From the letters section of today's New York Daily News:
President Theodore Roosevelt's thoughts on immigration, 1907:
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin."
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Why are today's leaders so utterly incapable of replicating Teddy's down-home common sense?
And what would Teddy R. think about the so-called "immigrant rights"(?) leaders, whom are planning huge demonstrations on May 1st, and say things such as:
"You have to think of other creative ways to make it clear to Congress and the Bush administration that we expect them to behave responsibly," Gutierrez said. Organizers chose May 1, he said, because of "its special symbolism" as an international workers' day...
Jesse Diaz, president of the local League of United Latin American Citizens, predicted that the boycott idea "is going to take off like wildfire. There's so much emotion in the air. You're going to see something like you've never seen in the United States."
Don't know how much our great ex-President would love the idea of ILLEGAL immigrants making demands, and threats...(from today's Washington Post)
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Pope Benedict, On Islamic Terrorism...
This new Pope fella has quite a pair on him; after all, you need one (well, two) these days to speak the truth about the dangers that the Western world faces from the Islamists:
"Attention has rightly been drawn to the danger of a clash of civilizations," said Benedict. "The danger is made more acute by organized terrorism, which has already spread over the whole planet. Its causes are many and complex, not least those to do with political ideology, combined with aberrant religious ideas.
Terrorism does not hesitate to strike defenseless people, without discrimination, or to impose inhuman blackmail, causing panic among entire populations, in order to force political leaders to support the designs of the terrorists. No situation can justify such criminal activity, which covers the perpetrators with infamy, and it is all the more deplorable when it hides behind religion, thereby bringing the pure truth of God down to the level of the terrorists' own blindness and moral perversion."
Hey - appeasing "root-cause" seekers and liberal Islamic apologists - is the above clear enough for you?
Link via Atlas Shrugs; link to Opinion Journal for commentary...
"Attention has rightly been drawn to the danger of a clash of civilizations," said Benedict. "The danger is made more acute by organized terrorism, which has already spread over the whole planet. Its causes are many and complex, not least those to do with political ideology, combined with aberrant religious ideas.
Terrorism does not hesitate to strike defenseless people, without discrimination, or to impose inhuman blackmail, causing panic among entire populations, in order to force political leaders to support the designs of the terrorists. No situation can justify such criminal activity, which covers the perpetrators with infamy, and it is all the more deplorable when it hides behind religion, thereby bringing the pure truth of God down to the level of the terrorists' own blindness and moral perversion."
Hey - appeasing "root-cause" seekers and liberal Islamic apologists - is the above clear enough for you?
Link via Atlas Shrugs; link to Opinion Journal for commentary...
Friday, April 14, 2006
Ahmadinejad Promises To Destroy Israel
How many code words for "I'm gonna nuke the Jews" can you fit into one speech? Ask the President of Iran:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened.
"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."
....He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of at least 900 people: "Believe that Palestine will be freed soon."
"The existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."
CNN, desperate to aid and abett terrorism worldwide, comes up with this spin:
But the tone of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to a conference on the Palestinian issue was slightly more moderate than fiery rhetoric last year, when Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted him as telling a conference: "Israel must be wiped off the map."
"The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to an imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat," Ahmadinejad said on Friday.
More moderate? I don't think so; how stupid do you think the English-speaking public is? Or maybe the UN is writing for CNN these days; after all, on the same day Iran announced it has enriched uranium (and performed a dark song and dance to celebrate) -
(the) United Nations Commission on Disarmament on Tuesday elected Iran as deputy for Asian nations. The UN Commission opened its annual meeting on Monday which will work until April 28. The UN Commission on Disarmament which is subsidiary organ of the General Assembly will review disarmament and international security.
Of course, within five minutes they were calling on Israel to disarm...will this evil sideshow continue until the mushroom clouds start rising? Via LGF, Caroline Glick sounds a warning:
This week Teheran threw down the gauntlet. The greatest battle of this war - the battle to prevent the world’s most dangerous regime from attaining the most dangerous weapons known to man - has begun. The moment has arrived for President George W. Bush to make clear if he is, in the final analysis, the leader of the free world or its undertaker.
No, Caroline, no, no...you see, it is George Bush's fault; Iran is peaceful, all they want is clean nuclear energy - it is our American president who is keeping us in a "state of fear". Just lie back, close your eyes, and stick your head in the cool, soft sand...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened.
"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."
....He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of at least 900 people: "Believe that Palestine will be freed soon."
"The existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."
CNN, desperate to aid and abett terrorism worldwide, comes up with this spin:
But the tone of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to a conference on the Palestinian issue was slightly more moderate than fiery rhetoric last year, when Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted him as telling a conference: "Israel must be wiped off the map."
"The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to an imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat," Ahmadinejad said on Friday.
More moderate? I don't think so; how stupid do you think the English-speaking public is? Or maybe the UN is writing for CNN these days; after all, on the same day Iran announced it has enriched uranium (and performed a dark song and dance to celebrate) -
(the) United Nations Commission on Disarmament on Tuesday elected Iran as deputy for Asian nations. The UN Commission opened its annual meeting on Monday which will work until April 28. The UN Commission on Disarmament which is subsidiary organ of the General Assembly will review disarmament and international security.
Of course, within five minutes they were calling on Israel to disarm...will this evil sideshow continue until the mushroom clouds start rising? Via LGF, Caroline Glick sounds a warning:
This week Teheran threw down the gauntlet. The greatest battle of this war - the battle to prevent the world’s most dangerous regime from attaining the most dangerous weapons known to man - has begun. The moment has arrived for President George W. Bush to make clear if he is, in the final analysis, the leader of the free world or its undertaker.
No, Caroline, no, no...you see, it is George Bush's fault; Iran is peaceful, all they want is clean nuclear energy - it is our American president who is keeping us in a "state of fear". Just lie back, close your eyes, and stick your head in the cool, soft sand...
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Fantasy, and Reality
The Washington Post today has examples of both on their op-ed page; the subject being how to deal with a soon-to-be nuclear Iran. Let's start with fantasy; as it is so much more palatable - Anatol Lieven speaks here:
The way out of this particular trap is to accept limited Iranian uranium enrichment under strict supervision and focus instead on creating really tough and effective barriers to armament. We need to verifiably freeze Iranian enrichment and other nuclear capabilities at least 18 months short of weapons capacity. This time lag should be sufficient for the U.S. and the international community to receive sufficient warning of Iran's moves and to respond accordingly.
This approach would have a number of great advantages. It would return the U.S. and Europe to the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) signed by Iran, and prevent the Iranians from claiming that they are being subjected to unfair and illegal discrimination. It would hold the Iranian government to its own repeated public statements that it is not seeking nuclear weapons. And in return for bowing to Russian and Chinese concerns about the present U.S. course, it would allow us to bind these states and the rest of the international community to impose extremely tough sanctions on Iran if that country did in fact violate this agreement and move towards armament.
This international response should be agreed in advance by a public treaty signed by the members of the U.N. Security Council, the G8, and other appropriate international organizations.
What world do you inhabit, Mr. Lieven? One where first and foremost we must make sure the Iranians are not being discriminated against? Gee, that'll really help global security... It seems as if Mr. Lieven is incapable of turning his head backwards and looking at the history of the world in the last, oh, fifteen minutes. All of the "public statements" and tough sanctions and binding treaties were imposed upon Iraq after the first Gulf War, and to what end? Turns out that the very signitories he speaks of above, Russia and China, were subverting the sanctions for profit, all while his precious UN, which was supposed to be policing the deal, stuffed its pockets with cash and looked away. This "escape from the trap" is the recipie for failure cooked up by those whom honestly believe there is little to no danger in a nuclear-armed Iran, and would have no issues seeing reversals to the United States (temporarily) and Israel (permanently).
