"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, August 18, 2007

WHATTYA GET WHEN YOU PAY RANSOM TO AND NEGOTIATE WITH KIDNAPPERS?

MORE KIDNAPPING:
A PREGNANT GERMAN HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - WHERE OUR ALLIES ARE NEGOTIATING WITH KIDNAPPERS.
THESE ARE THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT.

LIKE THE SONG ASKS: WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN.

FREDDY THIELEMANS, YOU MADE A BIG MISTAKE

Freddy Thielemans you have made a huge mistake by banning the anti-sharia demonstration in Brussels set for this September 11th.

There's a palpable excitement in the fight that is coming as many Europeans, tired of being suppressed by an ever-burgeoning state, are going to 'show' you, Freddy that they won't be shoved aside so easily.

You've probably doubled or tripled the number of people who going to come because your totalitarian ban.

Your background is freely available to everyone interested.


Facts about Freddy Thielemans:

*Leader of the Socialist Party in Brussels.

*At least 8 out of 18 members are Muslims.

*Freddy Thielemans was elected mostly on Muslim votes.

*23% of the city council are Muslims

*Freddy Thielemans has approved all demonstrations in Brussels within the last 5 years, also Muslim demonstrations. Only 5 have been prohibited and these were all terror organisations.

*According to many concerned citizens within Brussels, is it only a matter of time before Muslims can take over the city council.

*In 2005 on the day of Pope Johannes Paul’s death, Freddy was eating in a restaurant. At the same time he got the sms message, he jumped up and declared:

The pope is dead, champagne for all!


And so it goes again with the marriage of the mad left and the Islamists! Clearly, Freddy Thielemans, you owe big time to the powerful Muslims on your council and in your constituency and you are never going to do the right thing, but that is irrelevant to those who are planning to oppose you whether you like it or not.

This is how it's going to be, Freddy. First, you're going to be challenged in court. This is not going to be some little two-bit, easily kicked about citizen who' s doing this. They have numbers and influence behind them.

On Friday, Hugo Coveliers, a member of the Belgian Senate, was set to "initiate an appeal procedure on Ulfkotte’s behalf against the mayor’s decision before the Council of State, Belgium’s highest administrative court. The CoS will have to issue its verdict before 11 September. According to Senator Coveliers it is “80% certain” that the CoS will overrule the mayor’s ban and allow the demonstration to go ahead".

"Senator Coveliers is one of Belgium’s best lawyers. He has been a member of the Belgian Parliament (first the House of Representatives, then the Senate) since 1985. He was the group leader of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt’s governing Liberal Party in the Senate, but was ousted from his party in 2005 because he criticized its multiculturalist policies and the decision to grant voting rights to non-Belgians.

During his visit to Brussels today Udo Ulfkotte gave interviews to some of the major Belgian newspapers. He also met Filip Dewinter, Belgium’s “worst Islamophobe.”

Dr Ulfkotte expects that thousands of Europeans, from all of the 27 EU countries, will come to Brussels on Tuesday 11 September to support the demonstration’s demand: No Sharia here. “Europeans want to keep their liberties,” he told me today."

And what if they lose in court?
“In that case we still ask people to come to Brussels, where we will stage a ‘birthday party’ for Mr Thielemans and everyone else who happens to be born on 11 September.

I have been told that there are many Belgians born on that day: Freddy Thielemans, Filip Dewinter, one of your ministers [the leftist multiculturalist Flemish minister of Culture Bert Anciaux] and even your Queen Paola.

So, whether the demonstration is allowed or not, we ask people to come to the Schuman Square (Rond-Point Schuman), in front of the Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission, at noon (12 am). What we will do anyhow, whether permitted or not, is to hold one minute of silence for the victims of 9/11/2001.”
So, you see Mr Thielemans, it looks as though your ban is backfiring big time. But look at the bright side; you're probably going to have a lot more people celebrating your 9/11 birthday than you've ever had in your life.

SOURCE

Cross-posted here

A LIST FROM WIKI OF THE DEADLIEST AND WORST HURRICANES BEFORE THE SO-CALLED MAN-MADE C02 ERA

I POST THIS LIST THIS BECAUSE I WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT HURRICANE DEAN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING, OR CLIMATE CHANGE.

SURE: HURRICANE DEAN IS A HUGE STORM.

AS THE FORECASTERS ARE SAYING, IT WILL PROBABLY BE THE WORST ONE TO HIT JAMAICA IN 100 YEARS.

MEANING: 100 YEARS AGO - BEFORE MANKIND WAS PRODUCING MUCH CO2 - THERE WERE HUGE NASTY HURRICANES.

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MAN-MADE CO2.

HURRICANES ARE NATURAL, THEY COME IN MANY SIZES. THEIR FREQUENCY SHIFTS.

THAT'S JUST THE PLAIN TRUTH.

I KNOW AL GORE DOESN'T LIKE IT, BUT TOUGH SHIT.

Name Year Notes
Columbus Hurricane 1495 Reported by Christopher Columbus; First definite hurricane report; three ships sank
Great Colonial Hurricane 1635 First recorded hurricane to hit New England
Harry Cane of 1667 1667 First major hurricane in Virginia, estimated 10,000 homes destroyed, estimated Cat 3/4
Newfoundland Hurricane 1775 Killed over 4,000 people
Great Hurricane 1780 Deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record; over 22,000 killed
Great September Gale 1815 Category 4 New England strike
Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane 1821 200 deaths as it raced up the Atlantic coast
Racer's Storm 1837 105 deaths on 2,000 mile track from Caribbean to Texas to North Carolina
Last Island Hurricane 1856 400 people dead. The island and the resort on it never resurfaced.
Indianola Hurricane 1886 destroyed Indianola, Texas.
New York Hurricane 1893 Category 1 direct strike on New York City. Weakened from a category 3.
Sea Islands Hurricane 1893 killed 1,000 – 2,000 people on the Georgia and South Carolina coasts.
Chenier Caminanda Hurricane 1893 killed 2,000 people in Louisiana.
Hurricane San Ciriaco 1899 traversed the Atlantic for 31 days.
Galveston Hurricane of 1900 1900 Deadliest natural disaster in US history (as of 2005); 8,000 - 12,000 killed
March Hurricane 1908 reached Category 2 strength in March.
1915 Galveston Hurricane 1915 Strongest storm in 15 years; 17 foot tall seawall, built after 1900 storm, saved city.
Great Miami Hurricane 1926 Florida's economy didn't recover until the 1950s.
Okeechobee Hurricane 1928 Wrecked Guadaloupe, Puerto Rico, and Florida; killed over 4,000
Dominican Republic Hurricane 1930 killed 8,000 people
Labor Day Hurricane 1935 Struck the Florida Keys; strongest storm to ever hit the United States. Killed 423.
Great New England Hurricane 1938 Killed 600, fastest moving hurricane recorded.

