Kerry Lied, His Brain is Fried
Jason At Texas Rainmaker, says That’s Gonna Leave a Mark… via Gateway Pundit
Ambassador John Bolton totally outclassed Senator John F. Kerry in the Senate hearings on Thursday,
DANEgerus has the Video HERE
John Kerry was really no match for UN Ambassador John Bolton:
Democrats like John Kerry have vowed to fight the nomination (of John Bolton). Kerry showed up at the very last minute of today's hearing and it turned into a barbed exchange between the Bush Administration's attempt to engage North Korea in 6 party talks:
John Kerry: This has been going on for five years, Mr. Ambassador.
John Bolton: It's the nature of multilateral negotiations, Senator.
John Kerry: Why not engage in a bilateral one and get the job done? That's what the Clinton Administration did.
John Bolton: And, very poorly since the North Koreans violated the agreed framework almost from the time it was signed.
Ouch!.. It's pretty painful to watch.
And, talk about a flip flop... Isn't John Kerry the presidential candidate who slammed Bush for going it alone?
(Kerry in a 2004 debate:
"But this president hasn't even held the kind of statesman-like summits that pull people together and get them to invest in those states. In fact, he's done the opposite. He pushed them away.")
The CSPAN video of the hearing is even more devastating for the Massachusetts Senator (minute 3:20 of the clip)
* * * * *
Terry Harris sent this related news earlier in the week:
Mr. Bolton has stood up for America....He has stood up for one of our greatest allies, Israel.....and against the terrorist animals. Bolton has pointed out the UN's failings instead of playing the get along at any cost game.
Democrats Vow to Fight Bolton Nomination
What does he get for his trouble? The following:
While appearing on CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd was asked whether he could now support Mr. Bolton's nomination.
"No, this is going to be a bruising fight," said the Connecticut Democrat and Foreign Relations panel member. "I regret this. I'm sorry the administration wants to go forward with this. The problems still persist. ... Many ambassadors at the U.N. feel that he hasn't done a good job there. He has polarized the situation."
"Many ambassadors at the UN..." Like who, for instance? Iran perhaps? Maybe Syria? Maybe some of the countries that profited from Saddam's "Oil for Money" shenanigans?
Korea Liberator says pompous-yet-shallow is not an endearing combination.
Also pathetic were those little interns whispering in Kerry's ear (a la Charlie McCarthy). You could could hear them urgently whispering, WMD! You just know that these little rich limo lib spawn were up all night searching through ancient Bolton remarks and speeches. Pathetic I tell you.
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 12:12 PM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, July 28, 2006
The Pirate of Turtle Bay
Bolton was great wasn't he? If Kerry wasn't such a weasel, you could almost feel sorry for him. Not a chance, too sinister. The dhimmicrats were completely out of their league. Cartoon: NY Sun
Dershowitz on Bolton
Posted by Pamela on Friday, July 28, 2006 at 12:46 AM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (1)
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Liveblogging Bolton Hearings
You don't often get an opportunity to right a terrible wrong. But the Senate has a chance to do just that when it gives the nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations a second look today. Peter Brookes, NY Post, Full piece here.
The circus begins. John Bolton, makes brilliant opening remarks. In between opening statements ancient hippies and code pink types start screaming "'we are the terrorists," "this is not my country," "no to Bolton!" -- oy, so ridiculous.
Biden trying awfully hard to look presidential, but nothing can take away from the fact that Biden is on the same side as those tired, silly hippies.
Trying to pigeon hole Bolton into saying that we are one with the EU3
Biden: "do think sticking close to the EU3, so we are not divided, so we are not the odd man out is the objective?"
Still kissing European ***.
Paraphrasing Bolton, we are working with the EU3 [obviously], We have been working with our allies to iron out................. you know the drill.
Now Biden is trying to lay blame of Hezb'Allah on Bolton. Sheesh, does he know what a putz he sounds like?
NEXT UP: RINO Chaffee. Chaffee is very nervous. His spineless is despicable, but I kind of feel sorry for him. He is out of his league, swimming with sharks.
Talking about terrorism;
Chaffee: "Can't you go any deeper?" huh?
Wants Bolton to do a vivisection on "terrorism."
Chaffee: "This is very complicated problem."
Chaffee talking "complicated" to John Bolton? But like a good shrink talking to a mental patient, Bolton answers seriously and at length.
Bolton confirms proliferation of nuclear weapons and addressing the issues of the Middle East are the defining issues our times.
Chaffee wants to know what he and Rice have done to insure a viable CONTIGUOUS Palestinian state. Yeah, Chaffee, let's focus on giving the terrorists a state.
Bolton: Yes, a contiguous state [...] Enormously complicated by Hamas
Bolton insisting that before anything like that can happen. The countries and groups in that region must renounce terrorism and recognize Israel.
Responding to the question of China, Bolton confirms to Chaffee that yes China and North Korea are selling arms to the Middle east. Most disturbing to Bolton is the sales of ballistic missile technology. I'll say.
Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes up.railing about the US not paying those crooks at the UN fast enough. Mixing upm the dollars owed by a trillion dollars............yeah a trillion instead of a billion.........
Bolton: That can't be right
Sardanes: that's the number
'
Bolton: can't be right
Sardanes checked again,............ oh yeah. A billion
This is painful.
Sardanes now quoting the jihad tool extraordinaire, The New York Crimes hit piece on Bolton. Quoting all anonymous crooked sources on the dole at the UN.
Bolton reinforcing he will work with anyone " Not useful to quote anonymous sources". Many ambassadors came up to Bolton after that yellow piece of journalism saying the piece was unfortunate. Who is Sarbanes siding with? Embezzlers, rapists, corrupt officials?. Fool.
George Allen (R-Virginia) speaking now. Speaking bout the call fromAl Qaeda to all muslims to join Hezb'Allah. Allen wants to know where they are getting their weapons. Where are these thousands upon thousands of weapons coming from?
Hezbollah funded from Iran and Syria. Arms from China. Allen wants to know what is the world community doing to stop it.
Bolton" "We can't reach an agreement on the definition of terrorism. A number of govenments think some terrorism is acceptable." This has been the main impediment.
Dolt Dodd is up -- right out of the box. Against the nomination. Crying about the NSA intercept issue. Aww poor Dodd crying for Al Qaeda, must be an Osama's payroll. Going back to the years old canard that Bolton tried to fire and incompetent that worked for him.
Bolton renders Dodd speechless. bababababababa TTTTTThats all fffffolks.
Preparing for my show at NOON, will play Dodd's grandstanding. Link to my live show here. 12 NOON EST Atlas on the Air
Mark writes me;
I am proud to say that John Bolton and I grew up in the same town. Christopher Dodd is a traitor. Let's not forget- he's the one who, at the last minute, slipped in the provision in the Senate Immigration bill, that we must first consult Mexico before we build a permanent barrier on our Southern border.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 10:31 AM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (1)
BOLTON HEARING TODAY
Ambassador Bolton's nomination will be discussed at today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting at 9:30 am.
For the good of our country, the United Nations and the free world, we must end any ambiguity about whether John Bolton speaks for the United States so that he can work to support our interests at the United Nations during this critical time. - The Washington Post, Senator George V. Voinovich, July 20, 2006 Voinovich is right. Bolton went to the UN having to prove himself. He's done that. - Chicago Tribune, July 25, 2006 More here
The Republican members of the SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
already support John Bolton's nomination.
PLEASE CONTACT COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS ASAP:
Joseph R. Biden (D-DE), Ranking Minority Member
(202) 224-5042 (ph)
(202) 224-0139 (fax)
Wilmington (302) 573-6345;
Milford (302) 424-8090 Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD)
(202) 224-4524 (ph)
(202) 224-1651 (fax)
Baltimore (410) 962-4436
Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT)
(202) 224-2823 (ph)
(202) 224-1083 (fax)
Wethersfield (860) 258-6940 John F. Kerry (D-MA)
(202) 224-2742 (ph)
(202) 224-8525 (fax)
Boston (617) 565-8519
Russell D. Feingold (D-WI)
(202) 224-5323 (ph)
(202) 224-2725 (fax)
Milwaukee (414) 276-7282 Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
(202) 224-3553 (ph)
Los Angeles (213) 894-5000 (ph)
(213) 894-5042 (fax) Bill Nelson (D-FL)
(202) 224-5274 (ph)
(202) 228-2183 (fax)
Tallahassee 850-942-8415
Barack Obama (D-IL)
(202) 224-2854 (ph)
(202) 228-4260 (fax)
Chicago (312) 886-3506;
Springfield (217) 492-5089
Help by making phone calls and faxing letters of support to the offices of Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Read more about Bolton's record here.
Read what others are saying about Bolton here.
UPDATE: Statement by the Honorable John R. Bolton, Nominee for Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July 27, 2006 (Click below)
Continue reading "BOLTON HEARING TODAY" »
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 08:51 AM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, UN: Arm of Radical Islam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Attention: Dhimmicrats
Think before you open your piehole and stick your career in it. Let's talk about accomplishments, move politics aside and put country before party;
John Bolton’s Work at the UN
SANCTIONS
Ambassador Bolton worked closely with Security Council colleagues to create a new partnership with Interpol to strengthen sanctions against al-Qaida.
Ambassador Bolton led the adoption of sanctions by the Security Council against individuals contributing to the genocide in Darfur.
Ambassador Bolton has helped President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf promote democracy in Liberia by revising and lifting sanctions imposed during the brutal reign of Charles Taylor.
SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION
Burma
Ambassador Bolton raised the issue of Burma in the UN Security Council and negotiated for the Council to receive briefings by UN Under Secretary General Gambari on the deteriorating political and social situation in the region.
Burundi
Ambassador Bolton led Security Council efforts to draw down the peacekeeping operation in Burundi after a successful transition (ONUB is scheduled to close at the end of 2006).
Congo
Ambassador Bolton and the Security Council provided the peacekeeping mission in the Congo, MONUC, with resources and temporary police and troop increases to support Congo's first democratic elections in 40 years.
Ethiopia/Eritrea
Ambassador Bolton and the Security Council condemned restrictions placed on the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) by the Government of Eritrea as well as the Ethiopian refusal to demarcate the border.
Ambassador Bolton led the Security Council in an authorization to downsize the UNMEE peacekeeping force from approximately 3,300 troops to 2,300 troops in response to the situation on the ground in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Iran
Ambassador Bolton worked with colleagues to negotiate a formal Security Council statement calling on Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities and to request follow up reports from the IAEA on Iranian compliance.
Liberia
Ambassador Bolton led the Security Council in the adoption of resolutions to establish a mandate to arrest Charles Taylor should he return to Liberia, to facilitate his transfer to the Special Court for Sierra Leone for prosecution, and to ensure peaceful presidential elections in Liberia.
North Korea
Ambassador Bolton, in partnership with the Japanese, led Security Council efforts to take a firm and clear stand against North Korean missile launches with the adoption of resolution 1695. This resolution is the strongest statement of condemnation the Security Council has made against North Korea in over 10 years and received unanimous support, even from China and Russia.
Sudan
Ambassador Bolton led the Security Council in authorizing the Secretary General to begin contingency planning for the transition of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a UN operation.
Ambassador Bolton negotiated with Security Council members to permit the entry of a joint African Union-UN assessment team to Darfur through a Chapter VII Security Council resolution.
Syria and Lebanon
Ambassador Bolton worked to adopt Chapter VII measures such as travel restrictions and the freezing of assets that would sanction individuals designated by the UN International Independent Commission (UNIIIC) as suspected of involvement in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Subsequently, the Security Council established a tribunal of an international character to try those involved in the terrorist bombing.
MANAGEMENT REFORM
Continue reading "Attention: Dhimmicrats" »
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 05:12 PM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (1)
Monday, July 24, 2006
sKerry gets the Bum's RUSH
There is an amusing kerfuffle on the political sidelines as John Skerry is clucking about Rush Limbaugh. John sKerry "thou protests too much." His fwench nose is out of joint because Rush, truthteller extraordinaire, pointed out the simple fact that the most frequent guest in the Clinton White House, besides Monica Lewinsky and the campaign donors in the Lincoln bedroom, was Yasser Arafat. Rush (and Elie Weisel) have called President Bush the best friend Israel ever had in the White House. D'oh.
I have gone farther, and called into question the ability of the Jews to survive because of their left leaning belief system. The left's latest in-your-face rebuke of the upcoming Bolton confirmation and calls for a ceasefire are a Zidane to Jews everywhere. This is an event horizon for leftwing Jews. I have frequently called Jews to task for tacit support of a party that no longer supports the Jewish state (or America) as Charles has so adroitly pointed out here at Little Green Footballs -- here, and here and here (there are 10 KOS Updates at LGF), yeah it's that bad on the left. So bad in fact, that the Jews on the left are blaming Karl Rove here. Seriously, they are blaming Rove.
sKerry on Rush and Israel
Arafat all but endorsed Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
Arafat deputy and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told WND in an exclusive interview that while "we do not involve ourselves in internal American politics," at the same time "our region has been sliding deeper and deeper into chaos because of certain policies over the past few years, and this needs to change."
While he would not directly endorse Kerry, it was clear Erekat was implying the PA wants a change in White House leadership: "If things continue the way they are, if certain policies toward our region are maintained in the years to come, there is going to be a lot of violence on both sides."
A prominent Arafat aide who asked that his name be withheld spoke to WorldNetDaily from Arafat's battered Ramallah compound.
The president [Arafat] is frustrated with Bush's policies," he said. "The president [Arafat] thinks Kerry will be much better for the Palestinian cause and for the establishment of a Palestinian state."
Kerry coveted the Jewish vote during his race, but also made a point of going after the Arab-American vote – telling each side what they wanted to hear.
In October 2003, he told the Arab American Institute in Michigan: "I know how disheartened Palestinians are by the Israeli government's decision to build the barrier off of the Green Line – cutting deep into Palestinian areas. We don't need another barrier to peace. Provocative and counterproductive measures only harm Israelis' security over the long term, increase the hardships to the Palestinian people, and make the process of negotiating an eventual settlement that much harder."
But a week before the New York state primary, he told a Jewish group: "Israel's security fence is a legitimate act of self defense. No nation can stand by while its children are blown up at pizza parlors and on buses. While President Bush is rightly discussing with Israel the exact route of the fence to minimize the hardship it causes innocent Palestinians, Israel has a right and a duty to defend its citizens. The fence only exists in response to the wave of terror attacks against Israel." WND
The terrorists, Arafat, the French, the Germans, those opposing us at the UN, and radical Islamist fascists the world over were all routing for Kerry. The Jews loyalty to the Democratic party might be like religious fervor or a drug, but this one just might kill the organism.
The left exchanges "flipflopping" with "intellectual growth." Intellectual giants (which BTW Kerry certainly is not) are often paralyzed into inaction and the spinally challenged Kerry and his ilk are no one to trust with the current World War.
UPDATE: The Protocols of Daily Kos PART 11
UPDATE: The Protocols of Daily Kos PART 12
Posted by Pamela on Monday, July 24, 2006 at 03:22 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Israel, the struggle for Good vs Evil, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (4)
DOLT PROMISES "BRUISING FIGHT" OVER BOLTON
Dodd the dolt has Presidential aspirations? I predict he doesn't get elected pit bull catcher. Schmuck.
Dodd promises "bruising" fight over Bolton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut on Sunday promised a bruising fight in the U.S. Senate against confirming John Bolton to be the country's ambassador to the United Nations.
President George W. Bush bypassed the Senate and installed Bolton into the position last year when lawmakers were on recess.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee scheduled a confirmation hearing on Bolton for Thursday after Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich who previously opposed the nomination, expressed support for Bolton.
"This is going to be a bruising fight," Dodd said on CNN's "Late Edition" program. "I'm sorry the administration wants to go forward with this."
What planet is this dhimmi living on? Trow da bum out!
In publicly opposing Mr. Bolton, Mr. Dodd joined Senator Biden of Delaware, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, who last week said Mr. Bolton’s performance at the United Nations “confirms my conviction that he is the wrong person for the job.” NY SUN
Biden. America won't forget. Another loon with Presidential aspirations.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, July 24, 2006 at 12:11 AM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, July 21, 2006
PRO-Terror Roll Call in DC
I am sure you are dying to know the politicians who voted against Thursday’s pro-Israel resolution; the full record is here: Final Vote Results for Roll Call 391. Charles over at LGF has it all here;
Voted “NAY” - 8:
Abercrombie [notorious- Atlas]
Conyers
Dingell
Kilpatrick (MI)
McDermott
Paul
Rahall
Stark
Answered “PRESENT” - 4:
Kaptur
Kucinich
Lee
Waters
Remember these names folks, remember these names. Our lives depend on eradicating (from Congress) these Jihad tools that have infiltrated the government.
UPDATE July 23: On the flip side have you read Rick Santorum's courageous, exceptional speech here? The man is presidential I tell you. (hat tip Jay)
Posted by Pamela on Friday, July 21, 2006 at 04:26 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (3)
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Disgusting
What depths the left won't plumb to further its agenda and seize power. It strikes me as the height of diabolical that the left taunts America with ongoing problems in Iraq when it was their very undermining of the liberation that emboldened the enemy and gave them the confidence to perservere. Imagine how differently things would have gone had America been united infighting the jihad and liberating oppressed societies in that despotic wasteland of theocratic Arab regimes.
That said, check out the Dhimmicrats latest act of intellectual barbarism;
Disgusting: Democratic Congressional CampaignUses Dead Soldiers to Raise Money
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a new fundraising pitch going out. It uses September 11th and our troops to raise money. But, instead of using those images to show Democrats would be tougher on terrorists and make America more secure, it uses pictures of dead soldiers in their flag draped coffins and the subtle threat of harm from September 11th to make a threat to the GOP. See the outrage for yourself here.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 12:03 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, June 26, 2006
ATLAS VLOGS MEDIA MADNESS
Doing anything that supports the enemy during war makes you a murderer.
A Muslim Constitution in Europe
This is what we are up against, heartbreaking letter
Great Americans
Special: Secretary Snow's Letter to the New York Times (hat tip Bruce)
New Evidence in HADITHA - soldiers' accounts of what happened are backed up by videotape shot by an ultralight vehicle
Censure Murtha
The Iraqi Holocaust
UPDATE: This is not about selling papers. It's about selling us out
How To Deal With Good News From Iraq
One of the more interesting types of stories exchanged by Iraq veterans is how their embedded reporters get screwed by their editors. The basic problem is that reporters tend to get close to the troops they are embedded with, and the troops form a good sense of what kind of story is being written. But then, when the story appears, it often has no connection with what actually happened, other than the names of the reporter and the soldiers or marines. The troops get curious about how this can be. Reporters have learned to dread inquiring emails from the troops they were recently embedded with. Sometimes the reporters are still embedded when some of their reporting appears in print or on the air. The troops note the discrepancies and ask questions. The answer to all these queries is simple. The reality of Iraq is too positive for the editors back home. Good news doesn't sell. The reporting has to be darkened a bit and a negative spin added. The troops tend to shrug their shoulders, and shake their heads. There's always the "alternative media" (blogs and web based stuff in general), and occasional accurate reporting in some mainstream outlets. But, in general, it's as if there were two worlds; the real one the troops live in, and a more "media friendly" one created by editors back home.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, June 26, 2006 at 03:47 PM in ATLAS VLOGS!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (1)
Friday, June 23, 2006
Atlas VLOGS the Enemy Within
Why do they Hate us indeed...CAIR's Priorities
"Given that the reported beliefs of this bizarre group have nothing to do with Islam, we ask members of the media to refrain from calling them 'Muslims,'" said CAIR spokesperson Ahmed Bedier. He thanked U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta for noting that "today's indictment. . .is not against a particular group or a particular faith."
[one of the suspects] told the "al-Qaida representative" that he and his five soldiers wanted to attend al-Qaida training and planned a "full ground war" against the United States in order to "kill all the devils we can." His mission would "be just as good or greater than 9/11," the indictment accused Batiste of boasting. More here
They said they had given their lives to Allah."
Write the President, the Vice-President and your legislators to go after the leakers!
The address for President Bush is: comments@whitehouse.gov
The address for Vice President Cheney is: Vice.President@whitehouse.gov
The address for the Secretary of State is: Secretary@state.gov
Most Senators have changed their websites to no longer accept email. Instead email must be entered via a web form. Below is the information for both New York Senators, a link to the Senate directory is included as well.
Senator Clinton's webform
Senator Schumer's webform
For the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of other Senators: U.S. Senate.
For the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of your Representative: House
More on Faith McDonnell's observations from thePresbyterian and Episcobal conferences
NYT REVELATIONS HELP BUSH; HURT US WAR ON ISLAMIC JIHAD
From Political Diary (PAID) Wall Street Journal
"When a party's leadership is unable to unite behind a clear position on the No. 1 national security issue facing America, it is not ready to govern. And that is the situation in which the Democrats now find themselves. Last week Democratic leaders produced an election year agenda that said nothing about fighting the war on terror. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi blurted out the reason: 'We don't even have a party position on the war,' she told reporters" -- Washington Times political columnist Donald Lambro.
Canada (not all wussies!) calls for the arrest of the newest member of the UN's Human Rights Council. More on the savage murderer here;
Iranian exile Hamid Rezah Eshagee was appalled at the inclusion of Mortazavi in the delegation, calling it "a humiliation, a provocation and an act of defiance" on the part of Iran toward the council and also Canada.
Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said in a news release that he is disgusted by Iran's action.
"The presence of Mr. Mortazavi in Iran's delegation demonstrates the government of Iran's complete contempt for internationally recognized principles of human rights," he said.
"The conduct of the government of Iran has been absolutely unacceptable," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday. "We're appealing to the international community to use all manner of law available to detain this individual and have him face justice."
Photo: Mortazavi ordered the arrest of Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi (shown in an undated file photo), who later died in Iranian custody.
Why we need access to international banking record;
French imam suspected of terror financing
Posted by Pamela on Friday, June 23, 2006 at 01:44 PM in ATLAS VLOGS!, CAIR, Council of thugs and gangstas, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (3)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Pentagon Activates Missile Defense, MAD Not at Albright STFU
Washington Times breaks the following
The Pentagon activated its new U.S. ground-based interceptor missile defense system, and officials announced yesterday that any long-range missile launch by North Korea would be considered a "provocative act."
Albright: Iraq invasion encouraged others Want history? Go over to Sweetness and Light.
Former Secretary of State Mad [not at]Albright criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq, saying Monday it had encouraged Iran and North Korea to push ahead with their nuclear programs.
Not at Albright gave this madman his nuclear opportunity. How dare you even speak?
It's worked for Ahmadinnerjacket, hasn't it?
U.S. intelligence officials said there are signs that the North Koreans recently began fueling the Taepodong with highly corrosive rocket fuel. Normally, when liquid fuel is loaded into missiles the missile must be fired within five to 10 days, or it must be de-fueled and the motors cleaned, a difficult and hazardous process.
UPDATE:If North Korea were to launch a rocket at America, it could reach Alaska and the coast of California. In that event, American missiles launched from Alaska and California would intercept the North Korean rocket and destroy it before it did any harm. (NY SUN)
10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD
— Special to the Sun
SOURCES: JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG; MICHAEL O’HANLON, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION; OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Continue reading "Pentagon Activates Missile Defense, MAD Not at Albright STFU" »
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 01:36 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Monday, June 19, 2006
I Predit Predictive Blogging has No Future
When the Weekly Standard does funny, they are really funny. Apparently they covered yearly Kos in Vegas. In a word, ha! I can just see Barnes and Kristol dispatching their crack staff to this most prestigious conference of great American thinkers (hat tip part time pundit)
"We are hungry," she wrote, "hungry for each other in person." Easy, SusanG, the World's Fare Buffet is just down past the Capri rooms. (Sorry, we netroots types like to kid each other.) She went on to call it "pure magic," saying, "We are here. We are at the gates. We will no longer remain passive and meek in order to court favor. We, the people, are coming to power slowly and indefatigably, here in Vegas, and here on the blog. We have arrived."
KOS considers itself once passive? oyish.
And they have, too, as evidenced by the massive media turnout. There were tons of them. You couldn't tell where the netroots ended and the media began. Sometimes, if you were a journalist, and you were trying to interview someone in the hall, you'd have to first give them the once over to see if their netroots were showing. Otherwise, you might end up accidentally interviewing Maureen Dowd. It's like SusanG wrote: "It seems like every fourth person you run into is here covering the phenomenon of . . . us. We're worth it, too. We are something else."
I hear ya.
You tell them, SusanG. You tell them why the politicians from Barbara Boxer to Wes Clark are turning the Riviera into a giant kissing booth. You tell them why prospective Democratic presidential candidate Mark Warner rented out the observation tower of the Stratosphere Hotel to toast you with sushi and "Kosmopolitans" and chocolate fountains and Blues Brothers and Elvis impersonators and laptop-shaped ice sculptures. You tell them why the New York Times sent six people and TheWeekly Standard sent two (flood the zone!). Never mind SusanG, I'll tell them. I'll tell them that it's because the Kossacks, as they call themselves, are happening now. They are so of the moment that a moment ago, when I wrote that they were happening now, I was sort of predictive blogging. But that was then, this is now. So don't blink or you'll miss it, because it's happening.
You think Blogging man 2007 wil get the media elites? Me neither.
I mean, sure, almost everyone at the conference was white. But they were different shades of white. Some were conference-room clammy white. Others were liquid-crystal-display blue-ish white. But there were both white men, and white women. Loads of 'em. And they weren't all 19 years old and wearing pajamas and fresh from Dungeons and Dragons matches in their mothers' basements. The average age looked to be about 40-45. These are people with lives and families and jobs, even if some of those jobs have titles like "pro bono philosopher."
Excellent
Take Pontificator. I don't know him, but I've read his work online. He recently did a predictive blog about a subject I know a little something about--me. He wrote about my piece, this piece, a week before it came out. His diary was entitled "Prepare for the Matt Labash YearlyKos Hatchet Job Article."
That hurts, Pontificator. Why do you have to prejudge? Hear me now, Pontificator, if that's your real name: WORDS CAN WOUND. He and the 69 commenters on his post purported to know everything about my piece, along with my comings and goings at the convention, without knowing much of anything. They didn't know that I get it. That I understand it. That I plug into People Power. That I, too, am People and have Power within me.
But how would Pontificator know that? He just posts from his digital echo chamber. He called me "that scowling unshaven frat boy some of you may have seen skulking around the convention grounds." Not true, you lying sack of pontification. I wasn't skulking, I was practically skipping, as you would if you were headed to the "Hot Topic of the Day featuring a panel of top bloggers" discussion. Plus, I was never in a frat. Plus, I shaved every single morning with my Schick Quattro, which is designed "for the guy who wants everything . . . except irritation."
The commenters were even worse. Circle said that I "smelled like judgment." No I didn't, I smelled like Acqua Di Parma, a symbol of Italian elegance favored by Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. Shayera said that I was sitting at her table at the Valerie Plame panel, that I got up in the middle and left for 20 minutes, returning with a USA Today that I read for the rest of the panel. "I saw that too," wrote Buzzer. "What a f--ing jerk," said Sally in SF. Except for one problem: I was only at that panel for about 5 minutes, left, and never came back inside. Nor did I ever have a USA Today. Must've been a different Matt Labash from The Weekly Standard. Hey, Shayera, good thing the blogosphere is here to check our facts.
Then there were the buttercups from my Abortion Roundtable. They practically stoned me after forcing me to admit I was pro-life. Some were rude enough that other people at the roundtable later apologized to me on their behalf. But somehow, I was the jerk for answering their questions. In a comment, Elise called me a "jackass" and said I "coughed rudely throughout the discussion (without covering his mouth!)."
Posted by Pamela on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 09:46 PM in Blogosphere: The New Power, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Terror Talking Points:"The Enemy is Helpless, Defeated, and Begging to Pull Out of the Iraqi Quagmire"
I see Zarqawi's suc[k]cessor, Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir, has received the Dhimmicrat's talking points;
"The Decisive Stage has Arrived - The Enemy is Helpless, Defeated, and Begging to Pull Out of the Iraqi Quagmire" (MEMRI)
Abu Hamza promises the Islamic nation that the decisive stage has arrived and that the jihad fighters' victory is assured. Abu Hamza threatens to slit the throats of Sunnis who cooperate with the Iraqi government and with the Americans, and says that he will continue fighting the government, which is comprised mainly of Shi'ites, until the Sunnis get the upper hand. As for the West, Abu Hamza assures it that Al-Zarqawi's death will not stop the jihad fighters.
"Every day, for the last three years, [our enemies] have been claiming that the war is almost over, causing their people to hope that it is so, [but] then the blows come and the world witnesses the victorious raids of the jihad fighters, which show that the jihad fighters are advancing, one step every day, and that the camp of unbelief is in [a state of] constant retreat and ongoing collapse...
"My dear [Islamic] nation, you have seen how your Crusader enemy has begun to beg its allies not to retreat and leave it alone on the battlefield, and has begun to ask the European countries and the tyrants [i.e. rulers] of the Arab states to help it and pull it out of what has come to be known as 'the Iraqi quagmire.'"
Read it all, indistinguishable from Murtha, Feingold, Feinstein, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy and co.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 03:09 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (2)
Democrats Stuck on Stoooopid
Even a broken clock is right twice a day;
In opening remarks read to an international symposium, Mohamed ElBaradei "there are clear signs of terrorists trying to acquire nuclear material through criminal networks." More here
Meanwhile the party of d'uhfeat is still on message. They remind me of Baghdad Bob. Remember when he was assuring the media that Saddam was in full control and winning the war while in the background you could the American tanks rolling in. Yeah, as televised reports of U.S. Forces approached the outskirts of Western Baghdad we were shown Baghdad Bob ranting; "
"They are not any place. They are on the move everywhere. They are a snake moving in the desert. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion."
The left has that dellusion. They just don't get it;
American and Iraqi forces are on the offensive once again, deploying around the terrorist stronghold of Ramadi and beginning a drive to bring order to Baghdad. This is welcome news, not least because it underscores how wrong and defeatist Congressman Jack Murtha and his Democratic colleagues are in demanding an immediate U.S. withdrawal in Iraq.
With a new Iraq government finally in place, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi dead, now would be the worst time to tell Iraqis they are on their own. This is the moment to capitalize on this recent run of good news to show the Iraqi public, Sunnis and Shiites both, that the insurgency cannot win. If this requires more American troops and more offensive operations for some months to come, then that is what the Bush Administration should now consider.
It's in this context that last week's votes on Iraq in Congress are so important. President Bush's surprise visit to Baghdad did a lot to assure Iraqis about U.S. resolve. But the free Iraqi media have also made Iraqis acutely aware of debates in the Congress, especially with the American media trumpeting Mr. Murtha's demands for a U.S. retreat and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi describing the war as a "grotesque mistake."
So it was a good idea for Republican leaders to put Democrats on record and see if they really had the courage of their antiwar convictions. On Friday, the House voted 256 to 153 to approve a nonbinding resolution acknowledging Iraq as a central front in the war on terror and asserting that "it is not in the national security interest of the United States to set an arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of troops. The 153 votes for retreat included three Republicans.
Over in the Senate, meanwhile, former Democratic standard bearer John Kerry was embarrassed Thursday when Republican Mitch McConnell offered for a vote on the floor the text of a withdrawal resolution that Mr. Kerry had been promoting. Democrats cried foul and helped reject the resolution by 93-6. But the vote was useful for exposing Democrats who say the U.S. should leave Iraq but don't want to be responsible for the consequences of their proposal.
The votes were also useful in exposing the kind of policy that the Kerry-Murtha Democrats would pursue if they retake Congress in November.
Which of course can not happen. Can not happen. I expect all of my readers to actively participate in the process and dow whatever you can in whatever capacity to fight the good fight. And while we on the right have some real issues with immigration and spending, the alternative is unthinkable.
UPDATE: A lovely thank you to the troops
Posted by Pamela on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 02:10 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, Iraq, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Democrats: Put up or Shut Up
Today should be an interesting day (apart from the obvious). Finally the DhimmicRATS will be forced to put their (very weak) position on paper. Finally the spineless (and the legless) will have to take a stand. They have been whining about the war on international jihadist movement (hee hee) ever since we were invaded. Iraq is very much a part on the war on the international jihadist movement . Today the debate begins and it's being put to a vote.
We Can't Walk Away (Conway's blog)
Today's debate over the war in Iraq is an opportunity for the House to address the hopes and concerns of the American people. The American people are going to be presented with a clear choice in this debate; we can maintain our resolve and continue to make progress or we can walk away from the Iraqi people when they need us most. The death of Zarqawi and the formation of a new government in Iraq are proof of the progress that continues to be made everyday in Iraq.
I met with Iraqi military leaders for the first time last week and I have seen the rise of a growing and improving Iraqi security force. Ultimately, it is up to the Iraqis to determine their long-term fate, but we have a responsibility to help defend and protect their democracy as it takes hold. In this debate we will present the facts and let the American people decide which direction they want to pursue in the central front in the War on Terror and I am looking forward to being a part of it.
UPDATE: Well, the party famous for I-voted-for-the-war-before-I-voted-against-it suffered a legislative defeat today 93 to 6. The only six supporters were non-suprisingly Kerry, Feingold, Boxer, Byrd, Harkin, Kennedy. Look at the names. Leftists' leadership. Jay has it all here.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 02:58 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The UN and the Democratic Party
If the Democrats can't get elected legally(which they can't), they intend to grab power using international strong arm tactics. When Malloch Brown was talking down to the American people last week (and later insisting it was not a partisan issue- "this is not partisan, not Republican",) scant attention was paid to the Democrats in attendance.
What went less noticed, however, was that the conference at which Mr Malloch Brown spoke featured a host of Democratic policymakers who also called for a greater US engagement with multilateral bodies. The meeting highlighted an issue that its organisers suggested could become an important theme during November’s midterm elections in the US. Financial Times
I called the Soros backed posturing here on my VLOG.
Power and Superpower”, organised by the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation, two left-of-centre groups, sought to frame a new “muscular” US policy of engagement with international institutions.
Just for knowing the President of Center for American Progress is John Podesta, yes that John Podesta, Poontang Clinton's Chief of Staff. Sarah Rosen Wartell is his Executive Vice President for Management Ms. Wartell served at the White House during the Clinton Administration. As Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she advised the President and senior White House officials on domestic economic issues. And so it goes.
There is clearly a very specific agenda here. And I want those looters and moochers to know that we ignorant hayseeds are all over it. We are watching, listening, tuned intoRush and FOX. You won't get this by us. Uh uh.
John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress and co-organiser of the conference, said the challenge was to “flesh out what it means to be a muscular internationalist”; to “build a vision where the US takes its rightful place as a leader of the multilateral community”. [ishcabibble ishcabobble - Atlas]
“We can’t solve the problem of global warming without multilateral action; or proliferation without actors operating in concert with another,” he told the FT. “Ultimately, that means we have to accept constraints.” [Global warming. It's the Jihad stupid - Atlas]
Madeleine [not at]Albright, former secretary of state, issued a “clarion call for militant moderation. If we do not recognise international standards, others will not as well”. [Well isn't that ******* brilliant , this from the architect of North Korean Nuclear weaponry. Why doesn't she take an apartment with Helen Thomas. Separated at birth- Atlas]
More, an extension if you will, of what Robert Spencer calls the "deep affinity between the Left and the forces of global jihad."
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 03:18 AM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Kofi Annan aka Coffee Enema, Simmering Civil War in America, UN: Arm of Radical Islam | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Democrat Culture of Corruption Rangel Juices the Fixers
The Denocrats culture of corruption rages on - unstoppable. Crooked Charles Rangel is at it again, the ink ain't dry on payola Castro was paying Rangel. Just last week Rep. Charles Rangel has 'fessed up to having violated congressional ethics rules by taking his son to Cuba in 2002 on a trip paid for by Fidel Castro's government (Rangel and Castro.) Anti-embargo lawmaker's Cuba ties. Apparently Rangel is just getting warmed up.
Now he is sponsoring his fixers. New York, the new Tamany Hall.
New York Reps. Charles Rangel, Gary Ackerman and Carolyn McCarthy yesterday came to the defense of indicted class-action law firm Milberg Weiss - a huge donor to Democrats - in a large newspaper advertisement.
Rangel received $4,200 - the maximum allowed - from the firm's founder, Melvyn Weiss, earlier this year and $6,000, split between his campaign and National Leadership ....[...]
A spokeswoman for the law firm, indicted for allegedly paying an investor $2.4 million to act as a plaintiff in dozens of lawsuits, would not comment to The Post.
NY Post here
Rangel is a lowlife. This is the same Democrat that tried, during the last Presidential election, to scare the American people into believing there was going to be draft - all the while it was he who clandestinely tried to introduce a bill to reinstate the draft here. It was he who belittled the 'success' of the Iraq vote here and said we "don't want our children to die for other people's freedom." How about dying for our freedom, Chuck? Oh and btw, he'a at it again. Castro puppet is trying to reinstate the draft, again, now - here.
UPDATE: CAIR IMMEDIATE RELEASE; Rangel sleeping with CAIR.
HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL of New York in the House of Representatives Thursday, June 8, 2006
Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to enter into the Record, my heartfelt support for the "Muslims Care" campaign, launched by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, to promote volunteerism in the Islamic community. CAIR is asking Muslims across the country to volunteer their time for raising health awareness, helping the needy and supporting activities for youth. Using verses from the Qur'an and Hadith, the "Muslims Care" tool kit (available in www.muslims-care.org) is encouraging local mosques to participate and promote volunteering programs such as blood drives, health awareness, student tutoring, etc.
First of all, the "Muslims Care" program has a community benefits focus, which can potentially bring together people from a multitude of backgrounds and interests. Moreover, it offers an opportunity to weave Muslims and Islamic identity into the American sociocultural fabric, a viable approach to counter the misinformation that is out there about Islam and Muslims. ...]
I heartily support this undertaking by CAIR, as well as their other programs that promote cross-cultural dialogue to enhance the understanding of Islam.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 12:26 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, How the Left Destroys the Nation, New York Politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
SHRINKS EXTEND HOURS ACROSS USA
Rove will not be charged. Melman says eat it Dems and pay. Video here
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 10:11 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (2)
Sunday, June 11, 2006
The NY Times gets it wrong, again
The Times is intoxicated with the Democrats appearing before the moonbats in Vegas, ushering in the age of the blog. The power. The fury, The future. The agent for change. The New York waste of Times did a glowing, kiss *** piece on the Kos Konvention here;
If there is an emerging consensus among much of the Democratic Party establishment, it is that blogs are an important, potentially crucial emerging power in American politics, as reflected by the turnout of Democratic leaders here this weekend. What is less clear is how mainstream politicians like Mr. Warner — or the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, who gave an address Saturday night — will grapple with an audience that has defined itself in part by its dissatisfaction with mainstream politicians.
Wait a minute fellas. Far be it from me to rain on anyone's parade but you've assigned all of the qualities of the Right side of the sphere to the wrong side of the sphere. The right blogs broke Rathergate, the Swift Boat veterans, CNN's Eason Jordan resignation, Kerry's impossible lies, the Danish cartoons, yads yada yada. It was the right side of the blogosphere that changed the course of history in the last Presidential election. All of the real action is happening over here guys.
The dinosaur media is owned lock, stock and barrel by the left. What's left for the liberal blogsphere is the fringiest, craziest, radicalized, far, far left. The Times really have it wrong. The left doesn't need a blogosphere. They own the media elite.
The Center and Right suffered a vacuum filled by talk radio and now the net. Talk radio was not good, great in fact but not enough.
So I don't know what they are raving about over there - out and about on their weekend pass.
Indeed, there was evidence of a gulf in the way the two sides view their relationship. For the 1,000 or so bloggers at the YearlyKos Convention here, the mission is nothing short of trying to transform the way politics are done. For some of the political leaders who stopped off for a quick panel or reception, the visits seemed more along the lines of another constituent box to be checked on the campaign circuit, whose value does not extend beyond its checkbook or voter turnout operations.
Steve Soto, who writes The Left Coaster blog, said that the Democratic leaders running the campaigns to win the House and Senate "are still treating the blogs and some of the advice from them about message and focus as unwanted solicitations from crazy relatives."
They are crazy relatives. And it would be suicidal for the left to move any more left if they want to win electons, despite the Kos Konstituency threats and tantrums.
It's funny. They talk about how all powerful the Kos blog is. This is purely anecdotal but interesting, nonetheless.I got my first link from Kos, the other day. I gotta tell you.............it brought exactly 9 hits. I have gotten tens of thousands of hits from bloggers with allegedly last traffic. Imagine that. It was a hot topic too - Coulter's truth telling on the 9/11 Jersey four - and it was a real leftarded vote getter - whose breasts were bigger. You, chum for leftards;
Atlas Shrugs: My **** are bigger than Ann's **** ... that's why everybody ignores her when she attacks the 9/11 widows.
You know the leftist drill. Misogyny nonparallel, their favorite. And yet 9 hits. When Wolcott did his Nips Ahoy piece it drove tens of thousands to my site. Just sayin.
I think Kos jiggers his numbers. Something is rotten in the moonbat cave.
UPDATE: Wild Bill over at Passionate America - and my partner in crime in the new internet radio (ad)venture WIDE AWAKE RADIO has a delicious round up here;
Kender from Wide Awakes Radio just happened to be in Vegas and decided to pop in on the Moonbats at the YearlyKos cave. Besides getting guano all over his shoes there wasn't much to report, except for the fact that they were a bunch of pu.... I'll let Kender tell you about it.
BTW mark your calenders for Atlas on the Air on the W.A.R radio network kick off July 4 - I will be doing a bi-weekly show, Tuesdays and Thursdays 12 - 1 PM EST. Look for more updates as the advent of a new era draws closer.
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, June 11, 2006 at 11:07 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (10)
Saturday, June 10, 2006
The Left Hates my Vlogs
Thought you would enjoy some of the leftards comments on VLOGs over at You Tube here and here
mikelo (19 hours ago) please kill yourself so we can sing: she's dead! she's dead! oh baby she moves, oh she doesn't, she's dead! she's dead!
IslamicJihadist | June 09, 2006
Whore of Zion, why do you rejoice over the death of one man? For every one Zarqawi killed are 10,000 soliders of Islam ready for martyrdom. ALLAH AKBAR! ALLAH AKBAR!
kentuckyhottub (22 hours ago)
I'm glad he is dead too but I wouldn't be praising it in front of my child as you have. Social services should visit your home. On your Kennedy theory and stolen elections. Maybe they were both stolen. However Kennedy was a great president and Bush can't complete a sentence without screwing up. Bush will go down in history as one of the 3 worst presidents of all time. You should be ashamed of praising anyones death in front of your child or grandchild.
amir2bb (21 hours ago)
Poor kid who is living with a maniac like her. What you do is like child abuse and you should be reported.
There's more, much more, but this is the basic flavuh. Such wonderful Americans.
UPDATE: Soccer Game #2 .......Claudia shoots, scores! Half time. (blogging from the vehicle) The snacks these mothers bring (oreos, ding dongs chips - what up wit dat?) They hate when I am snack mom, sliced oranges and Poland Spring sparkling flavored waters. Heh ......... then we go eat oreos, ding dongs, chips .......heh
UPDATE: BTW, proud to be a "whore of zion." Name of my next blog.
But they love me and ANN! in Portugal. yeah bababababy. Hoo ah
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, June 10, 2006 at 06:11 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, June 09, 2006
How do you Guarantee a Democrat Loss in November?
With a news item like this;
Breaking news on Fox, Congressman John Murtha has sent a letter to the Democrats in the House that if they regain control of the House in November, he intends on running for House Majority Leader.
(that and the yesterday's death tax vote)
Dick Patten, president of AFBI points out: "[Yesterday's] vote against cloture was a vote not for a compromise, but for bringing back the 55% death tax after 2010. This was a vote by Democratic Senators to RAISE the death tax," he emphasizes.
Dan Clifton of Americans for Tax Reform agrees: "It is one thing to vote 'no' on the legislation -- but it's a totally different ball game when you vote to ensure that the Senate cannot even consider legislation these Senators promised to their constituents in the past."
Posted by Pamela on Friday, June 09, 2006 at 08:31 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, June 08, 2006
USS Cole Sails Again
Did William Jefferson Clinton drop the ball or what? It is inconceivable to me (or any rational American) that two suicide murderers could float towards a US destroyer and blow it up. And subsequently nothing is done. Think about it. Tammy Bruce has it all here
USS Cole Sails Again
Cole sailors stoic as they prepare to head to Middle East
Every day the sailors aboard the Cole walk across a reminder of the attack that made the destroyer the most famous ship in the U.S. Navy fleet. The floor in the corridor leading to the dining area has 17 gold stars — one for each sailor killed when terrorists bombed the Cole as it was refueling in Yemen's port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000.
As the Cole sails tomorrow, let's remember the 17 who died:
Remember: USS Cole Incident
Electronics Technician Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow
Morrisville, Pennsylvania
Signalman Seaman Recruit Cherone Louis Gunn
Rex, Georgia
Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels
Norfolk, Virginia
Seaman Recruit Lakiba Nicole Palmer
San Diego, California
Operations Specialist Second Class Timothy Lamont Saunders
Ringgold, Virginia
Ensign Andrew Triplett,
Macon, Mississippi
Seaman Apprentice Craig Bryan Wibberley
Williamsport, Maryland
Hull Maintenance Technician Third Class Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter
Mechanicsville, Virginia
Mess Management Specialist Seaman Lakeina Monique Francis
Woodleaf, North Carolina
Information Systems Technician Seaman Timothy Lee Gauna
Rice, Texas
Engineman Second Class Marc Ian Nieto
Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin
Electronics Warfare Technician Third Class Ronald Scott Owens
Vero Beach, Florida
Engineman Fireman Joshua Langdon Parlett
Churchville, Maryland
Fireman Apprentice Patrick Howard Roy
Keedysville, Maryland
Electronics Warfare Technician Second Class Kevin Shawn Rux
Portland, North Dakota
Mess Management Specialist Third Class Ronchester Mananga Santiago
Kingsville, Texas
Firecontrolman Gary Graham Swenchonis, Jr.
Rockport, Texas
God bless them all.( hat tip tOm P)
Bottom photo: The USS Cole, which was bombed by terrorists in October 2000, waits pierside at the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia before shipping out again to the Middle East.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, June 08, 2006 at 12:52 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Democrat Rangel On Castro'$ Dole
Culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption.
Rangel and Castro (NY Post)
Rep. Charles Rangel has 'fessed up to having violated congressional ethics rules by taking his son to Cuba in 2002 on a trip paid for by Fidel Castro's government and New York grocery titan John Castimatidis.
Under House rules, private sponsors can foot only the travel bill for a lawmaker and one relative, in this case Rangel's wife, Alma.
On the Castro dole, whoa. Imagine a Republican sleeping with a despot. So dirty it's disgusting. WTF is a New York Representative going to Cuba for? Isn't there an embargo? Rangel is particularly gross because he is always trotted out like some great elder statesman, when he is nothing short of a demagogue.
This is the same Charles Rangel that said of the president: "George Bush is our Bull Connor" here.
Mr. Rangel's metaphoric linkage of Mr. Bush to the late Theophilus "Bull" Connor - who in 1963 turned fire hoses and attack dogs on blacks, including Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrating in favor of equal rights here. Joining Rangel at the infamous gathering was none other than Hillary (shocka!)
This is the same Charles Rangel that tried, during the last Presidential election, to scare the American people into believing there was going to be draft - all the while it was he who clandestinely tried to introduce a bill to reinstate the draft here. It was he who belittled the 'success' of the Iraq vote here and said we "don't want our children to die for other people's freedom." How about dying for our freedom, Chuck? Oh and btw, he'a at it again. Castro puppet is trying to reinstate the draft, again, now - here.
And so invariably you get worldwide headlines like these;
United States Poised To Implement Mandatory Draft?
Looks ominous doesn't it? And it doesn't look like it's coming from an extreme far left Rangel, the headline looks like it's the government, it's Bush, it's UNITED STATES. Rangel is a snake.
Cheney is on to him ......... said it straight back in October.
UPDATE: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION UPDATE;
Southpaw McKinney is cutting a deal on the cop beating and he has written a song about.
Check in the icebox for the William Jefferson corruption case.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, June 07, 2006 at 02:19 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Illegal Immigration:Democrats Advocate Anarchy
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:
Today's race in California to replace crooked Cunningham should be an interesting one with ginormous implications for upcoming races. In today's Political diary (WSJ PAID Only), John Fund writes;
A split is taking place in last-minute media coverage of today's special election for the California House seat vacated by disgraced former Congressman Duke Cunningham. Major media outlets have completely ignored the controversy over Democratic candidate Francine Busby's answer to a question from a Spanish-speaking man who wanted to know how he could aid her campaign. "You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help," Ms. Busby told the man. She now claims she misspoke and intended to say that those under 18 years of age could still volunteer for the campaign.
Misspoke? You don't need to be a registered voter? That is very, painfully clear.
Even though virtually unreported by mainstream outlets, the comment has created a firestorm in the district because it was caught on tape. The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and local talk radio have all played the audio clip of the incident.
Chuck Todd, editor of the Hotline, thinks the comment will have a major impact in a race that polls late last week showed effectively tied. "Francine Busby really stepped in it," he says. "Apparently having someone trail a candidate with a video recorder isn't a waste of time after all."
Should Republican candidate Brian Bilbray win by a larger than expected margin, many will speculate that the Busby booboo was a big factor. Southern California talk show host Hugh Hewitt says the statement wasn't "a gaffe so much as a stunning bit of clarity about Democratic indifference to the rules." He notes that it was only ten days ago that every Democratic U.S. Senator voted against an amendment by GOP Senator Mitch McConnell to require photo ID at the polls in federal elections, despite polls showing 80% of American support the concept. Expect a lot more discussion about voter fraud as a campaign issue regardless of the outcome of today's vote.
I wouldn't call it indifference as much as anarchy. Rule of law is what separates us from the savages. What kind of party is that?What's next canvassing at prisons? Electioneering in crack houses? We need a second party. The Democrats are done.
UPDATE June 7: Bilbray Maintains Lead Over Busby For 50th District Seat
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 at 01:05 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Illegal Aliens, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (16) | TrackBack (4)
Friday, June 02, 2006
Islam Infiltrating Congress and Halls of Power
Taking a page from the Muslim Brotherhood Project, there is a deliberate, carefully thought out, systematic program to infiltrate our Congress with the enemy.CAIR reports on a failed attempt to
ARAB CANDIDATE SUES AFTER LOSING ENDORSEMENT OVER 9/11 COMMENTS - TOP
PATERSON, N.J. -- An Arab-American political candidate who was dumped by Passaic county Democratic leaders for comments some people interpreted as sympathetic to suicide bombers is suing to get on the ballot.
