Tuesday, October 31, 2006
TodAy's Presented Without Comment
lessee if I can make it all the way through
Portland ME
South Portland police were notified around 9 a.m. that a man wearing a rubber Osama bin Laden mask was standing on top of a berm along the highway carrying a sign that said “I Love Tabor,” [a reference to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights on the ballot] and waving what appeared to be an assault rifle.Four South Portland officers and two state troopers converged on the man. They drew their guns when he did not respond to their demand that he drop his weapon.
Police said instead he walked toward them dropping plastic hand grenades. His costume included fake dynamite and bandoliers, police said.
He eventually did drop the rifle, which turned out to be a toy and was arrested, at which time the man was identified as ...Thomas J. Connolly, of Scarborough, a prominent defense attorney and 1998 Democratic candidate for governor
*whew*
Boo!
Punkin’ Carvin’ Contest!
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Monday, October 30, 2006
That's just ... odd
translation from Moonbat unavailable
Background: Prop 85 would prohibit abortions for California teens until 48 hours after their parents have been notified.
Prop 90 prohibits private property from being taken for another’s private use. Restricts takings to ‘public use,’ not ‘public benefit.’
So, this ad with kids creepily parroting the BDS cries is how the MoveOn.org / Soros crowd urges us to vote against those propositions.
Kinda makes one wonder just how stuuuupid they think we are.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Religion of Peeess
explaining the patently obvious to a stone...
Q: Are Western feminists on your side? I have encountered Americans and Israelis who - when it comes to the rights of women in Arab countries - side with multiculturalism. Has this been your experience as well?
Yes it has. I haven’t received the kind of support I expected from women in the US. Recently, I gave a speech at the University of California, and during the question period, an American woman told me she didn’t believe the things I was saying about Muslim men’s treatment of women. She said: “Muhammed was the first man on earth to give women rights.”
I responded, “Would you please tell me what some of those rights are, so I can tell Muslim women to be aware of them?”
She said, “I don’t know, but I was invited to a mosque in LA, and that’s what the mullah told us.”
Can you believe how naive these women are?
Q: From whom have you received the greatest support?
From the Jewish community, of course, which is very aware of what’s going on. But also from the atheist community.
Q: How do you feel about Saudi Arabia - in which women are not even allowed to drive cars - sitting on the human rights commission at the UN?
I blame the free world for this travesty. Shame on America! Shame on any country that calls itself civilized and has relations with Saudi Arabia. ...
If there is no one to stop evil, don’t blame the evil. Saudi Arabia hasn’t been stopped from doing what it’s doing to half of its population.
Q: Are the Saudis the worst among the Islamists in this respect?
Yes, and I believe they Islamicized the Syrians. They are behind the trouble everywhere. In 1991, when I was relatively new to this country and struggling financially, I was offered $1,500 per month by the Saudis to cover my head and attend a mosque. In California, when you tell any American about this, he says, “Who cares?”
You have to care and you have to pay attention! Not caring and not paying attention is why we ended up with the events of September 11 ...
Q: Are the Saudis also involved in Palestinian terrorism?
No question about it. They are everywhere. People [all over] are starving for a piece of bread, while millions upon millions of dollars are being spent on building mosques. And how many Americans - if offered $1,500 a month to cover their heads or become Muslims - would turn that down? I heard the Saudis are willing to pay $1,000 to any man who changes his name to Muhammed. How many poor or homeless people would refuse that offer?
Meanwhile, Sheik Taj Aldin UncoveredMeatBoy has apologized—unreservedly—maintaining he “had only intended to protect women’s honor...”
But who am I, a mere woman—albeit an armed woman—to say he is fulla litterbox leavin’s? After all, in iRan, a man is advised to first withhold his magic winkie to convince his wife to obey; before smackin’ the litterbox leavin’s outta her.
And even there, a man must use care, for “women are masochistic and sometimes they have a crisis and need light physical punishment to get back to normal.”
I wonder if it would work for Nancy Pelosi . . .
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
Religion of Piece
well. I guess *I’ve* been told.
If the meat was covered, the cats wouldn’t roam around it. If the meat is inside the fridge, they won’t get it.
If the woman is in her boudoir, in her house and if she’s wearing the veil and if she shows modesty, disasters don’t happen.
Satan sees women as half his soldiers. You’re my messenger to achieve my needs. Satan tells women you’re my weapon to bring down any stubborn man. ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
erm.... uh.. buh... idjuh...
working ever closer to that exploding ceegar
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak questioned on Thursday whether Muslims had done enough to change the West’s “wrong perceptions” about Islam, which he said was under “ferocious attack”.
He also said Islam needed a fresh religious discourse to promote tolerance and uproot extremist views.