Now for a dose of reality, from Mark Helprin:
Iran's claim of innocuous nuclear ambitions comports both with the Islamic doctrine of taqqiya (literal truth need not be conveyed to infidels) and the Western doctrine of state secrecy (the same thing), and it is part of a strategy of deception and false compromise deployed to buy time. After almost three years, the Bush administration has maneuvered the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council, where it will fall under the protection of Russia and China, which will make any resolution meaningless or veto it outright. In the event of sanctions, Iran can sell oil to China in exchange for all the manufactures it might need, trade on the black market and eventually reenter the world economy after the inevitable unveiling of Iranian nuclear weapons stimulates the resignation of the West.
But because the Iranian drive for deployable nuclear weapons will take years, we have a period of grace. In that time, we would do well to strengthen -- in numbers and mass as well as quality -- the means with which we fight, to reinforce the fleet train with which to supply the fighting lines, and to plan for a land route from the Mediterranean across Israel and Jordan to the Tigris and Euphrates. And even if we cannot extricate ourselves from nation-building and counterinsurgency in Iraq, we must have a plan for remounting the army there so that it can fight and maneuver as it was born to do.
Read it all; the essay has a clear view of effective Iranian military strategies that will be used should the United States or any coalition of Western nations attack. But a clear vision, not a dreamer's fantasy, is what is needed here. Again, if we can just look into our recent past, we can see in the Iranian crisis the same maneuvers, threats, and feints used buy Hitler to gain so many concessions, and so much time, before he waged his horrific war on Europe.
The game starts anew; with the same rules, and the same scripts, we can only expect a similar outcome - death on an unbelievable scale. An early strike now by the West, while costing thousands of lives today, will quite possibly save millions down the road. Imagine if France and England had struck Germany when the Nazis first re-crossed into the Rhineland in the late '30s.....
Will the names of one of today's Western leaders become as synonomous with appeasement as Neville Chamberlain?
The way out of this particular trap is to accept limited Iranian uranium enrichment under strict supervision and focus instead on creating really tough and effective barriers to armament. We need to verifiably freeze Iranian enrichment and other nuclear capabilities at least 18 months short of weapons capacity. This time lag should be sufficient for the U.S. and the international community to receive sufficient warning of Iran's moves and to respond accordingly.
This approach would have a number of great advantages. It would return the U.S. and Europe to the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) signed by Iran, and prevent the Iranians from claiming that they are being subjected to unfair and illegal discrimination. It would hold the Iranian government to its own repeated public statements that it is not seeking nuclear weapons. And in return for bowing to Russian and Chinese concerns about the present U.S. course, it would allow us to bind these states and the rest of the international community to impose extremely tough sanctions on Iran if that country did in fact violate this agreement and move towards armament.
This international response should be agreed in advance by a public treaty signed by the members of the U.N. Security Council, the G8, and other appropriate international organizations.
What world do you inhabit, Mr. Lieven? One where first and foremost we must make sure the Iranians are not being discriminated against? Gee, that'll really help global security... It seems as if Mr. Lieven is incapable of turning his head backwards and looking at the history of the world in the last, oh, fifteen minutes. All of the "public statements" and tough sanctions and binding treaties were imposed upon Iraq after the first Gulf War, and to what end? Turns out that the very signitories he speaks of above, Russia and China, were subverting the sanctions for profit, all while his precious UN, which was supposed to be policing the deal, stuffed its pockets with cash and looked away. This "escape from the trap" is the recipie for failure cooked up by those whom honestly believe there is little to no danger in a nuclear-armed Iran, and would have no issues seeing reversals to the United States (temporarily) and Israel (permanently).
Now for a dose of reality, from Mark Helprin:
Iran's claim of innocuous nuclear ambitions comports both with the Islamic doctrine of taqqiya (literal truth need not be conveyed to infidels) and the Western doctrine of state secrecy (the same thing), and it is part of a strategy of deception and false compromise deployed to buy time. After almost three years, the Bush administration has maneuvered the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council, where it will fall under the protection of Russia and China, which will make any resolution meaningless or veto it outright. In the event of sanctions, Iran can sell oil to China in exchange for all the manufactures it might need, trade on the black market and eventually reenter the world economy after the inevitable unveiling of Iranian nuclear weapons stimulates the resignation of the West.
But because the Iranian drive for deployable nuclear weapons will take years, we have a period of grace. In that time, we would do well to strengthen -- in numbers and mass as well as quality -- the means with which we fight, to reinforce the fleet train with which to supply the fighting lines, and to plan for a land route from the Mediterranean across Israel and Jordan to the Tigris and Euphrates. And even if we cannot extricate ourselves from nation-building and counterinsurgency in Iraq, we must have a plan for remounting the army there so that it can fight and maneuver as it was born to do.
Read it all; the essay has a clear view of effective Iranian military strategies that will be used should the United States or any coalition of Western nations attack. But a clear vision, not a dreamer's fantasy, is what is needed here. Again, if we can just look into our recent past, we can see in the Iranian crisis the same maneuvers, threats, and feints used buy Hitler to gain so many concessions, and so much time, before he waged his horrific war on Europe.
The game starts anew; with the same rules, and the same scripts, we can only expect a similar outcome - death on an unbelievable scale. An early strike now by the West, while costing thousands of lives today, will quite possibly save millions down the road. Imagine if France and England had struck Germany when the Nazis first re-crossed into the Rhineland in the late '30s.....
Will the names of one of today's Western leaders become as synonomous with appeasement as Neville Chamberlain?
South Park, Censored at Last...
How depressing that simply the spectre of a howling Muslim mob caused Comedy Central to censor tonight's episode of South Park. The blackened screen, declaring that Comedy Central refused to air the scene with Mohammed, was so out of character/style for this show that I'm convinced the censorship was genuine. Hey, you are talking about two guys who dropped acid at the Academy Awards a few years back (when "Blame Canada" was nominated for Best Song) - can you see them running scared at this point in the game?
Unless...was it all a riff on the Scientology episode, which Comedy Central now refuses to re-run? Did the blacked-out Mohammed really just represent the pulled episoded? Hmmm....
Blackfive expresses irritation here ; The Anchoress talks about poop; and Captains Quarters loves the dead-on spoof of the White House Press Corps.
Good link (WMP) to the speech in last week's episode defending free speech here.
UPDATE: The craven truth comes out:
Parker and Stone were angered when told by Comedy Central several weeks ago that they could not run an image of Muhammad, according to a person close to the show who didn't want to be identified because of the issue's sensitivity.
The network's decision was made over concerns for public safety, the person said.
Comedy Central said in a statement issued Thursday: "In light of recent world events, we feel we made the right decision." Its executives would not comment further.
Freakin' cowards...strike another win for the terrorists. Thanks, Hollywood! And of course, how dare we question your patriotism...
Unless...was it all a riff on the Scientology episode, which Comedy Central now refuses to re-run? Did the blacked-out Mohammed really just represent the pulled episoded? Hmmm....
Blackfive expresses irritation here ; The Anchoress talks about poop; and Captains Quarters loves the dead-on spoof of the White House Press Corps.
