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

Saturday, February 16, 2008

THE UN IS MORE CONFIDENT WE HAVE WON IN IRAQ THAN THE DEMOCRATS

YAHOO/AP:
The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday he is sending a representative to Baghdad to help millions of displaced Iraqis return home, showing a strengthened U.N. commitment to deal with the crisis and confidence in recent security gains.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres also pledged to increase his group's staffing level in Baghdad from two to five people.

"We have confidence in the future of Iraq," Guterres said at a joint news conference with Iraq Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE FACT WE HAVE WON IN IRAQ ARE THE DEMOCRATS, AND AL QAEDA IN AFGHANISTAN.

I THINK THE EVEN IRANIANS GET IT.

MORE GOOD NEWS FROM/ABOUT IRAQ HERE AT GATEWAY.

THE SDB: AIR FORCE INTRODUCES SMALLEST BOMB

ABC:
... the Small Diameter Bomb, or SDB. As its name suggests, it is a very small bomb, carrying less than 40 pounds of explosives. By comparison, the JDAM (short for Joint Direct Attack Munition), the workhorse of the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, comes in a variety of sizes, the smallest of which carries 200 pounds of explosives.

... As the Air Force now sees it, in today's warfare smaller is better. With these new Small Diameter Bombs, it hopes to accomplish three things at once: get more weapons on each aircraft; fire those weapons from much further away than JDAMs allow; and, critically, with much less explosive inside, aim to strike with surgical precision.

What that last point means is that when the new SDB strikes a target, its blast range is about 50 feet. Compare that to the impact radius of the smallest JDAM: 100 feet … and the 2,000-pound JDAM: 175 feet.

... To understand why that matters you simply have look at some of the Air Force's "successful" airstrikes that have had catastrophic consequences. In one Afghanistan bombing earlier this year, two 2,000-pound bombs not only killed their targets, they also killed nine innocent civilians in a neighboring house, including four women and four children. In warfare they call that collateral damage, and it is uncomfortably common. If numbers are a guide, it is also getting worse: In 2007 airstrikes by U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan killed nearly 300 civilians, compared to 116 in 2006.
WE EXPEND BILLIONS OF EXTRA DOLLARS ON SMART WEAPONS WHICH WILL DO THE LEAST POSSIBLE COLLATERAL DAMAGE.
  • THE ENEMY TRIES TO KILL AS MANY CIVILIANS AS POSSIBLE - IN THE MOST HORRIFYING - TERRIFYING --- TERROR-INDUCING WAY.
  • AGAIN: WE DO THE OPPOSITE.
  • ONLY THE LEFT FAILS TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE.
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS.

GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERIA ALERT: Attention: Environmentalists, Democrats, Europeans, Movie Stars, Nobel Panelists, ...

... you've all been had:
Is it safe to say we've been scammed yet?
A record cold January has helped winter sea ice grow across the Arctic.

Temperatures in January set cold weather records and caused the Arctic Sea Ice to expand to its previous levels.
The Financial Post reported:
The Cryosphere reported that the Arctic sea ice is back... and it's thick.
The disappearing sea ice that was supposedly going to dramatically change the North, if not the world, is back. Thanks to really cold weather -- gee, where did that come from?--winter sea ice has been growing across the North. "Clearly we're seeing the ice coverage rebound back to more near normal coverage for this time of year," says Gilles Langis, a senior ice forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa.

There goes a good story. And if you doubt me on this, the source is as biased on climate change as sources get: The CBC. And if the weather stays cold, the ice will get even thicker, says the report...

This isn't the only sign of rising sea ice and extra-cold temperatures. The U.S. National Climatic Date Center reported the other day that temperatures in the United States set cold records in January. "The average temperature in January 2008 was 30.5 F. This is -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 49th coolest January in 114 years."

...As for ice, A University of Illinois report showed that Arctic sea ice is back to its previous level.
The American Thinker reported that not only is the ice growing, but it is growing thick.
Just in case you have never seen it, go here and watch it all. It is well worth your time, and after watching all 9 segments, you will know more about this subject than 3/4 of the so-called "intelligensia" on the planet.

And just in case you haven't read this: it's a must. And it is as true now as when it was written--over 4 years ago.

Hillary's Dwindling Fortunes

Peggy Noonan documents Hillary's very forgettable week:

Three more primary losses, not even close. Now it's eight in a row. A slide in the national polls. Staff shakeup: soap-opera-watching campaign manager out, deputy out. Bill's former campaign manager, David Wilhelm, jumps for Barack Obama.

Josh Green, in a stunning piece that might be called a meticulously reported notebook dump, says, in The Atlantic, that Mrs. Clinton made personnel decisions based only on loyalty, not talent and skill. (There's a lot of that in the Bush White House. The loyalty obsession is never a sign of health.)

The Wall Street Journal reports "internal frictions" flaring in the open, with Clinton campaign guru Mark Penn yelling, "Your ad doesn't work!" to ad maker Mandy Grunwald, who fires back, "Oh, it's always the ad, never the message." (This is a classic campaign argument. The problem is almost always the message. Getting the message right requires answering this question: Why are we here? This is the hardest question to answer in politics. Most staffs, and gurus, don't know or can't say.)

On a conference call Tuesday morning, Mr. Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, told reporters Mrs. Clinton simply cannot catch up. It is "next to impossible" for her to get past him on pledged delegates, she'd need "a blowout victory" of 20 to 30 points in the coming states, the superdelegates will "ratify" what the voters do. (I wrote in my notes, "not gloating--asserting as fact.")

Within the hour Mr. Plouffe's words were headlined on Politico, made Drudge, and became topic one on the evening news shows. Veteran Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier took a stab at an early postmortem in what seemed a long-suppressed blurt: The Clintons always treated party leaders as "an extension of their . . . ambitions," "pawns in a game of success and survival. She may pay a high price for their selfishness soon."

He cited party insiders: Superdelegates "won't hesitate to ditch" Mrs. Clinton if her problems persist.

o top it all off, Mrs. Clinton has, for 30 years, held deep respect for her husband's political acumen, for his natural, instinctive sense of how to campaign. And he's never let her down. Now he's flat-footed, an oaf lurching from local radio interview to finger-pointing lecture. Where did the golden gut go? How did his gifts abandon him? Abandon her? Her campaign blew through $120 million. How did this happen?

The thing about that paragraph is it could be longer.

And it all happened in public and within her party. The dread Republicans she is used to hating, whom she seems to pay no psychic price for hating, and who hate her right back, are not doing this to her. Her party is doing this.

Her whole life right now is a reverse Sally Field. She's looking out at an audience of colleagues and saying, "You don't like me, you really don't like me!"

Read the rest here. Somewhere, Barbara Olson is smiling right now...

GLOBAL JIHAD AND THE COPENHAGEN INTIFADA: JUST ANOTHER FRONT IN WW4

THE ENEMY IS INSIDE THE GATES...

  • NON-CITIZENS WHO DON'T SUPPORT, RESPECT AND UPHOLD SECULAR LAW MUST BE DEPORTED.
  • CITIZENS WHO SUPPORT THE REPLACEMENT OF SECULAR LAW WITH SHARIA SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON AND IMPRISONED FOR LIFE - OR SENT INTO VOLUNTARY PERMANENT EXILE.
THE LONGER THE WEST WAITS, THE MORE DIFFICULT IT WILL BE TO GET RID OF THESE INSURRECTIONIST THUGS.

VIDEO VIA GOV. AND THEY HAVE MORE.


CLASHES BETWEEN FACTIONS ERUPTING IN BEIRUT

*******UPDATE #2: MATSAV HAS VIDEO AND MORE LINKS...

*******UPDATED: GULF NEWS:
Scores of Lebanese soldiers have deployed in Beirut to end sectarian riots that left at least 14 people injured and several cars and properties vandalised.