“The Muslim world is facing a ferocious attack, describing Islam wrongly and offending Muslims’ sacred (symbols and figures) and beliefs,” ... “Don’t we Muslims share part of the responsibility for the wrong perceptions about Islam? Have we done our duty in correcting the image of Islam and Muslims?” he said.
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Monday, October 23, 2006
Socialist Chickens?
Big Fat Baby - Made Outta Gravy!
France’s 30-somethings are furious about a lack of opportunities. And the older generation is just as angry at calls for over-50s to give up their lifestyles ...for the first time in recent history French citizens between the age of 20 and 40 can expect a lower standard of living than the one before, largely because the previous generation have decided not to share.
...The truth is that the generation that profited from the rapid economic growth and the expansion of the state and public industries in the decades between 1960 and 1990 - and from the new levels of meritocracy and social mobility won by the student revolts of 1968 - is now ageing.
...Which is whatcha get when ya nationalize the pie and squabble over the little pieces instead of investing your capital and making more gol-danged pies; Whiney “Baby Loosers”
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Sunday, October 22, 2006
Her WORD
not for the squeemish
[EweTube linky]
Pelosi: “Impeachment is off the table”
Someblonde Noozgal: “and that’s a pledge?”Pelosi: “well… er..... it’s a pledge in uh… yes ... it’s a pledge. Of course it’s a pledge…
...
Wouldn’t they just love it.....
Wow. so. convincing. *I* believe her. uh huh....
I do see why she’s been kept in a bunker somewhere of late… I think her IQ is rather slightly below Teddy’s 70 [proof].
[one would think, as the 8th richest congresthing in recorded history she could find a hairdresser who wouldn’t make her ‘do look like a beanie perched atop her preternaturally taut face… but, then one would likely be accused of being hairist!!!
fauxtography via Drudge—faux but accurate!
Further [unrelated] Moonbatisms for those not yet sated:
reason - whassat?, facts? uhhhhhh..., kill me, kill me now
[one Krissy RKeefer = bring back the WPA, organic gardens on every corner, Cuba has a better situation with the Arts than we do, car-free-talk!!, to call Hugo Chavez a thug is insulting to all the [little brown]people in the Mission District; Pelosi is soooo unsophisticated!
Added Bonus Feature!...actually hear used aloud—with a straight face—the phrase *drumroll* "running dog lackeys”
*tosses peanuts*
Blowback
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SAN DIEGO, October 21, 2006 - The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee asked the Pentagon on Friday to remove CNN reporters embedded with U.S. combat troops, saying the network’s broadcast of a video showing insurgent snipers targeting U.S. soldiers was tantamount to airing an enemy propaganda film.
Rep. Duncan Hunter - R-CA
And so it begins
phase next
Bill Dalati is running for city council in Anaheim CA [yes, home of The Rat] as a Republican.
Shawn Steel, state GOP leader from 2001 to 2003, wrote a letter that ended up on the OC blog mentioning Dalati’s connections to CAIR, calling it a “pretty radical, nasty group,” citing Dalati’s involvement with an Anaheim rally protesting the Israel-Lebanon conflict, and his endorsement of EX-Rep. Cynthia Smyffa McKinney of Georgia, a Democrat, anti-Semite and cop-smacker.
Dalati’s response:
I need to be out on the campaign trail, not worrying about all this negative stereotyping. People should look at the issues, not where I came from. Everybody came from somewhere. It’s clear that my faith and my heritage are the reason they don’t want me around.
Your “faith and heritage” include consorting with known terrorist-supporters, anti-Semites and petty cop-smackers? Ah. Thank you for whining sharing that.
from comments, Mr Steele responds to the criticism:
Orange County Register
LettersSaturday, October 21, 2006
At issue are the issues, not his religion.
Sometimes tempests carry implications beyond the immediate teapot. And I seem to have created just such a mini-storm with my letter, which was posted on OC Blog (http://www.ocblog.net), about Bill Dalati, a candidate for the Anaheim City Council next month ["Letter on candidate condemned,” Local, Oct. 13].
To review: I expressed concerns about Mr. Dalati because:
1) He supported an anti-American rally billed on a Council for American Islamic Relations Web site as “Rally Against U.S.-Israeli Terror in Palestine & Lebanon”;
2) In 2004, he made a campaign contribution to Cynthia McKinney in her race for Congress (the donation was made after McKinney’s infamous views were publicized on President Bush’s pre-knowledge and alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks); and
3) He argued that dowries given in Muslim marriages should be viewed legally as prenuptial agreements (he was quoted in this newspaper in 2001: “I think it is a prenuptial agreement, and it should be enforced here").Mr. Dalati is a candidate for an important public office, and so his views and political affiliations and public activities are wholly appropriate for examination and criticism.
