Canada's national sport (behind curling) is America-bashing; and if you venture into sub-catagories, right behind "Foreign policy, criticisms of..." you would find "Enviornment; US destruction of..."!
Which makes this morsel all the more ironic:
Canada defended its leadership of U.N. talks on fighting global warming on Monday despite admitting that Ottawa will not meet its own goals under the Kyoto Protocol.
Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, who is chairing the May 15-26 meetings in Bonn, has suggested that Kyoto should be softened for Canada in a second period from 2012 saying Ottawa had no chance of reaching its goals.
"We have very onerous targets that were set for us, negotiated for us," Ambrose told a news conference of Canada's goals under Kyoto, which entered into force last year.
"We will have great difficulty in meeting those targets. We believe they are unachievable," she said of Canada's Kyoto goal of cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases from factories, power plants and cars by 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.
When the Americans say these goals are unreachable, we are chastised as evil polluters of Gaia bent on the destruction of the world. Canada gets off a bit more softly, but not entirely:
Environmentalists said Canada was not the right nation to try to persuade other nations to rein in fossil fuels.
Ambrose "must live up (to Canada's Kyoto goals) or stand down," said Jennifer Morgan, climate policy director of the WWF environmental group. "Vague statements about 'commitments to international efforts' are not serious."
Hey Jenny - welcome to European-style diplomacy - it's all about vague statements ! Concrete action is usually left to us vulger Americans. And speaking of which, it seems as if we will lead the way, as usual:
The United States pulled out of Kyoto in 2001, saying it would cost jobs and wrongly excluded developing nations from a first round. Washington is instead making big investments in new technologies, ranging from hydrogen to solar power.
Actually ,we were never in Kyoto (Bill Clinton signed the treaty, but Congress rejected it 98-0. Ah, bipartisanship!). We saw through this BS years ago...
Fools, Part II: Those willfully blind Europeans, again:
The European Union said Monday it will propose a "bold package" of incentives, possibly including security guarantees, to persuade Iran to accept international oversight of its disputed nuclear program. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana made his comments a day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected any economic and political incentives that required Tehran to stop enriching uranium, a process that many experts consider a first step toward producing nuclear weapons.
What flippin' cowards...still trying to buy off Tehran, one day after this:
...on Sunday Mr Ahmadinejad said the Europeans "know that any proposal that requires a halt to our peaceful activities will be without any value".
He said Western powers "behave like masters who still believe they are in the colonial era".
And when the war on Europe begins, I guarentee we will still hear words like this:
"We have said over and over again that we think a diplomatic solution is a good way, and we are going to continue on that line and ... we are going to prepare a very serious package that will make it difficult for them to say no," Solana said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Maybe they should beg for Ahmadinenjad's forgiveness for their colonial past, or better yet, show their multicultral values by converting to Islam!
And those security guarentees? Would the United States be forced to sign a type of non-aggression pact? And pray tell, who would enforce it? Would we be forced to wait until Iran nukes Israel for Europe to free us from our obligations under their treaty?
I can see Hillary Clinton getting her signing pen ready as we speak...
Monday, May 15, 2006
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Larry Darby comes to Jersey!
...and speaks to a small group of hatemongers, while the good folk of New Jersey heckle:
About 20 activists held a peaceful protest Saturday outside a meeting hall that featured a controversial Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general who has denied that the Holocaust occurred.
Larry Darby was the guest speaker at the National Vanguard New Jersey's monthly meeting... The National Vanguard, which describes itself as a white nationalist group, is a splinter group of the white supremacist organization, National Alliance.
Darby is general counsel for the Atheist Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. He has denied the Holocaust took place, telling The Associated Press that "there was no systematic extermination of Jews" and claiming most Jews during World War II died of typhus.
More than 20 people attended Saturday's closed-door meeting with Darby, which began shortly after 6 p.m. Many National Vanguard members, who blocked their license plates with plywood to conceal their identity, hurried inside and refused to speak to a reporter.
I would replace the word "hurried" with "scurried", 'cause that's what rodentia do...
Outside, protesters held placards and heckled people headed into the building. Some of those attending the meeting stopped and exchanged words with protesters, but discussions never became heated. A half dozen police officers stood outside of the hall to keep protesters at bay.
The demonstrators said they wanted to call attention to a hateful organization they say is tarnishing the image of Elmwood Park.
"The fact that so many prominent people are coming to their meetings indicates that we should do something about them," said protester Daryle Lamont Jenkins. "They are giving this city a black eye. The bottom line is – this is going to stop."
Meeting attendees included Kevin Alfred Strom, the founder of the National Vanguard, and teenage twins who are members of Prussian Blue, a band whose songs express "white pride," according to their Web site.
Lamont-Jenkins is pretty well known radical lefty around these parts, but a quick internet search will show you that he has been a thorn in the side of the National Alliance and other supremicist groups for years.
Read about Prussian Blue here, in an ABC News article entitled "Young Singers Spread Racist Hate". They take their name, incidentally, from the type of pigment/dye used in German Army uniforms. They're the Olsen twins of hate, but that's another story...again, look at whom our Alabama Democrat attracts...
More on Darby at A Bama Blog; wish I could find more in the New Jersey papers, but they have tax increases to drool over...
About 20 activists held a peaceful protest Saturday outside a meeting hall that featured a controversial Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general who has denied that the Holocaust occurred.
Larry Darby was the guest speaker at the National Vanguard New Jersey's monthly meeting... The National Vanguard, which describes itself as a white nationalist group, is a splinter group of the white supremacist organization, National Alliance.
Darby is general counsel for the Atheist Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. He has denied the Holocaust took place, telling The Associated Press that "there was no systematic extermination of Jews" and claiming most Jews during World War II died of typhus.
More than 20 people attended Saturday's closed-door meeting with Darby, which began shortly after 6 p.m. Many National Vanguard members, who blocked their license plates with plywood to conceal their identity, hurried inside and refused to speak to a reporter.
I would replace the word "hurried" with "scurried", 'cause that's what rodentia do...
Outside, protesters held placards and heckled people headed into the building. Some of those attending the meeting stopped and exchanged words with protesters, but discussions never became heated. A half dozen police officers stood outside of the hall to keep protesters at bay.
The demonstrators said they wanted to call attention to a hateful organization they say is tarnishing the image of Elmwood Park.
"The fact that so many prominent people are coming to their meetings indicates that we should do something about them," said protester Daryle Lamont Jenkins. "They are giving this city a black eye. The bottom line is – this is going to stop."
Meeting attendees included Kevin Alfred Strom, the founder of the National Vanguard, and teenage twins who are members of Prussian Blue, a band whose songs express "white pride," according to their Web site.
Lamont-Jenkins is pretty well known radical lefty around these parts, but a quick internet search will show you that he has been a thorn in the side of the National Alliance and other supremicist groups for years.
Read about Prussian Blue here, in an ABC News article entitled "Young Singers Spread Racist Hate". They take their name, incidentally, from the type of pigment/dye used in German Army uniforms. They're the Olsen twins of hate, but that's another story...again, look at whom our Alabama Democrat attracts...
More on Darby at A Bama Blog; wish I could find more in the New Jersey papers, but they have tax increases to drool over...
Dig Deeper !
When The Washington Post's Dana Priest won a Pulitzer for sharing classified information detailing strategies on the war on terror, the partisan CIA agent who spilled the beans was fired, instead of being hung for treason as she ought to. As honest debate ensues about the propriety of printing such information during wartime (as Ms. Priest held onto her Pulitzer and screamed, "Mine! All mine!"), it seems as if the Post is clarifying their position, by printing a front-page story claiming the CIA has been lying to Congress, all based on more dubious claims made by fired CIA agent Mary McCarthy:
A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last June, promised repeatedly that the agency did not violate or seek to violate an international treaty that bars cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees, during interrogations it conducted in the Middle East and elsewhere.
But another CIA officer -- the agency's deputy inspector general, who for the previous year had been probing allegations of criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan -- was startled to hear what she considered an outright falsehood, according to people familiar with her account. It came during the discussion of legislation that would constrain the CIA's interrogations
That CIA officer was Mary O. McCarthy, 61, who was fired on April 20 for allegedly sharing classified information with journalists, including Washington Post journalist Dana Priest...
McCarthy was not an ideologue, her friends say, but at some point fell into a camp of CIA officers who felt that the Bush administration's venture into Iraq had dangerously diverted U.S. counterterrorism policy.
She "was not an ideologue"? What do you call someone who spills government secrets they are sworn to protect because they do not like the policies they represent?
Well, if you are a WaPost liberal, you call her a "patriot", I guess, but I would have less trouble with her credibility of she quit the CIA and then came out, as opposed to whispering secrets to a rabidly anti-Bush columnist while still collecting government paychecks.
The WaPost goes on with a whole laundry list of McCarthy's claims and complaints, but fails to note that the whole basis of her first set of leaks, and Ms. Priest's Pulitzer, was based on a story of secret prisons that is apparently completely false. The European Union, not the most American-friendly of international organizations, has repeatedly found no evidence of these so-called rendition flights and secret incarceration centers that Priest and McCarthy used to undermine America's policies abroad while obtaining glory and self-satisfaction for themselves.
Yet the Washington Post rolls on, dancing as fast as it can, using discredited sources to print even more unsubstantiated allegations, all in an attempt to bring down an administration voted into office twice by the American people. After all, their editorial board knows better than us common folk, right?
And as the final laugh, again in today's Washington Post, the paper that has brought us more agitprop lies and deception about the war on terror than any other media outlet in the world (including al-Jazeera and the NY Times), their so-called ombudsman wastes a whole column today talking about the right way to use the "corrections" section in cases of grammatical errors.
Unbelievable.
A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last June, promised repeatedly that the agency did not violate or seek to violate an international treaty that bars cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees, during interrogations it conducted in the Middle East and elsewhere.
But another CIA officer -- the agency's deputy inspector general, who for the previous year had been probing allegations of criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan -- was startled to hear what she considered an outright falsehood, according to people familiar with her account. It came during the discussion of legislation that would constrain the CIA's interrogations
That CIA officer was Mary O. McCarthy, 61, who was fired on April 20 for allegedly sharing classified information with journalists, including Washington Post journalist Dana Priest...
McCarthy was not an ideologue, her friends say, but at some point fell into a camp of CIA officers who felt that the Bush administration's venture into Iraq had dangerously diverted U.S. counterterrorism policy.
She "was not an ideologue"? What do you call someone who spills government secrets they are sworn to protect because they do not like the policies they represent?
Well, if you are a WaPost liberal, you call her a "patriot", I guess, but I would have less trouble with her credibility of she quit the CIA and then came out, as opposed to whispering secrets to a rabidly anti-Bush columnist while still collecting government paychecks.
The WaPost goes on with a whole laundry list of McCarthy's claims and complaints, but fails to note that the whole basis of her first set of leaks, and Ms. Priest's Pulitzer, was based on a story of secret prisons that is apparently completely false. The European Union, not the most American-friendly of international organizations, has repeatedly found no evidence of these so-called rendition flights and secret incarceration centers that Priest and McCarthy used to undermine America's policies abroad while obtaining glory and self-satisfaction for themselves.