THE GRAVE THREAT REPRESENTED BY THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENT OF PATRICK FITZGERALD


Mark Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation has filed an amicus brief with the appellate court in the Libby case.

He discusses it here -and there's a link to a PDF of the brief.

Essentially (according to my understanding), Landmark argues that the appointment violated the Constitution (the appointments clause) because the appointment gave the SP the plenary powers of the USAG without Senate confirmation and that specifically this SP reported to no one. (Starr reported to a 3 judge panel and had to file a report and had specific and limited jurisdiction and term.)

If allowed to stand as precedent, it would mean that future USAG's could appoint as many SP's as they wanted - and that they could operate ABOVE THE ELECTED GOVERNMENT AND OVER ALL JURISDICTIONS.

LISTEN TO MARK. AND READ THE BRIEF.

(Listen daily HERE.)

MANUFACTURING IN THE USA IS NOT IN DECLINE


The anti-trade, anti-globalization crowd would like you to believe we need tariff and quotas to save the US economy and that we need to reduce the so-called "foreign trade deficit."

IT'S BS!

We're doing fine!

WANNA HAVE THE US ECONOMY DO BETTER?

It's simple:

CUT TAXES!

US DIPLOMAT SAYS BOSNIA IS BEING USED BY AL QAEDA

RFE:
A U.S. diplomat has warned that the Al-Qaeda terror network is using Bosnia-Herzegovina as a transit point.

Raffi Gregorian told the "Dnevni Avaz" daily that Al-Qaeda "sympathizers" in the country are prepared to help hide agents as well as provide the group with funding and false documents.

Gregorian serves as deputy to Miroslav Lajcak, the top international representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Hundreds of fighters from Islamic countries entered Bosnia-Herzegovina to fight with the Muslim Bosnian army against Serbs and Croats during the 1992-95 war.
This "announcement" comes on the heals of NYPD's "announcement" that they feel we are now most threatened by Muslims who were born and bred here in the USA.

What this all means is that the enemy is HERE, within the gates, and there's very little we can do to prevent an attack EXCEPT use invasive intel'.

The Left has been preventing our use of all the intel-tools we have, and have therefore made it easier for the enemy to attack us successfully.

If US diplomats and the NYPD are saying this kind of stuff publicly, then it probably means they KNOW that they cannot stop ALL potential attacks, and that they also FEEL they cannot stop the next one - which is long overdue....

THREE TYPICAL ACADEMICS URGE APPEASEMENT OF EVIL

RTWT OVER AT THE AMERICAN THINKER; EXCERPT:
Such willful blindness is rooted in the reflexive anti-Western nature of many of today's Middle East studies academics. Their eagerness to put the best face on groups and governments widely known for practicing the art of deadly deception parallels their instinctive distrust of their own country and, in a larger sense, the West.
TAT GIVES LINKED QUOTES WHICH PROVE THIS POINT.

AND THE POST ALSO PROVES THAT THEY'RE REALLY NOT FOR PEACE; THEY'RE ON THE OTHER SIDE.

WHY DO THEY SUPPORT THE OTHER SIDE?

BECAUSE THEY HATE THE WEST AS MUCH AS THE JIHADISTS.


THE ACADEMICS ARGUE OUR WESTERN ATTITUDES & STYLES NEED TO ADAPT TO THE STYLES AND ATTITUDES OF THE ENEMY. WE NEED MERELY TO BE MORE DIPLOMATIC, RHETORICALLY.

OH... REALLY!?!
AND HOW COME FATAH LOST TO HAMAS?

AND WHY DID THE TALIBAN OVERTHROW THEIR NATIVE GOVERNMENT?

AND WHY ARE THAILAND'S SOUTHERN REBELS UNABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE THAI REGIME?

AND WHY IS MUBARAK HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AND THE ALGIERIANS, AND THE MOROCCANS, ETC ETC ETC AND SO FORTH?!?!?!?!?
IF THE WHOLE WORLD AND ALL ITS CULTURES - INCLUDING ASIAN ONES AND OTHER MUSLIM ONES - ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH IRAN AND AL QAEDA, THEN HOW CAN ANYBODY WITH A BRAIN CLAIM THE PROBLEM LIES IN COMMUNICATION!?

IT MAKES NO SENSE.

IT'S IDIOTIC.

IT'S POSTMODERN LEFTISM AT IT'S MOST IDIOTIC.

IT'S LEFTISM.

WHY I AM A FREDHEAD

The summary below is excerpted from a hostile source but I still like what I hear:
Thompson, who is expected to enter the presidential race formally in September, but plans to campaign in Iowa on Friday, was not known as a big-ideas guy and was hardly a heavy-hitter when it came to legislation during his Senate career from 1994 to 2002. Still, he was considered a reliably conservative vote on economic, security and social issues alike. He backed Bush's tax cuts, a prohibition on a late-term abortion procedure and voted to give the president the authority to invade Iraq.

More prominently, he established a reputation for working to limit the role of the federal government and protect states rights - an issue that remains very important to him and, perhaps, is an indication of what may lie at the root of his candidacy.

Broadly, he favors a strong federalist approach that emphasizes personal liberties and fiscal conservatism. "Centralized government is not the solution to all of our problems and, with too much power, such centralization has a way of compounding our problems," Thompson wrote in a recent column on his Web site. "This was among the great insights of 1787," when the Constitution was adopted, "and it is just as vital in 2007." He adds: "How we draw the line between federal and state roles in this century, and how we stay true to the principles of federalism for the purpose of protecting economic and individual freedom, are questions we must answer."

Thompson also:

* Splits with Bush on immigration, opposing the president's comprehensive immigration law overhaul bill and, instead, argues for increased border security as well as full enforcement of current federal immigration laws. The issue has divided the GOP, and Thompson is seeking the support of Republicans who object to illegal immigrants getting a path to U.S. citizenship. In one online column, he says: "Federal law must be enforced, or our neighborhoods will continue to be the scene of chilling and lurid crimes committed by those who broke the law in the first place to come to America."

* Appears to take a hard-line approach to foreign policy. He criticizes the United Nations, saying the world body "seems to oppose human freedom rather than promote it." And, in one particularly incendiary commentary for ABC radio in April, he carried on about the perception of the U.S. around the world and its relationships with certain countries. He assails Mexico on immigration, arguing that leaders there "apparently have an economic policy based on exporting their own citizens while complaining about U.S. immigration policies that are far less exclusionary than their own." He adds: "The French jail perfectly nice people for politically incorrect comments, but scold us for holding terrorists at Guantanamo." Thompson saves his most aggressive comments for Russia, contending that ex-KGB agents "apparently" run the country, use their oil wealth to engage in blackmail, and dispose of people who cross them. "Oppose the Russian leadership, and you could trip and fall off a tall building or stumble into the path of a bullet."