Security sources said that followers of Saad Al Hariri on Saturday clashed with supporters of Hezbollah, using knives, sticks and stones.
AP/IHT:
BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanese army troops intervened to restore order as pro-government and opposition supporters engaged in fist fights and beat each other with sticks in a Muslim neighborhood of Beirut late Saturday, police and TV stations reported.

Gunfire was heard in the melee but it was not clear who fired and there was no immediate word on casualties.

State-run National News Agency reported trouble in four neighborhoods but gave no details. Such clashes have become common in recent weeks as tensions escalate between rival Lebanese camps and the country's 15-month-old political crisis deepens.
AFP:
Lebanese television reported that several shops were set ablaze, while the security official said one house was burned down and a car was set on fire by Molotov cocktails thrown by the militants.

Similar clashes in recent days between supporters of the Western-backed government and the Shiite-led opposition have raised tensions in a country already embroiled in its worst political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.

The security official had said the fighting involved supporters of ruling majority leader Saad Hariri and rivals in the opposition Shiite movement Amal.

But an Amal spokesman told AFP: "Amal denies that any of its supporters were involved in the violence tonight."

Tensions have been running high in Lebanon as the country grapples with a protracted political crisis that has left it without a head of state since the end of November.

On Thursday, mass rallies were staged by rival pro- and anti-Syrian factions in Beirut, further ratcheting up the tensions.
Perhaps this is the beginning of another civil war...
  • AS I PREDICTED.
  • HIZBALLAH/SYRIA/IRAN WANT CHAOS THERE.
  • AND SOON THEY WILL HAVE IT.
  • IT WON'T END UNTIL NASRALLAH, ASSAD AND THE MULLAHS ARE GONE FROM THE SCENE - PERMANENTLY.

A VIDEO OF A FEW PALACES MADE BY AND FOR SOCIALIST TYRANTS

GOOD VIDEO.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND PROOF THAT NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED IN AFRICA

THE DAILY STAR/AFP:
Sudan: French archaeologists in Sudan say they have uncovered the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Africa, hailing the discovery as the biggest Neolithic find on the continent for years.

The tomb of a 5,500-year-old man surrounded by three sacrificed humans, two dogs and exquisite ceramics were exhumed north of Khartoum by Neolithic expert Jacques Reinhold and his 66-year-old Austrian wife.

"This is the oldest proof of human sacrifice in Sudan, in Egypt, in Africa," Reinhold told reporters next to the remains in the village of Al-Kadada, a three-hour drive north of the Sudanese capital.

"I don't know of another example in Africa at this level ... We don't have anything as strong in other excavations in other countries," said Reinhold, as villagers in traditional white robes carefully scraped earth into buckets.
HUMAN SACRIFICE IN SUDAN!?!?! WHOODATHUNKIT POSSIBLE!?!?

SERIOUSLY, I GUESS ONE THING HAS CHANGED: NOW YOU CAN'T FIND SO MUCH EXQUISITE CERAMICS.

The fact that Africa is home to perhaps the most ignorance, poverty, superstition, genocide, and governmental criminality won't stop George Dubya-the-liberal Bush from handing out billions to combat sexually transmitted diseases there.

What a waste.

Instead we should be building power plants, sweat-shops, highways and getting the people there fridges and stoves and cars - and every other consumer convenience.

It worked for us - and Asia.

It is truly RACIST to think that they can pull themselves put of poverty any differently than we did.

RENEWABLE ENERGY, RECYCLING AND WASTE: WE HAVE IT BASS ACKWARDS

In NYC (as in most places these days) - because of the popularity of liberal/green policies and the mistaken idea that we are running out of resources and damaging our global climate, we recycle and sort garbage - as if landfills were full (which they aren't) and as if it saved energy and natural resources because we do, (which it doesn't). AND WE FLUSH OUR WASTE AWAY - (and that of our livestock).

We should be doing the exact opposite.

We should be dumping our garbage in landfills and collecting our waste to make into energy.

Just saying...

HOW TO GET HILLARY THE NOMINATION: "the devil you know versus the UNTESTED devil you don't know"

I don't support Hillary - or Obama.

Choosing between them is no better than choosing between Stalin and Mao.
But Hillary at least is a known quantity - the devil we know.
And the devil you know is always better than the devil you don't know.

I think the THEME which Hillary must use is this:

HILLARY: A LEADER WHO HAS BEEN TESTED.

Show her during Watergate...
Show her beside Bill running for governor of Arkansas...
Show her beside Bill on 60Minutes denouncing Gennifer Flowers...
Show her at the first Clinton Inaugural...
Show her testifying before Congress about her healthcare plan..
Show her traveling to a variety of places as First Lady...
Show her versus Ken Starr...
Show her during the Lewinsky crisis...
Show her beside Bill through it all... the good time and the tough times...
Show her running for Senate - and running for reelection...

OKAY.... HERE IT IS...

VOICE OVER:

"She was FIRST LADY...

and now a two-term SENATOR...

You've known her for years: Hillary Rodham Clinton...

She didn't just show up on the scene to run for president...

She was a Senate lawyer during Watergate...


Helping to impeach Nixon...

You know where she comes from...


and the obstacles she's overcome...



where she's been...


what she struggled for... her losses, her pains...

How she never allowed her opponents to define her - or to force her to alter her values, or change her policies...

You've seen her victories....


And know she's always been fighting to put people first. Never relenting...



Always there. Solid. Dependable.

A progressive leader you can trust.

Because she has been through it all, and has proven she has what it takes - and then some...


Because the White House is no place to find out you don't have what it takes."
I think a TV commercial like this would get her the nomination - instead of the devil we don't know, Obama, who cannot be trusted because he might not have what it takes.

BIRD FLU IS STILL GETTING WORSE, SPREADING

PAKISTAN:
PAKISTANI authorities have detected an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in chickens in a part of the northwest where the country recently had its first human death from the virus, a government official said on Saturday.

The new outbreak was found in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the official said.

'Samples from a poultry farm sent to us from Abbottabad have tested positive for the virus,' Food and Agriculture Ministry official Rafiq-ul-Usmani said, referring to a town in the province.

'We have already started culling at the farm.'

Several outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in poultry and other birds have been found in NWFP and the capital, Islamabad, since it was first detected in Pakistan in early 2006.

Pakistan confirmed its first human death from the virus in an area near Abbottabad in December.

Authorities confirmed two outbreaks at separate poultry farms in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi, in the south, early this month.
VIETNAM:
The 27-year-old man named Hoang Van Doan was admitted to the Bach Mai Hospital in the capital Hanoi on Feb. 12. He slaughtered chickens for meal on Feb. 5.

The Vietnamese Health Ministry on Feb. 13 confirmed a death of a 40-year-old man from northern Hai Duong province, who died on Feb. 13 after four days of treatment in the capital city, was infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1. The man named Do Van Sanslaughtered dead fighting chickens for meal before exhibiting bird flu symptoms on Feb. 2, said the TV report.

Late last month the ministry confirmed that a 32-year-old ethnic man named Tran Van Dong from northern Tuyen Quang province died from bird flu on Jan. 18. He slaughtered and ate dead fowls raised by his family for meal.

In late December 2007, after detecting no human cases of bird flu infections for nearly four months, the ministry confirmed that a four-year-old boy from northern Son La province died from bird flu on Dec. 16, 2007.

To date, Vietnam has reported a total of 104 human cases of bird flu infections, including 50 fatalities, since the disease started to hit the country in December 2003.

Vietnam currently has four localities having poultry being hit by bird flu: northern Thai Nguyen, central Quang Binh province, northern Quang Ninh province and southern Long An province, the Department of Animal Health under the country's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said on Thursday.
INDONESIA:
A 3-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, health officials said Saturday, announcing a second death from the illness in one day.

The two cases, which were apparently unrelated, brought Indonesia's death toll from the disease to 105.

The latest victim was identified only as Han, a 3-year-old boy from the southern part of the capital, Jakarta, who died Friday at a hospital in the city, radio El-Shinta reported.

Nyoman Kandun, a senior Health Ministry official, confirmed the report but did not provide details.