Yet the Washington Post rolls on, dancing as fast as it can, using discredited sources to print even more unsubstantiated allegations, all in an attempt to bring down an administration voted into office twice by the American people. After all, their editorial board knows better than us common folk, right?
And as the final laugh, again in today's Washington Post, the paper that has brought us more agitprop lies and deception about the war on terror than any other media outlet in the world (including al-Jazeera and the NY Times), their so-called ombudsman wastes a whole column today talking about the right way to use the "corrections" section in cases of grammatical errors.
Unbelievable.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
France Joins the Fray in Iraq !
Only on the wrong side....from E-Nough!
At least 21 people have gone from France to Iraq to join the anti-coalition fighters since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, national police said Thursday.
National Police Chief Michel Gaudin told The Associated Press that nine of them had been killed, and 10 were believed to be alive and still in Iraq.
Five of those killed were French citizens, while the other four had traveled to Iraq from France. "We are working with international authorities to determine their identities," Gaudin said.
With these French "fighters" teaching them about the nuances of surrender, appeasement, and the value of idleness, we should be bringing our troops home by Christmas...
At least 21 people have gone from France to Iraq to join the anti-coalition fighters since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, national police said Thursday.
National Police Chief Michel Gaudin told The Associated Press that nine of them had been killed, and 10 were believed to be alive and still in Iraq.
Five of those killed were French citizens, while the other four had traveled to Iraq from France. "We are working with international authorities to determine their identities," Gaudin said.
With these French "fighters" teaching them about the nuances of surrender, appeasement, and the value of idleness, we should be bringing our troops home by Christmas...
Hate is Comin' to Jersey!
Look who is coming to visit New Jersey today - a Holocaust-denying, white-supremist, atheistic Democrat running for AG of Alabama:
Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."
"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."
Ahh....Aushwitz? Treblinka? The tens of thousands of photos and records the Germans kept? Someone hook Darby up with the nutjob that rules Iran...
Well, at least the Jersey Democrats have some sense:
New Jersey's Democratic State Committee chief on Friday decried Darby's planned visit, and said in a statement that denying the Holocaust was "historical blasphemy." " Hate and prejudice are destructive qualities that are not welcome in New Jersey and should be condemned wherever they occur," said party Chairman Joe Cryan. "Mr. Darby should turn around before crossing the Jersey stateline and then give thought to turning his abhorrent attitudes around as well."
A poll published last month indicated the Democratic race for attorney general was up for grabs...aside from his views on race and the Holocaust, Darby also has publicly advocated legalizing drugs and shooting all illegal immigrants.
To think that a race with this type of candidate is "up for grabs" does not speak well for the people of Alabama. For once I can strongly agree with a Democrat; hatemonger Darby should keep his sorry ass out of my state...
Note how his local media does not even mention his anti-semitism or "white power" views - they highlight his liberal policies, simply speaking of his efforts at decriminalizing marijuana, and noting:
As an atheist leader, Darby helped lead protests against former Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument being in the state judicial building, and he opposed a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages in Alabama. Darby said it was writing religious doctrine into the constitution.
And National Vanguard, the organization that Darby is coming to New Jersey to address? Well, here is their mission statement:
National Vanguard is an organization of racially-conscious Whites who seek to maintain the cultural and biological qualities of our race, and ensure that they exist forever to be handed down to future generations. National Vanguard members and supporters view the White race as a distinct nation, worthy of preservation, and we unabashedly reject the absurd notion that "diversity", i.e., the mixing of the races, is a beneficial trend for White societies to follow...
They praise Mr. Hayden's anti-Semitism here.
Well, this white man says: To hell with you all.
I'll update with any coverage I can find in the Jersey media, if they can take a breath from fawning over Jon Taxzine...calling Congressman Rush Holt! You stepped up once before for me, remember?
More coverage at Gateway Pundit; Little Green Footballs questions the AP coverage of this story
UPDATE 5/14 here
Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."
"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."
Ahh....Aushwitz? Treblinka? The tens of thousands of photos and records the Germans kept? Someone hook Darby up with the nutjob that rules Iran...
Well, at least the Jersey Democrats have some sense:
New Jersey's Democratic State Committee chief on Friday decried Darby's planned visit, and said in a statement that denying the Holocaust was "historical blasphemy." " Hate and prejudice are destructive qualities that are not welcome in New Jersey and should be condemned wherever they occur," said party Chairman Joe Cryan. "Mr. Darby should turn around before crossing the Jersey stateline and then give thought to turning his abhorrent attitudes around as well."
A poll published last month indicated the Democratic race for attorney general was up for grabs...aside from his views on race and the Holocaust, Darby also has publicly advocated legalizing drugs and shooting all illegal immigrants.
To think that a race with this type of candidate is "up for grabs" does not speak well for the people of Alabama. For once I can strongly agree with a Democrat; hatemonger Darby should keep his sorry ass out of my state...
Note how his local media does not even mention his anti-semitism or "white power" views - they highlight his liberal policies, simply speaking of his efforts at decriminalizing marijuana, and noting:
As an atheist leader, Darby helped lead protests against former Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument being in the state judicial building, and he opposed a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages in Alabama. Darby said it was writing religious doctrine into the constitution.
And National Vanguard, the organization that Darby is coming to New Jersey to address? Well, here is their mission statement:
National Vanguard is an organization of racially-conscious Whites who seek to maintain the cultural and biological qualities of our race, and ensure that they exist forever to be handed down to future generations. National Vanguard members and supporters view the White race as a distinct nation, worthy of preservation, and we unabashedly reject the absurd notion that "diversity", i.e., the mixing of the races, is a beneficial trend for White societies to follow...
They praise Mr. Hayden's anti-Semitism here.
Well, this white man says: To hell with you all.
I'll update with any coverage I can find in the Jersey media, if they can take a breath from fawning over Jon Taxzine...calling Congressman Rush Holt! You stepped up once before for me, remember?
More coverage at Gateway Pundit; Little Green Footballs questions the AP coverage of this story
UPDATE 5/14 here
Friday, May 12, 2006
The Media Piles On !
Drudge pointed this out to me - was USA Today's big story yesterday on the government's collecting of phone data simply a rehash of old news printed in the NY Times last year?
USA Today:
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.
New York Times:
Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.
The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.
As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.
This has already been beaten to death, no? Actually, if I recall at the time, a large majority of Americans approve of this surveillance - more than 2/3rds, I believe...
So what happened? Did the Democrats and/or the MSM feel that Bush was regaining some steam; and with no fresh distortions handily available, just re-hashed an old issue in order to distract the electorate? After all, it is hard to defeat the party in power when you are winning a war, the economy is going gangbusters, and the opposition has no cognizant governing plan besides promising to raise taxes and investigate the President....
Shame on USA Today; and shame on the rest of the media for re-reporting old news for partisan political gain...
UPDATE 1145P: Michelle Malkin in today's New York Post quotes the USA Today article and makes her point:
According to the newspaper's piece (a naked attempt to derail former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden's nomination as CIA chief):
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans - most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews."
Note, please: "This program does NOT involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations."
They're looking at massive amounts of numbers and phone-call patterns, not eavesdropping on teenage lovers' quarrels or your neighbor's pizza order or Susan Sarandon's heart-to-hearts with Cindy Sheehan.
And: "The spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity."
Translation: The counterterror experts at the NSA are - gasp - doing their job. And - to their credit - some American companies are stepping up to the plate to help them.
The paper admits the kind of data collection involved is not new. The Clinton administration's Echelon program was far more intrusive.
Michelle is right - not a smack at Bush, but a smackdown attempt at his nominees...partisan, and pathetic.
USA Today:
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.
New York Times:
Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.
The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.
As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.
This has already been beaten to death, no? Actually, if I recall at the time, a large majority of Americans approve of this surveillance - more than 2/3rds, I believe...
So what happened? Did the Democrats and/or the MSM feel that Bush was regaining some steam; and with no fresh distortions handily available, just re-hashed an old issue in order to distract the electorate? After all, it is hard to defeat the party in power when you are winning a war, the economy is going gangbusters, and the opposition has no cognizant governing plan besides promising to raise taxes and investigate the President....
Shame on USA Today; and shame on the rest of the media for re-reporting old news for partisan political gain...
UPDATE 1145P: Michelle Malkin in today's New York Post quotes the USA Today article and makes her point:
According to the newspaper's piece (a naked attempt to derail former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden's nomination as CIA chief):
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans - most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews."
Note, please: "This program does NOT involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations."
They're looking at massive amounts of numbers and phone-call patterns, not eavesdropping on teenage lovers' quarrels or your neighbor's pizza order or Susan Sarandon's heart-to-hearts with Cindy Sheehan.
And: "The spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity."
Translation: The counterterror experts at the NSA are - gasp - doing their job. And - to their credit - some American companies are stepping up to the plate to help them.
The paper admits the kind of data collection involved is not new. The Clinton administration's Echelon program was far more intrusive.
Michelle is right - not a smack at Bush, but a smackdown attempt at his nominees...partisan, and pathetic.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Blame the Jews, Part 63:
The tenor and wording of this article is not to be believed:
Israeli fuel firm halts Palestinian gas supply
-sounds political, right? Let's see -
Palestinian gas stations began shutting down and motorists lined up at pumps after an Israeli fuel company cut off deliveries Wednesday, deepening the humanitarian crisis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that has followed Hamas’ rise to power.
An end to fuel supplies could cripple hospitals, halt food deliveries and keep people home from work — a devastating scenario for an economy already ravaged by Israeli and international sanctions.
-Note how Israel is seperated out for emphasis, despite the fact that most of the Western world is shunning Hamas-
Asaf Shariv, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said Israel would “absolutely not” bail out the Palestinians. Shariv said that since the Palestinian government resells gasoline to consumers, there is no reason for it not to have money to pay its debts.
But Palestinian officials said their cash-strapped government is one of the biggest users of gasoline and unable to pay the bill.
Mujahid Salame, head of the Palestinian petrol authority, predicted fuel supplies would run out in many areas by Thursday. “If this happens, there will be a humanitarian crisis,” he said.
This is simple business, for God's sake!! The Palestinians are buying fuel from a private Israeli company, reselling it, and not paying the supplier! Furthermore, if the primary purchaser is Hamas, than an Israeli company is already selling fuel to a group that has vowed to destroy them! But that is still not good enough for MSNBC, the Jews must continue to sell fuel to the Palestinian government at a loss, so that they may eventually be destroyed by them.
Otherwise, there might be a "humanitarian crisis"!
One may think that the very existence of Hamas is a humanitarian crisis in and of itself; but it is just so much more politcally correct to blame those godawful Jews...
Israeli fuel firm halts Palestinian gas supply
-sounds political, right? Let's see -
Palestinian gas stations began shutting down and motorists lined up at pumps after an Israeli fuel company cut off deliveries Wednesday, deepening the humanitarian crisis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that has followed Hamas’ rise to power.
An end to fuel supplies could cripple hospitals, halt food deliveries and keep people home from work — a devastating scenario for an economy already ravaged by Israeli and international sanctions.
