In a forthcoming study for the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Israel's Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, senior researcher Ely Karmon raises the alarming prospect of Hezbollah affiliated groups bringing the Lebanese terrorists' brand of violence to the Americas. While acknowledging that it is too soon to draw clear conclusions about the nature and objectives of these Hezbollah "franchisees," Karmon nonetheless notes that "successful campaigns of proselytism in the heart of poor indigene Indian tribes and populations by both Shi'a and Sunni preachers and activists" have contributed to the growing attraction of Islamist terrorist groups in Latin America. Karmon also observes that "there is a growing trend of solidarity between leftist, Marxist, anti-global and even rightist elements with the Islamists," citing inter alia the September 2004 "strategy conference" of anti-globalization groups hosted by Hezbollah in Beirut. Cf. the efforts made to pain islam as the "indigenous" religion of hispanics (thanks to the al andalous myth), a notion which vas publically voiced by chavez IIRC. Again, islam as the ultimate "in your face" to the Western (white male christian) world order, and/or the vanguard of the "revenge of the downtrodden and oppressed"...
Evidence of this was already available in the Washington Post's front page coverage of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's September 22 mass rally, which mentioned that among those in attendance was a Lebanese expatriate who had flown in from Venezuela for the event and that "[a]t the mention of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a critic of America, cheers went up."
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WHITE GUILT??? See TONY BROWN'S JOURNAL on PBS > Activist > USA [and only USA?] can answer to its alleged PAST, RECENT + ON-GOING horrific crimes = "crimes agz humanity" agz African-Americans, Muslims + Indians by:
1. PUBLICLY ADMITTING + APOLOGIZING to horrific ethnic crimes, including WILFUL GENOCIDE + LANDS THEFT.
2. After (1), US GOVT to unilater put up WIDESPREAD, NATION-WIDE PUBLIC MEMORIALS to said Crimes + past.
3. MASSIVE PUBLIC INFORMATION + INTEGRATED PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN - from kiddie schools to University-level.
4. UNIVERSAL LIFETIME ENTITLEMENTS, including but not limited to FREE EDUCATION, JOBS, LIFETIME PUBLIC ASSISTANCE, SPECIAL/UNIQUE CITIZEN STATUS, and SELF-GOVT = LANDS "SET-ASIDES" where US Fed-State Laws have no say or effect.
Weirdly and mysteriously, but only co-incidentally and PCorrectly, America is the only nation that has to do these things - Blacks, Muslims, and Indians whom killed = enslaved 00K's-Milyuuhns of their own, EVEN BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF WHITE EUROS, don't have to do any of same. *MEL GIBSON'S "APOCALYPTO" > WHITEY, and only Whitey, is per se, de facto, undeniably and unequivocally responsible for Other Indians wiping out the Maya before any Euros even set foot in the Americas. D *** YOU, CORTEZ and PIZARRO!?
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It's worse in Australia, both the government money and special rights assigned to Aboriginals.
Having said that, the lot of remote aboriginals is dismal. I've worked with them and had several conversations with one of the last wild aboriginals in Australia. His family group lived in a remote area without contact with white people until missionaries found them when he was 10 years old. An extremely nice man BTW. And as a comment on the advantages of civilization, both his sons were over foot taller than him.
Two years ago, movie director Theo van Goghs throat was cut on a street in Amsterdam in the name of radical Islam. I had partaken in his last work, Submission, where we represented, in the most accurate way possible, the condition of Muslim women: tyranny, humiliations, violence. In this film, we showed Muslim women who had finally rebelled, talking to God in a tone of defiance. It made Imam Fawaz of the Hague scream with hate during the delivery of a vengeful sermon. My friend Theo, the criminal bastard, was subsequently riddled with bullets and stabbed to death with a dagger.
At the beginning of this November, the trial of the members of a violent Islamic network in the Netherlands entered its final phase. And an entire society today asks itself questions about the integration of its immigrants. While I reside in the United States at present--Im well-protected here--the invectives of the Imam still ring in my ear, calling for the punishment of Theo, and promising me a Divine curse in the form of blindness combined with cancer of the tongue and cancer of the brain.
Time has passed. After a bad quarrel regarding my Dutch naturalization and my resignation from the Dutch Parliament, I was rapidly rehabilitated. Here I am, once again a Dutch citizen, an émigrée in the United States. Whatever one may say of it, the United States remains in many regards the greatest champion of liberty. At the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, I have more time and more means to diffuse my ideas.
People ask me incessantly what its like to live with perpetual death threats. This question is most often asked by Westerners, with the naiveté of those who consider life to be naturally peaceful. Born in Somalia, the daughter of an opponent of Siyad Barrés dictatorship, I grew up in my country, then in Saudi-Arabia and in Kenya in an environment in which death invited itself without end. A virus, a bacterium, a parasite, a drought, a famine, a civil war, soldiers, torturers: death could take all forms and hit anyone, anytime. When I had malaria, I got well again. When I was circumcised, my wound transformed into scar tissue, and I survived. When my Quran teacher fractured my skull, doctors saved me. A bandit put the blade of his knife against my throat: Im still alive, and more of a rebel than ever before.