Laboratory tests confirmed the boy had the dangerous H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus, Kandun said. It was not clear how he was infected.

Earlier Saturday, the Health Ministry said that a 16-year-old Indonesian boy from Central Java province died of bird flu. The boy, whose name was not disclosed, became ill on Feb. 3 with a cough and other respiratory symptoms, according to the Health Ministry's Web site.

He died a week later in a hospital in the city of Solo, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of Jakarta, said Sumardi, a ministry spokesman. Like he many Indonesians, he goes by one name.

Tests confirmed the boy had been infected the H5N1 virus, the ministry's Web site said.

The 16-year-old victim's neighbors had sick chickens on their property and the boy apparently slaughtered some of them before he became ill, the ministry said.

Indonesia has regularly recorded human deaths from bird flu since the virus began ravaging poultry stocks across Asia in 2003.
BIRD FLU IS UNSTOPPABLE.
IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME...

WHO'S THREATENING FREE SPEECH MORE, BUSH OR JIHADISM?

The Left would answer Bush. As if having the NSA intercept enemy communications somehow abridged our free speech. As if ANY of the numerous raving lefties calling Bush "BusHitler" and Gitmo a gulag and the Abu Graihb incidents a crime against humanity had been made to shut.

Anti-Bush critics have NOT been throttled; they have CASHED in: The Nation's never been richer, and Michael Moore's movies have done very VERY well. Plame has earned millions. And so on.

But, the jihadists are openly threatening free speech all over the world with violence and the threat of violence.

Now, they're doing it in Denmark. But they've done it many times before - and all over the world.

They are attempting to intimidate the West and limit our right of free speech.

In the face of this overwhelming evidence, the Left continues to attack Bush and offer policies of appeasement to the people who REALLY threaten us, our allies, our way of life: just this week Zbig Brzezinski's (one of Obama's chief foreign policy advisors) went and paid homage to Assad.

The left's position is insane and damaging to the security of the entire free world.

And all the while - while they rant irrationally about Bush as if he threatened our civil liberties, and as if global jihad and creeping sharia didn't - they simultaneously promote policies in other spheres which are also highly damaging to our ability to defend ourselves:
  • their insane hysteria about the phantom menace of AGW and its concomitant policy goals of "carbon caps" and carbon-taxes would essentially mean higher taxes on everything - this would strangle our economy, and the world's economy.
  • their desire to nationalize healthcare would destroy our federal budget and require even higher taxes.
  • their desire to put a cap on profits of oil companies and pharmaceutical companies would strangle our economy.
AND SO ON.

There is a consistent pattern here. The Left sees menaces where there are none, and recommends policies of higher taxes, redistribution, "make-work" public employment, nationalization, profit caps, etc. - which have failed every time and everywhere they have ever been tried.

To be a leftist today one must be in deep denial about thee true threats and the types of policies which work.

Because there are so many leftists, they interfere with our ability to tackle the real problems in the world:
  • The Left thwarts our counter-measures in WW4;
  • they hamper economic growth by slowing trade and raising taxes;
  • they attempt to appease the enemy at home an abroad - in our courts, in Damascus (for example).
Which is why I have long argued that to defeat the jihadist anboraid we must first defeat the Left at home.

We MUST do this . And - WE CAN DO THIS.

We can do this by attacking the Left on every front: by exposing their AGW hysteria; by proving the Bush tax cuts were fair and stimulative; by continuing to expose bias at the MSM and in the Academy.

And by kicking their asses in the Fall election.

We must do this. WE CAN. Er um... I mean "YES WE CAN!" - heh.

WE CAN AND WE WILL.

A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT GERMANY YESTERDAY AND TODAY

The last two centuries of German history is a subject that I have taken a particular interest in. Given that two enormously influential Germans emerged during that time (Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler) who brought great woe on the world, I think it behooves us all to seek what understanding we can find of how all that happened

A small reflection on Prussia, the home of German militarism

Prussia was originally the most Eastern tentacle of the German states, although it no longer exists as a legal entity. It is best known for its militarism and a certain Asian influence. I was once married to a fine woman of Prussian descent and she had the distinctly Asian high cheekbones and the faint impression of Asian eyes that one associates with the old East Prussia, in particular. A legacy of the Mongol hordes, one imagines.

Military strategists worldwide to this day study von Clausewitz -- the best-known Prussian military strategist and theorist. And it was, after all, the Prussian Gneisenau's insight that won the battle of Waterloo (OK. Nobody else has ever told you that but look it up). And we won't talk about Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein and the many other brilliant Prussian generals. And, largely because of its military prowess, Prussia did eventually take over most of Germany. And the part that Prussia did not take over -- Austria -- was essentially ALLOWED to remain independent by Prussia.

And the dominant figure in Prusssia was the nobleman -- the Junker (pronounced "yoonker", where "oo" is as in "book"). The Junker was a landowner with a pedigree stretching back into the mists of time. And a Junker was usually a military man in some capacity -- even if only as a reservist. And the iconic image of the Prussian Junker was a man in military uniform wearing the Prussian Pickelhaube (spiked helment).

So why in heaven's name was the above Prussian Junker in spiked helmet depicted prominently on a U.S. government site until recently? (You can still find a small version of the picture about halfway down here). It is because the man depicted there is one of the most famous Prussians of all time -- Prussian Kanzler (Prime Minister) Prince Otto von Bismarck -- the man principally responsible for uniting Germany under the Prussian crown and the man principally responsible for the great Prussian military victory over the French at Sedan in 1870.

OK! What's the joke? you are saying. That is NO reason for putting the guy on a U.S. government website! You are right. Everything I have said about Bismarck is correct but what I have left out is that he is also the man who was principally responsible for inventing social security! Yes: The modern welfare State was invented in Prussia for Prussians by a Prussian militarist! Those dastardly Prussians were also welfarists!

Enough to blow the simple mind of any Leftist! Reality is far more complex than any of the guff that you learnt off Leftists during your education.


Hitler was also a socialist (welfarist) and a militarist.

He was not a Prussian himself but Germany's Prussian traditions helped make what he did respectable (and indeed honorable) in the Germany of his time.

No Leftist would tell you that welfarism often goes with militarism but it does in the real world -- as distinct from the Leftist dreamworld.

Hitler was in fact appointed as Reichskanzler (Prime Minister of Germany) by a Prussian Junker -- Marshall Paul von Hindenburg -- and Hitler made the most of that in his propaganda.

See the 1930s Nazi election poster above. In translation, it reads: "The marshall and the corporal fight alongside us for peace and equal rights".

Peace and equal rights! Where have I heard that before? It wouldn't be from modern-day American welfarists, would it? What surprising company welfarists keep! Not only Adolf Hitler but even Prince Otto von Bismarck!

The "mercenary" option for America

The very extensive deployment of reserve and National Guard troops to Iraq is a stark confession that the regular U.S. army troops and Marines are not remotely up to the tasks that have recently been demanded of them. And even the creation of more vacancies for regular troops in the armed services seems highly likely to run up against recruitmnent difficulties.

In the circumstances, various people (See e.g. here and here) have drawn attention to the fact that the US armed forces are already not wholly comprised of U.S. citizens. There are, in particular, large numbers of Hispanics serving and not all of them are "documented". And there are already provisions for "undocumented" troops who have served their time to be given accelerated access to full U.S. citizenship. So the suggestion is that more should be done along those lines -- that foreign troops be actively recruited -- with U.S. citizenship being offered as one of the rewards for service.

I am sure my thoughts on the matter are as politically incorrect as they are realistic so I have hesitated to enter that fray but I can resist no longer: The proposal goes close to hiring mercenaries and the track record of mercenaries is not good overall. So should it be done? I am inclined to think that it might be OK if strict selection criteria are applied and numbers are kept to (say) no more than a third of all U.S. troops.

One reason why I see merit in the idea is that it might draw into U.S. service a significant number of Germans and other Northern Europeans from countries with a distinguished history of military competence. Historically, Germans are probably second only to the Japanese when it comes to warrior virtues (lots of people TALK about fighting to the death but only the Japanese have ever done it) and it would seem that many Germans are natural-born warriors.