Good link (WMP) to the speech in last week's episode defending free speech here.
UPDATE: The craven truth comes out:
Parker and Stone were angered when told by Comedy Central several weeks ago that they could not run an image of Muhammad, according to a person close to the show who didn't want to be identified because of the issue's sensitivity.
The network's decision was made over concerns for public safety, the person said.
Comedy Central said in a statement issued Thursday: "In light of recent world events, we feel we made the right decision." Its executives would not comment further.
Freakin' cowards...strike another win for the terrorists. Thanks, Hollywood! And of course, how dare we question your patriotism...
The Iranian Circus Of Death!
Remember the second "Planet of the Apes" movie, where the humans find an underground church where mutants held services to reverently worship an atomic bomb ("Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.") ? Well hold onto your hats, and fast foward (or rewind, from the year 3955) to modern-day Iran, as it announced the successful enrichment of uranium:
Ahmadinejad made his announcement at a nationally televised ceremony clearly aimed at drumming up popular Iranian support. He addressed an audience that included top military commanders and clerics in an ornate hall in one of Iran’s holiest cities, Mashhad.
Before he spoke, screens on the stage showed footage of nuclear facilities and scientists at work. A troupe in traditional costumes danced, waving vials said to contain yellowcake — purified uranium — that were to be kept at a shrine in the city.
Ahmadinejad made his announcement at a nationally televised ceremony clearly aimed at drumming up popular Iranian support. He addressed an audience that included top military commanders and clerics in an ornate hall in one of Iran’s holiest cities, Mashhad.
Before he spoke, screens on the stage showed footage of nuclear facilities and scientists at work. A troupe in traditional costumes danced, waving vials said to contain yellowcake — purified uranium — that were to be kept at a shrine in the city.
Iranian artists perform as they hold up samples of enriched uranium after Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s speeche in Mashad, April 11, 2006.
Remember what happens to that A-bomb, and the world, in the "Apes" sequel? Keep that in mind....
And while we are speaking of twisted imagry, Atlas Shrugged points out how Iran, up for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, actually treats humans in their country...and does someone on the left want to explain to the woman below that being stoned to death under Sharia decree is all part of the wonderful multicultural experience ?
Three heads in a basket...and where's Amnesty? At Gitmo, you say?
In America, gays call "repression" if they can't obtain the right to marry each other. See the above; note Iranian gays are being hung for the crime of being...gay. This "repression" word, I do not think it means what you think it means....
The only thing crazier than the current state of events in Iran are the calls that we sit back, wait, watch, and do nothing as this horrorshow unfolds...
The Uses of Anti-Semitism
Fascinating post by Europundit's Nelson Archer on what he sees as the overriding aim of Walt & Mearsheimer Harvard paper on the so-called “Israel Lobby” controlling America's foriegn policy:
...The paper, however, can and probably must be seen as a part of the other discussion, rather than a discussion in itself. Why? Because, in my view, it has a very clear and very simple goal, namely, the same goal f those rightist and/or isolationist Americans who, in the 30s, wanted to avoid any confrontation with Nazi Germany. Whether in their heart of hearts they were actually anti-Semitic, or whether they saw anti-Semitism as a tool that was begging to be used is utterly indifferent. The fact is that they did their best to taint the anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist cause as pro-Jewish. This interesting guilt by association meant, according to them, that whatever the US did that happened also to be good for the Jews, wasn’t only secretly manipulated y those very Jews (since it served their interests) but was also necessarily harmful to American interests. In short: if it may be good for the Jews, it must be bad for everybody else....
If not the intention (though I doubt it) of the paper, this is surely what makes it useful: Blame the Jews. First one does the best to depict the Iraqi campaign as a disaster (and it has truly been a disaster: for Saddam, the bath party, the Jihadists, much of the European Union, Russia, the Democrats, the mainstream press etc.), then insinuate that what made this disaster inevitable was Jewish influence or Israel’s interests. Next step consists in rewriting history: it is not Arab nationalism, constant and strident anti-American propaganda and alliances with the USSR that justified America’s alliance with Israel, but it is rather this alliance (the story of which then is very selectively told) that is to blame for the US/Islamic conflict....
....And there’s another thing that is sure: this administration’s opponents want it to retreat from Iraq and, maybe, even from Afghanistan, they want the Middle East either continue as it is or to grow worse. Maybe they would have been prepared to concede Bush a victory over Afghanistan, but, whatever happens in Iraq, if this administration doesn’t advance further, it will be forced slowly to retreat. The answer, thus, is not to hold on, but actually to do that the opponents oppose: solve once and for all the Iranian problem. Involuntarily they’re forcing the administration to make up its mind about Iran earlier rather than later. Trying to paint Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld as puppets of the Elders of Zion sounds like a desperate last resort.
Read it all...
...The paper, however, can and probably must be seen as a part of the other discussion, rather than a discussion in itself. Why? Because, in my view, it has a very clear and very simple goal, namely, the same goal f those rightist and/or isolationist Americans who, in the 30s, wanted to avoid any confrontation with Nazi Germany. Whether in their heart of hearts they were actually anti-Semitic, or whether they saw anti-Semitism as a tool that was begging to be used is utterly indifferent. The fact is that they did their best to taint the anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist cause as pro-Jewish. This interesting guilt by association meant, according to them, that whatever the US did that happened also to be good for the Jews, wasn’t only secretly manipulated y those very Jews (since it served their interests) but was also necessarily harmful to American interests. In short: if it may be good for the Jews, it must be bad for everybody else....
If not the intention (though I doubt it) of the paper, this is surely what makes it useful: Blame the Jews. First one does the best to depict the Iraqi campaign as a disaster (and it has truly been a disaster: for Saddam, the bath party, the Jihadists, much of the European Union, Russia, the Democrats, the mainstream press etc.), then insinuate that what made this disaster inevitable was Jewish influence or Israel’s interests. Next step consists in rewriting history: it is not Arab nationalism, constant and strident anti-American propaganda and alliances with the USSR that justified America’s alliance with Israel, but it is rather this alliance (the story of which then is very selectively told) that is to blame for the US/Islamic conflict....
....And there’s another thing that is sure: this administration’s opponents want it to retreat from Iraq and, maybe, even from Afghanistan, they want the Middle East either continue as it is or to grow worse. Maybe they would have been prepared to concede Bush a victory over Afghanistan, but, whatever happens in Iraq, if this administration doesn’t advance further, it will be forced slowly to retreat. The answer, thus, is not to hold on, but actually to do that the opponents oppose: solve once and for all the Iranian problem. Involuntarily they’re forcing the administration to make up its mind about Iran earlier rather than later. Trying to paint Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld as puppets of the Elders of Zion sounds like a desperate last resort.
Read it all...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Face of Evil
From Moussaoui's trial:
The jury also heard about American Airlines Flight 77. After hijacking the plane, the suicide pilots flew it at 530mph into the west side of the Pentagon, where 36,200 pounds of jet fuel blasted a billowing orange fireball upward.
Prosecutors showed grisly images of corpses in the blackened rubble.
One was burned into an office chair. Others were splayed on blue tarps, including one gruesomely charred lump that appeared to be a legless and headless victim. Another shot was of several victims melted together in a heap.
Moussaoui grinned quietly.
An animal.
And that goes for those whom support him and his ideals as well.
The jury also heard about American Airlines Flight 77. After hijacking the plane, the suicide pilots flew it at 530mph into the west side of the Pentagon, where 36,200 pounds of jet fuel blasted a billowing orange fireball upward.