Democrats put forward Sam Merhi's name as a nominee for a county freeholder seat in the June 6 primary, but withdrew it in March amid political backlash from remarks Merhi made in 2002 about the 9/11 attacks.
Merhi, a Totowa businessman active in Democratic politics, said during a political fundraiser that he was outraged by the 9/11 attacks. When asked whether those feelings also applied to Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel, Merhi said he did not see a comparison.
He was running as a Democrat,mind you, in an overwhelmingly dhimmicrat state until the word got out about his 9/11 comments. Otherwise he would have slipped through the cracks unnoticed.
Vital Perspectives has the filth on McClosky here.
House Candidate, Supporter of Anti-Semitic Myths, Funded by Terror Financier Former California Rep. Pete McCloskey, running against Rep. Richard Pombo in Tuesday's GOP primary in an effort to regain a seat in Congress, is returning a $2,100 campaign donation he received from a man tied to al-Qaeda .
The money was from M. Yaqub Mirza, a Pakistan native living in Virginia, who has been investigated by the Justice Department for allegedly helping to finance al-Qaeda and Islamic Jihad. Mirza's offices were raided by federal authorities in March 2002.
McCloskey has courted support from the Muslim community, and also has criticized Israeli foreign policy and was a personal friend of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. McCloskey is also chairman of the Council on the National Interest, a group dedicated to combating what it calls the "Israel lobby" in Washington (he should get together with Walt & Mearsheimer). In 2000, McCloskey gave a featured address to the Holocaust denial group Institute for Historical Review. In his speech, McCloskey lashed out at Jews for allegedly controlling the media and funding his defeat when he challenged Pete Wilson for U.S. Senate:
And then there is this jewel from CAIR, front for terror organizations;
CAIR: MUSLIM CONGRESSIONAL AIDES TAKING STAND - TOP AP
WASHINGTON -- At midday on Fridays, Muslims gather to pray in a basement room of the U.S. Capitol. Kneeling on sheets they've spread over the floor and facing east toward Mecca, they are members of the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, about two dozen congressional aides who are part of a small but growing minority in America and in the halls of government.
At first just a prayer group, later a Muslim support group, the association is now looking outward to change what many see as woeful ignorance about Islam on Capitol Hill and beyond, said Jameel Aalim-Johnson, a black Muslim and chief of staff for Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York.
Some 100 non-Muslim congressional colleagues attended an association luncheon and the showing of part of a documentary on Islam in America. Visiting Imams from the Middle East recently met with association members.
The congressional chaplain's office consulted them about offering classes on Islam on Capitol Hill, said association member Nayyera Haq, daughter of Pakistani immigrants and spokeswoman for Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo."
That's not always easy to do.
Though there's no official count, the association says the number of congressional staffers who identify themselves as Muslim is little more than 20 out of some 10,000 employees at the Capitol complex.
There also is a smattering of Muslims at other Washington agencies, and some departments have consulted American Muslims for help with the counterterror war. Muslims have served as state legislators, but there is no member of Congress who identifies himself as a Muslim, said Corey Saylor, government affairs director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.(MORE)
UPDATE: Bookstores terrified of Muslims here.
Posted by Pamela on Friday, June 02, 2006 at 08:41 PM in Amerabia: Losing America, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, September the 11th, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Hevesi: Schumer would "Put a bullet between the president's eyes, if he could get away with it,
Since I began blogging I have railed against the hideous state of New York politics (home of Sheldon Silver, who never saw a tax dollar he couldn't steal or a welfare program he wouldn't support) here and here and it's impact on the New York economy here..
I love New York, love it's energy, it's power, it's excitement, it's joie, it'ss passion. I love it all. Which is what makes living in such a bastion of liberal despotism so distressing. And while I divorce the city from the Democratic Boss Tweed-like machine, there are moments - like using the restrooms on the Westside (IE Starbucks) and encountering the most vile Bush bashing graffiti on the lavatory walls.
During the Presidential election you could not walk down the streets without being assailed by anti- Bush petitioners, electioneers, and run of the mill pains in the asses.
The state comptroller, Alan Hevesi, is getting his race for re-election off to an unusual start by describing his own remarks as "remarkably stupid," "incredibly moronic," and "totally offensive."
Mr. Hevesi was referring to a remark he had made when he described Senator Schumer as someone who would "put a bullet between the president's eyes, if he could get away with it."
"We really feel bad for poor Chuck - United States senator. The man who, uh, uh, how do I phrase this diplomatically, will put a bullet between the president's eyes, if he could get away with it," Mr. Hevesi told graduating students at Queens College. More here
This Hevesi story is hardly unique or extraordinary. It is exemplar of the New York Democrats.
And while Hevesi subsequently described his own remarks as "remarkably stupid," "incredibly moronic," and "totally offensive," - what he meant is that it was "remarkably stupid," "incredibly moronic," and "totally offensive" that he got caught saying those things. Me, I think he should be thrown out on his *** for speaking of assassinating the President but we live in an amoral world.
Mine you Hevesi is hardly radical. He is a quiet, composed, straight laced member of the Democratic party. Seriously. I know. I met him years ago at a Young President's Organization gathering at a state senator's home. He was there soliciting support for his comptroller's run. He fits he job of comptroller - he's an accountant for pete's sake. And he is running for re-election. I'll bet you dollars to donuts he wins. That's how crooked New York is. And New York voting is crooked - that's why they want all those illegals voting. When we get off paper ballots and go legit, the Democrats may have a problem.
Stalin was right when he said it's not who votes, it's who counts the votes.
Schumer's response?
"Comptroller Hevesi was trying to make a point, he went way too far and it was inappropriate and wrong."
Weak, very weak. Sounds like a secret endorsement to me. Keep all of this in mind. This is what we are dealing with.
UPDATE: Vintage New York from Atlas here and from Mr X, Living in a Closet (must read here) and here
Continue reading "Hevesi: Schumer would "Put a bullet between the president's eyes, if he could get away with it," »
Posted by Pamela on Friday, June 02, 2006 at 12:58 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, New York Politics, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)
Thursday, June 01, 2006
90Gs in the Icebox and All Is Well
Looks like the deme (Democrat meme) in the Democrap's playbook -- culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption -- endlessly spouted from the top of the food chain (Harry "where are my free tickets" Reid) to the pods that make their way onto cable and network news.
Abramoff may have been a half story (half the $$$ going to the Dems) but they were going to get their pound of flesh out of it anyway,
And then came with man with the frozen cash. 90 Gs in his ice box. Smmmmmmmmmmokin'
Members of the vicious party were muted, but only for a moment. They trounced on the Feds for investigating - with members of the stooopid party joining in. Where is the damn outrage?
he New York Times has a cover story today highlighting the great divide between House GOPers and the Bush White House over the FBI’s search of Democrat Rep. William Jefferson’s (La.) Capitol Hill office last weekend.
Nevermind that the search found cash wrapped in foil and hidden in the congressman’s freezer. Nevermind that at least two associates of the Democrat lawmaker have pled guilty to bribing the congressman. Nevermind that the FBI had a warrant.
Where is the outrage?
I understand the Republicans’ being upset over the search of a congressional office by the Justice Department. There are plausible arguments, on "separation of powers" grounds, to be made, but, seriously, people ought to be a little more ticked that it is looking increasingly likely that Jefferson was at least influenced inappropriately.
The New York Times doesn’t seem to think so. In their 1,000+ word cover story, there was no actual condemnation of the actions for which Jefferson is being investigated. More at Human Events here
What is it about the Republicans? Why are they incapable of grabbing the ball and running with it? Could you imagine the roar of gunfire if it was a Republican Frigidaire? The mind reels.
William Jefferson is a major story, a terrible story of enormous proportions. Why aren't the Republicans making hay with it? Wallpapering the capital and the nation with it?
Now the Democrats are back to the 'BIG OIL IN THE WHITE HOUSE" deme, and gas prices are killing the nation.
The Republicans just don't get it. Who took down Kerry during the Presidential election? The Republicans? No sir. It was the little guy! It was he Swifties. And now there is a concerted effort to take down those very heroes (heroes in Vietnam, and heroes in 2004 - they saved the nation.) Emmett Tyrrell Jr. in today's New York Sun Paid Only;
Consider the ongoing controversy over Senator Jean-Francois Kerry's military service in the faraway Vietnam War. You doubt that the controversy is ongoing? Just last Sunday a front-page story in the New York Times reported that some of Senator Kerry's supporters during his ill-fated 2004 presidential campaign are endeavoring to prove him a war hero with an unblemished record of heroism. Their targets are the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. These Swifties, as they are called, are the Vietnam vets who claimed that when they served with Mr. Kerry they found him to be a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff. All insist he exaggerated his feats of heroism, and some testify that he lied about his wounds and heroics. Many American voters were persuaded.
The following paragraph ought to be framed and hung;
Now why is this debate being launched? Any innocent observer who watched the showboating senator from Massachusetts bungle his 2004 presidential campaign must know that he is today a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff. Why would he not have been one as a youth, back in the late 1960s when he brought camera equipment into the jungles to film himself at war? After an early exit from military service, he proceeded to follow the fashion of the times and oppose the war, appearing before a Senate committee in 1971 to accuse the American military of systematically committing war crimes. Then just over three decades later this strange man chose to make his Vietnam experience a major theme of his presidential candidacy. This is a matter for a seasoned psychiatrist to explain. To the rest of us it appears as egotism at the outer reaches of sanity.
Yet this attack on the Swift Boat Veterans is not contained to Mr. Kerry’s supporters. The senator himself has been obsessive about the Swifties since their ads against him did his campaign so much damage. As David Holman reported in the May issue of The American Spectator, “A year and a half after he lost the 2004 presidential election John Kerry can’t get enough of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. No matter the occasion, he [Kerry] doesn’t miss an opportunity to parade his campaign wounds however incoherently and obsessively.”
Mr. Kerry has complained of the “Swift Boat–style Republican attack ads” in fundraising appeals on behalf of other candidates. He invoked the Swifties in opposing the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito. When asked if he had received contributions from the disgraced Washington lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, Mr. Kerry snapped, “That’s another of their Swift Boat–style tactics where they throw up the mud and stick it.” Mr. Holman reports that Mr. Kerry has resorted to these slurs on the Swifties in eight other fund raising appeals. Moreover, in the asylum that is the Democratic Party’s angry left, “Swift Boat” has become a verb and an adjective.The left-wing magazine Mother Jones writes of the Bush administration “Swiftboating their enemies.” Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton admonishes against the dread Republicans’ employment of “swift boat tactics.” In the Kultursmog’s parlance of hate terms, Swiftboat is about to join such terms as McCarthyism and McCarthyite.
Now we read that the campaign against the Swifties is going to gain momentum.The sorehead Kerry supporters have joined together in a group called the Patriot Project. It will seek out the Swifties and scrutinize their complaints against Mr. Kerry. It will also support opponents of the war in Iraq and visit editorial offices to make the case for such veterans as the Honorable John P. Murtha, a Vietnam War vet who now opposes the Iraq War. All of this sounds like political harassment to me, but as the shrinks are wont to say, “If it is true for you, it is true for you.” For a certitude, the left wing of the Democratic Party believes that whatever it believes is true.
Now this is truly a culture of corruption, dirty dirty pool. and I am warning, strongly advising the Republicans to get in the game and stop being such dandys. This is war and our lives depend on it. Dolts.
We can not lose in November, the repercussions would be disastrous.
UPDATE June 2nd : Earth to Republicans, BREAKING NEWS HERE: culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption
Breaking: FBI ARREST Two Aides of Democrat State Senator Fumo Two Aides of DEMOCRAT Sen. Vincent J. Fumo (D- Philadelphia) was arrested today by the FBI. The Democrat's Culture of Corruption is getting deeeeeep, get out the boots better yet the waders.
Senator's staffers charged with obstruction Philadelphia Business Journal
Two computer-services employees on Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's staff were arrested Wednesday morning and charged with obstructing a federal investigation into his dealings involving a nonprofit organization.
According to the 65-page affidavit unsealed Wednesday, Leonard Luchko, 49, of Collingdale, Pa., and Mark Eister, 36, of Camp Hill, Pa., systematically destroyed e-mail and other electronic evidence to keep it from FBI scrutiny.
An ongoing investigation by the FBI and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division is exploring whether Fumo, D-Phila., used his authority and position to extort money from corporations for a nonprofit associated with his South Philadelphia district office. The investigation is also examining whether he benefited personally and politically from expenditures made by the nonprofit.
According to the affidavit, upon learning of the investigation, Luchko instructed the senator's Philadelphia staff to delete all e-mails regarding Fumo, and Eister took similar steps in Harrisburg, the state capital. Staffers were also instructed not to save e-mails to or from the senator and computers and Blackberrys pertaining to the investigation were "wiped clean," U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan and Acting FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Brian W. Lynch said.
Of about 84,000 e-mails recovered by the FBI from all of the computer equipment, fewer than 125 pertain to the nonprofit organization and even fewer are pertinent to any of the issues relevant to the criminal investigation.
"This was a deliberate, systematic, and ultimately successful effort to interfere with a federal investigation," Meehan said..
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, June 01, 2006 at 12:35 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Republicans, Get a Clue, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Bill Clinton Endorses Gore
Clinton Endorses Gore: Says Global Warming Bigger Threat Than Terrorism
CLINTON: Why climate change is the most -- more remote than terror, but a more profound threat to the future of the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren I hope all of you have. (hat tip Rich)
What a marooooon! That this clown was president for 8 years is really frightening.
Islamic terror is the enemy
Global Warming
Global [Solar] Warming
Michael Crichton Speech on Environmentalism
The Federalist Patriot's take
Earth day? Everyday is Earth day you silly rabbit.
Democrats and enviro-loonies on space patrol aside, serious people here on earth know the recent NASA announcement dealt a major blow to the theory of Man-Made Global Warming (MMGW).
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 11:33 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Islam: The War on Jihad | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, May 19, 2006
More Proof the Left is the Fifth Column
Newbusters reports the USA reporter, Leslie Cauley,who "broke" the fallacious "domestic spy" story is a rather large donor to the Democrats. A Democrat Donor. Think about that and the implications of this traitor's actions.These actions are the work of the enemy, the fifth column. We are at war for our very lives and these people have taken sides against us, against America.
Consider the timing of the article, the emphatic denials by the phone companies, all of those "anonymous" sources, and now her outing as a Democrat donor – this wreaks of conspiracy.
$2,000 donoted to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, according to a search of The Center for Responsive Politics Web site, www.opensecrets.org
-- USA Today Reporter a Democratic Donor; Phone Company Demands Retraction
Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely to further cloud the credibility of her story. Two of the three phone companies Cauley fingered, BellSouth and Verizon, have since denied the accuracy of the May 11 USA Today story, and BellSouth yesterday went so far as to demand the newspaper “retract the false and unsubstantiated statements” made by Cauley in her piece.
There have also been questions about the timing of the story, which was given huge play on USA Today’s front-pages shortly before the former head of the National Security Agency, General Michael Hayden, was due to face confirmation hearings to be the next CIA director, and given the fact that many of the key points of the story were actually reported last December by the New York Times.
Friday’s USA Today carries BellSouth’s demand of a retraction on page 4A, below a more prominent story headlined “Senators challenge Hayden on surveillance,” with partial transcripts of General Hayden being asked yesterday about the claimed NSA database program. According to today’s USA Today:
“BellSouth asked USA Today on Thursday to ‘retract the false and unsubstantiated statements’ about the company that it contends were in a May 11 story about a database of domestic calling records maintained by the National Security Agency.
In a letter to the newspaper's publisher, Craig Moon, the company noted that the story said BellSouth is ‘working under contract with the NSA’ to provide ‘phone call records of tens of millions of Americans’ that have been incorporated into the database.
‘No such proof was offered by your newspaper because no such contracts exist,’ stated the letter, portions of which were read by spokesman Jeff Battcher. ‘You have offered no proof that BellSouth provided massive calling data to the NSA as part of a warrantless program because it simply did not happen.’ Read it all
Posted by Pamela on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 06:45 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)
It's Official: The Left Hates America
Harry Reid Calls Language Racist
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a proposal to make English the official language "racist" on the Senate floor yesterday.
"This amendment is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish," the Democrat said during the already tense debate over immigration reform.
hat tip Steve
Posted by Pamela on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 01:29 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Illegal Aliens, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (1)
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Spy LIE: CAIR, Democrats and Media- Shared Values and Goals
The Council of Islamic Relations (CAIR), has sent out the following directive to all of their foot soldiers in America. It seems that the CAIR, American arm of Islamic extremism doesn't like the US government knowing too much about their war plans. They share the same values and goals as the dhimmicrats Democrats;
ACTION: URGE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PROBE NSA SURVEILLANCE, APPOINT SPECIAL COUNSEL - TOP
(WASHINGTON, DC, 5/16/06) - CAIR today joined a broad coalition* of groups [broad coalition my ***, THE AMERICAN LEFT -Atlas] in calling on American Muslims and other people of conscience to urge their elected officials to demand a full, public investigation of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program and the appointment of a special counsel to probe possible legal violations.
Legal violations? Lie. More here
The phone records monitoring program, reportedly authorized by the president shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, permits the NSA to bypass a secret court set up to provide warrants for such surveillance.
Lie
The coalition is asking Congress to reject draft legislation that would give the executive branch new surveillance powers that are immune to oversight.
Last week, CAIR called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate revelations that the NSA has built a giant database of Americans' phone records.
Yes, that's just what we need an Islamic appointment of a special council to investigate our top secret defense mechanisms.
SEE: CAIR Calls for Special Counsel on NSA Phone Data Spy Program here
CAIR is also part of a legal challenge to the domestic wiretapping program:
SEE: CAIR Joins Legal Challenge to NSA Eavesdropping here
IMMEDIATE ACTIONS REQUESTED: (As always, please be POLITE.)
1) CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS and ask them to ensure that there is an immediate and unrestricted investigation by a special prosecutor into the NSA surveillance program, including a probe into the massive database of American phone calls.
GO HERE:
2) PUT YOUR CELL PHONE TO GOOD USE. Call all of your friends and family members and ensure that they contact their elected officials. Act as a facilitator. You can enter their zip code into our website at here and get the names and contact information of their Senators.
All outlined in the Muslim Brotherhood Project
*Organizations supporting the call-in day (partial list) include the Alliance for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Electronic Privacy Information Center, First Amendment Foundation, Friends Committee on National Legislation, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Coalition Against Oppressive Legislation, National Lawyers Guild, People For the American Way, and Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
Look at the groups, all far left Anti-American orgs all
CONTACT: CAIR Government Affairs Director Corey P. Saylor
Phone: 202-488-8787 x3221
Cell: 571-278-4658
E-mail: csaylor@cair-net.org
Next I am sure we can expect a flurry of lawsuits. Lawsuits are another favored tool what seems to be CAIR's policy of using the legal process to silence or chill critics.
UPDATE: May 18th Unmasking CAIR: Think Globally, Act Locally
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 04:20 PM in CAIR, Council of thugs and gangstas, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (2)
Friday, May 12, 2006
Phony Phone Foolishness
I am stunned when the lunatics elected by the uninformed (thank the media) scream bloody murder about the latest NSA canard. The 12th imam is on his way (at least ah-mad-mini-me seems to think so), the worldwide Islamic extremist movement means to take us out, and Hitler part II is playing with nuclear weaponry. To better understand the latest phone kerfuffle, Ben wrote the following ;
Traffic Analysis
As a public service, I thought I would shed some light on what it is the NSA is doing with all those phone records. It’s not what the media implies it is. For starters, what they are not doing: NSA analysts are not sitting at their consoles with their headphones listening to your conversation. They don’t know about your mistress, how smart your son is, who Emily is going out with, your dinner plans, why you hate your boss, and they don’t care. They don’t have the time to bother because:
1) They have phone records, not taped conversations.
2) Even if they had conversations, they wouldn’t have a fraction of the analysts needed to listen to more than a tiny, tiny subset of conversations, and they cannot waste their time on your personal issues.
In fact, they don’t even know what number you called, when, and where. Yes, this information exists, but buried inside machines. No one “knows” it, just as a librarian does not “know” a fact merely because it exists in a book on a shelf in a library. And this information will stay buried, unknown, secure and personal unless something very unusual turns up.
So here is what is being done: traffic analysis. This is an arcane art-science, in which the analyst, or more precisely, in this case, the algorithms designed by analysts, glean information not from the conversations themselves, but from the patterns those communications generate in time and space. Some of it is obvious and self evident: you can tell the difference in communications patterns between passing information and coordinating an activity, because the coordination conversations will have short return messages initiated by the non-node elements, while information is generally passed to a node from only one element, and then distributed to a larger group by the node.
After 9-11, a lot of people talked about “connecting the dots”. This is connecting the dots. This is using a computer to pluck patterns out of the virtual “information space” in which people communicate, without actually monitoring the information itself. Of course, should a particular pattern be red flagged by an algorithm, it could lead to actual monitoring.
In a New Century kind of way, it’s not unlike scanning the airspace for signs of enemy bombers- something taken for granted back in the Cold War but inappropriate today, now that we have an enemy that doesn’t bother to maintain old fashioned conventional air forces. Today we have to scan information space for signs of enemy activity.
Exactly what can be gained from traffic analysis is highly classified for obvious reasons. Any enemy, aware that certain communications patterns meant certain things to analysts, would make an effort to change patterns, or send “false positives” to the analysts. The New York Times is aware of this too, and so would make every effort to get this information to terrorist groups and help them thwart intelligence analysts.
The people railing against this are still living with September 10th Mentalities. I’ve heard it over and over; it’s “Wrong” to gather intelligence unless there is a clear sign of law breaking. On 9-11, some of those hijackers hadn’t actually committed a felony UNTIL they took over the planes- what dots, then, were we supposed to connect? Traffic Analysis is dot connection at work. It is not wiretapping, it is not eavesdropping. No personal information comes into contact with another human being unless it is part of a very suspicious pattern.
Thanks Ben.
In other words, STFU already and start fighting the real war. BTW, most Americans agree.
Continue reading "Phony Phone Foolishness" »
Posted by Pamela on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 11:17 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (8)
Thursday, May 11, 2006
NSA: It's the Intel Stupid!
I received the following from a retired spook;
I am SO SICK of hearing about the NSA!! I worked for the NSA for 20 years as a Naval Cryptologist (1981-2001), and I worked at NSA for over 3 years! It used to be a super secret agency that no one really knew anything about, and let me tell you - the intell gathered helped keep this country safe FOR DECADES!
The thing that killed us was what Clinton did! Not being able to share info with the other agencies..
Now, the ****** liberals would rather put us all into GRAVE DANGER because they hate Bush, than keep America's secrets - SECRET. Like an idiot friend said, "why is the govt keeping 9-11 tapes secret?" I told him - because we don't want the ****** terrorists to know what we know! (about them, their methods, lingo, etc) - but the asshole thinks the gov't is doing it to keep Americans in the dark. What a dick!
For my 20 years, NSA was on the up-and-up and we don't / didn't listen to American's comms! We collected data against enemy targets!!!! The enemy is out there and we used to be able to listen to his ****, but the libs are ruining it - for political reasons - the ASSHOLES!
Like I said, I'm so mad - the liberals keep giving the enemy our intelligence, that took forever to get, I'm just so mad. SECRET.
Spoken like a true sailor (which I love) and a true America (which I adore and respect.) Thank you soldier.
More bad news for Americans from Stop the ACLU here;
In an attempt to rekindle the scaremongering of the paranoid left, USA today has taken upon itself to "declassify" more classified information about programs aimed at protecting us. Obviously they decided that there wasn't already enough damage done to national security.
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.
You must read it all. Jay explains;
It isn't secret anymore, now is it? If you read the entire thing you could easily be left with the impression that the government has gathered all kinds of personal information on you, studied your calling habits, etc. These phone companies went along with the government's request for phone records. These are records that the phone companies keep anyway, that are often called upon in court cases. No one has been listening in on domestic phone calls, they are only collecting a database of what numbers called other numbers.
Since Quest is the only company that refused to work with the government on the matter without a FISA warrant, we should be seeing a mass flocking of the paranoid left over to this company. That might not be such a good idea however. This leak may have just tipped some terrorist to exactly what communications in America are more vulnerable.
This says is all here.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 10:26 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (2)
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Atlas Monday Rant Vlog
Dispatch from Iraq: "All this time I thought we were winning," said a sergeant first class sarcastically. "Seems folks back home have already run up the white flag."
More on the FOX hunt here
BTW, all my vlogs are on the Atlas VLOGS! page here.
The New York Times Continues To Ignore America's Economic Progress
The New York Times Says "Fixed Costs, Like Housing, Health Care And Gasoline" Are "Rapidly Outpacing" Paychecks And Benefits. (Editorial, "Barely Staying Afloat," The New York Times, 5/10/06)
But Average Hourly Earnings Have Risen 3.8 Percent Over The Past 12 Months, Their Largest Increase In Nearly Five Years. Hourly compensation rose at a 5.7 percent rate in the first quarter. Personal income rose 0.5 percent in March.
Real After-Tax Income Has Risen By 13.8 Percent Since January 2001. Real after-tax income has risen by $2,398 (8.2 percent) per person since January 2001.
Securities Prices Show The Market Believes That Inflation Is Expected To Remain In Check.
More Than 5.2 Million Jobs Have Been Created Since August 2003, And 138,000 Jobs Were Created In April. The unemployment rate is 4.7 percent.
Yesterday, The Dow Jones Industrial Closed Within 83 Points Of An All-Time Record High. The Dow is up 8.6 percent this year and closed yesterday at a six-year high.
GDP Grew At A Strong 4.8 Percent Annual Rate In The First Quarter. This follows our economic growth of 3.5 percent in 2005 – the fastest rate of any major industrialized nation.
At $52 Trillion, Household Total Net Worth (Assets Minus Liabilities) Is At An All-Time High And Has Increased 8 Percent Over The Past Year And 33 Percent Over The Past Three Years. The growth is due to both real estate and other financial investments (i.e. it's not just a result of rising housing prices). Household financial net worth (which excludes housing and other tangible assets) is also at an all-time high.
The Conference Board Index Of Consumer Confidence Increased In April To Its Highest Level In Almost Four Years.
Productivity Increased At A Strong Annual Rate Of 3.2 % in the First Quarter.
Real Consumer Spending (Which Adjusts For The Price Of Gasoline) Grew At A 5.5% Annual Rate In The First Quarter And 3.4 Percent Over The Past Four Quarters.
The President's Tax Relief Has Helped Spur America's Economic Momentum
The President Worked With Congress To Reduce Income Taxes For Every American Who Pays Income Taxes. The Administration and Congress doubled the child tax credit, reduced the marriage penalty, cut taxes on capital gains and dividends, created incentives for small businesses to purchase new equipment and hire new workers, and put the death tax on the path to extinction. Altogether, this tax relief left $880 billion in the hands of American workers and businesses.
The Wall Street Journal: President Bush's Tax Relief Is Responsible For Economic Growth. "Critics continue to complain that President Bush's tax policies have only benefited the super-wealthy, but that would come as news to the five million Americans who were jobless before the 2003 tax cuts, and thus had no income, but now have a weekly paycheck." (Editorial, "Help [Very Much] Wanted," The Wall Street Journal, 4/10/06)
Yesterday, Congressional Leaders Agreed To A Tax Relief Extension Package That Will Help Millions Of Middle Class Families. "Republican congressional leaders agreed Tuesday on a $70 billion measure to extend tax breaks for investors and prevent 15 million middle-income families from being hit by the alternative minimum tax, which was intended to affect only the wealthy." (Jim Drinkard, "$70B Measure Would Extend Tax Breaks," USA Today, 5/10/06)
UPDATE: From Taranto today in WSJ;
[...] The breezy transition from a terrorist atrocity in Iraq to the president's approval rating is awfully crass, but it's also revealing. For many in the media and the Democratic Party, the Iraq war is merely a proxy for domestic politics. That is, "antiwar" passions are largely the result of anti-Republican, or anti-Bush, passions. Anger over Iraq today is barely distinguishable from anger over impeachment seven years ago or over Florida five years ago.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 04:15 PM in ATLAS VLOGS!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (2)
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Iran's Latest,Best Supporter: The Left
Amir Taheri in today's Wall Street Journal here;
In 1979, soon after the mullahs seized power, Mr. Carter sent Ayatollah Khomeini a warm congratulatory letter. Mr. Carter's man at the U.N., a certain Andrew Young, praised Khomeini as "a 20th-century saint." Mr. Carter also tapped his closest legal advisor, the late Lloyd Cutler, as U.S. ambassador to the mullarchy.
A more dramatic show of U.S. support for the mullahs came when Mr. Brzezinski flew to Algiers to meet Khomeini's prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan. This was love at first sight--to the point where Mr. Carter approved the resumption of military supplies to Iran, even as the mullahs were executing Iranians by the thousands, including many whose only "crime" was friendship with the U.S. The Carter administration's behavior convinced the mullahs that the U.S. was a paper tiger and that it was time for the Islamic Revolution to highlight hatred of America. Mr. Carter reaped what he had sown when the mullahs sent "student" fanatics to seize the U.S. embassy compound, a clear act of war, and hold its diplomats hostage for 444 days. "The Carter administration's weakness was a direct encouragement to [anti-American] hard-liners," wrote Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, one of the hostage-takers, years later.
And still today, the left suffers from the same mental disorder;
The "engage Iran" coalition also has advocates in the U.S. Over the past few weeks they have hammered the "engagement" theme with op-eds, TV soundbites and speeches. Some have recommended John Kennedy's "sophisticated leadership" during the Cuban missile crisis as a model for George W. Bush. The incident has entered American folklore as an example of "brilliant diplomacy," but few bother to examine the small print.
JFK brilliant? More leftard fantasy. Bay of Pigs!
And of course TIME magazine is shilling for the mad mullahs here, Iran's Nuclear Program: The Way Out,. They refer to this as an "exclusive," notice how the title implies "an answer".
Three years of robust inspection of Iranian nuclear and non-nuclear facilities by the IAEA inspectors led Dr. El-Baradi to conclude and certify that to date there are no indications of any diversion of nuclear material and activities toward making a bomb.
Oh puhleeze, WTF does a really oil rich nation vowing to destroy neighboring democracies need nuke technology for?
What is, then, the motive for the rush to heighten the situation and create a crisis? Could it be that the extremists all around see their interests — however transient, domestic and short-sighted — in heightened tension and crisis? This situation, if not contained with cool head and if miscalculations continue, can easily turn into a crisis with potentially global ramifications for the rule of law under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and for the economic and security interests of all concerned in the region and beyond. It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading.
It gets worse.
A negotiated solution still can and must be found if we intend to strengthen the non-proliferation regime and avoid an unwise and unnecessary conflict. To this end, we must dare to leave the emotions aside and avoid polluting the atmosphere with the baggage of immediate and long-past history of Iran-U.S. relations.
BTW, make sure you check out the credentials of the author at the very end. (hat tip Steven)
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, May 09, 2006 at 06:56 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Democrats' Gas pain Plan
More toons here. The Democrats have all the anti-answers.
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, May 07, 2006 at 10:51 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Energy, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, May 06, 2006
America Stuck in September 10
WND 'Easily the most scandalous anecdote in the book is that of FBI agent [correction: junior translator - Atlas] Sibel Edmonds walking into the Washington field office after 9-11, to find the Middle Eastern linguists making merry – passing around date-stuffed cookies to celebrate the occasion on which America got its just deserts. Were they fired? Stripped of their top-secret security clearances? Au contraire! More of their ilk were hired. Meanwhile, Arabic-speaking Sephardic Jews have been rejected for the job. There were "loyalty concerns," or so the bureau said.'
'In the final analysis, Sperry's book constitutes a withering indictment of an administration that has not only failed in its constitutional duty to uproot America's enemies on the home front, but has done its best to accommodate and appease them.' hat tip Robert D
Can you feel the gloom? I can. The President insists that "we are winning the war on terror," but as Americans are becoming more informed about Islam, and about the nature of the global jihad, and with that knowledge comes the realization that in the face of various aspects of this immense, life-and-death challenge, our leaders are responding either improperly or not at all.
Hence the formidable Derbyshire writes this about the Moussaoui sentence at National Review's The Corner:
Does anyone, DOES ANYONE, think we're going to defeat Islamofascism by squirting clouds of this multicultural mush at it? The terrorists sure as hell don't. Does anyone think the enemy gives a fig for our determination not to "focus on hatred, bigotry, and irrationality" (Judge Brinkema). I wonder if you can win a war without deploying hatred. Homer didn't think so.
The New York Post described Judge Brinkema's closing remarks as "a tongue lashing." I would say that's about right. They have suicide bombers — and, any day now, nukes which they will use. We have wet tongues.
"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, naturally they will favor the strong horse."—-Osama bin Laden. Yes, they will. We are doomed, doomed.
Likewise, at the Restoration Weekend in Phoenix not too long ago I was on a panel with Daniel Pipes, Phyllis Chesler and Steven Emerson. The topic we were given was, "Are we winning the war on terror?" All of us said no.
How can this be, when the enemy has nothing approaching our military might? Because far more important in the long run than the jihad of bombs and beheadings is the soft jihad of subversion of the West, which is succeeding magnificently while most citizens of Western countries are completely unaware that it is happening. Those who are unaware of just how bad things have gotten would do well to read David Selbourne's The Losing Battle with Islam. Selbourne, a historian and former Oxford professor, writes with an unusual and refreshing clarity and honesty about the ways in which the West, through short-sightedness, ignorance, and a deeply rooted unwillingness to make hard decisions or face hard facts, has enabled the jihad threat to grow to its present dimensions. And he explains why things are likely only to get worse.
Selbourne details how, "in contrast with Western confusion, indecision, anxieties to avoid offense, and an unstable media feverishness over individual events, a steadier truth is to be found in Islamist declarations that a 'confrontation' is in progress between 'Islam and world infidelity', and that a 'clear crystallization' is taking place between the 'two camps' of Islam and non-Islam." The mujahedin keep pushing that confrontation, while instead of standing up and defending our civilization, heritage, and values, our leaders are doing everything they can to ignore that confrontation and pretend to themselves that as soon as they hit upon the right mix of concessions and fuzzy-focused "anti-terror" and "democratization" initiatives, peace will return.
Selbourne explains why this will never work, and how "the tolerances, moral inertias and hidden sympathies of the corrupted liberal could themselves become liberticidal..." He exposes not only the murderous ideology of the mujahedin, but also the devices they use to further its advance. Enormously helpful are Selbourne's catalogues, such as his list and explanation of twelve common devices of deception -- to wit:
FIRST DEVICE: To appear, in your own interest, to be sympathetically disposed to the non-Islamic world, while continuing covertly to act against it, as by condeming hostilities against it in which you have had, and continue to have, a hand. This device has been best exemplified by the conduct of the Saudi royal household....
He also catalogues "Nine Arguments which have been commonly used to keep at bay 'unwelcome and inconvenient truths' about the Islamic revival and its advance." As one who has been on the receiving end of all nine of these, I highly recommend this catalogue as a useful too to help anti-jihadists spot such rhetorical tricks and defeat those who use them.
I also highly recommend Selbourne's assessments of why democracy, modernization, and hearts-and-minds initiatives are useless in this struggle, and doomed to failure. hat tip sherwood
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, May 06, 2006 at 05:21 PM in Amerabia: Losing America, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, September the 11th, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (7)
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Howard Dean: A Jew's Worst Nightmare
I can't believe Howard Dean said this. Speaking to the AJC (American Jewish Committee), the latest pander from the Dean of the Democrats (the party of Oslo), claims that only Democrats believe it is important "to make sure that American Jews feel comfortable being American Jews."
"I was recently asked about the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties," Dean said. "When it comes right down to it, the essential difference is that the Democrats fundamentally believe it is important to make sure that American Jews feel comfortable being American Jews."
As an American Jew I am not comfortable with the party of dhimmitude. As an American Jew, it's troubling that the percent of those in the Democratic party that staunchly support Israel is 34% vs. the Republican party's 67%. As an American Jew I am uncomfortable with a Democratic-party-sympathizing mainstream media not running the Danish cartoons in an act of dhimmitude. As an American Jew I am uncomfortable with Russ Feingold and his party's position on FISA and eavesdropping on Al Qaeda. As an American Jew I am uncomfortable with the party that rejoices in the disclosure of classified information on the war, putting our soldiers in harms way. As an American Jew I couldn not be more uncomfortable with the thought of my security, my future, and the future of my kinder in the hands of the dhimmicrats.
The failed Middle East policies of Carter and Clinton are to blame for the dire situation we as Americans face now. Ask any Iranian that fled that Ayatollah and they practically spit when you mention Carter. For all practical purposed, Carter helped throw the Shah out and ushered in the Islamic Republic of Iran. And Clinton did nothing short of empowering Islamic extremists everywhere by ignoring their threats even when they tried to take down the World Trade Center in 1993. Unfazed, Clinton snored through Khobar, Mogadishu, the Cole........ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Perhaps the best friend Israel, the Jews and freedom lovers everywhere ever had in the White House is George W, a true dissident and freedom lover.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, May 04, 2006 at 03:28 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, White House 2008 | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
"America is Now Disappearing From the Hearts Within America Itself... Whereas Islam is Growing Even Within America"
Congratulate the left, they are doing a fine job of burying this great nation.
"America is Now Disappearing From the Hearts Within America Itself... Whereas Islam is Growing Even Within America"; "Whoever is Familiar With the Sunna and Hadith Knows That a Battle Against the Enemies of Allah Awaits on the Horizon, in Which the Muslims Will Be Victorious" Saudi Cleric Nasser bin Suleiman Al-'Omar:More here
View MEMRI Clip here
On April 19, 2006, Saudi Islamist cleric Sheikh Dr. Nasser Al-'Omar appeared on Al-Jazeera delivering a lecture on jihad. In it, he said, "The Islamic nation now faces a great phase of jihad," and added "There are places where jihad is proper - Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir, and the Philippines." He also told his audience that the U.S. was "disappearing" - echoing his statement on Al-Majd TV on June 13, 2004 that "America is collapsing," and that Muslims "must be patient."
In November 2004, Dr. Al-'Omar made headlines as one of the 26 signatories of a fatwa supporting the Iraqi resistance. On December 17, 2004, he explained, in an interview for the PBS program Frontline, why he was opposed to eliminating anti-Western and antisemitic teachings from Saudi schoolbooks. (1)
According to a March 13, 2006 Reuters report, Al-'Omar hosted a reception for a Hamas delegation, led by Khaled Mash'al, in Riyadh on March 12, 2006. The report also stated that according to Al-'Omar's website ( www.almoslim.net , hosted in Canada(2)) the reception was also attended by prominent clerics and Islamists - some of whom had served prison terms for their suspected support of Al-Qaeda or for criticizing the Saudi government.(3)
The following is the transcript of excerpts from the lecture by Sheikh Dr. Nasser bin Suleiman Al-'Omar, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on April 19, 2006.
"[A] U.S. Congressman... Said: 'The 21st Century is the Century of Islam, Which Will Offer an Opportunity for Peace in the World'"
Dr. Nasser bin Suleiman Al-'Omar: "Listen to this report, which was submitted by the American intelligence to the American officials, regarding the religion of Islam, which some think is defeated or weak today. According to the report, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. Muslims will soon become one-third of the world's population. Conversion to Islam increased significantly following 9/11.
"In addition, U.S. Congressman John Morlan [sic] said: 'The 21st century is the century of Islam, which will offer an opportunity for peace in the world.' There is no doubt that it is Islam that will bring peace, and not the U.N., America, Russia, or anyone else."
[...]
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 04:40 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (2)
Friday, April 28, 2006
Atlas and Atlass do the Vblog
It ain't my genre
Woot!
Posted by Pamela on Friday, April 28, 2006 at 05:26 PM in Blogosphere: The New Power, ATLAS VLOGS!, Atlas Observes, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Sudan, Niger, Darfur, Mauratania-Genocide Child rape, Slavery | Permalink | Comments (21) | TrackBack (5)
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Trow da Bums Out!
OMG - read this and weep. Shakespeare had it wrong, what he meant to say was- First kill all the politicians. $ENATE $HIFT$ $PENDING
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Wednesday to divert some of the money President Bush requested for the war in Iraq to instead increase security on the nation's borders and provide the Coast Guard with new boats and helicopters. [Divert from Iraq you spineless cowards? -Atlas]
Senators also ignored a White House veto threat and overwhelmingly voted against cutting a $106.5 billion measure funding Iraq, further hurricane relief for the Gulf Coast — and a slew of add-ons opposed by fiscal conservatives and Bush. [Huh? These mental patients are out of control. Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number, what does it mean? Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516, 528. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1, 329,787. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012. Yo! D.C. ! Are all your calculators broken???? Maybe everyone should just flood their houses; then we can all be on the "big easy" street for the rest of our lives, and forget about slavery working, and paying taxes and all that useless stuff - Atlas]
Among those add-ons is a $700 million project to relocate a rail line along the Mississippi coast so the state can build a new east-west highway to spur economic development and ease transportation woes. [Holy Mississippi Mackeral! - Atlas] Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., moved Wednesday to strike the project, saying it doesn't belong in the emergency war funding bill, though he's not confident of his chances. [He's not? I think I am going to vomit - Atlas]
On border security, the Senate voted 59-39 for a plan to cut Bush's Iraq request by $1.9 billion to pay for new aircraft, patrol boats and other vehicles, as well as border checkpoints and a fence along the Mexico border crossing near San Diego.
While the border security funds had broad support, Democrats and Republicans argued over whether the cuts to Pentagon war spending would harm troops in Iraq. The cuts, offered by Judd Gregg, R-N.H., would trim Bush's request for the war by almost 3 percent but don't specify how. [I am sure his kid is not out there risking his life. Might not cut Iraq $ so fast if he was - Atlas]
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said Gregg's cuts would "take money from troop pay, body armor and even the joint improvised explosive device defeat fund. Now that is a false choice and it is a wrong choice." [Hil is sounding coherent -oyish. This is frightening - Atlas]
Gregg argued that the cuts eventually would come from other parts of the massive Pentagon budget rather than U.S. forces in Iraq.[How does he know?]
"To come down here and allege that these funds are going to come out of the needs of the people on the front lines in Iraq or Afghanistan is pure poppycock," he said. [Did he say that?Did he say poppycock? Pure?-Bolderdash! - Atlas]
An amendment by Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to add the border security funds but not tap the Pentagon for them failed by a 54-44 vote.
The Senate voted by a veto-proof 72-26 margin to kill an attempt by conservatives to cut the overall bill back to Bush's request — just a day after the White House issued a toughly worded promise to veto the $106.5 billion bill unless it is cut back to below $95 billion. [summabitches]
Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran, R-Ill. — the key architect of the bill — is unhappy with the veto threat and easily beat back a move by Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., to kill $12 billion in add-ons, such as $4 billion in farm aid, $1.1 billion for Gulf Coast fisheries and the much-criticized Mississippi rail line relocation. [These Republicans have lost their minds]
Mississippi GOP Gov. Haley Barbour came to Capitol Hill Wednesday to lobby for the rail relocation project. The rail line, owned by CSX Transportation, has been rebuilt with insurance proceeds at a cost of nearly $300 million.
Bush insists that total spending in the bill be capped at his $92.2 billion request for Iraq and hurricane relief, though he is willing to accept $2.3 billion in the bill to prevent an outbreak of avian flu. [I think they need the avian flu in D.C.]
The bill is sure to be carved back in House-Senate negotiations next month, and Bush may very well not have to follow through on his veto promise.
The underlying bill contains $67.6 billion for Pentagon war operations and $27.1 billion for hurricane relief, including grants to states to build and repair housing and $2.1 billion for levees and flood control projects. The funding for hurricane relief exceeds Bush's request by $7.4 billion.
Pork Barrel tech projects on the rise
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 11:46 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Republicans, Get a Clue, Taxes: Nothing short of Slavery | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Rotten IntelligenCIA
Let me understand this, Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, arrived at a federal courthouse today to testify for a fifth time before a grand jury in the CIA leak-that-never-happened investigation. Meanwhile, a cabal of fifth column traitors and spies are projectile vomiting their treasonous lies to an aiding and abetting press, thereby undermining the war effort, our President (that we, the American people elected) while putting our soldiers in danger.Something is soooooo rotten in Amerabia.
In today's Wall Street Journal, Our Rotten IntelligenCIA, worth the read for the sharp title alone.
Fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy went on offense Monday, denying through her lawyer that she has done anything wrong. But the agency is standing by its claim that she was dismissed last week because she "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence." It has been reported that one of her media contacts was Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the so-called "secret" prisons that the CIA allegedly used to house top level al Qaeda detainees in Eastern Europe.
We're as curious as anyone to see how Ms. McCarthy's case unfolds. But this would appear to be only the latest example of the unseemly symbiosis between elements of the press corps and a cabal of partisan bureaucrats at the CIA and elsewhere in the "intelligence community" who have been trying to undermine the Bush Presidency.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 01:50 PM in Amerabia: Losing America, BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (2)
MEXIFORNIA
Victor Davis Hanson's book MEXIFORNIA A State of Becoming;
Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California," Victor Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population into our mainstream."
Noted for his military histories and especially his social commentary of post-9/11 American life, Hanson is a fifth-generation Californian who teaches college classics courses and runs a family farm. Mexifornia is part history, part political analysis, and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in the California over the last quarter century, and how the real losers in the chaos caused by hemorrhaging borders are the Mexican immigrants themselves.
A large part of the problem, Hanson believes, comes from the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles an honest discussion of the growing problem. Corporations, contractors, and agribusiness demand cheap wage labor from Mexico, whatever the social consequences. Meanwhile, academics, journalists, government bureaucrats, and La Raza advocates envision illegal aliens as a vast new political constituency for those committed to the notion that victimhood, not citizenship, is the key to advancement.
Mexifornia is an indictment of the policies that got California into its present mess. But this beautifully written book also reflects Hanson's strong belief that our traditions of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage may yet remedy a problem that the politicians and ideologues have allowed to get out of hand. hat tip Jeremiah
Over at NRO,The San Diego Reconquista Gathering here, photos, hat tip LGF
WELFARE TO KIDS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS 276 MILLION (and that is just LA County alone) hat tip Robert D
Some little discussed tidbits
These first 10 from the Los Angeles Times.
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card. 2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers. 5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).
Above ten from the Los Angeles Times Other factoids: Center for Immigration Studies
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.
Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.
The cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].
The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE
29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens. hat tip Robert D.
My take?
The borders are an immigration issue, not a terrorist issue. Sorry, I am not buying that bullshit. Islamic terrorists are here legally, are home grown, are on visas, student programs yada yada yada. Islamic terror is what lurks in the hearts of evil men.
Me? I think we ought to open up immigration - Why not everybody? Mexico being rewarded for proximity is an enormous mistake. Part of the reason New York didn't have those insane riots is because our immigration is so very mixed.
Both legal and illegal immigrants have come here primarily to work and make a better life for themselves and their families. But a country requires more than workers. It requires people who are citizens not only in name but in commitment. That is my problem with immigration, that and enforcement. It's not enough to enact legislation, we have to enforce it - which is why Reagan's "guest worker" program was such a failure.
UPDATE: Excellent take on the Reconquistas here, Strong As An Ox And Nearly As Smart
Simplistic, yes, but they have a role model, the Arabs in Israel and Muslims in Europe. Especially in Europe, the Muslim conquest via higher birthrates will eventually succeed, primarily because Muslims are increasingly separating themselves from the modern lifestyles of their hosts. By their already great numbers and cultural isolation, they have succeeded in instituting de facto Muslim law or Sharia in France, and to a lesser extent in Germany, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, and Scandinavian countries.
European countries have helped the Muslim conquest, especially through their generous socialist welfare programs. In addition, Europeans do have very low birthrates, which Muslims are quick to point out make their victory just a matter of time. Personally, I think their low birthrates are a reflection of their high taxes and high costs of living, combined with high rates of unemployment – in other words, the Europeans have succeeded in creating a depressing socialist environment that discourages the creation and growth of both strong economies and families with children.
The Reconquistadores are faced with totally different circumstances in the United States.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 11:25 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Illegal Aliens | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (13)
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Leaks and the Leakers that Leak them
CIA FIRES OFFICER MARY McCARTHY OVER ALLEGED LEAK
This is an egregious crime. It was operational, not just classified info. She put lives in danger, c**t. She disclosed top secret information. Jail time is too kind. Think about it.
Piece of advise for the Bushies...............FIRE ANY ONE THAT WORKED UNDER THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, I mean really.
Strata-sphere has the straight dope here, an incredible post actually.
The latest fired CIA employee is Mary McCarthy, (one of many to come, I understand, apparently the Department of Justice said they have DOZENS of leak investigations ongoing);
Until July 2001, she served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs on the National Security Council (NSC) Staff, under both Presidents Clinton and Bush. More here hat tip x-dhimmi
Mary, Mary quite contrary has quite the checkered past with ties to the 9/11 commission, that complete lefty showboating waste of time;
In what is becoming a bad trend for Mary, she is now linked with Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke. Especially this strange reference (again from the 9-11 report):
9. See Joint Inquiry briefing by Mike, Sept. 12,2002.For briefings to the NSC,see NSC email,Clarke to Berger, “Threat Warning: Usama bin Ladin,” Mar. 7, 1998; Mary McCarthy interview (Dec. 8, 2003); CIA memos, summary of weekly Berger/Tenet meeting, May 1, 1998.
She apparently came to the defense of Richard Clarke once. If she is one in the same, this person has betrayed a lot of people with her actions.
And the CIA is warning ‘This is just the beginning’. Hopefully there are a couple of Senators taking note as well.
And I bet the leakers that gave the Ruskies our war plans and put our soldiers at risk were Clintonmuskovites. The Russians relayed the information to Saddam during the opening days of the 2003 war via someone at Centcom. Who was that?
The CIA did not name the reporters it believes were involved, but several intelligence officials said The Washington Post's Dana Priest was among them.
This week, Priest won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for articles about the agency, including one that revealed the existence of secret CIA-run prisons in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
The story caused an international uproar, and government officials have said it did significant damage to relationships between the U.S. and allied intelligence agencies.
Priest, who also won the George Polk Award and a prize from the Overseas Press Club this week for her articles, declined to comment Friday. More here
Attempts to reach her Friday night were unsuccessful [I bet- Atlas]
Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said
people who provide citizens the information they need to hold their government accountable should not "come to harm for that."