Germany today is both very anti-military and very anti-American but that is only a broad generalization. There are sure to be a significant minority of Germans who are both pro-American and genetically the same fierce warriors that the Teutons have been for over 2,000 years. And I am sure that any Germans with the old genes in them would just LOVE to get their hands on America's cutting-edge military hardware! That alone would be a big reward. As a former army psychologist, I have some idea of how the military mind works.

America might even get some capable military commanders out of it all. Germans seem to just sprout able generals (Rommel and the incredible von Manstein being the best known recent examples) while Anglo-American forces are notoriously short of them. Just look at the appalling record of American military command in Iraq. It almost makes the British look competent! And when America did at last find someone who knew what he was doing there, he was Dutch by immediate ancestry -- General Petraeus.

And Germans and other Teutons tend to fit into Anglospheric civilization so seamlessly that their origin soon ceases to be noticed by all but the acutest observers. And high educational requirements for recruits would of course let Germans in as easily as it would keep the less-compatible third-worlders out.

Posted by John Ray

POLAR BEAR UPDATE:

Report from Greenland: Too Much Ice Causing Polar Bears to go hungry so they are seeking food in the towns

Up to six bears were seen in the vicinity of Sisimiut - some quite close to the city. How many bears which are actually approaching Sisimiut has not been confirmed. But Maria Aarup has no doubt that on Tuesday she saw several bears near Amerloq Fjord. Fishermen have also seen a number of bears on the small islands from their trawlers as they battled ice in the harbour. Thursday morning bears were also seen at the airport and several people have seen bear tracks near the town dump.

Citizens are asked to report any bears they see to the police. If they stand in close proximity of a bear, are seriously threatened or seen a bear attack a person, they have the right to shoot. Petersen encouraged people to be careful though. Bears which are hungry lose their natural shyness. They usually stay in the water and hunt seals, but if they are hungry they come ashore and consume anything they can find.

Source

More information in the Danish-language version here. In an email, Svend Erik Hendriksen, a certified weather observer in the Kangerlussuaq Greenland MET office, summarizes it as follows:

"Several polar bears (at least 6) located close to Sisimiut town on the West coast...To much sea ice, so they are very hungry..... Al Gore says the polar bear need more ice to survive....Now we have a lot of ice, but the polar bears are starving and find their food at the garbage dumps in towns. It's also influenced the local community, polar bear alerts keep kids away from the schools and so on.... The first one was shot at February 1st.






And here's more on what's happening in Greenland weatherwise

The ice between Canada and southwestern Greenland has reached its highest level in 15 years. Minus 30 degrees Celsius. That's how cold it's been in large parts of western Greenland where the population has been bundling up in hats and scarves. At the same time, Denmark's Meteorological Institute states that the ice between Canada and southwest Greenland right now has reached its greatest extent in 15 years.

'Satellite pictures show that the ice expansion has extended farther south this year. In fact, it's a bit past the Nuuk area. We have to go back 15 years to find ice expansion so far south. On the eastern coast it hasn't been colder than normal, but there has been a good amount of snow.'

But how do these new reports fit in with continual reports that ice in the Arctic Ocean has been melting at a record rate due to increasing temperatures? And isn't global warming at the top of the political agenda these years? If it's up to meteorologists from Denmark's Meteorological Institute, there is not anything inherently contradictory that extreme cold is replaced by higher temperatures than average. Or that melting sea ice occasionally is replaced by expanding ice sheets.

Source





Polar Bears Are The Wrong Target Say Inuit

Canadian Inuit are opposing vigorous lobbying efforts to get the polar bear listed as "threatened" under the American Endangered Species Act. The US government has been considering the action since 2006. Now three conservation groups, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace are threatening to sue the US government to get it to proceed with the listing.

Two organizations that represent Inuit in Canada are disagreeing with the tactic of using the polar bear to try to force the American government to take action on climate change. Duane Smith, the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (Canada) says, "I don't see how listing it as threatened will complement the sustainability of the population. It is climate change that is the problem, not the sustainable hunting of polar bears."

Some polar bears in Canada are currently hunted by American hunters, who pay well for the experience. The hunt brings more than one and half million dollars a year into small Inuit communities in the territory of Nunavut. The listing of polar bears would likely threaten that hunt, and the money it brings into the communities.

"Even with the sport hunts we use dog teams, a portion of tags also go toward subsistence harvesting, and we ensure that all the meat and other parts of the Polar Bear are fully utilized," says Smith. "Our hunters and guides benefit economically and we are able to continue with our culture, enjoy the benefits of what we use, and ensure that this is done in a responsible and sustainable manner."

At the moment, Inuit are convinced that polar bears are being hunted at sustainable levels. Whether or not that level of hunting will still be sustainable in the future, after the effects of climate change become more severe, remains to be seen.

The bottom line is that stopping people from hunting polar bears now will not protect populations of polar bears in the future. Taking action on climate change now, on the other hand, will protect populations of polar bears in the future.

Source


Posted by John Ray

Friday, February 15, 2008

AFGHAN WINTER CLAIMS NEARLY 1000 LIVES

NYTIMES/AP:
Cold, snowstorms and avalanches have killed 926 people as the country suffers what is thought to be the worst winter in three decades, the authorities said.

Almost half the deaths, 462, have been in the hard-hit western province of Herat, and dozens of people there have had hands or feet amputated because of frostbite.

Over all, more than 316,000 cattle have died and 833 houses have been destroyed.
GLAD TO SEE THIS IN THE NYTIMES. WISH IT WAS FRONT-PAGE.
  • THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING.
  • CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA, SOUTH AMERICA (2007) ALL HAD OR ARE HAVING THEIR WORST WINTERS IN MANY MANY DECADES.
AL GORE: STFU.

NAVY READY TO LAUNCH UAV'S FROM ATTACK SHIPS


THIS IS COOL: US Navy first - Scan Eagle UAV launches from special warfare boat


Scan Eagle ready for launch from US Navy special warfare boat

SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif. - Photo caption -

Civilian contractors recover a Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle launched from a MK V naval special warfare boat off the coast of San Clemente Island. This is the first time a Scan Eagle, used for various applications such as intelligence gathering and battle damage assessment, has been launched from this kind of platform.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michelle L. Kapica.
  • WE PROBABLY WILL BE USING THEM IN THE PERSIAN GULF BEFORE THE IDES OF MAY.
  • AND THEY'LL BE FLYING OVER IRAN...
STAY TUNED...

HILLARY GAVE OUT CHOCOLATES - BUT WHERE DID SHE GET 'EM FROM?

CLICK PICK FOR INFO ON JIHADO-CHOCOLATES. EXCERPT:
Two shop-owners were today fined for selling chocolate cake - which had been sprinkled with human faeces.
MORE HERE.

SHE GAVE THEM OUT TO THE TRAVELING PRESS.

HEY: PAYBACK IS A BITCH.

*******UPDATE: Maybe Hillary has more in common with this woman:
A shopping mall in Olathe, Kansas, was evacuated after a woman robbed a bank with a box of chocolates.

The woman walked up to a cashier at the Capitol Federal Bank and said the box contained an explosive and demanded money.

She got away with an undisclosed sum, but after X-raying the package, the bomb squad discovered it contained chocolates and harmless wires.
HILLARY PROMISES THE VOTERS CHOCOLATES - BUT THEN WOULD ROB US TO PAY FOR THEM..

STARK-RAVING MAD: LEFTIST DENIAL ON THE COPENHAGEN INTIFADA

FROM THE COMMENT THREAD AT GATEWAY:
imthepresident said...

OMG OMG

Muzlim youths riots!!!

That meenz it will happen 2morro in America!

Fashizm cumming to america!!

Pleez keep watch-ing fox newz!!

Get the trooths!!

10:14 AM
HERE'S ANOTHER COMMENTER; (EXCERPT):
Anonymous said... Let me clue you in as a real liberal.