-Note how Israel is seperated out for emphasis, despite the fact that most of the Western world is shunning Hamas-
Asaf Shariv, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said Israel would “absolutely not” bail out the Palestinians. Shariv said that since the Palestinian government resells gasoline to consumers, there is no reason for it not to have money to pay its debts.
But Palestinian officials said their cash-strapped government is one of the biggest users of gasoline and unable to pay the bill.
Mujahid Salame, head of the Palestinian petrol authority, predicted fuel supplies would run out in many areas by Thursday. “If this happens, there will be a humanitarian crisis,” he said.
This is simple business, for God's sake!! The Palestinians are buying fuel from a private Israeli company, reselling it, and not paying the supplier! Furthermore, if the primary purchaser is Hamas, than an Israeli company is already selling fuel to a group that has vowed to destroy them! But that is still not good enough for MSNBC, the Jews must continue to sell fuel to the Palestinian government at a loss, so that they may eventually be destroyed by them.
Otherwise, there might be a "humanitarian crisis"!
One may think that the very existence of Hamas is a humanitarian crisis in and of itself; but it is just so much more politcally correct to blame those godawful Jews...
That Wacky Letter...
USA Today presents some insights derived from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's letter to W. the other day:
Part anti-U.S. diatribe and part religious screed, the letter Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent to President Bush on Monday is a window into the mind of a little-known U.S. adversary.
The letter shows Ahmadinejad, 49, as a naive leader whose beliefs stem from resentment and ignorance of the Western world, according to political psychologists and Iran experts who have read or seen descriptions of the 18-page letter...
Stanley Renshon, a political psychologist at the City University of New York, called the letter "both cheeky and presumptuous."...Ahmadinejad's lack of understanding of the West is reminiscent of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when he was in power, Renshon said. Saddam "also had some very odd ideas about the United States," he said.
Ahmadinejad's "humble background" has added to feelings of resentment, Renshon said....Ahmadinejad also may be insecure about his own position in Iran, where religious leaders make most decisions.
Ahmadinejad's letter shows "the hubris of a committed Islamicist," Takeyh said.
Well, the USA Today piece certainly is preferable to the New York Times' defense of terrorists like al-Zarqawi, at the very least ...
But the Washington Post finds a reason to praise the man who has vowed to wipe the Jewish nation off the face of the earth - after all, he has entered the nineteeth century by allowing women to attend soccer matches:
...the co-optation of middle-class women was also a demonstration of the deftness with which this militant is mobilizing public support behind a once-beleaguered regime as it prepares for a confrontation with the West. Ahmadinejad practices the populism of aggressive nationalism, made familiar by the dictators of the 20th century. He pours Iran's ballooning oil cash into wage and pension increases, cheap loans and debt cancellations for farmers. He barnstorms the provinces, mixing promises of prosperity, folksy jokes and fiery denunciations of the American and Zionist enemy.
While there is no reliable polling in Iran, even the bitterest of dissidents say the president's campaign is working.
I'm just kidding about the "praise" thing - realistically, Jackson Diehl's article about the current popularity of Iran's president does present a good case for Ahmadinejad's current strength, and concludes by giving him about a year's worth of rope before the Iranian people get ready to tie it into a noose.
About a year...I believe that is a sufficient time to wait; too much longer and the job becomes significantly more difficult. In the meantime, if I was an Israeli especially, I would be planning for the worst...I hope the Pentagon is too.
UPDATE: Seriously this time, LGF refers us to an AP scribe who is absolutely smitten with Iran's man of letters:
With his 18-page letter, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered President Bush a history lesson, philosophy lecture and religious sermon laced with references to Jesus Christ.
The document gives rare insight into a man who has largely been a mystery to the West, showing him as fixated on a long list of grievances against the United States and seeking to build on a shared faith in God.
In places, he strikes a soft, almost fatherly stance. On its first page, Ahmadinejad strikes a tone of a man who is troubled by a friend's actions and decides to sit down and give him a little advice.
He ends the letter with what appears to be a last-ditch plea to Bush.
"How long must the people of the world pay for the incorrect decisions of some rulers?" Ahmadinejad writes...
The mind boggles...
Part anti-U.S. diatribe and part religious screed, the letter Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent to President Bush on Monday is a window into the mind of a little-known U.S. adversary.
The letter shows Ahmadinejad, 49, as a naive leader whose beliefs stem from resentment and ignorance of the Western world, according to political psychologists and Iran experts who have read or seen descriptions of the 18-page letter...
Stanley Renshon, a political psychologist at the City University of New York, called the letter "both cheeky and presumptuous."...Ahmadinejad's lack of understanding of the West is reminiscent of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when he was in power, Renshon said. Saddam "also had some very odd ideas about the United States," he said.
Ahmadinejad's "humble background" has added to feelings of resentment, Renshon said....Ahmadinejad also may be insecure about his own position in Iran, where religious leaders make most decisions.
Ahmadinejad's letter shows "the hubris of a committed Islamicist," Takeyh said.
Well, the USA Today piece certainly is preferable to the New York Times' defense of terrorists like al-Zarqawi, at the very least ...
But the Washington Post finds a reason to praise the man who has vowed to wipe the Jewish nation off the face of the earth - after all, he has entered the nineteeth century by allowing women to attend soccer matches:
...the co-optation of middle-class women was also a demonstration of the deftness with which this militant is mobilizing public support behind a once-beleaguered regime as it prepares for a confrontation with the West. Ahmadinejad practices the populism of aggressive nationalism, made familiar by the dictators of the 20th century. He pours Iran's ballooning oil cash into wage and pension increases, cheap loans and debt cancellations for farmers. He barnstorms the provinces, mixing promises of prosperity, folksy jokes and fiery denunciations of the American and Zionist enemy.
While there is no reliable polling in Iran, even the bitterest of dissidents say the president's campaign is working.
I'm just kidding about the "praise" thing - realistically, Jackson Diehl's article about the current popularity of Iran's president does present a good case for Ahmadinejad's current strength, and concludes by giving him about a year's worth of rope before the Iranian people get ready to tie it into a noose.
About a year...I believe that is a sufficient time to wait; too much longer and the job becomes significantly more difficult. In the meantime, if I was an Israeli especially, I would be planning for the worst...I hope the Pentagon is too.
UPDATE: Seriously this time, LGF refers us to an AP scribe who is absolutely smitten with Iran's man of letters:
With his 18-page letter, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered President Bush a history lesson, philosophy lecture and religious sermon laced with references to Jesus Christ.
The document gives rare insight into a man who has largely been a mystery to the West, showing him as fixated on a long list of grievances against the United States and seeking to build on a shared faith in God.
In places, he strikes a soft, almost fatherly stance. On its first page, Ahmadinejad strikes a tone of a man who is troubled by a friend's actions and decides to sit down and give him a little advice.
He ends the letter with what appears to be a last-ditch plea to Bush.
"How long must the people of the world pay for the incorrect decisions of some rulers?" Ahmadinejad writes...
The mind boggles...
Europe and America: Seperated, or Divorced?
Via an amazing essay from Mark Steyn:
Most nations in Europe can never again be American allies – not because of anything America’s done, but because of a huge number of profound changes, voluntary and not so, upon which the Continent is embarked:
1) It’s changing in its formal structure, as its elites merge their countries into one pan-European political entity.
2) It’s changing economically, as its people decline and age and its cradle-to-grave welfare systems become unsustainable.
3) It’s changing demographically, with the importation of large unassimilated Muslim populations that make it all but impossible for political leaders to be seen supporting America or Israel.
4) It’s changing in its political tempo, as populations hostile to European integration look for neo-nationalist parties to express their discontent.
Exhibit A - Germany:
Europe is dying, demographically and economically. Take the onetime economic powerhouse of the Continent – Germany – and pick any of the usual indicators of a healthy advanced industrial democracy: Unemployment? The highest since the 1930s.
House prices? Down.
New car registration? Nearly 15 per cent lower in 2005 than in 1999.
General nuttiness? A third of Germans under 30 think the United States government was responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
My God; read it all!
Most nations in Europe can never again be American allies – not because of anything America’s done, but because of a huge number of profound changes, voluntary and not so, upon which the Continent is embarked:
1) It’s changing in its formal structure, as its elites merge their countries into one pan-European political entity.
2) It’s changing economically, as its people decline and age and its cradle-to-grave welfare systems become unsustainable.
3) It’s changing demographically, with the importation of large unassimilated Muslim populations that make it all but impossible for political leaders to be seen supporting America or Israel.
4) It’s changing in its political tempo, as populations hostile to European integration look for neo-nationalist parties to express their discontent.
Exhibit A - Germany:
Europe is dying, demographically and economically. Take the onetime economic powerhouse of the Continent – Germany – and pick any of the usual indicators of a healthy advanced industrial democracy: Unemployment? The highest since the 1930s.
House prices? Down.
New car registration? Nearly 15 per cent lower in 2005 than in 1999.
General nuttiness? A third of Germans under 30 think the United States government was responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
My God; read it all!
The work of Phyllis Chesler
I was turned onto this post-feminist feminist by the good people at No Parasan!; she speaks truth to the liberal multicultural monolith that controls so many of our public institstions today. A few samples of her thoughts:
...the "Left" is aggressively secular and anti-religious; considers pornography to be "protected" hate speech; considers prostitution and trafficking to be forms of "sex work" which should be de-criminalized or legalized; views paternal sole-custody of children as the feminist solution to the problems that mothers have when they juggle child care and career responsibilities; believes that men and women are actually the "same"; has absolutely no foreign policy except that of opposing whatever President Bush and America do or ever have done...
I mourn the Stalinization and Palestinianization of the feminist postcolonial and postmodern academy and media. Because such feminists refuse to "judge" Islamic gender apartheid, they and their institutions and
organizations have become anti-activist, anti-American, anti-Israeli, isolationist, and, at best, tools of the Democratic party. At worst, they are apologists for Islamist jihad. To avoid the McCarthyite charge of "racism," such feminists have been willing to sacrifice the victims of Islamism on their "multicultural" altars. …
Today, the level of anti-American and anti-Jewish propaganda in the Islamic world is lethal, toxic, and has unleashed a global jihad against both Israel and the West. We cannot afford to tolerate the intolerant nor can we afford to minimize the dangers to our civilization posed by Islamist fanatics who have successfully hijacked their religion and peoples. There were also "good" and moderate Germans during Hitler's reign. What matters is that they did not stand up to Hitler. What matters is that otherwise "good" people appeased him as well....
If someone thinks for herself in an independent and creative way and dares to come up with non-party-line conclusions, she or he is then, in classic Orwellian style, deemed the enemy, a traitor, a non-person. Their work will not be read or discussed. They will not be invited to debate or to debate in a civilized and honorable way. They will be called a "racist" and a "neoconservative." If a feminist dares raise the specter of Jew-hatred and the demonization of the Jewish state among leftists and feminists, she will quickly discover that she has become unwelcome in the mainstream media and among leftists (who actually think of themselves as liberals), and among feminists. Palestinianized Western feminists are more concerned with the so-called occupation of a country that does not exist (Palestine), than with the occupation of women's bodies worldwide under Islam. The fact that feminists and leftists still continue to call for boycotts of Israel and to actively demonstrate against a war-time president even after 9/11, 3/11, and 7/7 tells me that they have literally been brainwashed and that reality has no defining role in determining their thoughts or their actions.