I remember Saudi-Arabia where, under the cover of purity, our most minor gestures were haunted by sin and fear: hangings, the cutting off of hands, women controlled and stoned to death, such was and such remains the everyday life of that country. The respect for the literal words of the Prophet is incompatible with human rights, in contradiction to philosophy of classical liberalism. Submerged in a medieval mentality, numerous Muslim countries profit from Western technological advances, pretending to ignore that these advances find their very origin in Enlightenment-thinking. Its this blindness coupled with hypocrisy that renders the transition towards modernity a most arduous one for the faithful. I quit the world of faith, genital mutilation and forced marriage for that of reason and sexual emancipation. I made the journey towards human rights. At present, I know that one of these two worlds is simply better than the other.
Some, in the West, find such a distinction to be politically incorrect, but its necessary to realize that it is Islam which is most traumatized by fundamentalism, not the Western world. Europe only feels the shock waves because of immigration and globalization. Its by making morality relative and by affirming the equality of cultures that a number of Western intellectuals embark on the path, without realizing it themselves, of self-destruction. Three concepts are at the heart of your culture: 1) freedom of the individual as an end in and of itself, 2) rationality, 3) separation of the scientific and the religious.
Created on a humanist base, your institutions are the expression of the life here on earth, while Islamic philosophy, rejecting individual freedom, submits the individual to God. On Islamic soil, rationality and science enter into a conflict with the Quran: any innovation becomes unacceptable. The government cannot be founded on the thought of man: life on earth, after all, is only temporary. Its necessary to invest in the hereafter. Islam is a cult of the hereafter. Such is the veritable schism with the West: the two world views are incompatible. I, personally, have opted for life in the here and now.
When I was a child in Somalia, under the tree where she braided, my grandmother told us stories and asked us questions, in order to know if we had understood the concept: being able to recognize the enemy, in particular. She told me: Its a very useful instinct. If you dont know what you have to fear, you will not survive. And when she caught me in flagrante delicto of incomprehension, she called me doqon! This word means two things: being foolish and naïve. We said, in Somalia: Stupid like a date palm tree! Dates from that tree are treasures, and the one who loses them is an imbecile.
No, Europe is not traumatized by Islam, but she is like a date palm tree which despoils itself, foolish and naïve. Things fall. She remains inert. Worse, she gives freedom to the enemies of freedom. At the heart of your beautiful West, it is the right-thinking people with a socializing tendency who do this the most, in the spirit of pacifism, voluntary blindness and conformism, when confronted with the rise of fundamentalism, when confronted with the aggressiveness of radicals, when confronted with the dangers of communitarianism. Stupid. Like the data palm tree. Please: dont be doqon.
Faced with long-term increases in the segregation of its buildings, Seattle Public Schools goes before the U.S. Supreme Court this morning to protect the value of diverse learning communities.
We hope the justices uphold an appeals court decision allowing schools to use race as a small factor to break some ties in the school assignment plan. U.S. children of all backgrounds benefit from learning, playing and relating to one another in classrooms that are as similar as possible to the communities in which they live.
The Bush administration is joining in the attack on the schools' racial tiebreaker, which has been in disuse while the suit by some families has been in court. In a perfect world, we'd agree with ignoring race. Unfortunately, the country has a long history of conscious, legal discrimination once justified by the pseudoscience of racial classification. The hateful, comprehensive U.S. apartheid system continues to affect how communities are organized, where families live and what schools children attend. Some Americans think that, because most apartheid laws were gone by 1970, the issue is closed. Ironically, at the same time, U.S. troops are at risk daily over issues dating from the Crusades.
Biblical, Algonquin and other spiritual traditions speak of delivery from inequities after many generations. We trust legal remedies for segregation can end sooner. But with minority children still subjected to inferior schools, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund rightly warns a decision against desegregation in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., would abandon the Brown v. Board of Education ruling's demands for equal education.
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Yeah, let's defeat racism by institutionalizing it.
The left loves its program but they hope you don't notice that none of their programs can be advanced without either lying about the likely results or without expressing it in contradictions.
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Geeez, something crawl out of the American Communist Party circa 1950?
You know if you build it, they will come. It - an effective disciplined public education system which focuses upon superior academic results as determined by employers and admissions offices which do not employ exemption criteria but hard-line results. Apartheid occurs because successful white, black, Asian and Hispanic families will spend their own hard earned monies to send their kids to proper private schools which the public schools are not. It is a separation created by opportunity through hard work and commitment to the idea that good uncompromised education is foundation of success for generations. Fix the public schools and the issue goes away, because they will come.