We don't like these thugs any better than we like you. In fact, we see these radical Muslims and you as fellow Fascists and equal threats to the Constitution.
  • THE ENEMY DOES THIS (WARNING******* LINKS TO VIDEO OF 12 YEAR OLD JIHADI BEHEADING A MAN).
  • US CONSERVATIVES AND OUR ALLIES - THAT WOULD BE THE ARMED FORCES (WHO THE LEFTIES WANT TO KICK OFF THEIR CAMPUSES AND OUT OF THEIR CITIES) - ARE FOR FIGHTING AGAINST THESE JIHADO-THUGS.
  • THE LEFT - LIKE THESE COMMENTERS - WANT TO APPEASE THEM.
ASK YOURSELF THIS: WHICH APPROACH MAKES YOU FEEL SAFER?

Intifadas like this have now taken place across Europe: in France, the Netherlands, Denmark - and there have been genocidal attacks in London and Madrid -- and there have been NUMEROUS failed attacks --- and attacks which have been thwarted.

Anyone who denies the threat, the pattern, or the root causes is in denial.

This denial enables the enemy - who use violence and the threats of violence to intimidate us and to have us reduce our liberty.

AND THOSE WHO EQUATE CLASSICAL LIBERALISM/NEO-CONSERVATISM WITH JIHADISM ARE INSANE.

They both get in the way.

Which is why I have long maintained that before we can defeat the jihadist abroad, we need to defeat the leftist at home.

It's why I blog.

We who warn of the very real threat of global jihad and creeping shaira are not insane, and we are not the same as the jihadists.

We are like Churchill in the 1930's - who was decried as a nut and a warmonger.

Had Europe listened to him in 1936, WW2 would have never happened.

We will win WW4. But if the left succeeds in delaying the West's necessary responses and counter-measures and counter-attacks, then the costs are gonna be much MUCH greater.

Sigh.

I fear that a Democrat victory in the USA in the Fall will set us back years - and cost us millions and millions of lives.

Sigh.

SOME SIGNS THE REAL ESATE MARKET MAY HAVE BOTTOMED OUT, AND IS HEADING UP: DETROIT REAL ESTATE SOLIDLY IMPROVING

DETROIT NEWS: Metro home sales up by 15%
Detroit leads gains with almost double amount of closings over same period last year.

Sales of residential and condominium units in Detroit nearly doubled in January, compared with the same month a year ago, and the region overall got a nearly 15 percent bump, according to real estate data firm Realcomp.

The city of Detroit led the gainers, posting a 45.5 percent increase in the month, with 736 closings.

Seven Realtors who deal primarily in downtown Detroit area property said they have enjoyed some of their recent best sale months in December and January. Sales of houses and condominiums in Detroit jumped by a 33.9 percent in December 2007, compared to December 2006. No other market in the Metro Detroit area came close to that kind of increase last year, according to Realcomp.

Realtors credit tumbling prices, low interest rates and sales of foreclosed properties or properties hoping to avoid foreclosures.

"We're actually seeing revived interest this month in the units that haven't been drastically reduced. That's really good to see because January traditionally isn't the busiest month," said Ryan Cooley of O'Connor Realty in the Corktown neighborhood adjacent to downtown Detroit. "Interest rates are low. If you haven't been impacted by the mortgage situation, it's a good time to buy."

Among other January results:

• Livingston and Wayne counties also posted double-digit percentage growth. Livingston sales jumped 32.6 percent and Wayne 24.1 percent.

• Oakland County, usually the driver in residential real estate, has yet to see a significant bounce in sales. The county saw the lowest increase of all counties in Metro Detroit, with a 3.4 percent jump to 752 closings.

• Macomb County recorded a slight increase of 8.7 percent, or 436 closings.
THIS MEANS THE WORST IS OVER AND THINGS WILL START IMPROVING FROM HERE ON OUT.

GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA - AND THE WORLD ECONOMY.

BAD NEWS FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

MORE PROOF AL GORE IS WRONG: SNOW IN SAN DIEGO

UPI:
A section of Interstate 8, a highway that almost touches the Mexican border, remained closed Friday after a surprise winter storm hit Southern California.

The California Highway Patrol said more than 500 cars and trucks were abandoned on the highway, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. About 300 people sheltered overnight in a casino and 100 at a fire station.

Crashes were common but no major injuries or deaths were reported.

The snowstorm was not predicted. The National Weather Service forecast a 20 percent chance of light rain in the San Diego area for Thursday.

Instead, the rain was heavy near the Pacific and turned to snow in the mountains.

Bo Donovan, manager of the airport in Ramona, 1,393 feet above sea level, said he has worked there for almost five years without seeing snow.

"This is real snow. It's piled up against the building," he said.
  • IT AIN'T GETTING WARMER, ANYMORE.
  • FIRST SNOW IN SAN DIEGO IN 5 YEARS.
  • MOST SNOW IN EUROPE IN 50 YEARS.
  • MOST SNOW EVER IN MIDWEST.
  • COLDEST DAY EVER IN USA.
  • COLDEST, SNOWIEST WINTER IN CHNIA IN 100.
  • COLDEST, SNOWIEST WINTER IN CENTRAL ASIA AND TURKEY, TOO.
YO: AL GORE: STFU.

UNDENIABLY TRUE: WE'RE WINNING IN IRAQ - NO THANKS TO THE DEMOCRATS

WE'RE WINNING:
The Situation in Iraq: A Briefing from the Battlefield

Author: Anthony Cordesman
Date of Publication: February 13, 2008

Synopsis:

No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area.

A combination of the surge, improved win and hold tactics, the tribal uprising in Anbar and other provinces, the Sadr ceasefire, and major advances in the use of IS&R have transformed the battle against Al Qaida in Iraq.

If the US provides sustained support to the Iraqi government -- in security, governance, and development -- there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state.
WE'RE WINNING.
  • I HAD LUNCH WITH SOME OLD LEFTIE FRIENDS TODAY - BOTH THOUGHT WE WERE LOSING AND THAT WE HAD NO CHANCE OF WINNING.
  • BRILLIANT GUYS - BUT DUPES.
  • THE TRUTH WILL WIN. AND IN TIME FOR THE ELECTION.
  • WHICH MEANS THE DEMS WILL LOSE.
BY BEING 180' WRONG ON IRAQ THEY HAVE PROVEN THEMSELVES UNFIT FOR COMMAND. ONCE AGAIN.

THE ONLY WAY WE CAN LOSE - AND THE ONLY WAY IRAQ CAN SLIP BACK UNDER CONTROL OF TYRANTS - IS IF THE DEMOCRATS WIN IN NOVEMBER.

COPENHAGEN INTIFADA DAY 6 UPDATE


Denmark, 1:oo am 16 Feb. 2008
The nightly hit and run arson attacks continue, with intesified focus on Schools. Map here.

Stay tuned...

MCCAIN AIN'T A REAL MAVERICK; THIS IS THE REAL MAVERICK

BETCHYA YA CAN'T WATCH JUST ONE.

INTRO ONLY BELOW:

PRINCE BANDAR & THE BANKS

According to this posting by Director Blue, citing the Washington Post here at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS on January 27, 2008,
Bill Clinton approached Prince Bandar in 1991 for $20 million to launch a Middle East studies program at the University of Arkansas and that Prince Bandar announced that the request was approved shortly before Bill Clinton won the presidential election...
On February 10, 2008, the Washington Post reported the following about Prince Bandar, former ambassador from Saudi:
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the former Saudi ambassador to the United States from removing real estate sales proceeds from the United States, pending resolution of a class-action lawsuit.

The suit was filed last September by a tiny Michigan city's retirement system. It accuses current and former directors of BAE Systems, a giant British defense company, of breaching their fiduciary duties in connection with $2 billion or more in alleged illegal bribes paid to Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

Bandar also is named a defendant in the suit, along with the former Riggs Bank of Washington and its successor, PNC Financial Group.

[...]