Find Phyllis Chesler's books here and here; her website can be found here.
With thoughts of Ms. Chesler and Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali in my head, I am left to wonder...where is the intellectaul bravery of the 21st Century male? Yes, we do have Amir Taheri and Mark Steyn, but why is it that only the John Kerrys and Al Gores of the world get any media attention? Or is this just an example of Ms. Chesler's Orwellian blacklisting of those whom do not fall in line with the MSM's doctrine?
...the "Left" is aggressively secular and anti-religious; considers pornography to be "protected" hate speech; considers prostitution and trafficking to be forms of "sex work" which should be de-criminalized or legalized; views paternal sole-custody of children as the feminist solution to the problems that mothers have when they juggle child care and career responsibilities; believes that men and women are actually the "same"; has absolutely no foreign policy except that of opposing whatever President Bush and America do or ever have done...
I mourn the Stalinization and Palestinianization of the feminist postcolonial and postmodern academy and media. Because such feminists refuse to "judge" Islamic gender apartheid, they and their institutions and
organizations have become anti-activist, anti-American, anti-Israeli, isolationist, and, at best, tools of the Democratic party. At worst, they are apologists for Islamist jihad. To avoid the McCarthyite charge of "racism," such feminists have been willing to sacrifice the victims of Islamism on their "multicultural" altars. …Today, the level of anti-American and anti-Jewish propaganda in the Islamic world is lethal, toxic, and has unleashed a global jihad against both Israel and the West. We cannot afford to tolerate the intolerant nor can we afford to minimize the dangers to our civilization posed by Islamist fanatics who have successfully hijacked their religion and peoples. There were also "good" and moderate Germans during Hitler's reign. What matters is that they did not stand up to Hitler. What matters is that otherwise "good" people appeased him as well....
If someone thinks for herself in an independent and creative way and dares to come up with non-party-line conclusions, she or he is then, in classic Orwellian style, deemed the enemy, a traitor, a non-person. Their work will not be read or discussed. They will not be invited to debate or to debate in a civilized and honorable way. They will be called a "racist" and a "neoconservative." If a feminist dares raise the specter of Jew-hatred and the demonization of the Jewish state among leftists and feminists, she will quickly discover that she has become unwelcome in the mainstream media and among leftists (who actually think of themselves as liberals), and among feminists. Palestinianized Western feminists are more concerned with the so-called occupation of a country that does not exist (Palestine), than with the occupation of women's bodies worldwide under Islam. The fact that feminists and leftists still continue to call for boycotts of Israel and to actively demonstrate against a war-time president even after 9/11, 3/11, and 7/7 tells me that they have literally been brainwashed and that reality has no defining role in determining their thoughts or their actions.
Find Phyllis Chesler's books here and here; her website can be found here.
With thoughts of Ms. Chesler and Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali in my head, I am left to wonder...where is the intellectaul bravery of the 21st Century male? Yes, we do have Amir Taheri and Mark Steyn, but why is it that only the John Kerrys and Al Gores of the world get any media attention? Or is this just an example of Ms. Chesler's Orwellian blacklisting of those whom do not fall in line with the MSM's doctrine?
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
British Universities to Bar Jewish Lecturers?
Oh, if only poor Adolf had lived to see this day; he would have been so proud...he was ahead of his time, I guess, and it seems as if a mere half-century later, his ideals have caught on in Britian:
The largest university and college lecturers union in Britain is likely to decide shortly to recommend that its 67,000 members boycott Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy in the territories.
A boycott of Jews unless they renounce their own nation? Yup.
"The conference invites members to consider their own responsibility for ensuring equity and non-discrimination in contacts with Israeli educational institutions or individuals, and to consider the appropriateness of the boycott of those that do not publicly dissociate themselves from such policies," the NATFHE motion states. It also encourages lecturers to hold meetings on the issue on campus.
'The motion explicitly says NATFHE will recognize Israeli policies, while at the same time denigrating them as "apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall and discriminatory educational practices."
Yes, that wall again...how dare those Jews protect themselves!
And I wonder what "discriminatory educational practices" they refer to - the fact that Arabs in Israel get an opportunity to be educated is far more than they would likely receive in any other Muslim state; I know of no instances where Israeli Arabs are barred from attending schools. Unless they are referring to their right to preach jihad?
In closing, a taut testament to British anti-Semitism:
In the past decade, the only country whose academia NATFHE has considered boycotting is Israel.
The inner soul of Europe is foul, rotten, and decayed; 'ol Adolf knew well the fertile fields he was 'a planting...
The largest university and college lecturers union in Britain is likely to decide shortly to recommend that its 67,000 members boycott Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy in the territories.
A boycott of Jews unless they renounce their own nation? Yup.
"The conference invites members to consider their own responsibility for ensuring equity and non-discrimination in contacts with Israeli educational institutions or individuals, and to consider the appropriateness of the boycott of those that do not publicly dissociate themselves from such policies," the NATFHE motion states. It also encourages lecturers to hold meetings on the issue on campus.
'The motion explicitly says NATFHE will recognize Israeli policies, while at the same time denigrating them as "apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall and discriminatory educational practices."
Yes, that wall again...how dare those Jews protect themselves!
And I wonder what "discriminatory educational practices" they refer to - the fact that Arabs in Israel get an opportunity to be educated is far more than they would likely receive in any other Muslim state; I know of no instances where Israeli Arabs are barred from attending schools. Unless they are referring to their right to preach jihad?
In closing, a taut testament to British anti-Semitism:
In the past decade, the only country whose academia NATFHE has considered boycotting is Israel.
The inner soul of Europe is foul, rotten, and decayed; 'ol Adolf knew well the fertile fields he was 'a planting...
Iran's Love Letter !
So that letter that President Ahmadinejad sent to George Bush - the first contact between the Iranian and American government in over a quarter-century - has been opened, and its contents are as vile as one would expect from the man at the return address:
Iran's president declared in a letter to President Bush that democracy had failed worldwide and lamented "an ever-increasing global hatred" of the U.S. government.
it lambasted Bush for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, accused the media of spreading lies about the Iraq war and railed against the United States for its support of Israel. It questioned whether the world would be a different place if the money spent on Iraq had been spent to fight poverty.
How about if the Arab regimes' petrodollars had been spent on improving the lives of their citizens instead of being used to fund terrorism?
Liberalism and Western-style democracy "have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity," said the letter, obtained late Monday by The Associated Press. "Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the Liberal democratic systems."
The Iranian government spokesman who disclosed the communication did not mention the nuclear standoff and said the missive spoke to the larger U.S.-Iranian conflict. Gholam-Hossein Elham said the letter proposed "new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world."
Yet the document makes no concrete proposals and does not suggest new talks. Instead, Ahmadinejad suggests that Bush should look inward, saying there was an increasing hatred worldwide of the United States, and that history shows how "repressive and cruel governments do not survive."
"How much longer will the blood of the innocent men, women and children be spilled on the streets, and people's houses destroyed over their heads? Are you pleased with the current condition of the world? Do you think present policies can continue?"
This is Ahmadinejad's manifesto, his abridged version of Mein Kampf: Democracy has failed, the Jews and Americans are the world's enemies, hated by all, and the new world order will come from a Muslim theocracy, led by a nuclear-armed Iraq.
In Turkey, Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, said the Iranians were looking for a positive response but would be patient.
"Perhaps it could lead to a new diplomatic opening. It needs to be given some time," Larijani said in a television interview.
"Looking for a positive response"? Iran has made its ideology, and intent, clearer than ever. Their hatred of America, and Israel, must be taken very seriously - based on this letter, there is no doubt that Ahmadinejad feels morally justified in using nuclear weapons against democratic states. It appears now that there can only be one response to the cuel path Iran has chosen to take, and it will probably take nothing short of a full-blown war to deliver the message.
How utterly depressing...
Iran's president declared in a letter to President Bush that democracy had failed worldwide and lamented "an ever-increasing global hatred" of the U.S. government.
it lambasted Bush for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, accused the media of spreading lies about the Iraq war and railed against the United States for its support of Israel. It questioned whether the world would be a different place if the money spent on Iraq had been spent to fight poverty.
How about if the Arab regimes' petrodollars had been spent on improving the lives of their citizens instead of being used to fund terrorism?
Liberalism and Western-style democracy "have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity," said the letter, obtained late Monday by The Associated Press. "Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the Liberal democratic systems."
The Iranian government spokesman who disclosed the communication did not mention the nuclear standoff and said the missive spoke to the larger U.S.-Iranian conflict. Gholam-Hossein Elham said the letter proposed "new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world."
Yet the document makes no concrete proposals and does not suggest new talks. Instead, Ahmadinejad suggests that Bush should look inward, saying there was an increasing hatred worldwide of the United States, and that history shows how "repressive and cruel governments do not survive."
"How much longer will the blood of the innocent men, women and children be spilled on the streets, and people's houses destroyed over their heads? Are you pleased with the current condition of the world? Do you think present policies can continue?"
This is Ahmadinejad's manifesto, his abridged version of Mein Kampf: Democracy has failed, the Jews and Americans are the world's enemies, hated by all, and the new world order will come from a Muslim theocracy, led by a nuclear-armed Iraq.
In Turkey, Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, said the Iranians were looking for a positive response but would be patient.
"Perhaps it could lead to a new diplomatic opening. It needs to be given some time," Larijani said in a television interview.
"Looking for a positive response"? Iran has made its ideology, and intent, clearer than ever. Their hatred of America, and Israel, must be taken very seriously - based on this letter, there is no doubt that Ahmadinejad feels morally justified in using nuclear weapons against democratic states. It appears now that there can only be one response to the cuel path Iran has chosen to take, and it will probably take nothing short of a full-blown war to deliver the message.
How utterly depressing...
New Jersey: Hopeless?
The Home-Tribune, an excuse of a local New Jersey paper, had an editorial on Sunday lamenting the sorry state of the state's finances:
The bad news for the state last week got worse. At a hearing before legislators, the state treasurer said tax collections in the new year were running behind projections by as much as $500 million, which means a budget already criticized for increasing taxes and cutting spending may have to have more of both.
Note the only solution they can even concieve of is tax increases, which is part of what created this horrible situation to begin with. How bad is it?
The $500 million tax shortfall also was something of a clarion call, coming in the same week as a new study that showed the state was losing its economic strength. In the last decade, New Jersey has lost more high-tech jobs than any other state. A Brookings Institute report commissioned by New Jersey Future also found that the state was replacing those jobs with lower-skilled, lower-paying ones. The jobs leaving the state paid an average salary of $36,000 a year; the jobs being created here paid an average of less than $23,000. The anticipated shortfall therefore seemed somehow prophetic. In years past, even during recession, the state's tax revenues have often exceeded projections. Just last year, New Jersey bailed itself out of a gloomy budget season with much higher than anticipated tax receipts. Now seems the time to wonder whether those days have gone.
Two weeks ago, Rutgers University economists James Hughes and Joseph Seneca published an op-ed contending that New Jersey's taxes on businesses — hiked in order to pay for ever larger state budgets — were turning it into a state hostile to business. The men noted that the state's business tax climate was now ranked 49th in the nation by a Washington-based tax policy group.