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Ya know, fellow Rantburgundians, Mount Rainier is a high eruption risk (50% probability/225 years), with God's own mudslide to result. Nature will cure most ills, given enough time.
Reality check: You wouldn't know REAL apartheid (or fascism or Nazism) if it jumped up and bit you.
On the other hand, if it closed your annoying little newspaper and carted you off to a long unpleasant meeting with some gentlemen in trenchcoats and truncheons (which REAL apartheid, fascism and Nazism WOULD do in a freaking heartbeat)you'd know it....right befor you soiled yourselves in screaming, stark, absolute terror.
Mike
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Ironically, at the same time, U.S. troops are at risk daily over issues dating from the Crusades.
Biblical, Algonquin and other spiritual traditions speak of delivery from inequities after many generations
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"Apartheid" is very trendy this year, apparently.
First we had Jimmah's oh-so-brilliant analysis of the Palis self-inflicted predicament, and now the razor-sharp wits of the P-I have revealed that we have apartheid in the great state of Washington.
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Before you cheerfully condemn us to death by lava, ash, and mudflow, I'd like to remind you of a few installations in this area that would share our fate if Mt. Rainier blows:
Ft. Lewis
Whidbey Island NAS
McChord AFB
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Jackson Park Naval Reservation
Camp Wesley Harris Naval Reservation
Bangor Naval Reservation
USNS Everett
Yakima Training Center
Believe it or not, there are actually a few of us out here who don't subscribe to the P-I's liberal pap.
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Before you cheerfully condemn us to death by lava, ash, and mudflow
I may be wrong, but from what I've seen in various media, the Washington state is just plain beautiful.
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Yes it is beautiful, and we are just now winding down the 2006 Western Washington Rain Festival, Jan 1- Dec 31.
Nothing like watching an eagle come in over the Sound and snare a salmon; truly majestic.
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LOL--Well, if you put it that way, I guess I'm willing to sacrifice myself for the greater good!
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McChord would be a total loss, but most of those installations are on the far side of Puget Sound, and will be relatively safe. The aircraft from McChord can divert to Fairchild (Spokane). The navy can divert to San Diego. Besides, the Seattle Light Rail disaster will stop most of the mudflow. Seattle DOES need a thorough housecleaning, though.
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McChord and Ft. Lewis are right next to each other and in the likely mudflow/lehar path, and the Yakima TC is right in the path of prevailing winds, so they'd both likely be shut down and/or severely damaged. Admittedly, the other areas are probably somewhat safer, being farther away and north, but the entire Puget Sound area would be crippled for some time with all Seattle and Tacoma air traffic and shipping diverted elsewhere.
I'd expect, given Mt. Rainier to the south, Puget Sound to the west, and the prevailing winds carrying the ash east, that supplies and evacuations for Seattle would be routed north via Vancouver if trucked in and via Everett if shipped in. That's my 2¢ anyway...
*sigh* The P-I homepage has a poll on Bolton's resignation, and naturally 72% of respondents say he shouldn't have been nominated. I chose "the country is losing a great representative", which got 11%. Actually, I'm surprised it even got 11%.
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OK, Dar, Sodom would have been saved for the sake of just 10 righteous men and 11% of Seattle is more than that, so I'll re-task our Halliburton Shake n'Bake Mk3TM earthquake/tsunami/eruption generator to Berkeley.
A volcano in the middle of the UC campus will look mighty suspicious, but probably less so than at UW-Madison. We can always blame it on global warming though.
From the editor of the Boston Herald:
When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual monopoly, and offers something its customers must have, they may have no choice but to keep taking it. Thats when the customers, en masse, need to raise a stink. Thats when someone else with the resources needs to seriously consider whether the time is ripe to compete.
The Associated Press is embroiled in a scandal. Conservative bloggers, the new media watchdogs, lifted a rock at the AP. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.
It has to do with the APs Iraqi stringers and an oft-quoted Iraqi police captain named Jamil Hussein. Problem is, the Iraqi police say Capt. Hussein does not exist. When the AP was forced to acknowledge this situation, it did so in a story about a new Interior Ministry policy regarding false reports. The AP buried the fact that its own false report prompted this new policy. The AP stands by its reporting.. The AP has cast Capt. Jamil Hussein simply as someone not authorized to speak, and AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll has sniffed morally: Good reporting relies on more than government-approved sources.
The AP has another Iraqi stringer problem. Photographer Bilal Hussein is in U.S. custody, and the AP has been clamoring indignantly for his release. AP reports have buried the U.S. explanation that Hussein is being held without charge because - quite aside from producing photos that showed him to be overly intimate with terrorists in Fallujah - he was in an al-Qaeda bomb factory, with an al-Qaeda bombmaker, with traces of explosives on his person when he was arrested.
The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field. It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesnt even recognize it has a problem.