Prosecutors showed grisly images of corpses in the blackened rubble.
One was burned into an office chair. Others were splayed on blue tarps, including one gruesomely charred lump that appeared to be a legless and headless victim. Another shot was of several victims melted together in a heap.
Moussaoui grinned quietly.
An animal.
And that goes for those whom support him and his ideals as well.
If the Passover Story Was Reported on CNN...
The cycle of violence between the Jews & the Egyptians continues with no end in sight in Egypt. After eight previous plagues that have destroyed the Egyptian infrastructure and disrupted the lives of ordinary Egyptian citizens, the Jews launched a new offensive this week in the form of the plague of darkness.
Western journalists were particularly enraged by this plague. "It is simply impossible to report when you can't see an inch in front of you,” complained a frustrated Andrea Koppel of CNN....
While the Jews contend that the plagues are justified given the harsh slavery imposed upon them by the Egyptians, Pharaoh, the Egyptian leader, rebuts this claim. "If only the plagues would let up, there would be no slavery. We just want to live plague-free. It is the right of every society." Saeb Erekat, an Egyptian spokesperson, complains that slavery is justifiable given the Jews' superior weaponry supplied to them by the superpower God.
The Europeans are particularly enraged by the latest Jewish offensive. "The Jewish aggression must cease if there is to be peace in the region. The Jews should go back to slavery for the good of the rest of the world," stated an angry French President Jacques Chirac...
The United States is demanding that Moses and Aaron, the Jewish leaders, continue to negotiate with Pharaoh. While Moses points out that Pharaoh had made promise after promise to free the Jewish people only to immediately break them and thereafter impose harsher and harsher slavery, Richard Boucher of the State Department assails the latest offensive. "Pharaoh is not in complete control of the taskmasters," Mr. Boucher states. "The Jews must return to the negotiating table and will accomplish nothing through these plagues." ...
Western journalists were particularly enraged by this plague. "It is simply impossible to report when you can't see an inch in front of you,” complained a frustrated Andrea Koppel of CNN....
While the Jews contend that the plagues are justified given the harsh slavery imposed upon them by the Egyptians, Pharaoh, the Egyptian leader, rebuts this claim. "If only the plagues would let up, there would be no slavery. We just want to live plague-free. It is the right of every society." Saeb Erekat, an Egyptian spokesperson, complains that slavery is justifiable given the Jews' superior weaponry supplied to them by the superpower God.
The Europeans are particularly enraged by the latest Jewish offensive. "The Jewish aggression must cease if there is to be peace in the region. The Jews should go back to slavery for the good of the rest of the world," stated an angry French President Jacques Chirac...
The United States is demanding that Moses and Aaron, the Jewish leaders, continue to negotiate with Pharaoh. While Moses points out that Pharaoh had made promise after promise to free the Jewish people only to immediately break them and thereafter impose harsher and harsher slavery, Richard Boucher of the State Department assails the latest offensive. "Pharaoh is not in complete control of the taskmasters," Mr. Boucher states. "The Jews must return to the negotiating table and will accomplish nothing through these plagues." ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Cynthia McKinney's Apologists
Even a racist will have apologists; in this case it is the angry woman of the New York Daily News, E.R. Shipp:
Cynthia McKinney may not be the best poster child for racial profiling. But in her anger at being accosted by Capitol police officers who did not recognize her as a member of the august House of Representatives, she is a black Everywoman.
Before her begrudging apology this week, McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, said she was a victim of bias. A cop didn't think that a black woman lacking her special lapel pin and ignoring entreaties to show ID had business walking around the metal detector and into the Capitol.
...McKinney's temperament is beside the point. Whether or not she overreacted, we must remember that profiling does still happen - far more than most admit.
....If she were less self-centered, Cynthia McKinney would focus attention on actual racial profiling rather than her hairdo and her 15 minutes of infamy.
Amazing - it seems as if Shipp is saying a black woman has every right to disobey protocol (by not wearing her ID) to ignore cops, and to react with violence once halted (after all, her temperament is "besides the point")
Shipp is trying to arouse ire over the issue of racial profiling, but this is the wrong case. By trying to claim McKinney is some type of bias victim in a situation where police practically begged her to stop before touching her elbow makes light of more serious bias cases that do arise. Thus does Shipp's instinctive anti - white racism actually hurt her own cause. McKinney is the Tawana Brawley of Congresswomen; that's why her colleagues are steering clear. Shipp should show the same discretion.
Furthermore, what type of column would Shipp be writing if, say, the unrecognized person in question was a white Republican, and he turned around and slugged a black cop? Does the same action change in legality based on the color of someone's skin? Or does Shipp believe that justice should not be color-blind? Bad call, E.R.; for you know not what colors justice may choose to see...
Take a lesson from Shipp's male counterpart in the News, Errol Louis, writing on the murder of a young white man in Harlem:
Nearly two weeks after Hehman, 20, was chased to his death, allegedly by a group of black kids - at least one of whom is said to have yelled "Get the white boy!" - no rush to the barricades seems likely. That inaction, in a city where so many ambitious politicians, clergy, business moguls and celebrities claim to be leaders, is both shameful and nauseating.
Thanks, Errol, for understanding that all forms of racism are dangerous, not just the ones that fit your agenda...
Cynthia McKinney may not be the best poster child for racial profiling. But in her anger at being accosted by Capitol police officers who did not recognize her as a member of the august House of Representatives, she is a black Everywoman.
Before her begrudging apology this week, McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, said she was a victim of bias. A cop didn't think that a black woman lacking her special lapel pin and ignoring entreaties to show ID had business walking around the metal detector and into the Capitol.
...McKinney's temperament is beside the point. Whether or not she overreacted, we must remember that profiling does still happen - far more than most admit.
....If she were less self-centered, Cynthia McKinney would focus attention on actual racial profiling rather than her hairdo and her 15 minutes of infamy.
Amazing - it seems as if Shipp is saying a black woman has every right to disobey protocol (by not wearing her ID) to ignore cops, and to react with violence once halted (after all, her temperament is "besides the point")
Shipp is trying to arouse ire over the issue of racial profiling, but this is the wrong case. By trying to claim McKinney is some type of bias victim in a situation where police practically begged her to stop before touching her elbow makes light of more serious bias cases that do arise. Thus does Shipp's instinctive anti - white racism actually hurt her own cause. McKinney is the Tawana Brawley of Congresswomen; that's why her colleagues are steering clear. Shipp should show the same discretion.
Furthermore, what type of column would Shipp be writing if, say, the unrecognized person in question was a white Republican, and he turned around and slugged a black cop? Does the same action change in legality based on the color of someone's skin? Or does Shipp believe that justice should not be color-blind? Bad call, E.R.; for you know not what colors justice may choose to see...
Take a lesson from Shipp's male counterpart in the News, Errol Louis, writing on the murder of a young white man in Harlem:
Nearly two weeks after Hehman, 20, was chased to his death, allegedly by a group of black kids - at least one of whom is said to have yelled "Get the white boy!" - no rush to the barricades seems likely. That inaction, in a city where so many ambitious politicians, clergy, business moguls and celebrities claim to be leaders, is both shameful and nauseating.
Thanks, Errol, for understanding that all forms of racism are dangerous, not just the ones that fit your agenda...
Sacre Bleu! France Surrenders, Again!
