27 years ago gave rise to the perception of America as a paper tiger that could be taunted and defeated. How many innocents have died, and how many wars have we had to fight, since Carter gave fuel to the Islamic fire?
Yet the Dems let this guy speak at the convention...what kind of memories did they think he would invoke? And sitting him in a place of high honor, right next to fellow America-basher Michael Moore...well, entirely appropriate, to be sure, but I can't imagine how these two could inspire any but the already die-hard to vote Democratic...
Well, the 2006 election cycle is upon us. Let us hope we see much more of this sanctimonious moral prostitute pimping the candidates of the left - the more America sees of Jimmy Carter, the less likely they are to pull the "D" lever, knowing what type of policies he (and they) represent...
วันศุกร์, กันยายน 29, 2549
al-Zawahiri's Speechwriters?
Old al-Zawahiri is a pretty sharp charactor; definitely reads the Washington Post -
After two books that made President Bush look pretty good, Bob Woodward is out with a new one that comes awfully close to calling the president a liar....
What's striking, instead, is that anyone could still disagree with this assessment of the role of Iraq....the war in Iraq has worsened the terrorist threat.
- and New York Times for talking points before he gives one of his fiery jihad speeches:
...U.S. President George W. Bush, Zawahiri brands him a "deceitful charlatan" and liar, and questions: “why don't you tell them how many million citizens of America and it's allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people’s sons in order to increase your profits?”
Powerline comments:
Zawahiri knows that because of the incompetence (or worse) of American journalists, he can ridicule the idea of connections between al Qaeda and Iraq, even though he himself attended, according to multiple reports, a conference of Islamic extremists in Baghdad in 1999.
It's interesting to think about the possible explanations for the fact that al Qaeda's leaders believe that their most effective public relations strategy is to repeat the Democratic Party's talking points.
Equally interesting is how the media simply reports Zawahiri's rants without qualifiers, as if it were fact, but when President Bush speaks, we get this:
President Bush today lashed out at critics of his policies in Afghanistan and Iraq, denouncing predictions of impending failure in Afghanistan and complaining that some have "selectively quoted" from a classified intelligence assessment...
....In his speech, Bush quoted what he described as a powerful answer to the critics this week by British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
The Times uses scare quotes to make their not-so-subtle point:
President Bush asserted Friday that critics who claim the Iraq war has made America less safe embrace ''the enemy's propaganda.''
When I listen to the words of the mainstream media, and the words of Ayman al-Zawahiri, I start to lose track of who is the "war critic" and who is the "enemy"....
After two books that made President Bush look pretty good, Bob Woodward is out with a new one that comes awfully close to calling the president a liar....
What's striking, instead, is that anyone could still disagree with this assessment of the role of Iraq....the war in Iraq has worsened the terrorist threat.
- and New York Times for talking points before he gives one of his fiery jihad speeches:
...U.S. President George W. Bush, Zawahiri brands him a "deceitful charlatan" and liar, and questions: “why don't you tell them how many million citizens of America and it's allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people’s sons in order to increase your profits?”
Powerline comments:
Zawahiri knows that because of the incompetence (or worse) of American journalists, he can ridicule the idea of connections between al Qaeda and Iraq, even though he himself attended, according to multiple reports, a conference of Islamic extremists in Baghdad in 1999.
It's interesting to think about the possible explanations for the fact that al Qaeda's leaders believe that their most effective public relations strategy is to repeat the Democratic Party's talking points.
Equally interesting is how the media simply reports Zawahiri's rants without qualifiers, as if it were fact, but when President Bush speaks, we get this:
President Bush today lashed out at critics of his policies in Afghanistan and Iraq, denouncing predictions of impending failure in Afghanistan and complaining that some have "selectively quoted" from a classified intelligence assessment...
....In his speech, Bush quoted what he described as a powerful answer to the critics this week by British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
The Times uses scare quotes to make their not-so-subtle point:
President Bush asserted Friday that critics who claim the Iraq war has made America less safe embrace ''the enemy's propaganda.''
When I listen to the words of the mainstream media, and the words of Ayman al-Zawahiri, I start to lose track of who is the "war critic" and who is the "enemy"....
วันพฤหัสบดี, กันยายน 28, 2549
Ramadan is Riot Time !
Yup, after a day spent fasting in quiet contemplation, and an evening dinner with the family, the best way to express the values of the faith during Ramadan is to...rampage through the streets of Europe. The Brussels Journal reports:
Around 8:30pm last night violence erupted again in Brussels, the capital of Europe. The riots centered on the Brussels Marollen quarter and the area near the Midi Train Station, where the international trains from London and Paris arrive. Youths threw stones at passing people and cars, windows of parked cars were smashed, bus shelters were demolished, cars were set ablaze, a youth club was arsoned and a shop was looted. Two molotov cocktails were thrown into St.Peter’s hospital, one of the main hospitals of central Brussels. The fire brigade was able to extinguish the fires at the hospital, but youths managed to steal the keys of the fire engine.
From Gates of Vienna:
Actually, the Brussels police released the ten vandals they captured in order to “defuse” the situation. Now tell me: how do you defuse human refuse which has the capability to spontaneously combust? “Defusing” the situation is nothing more than cowardice. It inflames that which it proclaims to tamp down. What a joke!
No doubt these youths can find some hadith in their inflammatory belief system which will cover mayhem and whatever destruction occurs to them.
And of course, the media quails in fear before their new Islamic masters, and imposes a news blackout:
What makes this story unusual is that so far, there has only been one report issued across the newswires (by Reuters) covering the events, and even though the rioting is entering its third day, not a single photographer has been dispatched to document the activities of the Muslim mob....amongst all of this meleé, the Associated Press hasn't seen fit to send a photojournalist? Nor Reuters?
Snapped Shot links us to local news report with a " more telling video ".
I'll close with the opening of a post from EU Referendum:
When is a riot not a riot? When, it seems, it involves Muslims in Brussels, at Ramadan.