* Emphasizes individuals' right to keep and bear arms, as well as the right to own and keep property. He suggests in one online piece that the Virginia Tech massacre could have been deterred had those who were at least age 21 and met certain criteria been allowed to carry concealed weapons on school grounds. In the Senate, Thompson voted against requiring criminal background checks for purchases at gun shows.

* In a recent commentary, he assailed a 2005 Supreme Court decision giving local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.

* Calls Bush's tax cuts a "success story" that helped grow the economy and says: "Letting them expire would amount to a tax hike of historic proportions." He also says the president should hold the line on spending.
More here. And another interesting post on Fred here

Email me (John Ray) here.)

California: Mocking Illegals is "Hate Speech"?

We read:
"An appointee of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger resigned abruptly Thursday after the Governor's Office learned that he had reprinted an image of a faux illegal-immigrant driver's license that Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata called "hate speech."

Sam Wakim, also a candidate for the state Assembly in 2008, was appointed by the governor to the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board last November. He posted the mock license on his personal Web site operated under the pseudonym "Abu David" in 2005.

"I think it's appalling for someone who's supposed to represent the public as a board member of a public agency to be engaging in hate speech," Perata said in a statement. "Mr. Wakim's Web postings clearly cross the boundaries of acceptable public discourse."

Source
Any negativity at all is "hate" to Leftists these days -- unless you are talking about Christians, conservatives, G.W. Bush or Israel, of course.

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MALIKI EVOLVES: IRAQ SHAPES UP

Is this the first glimmer of hope for the countries in the west hoping for some sign that Iraq is ever going to be able to stand on her own two feet? It looks like the recalcitrant Maliki, reigning Shiite prime minister of Iraq, has had a paradigm shift in his thinking. Visions emerge again of General Petraeus having frequent stand-up shouting matches with the leader over and over. I wonder if the general shouted some sense into him?
Aides to both men admit that Mr Maliki and Gen David Petraeus engage in frequent stand-up shouting matches, differing particularly over the US general’s moves to arm Sunni tribesmen to fight al-Qa’eda.

One Iraqi source said Mr Maliki used a video conference with Mr Bush to call for the general’s signature strategy to be scrapped. “He told Bush that if Petraeus continues, he would arm Shia militias,” said the official. “Bush told Maliki to calm down.” (See here)

Washington was beginning to despair about the man they had put their faith in to help set Iraq on the path of stability, his sectarianism, his lack of backbone, the resignations from his cabinet.

Now this. On Friday, Maliki made the spectacular move to fly into Saddam's hometown to the heartland of Sunni tribal leaders and extend a direct and personal appeal. He has requested that they put aside their differences to work towards the common goal of dealing with Al Qa'eda, the lawless menace in the country. In a move which will go a long way towards winning over the Sunni factions which mistrust Sadre, he has made "a clean break with Moqtada al-Sadr yesterday, signing an accord with the Kurds and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. The coucil commands the Badr Brigade, which has fought Sadr's forces in the south for control. Maliki apparently has co-opted them into the government, isolating Sadr even further than ever after the radical cleric pulled his ministers from Maliki's government".

If all goes well, this may be Maliki's big move towards proving himself to be the statesman Iraq so badly needs which can only come as a huge relief to the U.S. who are looking forward to at least some light at the end of the tunnel by which they can plan their departure from Iraq sometime this century!

SOURCE
Cross-posted here

Friday, August 17, 2007

ANOTHER NHS NIGHTMARE: IN A NEW, FLAGSHIP HOSPITAL - "woman's aborted baby delivered in toilet because there were no mid-wives"

THIS IS LONDON: Mother forced to give birth alone in toilet of 'flagship' NHS hospital
A young mother had to deliver her own baby in the lavatory of a flagship hospital because there were no trained midwives available.

Surveyor Catherine Brown had made the agonising decision to undergo a chemically-induced abortion after being told her 18-week pregnancy was risking her life.

But when the time came to give birth she was on an ear, nose and throat ward and had only her mother to help her through the ordeal. Her premature son Edward died in her arms minutes later.

The traumatised mother-of-one said: "I just howled and howled. I remember sitting there looking at him and thinking, 'What do I do next?'. I just sat there on the toilet looking at my dead baby.

"It was dreadful - a terrible nightmare. Then I started crying my eyes out and repeating, 'I'm sorry baby, I'm so sorry'. I still can't believe the hospital had no trained staff who could help me."
RTWT. IT'S A HARROWING TALE.

NOW... if socialized healthcare doesn't work there, what makes the Dems think it can work here!?? It won't. So don't fall for their lies!

POWER LINE AGREES WITH THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS - 13 hours later

Hours after SUNSET... Power Line links to this item just a few minutes ago:
They've Finally Gone Too Far!

Hamas is a terrorist group whose only purpose is to murder as many innocent people as possible. For some reason, that hasn't bothered many on the Left. Now, though, Hamas has finally gone too far for PETA: they've mistreated animals!

An animal rights group on Wednesday criticized a program on a Hamas-run television station in which a man swings cats by their tails and throws stones at lions in a zoo to teach children not to abuse animals.
We had this story FIRST BEFORE THE SUN ROSE OVER Power Line.

Which just proves one more time, that this blog is one of the best, with original links, analysis and commentary.

NOTE:
WE DO IT ALL THE TIME. WE DA BESS! BUT YOU KNOW THAT! SO... SPREAD THE WORD!

LEFT-WING THEATER OF THE ABSURD: Climate change musical

IC WALES:
POET and novelist Owen Sheers is to make his debut at the BBC Proms.

The critically-acclaimed young writer has joined forces with Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman to pen a musical drama about climate change.

The Water Diviner’s Tale, which is inspired by Hurricane Katrina, features a chorus of 40 children and will be premiered at the Royal Albert Hall.
ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT KATRINA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE, THIS ARTICLE NEEDS NO ADDITIONAL COMMENT.

HERE IS THE BBC PROMO FOR IT:
class="by-day-title">Prom 57: BBC Concert Orchestra

Time: 3.00pm - c4.00pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Buy Tickets

All seats £10 (under-16s £5) price code G or Prom for £5


David Charles Abell

Broadcasts


Live on BBC Radio 3
Available as audio on demand
for the following week

Following the success of The Little Prince on BBC TWO and in concert, film composer Rachel Portman and poet/novelist Owen Sheers have created a new 'dramatic musical piece for all ages' on the subject of climate change – a BBC commission in which professional singers perform alongside massed youth choirs and a 40-strong children's ensemble specially chosen in collaboration with the BBC's New Talent scheme.