Mr. Dalati and his CAIR allies now are denouncing me as a racist and an Islamophobe. This is nothing but a smokescreen to muddle the public debate.
When I was the chairman of the California Republican Party, I encouraged Muslim Americans to join the GOP. I sponsored the first Muslim prayer at the party convention, despite criticism from some Christians.
I support another Arab American for mayor in Orange County because of his political views.
I do not judge candidates based on their religion or race.
Shawn Steel
Newport Beach
former chairman of the state Republican Party
Indeed, the easiest “response” to a challenge on one’s political stands is a cry of “raaaacism.” It’s facile, disingenuous and, sad to say, likely to deflect attention from the actual issues at hand.
What those who use it fail to realize is that this tactic is insultingly disrespectful to those who use it; kinda like calling oneself a racist name implying lack of competence—without the irony. Using this tactic is crippling the ability of others in the political scene to take these foks—and perhaps others who might look like them—seriously on theor own merits and issues.
Read my lips, kids: crying “racism” where there is none makes you look like a dumb *racial epithet of choice.*
Just to re-state
...the patently obvious
*clicky* for more on the Soros Chorus
Friday, October 20, 2006
8:30 A.M. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
Peanuts! Cashews! Weasel Nuts!!
(CNSNews.com) - The antipathy that congressional Democrats have today toward President George W. Bush is reminiscent of their distrust of President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War, a political science professor says.
“We see some of the same sentiments today, in that some Democrats see the Republican president as being a threat and the true obstacle to peace, instead of seeing our enemies as the true danger,” said Paul Kengor, a political science professor at Grove City College and the author of new book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.
In his book, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.
The letter, dated May 14, 1983, was sent from the head of the KGB to Yuri Andropov, who was then General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.
...Specifically, Kennedy proposed that Andropov make a direct appeal to the American people in a series of television interviews that would be organized in August and September of 1983, according to the letter.
...In Kennedy’s view, the main reason for the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s was Reagan’s unwillingness to yield on plans to deploy middle-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, the KGB chief wrote in his letter.
“Kennedy was afraid that Reagan was leading the world into a nuclear war,” Kengor said. “He hoped to counter Reagan’s polices, and by extension hurt his re-election prospects.”
As a prelude to the public relations strategy Kennedy hoped to facilitate on behalf of the Soviets, Kengor said, the Massachusetts senator had also proposed meeting with Andropov in Moscow—to discuss the challenges associated with disarmament.
erm… is that even legal? Senators running off to foreign powers representing the US government without a mandate to represent the US government?
I realize that, for Senators from Mass., it is the *done thing*, but.....
FWIW
Islamopithecene Update
A number of interesting developments have come to light in the last several days regarding Iraq’s Sunni insurgency:
1. Four jihadist forces pledged allegiance to each other Oct. 13. The Mujahideen Shura Council—a jihadist umbrella alliance composed of six groups and led by al-Qaeda—said it had formed a “Pact of the Mutayyabin” with Jaish al-Fatihin (Army of the Conquerors), Jund al-Sahabah (Army of the Companions), Kataib Ansar al-Tawhid wa al-Sunnah (The Supporters of Monotheism and the Prophetic Tradition Brigades) and several Sunni tribal elders.
2. On Oct. 15, one of the four groups, Jaish al-Fatihin, said it had never taken the oath because it had not been informed about the pact. The Mujahideen Shura Council responded that this announcement must have come from the fifth brigade of Jaish al-Fatihin, which, unlike the organization’s other four brigades, had not yet pledged allegiance to the council. The council expressed hope that it would soon do so.
3. On Oct. 16, the Mujahideen Shura Council called on Sunni nationalist groups to pledge allegiance to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of the newly declared “Islamic State of Iraq.”
Taken together, these three developments indicate that transnational jihadist elements are trying to capture political space in Sunni-dominated central Iraq. Their approach involves seizing the military and political initiative from the mainstream Sunni nationalist insurgent groups. The jihadists are trying to take advantage of the fact that the political negotiation process is reaching an impasse, the sectarian violence from Shiite death-squads is raging on, and moves are accelerating toward creating three federal autonomous zones along ethno-sectarian lines.
While the mainstream Sunnis are busy trying to counter the move toward federalism, the jihadists have accepted the idea that Iraq could be divided into three autonomous, if not independent, regions. The jihadists aim to take control of the situation. They are busy trying to make inroads into the tribal leadership and the insurgent groups by forming alliances. In other words, they are trying to portray themselves as the vanguard of the military struggle against the United States and its Shiite and Kurdish allies.
The jihadists face two major obstacles in pursuing this path.
