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Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
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Conversations With Fjordman
by Baron Bodissey
Tell me again about Europe and her pains,
Who’s tortured by the drought, who by the rains.
Glut me with floods where only the swine can row
Who cuts his throat and let him count his gains.
It seemed the best thing to be up and go.
— William Empson, from “Aubade”
Over the last two years Gates of Vienna has gradually become more Eurocentric than would be expected of an average American blog. A certain well-known lefty blog — I won’t stoop to name or link it here — has referred to us as “the
Eurotrash version of LGF”. And with good reason. Who could disagree?
The more I investigate the Great Jihad, the more important Europe seems. The United States military fights on the front lines of the “War on Terror”, but Europeans
live on the front lines. What happens in Europe is crucial: if the USA follows Denmark’s example, we can expect to defeat the Jihad. If we use Sweden as a model, we can put our head between our legs right now and kiss our collective fundament goodbye.
In either case, what happens in Europe foreshadows the shape of things to come here in the USA.
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When I was in Copenhagen staying with
Steen at his apartment, I had the privilege of sitting in on some extensive conversations with Fjordman. Most of the time it was just the three of us, but for a while late at night after the Counterjihad Summit, several other Danes were there, as well as Gaia, a British member of Vigilant Freedom. The group discussed a wide-ranging set of issues concerning Muslim immigration in Europe.
Fjordman and I agree that if Europe succumbs to the Jihad, then America won’t stand a chance — if they go down, we go down. We will last longer, but we will face the same fate. The European crisis stands before us to warn America of what is to come.
Our biggest problem isn’t that a crazed horde of mujahideen might have access to French nukes or British military hardware — although that most definitely
is an issue for our national security. The real problem is that American political culture is not vastly different from its European counterpart. Their response to the Islamofascist crisis — dhimmitude, collapse, civil war, or a reawakened sense of national purpose — is likely to prefigure our own.
In Fjordman’s opinion, Sweden is more of a basket case than any other European country. Caught in a self-destructive spiral of immigration, high taxation, welfare spending, and denial, it faces a looming catastrophe.
“
Paul Weston wrote on your blog that Europe will face a civil war by the year 2025,” he said, “but I think he underestimates how soon it will be. Within five to ten years
at the most Swedish society will collapse. It can’t be avoided; the Swedish welfare state is simply unsustainable.
“But the civil war won’t start in Sweden. Sweden is too far gone. I think the civil war will appear first in Britain, which has the second-worst conditions. But the British still have a spirit of resistance.”
Gaia agreed vehemently. “People in Britain will eventually reach the breaking point,” she said. “Just beneath the surface people are really, really angry, and it will take just a little spark to set it off. The hostage situation in Iran only made it worse.”
The general discussion that followed reached a consensus on the outline of future events in the UK:
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The British government continues its suicidal policy of promoting Multiculturalism and cracking down on British “racists”. |
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A precipitating incident by an immigrant or group of immigrants sparks violence, with mobs of angry Britons taking the law into their own hands. |
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The riot police and possibly military troops are summoned by the government to quell the “racist hooligans.” |
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At this point a true civil war has begun, with the Government and civil authorities, in tacit alliance with the Islamists, fighting native Britons. |
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Elements of the police and the military are reluctant to fight against their own countrymen — with whom they are in broad agreement — and they defect to the “racist” side of the conflict. |
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Next step…? Perhaps a full civil war? |
Fjordman and Gaia both felt that Britain will eventually come through the bloody conflict, and finally give up its self-destructive policies, after paying a huge price.
Sweden, however is another matter entirely.
Baron Bodissey |
5/03/2007 07:17:00 PM | |
Updated to clarify Y's link to Hot For TNR - my bad.
Let's remain objective here and only use mainstream sources, not Right-side blogs on the Muslim Brotherhood. Romney said this below at last night's debate:
We’ll move everything to get him. But I don’t want to buy into the Democratic pitch, that this is all about one person, Osama bin Laden. Because after we get him, there’s going to be another and another. This is about Shi’a and Sunni. This is about Hezbollah and Hamas and al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. This is the worldwide jihadist effort to try and cause the collapse of all moderate Islamic governments and replace them with a caliphate.
Matthew Yglesias attacks Romney and Republicans who allowed the comment to go unchallenged. He also responds with a defense of the Muslim Brotherhood and links to THFTNR calling Romney the Real Child of Hell:
To put it bluntly, the trouble here is that the Muslim Brotherhood just isn't a violent terrorist organization, and certainly doesn't commit acts of violence against the United States. It's an extremely traditionalist multinational civil society organization. It's true that a lot of violent types used to be in the Brotherhood and now they're in terrorist groups, but used to be is the key phrase here, they left the Brotherhood because the Brotherhood wouldn't sign on for their agenda. In one clause, Romney's just gone and broadened the war to include a huge new category of people who have no intention of waging war against the United States or even against Israel.
via the Washington Post:
The Brotherhood -- or al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun, as it is known in Arabic -- is a sprawling and secretive society with followers in more than 70 countries. It is dedicated to creating an Islamic civilization that harks back to the caliphates of the 7th and 8th centuries, one that would segregate women from public life and scorn nonbelievers.
In some nations -- Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Sudan -- the Brotherhood has fomented Islamic revolution. In the Palestinian territories, the Brotherhood created the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, which has become known for its suicide bombings of Israelis. Yet it is also a sophisticated and diverse organization that appeals to many Muslims worldwide and sometimes advocates peaceful persuasion, not violent revolt. Some of its supporters went on to help found al Qaeda, while others launched one of the largest college student groups in the United States.
Or read this take by an informed American Muslim:
The case for choosing from the lesser of two evils as the authors note in their reckless comparison of Qaradawi’s Islamism to Zawahri’s radical jihadism is certainly easy to make but sure folly. Zawahiri and Al Qaeda are a military threat with a militant Islamist ideology which speaks to only the fringe and most radical Islamists in the Muslim community. Qaradawi and the Brotherhood are actually far more dangerous ideologically to the West. Their similarly Islamist message may, in fact, resonate with a far greater number of Muslims in the West and the East as evidenced by the millions of western Muslims engaged almost daily by satellite watching al-Qaradawi. He and the Brotherhood at times speak of “justice”, “a middle ground” (wasatiya), democratic principles (voting and parliaments), and of women’s rights, among other attractive principles.
Qaradawi, is moreover for the record, clearly no moderate. He has defended the barbarity of female circumcision and terrorism in Israel and Iraq. His duplicity on such issues demonstrates the inherent pathology of political Islam which will often even among supposed moderates sacrifice principle for the ends of Islamism. Yet, the attraction of Qaradawi and his so-called ‘moderate Islamism’, is built upon a societal and governmental formula which is incompatible with American governance and Jeffersonian democracy as we know it.
The Muslim Brotherhood is based upon a strictly Islamist approach to governance and law. At the very core of their approach to the branches of government is a toxic mixture of politics and theology. The toxicity of this mixture was foreseen by our forefathers who escaped religious persecution by the Church of England and sought to prevent it after 1789 years of the absence of liberty in the West. No matter how “moderate” or “democratic” Islamists report their processes to be, it is still under the mandate and intellectual control of Islamic scholars of sharia law also known as the ulemaa.
In light of the, many would argue, more than fair WaPo analysis of the MB, re-visit what Romney said:
This is about Shi’a and Sunni. This is about Hezbollah and Hamas and al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. This is the worldwide jihadist effort to try and cause the collapse of all moderate Islamic governments and replace them with a caliphate.
Romney isn't advocating killing all Shi'a and Sunni simply because he mentioned them and his mention of a worldwide movement to undermine moderate governments is spot on. One's left to ponder, who better to protect America, with her laws, traditions and values, Romney and like-minded others, who seem to have a reasonable appreciation for the threat posed by radical Islam and are willing to speak out against it, or Liberal Democrats so obsessed with the fear of throwing the baby out with the bath water, we'd all be washing our feet before we pray in fifty years?
The liberals and Democrat's inability to comprehend the threat to American culture from even only a truly political form of radical Islam is the best reason there is to not trust them with the Executive Branch. Political power is the very tool radicals with no regard for Western values seek to exploit to bring our American form of republic down.