So why didn't you run the Muhammad cartoons, yellow belly?
Over at Lucianne, THE SECRET WAR AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH
Excellent complete overview over at Flopping Aces here, and important read;
Clarke, Beers, and Mary McCarthy were three of the top counter-terrorism officials in the country, all in the NSC, in the period 1999-2001. It can truly and fairly be said that the 9/11 plots developed on THEIR watch and that THEIR failings had more to do with it than anyone in the Bush team who’d only had a few months in office and had to deal with the (then) Democratic Senate not confirming important national security appointees, etc.
and Flopping Aces points out, lest we not forget what Porter Goss said;
Porter Goss told the Senate that these leaks had damaged our intelligence gathering capability and in so doing our national security:
CIA Director Porter J. Goss told a Senate committee yesterday that unauthorized leaks of classified information about agency activities have caused “severe damage” to the CIA’s operations and that journalists who report leaks should be questioned by a grand jury.
[…]Regarding disclosures about CIA detention and interrogation of terrorist suspects at secret sites abroad, Goss, the former chairman of the House intelligence committee, said that “the damage has been very severe to our capabilities to carry out our mission.” He added: “It is my aim and it is my hope that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information. I believe the safety of this nation and the people of this country deserves nothing less.”
Clear And Present found this nugget:
Investigations into reports that US agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have produced no evidence of illegal CIA activities, the European Union’s antiterrorism coordinator said yesterday.
The investigations also have not turned up any proof of secret renditions of terror suspects on EU territory, Gijs de Vries told a European Parliament committee investigating the allegations.
The European Parliament’s probe and a similar one by the continent’s leading human rights watchdog are looking into whether US intelligence agents interrogated Al Qaeda suspects at secret prisons in Eastern Europe and transported some on secret flights through Europe.
But so far investigators have not identified any human rights violations, despite more than 50 hours of testimony by human rights activists and individuals who said they were abducted by US intelligence agents, de Vries said.
Give 'em a Pulitzer!
UPDATE: "Some former intelligence officials who worked with Ms. McCarthy saw her as a persistent obstacle to aggressive antiterrorism efforts." More here
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 11:59 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (6)
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
U.S ARMY CAN'T USE ISRAELI BULLETS IN IRAQ, SHAME ON US
Right Hand of G0d blog sent me this article and I fell off my chair. When are we going to stop bedning over to Islam? This is beneath America, beneath our nation and antisemitic. I am ashamed of our lawmakers - weak knee mealy mouthed, spineless dung. The stench Abercrombie ...............
We are America, we stand up for what we believe in or is that passe?
ARMY TOLD NOT TO USE ISRAELI BULLETS IN IRAQ
[How reprehensible is that? Gutless and lily-livered. STAND BY YOUR ALLIES-Atlas]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli-made bullets bought by the U.S. Army to plug a shortfall should be used for training only, not to fight Muslim guerrillas in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. lawmakers told Army generals on Thursday.
Since the Army has other stockpiled ammunition, "by no means, under any circumstances should a round (from Israel) be utilized," said Rep. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, the top Democrat on a House of Representatives Armed Services subcommittee with jurisdiction over land forces.
The Army contracted with Israel Military Industries Ltd. in December for $70 million in small-caliber ammunition.
The Israeli firm was one of only two worldwide that could meet U.S. technical specifications and delivery needs, said Brig. Gen. Paul Izzo, the Army's program executive officer for ammunition. The other was East Alton, Illinois-based Winchester Ammunition, which also received a $70 million contract.
*You remember Abercrombie here, lover of Hamas, right?
UPDATE: Tom P writes;
This story is actually from 2004 ....but policy may still be in place.... ask readers if they know if it still stands ...IT'S CRAZY See LGF
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 08:01 PM in Amerabia: Losing America, Antisemitism:Modern Argument to Age Old Hate, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Iraq, Israel, the struggle for Good vs Evil, USA /Israeli Relations, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
The Bullshit about Bin Laden
Not surprising to hear the Saudis giving voice to the Democratic party's tactic of distraction and deception;
Find bin Laden,' Saudi envoy says
WASHINGTON - The United States should intensify its hunt for Osama bin Laden because the al-Qaida leader is inspiring and directing terrorist attacks more than four years after the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, according to Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to the United States
Of course I want to see Bin Laden hung by his balls but this war is so much bigger than Bin Laden,that it is largely a symbolic kill. And that is what we should be talking about, this world war, and talking of it -constantly. Bin Laden and his hatchet men are merely the tip of the latest manifestation of Islam's war against the West.
The enemy is not one guy, or a handful of nuts. The enemy is the millions cheering after 9/11. Orianna Fallaci said in The Rage and The Pride (written right after 9/11);
From Afghanistan to Sudan, from Palestine to Pakistan, from Malaysia to Iran, from Egypt to Iraq [before we removed the butcher Hussein], from Algeria to Senegal, from Syria to Kenya, from Libya to Chad, from Lebanon to Morocco, from Indonesia to Yemen, from Saudi Arabia to Somalia, the hate for the West swells like a fire fed by the wind. And the followers of Islamic Fundamentalism multiply like protozoa of a cell which splits to become two cells then four then eight the sixteen then thirty two to infinity.
You who are not aware only have to
look at the images that TV brings us every day. The multitudes that impregnate the streets of Islamabad, the squares of Nairobi, the mosques of Tehran. The ferocious faces, the threatening fists. The fires that burn the American flag and the photos of Bush.
[...] Their yells Allah-akbar, Allah-akbar. Jihad-Jihad. .Extreme fringes?!? Fanatical minorities?!? They are millions and millions, the extremists.They are millions and millions, the fanatics. The millions and millions for whom, dead or alive, Osama Bin Laden is a legend similar to the legend of Khomeini. The millions and millions who after Khomeini's death have chosen Bin Laden as their new leader, their new hero.
TV reporter interviewing old man in Nairobi;
Reporter: "Who is, for you, Osama Bin Laden?"
""A hero, our hero."
Reporter:"And what happens if he dies?"
"We find another one," the old man answered, still joyfully. In other words, the one who guides them is only the tip of the iceberg.
Thus, the real protagonist of this war is not Bin Laden. This is a war which is designed to destroy our civilization. Our way of life. The way we live, laugh, love, dress, read.
Saudi Arabia weighing in on capturing Osama, one of their own Wahhabists is laughable. Saudi Arabia where anyone with a Bible in hand or a cross around his neck was (and is) treated like a scum to be put to death.
"Mister Bin Laden, Sir, how much money does Al Qaeda receive from your Saudi compatriots and from members of the Royal Family" - Fallaci
How dare that decrepit "medieval feud which enslaves us with its ******* oil"? More Saudi oppression here.
And the Democrats calling for Bin Laden's capture as though that puts an end to the latest violent battle in the centuries long war is idiotic. And they are taking the American people for morons.
The Democrats are wrong. Dead wrong.
UPDATE: Many Arabs Favor Nuclear Iran - Jonathan Wright
Some Arabs, mainly outside the Gulf, are positively enthusiastic about Iran's nuclear program, even if it acquires nuclear weapons. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group, said this week it saw no harm in Iran developing nuclear arms. Analysts said they detected a surprising level of sympathy and support for Iran in the region. "Some think the Iranians are on the way to acquiring it (nuclear weapons capability) and are quite excited," said Hesham Kassem, editor of the independent Cairo newspaper Al Masry Al Youm. Mohamed el-Sayed Said, deputy director of the Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, a Cairo think tank, said: "People are very, very warm about it (Iran's nuclear program)." (Reuters)
Like I said, it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than Bin Laden.
UPDATE: Democrats rip failure to find bin Laden
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 06:30 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fallaci, Mastra Cecca, Islam: The War on Jihad, Sinister Saudi Arabia, Home of Wahhabism, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
The Fifth Column's Latest Assault
Pulitzer Prizes Award Journalists Who Undermined Anti-Terrorism Programs
The annual Pulitzer Prize awards announced Monday night, by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, rewarded Washington Post and New York Times reporters who exposed -- and thus undermined -- secret anti-terrorism efforts, as well as a Washington Post critic who mocked Vice President Cheney's outdoor apparel and ridiculed the supposed 1950s-era clothing worn by then-Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' kids. The Pulitzer board gave the “Beat Reporting” award to Dana Priest of the Washington Post “for her persistent, painstaking reports on secret 'black site' prisons and other controversial features of the government’s counterterrorism campaign.” The “National Reporting” award was won by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times “for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty.” The duo infamously penned the damaging December 16 article, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts.”
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan grabbed the “Criticism” award “for her witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism.” In a January 2005 piece featured by the Post in a new page created to showcase her Pulitzer-winning work, Givhan complained that at a gathering of world leaders to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Dick Cheney “was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower.”
The Pulitzer Prizes page listing the winners.
For the list of the members of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize board, which is dominated by liberals, including Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities at Harvard University and Nicholas Lemann, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
And while we are dissecting the simmering civil war inside America, Kevin sent me the following;
Ghost of "Tokyo Rose"
Anyone who remembers anything about World War II or has studied anything about World War II will understand and remember that during World War II, the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces.
The Japanese psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work.
They gave their psychological warfare script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale.
What was that demoralizing message? It had three main points:
1. Your President is lying to you.
2. This war is illegal.
3. You cannot win the war.
Does this sound familiar?
Is it because Tokyo Hillary, Tokyo Harry, Tokyo Teddy, Tokyo Nancy, Tokyo Durbin, Tokyo Kerry, etc. have all learned from the former enemies of our country and have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on Tokyo CNN, Tokyo ABC, Tokyo CBS, Tokyo NBC, etc., to our troops?
The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they demoralize them.
Come to think of it... Tokyo Rose told the American Troops she was on their side, also.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 06:03 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (1)
Monday, April 17, 2006
Lame Plame Blame Game Slain
As if we didn't know this all along, today's New York Sun;
Contrary to published reports, a State Department memorandum at the center of the investigation into the leak of the name of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame, appears to offer no particular indication that Ms. Plame’s role at the agency was classified or covert......
The memo, drafted by the then head of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and addressed to the then secretary of state, Colin Powell, was carried aboard Air Force One as President Bush departed for Africa in July 2003. A declassified version of the document was obtained by The New York Sun on Saturday.
There was never a story here just another left wing seditious canard to discredit and distract the President, and deceive the American people at one of the most dangerous junctures in American history. The Democrats, party of seditionists.
The Plame, Name-Fame-Flame-Drain-Lame-Insane-Deign to Blame and Maim-Train-Strain-Game is over (it was over before it began.) Fitzgerald, get a real job.
One attachment to the memo consists of typewritten notes a State Department representative took at a February 19, 2002, meeting where sending Mr. Wilson to Niger was discussed. “Meeting apparently convened byValerie Wilson, a CIA WMD managerial type and the wife of Amb. Joe Wilson, with the idea that the agency and the larger USG could dispatch Joe to Niger to use his contacts there to sort out the Niger/Iraq uranium sale question,” an American diplomat serving as the west and southern Africa division chief in the State Department’s intelligence and research bureau, Douglas Rohn, wrote.
Mr. Wilson told the Sun yesterday that the State Department’s account of how his trip was arranged was “absolutely inaccurate.”
Oh yeah I'm sure. Hey Joe your brain is "absolutely inaccurate." Tool.
Mr. Wilson acknowledged that his wife drafted a memo describing his previous involvement with Niger, but he said she did so at the request of her supervisor. A Senate Intelligence Committee report issued in July 2004 said Ms. Plame “suggested his name for the trip.”
A cable attached to the key memoranda indicates that on September 10, 2001, one day before the terrorist attacks on America, Prime Minister Amadou of Niger told embassy officials “that there were buyers like Iraq who would pay more for Niger’s uranium than France.”The cable also said American officials received “frequent leadpipe guarantees by the French ambassador here that no uranium diversion to rogue states is possible.”A Senate report discussed the alleged comment from Mr. Amadou, but did not give the exact date. Story here
Posted by Pamela on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 03:42 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (3)
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Saddam Planned Pre 9/11 Attacks Nothing to see, keep Moving
Why this doesn't matter I'll never know. Why Bush had to fight to get the Iraqi war story told to the American people is the great untold story of the "gotta fake a leak" media treachery (and it is still untold.) Nothing short of a complete distortion of the facts. The media is the de facto public relations arm of the Democratic party.
David Limbaugh asks,
"If you choose to believe the Democratic mantra that Bush lied about Iraqi WMD to lead us into war against Iraq, feel free to allow your partisanship or gullibility to subsume your powers of discernment. But how about some of the other Democratic rhetorical excesses?
Do they give you the slightest pause, or do you consider gross hyperbole and distortion in furtherance of undermining a commander in chief you dislike a justifiable means to a preferred end?
More Damning Documents On Saddam
Origins Of War: The latest in a stream of eye-opening Iraqi documents shows Saddam Hussein's regime was planning suicide attacks on U.S. interests six months before 9-11. Why won't Washington get the word out?
Last month the Pentagon began releasing records captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Among the documents is a letter dated March 11, 2001, written by Abdel Magid Hammod Ali, one of Saddam's air force generals.
According to an unofficial translation, Page 6 of the letter asks for "the names of those who desire to volunteer for suicide mission to liberate Palestine and to strike American interests."
Assuming the document's accuracy, this shows that Saddam's regime was not only providing aid and support for terrorist organizations of other countries. It was also planning its own bombings directed at U.S. facilities and personnel.
As counterterrorism consultant Dan Darling wrote last week on the Weekly Standard's Web site, that would mean Russian intelligence services under Vladimir Putin were better informed about Iraq's terrorist abilities than the U.S. spy community.
Though little noticed by the press, during a July 2004 visit to Kazakhstan the Russian president said that between 9-11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, "Russian special services and Russian intelligence several times received . . . information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the U.S. and beyond its borders, at U.S. military and civilian locations." hat tip daryl
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, April 08, 2006 at 01:11 AM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Iraq, Leftwing Media Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (5)
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Victory for Academic Freedom
The intellectual corruption of our universities by political radicals has been proceeding without interruption since the Vietnam War. This political movement in the academic world didn’t get into high gear until the 1980s, when the Sixties generation attained tenure rank and with it institutional power in the universities. But it has now become a pervasive and destructive fact of our national life. Entire academic departments and fields are no longer devoted to scholarly pursuits, but have become ideological training and recruitment centers for radical causes.
Educational institutions are the cornerstones of our democracy.This is particularly so in the present historical juncture when we are engaged in a war with totalitarian enemies that seek to destroy us. Teaching the next generations the principles of our system, and developing in them the ability to reason and think for themselves are agendas crucial to the health and survival of our nation. This knowledge and these abilities are the fundamental prerequisites of a democratic culture. And they are in danger in our country today. David Horowitz
The father of the Academic Bill of Rights David Horowitz, the president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, brought the issue of academic integrity to Jack Kingston a few years ago and has really put the ball in play on this issue.
[...] the Young America's Foundation noted that John Daly, a professor at the Warren County Community College sent a threatening email to a student promising "to expose her right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like [hers] won't dare show their face on a college campus." As if that wasn't enough, Daly continued by saying that "Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors."
In fact, a study of liberals and conservatives on college campuses found that the overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans at the 32 schools studied was more than 10 to 1 (1397 Democrats, 134 Republicans).
The learning environment on campuses throughout America is not fair and balanced.
Today, I'm pleased to report that Congress went on record to support legislation containing the Academic Bill of Rights, which will help level the ideological playing field and take the personal politics of liberal professors out of the classroom.
That bill, the College Access & Opportunity Act (H.R. 609), passed the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon by a vote of 221-199. I was proud to support it.
Though today's victory is sweet, the road to get here has required a number of key players.
Continue reading the full post.
Majority Leader Boehner wrote a must-read editorial on the importance of the Academic Bill of Rights which gives the history of the legislation and lays out a strong case for why we need it NOW.
Another very good thing. Very good indeedy.
Rightalk.com to Live Webcast David Horowitz/Ward Churchill Debate on April 6 PR Web, On April 6 2006, Rightalk.com will webcast LIVE a debate on “Can Politics Be Taken Out Of The Classroom, and Should It Be?” between David Horowitz and University of Colorado-Boulder Professor Ward Churchill at George Washington University. Following on April 7 Rightalk.com will also webcast live the first Students For Academic Freedom Conference at the Washington Court Hotel.
Parents Must Recognized the Ideological Cost of Higher Education
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 10:22 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Education: Hijacking the System, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY: Everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party
............is in the following news item;
According to sources on Capitol Hill, U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a Capitol police officer on Wednesday afternoon after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector.
Members of Congress are not required to pass through metal detectors.
Sources say that the officer was at a position in the Longworth House Office Building, and neither recognized McKinney, nor saw her credentials as she went around the metal detector.
The officer called out, “Ma’am, Ma’am,” and walked after her in an attempt to stop her. When he caught McKinney, he grabbed her by the arm.
Witnesses say McKinney pulled her arm away, and with her cell phone in hand, punched the officer in the chest. Hat tip Hugh G
McKinney’s office has not responded to requests for comment.
Hey, Rule Of Law, bee-yatch!
Liberal Democrat's Satanic Overlord - How the Democratic Party has sold its soul for power, and in turn attacks everything that holds a country and a culture together. The Democrats now actively and openly fight against the spread of sexually transmitted disease, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and suicide. Meanwhile, with massive events, such as 25,000 students showing up to engage in the culture war, the media is virtually silent. More here
Hey Dud! Where's my country? - It's the Carnival of the Clueless
UPDATE March 31: And speaking of Bad Girls Behaving Brutally.
Naomi Campbell hurls cell phone at maid's head. NAOMI'S RAMPAGE - MODEL BLOODIES MAID IN ATTACK - Check this out;
Naomi's Rampage
Campbell confronted Scolavino and became enraged when told the maid had no idea where the jeans were because they were not kept in her work area, Scolavino said.
-MS. MEAN JEANS: Naomi Campbell, cuffs covered by a poncho, catwalks yesterday to her arraignment, where she was accused of bashing maid Ana Scolavino. Blood stains the collar of the work coat a maid was wearing when Naomi Campbell allegedly struck her.
[Naomi Campbell] hired [Ana Scolavino], a native of Chile married to an American, to be one of four maids - two for each floor of her duplex apartment. Scolavino said she sometimes worked up to 14 hours a day - and got no overtime pay.
Could you imagine if these women were white and their victims were black. Holy Batdung! The left were be rabid. We are talking grand mal seizures.
There appears to be a real lack of strong role models. Condi?
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Great Black Leadership, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, March 27, 2006
"never anything new in the inventory at the Anti-Jew Store"
The Weekly Standard rips the tools at Harvard a new one;
But Is It Good for Harvard?
According to Mearsheimer and Walt, the Lobby (they always use a capital L) is so vast it unites not just Jews but "prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed, and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay," not to mention a group they charmingly dub "neoconservative gentiles," such as "John Bolton, the late Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, former U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and columnist George Will." The Lobby also infected the policies of the Clinton administration and dictates policy not just at magazines like this one, but also at the New York Times and most think tanks in Washington. In short, anyone of significance who has ever disagreed with Mearsheimer and Walt's neorealist foreign policy prescriptions is suspect, especially the Jews.
In real life, of course, the individuals and groups they identify have divergent and in some cases mutually hostile views about the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Hawks when it comes to the Middle East tend to be hawkish about the rest of the world, too. Many of the Iraq interventionists also backed intervention on behalf of Bosnian Muslims, not to mention U.S. aid and comfort to Tibetan Buddhists, Confucians in Taiwan, and animists in Rwanda. Israeli views, for that matter, are all over the map about what the Bush administration is and should be up to in the Middle East and Iraq. Honest scholars of U.S. policy in the Middle East will be amused to learn that the word OPEC appears only once in the 83-page paper and that "AIPAC and its allies . . . have no serious opponents in the lobbying world." Men perspire and ladies glow, goes the adage. So Arabs, we suppose, don't lobby, they just bestow gifts, like the $20 million Saudi prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abd al-Aziz Al-Saud recently gave to the Kennedy School.
But really: Scholars who uncritically offer as evidence for their thesis a malicious blog by the Nation's Eric Alterman purporting to identify 61 "columnists and commentators who can be counted upon to support Israel reflexively and without qualification" hardly merit a serious rebuttal. Mearsheimer and Walt are following a well-worn, yet still slippery trail. As our contributor Stephen Schwartz likes to say, there is never anything new in the inventory at the Anti-Jew Store.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 07:46 PM in AIPAC 2006: Now is the Time, Antisemitism:Modern Argument to Age Old Hate, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Education: Hijacking the System, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Why Zacarias Moussaoui wants the Death Penalty
"I was supposed to pilot a plane into the White House," Zacarias Moussaoui testifying before the jury today.
You think the cartoon protests were bad? If Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to death, those riots would be a walk in the park. Another front opened up on the war against the West, more Radical Islamists poking the eye of the Great Satan.
I say kill him.
Zacarias Moussaoui testified that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid planned to hijack a jetliner and fly it into the White House on the day of the Sept. 11 attacks.
``Before your arrest, were you scheduled to be a pilot in an operation run on Sept. 11, 2001?'' defense lawyer Gerald Zerkin asked Moussaoui at his sentencing trial in Alexandria, Virginia. Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges a month before the attacks.
``Yes, I was supposed to pilot a plane to hit the White House,'' Moussaoui said. He also said, ``I knew the towers would be hit,'' referring to the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
Moussaoui said he knew about the plot when he was arrested on Aug. 16, 2001, and that he lied to FBI agents because he wanted the attacks to go forward. Moussaoui, 37, pleaded guilty last April to conspiracy charges linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. He is the only person charged in the U.S. in connection with the attacks. Story here
Mikael writes, "the story of the day is undoubtedly Moussaoui's confession on the stand that he was to hijack the 5th plane. However, in all the excitement surrounding his statements, don't allow this little passage from tis AP story to be forgotten:
Remember Gorelick, Reno, Hill & Bill? Who could forget?
"Just before Moussaoui took the stand, the court heard testimony that two months before the attacks that a CIA deputy chief waited in vain for permission to tell the FBI about a "very high interest" al-Qaida operative who became one of the hijackers.
The official, a senior figure in the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, said he sought authorization on July 13, 2001, to send information to the FBI but got no response for 10 days, then asked again.
As it turned out, the information on Khalid al-Mihdhar did not reach the FBI until late August. At the time, CIA officers needed permission from a special unit before passing certain intelligence on to the FBI.
The official was identified only as John. His written testimony was read into the record."
Posted by Pamela on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 06:24 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
18 Ways to be a Good Liberal
Paul says the message must be centrist, because it does allude to the
18 WAYS TO BE A GOOD LIBERAL
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th- graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but PETA activists do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make "The Passion of the Christ" for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Edison.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
17. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
18. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right- wing conspiracy.
G-D BLESS AMERICA
ooops, can't do that either
Posted by Pamela on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:47 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Evil Speaks in many tongues, Who whispers in your ear?
When evil speaks pay close attention. Ignore at your peril......... "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." Rand
Sudan, the next Iraq?
Al Jazeera
Darfur Province had always suffered the brutal conflict and its impacts, but this was never genocide.
Al Jyza has no shame. Millions of muslims slaughtered, and the genocide continues, and they write garbage like this. They are frantically trying to go on the air here in the good ole US of A , the english version of Goebbels modus operandi 2006. These pigs. Here is the dhimmi New York Slime take on that;
HOW you see something," said Nigel Parsons, the managing director of Al Jazeera International, "depends very much on where you're sitting."
Those words could well serve as the manifesto for the channel, the English-language offspring of the polarizing pan-Arab network, which will make its debut in more than 40 million households in late May.
"We're not going to be another CNN, BBC or Sky," he told the attendees on the last day of January. "If we were, there'd be no point." But, he added, "It's not our position to tell viewers what to think."
That's exactly what they do. Terror's own network is coming to a TV screen near you. And the New York Slime is only happy to step and fetch.
Nuff said. Now check out this beauty from The Washingon Post;
Anti-Bush Cries Get Louder
Washington Post[...]Window cleaner Ira Clemons put down his squeegee in the lobby of a city mall and stroked his goatee as he considered the question [of impeachment]
"Why not? The man's been lying from Jump Street on the war in Iraq," Clemons said. "Bush says there were weapons of mass destruction, but there wasn't. Says we had enough soldiers, but we didn't. Says it's not a civil war -- but it is." He added: "I was really upset about 9/11 -- so don't lie to me."
It gets worse, really much worse and this is The Washington Post
"The value of a powerful idea, like impeachment of the president for criminal acts, is that it has a long shelf life and opens a debate," said Bill Goodman of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Hitching a ride on Osama Bin Laden's wagon eh?
A Zogby International poll showed that 51 percent of respondents agreed that Bush should be impeached if he lied about Iraq, a far greater percentage than believed President Bill Clinton should be impeached during the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal.
Oh no, not that old left wing, antisemetic, on the take tool - Zogby - ack!
"Bush is saying 'I'm the president' and, on a range of issues -- from war to torture to illegal surveillance -- 'I can do as I like,' " said Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This administration needs to be slapped down and held accountable for actions that could change the shape of our democracy."
No I am not making this trash up, WaPo is. How can a venerable institution, holder of the public trust run such utter tripe. It's pure ****.
[...] dismissing Bush's defense of warrantless surveillance as "poppycock."
Cockpoppy! Moving boxes in leased space at the ports was COCKPOPPY! Listening in on al qaeda is mad serious.
UPDATE: Hat tip Tom P, mensch at large
heh.........
UPDATE: Speaking of Al ****
Al Jazeera broadcasts an audiotape calling for Arab leaders planning to meet in Sudan to boycott the Iraqi government
Posted by Pamela on Monday, March 27, 2006 at 12:13 AM in Atlas Observes, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Mainstream Media: Trumpeting Bogus Polls, Silence on Iraq, Al Qaeda, Cartoons, .....
Oy, the season of mendacity is upon us. TIME, leftard magazine, has a poll was SHOCKING results;
Democrats preferred in November US elections: poll AFP
Opposition Democrats are favored by a nine-point margin over the ruling Republican party of President George W. Bush in the upcoming November elections, according to a Time magazine poll.
Win every poll (exit polls too), lose every election. Do I spot a pattern? And so it begins.
And speaking of big media, am I the only one whose has noticed that FOX has been running a lot more soft news IE car chases, rural crime, human interest than hard news - since the Saudis bought 5.46% of FOX. No mention of the real news dramatically affecting our lives -- Muslims rioting, cartoons, riots in France. Just asking.
And speaking of big media, Iraq and Al Qaeda, where is the mainstream media?
Forty-eight thousand boxes containing thousands upon thousands of documents from the Saddam Hussein regime are slowly revealing a relationship between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. This link has been reported by bloggers and a few magazines but … where is the Mainstream Media when we need it?
Further proof the 9/11 commission was an impotent leftard tool.
The Information War
Washington Post conservative Blogger quits - Hey guys, next time get a guy with a thicker skin. If you are going to blog to the right at the leftiest of yellow journie papers, you better get someone with a spine o'steel..........d'oh.
Is it plagiarizing if you link?
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 06:29 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, March 24, 2006
Education: The Left Keeps Poor Children in the Dark
The upper classes are this nation's past, these people are our future. Invest wisely.
When Fatou Gueye and her husband arrived in New York from their native Senegal, they possessed little education and big hopes for their children.
Yesterday, those hopes were somewhat dashed when their 6-year-old son, Abdoulaye, was shut out of a lottery for the new Harlem Success Charter School to open in the fall.
"This is the new generation, we want him to have a better life, but he has to go to a good school," Ms. Gueye, whose husband drives a yellow taxi, said.
She was among the hundreds of hopeful parents who packed into the basement of the Salem United Methodist Church last night, where children's names were pulled from a box to determine who would win slots for the kindergarten and first-grade classes.At moments, the event felt more like the TV game show "The Price Is Right."
Parents squealed and jumped out of their seats when their child's name was called.
Despite the elation of some parents, it was hard to ignore the boxes of Kleenex placed on each table in anticipation of a few tears that may fall at the end of the evening.
It is inconceivable to me that the Department of Education, the anti-Christ Sheldon Silver, sHillary Clinton (click for her video, HILLARY: UNHINGED ON VOUCHERS here ) would keep the door closed on charter schools, vouchers and educational opportunities for the poor.
Harlem Success Charter School is one of a dozen of the privately run but publicly funded schools to open next year, but it could be among the last.
When the state approved the creation of charter schools in 1998, the law limited the number of such schools to 100 statewide. All of those charters have now been doled out.
"It's hard for minorities to excel, coming from the backgrounds or neighborhoods where we come from," a housekeeper from the Bronx, Shiboan Laboy, said. "I think education is the no. 1 way to get children out of the ghetto."
She said she refused to send her 5-year-old daughter, Jaylin, to one of the schools in her neighborhood. Jaylin did not earn a slot in next year's first-grade class.
The event was the brainchild of Ms. Moskowitz, the former chairwoman of the City Council's Committee on Education who represented the Upper East Side. While schools are required to hold a lottery, Ms. Moskowitz was among the first school leaders to invite the press.
"I want the public to see to see how desperate parents are, and politicians in particular. It's very easy to make this an abstract debate, but it's not abstract for these parents," Ms. Moskowitz said. "I can't believe that somebody would stand in the way of children trying to get a good education."
Ms. Moskowitz extended invitations to last night's event to Governor Pataki, the Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, and the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver.
In a letter, she asked them to come witness first-hand "parents' pain."
Opponents fear for their jobs. Taxpayers are paying dearly for their perks and our kids are barely educated. What are they so afraid of? Competition? I say, bring it on. Free markets baby.
The schools are shielded from many rules, regulations, and union contracts that govern conventional public schools. Until recently, the United Federation of Teachers was a vocal opponent of charter schools.
Wild right. And John Stossel,co-anchor of ABC's "20/20," is getting raked over the coals for telling the much needed truth in one of his segments called "Stupid in America."
In his Oped piece Plenty of Myths, Stossel writes here;
I hope the teachers in America's public schools are more candid than their union officials and some of the public-education advocates and leftist smear groups who are criticizing my TV special "Stupid in America." They are promoting myths:
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) accused me of making a "sweeping generalization" about poor American student performance from test results from a few American and Belgian students. Nope. I reported the results from the actual International Student Assessment (PISA) tests. Read it all
A week or so ago he came out to greet hordes of angry teachers who gathered outside the network's studio to protest the segment here.
Armed with a microphone and television crew, Mr. Stossel, who reported a story that criticized teachers and their union, stood amid hundreds of city educators who stood waving placards and yelling at him to apologize.
One teacher at the protest, which was organized by the United Federation of Teachers, held up a painting of a donkey with Mr. Stossel's head taped to the animal's behind.
"This sums up, without using obscenities, what I think of John Stossel," a health teacher at P.S.123K in Brooklyn, Richard Skibins, said. He was one of hundreds of teachers gathered yesterday afternoon outside the ABC studios on Columbus Avenue and 66th Street.
Crackpots. Holding our children, our future hostage. Meanwhile We spend more than any industrialized nation on education and rank 27th out of 30 nations in math and science.
The system is rotten to its core, throw the whole damn thing out. Education should be privatized and may the best school win.
UPDATE March 30th:
Closing and Spending New York Sun Editorial News that the Archdiocese of New York will close 14 schools in the region is being greeted with dismay by parents who have come to rely on the schools as an escape hatch from the city's public monopoly.
Posted by Pamela on Friday, March 24, 2006 at 02:36 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Education: Hijacking the System, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)
Saturday, March 18, 2006
The Dhimmicrats live in a Mad Mad Mad World
These mental patients are stark raving mad. They are the every definition of the fifth column. I can't imagine any sane American voting their ticket in November. From Neocon express;
We need the Kid from Brooklyn, Bat Day
Gone Whako: Paul Craig Roberts Say Bush Will Explode WMD in US to Sacre Us Into Iran Attack
In literally one of the most bizarre attacks ever mounted on a sitting President, a respected former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts suggests the President Bush, aided by evil "bloodthirsty neocons" will detonate a nuclear device close to the United States to justify attacking Iran.
"...a low yield, perhaps tactical, nuclear weapon will be exploded some distance out from a US port. Death and destruction will be minimized, but fear and hysteria will be maximized. Americans will be told that the ship bearing the weapon was discovered and intercepted just in time, thanks to Bush’s illegal spying program, and that Iran is to blame. A more powerful wave of fear and outrage will again bind the American people to Bush, and the US media will not report the rest of the world’s doubts of the explanation."
Craig Paul Roberts is now the chairman of the Independent Institute. This man has fallen off the deep end and needs profesional help.
Hat Tip: www.frontpagemagazine.com
Another yutz weighs in; 'Crash' director to lead Hollywood anti-Iraq war protest, Hey guys how about an anti 9/11 protest or an anti Islamofascist protest or anti Sudan/Darfur killing protest or an anti "wipe Israel off the map" protest? You hypocrites.
Democrats’ 2006 National Security Strategy
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 12:27 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (1)
Friday, March 17, 2006
Cartoon Jihad: Journalist Facing Death Penalty Speaks
Contrary to reports in The New York Times (are they evvvvvvil or blinded by agenda?) al-Asadi is facing the death penalty for publishing the innocuous cartoons. The limp left dhimmi press stands silent holding its pud in its clammy hands. Here is the translation provided by Agora;
Mohammed al-Asadi gave this interview which was published today, to the Danish newspaper Information’s correspondent in Cairo. He was released on bail February 22, following international pressure. Al-Asadi is still in good health and managed on March 10 to leave Yemen to attend a journalists’ conference. Contrary to some reports he is facing the death penalty as this article makes clear. He intends to return to Yemen to fight the good fight.
It’s not my Prophet
“I don’t regret printing those cartoons. I was defending the Prophet, I was defending Islam against those who wish to use the religion to create conflicts and maintain their grip on power,” says Mohammed al-Asadi - the editor in chief of The Yemen Observer who is now on trial for his life for having printed three of the Danish Mohammed cartoons.
Posted by Pamela on Friday, March 17, 2006 at 02:33 PM in Danish Cartoons Jihad: Kill or be Killed, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Eurabia: Dhimmitude, Islam: The War on Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
A Nation at War
Sign the petition to tell the Democrat leaders to stop undermining the War on Terror with cheap political stunts.
We are a nation at war. Our President has no more basic responsibility than to protect the American people and fight terrorists who want to kill us. It's one thing if a lone Senator wants our government to look the other way when an Al Qaeda terrorist contacts a sleeper cell inside the United States. It's entirely another when Democrat minority leader Harry Reid commends Feingold's censure move for "bringing [the terrorist surveillance program] to the attention of the American people."
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 08:00 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (1)
Radical Islam Prison Imam: Count Bloomberg as a Dhimmi
Little Green Footballs reports here that Imam under fire for incendiary remarks keeps city job. I am blown away. As I reported HERE, here and here, prisons have become hotbeds for Islamofascism.
I knew Bloomberg was a RINO, what do you expect in New York? But this? Home to Ground Zero? Prisons recruiting and training cells for Radical Islam. Mike, YOU PUTZ!
The Republican [in name only, I assure you] mayor used the opportunity to make a passionate defense of the First Amendment, saying that the “great dangers that we are facing are not people saying things, it is our reaction in this country to when people say something that we don’t like.”
“We are forgetting what distinguishes America from every place else and it’s something that I have felt very strongly about and get more and more worried about with time,” Bloomberg said.
The Radical Islamic cleric was quoted as saying to a muslim student group:
“We know that the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House, without a doubt,” according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press by the Investigative Project, a counterterrorism group that obtained an audiotape of the speeches.
Lore writes;
When people talk about Freedom of Speech, I have to wonder if they have actually READ the Constitution and the Bill of Rights:
Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
Seems to me that this does not prohibit New York from firing a hate- mongering slime from working in the prison. (I can't imagine that a minister propagating Aryan Brotherhood tenants would've have been canned in a heart beat!)
When I was in school, in the 19/90's there were Holocaust deniers taking out ads in college papers and the chic politically correct thing among the editors was to publish the ads because to not do so would violate the damned idiots' "freedom of speech." Huh?
The Bill of Rights does not say that a platform MUST be provided to any and everyone; just that Congress shall make no law abridging, etc., etc., etc.
Fire the putz!!!!
What he said.
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 06:24 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
ACLU: NAMBLA, CAIR, ISLAMOFASCISM
Actual screenshot hat tip Stansbury
Welcome to NAMBLA's Home Page
NAMBLA's goal is to end the oppression of men and boys who have mutually consensual relationships. NAMBLA's membership is open to everyone sympathetic to ...
216.220.97.17/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
Who We Are - Boys Speak Out - Visit Our Bookstore - People
WorldNetDaily: ACLU defends child-molester group
ACLU/CAIR and the ISLAMOFASCISTS
Norman Siegel, ACLU and the Radical Imam
At a conference in April 2005,Abdul-Jalil said the “greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House” and urged Muslims in America to “stop letting the Zionists of the media dictate what Islam is to us.” The imam also said that Muslims were tortured in a city jail.
These are not men.These are savages. They are evil incarnate and they mean to win.
Evil or Idiotarian? evvvvvviil.
March 14, New York Sun The case of New York’s embattled jailhouse imam, Umar Abdul-Jalil,seen in the photo above canoodling with ACLU Don Nornab Siegel, is causing some to call into question the existence and size of the city’s prison chaplain program, which costs taxpayers more than $1 million a year.
As top city officials decide whether to fire Abdul-Jalil [you're kiding right? You can't possibly make a case for keeping this insurrector, terror training, inciter to violence?] for his remarks to a conference of Muslim students last year, the case has raised questions about the city’s use of taxpayer funds to provide chaplains for inmates in municipal jails.The city’s Department of Correction employs 21 full-time and 19 part-time chaplains from the Muslim, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths.
Critics have suggested that the city’s employment of clergy is a misuse of taxpayer dollars when other major municipalities, including Los Angeles and Chicago, rely on volunteer chaplains to serve their inmates.The city, which has employed clergy in its jails for decades, says a volunteer-based program would not work for the around-the-clock needs of its jail system.
The city’s reliance on paid chaplains is an indication that its program has grown too big,
Meanwhile, NYC allocates $879,395 a year to pay the salaries of its 21 full-time chaplains. Trow duh bums out.
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 12:36 AM in CAIR, Council of thugs and gangstas, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (1)
Monday, March 13, 2006
IRAQ: BUSH, REID, PELOSI & Margo
US Fatalities down since mendacious mainstream media declared "civil war". hat tip: Phil
Bush ties Iran to deadly Iraq bombs
Click BELOW LINK to play. Hee Hee
Continue reading "IRAQ: BUSH, REID, PELOSI & Margo" »
Posted by Pamela on Monday, March 13, 2006 at 06:25 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, UN: Arm of Radical Islam, US MILITARY GREATNESS, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Lefty Limo Lib$ Grab Lux Land
Ah, to be rich and leftoid. Today's Page 6 tells this seemingly incredible story from the "let them eat Creme Brulee" crowd. Limo libs are buying a piece of the Dominican Republic where they can commiserate and bash those evil hard working Repugs, conspiring evil oil barons , Wal-Mart, tax reform, GWoT, etc. Page 6 here
MANHATTAN money manager Boykin Curry and a posse of high-profile pals - including musician and eco-activist Moby, PBS talker Charlie Rose and foreign-policy "it boy" Fareed Zakaria - have bought a huge chunk of land in the Dominican Republic they hope to transform into a "Creative Person's Utopia."
The New Yorker's Ben McGrath reports that Curry and Co. have plunked down $50 million for Playa Grande, a 2,200-acre plot that's meant to be an Eden-like island retreat where an elite group of jet-set artists and intellectuals can congregate.
"He imagined a classical Athenian village - updated," McGrath writes of Curry's vision, "in which four-star restaurants and art galleries could share street space with locally run fish shacks and pool halls; with great public plazas, where op-ed columnists like David Brooks and Thomas Friedman might gather to discuss anti-terrorism strategy with Zakaria and Rose, and then join Moby and his friend Michael Stipe for a concert on the beach."
Boykin, who is married to fourth-generation Palm Beach socialite Celerie Kemble, bought Playa Grande (he put up roughly half of the money while the bulk of the 20 co-founders kicked in $1 million each) on a tip from a friend of Kemble.
The Richard Meier-designed project-in-progress is to have a golf course, luxury boutique hotel, farms, equestrian center, science research facility and a nature preserve. There will also be an "artists colony" for 100 lucky recipients to live on the cheap. By "artist," Curry means "anyone who does something that's intellectually interesting that doesn't pay very well."
Playa Grande is far from being finished. Curry's first three capital investments were the 1,082-volume collection of Penguin Classics for the eventual Playa Grande library; an entire art installation from the P.S. 1 Gallery in Queens; and new irrigation equipment for the golf course.
But it's clear the project has utterly consumed Curry, who was known as a man-about-town who threw cocktail parties and fund-raisers for progressive causes at his apartment in the Trump building on Central Park South.
Kemble likens Playa Grande to her husband's second wife. "I'll give her three years," she told McGrath. "And then I'll slit her throat."
Nope, I didn't make this up. Read it again.
Photo of Curry:New York Post, Page Six
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 08:30 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Fear Mongering. Bush or Al Qaeda?
MEMRI reports:
Purported "Al-Qaeda Undercover Soldier, U.S.A": Last Warning to American People - Two Operations Will Occur; Your Homeland Security Agency Must Surrender; States Far Away From Washington, D.C. Such as Arizona Will Be Hit; We Await Orders From Our Commander Osama Bin Laden; America Will Be Brought to its Knees
On March 10, 2006, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) posted, on the Islamic websites, a final warning to the American people, on behalf of "Rakan Ben Williams" who defines himself as "Al-Qaeda under cover soldier, USA [sic
Also, on November 24, 2005, the GIMF posted on the Islamic websites a similar warning, under the same name, that included an explicit threat to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and U.S. President George W. Bush, when the time comes, with a clear mention of the possibility of doing so after they complete their current terms of office. Although this communiqué was directed to these leaders, it noted that it referred to all Western leaders, and included special mention of Berlusconi. At its conclusion, the communiqué said that it had been written by "the one who thirsts for the blood of the Crusaders, the secret soldier of Al-Qaeda, Rakan Ben Williams, Italy (the Vatican)." [3]
WND reports here
The threat suggests the attack will be far greater in magnitude than Sept. 11, 2001, because following this one, "there will be no one to analyze and investigate, because the mind and the heart will be unable to comprehend it. ... This will not be a single operation, but two; one bigger than the other, but we will begin with the big one and postpone the bigger one, in order to see [how] diligent the American people is [in preserving] its life. If it chooses life, [it must] carry out the demands of the Muslims, and if it chooses death, then we are its best perpetrators." Hat tip Phil
If the recent polls are any indication, the left wing propaganda machine has succeeded brilliantly. Fear mongering, my ***. America must shake off this veil of denial. Abandon the agenda af the left wing media. Start reading the blogs. You can no longer ignore the Islamosfascist declaration of war on the west. FIGHT THE GREAT FIGHT, or you children will live in dhimmitude.
al qaeda Radical Islam Hamas nuclear Politics Weblog
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, March 11, 2006 at 07:26 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, Islam: The War on Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, March 10, 2006
CAIR & ACLU: Marriage Made in Hell
The Left and Radical Islam come out of the closet here at Stop the ACLU;
In a not so suprising development, CAIR National Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed has been elected to the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.
"American Muslims view the protection of civil liberties as one of the most important issues facing our nation today," said Ahmed. "By working with the ACLU in Florida, I hope to strengthen constitutional rights and help balance those rights with legitimate national security concerns." Ahmed is a resident of Jacksonville, Fla.
The ACLU of Florida, with headquarters in Miami, is the local affiliate of the national organization. It has 16 staff members, 16 chapters and more than 22,000 members and supporters across Florida.
CAIR and the ACLU have cooperated on a number of issues at the national level to defile America like defending people with admitted terror ties, destroying National Security, and a number of other anti-American activities.
It really isn't a suprising move for the ACLU to accept a member to the board from an organization with known terror ties. Its not like its the first time.
Hey America, you can't hit the snooze button again. You are out of "just five more minutes please". Wake the fcuk up.
Posted by Pamela on Friday, March 10, 2006 at 01:23 AM in CAIR, Council of thugs and gangstas, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Dubai: The first casualty of political conquest is the truth
Thanks goes to the House Republicans. The Appropriations Committee vote was so overwhelming, that the UAE got the message and is now pulling the ports deal. Hence, there will be no confrontation with the president, or embarrassing veto override. And the reaction from Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and the appeasement wing of the Senate is hilarious: Reid is demanding a vote on a deal that no longer exists and Schumer is insisting on seeing the details of the now defunct deal. It's not easy being a weak-on-defense liberal. [ 03/09/2006 03:08 PM ] NRO hat tip Phil
I campaigned hard for the Dubai deal here and here. I thought the Democratic rhetoric was total bullshit. Dubai can't move boxes around but Al Qaeda can speak freely on phone calls into and out of this country because FISA was a "power grab by the executive branch?" Puhleeze.
It was pure political posturing and the RINOs that capitulated to the political winds are as spineless (but not nearly as cunning) as their left wing counterparts.
I can not say I am happy about this turn of events. It will come back to bite us - we need to build relationships with allies in that part of the world, but it will be pleasant not to hear the Pelosi pile-on of double speak or Read wailing in varied shades of gray. But who am I kidding? The next canard is being typed up as we speak.
UPDATE: Not For Sale to Foreigners , The Dubai Ports issue will come to harm America.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 08:29 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, RINOs, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)
Hate Mail and Threats
I get a great deal of hate mail and threats as you can well imagine. Can anyone out there track down this IP address for me? I want to report "Karl" to the authorities for threatening me. Oh yeah, and btw "Karl" I am expert shot.........and I carry.
Dear Pamela:
A new comment has been submitted to your weblog "Atlas Shrugs," on the post "Cartoon Jihad: Ayn Rand Institute Fights for Free Speech."
Comment from:
Name: Karl
IP: 71.241.108.11
Comment:
Hello my little piglet. Anybody buy you your trashy looking Cartier watch yet? Didn't think so.
I decided to perform an experiment that I hope will prove to you that Muslims aren't as bad as you say. I will be sending a screenshot of the cartoons you posted, and link to your site to the five most extreme Muslim websites I can Google up. If you're still alive in April, then you will know you were wrong about the Muslims.
"PUBLISH OR PERISH" THE MUHAMMAD CARTOONS
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 02:59 AM in Danish Cartoons Jihad: Kill or be Killed, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (28) | TrackBack (1)
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Dirtiest Deal: Mosque and State
Regular Atlas readers have been following the Islamic Society of Boston's connections to Al qaeda and MOSQUE AND STATE
In today's Boston Herald opinion piece "It’s time to air BRA deal"
Mayor Tom Menino may still be in denial, but at least one city councilor is willing to raise questions about a sweetheart land deal given to the Islamic Society of Boston for its new mosque.
Councilor Jerry P. McDermott says he’s prepared to hold public hearings in an effort to find out how and why the Boston Redevelopment Authority turned over land worth more than $2 million to the society for a mere $175,000 plus a package of alleged “community benefits.” Part of the controversy over the 1.9-acre mosque site is the role of Mohammad Ali-Salaam, who now serves as BRA deputy director for special projects, has long advocated for the mosque project and, according to documents, helped raise money for it in the Middle East.
Still Menino is insisting, “He didn’t have a say in the price. That’s not his department.”
But there’s an indication, developed in the course of a lawsuit brought by community activist James Policastro, that Ali-Salaam was aware the Islamic Society of Boston had put the land value at $2 million.
Lawsuits are, of course, often long, drawn-out affairs. What is called for here and now is a public airing of what the BRA thought it was doing at the time and how it could possibly deal away public land at a bargain basement price. That’s what McDermott wants to get to the bottom of, knowing, as he put it, “This will be the tip of the iceberg” as it relates to the BRA.
Well, it’s time to start chipping away. Hear Hear.
Back on March 4, Charles Radin wrote in The Boston Globe;
A top Boston Redevelopment Authority official who previously downplayed his role in the Roxbury mosque project of the Islamic Society of Boston assisted in the city's reduction of the price the mosque backers paid for the site from $2 million to $175,000, according to BRA documents that have surfaced in lawsuits over the controversial project.
Cooper called the move ''a grand gesture," given what he said was the Islamic Society's strong position in the legal disputes over the mosque.
But Jeffrey S. Robbins, chief lawyer for the defendants in that suit, said the move by the Islamic Society was not a grand gesture but the result of a ''a realization that bringing their lawsuits was a very bad idea."
In addition to the dual roles Ali-Salaam played in the BRA process and on the Middle East trip, both lawyers pointed to a letter, released by the BRA in connection with the lawsuits, that they said showed a complete blurring of his roles as official and advocate.
The letter accompanied a check for $10,000 donated to Roxbury Community College by the leaders of the Islamic Society. The letter is written on BRA stationary and signed by Ali-Salaam, Abou-Allaban, and Walid Fitaihi, a trustee for the Islamic Society.
The donation was conveyed to Grace Brown, then president of the college, with a request that Brown not reveal the source of the donation. No reason for this was given. Efforts to reach Brown and her successor, Terrence Gomes, were unsuccessful last night.
Continue reading "Dirtiest Deal: Mosque and State" »
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 11:58 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
The Harris Poll: Not Partisan and Not Paid for by a "Client"
How refreshing, a pollster who is not on the take. Today.s New York Sun
For all the ink being spilled on the low approval ratings of President Bush and Vice President Cheney in the polls, one fascinating poll released earlier this month has gotten surprisingly little public attention. That is the Harris Poll that for 39 years in a row has been measuring public confidence in American institutions.
At the top of the heap? The military. 47% of Americans said they had a great deal of confidence in its leaders. The institution that came next as far as inspiring confidence was small business - 45% of respondents had a great deal of confidence in its leaders, and only 6% said they had "hardly any" confidence in small business
Near the bottom of the list, by comparison, were organized labor and law firms. Only 12% of Americans had a great deal of confidence in the leaders of organized labor, and only 10% had a great deal of confidence in the leaders of law firms.
That's takes care of, say - 98% of the Democratic party (figure Hollywood at 2%)....give or take of course.
The pollster notes that "at 30 percent, confidence in the leaders of organized religion is at its highest level since 1975 (32%) and represents a major turnaround since 2003 when only 19 percent had a great deal of confidence."
hmmmmmmmmm, they will make the secularists bloody ill.
[...]The American people as a whole have a collective wisdom, a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. The Rochester, N.Y.-based poll wasn't paid for by any client.