And finally, for 2:31 of perfect perspective, go see the video at Average Gay Joe's place....now!
Around 8:30pm last night violence erupted again in Brussels, the capital of Europe. The riots centered on the Brussels Marollen quarter and the area near the Midi Train Station, where the international trains from London and Paris arrive. Youths threw stones at passing people and cars, windows of parked cars were smashed, bus shelters were demolished, cars were set ablaze, a youth club was arsoned and a shop was looted. Two molotov cocktails were thrown into St.Peter’s hospital, one of the main hospitals of central Brussels. The fire brigade was able to extinguish the fires at the hospital, but youths managed to steal the keys of the fire engine.
From Gates of Vienna:
Actually, the Brussels police released the ten vandals they captured in order to “defuse” the situation. Now tell me: how do you defuse human refuse which has the capability to spontaneously combust? “Defusing” the situation is nothing more than cowardice. It inflames that which it proclaims to tamp down. What a joke!
No doubt these youths can find some hadith in their inflammatory belief system which will cover mayhem and whatever destruction occurs to them.
And of course, the media quails in fear before their new Islamic masters, and imposes a news blackout:
What makes this story unusual is that so far, there has only been one report issued across the newswires (by Reuters) covering the events, and even though the rioting is entering its third day, not a single photographer has been dispatched to document the activities of the Muslim mob....amongst all of this meleé, the Associated Press hasn't seen fit to send a photojournalist? Nor Reuters?
Snapped Shot links us to local news report with a " more telling video ".
I'll close with the opening of a post from EU Referendum:
When is a riot not a riot? When, it seems, it involves Muslims in Brussels, at Ramadan.
And finally, for 2:31 of perfect perspective, go see the video at Average Gay Joe's place....now!
วันพุธ, กันยายน 27, 2549
Once-Great Britain
Greg Gutfeld in the Weekly Standard:
England is a country as delusional as a 35-year-old stripper--everyone in the room but her sees that her powers of attraction have faded. Her life is a loose coalition of press-on nails, fake tan, hair extensions, and implants, all held together by the duct tape of delusion.
Yup. And the girls are always the first to notice - like Melanie Phillips, commenting on Britain's brilliant plan to inform the Muslim community of any impending raids days, maybe weeks in the future:
...can anyone imagine the British Army or the Royal Ulster Constabulary, when the IRA terror campaign was at its height, making known to the Catholic or Protestant communities plans to conduct raids within those communities, and the intelligence on which it was based, before they took place?
...Britain has simply taken leave of its senses.
Indeed. The fact that they are prepared to cede a great amount of their sovereignty over to the EU (and by extension, to their ancient enemy France) speaks volumes:
Reports this morning appear to confirm yesterday's rumour that Britain was preparing to surrender its EU veto on policing and judicial matters...
...."Ministers will set out conditions tomorrow for the transfer of control to the EU over the creation of new crimes that will apply in Britain as well as standardised court procedures," the newspaper says.
The EU commission says that removing the veto will assist in the fight against terror. However, the European commissioner for justice Franco Frattini has his eyes on a bigger prize: He sees the new system as a means of speeding the creation of an entirely new set of pan-European laws, including incitement to racial hatred.
Ya. And whom do you think that will be applied to?
After the rapid French surrender in the early days of WWII, England stood as Europe's last fortress against Nazi terror - alone, getting pounded mercilessly, until together with the United States, they turned back the barbarians clamoring at the gate.
Will they fall this time, without a shot being fired?
England is a country as delusional as a 35-year-old stripper--everyone in the room but her sees that her powers of attraction have faded. Her life is a loose coalition of press-on nails, fake tan, hair extensions, and implants, all held together by the duct tape of delusion.
Yup. And the girls are always the first to notice - like Melanie Phillips, commenting on Britain's brilliant plan to inform the Muslim community of any impending raids days, maybe weeks in the future:
...can anyone imagine the British Army or the Royal Ulster Constabulary, when the IRA terror campaign was at its height, making known to the Catholic or Protestant communities plans to conduct raids within those communities, and the intelligence on which it was based, before they took place?
...Britain has simply taken leave of its senses.
Indeed. The fact that they are prepared to cede a great amount of their sovereignty over to the EU (and by extension, to their ancient enemy France) speaks volumes:
Reports this morning appear to confirm yesterday's rumour that Britain was preparing to surrender its EU veto on policing and judicial matters...
...."Ministers will set out conditions tomorrow for the transfer of control to the EU over the creation of new crimes that will apply in Britain as well as standardised court procedures," the newspaper says.
The EU commission says that removing the veto will assist in the fight against terror. However, the European commissioner for justice Franco Frattini has his eyes on a bigger prize: He sees the new system as a means of speeding the creation of an entirely new set of pan-European laws, including incitement to racial hatred.
Ya. And whom do you think that will be applied to?
After the rapid French surrender in the early days of WWII, England stood as Europe's last fortress against Nazi terror - alone, getting pounded mercilessly, until together with the United States, they turned back the barbarians clamoring at the gate.
Will they fall this time, without a shot being fired?
วันอังคาร, กันยายน 26, 2549
Panic in the Halls of the Left?
Seems like the Democrats and their poodles in the media are starting to see their sure-thing fall election sweep dissapate like so many cruel Novembers past...or else why would the Democratic Hate Machine be in a full-blown fervor on September 25th?
Let's see, first Virginia Republican George Allen was a racist for using the phrase "macaca" (which apparently was offensive to three indiginous tribes back in the late 1880's), then he was a closet self-loathing Jew, and now he's just a good 'ol Southern-boy racist. Allen's campaign rebuts the charges here. But by having to now deny that he was some type of archtypical marauding bigot, he is stuck in the classic "When did you stop beating your wife" scenario of guilt by denial. Still, this is normally a late October gambit by the MSM/Democratic party - why launch this attack so early? Do we fear a little loss of momentum, my pretties?