This is the point at which, another big American industry learned, people start buying Japanese. But as an American newspaper, if you want to provide your readers with affordable regional, national and international news, you have to deal with the AP.
If newspapers dont have an alternative, readers do. Its called the Internet. Thats why newspapers, if they dont want to be dragged further into irrelevance and disrepute, have to tell The Associated Press they are dissatisfied with its product.
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That last sentence would be good advice if there was a shred of evidence newspapers really were dissatisfied with AP. Or Reuters. Or cared about "irrelevance and disrepute" or indeed anything except their own corrosive agenda.
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The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field. It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesnt even recognize it has a problem.
Wow. The pot calling the kettle ... a pot.
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If newspapers dont have an alternative, readers do. Its called the Internet. Thats why newspapers, if they dont want to be dragged further into irrelevance and disrepute, have to tell The Associated Press they are dissatisfied with its product.
Demographics are catching up as well. The average age of the dead tree and open broadcast MSM is sailing above 50 years without any sign of change of direction. Meanwhile, each new generation is more and more adept and comfortable with this new fangled technology. To paraphrase Darwin - adapt or die. However, to adapt means you compete on a level playing field with the competition which could be some nerd or nerdette with just the basic equipment and no overhead. Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. Heh.
Interesting, IMO. What is his "appeal"? Electability, and nothing more, methinks. BTW, thanks to A5089 (I think) for pointing to this blog in a comment - it's got some very good stuff, lol. :-)
Obama is the next version of John Edwards: telegenic and somewhat eloquent. Just like Edwards, figuring out exactly what he stands for is a big mystery.
He served two terms in the IL state senate and the only thing it looks like he did was sponsor legislature on an earned income tax credit and insurance coverage of mammograms.
It looks like his record in the US Senate is similarly bland. Living in Chicago, I get plenty sick of hearing about this empty suit.
However, harping on his middle name and quibbling about his agent is pretty weak stuff. The way to fight this character is to force him to take a stand:
Reporter: What is your opinion on abortion?
Obama: There is more that unites us than divides us, and our is a great nation and together--
Reporter: That's great, Senator. How about answering my question?
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We've got Governor elect Deval Patrick. Telegenic black guy with nothing to say but feel good phrases. You want a position on an issue? He'll have to look into that. He'll never get back to you, but he'll look into that. Together, we can!
He's got a great Democratic future.
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I was a Chicago resident when Barack ran for Congress against lightweight Bobby Rush. Obama had his ass handed to him. It made sense at the time, but I just knew Obama had big things ahead of him.
I was not shocked when he won the Senate seat although he is not infallible. He's tied to Tony Resko, a major player in Illinois' pay-to-play politics and the proud papa of multiple federal indictments.
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Obama had the great fortune to run in a state where the Republican party has totally imploded. The guy who won the primary quit the race (Jack Ryan) because of a divorce scandal in which there was no complaint from the -ex (how Republican, eh?).
They couldn't find another Republican in the state to take the race. By this point Obama had been all but coronated in the press, so any other Republican with any pull at all (Topinka? Edgar? Oberweiss?) knew better than to run.
The Repubs tried to get Mike Ditka to run. I would have voted for Da Coach in a second just to see him throw chewing gum at Ted Kennedy on the floor of the Senate. Alas, Mike is more into a good life at this point, getting his money from riverboat ads and football commentary, and decided not to do it.
So the Repubs imported Allan Keyes, who managed to get 23% of the vote. Criminy, I could have done at least that well and it would have been great advertising for Rantburg. Did they ask me? No-o-o-o-o-o!
As Lanny points out, Obama has his dirty side, as do ALL politicans in Illinois. Don't you worry, he'll get his.
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His career as a pres candidate will track and end just like dean's. He's empty, and will not stand the microscope of the press. Even the liberal MSM's cant help themselves when they see a media feeding frenzy from a candidate doing something dumb. Now while he is a darling in the spotlight, getting the Dems great press, Hillary is slowly building her army for when he falls. Then when he makes an ass of himself she will take the party over and he will be cast out or payed back with a menial position in the dem party.
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(via The Radio Equalizer)
Would you buy a bankrupt, three- year- old radio network that has already burned through enough cash to make a circa- 1999 Seattle dot-com run by teenagers look downright frugal? How about one that has generated mountains of bad press, is rapidly dropping affiliates and may soon lose its primary star?
Fine, we'll go ahead and scratch your name off the list, but any assumption that others aren't interested in one of broadcasting's biggest- ever boondoggles would be quite mistaken. What are the odds the network can survive?
Given the less- than- rosy outlook for Air America Radio's liberal talk operations, just why would serious buyers emerge, anyway? We can think of only one reason: a stubborn and partisan inability to admit defeat in the ongoing media wars. Beyond a handful of shows, so- called "progressive" talk just hasn't caught on with the public.