THIS "DRAMATIC MUSICAL PIECE" RESIDES IN THE SAME LOONY LEFT REALM AS:
  • GOING TOPLESS FOR PEACE;
  • MARCHING WITH GIANT PAPIER MACHE PUPPETS TO END RACISM;
  • HAVING ROCK CONCERTS TO END POVERTY, WORLD HUNGER, AND DISEASE;
OR LYING NAKED ON SNOW TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING; [SEE LEFT].

IDIOTS.

I PREDICT IT'S AS ENTERTAINING AS NIXON IN CHINA. WHICH IS TO SAY IT'S PROBABLY AWFUL.

QUESTION: IS THERE NO END TO LEFTIST PROPAGANDA EFFORTS IN THE ARTS AND MEDIA!?

ANSWER: there is no end...... yet! But we're working in it!

MAKINE'S DREAMS - a wonderful work of art

There's more to life than war, taxes and politics - and a lot of it's more fun, too! That's why every WEEKEND, here at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, we post on some of the cultural things we're into, things we think you might also find entertaining, enriching, and stimulating. And who knows: We just might turn you on to something cool.
Here's a great work of art: A GREAT NOVEL BY ANDREI MAKINE: DREAMS OF MY RUSSIAN SUMMERS


WIKI:
Makine was born in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union on September 10, 1957 and grew up in city of Penza, a provincial town about 440 miles south-east of Moscow. As a boy, having acquired familiarity with France and its language from his French-born grandmother (it is not sure Makine had a French grand-mother; in later interviews he claimed to have learn French from a friend), he wrote poems in both French and his native Russian.

In 1987, he went to France as member of teacher's exchange program and decided to stay. He was granted political asylum and was determined to make a living as a writer in French. However, Makine had to present his first manuscripts as translations from the Russian to overcome publishers' skepticism that a newly arrived exile could write so fluently in a second language. After disappointing reactions to his first two novels, it took eight months to find a publisher for his fourth, Le testament français.

Finally published in 1995 in France, the novel became the first in history to win both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis plus the Goncourt des Lycéens.
RELIAPUNDIT: I count this book as one of my all-time favorites. The writing is superb and fresh; the story gripping - with an extremely emotional and rewarding climax. Plus, you get a great human history of the USSR. I've read it four times. I love it and respect it more each time
I read it.

AFGHAN HORROR: AL QAEDA SUICIDE BOMBER ASSASSINATES A REGIONAL GOVERNOR AND HIS 3 CHILDREN

ARAB NEWS:
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, 18 August 2007 — A suicide attacker blew himself up yesterday outside the house of a district governor in southern Afghanistan, killing the official and three of his children, officials said. The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body as the Zhari district governor, Khairuddin Achakzai, and his children left their compound in the volatile southern city of Kandahar, police and the Interior Ministry said.

They were going to take part in the traditional slaughter of a sheep and distribution of its meat to the poor of the area, they said. Two of the governor’s sons and one of his daughters, all aged under 10, were also killed, said a police officer at the scene, Abdul Ghaffar, adding another son and daughter were wounded.
BAHRAIN TRIBUNE:
Khairuddin had a home in Kandahar city but was the administration chief of the nearby Zhari district, where some of the worst violence in the Al Qaeda-linked Taliban’s insurgency has taken place.
MORE NEWS COVERAGE OF THIS EVENT HERE.

AL QAEDA ARE SCUM; THEY AND THE REST OF THE ISLAMO-THUGS HAVE MURDERED MORE MUSLIMS THAN BUSHITLERBURTON AND THE ZIONAZIS COMBINED. (More HERE.)

WE WON'T DEFEAT THEM BY CUTTING & RUNNING, OR BY FIGHTING WITH ONE HAND BEHIND OUR BACK.

WE SHOULD HIT THEM WITH EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT.

LIKE OUR BIGGEST CONVENTIONAL BOMBS. FOR STARTERS.

ARE WE SERIOUS, OR NOT?

Folk Wisdom

I love holidays. Especially holidays devoted to sex.
Pilgrims celebrating the Hindu month of Shravan (mid-July to mid-August) are filling the pockets of marijuana sellers in the Deoghar district of Jharkand, according to a report in the News Post of India. Considered auspicious by followers of Lord Shiva, the month is marked by, among other things, a pilgrimage by millions of adherents to pour water on the Shiva Linga at the Baidyanath temple in Deoghar.

The pilgrims, clad in saffron, smoke marijuana (ganja) as part of the observance. According to one estimate cited by the News and Post, devotees are buying and smoking 50 to 65 pounds of marijuana a day from happy Deoghhar pot vendors.
I think the Shiva Linga deserves some explanation. It is the male sex organ.

Now why would pot and the male sex organ be combined in celebration? I think it is folk wisdom. I wrote an article a while back, Better than Viagra, about the helpful properties of marijuana when it comes to sex.

It is possible the Hindus are on to something. It is possible they have been on to it for a very long time. It is my estimation that when the boomers figure this out in a big way the drug war will be over. It is hard to stand between a man and sex. Heck the ladies would be quite supportive as well.

Cross Posted at Power and Control and at Classical Values

Reliapundit adds: Sheesh MS, maybe it's time you moved to India; you could even become a Hindu!

BTW: what exactly does this have to do with combating leftism?

OH..., do ya think the "drug war" is a leftist thing!? Or just too statist?

I put this issue way below immigration and abortion and pollution and taxes. AND WAY WAY BELOW WW4.

But thanks for your views. THEY'RE ALWAYS ENTERTAINING!

(Or is it merely this.)

Another Sign Putin Has Become the "Chavez of the Urals"

BBC: BBC radio ordered off Russian FM
BBC Russian Service logo The BBC's Russian-language service will no longer be heard on Russian FM radio, after the country's media regulator ordered that it be removed.

The broadcaster's last FM distribution partner in Russia, Bolshoye Radio, said it had been told to remove BBC content or risk being shut down.

Two other Russian FM stations have dropped BBC programming recently.

The BBC's Russian Service can still be heard online and on medium and short wave frequencies in Russia.

BBC executives said they would appeal against the decision.

"The BBC entered into the relationship with Bolshoye Radio in good faith," said Richard Sambrook, Director of BBC Global News. "We cannot understand how the licence is now interpreted in a way that does not reflect the original and thorough concept documents." He said the licensing agreement allowed for 18% of Bolshoye's content to be foreign-produced.

Bolshoye Radio's owners, financial group Finam, told the BBC that Russia's media regulators required that all programming be produced by the station itself. ...