The French have now earned every barb thrown at them for the last 500 years regarding their ghastly lack of courage. Chirac's surrender to the mob in a case where he was morally and logically in the right is something all of the West's enemies will take note of:
FRENCH President Jacques Chirac has scrapped a youth job law after weeks of angry unrest, in a climbdown that undermined his prime minister and handed protesters victory. Mr Chirac's decision was a personal blow to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who had championed the First Job Contract (CPE) as a vital job-creating reform of the French economy but had seen his popularity slump as mass opposition grew.
The governmental U-turn over the CPE makes it unlikely France will attempt broader reform of its highly-regulated labour market before 2007, some economists said.
Mr de Villepin said in a television address that he regretted that the strikes and street protests showed the CPE could not be applied but gave no hints about his own political future, on the line over his handling of the dispute.
And what type of people was Chirac and de Villepin caving to? Gateway Pundit reports:
Besides the rioting and torchings, the students raided the Sorbonne and destroyed several of the ancient and rare books from the library.
At least six rooms were sacked, five offices of the National School of Chartres looted, two lecture-halls and all the cafeterias were destroyed, three other rooms were devastated, and forty rare books were mutilated or torched at the Sorbonne. (Via Galliawatch)
All of this, the riots, the strikes, the angst, over a law that gave employers the right to fire employees (imagine!) in the first two years on the job. After that, you're on easy street. Still, not good enough for the French, who rioted to keep a 10% unemployment rate (USA 4.7%, incidentally), to maintain a limp economy that grew a whopping .3% last year (USA over 4%), and to offer no hope of employment to the poor Muslims in the slums that they profess to care so much about (gee, wonder how that's gonna work out?).
From E-Nough! :
They don't get it. Nobody gets it over here. Or do they?
The government is going to pour yet more money - because France is a rich country you see - to help les jeunes en difficulté, freely translated "youths in difficulty". In French, it generally refers to the suburbs. The money should be raised by an increased tax on tobacco.
This country is a joke.
Only to get out. Before it's too late.
The "street" was yelling "power back to the street" during those demonstrations. The "street" holds the power now. It is too late for France.
The counter-model is running towards its ruin.
And from No Parasan!:
Jacques Chirac is discredited, Dominique de Villepin, too, and with them, it seems, a certain France that told the world it could avoid change and, as exceptionalist as ever, escape immobility's ridiculousness in the process...
....For some, this is a hoot. But ridiculousness can be sad, or even ominous. That's the direction this episode points to for the future because it shows the entire French political spectrum locking itself into the depressing cavern of Chirac's political creed.....
France, now just a live theatre of the absurd, played out on a national scale.
How utterly, utterly, depressing...like watching a suicide.
FRENCH President Jacques Chirac has scrapped a youth job law after weeks of angry unrest, in a climbdown that undermined his prime minister and handed protesters victory. Mr Chirac's decision was a personal blow to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who had championed the First Job Contract (CPE) as a vital job-creating reform of the French economy but had seen his popularity slump as mass opposition grew.
The governmental U-turn over the CPE makes it unlikely France will attempt broader reform of its highly-regulated labour market before 2007, some economists said.
Mr de Villepin said in a television address that he regretted that the strikes and street protests showed the CPE could not be applied but gave no hints about his own political future, on the line over his handling of the dispute.
And what type of people was Chirac and de Villepin caving to? Gateway Pundit reports:
Besides the rioting and torchings, the students raided the Sorbonne and destroyed several of the ancient and rare books from the library.
At least six rooms were sacked, five offices of the National School of Chartres looted, two lecture-halls and all the cafeterias were destroyed, three other rooms were devastated, and forty rare books were mutilated or torched at the Sorbonne. (Via Galliawatch)
All of this, the riots, the strikes, the angst, over a law that gave employers the right to fire employees (imagine!) in the first two years on the job. After that, you're on easy street. Still, not good enough for the French, who rioted to keep a 10% unemployment rate (USA 4.7%, incidentally), to maintain a limp economy that grew a whopping .3% last year (USA over 4%), and to offer no hope of employment to the poor Muslims in the slums that they profess to care so much about (gee, wonder how that's gonna work out?).
From E-Nough! :
They don't get it. Nobody gets it over here. Or do they?
The government is going to pour yet more money - because France is a rich country you see - to help les jeunes en difficulté, freely translated "youths in difficulty". In French, it generally refers to the suburbs. The money should be raised by an increased tax on tobacco.
This country is a joke.
Only to get out. Before it's too late.
The "street" was yelling "power back to the street" during those demonstrations. The "street" holds the power now. It is too late for France.
The counter-model is running towards its ruin.
And from No Parasan!:
Jacques Chirac is discredited, Dominique de Villepin, too, and with them, it seems, a certain France that told the world it could avoid change and, as exceptionalist as ever, escape immobility's ridiculousness in the process...
....For some, this is a hoot. But ridiculousness can be sad, or even ominous. That's the direction this episode points to for the future because it shows the entire French political spectrum locking itself into the depressing cavern of Chirac's political creed.....
France, now just a live theatre of the absurd, played out on a national scale.
How utterly, utterly, depressing...like watching a suicide.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Iranian Wargames Off The American Coast?
So they say Bush is a provocative warmonger? Well, how about the Iranians?
The head of the political party, the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran [], Hasan Bayadi [who is Vice President of the Tehran City Council], has suggested to the Iranian Ministry of defense that it conduct war games near American border to show the strength of Iran's military
"we, recommend to the new Iranian defense minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar [] that he take the initiative and prepare a military exercise with nations in the Western Hemisphere, such as Cuba and Venezuela..."
Bayadi also mentioned the example set by The Prophet of Islam [Mohammad] during the battle of Tabouk [] in which Muhammad's army was preparing for a battle exercise with the Roman emperor.
Bayadi ends his suggestion by stating that such war games with our allies in the region, near the U.S. border, would pave the way for military cooperation with other governments in the region. They would also provide a platform for Iran's military to show the world, especially the Imperialists, how strong Iran really is. Finally would also be an opportunity and to Iran's great advantage for the Iranian armed services to test their powers against those of our allies overseas.
Sound like a sane, stable country...aw heck, let's give 'em some nukes!
The head of the political party, the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran [], Hasan Bayadi [who is Vice President of the Tehran City Council], has suggested to the Iranian Ministry of defense that it conduct war games near American border to show the strength of Iran's military
"we, recommend to the new Iranian defense minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar [] that he take the initiative and prepare a military exercise with nations in the Western Hemisphere, such as Cuba and Venezuela..."
Bayadi also mentioned the example set by The Prophet of Islam [Mohammad] during the battle of Tabouk [] in which Muhammad's army was preparing for a battle exercise with the Roman emperor.
Bayadi ends his suggestion by stating that such war games with our allies in the region, near the U.S. border, would pave the way for military cooperation with other governments in the region. They would also provide a platform for Iran's military to show the world, especially the Imperialists, how strong Iran really is. Finally would also be an opportunity and to Iran's great advantage for the Iranian armed services to test their powers against those of our allies overseas.
Sound like a sane, stable country...aw heck, let's give 'em some nukes!
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Gaza: Al-Qaeda's Playground?
So Israel had to go and give them a state, even if it was by default. Well, I guess with all of those pesky Jews out of the Gaza Strip, it evolved into a Muslim Paradise by the Sea, right? Hmmm... from the TimesUK, we get a little vision what happens when a terrorist group like Hamas gets its own little fiefdom:
Palestinian security officials claim to have growing evidence that Osama Bin Laden’s terror network, which has hitherto shown little interest in Gaza and the West Bank, is recruiting among the angry young men who see little beyond a future of attacking Israel.