This is the result of years of liberal policies, from McGreevy to Corzine (yea, he's only been in office for a few months, but he has only offered more of the same poisonous liberal medicine of increased taxes and fees on businesses and the middle class). All of these progressives are now starting to see the fruit of their labors - a state that is going bankrupt because it can no longer afford the social model that it has set up. Milking the rich and middle class is great fun, but when they have had enough and leave, who is going to pay for your failed philosophies? Local businesses? Er, no...see the line about losing high-tech jobs? How are you going to raise your revenues now that you have driven the best-paying companies out of town, to be replaced by low-rent jobs paying on average one-third less?
But the leftists writing at the Home-Tribune are locked in the same mental box that most so-called "progressives" are: there is no other option to economic distress other than continuing to raise taxes. Note the tenor of the two following sentences from the editorial:
The Legislature has yet to instill much confidence that it has grasped the seriousness of the situation. It already has signaled its unhappiness with the governor's tax hikes...
...the best news for the state by far has come from the governor's office, where the Corzine administration seems particularly committed to trying to right the ship
Bad: Fighting tax hikes, a policy that has brought New Jersey to its current state of disrepair
Good: More tax hikes!
Isn't someone who performs the same action over and over, hoping each time for a different result, displaying behavior that falls under the textbook definition of insanity?
What a great place for the New Jersey Government, and its local media, to find itself...
The bad news for the state last week got worse. At a hearing before legislators, the state treasurer said tax collections in the new year were running behind projections by as much as $500 million, which means a budget already criticized for increasing taxes and cutting spending may have to have more of both.
Note the only solution they can even concieve of is tax increases, which is part of what created this horrible situation to begin with. How bad is it?
The $500 million tax shortfall also was something of a clarion call, coming in the same week as a new study that showed the state was losing its economic strength. In the last decade, New Jersey has lost more high-tech jobs than any other state. A Brookings Institute report commissioned by New Jersey Future also found that the state was replacing those jobs with lower-skilled, lower-paying ones. The jobs leaving the state paid an average salary of $36,000 a year; the jobs being created here paid an average of less than $23,000. The anticipated shortfall therefore seemed somehow prophetic. In years past, even during recession, the state's tax revenues have often exceeded projections. Just last year, New Jersey bailed itself out of a gloomy budget season with much higher than anticipated tax receipts. Now seems the time to wonder whether those days have gone.
Two weeks ago, Rutgers University economists James Hughes and Joseph Seneca published an op-ed contending that New Jersey's taxes on businesses — hiked in order to pay for ever larger state budgets — were turning it into a state hostile to business. The men noted that the state's business tax climate was now ranked 49th in the nation by a Washington-based tax policy group.
This is the result of years of liberal policies, from McGreevy to Corzine (yea, he's only been in office for a few months, but he has only offered more of the same poisonous liberal medicine of increased taxes and fees on businesses and the middle class). All of these progressives are now starting to see the fruit of their labors - a state that is going bankrupt because it can no longer afford the social model that it has set up. Milking the rich and middle class is great fun, but when they have had enough and leave, who is going to pay for your failed philosophies? Local businesses? Er, no...see the line about losing high-tech jobs? How are you going to raise your revenues now that you have driven the best-paying companies out of town, to be replaced by low-rent jobs paying on average one-third less?
But the leftists writing at the Home-Tribune are locked in the same mental box that most so-called "progressives" are: there is no other option to economic distress other than continuing to raise taxes. Note the tenor of the two following sentences from the editorial:
The Legislature has yet to instill much confidence that it has grasped the seriousness of the situation. It already has signaled its unhappiness with the governor's tax hikes...
...the best news for the state by far has come from the governor's office, where the Corzine administration seems particularly committed to trying to right the ship
Bad: Fighting tax hikes, a policy that has brought New Jersey to its current state of disrepair
Good: More tax hikes!
Isn't someone who performs the same action over and over, hoping each time for a different result, displaying behavior that falls under the textbook definition of insanity?
What a great place for the New Jersey Government, and its local media, to find itself...
A Gentle Reminder...
...from Israel:
Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday that "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."
"Teheran is making a mockery of the international community's efforts to solve the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program," Peres told Reuters, adding that "Iran presents a danger to the entire world, not just to us."
Peres throws down the gauntlet in front of the UN:
"We can prevent all of this threat, without weapons, if there will be unity," Peres said, adding that the Security Council had to act on the matter. "If the crucial moment comes and they are incapable of taking [action] or making a policy...then they endanger their existence as an important world body," he said.
Peres is being charitable (if not a bit suicidal), if he considers the UN, an organization that condemns his nation on a daily basis, "an important world body". Their only relevance is to allow liberals of all nationalities an excuse not to act upon threats to world peace, and to participate in, and help facilitate, the next genocide of the Jewish people.
Iran needs to be reminded what the consequences of their actions are going to be, with or without UN approval. Thank you, Mr. Peres!
Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday that "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."
"Teheran is making a mockery of the international community's efforts to solve the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program," Peres told Reuters, adding that "Iran presents a danger to the entire world, not just to us."
Peres throws down the gauntlet in front of the UN:
"We can prevent all of this threat, without weapons, if there will be unity," Peres said, adding that the Security Council had to act on the matter. "If the crucial moment comes and they are incapable of taking [action] or making a policy...then they endanger their existence as an important world body," he said.
Peres is being charitable (if not a bit suicidal), if he considers the UN, an organization that condemns his nation on a daily basis, "an important world body". Their only relevance is to allow liberals of all nationalities an excuse not to act upon threats to world peace, and to participate in, and help facilitate, the next genocide of the Jewish people.
Iran needs to be reminded what the consequences of their actions are going to be, with or without UN approval. Thank you, Mr. Peres!
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Counting Their Chickens...
...before they hatch, as always...the Democrats give us a glimpse into a future where they control Congress; and they promise us vengence upon one George W. Bush:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in an interview last week that a Democratic House would launch a series of investigations of the Bush administration, beginning with the White House's first-term energy task force and probably including the use of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Pelosi denied Republican allegations that a Democratic House would move quickly to impeach President Bush. But, she said of the planned investigations, "You never know where it leads to."
So the San Francisco lefty denies that she is planning to impeach Bush, but promises investigation after investigation in order to facilitate that result. First an impeachment, than an apology to Saddam, then a quick demilitarization, right, Nancy? Hello, reality check:
Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, said his most expansive estimate classifies 52 seats as "unsafe," 40 of them Republican, 12 of them Democratic. But, he said, only a tidal wave would dislodge the incumbent party from many of those seats, and more realistically, 30 Republican seats and five Democratic districts are vulnerable...
As I said yesterday, if the Republicans do not get their act together in the next few months, they may in fact lose Congress. But at least the Democrats are being honest in what they will provide to the American people if elected:
Pelosi also vowed "to use the power to investigate" the administration on multiple fronts, starting with the task force convened in secret by Vice President Cheney to devise the administration's energy policy. The administration has successfully fought lawsuits since 2001 that sought to reveal the names of energy company executives tapped to advise the task force.
"Certainly the conduct of the war" in Iraq would be the subject of hearings, if not a full-fledged House investigation, Pelosi said. Another subject for investigation could be the use of intelligence on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction to make the case for the 2003 invasion.
Hoyer added that he would like to see investigations into the extent of domestic wiretapping by the National Security Agency....
And I am sure that many other Democratic officials will have axes to grind with the administration; and they will have their own committees, panels, and inquiries as well. I guess that is the result when you have a party whose only priority is to grind axes, unveil conspiracies, and usurp the democratic processes; all courtesy of election contributions by the trial lawyer lobby.
And as usual, note how national security is nothing more than an afterthought...
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in an interview last week that a Democratic House would launch a series of investigations of the Bush administration, beginning with the White House's first-term energy task force and probably including the use of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Pelosi denied Republican allegations that a Democratic House would move quickly to impeach President Bush. But, she said of the planned investigations, "You never know where it leads to."
So the San Francisco lefty denies that she is planning to impeach Bush, but promises investigation after investigation in order to facilitate that result. First an impeachment, than an apology to Saddam, then a quick demilitarization, right, Nancy? Hello, reality check:
Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report, said his most expansive estimate classifies 52 seats as "unsafe," 40 of them Republican, 12 of them Democratic. But, he said, only a tidal wave would dislodge the incumbent party from many of those seats, and more realistically, 30 Republican seats and five Democratic districts are vulnerable...
As I said yesterday, if the Republicans do not get their act together in the next few months, they may in fact lose Congress. But at least the Democrats are being honest in what they will provide to the American people if elected:
Pelosi also vowed "to use the power to investigate" the administration on multiple fronts, starting with the task force convened in secret by Vice President Cheney to devise the administration's energy policy. The administration has successfully fought lawsuits since 2001 that sought to reveal the names of energy company executives tapped to advise the task force.
"Certainly the conduct of the war" in Iraq would be the subject of hearings, if not a full-fledged House investigation, Pelosi said. Another subject for investigation could be the use of intelligence on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction to make the case for the 2003 invasion.
Hoyer added that he would like to see investigations into the extent of domestic wiretapping by the National Security Agency....
And I am sure that many other Democratic officials will have axes to grind with the administration; and they will have their own committees, panels, and inquiries as well. I guess that is the result when you have a party whose only priority is to grind axes, unveil conspiracies, and usurp the democratic processes; all courtesy of election contributions by the trial lawyer lobby.
And as usual, note how national security is nothing more than an afterthought...
Saturday, May 06, 2006
The Times pimps for al-Zarqawi !
If there was any doubt that the New York Times was actively rooting against America and for the Iraqi insurgents in the War on Terror, it is eliminated in this article where they mount a bizarre defense of al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's inability to handle an automatic weapon:
Not All See Video Mockery of Zarqawi as Good Strategy
...The video clips, released on Thursday to news organizations in Baghdad, show the terrorist leader confused about how to handle an M-249 squad automatic weapon, known as an S.A.W., which is part of the American inventory of infantry weapons.
The American military, which said it captured the videotapes in a recent raid, released selected outtakes in an effort to undermine Mr. Zarqawi's image as leader of the Council of Holy Warriors, formerly Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and suggested that his fighting talents and experience were less than his propaganda portrays.
The weapon in question is complicated to master, and American soldiers and marines undergo many days of training to achieve the most basic competence with it. Moreover, the weapon in Mr. Zarqawi's hands was an older variant, which makes its malfunctioning unsurprising. The veterans said Mr. Zarqawi, who had spent his years as a terrorist surrounded by simpler weapons of Soviet design, could hardly have been expected to know how to handle it.
But the retired and active officers said the public presentation of the tape did not address elements that were disturbing, rather than amusing: the weapon was probably captured from American soldiers, indicating a tactical victory for the insurgents. And Mr. Zarqawi looked clean and plump...
OK, so according to the Times, the Americans lose again, because:
-Mr. Zarqawi, a self-declared jihad fighter, cannot be expected to actually handle a weapon!