For weeks, Air America's remaining executives have been able to convince the network's bankruptcy judge to grant extensions to its court- imposed sale deadline.
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Jerry Springer: one of the world's most famous individuals...
Really? I wasn't aware of that.
Don't do it, Jerry. Chairs flying across the room and bull dykes duking it out over preteen hookers don't really come across to well on the radio...
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Dubbed/subtitled Jerry Springer re-runs feature on at least one channel in just about every foreign country. I know many, many Europeans who seriously think that most Americans are just like that. The few of us who are not illiterate hayseeds live like Baywatch, or some other stupid TV show, like JAG (I got that a lot).
"Ihre Beruf?"
"Ich bin militarische staatsanwaltin."
"Oooooooh! Wie JAG?!?! Toll! Geil!"
"O ja, ja, genau wie JAG." Sigh.
So yeah, it seems Jerry Springer is among the world's most famous individuals, along with hmm, lessee, David Hasselhoff, Fran Drescher, and David James Eliot. Depressing, isn't it?
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..Typical leftieliberal mindset - "It didn't work the last time because the right people weren't in charge..."
Mike
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exJAG, you're aware of that, but I wonder how many americans know how prevalent and widely available is the US pop culture, especially when it comes to "music" and movies/tv shows? Us pop culture is in fact the mainstream of most of the western world, name a show, and odds are any given european will have seen it (now in original undubbed version thanks to cable, the New Jersey's linguo of the Sopranos cracks me up every time), and diffused pretty much elsewhere... much to the chagrin of the Elites, who nonetheless tell us that the "USA are a Nation without culture". And, yes, the vision of the USA is molded by hollyweird (tv), a mix between their liberal worldview, their mercnatilism (cheesecake, cheap gunfights,...), and PCness (if one judges from cop shows, most of the US criminals are white-collars white males).
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A5089, I don't think most Americans are aware of how much damage the export of our crapulence has done to perceptions abroad -- least of all the people who produce it.
Nor do most know how freaking hilarious Dutch commercials are. For example:
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along with hmm, lessee, David Hasselhoff, Fran Drescher, and David James Eliot.
As kids/teens, my sisters were big fans of Fan Frescher, can't fathom why; I, for one, was a devout follower of "Married with children", even with the poorly done dubbing; that, and the Simpsons, explains much about the wreck I am.
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Re: the "the export of our crapulence ", ExJAG, I used to absolutely cringe when I could hear the theme music from "Dynasty" coming from my Greek landlords' apartment, when I lived in Athens; just what Greeks needed to know about Americans --- we were all rich, violent and immoral. IIRC, someone pointed this out decades ago, in an editorial in TV guide. All people knew about Americans the world over was what they saw in our exported TV shows and movies, and what that showed wasn't a terribly realistic OR attractive picture.
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just what Greeks needed to know about Americans --- we were all rich, violent and immoral
IIRC, the "french" communist party used good ol' "Dallas" in their propaganda, hé hé... back in the post-WWII olden days, they spear-headed a campaign against coca-cola, IE the fear of "cultural imperialism" as a political lever.
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You DO know, of course, that "Ponderosa" is still BIG in Germany. When people learned that I lived in Denver, they kept asking me if I had a horse, and drove a stagecoach. Yeah, the world's perception of the United States is VERY warped.
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When people learned that I lived in Denver, they kept asking me if I had a horse, and drove a stagecoach.
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Hell, when I went to Boston, as it's pretty obvious I'm from the South the second I say a word, people would not believe I was not a member of the KKK, DID wear shoes, and DID have heat in my house in the Winter. EVERYBODY from Alabama is a member of the KKK. And also I have never eaten possum.
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Remember all that it is a proud American tradition to lie your fool head off when talking to gullible Europeans. Even H.L. Mencken bragged to some German friends that he had been given an alligator on a leash to take on a "pickaninny hunt" in Florida.
In the minds of many Europeans, American men are James Dean-types, and American women are Marilyn Monroe-types. With tommygun-toting gangsters, cowboys and indians abounding.
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Deacon, lol, not in Alabama, but while driving through Kentucky on my way back from Virginia I laughed my head off at the serious radio station broadcasting various squirrel recipe's and how it was a bumper crop year for them. It was a sad moment for me when I drove out of range.
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Jan, off topic here but you haven't lived until you've had braised squirrel.
With Al Frankenless moving back to Minnesota, I'm hoping to ask him for donations to the local Boys and Girls club. Let's see if the prick finds that funny.
I see they took Franken's video down off google. He was admitting to calling up a reporter and challenging him to a fight. Franken said, "he was smaller so I knew I could beat him". Talk about a real fake man.
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lol, Jan. I always loved the time I met a girl at summer camp in N.M. (just outside of Santa Fe). She was from Arkansas (I was born and raised outside Atlanta), and she got all her friends to gather round me and asked me to talk. Jeebus, as if I was the one with the funny accent?