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Anti-anti Barbarism
Bruce Kesler at the Democracy Project has a long essay on how academia has systematically failed to provide an ethical basis for life in a world where technology, mobility and free markets have allowed the individual to attain a greater measure of autonomy than ever before. At the precise moment when each person required an inner compass to guide him through his environment, his elders have pointed him in all directions.
But rather than resulting in a world of reasoned discourse between different moral points of view, the systematic teaching of moral relativism in the classroom resulted in its precise opposite: a culture of uncritical conformity in the guise of political correctness whose members, unprepared to think for themselves became fair game to any cult leader or demagogue who card to take advantage of the milling flock of sheep. Quoting Maimon Schwarzchild, law professor at Catholic San Diego University, Kesler writes:
Our civilization’s peculiar misfortune is to be under a double assault, physically by the undercivilized from without, and psychologically by those surfeited with it from within. And these last own the classroom ...
73 percent of the students said that when their professors taught about ethical issues, the usual message was that uniform standards of right and wrong don't exist ("what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity"). It's not news that today's campuses are drenched in moral relativism. But we are allowed to be surprised that college students report they are being well prepared ethically by teachers who tell them, in effect, that there are no real ethical standards, so anything goes.
The result is a civilization in the "process of committing suicide", whose dominant ideology is anti-anti-barbarism, where the highest value is not to oppose even the greatest evil. I found Kesler's observations interesting not merely in the intellectual sense, but because it bore directly on the conduct of the War on Terror.
Terror, if it is anything, represents the ultimate challenge of barbarism against civilization. And if the great centers of Western learning, the giant flagships of its literacy as represented by newspapers, magazines and television stations cannot rouse themselves to oppose terrorism then in some fundamental sense it has already pre-surrendered. And this ethos of surrender, this "anti-anti-barbarism" will inevitably manifest itself in all facts of public life; a life which has been converted into a moral vacuum. Polygamy, endogamy, special dispensations for cults, the inordinate fear of giving offensive; these endless and futile accomodations to maintain a void which is rapidly being filled not by the same indefinite vapor, but is instead being occupied by a very definite point of view. A point of view that stipulates when one must wash, pray or what one should eat; that knows even the genders of vegetables. When the moral relativists cast the truth table from their ivory towers they forgot that anti-anti-bararism = ~~(~p)=~p, where p stands for civilization. It is in a word barbarism.
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05/04/2007 1:53:43 PM PDT
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backhoe
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Here’s an example of an “honor killing” (a horrible term for an evil practice) that is not linked to Islam or perpetrated by Muslims. In this case the Dark Ages barbarism was committed by members of the Yazidi religion, a pre-Islamic, pre-Christian pagan faith, and the girl was murdered because she had a relationship with a Muslim boy: The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy. (WARNING: somewhat graphic pictures at the link above.) link: 139 comments
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05/04/2007 3:04:53 PM PDT
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backhoe
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King Canute in Reverse?
The Popular Science blog has links to a photo essay "on the rapidly disappearing town of Shishmaref on the ABC News Web site. The coastal Alaskan village has about 600 residents and is believed to have been inhabited (on and off) for 4,000 years. Today, with water rising about 10 feet a year, it's in danger of sinking. The population of Shishmaref may soon count themselves among the first wave of global-warming refugees."
The Popular Science accounts gives the impression that the sea levels have risen by 10 feet a year on the Alaskan coast. But accounts of islands that are "sinking" have been shown due to factors which cause subsidence in the land. Anyone who claims that the sea level goes up 10 feet a year in Alaska due, presumably to melting Polar ice caps, should explain why the Sydney Opera House is still visible, or why anyone with beachfront property is not drowned unless the sea can change its level in one place and not in another.
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Women should not be forced to be incubators based strictly on the moment of conception, but the idea that fetuses have no rights (progressively increased over time ) as they become more viable and human within the womb is barbaric.
(And any women who values her own life over her unborn child's is someone I wouldn't miss from the gene pool.)"
The Che Guevara Farce
Rightwingers want nationwide vote on minarets (Swiss resist Islamization of culture)
Syphilis rise in U.S. gay, bisexual men causes worry
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05/05/2007 1:39:46 AM PDT
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backhoe
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Fundamental flaw--They couldn't define what one was, they'd never really met one and they had no idea that genuine Christian fundamentalism is minimal in Canada. It was just a way to discredit those with whom they disagreed and make them seem, well,
nasty and American.
Graham and the Crackers
Looks like Lindsay Graham is not, shall we say, a big fan of immigration reform—well, except for the kind of Orwellian “comprehensive immigration reform” that pushes for amnesty and panders to racist groups like La Raza. “Bigots,” to Graham, are those who would like to see the U.S. follow its own immigration policy, and enforce its own immigration lawas; whereas those who are hoping to “take back” part of America for Mexico? Great Americans who are being unfairly demonized by rednecks in lawnchairs.
Up is down. Black is white. Elton John is Kiki Dee.
I’m a supporter of a greatly expanded guest worker program. But I’m also a supporter of the rule of law. If politicians like Graham don’t like the current immigration laws, they are welcome to make their case to the American people for changing them. Because right now, what we have is the Running Man school of immigration reform: those who are able to sneak across the border without dying of thirst or being hunted down by Grossburger have won their amnesty.
And that’s just not right.
Really. With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?
It’s getting to the point we’re all gonna need “Dash Cams” soon. And “Back Cams”, and “Side Cams”.
Good grief.
Illinois Poised To Become A Smoke-Free State--Yesterday, there was lady standing at the security desk where I work. She was complaining and asking the guard to do something about the smokers OUTSIDE. Now, this is lady who got 100% — 100% of what she wanted with the Ohio Smoke Free Law and she’s still not happy.
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05/05/2007 4:47:21 AM PDT
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backhoe
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More Posioned Pet Food info:
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05/05/2007 5:06:14 AM PDT
by
backhoe
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In rough chronological order, here are some of my more salient links about “Poisoned Pet Food”—
First mention: 03/16/2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802083/posts
—Menu Foods did not immediately provide a full list of brand names and lot numbers covered by the recall, saying they would be posted on its Web site — http://www.menufoods.com/recall — early Saturday. Consumers with questions can call (866) 463-6738.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1802307/posts
Recall of Pet Foods
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816256/posts
Some Recalled Pet Food Still On Shelves
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816523/posts
China’s food safety woes expand overseas
April 12, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816819/posts
Pet Food Crisis Highlights Chinese Food Safety Woes
April 13, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816723/posts
How Close Was Tainted Wheat To Human Food?
Re: How Close Was Tainted Wheat To Human Food? 04/14/2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816723/posts?page=163#163
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816723/posts?page=169#169
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816723/posts?page=177#177
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816723/posts?page=182#182
Latest from, http://www.petconnection.com/blog/category/2007-food-recall/
Here are lots of recalls most of the public hasn’t even heard about yet:
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819788/posts
Chemical Found in Second Pet Food Ingredient, Recall Expanded
April 18, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820340/posts
Pet food probe turns to possibility of fraud
April 19, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1820602/posts
Starting A Pet Food Recall Ping List
04/20/2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821072/posts
Humans at risk from tainted pet food? - Found In Pigs Now!
April 20, 2007
Database:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=petfood
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821403/posts
Criminal Probe Opened in Pet Food Scare (FDA Says Charges Possible; Tainted Pork Confirmed in Calif)
April 21, 2007
For all sorts of animal health news and information visit the main page of the AVMA
http://www.avma.org/
as well as their list of useful links:
http://www.avma.org/aa/petfoodrecall/default.asp
Pet Connection, a pet information clearinghouse that hosts a popular blog, has been tracking the pet food recall from the start:
http://www.petconnection.com/
FDA’s Update on Tainted Pet Food
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01615.html
After the melamine story broke, this story broke about the problems with improted food in general.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660211904,00.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823668/posts
U.S. hogs ate contaminated pet food from China.