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, dogged by scandals and polling behind the Republican candidate, saw his supporters in the streets and in the universities bust out their ace a bit early as well:
Others think Menendez's surname -- and the state's growing ethnic mix -- may be factors, too. "I'll be blunt. It's not a nice thing to say about New Jersey, but being a Latino may be costing him in some parts of the state," says David Rebovich, a political scientist at Rider University. That view is shared in this diverse community, part of a congressional district Menendez represented for 13 years before joining the Senate in January.
But how about the New York Times, publishing a front-page article cherry-picking negative information from a internal government intelligence report to purposely portray the war on terror and the Bush administration in a negative light? (analysis by Roger Simon is excellent) Sure, this is SOP at the Times (despite how it backfired in the "Guard Memos" scandal of N'04), but why launch this broadside with seven weeks still ahead in the campaign cycle?
Seems like the left knows it is getting late early again; but nevertheless it is surprising to already be witnessing some of the tactical shrieks of panic on display above...imagine what we'll be seeing, should current trends continue, in the days before the election....
Let's see, first Virginia Republican George Allen was a racist for using the phrase "macaca" (which apparently was offensive to three indiginous tribes back in the late 1880's), then he was a closet self-loathing Jew, and now he's just a good 'ol Southern-boy racist. Allen's campaign rebuts the charges here. But by having to now deny that he was some type of archtypical marauding bigot, he is stuck in the classic "When did you stop beating your wife" scenario of guilt by denial. Still, this is normally a late October gambit by the MSM/Democratic party - why launch this attack so early? Do we fear a little loss of momentum, my pretties?
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, dogged by scandals and polling behind the Republican candidate, saw his supporters in the streets and in the universities bust out their ace a bit early as well:
Others think Menendez's surname -- and the state's growing ethnic mix -- may be factors, too. "I'll be blunt. It's not a nice thing to say about New Jersey, but being a Latino may be costing him in some parts of the state," says David Rebovich, a political scientist at Rider University. That view is shared in this diverse community, part of a congressional district Menendez represented for 13 years before joining the Senate in January.
But how about the New York Times, publishing a front-page article cherry-picking negative information from a internal government intelligence report to purposely portray the war on terror and the Bush administration in a negative light? (analysis by Roger Simon is excellent) Sure, this is SOP at the Times (despite how it backfired in the "Guard Memos" scandal of N'04), but why launch this broadside with seven weeks still ahead in the campaign cycle?
Seems like the left knows it is getting late early again; but nevertheless it is surprising to already be witnessing some of the tactical shrieks of panic on display above...imagine what we'll be seeing, should current trends continue, in the days before the election....
วันจันทร์, กันยายน 25, 2549
"...for New Jersey, scandal has hit a critical mass..."
Incumbent New Jersey Senator Robert Menedez (D-NJ), is feeling the heat from this blue state; whens the last time you saw a story lead (from the Asbury Park Press) like the one below?
It may be a tough time for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez to be a Democrat.
Menendez, seeking his first full Senate term, has slipped in the polls as Gov. Corzine grapples with rising taxes, former Democratic power broker John A. Lynch Jr. awaits sentencing on federal corruption charges, and fallen Democratic Gov. James E. McGreevey tells all in his book, "The Confession."
Menendez now trails Republican challenger Thomas H. Kean Jr. by six percentage points among likely voters, a new Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey newspaper poll shows.
Kean was supported by 44 percent of likely voters, compared with 38 percent for Menendez. Fourteen percent said they were undecided, and 3 percent backed another candidate, according to the poll.
As much as I despise Menendez's Hugo Chavez-like view of America and our President; I believe our leftist Senator is taking the fall for everything else going horribly south in New Jersey - and the so-called experts concur:
Jennifer E. Duffy, editor of the Washington D.C.-based Cook Political Report, said the Republican's lead would normally be very surprising for the Democrat-leaning state — except for everything else going on.
"It's New Jersey. It's blue. It's a terrible year for Republicans. Why is this race in single digits?" Duffy asked. "But for New Jersey, scandal has hit a critical mass. You have the (former) state senator (Lynch) who pleaded guilty, you have Gov. McGreevey out there again, which brings back memories of the "I am a gay American speech.' And yes, people associate (Menendez's home of) Hudson County with corruption."
And here's a national note for all of those incumbant Republicans running in tight races: Run with your party and President, not against them:
Menendez's campaign has attempted to link Kean with Bush and the unpopular war in Iraq. But Kean polled better or even with Menendez on Iraq, homeland security funding and immigration policy. On the question of who has higher ethical standards, 29 percent of the likely voters preferred Kean, compared with 13 percent for Menendez.
"Menendez has tried to paint Kean with the Bush paintbrush. Clearly, that's not working," said Bridget Harrison, a Montclair State University political science professor.
I smell a trend.... too bad for the Democrats the elections weren't held in late August - but Rove, like any good poker player, knows when to hedge his bets, and when to raise the ante...
Prior posts on Menendez 's sorry state here and here. Check out Enlighten New Jersey for extensive Menendez coverage; Parkway Rest Stop rants over statewide corruption here, and Fausta talks about the depravity of ex-Governor McGreevy (and Oprah Winfry!); although she neglects (as do I !) to thank him for showing up at this opportune time to remind us of the true nature of his party...
Meanwhile, in the Washington Post's quick overview; they note that ethics is what's driving the 2006 New Jersey Senatorial campaign; and comment that it is -
-the issue where Menendez is weakest.
Hey, weren't the Democrats going to run on ethics this fall? Only seems like now they are running from the issue, at least in New Jersey...
It may be a tough time for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez to be a Democrat.
Menendez, seeking his first full Senate term, has slipped in the polls as Gov. Corzine grapples with rising taxes, former Democratic power broker John A. Lynch Jr. awaits sentencing on federal corruption charges, and fallen Democratic Gov. James E. McGreevey tells all in his book, "The Confession."
Menendez now trails Republican challenger Thomas H. Kean Jr. by six percentage points among likely voters, a new Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey newspaper poll shows.