Critics say Russia is taking measures to curb media freedom ahead of parliamentary elections in December and a presidential poll in March.

Putin is a bad man, not to be trusted. Russia must be seen as an adversary: they arm Syria, arm and build nuke plants for Ira, and arm Chavez, AND hold joint military operations with China, AND openly and provocatively threaten the EU.

YES: IT'S THAT BAD!

LOOKIT: WE'RE TALKING 'BOUT THE BBC BEING BANNED!

THE BEEB - IT DON'T GET MUCH REDDER THAN THE BEEB, BUT EVEN THE BEEB IS TOO THREATENIKNG FOR PUTIN, EVIDENTLY...

RUDY'S FAMILY PROBLEMS - AND REAGAN'S


It's bogus.

We covered it here. (With a HOT jpeg, too. Of Patti Davis Reagan. Who did not hurt her Pop's ratings or ability to lead one iota.)

MIGHT CALIFORNIA BE UP FOR GRABS IN 2008?

MAYBE...

If Arnie could win it, then maybe Rudy could win it.

At the very least, he could force the Dems to spend a lot more time and money there.

GREENIE CARBON MARKET ENCOURAGES CHOPPING DOWN FORESTS

Clever!

The current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's biggest forests, which would unleash tonnes of climate-warming carbon into the atmosphere, a new study reported on Monday.

Under the Kyoto Protocol aimed at stemming climate change, there is no profitable reason for the 10 countries and one French territory with 20 percent of Earth's intact tropical forest to maintain this resource, according to a study in the journal Public Library of Science Biology. The Kyoto treaty and other talks on global warming focus on so-called carbon credits for countries and companies that plant new trees where forests have been destroyed.

Trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted by petroleum-fueled vehicles, coal-fired power plants and humans. At this point, there is no credit for countries that keep the forests they have, the study said. "The countries that haven't really been the target of deforestation have nothing to sell because they haven't deforested anything," said Gustavo Fonseca, one of the study's authors.

"So that creates a perverse incentive for them to actually start deforesting, so that in the future, they might be allowed to actually cap-and-trade, as they call it: you put a cap on your deforestation and you trade that piece that hasn't been deforested," Fonseca said in a telephone interview.

The countries most at risk for this kind of deforestation, because they all have more than half their original forests intact, are Panama, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Belize, Gabon, Guyana, Suriname, Bhutan and Zambia, along with the French territory of French Guiana.

FULL STORY here

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Canadian woman has to come the the USA to give birth to quads

NYT report followed by comment:

A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, officials at a Great Falls hospital said Thursday. Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare, said Amy Astin, the hospital's director of community and government relations. The four girls were breathing without ventilators and listed in good condition Thursday, she said. ''These babies are doing grand,'' said Dr. Tom Key of Great Falls, the perinatologist who delivered the girls. The babies were born about two months early and were conceived without fertility drugs, he said. They weighed between 2.6 pounds and 2.15 pounds.

Jepp and her husband, J.P., declined to be interviewed by The Associated Press. ''The parents have been a little bit shy about the press. ... We agreed to handle it in a way they were comfortable with,'' Astin said. The couple have a 2-year-old son, Simon. J.P. Jepp works for Shell Oil Co., and both worked for nonprofit groups until recently, Astin said.

The chances of giving birth to identical quadruplets is about one in 13 million, Key said. ''This is a very big medical event,'' he said. ''Identical quadruplets are extremely rare.'' Medical literature indicates there are less than 50 sets of identical quadruplets, said Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of the NYU Fertility Center in New York. The last reported set were born in April 2006 to a 26-year-old Indian woman.

The Jepps drove 325 miles to Great Falls for the births because hospitals in Calgary were at capacity, Key said. ''The difficulty is that Calgary continues to grow at such a rapid rate. ... The population has increased a lot faster than the number of hospital beds,'' he said.

Two of the girls were to be transferred to a Calgary hospital later Thursday. The other two could be moved Friday if their conditions remain favorable, Key said. They will likely remain hospitalized for four to six weeks, he said. ''These quads are special,'' Astin said. ''The fact that she carried them 31 weeks and three days is excellent.''

Source

Don Surber comments:

The Dionne quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, to a humble, French-speaking couple in a farmhouse outside of Callander, Ontario, Canada. They were identical sisters and for the first 10 years of their lives, the five girls were the No. 1 tourism attraction in Canada. Then came free health care for all Canadians. Which is why the four identical Jepp sisters were born in Great Falls, Mont., instead of Calgary this weekend. The Canadian parents flew 325 miles to get to an American hospital.

Can you imagine being about to go into labor for four births, and then flying 325 miles to get to the hospital in another country? Incredible. Michelle Lang, Calgary Herald, reported:

Their mother, Calgarian Karen Jepp, was transferred to Benefis Hospital in Montana last week when she began showing signs of going into labour, and no Canadian hospital had enough neonatal intensive-care beds for all four babies.

73 years ago, a poor French Canadian mother was successfully able to give birth to five girls in a farmhouse in Ontario, but then the Canadian government took over the health system and - voila - Karen Jepp has to go to an American hospital 325 miles away.

It's not like Great Falls, Mont., is a teeming metropolis. With 56,215 people, it is slightly larger than Charleston, W.Va. Calgary has more than a million people. This is like being demoted from the Milwaukee Brewers to the Charleston Alley Cats. (OK, they changed the team's name to West Virginia Power.)

There is a difference between health care and health insurance. In capitalistic America, the concentration is on health. In socialistic Canada, the emphasis is on paying the bills. The story ended with how much the American hospital charged. Looks like a quarter-million bucks for a 5-day stay. Given that it was the quadruple birth of 2-pound babies two months premature, I'd say it was a bargain.

This is not to piss all over Canada. Nice nation. Great people. I'm sure most Canadians like their health system. Just remember, though, that Canada's backup system is in Montana. Americans spend 15% of their income on health care. That's why Great Falls has enough neo-natal units to handle quadruple births - and a "universal health" nation doesn't. After all, they didn't fly Mrs. Jepp to Cuba, did they?


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TWO YEARS AFTER EVICTION FROM GAZA, EVICTEES STILL TRYING TO PICK UP THE PIECES

Here's an article from the JTA that tells how people who were evicted from Gaza and Gush Katif are still trying to rebuild their lives.

FBI DIRECTOR'S NOTES CONFIRM: HE WASN'T INTHE ROOM AT THE TIME

The MSM is relentlessly trying to paint Gonzales as a perjurer - JUST LIKE THEIR BUDDY LEAHY.

The MSM's headlines all BLARE that Mueller's notes about meeting Ashcroft prove Gonzales's account of his meeting with WH CoC Card and Ashcroft (while Ashcroft was in hospital) is a lie.