The organisation has been helped by the lawlessness that has engulfed the Palestinian territories since Hamas emerged as the surprise winner of parliamentary elections on January 25 and formed a government...
Analysts believe that, as its fortunes wane in Iraq, Al-Qaeda thinks some form of coup in Gaza or the West Bank could help it increase support across the Middle East, where the fate of the Palestinians is a symbol of the wider Arab cause.
....The lack of direction from the top was a cause of black humour at Gaza’s central police station last week, where they joked that the only word they had heard from Said al-Siyam, the new interior minister, was that they should grow beards
It is almost impossible to underestimate the extent of the lawlessness that now reigns...
So Hamas proves to be incapable of anything besides the wanton slaughter of innocents. Presto! In steps al-Qaeda, who besides being skilled in slaughtering civilians, has some experience (see: Afghanistan; Taliban control of ) in keeping a Muslim nation's subjects (not citizens) viciously in line as well.
No need for a coup...just think of what a great team they'll make! When do you think the EU will start sending financial aid to the new "Palestinian Coalition Government" ?
Palestinian security officials claim to have growing evidence that Osama Bin Laden’s terror network, which has hitherto shown little interest in Gaza and the West Bank, is recruiting among the angry young men who see little beyond a future of attacking Israel.
The organisation has been helped by the lawlessness that has engulfed the Palestinian territories since Hamas emerged as the surprise winner of parliamentary elections on January 25 and formed a government...
Analysts believe that, as its fortunes wane in Iraq, Al-Qaeda thinks some form of coup in Gaza or the West Bank could help it increase support across the Middle East, where the fate of the Palestinians is a symbol of the wider Arab cause.
....The lack of direction from the top was a cause of black humour at Gaza’s central police station last week, where they joked that the only word they had heard from Said al-Siyam, the new interior minister, was that they should grow beards
It is almost impossible to underestimate the extent of the lawlessness that now reigns...
So Hamas proves to be incapable of anything besides the wanton slaughter of innocents. Presto! In steps al-Qaeda, who besides being skilled in slaughtering civilians, has some experience (see: Afghanistan; Taliban control of ) in keeping a Muslim nation's subjects (not citizens) viciously in line as well.
No need for a coup...just think of what a great team they'll make! When do you think the EU will start sending financial aid to the new "Palestinian Coalition Government" ?
Arlen Specter and Joe Wilson, On the Same Page!
The Washington Post continues with a fury to try to create another "gotcha" moment with the Valerie Plame affair; but like the Rathergate memos and Cindy Sheehan's "absolute moral authority", this one is going nowhere. Desperate for ammo, they turn to Arlen Specter, more left-wing than many Democrats, and Crazy Joe Wilson for support. First, though, this -
A lawyer knowledgeable about the case said Saturday that Bush declassified sensitive intelligence in 2003 and authorized its public disclosure to rebut Iraq war critics, but he did not specifically direct that Libby be the one to disseminate the information.
Got that? "Bush Declassified"? He is the President, he can classify or de-classify anything he wants! And besides, I thought the problem was that his administration was too secretive? Anyway-
"I think it is necessary for the president and vice president to tell the American people exactly what happened," Specter told "Fox News Sunday."
"There's been enough of a showing that the president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people ... about exactly what he did," Specter said.
Err....Arlen? What he did? See above, genius...aren't you supposed to know this stuff?
[ Joe] Wilson said Sunday that Bush and Cheney should release transcripts of their interviews with Fitzgerald.
"It seems to me that first and foremost, the White House needs to come clean on this matter," Wilson said on ABC's "This Week." "My own view of this is that the White House owes the American people and particularly our service people who have been sent into war, an apology for having misrepresented the facts."
Since Joe Wilson's lies are well documented, and Specter's hostility to the administration well known, it seems as if there is very little here to concern the average American, if these are the best two sources the WaPost can quote on this story. Note no comment on Specter's constant battles with the administration (that would undermine his use as a 'Republican" questioning Bush) nor any mention of Joe's recent insane commentary (linked on top).
Why? Because this would harm the validity of their story. But neither the truth, nor a full telling of the tale, is exactly what the Wahington Post is after here, is it?
A lawyer knowledgeable about the case said Saturday that Bush declassified sensitive intelligence in 2003 and authorized its public disclosure to rebut Iraq war critics, but he did not specifically direct that Libby be the one to disseminate the information.
Got that? "Bush Declassified"? He is the President, he can classify or de-classify anything he wants! And besides, I thought the problem was that his administration was too secretive? Anyway-
"I think it is necessary for the president and vice president to tell the American people exactly what happened," Specter told "Fox News Sunday."
"There's been enough of a showing that the president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people ... about exactly what he did," Specter said.
Err....Arlen? What he did? See above, genius...aren't you supposed to know this stuff?
[ Joe] Wilson said Sunday that Bush and Cheney should release transcripts of their interviews with Fitzgerald.
"It seems to me that first and foremost, the White House needs to come clean on this matter," Wilson said on ABC's "This Week." "My own view of this is that the White House owes the American people and particularly our service people who have been sent into war, an apology for having misrepresented the facts."
Since Joe Wilson's lies are well documented, and Specter's hostility to the administration well known, it seems as if there is very little here to concern the average American, if these are the best two sources the WaPost can quote on this story. Note no comment on Specter's constant battles with the administration (that would undermine his use as a 'Republican" questioning Bush) nor any mention of Joe's recent insane commentary (linked on top).
Why? Because this would harm the validity of their story. But neither the truth, nor a full telling of the tale, is exactly what the Wahington Post is after here, is it?
Ahmadinejad's Spiritual Homeland
From David Medienkritik:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust "a myth." He's called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." He's the head of one of the most repressive governments on earth. And, as far as most German authorities are concerned, he's a welcome guest at this summer's 2006 FIFA World Cup.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (CDU) recently stated that Ahmadinejad is welcome at the World Cup because Germany wants to be "a good host."
Germany's special historic responsibility to the millions of murdered Jews and the state of Israel is apparently less important than being "good hosts" and rolling over to placate tyrants. What really matters is that the World Cup goes smoothly and serves German interests.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust "a myth." He's called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." He's the head of one of the most repressive governments on earth. And, as far as most German authorities are concerned, he's a welcome guest at this summer's 2006 FIFA World Cup.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (CDU) recently stated that Ahmadinejad is welcome at the World Cup because Germany wants to be "a good host."
Germany's special historic responsibility to the millions of murdered Jews and the state of Israel is apparently less important than being "good hosts" and rolling over to placate tyrants. What really matters is that the World Cup goes smoothly and serves German interests.
"Thank you very much for the kind words, Herr Schaeuble! I am already happy about coming to the land of my great idol..." (cartoon via Politically Incorrect)
And in second place (as always) in today's Jew-bashing roundup is France -
Ever more Jews are leaving France for Israel. It’s no surprise to anybody, because for approximately five years Jews in France are increasingly being closed in on in frightening measure. Jewish cemeteries are violated, the suburbs are full anti-Jewish Graffiti, North African gangs attack Jews and kidnap them, and antisemites have been hitting it big in Showbiz.”
No wonder Europe finds it so hard to resist the embrace of Hamas...seems like they have certain goals in common...