Whaaaaaaaat? Wasn't paid for --- well that is positively unZogbyan!
[...]The relatively high rankings for the military, small business, and organized religion and the relatively low ones for organized labor and lawyers are an indicator that for all the hand wringing about the president's sagging approval ratings, the American people's values have a conservatism about them that transcends political trends.
November is the only poll that counts.
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!*
*Cultural reference: Back when Springsteen was Springsteen (and not some lefty tool), the crowd would wail Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce after every wild tune because nobody did it better. And nobody does it better than Bruce over at The Democracy Project.
UPDATE: Confederate Yankee points out the obvious flaws in Zogby's latest propaganda poll here
UPDATE March 10th : I gotta tip my hat to Bruce over at the Democracy Project. He is sooo onto the fallacious Zogby "methodology" .....who do voodoo? Bruce you rock.
Zogby can run but can’t hide
Zogby, and his MSM enablers who uncritically reported his bogus poll of U.S. troops in Iraq, can run but they can't hide from the truth -- that is, if they care anything for truth.
Those (see here, for example, and here) who choose to accept the Zogby “poll’s” highly defective methodology and reported results to bolster their arguments for war-weariness or for premature withdrawal from Iraq were dealt another blow today.
Democrat pollster Mark Blumenthal, the Mystery Pollster blog, concurs again that the substance of the poll is highly suspect.
Read it all. You will never look at Zogby's results in the same way again. The jig is up.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 at 11:52 PM in Critical Races, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Republicans, Get a Clue, Simmering Civil War in America, White House 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Wrong Mother, Muthuh F**KUH
Todd Manzi, G-d bless you
A grieving mother of a soldier killed in Iraq wants to voice her opinion. She has a message about the war in Iraq and feels the American people need to hear what she has to say.
Her name is Merrilee Carlson and her story is compelling and newsworthy. Unlike another mother of a fallen soldier, Carlson is not a household name. Her message is exactly opposite of the over-exposed message of the well-known protesting mom.
Carlson began trying to get her message out last August and September. She didn’t like what was coming out of Crawford and felt the need to correct the record.
In the last couple of weeks the organization that Carlson chairs, Minnesota Families United, has been in the center of a controversy that, by any objective reasoning, should have made national news.
Minnesota Families United teamed with Progress for America Voter Fund and produced two television spots. Minnesota was used as a test market for the spots and PFA made a rather large statewide television buy. The ABC affiliate in the Twin Cities market, KSTP, refused to air the spots.
This is a shameless disgusting story. Verifying the obvious left wing agenda of the mainstream media.
Complicit silence on a fallen soldier's ma. Bless her soul.
The decision not to air the first MFU commercial was made by Rob Hubbard, General Manager. His objection was over two lines in the spot:
1) The media only reports the bad news, but American troops are making real progress
2) You would never know it from the news reports, but our enemy in Iraq is Al Qaeda.
The news hook gets better.
On Thursday, February 16th, the Chair of the Democrat Party in Minnesota called on all TV stations to pull the ad. The top Democrats in Minnesota want to suppress the message of Carlson’s group.
Merrilee Carlson was born and raised a Democrat. She doesn’t like politics and she wants to make it clear that her group is non-political. So, the Democrats in Minnesota are trying to suppress the message from mainstream families who have suffered the loss of their children from the war in Iraq. Why is this not news?
That other mom was a full-time, anti-war protester for more than a year before she came up with the PR stunt to go to Crawford during the president’s vacation. The media accepted the stunt and gave her message enormous coverage. This prompted Carlson to take action for her message. Now Carlson is in the middle of legitimate news and the media is silent.
Have we come to the point where it takes a stunt to make news?
NO...........we have to come to the point Mr. Manzi, if you are not a traitor you are not part of the desired message. Bah dah bing, bah dah boom.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 10:51 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)
Port Security: "franks for the Defense"
It's like I said, it's like Tommy Franks said to Tony Snow, and it'w hat I've contended all along here and here;
Franks for the Defense
Former General Tommy Franks, who led the successful ouster of the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, has some thoughts on the port controversy swirling around the United Arab Emirates.
He told Fox News' Tony Snow this week that while the UAE may have had a spotty record on terrorism before 9/11, the Arab confederation has since become a valued ally. "I believe it's ludicrous and disingenuous for us to look at activities inside the United Arab Emirates and say that, just because one, two, or three hijackers, at some point in time, lived in the Emirates that we should hold that government responsible (for 9/11)," he said.
He went on to detail for the first time some of the cooperation he got from UAE leaders. "One of their officials personally handed me the grid coordinates and provided maps of Taliban-related sites," he said. "They set the foundation for what followed by giving us unprecedented access to their intelligence." Mr. Franks can't speak to complaints that the UAE continues to deny diplomatic recognition to Israel because "I'm not a diplomat, thank goodness" but insisted it would be counterproductive for the U.S. to scapegoat a country that became the first in the Middle East to allow inspection of containers bound for the U.S. at its ports. John Fund, Political Diary Wall Street Journal
U.S. Urges UAE to End Boycott of Israel -
The Bush administration said Wednesday it is pressing the United Arab Emirates to drop its economic boycott of Israel - a major sticking point in the proposed takeover of key U.S. ports by a UAE-owned firm. "The United States wants to see the boycott against Israel dropped completely by everybody, said State Department spokesman Adam Ereli. (Washington Times)
See also Dubai's Israel Ban Violates U.S. Law - Michael McAuliff (New York Daily News)
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 04:05 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (1)
Iran At War with America Right Now In Iraq
The Black Hand of Iran and it's continuing war against America - Big Satan, Israel - little Satan, and the West rolls (roils) along. Iran wants us out of Iraq, Afghanistan - hell off the planet would be good too. They may have the left in America on their side but who wants those losers in your corner? Would you even want those guys at your back?
Iran Focus The deputy governor of the Iraqi province of Saladin, where the holy city of Samarra is situated, said preliminary investigation was pointing to Iran’s role in the bombing of the city’s revered Shiite shrine last week.
“The investigations carried out so far about the explosion in the resting place of Imam al-Hadi and Imam Hassan al-Askari in Samarra point to the involvement of the Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry”, Abdullah Hossein Jabbara announced. He was referring to Iran’s secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, which is known to be actively operating in Iraq
Further proof, Iraq is very much a part of the global war on terror with the axis of evil outlined in the Bush Doctrine. It is because of the ongoing successes of the American liberation of Iraq that Iran, al qaida, are stoking the violence, and escalating the terror. Painfully clear to me that the Iranian sponsored terror in Iraq is very much a part of the global war on terror.
The wonder of our accomplishments in tandem with our accomplishments in Afghanistan are very much the reason Iran has undertaken a campaign of terror, fear, and propaganda in that country in an attempt to return it to the dark ages here and here. here.
This is not a sugarcoat. Expect a great deal more bloodshed, infighting, foreign fighters and outside influences to plague Iraq for the foreseeable future. That does not mean failure. Our objectives are noble. And what would be the alternative? There is no alternative.
Regime Change Iran reports the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding hearings on the Iran Freedom Act..
Call your Senators today and ask for your support of this important bill today.
Chick here for phone numbers.
RECOMMENDED READING (yes, again): Max Friedman's Betrayal of America -- most excellent, brilliant, hard hitting piece here.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 01:08 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Freedom's Enemies, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
The Media's latest Production: The Katrina Rewrite
Who is editing the manistrream media news nowadays - George Clooney? The latest media swoon uh I mean swarm is all over that video released by AP of pre-Katrina briefings, using just little snips that pieced together appear to make the President more knowledgeable of what was ahead
But the LA Times today admits that the AP selectively edited the video. MONEY QUOTE:
“The AP video does not include footage of Chertoff asking Brown whether he needs any other help or of Chertoff asking whether Brown wants him to approach the Department of Defense. Transcripts show that to both questions, Brown indicated that no additional assistance was needed.”
Also, Newsbusters points out the sharp and telling difference between the levees being only “topped” – which was widely discussed before Katrina – and the levee breach 24 hours after the storm: Go over to Newsbusters, they have the dirty lowdown here.
Wake up people, you are being seriously played with. Stand up and say;
"I am Mad as Hell and I am Not Going to Take it Anymore!"
Bottom line on Katrina, the state and local governments failed their people miserably. Miserably. At no time in our nation's history have first responders failed to act so completely. Blame the Feds all you want, but they are the back up boys. They made mistakes, but considering what and who they were dealing with, it would have been impossible to do otherwise.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 12:01 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, KKKATRINA, Leftwing Media Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Dirtiest Politicans: New York's Finest
Charles Rangel, particularly disgusting demagogue, the same Rangel that introduced legislation to reinstate the draft just so that he could accuse Bush of having a secret planto bring back the draft to exploit African Americans during those mendacious pre-presidential days - yeah he is that disgusting - now is shilling for the limo let-them-eat-cake liberals of the world;
Rangel Backs Tax Loophole For the Rich
VIRGIN ISLANDS AT ISSUE
WASHINGTON — One of the most vociferous congressional critics of President Bush’s so-called tax cuts for the rich, Rep. Charles Rangel, is also one of the House’s most “vigorous” advocates of restoring a tax loophole that allowed multimillionaires to evade up to 90% of their personal federal income taxes, according to representatives of the U.S. Virgin Islands who lobbied Congress yesterday to reopen the loophole.
“It’s not fair what they’re doing here,” Mr. Rangel said of Washington’s efforts to impose stricter residency requirements for filing taxes as a Virgin Islands resident, while denying that his interest in the matter was influenced by tens of thousands of dollars donated by Virgin Islanders to the Harlem Democrat’s recent re-election campaigns.
This is my state. Chuckie Schumer, Shrillary Clinton, and Charles Strangler.
I love my city. With every breath in my body. I am this city. But I hate it's politics, it's taxes, it's looters......
"I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body." Ayn Rand
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 03:04 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Taxes: Nothing short of Slavery | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Iraq, Zogby, Polls, GWoT, and the Truth
Bruce asks How reliable is Zogby poll of military in Iraq? Bruce that is not the question.
The question is how reliable is Zogby period.
Jason over at Generation why weighs in with Democrats Get Paralysis of Analysis
Zogby is wildly anti-Bush, anti-Israel, anti-Republican. I have written of Zogby's bias numerous times..........what foll lows are remarks from a comment thread October 16th before the Presidential election here;
Zogby has accused Israel of abusing human rights and acting like a colonizer, similar to the "genocidal treatment of the Native Americans and enslavement of African-Americans."'
He is a known Anti-Semite and hater of Israel.
Zogby has a history of supporting extreme terror organizations. Zogby's anti-Semitism is well documented here;
NEW YORK- Pro-Arab lobbyist James Zogby, head of the Arab-American Institute, has publicly urged the Arab nations to refrain from normalizing relations with Israel--thus further shattering the myth that Zogby is "moderate" or "seeks peace with Israel".
The web site ArabicNews.Com reports that Zogby told the Moroccan daily Al-Alam that "a drive towards normalization of relations with Israel" would be "dangerous." here
The following is from a pre-election Zogby poll I fisked;
His polls are always notoriously skewed;
Bush job performance rating drops to 69%; [emphasis mine]
Democrats take lead in race for Congress; [another lie]
58% say Israel should leave occupied Palestinian territories;
83% believe Mideast bloodshed will spread to other nations,
Zogby America Poll reveals
Moreover, in Zogby's account, Israel pursued a policy of `ethnic cleansing,'
more skewed Zogby results;
Zogby poll released today indicates that Americans – by large majorities – oppose the United States militarily defending several key allies, including Taiwan, Israel and South Korea.
The Zogbys clearly have an agenda. James Zogby Justifies Palestinian Terrorism. "Palestinian organizations are refusing to accept U.S. foreign aid this year, rather than sign a pledge promising that the money will not be used to support terrorism." as reported in The Washington Times.
The paper then paraphrases James Zogby of the Arab American Institute saying that this refusal by Palestinian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to sign the pledge "should not be seen as support for terrorism, rather that in Palestinian society it is politically expedient to reject the funds than endure the tremendous political pressure they will face for signing the pledge. Zogby continues, in his own words: "This is not clearly understood in the United States. The idea of providing no ‘material support is such a broad brush stroke, it compromises the ability of the humanitarian organizations to function." The reporter then paraphrases Zogby saying that "making Palestinian organizations judge who is and who is not a terrorist is a prescription for creating civil war in the Gaza Strip and West Bank."
In addition James Zogby became apoplectic when President Bush nominated the eminent scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of United States Institute for Peace. Mr. Pipes brilliance of is some note and matched only by Hanson.
Zogby spit out the following:
"Daniel Pipes has a problem - his obsessive hatred of all things Muslim," writes James Zogby of the Arab American Institute. "Pipes is to Muslims what David Duke is to African-Americans."
BTW,this patently untrue.But these are gross and vicious libels, as anyone who reads or listens to Pipes' own words will quickly discover at his site here. His hundreds of essays on terrorism, Islam, and the Middle East have appeared in scores of publications, from the Atlantic Monthly to The Jerusalem Post to Foreign Affairs. He has written countless book reviews. He is the author or editor of 13 books, he lectures nationwide, and he is a frequent guest on news and public-affairs TV shows. In short, he has compiled a vast public record. If he were the hater Zogby decries, it would be pretty hard to disguise.
Daniel Pipes has been a huge supporter of moderate Muslims and believes America must support Moderate Islam in our war on Radical Islamofascism
more Zogby quotes;
James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, said that because of the "disproportionate number of Jews," the State Department should hire more Arab Americans.
Zogby's "extremist, anti-Israel views" disqualified him from being involved with U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Radical organization and known supporter of terror groups, James Zogby – president, Arab American Institute.
Zogby said that Israel's "invasion of occupied territories is seared into the Arab psyche the way the Holocaust defines 20th century history for Jews".
*SPIT*
Case closed. So much for Zogby objectivity.
As for Iraq. It is painfully clear to me that the Iranian sponsored terror in Iraq is very much a part of the global war on terror. And the war on terror is (and always was) a global war. The Cartoon Jihad is empirical evidence of that. Iraq is and was very much a part of the terror network. Twelve years flouting sanctions alone would have legitimized the war, but Saddam was paying off families of suicide bombers. He was bankrolling the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine through the UN oil-for-food program. The oil for food crimes!
Saddam used our taxpayer money to bomb innocents. He gave Abu Nidal, infamous Palestinian terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds, safe harbor for decades protecting the grisly executioner of wheelchair-bound American Leon Klinghoffer. WTF was going on at Salmon Pac? Al-queda trained their pilots in that full sized passenger airliner fuselage. It didn't fly, but they "trained" for missions using this fuselage.
Saddam had WMD. The developing story of Saddam secreting his WMD into Syria is the icing on the cake. More on that here.
The ongoing fight on the ground in Iraq is part of the global war on Radical Islamic terror.
The left's contention that "Iraq was a mistake, not part of al qaeda, 9/11, the war on terror" is blatantly irrational, and illogical. It is a fallacy. And for those of you who claim Bush and his administration are secretive, non communicative - I counter that the mainstream media gives the man no time, no platform, no opportunity to air his strategy. They hate him. They will sell this country and our national security down the river to undo him. They will aid and abet the enemy to give their own arguments validation.
Please read Max Friedman's Betrayal of America -- most excellent, brilliant, hard hitting piece here.(thanks to Chas)
I see Iraq as a great success. Not because of the stories you rarely see or hear for example here and here. The success in Iraq is a country of 50 million people liberated from a despot and centuries of totalitarianism, of living under the boot of dictators. That can't be easy. The wonder of our accomplishments in tandem with our accomplishments in Afghanistan are very much the reason Iran has undertaken a campaign of terror, fear, and propaganda in that country in an attempt to return it to the dark ages here and here. here.
This is not a sugarcoat. Expect a great deal more bloodshed, infighting, foreign fighters and outside influences to plague Iraq for the foreseeable future. That does not make failure de facto. Our objectives are noble. And what would be the alternative. In my mind, there is no alternative. The American people are not paying attention here.
I met a Yemen Muslim woman who lived in the United States for 20 years (her husband married her at 13 and brought to the US, then summarily dumped her 10 years later) . This woman still lived in fear of Radical Islam - 20 years later - in America.
SO THIS CAN BE NO EASY TASK. If you don't have the stomach for it, get out of the way. Our world, our way of life must be saved. But the left can not be the monkey on our backs.
We elected George Bush, we elected him to do the job. Why won't they let this man do the job we elected him to do? I know, I know the polls say this, the polls say that, but at the end of the day the only poll that means anything is the elections. Respect that.
UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson apparently sees things as I do, READ IT A-L-L;
AT WAR WITH OURSELVES,
We're winning in Iraq. Let's not lose at home.
The second-guessing of 2003 still daily obsesses us: We should have had better intelligence; we could have kept the Iraqi military intact; we would have been better off deploying more troops. Had our forefathers embraced such a suicidal and reactionary wartime mentality, Americans would have still torn each other apart over Valley Forge years later on the eve of Yorktown--or refought Pearl Harbor even as they steamed out to Okinawa.
There is a more disturbing element to these self-serving, always evolving pronouncements of the "my perfect war, but your disastrous peace" syndrome. Conservatives who insisted that we needed more initial troops are often the same ones who now decry that too much money has been spent in Iraq. Liberals who chant "no blood for oil" lament that we unnecessarily ratcheted up the global price of petroleum. Progressives who charge that we are imperialists also indict us for being naively idealistic in thinking democracy could take root in post-Baathist Iraq and providing aid of a magnitude not seen since the Marshall Plan. For many, Iraq is no longer a war whose prognosis is to be judged empirically. It has instead transmogrified into a powerful symbol that apparently must serve deeply held, but preconceived, beliefs--the deceptions of Mr. Bush, the folly of a neoconservative cabal, the necessary comeuppance of the American imperium, or the greed of an oil-hungry U.S.
If many are determined to see the Iraqi war as lost without a plan, it hardly seems so to 130,000 U.S. soldiers still over there. They explain to visitors that they have always had a design: defeat the Islamic terrorists; train a competent Iraqi military; and provide requisite time for a democratic Iraqi government to garner public support away from the Islamists.
UPDATE: Totally partisan. Check out the knee jerks on the comment section of this thread;
Expert: Zogby “poll” needs “big ‘grains of salt’ “
More evidence of prejudice from The Democracy Project.
Proof Zogby poll is BS
In entirety is the post at Media Lies blog. I know the blogger, and he is a reliable source.
Others might be cautious, but I'm not....
....I'm calling the Zogby poll bullshit. Here's why.
Source: Faces From The Front blog:
This line from the Press Release:
"Four in five said they oppose the use of such internationally banned weapons as napalm and white phosphorous."
of Zogby's new poll of military personnel in Iraq struck me as odd.
What is odd about it is that 80% of infantrymen carry white phosphorous grenades on missions.
So, ethier most of resondents are not currently aware of what infantrymen strap to their flak vests when they go outside the wire, or disapprove of their infantry bretheren carrying WP grenades or the question was poorly worded, or some combination.
Media Lies blog continues:
First of all, white phosphorus isn't an internationally banned weapon, and every infantryman, Marine, grunt and ne'er-do-well knows that. Secondly, the troops carry the weapon on them on missions. This poll was rigged and is worthless, plain and simple. I don't need to see any of the other questions to know that.
Obviously Zogby's "pollsters" have never heard "Pop smoke". I question if anyone was polled, or if someone sat down and made up this poll out of thin air. I'm voting for the latter.
Zogby won't reveal the questions, won't reveal the interviewees and won't reveal the pollsters. Now why do you think that is?
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 at 03:04 AM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, US MILITARY GREATNESS, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (29) | TrackBack (1)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Taxes: Where do you live?
The ten states with the most business-friendly tax systems this year are: Wyoming, South Dakota, Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Texas, Delaware, Montana and Oregon.
The ten states with the least hospitable business tax climates are: New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Ohio, Vermont, Maine, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa and Arkansas. Read all of the study results here.
Listen, I know I have to move, my tax burden is intolerable. The tax climate in New York is so hostile, the sale of a family owned business was the most desirable option. New York is owned and operated by the Democratic party machine. It is a nightmare. The Republicans are not even a minority party here, they are nonexistent.
And while we are on the subject of New York and speaking of Slavery Taxation, go here and here
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 06:13 PM in Critical Races, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, New York Politics, Taxes: Nothing short of Slavery | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)
Hillary's "Jihad" Is Union Payback$$
Remember this?
Hillary Clinton going jihad over school vouchers over at Malkin
Download and watch the video (Windows Media file).
Money quote:
"First family that comes and says 'I want to send my daughter to St. Peter's Catholic ' and you say 'Great, wonderful school, here's your voucher,’… Next parent that comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist ...' The parent says, 'The way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. ... You gave it to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, under the Constitution, you can't discriminate against me….So what if the next parent comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad? ... I won't stand for it." The whole story here
John Fund's "Swillary";
The former First Lady went on to speculate about "what [happens] if the next parent comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad?'" Declared Mrs. Clinton: "I won't stand for it."
This is absurdist demagoguery. Federal law prohibits the transfer of any funds to organizations that advocate hatred or violence against any group. Beyond that, federal Pell grants have long financed college students at many private and religious schools with little controversy. Last time anyone checked, none of the money had gone to colleges advocating white supremacy, though admittedly some schools do harbor some incredibly narrow-minded liberal faculty.
Now remember this:
Politics Is the Labor They Love
[...]Now new government data show just how skewed its priorities have been.
Last year, unions were for the first time required to file more detailed reports on their expenditures and internal operations to comply with the 1959 Landrum-Griffin Act, which until recently had been largely ignored or circumvented. The new data are eye-opening. They showed that in 2005, the AFL-CIO spent $49 million on direct political activity, a whopping 27% of its budget. At the same time, it spent only $30 million, or 16.5% of its budget, to represent workers in contract negotiations and to protect their collective bargaining rights.
Don't expect these revelations to embarrass the giant labor federation into changing its priorities. Rather than pledge to reorient its activities more towards the daily needs of members, the AFL-CIO is announcing at its annual convention in San Diego this week that it will become a partner with the National Education Association, the most politicized union of all. The NEA is set to allow its local affiliates to join the AFL-CIO, although a merger at the national level isn't in the cards yet.
The AFL-CIO's John Sweeney, who called the deal the group's most important step "since the merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955," is obviously trying to combat the impression of a union in decline. Despite the loss of dues income from the departing affiliates, the AFL-CIO announced plans to spend $40 million on the mid-term elections this year, all but a small pittance of which will go to Democratic candidates.
Given the rate at which it's abandoning the traditional role of organized labor in favor of political activism, the AFL-CIO might as well drop the pretense and merge with the Democrats to form an honest-to-goodness Labor Party. At least that would represent truth in advertising. Wall Street Journal Political Diary, Paid Sub Only
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 10:13 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Education: Hijacking the System, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, White House 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Disraeli in Dubai
I am not at all surprised that Dr. Wheeler and I see eye to eye, tooth to tooth, and reason to reason on the current burlesque the Democrats have manufactured to distract and confuse the American people. And with a willing and complicit fifth column fourth estate (the press), it's a no brainer getting their knee jerk message out there. Those lap dogs can't lap it up fast enough.
The Republicans chasing lefty tail on this is unfortunate but they will see through this ruse of that I am sure.
The first casualty of political conquest is the truth.
The Federalist Patriot makes points here
Despite the rancor, the U.S. does not outsource the protection of our critical national-security infrastructure.
Approval of the DPW proposal underwent three months of interagency review. According to Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, "This review definitely was not cursory and it definitely was not casual. Rather, it was in depth and comprehensive." This is the same review that management companies based in China, Denmark, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan underwent before being authorized to manage terminals in the port of Los Angeles. We might add, China now manages some terminals on both ends of the Panama Canal.
Foreign investment in the U.S., including port management, is nothing new.
Dr. Jack Wheeler's take is much more in depth than my previous post earlier this week here.
But Wheeler is a paid subscription only so I am running the whole thing. And if you don't have a subscription - get one here, NOW, worth every last penny. Jack rocks - bad dah bing, bad dah boom
DISRAELI IN DUBAI Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
The 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) once commented on accusations that a political opponent of his was lying regarding an important issue before Parliament: "It is worse than a lie - it is a blunder."
We can be sure that the Earl of Beaconsfield (the peerage awarded to Disraeli by Queen Victoria) would make the same observation today over the travails of George Bush and the port scandal.
There is no secret deal here. CFIUS, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, that vets these things, ran it through 12 agencies including Defense, Treasury, State, Homeland Security, and the White House National Security Council. Their approval was unanimous. Had just one objected, it would have been put on a 45-day investigative hold.
Bush was blindsided on this out of sheer naiveté. He still can't accept as real the bottomless mendacity of Democrats. For Barbara Boxer and Chuck Schumer to foment in protest over a deal with America's closest Arab ally, when they have gone far more ballistic at any suggestion that Arabs be profiled at US airports - well, I guess it's standard liberal chutzpah.
Outdoing Bush in naiveté are Republicans in Congress being led with rings in their noses by Boxer and Schumer into an orgy of Bush-bashing. It would be nice if they all took a deep breath, switched on their brains, and began thinking of how to take advantage of this fiasco.
Wouldn't it be great if Bill Frist stood up in the Senate Chamber and congratulated his Democrat colleagues for their concern over the safety of America's ports, and that he was sure they would now show their concern for the safety of America's airports by mandating Arab Moslem male passengers instead of grandmas and others at politically correct random?
Or if Denny Hastert stood up in the House Chamber to say he was sure his Democrat colleagues, so newly passionate about national security and concerned over our dependence on Arab oil, would now support drilling oil in Alaska's ANWR, offshore drilling in Florida and the East Coast, and eliminating government restrictions so that nuclear power plants and oil refineries can be built in three to four years.
So, should the deal with Dubai Ports World be toast? Because the Dems have demonized the UAE in order to demonize Bush once again, this is going to be tricky. So let's talk about this place, the United Arab Emirates.
It's a collection of seven tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdoms welded together by the Brits in 1892, changing what was called the Pirate Coast to the Trucial Coast, and creating a British Protectorate protecting them from the Ottoman Turks. The truce between the seven - Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Fujaira, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwan, and Ras al-Kaimah - worked so well that by 1972, they were transformed into the UAE, with their respective leaders being upgraded from sheikhs to emirs.
They were all mud hut fishing villages until oil was found in Abu Dhabi and pumped out in quantity in the 1960s. With one exception, the other emirates were happy to kick back and live off Abu Dhabi's largesse. The exception was Dubai. The Maktoum clan of the Babi Yas tribe that runs Dubai have always been traders. So they made a decision in the 1970s to prosper on their own.
They did it be transforming their mud hut fishing village into the Hong Kong of the Middle East. Their success in doing so has been beyond spectacular.
If you associate "Arabs" with "camel-herding" and "poverty," if you visit Dubai you're in for the shock of your life. For openers, there's the world's only seven star hotel, the Burj al-Arab (see photo)
The amount of business being done in Dubai is staggering, thanks to a zero corporate tax rate, no restrictions on repatriation of capital, and 100% foreign ownership of businesses permitted. The Dubai International Finance Center, with millions of square feet of state-of-the-art hi-tech office space, is rapidly becoming the Wall Street of the Middle East.
Dubai Healthcare City is a $3 billion project, making the emirate a world class center for medical treatment, research, and education that includes branches of the Mayo Clinic and the Harvard Medical School.
With a $5 billion dollar project called Dubailand, it plans on being the Disneyland of the Middle East, with 15 million additional tourists as year.
There are millions of tourists and businessmen coming every year to Dubai already. The lubricant of tourism, of course, is booze, rivers of which flow through Dubai's hotels, bars, and discos. Remember this is a Moslem country.
And wherever there are hordes of tourists with money, there are hordes of hookers. Prostitution is as illegal as it is in Las Vegas. Every bar in every 4 and 5 star hotel in Dubai offers a selection of ladies from Russia, England, China, Pakistan, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and elsewhere. The Cyclone Disco is legendary for being a "United Nations of prostitution," with over 500 international ladies of the evening available on an average night.
You would think that this debauch of money, booze, and sex would outrage the Islamists. Yet Dubai has never been hit with a terrorist attack. Right across the sandy border, Saudi Arabia has been hit by suicidal Moslem crazies numerous times. But Dubai - America's best friend in Arab-land, the Moslem Fleshpot - never.
That's because Dubai, besides being the Middle East's Hong Kong, Wall Street, Disneyland, and Las Vegas, is also the Middle East's Switzerland, where everyone's money no matter how drug, mafia, or terrorist-tainted, is handled with equal discretion.
That's the trade-off. As it's the place where terrorists can do business, the terrorists leave it alone.
But what if Al Qaeda or an Al Qaeda wannabe decides to blackmail the Dubai government, owners of Dubai Ports World? One suicide bomber wiping out the lobby of the Burj al-Arab could cost Dubai billions in tourist and investment revenue. To prevent this, all DPW has to do is insert a few Al Qaeda boys to work in American ports.
Terrorist Blackmail is the security issue that needs to be discussed.
The Bushistas have made a bewildering blunder in not briefing Congress and preempting Democratic demagoguery. A lot of conservatives knee-jerk reacted with a "not just no but hell no!" unthinking rejection like Sue Myrick (R-NC). This is going to change as conservatives calm down and actually start to reflect on the matter, instead of venting and demagoguing like liberals do.
Take a look at the White House's reasoning in its Fact Sheet on the CFIUS Process and the DP World Transaction. The case is well made. If the White House can effectively assuage the terrorist blackmail concern, then you'll see a shift in support for the president.
It has already begun - Jack Kelly's column, Is It Smart To Attack All Moslems?, this week is example.
Look at it this way - to be on the side of Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton and against George Bush on an issue is prima facie not pro-American.
Maybe - just maybe - the port scandal will turn out not to be a Bushie blunder at all. You wonder what Disraeli would say about that.
Thanks Jack........... (click below for Kelly's column)
Continue reading "Disraeli in Dubai" »
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, February 25, 2006 at 02:25 AM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (1)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Hillary Clinton Goes Jihad On Education
Didn’t Chelsea Clinton Go to a Private School?
“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies -- or even a government-funded ‘School of the Jihad,’” according to Newsday. In the Cato book Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick, vice president and national director of the Institute for Justice, recounts the dramatic 12-year battle to finally give families a choice in education and looks ahead to a future when every child can get the best education possible. Cato Institute
Hillary on the Defensive
New York Sun Editorial
Senator Clinton was caught out on Tuesday by an alert reporter for Newsday, Glenn Thrush, who captured the former first lady making a truly silly argument against school vouchers.
HILLARY: UNHINGED ON VOUCHERS here Via Michelle Malkin
Hillary Clinton going jihad over school vouchers
Download and watch the video (Windows Media file).
Money quote:
"First family that comes and says 'I want to send my daughter to St. Peter's Catholic ' and you say 'Great, wonderful school, here's your voucher,’… Next parent that comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist ...' The parent says, 'The way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. ... You gave it to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, under the Constitution, you can't discriminate against me….So what if the next parent comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad? ... I won't stand for it."
We spend more than any industrialized nation on education and rank 27th out of 30 nations in math and science. Hey Hillary I won't stand for that. You are in the pocket of the teachers' union and you will sell our children and America's future down the Tigres in a heartbeat.
Rewarding Mediocrity By JOHN STOSSEL
"The teachers united will never be defeated!" chanted thousands of public-school teachers at a union rally. They may be right - unfortunately. Teachers unions in this country are very influential because they can assemble a crowd. Randi Weingarten, head of New York's teachers union, put out the word, and thousands of teachers filled Madison Square Garden to demand a new contract and more money. That clout brings timid politicians into line.
The unions can pay for expensive rallies at "the world's most famous arena" because every teacher in a unionized district like New York must give up some of his salary to the union. Even teachers who don't like the union, teachers who believe in school choice, and teachers who could make more on the open market must fork over their money to support the unions that fight against school choice and merit pay
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 10:56 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Education: Hijacking the System, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack (2)
THE DEMOCRATS ON PORT DEAL; SHOW ME THE MONEY
I never believed it was about national security, not for a nanosecond. The Dhimmicrats wouldn't give the sweat off their brow for national security - the attacks on the Cole, WTC '93, Chinagate, Khobar - they never batted an eyelash no matter how many Americans died (with apologies to Lieberman, Zell etc.). With the Democratic leadership, it's always special interest - it's always about the money.
SHOW THEM THE MONEY. John Fund backs up my post in the WSJ Political Diary -paid subscription only
But where are the questions about the unions that are in the front row of the jeering section trying to scotch the deal?
The International Longshoremen's Association, the union that represents workers at the six ports that would be part of the Dubai management contract, have always exercised inordinate power over U.S. ports, as vividly depicted in the 1950s film classic "On the Waterfront" starring Marlon Brando. While not as brutal today, union control remains a fact of life. Just ask the factory owners who had to endure parts shortages in 2002 as ports from Seattle to San Diego were forced to shut after a longshoremen's union slowdown paralyzed operations.
"The wonder is that the Dubai company was willing to take on the hassle of managing U.S. ports for thin profit margins," one maritime expert told me. He noted that Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong-based leader in port operations, refuses to invest in the U.S. because it won't deal with the local unions. A former member of the Federal Maritime Commission told me it is an open secret that the U.S. longshoremen's union prefers U.S. operators "because they can get more patronage and exercise more leverage that way."
Many of the politicians most vocally opposed to the Dubai deal have also received hefty campaign contributions from the longshoremen's union. Perhaps that's one reason none are on record as complaining about the fact that ILA President John Bowers was charged with racketeering and named as an associate of the Gambino organized crime family in a July 2005 civil complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. The New York Sun, which yesterday published an extensive analysis of the ILA's ties to organized crime, concluded: "Mr. Bush's critics would have more credibility in the middle of this war [over the ports] if they hadn't been on the receiving end of lucre from a labor union with a history of corruption and mob ties."
Suddenly, national security? Think about it. They hate the Patriot Act, they hate Gitmo, they hate military tribunals ................ this deal is not even about security. They talk trash about "building coalitions" and "international cooperation" and defile the "coalition of the willing." Yet here they are willing to spit on an Arab country that works with us? This can only hurt us on our war on terror. Economic ties builds relationships. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
Oh and read Eli Lake in the New York Sun;
Dubai Is Said to Have Long Aided the U.S.
More cluelessness to be had at Carnival of the Clueless here. Now Allah Snackbar!
UPDATE: More here The facts about the ports deal, from Heritage Organization
Carafano and Kochems explain several important facts in their new paper:
Outsourcing port operation is nothing new. In fact, the ports in question are currently owned by a British company, and much of our economy depends on foreign companies for transportation.
Security procedures, based on post-9/11 security changes, will remain unchanged. The Coast Guard and U.S. Customs provide security at American ports—not the port's owners.
Dubai World Ports does not pose a security risk. It is a holding company only, and its executives would have no access to security information or procedures. Furthermore, since the company wants to make money, it is not in its interests to allow terrorists to use its facilities.
The UAE is a close ally in the war on terrorism, having turned over several al Qaeda suspects to the United States. It also participates in America's overseas container screening program.
In an interview on NPR's Talk of the Nation yesterday, Carafano elaborated on several of these points. He noted that terrorists, drug smugglers and other criminals already exploit our transportation networks without the complicity of the companies involved. Furthermore, he said such groups would not want to be involved with such companies, since that could attract unwanted attention, just as this deal has.
UPDATE 2/24/06: KRAUTHAMMER!
Harbour exit Charles Krauthammer
Democrats loudly denounce any thought of racial profiling. But when that same Arab, attired in business suit and MBA, and with a good record running ports in 15 countries, buys P&O, Democrats howl at the very idea of allowing Arabs to run our ports.
GOLDBERG!
Going overboard Jonah Goldberg
Did you hear the one about Dick Cheney, a priest and a rabbi walking into an Arab-run port?
The Journal Editorial Report
Tune in this weekend for a discussion on ports and Arab management.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 03:23 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
FATWA ON CARTOON TEE SHIRT
I first wrote of the tee shirt brouhahahahaha here. Shocka! It gets worse.
Hate Mail and Death Threats Target Seller of Mohammed Cartoon T-shirts
Conservative t-shirt maker MetroSpy set off a firestorm when their newest design depicted a caricature of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb wrapped in his turban. According to Islamic tradition, graphic depictions of the Prophet Mohammed are forbidden. MetroSpy's apparent disregard for this tradition has outraged many in the Muslim world, prompting some to voice their displeasure by sending the company hate-filled email, online viruses and even death threats.
Johnathan Alexander, MetroSpy's production manager, says he's never seen anything like it. “It's a silly little cartoon. We've sold designs far more offensive than this for years”, referring to a t shirt which reads, “My Jesus can beat up your Allah.”
“For people to become so enraged over a drawing that they resort to burning down buildings and threatening to kill people is something I'll never understand,” Alexander said.
In one email the person writes, “We kill you and burn your shop. I am Muslim with forces in the U.S.A.” hat tip Judith
Our Freeedom of Speech is under attack and the left wing dhimmi media is as silent as they are complicit *SPIT*
Daily Illini editors suspended after publishing Danish cartoons
Two editors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Daily Illini student newspaper have been suspended after “breaking ranks” to republish the controversial Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, without the knowledge of the editorial board, in the February 9 edition of...
Unbelievable.......check out the editor's thought here, hope for our next generation
Denmark to play Israel in soccer despite cartoon uproar
In the middle of Eurabia, Denmark stands tall. You gotta love, respect and admire Denmark. Planning my next vacation there. With so many dhimmi countries refusing to engage in any sporting activity with Israel here, this takes balls. I really dig that.
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 07:16 PM in Danish Cartoons Jihad: Kill or be Killed, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Eurabia: Dhimmitude, Evil's Essential Oils, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (1)
Christopher Hitchens Steps up on the Danish Muhammad Cartoon
How about we join Christopher Hitchens in his support the Danes here? I am out of town at the moment but will make every effort to attend as soosn as Hitch sets the date in DC. Please join the fight-- I will post when I know more. Good on ya Hitch (even if I haven't forgiven you your repulsive piece on Ariel Sharon after his stroke.)
Denmark is a fellow member of NATO and a country that sends its soldiers to help in the defense and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. And what is its reward from Washington? Not a word of solidarity, but instead some creepy words of apology to those who have attacked its freedom, its trade, its citizens, and its embassies. For shame. Surely here is a case that can be taken up by those who worry that America is too casual and arrogant with its allies. I feel terrible that I have taken so long to get around to this, but I wonder if anyone might feel like joining me in gathering outside the Danish Embassy in Washington, in a quiet and composed manner, to affirm some elementary friendship. Those who like the idea might contact me at christopher.hitchens@yahoo.com christopher.hitchens@yahoo.com , and those who live in other cities with Danish consulates might wish to initiate a stand for decency on their own account.
UPDATE: Bidinotto posted the time and place.
Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue), [in Washington, DC] between noon and 1 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 24. Quietness and calm are the necessities, plus cheerful conversation. Danish flags are good, or posters reading "Stand By Denmark" and any variation on this theme (such as "Buy Carlsberg/ Havarti/ Lego") The response has been astonishing and I know that the Danes are appreciative. But they are an embassy and thus do not of course endorse or comment on any demonstration. Let us hope, however, to set a precedent for other cities and countries. Please pass on this message to friends and colleagues.
I will be in the air on my way to my nephew's bar mitzvah .........I know, I know so bourgeoise, but it is what it is. Would have loved to have been there though.
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 04:00 PM in Danish Cartoons Jihad: Kill or be Killed, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Eurabia: Dhimmitude, Freedom on the March Worldwide!, Islam: The War on Jihad, One of the Really Good Guys, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I have Seen the Enemy, They's Us!
FISA Risking American Lives here at Pajama Media Toon: NYSun
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 01:24 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Muhammad Cartoons: Another Gutenberg Moment
The Loony toon Danish cartoon controversy is proving to be among other things a "Gutenberg" moment for the blogs. Just as Dan Rather's fake but accurate false document story altered the news information super highway and changed the course of American history (and the Presidential election), the publication or non-publication of the Danish cartoons in the MSM is proving to be just as significant.
By now everyone knows that big media will not print the toons. Despite the fact that it is the obligation of the press to do just that, they succumbed to dhimmitude and refused to run them.It could not have been lost on you that the Danish editor in charge of publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, has said they were printed in response to self-censorship on issues regarding Islam and that giving in to pressure not to run them would have been "incompatible with a secular democracy".
The blogs (myself among them here) have been running them, in my case all the back to October, without so much as even thinking if it was the right or wrong thing to do. How could you not run them? It is the public's right to know.
And the blogs felt it. What political blog did not see a tsunami of traffic from a world hungry for a look at those damn cartoons? Where did the people go? They came to us, by the millions.They were forced to come to us by the very entity that would love to see us wither and die. Ironic. My blog alone quadrupled its numbers at the height of the search.
The immediate, short term effect can be seen in Britain, here.
[...]"They [the Radical Islamists] think they have won the debate," he says with a sigh. "They believe that the British Government has capitulated to them, because it feared the consequences if it did not.
"The cartoons, you see, have not been published in this country, and the Government has been very critical of those countries in which they were published. To many of the Islamic clerics, that's a clear victory.
"It's confirmation of what they believe to be a familiar pattern: if spokesmen for British Muslims threaten what they call adverse consequences - violence to the rest of us - then the British Government will cave in. I think it is a very dangerous precedent."
Media enabling only served to further advance the day when British Muslims formed a 'state within a state .'
There are important lessons Americans can learn from the decay of British sovereignty over its own people, Eurabian dhimmitude, and not enforcing rule of law. And there are valuable lessons to be learned from the damage a complicit, seditious media can and will do by tearing at the extraordinary fabric of the great American experiment with left wing platitudes and group think.
Rumsfeld is right, to win we must find an alternative to the mainstream media. Well we have, you're looking at it.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a Cartoon Jihad round up here.
UPDATE: The most fabulous Egyptian Sandmonkey in the desert reports on the inevitable "BLAME THE JOOOOS" here;
Apparently in order for Arla Foods - the producer of Lurpak and lots of danish chesse- to resume their markets and operations in the Middle East, they have to promise not to do any business with Israel - not trade goods with them, and not use their ports or anything of that nature. How messed up is that?
What does trading with Israel have to do with anything? I thought Arla was having problems over the fact that it happend to be danish when a danish paper made a cartoon that drove the muslim world insane. Why do they have to forsake trading with Israel to resume relations with the middle-east? What did they have to do with the cartoons? And why are they in the middle of this again? WTF is this bullshit?
Yeah Sandbaby, WTF?
BUY DANISH BUT ONLY FROM NON DHIMMI COMPANIES, more click here: History News Network
Hodja blog reports and it is JP's lead story today:
To gain contracts in Middle-East countries Danish firms have signed contracts not to trade with Israel for several years. If Danish firms have done so - which other firms from EU and the US? Arla - the Danish dairy firm - says today - that such contracts are pure routine.
Maybe the time has come to check who you are dealing with - and who you are not dealing with.My Danish friends are embarrassed. To be honest, our Israeli readers have already provided us with some inkling about this. So, I am glad it is out in the open and, hopefully, will lead to a major rethinking on the part of the companies.
It should also give impetus to a "Buy Israel" campaign in Denmark. This link may be useful.
UPDATE: The Million Dollar Bounty on the head of cartoonists upped to 11.5 million here. More here Hat tip Michael G
A minister in India’s Uttar Pradesh state government has offered a reward of $11.5 million to anyone who would kill any of the cartoonists who drew the images of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Imagine that 11. 5 million and climbing, and their people starve. Poverty the likes of which we can not know.
UPDATE February 20th: I am sure this is Iran's doing here, part of their new Afghan media campaign
Students burn flags, shout 'Long Live Osama' at protest over cartoons KABUL, Afghanistan Students burned Danish and American flags and pictures of President Bush during a demonstration today at a college in Afghanistan. About two-thousand students took part in the latest protest over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
The media takes the military to task here for trying to counter this battle but I say bring it on. They say the hunchback can't see his own hump.
UPDATE: Hope springs eternal with the next generation here, appropriate on President's Day
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 06:00 PM in Blogosphere: The New Power, Danish Cartoons Jihad: Kill or be Killed, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (3)
Saturday, February 18, 2006
“The U.S. Should Not Have A Military"
"Most of the dead were Christians beaten to death on the streets by the rioters," Ezeoke said. Witnesses said three children and a priest were among those killed"
SIXTEEN DEAD IN NIGERIAN CARTOON RIOTS hat tip Earl
UPDATED: 8pm In the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, Muslims protesting the inane Mohammad cartoons attacked Christians here. They went after the Christians;
An Associated Press reporter saw mobs of Muslim protesters swarm through the crowd with machetes, sticks and iron rods. One group threw a tire around a man, poured gas on him and set him ablaze. More here hat tip Micael G
But Dick Gregory wants to know what really matters, what the President knew and when he knew Cheney had hurt his friend or even richer this.
Mohammad Cartoonacy lunacy is a nouveau nuclear Iran flexing its global Radical Islamic muscles much as they deny inciting protests of cartoons It is not about the toons.........it's about submission, dhimmitude.
Cock-a-doodle-dooooooo!
War has been declared. This is war. Rinse. Repeat. This is war.
11 more dead in the war of the savage loon toons. Eleven people die in riots in Libya, and an Italian minister’s T-shirt is blamed for it: Italy minister resigns after Libya cartoons riot. More here. Buy your tee shirt here.
Latest developments in the Cartoon War of dhimmitude;
Protesters Of Cartoons Torch Consulate CBS News
Libyans protesting the Prophet Muhammad cartoons set fire to the Italian consulate, killing or wounding 11 people. In Pakistan, a cleric announced a $1 million bounty for killing the cartoonist. Denmark, where a newspaper first published the cartoons, temporarily closed its embassy in Pakistan and advised its citizens to leave the country.
10,000 Protest Prophet Cartoons in London AP
More than 10,000 angry people protested in central London Saturday against the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that have infuriated many in the Muslim world.
Behead Danish cartoonist, get Rs 51 crore, says UP minister The Tribune
Lucknow, February 17 Adding a new dimension to the anti-Denmark protests, an Uttar Pradesh minister today declared a cash reward of Rs 51 crore for the person who would behead the Danish cartoonist who drew the controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammad.
Prophet Cartoons: Editor Jailed, Faces Death Newsweek
In an interview from his jail cell, a Yemeni editor imprisoned over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons discusses press freedom, religion and calls for his execution.
Prosecutors open probe against Russian editor who reprinted Danish prophet cartoons Fox 23
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian prosecutors opened an investigation into the editor of a newspaper that reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, and another paper was ordered closed after publishing a cartoon depicting Muhammad along with Jesus, Moses and Buddha.
Fighting the lunatics here and there. This is what we re up against at home here;
S.F. Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval: “The U.S. Should Not Have A Military”
During an interview on this evening’s Hannity & Colmes, discussing the fate of the USS Iowa, Supervisor Sandoval was pressed to answer the question: Should America possess tools of war?
Without hesitation, Sandoval responded:
“The United States should not have a military“
UPDATE: ExposeTheLeft has the video. Transcript here.
Sean Hannity repeated the question and the answer did not change.
In visible disbelief, Alan Colmes jumped into the conversation and attempted to clarify. He asked Sandoval once again, clearly, and got the same answer. Colmes exclaimed, “That’s absurd!”
To which Sandoval arrogantly quipped: “Welcome to San Francisco.”
Both Hannity and Colmes were utterly incredulous. Colmes then inquired “how America should defend itself” to which Sandoval foolishly retorted:
“You can send cops.”
You can't make this up. They just don't get it. Imagine how Blue Star and their families would feel about this eh?
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 08:30 PM in Danish Cartoons Jihad: Kill or be Killed, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (2)
WTF is Abercrombie? Lover of Hamas
In the vote to suspend aid to Hamas, one lone NO VOTE - Rep. Abercrombie here hat tip: Earl the pearl
BILL TITLE: Expressing the sense of Congress that no United States assistance should be provided directly to the Palestinian Authority if any representative political party holding a majority of parliamentary seats within the Palestinian Authority maintains a position calling for the destruction of Israel.
What kind of animal is Abercrombie? Well, he's a democrat,.That explains alot. No surprise there. He's from Hawaii, they must be smoking too much doobie down.
There is as an"IRAQ WATCH" page on his website, no surprise there. A real democrat advocating troop removal NOW;
"I have joined with several of my colleagues in introducing a bipartisan resolution (House Joint Resolution 55) to get the troops home from Iraq and put the Iraqis in charge of their own future. The troops have done their job and now it is time for Congress to do its job."
What is a surprise? This is a surprise;
He is a member of the Committee on Armed Services, where he is Ranking Member on the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee; he is also a member of the Readiness Subcommittee.
WTF?
To blog readers in Hawaii, a vote for Abercrombie is a vote for Radical Islam. GET THIS BLOODSUCKING, JEWHATING, FREEDOM KILLING, AMERICA HATING yutz out of office.
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 06:56 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Palestinian Arab Terror, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blogs To Rummy: We Are Building it, They Will Come
Ever feel like you are screaming into the void, echoooooooooo chamber.
Last night Rumsfeld gave voice to what we in the blogosphere have known all along. And what I have been contending (or shrieking as those lefties that loathe me like to say) on this blog for a year. Read my banner. It's the war of the worlds and the hearts and minds of the American people is at the core of victory. WE MUST BUILD ANOTHER SUPER HIGHWAY OF INFORMATION, OF FACT, TRUTH.
It's why me and most of the other bloggers I know do what we are doing. Believe me I'd rather be dancing.
RUMSFELD: TO WIN WE MUST FIND AN ALTERNATIVE TO MSM
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Last night Donald Rumsfeld went on Charlie Rose show and told him in as straight forward a manner as he could that Al Qaeda, with its highly coordinated and sophisticated media apparatus, has been successful in getting MSM to help them fight their war against the West. As the current war on Islamism is asymmetric, Rumsfeld further argued, it cannot be won on the ground by soldiers, but must be won in the hearts and minds of the soldiers' homeland. Hence, unless the US government and its allies find an effective way to counter Al Qaeda's successful use MSM, the West will lose the war with Islamism.
Rose retorted that there was nothing new in Al Qaeda's attempt to use MSM. The Nazis did the same thing. Nor was he concerned by the prospect of Islamist victory or by the possibility that the media may be helping make such a victory possible. What caught his attention was Rumsfeld's argument that to secure victory the American government must find a way to compete, if not totally supplant, MSM as a source of public information.