Kean was supported by 44 percent of likely voters, compared with 38 percent for Menendez. Fourteen percent said they were undecided, and 3 percent backed another candidate, according to the poll.
As much as I despise Menendez's Hugo Chavez-like view of America and our President; I believe our leftist Senator is taking the fall for everything else going horribly south in New Jersey - and the so-called experts concur:
Jennifer E. Duffy, editor of the Washington D.C.-based Cook Political Report, said the Republican's lead would normally be very surprising for the Democrat-leaning state — except for everything else going on.
"It's New Jersey. It's blue. It's a terrible year for Republicans. Why is this race in single digits?" Duffy asked. "But for New Jersey, scandal has hit a critical mass. You have the (former) state senator (Lynch) who pleaded guilty, you have Gov. McGreevey out there again, which brings back memories of the "I am a gay American speech.' And yes, people associate (Menendez's home of) Hudson County with corruption."
And here's a national note for all of those incumbant Republicans running in tight races: Run with your party and President, not against them:
Menendez's campaign has attempted to link Kean with Bush and the unpopular war in Iraq. But Kean polled better or even with Menendez on Iraq, homeland security funding and immigration policy. On the question of who has higher ethical standards, 29 percent of the likely voters preferred Kean, compared with 13 percent for Menendez.
"Menendez has tried to paint Kean with the Bush paintbrush. Clearly, that's not working," said Bridget Harrison, a Montclair State University political science professor.
I smell a trend.... too bad for the Democrats the elections weren't held in late August - but Rove, like any good poker player, knows when to hedge his bets, and when to raise the ante...
Prior posts on Menendez 's sorry state here and here. Check out Enlighten New Jersey for extensive Menendez coverage; Parkway Rest Stop rants over statewide corruption here, and Fausta talks about the depravity of ex-Governor McGreevy (and Oprah Winfry!); although she neglects (as do I !) to thank him for showing up at this opportune time to remind us of the true nature of his party...
Meanwhile, in the Washington Post's quick overview; they note that ethics is what's driving the 2006 New Jersey Senatorial campaign; and comment that it is -
-the issue where Menendez is weakest.
Hey, weren't the Democrats going to run on ethics this fall? Only seems like now they are running from the issue, at least in New Jersey...
วันอาทิตย์, กันยายน 24, 2549
Big Bill Clinton Meltdown!
From the Washington Post:
Former president Bill Clinton angrily defended his administration's counterterrorism record during a Fox News interview to be aired today, while accusing "President Bush's neocons" and other Republicans of ignoring Osama bin Laden until the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Clinton had planned to discuss his climate change initiative during his appearance on "Fox News Sunday," but he turned combative after host Chris Wallace asked why he hadn't "put bin Laden and al-Qaeda out of business." Clinton shot back that "all the conservative Republicans" who now criticize him for inattention to bin Laden used to criticize him for over-attention to bin Laden.
Oh, Bill, blaming all of your problems on a "vast right-wing conpiracy" again? (Ignore the masthead, please! - ed.) First, we forced you to seduce a fat chick just out of college, now we tricked you into ignoring terrorism for eight years? If only us neo-cons really had the powers the left ascribes to us....
From Allegiance and Duty Betrayed:
Bill Clinton, in an interview with Chris Wallace to be aired on FoxNews Sunday (check your local listings), became incensed, and launched into a screaming harangue, when Wallace suggested that Clinton may have missed the chance to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
Former president Bill Clinton angrily defended his administration's counterterrorism record during a Fox News interview to be aired today, while accusing "President Bush's neocons" and other Republicans of ignoring Osama bin Laden until the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Clinton had planned to discuss his climate change initiative during his appearance on "Fox News Sunday," but he turned combative after host Chris Wallace asked why he hadn't "put bin Laden and al-Qaeda out of business." Clinton shot back that "all the conservative Republicans" who now criticize him for inattention to bin Laden used to criticize him for over-attention to bin Laden.
Oh, Bill, blaming all of your problems on a "vast right-wing conpiracy" again? (Ignore the masthead, please! - ed.) First, we forced you to seduce a fat chick just out of college, now we tricked you into ignoring terrorism for eight years? If only us neo-cons really had the powers the left ascribes to us....
From Allegiance and Duty Betrayed:
Bill Clinton, in an interview with Chris Wallace to be aired on FoxNews Sunday (check your local listings), became incensed, and launched into a screaming harangue, when Wallace suggested that Clinton may have missed the chance to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
As A&DB point out, He is even more red-faced and enraged than he was in the 'I ... did ... not ... have ... sex ... with ... that ... woman!' episode ...
And the same wagging finger.....
And the same denial of responsibility....
And so I cannot resist this:
วันเสาร์, กันยายน 23, 2549
Wither Osama?
Gateway Pundit cites multiple reports claiming Osama bin Laden died in August of typhoid complications:
Saudi intelligence services have determined that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in August, the French regional daily L’Est Republicain reported on its website on Saturday. The newspaper said it based its information on a document classified ‘defence secret’ originating in the French DGSE intelligence services. According to the story, the DGSE informed President Jacques Chirac of the Saudi report on Thursday.
The DGSE document, printed with the report, reads in part, ‘According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi intelligence services are said to have acquired the information that Osama bin Laden is dead. The information gleaned by the Saudis indicates that the head of Al Qaeda was a victim of a very strong attack of thyphoid... in Pakistan on August 23, 2006.’
If you can read French, No Parasan! links to the L'est Republicain report here.
I have my doubts; alas, we have heard this type of report before. The fact that Pakistan claims to know nothing about Osama's death increases my skepticism; somehow I think they would have pretty good information on all of this:
Pakistan has received no information from any foreign government that would corroborate a French newspaper report on Saturday that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan, a senior government official said.
"No government has shared any such information with us so far, which is the normal thing to do under such circumstances," the official, who has close knowledge of intelligence matters, said on condition of anonymity.
A senior official in Pakistan's Interior Ministry also said: "We have no information about Osama's death."
Even the feckless French seem to have their doubts:
France said it could not confirm a report on Saturday that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan last month...