BUT THIS IS NOT ACCURATE.

All the notes confirm is this:
MUELLER WAS NOT IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME GONZALES AND CARD MET WITH ASHCROFT. And that unlike Gonzales he felt (that at the time he met with him) Ashcroft was not very lucid - and that this was AFTER the meeting the AG had with Gonzales and Card - the WH CoS.
EXCERPT FROM MUELLER'S NOTES - (WASH POST):
"Saw AG," Mueller writes in his notes for 8:10 p.m. on March 10, 2004, only minutes after Gonzales and White House chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr. had visited Ashcroft. "Janet Ashcroft in the room. ...
THE MSM IS A VIRTUAL LYNCH MOB AGAINST GONZALES..
AND PAT LEAHY IS HOLDING THE NOOSE...

FACT: The MSM is made up of largely leftist scum.

They're ONLY going after Gonzales because they hate Bush and his tough-on-terrorism policies.

PALESTINIANS TORTURE ANIMALS: LEFTIST DILEMMA

Finally some outrage from the left! PETA animal rights groups is (rightly) incensed that another of the Palestinian's sick and twisted children's characters (remember Farfour?), was involved in the torture of cats and lions at Gaza zoo.

Much as I despise the mistreatment of any animal and I applaud calling it to global attention, where is the outrage of the left when it comes to the torture and murder of humans that goes on regularly over there?

They say that those who can torture animals often don't have a problem with the sadistic treatment of humans either.

SOURCE
Cross-posted here

JOURNALISTS CONFUSED - IS JERI THOMPSON A DUMB BIMBO OR AN EVIL GENIUS?

The slow transition from "Jeri Thompson is a bimbo" through "isn't it totally weird how lots of people may or may not think Jeri Thompson is a bimbo" to "Jeri Thompson is an evil genius" is almost complete:
The most obvious heir to a position of Karl Rove-like influence is Mark Penn, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's top political adviser... On the Republican side, Jeri Thompson, wife of former senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee, has become controversial because of her heavy involvement in the day-to-day operations of her husband's potential campaign despite having relatively little political experience.
You can see the tension - is she an interfering wench or the next leftist Darth Vader photoshop? It depends on how well the Thompson campaign does. If the left can't explain Thompson's popularity (because why would anyone support Republicans?), the meme will slide to "evil genius". If the Thompson campaign flounders, the ostensible progressives on the left will be more than happy to settle for "see, we told you she was a sorority girl gender traitor bimbo". Seething and resentful hypocrisy - always in fashion.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]

AP: IDF MURDERS CIVILIAN WHO INNOCENTLY WANDERED UP TO HIS ROOF IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIREFIGHT

The IDF is finally beginning to consider doing the minimum to respond to months of rocket fire against Israeli schools and hospitals. There is a brutal firefight going on in the Gaza Strip right now. Israeli soldiers are being engaged by Hamas soldiers and Islamic Jihad terrorists who are armed with weapons that have shockingly - shockingly - slipped into the Strip in the last month or so. A single airstrike took out six Islamic Jihad members - these are not random terrorists firing from the inside of windows. These are organized armed units firing rockets and automatic weapons at armed Israeli units. Except apparently for this innocent civilian. According to the AP, he just happened to wander onto his roof - where snipers hang out - at the time of the firefight. He was then gunned down by heartless Zionists:
Palestinian medical officials said a second civilian, Ibrahim al-Shami, 40, was fatally shot by soldiers when he went out onto the roof of his house and that of a total of 15 people wounded, seven were civilians. The army often carries out raids into Gaza to target militants and to thwart rocket fire toward Israeli towns.
You think he was up there fixing his satellite dish or something? We're even more impressed by the AFP version of events, which fails to mention that this undoubtedly innocent man just happened to be on a rooftop during a firefight. AFP stringer Sakher Abu El Oun gallantly limits himself to merely noting that, you know, those Israelis - they kill civilians. The JPost roundup on this gets a statement from the IDF to the effect that the satellite-dish repairmen was a gunman - believe it or not, journalists are supposed to print denials from official sources, yes? Certainly they always do when Hezbollah or Hamas is like "we didn't do it even though there are pictures that we did it". Wonder how the Israeli clarification slipped through.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]

Thursday, August 16, 2007

GLOBAL JIHAD: SE ASIA: "Philippines teeters on brink of total war"

ASIA TIMES: Philippines teeters on brink of total war
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have launched a new military campaign against radical Muslim insurgents in its southern regions, an offensive nominally aimed at finishing off the hobbled 300-member Abu Sayyaf terror group, but one that also threatens to widen the conflict with two ceasefire groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Manila recently ramped up its military deployment to the restive region, where estimates of soldiers on the ground ranging widely from 5,000-12,000. Army chief General Romeo Tolentino recently announced that he had temporary moved army headquarters from Manila to Zamboanga City on the southern island of Mindanao while the campaign is conducted. Fighting on the southern island of Jolo this month saw 50 people - including 25 army soldiers - killed in armed exchanges, and thousands of civilians have since evacuated the area.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT SADDAM/WMD OR IRAQ, OR AFGHANISTAN, OR GAZA. IT IS ABOUT GLOBAL JIHAD. AND THE ENEMY WON'T STOP UNTIL WE DEFEAT THEM. EVERYWHERE.

More here.

SHOCKER: ACADEMIA IS EVEN MORE BIASED THAN THE MSM

FACTS AND FIGURE AND GRAPHS HERE.

VIA GATEWAY.

I bet the %'s would be the same for the bureaucratic apparachiks in the State Dept and CIA...

After all, these institutions are closed networks just like academia and the MSM: they hire and promote their own.

And, if you don't toe the party line you don't get hired - (or don't get promoted/tenured if you slip through the hiring process).

HIMALAYAN HAMMER AND ANVIL: AS WE KILL AL QAEDA IN AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN WIPES UP WAZIRISTAN

GULF TIMES:
Pakistan has deployed thousands of security forces on the border areas of Kurram tribal agency with Afghanistan’s Tora Bora region where a major operation has been launched by the US and Nato forces against Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Tribal sources said here yesterday from the border villages that heavy contingents of the Pakistan Army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) reached there and strengthened security on the border with Afghanistan.

This new and rather rare deployment of the troops has been made at Tandar, Ghandao, Arwaza, Said Karam and a number of other villages situated on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

According to sources, some of the villagers having houses deep inside the border have been asked by the soldiers to shift their families and livestock to other towns in Lower Kurram Agency as the situation could suddenly get worse there.
GULF DAILY:
WANA, Pakistan: Ten Islamist militants and four Pakistani soldiers were killed in clashes in the Waziristan region yesterday, the latest in spiralling violence in the tribal area near the Afghan border.