"Do you believe the American media is doing a bad job?" he asked waxing lyrical about reporters risking their lives to tell the story. "Isn't this simply a case, as Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam argues, of shooting the messenger?" After all, how could a mere American Secretary of Defense have a gall to argue with a Pulitzer prize winner?!
Trying to deliver a message while doing as little to antagonize as possible, Rumsfeld did not bother to remind him that Walter Duranty also won a Pulitzer for misreporting on both the Moscow Trials and the Ukrainian famine. Nor did Rumsfeld remind him of the less than glorious media record in exposing Nazi atrocities or its role in stalking the fires of isolationism in the US. Instead, Rumsfeld reminded Rose of the more recent CNN admission of its deliberate decision not to reports the truth about the vile nature of Saddam's regime. That was wrong, Rose admitted but, he added, Jordan has since left CNN. Of course, Jordan was no exception and the recent CNN failure to show the controversial Muhammad cartoons for fear of endangering its reporters in the Muslim world demonstrates just how easy it is to terrorize the media. Of course, CNN is far from unique. Just read the open letter sent by the Malaysian investigative reporter to the Australian SBS TV which chose to add fuel to the ongoing Islamist stalked fire by airing additional photos of the old Abu Ghraib atrocity but failed to show the Muhammad cartoons. Terrorism, as Rumsfeld explained, aims at getting one to change his/her behavior.
But can you point to an actual military harm done by MSM, Charlie asked. Yes. Rumsfeld retorted. The recent publication of the American ability to monitor Al Qaeda communications with its American contact caused real damage. This Rose tried to dismiss with a knowing smile: "Surely, they knew we were listening?" Not really, Rumsfeld replied, the reporting led Al Qaeda operatives to change their behavior. You mean in the manner the reporting about our ability to listen in on Bin Laden's satellite phone did? Rose asked. Precisely, Rumsfeld answered. Rose Quickly changed the subject.
Do I believe this interview will alter Rose's reporting or the behavior of the MSM? Not a chance. Still, this interview is important. Along with Socrates and Rumsfeld, I believe that questions are more important than answers. Once posed, answers are invariably found. Rumsfeld asks how can Western governments bypass MSM and thereby secure victory in the war with Islamists. I trust somebody will come up with the appropriate answer. Clearly the sooner its done, the shorter this 'long war" will be. In the meantime, we, members of the alternative media, must double our efforts. Luckily, we have Jihadists own mistakes to help us hold the line.
UPDATE: Speaking of which. The New York waste of Times masochistically masturbates here;
That Which We Call a Blog...
New York Times
Blogs versus the "MSM"? As it becomes harder to differentiate between blogs and the mainstream media, look for the real confrontation to be journalism versus armchair yammering.
Wow, I didn't know the New York SLIME Times had armchairs in their offices.......
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 06:18 PM in Blogosphere: The New Power, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, One of the Really Good Guys, Philosophy and its Importance, US MILITARY GREATNESS, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
The Left is on the Wrong Side of EVERYTHING
The leftards never cease to amaze or desist. It is the only thing they seem to be consistent in. Minnesota Democrats sent out an email trying to pull a TV ad featuring the parents of fallen soldiers supporting the mission in and of the Global War on Terror. Why would Democrats want to silence the voices of these parents? You can see the ad here.
Freedom of Speech, Rage, Riot, Lies, Media bias BUT ONLY FOR THE LEFT and don't you forget it.
Oh yeah I watched Rep. Tim Ryan, Democrat Ohio earlier today on CSPAN addressing the house railing against the deficit and the foreign debt. The whole dog and pony show, gBarbara Boxer-style graphs , the whole Dem-deal. I have one thing to say. The deficit? Get real. Let the free markets run, lower taxes, privatize everything and leave businesses alone and the deficit will take care of itself (just like Reagan's deficit did. The burgeoning economy as a result of his tax policy and smaller government regulation policies paid that sucker off).
And the foreign debt? Hell, those countries owe us a fortune -- their post World War II debt. They didn't pay us back so............
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 06:15 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (1)
“Islam Will Dominate” at Hallowed Ground Zero
It's morning in America, wake th f**k up~! When the dhimmicrats rail against Bush and his "fear mongering" and "using the war on terror to his own end" or to "instill fear in the American people", just laser point them to their own backyards.
It is the dhimmicrats that are guilty of "fear mongering". When they call listening in on al qaeda "domestic spying" or impede reenactment of the Patriot Act based on bogus big brother scenarios (even DiFi said so), that is the real fear mongering.
From American Daughter here, Hat tip TCarney
Muslims At Ground Zero
The United American Committee is an organization devoted to promoting awareness of threats which face America from within, focusing especially on Islamic extremism in America. In their photo gallery they have posted this picture taken of Muslims at ground zero in New York City on February 1, 2006.
Note the placard that says “Islam Will Dominate” showing the Islamic flag flying over the White House.
I am sure you've seen all the attention the Mainstream media has paid to this, haven't you? No room I guess, too busy running 3 year old pics of Abu Ghraib.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: APPEASEMENT 101
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 12:06 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, February 13, 2006
Democrat Ticket White House 2008
Watching Saddam Hussein grandstanding at his trial today railing here
"DOWN WITH BUSH!
DOWN WITH BUSH!"
One can't help but think he is a likely candidate on the Democratic Presidential ticket for '08. If you close your eyes and listen, you'd think it was Shrillary, or Howard Dean or Ed Kennedy or John Kerry or Al Gore or .............fill in any Democrat other than Lieberman or Zell.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 05:20 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, White House 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Cartoon Dhimmitude In America
Please support these students here, MUST READ -- believe me you, this is America's best shot at winning the war on Radical Islam. This is our future - I am proud of them
-There have been times in our nation when groups have been told to back down from their positions and accept the status quo. The anti-slavery, women's rights and anti-segregation movements are such examples. But despite climates of unfavorable opinion, their leaders persisted and changed our country for the better.
We are proud not to take the route of the New York Times, Washington Post or other major newspapers which have not published the cartoons. Their decision to leave their readership uninformed on an issue causing riots, death and damage is irresponsible.
Free speech is all about more speech. We will not allow a hastily written, knee-jerk editorial to undo the work we have done for our readers or intimidate us from carrying that mission out from here.
We will not resign. We will not issue an apology.
Fellow Atlases, I implore you to voice your support. Today. NOW. Here:
Letters to the editor:
Contributions may be sent to: Opinions, The Daily Illini, 57 E. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820 or e-mail opinions@dailyillini.com with the subject ³Letter to the Editor.² Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author¹s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and their college. The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit or reject any contributions. Hat tip Irwin
Meanwhile the dhimmi leftists at The Boston Globe;
" As the Boston Globe refuses to publish any of the recent cartoons that have Islamist panties in a wad, I took it upon myself to send the globe editors the following note: 'I find ALL of your editorial cartoons deeply offensive—morally, religiously, philosophically and spiritually. In fact, I don't like your editorials, either. And the editorializing in your news coverage, that is offensive as well. In keeping with your policy to not offend any ethnic or religious group, kindly cease publication at once.' I will let you know when they close shop!" —Dover, Massachusetts
More on the fatal buffoonery:
Denmark must apologize for cartoons: Syria
SYRIA MUST APOLOGIZE FOR MURDER OF PRIME MINISTER HARIRI: ATLAS
Posted by Pamela on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 02:33 PM in Danish Cartoons Jihad: Kill or be Killed, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (1)
Gore: Diary of a Mad House Dhimmi
If mankind is ever to achieve peace, it will only be when people realize that today's peace movement are not advocates for peace.
Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, these movements keep screaming that nuclear weapons have made war too horrible to contemplate, that armed force and violence should be abolished as a means of settling disputes among nations, and that war should be outlawed in the name of humanity. Yet these same peace movements do not oppose dictatorships, the political views of their members range through all shades of the statist spectrum, from "welfare statism" to socialism to communism. This means that these peace movements are opposed to the use of coercion by one nation against another, but not by the government of a nation against its own citizens, it means that they are opposed to the use of force and violence against armed adversaries but not against the disarmed.
--Ayn Rand June 24, 1962
Perfect example of this pathology or as my grandma would say, a real putz-en-tuchas;
Gore Laments U.S. 'Abuses' Against Arabs
[...] U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications. Hat tip: x---dhimmi
To think Gore came within a hairs breath of POTUS and didn't is evidence of a G-d.
photo:RightWingNews
In related news; Gore's intellectual twin,
GEORGE GALLOWAY BOOED AT MUSLIM PROTEST
CONTROVERSIAL MP George Galloway was booed as he attempted to speak at a Muslim rally in London's Trafalgar Square yesterday. As he spoke the peaceful crowd, estimated at about 40,000, yelled "Big Brother fake
That's rich, really rich
Posted by Pamela on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 01:32 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (9)
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Congress's Secret Saddam Tapes and WMD
UPDATED 2/8/06: More Collaboration on Saddam's WMD: A former special investigator for the Pentagon during the Iraq war said he found four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that he is sure contain stocks of chemical and biological weapons. But when he asked American weapons inspectors to check out the sites, he was rebuffed. Story here
"I have no doubts the sites were never exploited by ISG. We agents begged and begged for weeks and months to get ISG to respond to the sites with the proper equipment," Mr. Gaubatz said in a telephone interview.
Mr. Gaubatz's new disclosures shed doubt on the thoroughness of the Iraq Survey Group's search for the weapons of mass destruction that were one of the Bush administration's main reasons for the war. Two chief inspectors from the group, David Kay and Charles Duelfer, concluded that they could not find evidence of the promised stockpiles. Mr. Kay refused to be interviewed for this story and Mr. Duelfer did not return email. The CIA referred these questions to Mr. Duelfer.
The new information from the former investigator could also end up helping the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which recently reopened the question of what happened to the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"Before we can say there is no WMD in Iraq, we must first look. I have no doubts WMD was and is still in Iraq."
I hear there is no smoking gun but a smoking canon
The House Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Mr. Loftus will make the recordings available to the public on February 17 at the annual meeting of the Intelligence Summit, of which he is president. On the organization's Web site, Mr. Loftus is quoted as promising that the recordings "will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important - and controversial - weapons of mass destruction questions." More here and here and here and here.
Ladies and gentlemen, mark your calenders for February 17th.
UPDATE: Tom at BizzyBlog here: The “No WMD” Lie (Yet Again) at Coretta Scott King’s Funeral — And a Challenge
All of the links are there. Anyone person claiming "no WMD" has to discredit them all.
The conduct at the King funeral today was a disgrace. They can't win elections, they can only act like children.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 10:28 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Iraq, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (1)
The Patriot Act
"[I]t is frankly shocking that there is anyone in Washington who would politicize the Patriot Act. It is an insult to those who died to tell the American people that the organization posing the greatest threat to their liberty is not al-Qa'ida but the FBI. Hearing any member of Congress actually crow about 'killing' or 'playing chicken' with this critical legislation is as disturbing today as it would have been when Ground Zero was still smoldering." —Debra Burlingame
[Ms. Burlingame is the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.]
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 09:59 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, One of the Really Good Guys, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, February 06, 2006
FISA: The War on America
Joe Biden" You gotta know how to know."
Nuff said. If you are wondering why I am not liveblogging Chuckie Schumer, Leahy, and the rest of the diabolical clowns interrogating Gonzalez on why we are spying on al qaeda ,it's because it's embarrassing, it's painful, and it's an incredibly evil waste of time and my tax payer money when the world is at war. It is a deliberate distractionary tactic. The World is at War.
It's not even like rubber necking, all you want to do is look away.[shakes head].
For my thoughts on this manufactured ruse go here and here . If you think the left would have pulled this on Bill Clinton, Jimmuh Carter et al, then it is obvious your out patient pass is over and it's back to the asylum for you..........
and I do not buy into Schumer of Shrillary's concern for the security of our nation. More here
The House version of the Iran Freedom Support Act, introduced January 6, 2005, by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican of Florida [yes yes the sane Republican from Florida that just sponsored lefislation to cut Hamas off here] now has 333 cosponsors - almost 77% of the House. The Senate companion bill, introduced February 9, 2005, by Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, has 42 bipartisan co-sponsors, or almost half the Senate.
Neither Senator Clinton nor Senator Schumer, both Democrats of New York, has signed on to the bill. *SPIT* More here
Posted by Pamela on Monday, February 06, 2006 at 12:04 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, February 04, 2006
The Left's War on the American People
Let's say we remove emotion and politics from the discourse (much as I know the left is incapable of such rational thinking), I ask only that you read the following treasonous story void of prejudice and passion.
HUGH HEWITT:
The American Spectator's Jed Babbin was on John Batchelor's radio show yesterday, and stated that the intelligence community believes West Virignia Senator Jay Rockefeller is the leaker who illegally supplied the New York Times with the details of the NSA program.
Given that the CIA's Porter J. Goss stated emphatically that the leak had done very serious damage to the United States, if Rockefeller is a suspect, he should be hauled before a Grand Jury asap. When the crime was bribery (Abscam)no one protested that a sitting U.S. Senator ought not to be a target.
If the crime is much more serious --and this is-- purported good intentions should not shield the suspect.via instapundit
Has any member of the press asked Rockefeller point blank if he's the law breaker yet?
This is an act of treason. The fine and decent Scooter Libby awaits his penal fate for outing a Vanity Fair cover girl (and let's be honest Bob Woodward said everybody knew, everybody on the football team knew where she worked. Look maybe it was PlameFlameBlameDrain driving to CIA hadquarters everyday gave her place of employment.
It is important for America to see the severity, the gravity of these crimes against America. The left may hate Bush, blame Bush, but the Amerian people elected him. So it is the American people the left holds in contempt and wishes to deliver into dhimmitude - dar al islam.
If George Bush is guilty of domestic spying, then so is every President going back to George Washington himself. Presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush have intercepted communications to ascertain enemy threats to national security,
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said Friday the Bush administration's domestic spying is within the president's inherent power under the Constitution, and he rejected criticism that Congress was kept in the dark about it.
The program is "legal, necessary and reasonable," the Kan-sas Republican wrote in a 19-page letter, taking a particularly expansive view of the president's authority for the warrantless surveillance. Here
I, for one, do not believe that it is an accident that America has not suffered a terror attack since 9/11. I thank with all my soul George W.
Pre-911 Mindset: Dems Want To Take Terror Fighting Tools Away From President Bush; Falsely Accuse President Of Breaking Law:
and to think John Rockefeller -- still try to live up to a name he was born with and did nothing to earn --s the Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. That should keep you up at night.
Al Qaeda, not the FBI, is the greater threat to America.
Two of the hijackers of flight 77 were Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi. The two hijackers lived in San Diego and received more than a dozen phone calls from an Al Qaeda "switchboard" in Yemen. The National Security Agency (NSA) had the numbers being called in the U.S. but didn't intercept the calls because of fear the agency would be accused of domestic spying. "The rest is history."
On the Editorial Page BY DEBRA BURLINGAME
By the way, in case you are wondering who Debra Burlingame's source is - it is none other than NBC. It aired a story in 2004 by senior correspondent Lisa Myers, who called the failure to intercept the calls one of the "missed opportunities that could have saved 3,000 lives." Today, NBC and all the networks call the same phone intercepts "domestic spying." So, according to "big media" the Bush Administration failed when it didn't intercept phone calls into the U.S. from known terrorists, and it is violating the Constitution now when it does intercept such calls.
Hat tip:Brigitte Gabriel
Read it all, click below
Continue reading "The Left's War on the American People" »
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, February 04, 2006 at 11:18 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (1)
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Domestic Spying? Do You Really Want the Dhimmicrats Running Things?
Al Qaeda, not the FBI, is the greater threat to America.
Two of the hijackers of flight 77 were Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi. The two hijackers lived in San Diego and received more than a dozen phone calls from an Al Qaeda "switchboard" in Yemen. The National Security Agency (NSA) had the numbers being called in the U.S. but didn't intercept the calls because of fear the agency would be accused of domestic spying. "The rest is history."
On the Editorial Page BY DEBRA BURLINGAME
By the way, in case you are wondering who Debra Burlingame's source is - it is none other than NBC. It aired a story in 2004 by senior correspondent Lisa Myers, who called the failure to intercept the calls one of the "missed opportunities that could have saved 3,000 lives." Today, NBC and all the networks call the same phone intercepts "domestic spying." So, according to "big media" the Bush Administration failed when it didn't intercept phone calls into the U.S. from known terrorists, and it is violating the Constitution now when it does intercept such calls.
Hat tip:Brigitte Gabriel
Read it all, click below
Continue reading "Domestic Spying? Do You Really Want the Dhimmicrats Running Things?" »
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 04:31 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
President Bush's State of the Union
Be there. It should be nothing short of historic.
As readers of my blog know, I have long believed that the Bush Presidency will be defined by how he handled Iran.
Bush got what he wanted yesterday, as a first step.Iran got tied to the whipping post yesterday. The UN's five permanent members agreed that the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, should report Iran to the Security Council, according to the Associated Press.
The Security Council, in the wake of failed attempts by Western powers to get Iran to adhere to U.N. nuclear regulations, could impose sanctions or other strict punishments in March, the AP reported. Lets hope those sanctions go the way of Oil for Food, with Russia and China there is always a chance of serious skulduggery.
When President Bush talks to the Congress this evening about the importance of Iran's transition to democracy, will face some skepticism - fueled by his own State Department which has irked both houses by blocking support to Iran's pro-democracy movement for fear of disrupting now-failed nuclear talks
The House version of the Iran Freedom Support Act, introduced January 6, 2005, by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican of Florida [yes yes the sane Republican from Florida that just sponsored lefislation to cut Hamas off here] now has 333 cosponsors - almost 77% of the House. The Senate companion bill, introduced February 9, 2005, by Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, has 42 bipartisan co-sponsors, or almost half the Senate.
Neither Senator Clinton nor Senator Schumer, both Democrats of New York, has signed on to the bill. *SPIT*
Iranian President: "Westerners too Retarded to Grasp the Depth of the Concept"Read it all here. Now. Please.
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 07:20 AM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, January 30, 2006
Reason has all been but lost, Passion and Prejudice governs the world
Saddam ordered WMD strike on Israel [transferred to Syria]
he former deputy of the Iraqi air force, General Georges Sada, revealed on Saturday that that former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, ordered him during the first Gulf War to bomb Israeli population centers with chemical weapons.
Sada said he convinced Saddam to abort the mission by telling him that the Iraqi pilots could not complete the mission with the equipment at their disposal, and that the Israelis had radar that could detect them before they reached their target.
In his book, which was written four years ago, Sada also claims that Iraq's chemical weapons were taken to Syria aboard civilian Iraqi "Boeing" airplanes just prior to the US invasion.
The 65-year-old Sada said that 56 flights of this type took place, but went largely unnoticed because they were flying under the guise of humanitarian aid.
Prior to the second Iraq war Israel warned that Iraq was moving chemical weapons from its territory into Syria.
Why isn't this splashed across frontpages and TV screens everywhere? Sada is being ignored. You can't tell me a diabolcial agenda is not at work here.
Courage readers courage. All things beautiful has a great post up, read it here
Excellent extensive analysis from Rockets Brain here and Ground State here, read them both.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 12:32 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Israel, the struggle for Good vs Evil, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, Syria, Rotten to Core, Iran's Whore, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Democrats, Out of Touch, Out of Step, Out of Power
Bush Confident Warrantless Wiretaps Legal, btw me too. The New York Times, not the Bush administration, has broken the law protecting our nation's security, violating U.S. Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 37, Section 798, pertaining to the illegal release of national-security information.
The Times' revelation of the NSA surveillance program was, to be sure, an obvious attempt to stymie renewal of the USA Patriot Act in the Senate and to heighten interest in Times reporter James Risen's soon-to-be-released book And the Democrats were all over it like sharks on chum.
"Lemmings have unity -- right over the cliff." -- Rep. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, responding to criticism that his lampooning of Congressional pork-barrel earmarks could hurt Republicans at the polls in 2006 but frankly I think it's the perfect quote for the Democrat's position on everything - Alito, al qaida wiretapping, the war on terror, taxes...............
image: surrealart.com , cliffjumper
UPDATE: Further proof of buffoonery; CNN reported late this afternoon that Sen. John Kerry said he supports a filibuster against Judge Alito. Kerry however was not able to grace the Senate with his presence during today’s hearings, as he is in Switzerland. Just for knowing, Alito's got enough votes for confirmation but what does that matter or that Alito is eminently qualified. Oh, it gets better, "Splash" Kennedy is his partner in crime. You can't make this stuff up.
Read the details of Kerry’s outrageous proposal here
Democrats are stranger than fiction. Another case in point? Pelosi's pre buttal (huh?) here. Sounds like Pelosi needs a proctologist.
How about the Democrats (the party of CAIR) obstructing the renewal of the Patriot act. Here's a clip s howing Sen. Harry Reid bragging “we killed the PATRIOT Act.” here
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 03:47 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Islam: The War on Jihad, White House 2008, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Klown Emmet Kerry on Kos
Blogs for Bush has this insane piece; John Kerry Reports For Duty On Daily Kos
How's this for irony... John Kerry is now blogging at Daily Kos...
...I remember when John Kerry's campaign de-linked Kos over his "screw them" incident. I guess Kerry is getting desperate to appeal to the 41% that despise George W. Bush more than Osama bin Laden.
It's beyond surreal, it's profoundly stupid. Stupid really is as stupid does.
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, January 21, 2006 at 02:47 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, January 19, 2006
WaPo: Payback's a *****
I cannot lie, I loved this story. Notice how they leave out the why..........
Misbehavior forces Post to shut blog comments
The WashingtonPost.com said on Thursday that it had indefinitely shut off the ability for people to post comments on its blog Web site because of objectionable postings.
The company policy was to ban comments that were personal attacks or used profanity or hate speech.
"Because a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we've decided not to allow comments for the time being," Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, wrote in explaining the policy change on the Web site.
"It's a shame that it's come to this," he continued. "Transparency and reasoned debate are crucial parts of the Web culture, and it's a disappointment to us that we have not been able to maintain a civil conversation, especially about issues that people feel strongly (and differently) about."
Yes but why? What drove the leftards to eat their own?
- The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans.
At the center of a congressional bribery investigation, Abramoff gave money to Republicans while he had his clients donate to both parties, though mostly to Republicans.
In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties," prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.
There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.
heh. Poetic Justice......Yakkity Yak, don't talk Jack We center right bloggers can instruct the Washington Post on how to deal with infestations, we deal with it everyday.
UPDATE: from Kokonut pundits;
I love this! File under great blog moments
"Psst! Just when you thought Deborah Howell, Jim Brady, and WaPo who tried to erase all evidence of comments on the WaPo’s Blog as reported by the Drudge Report do you realize that those search engine bots worked faster than they did in trying to blink them out of existence. Not to mention a couple of blog sites that got some of the earlier and later blog comments archived. I found the January 17th and 18th comments, WaPo Lies have the January 15th and 16th comments archived while Democratic Underground has the January 19th archived."
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 09:49 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (2)
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Clueless Nagin Must Go
This man should be fired. I mean, really.
Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that New Orleans would be a "chocolate" city once more and asserted that "God was mad at America."
"I said some things that were totally inappropriate. ... It shouldn't have happened," Nagin said. More here.
I magine if this putz was a Republican. He would have been tarred and feathered after KKKatrina. Imagine if Guiliani was Mayor of New Orleans when that catastrophic hurricane hit. You think it would have gone done the way it did? Rudy would have pulled those refuseniks out of their homes. C'mon.
Why are Democrats given such a pass? It's revolting.
Speaking of Clueless, my favortie Carnival is up here And always check out Basil's Blog
2006 Tarnished Halos: Elect the Best of the Worst!
The Center for Consumer Freedom has announced its 5th Annual Tarnished Halo Awards, in (dis)honor of lunatic activists, litigious lawyers, and loathsome politicians attacking your food choices. This year’s list includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but they’re not done -- they need your help. Visit them at ConsumerFreedom.com and choose the winner of this year’s most Tarnished Halo
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 09:52 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Great Black Leadership, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (1)
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
The Devil Made him do it
How appropriate. The following statements from Democrats on Martin Luther King Day
Why is it when a Republican speaks of Gd, the MSM paints him as a fundamentalist nut job, but when a Democrat invokes the Lord's name he is enlightened? Nagin sounds as idiotic as Robertson.
Just sayin.......
Hillary screams PLANTATION in a crowded theater Senator Likens House of represenatives to Slavery
Martin Luther King Jr. fought four decades ago to free black Americans from the legacy of slavery. Yesterday, Senator Clinton compared the Republican leadership of the current House of Representatives to the very idea the civil rights leader dedicated his life to fighting.
"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run - it has been run like a plantation," she said. "You know what I'm talking about."
wink wink
Shrillary also remarks "never have so many, done so much, for so few" VIDEO HERE a twisted sister take on Churchill's "never have so many, owed so much, to so few"
Does she mean this?
The Federal Reserve recently released data showing that the cumulative net worth of American households is the highest in US history. Since the 2003 tax cut (which included cuts in the income , dividend, and capital-gains rates) net worth has increased 16%. It is roughly 27% higher that it was in 1998, in the middle of the bubble.
Need a good d-i-v-o-r-c-e- lawywer? Bill Clinton Eligible, Once Again, To Practice Law
Oh yeah and not to be out done, the ground hog stepped out early. Powerlessness Corrupts
Al Gore used a Martin Luther King Day speech as an opportunity to rail against President Bush and particularly his authorization of National Security Agency wiretaps of suspected terrorists’ international calls and and calling the war in Iraq a “colossal mistake.”
The problem is, since this is a top secret government program, outside pundits like Vice President Gore (or, for that matter, policy experts at The Heritage Foundation) are in no position to pass informed judgment on the NSA wiretapping program, as James Carafano, Todd Gaziano and Alane Kochems explained last month. Hat tip: My Heritage Photo toon tip: Fish man
This Is Why We Don't Trust Democrats With National Security
From Ben, Liberal Hawk ;
The New York Times has done it again.
I’m content to let others rail about the massive editorial bias of the paper, I will continue to take aim at the obvious disconnect from reality presented at the most basic levels.
They don’t have a freakin clue, do they?
Front page today- the NY Times complains that the NSA surveillance operations loads the FBI up with leads, and only a few produce actual terrorists. Forehead slap. Dudes, that’s the idea! You sift through mounds and mounds of data, follow up, investigate, investigate, investigate, and you find the needles in the haystacks! The Times is complaining because it’s actually working like that? What were they expecting, that the NSA would listen to 100,000 sources and 90,000 of them would be terrorists? (This begs the question- does the Times have THAT bad of an opinion of the Moslem population in the US?)
Apparently the NY Times has no one versed in this stuff. They seem to think intelligence work is a kind of magic. Blame it on Hollywood, I guess. Remember Mission Impossible, when Peter Graves started each week with a huge mass of information on the bad guys, and they would know every detail of the villain’s psyche and where the air ducts went? No one ever wondered, how do they get that kind of information? The writers always assumed it was magic, "we just know that kind of stuff".
Here’s the deal: for the Impossible Missions Force to get that one gem of information “Good morning Jim! Top international arms smuggler Azdullah Zatreestump will be arriving at LAX in exactly 48 hours to pick up a wad of cash”, the NSA had to listen to half a million conversations and patiently pick out the right ones. In general, the hard left AND the hard right both have the magical view of the CIA and NSA (always getting them confused), giving them credit for the most incredible conspiracies while doubting their every day work. The same mindset beleives in orbital mind control lasers on the one hand, and the ability to gain real information without slogging through the morass of dull valueless stuff.
Remember the Hollywood cliche where the character turns on the radio or TV and hears exactly and only the pertinent news? The Times thinks the NSA works that way. They'll get some tip on a dark and foggy street corner, listen to ONE phone call, and that will lead them to the terrorists, right? The article never says the information led to NO terrorists, just “few” terrorists. Is the NY Times depressed that so few in America have answered the call to Jihad? Would they like to see more? One thing is certain, in this nation, NO terrorist attacks have succeeded since 2001. Why not describe surveillance as one of the methods that have brought us that very happy outcome? The Times/ACLU vision of intelligence work is strangely circular: Surveillance is okay, provided its limited to absolutely known bad guys. Finding those bad guys in the first place cannot be done with surveillance; that must be done with magic. It’s sort of like limiting medical tests to conditions that you know already exist.
One wonders- would the New York Times come out against breast and prostrate exams because in almost all exams no cancer is found?
One also wonders- would they be opposed if the NSA said the purpose of the surveillance was not to catch terrorists, but to uncover instances of Hate Speech?
Ben
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 at 12:24 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (1)
Monday, January 16, 2006
Dr. King had a Dream
Martin King asked that his children "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Yet Jesse Jackson (one of King's lieutenants during those tumultuous '60s civil rights protests), Cynthia McKinney, Louis Farrakhan, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Harold Ford, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee and most other black political and social leaders today, advocate for government programs and policies that judge by skin color alone, regardless of character. The Democrat Party has, in effect, inculcated many black folks with the notion that they can't make it on their own, that they must rely on Democrats for their welfare—relegating these constituents to a different kind of "plantation," but enslavement just the same. The African American community has never recovered from the loss of Dr. King. More over at The Patriot
UPDATE: The ACLU put out a full page ad today using the legacy of MLK to further their anti-Bush campaign over NSA. They took the history of how MLK was illegally wiretapped, and compared it to what Bush did with NSA. The ad is very disrespectful, and I found the wording interesting, how they automatically called the terror suspects under NSA surveillance innocent Americans, and assume Bush automatically guilty. We all know Martin Luther King was against violence as a means of achieving political goals. Opposite that of the terrorist the ACLU defend, and compare him too in this ad. More here at Stop the ACLU
Posted by Pamela on Monday, January 16, 2006 at 12:01 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Great Black Leadership, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, January 14, 2006
War against America: KELO & Wal-Mart
The War against Surburbia
Suburbia, the preferred way of life across the advanced capitalist world, is under an unprecedented attack -- one that seeks to replace single-family residences and shopping centers with an "anti-sprawl" model beloved of planners and environmental activists. The latest battleground is Los Angeles, which gave birth to the suburban metropolis. Many in the political, planning and media elites are itching to use the regulatory process to turn L.A. from a sprawling collection of low-rise communities into a dense, multistory metropolis on the order of New York or Chicago. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has outlined this vision, and it does not conform to the way that most Angelenos prefer to live: "This old concept that all of us are going to live in a three-bedroom home, you know this 2,500 square feet, with a big frontyard and a big backyard -- well, that's an old concept."
Land seize for animal shelter to go to donor developer here.
A year after Los Angeles seized three acres from a private company to construct a public building, a city councilman wants to sell the land to another private firm for a commercial development. Hat tip Daryl S
City attorney Rocky Delgadillo, whose office must provide legal justification for the change in the project, has received $13,600 in contributions from two Cisco Bros. executives in the last five years, including a $5,600 check in June to his campaign for state attorney general.
Wake up America!
The War against Business
AMERICAN BUSINESS has few whipping boys so irresistibly whippable as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., whose treatment of employees, competitors and suppliers conjures cold-eyed corporate heartlessness. But state lawmakers in Maryland are preparing to impose legislation on the retailer so arbitrary that it may achieve the near-impossible feat of casting Wal-Mart as the victim.
This is very bad for business. And if it's bad for business, it's bad for you and me. That's a fact. Business creates jobs, creates wealth, creates is the operative word.
Legislators, OTOH, create nothing. Legislators steal. These social parasites tax, spend and punish those who contribute the most to society. Most of them have have rarely worked an honest day in their "collective" lives.
The Maryland bill is a legislative mugging masquerading as an act of benevolent social engineering.
Other thoughts here and Below the Beltway blog does a great job here and here. I liked Bruce's take as well over at The Democracy Project.
Legislators want to do something meaningful about healthcare. How about tacklng the thorny issue of illegal aliens exploiting healthcare systems to fiscal death and having family members come in on "tourist visas" to have major surgeries costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. And while your at it, have a chat with all those hospitals on the TexMex border..........they'll open up your eyes.
My position on Wal-mart is here. Walmart's position? Sober and rational,
These bills will do nothing to address the enormous number of uninsured or control the soaring cost of health care in America. 1.3 million Americans work at Wal-Mart. According to one study, 86% of Wal-Mart associates are insured through the company, a spouse’s plan or Medicare. There are 46 million uninsured Americans.
Wal-Mart is deeply committed to finding solutions to the health care challenges facing our associates, our communities, and our company. Every associate, full and part-time, can become eligible for plans that cost less than $25 per month for individuals, $37 per month for a single parent and child, and $65 per month for a family. None of our health plans come with a lifetime maximum – protecting associates and their families from catastrophic costs.
We need guys like these running the country..........
Wall Street Journal poll here;
Is Wal-Mart's presence mostly good or mostly bad for a community?
Mostly good 2131 votes (51%)
Equally good and bad 814 votes (20%)
Mostly bad 1214 votes (29%)
The Wal-mart movement is a political fraud.
In a fully free economy, all development is controlled by individuals. That is my ideal.
The anti Wal-mart movements are dangerous. Big union backed, they represent the tendency to move toward dictatorship policy and collectivism, and away from freedom.
Their weapon of choice is guilt. Guilt is used by the establishment as a means of social control. Guilt is isolated as a tool that keeps individuals tied to the parasitic elements of the community. Well I aint having none of it, thank you very much.
It is interesting to note that—contrary to the popular misconception—the great sin of the Sodomites was not sexual perversion but collectivism. According to the Talmudic account, Sodom's egalitarian government institutionalized envy, even forbidding private charity because some recipients might get more than others. The judicial system was perverted into an instrument for expropriating the wealthy and successful. The ultimate crime for which the Sodomites were destroyed was placing envy and equality above benevolence and justice.
UPDATE January 16: HillaryCare Returns in the Wall Street Journal here, read it all:
Unions and Democrats argue that companies must be commanded to do this because employees without health insurance often turn up on Medicaid, which is busting state budgets. But rather than reform Medicaid to control its costs or stop its rampant fraud, the politicians find it easier to sock it to private business. One result will be that companies will create fewer new jobs, as in Old Europe.
As for Wal-Mart, it is hardly an ogre as an employer for 1.3 million Americans. It now offers an array of health plans to all full and part-time employees with monthly premiums as low as $23 for an individual and $65 for a family anywhere in the country (less in some areas). Employees can also choose to set up health savings accounts with Wal-Mart matching contributions up to $1,000
Wal-Mart hasn't said how it will respond to the new Maryland law, but we'd suggest at a minimum that it cancel its plans for a new regional distribution center in the state that would create about 800 jobs. Maryland's politicians need to understand that policies punishing business have bad economic consequences. Let a more enlightened state benefit from Wal-Mart's prosperity.
I second that.
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 06:22 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, How the Left Destroys the Nation | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
"It's Not About the Truth"
Dr. Nancy's Two Cents
What do I think about Roy Blunt?
I'm sure Blunt's fine. He's a probusiness ideological conservative, was chief deputy whip under Delay, and he's been acting in this role for a while. Best of all, he's a velvet glove Republican like Cheney as opposed to a lightening rod. Besides, there are some downright luminaries on his current list of congressional supporters. He'd be my pick over Boener.
As they said in No Way Out, "Where else do we (does he) have to go?"
Excuse me, but I'm heartbroken over the exit of one of the finest congressman I've ever seen. And in each glowing endorsement of Blunt, this fine man's name is nowhere mentioned like it's poison now. They've managed to erase Delay's power, integrity, and legacy all in one fell swoop although the latter two are still there. They're just covered up. I'm not sure which bothers me more...his personal hardship, the loss to the party, the loss to the nation, or the sickening victory of the bastards who sought to bring him down. They misused the prosecutorial process and our code of ethics. It wasn't even personal. It was just an attempt to cripple Republican power by finding a way to remove the successful majority leader. It's sort of a no-win situation. They change the campaign finance laws, force elected officials to go beyond creative, and then balk over their new activities. They can now say he was dirty, they'll say Blunt is too, and anyone Republican who comes to power after that as well. It's about hurting the right and regaining their power using the willing media. It's not about the truth.
Atlas weighs in: The objective was achieved. The fix was in (click here).
What was it again? Innocent until proven guilty of trumped up charges or that's just for dems?
BRING ON BARRETT'S FULL REPORT!
HILLARY CUTS DEAL, PLEAS DOWN CHARGES!
Hillary Caught with Abramoff Cash
National Democrat Party Affiliated Committees Received Over $1.2 Million from Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, Accessed December 7, 2005;
Political Money Line Website, , Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, www.irs.gov, Accessed April 21, 2005)
The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Received Over –
$430,000
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Received Over –
$629,000
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) Received Over – $177,000
Incumbent Senate Democrat-Affiliated Campaign And Leadership Committees Received Over $729,000 From Indian Tribe Clients And Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff*. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, , Accessed December 7, 2005; Political Money Line Website, ,
Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, , Accessed April 21, 2005)
40 Of The 45 Members Of The Senate Democrat Caucus:
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least – $22,500
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least – $6,500
Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least – $1,250
Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least – $20,250
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least – $21,765
Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least – $12,950
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least – $8,000
Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least – $14,792
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least – $79,300
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least – $14,000
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least – $1,250
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least – $45,750
Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least – $9,000
Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least – $14,250
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least – $3,300
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least – $98,550
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least – $28,000
Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least – $4,000
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,000
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least – $29,830
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least – $14,891
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least – $10,550
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least – $78,991
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least – $20,168
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least – $5,200
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least – $2,300
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least – $3,500
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941
Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least – $4,000
Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least – $4,500
Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least – $4,300
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least – $29,550
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,250
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least – $6,250
"It's very odd that Democrats at the national and state levels have sought to exploit the Abramoff matter for political gain, while in the process throwing countless congressional Democrats under the bus,' said Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)." (Charles Hurt, "Dorgan Returns Abramoff Money," The Washington Times, December 14, 2005)
An NRSC Report Shows That Nearly 90 Percent Of Senate "Democrats Have Taken Abramoff-Related Money." "The NRSC has begun circulating among fellow Republicans new reports showing that all but five of the chamber's 44 Democrats have taken Abramoff-related money. In addition, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have taken more than $1.2 million, according to records provided to The Washington Times." (Charles Hurt, "Dorgan Returns Abramoff Money," The Washington Times, December 14, 2005)
hat tip cirque004
Wall Street Journal - May 10, 2005
In Washington, Watchdogs Bear Watching
One of DeLay's Severest Critics Isn't As Nonpartisan as It Purports to Be
May 10, 2005; Page A4
WASHINGTON -- Amid the many attacks on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, some of the loudest come from an organization called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics [CREW] in Washington. To the average listener, that sounds like a nonpartisan group interested only in good government.
But it isn't that simple.
The "Citizens" behind the group have strong partisan ties. Board members of the group, including former Clinton White House pollster Mark Penn, have contributed $340,000 to Democratic causes in the past four years and $6,000 to Republicans. Melanie Sloan, executive director of the group, is a former aide to Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics received $10,000 from entertainer Barbra Streisand and $50,000 from a charitable organization run by Democratic fund-raiser Smith Bagley.
Yo yo yo, read it all...and keep it in mind when you hear the group's name CREW cited in MSM ATTACK pieces like this;
Ethically Challenged Reps. Blunt and Cantor Not Fit For Leadership; CREW Questions House Commitment to Eradicating Corruption
1/12/2006 10:31:00 AM
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With calls for ethics and lobbying reform finally sweeping Capitol Hill, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) urged the Republican Caucus to reject unethical candidates for leadership posts. Specifically, CREW asks the Caucus to reject acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who is vying to keep his position, and Rep. Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.), the current Chief Deputy Majority Whip, who is running for Majority Whip.
Technorati Tags: Abranmoff, democrats, politics, blog, news, lobbyist, media
Continue reading ""It's Not About the Truth"" »
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at 12:54 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Send in the Clowns: Alito SCOTUS Carnival Deux
Watching these hearings is painful. Wincing this hard will leave nasty crow's feet.
I do not agree with the pundits. I don't see it their way. My take on Alito bringing up the priviledged snot nosed "radicals" on the college campuses during his years at Princeton is a contemptuous swipe at Kennedy and his ilk.
You gotta love Alito bringing up the ROTC bringing thrown off the Princeton campus during his tenure and how sick this made him. For all the those sixties loving radicals, Alito is the quintessential counter counter-culturist, eh?
"Splash" Kennedy's hostility, IMHO, is a direct result of the absolute fact that if Alito had been the judge in the Mary Jo Kopechne incident, "Splash" would have served serious time, for murder. He'd never be in a position to undermine the tenets of this great country on a daily basis, that's for sure. Splash can't shine Alito's "special" shoes or clean his pool for that matter.
These proceedings are good for one thing, America needs this flashlight. D.C. is too far away from most Americans to smell the gangrene, but here they can see it, up close.
Speaking of Carnivals.............another Carnival of the Clueless is playing here
up now (btw, look how the press kissed his *** after Mary Jo's murder - he was hurt?)
Joe Biden took over eleven minutes to ask his first question. The left is out of its league. Alito is the real deal.
Here is a poll from the notoriously lefty AOL:
Do you think Samuel Alito will be confirmed to the Supreme Court?
Yes 83%
No 17%
What's your opinion of the Alito nomination?
He's a great choice 51%
I oppose him 35%
I'm on the fence 14%
Total Votes: 44,195
Best description of the hearings so far (on FOX);
"Alito is a work horse, not the show horse that Roberts was but he is doing a great job".
Yup, that just about sums it up. Roberts is an impossible act to follow. I mean really. He is the closet thing to "divine" you are going to find on Gd's green earth. That Alito could follow him and do so able a job speaks volumes to his intelligence, his reason, and his character.
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 10:58 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Krytocracy, One of the Really Good Guys, SCOTUS, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, January 09, 2006
SCOTUS Alito Hearings: The Liberal Goatherd
What is it about the elections that the left does not understand. THEY LOST! STFU!
Click above for movie . Turn on FOX. Alito hearings with Brit Hume and Fred Barnes (heartthrobs all)
UPDATE: So far nothing has changed Arlen Specter is still a putz.... NEXT Leahy, oy.
UPDATEe: Nothing's changed, Leahy is still a blowhard. Hatch is eloquent. "Splash" Kennedy is up to bat......Need I say more? Another round!
Update: Sorry guys had to run out. Schmucker Schumer is up now. As the Washington Post reported: 'Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and People for the American Way "rushed out statements blasting the nomination even before Bush announced it."' '
Watching him one must wince. He is so smug as to appear silly. Silly, smug and foolish. Who is going to tell him about 9/11, islamokazes, and that a nuclear free day is good day?
Yes, Chuckie, tell me all about Sandra's "special shoes".
Posted by Pamela on Monday, January 09, 2006 at 11:59 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, SCOTUS | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, January 07, 2006
I have seen the Enemy, They is US!
ZAWAHRI VIDEO
We know we can't beat you on the battlefield, but we can beat you on the streets of New York Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. -- North Vietnamese camp commander, Son Tay POW camp to Commander Paul Galanti, U.S. Navy, American POW.
Zawahri says US defeated in Iraq
If you give a listen to Zawahri latest video piece of propaganda it is instantly interchangable with the position of the American left. There is no difference in his position and that voiced by Dean, Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy et al
Think about that.
Go over to Malkin for more of this:
Sgt. Mark Seavey was outnumbered, but not alone at the moonbat townhall hosted by Reps. Jim Moran and John Murtha last week. Near the end of the marathon session, a Vietnam veteran, General Wagner, stepped up to the microphone to deliver a message from the mother of an Iraqi war vet who gave his life for his country and for the mission. After reading a scathing letter addressed to Murtha, Wagner talked about his own experience in Vietnam:
General Wagner speaks the truth
Download the video (.wmv file).
A snippet of Wagner's remarks:
I visit Walter Reed [Army Hospital] and talk to the young soldiers with their legs blown off. I know you do, too. I can't find one in a dozen that don't believe that they are fighting for a noble cause and are fighting to go back. And I think it's a disgrace when members of our Congress --just as they did in 1975 when they sold out the south Vietnamese--are selling out our soldiers today in Iraq! Hat tip: Bizzy Blog
Over at Conderate Yankee, "Thick-Headedness Does Not Count As Armor":
By design, this NY Times article shows an inaccurate picture of the Interceptor body armor system provided to the Marines, based upon a false premise. This study only looked at fatalities of those Marines killed by upper body wounds while wearing vests. It excluded all instances where Interceptor vests worked as designed and the Marine under fire survived.
This is akin to judging automobile safety by looking at only wrecks resulting in fatalities, as oppose to those wrecks where fatalities were prevented by good automotive safety design.
I am not amused. Are you?
Sent this guy down to Times Sqaure............
Technorati Tags: fifth column, war on terror, weblogmedia politics, mainstream media
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, January 07, 2006 at 01:40 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, January 06, 2006
Bush Seeking Advice?
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
I got it. The whole reaching out thing. The whole reaching across the aisle thing, but I mean really.
After one of the most extraordinary gatherings of current and former powerbrokers to have sat around the White House Cabinet table in recent times, Mr Bush said that he took to heart a range of views from figures who collectively have served every US president since John F. Kennedy. [yeah extraordinary]
As part of a vigorous public relations offensive on Iraq, Mr Bush spent more than an hour with former defence secretaries including Robert McNamara, the Vietnam-era Pentagon chief under presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; Harold Brown, who oversaw the disastrous Iranian hostage rescue attempt under Jimmy Carter; and William Perry, Bill Clinton's defence secretary, who advised Democrat John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election campaign. [oy -seriously damaged and dangeous goods here]
Others briefed by Mr Bush and General George Casey - the US commander in Iraq - included Madeleine Albright, Lawrence Eagleburger.........
Let us pray this was merely a dog and pony show. A single face for the world............anything but what it appears to be.
Technorati Tags: fifth column, war on terror, weblog, media, politics , mainstream media
Technorati: multiculturalism, assimilation, barbarians, savages, moonbats, liberals, leftists
Posted by Pamela on Friday, January 06, 2006 at 11:00 AM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Iraq, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (1)
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Yakity yak Don't Talk Jack
HILLARY!! BRING ON BARRETT'S FULL REPORT!
HILLARY CUTS DEAL, PLEAS DOWN CHARGES!
Hillary Caught with Abramoff Cash
DEMOCRATS DON'T KNOW JACK?
National Democrat Party Affiliated Committees Received Over $1.2 Million from Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, Accessed December 7, 2005;
Political Money Line Website, , Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, www.irs.gov, Accessed April 21, 2005)
The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Received Over –
$430,000
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Received Over –
$629,000
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) Received Over – $177,000
Incumbent Senate Democrat-Affiliated Campaign And Leadership Committees Received Over $729,000 From Indian Tribe Clients And Lobbying Associates Of Jack Abramoff*. (Campaign Finance Analysis Project Website, , Accessed December 7, 2005; Political Money Line Website, ,
Accessed December 7, 2005; Internal Revenue Service Website, , Accessed April 21, 2005)
40 Of The 45 Members Of The Senate Democrat Caucus:
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least – $22,500
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least – $6,500
Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least – $1,250
Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least – $20,250
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least – $21,765
Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least – $12,950
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least – $8,000
Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least – $14,792
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least – $79,300
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least – $14,000
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least – $1,250
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least – $45,750
Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least – $9,000
Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least – $14,250
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least – $3,300
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least – $98,550
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least – $28,000
Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least – $4,000
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,000
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least – $29,830
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least – $14,891
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least – $10,550
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least – $78,991
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least – $20,168
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least – $5,200
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least – $2,300
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least – $3,500
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941
Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least – $4,000
Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least – $4,500
Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least – $4,300
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least – $29,550
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,250
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least – $6,250
"It's very odd that Democrats at the national and state levels have sought to exploit the Abramoff matter for political gain, while in the process throwing countless congressional Democrats under the bus,' said Brian Nick, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC)." (Charles Hurt, "Dorgan Returns Abramoff Money," The Washington Times, December 14, 2005)
An NRSC Report Shows That Nearly 90 Percent Of Senate "Democrats Have Taken Abramoff-Related Money." "The NRSC has begun circulating among fellow Republicans new reports showing that all but five of the chamber's 44 Democrats have taken Abramoff-related money. In addition, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have taken more than $1.2 million, according to records provided to The Washington Times." (Charles Hurt, "Dorgan Returns Abramoff Money," The Washington Times, December 14, 2005)
hat tip cirque004
Technorati Tags: Abranmoff, democrats, politics, blog, news, lobbyist, media
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, January 05, 2006 at 01:25 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Wal-Mart: Under Attack from the Left, Bank on it!
SHOCKA! Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts and a gang of other Capitol Hill liberals have cast a negative eye toward Wal-Mart's entry into banking. If they decide to regulate Wal-Mart out of the industry, the end result will be higher banking service costs for the poor constituents they claim to represent.
Once again, limousine liberals are keeping the poor down lest they lose their constituency. My previous pieces on Wal-Mart here and here , the Wal-mart movement is a political fraud.
Great article over at the WSJ here (subscription necessary)
If the bankers succeed in this protectionist gambit, the biggest loser won't be Wal-Mart, but rather consumers, particularly those in lower-income neighborhoods where competition in retail banking is traditionally scarce. Wal-Mart banking services in these areas might even solve the longstanding problems of red-lining and discriminatory lending practices. Wal-Mart already performs many bank-like functions that are especially popular in poor areas -- including wire transfers, money orders, paycheck cashing, and express bill payment services.
The protest is all the more curious since Wal-Mart's immediate banking ambitions are quite modest. To head off the mounting opposition from the bankers, Wal-Mart insists that in the short term it merely wants to create an in-house banking affiliate so it can lower costs on credit card transactions at its stores. Traditionally, banks charge an interchange fee of roughly 2% on the cost of the retail credit/debit card transaction. Wal-Mart has determined that if it owns its own bank it can cut the transaction fee in half, and pass the cost-savings on to its customers who pay with Visa or MasterCard.
But why shouldn't Wal-Mart be permitted to engage in a whole range of banking services down the line, if it wishes to? That's the meaty policy issue at stake here: whether the traditional firewall between banks and commercial enterprises (i.e., the commercial lenders and the borrowers) should be officially torn down. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 effectively abandoned this traditional separation between commerce and banking when it allowed securities and insurance firms to engage in most banking activities. This has all been part of a 25-year-long deregulation of banking that has led to huge increases in efficiency in American financial markets as well as vastly improved consumer services. (Remember the quaint notion of "banker's hours?")
Studies have found, for example, that in neighborhoods where Wal-Mart has entered the grocery business, its prices range from 8% to 27% below those charged at the incumbent grocery chains. Moreover, if there were a repeat of the kind of bank failures we witnessed in the late 1980s, financially sturdy Wal-Mart would be far less susceptible to the risk of closure (and FDIC deposit insurance payments to depositors) than small and less capitalized community banks.