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I fear that we are watching an ostentation of neo-Neville Chamberlains peacocking their way around the world these days, seeking new Munich Agreements that will promise "peace in our time," agreements that, if made, will be repudiated, or simply ignored, by the neo-Hitlers and neo-Mussolinis of neo-Nazi Jihadism with whom we shall make them. Like Chamberlain and the Members of Parliament who shouted down Churchill, our leadership seems to be desperately seeking refuge, however temporary and illusory, from the thunderstorms of war gathering on the near horizon. Groveling for peace, the national leaders of America and Israel seem to be begging their enemies for "peace in our time," rather than acknowledging and acting upon the obvious, or what should be the obvious, that "peace in our time" can only be secured by maintaining - and asserting - both the ability and the will to inflict a decisive and devastating defeat on any enemy.
Why do Americans, Europeans, Israelis, keep electing to high office these apparently altruistic people who seem to suffer the Neville Chamberlain syndrome, the willful delusion that the leaders of the Jihadist world, like us, want peace? Why does our leadership seem to assume that that everyone wants peace? That because we want peace, America, Israel, Europe, therefore Abbas and Ahmadinejad must also want peace? It is an immutable law of history that wars begin when one country or alliance wants war, conquest, and the countries in their cross-hairs fail and refuse to acknowledge that no matter how badly they want peace, the dogs of war will find them.
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The President must go to the United Nations General Assembly, before all the world's cameras, and give a speech, the essence of which should be this:
Islam.............F.O.A.D.
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The President must go to the United Nations General Assembly, before all the world's cameras, and give a speech, the essence of which should be this:
I have just signed legislation that will outlaw Russia Islam forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
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"It is an immutable law of history that wars begin when one country or alliance wants war"
Not quite. War results when two parties want control over the same people or place, and they don't know for sure which one would win. It is a matter of uncertainty and communication. And the uncertainty part is of WILL, since the material of war is relatively easily predicted.
The WILL to win is created by communication/leadership. The West lacks sufficient leadership to generate the necessary WILL, and that lack is being communicated very clearly to our enemy.
Why is the West so apathetic, so blind? I suspect it is because to so many 'it's all about me'; that there is no faith in a personal future and thus no regard for any moral or ethical 'absolutes'. Islam does not have this problem.
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This is exactly what the Pope is arguing for in his reciprocity speeches. Maybe not as non-P.C. or succinct, but the same message.
I do wish that President Bush would use the 'bully pulpit' more, a'la Reagan. I know he has in the past, and we're better off for it, and he has used VERY direct language before too. Of course, I also realize that part of this equation is the MSM who seem to be stuck on stupid Vietnam era reporting. I won't be a handwringer yet on the Prez, for I've gotta believe that when he says "We will NOT allow Iran to get nuclear weapons," he means it. His track record proves that.
And, classer, forgive me, but what is FOAD? I know I've seen it before, but maybe not spelled out. Is there a page within the 'burg here explaining all of our internet shorthand. Most of the other acronyms I understand but haven't figured out FOAD (I think I know the first two letters).
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America, Europe, Israel, want peace, and we are busy trying to convince ourselves that the Muslims of Iran and Syria and the Palestinian peoples, at least the activist Muslims who matter, do too. But they don't. They want war, Jihad, conquest, empire, supremacy. This is no secret. It doesn't require a Masters degree in diplomacy, or years of service in the State Department, to see. It isn't rocket science. One needs only to take their word for it. They aren't at all bashful or shy about saying so, we need only assume they mean what they say. Death to Israel. Death to the West. Death to America.
Peace in our time = Hudna
As I have said repeatedly, we must take these bastards at their word. They spout about doing us great harm. Believe them and act upon that belief. Our superior weapons are useless without the will to deploy them and the determination to survive.
Our world is being thrown into the slavering jaws of a ravenous beast solely because no one in power can bring themselves to shoot the damn thing.
He lost me after that bullshit sentence.
Likewise, Icerigger. Islam has NOTHING to do with peace and continuing to utter such flagrant horseshit only emboldens our enemies with the notion that they have successfully pulled the wool over our eyes. The sooner Islam is stripped of its status as a religion, the quicker we can go about dismantling it part and parcel.
WE ARE TOTALLY INSANE IN THINKING THAT ISLAM IS NOT ATTEMPTING TO DO THE EXACT SAME THING TO ALL OTHER RELIGIONS AND WESTERN CULTURE IN GENERAL.
Islam must be put on notice that all further atrocities will be met with overwhelmingly disproportionate retaliation, be it conventional or nuclear matters not. Another spate of train or nightclub bombings must see an entire MME (Muslim Middle East) city reduced to ashes.
Islam has been allowed to act without being held to any serious consequences. The threat of spreading democracy throughout the MME would be all well and fine if we had SEVERAL DECADES TO ACHIEVE SAME. We have no such luxury. The clock is ticking down to midnight and our leaders are fiddling about with individual moral purity while Rome burns.