French President Jacques Chirac told reporters after a summit with leaders of Germany and Russia that bin Laden's death "has not been confirmed in any way whatsoever, and so I have no comment to make."
One would expect Chirac to be rushing to Osama's gravesite, the way he hung about Arafat's deathbed...after all, he has a Islamist population he must prostrate himself before...
"If anyone was in the picture, I doubt it would be Saudi intelligence," said a Western diplomat in Riyadh.
"Even if Saudi Arabia had information, they'd pass it on to the United States, not France. It doesn't ring true."
More:
The Washington-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications, said it was not aware of any similar reports on the Internet.
"We've seen nothing from any al-Qaida messaging or other indicators that would point to the death of Osama bin Laden," IntelCenter director Ben N. Venzke told The Associated Press.
Al-Qaida would likely release information of his death fairly quickly if it were true, said Venzke, whose organization also provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the American government.
"They would want to release that to sort of control the way that it unfolds. If they wait too long, they could lose the initiative on it," he said.
Sorry...maybe we'll have better luck next time. Doesn't it seem sometimes as if the meanest and most miserable get to walk the earth forever?
Saudi intelligence services have determined that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in August, the French regional daily L’Est Republicain reported on its website on Saturday. The newspaper said it based its information on a document classified ‘defence secret’ originating in the French DGSE intelligence services. According to the story, the DGSE informed President Jacques Chirac of the Saudi report on Thursday.
The DGSE document, printed with the report, reads in part, ‘According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi intelligence services are said to have acquired the information that Osama bin Laden is dead. The information gleaned by the Saudis indicates that the head of Al Qaeda was a victim of a very strong attack of thyphoid... in Pakistan on August 23, 2006.’
If you can read French, No Parasan! links to the L'est Republicain report here.
I have my doubts; alas, we have heard this type of report before. The fact that Pakistan claims to know nothing about Osama's death increases my skepticism; somehow I think they would have pretty good information on all of this:
Pakistan has received no information from any foreign government that would corroborate a French newspaper report on Saturday that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan, a senior government official said.
"No government has shared any such information with us so far, which is the normal thing to do under such circumstances," the official, who has close knowledge of intelligence matters, said on condition of anonymity.
A senior official in Pakistan's Interior Ministry also said: "We have no information about Osama's death."
Even the feckless French seem to have their doubts:
France said it could not confirm a report on Saturday that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan last month...
French President Jacques Chirac told reporters after a summit with leaders of Germany and Russia that bin Laden's death "has not been confirmed in any way whatsoever, and so I have no comment to make."
One would expect Chirac to be rushing to Osama's gravesite, the way he hung about Arafat's deathbed...after all, he has a Islamist population he must prostrate himself before...
"If anyone was in the picture, I doubt it would be Saudi intelligence," said a Western diplomat in Riyadh.
"Even if Saudi Arabia had information, they'd pass it on to the United States, not France. It doesn't ring true."
More:
The Washington-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications, said it was not aware of any similar reports on the Internet.
"We've seen nothing from any al-Qaida messaging or other indicators that would point to the death of Osama bin Laden," IntelCenter director Ben N. Venzke told The Associated Press.
Al-Qaida would likely release information of his death fairly quickly if it were true, said Venzke, whose organization also provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the American government.
"They would want to release that to sort of control the way that it unfolds. If they wait too long, they could lose the initiative on it," he said.
Sorry...maybe we'll have better luck next time. Doesn't it seem sometimes as if the meanest and most miserable get to walk the earth forever?
Koffi Annan: Hezbollah's Little Helper
A brief overview of Koffi's and the UN's actions in this summer's Mideast flareup - from the letters pages of the New York Sun:
Mr. Annan came close to accusing Israel of deliberately killing United Nations observers in Lebanon.
He grossly exaggerated at Israel's expense the number of persons found dead in Qana. He presided over a UNIFIL that was in collusion with Hezbollah.
He guaranteed that the new and enlarged UNIFIL force mandated under Security Council Resolution 1701 of August 11 would not disarm Hezbollah, a requirement of Council Resolution 1559.
He acquiesced in Lebanon's decision not to invite UNIFIL to guard Lebanon's border with Syria to prevent the rearming of Hezbollah.
And now he pressures Israel to end its sea and air blockade of Lebanon, a state that has just reaffirmed its refusal to make peace with Israel.
Mr. Annan did not even agree that Hezbollah must first return the hostages kidnapped by Hezbollah in mid-July, and the fates of the three Israeli prisoners of war, Zachary Baumel, Yehuda Katz, and Zvi Feldman, captured in Lebanon and held since 1982 didn't even come up.
To make matters worse, U.N. Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland belittled Israel's concern with Hezbollah's missiles and rockets at a U.N. press conference on August 30...
And Prime Minister Ehud Olmert allows this man, and this organization, to broker a peace between Israel and the folks whom want the Jews exterminated. Well, you get what you pay for, so this pic from Little Green Footballs should be no surprise:
A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper shakes the hand of a Lebanese Hezbollah supporter wearing a
yellow T-shirt and carrying a Hezbollah flag as he marches in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, on his way to attend the massive victory rally that will take place in Beirut Friday afternoon. Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters from across southern Lebanon began marching on foot toward Beirut for a major rally planned Friday to showcase the group’s insistence it won’t disarm.
Nice job, Ehud - hey, remember that movie "The Lost Boys"?
Don't ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly boy. It renders you powerless.
And so you have rendered Israel...maybe that's why this is no surprise:
Israelis would vote Prime Minister Olmert out of office if elections were held now, polls indicated yesterday, as the defiant premier defended his performance in the Lebanon war and lashed out at his critics...
...Two polls published yesterday indicted Mr. Olmert was rapidly losing support and that the leader of the hawkish Likud, archrival Benjamin Netanyahu, was poised for a comeback...