I make no secret of my support and position on Wal-mart. I own no stock in Wal-mart, do not shop at Wal-mart - as the city council stopped the proposed Wal-mart store in the NYC area and so I have no private agenda, only that as an American wishing to preserve the Declaration of Independence, the greatest document in human history.
"We need not give in to the barbarians, but they are certainly waiting anxiously" Ayn Rand.
I expect the banking industry to be unhappy with the idea of a stealth competitor entering the arena but hey that's too bad.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will soon have to make a big decision: we can only hope that non-partisan free market heads will prevail.
UPDATE: More Commentary: Michael Barone of U.S. News and World Report argues that Wal-Mart succeeds where General Motors has failed: it continually adapts to the shifting demands of the marketplace and in doing so benefits its customers and employees alike.
UPDATE January 5th MORE WAL-MART BASHING:
What is it with union leaders? Their duplicity never ceases to astound, eh?
An yet last summer, as millions of teachers saved money on their back-to-school supplies by shopping at Wal-Mart, the NEA called for a boycott.Today, Working Families for Wal-Mart released a poll that shows that even as union leaders continue their anti-Wal-Mart campaign, 96% of union households shop at Wal-Mart and 63 percent of union households think Wal-Mart is good for consumers. Poll here: .
Some more highlights:
A majority of union households (54 percent) say that unions should make protecting jobs at places like GM a higher priority than attacking Wal-Mart.
Overall, 71 percent of Americans believe Wal-Mart is good for consumers and 60 percent of Americans say the campaign against Wal-Mart is not a good use of union dues.
These lefties made me sick and do everything in their power to hurt the American working class and that my dear is a fact.
Technorati Tags: economy, business, politics, blog, news, weblog, Wal-Mart
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 at 02:05 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad, Wal-Mart: Warfare on Big Business | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
What if?
To all my counterparts on the left, I have only one question.
WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG?
If you are wrong, imagine the repercussions. A return to the dark ages.
If I am wrong, a country long oppressed was liberated, freedom revolutions were sparked worldwide, terrorists and islamokazes were targeted and taken out, the American people were spared a terror attack post 9/11.
What if you are wrong? Everything points to the obvious and the left points to the opposite.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 at 12:00 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
CNN vs. The Truth: Jack Abramoff
Received this in my email CNN BREAKING NEWS
-- Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close associate of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to plead guilty to corruption, other charges, source tells CNN.
Hmmmmmmmm.......zat so? What about
Harry Reid Caught in Abrahamoff Scandal
Prosecutors probing Congress members who received favors from him
Sprint defends Ney in Foxcom controversy
just askin....................no media bias eh?
UPDATE: Just for knowing; the dems have been given their talking point of the day/week
you'll be hearing the word GREEDY over and over and over , but they are walking on thin ice here.
Lobbyist's plea sets off scramble, I'll bet there is plenty of sweating going on on both sides of the aisle. This is systemic
UPDATE January 5th: Abramoff in Perspective: Countertops, Union Dues and the Ghost of Walter Duranty
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 at 05:47 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Feminist at the Gates of Reason
An interview with Phyllis Chelser:
The failure of progressives and leftists, including feminists, to mute their hatred and scapegoating of both America and Israel, post the 2000 Intifada that Arafat launched against the Jewish state and post 9/11, compelled me to both acknowledge this failure and to try to understand it. Secular progressives have accused conservatives of being dangerously intolerant. I have found that intolerance, conformity, and totalitarian group-think are also alive and well among progressive journalists, activists, and professors–most of whom have been thoroughly Palestinianized. The courage of independent thinking is crucial, as is intellectual diversity, no matter the ideology. My previous work about anti-Semitism, (The New Anti-Semitism), brought me into the conservative world, where I have found that many conservatives do honor independent thinking and are intellectually profoundly diverse as well. This does not mean that we agree on all issues; not at all. But why should we? Of course, some conservatives are also rigid Party Line thinkers. The tendency towards intolerance and conformity exists everywhere, alas.
Technorati Tags: radical islam, Phyllis Chesler, war on terror, feminism,
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 at 12:16 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Islam: The War on Jihad, Women | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, January 02, 2006
THOMAS SOWELL: Serious or Suicidal
Much the way a kid awaits a promised trip to the candy store, or the fashionista awaits the W fall fashion issue, I wait for Sowell's columns.
You must read it all here now:
Serious or suicidal? Thomas Sowell
When you are boating on the Niagara River, there are signs marking the point at which you must go ashore or else you will be sucked over the falls. With Iran moving toward the development of nuclear weapons, we are getting dangerously close to that fatal point of no return on the world stage.
Yet there are few signs of alarm in our public discourse, whether among politicians, the media, or the intelligentsia. There is much more discussion of whether government anti-terrorism agents should be able to look at the records of books borrowed from public libraries.
The Iranian government itself is giving us the clearest evidence of what a nuclear Iran would mean, with its fanatical hate-filled declarations about wanting to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. But send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
Just last year, before the American election, Osama bin Laden warned that those places that voted for the re-election of the President would become targets of terrorist retribution.
[......]
People insulated from dangers for generations can indulge themselves in the illusion that there are no dangers -- as much of Western Europe has. This is part of the "world opinion" that makes us hesitant to take any decisive action to prevent a nightmare scenario of nuclear weapons in the hands of hate-filled fanatics.
Do not look for Europe to support any decisive action against Iran. But look for much of their intelligentsia, and much of our own intelligentsia as well, to be alert for any opportunity to wax morally superior if we do act.
They will be able to think of all sorts of nicer alternatives to taking out Iran's nuclear development sites. They will be able to come up with all sorts of abstract arguments and moral equivalence, such as: Other countries have nuclear weapons. Why not Iran?
Debating abstract questions is much easier than confronting concrete and often brutal alternatives. The big question is whether we are serious or suicidal.
View All Articles by Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is, for me, one of the great thinkers of our time. If you are unfamiliar with his work, please make it your New Year's resolution to read his work. READ SOWELL.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, January 02, 2006 at 01:31 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Islam: The War on Jihad, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (3)
Daschle: Fifth Column Hall of Shame
Isn't the fact that we voted this traitor out of office enough to shut him the f*ck up? Apparently not. Dasche's words aid Padilla:
The former senator, Thomas Daschle, said last week that days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as Congress prepared to pass a resolution granting Mr. Bush permission to use "all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations or persons" involved in the strikes, the White House asked to add a reference extending the president's use-of-force authority "in the United States." Mr. Daschle said he and Senator Lott of Mississippi, who was then the minority leader, turned down the White House's request. The measure passed by Congress and signed by Mr. Bush does not contain the reference he is said to have sought.
Mr. Daschle, who disclosed the episode in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, said he was prompted to do so by the recent controversy over surveillance by the National Security Agency of overseas phone calls by Americans and by White House claims that the use-of-force resolution authorized such spying.
"Both the attorney general and president cited this resolution as authority to spy on U.S. citizens," Mr. Daschle said yesterday in an interview with The New York Sun. "I thought, 'how ironic.' We were specifically asked to provide it to them and didn't."
Whatever its impact on the domestic surveillance controversy, the ex-senator's description of the previously unknown rebuff of the White House immediately caught the attention of lawyers working for the release of alleged Al Qaeda prisoners detained by the American military in this country, but outside the traditional criminal justice system.
"I actually was sitting in my office when it came out in the Post, and somebody called and said, 'You've got to see this,'" a Manhattan attorney, Andrew Patel, said. Mr. Patel is a member of the legal team representing Jose Padilla, an American who was arrested at a Chicago airport in 2002 and later confined to a military brig in South Carolina after Mr. Bush designated him as an enemy combatant.
You remember José Padilla (also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir), he flew to the United States on an al Qaeda scouting mission to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" -- a conventional bomb laced with radioactive material, in the United States.
Thanks Tom and the rest of the leftards and LLL media killing themselves to get this guy released.
"by their deeds ye shall know them, and so we know them eh?"
Technorati Tags: fifth column, war on terror, padillaspying traitor, mainstream media
Posted by Pamela on Monday, January 02, 2006 at 08:34 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Germany Won't Ban Iran from World Cup
Iran develops uranium separation technology -Iran has developed technology to separate uranium from its ore, reinforcing the Islamic republic's self-sufficiency in the nuclear fuel cycle.
German chancellor Angel Merkel rejects Iran ban from the World Cup despite the controversial remarks by the country's president to wipe Israel off the map and develop nuclear weapons.
These are our partners in disarming Nuclear Iran? Can you se the mullahs laughing out of their asses?
They won't ban Iran from playing ball? This is too severe a punishment? These are the simpletons we have to work with to solve the impending nuclear holocaust?
This is no longer funny, we must hold the American left's feet to the fire. America has been offered a choice between war and shame. I'll be damned if she chooses shame as it will only get us war - and the worst kind.
This should be the national dialog, not whether or not we should have listened to al quaida's intercontinental phone conversations. *SPIT*
Iran announces greater nuclear self-sufficiency
The Daily Star Lebannon
Iran has developed technology to separate uranium from its ore, reinforcing the Islamic republic's self-sufficiency in the nuclear fuel cycle, state television reported Sunday. The technology, known as a mixer-settler, is used to separate the uranium from the mined ore to produce concentrated uranium oxide - also known as yellowcake - which can then be converted and enriched in nuclear fuel work.
Iran-Human Rights-President
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the Iranian government is ready to host a conference on 'human rights' between the Islamic and European thinkers.
Asked about dialogue on human rights between Iran and the European Union, he said that Iran is ready to organize a conference on 'human rights' between thinkers from Muslim nations and European states in presence of Western media networks to be broadcast without censorship. [You think they'll bring their axes?]
The president said that human rights is a sacred value which should not be abused for propaganda campaign or political objectives. [but wiping the Jewish people off the face of the map, thats ok right? Atlas]
He said that Iran seeks dialogue on human rights not only with certain states which are misusing the topic for propaganda purposes [hmmmmmmmm, who could that be? How interesting! Ahmadinejad arguing and beating himself up - one for the books - Atlas]
Will President Ahmadmaniac address these abuses?
Ebadi protests rights violations in Iran
Khaleej Times
TEHERAN — The rights group of Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi yesterday protested at “numerous” human rights violations in Iran, including arbitrary arrests and the detention of activists and journalists.
or Ardeshir Dolat reporting that a young Iranian girl has been sentenced to death by hanging.
Technorati Tags: nuclear weapons, European Union human rights, war
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, January 01, 2006 at 01:06 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Eurabia: Dhimmitude, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Islam: The War on Jihad, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, December 31, 2005
NOTABLE QUOTES 2005
December 31, 2005, New York Post -- For 18 years, the Media Research Center has been compiling its list of "notable quotables." The quotes, from prominent members of the mainstream news media, provide a clear window into the leftist mindset that pervades most of America's large news organizations. At year's end, the center (aided by a panel of judges) chooses the "best" examples. As usual, this year's crop tellingly reveals the media's perennial contempt for all things conservative. Actually, the winners more or less explain themselves. (The full set of winners and finalists can be found at the center's Web site, mrc.org.) Happy New Year!
Madness of King George Award
"It's like [President Bush] stuck a broomstick in [FDR's] wheelchair wheels."
—Newsweek's Jon Meacham, on MSNBC, discussing Bush's criticism of Franklin Roosevelt's Yalta deal with Stalin on post-WWII Europe
The Kanye West Award
"The dilatory performance of George Bush during the past week [after Hurricane Katrina] has been outrageous. . . . The churchgoing cultural populism of George Bush has given the United States an administration that worries about the House of Saud and the welfare of oil companies while the poor drown in their attics and their sons and daughters die in foreign deserts."
—Former New York Times editor Howell Raines, writing in the Los Angeles Times
Captain Dan the Forgery Man Award
"My principal problem was that I stuck by the [Memogate] story, I stuck by our people too long. I'm guilty of that. I believed in the story, and the facts of the story were correct. One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was called into question. To this day, no one has proven whether it was purported to be or not. You know, I didn't give up on my people, our people. I didn't, and I won't. . . . The story was accurate."
—Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, interviewed by Marvin Kalb on C-SPAN
Crazy Chris Award for Left-Wing Lunacy
"Are you considering running for Congress, Cindy? . . . I have to tell you, you sound more informed that most U.S. Congresspeople, so maybe you should run."
—MSNBC's Chris Matthews to antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan on Hardball
Barbra Streisand Celebrity Vacuity Award
"I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food. . . . A lot of the people who could help are at war right now fighting another way, and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us. . . . George Bush doesn't care about black people."
— Rapper Kanye West during NBC's Concert for Hurricane Relief
Media Millionaire for Smaller Paychecks Award
"For years we have cut our taxes, cut our taxes and let the infrastructure throughout the country go, and this [Katrina damage] is just the first of a number of other crumbling things that are going to happen to us. . . . I'm not kidding."
— National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg, on Inside Washington
Politics of Meaninglessness Award
"It's been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this."
—CNN anchor Carol Lin on the French riots. The two teens were French citizens of Tunisian origin, not Americans
What Liberal Media? Award
"I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people." —Former PBS host Bill Moyers, quoted by the Associated Press
Oh, That Liberal Media Award
Newsweek's Evan Thomas: "Is this attack [on public broadcasting's budget] going to make NPR a little less liberal?"
NPR's Nina Totenberg: "I don't think we're liberal to begin with, and I think if you would listen, Evan, you would know that."
Thomas: "I do listen to you, and you're not that liberal, but you're a little bit liberal." — Exchange on "Inside Washington"
'Baghdad Bob' Was Right Award
"I think there's going to be a bloodbath on Sunday. . . . All over the place, especially in Baghdad and a few other cities." —Fox News Channel's Steve Harrigan,
just back from Iraq, two days before Iraq's largely peaceful election
Quote of the Year
CBS "Memogate" producer Mary Mapes: "I'm perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if there's proof I haven't seen."
ABC's Brian Ross: "But isn't it the other way around? Don't you have to prove they're authentic?"
Mapes: "Well, I think that's what critics of the story would say. . . . I think they have not been proved to be false yet."
Ross: "Have they proved to be authentic, though? Isn't that really what journalists do?"
Mapes: "No, I don't think that's the standard."
—Exchange on Good Morning America
Decisions 08's Jackass of the Year here
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 08:49 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, December 30, 2005
And Justice for all......Leaks
YO YO YO.......I am running second! A vote for Atlas is a vote for Justice heh
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush’s secret domestic spying program, Justice officials said Friday. The officials, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, said the inquiry will focus on disclosures to The New York Times about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The Times revealed the existence of the program two weeks ago in a front-page story that acknowledged the news had been withheld from publication for a year, partly at the request of the administration and partly because the newspaper wanted more time to confirm various aspects of the program.
Hattip Malkin and Stop the ACLU
If the media puts a fraction of the spotlight on this act of treason as they did on the Plame nonsense, there will put traitors indicted for acts of treason. Think about it.
I, for one, want to rid the CIA, FBI, and NSA of careerists underminding the war effort and the Bush administration
Here's a letter written by C Max's (big) brother to CNN.com - Inquiry into leak of NSA spying program launched. The men and women. that make America great read this blog.
I can see tomorrow's NYT editorial already. You will see such standard
Liberal buzz words as: Nixonian, plumbers, chilling effect, intimidation, free speech, civil liberties, police state, invasive, privacy, and yadda yadda yadda. The NYT doesn't give a flying F about anybody's privacy or civil rights when they urge on a Democrat hack prosecutor to indict Bush Administration people for the "non-crime of a non-outing of a non-agent" as Hitchens so wonderfully put it. However, they think it's inappropriate for the government to investigate who is treasonously leaking valuable info to the press (in the middle of a war for our very survival) for the sole purpose of hurting Bush politically. Perhaps the NYT will be happy when Osama and boys hit NYC with a nuke. People who are vaporized DON'T HAVE ANY CIVIL LIBERTIES ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY'VE JUST LOST THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE-THE RIGHT TO LIFE, YOU LIBERAL JACKASSES. I am totally sick of these jerks in the press. I still think the names that will come out as the leakers will be Jay Rockefeller and Judge Robertson. If so, "Book 'em Danno, treason 1."
UPDATE: Taranto is priceless today;
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
The chickens are coming home to roost on West 43rd Street, Reuters reports from Washington:
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating who disclosed a secret domestic eavesdropping operation approved by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks, officials said on Friday.
"We are opening an investigation into the unauthorised disclosure of classified materials related to the NSA," an official said on condition of anonymity.
Earlier this month, Bush acknowledged the program and called its disclosure to The New York Times "a shameful act." He said he presumed the Justice Department would investigate who leaked the National Security Agency eavesdropping operation to the newspaper.
The Times, as we noted in February, has of late been a strong proponent of such investigations. When Joe Wilson charged that someone in the administration had "leaked" the name of his wife, CIA analyst Valerie Plame, who he falsely implied was a covert agent, the Times urged the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate what it called an "abuse of power."
The Times got its wish, and more than it bargained for. The paper somehow expected prosecutors not to compel testimony from the recipients of the "leak," the beneficiaries of the purported "abuse of power"--that is, journalists. But it's hard to see how you can investigate a crime (or, in the case of the Plame kerfuffle, a "crime") that consists of giving information to journalists, without questioning journalists.
One of the Times' own reporters, Judith Miller, went to jail rather than reveal her source. No, scratch that. She went to jail, spent three months there, then revealed her source. As Mickey Kaus noted in October:
The message sent to every prosecutor in the country is "Don't believe journalists who say they will never testify. A bit of hard time and they just might find a reason to change their minds. Judy Miller did."
If we were James Risen or Erich Lichtblau, who broke the NSA story for the Times, we'd be nervous.
But Who'll Probe the Leak-Probe Leakers?
"The officials, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, said the inquiry will focus on disclosures to The New York Times about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."--Associated Press, Dec. 30
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 12:17 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, December 23, 2005
THE RINO AND THE JACKASS HE RODE IN ON ~ COUNTDOWN IRAN ~
'Iran will defend nuclear right to last drop of blood’
DEMOCRATS WEAKEN IRAN RESOLUTION
A Senate resolution condemning the president of Iran for anti-Semitic comments he made earlier this month is riling its Republican sponsors on Capitol Hill. They claim Senate Democrats forced them to strip language from the document expressing support for self-determination and a national referendum in the country. More here
(Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, drafted the resolution, the only reason to live in Pennsylvania I might add, that and the pretzels. Santorum is looking mighty presidential whether he wants it or not -Atlas).
When Mr. Santorum moved to introduce the resolution last Friday, Senator Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, registered an unusual objection. According to the Congressional Record, Mr. Wyden told Mr. Santorum on the Senate floor that he was objecting to the resolution because his Democratic colleagues in the Senate had asked him too. Mr. Wyden did not say who asked him to issue the objection.
"While I personally am vehemently opposed to the statements that have been made by the president of Iran," Mr. Wyden said, "I have been asked by the members on this side of the aisle to object, and I do so object." [The quintessential dhimmicrat - Atlas]
Mr. Wyden's office did not return repeated calls yesterday to explain who suggested that he object to the Iran resolution or why he was chosen to register the complaint. And a spokesman for Mr. Santorum, Robert Traynham, said he did not know who raised the objection either. "We're still trying to see who those Democrats are," he said. An Internet blog devoted to promoting Democracy in Iran, "Regime Change Iran," detailed the flap over the resolution. It simply said that "Senate Democrats" objected to the resolution.
The following day, Mr. Santorum introduced a revised resolution, absent the language calling for a referendum in Iran. Once it passed, he delivered a floor speech in which he condemned not only the comments of Mr. Ahmadinejad but also members of the Senate and others who have resisted a similarly strong condemnation of the remarks.
"We could not adopt tonight in the Senate the Senate saying to the people of Iran that we support efforts of self-determination and a national referendum that was free and fair," Mr. Santorum said. "That is, in my mind, a rather unfortunate occurrence. But I found, from my perspective, that it was so important to condemn these actions that we agreed to strike those two sentences from the resolved clauses. I don't necessarily understand why anyone would oppose either of those sentences, those resolved clauses. They state that we are for freedom and democracy for all people, including the people of Iran."
SANTORUM ROCKS!
More surprising is that Senator Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee had not cosponsored either resolution. We learned that a majority staffer objected to condemning the entire government of and the call for a referendum with international observers. He reportedly said that we should be condemning President Ahmadinejad (vs. the entire government) and that
Iran just had elections and they chose the current leader." Dr. Zin
This genius was elected?. Can you imagine that? Is Lugar a bloody pod or what?
Such statements show a complete lack of understanding of the Iranian government’s electoral process. The regime chooses which candidates are permitted to run for office that they approve of and even these are fraudulent. Even Iran's leaders agree they are fraudulent.
I'll say..........Here is a glimpse of the post election Iran. LUGAR, THE IRANIANS DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS;
more here and election footage here
RegimeChangeIran is begging us to take action. We must for their sake and ours.
So after receiving yesterday'’s report on the situation, several Iranian satellite broadcasters (NITV and SOS Iran) asked their listeners, which include millions of Iranians, to call Chairman Lugar'’s office and their own Senator'’s office demanding hearings on the Iran Freedom and Support Act.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
The Ahmadinejad Doctrine.
Just as President Bush declared a "Bush Doctrine" stating plainly that there would be no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them, Ahmadinejad is stating his judenrein plainly and telling the world you are either with him or against him. Basically, he is opening the door to all the America hating, Jew hating closet dwellers to come out of the closet. Their day has come. No more shame. Just as Hitler did. And, if you recall, a large part of the world embraced Hitler for it (including Teddy "not to worry I can swim" Kennedy's father - Ambassador to England at the time).
So it will be. Whose side are you on? Hey LUGAR, Biden, Wyden, Voinavich WHOSE SIDE?
The folks are choosing sides in the war of the worlds, climbing out from under their rocks;
Malaysian: U.S. Scheming on Iran, Syria Malaysia's former prime minister accused the U.S. Thursday of scheming to invade Iran and Syria, and said the Iranian president's recent statements against Israel are providing Washington the excuse.
Egypt's Muslim Brothers Brand Israel a "Cancer"
"I declared that we will not recognize Israel which is an alien entity in the region. And we expect the demise of this cancer soon," Mohammed Mehdi Akef, the leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, told the state-owned Ahram Weekly in an interview published Thursday. "The Muslim Brothers do not recognize Israel....70 million Egyptians, 300 million citizens in the Arab world, and 1.5 billion Muslims across the world do not recognize Israel," Akef told the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on Sunday. (AFP/Yahoo)
Pakistan to stand by Iran in case of aggression: Kasuri
Khaleej Times ISLAMABAD — Pakistan will stand by Iran in case of any aggression, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri has said.
Head of Egypt's rising political force echoes Iran leader, says Holocaust myth
CNews
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The leader of Egypt's main Islamic opposition group said Thursday the Nazi destruction of European Jewry is a "myth" and he slammed western governments for criticizing those who question the genocide.
Kyrgyzstan supports Iran's peaceful nuclear activity: Tekebayev
Iran-Nuclear Activity-Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Parliament Speaker Umarbek Tekebayev in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Mohammad-Reza Sabouri here Thursday declared his country's support for Iran's nuclear activity.
Iran rejects “any conditions whatsoever” in nuclear talks
Khaleej Times VIENNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Wednesday Iran would “not agree to any conditions whatsoever” for the resumption of talks with the EU on its controversial nuclear programme.
CALL Senator Lugar AND DEMAND HEARINGS!
Dr Zin: Last Friday, the day after millions of Iraqi's voted in an historic election, the US Senate passed a resolution condemning the recent alarming statements by Iran's President. Surprisingly, the mainstream media ignored the resolution while the international press has been avidly covering similar resolutions adopted by countries around the world. Unfortunately, the story behind the resolution revealed a disturbing lack of conviction by some in the US Senate.
The resolution, authored by US Rick Santorum, was in his words "a mild condemnation" version of the resolution that he had also authored and which had obtained bi-partisan support, hours earlier- which was then objected to by Senate Democrats.
The original resolution co-sponsored by contained language in support for the people of Iran:
It supported the people of Iran's desire to exercise self determination over the form of government of their country and
supported a call for a national referendum in Iran with oversight by international observers and monitors to certify the integrity and fairness of the referendum.
But after the resolution containing these clauses was objected to by Senate Democrats. Senator Santorum was forced to REMOVE the two clauses which addressed desire for free elections in Iran. So he then submitted the resolution without those clauses….
That version SENATE RESOLUTION 336-- passed.
Remember, this was the session in which the Senate democrats filibustered the Patriot Act.
But more surprising is that Senator Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee had not cosponsored either resolution.
It has been reported that a Majority staffer with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee objected to condemning the entire government of Iran and the call for a referendum with international observers. He reportedly said that we should be condemning President Ahmadinejad (vs. the entire government) and that "Iran just had elections and they chose the current leader." Such statements show a complete lack of understanding of the Iranian government. Sadly it looks like Chairman Lugar is the problem. READ MORE
SANTORUM
Since February, we have long supported Senator Santorum's other Iran legislation, The Iran Freedom and Support ActS. 333. The bill is designed to hold the current regime in Iran accountable for its threatening behavior and to support a transition to democracy in Iran.
Despite the ever increasing threat of the Iranian regime not only to Israel, Iraqi democracy, but even to the United States Chairman Lugar has yet to hold a single hearing on the bill. While the Europeans act the US Senate is paralyzed. …
The Senate had an opportunity to send a signal to those inside of Iran that the US is finally willing to take their struggle seriously. We failed to send the signal. Nevertheless, we have an opportunity to correct the situation by demanding that the US Senate hold hearings on the Iran Freedom and Support Act. …
Failure of the US Senate to even hold hearings on the bill emboldens the regime that thinks we are incapable of action - which unfortunately appears to be true. As long as the mainstream media and even the blogosphere fail to demand action, none will be forthcoming.
The cacophony of Democrat manufactured theater is deafening - snap out it!
It is time for the blogosphere to write Senator Lugar and demand hearings now, before it's too late. Please also contact your Senator's office demanding hearings now! hat tip RegimeChangeIran.
These are the hearings we sh0uld be having in Washington right now, not a Boxer Burlesque Show on keeping Osama's chitty chats private, asshat.
METHAN DEMIR: TURKEY WARNS US ABOUT IRAN NUKES
UPDATE: Ace of Spades hits it hard here. Yeah Ace, shereef don't like it (you know he really hates it), Rock the Casbah...........
Can Blogosphere Beat The Mullahs?
Thanks to Allah for this.
The Mullahs think the Iranian blogosphere -- which they call "Weblogistan" -- is a threat to their regime, and they're right.
UPDATE: Keep telling yourself these people have not declared war on America
WAR BY PROXY
Iran accused of rigging Iraqi general election DEBKA
Thousands of Sunni secular Shiite and Kurdish protesters took to the streets of Iraq Friday, Dec. 23, over what they called “the biggest election fraud in Middle East history.”
Allawi, head of the Iraqi List and a key American ally, that he and the Sunni bloc of 30 lists were boycotting the elections, brought US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld dashing over to Baghdad Thursday night.
Allawi alleges that convoys of trucks carrying sealed ballot boxes stuffed with forged voting slips and other documents went round polling stations on election-day and packed the ballot boxes with pro-Shiite votes. Between 10 and 15 of those trucks were intercepted by Iraqi security forces at the southern Iraqi towns of Qut, Al Amara and Basra. An investigation disclosed that they trucks were organized by Iranian intelligence agents to falsely boost the Iranian majority.
More on election hijinks here and here.
Please click on the image below to see CAMERA's brief year-end Flash presentation. Also, feel free to forward this e-mail to friends and acquaintances who might be interested in CAMERA's work. (If the presentation takes too long to load click here for a smaller version; if necessary click here to download the free Flash player.)
More over at CUANAS
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 23, 2005 at 04:00 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Islam: The War on Jihad, RINOs, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (21) | TrackBack (2)
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
NY Transit STEEEEEEERIKE! Yer OUT!
Negotiations Monday broke down once again over pensions. Pensions? A Roth IRA yeah, a pension? No way. After bitterly criticizing the MTA's desire to raise the current retirement for new employees to 62 from 55 (IMAGINE THAT!), the authority wussed out and dropped its demand. How nuts is that? Lifespan increases every year, it's now at what, 77? So these people retire at 55 and we pay a fat pension for 22 years. Touissaint had the gall to push to reduce the retirement age even further to 50! Read that again! Instead, the MTA countered with new employees having to pay 6% of their salary toward their pension instead of the current 2%. Madame Touissaint said nyet.
The Union's 33,000 members were at odds on such issues as wages, health care and pension contributions. I don't know about you, but I ain't got know pension and I pay for my medical. Hellloooooooooooooo are they crazy?
Train operators, station agents and cleaners earn between $47,000 and $55,000 a year before overtime. Brand spanking new subway drivers already make 52,000 a year. The MTA's final offer exceeded 10% over a three year term, far too generous if you ask me. Still, Touissaint that bon vivaint summarily rejected out of hand. [Hits forehead]
Mind you, this is worst week of the year for this to happen for retail. DEADLY. Deadly for an already struggling city. Adding devastating economic in$ult to serious injury.
The Judge Fined the Union One Million Dollars a Day. That's a good start. Now it's time for Pataki to lead.
Governor Pataki, someone I have had little use for, has an opportunity to here to make an historical stand (much needed) while shoring himself up for a presidential run. Previous to this idiotic suicidal move by the leftarded union, I would never consider Pataki a contender. But history has a way of ripping the status quo to shreds. PATAKI SHOULD FIRE THEM ALL IF THEY DO NOT RETURN TO WORK. This is really a no brainer, a gift to Pataki from the political gods.
Pataki is no dummy. He had enough saychul to get out of Giuliani's way on 9/12/01 and stand just to the left of him, one step back. Smart.
On Friday, Gov. George Pataki urged the union to keep working with the MTA. "When it comes to a strike, I have three words: Don't do it," Pataki said. Now, has he got the testicular fortitude to back that up?
"We have two words for the governor, which is 'respect us,'" Mr. Toussaint said.
I got two words for you Touissaint: "You're fired." (I kept it clean, notice that?)
Mr. Toussaint ordered the city's subways and buses to be shut down "immediately," WTF died and made him Caligula?
The handful of dissenters included the president of the Transport Workers Union International, the union's parent organization, Mike O'Brien, indicating internal fissures within the union that could deepen as the transit strike continues. Those who attended the meeting of the executive board said Mr. O'Brien urged Mr. Toussaint to hold off on calling a strike, arguing that contract talks were heading toward an equitable resolution for the union.
The Transport Workers Union opposes any real cost-cutting efforts, such as a plan to restructure all above-ground rail operations into a single new subsidiary, and all bus operations into another—a consolidation that could save $210 million over three years. Why the resistance? The new bus division would have the authority to cut civil-service protections for new employees—who would still have their union security, of course, but transit workers are accustomed to two layers of insulation from management.City Journal via:Winds of Change
“Transportation Workers Union (TWU) officials are not only holding New York City and its economy hostage to their self-serving demands, but they are potentially jeopardizing the jobs of New York City’s 30,000 mass transit workers.
“These union officials have a public-be-damned attitude and are holding a gun to the head of New York City’s business owners and workers. The costs of this illegal strike to New York’s working families will be enormous.
“Moreover, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials may ultimately have no choice but to fire the illegal strikers in order to uphold the rule of law and to preserve New York’s security and economic vitality. President Ronald Reagan took similar action to protect the travelling public when he ordered the firing in 1981 of illegally striking air traffic controllers who refused to return to their jobs.Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation
Fausta says Bust Toussaint
UPDATE: Bloomberg make a tough, smart, ballsy speech at his press conference. Tells the Union get back to work now. "CALLS STRIKE ILLEGAL AND SELFISH" "Hurting the working people. People making 10, 20 30 thousand a year, not 50 60 thousand without overtime. If those people don't get paid, those people dont eat." Bloomberg says we shouldn't be negotiating while they are on strike. Bloonberg ROCKS! If you can catch on TIVO or Dish it's a spech worth seeing. I have a new respect for him
Pataki press conference on now. WTF? He is talking about a crime law?!?! FOX pulls the press conference, promises to return if he talks transit strike. Is this guy lobotomized? Someone take him off his meds! Geez, if he gets elected dog catcher in 2006 it will be a miracle.
OK PATAKI speaks. Comes on strong. "You can't benefit from illegal acts". Pointing a finger, 'YOU CAN'T WALK AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME!"
Very good Georgie boy.
UPDATE:
A Non-Teaching Moment Opinion Journal
Add another person to the list of irresponsible characters involved in New York's wretched transit strike: Randi Weingarten, head of the city's teachers' union.
Ms. Weingarten appeared at a rally on behalf of the transportation union to cheer for its efforts to grab a 24% three-year pay raise as well as write into its contract a limit on the number of disciplinary actions that can be taken against its members for misconduct. Of course the looter comes out to stand up for her fellow looter. She told a local TV station that the illegal strike was justified because the playing field "isn't fair" between the union and management. She said that justified the union's "civil disobedience." LOOTER!
Weingarten did nore to hurt our children than one person. No school vouchers, no charter schools, no firing, no reductio in tenure, she destroyed whatever shot we had to teach our children well. That's another union whose day wuill be numbered.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 11:45 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, NY Transit Strike: FIRE THEM ALL!, New York Politics | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, December 19, 2005
A Plan for Damn Iran
Let us not take our eye off the 800 lb nuclear elephant in the room, despite the LLL media's inability to see it. Make no mistake about it, The New York Times achieved it's goal the day after the Iraqi elections with it's manufactured "eavesdrop" story. They managed to undermine renewal of the Patriot act and change the national dialog in one fell swoop. We went from watching breathtaking historic events of monumental proportion, the incredible birth of democracy in what was once part of the oppressive, despotic successor to the Ottoman Empire, to the shrieking of a thumbsucker's puerile temper tantrum.
If that weren't bad enough we now have Barbara Boxer calling for national hearings, that much beloved leftard tool. These hearings accomplish nothing but give otherwise impossible-to-get huge chunks of airtime for the Boxer (and her ilk) burlesque show of flailing arms, graphs, whining, preening, self congratulating delusions and base gutless stupidity (not to mention mendacity of the most irrational). I certainly won't hold my breath waiting for the left to call for hearings to investigate the leak at the NSA or CIA or FBI to determine who committed the act of treason. NO PLAME immediacy here, now that was a text book example of a manufactured distraction ploy.
Even that 9/11 commission was utter bullshit. Handling Reno like some Blanche DuBois inspired mental patient while attempting to publicly flog Rice. Ridiculous in its narcissism and impotency. Republican bashing galore and not a word about ABLE DANGER? yeah ok.
Unwarranted Outrage The Times blew our cover (hat tip never Forget)
Anyway, reader Marc sent me this from Heritage and I think it's a damn fine plan (see his comment here). Get out your pens, cursors, or homing pigeons and start writing those pompous asses in DC;
Here is a summary of the five steps proposed in the Heritage plan:
Recommendation #1: Push the IAEA to Refer Iran’s Violations of Its Nuclear Safeguard Agreements to the U.N. Security Council at the IAEA Board of Governors’ Next Meeting
Recommendation #2: Forge a Coalition to Impose Targeted Economic Sanctions on Iran
Recommendation #3: Rally International Support for Iran’s Democratic Opposition
Recommendation #4: Mount a Public Diplomacy Campaign to Explain to the Iranian People How the Regime’s Hard-line Policies Hurt Their Economic and National Interests
Recommendation #5: Mobilize Allies to Contain and Deter Iran
Recommendation #6: Prepare for the Last Resort
I’d like to think that there will actually be support in the U.S. government for steps #3 to #6 in the near future, but I doubt it. In the meantime, readers may want to check out step #2, which describes a way to take some possibly effective action through lobbying the U.S. Congress: “Although Iran is one of the world’s leading oil exporters, it is also an importer of gasoline due to mismanagement and inadequate investment in its refinery infrastructure. Representatives Mark Kirk (R–IL) and Robert Andrews (D–NJ), the leaders of the House Iran Working Group, have proposed a ban on gasoline exports to Iran. International support for such sanctions, particularly if supported by the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, would drive up the prices of Iranian gasoline and underscore to the Iranian people the shortsightedness of Iran’s ruling regime”.
I intend to email my congressman tonight to ask that he support the Kirk/Andrews proposal. I will cc my friends and hope that Atlas Shrugs readers will consider doing the same.
On a related topic, Blert on Monday, December 19, 2005 at 04:02 AM,may well be correct that the U.S. is at greater risk than Israel from Iranian WMDs. I’ve seen several reports in the media indicating that Israel has significantly better customs and border security than the U.S. (no real surprise there). Based on those reports, I’d guess it would be easier for the Iranians to sneak a WMD in a container into a U.S. harbor than into Haifa harbor.
Continue reading "A Plan for Damn Iran" »
Posted by Pamela on Monday, December 19, 2005 at 05:55 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Nuclear Roulette: And the Band Plays On, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, December 18, 2005
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO THE NATION
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Three days ago, in large numbers, Iraqis went to the polls to choose their own leaders -- a landmark day in the history of liberty. In the coming weeks, the ballots will be counted, a new government formed, and a people who suffered in tyranny for so long will become full members of the free world.
This election will not mean the end of violence. But it is the beginning of something new: constitutional democracy at the heart of the Middle East. And this vote -- 6,000 miles away, in a vital region of the world -- means that America has an ally of growing strength in the fight against terror.
All who had a part in this achievement -- Iraqis, and Americans and our coalition partners -- can be proud. Yet our work is not done. There is more testing and sacrifice before us. I know many Americans have questions about the cost and direction of this war. So tonight I want to talk to you about how far we have come in Iraq, and the path that lies ahead.
From this office, nearly three years ago, I announced the start of military operations in Iraq. Our coalition confronted a regime that defied United Nations Security Council resolutions, violated a cease-fire agreement, sponsored terrorism, and possessed, we believed, weapons of mass destruction. After the swift fall of Baghdad, we found mass graves filled by a dictator; we found some capacity to restart programs to produce weapons of mass destruction, but we did not find those weapons. [check Syria Mr President - Atlas]
It is true that Saddam Hussein had a history of pursuing and using weapons of mass destruction. It is true that he systematically concealed those programs, and blocked the work of U.N. weapons inspectors. It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As your President, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq. Yet it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
He was given an ultimatum -- and he made his choice for war. And the result of that war was to rid a -- the world of a murderous dictator who menaced his people, invaded his neighbors, and declared America to be his enemy. Saddam Hussein, captured and jailed, is still the same raging tyrant -- only now without a throne. His power to harm a single man, woman, or child is gone forever. And the world is better for it.
Since the removal of Saddam, this war, like other wars in our history, has been difficult. The mission of American troops in urban raids and desert patrols, fighting Saddam loyalists and foreign terrorists, has brought danger and suffering and loss. This loss has caused sorrow for our whole nation -- and it has led some to ask if we are creating more problems than we're solving.
That is an important question, and the answer depends on your view of the war on terror. If you think the terrorists would become peaceful if only America would stop provoking them, then it might make sense to leave them alone.
This is not the threat I see. I see a global terrorist movement that exploits Islam in the service of radical political aims -- a vision in which books are burned, and women are oppressed, and all dissent is crushed. Terrorist operatives conduct their campaign of murder with a set of declared and specific goals -- to de-moralize free nations, to drive us out of the Middle East, to spread an empire of fear across that region, and to wage a perpetual war against America and our friends. These terrorists view the world as a giant battlefield -- and they seek to attack us wherever they can. This has attracted al Qaeda to Iraq, where they are attempting to frighten and intimidate America into a policy of retreat.
The terrorists do not merely object to American actions in Iraq and elsewhere, they object to our deepest values and our way of life. And if we were not fighting them in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Southeast Asia, and in other places, the terrorists would not be peaceful citizens, they would be on the offense, and headed our way.
September the 11th, 2001 required us to take every emerging threat to our country seriously, and it shattered the illusion that terrorists attack us only after we provoke them. On that day, we were not in Iraq, we were not in Afghanistan, but the terrorists attacked us anyway -- and killed nearly 3,000 men, women, and children in our own country. My conviction comes down to this: We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them. And we will defeat the terrorists by capturing and killing them abroad, removing their safe havens, and strengthening new allies like Iraq and Afghanistan in the fight we share.
The work in Iraq has been especially difficult -- more difficult than we expected. Reconstruction efforts and the training of Iraqi security forces started more slowly than we hoped. We continue to see violence and suffering, caused by an enemy that is determined and brutal, unconstrained by conscience or the rules of war.
Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost, and not worth another dime or another day. I don't believe that. [me neither - Atlas] Our military commanders do not believe that. Our troops in the field, who bear the burden and make the sacrifice, do not believe that America has lost. And not even the terrorists believe it. We know from their own communications that they feel a tightening noose, and fear the rise of a democratic Iraq.
The terrorists will continue to have the coward's power to plant roadside bombs and recruit suicide bombers. And you will continue to see the grim results on the evening news. This proves that the war is difficult -- it doesn't mean that we are losing. Behind the images of chaos that terrorists create for the cameras, we are making steady gains with a clear objective in view.
America, our coalition, and Iraqi leaders are working toward the same goal -- a democratic Iraq that can defend itself, that will never again be a safe haven for terrorists, and that will serve as a model of freedom for the Middle East.
We have put in place a strategy to achieve this goal -- a strategy I've been discussing in detail over the last few weeks. This plan has three critical elements.
First, our coalition will remain on the offense -- finding and clearing out the enemy, transferring control of more territory to Iraqi units, and building up the Iraqi security forces so they can increasingly lead the fight. At this time last year, there were only a handful of Iraqi army and police battalions ready for combat. Now, there are more than 125 Iraqi combat battalions fighting the enemy, more than 50 are taking the lead, and we have transferred more than a dozen military bases to Iraqi control.
Second, we're helping the Iraqi government establish the institutions of a unified and lasting democracy, in which all of Iraq's people are included and represented. Here also, the news is encouraging. Three days ago, more than 10 million Iraqis went to the polls -- including many Sunni Iraqis who had boycotted national elections last January. Iraqis of every background are recognizing that democracy is the future of the country they love -- and they want their voices heard. One Iraqi, after dipping his finger in the purple ink as he cast his ballot, stuck his finger in the air and said: "This is a thorn in the eyes of the terrorists." Another voter was asked, "Are you Sunni or Shia?" And he responded, "I am Iraqi."
Third, after a number of setbacks, our coalition is moving forward with a reconstruction plan to revive Iraq's economy and infrastructure -- and to give Iraqis confidence that a free life will be a better life. Today in Iraq, seven in 10 Iraqis say their lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve even more in the year ahead. Despite the violence, Iraqis are optimistic -- and that optimism is justified.
In all three aspects of our strategy -- security, democracy, and reconstruction -- we have learned from our experiences, and fixed what has not worked. We will continue to listen to honest criticism, and make every change that will help us complete the mission.
Yet there is a difference between honest critics who recognize what is wrong, and defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right.
Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. For every scene of destruction in Iraq, there are more scenes of rebuilding and hope. For every life lost, there are countless more lives reclaimed. And for every terrorist working to stop freedom in Iraq, there are many more Iraqis and Americans working to defeat them. My fellow citizens: Not only can we win the war in Iraq, we are winning the war in Iraq.
It is also important for every American to understand the consequences of pulling out of Iraq before our work is done. We would abandon our Iraqi friends and signal to the world that America cannot be trusted to keep its word. We would undermine the morale of our troops by betraying the cause for which they have sacrificed. We would cause the tyrants in the Middle East to laugh at our failed resolve, and tighten their repressive grip. We would hand Iraq over to enemies who have pledged to attack us and the global terrorist movement would be emboldened and more dangerous than ever before. To retreat before victory would be an act of recklessness and dishonor, and I will not allow it.
[Damn! I love that man -Atlas]
We're approaching a new year, and there are certain things all Americans can expect to see. We will see more sacrifice -- from our military, their families, and the Iraqi people. We will see a concerted effort to improve Iraqi police forces and fight corruption. We will see the Iraqi military gaining strength and confidence, and the democratic process moving forward. As these achievements come, it should require fewer American troops to accomplish our mission. I will make decisions on troop levels based on the progress we see on the ground and the advice of our military leaders -- not based on artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington. Our forces in Iraq are on the road to victory -- and that is the road that will take them home.
In the months ahead, all Americans will have a part in the success of this war. Members of Congress will need to provide resources for our military. Our men and women in uniform, who have done so much already, will continue their brave and urgent work. And tonight, I ask all of you listening to carefully consider the stakes of this war, to realize how far we have come and the good we are doing, and to have patience in this difficult, noble, and necessary cause.
I also want to speak to those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq: I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt. Yet now there are only two options before our country -- victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance. I don't expect you to support everything I do, but tonight I have a request: Do not give in to despair, and do not give up on this fight for freedom.
Americans can expect some things of me, as well. My most solemn responsibility is to protect our nation, and that requires me to make some tough decisions. I see the consequences of those decisions when I meet wounded servicemen and women who cannot leave their hospital beds, but summon the strength to look me in the eye and say they would do it all over again. I see the consequences when I talk to parents who miss a child so much -- but tell me he loved being a soldier, he believed in his mission, and, Mr. President, finish the job.
I know that some of my decisions have led to terrible loss -- and not one of those decisions has been taken lightly. [not near the loss had you not taken those actions Mr. President - Atlas] I know this war is controversial -- yet being your President requires doing what I believe is right and accepting the consequences. And I have never been more certain that America's actions in Iraq are essential to the security of our citizens, and will lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren.
Next week, Americans will gather to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah. Many families will be praying for loved ones spending this season far from home -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other dangerous places. Our nation joins in those prayers. We pray for the safety and strength of our troops. We trust, with them, in a love that conquers all fear, in a light that reaches the darkest corners of the Earth. And we remember the words of the Christmas carol, written during the Civil War: "God is not dead, nor [does] He sleep; the Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, with peace on Earth, goodwill to men."
Thank you, and good night. [no no thank you, on behalf of myself, my four little Atlases, my leftarded countrymen and my fellow warriors, thank you Mr. President - Atlas]
The lefties cry no matter what. The President is doing a helluva job making sure they are free to whine, cry, commit treason, and undermine the country.
More pearls from those geniuses here
UPDATE December 19th: The blogosphere weighs in on the President's Speech at Pajama Media here
Hitchens: Bush Crippled by Agency 'Fratricide'
Continue reading "PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO THE NATION" »
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 10:56 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, September the 11th, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)
Saturday, December 17, 2005
PATRIOT ACT: The Dhimmicrats Kill One of The Single Most Effective Weapons Against Terror, SEE RINO VIDEO HERE
George W is a victim of his own success. The spineless little girls that call themselves Democrats have not renewed key provisions the Patriot Act due to expire at the end of this month.. They are aligning themselves with CAIR (the Council of Islamic Relations). Imagine that. You couldn't write fiction like this! President Bush has done such an extraordinary job of protecting Americans, that the Dhemmis have the gall, the utter hubris to tempt fate. FOOLS! Just because we haven't had an attack since 9/11, do these asshats believe "it's safe"? Can you see the barbarians laughing their asses off in their airless caves? The Vote 52 to 47.
One of our most effective weapons on the War on Radical Islamofascism is also under attack again from the largest muslim group in America. CAIR Launches Patriot Act Blog. CAIR is a dangerous organization.
CAIR Launches Patriot Act Blog
CAIR's blog, located at CAIRPatriotAct, offers information about the unsupervised domestic surveillance powers contained in the legislation and suggests ways in which voters can express their concerns to elected officials. It will be updated daily with new information. (Automatic updates can be sent to newsreader software using the Atom URL: CAIRPatriotAct ATOM. For newsreader information, go to: www.AtomEnabled.org) [they are certainly using all the up-to-the-minute state of the art technology - American ingenuity at its very best - Atlas]
REMEMBER THE PATRIOT ACT HAS NEVER BEEN ABUSED.
Here are the NOs:
The 52-47 roll call by which the Senate voted to reject reauthorization of several provisions of the USA Patriot Act. Sixty votes were needed to overcome a filibuster of the bill.
On this vote, a "yes" vote was a vote to end the filibuster and a "no" vote was a vote to continue a filibuster.
Voting "yes" were 2 Democrats and 50 Republicans.
Voting "no" were 41 Democrats, 5 Republicans and one independent.
Democrats Yes
Johnson, S.D.; Nelson, Neb.
Democrats No
Akaka, Hawaii; Baucus, Mont.; Bayh, Ind.; Biden, Del.; Bingaman, N.M.; Boxer, Calif.; Byrd, W.Va.; Cantwell, Wash.; Carper, Del.; Clinton, N.Y.; Conrad, N.D.; Corzine, N.J.; Dayton, Minn.; Dorgan, N.D.; Durbin, Ill.; Feingold, Wis.; Feinstein, Calif.; Harkin, Iowa; Inouye, Hawaii; Kennedy, Mass.; Kerry, Mass.; Kohl, Wis.; Landrieu, La.; Lautenberg, N.J.; Leahy, Vt.; Levin, Mich.; Lieberman, Conn.; Lincoln, Ark.; Mikulski, Md.; Murray, Wash.; Nelson, Fla.; Obama, Ill.; Pryor, Ark.; Reed, R.I.; Reid, Nev.; Rockefeller, W.Va.; Salazar, Colo.; Sarbanes, Md.; Schumer, N.Y.; Stabenow, Mich.; Wyden, Ore.
Democrats Not Voting
Dodd, Conn.
Republicans Yes
Alexander, Tenn.; Allard, Colo.; Allen, Va.; Bennett, Utah; Bond, Mo.; Brownback, Kan.; Bunning, Ky.; Burns, Mont.; Burr, N.C.; Chafee, R.I.; Chambliss, Ga.; Coburn, Okla.; Cochran, Miss.; Coleman, Minn.; Collins, Maine; Cornyn, Texas; Crapo, Idaho; DeMint, S.C.; DeWine, Ohio; Dole, N.C.; Domenici, N.M.; Ensign, Nev.; Enzi, Wyo.; Graham, S.C.; Grassley, Iowa; Gregg, N.H.; Hatch, Utah; Hutchison, Texas; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson, Ga.; Kyl, Ariz.; Lott, Miss.; Lugar, Ind.; Martinez, Fla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Roberts, Kan.; Santorum, Pa.; Sessions, Ala.; Shelby, Ala.; Smith, Ore.; Snowe, Maine; Specter, Pa.; Stevens, Alaska; Talent, Mo.; Thomas, Wyo.; Thune, S.D.; Vitter, La.; Voinovich, Ohio; Warner, Va.