The civilized world must inform Islam that their fate is in their own hands. Turn those hands to war and be rewarded with the same in much greater measure. Islam must be placed under such gigantic threat whereby it finally begins to clean its own house out of sheer survival. Anything less will be used as a hudna to accumulate the strength needed for further assaults upon our freedom.
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We must regain our ethical basis --- the Golden Rule, Zenster.
In the days before weapons of mass destruction, it was all right to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Those days are long gone. Now, the rule of survival is:
I agree, destroy the enemy before they kill our families. Or didn't you get the koran's "convert or kill them all" motto? Cause if that doesn't bother you then pack up and move to mecca now before we set it aglow.
Ranting off. Let's get something straight here liberal, Islam's call for violence and enslavement of kafirs applies to you too.
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"Do into others as they would do into you. But do it first."
Have you ever heard of "pay forward"? Yes, amongst those who are worthy, youalways give the benefit of the doubt first.
Against those who have declared open war against you, give them the back of your hand if not a "free launch". Remember, there is no such thing as a "free launch".
Following Pope Benedict's remarks on the relationship between faith and violence, a quiet conversation emerged. It highlighted a central question as the West increasingly attempts to engage the Muslim world: Is Islam especially prone to violence? So far, much of the conversation has focused on the violent reactions of some Muslims to the pope's previous comments. But, there's disturbing proof that a far deeper culture of violence pervades much of the Islamic world.
In a recent survey on global conflict, Monty Marshall and Ted Burr of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management found that of the 24 major armed conflicts taking place worldwide in 2005, more than half (13) involved Muslim governments or paramilitary groups on one or both sides of the fighting. What's more, among six countries with "emerging armed conflicts," four are predominantly Muslim and another, Thailand, involves a Muslim separatist movement.
Messrs. Marshall and Burr also rated 161 countries according to their capacity to avoid outbreaks of armed conflicts. Whereas 63 percent of non-Muslim countries were categorized as "enjoy[ing] the strongest prospects for successful management of new challenges," just 18 percent of the 50 Muslim nations included were similarly designated. In addition, Muslim nations (those with at least 40 percent Muslim population) were two-and-a-half times more likely than non-Muslim nations to be considered "at the greatest risk of neglecting or mismanaging emerging societal crises such that these conflicts escalate to serious violence and/or government instability."
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This is why islam needs to be destroyed - it's nothing but a hate cult that demands 100% total obedience from every single living person. There can be no freedom, no independence, under islam. Crush it like we did the same type of cults in Germany and Japan. It has no socially redeeming qualities.
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Now that he's leaving, Reuters finds some nice things to say about Darth Bolton. Skilled, effective, fair. Grrr.
The resignation of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations ends an era when the focus of U.S. diplomacy often rested, for better or for worse, on the man himself. Witty, a born litigator and in command of the facts, Bolton was front and center of most issues in the U.N. Security Council -- North Korea, Iran, Somalia, Myanmar, Sudan, among others -- but made enemies among nations in the U.N. General Assembly, responsible for management reforms and the budget.
"He is serious about the American objectives here in reforming the United Nations, and he pushed hard," China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told reporters. "But of course sometimes in order to achieve the objective you have to work together with others."
"His style is different. He is hard-working," Wang said. "He knows the job."
Bolton also had difficulties with European ambassadors, who should have been his closest allies. But he worked intensively with France on a ceasefire resolution, 1701, to halt the Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon this summer. "I would say we have always respected each other and we were able to work together, especially on 1701," said France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere through clenched teeth.
Unable to overcome Democratic opposition in the Senate to his nomination, the White House announced on Monday that Bolton would resign when his temporary appointment expires within weeks. Bolton's recess appointment last year had allowed him to bypass the U.S. Senate confirmation process. Democrats accused him of being a bully and of pressuring subordinates to align their views with his.
Subordinates are s'posed to support their boss...in this case, POTUS.
Bolton came to the job with a reputation for an abrasive style. But he defied many of his critics by being the only U.N. Security Council ambassador available to the press almost every day, answering countless questions and often delivering punchy sound bites that drowned out staid comments from Washington.
"It is to me really disappointing to see Ambassador Bolton go," said Japan's U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima. "He has been an exceptionally skillful diplomat at the United Nations at a time when it faced very challenging issues like reform."
"In the Security Council John Bolton was spearheading a number of important issues," Oshima said, singling out a resolution to rein in North Korea's nuclear program, where "he really spearheaded this effort to get a Security Council resolution adopted in a very speedy manner."
LESS SUCCESS WITH U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Several diplomats distinguish between Bolton's work in the 15-nation Security Council and that in the 192-member General Assembly, dominated by developing nations.