4/25/07
U.S. hogs ate contaminated pet food from China.
iht ^ | 4/25/07
Pet-Food Recall: Timing and Triggers (Iams Blew the Whistle!)
April 26, 2007...a poultry farm also may have received tainted food.—
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070424/hl_nm/petfood_testing_dc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825419/posts
Will food ever be safe? (pet food recall expanded)
April 28, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826949/posts
Joint Update: FDA/USDA Trace Adulterated Animal Feed to Poultry—So now it includes products made from soybeans and mung beans (whatever those are). Holy crap. The hits just keep on coming, don’t they?
Our little pets were the canaries...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKfSsEI9BMc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827025/posts
Chinese pet food contamination only the beginning of concerns-(3.3% of USA food comes from CHINA)
May 02, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827486/posts
Feds: Millions have eaten chickens fed tainted pet food
May 2, 2007
Lots of good recall info at:
http://www.itchmo.com/
http://petfoodtracker.blogspot.com/
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05/05/2007 5:07:40 AM PDT
by
backhoe
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This looks like a good spot for me to post some links from ConsumerAffairs.com
Pet Food Recall - April 2007
- Pet Food Fall-Out Continues, with Recalls, Raids, Lawsuits
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall38.html
- Melamine Found in North Carolina Hogs
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall37.html
- Thousands of Hogs May Have Eaten Contaminated Feed
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall36.html
- U.S. Food Supply at High Risk of Terrorist or Profit-Driven Tampering
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/house_food_safety.html
- Senators Demand FDA Release Names of All Suspect Pet Food Companies
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall35.html
- South Africa Bans Gluten Products from China as Pet Poisonings Spread
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall34.html
- Pet Food Contamination Scandal Spreads to Pork, FDA Opens Criminal Investigation
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall33.html
- Intentional Spiking Suspected in Chinese Ingredients; Blue Buffalo Recalls Spa Select Kitten Dry Food
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall32.html
- Congress Pressing for Better Food Safety
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/food_sfaety_delauro.html
- China Blocks U.S. Inspectors Seeking Answers to Pet Poisonings
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall30.html
- Importer Recalls Rice Protein Used in Pet Food
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall31.html
- Pet Food Fall-Out Continues, with Recalls, FDA Raids, Lawsuits Government - Compensates Hog Farmers, but Not Pet Owners
www.consumeraffairs.com/printme.php?url=/news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall38.html
- Melamine Blamed for More Pet Food Recalls
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall29.html
- Natural Balance Recalls Pet Food
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall28.html
- Pet Food Importer Blames Its Chinese Supplier
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall27.html
- Pet Owners Organize to Put Congress on a Short Leash
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall26.html
- Consumers Want Action to Prevent Future Pet Poisonings
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall25.html
- Senate Hears from Pet Food Lobbyists, FDA Officials, Promises Action
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall24.html
- FDA Warns That Recalled Pet Food May Still Be On Shelves
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall23.html
- Menu Foods Recalls More Cat Food Made With ChemNutra Wheat Gluten
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall22.html
- Menu Foods Executive Sold Shares Weeks Before Pet Food Recall
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall21.html
- Cornell Scientists Find A Second Contaminant in Pet Food
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall20.html
- Veterinary Chain Puts Pet Food Injuries At 39,000
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall19.html
- Senate Hearing Will Probe Pet Food Safety
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall18.html
- China Opens Investigation into Pet Food Contaminant
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall17.html
- Pet Chews Contaminated with Salmonella
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/dog_chew_recall.html
- Pet Food Recall Expanded to Sunshine Mills Dog Biscuits
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall16.html
- American Importer Recalls All Wheat Gluten
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall15.html
- PETA Suggests Vitamin D to Blame for Animal Deaths
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall14.html
- Pet Food Recall Timeline Shows "Failures At Every Level," PETA Charges
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall_timeline.html
- List of Recalled Menu Foods Products
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall_list.html
- FDA Blocks Imports from Chinese Supplier Suspected of Producing Tainted Wheat Gluten
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall13.html
- Del Monte the Latest to Recall Pet Food
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall12.html
- Alpo Adds Some Dog Food to Massive Recall List
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall11.html
- FDA Finds Plastic in Tainted Pet Food
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall09.html
- Reports of Dog, Cat Deaths Rise; Scientists Question Whether Rat Poison is the Cause
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall07.html
- Menu Foods Wants All of its Wet Pet Food Removed from Shelves
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall06.html
- What's the Safest Food for Your Dog or Cat?
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall_alternatives.html
- Pet Food Recall Hits Home in Emporia
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_emporia.html
- Menu Food CEO "Doesn't Know" How Rat Poison Got into Pet Food
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall05.html
- Pet Food Contamination May Be Rat Poison
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall04.html
- Reports of Dead Animals Increase as Word of Recall Spreads
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall03.html
- Latest Information For Pet Owners
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall03a.html
- One in Six Animals Died in Pet Food Tests
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall02.html
- Pet Food Recalled After Reports Of Kidney Failure
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2007/03/pet_food_recall.html
- Tainted Dog Food Killed 23 Animals in 2005
www.consumeraffairs.com//news04/2005/dog_food.html
- Consumer Complaints about Menu Pet Food Recall
www.consumeraffairs.com//pets/menu_pet_food.html
- More about Pets
www.consumeraffairs.com/pets/
One-on-one with Fred Thompson --Other than Fred Thompson and Ron Paul, when every other candidate speaks or is interviewed, it sounds like they are reading from talking points compiled by their campaign people, carefully tailored to whoever they are talking to. When Thompson makes his announcement, he is going to bury the field.
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05/05/2007 8:49:55 AM PDT
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backhoe
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Fred Thompson's California Remarks
The Fred factor, part 3
Two weeks ago in the Weekly Standard Stephen Hayes took a look at Fred Thompson and his potential presidential candidacy. The article was full of pungent quotes from Senator Thompson. (I pulled a few here.) This week Steve served up the outtakes from his interview for "a second helping of Fred." The longest quote addresses the saga of Joseph Wilson and the ordeal of Lewis Libby. Here is a portion:
So, here you go, the CIA, you know, kept sending over this complaint. Which--they started the whole problem! You know, it makes me mad as the devil just to think about it. They picked this guy out to send to Niger, which is bound to go and let him come back and start making political attacks when his wife works over there! Did it ever occur to anybody that her name was going to be and he was put in play in this town? The amazing thing is that it stayed out of the papers as long as it did! So they set the whole thing up and then they said: 'Oh my goodness somebody's got to prosecute this.'"
Thompson's assertion that the CIA "set the whole thing up" can be taken much further than even he takes it. In late 2005 I contacted the CIA public information officer who fields media questions regarding Joe Wilson. I asked him why the Agency hadn't required Wilson to sign a confidentiality agreement regarding his trip to Niger. He hesitated for a few seconds, then responded: "I don't know." I followed up with my questions by e-mail:
(1) Why wasn't Wilson's February 2002 trip to Niger made subject to a confidentiality agreement? (2) Did the Agency contemplate that Wilson would publicly discuss the trip at will upon his return?
(3) Did the agency anticipate that if he did so, it would attract attention to the employment of his wife by the agency?
(4) Why did the Agency select Wilson for the mission to Niger to check out such an important and sensitive matter given his lack of experience in intelligence or investigation?
(5) Was the Agency aware when it selected him for the mission of his hostility to the Bush administration?
The CIA officer responded:
Given the ongoing legal process, I don't have anything for you in response to your questions about Ambassador Wilson.
Joe Wilson was not the only CIA-related political opponent of the Bush administration who emerged during the run-up to the 2004 election. In July 2004, the same month that the Times published Wilson's notorious op-ed column, CIA analyst Michael Scheuer published his strange book
Imperial Hubris.
In the epilogue to the paperback edition, Scheuer stated that he "was never told why the CIA permitted publication." Following publication of the book, the CIA permitted Scheuer "anonymously" to criticize the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror in media interviews until his criticisms extended beyond the administration to the intelligence community. (Scheuer left the Agency in November 2004 -- the week after the election.) I also asked the CIA the following questions regarding Scheuer:
(1) Has the Agency ever before in its history authorized the publication of a book by a current Agency employee attacking the incumbent administration? (2) Was Scheuer's employment status classified at any time between 1999 and the time he resigned from the Agency? If so, over what period?