-this gun was probably captured from an American, as opposed to the hundreds of other ways it could have gotten in Zarqawi's hands...and the fact that the Times admits it was an older weapon, thus unlikely to have been captured anytime recently? Irrelevant!
-Mr. Zarqawi is a fat murderous bastard, as opposed to a skinny murderous bastard.
Of course the Times, in their anti-American zeal, fails to note that the whole point of showing the outtakes is to discredit the video, which tried to portray Zarqawi as a machine-gun toting tough guy.
They ignore the contradiction regarding their claim on the origin of the weapon; it seems as if the Times is desperate to give the jihadis a talking point here.
And Zarqawi's weight? I hardly think the average terrorist, living hand to mouth, is likely to be encouraged by seeing his boss living high on the hog.
Surprised the Times didn't mention that Zarqawi's best weapon is the knife...I am sure the family of Nick Berg remembers that, though...
UPDATE: Other simialr thoughts at Little Green Footballs , Junkyard Blog, Sweetness and Light and The Mudville Gazette
Not All See Video Mockery of Zarqawi as Good Strategy
...The video clips, released on Thursday to news organizations in Baghdad, show the terrorist leader confused about how to handle an M-249 squad automatic weapon, known as an S.A.W., which is part of the American inventory of infantry weapons.
The American military, which said it captured the videotapes in a recent raid, released selected outtakes in an effort to undermine Mr. Zarqawi's image as leader of the Council of Holy Warriors, formerly Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and suggested that his fighting talents and experience were less than his propaganda portrays.
The weapon in question is complicated to master, and American soldiers and marines undergo many days of training to achieve the most basic competence with it. Moreover, the weapon in Mr. Zarqawi's hands was an older variant, which makes its malfunctioning unsurprising. The veterans said Mr. Zarqawi, who had spent his years as a terrorist surrounded by simpler weapons of Soviet design, could hardly have been expected to know how to handle it.
But the retired and active officers said the public presentation of the tape did not address elements that were disturbing, rather than amusing: the weapon was probably captured from American soldiers, indicating a tactical victory for the insurgents. And Mr. Zarqawi looked clean and plump...
OK, so according to the Times, the Americans lose again, because:
-Mr. Zarqawi, a self-declared jihad fighter, cannot be expected to actually handle a weapon!
-this gun was probably captured from an American, as opposed to the hundreds of other ways it could have gotten in Zarqawi's hands...and the fact that the Times admits it was an older weapon, thus unlikely to have been captured anytime recently? Irrelevant!
-Mr. Zarqawi is a fat murderous bastard, as opposed to a skinny murderous bastard.
Of course the Times, in their anti-American zeal, fails to note that the whole point of showing the outtakes is to discredit the video, which tried to portray Zarqawi as a machine-gun toting tough guy.
They ignore the contradiction regarding their claim on the origin of the weapon; it seems as if the Times is desperate to give the jihadis a talking point here.
And Zarqawi's weight? I hardly think the average terrorist, living hand to mouth, is likely to be encouraged by seeing his boss living high on the hog.
Surprised the Times didn't mention that Zarqawi's best weapon is the knife...I am sure the family of Nick Berg remembers that, though...
UPDATE: Other simialr thoughts at Little Green Footballs , Junkyard Blog, Sweetness and Light and The Mudville Gazette
EJ Dionne: We Are All Liberals Now!
E.J. Dionne gets it wrong, as usual, as he takes a partisan angle on the falling poll numbers of President Bush and the Republican Congress:
All over the country, Republicans are engaged in a massive effort at rebranding, reframing and, in some cases, wholesale retreat from past positions. The surest sign that the nation is in the middle of an ideological transition is that Republicans don't want to sound like -- well, Republicans....
The current reaction is not simply to President Bush's low poll numbers. It's also a response to the failure of conservative policies and to the declining appeal of conservative rhetoric. Conservatives are trying to save themselves by offering progressive-sounding criticisms of the status quo, much as liberals offered ersatz conservative critiques two decades ago.
.... When one side starts making the other side's argument, you don't need to be a pollster to know which belief system is in the ascendancy.
Er...no, E.J. Neither you nor the Republicans really have a clue what is behind the plummeting poll numbers they are seeing. It is the fact that Republicans are retreating from traditional conservative positions that has fueled the ire of mainstream America. Note the title of this blog? Well, if I was asked in a poll, I would state that I disapprove of the President and the Republican Congress. That does not mean, however, that I am ready to embrace socialized medicine, accept an illegal immigrant in my basement, or tolerate another tax hike to pay for midnight basketball. It is the fact that Republicans, thinking a little step to the left would help them weather the nonstop blows from the media, now are frantically dancing as fast as they can all over the ideological spectrum in an attempt to please the voters that elected them based on the principles they held a mere two years back!
And President Bush has shown absolutely no interest in taking the leadership role that his party desperately needs. He's wishy-washy on gas prices (just repeat after me: supply and demand, supply and demand!), he seems to be taking the liberal tact of the helpless shoulder shrug when it comes to the Mexican border, and refuses to tout the outstanding gains the economy has made under his stewardship, allowing the Democrats and their tools in the media to fill the vaccuum with all kinds of misleading figures and doom and gloom predictions.
The Republicans may yet take a body blow in 2006, but it is not due to Mr. Dionne's smug assertion that "we are all liberals now". The conservative faithful, seeing only Democrats and Democrats Lite, may choose to sit this one out. And if the Republican party learns its lesson, they may just be able to save the White House come 2008.
All over the country, Republicans are engaged in a massive effort at rebranding, reframing and, in some cases, wholesale retreat from past positions. The surest sign that the nation is in the middle of an ideological transition is that Republicans don't want to sound like -- well, Republicans....
The current reaction is not simply to President Bush's low poll numbers. It's also a response to the failure of conservative policies and to the declining appeal of conservative rhetoric. Conservatives are trying to save themselves by offering progressive-sounding criticisms of the status quo, much as liberals offered ersatz conservative critiques two decades ago.
.... When one side starts making the other side's argument, you don't need to be a pollster to know which belief system is in the ascendancy.
Er...no, E.J. Neither you nor the Republicans really have a clue what is behind the plummeting poll numbers they are seeing. It is the fact that Republicans are retreating from traditional conservative positions that has fueled the ire of mainstream America. Note the title of this blog? Well, if I was asked in a poll, I would state that I disapprove of the President and the Republican Congress. That does not mean, however, that I am ready to embrace socialized medicine, accept an illegal immigrant in my basement, or tolerate another tax hike to pay for midnight basketball. It is the fact that Republicans, thinking a little step to the left would help them weather the nonstop blows from the media, now are frantically dancing as fast as they can all over the ideological spectrum in an attempt to please the voters that elected them based on the principles they held a mere two years back!
And President Bush has shown absolutely no interest in taking the leadership role that his party desperately needs. He's wishy-washy on gas prices (just repeat after me: supply and demand, supply and demand!), he seems to be taking the liberal tact of the helpless shoulder shrug when it comes to the Mexican border, and refuses to tout the outstanding gains the economy has made under his stewardship, allowing the Democrats and their tools in the media to fill the vaccuum with all kinds of misleading figures and doom and gloom predictions.
The Republicans may yet take a body blow in 2006, but it is not due to Mr. Dionne's smug assertion that "we are all liberals now". The conservative faithful, seeing only Democrats and Democrats Lite, may choose to sit this one out. And if the Republican party learns its lesson, they may just be able to save the White House come 2008.
Again?
Charles Krauthammer, in today's Washington Post:
The establishment of Israel was a Jewish declaration to a world that had allowed the Holocaust to happen -- after Hitler had made his intentions perfectly clear -- that the Jews would henceforth resort to self-protection and self-reliance. And so they have, building a Jewish army, the first in 2,000 years, that prevailed in three great wars of survival (1948-49, 1967 and 1973).
But in a cruel historical irony, doing so required concentration -- putting all the eggs back in one basket, a tiny territory hard by the Mediterranean, eight miles wide at its waist. A tempting target for those who would finish Hitler's work.
His successors now reside in Tehran...
Glenn Reynolds says it succinctly:
Given the Iranians' words and actions, I think that Israel is legally and morally justified in launching whatever sort of preemptive strike it chooses.
And do you know what I think? The only type of person whom would urge Israel to sit on its hands while the U.N. passes strongly wordly resolutions, whom would declare that Israel would be an "aggressor" nation should it move upon its enemies, whom would insist on "multilateral" action, is an anti-semite, whether they choose to accept it or not.
A Second Holocaust, wiping out the Holy Land and the Jews within it, would be a such a steep red stain upon the civilized world that we may simply never recover.
The establishment of Israel was a Jewish declaration to a world that had allowed the Holocaust to happen -- after Hitler had made his intentions perfectly clear -- that the Jews would henceforth resort to self-protection and self-reliance. And so they have, building a Jewish army, the first in 2,000 years, that prevailed in three great wars of survival (1948-49, 1967 and 1973).
But in a cruel historical irony, doing so required concentration -- putting all the eggs back in one basket, a tiny territory hard by the Mediterranean, eight miles wide at its waist. A tempting target for those who would finish Hitler's work.
His successors now reside in Tehran...
Glenn Reynolds says it succinctly:
Given the Iranians' words and actions, I think that Israel is legally and morally justified in launching whatever sort of preemptive strike it chooses.
And do you know what I think? The only type of person whom would urge Israel to sit on its hands while the U.N. passes strongly wordly resolutions, whom would declare that Israel would be an "aggressor" nation should it move upon its enemies, whom would insist on "multilateral" action, is an anti-semite, whether they choose to accept it or not.
A Second Holocaust, wiping out the Holy Land and the Jews within it, would be a such a steep red stain upon the civilized world that we may simply never recover.
Friday, May 05, 2006
The Kennedys are a Threat to us All!
Bad enough that fat 'ol Teddy Kennedy spends his time demeaning American serviceman and blocking alternative energy sources, but now his son is busted for weaving around Washington in a drunken stupor:
Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had had no alcohol before the accident.
Kennedy appeared to be intoxicated when he crashed his car into a barrier on Capitol Hill early Thursday morning, said Louis P. Cannon, president of the Washington chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Cannon, who was not there, said the officers involved in the accident were instructed by an official “above the rank of patrolman” to take Kennedy home.
A letter written by a Capitol Police officer to Acting Chief Christopher McGaffin said Kennedy appeared to be staggering when he left the vehicle after the crash about 3 a.m. The letter was first reported by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.
Kennedy said he was late for a vote, officer Greg Baird said in the letter to McGaffin. Baird is acting chairman of the Capitol Hill chapter of the FOP police union. The last vote of the night had occurred almost six hours earlier.
Baird wrote McGaffin that two sergeants who responded to the accident conferred with the watch commander and were ordered to leave the scene.
He said that after the officers left, Capitol Police officials gave Kennedy a ride home.
Kennedy spent time at a drug rehabilitation clinic before he went to Providence College...
Certainly sounds like he was drunk; of course, Kennedy is apparently calling the police officers who came to his accident scene liars...is he taking notes from fellow police-hating Democrat Cynthia McKinney? Seems as if a bit of a cover-up was in the making; just like old times for the K-Clan! Oh, those wacky Kennedys will kill us all someday...!