"In some ways, he seems to have been more an ambassador to the Security Council than to the United Nations as a whole and I think he has done very well there," said Edward Luck, a Columbia University professor and U.N. expert.
But the problem, Luck said, is his actions in the General Assembly, which is increasingly polarized between developing and developed countries over changes to U.N. management practices, finances and a new human rights body.
"He is very good on preaching on reform but not good at doing it" raising the question of "whether he wants to strengthen it or find excuses for abandoning it," said Luck.
Greece's U.N. Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis, said the United States was correct in the need for reform but "I might say that I personally would pursue the same thing through different tactics, but that is a different story."
But there was no love lost between the U.N. bureaucracy and Bolton, especially the U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown, a Briton, who said in a June speech that the United States worked closely with the world body in many fields but tolerated "too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping." In response Bolton called on Secretary General Kofi Annan to repudiate Malloch Brown "personally and publicly," but Annan stood by the "thrust" of the speech, his spokesman said.
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"He is very good on preaching on reform but not good at doing it" raising the question of "whether he wants to strengthen it or find excuses for abandoning it," said Luck.
I have travelled to all the continents except for one, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said recently, and I know what is going on out there. Everybody is eager to hear the Iranian peoples message. The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadised.
And hes right: Ahmadinejadization is spreading. Its symptoms are clear from his Friday letter to the American people. Addressed to Noble Americans, in the letter Ahmadinejad calls on America to withdraw from Iraq, end support for Israel, and convert to Islam. If we do those three things, peace will ensue: well be Ahmadinejadized.
Now that Iraq has a Constitution and an independent Assembly and Government, he says, would it not be more beneficial to bring the US officers and soldiers home, and to spend the astronomical US military expenditures in Iraq for the welfare and prosperity of the American people? (When Tokyo Rose said things like that, at least she played some catchy pop tunes). Ahmadinejad, of course, has a deep concern for the welfare of the American people, as demonstrated by his earlier statement: I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible. At the UN in September, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez echoed these words, saying: The United States empire is on its way down and it will be finished in the near future, inshallah. Chavez, you see, has been Ahmadinejadized.
Bubbling to the surface is increased open discussion of Iranian arming, training and funding of Shia militias in Iraq, namely al-Sadrs Mahdi Army band of thugs and the Badr Brigades that are more dominant in and around the Basra area of southern Iraq. The latest evidence being cited are weapons with Iranian manufacturer labels with 2006 date-stamps. Included are anti-tank rockets and precision-milled and shaped IEDs. But the IED moniker is a misnomer in this instance, because the armor-piercing molten copper explosives are designed specifically to defeat the armor on M1 Abrams tanks and retrofitted HMMVs. Theres nothing improvised about these explosive devices. And they are Iranian-made, Iranian-delivered and designed to kill American and British troops in their armored vehicles.
The existence of evidence is not new, though the specific evidence of Iranian manufacturing labels on anti-tank rockets may well be. Iran has been suspected of shipping the milled molten-copper explosives since at least October 2005. In fact, entire shipments of the Iranian bombs have been captured near the Iran-Iraq border earlier this year and reported on as early as March.
I think the evidence is strong that the Iranian government is making these IEDs, and the Iranian government is sending them across the border and they are killing U.S. troops once they get there, says Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism chief and an ABC News consultant. I think its very hard to escape the conclusion that, in all probability, the Iranian government is knowingly killing U.S. troops.
Normally, I would simply link to the fisking below of what passes for Democratic foreign policy -- an uncreative, insecure and envious stew -- and suggest you go read it for yourself. However, I know that many of you (we are soul brothers/sisters, after all) are as lazy as I am. Not to mention that its hard to believe you havent read this all somewhere else already. Which is true, but you havent seen it put together so succinctly. Im a sucker for spine-tingling bullet points. Thus, I am going to save you the trouble of clicking on yet another link by the cut and paste job I will execute below.
This list is not pleasant reading, but it is essential truth and Sunday morning is an especially good time for essential truth reading.
The article has already been widely linked; I picked up the first reference at One Cosmos, who had this to say on our fight to survive:
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That's why Global Warming is just the 21st Century's first religion. Facts be damn whether of Galileo or Lomborg.
"You will have no God but mine" isn't something just confined to Rome [circa 1400] or Mecca [today]. Just remember this when the Universities scream academic freedom. In practice, they have no defense. It has been and always will be about power.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Two years ago, movie director Theo van Goghs throat was cut on a street in Amsterdam in the name of radical Islam. I had partaken in his last work, Submission, where we represented, in the most accurate way possible, the condition of Muslim women: tyranny, humiliations, violence. In this film, we showed Muslim women who had finally rebelled, talking to God in a tone of defiance. It made Imam Fawaz of the Hague scream with hate during the delivery of a vengeful sermon. My friend Theo, the criminal bastard, was subsequently riddled with bullets and stabbed to death with a dagger.
By Robert Spencer
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