Without ruling on the merits of the case, U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said in a temporary restraining order, signed Tuesday [February 12], that the suit by the City of Harper Woods Employees' Retirement System raises serious questions of law that warrant a temporary order keeping Bandar from taking the proceeds of real estate sales out of U.S.-based accounts.

[...]

The retirement system suit maintains that Bandar used funds illicitly obtained from BAE Systems to acquire U.S. real estate, including a Colorado ranch and mansion once placed on the market at $135 million and the former William Randolph Hearst mansion in California, offered for sale last summer at $165 million....
According to the article, the accounts in question were audited annually by the Saudi Arabian Ministry--for whatever those audits are worth with regard to integrity.

The article goes on to provide this unrelated information:
In London, lawmakers disclosed last month that Britain's head of overseas intelligence had warned that Saudi Arabia probably would stop sharing vital information on terrorism if prosecutors pursued an investigation into alleged corruption involving the kingdom.

MI6, Britain's overseas intelligence service, believed Saudi Arabia would probably end information-sharing with Britain if investigators continued the inquiry, former attorney general Peter Goldsmith told the committee. MI6 raised objections to the prosecution before Britain's Serious Fraud Office decided to end the case, he said.

After the inquiry was dropped, Saudi Arabia signed a $8.7 billion agreement with Britain to buy 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets from BAE.
I'll give the Saudis credit for one thing: they know how to work quid pro quo. The West apparently does not.

Reminder: Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs knew all about quid pro quo, too. He worked it to his megalomaniacal, serial-killing advantage.

OBAMA: The shallowness below the soaring rhetoric

Excerpt:

The conventional critique of Sen. Obama has held that his pitch is perfect but at some point he'll need to make the appeal more concrete. I think the potential vulnerability runs deeper. Strip away the new coat of paint from the Obama message and what you find is not only familiar. It's a downer. Up to now, the force of Sen. Obama's physical presentation has so dazzled audiences that it has been hard to focus on precisely what he is saying. "Yes, we can! Yes, we can!" Can what? Listen closely to that Tuesday night Wisconsin speech. Unhinge yourself from the mesmerizing voice. What one hears is a message that is largely negative, illustrated with anecdotes of unremitting bleakness. Heavy with class warfare, it is a speech that could have been delivered by a Democrat in 1968, or even 1928. Here is the edited version, stripped of the flying surfboard:

"Our road will not be easy . . . the cynics. . . where lobbyists write check after check and Exxon turns record profits . . . That's what happens when lobbyists set the agenda. . . It's a game where trade deals like Nafta ship jobs overseas and force parents to compete with their teenagers to work for minimum wage at Wal-Mart . . . It's a game . . . CEO bonuses . . . while another mother goes without health care for her sick child . . . We can't keep driving a wider and wider gap between the few who are rich and the rest who struggle to keep pace . . . even if they're not rich . . ."

Here's his America: "lies awake at night wondering how he's going to pay the bills . . . she works the night shift after a full day of college and still can't afford health care for a sister who's ill . . . the senior I met who lost his pension when the company he gave his life to went bankrupt . . . the teacher who works at Dunkin' Donuts after school just to make ends meet . . . I was not born into money or status . . . I've fought to bring jobs to the jobless in the shadow of a shuttered steel plant . . . to make sure people weren't denied their rights because of what they looked like or where they came from . . . Now we carry our message to farms and factories."

It ends: "We can cast off our doubts and fears and cynicism because our dream will not be deferred; our future will not be denied; and our time for change has come."

I am not saying all of this is false. But it is a depressing message to ride all the way to the White House. Presumably this is a preview of what he intends to run with against John McCain, who was mentioned several times. (Straw in the wind: This audience cheered when he called Sen. McCain an American hero.) Presidential elections now are settled by about 30% of the electorate that occupies the independent center. In late December, Gallup released a poll in which 84% of respondents said they were satisfied with their own lives. At some point in the next 10 months, people will have to square Sen. Obama's Grapes of Wrath message with the reality of their lives...

Right after the Wisconsin speech, TV broadcast another -- by victorious John McCain. The contrast with Sen. Obama's is stark. The arc of the McCain speech is upward, positive. Pointedly, he says we are not history's "victims." Barack relentlessly pushes victimology.

For Sen. Obama the military and national security is a world of catastrophe welded to Iraq and filled with maimed soldiers. Mr. McCain locates these same difficult subjects inside the whole of American military achievement. It nets out as a more positive message. Recall that Ronald Reagan's signature optimism, when it first appeared, was laughed at by political pros. Optimism won elections.

More here

Posted by John Ray

GAZA'S YMCA LIBRARY BLOWN UP, AND CHRISTIAN POPULATION DWINDLES

Hamas' gunmen have shown their contempt for books that aren't the Quran:
A band of 14 masked gunmen forced its way into YMCA offices in the Gaza Strip and exploded a library there, Israel Radio reported Friday.

Thousands of books were reportedly burnt in the ensuing fire. The YMCA in Gaza also operates a gym and a wedding hall.

The gunmen laid a second explosive device near a computer in the library but it failed to detonate. Two security guards on the scene were not able to block the intruders; they were taken by them from the YMCA and later released in the northern Gaza Strip.

The latest incident is another link in an ongoing chain of attacks against Palestinian Christians which has worsened since Hamas took power of the Gaza Strip last June.

However, Christians in the West Bank were not faring much better and the Christian population in both territories has been continually dwindling.

The Palestinian Christian population has dipped to 1.5% of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, down from at least 15% a half century ago, according to some estimates. No city in the Holy Land is more indicative of the Christian exodus than Bethlehem, which fell under full Palestinian control last decade as part of the Oslo Accords. The town of 30,000 is now less than 20% Christian, after decades during which Christians were the majority. Elsewhere in the PA territories, only about 3,000 Christians, mostly Greek Orthodox, live in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, among a strongly conservative Muslim population of 1.4 million.
If something isn't done to protest the discrimination against Christians by Muslims, there could be a Christian version of Judenrein soon.

A RELIEF?

A rabbi who works at the Western Wall says that destruction committed by the Muslim Wakf isn't as bad as before. But even if that's so, there's still vandalism going on there, and it needs to be stopped completely.

So is this good news? No, because there's still Muslim destruction taking place there.

COPENHAGEN INTIFADA DAY 5 ROUNDUP



DENMARK STOOD IN FLAMES LAST NIGHT

The map at left borrowed from TV2.dk

1 of 2 buildings at the Værebro School - 15000 square feet - destroyed. (gallery of stills)

The nightly skirmishes of arson and vandalism are beginning to be noted outside of Denmark, but unless blood is shed it may not make it to the MSM.

Last nights crimes in Kokkedal, Nivå, Birkerød, Farum, Brønshøj, Ballerup, Glostrup, Gladsaxe, Ishøj, Greve, Hundige, Ringsted, Kalundborg og Århus began at 10 pm and were coordinated by SMS.

Unless the gorvernment imposes a curfew, or ordinary citizens come out of their nests I do not see this subsiding.

One Copenhagen mayor suggested the government provide a center for these youths to hang out at so they would be off the streets (I guess they would have to build 20 centers across the country now...)

But Integration Consultant Mohammed Rafiq said the proposal was unrealistic: "The commune would lose control of this place and it would become a market for drugs and stolen goods."

And such a place would not encourage integration, as no ethnic danes would hang out there!

There are a lot of theories being proffered as to why this is occurring now: The arrest of 3 men plotting to kill one of the artists behind on of the famous Muhammad Cartoons - and the republication of said cartoons in the aftermath of these arrests; the hard handed treatment by the police of a Palestinian man in Norrebro; stepped up pressure on the part of the police against the drug dealing Islamothugs...

My own reading of the situation is that this is an attempt by the drug-dealing Islamo-thugs to overburden the state and raise the price for domestic tranquility. Everything else is just oil on the fire.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS: IMHO: THE BREADTH OF THE ATTACKS PROVES THIS IS A COORDINATED NATIONAL EFFORT - IDEOLOGICAL IN ITS MOTIVATION; IN SHORT IT IS A MUSLIM INTIFADA INTENDED TO MAKE DANES AFRAID FOR THEIR LIVES AND PROPERTY AND READY TO REDUCE THEIR LIBERTY.