Of course, the headline reads "Patrick Kennedy in Accident", with no mention made in the lead about his bizarre behavior as reported by police. Let's look at another story on the wire as a comparison:
Rumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst
"Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the former analyst, during a question-and-answer session.
"I did not lie," shot back Rumsfeld, who waved off security guards ready to remove McGovern from the hall at the Southern Center for International Studies....
Not one word about the impropriatey of a former CIA officer screaming like a nut at the Secretary of Defense? No mention about how this is part of a pattern of bizarre behavior ( leaker Mary McCarthy, B-list celebrity Valerie Plame, and now McGovern) by agents past and present of what is supposed to be the world's top-notch intelligence service?
Now, if it was a story about a Republican in a scandal, we would have gotten a long list of every Republican from Nixon to DeLay who has been involved in something tawdry. But psycho ex-CIA (mostly Democrat appointed) busting out of the closet everywhere? No, it is an anti-war story about Rumsfeld being heckled! Kennedy drunk? No, let's ignore the numerous police reports and lead with the Congressman's pre-released statement!
I don't know who makes me sicker - the substance-addicted Kennedys or their pathetic enablers in the media...
Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had had no alcohol before the accident.
Kennedy appeared to be intoxicated when he crashed his car into a barrier on Capitol Hill early Thursday morning, said Louis P. Cannon, president of the Washington chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Cannon, who was not there, said the officers involved in the accident were instructed by an official “above the rank of patrolman” to take Kennedy home.
A letter written by a Capitol Police officer to Acting Chief Christopher McGaffin said Kennedy appeared to be staggering when he left the vehicle after the crash about 3 a.m. The letter was first reported by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.
Kennedy said he was late for a vote, officer Greg Baird said in the letter to McGaffin. Baird is acting chairman of the Capitol Hill chapter of the FOP police union. The last vote of the night had occurred almost six hours earlier.
Baird wrote McGaffin that two sergeants who responded to the accident conferred with the watch commander and were ordered to leave the scene.
He said that after the officers left, Capitol Police officials gave Kennedy a ride home.
Kennedy spent time at a drug rehabilitation clinic before he went to Providence College...
Certainly sounds like he was drunk; of course, Kennedy is apparently calling the police officers who came to his accident scene liars...is he taking notes from fellow police-hating Democrat Cynthia McKinney? Seems as if a bit of a cover-up was in the making; just like old times for the K-Clan! Oh, those wacky Kennedys will kill us all someday...!
Of course, the headline reads "Patrick Kennedy in Accident", with no mention made in the lead about his bizarre behavior as reported by police. Let's look at another story on the wire as a comparison:
Rumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst
"Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the former analyst, during a question-and-answer session.
"I did not lie," shot back Rumsfeld, who waved off security guards ready to remove McGovern from the hall at the Southern Center for International Studies....
Not one word about the impropriatey of a former CIA officer screaming like a nut at the Secretary of Defense? No mention about how this is part of a pattern of bizarre behavior ( leaker Mary McCarthy, B-list celebrity Valerie Plame, and now McGovern) by agents past and present of what is supposed to be the world's top-notch intelligence service?
Now, if it was a story about a Republican in a scandal, we would have gotten a long list of every Republican from Nixon to DeLay who has been involved in something tawdry. But psycho ex-CIA (mostly Democrat appointed) busting out of the closet everywhere? No, it is an anti-war story about Rumsfeld being heckled! Kennedy drunk? No, let's ignore the numerous police reports and lead with the Congressman's pre-released statement!
I don't know who makes me sicker - the substance-addicted Kennedys or their pathetic enablers in the media...
Is this ...an anti-war demonstrator at the Rumsfeld speech, a former CIA analyst, an escaped mental patient, or all of the above?
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Alternative Energy? Not in Teddy's Backyard!
The hypocrisy of those whom cry for " alternative energy" is not to be believed - here's Ted Kennedy, liberal par excellence, blocking a plan to power a whole portion of blue state Massachutes with wind-generated energy because...it will block his, and his neighbors, pristine views:
Rich oceanfront residents of Cape Cod do not want their view of Nantucket Sound faintly obstructed by offshore protrusions of a proposed wind farm. So, they have hired lobbyists to kill Cape Wind, a project providing an environmentally sound source of energy. T heir most important ally in this venture is a fellow wealthy Cape Cod landowner, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Supporters of the offshore grid of 130 wind turbines, standing 400 feet above the water, say it would supply three-quarters of the energy needs of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. By replacing oil, they say, it would sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Kennedy opposes this, explains the buzz on Capitol Hill, because he does not want to despoil the pristine appearance of a natural resource dear to his family and the memory of John F. Kennedy...
Cape Cod landowners are not interested in Jack Kennedy's legacy or special privileges for Cape Wind. Horrified by an obstructed seaview and interference with their yachting, they retained top lobbyists....
More white-limo liberals, claiming they have the right to dictate what I drive, what I pay for gas, and how much energy I consume...and then insist that no, it doesn't apply to them...
Blocking clean energy, Jersey-style, here .
Rich oceanfront residents of Cape Cod do not want their view of Nantucket Sound faintly obstructed by offshore protrusions of a proposed wind farm. So, they have hired lobbyists to kill Cape Wind, a project providing an environmentally sound source of energy. T heir most important ally in this venture is a fellow wealthy Cape Cod landowner, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Supporters of the offshore grid of 130 wind turbines, standing 400 feet above the water, say it would supply three-quarters of the energy needs of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. By replacing oil, they say, it would sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Kennedy opposes this, explains the buzz on Capitol Hill, because he does not want to despoil the pristine appearance of a natural resource dear to his family and the memory of John F. Kennedy...
Cape Cod landowners are not interested in Jack Kennedy's legacy or special privileges for Cape Wind. Horrified by an obstructed seaview and interference with their yachting, they retained top lobbyists....
More white-limo liberals, claiming they have the right to dictate what I drive, what I pay for gas, and how much energy I consume...and then insist that no, it doesn't apply to them...
Blocking clean energy, Jersey-style, here .
Nancy Pelosi Blasts Her Own Bill !
Nancy Pelosi, who has been fighting for the jihadis and the San Francisco radical left for some time now, has used some duplicitous congessional engineering to create a bill, in order to denounce the bill. Sound confusing? All Things Beautiful can help clear it up:
Another little noted fact is that House Democrats are responsible for keeping “felony illegal” provisions in the House Immigration Bill, HR 4437. In a slick maneuver December 16, House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, was one of 191 Democrats who joined only 65 Republicans providing the majority voting to block an amendment to the HR 4437 immigration bill which would have removed provisions making a federal felony of illegal entry or presence in the U.S. HR 4437 sponsor James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, himself had offered an amendment removing it...
Speaking on the House floor immediately after her December 16 felony vote, Pelosi turned around and called the bill, “punitive, mean-spirited legislation.” Without a hint of shame, she complained about the provision she had just voted to keep in: “For the first time in our history, this bill before us would make it a federal crime, instead of a civil offense, to be in the United States in violation of an immigration law or regulation...
HR 4437 felony provisions are a key focus of recent demonstrations by illegal aliens and their supporters in many U.S. cities. Ironically many of the demonstration leaders are also liberal Democrats...
We have seen this sick ploy before; New York Representative Charles Rangel (D, of course) sponsored a bill to reinstate the draft during the 2004 election season, then went on TV and proclaimed that if re-elected, George Bush and the Republicans were going to reinstate the draft - see, he said, there is already a bill pending in Congress!
Naturally, the donkeys have no shame when it comes to attempts to gain political power by dividing the electorate by class and race. Why are the Republicans afraid to point out this particularly vulgar, almost racist, charade to the American people? They themselves are not blameless - allowing a lie to go unchallanged is aiding and abetting the spreading of untruths. That is not, and should never be, the conservative way.
I guess that is the blogger's job, but jeez...how about a little help, fellas?
Another little noted fact is that House Democrats are responsible for keeping “felony illegal” provisions in the House Immigration Bill, HR 4437. In a slick maneuver December 16, House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, was one of 191 Democrats who joined only 65 Republicans providing the majority voting to block an amendment to the HR 4437 immigration bill which would have removed provisions making a federal felony of illegal entry or presence in the U.S. HR 4437 sponsor James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, himself had offered an amendment removing it...
Speaking on the House floor immediately after her December 16 felony vote, Pelosi turned around and called the bill, “punitive, mean-spirited legislation.” Without a hint of shame, she complained about the provision she had just voted to keep in: “For the first time in our history, this bill before us would make it a federal crime, instead of a civil offense, to be in the United States in violation of an immigration law or regulation...
HR 4437 felony provisions are a key focus of recent demonstrations by illegal aliens and their supporters in many U.S. cities. Ironically many of the demonstration leaders are also liberal Democrats...
We have seen this sick ploy before; New York Representative Charles Rangel (D, of course) sponsored a bill to reinstate the draft during the 2004 election season, then went on TV and proclaimed that if re-elected, George Bush and the Republicans were going to reinstate the draft - see, he said, there is already a bill pending in Congress!
Naturally, the donkeys have no shame when it comes to attempts to gain political power by dividing the electorate by class and race. Why are the Republicans afraid to point out this particularly vulgar, almost racist, charade to the American people? They themselves are not blameless - allowing a lie to go unchallanged is aiding and abetting the spreading of untruths. That is not, and should never be, the conservative way.
I guess that is the blogger's job, but jeez...how about a little help, fellas?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Sets Them Straight!
To every lefty actor and small-time plitician who call themselves "brave" for daring to speak out against President Bush, I would like to introduce you to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A Dutch politican, feminist, author, and outspoken critic of radical Islam, she lives every minute of her life under the threat of imminent death for daring to express her honest opinion of the world around her. Just like living under the tyrannical rule of the Republican Party, right?
Ali was at the New York Public Library recently, and via Little Green Footballs; I give you her money quote:
"My criticism of the West, especially of liberals, is that they do take freedom for granted,” Ms. Ali responded. She noted that Western Europeans born after World War II are unused to conflict. “They have lost the instinct to recognize that there can be such a thing as an enemy or a threat to freedom, and that’s what I’m witnessing in Europe now,” she stated. “ [There is] a pacifist ideology that violence should never be used in any circumstances, and so we should talk and talk and talk. Even when your opponent tells you, ‘I don’t want to talk to you, I want to destroy you,’ the reaction is, ‘Please, let’s talk about the fact that you want to destroy me!’”
Brilliantly, she sums up the mindset of liberals worldwide. Sadly, these liberals dominate most of the world's diplomatic corps and government positions. Tragically, it appears as if Ms. Ali's implicit warning will go unheeded.
Learn more about Ayaan Hirsi Ali here.
Ali was at the New York Public Library recently, and via Little Green Footballs; I give you her money quote:
"My criticism of the West, especially of liberals, is that they do take freedom for granted,” Ms. Ali responded. She noted that Western Europeans born after World War II are unused to conflict. “They have lost the instinct to recognize that there can be such a thing as an enemy or a threat to freedom, and that’s what I’m witnessing in Europe now,” she stated. “ [There is] a pacifist ideology that violence should never be used in any circumstances, and so we should talk and talk and talk. Even when your opponent tells you, ‘I don’t want to talk to you, I want to destroy you,’ the reaction is, ‘Please, let’s talk about the fact that you want to destroy me!’”