(3) Can you cite any previous instances in the history of the Agency of currently employed Agency analysts attacking the incumbent administration?
The Agency's response to these questions was a bit more forthcoming:
[A]ll CIA employees have prepublication obligations. Beyond the obvious prohibition on releasing classified information, the outside writings and speeches of serving officers must not affect either their ability to do their jobs or the agency's ability to accomplish its mission. Because CIA is not a policy organization, its regulations discourage current employees from speaking or writing publicly on policy issues. In light of that common-sense guidance, the chances are extremely remote -- to put it mildly -- that a presently serving officer would be allowed to write a book today injecting him or herself into a national policy debate. That is how things stand now.
Which left open the question: How did things stand in 2004? I wrote about the CIA's apparent efforts to undermine the Bush administration in
"Three Years of the Condor."The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on prewar intelligence is the key document on Wilson's trip. If only the Senate Intelligence Committee had classified the Report and leaked it to the Times, it might have had an impact on the mainstream media story line on the Wilson affair. As it is, the fact that the Report demonstrated Wilson's thoroughgoing mendacity essentially remains confidential insofar as mainstream media reporting is concerned.
One of these days some big-time journalist is bound to dig out the evidence of the CIA's scandalous efforts to replace the Bush administration with one more to its liking. Right?
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Obama at fund-raiser at Steven and Judy Gluckstern's home, April 9, 2007. George Soros is seated to the right of the stairs. (Photo: Michael Edwards, NY Magazine)
Ed Lasky advises a transcript now has been found by the Des Moines Register, as has an audio (hat tip: Anne Lieberman.) So Obama lied. Not surprising considering his long affiliation and support of the Pali /Syrian Arabs despite his recent attempts to hide otherwise. If I see the Jews continue to kiss this man's ass, I am gonna hurl. Obama seems to intrinsically understand if you tell the Jews what they want to hear, regardless of truth, substance or validity, it's good enough for them. History and current events bear that sad fact out.
Separating fact from fiction .......... this will be the job of the blogs in the mendacious road to the Presidency.
Obama is caught in a public fabrication Ed Lasky
Barack Obama has been caught in a fabrication (see my earlier blog Home of the Whopper), and the MSM is giving him a free pass. The least other media outlets could do is to back up the Des Moines Register, which has both a transcript and audio demonstrating how Obama lied about what he said about the Palestinians.
Read all of Ed's post here.
In today's Des Moines Register, there is an excellent summary of the Democrats spinning (euphemism for deceit) at their debate (article here.)
* Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, explaining his call to show compassion for Palestinians, put a spin on the remark that differs from the way it was originally reported by an Iowa newspaper.
Obama's Palestinian Remark
Obama defended his remark that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," a statement attacked by some pro-Israel activists. His version differed in tone if not in substance from the way it was originally reported, however.
Moderator Brian Williams: You said recently, "No one is suffering more than the Palestinian people." Do you stand by that remark?
Obama: Well, keep in mind what the remark actually, if you had the whole thing, said. And what I said is nobody has suffered more than the Palestinian people from the failure of the Palestinian leadership to recognize Israel, to renounce violence, and to get serious about negotiating peace and security for the region.
Liar
That's somewhat different from the way Obama was quoted March 12 by reporter Thomas Beaumont of the Des Moines Register. As reported, Obama attributed Palestinian suffering to "the stalled peace efforts with Israel" and not so narrowly to failures by Palestinian leadership only.
Liar
Des Moines Register, March 12: Obama told the Muscatine-area party activists that he supports relaxing restrictions on aid to the Palestinian people. He said they have suffered the most as a result of stalled peace efforts with Israel.
"Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," Obama said while on the final leg of his weekend trip to eastern Iowa.
That statement would appear to lay some of the blame at the doorstep of Israel's leadership as well.
Ed continues;
Obama evidently thought he could get away with making up a story about what he said, when challenged about it, perhaps because he was only speaking before about 40 Iowa Democrats at the time. He didn't reckon on the ubiquity of recorders, including telephones, or perhaps he thought that the Des Moines Register would roll over for him the way the rest of the media seems inclined to do.
Related: Obama Strategy: USE THOSE JEWS!
Atlas Shrugs: Obama's Jews Ruse
Atlas Shrugs: Obama's Jews Ruse Tools
Atlas Shrugs: Obama's Moral Inversion
Cape Wind
Peter Schweizer's Do As I Say (Not As I Do) is a brilliant expostion of liberal hypocrisy. The Kennedy family all by itself provides substantial material for Peter's book. For example, Schweizer discusses Ted Kennedy's opposition to a wind power project on Nantucket Sound that would apparently impair the view from the Kennedy family compound six miles away. Not in his backyard! (Peter's book has a serious point. Peter argues that the behavior of notable liberals conflicting with their professed beliefs shows their beliefs to be "ultimately self-defeating, self-destructive, and unworkable.")
Alex Beam writes a column for the Boston Globe. I'm not familiar with Beam's work, but the current issue of the Weekly Standard carries Beam's very funny review of Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for America's Energy Future on Nantucket Sound by Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb. Unfortunately, Beam's review is restricted to subscribers.
Cape Wind is the 24-square-mile, turbine-powered electrical power project to be built in Horseshoe Shoal that is discussed in Schweizer's book. Cape Wind chronicles the opposition of wealthy Cape Cod residents and Martha's Vineyard islanders such as David McCullough, Walter Cronkite, and all manner of Kennedys, Mellons and Duponts to Cape Wind:
The Mellons and the DuPonts have summered on the Cape for a lot longer than former cable TV salesman Jim Gordon [the entrepreneur behind Cape Wind] has been a millionaire, and, naturally, they have powerful friends. Cue the pathetic marital opportunist Sen. John Warner, who nominally represents the people of Virginia. Blubbering to the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee, Warner invokes his first, pre-Elizabeth Taylor, wife: "A wonderful person who is still a very dear and valued friend. . . . She does have a home on the Cape. I was actually married there." The wonderful woman in question is Catherine Mellon, daughter of Bunny, the widow of Paul Mellon. Bunny, who is the first person named in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's will--Jackie left her two Indian miniatures, by way of thanks for Bunny's help in redesigning the White House Rose Garden--is an ardent Cape Wind opponent. In the book, she accuses a lawyer who does not hate Cape Wind assiduously enough of being a "traitor to your class." That's language you expect to hear on Masterpiece Theater, not in George W. Bush's America.
The authors relate how, pace President Bush, Cape Wind has proved to be a uniter, not a divider. Outraged by the shenanigans on Capitol Hill--not only Warner, but also Alaska's notorious "bridge to nowhere" congressman Don Young have tried to throttle the child of Aeolus in its watery crib-such unlikely bedfellows as Robert Novak, the Washington Post, and the Washington Times have leapt to Cape Wind's defense. How rare for Sun Myung Moon's scribblers, to say nothing of Rupert Murdoch's salarymen at Fox News, to find themselves allied with the merry pranksters from Greenpeace, who have injected some badly needed humor into the Cape Wind imbroglio. Greenpeace produced an ad showing a roly-poly senator standing knee-deep in salt water, brandishing a wooden mallet. As wind turbines surface, the senator smashes them down, Whac-a-Mole style, complaining that "I might see them from my mansion on the Cape." Fox News commentators Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes loved the ad, and gave it air play.
Greenpeace teased Robert Kennedy Jr. during an anti-Cape Wind photo op and infiltrated a Ted Kennedy book-signing in Washington. While the senior senator from Massachusetts signed copies of America Back on Track, replete with predictable complaints about the country's energy policy, Greenpeaceniks handed out dummy book covers to people waiting in line. Their alternate title: How I Killed America's First Offshore Wind Farm.
I ask you, where is the respect?
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The Truther sickness is spreading, enabled by irresponsible media and cretinous public figures like Rosie O’Donnell; many potential jurors for the Jose Padilla Al Qaeda case have indicated that they aren’t sure who was behind 9/11.link: 27 comments
And...