....A survey by the Dialog polling company, published in the Ha'aretz newspaper, showed 68% of Israelis were unhappy with Mr. Olmert, compared with 40% on August 1, midway through the war. Just 22% were satisfied with his performance, compared with 48% in the previous poll...
If an election were held today, Likud would double its strength, winning 24 of 120 parliament seats — making it the largest party and Mr. Netanyahu the possible premier — while Mr. Olmert's centrist Kadima would fall to 16 seats from 29, according to the poll. Elections are not scheduled until 2010, but no Israeli government in the past decade has completed its four-year term.
In a survey in the Yediot Achronot daily, 27% said Mr. Netanyahu was most suited to be prime minister, compared to just 7% who chose Mr. Olmert.....
Beauty of a democracy, I guess - losers in the West don't get to stand over the smoking rubble of their once-revitalized nation and claim victory, they are sent to a well-deserved political oblivion instead...
But Koffi, as we noted above, does everything in his power to slam the democracies and prop up the Hezbollahs of the world...that's why he's usually pictured smiling; the results have been going in his direction for a while now...
UPDATE: If I may take one more shot at Ehud Olmert... apparently, Lebanese Cedar Trees are more valuable than the lives of Jews:
On Rosh Hashana, as Is raelis reflect on what the war in Lebanon means to their future, they know they must solve such problems as Hezbollah's secret "nature preserve."
Israeli intelligence allowed the air force to KO all of the guerrillas' long-range missiles, warehoused in the Bekaa Valley, in the war's first 39 minutes.
But Iranian engineers and Hezbollah had built an underground arsenal some 12 miles long by nine miles wide, a senior government official said.
And that let Hezbollah hide - under the forest - short- and medium-range missiles built by Syria based on Chinese technology. Using hydraulic systems and other innovations, missile launchers would surface, then quickly go back below. The heavy bushes and vegetation hid all.
As Israel grew suspicious of the preserve, it weighed its options, including burning off the trees and vegetation with napalm. That was rejected for fear of world reaction to the use of Vietnam-era weaponry to destroy the legendary cedars of Lebanon.
Of course there would have been an outcry, but there always is when those pesky Jews dare to defend their lives instead of just quietly rolling over and dying. Napalming the forest would have brought about condemnation, to be sure, but it also would have engendered a healthy debate over enviornment versus human life. After all, trees can always be replanted...
But according to Olmert, the risk of negative PR was too great. Instead, current and future generations of Jews will be slaughtered by Hezbollah's terrorists, so that the Lebanese Cedars can stand tall.
How comforting!
Mr. Annan came close to accusing Israel of deliberately killing United Nations observers in Lebanon.
He grossly exaggerated at Israel's expense the number of persons found dead in Qana. He presided over a UNIFIL that was in collusion with Hezbollah.
He guaranteed that the new and enlarged UNIFIL force mandated under Security Council Resolution 1701 of August 11 would not disarm Hezbollah, a requirement of Council Resolution 1559.
He acquiesced in Lebanon's decision not to invite UNIFIL to guard Lebanon's border with Syria to prevent the rearming of Hezbollah.
And now he pressures Israel to end its sea and air blockade of Lebanon, a state that has just reaffirmed its refusal to make peace with Israel.
Mr. Annan did not even agree that Hezbollah must first return the hostages kidnapped by Hezbollah in mid-July, and the fates of the three Israeli prisoners of war, Zachary Baumel, Yehuda Katz, and Zvi Feldman, captured in Lebanon and held since 1982 didn't even come up.
To make matters worse, U.N. Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland belittled Israel's concern with Hezbollah's missiles and rockets at a U.N. press conference on August 30...
And Prime Minister Ehud Olmert allows this man, and this organization, to broker a peace between Israel and the folks whom want the Jews exterminated. Well, you get what you pay for, so this pic from Little Green Footballs should be no surprise:
A Spanish U.N. peacekeeper shakes the hand of a Lebanese Hezbollah supporter wearing a
yellow T-shirt and carrying a Hezbollah flag as he marches in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, on his way to attend the massive victory rally that will take place in Beirut Friday afternoon. Hundreds of Hezbollah supporters from across southern Lebanon began marching on foot toward Beirut for a major rally planned Friday to showcase the group’s insistence it won’t disarm.Nice job, Ehud - hey, remember that movie "The Lost Boys"?
Don't ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly boy. It renders you powerless.
And so you have rendered Israel...maybe that's why this is no surprise:
Israelis would vote Prime Minister Olmert out of office if elections were held now, polls indicated yesterday, as the defiant premier defended his performance in the Lebanon war and lashed out at his critics...
...Two polls published yesterday indicted Mr. Olmert was rapidly losing support and that the leader of the hawkish Likud, archrival Benjamin Netanyahu, was poised for a comeback...
....A survey by the Dialog polling company, published in the Ha'aretz newspaper, showed 68% of Israelis were unhappy with Mr. Olmert, compared with 40% on August 1, midway through the war. Just 22% were satisfied with his performance, compared with 48% in the previous poll...
If an election were held today, Likud would double its strength, winning 24 of 120 parliament seats — making it the largest party and Mr. Netanyahu the possible premier — while Mr. Olmert's centrist Kadima would fall to 16 seats from 29, according to the poll. Elections are not scheduled until 2010, but no Israeli government in the past decade has completed its four-year term.
In a survey in the Yediot Achronot daily, 27% said Mr. Netanyahu was most suited to be prime minister, compared to just 7% who chose Mr. Olmert.....
Beauty of a democracy, I guess - losers in the West don't get to stand over the smoking rubble of their once-revitalized nation and claim victory, they are sent to a well-deserved political oblivion instead...
But Koffi, as we noted above, does everything in his power to slam the democracies and prop up the Hezbollahs of the world...that's why he's usually pictured smiling; the results have been going in his direction for a while now...
UPDATE: If I may take one more shot at Ehud Olmert... apparently, Lebanese Cedar Trees are more valuable than the lives of Jews:
On Rosh Hashana, as Is raelis reflect on what the war in Lebanon means to their future, they know they must solve such problems as Hezbollah's secret "nature preserve."