First is that the Sunni areas of Iraq already have an existing political structure, which will not allow them to take over. There have been several reports in recent months of fighting between Sunni nationalist groups and the jihadists. But now that the jihadists are aggressively seeking the leadership of the insurgency, the Sunni nationalists can be expected to strike back hard, and soon. Neither they nor the tribal leaders want to lose their leadership position to the jihadists.
Second, the jihadists themselves are divided into two broad groups: the foreigners and the indigenous Iraqis. Both share the same transnational ideology, but they disagree on how to realize its ideals. The indigenous Iraqis do not like the way the foreigners operate—killing not just Shia but also Sunnis who oppose them. Moreover, the Iraqi jihadists do not want to see the foreigners take over the leadership, because they know it will alienate them from the Sunni mainstream.
Despite the creation of dubious alliances and a media campaign to highlight their “achievements,” al Qaeda and its jihadist allies now face problems from fellow jihadists as well as Sunni nationalists. While it might appear that this would lead to a decline in the violence, the country is now so divided that the fighting is only likely to get worse.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
The Nature of the Enemy
here, there and everywhere...
OSD: In another demonstration of terrorists’ interest in influencing American public opinion, a document recently posted on extremist websites describes a plan “to invade the U.S. media.” The document, written by the Global Islamic Media Front, the communications arm of al Qaeda, states its priorities as translating al Qaeda speeches, interviews and other messages into English and disseminating them to American newspapers, forums, television channels, prominent opinion makers and research groups.
“People of jihad have to create a media war that goes parallel to the military war,” the document states. “They should not be short on anything because we see the effect the media has on the nation and people in supporting or denouncing it.” The Global Islamic Media Front also calls for members to learn to read and write English in order to help spread extremist messages, “which are intended for the American people.”
"People of jihad have to create a media war that goes parallel to the military war. They should not be short on anything because we see the effect the media has on the nation and people in supporting or denouncing.”
– Global Islamic Media Front, August 14, 2006
-----Compare and Contrast-----
Anderson Cooper: Last night, we ran a controversial piece produced by our Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware.
...[The tape] documented 10 incidents of insurgent snipers attacking U.S. military personnel. To be clear, insurgents shot the tape themselves. ... this tape uniquely included audio from the sniper team as they selected targets, waited for their opportunities and then praised Allah as they made their escapes.
“To be clear” the word documented is a pansy-assed euphemism for ‘showed.’ The tape showed the killing of an American.
Anderson Pooper continues:
You should know we dipped to black at the moment of actual impact of the rounds. A number of us felt airing that precise moment was simply too horrific.
“To be clear” the phrase moment of actual impact of the rounds is a chicken-shiite euphemism for moment of death of an American soldier.
Mister Pooper’s blog continues but, well… I find yellow-bellied, lilly-livered equivocation unattractive.
I respond:
Mister Cooper. Each and every soldier serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, or elsewhere is the son or daughter of each and every American citizen. They are our children—whether or not you acknowledge or even realize it.
You, Sir, and your organization are being used as a tool of the enemy. Your clever euphemisms and video tricks notwithstanding, you have shown to the American people the death of one of our children as they serve to defend your liberty to “present the unvarnished truth.”
The truly “horrific” part to this is that you and your cohorts don’t even seem to realize the depravity of what you have done.
I find your choices beneath contempt.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The New No-No from Nanny
*gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah*
"unsupervised chase games:” Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag,...
dodgeball [is] exclusionary and dangerous.
Celeste D’Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. “I’ve witnessed enough near collisions,”
Another reason cited was that in a free-for-all activity at recess, such as tag, some children would become unsuspecting, and unwilling, participants in the game.
...Teachers and others, however, are trying to redirect children from physical games to those that involve teamwork.
Interesting is the discussion between ABC and NoName in the comments:
NoName: “Another example of Politically Correct Liberalism infecting everyday life. What is next? Drugging the kids into a zombie state...oops...that is already happening”
ABC: “Sorry NoName but that is a typical load of reactonary crap. Liberalism by definition is the exact OPPOSITE of this kind of education. This is all about money, control, and CONSERVATIVE type thinking. Control the kids so they won’t get hurt and bring up lawsuits against the schools. Everyday our monocracy puts in place more controls and rules on society under the guise of ‘safety’. This has nothing to do with true liberalism, and everything to do with conservativism.”
So the Conservatives are saying, “you guys quit doing that!” But the Liberals [not Moonbats] are saying, “Us?!? It’s you guys doing that!”
Time to check around for a third element playing “Let’s You and Him Fight”?
Hmmmm.... [she said, typing aloud] I wonder what someone could hope to gain by doing that?
[NB - *clicky*s not vetted but well worth a read. I’m interested in your F/B.]
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