Republicans No
Craig, Idaho; Frist, Tenn.; Hagel, Neb.; Murkowski, Alaska; Sununu, N.H. [ Senator Frist's "no" vote was a procedural one, so he can bring it up for a vote again~~Never Forget]
Others No Jeffords, Vt.
When asked: Ashcroft on the Patriot Act 12/01/05
"There has been not been one single case in America............Diane Feinstein testified before the Senate committee that she had received 20,000 letters complaining about everything from soup to nuts and Feinstein had her staff go through every one of those letters. And not one , not one even simple case of abuse. Not one. And Feinstien called the ACLU and asked them for a specific example and she said they couldn't name one."
"The Patriot Act was very helpful to us in the Lackawanna case. in the Cortland [the 2003 trial charging subjects with material support to Al Queda in Portland, Oregon. This exceptional investigation by the FBI and other agencies is described on the FBI Portland Field office web site hat tip MarcH] it's helpful in lowering the barrier between law enforcement and intelligence and allows for the prosecution of individuals charged in the murder of American citizens in Israel in buses that were blown up in Israel...................."
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 31 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. CAIR has been named as a Defendant in 9/11 Terror Lawsuit .
Pulling down the "firewall" dividing law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
This may sound technical, but it greatly enhanced American capabilities. For years, legal investigators pursued information that their colleagues in the intelligence agencies already had. It was like "having your best football players sitting on the bench when you are having your butts beat," notes Barry Carmody, an FBI agent who worked on the Sami Al-Arian terrorism case. Then the Patriot Act was passed and "Everything changed." More here
More here on the architect of the Patriot Act, John Ashcroft,
This must be the free speech the left is worried about. More here and here Oh and btw Glenn does not agree with me.
Photoon (artistnot in residence) Pete iHillary. Check this video out of RINO John Sununu with Sean Hannity, who btw takes him on and finishes him off.
INTERVIEW CONTINUED (and yeah that's me catwallin in the background)
UPDATE: From JAHPDQ "Next cooked up story that begins with a true premise and goes south real fast. Check out this quote from the linked article: ____________________________________________________
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, former NSA general counsel, said it was troubling that such a change would have been made by executive order, even if it turns out to be within the law. Parker, who has no direct knowledge of the program, said the effect could be corrosive. "There are programs that do push the edge, and would be appropriate, but will be thrown out," she said.
_______________________________________________
One needn't look far to find out who Ms. Parker is:
As a lawyer, I can tell you, that when a lawyer that you know is on the opposite side of an issue says something like, "even if it turns out to have been within the law. . .", that attorney is pretty damn sure what was done WAS within the law.
So, what's the message from Ms. Parker? The Bush administration has done something, "legal; but corrosive."
and go here for the President's Speech today(LISTEN TO IT!) and more excellent commentary from Chas;
Now, this is a very direct statement. If I had to guess, I'd guess that Bush is angry — livid, chair-throwing angry — about this revelation, especially since the Times said in so many words that they withheld publication for a year because publication could harm national security. This raises the interesting question, what changed? If it would harm national security on 1 December, what made it publishable on 16 December?
It would appear that the Times is admitting that they released this information, knowing it would damage national security.
Everyone is so effing ON today. I love it! And this from Dave in Seattle who sent this this morning to NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon:
Scott, please tell Dan Schorr that "analysis" is more than saying "This reminds me of when President Nixon..."! Everything reminds Dan of President Nixon. I find it shocking that he compares NSA eavesdropping on selected phone numbers that were found on terrorist cellphones with Nixon's "enemies list". He has lost it, and NPR has lost any credible claim to provide analysis of the news.
And Scott, when you asked Dan for his analysis of the impact non-extension of the Patriot Act, you should have said "impact on the security of America" because Dan of course only thinks about politcal impact. Dan has precious little interest in US security, unless it is right after an attack when he can fatuously ask why nobody "connected the dots".
I do not enjoy listening to NPR hosts asking relevant questions of Mr. Schorr, only to have him respond in terms of over-the-top analogies that dodge the question. The information content of this morning's commentary was a flat zero.
He shoots! He scores!
UPDATE: December 19th And a word from the man;
Taking Liberties With the Nation's Security
By RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI
NY Times
YESTERDAY the Senate failed to reauthorize the USA Patriot Act, as a Democratic-led filibuster prevented a vote. This action - which leaves the act, key elements of which are due to expire on Dec. 31, in limbo - represents a grave potential threat to the nation's security. I support the extension of the Patriot Act for one simple reason: Americans must use every legal and constitutional tool in their arsenal to fight terrorism and protect their lives and liberties.
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, made clear that the old rules no longer work. The terrorists who attacked us seek to kill innocent men, women and children of all races and creeds. They seek to destroy our liberties. They willingly kill themselves in their effort to bring death and suffering to as many innocents as they can, here in this country or anywhere in the world where freedom has a foothold.
More
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 12:52 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, RINOs, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (18) | TrackBack (0)
Bush Video on New York Slimes Times Intel Leak
EVEN RICHER! Here is video on President Bush slamming the New York slimes Times on the Intel "eavesdropping" leak earlier today, sorry for the poor screen quality, be happy I caught it at all! Just click play.
The Revolution will be blogged (by Jeff Goldstein)
Goldstein references Charles Martin, who writes:
It would appear that the Times is admitting that they released this information, knowing it would damage national security.
see update: Silent Running points to Executive Order12333, signed by Ronald Reagan, from which Bush is likely asserting his executive powers.
also
A reminder: 50 USC 1802:
(a)
(1) Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year[...]
Periodic review, we’re told, happened every 45 days.
The rapidity and forcefulness of the President’s response should frighten those who raced to find fault here. But then, when there are no consequences for making accusations, why not just go ahead and see what sticks, right? (Jeff Goldstein)
Hat tip Tom P via Protein Wisdom
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, December 17, 2005 at 12:28 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (1)
Friday, December 16, 2005
Criminal and Corrupt, Clinton the Capo
Judicial Watch sent me their latest on the impending Clinton scandal I have been blogging about. Democrats are desperately trying to keep secret a 400-page report from Independent Counsel David Barrett that could be devastating to the Clintons.
This from Fox News Radio’s Tony Snow: "By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance."
Ten years ago, Barrett began investigating hush payments made by Clinton Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros to an ex-mistress. However, the investigation reportedly penetrated deep into other Clinton scandals, confirming what Judicial Watch has argued since its inception – the Clinton administration misused the IRS for political purposes. The Senate recently passed an appropriations bill to make the report public, but Senators agreed, at the insistence of Democrats, behind closed doors to hide the most politically sensitive conclusions. Now, the report is redacted beyond recognition. What are the Clinton crowd and their defenders in the Senate so worried about? Who else is implicated by the Barrett investigation? Judicial Watch’s legal team is currently looking for ways to help force the release of this report.
If Hillary was a Republican, she'd be downing shots with Delay, Lott, Ryan et al. What a joke.
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 16, 2005 at 07:49 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Simmering Civil War in America, White House 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, December 15, 2005
sKerry Guilty of Treason
Last night John Kerry suggested that if Democrats retake the house they might push for the impeachment of President Bush. The Hotline reports Kerry said “if Dems retake the House, there's a "solid case" to bring "articles of impeachment" against President Bush for allegedly misleading the country about pre-war intelligence…. Kerry then quickly added, according to several in the audience, "Don't tell anyone I said that."’ here
Like I said, the seditious party
UPDATE: And more dhimmitude from SHOCKA! Eurabia aka Londonistan
Tussauds turn Bush and Blair into pantomime cow
LONDON (AFP) - Madame Tussaud's has turned US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair into a pantomime cow for their Christmas display, the waxwork museum said. M
The world statesmen were dressed up as a cow from "Jack and the Beanstalk" in a new scene featuring characters from pantomime favourites at the popular London tourist venue.
The scene is on display until January 8.
Madame Tussauds were unavailable for comment on who landed the plum role of playing the back end of the cow.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 05:08 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Watch this Video Now: The Iraqi Voter!
Watch this scene from the Iraqi polls, needless to say, Betty Dawisha is my kind of feminist. The pathetic thing is the left spits when they see these really momentous historical moments. I have said a number of times and I'll say it again, George W. is a great man and history will bear this out.
Murtha claims "80% want us out", they just make this stuff up....80% my ***
UPDATE: The LLL begrudgingly acknowledges Iraq Progress, BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq election messages get through... of course they couldn't resist leaving the reader on a sour note. hat tip Jahpdq
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at 12:50 AM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, Women, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (24) | TrackBack (1)
Sunday, December 11, 2005
The Stupid Party, The Vicious Party and the Clinton Casa Nostra
Vote here for Atlas now and then read about dirty politics.............
Tony Snow is good enough to expose the scurrilous back door fix politics is notorious for. The irony here is the complicity of Republicans to cover up the serious crimes of the Clinton mafia and your would-be next President.
Snow's piece is here at Townhall
Team Clinton was using key players at the IRS and Justice to harass, frighten and threaten people who somehow got in the former president's way.
By all accounts, the 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance.
Democrats know this. Using provisions in the independent-counsel statute that permit people named in a report to review the allegations against them and file rebuttals, attorneys close to the Clintons have spent the better part of five years reviewing every jot and tittle of the charges arrayed against their clients and friends.
This careful and continuous monitoring of the report explains why Sens. Byron Dorgan, Dick Durbin and John Kerry took the highly unusual step earlier this year of trying to slip into an Iraq-war spending bill an amendment to suppress every word of the Barrett report. (Every other independent counsel finding has been printed in its entirety, with the exception of small sections containing classified material.)
Alert Republicans, pushed by talk-radio listeners and bloggers, managed to short-circuit that effort, but Democrats patiently pursued their goal. They got what they wanted recently, when the House and Senate met to iron out differences in yet another appropriations bill. Democrats inserted language that would prevent public release of the 120 pages of the report listing the Clinton transgressions. They offered what may have looked like a good deal. They promised not to object to letting Barrett continue with any prosecutions already underway.
Republicans negotiators, led by Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich, took the bait.[shmucks- Democrats vicious, Republicans stupid -Atlas] They agreed to keep the public in the dark about the important stuff in exchange for a big, fat nothing. Unbeknownst to Bond and Knollenberg, Barrett shut down his grand juries three years ago.
The move represents more than just boneheaded politics. It's grossly irresponsible. If the report contains the kind of bombshells that have been hinted at in reports published by The Wall Street Journal and National Review, among others, the public not only has a right to know, Congress has a duty to investigate.
If Barrett has found evidence that officials at Justice and the IRS served as a praetorian guard, that means some bureaucrats felt it appropriate or beneficial to ignore their duty to the public and instead to perform dirty work for the people who oversee their budgets.
Something stinks, and the only way to get at the truth is to release the full report. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who fought a lonely battle to ensure the document's publication, is furious. So is House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc. The question is whether Republican leaders Bill Frist and Denny Hastert will step in and ensure the report's publication, or whether they'll just sigh and look the other way.
Tony Snow is the host of the 'Tony Snow Show' on Fox News Radio. Hat tip Faker
This is important, write Hastert and Frist NOW! A note to your Congressman and Senators, we want to know.
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 01:48 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, RINOs | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, December 09, 2005
fellow gunners, military buffs, veterans and interested guys, A letter from a Soldier
Hey Pelosi and friends! Why don't you make yourself useful and address this soldier's concerns? Something productive, that should be a new experience for you. Hey baby, it's never too late even for you.
This was received from a friend whose son who just returned from Iraq. Hat tip: Jake
Hello to all my fellow gunners, military buffs, veterans and interested guys. A couple of weekends ago I got to spend time with my son Jordan, who was on his first leave since returning from Iraq. He is well (a little thin), and already bored. He will be returning to Iraq for a second tour in early '06 and has already re-enlisted early for 4 more years. He loves the Marine Corps and is actually looking forward to returning to Iraq.
Jordan spent 7 months at "Camp Blue Diamond" in Ramadi. Aka: Fort Apache. He saw and did a lot and the following is what he told me about weapons, equipment, tactics and other miscellaneous info which may be of interest to you. Nothing is by any means classified.
No politics here, just a Marine with a bird's eye view's opinions:
1) The M-16 rifle: Thumbs down. Chronic jamming problems with the talcum powder like sand over there. The sand is everywhere. Jordan says you feel filthy 2 minutes after coming out of the shower. The M-4 carbine version is more popular because it's lighter and shorter, but it has jamming problems also. They like the ability to mount the various optical gun sights and weapons lights on the picanttiny rails, but the weapon itself is not great in a desert environment. They all hate the 5.56mm (.223) round. Poor penetration on the cinderblock structure common over there and even torso hits can't be reliably counted on to put the enemy down. Fun fact: Random autopsies on dead insurgents show a high level of opiate use.
2) The M243 SAW (squad assault weapon): .223 cal. Drum fed light machine gun. Big thumbs down. Universally considered a piece of ****. Chronic jamming problems, most of which require partial disassembly. (that's fun in the middle of a firefight).
3) The M9 Beretta 9mm: Mixed bag. Good gun, performs well in desert environment; but they all hate the 9mm cartridge. The use of handguns forself-defense is actually fairly common. Same old story on the 9mm: Bad guys hit multiple times and still in the fight.
4) Mossberg 12ga. Military shotgun: Works well, used frequently for clearing houses to good effect.
5) The M240 Machine Gun: 7.62 Nato (.308) cal. belt fed machine gun, developed to replace the old M-60 (what a beautiful weapon that was!!). Thumbs up. Accurate, reliable, and the 7.62 round puts them down. Originally developed as a vehicle mounted weapon, more and more are being dismounted and taken into the field by infantry. The 7.62 round chews up the structure over there.
6) The M2 .50 cal heavy machine gun: Thumbs way, way up. "Ma deuce" is still worth her considerable weight in gold. The ultimate fight stopper, puts their ***** in the dirt every time. The most coveted weapon in-theater.
7) The .45 pistol: Thumbs up. Still the best pistol round out there. Everybody authorized to carry a sidearm is trying to get their hands on one. With few exceptions, can reliably be expected to put 'em down with a torso hit. The special ops guys (who are doing most of the pistol work) use the HK military model and supposedly love it. The old government model .45's are being re-issued en masse.
8) The M-14: Thumbs up. They are being re-issued in bulk, mostly in a modified version to special ops guys. Modifications include lightweight Kevlar stocks and low power red dot or ACOG sights. Very reliable in the sandy environment and they love the 7.62 round.
9) The Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle: Thumbs way up. Spectacular range and accuracy and hits like a freight train. Used frequently to take out vehicle suicide bombers (we actually stop a lot of them) and barricaded enemy. Definitely here to stay.
10) The M24 sniper rifle: Thumbs up. Mostly in .308 but some in 300 win mag. Heavily modified Remington 700's. Great performance. Snipers have been used heavily to great effect. Rumor has it that a marine sniper on his third tour in Anbar province has actually exceeded Carlos Hathcock's record for confirmed kills with OVER 100.
11) The new body armor: Thumbs up. Relatively light at approx. 6 lbs. and can reliably be expected to soak up small shrapnel and even will stop an AK-47 round. The bad news: Hot as **** to wear, almost unbearable in the summer heat (which averages over 120 degrees). Also, the enemy now goes for head shots whenever possible. All the bullshit about the "old" body armor making our guys vulnerable to the IED's was a non-starter. The IED explosions are enormous and body armor doesn't make any difference at all in most cases.
12) Night Vision and Infrared Equipment: Thumbs way up. Spectacular performance. Our guys see in the dark and own the night, period. Very little enemy action after evening prayers. More and more enemy being whacked at night during movement by our hunter-killer teams. We've all seen the videos.
13) Lights: Thumbs up. Most of the weapon mounted and personal lights are Surefire's, and the troops love 'em. Invaluable for night urban operations. Jordan carried a $34 Surefire G2 on a neck lanyard and loved it. I can't help but notice that most of the good fighting weapons and ordnance are 50 or more years old!!!!!!!!! With all our technology, it's the WWII and Vietnam era weapons that everybody wants!!!! The infantry fighting is frequent, up close and brutal. No quarter is given or shown.
Bad guy weapons:
1) Mostly AK47's The entire country is an arsenal. Works better in the desert than the M16 and the .308 Russian round kills reliably. PKM belt fed light machine guns are also common and effective. Luckily, the enemy mostly shoots like ****. Undisciplined "spray and pray" type fire. However, they are seeing more and more precision weapons, especially sniper rifles. (Iran, again)
Fun fact: Captured enemy have apparently marveled at the marksmanship of our guys and how hard they fight. They are apparently told in Jihad school that the Americans rely solely on technology, and can be easily beaten in close quarters combat for their lack of toughness. Let's just say they know better now.
2) The RPG: Probably the infantry weapon most feared by our guys. Simple, reliable and as common as dog ****. The enemy responded to our up-armored humvees by aiming at the windshields, often at point blank range. Still killing a lot of our guys.
3) The IED: The biggest killer of all. Can be anything from old Soviet anti-armor mines to jury rigged artillery shells. A lot found in Jordan's area were in abandoned cars. The enemy would take 2 or 3 155mm artillery shells and wire them together. Most were detonated by cell phone, and the explosions are enormous. You're not safe in any vehicle, even an M1 tank. Driving is by far the most dangerous thing our guys do over there. Lately, they are much more sophisticated "shape charges" (Iranian) specifically designed to penetrate armor. Fact: Most of the ready made IED's are supplied by Iran, who is also providing terrorists (Hezbollah types) to train the insurgents in their use and tactics. That's why the attacks have been so deadly lately. Their concealment methods are ingenious, the latest being shape charges in Styrofoam containers spray painted to look like the cinderblocks that litter all Iraqi roads. We find about 40% before they detonate, and the bomb disposal guys are unsung heroes of this war.
4) Mortars and rockets: Very prevalent. The soviet era 122mm rockets (with an 18km range) are becoming more prevalent. One of Jordan's NCO's lost a leg to one. These weapons cause a lot of damage "inside the wire". Jordan's base was hit almost daily his entire time there by mortar and rocket fire, often at night to disrupt sleep patterns and cause fatigue (It did). More of a psychological weapon than anything else. The enemy mortar teams would jump out of vehicles, fire a few rounds, and then haul *** in a matter of seconds.
5) Bad guy technology: Simple yet effective. Most communication is by cell and satellite phones, and also by email on laptops. They use handheld GPS units for navigation and "Google earth" for overhead views of our positions. Their weapons are good, if not fancy, and prevalent. Their explosives and bomb technology is TOP OF THE LINE. Night vision is rare. They are very careless with their equipment and the captured GPS units and laptops are treasure troves of Intel when captured.
Who are the bad guys?:
Most of the carnage is caused by the Zarqawi Al Qaeda group. They operate mostly in Anbar province (Fallujah and Ramadi). These are mostly "foreigners", non-Iraqi Sunni Arab Jihadists from all over the Muslim world (and Europe). Most enter Iraq through Syria (with, of course, the knowledge and complicity of the Syrian govt.) , and then travel down the "rat line" which is the trail of towns along the Euphrates River that we've been hitting hard for the last few months. Some are virtually untrained young Jihadists that often end up as suicide bombers or in "sacrifice squads".
Most, however, are hard core terrorists from all the usual suspects (Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas etc.) These are the guys running around murdering civilians en masse and cutting heads off. The Chechens (many of whom are Caucasian), are supposedly the most ruthless and the best fighters. (they have been fighting the Russians for years). In the Baghdad area and south, most of the insurgents are Iranian inspired (and led) Iraqi Shiites. The Iranian Shiia have been very adept at infiltrating the Iraqi local govt.'s, the police forces and the Army. The have had a massive spy and agitator network there since the Iran-Iraq war in the early 80's. Most of the Saddam loyalists were killed, captured or gave up long ago.
Bad Guy Tactics:
When they are engaged on an infantry level they get their asses kicked every time. Brave, but stupid. Suicidal Banzai-type charges were very common earlier in the war and still occur. They will literally sacrifice 8-10 man teams in suicide squads by sending them screaming and firing Ak's andRPG's directly at our bases just to probe the defenses. They get mowed down like grass every time. (see the M2 and M240 above). Jordan's base was hit like this often. When engaged, they have a tendency to flee to the same building, probably for what they think will be a glorious last stand.
Instead, we call in air and that's the end of that more often than not. These hole-ups are referred to as Alpha Whiskey Romeo's (Allah's Waiting Room). We have the laser guided ground-air thing down to a science. The fast mover's, mostly Marine F-18's, are taking an ever increasing toll on the enemy. When caught out in the open, the helicopter gunships and AC-130 Spectre gunships cut them to ribbons with cannon and rocket fire, especially at night. Interestingly, artillery is hardly used at all.
Fun fact: The enemy death toll is supposedly between 45-50 thousand. That is why we're seeing less and less infantry attacks and more IED, suicide bomber ****.
The new strategy is simple: attrition.
The insurgent tactic most frustrating is their use of civilian non-combatants as cover. They know we do all we can to avoid civilian casualties and therefore schools, hospitals and (especially) Mosques are locations where they meet, stage for attacks, cache weapons and ammo and flee to when engaged. They have absolutely no regard whatsoever for civilian casualties. They will terrorize locals and murder without hesitation anyone believed to be sympathetic to the Americans or the new Iraqi govt. Kidnapping of family members (especially children) is common to influence people they are trying to influence but cant reach, such as local govt. officials, clerics, tribal leaders, etc.).
The first thing our guys are told is "don't get captured". They know that if captured they will be tortured and beheaded on the internet. Zarqawi openly offers bounties for anyone who brings him a live American serviceman. This motivates the criminal element who otherwise don't give a **** about the war. A lot of the beheading victims were actually kidnapped by common criminals and sold to Zarqawi. As such, for our guys, every fight is to the death. Surrender is not an option.
The Iraqi's are a mixed bag. Some fight well, others aren't worth a ****. Most do okay with American support. Finding leaders is hard, but they are getting better. It is widely viewed that Zarqawi's use of suicide bombers, en masse, against the civilian population was a serious tactical mistake. Many Iraqi's were galvanized and the caliber of recruits in the Army and the police forces went up, along with their motivation. It also led to an exponential increase in good intel because the Iraqi's are sick of the insurgent attacks against civilians. The Kurds are solidly pro-Americanand fearless fighters.
According to Jordan, morale among our guys is very high. They not only believe they are winning, but that they are winning decisively. They are stunned and dismayed by what they see in the American press, whom they almost universally view as against them. The embedded reporters are despised and distrusted. They are inflicting casualties at a rate of 20-1 and then see **** like "Are we losing in Iraq" on TV and the print media.
For the most part, they are satisfied with their equipment, food and leadership. Bottom line though, and they all say this, there are not enough guys there to drive the final stake through the heart of the insurgency, primarily because there aren't enough troops in-theater to shut down the borders with Iran and Syria. The Iranians and the Syrians just can't stand the thought of Iraq being an American ally (with, of course, permanent US bases there).
G-d bless you man, bless you and your brothers and keep you safe. Thinking of you everyday - Pamela
More here on the Gun pictured above.
Download USMarinestakingoutAfghanisnipers0-2121.wmv shows the Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle in action. Hat tip Moody
So many heros, so litte time. Go over to Solomonia here . Fayrouz has an excellent interview with Lisa Ramachi, widow of murdered author Steven Vincent, the man who's blog deserved to be voted most missed. See my sidebar under true heros to read Vincent's words.
I met Lisa at the OSM Pajama Media launch, quite a woman.What she had, what she lost and she is Steven's flame. She assumed his mantle and carries on with his work.
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 09, 2005 at 10:15 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Iraq, Simmering Civil War in America, US MILITARY GREATNESS, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (36) | TrackBack (6)
Islamic Society of Boston in bed with Al Qaeda
The New York Sun does it again, warriors in the War against Radical Islamofascism:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT TARS ALAMOUDI, FOUNDER OF THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF BOSTON
— Concern is mounting over the connections between a Boston Islamic group and a high-profile Muslim activist, Abdurahman Alamoudi, after a recent statement by the federal government that Mr. Alamoudi had a “close relationship” with Al Qaeda and that he raised money for Al Qaeda in America.
Alamoudi — who is serving a 23-year sentence in federal prison after having pleaded guilty in 2004 to participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah — is also a founder of the Islamic Society of Boston.The society is now embroiled in a bitter legal dispute over the society’s efforts to build a mosque with the aid of public subsidies.
That lawsuit, according to journalists and terrorism investigators, is part of a larger trend of litigation by Muslim groups that is having a “chilling effect” on the ability to report domestic ties to terrorism.
A senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,Andrew Mc-Carthy,asserted these sorts of defamation and libel lawsuits were part of a “concerted effort”by Muslim groups to intimidate investigators.“If you say anything borderline critical of them they sort of bare their fangs and threaten to sue,”Mr.McCarthy, a former federal attorney who prosecuted the case against the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, said.
A spokeswoman for the Council on American Islamic Relations, Rabiah Ahmed, acknowledged that lawsuits had increasingly become an “instrument” used by the Muslim community. “The Muslim community realizes that it has to respond to these allegations and to these attacks, otherwise, the people who are promoting these defamatory remarks will win in the court of public opinion,” Ms. Ahmed said.
Questioning whether Alamoudi’s identification by the federal government as an Al Qaeda fund-raiser in America might have implications for the Islamic Society of Boston, Mr. Cooper added, “is just such classic overreaching and guilt by fabricated association as part of an intolerant attitude toward Muslims that it is perfectly illustrative of why this lawsuit has been brought.”
The David Project, however, points to an online petition — available at www.petitiononline.com/alamoudi/ petition.html, and signed by a “Dr. Osama Kandil” of Herndon,Va., identifying the imprisoned Alamoudi as “our community leader” and calling for his release — as a sign of potential ongoing connections between Alamoudi and the ISB. The Dr. Osama Kandil who serves as one of the trustees of the ISB and who brought the lawsuits against the Herald and Fox divides his time between Egypt and Herndon,Va.
This too is part of the larger war on terror and radical Islam. So many fronts so little time
More on the David Project here and here. While you are at it may I suggest you send the David Project a donation to help pay these humongous legal bills. I am, right now. What say you?
Photo: MUSLIM ACTIVIST Abdurahim Alamoudi, seen here in 2002 protesting outside the White House, is currently serving a 23-year sentence in a federal prison. JAMAL WILSON/AFP
UPDATE: Critics of mosque plan seek review
They question ties of society founder
By Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff | December 9, 2005
Critics of the Islamic Society of Boston's efforts to build a mosque on land purchased from the Boston Redevelopment Authority asked the City Council yesterday to review the deal, citing new information linking a fund-raiser for the Al Qaeda network to the society.
Jeffrey Robbins, the lawyer representing a research group and a Boston College associate professor who oppose the project, asked Councilor Jerry P. McDermott to order hearings based on a US Treasury Department document issued in July that indicates that a man who helped found the society in 1982 raised about $1 million for two groups associated with Al Qaeda.
[The Islamic Society of Boston, which plans to build the largest mosque in the Northeast, has long-standing ties with those suspected of funding terrorism.]
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 09, 2005 at 04:45 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, Islam: The War on Jihad, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
We Shoot! We Score!! The Patriot Act
OK, altogether now, E-X-H-A-L-E, score one for the good guys. CONGRESS AGREES TO EXTEND PATRIOT ACT.
Despite CAIR's, The Enemy Anti-Patriots best efforts, key Republicans from the House and Senate reached a White House-backed compromise Thursday to renew the broad powers granted to law enforcement agencies in the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil.
Senator Russell Feingold, a Democrat of Wisconsin, threatened to filibuster a bill he said lacked adequate safeguards to protect constitutional freedoms. [Mr Feingold, you are an inadequate safeguard to my freedom to live free without fear, putz- Atlas]
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the measure would assist “in the detection, disruption and dismantling of terrorist cells before they strike.”
Important parts involve the ability of law enforcement officials to gain access to a wealth of personal data, including library records, as part of investigations into suspected terrorist activity. — Associated Press
More here on the architect of the Patriot Act ,John Ashcroft, pictured above with Atlas
This must be the free speech the left is worried about.........hat tip Paul T
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 09, 2005 at 03:06 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
The only Good thing in the UN: BOLTON!
Bolton is in the house!
U.S. Blasts Security Council for Failing to Condemn Terror Attack in Israel - Peter Heinlein
U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton issued a statement Tuesday unequivocally condemning the bomb attack in the Israeli town of Netanya that killed at least five people. The unusual action came after a U.S. attempt to have the statement issued by the Security Council was rejected. Bolton blamed Algeria for quashing the measure by objecting to a passage urging Syria to close offices of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which claims responsibility for the attack. "You have to speak up in response to these terrorist attacks. It's a great shame that the Security Council couldn't speak to this terrorist attack in Netanya, but if the Council won't speak, the United States will," he said.
The left can't stand this guy. Is it any wonder? Moral clarity is their greatest enemy.
And Kofi? What's worse than his duplitious inaction? His duplitious actions......
U.N. Fires Highly Regarded Elections Chief U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Monday criticized Secretary-General Kofi Annan's intention to fire his election unit director only 10 days before polls in Iraq.
"When the head of the office responsible for the U.N.'s role in elections is being subject to (removal), at least in press reports, you need to ask the question, 'What effect it will have on the ground in Iraq?"' said Bolton, who has repeatedly criticized U.N. management.
The fired Perelli, 48, became a star at the world body for supervising polls in dangerous places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
Undermining the election effort in Iraq. This guy is still untempered after the unprecedented oil for food scandals, sex abuse scandals of UN workers and the UN'covering up sexual assault charges and moving those workers to other parts of the world. Uh huh. And yet he fires this tough well respected woman for on unsubstantiated charges of sexual harassment, while keeping pedophiles on the payroll?
"Sending John Bolton to the U.N. behind the Senate's back is a mistake in every respect.," Mr. Biden said. uh, yeah ok Joe
Bolton Threatens to Hold Up U.N. Budget to Speed Up Reforms
oh and BTW what have the Palistinians done to apprehend the murderers in the Netanya bombing? What they always do...........
PA Police Give Up on Islamic Jihad Arrests - Khaled Abu Toameh
Hours after Monday's terror attack, PA security forces tried unsuccessfully to detain an Islamic Jihad terrorist in Jenin. Eyewitnesses said scores of Fatah and Islamic Jihad gunmen, backed by many civilians, foiled the attempt. Local members of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's armed wing, voiced support for the suicide attack.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 11:16 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Kofi Annan aka Coffee Enema, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (5)
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
"wear jeans, eat doughnuts and always carry your Walkman."
Pipes in JWR has an interesting (/tag) development in the radicalization of modern Islam. I can not lie I posted this piece because I wanted that headline, but seriously this does not bode well. Not at all.... it implies a whole new tactical approach must be taken to national security. Less on immigration, more on domestic human intel. Makes Jamie Gorelick (of the infamous Gorelick memo) look like a total *** yesterday at the closing ceremonies of the 9/11 commission (thank Gd, what an awful waste but the Dhemmis must be crying that their vaudeville show closed)
Islamist terror organizations particularly prize converts. They know the local culture and blend in. They cannot be deported. They can hide their religious affiliation by avoiding mosques, lying low, even drinking alcohol and taking drugs to maintain their cover. One guide counsels would-be suicide bombers going to Iraq to "wear jeans, eat doughnuts and always carry your Walkman."
Actually the walkman is a dead give aawy, who uses those anymore? Next it will be 8 tracks. Whe you see old technology, call the FBI.
Even better, Check out my favorite feminist, Phyllis Chesler writing of the TRUTH ON TRIAL :
am talking about The Culture War, the war that must be fought to oppose the campaign of lies and propaganda that Islamists and western Stalinists launched against the West, beginning with Israel, arguably anywhere from forty to seventy years ago.
The Culture War is a very hot war: no prisoners are taken, no mercy is shown And there are now penalties for trying to tell the truth about the danger of jihad or about the barbaric and pathological nature of militant Islam today. Indeed, if you try to discuss the Islamic religious and gender apartheid and its dangerous proliferation into Europe and North America (i.e. there have been honor killings in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Jersey City, Toronto, as well as all over Europe and in the Muslim world), this is what will happen to you:
If you tell these truths in the Arab and Muslim world, you’ll be beheaded, probably tortured, certainly jailed, exiled if you are lucky. Many Muslim and Christian dissidents have suffered precisely this fate. There are no more Jews there, the Islamist Caliphate has rendered the entire Middle East Judenrein long ago. Try to say this in Europe and you might be butchered, as Theo Von Gogh was, or simply imprisoned in purdah, veiled, or threatened, forced to go into hiding, or honor-murdered as so many Muslim girls and women are.
I love Phyllis, while you're at it, buy her book, it is hot off the presses
The Death of Feminism : What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 at 02:54 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Wal-Mart: America's Persecuted Minority, Big Business
The Wal-mart movement is a political fraud, Wal-mart has saved towns (all the way back to Bentonville, Arkansas).
In a fully free economy, all development is controlled by individuals. I always found it fascinating that Wal-mart would emerge from the South. The South is the one part of America that has never been capitalist. Rand held that it was agrarian - and had more in common with collective feudalism than individual capitalism, which was why the South held onto slavery so long. And if you think about it, capitalism wiped out slavery in the 1800s.
The anti Wal-mart movements are dangerous. Big union backed, this represents the tendency to move toward dictatorship policy and collectivism, and away from freedom.
The left keeping Wal-mart out of the hands of the poor for the good of the poor is at once elitism at its worst. From Ted Kennedy no less. The man never worked a day in his life and no less about the value of a dollar than my 8 year old (actually she knows more). Teddy "I can swim but she can't" Kennedy waxing poetic on Wal-mart.
We must free the most essential and productive group in our society - businesspeople. I believe in free collective bargaining, not forced union. If people want to organize into a group and bargain collectively - cool. That is their right. Today's labor movement against Wal-mart is an attempt to to force people to join, or force Wal-mart to negotiate with them. I see that as the violation of rights.
I make no secret of my support and position on Wal-mart. I own no stock in Wal-mart, do not shop at Wal-mart - as the city council stopped the proposed Wal-mart store in the NYC area and so I have no private agenda, only that as an American wishing to preserve the Declaration of Independence, the greatest document in human history. Look how much this nation achieved so long as it stood by its principles. Namely, freedom. The parallels between the collapse of Western Civilization and the collapse of Rome are obvious. The growth of taxation and government control caused the collapse of Rome, the same thing is happening today.
"We need not give in to the barbarians, but they are certainly waiting anxiously" Ayn Rand.
Fear and Loathing Wal-Mart The high cost of progress. Rich Lowry NRO
A new documentary, Wal-Mart: Ths High Cost of Low Price trashes the much-maligned discount retailer. What the company’s executives are now encountering is the high cost of progress. The political reaction against Wal-Mart is the latest iteration of the fear and loathing that greets any major innovation in American retailing.
A new paper from the Competitive Enterprise Institute details the long history of resistance to retail advances. In the late 19th century, the advent of department stores caused outrage. The same reaction met the rise of mail-order catalogs, which were burned in public at the behest of local retailers. The rise of chain stores in the 1920s also inflamed local merchants, who claimed that they threatened "the future of the children."
Now, it’s Wal-Mart’s turn. Founder Sam Walton realized that by offering customers discount prices he could make more profits based on increased volume. Hence, the Wal-Mart revolution, and the movement against it that The High Cost celebrates. Wal-Mart is faring the film surprisingly well, since its release has coincided with the publication of studies that debunk the image of the company crucifying its employees on a cross of low wages and nonexistent benefits as it forces them onto welfare.
The first thing to know about low price is that it has a wonderfully low cost for Wal-Mart customers, a category that includes 8 in 10 Americans a year. A study by Global Insight — paid by Wal-Mart to study the company’s economic effects, but granted independence — estimated that Wal-Mart lowered the consumer price index by 3.1 percent between 1985 and 2004, making for $263 billion in consumer savings by 2004. In a widely cited report, Jason Furman of New York University notes that Wal-Mart and other discount stores make "consumers better off by the equivalent of 25 percent of annual food spending."
But only at the price of wage slavery? No, Wal-Mart’s average wage of roughly $9 an hour is on par with other retailers. Because the jobs tend to be low-skill, retail workers earn less than the average wage for all U.S. workers. According to Furman, this has been the case for the past 20 years and holds true even in areas without Wal-Marts.
Read it all and make sure you read my Thanksgiving day piece on why Wal-mart is the best of America and must be allowed to operate freely in the marketplace. An economy of abundance works, not an economy of scarcity! Read Basquiat, Economic Sophisms.
UPDATE: Tangential but on point and spot on;
"[A]nywhere other than Antarctica and a few sparsely inhabited islands, the first condition for a healthy environment is a strong economy. In the past third of a century, the American economy has swollen by 150 per cent, automobile traffic has increased by 143 per cent, and energy consumption has grown 45 per cent. During this same period, air pollutants have declined by 29 per cent, toxic emissions by 48.5 per cent, sulphur dioxide levels by 65.3 per cent, and airborne lead by 97.3 per cent. Despite signing on to Kyoto, European greenhouse gas emissions have increased since 2001, whereas America's emissions have fallen by nearly one per cent, despite the Toxic Texan's best efforts to destroy the planet" -- columnist Mark Steyn, writing in the Daily Telegraph of London.
This from the demon seed, Rush Limbaugh;
Only the Rich Pay Taxes
The Top 50% pay 96.54% of All Income Taxes
The Top 1% Pay More Than a Third: 34.27%
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 at 01:29 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Wal-Mart: Warfare on Big Business | Permalink | Comments (19) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, December 05, 2005
Howard Dean: Slap that *****!
Bitchslap Howard Dean who said in a San Antonio radio show intervieww today "the idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong.”
We done won it already, loser.
27 million free Iraqis, 9,000 whining murderers. With friends like you those murderers can't help but lose. Traitor -Atlas
Astute Pundit fisks Dean here, go now
My man Rocco does a number over at the American Thinker
Howard Dean partially resurrected the rotting corpse of the 1960s. By saying that America cannot win in Iraq, even though indications are that it is winning in Iraq, he spit on its soldiers, on its President and on its patriots. He also gave America’s enemies hope during this time of war.Democratic Party Chairman Dean now joins the growing list of traitorous leftists and un-Americans that call his Party home.
Photo:www.digitalbrownshirt.blogspot.com/
UPDATE: Hey guys, its a joke. Helllllllllllllllllllllo, its F-U-N-N-Y (even if Dean's remarks were far from funny, futile maybe, treasonous maybe, stupid for sure, humorous - not).
Actually, the pic is hysterical. I never said he was Hitler, never even called him a Nazi. A clown for sure. That's a clown pic - this is a clown pic too.
Conversely, when the left calls Bush Hitler, they are dead serious. You can not compare the two. The above picture is hysterical. You clowns are as bad as the one in the picture. Sheesh.
UPDATE: Another great patriot speaks.
All hail Ted "not to worry I can swim" Kennedy's successor ChuckiE Schumer:
Chuck Schumer: U.S. 'Imposing' Elections on Iraq
Sen. Charles Schumer is predicting failure for Iraq's democratically-elected government, complaining that the vote next week to determine the country's new parliament is being "imposed" on the Iraqi people by the U.S.
"There will be no government in Iraq the way they're trying to structure it now," the New York Democrat told WABC-TV's "Behind the News" on Sunday. "They're going to have these elections but that's sort of being imposed on them." [genius- Atlas]
Schumer questioned the legitimacy of the Iraqi vote despite sky-high turnouts for the country's January and October elections, which saw a higher percentage of voter participation than in U.S. elections.
Hey Chuckie, your new talking points just arrived via video here
My peeps speak, love these guys;
There is no option other than victory. You need to get out and read what our enemies have said ... Their goal is to destroy our way of life."
(12/01/2005) Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffIf we withdraw prematurely from Iraq, there will be civil war, and there is a great probability that others in the neighborhood will come in."
(11/15/2005) Sen. Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senate, (D-CT)
Demonstrating the will to lose as clearly as America did in Vietnam wasn't such a smart move, but since the media can't seem to get beyond this ancient jungle war it may be worth underlining the principal difference: Osama is not Ho Chi Minh, and al-Qa'eda are not the Viet Cong. If you exit, they'll follow. And Americans will die - in foreign embassies, barracks, warships, as they did through the Nineties, and eventually on the streets of US cities, too."
(11/22/2005) Mark Steyn, Syndicated Columnist
Truth or Consequences
If the war is to be lost, it will be a collapse of stateside civilian morale that loses it. Everything else is secondary. David Tell
From the Seraphic Press
Rule # 1 of Peace Movements: They cannot imagine nor confront evil.
Rule # 2 of Peace Movements: They do not care about history.
Rule # 3 of Peace Movements: They are always secretly financed and penetrated by the enemy. hat tip yahoo
Bah dah bing, Bah dah boom
UPDATE: He's French! Country of Origin, incorrect after all. I defer to the New York Post
The New York Post's French Kiss Off for le chump:
Howard Dean sounded like a big French surrender monkey when he said America can't win the war in Iraq.
So The Post raced into action to show the Democratic Party chairman what he can do with his yellow-bellied sentiments.
We put together a heartfelt care package (above) containing everything Dean needs to transform into a fell fledged weasel and we delivered it care of the state Democratic Party's headquarters on Madison Avenue, where the package was accepted. Bill Hoffman
Yeah that works, it's funny and true.
UPDATE: December 9th. This just keeps getting better and better.
Retreat and Defeat, Watch the Video here
UPDATE: Rich really rich...........played the White Flag ad, and now you can watch it too.
Bush rejects Iraq timetable, Republicans assail critics
Reuters via Yahoo! NewsPresident George W. Bush on Friday forcefully rejected a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq as his Republican Party assailed Democratic critics with an ad using the white flag of surrender.
UPDATE DECEMBER 13TH:
"The Democratic Party's national leadership has plumbed a record depth in its search to score points against the Republicans. In the past week and a half, both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have called for the United States to surrender in Iraq. Not since George McGovern in 1972 has one party called for the United States military to surrender to an enemy during wartime.
Some will object to the word, 'surrender' but there is no other word to describe the immediate withdrawal of troops from the war zone in Iraq. The simple fact is that two of the nation's three highest-ranking Democrats are advocating an enemy victory over U.S. forces in a foreign land. That not only is appalling in its contempt for the troops who have died to liberate Iraq, it is astonishing in its brazen disregard for the lives and well-being of the Iraqi people." -- editorial, New Hampshire Union-Leader hat tip WSJ Political Journal
Even traditionally leftwing outlets think he is a maniac... that is one wild and crazy guy.
Posted by Pamela on Monday, December 05, 2005 at 05:40 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (190) | TrackBack (2)
Saturday, December 03, 2005
BOYCOTT THE MARRIOTT
I am calling on the blogosphere to BOYCOTT MARRIOTT HOTELS.
Brigitte Gabriel was good enough to share the latest act of dhimmitude by an American company by capitulating and accommodating CAIR but refusing to serve those of us fighting for America. If the Marriott Corporation wants to operate in America, make money in America, be free to pursue their profits in America, enjoy the freedom of America - then don't stand in the way of the very people putting their asses on the line to make that happen.
*** kissing, terror loving, America hating Marriott - banish them to France!
Check this out:
Brigitte is one of the Keynote speakers at People's Truth Forum anti terrorism conference along with her colleagues Dr. Harvey Kushner, Robert Spencer and Laura Mansfield.
Sleeping with the enemy at the Marriott, Worldnetdaily.com
The Georgetown Marriott Conference Center rejected a "terrorism" symposium on the grounds that the sponsoring organization was too controversial and the venue inappropriate for this type of forum. Concurrently, another Marriott Hotel in the Washington area is hosting the Council on American- Islamic Relations' annual conference ・and participating as a panelist at the gala will be an alleged co conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
[photo toon:ihillary]
According to the Georgetown Marriott executives, the decision to reject the event, being hosted by the People's Truth Forum, or PTF, was based upon business considerations: "The event would call for heightened security since protesters might be attracted from both the student body and off campus. These same protesters might block the front entrance leading to confrontations with hotel guests and/or room cancellations." COWARDS!
After researching the matter, the Marriott's corporate office supported the local decision and issued the following statement: <>"Due to the high density of Muslim students on campus, we're afraid of the potential for violent protests, injured employees and damage to the facility."
According to PTF's president, Jeffrey Epstein, "The People's Truth Forum, a fact-based, non-partisan organization, is dedicated to educating Americans on topics of national security. Controversy and resistance is nothing new to us given our commitment to disseminating 'unpopular' truths."
Epstein added: "Although I don't harbor ill feelings toward the Marriott Corporation for their weak-kneed 'business' decision pertaining to the Georgetown property, I am deeply troubled by the realization that a major American corporation could fear reprisal from enemy sympathizers, within our borders, during a time of war. This situation certainly begs the question as to what degree our national security has already been compromised."
He may not harbor ill feelings but as an American engaged in a world war I surely do - Atlas
Today, CAIR will host its 11th Annual Banquet at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va. CAIR is a self-proclaimed Muslim advocacy group that has its roots in the Palestinian Hamas. CAIR's parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine, was founded by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. CAIR, itself, has had numerous individuals convicted in and/or deported by the United States for terrorist activity. And CAIR is the defendant in a lawsuit put forward by the family of a lead FBI agent for that agent's murder during the September 11 attacks.
CAIR has advertised on its website that it will be featuring Siraj Wahhaj as one of the speakers at the banquet. Wahhaj, an imam at the At-Taqwa Mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., is known for having his name on the U.S. attorney's list of potential coconspirators of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Two of the individuals convicted in the bomb plot, Omar Abdel Rahman (the leader of the conspiracy) and Clement Rodney Hampton-El (an expert bomb maker), worshipped at Wahhaj's mosque. Wahhaj was also a character witness for Abdel Rahman at the 1995 trial against him.
What does this say about our current state of affairs, when one of the largest American corporations is willing to silence an ally and give voice to the enemy? It says that we, as a nation, are on a dangerous path that only starts with appeasement, yet ends in our destruction. If the Marriott is a test case for the future consciousness of America, then we can be assured that we will have no future.
Update: December 4th Boycott
Marriott's email Webform with which you can mail comments and complaints.
Marriott's phone, snail mail and fax contact info page.
Contact and info page about the Georgetown Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.
simon.cooper@marriott.com - Simon Cooper, Divisional President
thomas.marder@marriott.com -- Thomas Marder, unsure of position or current status at the company.
Give the people at the specific hotel grief as well, so they can report the feedback to corporate HQ second-hand.
Here's a good email address to send your opinions to: investorrelations@marriott.com
Want to drive Marriott into corporate insanity? Just claim that they're being RACIST for implying that Muslims are more violent than other groups.
Send those emails. Act like a liberal or a Muslim. Say you are outraged that Marriott thinks Muslims are violent and bases their policy on their racist attitudes.
Marriott's public relations department will have a serious epidemic of Exploding Head Syndrome.
General Corporate information;
Marriott International, Inc., (NYSE:MAR) is a leading worldwide hospitality company with nearly 2,700 operating units in the United States and 65 other countries and territories.
Marriott Lodging operates and franchises hotels under the following brands:
Marriott Hotels & Resorts
JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts
Renaissance Hotels & Resorts
Courtyard by Marriott
Residence Inn by Marriott
Fairfield Inn by Marriott
Marriott Conference Centers
TownePlace Suites by Marriott
SpringHill Suites by Marriott
Marriott Vacation Club International
Horizons by Marriott
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.
The Ritz-Carlton Club
Marriott ExecuStay
Marriott Executive Apartments
Marriott Grand Residence Club
Zombie over at LGF decoded the general email address system within Marriott -- firstname.lastname@marriott.com. Thus, the following emails probably work, based on the official list of their corporate execs:
carl.berquist@marriott.com
edwin.fuller@marriott.com
gilbert.grosvenor@marriott.com
brendan.keegan@marriott.com
lawrence.kellner@marriott.com
nextmike came up with press whores PR people:
PR Contact Info for Marriott. Write them!
elizabeth.caminiti@marriott.com
colleen.evans@marriott.com
mark.indre@marriott.com
thomas.marder@marriott.com
june.farrell@marriott.com
No guarantees, but worth a try. Just cut and paste them in. Just use the same system for any of the names (leaving out middle initials) on the list of corporate officers linked to above.
Spread the love around.
Jim wrote me and wanted me to know that he was disgusted by Marriott's dhimmitude. The
domain name that he has registered BOYCOTTMARRIOTT.COM is available to a Responsible group or organization who plans to organize and coordinate such a boycott.
CAN ANYBODY HELP ME PUT THIS BABY TOGETHER?
hat tip Zombie for all of the contact info, bless you man and Judith at Kesher
UPDATE: Call John WOLF and howl!
Subj: Out of Office AutoReply: Boycotting the Marriott
Date: 12/4/2005 11:27:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: Thomas.Marder@marriott.com
To: AtlasShrugs2000@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
I am out of the office on Friday, December 2 and will not be checking email. Please call John Wolf at 301 380 5718 for immediate assistance.
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, December 03, 2005 at 03:36 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (25) | TrackBack (1)
Friday, December 02, 2005
Got Proof?
The most significant proof of Bush's begrudged, resented successes hit me like a pie in the face.
Last night I attended a rather glam fundraiser for the Michael S. Modell Memorial Awards Dinner Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America hosted by the Modell family, of the ginormous Modell retailing family. I am loathe to attend these functions and rarely- if ever go - but these are wonderful people and the huge attendance and ourpouring of support is a testament to their good will and character.
That said, I attended despite my antipathy to these types of social gatherings. I loathe tiny talk.
True to my nature I hated it but what dumbfounded me, truly truly left me astonished, was the lack of any real concern or knowledge on any of the attendees parts for Radical Islamofascism (radical whaaaaat?) the War on Terror, the impending nuclear Iran - mind you these were not the uneducated or uninvolved people. These were Masters of the Universe, big swingin *****. And like I said hugely attended.
These were the very same people that stood on the streets of 9/11 and watched in horrified awe and wept as those giant edifices cascaded to the ground vaporizing thousands of fellow New Yorkers and citizens of the world.
These were the same people that kept looking over there shoulders after 9/11 for months, years - anticipating the next terror attack. Anthrax! Bioterror! These were the same left blue state New Yorkers that placed a godlike status on Rudy Guiliani, rendering unto him a reverential respect.
These were those people. Bush has been so successful, 9/11 has now become a "a couple of jerks that got lucky"( is how one of those Masters referred to al qaida 9/11). Imagine that. Who'd a thunk it? It made me sick.
Who could have imagined that Bush could become in the this leftist world a victim of his own success?