Militants attacked a convoy of security forces at a check-post in South Waziristan about 50km east of region's main town of Wana.

"Security forces retaliated and I have reports that 10 militants were killed and about a dozen wounded," said a military spokesman. Two soldiers were killed and 10 wounded.

Hours earlier, two soldiers were killed and four wounded when a roadside bomb blew up their vehicle in neighbouring North Waziristan.

Meanwhile, the US and Afghan troops pressed an air and ground assault yesterday against Al Qaeda militants grouped in the Tora Bora mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the last known hiding place of Osama bin Laden.
Musharraf is on our side. Jerks like Obama who undermine him, also undermine our troops and help the enemy. Obama and his comrades in the Democrat Party shouls STFU.

HUGH HEWITT AGREES WITH THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: ROVE BELONGS ON TV - but of course he will never get offered a job

When HH says what you say, THAT'S VALIDATION!

What we posted on Tuesday. . . HH posted today.

Great minds think alike! (But we had better jpegs!)

Welcome HH readers: check out the whole TAB blog!

HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST


ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT HITLER THE SOCIALIST:

Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (Hardcover)

by Gotz Aly (Author)
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY:
From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. The publication of this book in Germany inspired a huge controversy. In an important, original contribution, Aly, the author of a number of major works on the Third Reich and the Holocaust, argues that the Nazi regime plundered the rest of Europe during WWII to the great material benefit of the German population. Germans lived quite nicely from the sausages, furniture, shoes and even Christmas geese that millions of German soldiers and SS men sent back home from all over Europe. Plunder by official state agencies also financed the war. These points hardly seem revelatory or controversial, but Aly, as is his style, pushes the argument to the nth degree, supporting it with a wealth of documentary detail. The crimes against humanity committed by the regime were not, he argues, the work of a few individuals or an evil external to the population and the course of German history in the 20th century. Rather, the Nazis met the population's overwhelming desire for material security and an improved standard of living. The Nazis redistributed wealth in favor of the lower classes and opened up avenues of social mobility for them.
AMAZON REVIEWER:
The term "Nazi" means National Socialist Workers' Party. That seeming innocuous phrase has been omitted from the consideration of its meaning, according to Aly. "National" and "Socialist" are the key terms. "National", meant just that - policies were aimed at benefitting Germany. "Socialist", of course, is a philosophy designed to benefit the most people - particularly those of the lower economic classes. Aly argues with detailed evidence that this is precisely what the Nazis achieved during the 1930s and through the war years. That it succeeded right up to the end of the Reich is testimony to the effectiveness of the Nazi economic methods. The average German began, and remained the "beneficiary" of a highly manipulated financial system.
HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST. (AS WAS MUSSOLINI). STALIN'S WAR AGAINST HITLER WAS LIKE HIS WAR AGAINST TROTSKY: INTERNECINE.

DON'T BELIEVE THE DEFEATISTS: WE'RE KICKING AL QAEDA'S ASS IN AFGHANISTAN

BBC:
US and Afghan forces searching for militants on the Pakistani border have inflicted heavy casualties on al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters, officials say.

The governor of Ningrahar province said that the operation in Tora Bora was going "very well" and that al-Qaeda and the Taleban had suffered heavy losses.

But a spokesman for the governor, Nooar Agha Zwak, said he could not give precise casualty details.

Officials in Ningrahar say the area has many Afghan and foreign militants.

'Precision munitions'

Local residents say that so far around 250 families have fled the area after two days of fighting, in which US and Afghan air and ground forces pounded al-Qaeda militants.

The US military said that "al-Qaeda and other violent extremist fighters" had been engaged in the fighting during a "combined arms assault using precision munitions".

US air strikes on Tora Bora in December 2001

There were no substantiated reports of civilian casualties in the fighting, a statement said, contradicting earlier reports that many civilians had been killed.
AY, YO, OBAMA: STFU!

Commentary Magazine Agrees With The Astute Bloggers: UNITY IS BS

Peter Wehner/Contentions/Commentary:
... the claim that a divided America is somehow “bad” is itself intellectually sloppy. Most of us prefer social harmony to discord—but unity is not the only, or even the highest good in politics. Was there a more divisive and reviled president than Lincoln, who uprooted the centuries-old institution of slavery? The biographer Robert Jackson wrote that after Franklin Roosevelt had been in office for a brief period, “the lines began to separate between those in whom he inspired an all-out devotion and those in whom he aroused an implacable hatred.” Martin Luther King, Jr. was “the object of bitter hatred.” And in 1984 the pollster Lou Harris claimed that Ronald Reagan was polarizing the country more than any president since FDR.

“Conviction politicians” are often polarizing because they take ideas seriously and are willing to do battle on their behalf. And often the greatest advances in history come about only after contentious political debates led by brave and, yes, polarizing political leaders.
WE POSTED THIS SAME POINT - FIRST - OVER A WEEK AGO.

Victory over evil is more important than unity.

Political unity has always been ephemeral at best.

HISTORICAL FACTS HERE - in a brilliant link-filled, jpeg decorated post.

POLLS SHOW THAT MOST PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DISMISSED PETRAEUS BEFORE HE HAS EVEN REPORTED

CNN:
A majority of Americans don't trust the upcoming report by the Army's top commander in Iraq on the progress of the war and even if they did, it wouldn't change their mind, according to a new poll. ... Of those opposed to the war, 47 percent said Petreaus' report could not change their mind while 17 percent said it could.

...CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said he doesn't think the mistrust is directed at Petreaus as much as it is what he represents.

"It does seem to indicate that anyone associated with the Bush administration may be a less than credible messenger for the message that there is progress being made in Iraq," Holland said.
Most people who call themselves "anti-war" have made up their minds already.

And they will ignore everything Petraeus says - except the negative stuff.

And they have the AUDACITY to call themselves the reality-based community. HA!

Who is to blame for this? The MSM and the Dem leadership - like Harry Reid who MONTHS ago proclaimed Iraq lost.

I think we need to see the Iraq War through to a successful completion NO MATTER WHAT.
To me, the Petraeus report is important not because it will show whether raq is winnable, but whether we currently have a good strategy to win it - FOR WIN IT WE MUST.

CARBON OFFSETTING DOES "MORE HARM THAN GOOD"

Al Gore take note:

A leading scientist with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research has warned that "doing nothing is better than offsetting" on the grounds that there is a serious risk that the practice is leading to increased emissions. Dr Kevin Anderson, an academic at the University of Manchester and energy programme leader for the Tyndall Centre, said that the failure by many offset firms to look at the wider implications of investing in carbon reduction projects in developing economies meant that they were guilty of inadvertently increasing carbon emissions. "Many of these schemes are not accounting for the economic multiplier effect of the offset investments," he said.