If you need more evidence than a quick look at any left-wing blog that the Democrat Party has become the party of derangement, denial, conspiracy theories and blind hatred, a new Rasmussen poll shows that 35% of Democrats believe Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance. link: 96 comments
They are still not line us: New stoning video cause to revisit past column
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"Nothing gets between me and my .38"-- “I sell drugs.” Some time later, while working behind the counter, a gun-toting thug approached me shouting some very bad words about what he was insisting I get for him. To this day, I still recall hearing the F and MF words many times along with the names of some narcotics and, of course, “WHERE THE BLANK DO YOU HIDE THE MONEY?” I didn’t even think about the possible consequences. Instantly I drew my Smith and Wesson .38 and fired. Without going into the rest of the story, let me just say that I’m here to tell you about it…..me and my .38 that I still carry and will carry till the day I die. So please -- please – please – Unless you’ve stood there as I did, don’t lecture me about the Second Amendment.
How Did Abortion Become An Issue Not Discussed Publicly? --
They don't play it up because the more it's out in the open, the more people realize that it is murdering the most purely innocent form of life. They don't want to know that. As long as they can keep their blinders on and their fingers in their ears, they can have abortions as often as they like.
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05/05/2007 2:42:21 PM PDT
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backhoe
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"It is truly sad that most people don’t even know that any of this is going on. They have not clue, and they fully trust that our government will keep them safe. A few print reporters think it is important enough to report on the dangers of trading with China. Stories trickle out here and there on the internet, and you can find them if you look for them, but our media doesn’t seem to think any of this is important at all. They would rather talk non-stop about Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, Alec Baldwin, and Anna Nicole Smith."
I'm off to bed now; but keep checking here for the Blood Trail links:
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Fred's Debut
Fred Thompson appeared last night at the Lincoln Club, an influential group of California power brokers in the GOP, giving a speech which broadly outlines his agenda. Given that the Lincoln Club could have invited almost any of the 2008 primary candidates to speak at their annual dinner, the choice of Thompson gives the impression of a tacit endorsement of his candidacy -- and the Lincoln Club’s endorsement (tacit or otherwise) carries a powerful weight to anyone fortunate enough to receive it.
The speech itself serves as an excellent entrée into the race. On the Iraq war, he remained steadfast in its central importance to American global security. On economics and taxes, he stayed close to the federalist philosophies that have become his hallmark. Thompson also attacked government waste, red tape, and its intrusion into areas without a Constitutional mandate -- and its poor performance when it does.
I've extensively reviewed the speech at Heading Right. It hits a consistent message of limited government, strong defense, and the need to tackle entitlement reform as one of the highest domestic priorities of the nation. It's a great launch to his campaign, whether tacit or explicit.
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Thompson at the Lincoln Club
I confess that I've been a little irritated by the whole Fred Thompson phenomenon, for two reasons. First, I think that to many he is sort of a fantasy candidate: people project their desires onto him and create him in their own image, much as many Democrats do with Barack Obama. The mythical Fred Thompson who is just the candidate we're looking for--whatever that may be--has little to do, I think, with the actual Fred Thompson.
Second, the last five years have been a critical time in our nation's history. From 2002 to the present, men like George Bush, John McCain, and many others have been fighting a very difficult battle on behalf of our country. Not Fred Thompson: he preferred to leave the Senate to live the very sweet life of a minor television celebrity. There's nothing wrong with that, necessarily, but it's not exactly heroic, either.
Having said that, I have nothing against Thompson. He has some great strengths, and if he should enter the race and become the party's nominee, I will support him enthusiastically. Last night, he gave a speech at the Lincoln Club of Orange County that has attracted a lot of notice. The text of the speech is here. Via Real Clear Politics, here is a YouTube video that captures excerpts from the speech, on the threat of nulcear terrorism, immigration and entitlements:
The video is brief, but it conveys a sense of Thompson's potential strength as a candidate.
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Permalink "My own personal belief is that because of a myriad of factors, the Republican party is set to lose the White House in November 2008. The public has succumbed to the relentless pounding of the media, the Democrats, folks in entertainment, and others, and they are tired of hearing how rotten President Bush, conservatives, and the Republican party are, and
just want it all to go away...The Left has successfully beaten America and Americans down, and laid it all at the feet of George Bush and the Republican party...
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"John, You’re OTL on this one. Yes, Fred does have another life. That’s important. The other 10 critters that crawled out on the debate stage have no other life. Romney may be the sole exception.
The other would-be pretenders are professional politicians. They
don’t have real jobs, so they’ll sell out to the special interest groups that finance their campaigns. God help them if they had to return home, get a real job, pay taxes, get stuck in commuter traffic, stand in long security lines and get groped by TSA at the airports. " ...go reread
A Second Helping of Fred, which Scott linked to from
The Fred factor, part 3. Sen. Thompson didn’t feel particularly needed in 2000.
The Evil We Face - FBI video shows explosive force of a shoe bomb on aircraft--There is no technological solution to this; the solution has to arise from hardened attitudes.
Hillary's assets [essential reading]--hedge funds make up a supersized version of the speculative markets where Clinton toiled well before the onset of the 80s "decade of greed."
Talk radio is overwhelmingly right-leaning because it satisfies the public's growing appetite for alternative news and commentary to the liberal media establishment. If the Democrats don't like the opinions of Savage, Limbaugh or Hannity, then all they need to do is go to CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times or The Washington Post. There are countless outlets peddling the anti-war, anti-Bush mantras of the left.
Kuhner, Insight Magazine
You must read Kuhner's seminal piece. Understand what these legislative moves like the ridiculously named "Fairness Doctrine" are really all about. Frightening times my friends. Insight magazine (PAID)
Kuhner: Liberal totalitarianism
Commentary by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Insight
Liberal Democrats are attempting to muzzle conservative talk radio: they are assaulting free speech. Like the communists in the former Soviet Union, America's liberals seek to crush dissent by consolidating control over the media-especially talk radio, which has emerged as the dominant medium for conservative opinion.
Allies close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are promoting legislation, which if passed, will take off the air prominent conservative radio hosts such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly-along with thousands of smaller conservative broadcasters. The bill, entitled the "Media Ownership Reform Act," is sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a leftist Democrat from New York. The legislation aims to revive the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" of the 1940's: "all views" are to be given equal time on radio. In particular, the Federal Communications Commission would have the power to oversee and change radio and television content. The goal is to tilt the ideological balance of power away from the right on the nation's air waves.
The real force behind the effort to censor conservative talk radio is the progressive-philanthropist, George Soros. The radical leftist billionaire has made no secret of his hatred for conservatives. He says President Bush has transformed America into a militaristic, "fascist" empire. Moreover, Soros champions many of liberalism's chic causes: abortion on demand, legalization of drugs, homosexual marriage, euthanasia, unlimited Third World immigration, open borders, and one-world government anchored in the United Nations. He advocates all the issues that are anathema to popular radio talk-show hosts like Savage, Limbaugh and Hannity. Hence, he wants these commentators to be exiled to the political wilderness.
At a recent National Conference for Media Reform, sponsored by Free Press, a Massachusetts-based group heavily subsidized by Soros, Hinchey laid bare his plan to silence conservative voices on television and radio. The anti-war McGovernite attacked Savage, Limbaugh and other conservative radio hosts, saying they were "responsible" for leading the U.S. into the Iraq war, as well as for preparing the ground for future military invasions of Iran and Syria. According to Hinchey, these men pose a "threat" to American national security. Hence, under his bill, they would be fired.
"All of that stuff will end," Hinchey said.
Continue reading "KUHNER: Liberal Totalitariansim" »
May 5th, 2007
From France’s AFP:
Stoning death mobile phone video shown on internet
By Abdulhamid Zebari in Arbil, Iraq
May 5, 2007
MOBILE phone videos have appeared on the internet showing an Iraqi mob stoning and kicking to death a 17-year-old girl after she offended her minority community by eloping with a Muslim man.