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Attack in Venezuela
The story of the U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield's convoy being attacked in Venezuela broke a few days ago -
The ambassador's convoy was pelted with eggs, onions and tomatoes and chased by motorbikes for some miles by supporters of President Hugo Chavez
- but thanks to Fausta, we finally find out what the "root cause" was behind this assault:
The Beeb showed US Ambassador William Brownfield handing out baseball equipment to some kids in a poor neighborhood and being confronted by a man who told him all Americans should leave Venezuela.
Brownfield stated that he "accepts the right to protest and to assemble, and to demonstrate, and of freedom of expression" while rejecting violence. " I reject the right of a group telling me with whom to get together to converse", explained, and added that his job is "to try to project a positive image of the country and people I represent"
Explain to me again why Americans are the root of all evil?
The ambassador's convoy was pelted with eggs, onions and tomatoes and chased by motorbikes for some miles by supporters of President Hugo Chavez
- but thanks to Fausta, we finally find out what the "root cause" was behind this assault:
The Beeb showed US Ambassador William Brownfield handing out baseball equipment to some kids in a poor neighborhood and being confronted by a man who told him all Americans should leave Venezuela.
Brownfield stated that he "accepts the right to protest and to assemble, and to demonstrate, and of freedom of expression" while rejecting violence. " I reject the right of a group telling me with whom to get together to converse", explained, and added that his job is "to try to project a positive image of the country and people I represent"
Explain to me again why Americans are the root of all evil?
The Hell That Is Guantanamo...
Finally, the truth, from a few young ex-detainees tracked down by the British press in Afghanistan:
Asadullah strives to make his point, switching to English lest there be any mistaking him. "I am lucky I went there, and now I miss it...."
....He spent a typical day watching movies, going to class and playing football. He was fascinated to learn about the solar system, and now enjoys reciting the names of the planets, starting with Earth...
Tracked down to his remote village in south-eastern Afghanistan, Naqibullah has memories of Guantanamo that are almost identical to Asadullah's. Prison life was good, he said shyly, nervous to be receiving a foreigner to his family's mud-fortress home.
The food in the camp was delicious, the teaching was excellent, and his warders were kind. " Americans are good people, they were always friendly, I don't have anything against them," he said. " If my father didn't need me, I would want to live in America."
Asadullah is even more sure of this. "Americans are great people, better than anyone else," ... If I could be anywhere, I would be in America. I would like to be a doctor, an engineer- or an American soldier."
Where's Amnesty International and Teddy Kennedy when you need them? Don't these boys need to know that we have hurt them greviously, and must now beg for their forgiveness?
Also via LGF.
Asadullah strives to make his point, switching to English lest there be any mistaking him. "I am lucky I went there, and now I miss it...."
....He spent a typical day watching movies, going to class and playing football. He was fascinated to learn about the solar system, and now enjoys reciting the names of the planets, starting with Earth...
Tracked down to his remote village in south-eastern Afghanistan, Naqibullah has memories of Guantanamo that are almost identical to Asadullah's. Prison life was good, he said shyly, nervous to be receiving a foreigner to his family's mud-fortress home.
The food in the camp was delicious, the teaching was excellent, and his warders were kind. " Americans are good people, they were always friendly, I don't have anything against them," he said. " If my father didn't need me, I would want to live in America."
Asadullah is even more sure of this. "Americans are great people, better than anyone else," ... If I could be anywhere, I would be in America. I would like to be a doctor, an engineer- or an American soldier."
Where's Amnesty International and Teddy Kennedy when you need them? Don't these boys need to know that we have hurt them greviously, and must now beg for their forgiveness?
Also via LGF.
Free Speech in South Park
Will it take two drug-crazed Hollywood cartoonists to finally teach America to fight our coming dhimmitude? From this past week's episode:
In the South Park episode, Fox's animated sitcom The Family Guy is planning to air an episode where the Prophet Mohammed makes a cameo appearance. Family Guy is an animated sitcom, meaning a Prophet appearance would be -gasp! You guessed it- a Mohammed cartoon. The townsfolk of South Park barricade themselves into the village community center, fearing an American repeat of the violent Muslim response to the Danish cartoons. Only after a news report airs the following morning that Fox made a last minute decision to censor Mohammed do they emerge from their makeshift fortifications....
Here is the "Family Guy" scene, via Newsbusters:
Lois: But, Peter, I don't want to cook dinner for you ex-girlfriend.
Peter: Well, maybe we can just have tea.
Brian the Dog: You mean like the time you had tea with Mohammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith?
Peter (to censored Mohammad): Come on, Mohammad, let's get some tea.
And the money quote, from a citizen of South Park:
Freedom of speech is at stake here, don't you all see? If anything, we should all make cartoons of Mohammed and show the terrorists and the extremists that we are all united in the belief that every person has a right to say what they want. Look people, it's been really easy for us to stand up for free speech lately. For the past few decades, we haven't had to risk anything to defend it. One of those times is right now. And if we aren't willing to risk what we have now, then we just believe in free speech, but won't defend it.
It is a two-parter - will Comedy Central allow the second part, or will they censor it in fear of Muslim retribution?
Note that South Park has had a number of episodes with "religious themes" - the one where Jesus (who has his own cable access show in South Park) gets the crap kicked out of him by Satan in a boxing ring comes to mind; as well as all the constant anti-Semitism hurled at Stan, or Cartman's donning of a brownshirt and a brush mustache after seeing "Passion of the Christ" (and getting its "real meaning"). Not to mention "Team America", which is populated by Islamist terrorists (OK, Islamic puppet terrorists, but still...) muttering 'Muhammed, Muhammed, jihad, durka dukra jihad Muhammed" under their breaths for a full ninety minutes.
The Catholics and Jews didn't riot over these earlier South Park episodes; and no Muslims protested over 'Team America", although maybe that's because they didn't know yet that they were supposed to be offended...
Will our freedom of speech suffer in order to please the radical Islamists? Stay tuned; you'll know on Wednesday, April 12th, when part II is "scheduled" to air..
Update: Lots on this tonight -
Captain Ed claims its a gag, and there is no "part two"
The Political Pit Bull has a clip
And of course, Miss Malkin has a roundup...
Update II:
For some dark laughs, look at the comment thread at Ummah Forum entitled "South Park Jews attack the Prophet "
...and remember, " Matt Stone one of the creators of SP is a JEW"!
Sigh...keep telling yourself it is a Religion of Peace...
UPDATE III April 14th
In the South Park episode, Fox's animated sitcom The Family Guy is planning to air an episode where the Prophet Mohammed makes a cameo appearance. Family Guy is an animated sitcom, meaning a Prophet appearance would be -gasp! You guessed it- a Mohammed cartoon. The townsfolk of South Park barricade themselves into the village community center, fearing an American repeat of the violent Muslim response to the Danish cartoons. Only after a news report airs the following morning that Fox made a last minute decision to censor Mohammed do they emerge from their makeshift fortifications....
Here is the "Family Guy" scene, via Newsbusters:
Lois: But, Peter, I don't want to cook dinner for you ex-girlfriend.
Peter: Well, maybe we can just have tea.
Brian the Dog: You mean like the time you had tea with Mohammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith?
Peter (to censored Mohammad): Come on, Mohammad, let's get some tea.
And the money quote, from a citizen of South Park:
Freedom of speech is at stake here, don't you all see? If anything, we should all make cartoons of Mohammed and show the terrorists and the extremists that we are all united in the belief that every person has a right to say what they want. Look people, it's been really easy for us to stand up for free speech lately. For the past few decades, we haven't had to risk anything to defend it. One of those times is right now. And if we aren't willing to risk what we have now, then we just believe in free speech, but won't defend it.