And the threat is so far from over, from the infamous doomsday clock ticking in Iran to
Nuclear Terrorism by Graham Allison an informed analysis of the atomic weapons that have gone AWOL from Soviet arsenals and of the keenness of groups like al-Qaeda to obtain and deploy them. Billionaire businessman Warren Buffet is quoted as saying that a nuclear terrorist attack is "the ultimate depressing thing. It will happen. It's inevitable. I don't see that it won't happen."’
Democrats' war criticism irresponsible - more here with predictable bias from CCN.
The White House called irresponsible those Democrats who said that President George W. Bush lacked a strategy on Iraq.
Continued Reconstruction Success from 15 Nov to 27 Nov 05
1. Completion of police stations in Babil, Basrah, Erbil, Kirkuk Ninewa, and Salah ad Din Provinces, and a holding facility in Al Muthanna Province will provide approximately 250,000 people a safer environment and greater security as police operate from these improved facilities.
2. The completion of renovations to 12 schools in Baghdad, Basrah, and Al Anbar Provinces will equal a better learning environment and brighter future for over 7,200 Iraqi schoolchildren and 50 teachers.
3. Over 29 km of new roads between Qadisiya, Province and WassitProvince will provide a safer travel route for farming villages to transport their crops to the market and reaching larger towns such as Baghdad.
4. 500,000 people annually will benefit from six renovated railroad station in Qadisiyah Province will provide protection from the environment while the passengers wait to board the train and for the stationmaster to schedule freight movements.
5. 150,000 residents between Baghdad,, Ninewa, and Wassit Provincenow enjoy more reliable electricity as their 15 km of electrical power feeder were installed to local distribution substations.
6. 80,000 people between Maysan, Najaf, and Ninewa Provinces now enjoy potable water with the installation of three compact water units and repair of 27 km of water line.
7. Four border forts in Maysan Province and two border forts in Al Anbar Province will increase the security along the border with Iran and Saudia Arabia, allow for the proper training of the border police, and provide additional logistical support for border patrols.
8. The completion of a Port of Entry in Ninewa province will expedite the safe passage of thousands of vehicles and persons traveling between Iran and Syria daily.
9. Fire stations in Al Anbar, Basrah, Diyala, and Kirkuk Provinces will increase fire security for 100,000 residents in local towns and provide an excellent training facility for firefighters.
10. Completion of cluster pump station is part of an overall project to restore water injection to pre-war levels. The water injection infrastructure is critical to providing adequate pressure on the oil reservoir in the Rumaylah field and has a direct impact on crude oil production output.
Saddam Hussein: The big black book of horrors. (Hat tip: Lady of Shalott at LGF)
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 02, 2005 at 02:13 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, Iraq, Republicans, Get a Clue, September the 11th, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Run Hillary Run.......Everyone else Run For your Very Lives
This is the game plan........Run Bill, get Hill elected.........he won't have a word to say when the evil deed is done mind you, it will be Hillary's sandbox all the way. Don't for one second underestimate Billary.
Why America would even consider a ticket with Bill implied as partner, is testimony to the perverse power the MSM still holds over the American People. Frankly it is neck and neck as to who was worse for this country and the free world, Jimmuh or Bill (see sidebar Fifth Column).
But remember, this is who she is;
Senator Clinton wrote to supporters on Tuesday, "Based on the information that we have today, Congress never would have been asked to give the President authority to use force against Iraq. And if Congress had been asked, based on what we know now, we never would have agreed, given the lack of a long-term plan, paltry international support, the proven absence of weapons of mass destruction, and the reallocation of troops and resources that might have been used in Afghanistan to eliminate Bin Laden and al Qaeda, and fully uproot the Taliban." For those of us who have expressed admiration for Mrs. Clinton's votes both for the war and for the $87 billion to fight it that Senators Kerry and Edwards voted against, it's a sickening reversal. She's saying, in retrospect, that the war was a mistake.
And even worse, now Human-Car-Alarm Susan Estrich, a law professor and former campaign manager for Michael Dukakis in 1988, has written a book called "The Case for Hillary Clinton," in which she argues her election would be a liberal "dream" and prevent a complete conservative takeover of the Supreme Court.
She even disses Time columnist Joe Klein, who says Hillary should stay in the Senate so her presidential campaign doesn't turn into "a revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990's." Ms. Estrich shot back: "Since when do columnists get off telling the candidate who is ahead in every poll that she's wrong to run?"
Hey Susan the Right has been wondering for years where columnists get off doing lots of the things they do - the least of which is voicing their opinion - Atlas
Ms. Mapes soldiers on, peddling her line that she and Dan Rather were victims of a conservative cyber-lynch mob that CBS caved to. But for someone who dishes it out in her book, Ms. Mapes isn't exactly eager to confront her critics.
[her book has] been trashed by CBS as "revisionist history" and slammed by both the Columbia and American Journalism Reviews, hardly bastions of conservative sentiment. John Fund, WSJ Political Diary
How persuasive is the media sway? 43% of the Country Believes We’re in a Recession, Pouting Pundits of Pessimism
Tom at BizzyBlog went to the source for the "in recession stat" and found that:
- 35% rate the national economy as excellent, very good, or good and 63% rate it as bad, very bad, or terrible.
- 13% say that the economy is getting better, 36% say it is staying the same, and 50% say it is getting worse.
- 17% say they believe the economy will be better a year from now, 20% say it will be the same, 61% say it will be worse, and 2% are undecided.
This is beyond absurd, given the REAL economy we're in, and I blame the WORMs (Worn-Out Reactionary Media, known to most as the MSM) read it all at BizzyBlog (btw the best business blog, IMHO)
UPDATE: DECEMBER 5th: From the Desk of Peter Paul
Re: Paul v. Clinton et al,
Holding Hillary Clinton Accountable for Campaign Finance Fraud in Hiding $1.2 Million I Contributed to Her 2000 Senate Campaign.
Dear Friends,
Earlier this year, the federal government prosecuted Hillary Clinton's campaign finance chairman, David Rosen, for election fraud, in a case based on my "whistle-blowing."
Rosen was not convicted. However, jurors publicly stated that they believed that there had been wrongdoing committed by Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate Campaign, but they were not convinced that Rosen was behind it. I agree with the jury's conclusion that a "higher up" was involved. I know that "higher up" is Hillary Clinton. I know, because the $1.2 million in-kind contribution that Hillary Clinton hid from the voters of New York and the Federal Election Commission was my personal contribution to her campaign. I know that she caused false statements to be made to the Washington Post, and three fraudulent reports to the Federal Election Commission, in order to hide my identity and the amount that I contributed, in violation of various Federal laws.
Although only David Rosen was criminally prosecuted for her actions, Hillary Clinton is currently a defendant in the first ever civil lawsuit against a Senator and a President for fraud--the historic civil suit I have pending in a California Superior Court. The Clintons conspired to use a business deal that I was negotiating with President Clinton to induce me to become Hillary's largest contributor through three fund-raisers I produced and underwrote. This included the largest fundraising event of her campaign, the Hollywood Gala Farewell Salute to President Clinton, which was the centerpiece of the Rosen criminal trial.
The biggest legal defeat experienced by the Clintons, since Paula Jones won the right to sue a sitting President, has been the validation of my civil fraud suit against both Clintons by the California Supreme Court, when it rejected David Kendall's appeals to throw my case out. On October 14, 2005, a California Court of Appeal again denied a request by Mr. Kendall that Senator Clinton be dismissed as a defendant from the case. Now I am poised to begin discovery and prepare for a trial of both Clintons on the subject that will expose Hillary Clinton's personal misconduct in orchestrating the campaign finance fraud that assured her election to the U.S. Senate. But to continue my fight in this landmark civil fraud action - which will once and for all convict Hillary Clinton in the court of public opinion for her misconduct and doom her chances for election to higher office - I urgently need your help.
PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THE HILLARY ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT.
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 02, 2005 at 12:47 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (1)
CAIR The Enemy Anti-Patriots and The Patriot Act
CAIR Launches Patriot Act Blog
Isn't it ironic that I come upon the following news item having just dined with the architect of the Venerable Patriot Act? Fortuitous indeed. The blog may look innocuous here , but it is diabolical in its objective.
One of our most effective weapons on the War on Radical Islamofascism is under attack again from the largest muslim group in America. CAIR Launches Patriot Act Blog. CAIR is a dangerous organization.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Inc., filed a defamation lawsuit against Andrew Whitehead, of Anti-CAIR (or ACAIR), a grass-roots project whose name explains its mission: to expose the largest, most vocal, and dangerous Islamist organization in North America.
CAIR's March 2004 lawsuit is part of what seems to be a policy of using the legal process to silence or chill critics. In this case, CAIR claimed it had been harmed by six statements on CAIR'S website, including CAIR's being founded by Hamas supporters, being partially funded by terrorists, and intending to impose Islamic law on the United States. More here and read
CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense.
Here is the copy from CAIR's press release in the guise of a news article;
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today launched a "blog," or Internet journal, focusing on the negative civil liberties impact of the USA Patriot Act currently up for renewal in Congress.
[there has been no negative impact, none, the only impact has been POSITIVE, shutting down islamic terrorists operating inside this country - Atlas]
undefined blog, located at CAIRPatriotAct, offers information about the unsupervised domestic surveillance powers contained in the legislation and suggests ways in which voters can express their concerns to elected officials. It will be updated daily with new information. (Automatic updates can be sent to newsreader software using the Atom URL: CAIRPatriotAct ATOM. For newsreader information, go to: www.AtomEnabled.org) [they are certainly using all the up-to-the-minute state of the art technology - American ingenuity at its very best - Atlas]
In 2003, CAIR joined five other advocacy and community groups in mounting a constitutional challenge to the section of the Patriot Act that vastly expanded the FBI's power to spy on ordinary people. [Radical Islamic terrorists are not my idea of "normal people" =Atlas]
Sixteen provisions of the Patriot Act are due to expire at the end of December. A House-Senate compromise on renewal was derailed just before Thanksgiving. The renewal process will be concluded within the next few weeks.
Readers of mine, I beg you to write to your congressman and women and demand they vote to renew the much needed Patriot Act.
I just wrote the following 24 hours ago............remember me and my man John at Columbia?
When asked: Ashcroft on the Patriot Act 12/01/05
"There has been not been one single case in America............Diane Feinstein testified before the Senate committee that she had received 20,000 letters complaining about everything from soup to nuts and Feinstein had her staff go through every one of those letters. And not one , not one even simple case of abuse. Not one. And Feinstien called the ACLU and asked them for a specific example and she said they couldn't name one."
"The Patriot Act was very helpful to us in the Lackawanna case. in the Cortland [the 2003 trial charging subjects with material support to Al Queda in Portland, Oregon. This exceptional investigation by the FBI and other agencies is described on the FBI Portland Field office web site hat tip MarcH] it's helpful in lowering the barrier between law enforcement and intelligence and allows for the prosecution of individuals charged in the murder of American citizens in Israel in buses that were blown up in Israel...................."
undefined is America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 31 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. CAIR has been named as a Defendant in 9/11 Terror Lawsuit .
Pulling down the "firewall" dividing law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
This may sound technical, but it greatly enhanced American capabilities. For years, legal investigators pursued information that their colleagues in the intelligence agencies already had. It was like "having your best football players sitting on the bench when you are having your butts beat," notes Barry Carmody, an FBI agent who worked on the Sami Al-Arian terrorism case. Then the Patriot Act was passed and "Everything changed." More here
Posted by Pamela on Friday, December 02, 2005 at 02:53 AM in CAIR, Council of thugs and gangstas, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Mark of a Traitor
Senator Clinton wrote to supporters on Tuesday,
"Based on the information that we have today, Congress never would have been asked to give the President authority to use force against Iraq. And if Congress had been asked, based on what we know now, we never would have agreed, given the lack of a long-term plan, paltry international support, the proven absence of weapons of mass destruction, and the reallocation of troops and resources that might have been used in Afghanistan to eliminate Bin Laden and al Qaeda, and fully uproot the Taliban." For those of us who have expressed admiration for Mrs. Clinton's votes both for the war and for the $87 billion to fight it that Senators Kerry and Edwards voted against, it's a sickening reversal. She's saying, in retrospect, that the war was a mistake.
Foolish foolish woman, no Margaret Thatcher she. Certainly not Presidential material. And most certainly not a war time President.
What a discouraging message for the senator to send to the people of Iraq and to the America soldiers fighting for freedom and against the terrorists. President Clinton and his national security adviser, Samuel Berger, found reason after reason not to take serious military action against the terrorists and their state sponsors, and the result, in part, was the attack of September 11, 2001. Mrs. Clinton still seems stuck in that pre-September 11 mindset. She seems more concerned with protecting her political standing on the anti-war Democratic left than she is with protecting the country and winning the war. Whatever quibbles one may have with Mr. Bush on the execution or strategy of the broader war or his communication of it to the public (we would have preferred a simultaneous emphasis on the Syrian and Iranian fronts, and a call for all Americans to sacrifice), at least the president conveys an understanding of why we are fighting and a steadfastness in battle. Like Corporal Starr, he has made that his mark. [NYS edit]
Speaking of leftard traitors, this from NewsMax;
Bush-bashing filmmaker Michael Moore is denying he ever owned stock in Halliburton Energy Services Company, the oil equipment giant once run by Vice President Dick Cheney that has become an anathema to left-wingers.
Speaking last week at the first annual Paul Wellstone Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C., Moore claimed that the Halliburton allegation in Peter Schweizer's Blockbuster new book "Do As I Say, [Not As I Do]," is "crazy."
"Michael Moore own Halliburton stock?" the anti-corporate lefty asked the crowd. "See, that's like a great comedy line. I know it's not true - I mean, I've never owned a share of stock in my life."
Moore protested: "Anybody who knows me knows that, you know - who's gonna believe that? Just crazy people are going to believe it - crazy people who tune into the Fox News Channel."
I prefer to end this post with hope and greatness.....Atlas
Yesterdays speech from President Bush, who said, "Freedom's victory in that country will inspire democratic reformers from Damascus to Tehran, and spread hope across a troubled region, and lift a terrible threat from the lives of our citizens."
The president quoted a Marine corporal, Jeff Starr, who was killed fighting terrorists in Iraq and left a letter behind: "[I]f you're reading this, then I've died in Iraq. I don't regret going. Everybody dies, but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so they can live the way we live. Not [to] have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark."
Want more? Read Bush's speech in it's entirety and today's excellent New York Sun Editorial "The Mark of a Patriot.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, December 01, 2005 at 12:15 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, September the 11th, Simmering Civil War in America, US MILITARY GREATNESS, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Turning Point: President Bush's address to the U.S. Naval Academy
President Bush addressed the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and outlined his vision for achieving success in the Iraqi war. The speech will without question be referred to in upcoming days and will mark a turning point in his presidency.
Every quote is a pull quote so I am insisting Click below to read READ IT ALL.
Now if only he would the same for the state of the economy and do it DAILY! From Fellow Pajamas Media Contributor and Editorial member;
"Will someone please explain why the Bush White House and the Republican Congress are not trumpeting this economic boom on a daily basis? Their polls are sagging, but the economy is soaring. This simply shouldn't be. If former President Clinton had overseen this economy, he'd have held daily Rose Garden news conferences to mark the occasion. In fact, former President Reagan did just that in the booming 1980s -- he gave speech after speech touting the success of his supply-side tax cuts. Yet President Bush seldom goes into the current economic story, and when he does it's just a mention" -- Larry Kudlow, CNBC host and former Reagan Administration economist.
Continue reading "Turning Point: President Bush's address to the U.S. Naval Academy" »
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 01:21 PM in BUSH!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, Freedom on the March Worldwide!, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, US MILITARY GREATNESS, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (1)
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
STFU already. The Last Conversation about WMD
I am sick and tired of this conversation. The left has no right to be dictating the national dialog, and even if they did, it is pathetic that it would be about pre-war intel and WMD. The sheer ludicrous, make that lunacy, of the debate is embarassing. Not to put too fine a point on it but the left ought to refrain from reminding of us of bad pre-war intel. Any failure of pre-war intel rests solely on the weak, slouched shoulders and spinelessness of the Clinton administration. Bush inherited 8 years of slashed intel and miliary budgets. That ineptitude of the Clinton administration's decimation of the intelligence community and the military cutbacks was devastating to national security. Gorelick and Able Danger notwithstanding.
There were WMD. Read this post from AIRFORCEGUY, the importance of what this man says actually lies not in the content, but in the speaker and the medium.
....the blogosphere is a new phenomenon, and a new medium which allows common guys like me as wide a broadcasting net as the mainstream media (MSM). If you did not know this already you would not be reading this entry. The real reason you are reading this has to do with the fact that I am not a reporter, sending news filtered through desks and editors. I am a simple soldier, writing what I saw, what I deduced and what I know to be true. For those of you who don’t know, I was a member of the infamous Iraq Survey Group (ISG) in 2003 - 2004,
I’ll spare you the humiliating stories about interrogating Ba'athists and running them as sources. It’s not pretty, it never is. Those we interrogated were proud when they were on top, but they would do anything they needed to survive; including tell you what you wanted to hear, whether or not it was true. But we were professionals, and eventually separated lies from truth. So here is the truth. My Congressman told me there were no WMD in Iraq. But he was wrong, because it was and is still there. And we found some. Hat tip Gail C
You must read it all. WMD was a symptom, a symptom of the cancer of the Radical Islamofascism injecting and infecting itself onto whole societies. Gangrene.
The national debate must change. NOW. Wasn't 9/11 enough? What is wrong with America? How can they take the leftist debate seriously? How can they even consider it? It is opposite of logical.
The force of reason is stark, plain emphatic. War has been declared on America and the West. Choose your weapon. Pen, sword, what have you.
We have to fight the war here at home;
Boosters of the Palestinian cause routinely refer to Israelis and their supporters as Nazis. In January 2005, Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain reached the apex of moral equivalence. He announced that his group would boycott a commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp: “we have now expressed our unwillingness to attend the ceremony because it excludes ongoing genocide and human rights abuses around the world and in the occupied territories of Palestine. Robert Spencer
And in overseas in the Center of Radical jihadism;
Ahmadinejad: I Am the Messiah
Iran’s madman “president” Ahmadinejad now seems to believe he is the Mahdi, the “divinely guided one” who will lead Islam to triumph over the infidel: Iran: President Says Light Surrounded Him During UN Speech. Hat tip Charles, LGF
and while Iran, EU Agree To Future Nuclear Talks Tehran Space War. Iran, Britain, France and Germany have agreed to resume talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, but no time or venue for the discussions has yet been set, Huh? no timetable? WTF?
Even worse, regarding International Intelligence; The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has put off taking Iran to the U.N. Security Council to give time for a new Russian diplomatic initiative to work. Do they mean this Russina diplomatic initiative I wrote about back in February?
Russia just sold Iran a ton of Humanity exterminator.
Report: Russia to sell Iran 100 tons nuclear fuel
MOSCOW Russia will start supplying nuclear fuel to Iran, in the amount of roughly 100 tons, approximately six months before its atomic energy plant is commissioned late next year, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, citing Russian Atomic Energy Minister Alexander Rumyantsev.
Rumyantsev and Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadehm, who is also the Iranian nuclear agency chief, signed a nuclear fuel agreement Sunday in Bushehr, Iran, site of the US$800 million Russian-built plant.
I don't understand how we can possibly be having any other conversation than what aggressive action we must take to conquer, yes eradicate the scourge of radical islamism. This is the only issue. Tick Tick Tick Tock.
Every other conversation is a luxury. Until we can stop politicizing the struggle between good and evil, right and wrong, life and death............we surely must lose.
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 02:14 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Leftwing Media Jihad, US MILITARY GREATNESS, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, November 25, 2005
Saddam Al Qaida and 9/11
Great Piece from Victor Davis Hanson . Read it all;
One of the most frequent charges is that President Bush hyped a non-existent link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida — and that as a result, we diverted our efforts from finishing off the real terrorists to start a new and costly war to replace a secular dictator.
Almost every responsible U.S. government body had long warned about Saddam's links to al-Qaida terrorists. In 1998, for example, when the Clinton Justice Department indicted bin Laden, the writ read: "In addition, al-Qaida reached an understanding with the Government of Iraq that al-Qaida would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al-Qaida would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq."
..... October 2002, George Tenet, the Clinton-appointed CIA director, warned the Senate in similar terms: "We have solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida going back a decade." Seventy-seven senators apparently agreed — including a majority of Democrats — and cited just that connection a few days later as a cause to go to war against Saddam: " ...
.... More importantly, one of the masterminds of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, Abdul Rahman Yasin, fled to Baghdad to find sanctuary with Saddam after the attack. And after the U.S.'s successful war against the Taliban, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the present murderous al-Qaida leader in Iraq, reportedly escaped from Afghanistan to gain a reprieve from Saddam. All of this is understandable since Saddam had a long history of promoting and sheltering anti-Western terrorists. That's why both Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas — terrorist banes of the 1970s and 1980s — were in Baghdad prior to the U.S. invasion and why the families of West Bank suicide bombers were given $25,000 rewards by the Iraqi government.
The Saddams and Assads of the region — and to a less extent the Saudi royal family and the Mubarak dynasty — deflected popular anger over their own failures onto the United States by allowing terrorists to scapegoat the Americans.
That day came after Sept. 11. To end the old pathology, we took out the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, pressured the Syrians to leave Lebanon, encouraged Lebanese democracy, hectored the Egyptians about elections, told Libya's Moammar Gaddafi to come clean about his nuclear plans, and risked oil supplies by jawboning the Persian Gulf monarchies to liberalize.
Americans can blame one another all we want over the cost in lives and treasure in Iraq. But the irony is that not long ago everyone from Bill Clinton to George Bush, senators, CIA directors and federal prosecutors all agreed that Saddam had offered assistance to al-Qaida, the organization that murdered 3,000 Americans. That was one of the many reasons we went into Iraq, why Zarqawi and ex-Baathists side-by-side now attack American soldiers — and why an elected Iraqi government is fighting with us. Hat tip: jahpdq
And I still stand behind every word of this article I [Atlas] wrote back in October of 2004 on going to war in Iraq;
............if she's a devoted Kerry/Edwards supporter, there's still time. Her loyalty to the Democratic party is admirable, but not when it's party before country. Her contention that our commander in chief is waging war in a foreign land naively defies logic. The war was waged here as thousands of our brothers and sisters vaporized into the very air we breathed on 9/11. President Bush took the war where it belonged...to the heart of the Middle East.
While many countries sponsored terrorism, Saddam's Iraq was the most flagrant. Twelve years flouting sanctions alone would have legitimized the war, but Saddam was paying off families of suicide bombers. He was bankrolling the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine through the UN oil-for-food program. The man was using our taxpayer money to bomb innocents. He gave Abu Nidal, infamous Palestinian terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds, safe harbor for decades protecting the grisly executioner of wheelchair-bound American Leon Klinghoffer. What in the world does she think was going on at Salmon Pac?
Radical Islamist terrorist organizations are all connected. Changing their names shouldn't get us off their stench. Iraq is precisely where the war should be taking place, not at La Grenouille. When I hear Democrats lamenting all the terrorists are flooding into Iraq, I say "Hallelujah!" Let's draw them out of their caves and spiderholes and kill them before they come after our kids here. We have a president who iced out the greatest terrorist of all, Yasser Arafat, who cut his teeth in 1972 with his bloodlust and murder of 11 Israeli athletes. When Bush stopped the ridiculous moral equivalency in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and backed Sharon and the security fence, terrorist attacks markedly decreased. The Democrats don't have the conviction nor the will for such action.
The French and Germans want Kerry too, but it was their enormous payoffs via the oil-for-food program that fueled their refusal. They conspired against us so that they might continue to suck the blood of the Iraqi poor. They’re really not our friends nor that of the Iraqi people. Ms. Kreiss should take note: when terrorists, Arafat, the French, the Germans, those opposing us at the UN, and radical Islamist fascists the world over are all routing for Kerry, she should probably vote for the other candidate. I realize her loyalty to the Democratic party might be like religious fervor or a drug, but this one just might kill the organism.
I realize your loyalty to the Democratic party might be like religious fervor or a drug, but this one just might kill the organism.
The arguments of the left are becoming laughable. They focus on weapons of mass destruction. Saddam gassed his own people and was famous for his weapons programs. We're quibbling over exactly when this would become a danger again? This is the man who pledged all sorts of mayhem against us in speeches since the first Gulf War. With a history of having attacked four of his neighbors, shooting at us in the no-fly zone and flouting sanctions for years, we needed to take it seriously. Clinton, Kerry, and numerous other luminaries were convinced of the threat and publicly made us aware, but somehow Bush's belief is sinister? The intelligence failures occurred during the Clinton administration with Bush inheriting a weakened military, patchwork intelligence networks that did not share information a la the Gorelick memo and terrorist plans that were reaching their final stage. How do they compare Bush's eight months in office to Clinton's eight years of squandered prosperity, inaction on terrorism and missed opportunities to get Bin Laden?
The left isn't salvagable if you exchange "flipflopping" with "intellectual growth". Intellectual giants are often paralyzed into inaction and the spinally challenged
The left is no one to trust with the current World War. The stakes are too high...it's good vs. evil. I submit to the readers that all heads should be removed from the sand and they must read between the lines of a biased media. Western civilization hangs in the balance.
UPDATE: November 26th.... and why is no one blaming Bill Clinton for understating the terror threat?
A Fitting Address
We are winning the war. So why doesn't President Bush say so?
Posted by Pamela on Friday, November 25, 2005 at 12:24 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (29) | TrackBack (0)
BLACK FRIDAY! Wal-mart, Thanksgiving, the Left, and the Poor
In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged the productive, inventive minds of the world are constantly belittled and attacked by the envious and agenda-driven in a society whose squeaky wheel gets the most grease. Sound familiar? R. Galloway
The left keeping Wal-mart out of the hands of the poor for the good of the poor is at once laughable and disgusting. From Ted Kennedy no less. What does he know about working, actually paying for things through hard work? Here's Teddy "I can swim but she can't" Kennedy waxing poetic on Wal-mart;
We are working hard in Congress to make the Wal-Marts of the world accountable to workers, families and communities. We have introduced legislation to expose Wal-Mart's practice of dumping responsibility for health care for its employers on the American taxpayer. We have introduced the Employee Free Choice Act to give workers a voice at work and to stop anti-union intimidation tactics. We continue to fight for an increase in the minimum wage, to ensure that no one who works for a living lives in poverty. We have sponsored legislation to ensure equal pay for men and women. And we are increasing penalties against companies with dangerous working conditions.
Where does this murdering drunk get off giving business advice?
Successful business people who have made it on their own have a healthy respect for the effort and the system of capitalism that make success possible. Jack Wheeler describes it brilliantly here.
Envy-appeasement explains why Hollywood is so liberal. The vast amounts of money entertainment stars make is so grossly disproportionate to the effort it took them to make it that they feel it is unearned. So they apologize for it. The Liberal strategy is to apologize for his success, his country’s success, his civilization’s success, in order to appease the envious.
Liberalism is thus not a political ideology or set of beliefs. It is an envy-deflection device, a psychological strategy to avoid being envied. Liberalism is the politicalization of envy-appeasement.
Rich children with their unearned inheritance are easy targets for guilt mongering by the envious. So they assume a posture of liberal compassion as an envy deflection device.
"Please don't envy for my father's money ---look at all the liberal causes and government social programs I advocate!" Teddy Kennedy is the archetype of this phenomenon.
Wal-mart was forced to drop its plans for its first New York city store. And New York was the loser for it. The lower middle and middle class was the loser for it.
A "coalition" of lefties is planning hundreds of anti-Wal-Mart actions nationwide in mid-November as the key retailing holiday season kicks into gear. The Nov. 13-19 campaign, dubbed "Higher Expectations Week," is being coordinated by Wal-MartWatch, an "umbrella group" started early this year by maverick union leader Andy Stern, head of the Service Employees International Union.
Uh, what? Wal-mart Watch? WTF? Here is the board;
Wal-Mart Watch is a 501c3 organization
'devoted to studying the impact of large corporations on society, and its advocacy arm, Five Stones [I am looking into these folks]
The Center’s Board of Directors includes:
Andrew Stern, President, Service Employees International Union [old time labor, shocka!]
Judy Lichtman, Founder, National Partnership for Women & Families [typical lefty feminazi ]
Chellie Pingree, President and CEO, Common Cause ["It's a really good time to be one of the good guys when the bad guys are so bad," Chellie Pingree said.]
Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club [environ-mentalists? huh?]
Roger Wilkins, George Mason University [welfare lawyer from Cleveland, Ohio turned Pulitzer Prize-winner, Wilkins is
best know for his role in exposing Watergate in the '70s]
Ed Goeas, The Tarrance Group [token pollster]
I argue Wal-Mart would provide jobs, generate tremendous sales, and offer low prices that would benefit low-wage earners greatly.
Wal-Mart pays above minimum wage, has an excellent pay plan, always promotes from within and has an excellent benefits package. And WTF is wrong with the lowest prices in town?
An economy of abundance works! Not an economy of scarcity! Read Basquiat, Economic Sophisms.
Wal-Mart makes it possible for lower wage earners to purchase items the could never afford at regular store prices. Wal-mart enhances the quality of life for ALL AMERICANS.
These limo libs speak for who? Not for them, they don't shop at Wal-Mart, believe me. They speak for the little guy? HA! The little guy needs Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is an exemplar case history of a great AMERICAN success story but the lefties hate when the American experiment works. They trot out their Lenin/Marxist bullshit and fail to mention 100 million people murdered at the hands of communists outside of war.
Market based economies work. Let the market handle inferior merchandise............people will stop buying it and buy higher quality goods, if they want to.
I believe the undoing of American competitive edge has more to do with collectivist unionizing and decimated meritocracy.
Freedom, choose freedom. Not various shades of slavery whether it be forced union membership and dues (something I experienced when I signed on to work for The New York Daily News), impossible taxation, heavy tariffs, and crippling government regulation.
I live in New York and believe me when I tell you it's a welfare state and has become increasingly IMPOSSIBLE to make any kind of money/profit here.
FREE THE PRODUCERS. CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS FRIENDLY OPEN TO THE PRODUCER. STOP PUNISHING THE PRODUCERS.It seems to me the left is attempting to "kill the messenger"
Back in the late 70s early 80's the ILGWU put my daddy's factory out of business. Impossible demands and automatic wage increases forced him out of business. HE HAD NO CHOICE.............helloooooooooooooooo.
So what did he do? Necessity is the Mother of Invention. He subcontracted to a non welfare state (North Carolina) and then to Taiwan...............we are not talking child slavery, or slave labor here.
We must remove the shackles on the American producers. We must advocate for a FREE economy. Get the governement off our backs! DON'T TREAD ON ME.
The key question to ask of any action, is whether it was undertaken with a gun held to the head. This is a vital question because of its economic results.
Tom, hamster motortime wrote;
If Walmart does not hold a gun to the head of a man who purchases a product, this indicates that the man is choosing to spend his money in this manner- that he is picking on option out of other alternative ways to satisfy his wants. He buys the product because he values the alternatives less. Mutatis mutandis if Walmart purchases his labor- both value his labor more than the alternative.
The Asian manufacturers who supply Walmart with products, do not hold guns to the heads of the Board of Directors. Walmart purchases those goods because they value them more than their alternative.
Now, freedom is not a key to utopia- reality imposes limits within which humans may live, and you will find that these limits prohibit precisely the utopias sought by the barrel of a gun. Do not ask whether this freedom could be better, but whether the use of force in these transactions could achieve the results you seek without negative effects greater than would occur in a state of freedom. In other words: how many people living in "subsistence wages" now, would be dead under your system of interventionism, or any variant of it?
UPDATE: NOVEMBER 27th: Apparently I have a new career here. heh heh
Posted by Pamela on Friday, November 25, 2005 at 10:14 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Economic Excellence, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Wal-Mart: Warfare on Big Business | Permalink | Comments (29) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, November 24, 2005
John Bolton, the UN, Hizbollah and Thanksgiving
Brigite Gabriel just sent this to me, bless that woman's soul!
A precedent-setting condemnation, marking the first time the UN body ever condemned an Islamic state for statements against Israel.
Remember when the Dem Senators were "horrified" by that tough talking "cretan" John Bolton, and wouldn't even let him go to a vote in the Senate? Bush gave him a recess appointment instead. WRONG AGAIN!
Senator Kennedy thought he "wasn't UN Diplomat" material? (I think that's really a complement) Meanwhile, Martin Indyk, a likeable American diplomat with a British accent was criticizing the 'tough' Bush administration attitude so they agreed to let the former Clinton admin diplomat go talk sense to the Syrian Dorktator. Now the "amiable" Mr. Indyk is bashing Mr. Assad because he lied to him in their face to face meetings? I'm shocked and chagrinned!
US pressures UN to condemn Hizbullah
The Jerusalem Post
Following intense US pressure, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday issued an unprecedented condemnation of Monday's Hizbullah attacks on northern Israel.
This condemnation - slamming Hizbullah by name for "acts of hatred" - marked the first time the Security Council has ever reprimanded Hizbullah for cross-border attacks on Israel. The condemnation followed by two days a failed attempt to get a condemnation issued on Monday, the day of the attack, when Algeria came out against any mention of Hizbullah in the statement.
When asked what changed from Monday to Wednesday, one diplomatic official replied: "John Bolton," a reference to the US ambassador to the UN. Bolton lobbied vigorously for the passage of the statement.
The condemnation expressed "deep concern" over the attack, and called on Lebanon to exercise its sovereignty and authority in the south according to relevant Security Council resolutions.
Security Council Resolution 1559, which led to the withdrawal earlier this year of Syrian troops from Lebanon, also calls for the dismantling of the militias in the country, as well as a call to the Lebanese government to extend its control over the entire country, including the Hizbullah dominated south.
Leshno Ya'ar said this type of condemnation was significant because Hizbullah was "very sensitive" to public opinion, both in Lebanon and abroad. He said the condemnation sent a strong signal that the Security Council was demonstrating "no tolerance toward terrorism."
The statement against Hizbullah came just a few weeks after the Security Council condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his call to wipe Israel off the map. That was also a precedent-setting condemnation, marking the first time the UN body ever condemned an Islamic state for statements against Israel.
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 10:51 PM in BOLTON!, Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Islam: The War on Jihad, Israel, the struggle for Good vs Evil, UN: Arm of Radical Islam, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
So you Wanna be a Rock and Roll Star? Go left Young Man
Want to make front pages nationwide? All the cable news and network news (the alphabets) with crushing coverage? GO LEFT YOUNG MAN!
John Murtha, overnight American idol by Brent Bozell 11/23
Making a mountain out of a molehill is becoming a national media specialty. The news media ought to be awarded advanced degrees for fixing their political microscopes on whatever amoeba of a story will serve their stubborn template: The Iraq war is hopeless; it's Vietnam in the desert.
Why is it the further left you go the more press you get?
Mother Sheehan anyone?
Why isn't it the same for the "far right"? Why aren't the ideas of the far right given equal face time?
IE Let's get our asses in Syria? Let's free the young people of Iran? Let's.........well you get the idea. The Goldwater Hawk has all been silenced. Notice that?
You never hear that kind of talk. Pity, I'd love to hear it. G-d knows I've had enough of Murtha
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
UPDATE: This poll left out the number one threat - the left wing in America
NUKEWARS
China, North Korea, Iran Pose 'Greatest Danger' To US: Poll
China, North Korea and Iran are seen by American opinion leaders as posing the "greatest danger" to the United States, a survey showed last Thursday. There was no consensus as to which country represented the biggest danger, marking a change from a poll taken in the summer of 2001, when China was singled out, according to the Pew Research Center's quadrennial survey of US foreign policy attitudes.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 01:08 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iran, the End of World as We Know it, Iraq, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Thomas Sowell: Tortured Reasoning
Thomas Sowell is one of the finest minds of our time. Mr. Sowell gives Fred Barnes a rare interview Saturday Night on Fox at 5:30 pm est. Don't miss it
From his column today;
Some people seem to see nothing between zero and infinity. Things are either categorically all right or they are categorically off-limits. This kind of reasoning -- if it can be called reasoning -- is reflected in the stampede to ban torture by Congressional legislation.
As far as a general policy is concerned, there is no torture to ban. Isolated individuals here and there may abuse their authority and violate existing laws and policies by their treatment of prisoners but the point is that these are in fact violations.
After decades of ignoring the fact that rights and responsibilities go together, it was perhaps inevitable that an under-educated and easily confused generation should include some who do not understand that the rights granted to captured troops by the Geneva Convention apply to those who have accepted the terms of the Geneva Convention. It does not apply to people who are not troops and who have blatantly violated the whole framework of that convention.
For more than two centuries there has been a tendency on the political left, here and overseas, to make wrong-doers look like victims rather than people who are victimizing others. So it was perhaps inevitable that some would extend this attitude from criminals to terrorists.
But it was not inevitable that most would carry things this far or that so many others would be taken in by the rhetoric of moral superiority -- or be oblivious to the implications of an international network of cut-throats bent on destroying us even at the cost of their own lives.
Think of those implications. During the last election, Osama bin Laden warned Americans that those places that voted for President Bush would be targeted for terrorist reprisals.
We could ignore him then. But will our children and grandchildren be able to ignore similar threats after the terrorists are given nuclear weapons by Iran or sold nuclear weapons by North Korea?
This is a chilling prospect under the best circumstances. It is madness to tie our hands in any way in trying to forestall or counter the catastrophic potential of international terrorism.
Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 01:41 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Islam: The War on Jihad, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Murtha Thy Name is Withdrawal
Abracadabrah writes, did you all know that Murtha was instrumental in our withdrawal from Somalia in the clinton administration?
But he's a hawk.
Judith at Keshertalk has an excellent post about it here;
[ UPDATE: Murtha also supported reinstating the draft and selecting Dean as DNC Chair. ]
Does this sound familiar?
After terrorists attacked U.S. troops in Mogadishu, Somalia 12 years ago, anti-Iraq war Democrat, Rep. John Murtha urged then-President Clinton to begin a complete pullout of U.S. troops from the region. Clinton took the advice and ordered the withdrawal - a decision that Osama bin Laden would later credit with emboldening his terrorist fighters and encouraging him to mount further attacks against the U.S.
There's more at Judith at Keshertalk.
I am not saying that Murtha did not serve his country well, alls I'm sayin is maybe he is well, still shell shocked.
It is ironic [insert sarc tag] that the party that all but eviscerated, condemned, spit on, decimated, basically **** all over the military is now cloaking themselves in military regalia.
UPDATE: Another victory, another windfall in the War in Iraq
Mideast leaders fear another Iraq in Syria -Annan
Reuters via Yahoo! NewsMiddle East leaders want Syria to cooperate with a U.N. inquiry into the killing of a former Lebanese leader but fear a U.N. confrontation with Damascus could lead to "another Iraq," Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday.
Mary asks If Murtha's voting record is to the left of John Kerry's, why do people call him a hawk? Yes, he served in the Military, but so did George McGovern...
UPDATE: Abu Ali found guilty of plotting to assasinate the President of the United States. Who is breaking the news to Isikoff?
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 12:18 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, November 20, 2005
The Democrats set their Sights on their next Target: Condi
Huh? Is this the Dhimmicrats new target in the General Sherman campaign to destroy the best of the Republican party? When was Condi designated the next hit on the left's hit list?
Let's see: Cheney check, DeLay check, Rove check, Libby check, Frist check, Lott check
Look how fast this one hit all the media outlets. Their MO sort of reminds me of the old Perry Mason episodes where some less than scrupulous lawyer deliberately says something knowing it not to be true or not allowed in as evidence and the Judge bellows "strike that from the record" but it doesn't matter, it has been planted in the jurors minds. I feel like one of those jurors, Condi was not on my Plame-flame-blame-game-Bush lied-people-died radar screen.
Steel yourself folks, The next meme is halfway around the world.
This is the Politics of destruction.
Rice Says She Wasn't Woodward's Leak Source
New York Times Sat, 19 Nov 2005 4:27 PM PST
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded to an article that said she was officials who had declined to comment on the C.I.A. leak case.
Aide: Rice Was Not Woodward's Source
AP via Yahoo! News Sat, 19 Nov 2005 8:45 AM PST
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was not the senior Bush administration official who told Washington Post editor Bob Woodward that White House critic Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, a Rice aide said Saturday.
Aide: Rice Wasn't Woodward's Source
Local6.com Central Florida Sat, 19 Nov 2005 1:14 PM PST
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was not the senior Bush administration official who told Washington Post editor Bob Woodward the identity of a CIA officer, an aide to the secretary said.
Rice Didn't Tell Woodward About Plame, Aide Says
KSAT San Antonio Sat, 19 Nov 2005 1:06 PM PST
Condoleezza Rice didn't tell Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward about covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, an aide to the secretary of state said.
Aide: Rice Wasn't Woodward's Source
NBC 5 Chicago Sat, 19 Nov 2005 1:05 PM PST
An aide to Condoleezza Rice said the secretary of state was not the administration official who revealed to Bob Woodward the identity of a covert CIA officer.
Rice not Woodward's source on Plame, aide says
Houston Chronicle Sat, 19 Nov 2005 7:49 AM PST
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was not the senior Bush administration official who told Washington Post editor Bob Woodward that White House critic Joseph Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, a Rice aide said today.
Aide: Rice was not Woodward's source
KRON 4 Bay Area Sat, 19 Nov 2005 7:30 AM PST
WASHINGTON An aide says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was not the senior Bush administration official who told Washington Post editor Bob Woodward the identity of a C-I-A officer.
More media bias here
Posted by Pamela on Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 12:44 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Republicans, Get a Clue, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (16) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Cut and Run and the Terrorists will be Par-taying like it's 1999
And you may ask yourself how did I get here? Damned if I know but last night's Shakespearean "theatuh" was my idea of quality reality TV (someone write Political Teen and tell him to run the entire session)
The Republicans waited too long to fight back. Dangerous strategy. Best analogy I can think of - 9/11.
The Republicans are fully aware of the pure viciousness of the Democrats. And the Dhimmicrats are feeling empowered. Empowered by a November election they interpret as positive proof that their relentless campaign of "NO" and disinformation is finally working. Took 5 years.
Warning to the Republicans: ten hut. These pit bulls will not let go. Last night will not put an end to anything, it's irrelevant to the dhimmicrats. Scream a meme long enough and it will becomes quotable as fact, notice that?
btw Last night's cut and run vote* 403 - 3
my .02 cents
*H RES 571 - RECORDED VOTE - 18-Nov-2005 - 11:33 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that
the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated
immediately hat tip x___dhimmi, lib hawk
speaking of Iraq, read this letter from a soldier (hat tip lone pony)
UPDATE: I don't know if seen this at Powerline. What better way to put an end to the politicizing of the Iraqi War than a grassroots Talkradio/Blogosphere led effort to gather signatures and call on Congress to STOP THE MADNESS? Here's the petition (sign at the bottom). Hat tip: Pat, Occasionally Lucid Thoughts
UPDATE: November November 20th:
More media bias from the alphabets note headline 'mean jean'
'Mean Jean' Goes to Washington, and Invites a Firestorm
Posted by Pamela on Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 10:37 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Iraq, Simmering Civil War in America, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (46) | TrackBack (1)
Friday, November 18, 2005
Woodward aka Woooodwaaaard
This is the best commentary I have seen on the Woodward/Plame/Flame/Blame/Game Bush lied/People Died nonstory from Rich Galen's Mullings;
Oh. My. God. Bob Woodward appears to have lied. By omission and commission.
Bob Woodward. A name which is spoken by other reporters in the hushed tones generally reserved for recently deceased Popes by Catholic priests and nuns: Bob Woooodwaaaard.
I'll bet 75 percent of senior writers, editors, and reporters working in Washington, DC today are doing what they do because of Bob Woodward. Because they wanted to be just like Bob Woodward.
Woooodwaaaard. Watergate. Whew.
For those of you who do not actually live in, and breathe the air of, your Nation's Capital let me review the bidding: In 2003 someone leaked the name Valerie Plame to Bob Novak who wrote a column about the fact that (a) she was Joe Wilson's wife and (b) worked at the CIA. It has never been clear that this was a crime.
Since then, a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has been working to ferret out who might have said what to whom and when.
Three weeks ago Your Nation's Capital had the city-wide vapors - complete with projectile sweat and fluttering eyelids - waiting to see who would be indicted.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was it. And not for disclosing Valerie Plame's name, but for allegedly lying to investigators and the grand jury about whether he told reporters about her, or whether they had told him.
During all this, a New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, had refused to testify about her discussions with Scooter Libby because she had promised him confidentiality as a source.
She went to jail for 85 days for contempt of court and no one much cared, because no one actually LIKES Judith Miller. No one says "Juuuudith" if you know what I mean and I think you do.
After realizing no one was going to bust her out, Libby released her from her pledge, she hied it over to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, and told all.
The executive über editor of the NY Times wrote a memo to the staff wagging his editorial finger in Miller's face for not being forthcoming about, and for having "entanglements" with, Libby. (That word launched eyebrows so high and so fast that the streets around the National Press Building were fairly littered with bifocals.)
Miller wrote that she had a conversation with the NY Times managing editor Jill Abramson about pursuing a story about Ms. Plame; a conversation which Abramson denies ever took place.
Miller remembers it differently than Abramson.
In the current matter, someone had told Woodward about Valerie Plame a month or so before someone (we don't know the identity of the someone or someones) had told Novak about her. But Woodward decided to hide that fact from everyone including his editor because, according to a Howard Kurtz piece in the Washington Post, "I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed."
So, Woodward hid substantive facts from his editor at the Washington Post, just as Judith Miller had done at the NY Times.
The Washington Post has a highly regarded national security affairs reporter named Walter Pincus who was subpoenaed to, and did, testify before the grand jury. Woodward allowed a colleague be dragged into the fray, but hid his own knowledge so his shoes didn't get muddied. What a guy.
Woodward has also said that he "passed along a tip about Plame to … Pincus in June 2003, but Pincus says he has no recollection of such a conversation."
Woodward remembers it differently than Pincus.
If I were Scooter Libby's defense attorney, here's what I would do:
I would call Judith Miller and ask her about her conversation with Jill Abramson. I would call Abramson and ask her if she remembered that conversation.
I would call Bob Woodward and ask him about his conversation with Walter Pincus. I would call Pincus and ask him if he remembered that conversation.
I would tell the jury, in my closing argument, that these four nationally recognized journalists - who are trained from birth to take care in remembering what they say and what they hear - disagree on whether or not these conversations ever happened.
Scooter Libby, who has dozens of such conversations per day - thousands per month - should not be penalized for not remembering the details of discussions years after they took place.
The defense rests
Well said Rich, meanwhile will someone please share with us WTF Sandy Berger was stuffing in his dirty underwear?
Posted by Pamela on Friday, November 18, 2005 at 10:31 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Leftwing Media Jihad | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (1)
Thursday, November 17, 2005
What did the Partisan 9/11 Commission Know and When did they Know it
The oft ignored but man with the story to tell, Louis Freeh writes an oped piece in the WSJ. The left just gets dirtier and dirtier;
It was interesting to hear from the 9/11 Commission again on Tuesday. This self-perpetuating and privately funded group of lobbyists and lawyers has recently opined on hurricanes, nuclear weapons, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and even the New York subway system. Now it offers yet another "report card" on the progress of the FBI and CIA in the war against terrorism, along with its "back-seat" take and some further unsolicited narrative about how things ought to be on the "front lines."
Yet this is also a good time for the country to make some assessments of the 9/11 Commission itself. Recent revelations from the military intelligence operation code-named "Able Danger" have cast light on a missed opportunity that could have potentially prevented 9/11. Specifically, Able Danger concluded in February 2000 that military experts had identified Mohamed Atta by name (and maybe photograph) as an al Qaeda agent operating in the U.S. Subsequently, military officers assigned to Able Danger were prevented from sharing this critical information with FBI agents, even though appointments had been made to do so. Why?
There are other questions that need answers. Was Able Danger intelligence provided to the 9/11 Commission prior to the finalization of its report, and, if so, why was it not explored? In sum, what did the 9/11 commissioners and their staff know about Able Danger and when did they know it?
Read it all..........the diabolical masterstroke in this Shakespearean tragedy is how the left harps on Bush's reluctance to establish a "9/11 commission". And frankly he shouldn't have, his reluctance had nothing to do with culpability. Bush knew it would be a kangeroo court to humiliate his people. I still have the grilling of Condi "seared" in my mind juxtaposed to the velvet glove handling of Janet Reno , like she was a mental patient. hat tip: qtmonster
See more on the sidebar column FIFTH COLUMN
Continue reading "What did the Partisan 9/11 Commission Know and When did they Know it" »
Posted by Pamela on Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 06:19 AM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
The Intrinsic Evil of Evolutionary Humanism
"In 1920, Winston Churchill spoke of a group of Enlightenment conspirators who had produced a system of morals and philosophy "as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible." He observed that this malignant worldview "has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. This worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality has been steadily growing." (Zionism versus Bolshevism)" Read it all here
Posted by Pamela on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 02:27 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Evil's Essential Oils, Fifth Column, Freedom's Enemies, How the Left Destroys the Nation, World War IV | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (1)
WHO IS LYING ABOUT IRAQ?
SADDAM HUSSEIN'S BIOLOGICAL WMD: "Think how many can be killed by just a tiny bit of anthrax. ...Think about all the other terrorists and other bad actors who could just parade through Baghdad and pick up their stores."
We now know that when President Bush said that he was lying -- and trying to manipulate us into war.
Oh sorry. I got that wrong. Bush didn't say that. President Clinton did.
It's in this interesting New York Sun piece on Ahmed Chalabi by Laurie Mylroie (who served as a Clinton advisor on Iraq).
WMD DEMOCRATS SEE VIDEO HERE! NOW!
WHO IS LYING ABOUT IRAQ? For a more detailed look at the record, read the distinguished author, Norman Podhoretz, in the December issue of Commentary. He assembles the facts to demonstrate, conclusively, that that the charges being leveled against President Bush regarding the genesis of the war not only are baseless but are themselves a lie. It's here.
Hat tip: Foundation for the Defense of Democracy
and Irwin, WMFU
UPDATE: Our troops in Iraq are encountering fierce opposition at the Syrian border of Iraq....sounds like Syria is itchin' for an *** kickin' or is it Iran?
Iran stands up for Syria under UN pressure
In other news;
Spain probes alleged CIA flights
The airport in Szymany, northeastern Poland, one of the sites identified recently by Human Rights Watch as a potential site of alleged CIA prisons. A judge is investigating allegations the CIA used a Spanish airport as a base for transporting Islamic terrorism suspects, Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said on Tuesday.