Doaa Khalil Aswad was a member of northern Iraq’s Yazidi religious sect but, according to local officials, was murdered on April 7 by her brothers and uncles after she allegedly converted to Islam.
In the video - on the Kurdish website Jebar.Info and rapidly spreading on the internet - Aswad is shown lying in the road as men kick her and throw a large lump of rock or concrete at her head.
Her face is drenched in blood but uniformed and armed members of the Iraqi police stand by and do nothing to prevent the attack.
The slim, dark-haired girl is wearing a red tracksuit top and black underwear during the beating.
At one point she struggles to sit up and cover herself, but a man kicks her in the face knocking her violently back to the ground.
The assault continues for several minutes and she does not appear to cry out nor resist her attackers.
Members of a large crowd can be seen filming the murder on their mobile phones, some shouting or kicking out at the cowering victim.
Nobody tries to help her.
“They brutally killed a young Yazidi girl in pursuit of out-of-date tribal rites,” said Tahsin Saeed Ali, Emir of the Yazidis in Iraq and the world and head of the Supreme Yazidi Spiritual Council.
It should be pointed out that Yazdis are not Muslims. Indeed, as the article points out, the girl was killed at least in part for converting to Islam.
Of course the difference may seem somewhat academic here.
9 Comments » "...what it all boils down to is that in any arab society, a woman is an expendable piece of property of her father, brother and husband to do with as they please, including brutally killing her in a way that would be illegal in our society to do to an animal..."
When good gerbils go bad…
LOU DOBBS SAYS THE U.S. COULD DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS if it really wanted to. He'll say more about that on 60 Minutes tomorrow night.
GARDEN & GUN MAGAZINE: The Insta-Wife likes the idea. but as she notes, some people don't.
Sunday is the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Pim Fortuyn. Bruce Bawer writes about the issue:
Europe's Champion of Liberty
As he walked out of a radio studio near Amsterdam, a left-wing activist named Volker van der Graaf pumped five bullets into his back. Fortuyn died almost instantly. The killer would later explain that Fortuyn's views on Muslim immigration made him a "danger." It was the Netherlands's first political assassination in over 300 years.
Tornado Video of the Day: Hear Me Roar 50 Yards Away
NORTH AMERICAN UNION UPDATE
Not short on cache - OR facilities seriously beef up security with new gear, weapons
Inside the Inside Story [Feith Rips Tenet a New Orifice]
AP Ignored Allegations of McGreevey's Corruption, Focused on Supposed Homophobia
Street markers a sign of Philly's quest for homosexual tourists, says activist
Pro-Life Groups: Meehan Amendment Unfairly Targets Free Speech Rights
The Hate Crime Bills: Imposing an Anti-Christian Worldview
Homemade Space Glove Wins NASA Contest
Backgrounder -- Modernizing NORAD's Air Defence System
American dream sours as housing market collapses
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05/06/2007 3:55:55 AM PDT
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backhoe
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Unsolicited (and Ultimately, I’m Sure, Unheeded) Advice from a Republican to the Democratic Party [McGehee] (updated)
(The following is cross-posted to The McGehee Zone—but I want people to actually see it, so...)
Seeing the link for this New York Times story on Drudge just crystallized something for me. From the article:
Every morning, representatives from a cluster of antiwar groups gather for a conference call with Democratic leadership staff members in the House and the Senate.
Shortly after, in a cramped meeting room here, they convene for a call with organizers across the country. They hash out plans for rallies. They sketch out talking points for “rapid response” news conferences. They discuss polls they have conducted in several dozen crucial Congressional districts and states across the country.
Over the last four months, the Iraq deliberations in Congress have lurched from a purely symbolic resolution rebuking the president’s strategy to timetables for the withdrawal of American troops. Behind the scenes, an elaborate political operation, organized by a coalition of antiwar groups and fine-tuned to wrestle members of Congress into place one by one, has helped nudge the debate forward.
But there are tensions in the relationship between the groups, which banded together earlier this year under the umbrella of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, and the Democratic leadership. The fissures could be magnified in coming weeks as the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, struggle to cobble together a strategy after President Bush’s veto of the $124 billion Iraq spending bill that tied the money to a timetable for withdrawal.
There is nothing new about this, really. Anti-war groups have been a core constituency for the Democrats since the 1960s. They had been sufficiently co-opted by the ‘90s that Bill Clinton could use U.S. troops for such unilateral adventures as the Kosovo fight (he didn’t even have UN approval, the cowboy!) without so much as a peep—but this is parallel to the way feminist groups had been so co-opted that they defended Clinton against substantiable allegations of precisely the kind of sexual harassment previously said to be the worst possible: that of a powerful man toward a female subordinate.
But Bill Clinton is no longer president, and his successor is a Republican, so of course the anti-war constituency within the Democratic Party is once again anti-war; and now that both houses of Congress are held by the Democrats, that once-again-anti-war anti-war constituency expects Congress to do anti-war things.
On Thursday, leaders of the liberal group MoveOn.org, including Tom Matzzie, the group’s Washington director who also serves as the campaign manager for the coalition, sent a harshly worded warning to the Democratic leadership.
“In the past few days, we have seen what appear to be trial balloons signaling a significant weakening of the Democratic position,” the letter read. “On this, we want to be perfectly clear: if Democrats appear to capitulate to Bush—passing a bill without measures to end the war—the unity Democrats have enjoyed and Democratic leadership has so expertly built, will immediately disappear.”
They are creating a public image for the Democrats that the party had already expended a quarter-century in overcoming before Clinton made it to the White House. Clearly, convincing these groups to keep a low profile for the sake of the party was not a long-term solution, since they now expect their forbearance to be compensated. Nor do Reid and Pelosi have the political clout as congressional leaders, nor for that matter the leadership ability, to resurrect that forbearance even if there were the slightest chance such an attempt could succeed—Bill Clinton himself couldn’t do it now even if he could somehow resume the presidency as part of the deal. There really isn’t anyone who could.
Which means the Democrats have only one choice. They have to call the anti-war crowd’s bluff and tell them to shut up or take a hike. After all, if the Democratic Party doesn’t pander to them, where will they go?
Yes, I—a conservative who plans to deny John McCain my vote if he is the GOP nominee in 2008—do recognize the irony in that rhetorical question, and I realize that if the anti-war netroots and their sympathizers don’t get their way they may very well stay home on Election Day themselves, hurting the Democrats’ electoral chances. And as a Republican I acknowledge that I wouldn’t be unhappy with that result. There’s just one thing, though:
The anti-war constituency’s clout in the Democratic Party is based on a single issue on which its members hold extreme views, which distinguishes it from the conservative wing of the Republican Party which covers a wide range of issues on which most of the views are well within the nation’s political mainstream.
When Republican leaders offend conservatives, they suffer badly at the polls.
If Democrat leaders had the courage to offend anti-war groups, it could actually help their party. In the long run, I’m sure of it.
But as long as Pelosi and Reid are the party’s most visible leaders, the anti-war fringe will increasingly define the Democratic Party. And that hands the advantage to a GOP that I think most people recognize is itself increasingly unfit except on questions of national defense.
Members of the anti-war constituency are not the only single-issue voters at play in upcoming elections; they are vastly outnumbered by those who believe this war—the larger war to defend civilization, not necessarily just the one in Iraq—must be won even at the expense of controlling federal spending or re-regulating abortion or even fighting illegal immigration. And the Democratic Party that ascended to power in Congress as a result of the 2006 elections is increasingly demonstrating that it cannot be counted on to fight the larger war to victory.
Only when the Democrats realize that surrender is not a winning electoral platform will they ever be able to achieve any lasting electoral success.
I won’t say now is as good a time as any, because tomorrow is not as good a time as today, and the day after that even worse.
Update: Added a clause in the third-to-last paragraph to clarify what war I’m talking about.
Compare this:
with this:
( fixed that, for your moral clarity... )
And then, more propaganda, agitprop, and trash shoved in your face...
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05/06/2007 6:28:07 AM PDT
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backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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Idiotization of the masses (enviro nonsense - nailed!)--I see that the Conservative government I voted for has embraced a broad new "post-Kyoto" nanny-state environmentalist agenda, to head off competition from the environmentalist lunatics... The church in its nature addresses adults, with counsel. The state in its nature addresses children, with force.