JC WATTS FOR VICE PRESIDENT!!

So since I refuse to jump on the McCain bandwagon, my efforts are going to be put into persuading the McCain camp to pick a stellar conservative for VP. I truly think thats the only way he has a chance of getting many of our votes. There is nothing he can say or do to personally redeem himself with us but if he picks a great VP we could be persuaded to vote for him.

I've decided to start compiling a list of stellar Conservatives that would make good candidates. JC Watts is at the top of my list and I've heard through the grapevine that Watts and McCain are friends which IMHO would be Watts only flaw.

I'll never forget the first time I heard JC Watts speak. He gave the Republican response in 1997 to Bill Clinton's State of the Union address and I was mesmerized. Not only was he a charismatic speaker and a likable guy but he came across as sincere, genuine and had stellar conservative beliefs and credentials.

A year ago when I did a post on who my dream candidates for President would be he was my number one pick!!

So who else would qualify? Shane did a good post about all of this and listed a couple. So below I'm going to start a list and if you know of someone that you think qualifies just leave their name in the comments and if I agree I'll add them to the list. Then I will be sending an email and I'll be calling the McCain campaign.

The Conservative VP list:
1) JC Watts
2) Michael Steele
3) Governor Mark Sanford
4) Senator Jim DeMint
5) Governor Haley Barbour

Thursday, February 14, 2008

OBAMA IS A KENYAN-AMERICAN NOT AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN



THINK ABOUT IT. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA JUNIOR - IS HALF KENYAN AND HALF AMERICAN.

HE IS NOT AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
  • OBAMA SURE HAS FOOLED THE AFRICAN-AMERICANS ONTO THINKING HE'S ONE OF THEM.
  • BUT THE SADDEST THING IS THAT AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE STILL HELD CAPTIVE BY LEFTIST/DEMOCRAT POLICIES.
  • POLICIES WHICH HAVE FAILED THEM: THE GREAT SOCIETY AND THE WELFARE STATE JUST ABOUT DESTROYED THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY - SOMETHING SLAVERY, AND JIM CROW COULD NOT DO.
  • YET MOST OF THEM BELIEVE THE PANDERING DEMAGOGUES AND REFUSE TO BREAK FREE OF THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE.
  • TO THEIR OWN HARM.
PITY.

  • BTW: OBAMA AND HIS CAMEL ARE SURE AS HECK NOT GONNA LEAD US INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
  • QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
  • IF WE LET HIM.

IRAQ WAR : DEMOCRAT DOVES :: WW1 : BOLSHEVIKS

The Iraq War is to the Democrat doves what WW1 was to the Bolsheviks.

History Guide:
The initial triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution at the end of October, 1917 (see Lecture 6), did not mean that the entire population of Russia had been converted to Bolshevism. Lenin was aware of this. To gather national support, Lenin resorted to slogans for the masses. The most important of them was "Bread, Land, Peace and All Power to the Soviets."
In one of his first acts, Lenin wrote a Decree for Peace:
In his decree Lenin worked to secure an end to the war using the usual (i.e. traditional) diplomatic channels, while simultaneously promoting the expansion of Soviet ideals around the world, thereby encouraging a widening of the socialist revolution.
Isvestiia (published the Decree):
The Workers' and Peasants' Government, created by the revolution of October 24-25, and drawing its strength from the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies, proposes to all warring peoples and their governments to begin at once negotiations leading to a just democratic peace. A just and democratic peace for which the great majority of wearied, tormented and war-exhausted toilers and labouring classes of all belligerent countries are thirsting, a peace which the Russian workers and peasants have so loudly and insistently demanded since the overthrow of the Tsar's monarchy, such a peace the government considers to be an immediate peace without annexations (i.e., without the seizure of foreign territory and the forcible annexation of foreign nationalities) and without indemnities.

The Russian Government proposes to all warring peoples that this kind of peace be concluded at once; it also expresses its readiness to take immediately, without the least delay, all decisive steps pending the final confirmation of all the terms of such a peace by the plenipotentiary assemblies of all countries and all nations.
The commies - Lenin and Trotsky and Stalin - were doves in WW1. They wanted to consolidate power and focus the coercive power of the state on a CLASS WAR at home. And foment class war internationally, too.

JUST LIKE THE DEMOCRAT DOVES TODAY.

OBAMA, HILLARY, LENIN, TROTSKY: Leftists all. Doves all.

None to be trusted. EVER.

GLOBAL-WARMING: HARVARD SCIENTISTS SAY, "IT'S THE SUN, STUPID!"

TYLER NEWS VIA NEWSBUSTERS.

HERE'S THE WIKI ON THE SCIENTIST.

Social Security Time-bomb Goes BOOM: First Boomer Gets Check - (she's 62 and will probably be getting them for the next 25 years!)

Details and links HERE.

FROM HERE ON OUT: Each and every day, another 10,000 "boomer-bombs" goes off...

VIDEO PROOF: MCCAIN IS AN OLD FART AND HILLARY IS GULLIBLE

MUST SEE TV.

I'D LIKE TO SEE HIM CALL OBAMA.

TAX-GETTERS ABOUT TO ENDORSE TAX-RAISER: SEIU ABOUT TO ENDORSE OBAMA

POLITICO: SEIU set to endorse Obama
Two labor sources tell Politico that the giant Service Employees International Union, which has been neutral through the primary, is on the verge of throwing its support to Sen. Barack Obama.

"It's done," said one person close to the union.

SEIU spokeswoman Stephanie Mueller confirmed that union leaders are set to discuss a potential endorsement today.

"Our board is going to be talking this evening," she said. "This will be a topic of their conversation."

An endorsement will be particularly important in beefing up his organization in Texas, where the union has a major presence among Latinos. (The Wisconsin SEIU has already endorsed Obama, and his Chicago allies are active there.)

Many SEIU leaders had backed Edwards before he dropped out, but giant New York- and Chicago-based locals blocked an endorsement. Now, with Chicago pushing hard for Obama and joined by much of the rest of the union's national organization, insiders said a tipping point appears to have been reached.
SEIU WEBSITE:
SEIU is the fastest-growing union in North America. Focused on uniting workers in three sectors to improve their lives and the services they provide, SEIU is:

» The largest health care union, with 900,000 members in the field, including nurses, LPNs, doctors, lab technicians, nursing home workers, home care workers

» The largest property services union, with 225,000 members in the building cleaning and security industries, including janitors, door men and women

» The second largest public services union, with 850,000 local and state government workers, public school employees, bus drivers, and child care providers.
  • THEY COULD'VE LIVED WITH ANY OF THE THREE LEADING DEM CANDIDATES: ALL PROMISED TO EXPAND THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE IN HEALTHCARE AND THEREFORE DIRECTLY BRING THEM RICHES.
  • OBAMA IS PROMISING THEM THE MOST - WITH EXPANSION OF TAX-PAYER FINANCED HEALTHCARE AND HIS "GREEN CORPS".
  • IT'S A QUID PRO QUO PAYOFF TO THE DEMOCRAT/UNION MACHINE - TYPIFIED BY THE CHICAGO MACHINE WHICH ANOINTED OBAMA.
THE ASTUTE BLOGGER TWO WEEKS AGO WEEK:
  • THE OBAMA-REZKO RELATIONSHIP SPEAKS VOLUMES - ABOUT OBAMA.
  • AND IT EXPLAINS WHY AND HOW OBAMA ROSE SO QUICKLY THROUGH CITY AND THEN STATE POLITICS AND INTO THE SENATE.
  • AND IT EXPLAINS WHY TED KENNEDY IS SO ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTING HIM
  • IT'S NOT JUST CLINTON-FATIGUE, OR CLINTON HATRED.
  • IT'S THE OL'TIME CORRUPT, ELECTION-STEALING, PATRONAGE JOB-GIVING CHICAGO DEMOCRAT PARTY MACHINE, FEELING YOUNG AGAIN - FEELING WELL-OILED, AND EAGER TO GET CONTROL OF THE WHITE HOUSE SO THEY CAN:
  1. GET CONTROL OF FEDERAL PATRONAGE,
  2. GET CONTROL OF THE POWER TO INCREASE FEDERAL UNION WAGES,
  3. AND - AS TEDDY BELLOWED SO LOUDLY DURING HIS ENDORSEMENT SPEECH -
  4. GET THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CREATE THE GREAT-GRANDMOTHER OF ALL FEDERAL TEAT-SUCKING PATRONAGE PROGRAMS OF ALL TIMES: NATIONAL HEALTHCARE.
Can you imagine what will happen if PRESIDENT OBAMA signs a nationalized healthcare plan bill passed by HARRY REID and NANCY PELOSI!?!?