"For example, if you take one popular offset project in the form of donating low energy bulbs to a Jamaican hotel you have to ask, what is the full impact of that investment? Electricity in Jamaica is expensive, so what does the hotelier do with the money he saves? He may use it to pay for a flight for himself or he may invest in extending the hotel, both of which could cancel out the initial emission reductions." Anderson argued that there is no way that offset providers can guarantee that their investments will not spark significant multiplier effects that would ultimately lead to increased emissions.

FULL STORY here

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LEFTIST MEDIA FOLLIES (1)

Don't they know ANYTHING? Post below excerpted from Autonomist

What follows is a caption from the AFP, and below that, the picture that accompanies it: " An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City."



The only way those bullets hit her house was if someone threw them at her house. You see, they've never been fired. For those of you unfamiliar with firearms, only the little copper-looking tip is the actual bullet. The larger, cylindrical casing below it holds the primer and the gunpowder that propels the bullet out of the firearm. Nice going, AFP! Proof again, that members of the MSM are often dupes for terrorist propagandists, and know very little about things military. Look at it like this: That picture had to have passed through at least several news people, including AFP's editors, before it was posted. An AFP editor chose that picture as representative of the printed story. And none of the people in that chain knew anything about guns

Confederate Yankee notes that the rounds are not American military ammo anyway!

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LEFTIST MEDIA FOLLIES (2)



Stupid Leftist newspaper does not know Iran from Iraq. Though they have changed their online heading now. Hence the screenshot above. A pity for them that they cannot also change the heading in all the newspapers they printed. I gather that some of the Melbourne Jewish community are pretty peeved by the mistake

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THE LIES AND LIARS OF THE LEFT

What Causes Ice Ages?

Since we have a consensus on climate science could some one please tell me the cause of ice ages?

CLASSIC VIDEO OF MSM-BDS: CHRIS MATTHEWS CALLS BUSH A CHRISTIAN CRUSADER FOR ECHOING JFK'S INAUGURAL

CHRIS MATTHEWS - VIA HOT AIR - (PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO!):


MATTHEWS ACCUSES BUSH OF BEING A MESSIANIC WACKO AND ARGUES THAT BUSH WAGED THE WAR IN IRAQ AS A CHRISTIAN CRUSADER WAR.
(IN THIS RESPECT MATTHEWS IS AGREEING WITH AL QEADA - LIKE SO MANY DEMS THESE DAYS!)
WOULD CHRISSY SAY THAT ABOUT JFK!?!?!?

I DOUBT IT, EVEN THOUGH JFK SAID THE SAME THINGS AS BUSH... IN HIS FREAKING INAUGURAL

SEE FOR YOURSELF.


IF JFK WAS ALIVE HE'D VOTE SUPPORT BUSH AND GOP.

IF MATTHEWS WASN'T A HYPOCRITICAL PARTISAN WITH BDS, THEN HE'D HAIL BUSH FOR KEEPING JFK'S FOREIGN POLICY ALIVE.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

MICHAEL J. TOTTEN DOESN'T KNOW WHICH PARTY'S NOMINEE HE WILL VOTE FOR IN 2008???

TOTTEN (see the comment thread):
I vote for members of both parties, and I don't know which party I'm voting for next year.
I find this extraordinarily bizarre.

After all, each and every one of the Democrat candidates has said they would withdraw by a date certain.

This a policy which observers as diverse as John Burns of the NYTIMES, Michael Ware of CNN, and O'Hanlon & Pollack of Brookings (all left-of-center observers from organizations highly supportive of Democrats and liberals and their policies) have uniformly said would be a genocidal disaster.
The hawkiest of the Dems is Hillary and even she supports withdrawal by a date certain.

Obama has made either major gaffes or major foreign policy errors: calling for attacking our ally, Pakistan, and deriding our soldiers in Afghanistan.

Biden has long favored an arbitrary withdrawal timetable.


Edwards too.


Ditto Richardson.
WHAT'S WORSE, The Dems all maintain this belief despite the gains our surge is winning. And, despite the signal it would send to friend and foe alike.

An anti-JFK signal. As JFK said in 1961:
"we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
HERE - WATCH IT YOURSELF:


The current Dems seem a lot less hawkish than JFK; the JFK of that Inaugural Speech would vote GOP today.

If one cares about the future of a democratic Iraq, and preventing genocide, then one cannot in good conscience support ANY of the Democrat candidates.

If Totten thinks that winning the war in Iraq and defending our allies in Iraq and in its Kurdistan region is important, then Totten is wrong not to have already made up his mind.

Furthermore, I believe that not a single Democrat running for the presidency can be trusted with our national security or the defense of the free world.

Voting for a Democrat now is like voting for a Copperhead in 1864.

Believing that, I have no choice but to vote for the GOP candidate for POTUS in 2008.

AND YES: I AM A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT - have been since 1974.

1974 - when the Dems pulled the plug on the nascent democracy of South Vietnam and stood by as - ONE YEAR LATER - North Vietnam violated the terms of the Paris Accords and INVADED the south. And it led to... genocide, tyranny, and totalitarianism in SE Asia.

Today's Dems want a repeat. In Iraq. And the Middle East.

I feel that Totten should know this; I wonder why he refuses to accept it?

Of all the Congressman who caucus with the Democrats, in either body of Congress, the only one who gets it is Lieberman. A man today's Democrat party couldn't renominate.

Joe gets it.

WHY CAN'T TOTTEN!?

IS HE TO THE LEFT OF LIEBERMAN?

COULD HE REALLY SUPPORT ANY OF THE DEMOCRATS NOW RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, OR THE TWO GORLLAS ON THE SIDELINE: GORE AND KERRY!?

HEY, MATT DAMON: SHUT UP AND ACT!

BBC:
Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum Hollywood star Matt Damon has dismissed James Bond as being stuck in the past.

The actor, who appears in the Bourne thrillers, said: "The Bond character will always be anchored in the 1960s and in the values of the 1960s."

The suave spy was "so anachronistic when you put it in the world we live in today", he said, but added that Bourne was no better or worse than Bond.

Damon was speaking in London, where The Bourne Ultimatum, the third film in the franchise, was having its UK premiere.

"Bond is an imperialist and a misogynist who kills people and laughs about it, and drinks Martinis and cracks jokes," he told reporters.
Damon is a good actor who is a dupe of left-wing anti-American BS.

America is not nor was ever an imperialist nation.

Those who argue we were ignore history.

We liberated half the world.

And we get a lot of grief for it.

From jerks like Damon.