Y2Kyoto: Tracking Your Trash
It's not enough that the average Briton is captured on closed-circuit TV cameras in his car, in the street, in the shopping mall, and even in country lanes where the rural constabulary have hidden them in trees to catch illegal fox hunters. Now the government is monitoring his garbage. If they ever take up Sheryl Crow's all-we-are-saying-is-give-one-piece-a-chance toilet-paper rationing, you can bet the enforcers will mandate CCTVs in every bathroom if not microchips in the bowl. If George Bush put a microchip in your garbage under the Patriot Act, there'd be mass demonstrations across the land. But do it in the guise of saving the planet and everyone's fine with it.
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VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Are you PC? If so, stop reading here --because this week and next I hope to weigh in with a warning about the dangers of political correctness, and in order to discuss them I'm going to have to violate some of the strictures of this
pathetic brand of self-censorship.
'No one in their right mind would publish a book stating, "The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry..."'
And maybe they did. Hitler was a vegetarian and the Nazis tried to prohibit smoking in public. The authoritarian left does not like to look in the mirror and see what totalitarianism looks like.
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backhoe
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Pim Fortuyn Remembered
Five years after the murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, Pieter Dorsman looks at his legacy: Dutch Martyrs.
Pim Fortuyn, murdered five years ago today, took on conventions to bring about change. Long before radical Islam was on the radar, Fortuyn had defined it, written a book about it and pointed to the need to confront it.
Sun, May 6, 2007 at 9:56:51 am PDT | link: 21 comments
This link is very difficult to track down, so save it if you've interested in the topic:
Fortuyn killer 'acted for Muslims'
"I'm afraid we're seeing the same convergence here on the US Left: inconvenient troofers, PETA-philes, and ELF-anarchists, with neo-Nazi Islamic thugs."
Video: Death Cult Mickey Mouse Teaches Islamic Supremacism
This is so vile I almost can’t believe what I’m seeing. The official Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa TV, is now using a Mickey Mouse-like character to teach Palestinian children Islamic supremacism and genocidal hatred.
(Via Palestinian Media Watch.) link: 89 comments
Amazing how Amercians still believe we can ignore war
On guard for you [ 1, 2 ] -- The police and mayor obviously are not doing their job and are afraid of somebody making them look like the clowns they are.
CAIR Cheers"Thought Crime" Bill Passage
'Gay' activist says 'We will BURY you'
What is Plantation Liberalism?
Err, this?
Limbaugh’s derisive jab at Obama called racist
Housing Slump Slams Speculators
O’Reilly: Media Matters and Soros Funding
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The future is here and it ain't pretty Be we knew that.
One dead as explosion rocks Las Vegas hotel ADP
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - An employee of a Las Vegas hotel was killed after an explosion in the resort's car-park early Monday, police in Nevada told AFP.
The man, whose identity was not disclosed, died after picking up an object in the parking structure of the famous pyramid-shaped Luxor Hotel on the busy Vegas strip. A second person was hospitalised in the incident.
Police gave no further information about the cause of the blast but local media reports suggested that explosives had been stuffed into a back-pack placed on top of the dead man's car.
A backpack bomb.
UPDATE Are they fucking kidding? Talk about a rush to judgment.
"Police said the blast was not a terrorist act, but an apparent slaying with an unusual murder weapon." hat tip 1trk
What' s the bomber's name?
Click to see where he stands on the issues.
EuroShock: France Moves Right
Europe appears in shock today as the center of European socialism has rejected the Socialists and moved to the right. The victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election has the continent abuzz, trying to discern its meaning and its impact for the rest of Europe. Der Spiegel reports that France "lurched" to the Right, and warns of social conflict...The Times of London takes a more balanced approach...Financial Times predicts that Socialism will have to mutate to a capital-friendly form if it expects to survive...
Michael van der Galien puts it rather succinctly: Socialism has weakened France, and Europe as a whole; it is time to get rid of it.Posted by Ed Morrissey at 08:23 AM | Comments (15) | TrackBack (1)
"A pro-American, pro-capitalist has been elected President of France. How long will it be till Democrats demand a recount?"
Not only did the Associated Press bury their report that 367 cars had been torched in France, now it turns out that the media have been lying about the violence.
Because the actual number of cars destroyed by “youths” last night was 730—about twice the number reported by the AP.
This Reuters article also says 78 policemen were injured by the “youths,” and the violence was much more widespread than we’ve been told: Police hurt in French election violence. This comes as no surprise, because French media have openly stated that they will cover up the true extent of the violence. And the French Constitutional Council recently passed a law criminalizing the reporting of acts of violence by anyone other than professional journalists. link: 508 comments
Last week the BBC reported that Britain’s MI5 intelligence service was monitoring at least 2,000 terror suspects in the UK.
Today we learn that report was incorrect. The actual number of Islamic terrorists on MI5’s watch list is closer to 4,000. link: 111 comments
At George Mason University, where the Muslim Student Association recently staged a thuggish disruption of a speech by John Lewis (about which the administration did nothing), Muslim students have taken over the school’s “Quiet Meditation Space” and turned it into a mosque, with separate areas for men and women.
Infidels not welcome.
They are most assuredly not our friends, but they are very adept at manipulating democratic freedoms and multicultural mindrot to get what they want.| link: 100 comments
But visible satellite estimates of top winds of 60 knots, just 5 knots shy of hurricane force!
The issue isn't abortion, but murder
Powerful Anti-Euthanasia Video Now Available
National Guard Readiness - (Pelosi blames Bush for lack of states planning - BARF ALERT)
Iraq war hampers U.S. tornado recovery [Bush's Fault!]
GOP criticizes Pelosi's water project [benefit property her husband owns in San Francisco....]
CBS13 Talkback: Is 'Barack The Magic Negro' Song Racist? (Readers Make Mincemeat Of TV Station)
Brightest Star Explosion Ever Spotted [the brightest supernova astronomers have ever seen]
The Ugly Face of Foreclosure
How Terrorists Send Money by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld & John Wood
Through the Back Door: Doctors Turn Against Abortion
The Big Deal About Raw Milk
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The violence continued in France tonight, and so did the puzzling reluctance of mainstream media to cover it: Anti-Sarkozy protesters smash windows.
This is one of the only stories on the wire that even mentions disturbances.... "... youths and police..." link: 147 comments "The yutes! The yutes! The unnamed Muslim yutes."
"What's with this 'youths' sh**? How about calling them criminals, hooligans, or juvenile delinquents? "
"First order of business is to lift that ban of people taking pictures with their phones. You NEED visibility into this stuff if you want support. People need to see this chaos..."
BBC Panorama had a scary little show tonight on the refusal of British Muslims to integrate into mainstream society, and their takeover of the town of Blackburn; LGF operative Kasper has uploaded a clip.| link: 35 comments
Britain threatened by 'an army of the unemployable'
Is this man trying to legalize pedophilia??
"Most of the elites in this country want carte blanche to be able to bugger anyone at an early age."
May 7th, 2007
From the Washington Times:
Guide coaches illegals on raids
By Jerry Seper
May 7, 2007
A Maryland-based immigrant-advocacy group is distributing guidebooks instructing those targeted by federal immigration agents during job-site raids not to cooperate with authorities if they are arrested or detained.
The eight-page, two-color illustrated book lists what rights "people who are not United States citizens" have if detained by immigration agents, details what to do if served with a warrant or charged with a crime, and urges them to remain silent if they are arrested.
The book also says they should refuse to provide authorities with any information about their immigration status.
Included in the book is a "Know Your Rights" card to be cut out and presented to arresting agents, showing that those detained choose to exercise their "right to remain silent, the right to refuse to answer your questions" and to "refuse to sign anything until I consult with my attorney."
The book, which features cartoonlike drawings of armed black and white police officers escorting Hispanic men in handcuffs and shows babies crying because their fathers are behind bars, is the product of CASA of Maryland Inc., working with other organizations…
Kim Propeack, the group’s director of community organizing and political action, said CASA has "become aware that some segments of our community" are frightened about the prospect of immigration raids and may avoid interacting with government institutions even if they have nothing to do with immigration.