Brilliantly, she sums up the mindset of liberals worldwide. Sadly, these liberals dominate most of the world's diplomatic corps and government positions. Tragically, it appears as if Ms. Ali's implicit warning will go unheeded.
Learn more about Ayaan Hirsi Ali here.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
We Are All...Mexicans?
The media paints a one-sided picture, of poor hardworking immigrants just looking for a taste of freedom. We'll flip the picture; check out the other side..from Michelle Malkin:
...Gloria Ramirez Vargas is a local politician from Baja, California who spoke to the crowd today...
Ms. GLORIA RAMIREZ VARGAS (Politician, Baja, Calif.): (Through Translator) - Many Mexicans are nourishing the ground in the U.S., but those lands were once ours. Those same lands, which now with intelligence, with love and with a lot of work, we are re-conquering again for our Mexico.
According to Freeman Hunt, this classy lassy has her mouth is open because she is yelling, "Go home gringo pig!"
California Conservative turns us on to this well-deserved beatdown delivered to treasonous Democratic whore Nancy Pelosi by House majority leader John Boehner (R-Ohio):
“The brazen support of California Democrats for this walkout amounts to a reckless endorsement of policies that make our nation and our borders less secure. Nancy Pelosi and her Capitol Hill Democrats should explain to the American public whether they support California’s Democrat leaders who defied their oath to uphold the laws of the land. If Nancy Pelosi cannot bring herself to denounce this stunt, it will serve as yet another signal of Democrats’ support for open borders, weak enforcement, and more illegal immigration.”
Yeah, baby! Save that sound bite for the mid-term elections!
Roger Simon has pics - I don't know about you, but I am more than willing to offer amnesty to those whom dress as terrorists and threaten me-
And finally, Mallard Fillmore, that wacky duck, says it all:
...Gloria Ramirez Vargas is a local politician from Baja, California who spoke to the crowd today...
Ms. GLORIA RAMIREZ VARGAS (Politician, Baja, Calif.): (Through Translator) - Many Mexicans are nourishing the ground in the U.S., but those lands were once ours. Those same lands, which now with intelligence, with love and with a lot of work, we are re-conquering again for our Mexico.
According to Freeman Hunt, this classy lassy has her mouth is open because she is yelling, "Go home gringo pig!"
California Conservative turns us on to this well-deserved beatdown delivered to treasonous Democratic whore Nancy Pelosi by House majority leader John Boehner (R-Ohio):
“The brazen support of California Democrats for this walkout amounts to a reckless endorsement of policies that make our nation and our borders less secure. Nancy Pelosi and her Capitol Hill Democrats should explain to the American public whether they support California’s Democrat leaders who defied their oath to uphold the laws of the land. If Nancy Pelosi cannot bring herself to denounce this stunt, it will serve as yet another signal of Democrats’ support for open borders, weak enforcement, and more illegal immigration.”
Yeah, baby! Save that sound bite for the mid-term elections!
Roger Simon has pics - I don't know about you, but I am more than willing to offer amnesty to those whom dress as terrorists and threaten me-
And finally, Mallard Fillmore, that wacky duck, says it all:
The Religion of Peace LOVES children!
This 6-year-old tyke accidentally stepped on her teacher's prayer rug as he was kneeling. He finished his prayer, then stood up and beat the living hell out of her. The Muslim world's new martyrs...
...is the title of a column in today's Daily News by foreign correspondent Richard Chesnoff. Well, we tried to tell you that the Jews were the canary in the coalmine, but noooo, you just didn't listen:
It's one of today's most compelling news stories, yet it's all but ignored by most of the international media. I'm talking about the growing persecution of Christian minorities in the Islamic world.
The story is similar wherever Sharia - orthodox Islamic law - reigns supreme. From Pakistan to Darfur, Christians have become regular targets for Islamic gangs who shoot at worshipers, then torch their houses of worship.
Even in Islamic countries not strictly run by Sharia law, pressures mount on local Christians to leave the homes they've known for centuries. Iraq's Christian sects, among the oldest Christian communities anywhere in the world, have been directly targeted by terrorist bombs
Thirty years ago, Lebanon was 60% Christian. Since then, an estimated 3.5 million Christians have emigrated, reducing the country's Christian population percentage to barely 25%. And in the Palestinian territories, direct and indirect pressures have also led to an increasing Christian exodus. One striking result: Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus and once a predominantly Christian Arab community now has an overwhelming Muslim majority.
Few people seem prepared to connect the dots....most mainstream church groups seem to ignore the threat
It's the silence imposed upon us by the PC orthodoxy, and by politicians of both stripes - we are not allowed to name the elephant in the room, or we shall be shamed into silence. We can no longer call a thing what it is; and that simple prohibition may cause an catastrophic amount of death and destruction in the not-too-distant-future, when the elephant goes on a worldwide rampage.
Mr. Chesnoff's conclusion is as obvious as the sun and moon, but again, we dare not speak it in public discourse:
...the rise of Islamic extremism is silencing even voices of limited tolerance. More than 800,000 Jews were forced to flee the Islamic world between 1948 and 1955. Unless there is an outcry against the new wave of discrimination now facing Christians, these ancient communities are also doomed to disappear.
Will the extinction of Christianity from its birthplace in the Middle East also be laid at the feet of the Americans and the Jews? Does anyone have the courage to speak out - religious leaders in America, our man in the UN John Bolton, or even the flippin' Pope himself - or are we resigning ourselves to an ethnic and historic cleansing of one the birthplace of Western religion; the spiritual home of at least two religions that really do worship peace?
It's one of today's most compelling news stories, yet it's all but ignored by most of the international media. I'm talking about the growing persecution of Christian minorities in the Islamic world.
The story is similar wherever Sharia - orthodox Islamic law - reigns supreme. From Pakistan to Darfur, Christians have become regular targets for Islamic gangs who shoot at worshipers, then torch their houses of worship.
Even in Islamic countries not strictly run by Sharia law, pressures mount on local Christians to leave the homes they've known for centuries. Iraq's Christian sects, among the oldest Christian communities anywhere in the world, have been directly targeted by terrorist bombs
Thirty years ago, Lebanon was 60% Christian. Since then, an estimated 3.5 million Christians have emigrated, reducing the country's Christian population percentage to barely 25%. And in the Palestinian territories, direct and indirect pressures have also led to an increasing Christian exodus. One striking result: Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus and once a predominantly Christian Arab community now has an overwhelming Muslim majority.
Few people seem prepared to connect the dots....most mainstream church groups seem to ignore the threat
It's the silence imposed upon us by the PC orthodoxy, and by politicians of both stripes - we are not allowed to name the elephant in the room, or we shall be shamed into silence. We can no longer call a thing what it is; and that simple prohibition may cause an catastrophic amount of death and destruction in the not-too-distant-future, when the elephant goes on a worldwide rampage.
Mr. Chesnoff's conclusion is as obvious as the sun and moon, but again, we dare not speak it in public discourse:
...the rise of Islamic extremism is silencing even voices of limited tolerance. More than 800,000 Jews were forced to flee the Islamic world between 1948 and 1955. Unless there is an outcry against the new wave of discrimination now facing Christians, these ancient communities are also doomed to disappear.
Will the extinction of Christianity from its birthplace in the Middle East also be laid at the feet of the Americans and the Jews? Does anyone have the courage to speak out - religious leaders in America, our man in the UN John Bolton, or even the flippin' Pope himself - or are we resigning ourselves to an ethnic and historic cleansing of one the birthplace of Western religion; the spiritual home of at least two religions that really do worship peace?
Monday, May 01, 2006
A new month, a new massacre by the faithful of the religion of peace:
Suspected Islamic militants shot dead at least 35 Hindus in Indian-administered Kashmir...
In one of the bloodiest massacres in recent months, militants struck two remote Hindu-dominated mountainous villages in Doda district, some 170 km (100 miles) northeast of Jammu, Kashmir's winter capital, early on Monday, and gunned down 22 Hindus.
On the same day, bullet-ridden bodies of nine Hindus were recovered from neighboring Udhampur district. Police said the dead were Hindu cattle herdsmen reportedly kidnapped by suspected militants late on Sunday.
Witnesses of the Doda attack told a chilling story of a midnight knock followed by bursts of gunshots...
One wounded man told Sahara News television channel over the telephone that militants "took one man from each house."
"The others they told to go inside. They said they would set us free later. After going some distance, they started beating us up and then opened fire," the witness said.
Late night knocks and summary executions of family men - the Islamists study the SS handbook pretty well, don't they?
Incidentally, I had heard it said that worldwide Muslim unrest was due to those pesky Jews refusing to roll over and die in Israel. Then again, I had heard it told that it was the American presence in their holy lands that caused so much ire among Muslims...but what does that have to do with Kashmir? A battle of territory, yes, but to wage it by attempting to ethnically cleanse the current inhabitants? Where have I seen this before?
Note the only common denominator, wherever these heinous types of acts take place, is the religious affiliation of the perpetrators. And has one prominent Muslim has stepped forward anywhere to condemn these attacks? Silence is assent, my friends...
It pains me to say so, but right now all I see is a religion of Hate, one that celebrates only destruction and death, and appears bent on world domination. There can be no peace, no compromise, with the Islamists; just as the simpletons who signed various pacts and treaties with Hitler learned. We have the benefit of a historical parallel to draw on; will we use it?
Suspected Islamic militants shot dead at least 35 Hindus in Indian-administered Kashmir...
In one of the bloodiest massacres in recent months, militants struck two remote Hindu-dominated mountainous villages in Doda district, some 170 km (100 miles) northeast of Jammu, Kashmir's winter capital, early on Monday, and gunned down 22 Hindus.
On the same day, bullet-ridden bodies of nine Hindus were recovered from neighboring Udhampur district. Police said the dead were Hindu cattle herdsmen reportedly kidnapped by suspected militants late on Sunday.
Witnesses of the Doda attack told a chilling story of a midnight knock followed by bursts of gunshots...
One wounded man told Sahara News television channel over the telephone that militants "took one man from each house."
"The others they told to go inside. They said they would set us free later. After going some distance, they started beating us up and then opened fire," the witness said.
Late night knocks and summary executions of family men - the Islamists study the SS handbook pretty well, don't they?
Incidentally, I had heard it said that worldwide Muslim unrest was due to those pesky Jews refusing to roll over and die in Israel. Then again, I had heard it told that it was the American presence in their holy lands that caused so much ire among Muslims...but what does that have to do with Kashmir? A battle of territory, yes, but to wage it by attempting to ethnically cleanse the current inhabitants? Where have I seen this before?
Note the only common denominator, wherever these heinous types of acts take place, is the religious affiliation of the perpetrators. And has one prominent Muslim has stepped forward anywhere to condemn these attacks? Silence is assent, my friends...
It pains me to say so, but right now all I see is a religion of Hate, one that celebrates only destruction and death, and appears bent on world domination. There can be no peace, no compromise, with the Islamists; just as the simpletons who signed various pacts and treaties with Hitler learned. We have the benefit of a historical parallel to draw on; will we use it?
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