Israeli intelligence allowed the air force to KO all of the guerrillas' long-range missiles, warehoused in the Bekaa Valley, in the war's first 39 minutes.
But Iranian engineers and Hezbollah had built an underground arsenal some 12 miles long by nine miles wide, a senior government official said.
And that let Hezbollah hide - under the forest - short- and medium-range missiles built by Syria based on Chinese technology. Using hydraulic systems and other innovations, missile launchers would surface, then quickly go back below. The heavy bushes and vegetation hid all.
As Israel grew suspicious of the preserve, it weighed its options, including burning off the trees and vegetation with napalm. That was rejected for fear of world reaction to the use of Vietnam-era weaponry to destroy the legendary cedars of Lebanon.
Of course there would have been an outcry, but there always is when those pesky Jews dare to defend their lives instead of just quietly rolling over and dying. Napalming the forest would have brought about condemnation, to be sure, but it also would have engendered a healthy debate over enviornment versus human life. After all, trees can always be replanted...
But according to Olmert, the risk of negative PR was too great. Instead, current and future generations of Jews will be slaughtered by Hezbollah's terrorists, so that the Lebanese Cedars can stand tall.
How comforting!
วันศุกร์, กันยายน 22, 2549
Thailand: Taken by Islamists?
Thailand gets taken over by a Muslim general while its President is at the United Nations, and our media yawns...here are the facts:
Thailand’s southern Muslims, who widely despised ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, say they hope the Muslim general who overthrew him will follow through on his offer to hold peace talks with Islamic separatists.
“I hope that (General Sonthi Boonyaratglin) will be able to solve the problem in the south as he himself is Muslim and can reach out to villagers,” said Kordiya Mapae, 45, a Muslim worker in Yala province.
The three Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia have been plagued by separatist violence and other unrest since January 2004, and Thaksin’s decision to impose emergency rule there in 2005 was widely criticized.
“Thaksin was pretty much loathed among many in the south....."
If only Thaskin had reached out, and try to win the hearts and minds of the rampaging Thai Muslims, perhaps they would not have had to stage an illegal third-worldesque military coup to get their way. I mean, how dare he try to impose law and order while the Islamists of Thailand were exercising their allah-given rights to slaughter anyone who do not worship as they do?
The folks around the hooka in the Middle East coffee bars like to ask, after one cataclysmic event or another, "who benefits most from this?" Well, here's a thought:
An exiled Muslim rebel leader has welcomed Thailand's military coup, saying that he hoped the overthrow of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra could help resolve a bloody Islamic insurgency in the nation's south...
"It is the right thing that the military has taken power to replace the Thaksin Shinawatra government," said Lukman Lima, an exiled leader in one of several groups fighting the central government for a separate Muslim state.
"We hope that the political (situation) can be resolved under General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin as the new leader," Lukman said
And I wonder how he would like to see it resolved?
And I wonder how long until Sharia law is imposed upon Thailand?
Thailand’s southern Muslims, who widely despised ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, say they hope the Muslim general who overthrew him will follow through on his offer to hold peace talks with Islamic separatists.
“I hope that (General Sonthi Boonyaratglin) will be able to solve the problem in the south as he himself is Muslim and can reach out to villagers,” said Kordiya Mapae, 45, a Muslim worker in Yala province.
The three Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia have been plagued by separatist violence and other unrest since January 2004, and Thaksin’s decision to impose emergency rule there in 2005 was widely criticized.
“Thaksin was pretty much loathed among many in the south....."
If only Thaskin had reached out, and try to win the hearts and minds of the rampaging Thai Muslims, perhaps they would not have had to stage an illegal third-worldesque military coup to get their way. I mean, how dare he try to impose law and order while the Islamists of Thailand were exercising their allah-given rights to slaughter anyone who do not worship as they do?
The folks around the hooka in the Middle East coffee bars like to ask, after one cataclysmic event or another, "who benefits most from this?" Well, here's a thought:
An exiled Muslim rebel leader has welcomed Thailand's military coup, saying that he hoped the overthrow of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra could help resolve a bloody Islamic insurgency in the nation's south...
"It is the right thing that the military has taken power to replace the Thaksin Shinawatra government," said Lukman Lima, an exiled leader in one of several groups fighting the central government for a separate Muslim state.
"We hope that the political (situation) can be resolved under General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin as the new leader," Lukman said
And I wonder how he would like to see it resolved?
And I wonder how long until Sharia law is imposed upon Thailand?
วันพฤหัสบดี, กันยายน 21, 2549
United Nations Finds a New Bottom!
Captain Ed captures my disdain for the United Nations perfectly:
When the leader of one sovereign nation uses the UN dais to issue thinly-veiled demands for the annihilation of another nation, and gets followed by a circus act that makes him look like a moderate, then we know that the inmates are running the Turtle Bay asylum
Many found this to be the most disturbing part of Hugo Chavez's sick speech:
...Chavez' rant went a long way to prove conservatives correct about endemic anti-Americanism in the United Nations. Even other nations appeared stunned by the ferocity of the remarks, such as China's foreign minister, who had to ask for confirmation of his remarks out of disbelief. The warmth of the reception of these remarks provided a stunning look at the hostility that the non-democratic nations have for the United States, especially in the General Assembly. It will add fuel to the fire for conservative skepticism of the body's effect on spreading freedom and liberty around the world, which is supposed to be one of the UN's core missions.
Instead, we see that the organization has increasingly been hijacked by petty petrocrats and hallucinating dictators as a vehicle for hatred and obloquy....
But this is at least one Democrat who sides with Hugo:
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were "incendiary", then went on to say, "Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush's policies." Harkin continued what has been frequent criticism of the president's foreign policy.
Via Powerline:
One might have hoped that Hugo Chavez would be too visibly nuts to be embraced by even the most liberal of Democrats. Apparently not.