It'll probably be run by a Kennedy and a Daley - for their benefit and the benefit of and their SEIU/AFSCME cronies.
We must stop them.

MORE PROOF THAT RADICALIZED MUSLIMS ARE CRAVEN INSANE THUGS: THEY'VE DESECRATED JOSEPH'S TOMB - AGAIN!

These "radical muslims" are sc*msuckingmutha**ckingc**ksucking pieces of crap for doing this at all - as in EVER, but this is the second freakin' time they have desecrated Joseph's Tomb.

On top of that - as if that wasn't SOCIOPATHIC ENOUGH! - some claim Joesph was Muslim!

Sheesh. WE BLOGGED ON THE EARLIER ATTACK HERE AND HERE.

GATEWAY has the details and jpegs and links on the latest attack.

  • JEWS HAVE NEVER EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS TO CHURCHES OR MOSQUES ANYWHERE.
  • BUT MUSLIMS THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DESTROY WHATEVER THEY DON'T LIKE IN PLACES THEY CONQUER.
  • REMEMBER THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN?
  • THAT WAS BEFORE 9/11. AND INVOLVED NOI JEWS, NOI NEOCONS, NO REPUBLICANS.
  • IF JEWS HAD BEHAVED IN 1967 AS MUSLIMS DO TODAY, THEN THE SO-CALLED AL-AKSA MOSQUE WOULD BE LONG GONE.
  • BUT IT'S STILL THERE.
  • A TESTAMENT TO JEWISH MORALITY.
  • AND PERHAPS... STUPIDITY: WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER.
  • OR AS MUSLIMS SAY: HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD DIES BY THE SWORD.

MAYBE IT'S TIME WE BEHAVED A LITTLE MORE LIKE THEM?

LEFTIST POLICIES ADD $200,000 OF COST TO EVERY NEW HOME IN SEATTLE

THE SEATTLE TIMES: UW study: Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price
Theo Eicher, founding director of the UW's Economic Policy Research Center, analyzed data from a national index and concluded that Seattle is "one of the most regulated cities" when it comes to land use — and home prices reflect that.

Backed by studies showing that middle-class Seattle residents can no longer afford the city's middle-class homes, consensus is growing that prices are too darned high. But why are they so high?

An intriguing new analysis by a University of Washington economics professor argues that home prices have, perhaps inadvertently, been driven up $200,000 by good intentions.

Between 1989 and 2006, the median inflation-adjusted price of a Seattle house rose from $221,000 to $447,800. Fully $200,000 of that increase was the result of land-use regulations, says Theo Eicher — twice the financial impact that regulation has had on other major U.S. cities.

"In a nationwide study, it can be shown that Seattle is one of the most regulated cities and a city whose housing prices are profoundly influenced by regulations," he says.
  • THIS IS YET MORE PROOF THAT LEFTISM ALWAYS WRECKS ECONOMIES.
  • FROM THE USSR TO CHINA TO CUBA TO NORTH KOREA TO ZIMBABWE - TO SEATTLE.
  • OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN REALTY PROVES THAT LEFTIST POLICIES ARE THE ROAD TO SERFDOM.
  • YET THE DEMAGOGUING DEMOCRATS STILL PROMOTE THEM, AND GULLIBLE VOTERS STILL FALL FOR IT. WITH THE HELP OF THE LEFT-WING MSM AND THE LEFT-WING ACADEMY.
  • THE POLICES ADVOCATED BY OBAMA AND HILLARY WILL DO THE THE ENTIRE USA ECONOMY WHAT THESE LAND-USE REGS HAVE DONE TO SEATTLE'S HOUSING MARKET.
THAT'S WHY WE MUST STOP THEM.

WESTWOOD IN LONDON: ANOTHER INAPPROPRIATE AND COWARDLY ATTACK ON THE USA BY A PUBLICITY-SEEKING LEFT-WING "ARTIST"

AP: Designer Westwood Makes Short Statement
By DANICA KIRKA – 2 hours ago LONDON (AP) — Call them protest panties. Designer Vivienne Westwood returned to London Fashion Week after a nine-year absence, and one of her models wore the outspoken designer's political opinions where it would win a lot of attention — on the tush.

Westwood protested the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Ba
y by cladding the lead model in her show in orange and black underwear reminiscent of the fluorescent orange jumpsuits worn by detainees at the U.S. prison camp.

At the start of the show, the model strutted down the catwalk and turned provocatively to the assembled photographers to flash panties printed with the words: "Fair trial my arse."


The message was an apparent reference to U.S. plans to prosecute Guantanamo Bay prisoners at military tribunals.
Inspiration for the bikini billboard came from the director of the legal charity Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith, who was accused of smuggling underwear into Guantanamo Bay.

Backstage, Westwood said she hoped Sen. Barrack Obama would be chosen as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.

She also showed off a necklace she was wearing that read: "I'm not a terrorist, please don't arrest me."


"I don't know if I will actually wear them," she said of the panties, which will retail for 35 pounds, or nearly $70, and come with handcuffs as accessories.

WHAT A FREAKIN' COWARD. LOOK AT WHO SHE ATTACKS: GEORGE BUSH AND THE USA.

PEOPLE WHO SHE KNOWS WON'T UNDERTAKE ANY ACT OF REPRISAL.

SHE DOES THIS RATHER THAN USE HER SHOW TO:

ATTACK THE ISLAMO-THUGS WHO COMMITTED 17,000 ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST WOMEN IN THE UK,

RATHER THAN ATTACKING THE ISLAMO-THUGS WHO MURDERED FELLOW ARTIST THEO VAN GOGH, AND HAVE THREATENED THE LIKE OF AYAAN HIRSI ALI,

RATHER THAN ATTACK THE ISLAMO-THUGS WHO THROW ACID IN THE FACE OF WOMEN WHO DON'T WEAR BURQAS,

RATHER THAN ATTACK THE ISLAMO-THUGS WHO USE WOMEN WITH DOWN'S TO BLOW UP FAMILIES BUYING PETS IN BAGHDAD.

WESTWOOD DOESN'T USE HER FAME TO DEFEND THE LIBERTY AND DIGNITY OF MILLIONS OF WOMEN IN THE WEST.

NOPE.

INSTEAD, WESTWOOD DEFENDS THE CONTESTED JURISPRUDENTIAL RIGHTS OF A FEW HUNDRED JIHADISTS IN JAIL AT GITMO - A PLACE WHERE THEY PUT ON WEIGHT.

WHAT TYPE OF PERSON DOES THIS?

SIMPLE: A COWARDLY AND ASININE NARCISSISTIC POSTMODERN LEFTIST.

WHOSE SON AND MOTHER LOOK LIKE THAT - ON THE LEFT; LIKE BAG-PEOPLE.

WESTWOOD IS LEFT-WING SCUM.

IF SHE AND HER COMRADES HAD ANY SCRUPLES AND THE TINIEST BIT OF COURAGE, THEN THEY'D BE ON OUR SIDE - INSTEAD OF THE ENEMY'S.