It is a two-parter - will Comedy Central allow the second part, or will they censor it in fear of Muslim retribution?
Note that South Park has had a number of episodes with "religious themes" - the one where Jesus (who has his own cable access show in South Park) gets the crap kicked out of him by Satan in a boxing ring comes to mind; as well as all the constant anti-Semitism hurled at Stan, or Cartman's donning of a brownshirt and a brush mustache after seeing "Passion of the Christ" (and getting its "real meaning"). Not to mention "Team America", which is populated by Islamist terrorists (OK, Islamic puppet terrorists, but still...) muttering 'Muhammed, Muhammed, jihad, durka dukra jihad Muhammed" under their breaths for a full ninety minutes.
The Catholics and Jews didn't riot over these earlier South Park episodes; and no Muslims protested over 'Team America", although maybe that's because they didn't know yet that they were supposed to be offended...
Will our freedom of speech suffer in order to please the radical Islamists? Stay tuned; you'll know on Wednesday, April 12th, when part II is "scheduled" to air..
Update: Lots on this tonight -
Captain Ed claims its a gag, and there is no "part two"
The Political Pit Bull has a clip
And of course, Miss Malkin has a roundup...
Update II:
For some dark laughs, look at the comment thread at Ummah Forum entitled "South Park Jews attack the Prophet "
...and remember, " Matt Stone one of the creators of SP is a JEW"!
Sigh...keep telling yourself it is a Religion of Peace...
UPDATE III April 14th
About Those Lies We Told You...
A few months later, the New York Times finally gets around to admitting it was reprinting racist lies perpetuated by its left-wing reporters:
“An article on Feb. 9 about the military's recruitment of Hispanics referred incompletely to the belief of some critics that Hispanics in the Iraq war and blacks in the Vietnam War accounted for a disproportionate number of casualties. Statistics do not support the belief. Hispanics, who are about 14 percent of the population, accounted for about 11 percent of the military deaths in Iraq through Dec. 3, 2005. About 12.5 percent of the military dead in Vietnam were African-Americans, who made up about 13.5 percent of the general population during the war years.”
A little light, considering the inflammatory story that was being "corrected" - here's part of what Lizette Alvarez wrote back on February 9th:
Critics also say that Latinos often wind up as cannon fodder on the casualty-prone front lines. African-Americans saw the same thing happen during the 1970's and 1980's, an accusation that still reverberates. Hispanics make up only 4.7 percent of the military's officer corps.”
Maybe, instead of this showing up in the discreet "For The Record" column, it should have been placed closer to page one?
Yeah, you're right...unlikely!
“An article on Feb. 9 about the military's recruitment of Hispanics referred incompletely to the belief of some critics that Hispanics in the Iraq war and blacks in the Vietnam War accounted for a disproportionate number of casualties. Statistics do not support the belief. Hispanics, who are about 14 percent of the population, accounted for about 11 percent of the military deaths in Iraq through Dec. 3, 2005. About 12.5 percent of the military dead in Vietnam were African-Americans, who made up about 13.5 percent of the general population during the war years.”
A little light, considering the inflammatory story that was being "corrected" - here's part of what Lizette Alvarez wrote back on February 9th:
Critics also say that Latinos often wind up as cannon fodder on the casualty-prone front lines. African-Americans saw the same thing happen during the 1970's and 1980's, an accusation that still reverberates. Hispanics make up only 4.7 percent of the military's officer corps.”
Maybe, instead of this showing up in the discreet "For The Record" column, it should have been placed closer to page one?
Yeah, you're right...unlikely!
Friday, April 07, 2006
The MSM thought it had the goods on W. a few years back when Joe Wilson made his deliberately false claims about the Bush administration's alleged deceptions on Iraq. After the media screamed for an investigation on who leaked the name of lyin' Joe's wife (Plame), they were dumbfounded when the person who spent the most time in the hoosegow was Times reporter Judith Miller. And all to catch a man named Scooter Libby....
Anyway, the Democrats, the media, and the lunatic Left still clutch onto Joe they way a dying man clutches his cross; hoping against hope that they may yet be saved by their talisman. So that's why you won't hear any of the insanity that has come out of lyin' Joe's mouth lately in the MSM; but I can give it to you here, via The New Editor - from a speech he recently gave at Florida State University:
On "Neoconservatives":
The neocons need to be forced back into the dark holes from which they crawled. They are nothing but parasites who serve nobody and nothing but themselves who are using the Republican Party as a serving host.
On US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad:
Zalmay Khalilzad? I'd like to punch him right in the face. I've never seen met him and I'd prefer never to see his face but yeah. He has never been right about one thing in 20 years. He is simply another neoconservative that has gotten every single thing wrong.
On President of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz and US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton:
Wolfowitz did his best to destroy the Department of Defense so I guess it's time for him to go destroy the World Bank and he's got a willing partner in John Bolton who has taken it upon himself to destroy the United Nations, an organization that, since its' inception, the U.S. has benefitted from as much or more so than it has given.
On RNC Chair Ken Mehlman, Rep. David Dreier (R-CA):
You know when they first started trying to come up with a way to discredit me, which we now know started in March of 2003, they went through the old standbys. 'He's had 3 wives, he's a womanizer, he's done drugs.' But then they realized they couldnt' use those because I've never actually denied them. I mean I'm the first to admit that, unlike Ken Mehlman and David Dreier, I really like women.
Wilson sounds about as rational as the last great white hope, Cindy Sheehan, when she speaks of "occupied New Orleans". Let us pray that the media keeps beating this dead horse, for it is as a pinata that keeps spilling out tasty morsels of embarrasment for the liberal establishment...
Anyway, the Democrats, the media, and the lunatic Left still clutch onto Joe they way a dying man clutches his cross; hoping against hope that they may yet be saved by their talisman. So that's why you won't hear any of the insanity that has come out of lyin' Joe's mouth lately in the MSM; but I can give it to you here, via The New Editor - from a speech he recently gave at Florida State University:
On "Neoconservatives":
The neocons need to be forced back into the dark holes from which they crawled. They are nothing but parasites who serve nobody and nothing but themselves who are using the Republican Party as a serving host.
On US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad:
Zalmay Khalilzad? I'd like to punch him right in the face. I've never seen met him and I'd prefer never to see his face but yeah. He has never been right about one thing in 20 years. He is simply another neoconservative that has gotten every single thing wrong.
On President of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz and US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton:
Wolfowitz did his best to destroy the Department of Defense so I guess it's time for him to go destroy the World Bank and he's got a willing partner in John Bolton who has taken it upon himself to destroy the United Nations, an organization that, since its' inception, the U.S. has benefitted from as much or more so than it has given.
On RNC Chair Ken Mehlman, Rep. David Dreier (R-CA):
You know when they first started trying to come up with a way to discredit me, which we now know started in March of 2003, they went through the old standbys. 'He's had 3 wives, he's a womanizer, he's done drugs.' But then they realized they couldnt' use those because I've never actually denied them. I mean I'm the first to admit that, unlike Ken Mehlman and David Dreier, I really like women.
Wilson sounds about as rational as the last great white hope, Cindy Sheehan, when she speaks of "occupied New Orleans". Let us pray that the media keeps beating this dead horse, for it is as a pinata that keeps spilling out tasty morsels of embarrasment for the liberal establishment...
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