Does Harkin side with Amadinejad as well? Seems like the UN does:
Iran's President Mahmoud Amadinejad told reporters that Kofi Annan advised him to IGNORE the United Nations Security Council deadline placed on Iran for stopping their nuclear program, according to Fox News Channel, Brit Hume's program...
There is something so natural about picturing Koffi and Amadinejad together, working towards a common twisted goal (of what? nuclear holocaust? a world without America?), that I have virtually no doubt this story is true. And how much taxpayer-money is going to support this organization? Shoot, why not just wire it directly to Osama's cave ?
And finally, if you still believe the nations' university system is not in the hands of the far-left, well...even this may not dissuade you:
Columbia University has invited the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to give a speech tomorrow at the Morningside campus, Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, announced late last night...
....Columbia's offer to the president, a Holocaust denier with nuclear ambitions who was labeled by Israel's foreign minister yesterday as the greatest threat to the world's values, is sure to re-ignite protest at a campus that was rocked by a controversy over its anti-Israel professors less than two years ago.
Sadly, I doubt we will see that protest "re-ignite"...instead we have more propoganda for Ahmadinejad to bring home to Iran...
When the leader of one sovereign nation uses the UN dais to issue thinly-veiled demands for the annihilation of another nation, and gets followed by a circus act that makes him look like a moderate, then we know that the inmates are running the Turtle Bay asylum
Many found this to be the most disturbing part of Hugo Chavez's sick speech:
...Chavez' rant went a long way to prove conservatives correct about endemic anti-Americanism in the United Nations. Even other nations appeared stunned by the ferocity of the remarks, such as China's foreign minister, who had to ask for confirmation of his remarks out of disbelief. The warmth of the reception of these remarks provided a stunning look at the hostility that the non-democratic nations have for the United States, especially in the General Assembly. It will add fuel to the fire for conservative skepticism of the body's effect on spreading freedom and liberty around the world, which is supposed to be one of the UN's core missions.
Instead, we see that the organization has increasingly been hijacked by petty petrocrats and hallucinating dictators as a vehicle for hatred and obloquy....
But this is at least one Democrat who sides with Hugo:
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were "incendiary", then went on to say, "Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush's policies." Harkin continued what has been frequent criticism of the president's foreign policy.
Via Powerline:
One might have hoped that Hugo Chavez would be too visibly nuts to be embraced by even the most liberal of Democrats. Apparently not.
Does Harkin side with Amadinejad as well? Seems like the UN does:
Iran's President Mahmoud Amadinejad told reporters that Kofi Annan advised him to IGNORE the United Nations Security Council deadline placed on Iran for stopping their nuclear program, according to Fox News Channel, Brit Hume's program...
There is something so natural about picturing Koffi and Amadinejad together, working towards a common twisted goal (of what? nuclear holocaust? a world without America?), that I have virtually no doubt this story is true. And how much taxpayer-money is going to support this organization? Shoot, why not just wire it directly to Osama's cave ?
And finally, if you still believe the nations' university system is not in the hands of the far-left, well...even this may not dissuade you:
Columbia University has invited the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to give a speech tomorrow at the Morningside campus, Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, announced late last night...
....Columbia's offer to the president, a Holocaust denier with nuclear ambitions who was labeled by Israel's foreign minister yesterday as the greatest threat to the world's values, is sure to re-ignite protest at a campus that was rocked by a controversy over its anti-Israel professors less than two years ago.
Sadly, I doubt we will see that protest "re-ignite"...instead we have more propoganda for Ahmadinejad to bring home to Iran...
New Jersey Senate: Kean (R)! Ahead Of Menendez
Yup, in blue New Jersey, an incumbant Democratic Senator is falling behind in the polls:
New Jersey State Sen. Tom Kean, Jr., the Republican challenger, leads Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez 48 - 45 percent among New Jersey likely voters, including leaners, in the U.S. Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Another 6 percent remain undecided.
By a 40 - 13 percent margin, New Jersey voters say Kean is "honest and trustworthy," with 47 percent undecided. By a 33 - 24 percent margin, voters say Menendez is "honest and trustworthy," with 43 percent undecided.
In a state riddled by government corruption at all levels, this may be key. More:
Menendez is part of the ethics problem, 31 percent of voters say, while 28 percent say he is part of the solution, with 42 percent undecided.
Kean is part of the solution to the problem of ethics in government, 36 percent of voters say, while only 18 percent say he is part of the problem...
This one is going to go down to the wire, with Menendez chanting "BushBushBush" on a daily basis, and Kean going after Menendez for his ethical issues. The Democrats have no chance of recapturing the Senate if New Jersey is lost; watch for them to bring in the big guns to fire as much mud as possible in the closing weeks of the campaign.
This is gonna get ugly....
UPDATE: And a black Republican is leading the Maryland Senate race....those Democrats that talk about an "electoral landslide" in November; you know, I do not think it means what they think it means...
New Jersey State Sen. Tom Kean, Jr., the Republican challenger, leads Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez 48 - 45 percent among New Jersey likely voters, including leaners, in the U.S. Senate race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Another 6 percent remain undecided.
By a 40 - 13 percent margin, New Jersey voters say Kean is "honest and trustworthy," with 47 percent undecided. By a 33 - 24 percent margin, voters say Menendez is "honest and trustworthy," with 43 percent undecided.
In a state riddled by government corruption at all levels, this may be key. More:
Menendez is part of the ethics problem, 31 percent of voters say, while 28 percent say he is part of the solution, with 42 percent undecided.
Kean is part of the solution to the problem of ethics in government, 36 percent of voters say, while only 18 percent say he is part of the problem...
This one is going to go down to the wire, with Menendez chanting "BushBushBush" on a daily basis, and Kean going after Menendez for his ethical issues. The Democrats have no chance of recapturing the Senate if New Jersey is lost; watch for them to bring in the big guns to fire as much mud as possible in the closing weeks of the campaign.
This is gonna get ugly....
UPDATE: And a black Republican is leading the Maryland Senate race....those Democrats that talk about an "electoral landslide" in November; you know, I do not think it means what they think it means...
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