"We consider providing people with accurate information about their rights fundamentally important to the people we serve, the local community concerned about public safety, and to the national community, which has adopted a bill of rights," she said.
CASA, originally known as the Central American Solidarity and Assistance of Maryland, is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable organization established in 1985. According to its latest IRS public-disclosure report filed on April 24, 2006, it received $1.14 million in private donations and $1.64 million in government fees and contracts — $2.78 million in revenue in the year ending June 30, 2005.
Its government funds came from the cities of Baltimore and Takoma Park, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, the state of Maryland, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…
The CASA book advises those facing arrest not to lie to immigration agents, warns against using false documents and urges them not to carry papers from another country because they could be used in a deportation proceeding.
The book says that during a job-site raid, immigration agents need to have a warrant signed by a judge and urges those at the site: "Stay calm. Do not run. This may be viewed as an admission that you have something to hide."
It says immigration agents and police cannot make arrests unless they have a warrant or evidence of nonresidency, adding: "Do not tell immigration your immigration status or where you were born." If confronted with a search warrant, the book advises: "Do not open the door. Ask the officer to slip the warrant underneath the door" to avoid giving agents the impression that they have "consent" to enter.
The book says those arrested should demand their right to a telephone call, contact their foreign consulate, and be aware that formal charges have to be brought within 48 hours or they have to be released.
It also says government agents may try to "intimidate" those detained into signing documents and warns: "Don’t let yourself be tricked. You may be signing away your right to a hearing before an immigration judge."
Of course this is nothing new. But it is so brazen.
And of course it is being done by yet another 501c3 taxpayer supported "charity."
And once again we will point out that breaking the law — or even encouraging others to break the law — is supposed to be enough for a 501c3 to lose its tax exempt status.
Supposed to be.
A pdf file of this comic book guidebook is available here.
16 Comments » "Well, at least they printed it in english, therefore their target audience won’t understand it..."
To see ‘the other side’ of what happened in L.A. on 5/1, go here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-XCWNe0pBTI
What the MSM-even FNC-won’t show you.
Rudy: Ax the Tax
At the Power Line Candidates' Forum, Rudy Giuliani calls for repeal of the estate tax:
Giuliani, who said he cut taxes 23 times to the tune of $9 billion while mayor of New York City, pointed out the inheritance tax adjusts from 55 percent to 45 percent in 2009, is at zero for one year, then goes back to 55 percent. “You get it,” Giuliani said from a platform in the shop area at Rexco Equipment, a small business in the same hands in Cedar Rapids for more than 40 years. “You gotta die that year. If you don’t, you give more than half of your business to the government.”
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Y2Kyoto: The Only Good Polar Bear
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This isn't the first time the Kyoto polar bear population fraud has been mentioned here.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005504.html
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005307.html
GLOBAL YAWNING:
Saying you’re not for the environment right now is like saying you’re not for education, children, world peace, Africa or a cure for cancer. These days you would have to be a fool or a lobbyist to dismiss global warming and natural resource issues.
AN EPIDEMIC IN CHINA: Seems to only be killing pigs, as far as we can tell. But the Chinese are keeping quiet about it, which is the real story:
To much of the Muslim world, American culture is the culprit
Colorado Dems Push Property Tax Hike
The Realignment of America--In essence, people are abandoning blue cities that have been destroyed by things like high taxes and moving to red cities.
Bush OKs 'integration' with European Union--If there is any deluded soul that still thinks Bush is or ever was a conservative this should put that idea to rest.
Greg Palast: Hillary’s (expletive deleted) Tour Business
Democrats Begin Hitting Fred Thompson--Fred Thompson: a Democrat consultant's worst nightmare!
Fredipedia: The definitive Fred Thompson Resource
Poll: Thompson Gaining Support Among State Voters
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How Two Innocuous Compounds Combined to Kill Pets
Farmed fish fed contaminated material
China and the Food Supply: The Ugly Story of China’s Culture of Corruption
LIVEBLOGGING FBI PRESS CONFERENCE:
Today the global jihad came to Cherry Hill New Jersey.
Plotters rented a house in Poconos to train. Plotters wanted to hit base to cause power outage.
Suspects had the videos of two 9/11 hijackers. They watched videos of the killing of American soldiers. They watched the blowing off of the arm of an American soldier and the room burst into laughter. These are the kind of people we are dealing with.
They said: "We can do a lot of damage with seven people. . We can do big things with seven people."
They said: Prepared to die in service of Allah
Today we dodged a lot of bullets. They were forming a platoon to form an army.
This is a brand new form of terrorism
3:47pm;
Store clerk turned over militant video over to the police
Suspects were yelling jihad in the video
Store clerk is a hero.
Will CAIR be suing the store clerk? Will they use NY CAIR President Omar Mohammedi , the lawyer suing US Airways and the Jane and John Does who alerted the authorities to the six imams threatening behavior? The same lawyer on Mayor BloOmberg's Human Rights Commission?
JOE KAUFMAN AND I WILL BE DISCUSSING THIS ON TONIGHT'S SHOW ATLAS ON THE AIR 9pm Eastern Time.
I hope France crushes this. The people have spoken. No matter how conciliatory the media writes this story - Sarkozy "divisive", " controversial Right-wing conservative Nicolas Sarkozy," "tough language," "crackdowns on immigration" (are people not allowed to expect enforcement of rule of law?), "riot squads" (aka the Police) the facts on the ground cannot be spun.
Look at the above AP photo: the big bad riot goons and the poor helpless immigrant (second and third generation are still considered immigrant? WTF?). Watch what is really happening: VIDEOS HERE.
It's Sarkozy's fault, it's the voters' fault - everyone but the animals destroying the country. This from ITV
The son of a Hungarian immigrant, Mr Sarkozy caused controversy in 2005 when he described rioters as 'racaille', a derogatory term thought to have sparked trouble across France.
Sarkozy, who beat Socialist Segolene Royal in a runoff Sunday, is a divisive figure whose tough language and crackdowns on crime and immigration have angered many on the left — and in the immigrant-heavy suburban housing projects that erupted in riots in 2005. An anti-Sarkozy rally in Paris was planned for Tuesday afternoon.
Late Monday night, several hundred people massed again at the Place de la Bastille in Paris, breaking windows in nearby shops and starting street fires. Riot police dispersed them, and about 100 people were arrested, police said Tuesday. A handful of cars were ignited in the area.
In Nantes in western France, hundreds gathered again Monday night, with a few dozen hurling beer bottles and other projectiles at police cordons, police said. Police responded with tear gas and arrested several people. Public buildings were also damaged. Minor incidents were also reported in Toulouse in southern France.
The Gatekeepers’ Gambit
From Ace, citing the media embargo of a Rasmussen poll “finding that 61% of self-identifying Democrats either believe George Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks in advance or are not sure if he did or not”:
[...] when 61% of Democrats state they believe that George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance, or may have known of them—thus making George Bush a co-conspirator in the attacks—the media not only does no debunking whatseover, but fails to point out the left is engaging in some fairly serious myth-making itself.
Long story short:
The media considers it crazy to believe that Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, had something to do with 9/11, and fights this insanity with every tool at its disposal, including outright deception.
On the other hand, the media does not apparently consider it particularly hard to believe that George Bush, President of the United States, had something to do with 9/11. If they did consider such a notion beyond the pale, one would imagine they’d publicize (and implicity mock) those crazed liberals believing that our own President aided and abetted Osama bin Ladin.
But of course they don’t. Because it’s simply not possible for a reasonble person to believe a sworn enemy of the US, known to have at least some ties with Al Qaeda, could have had a hand in the attacks, but a reasonable person could, according to the MSM, believe that a US President with no ties to Al Qaeda helped facillitate and perhaps even carry out the attacks.
Factor Ace’s observations into my argument earlier today that the MSM is not so much credulous and blinded by its hatred of all things non-progressive as it is cynically playing to the fact that we live in an cultural ethos wherein the philosophical substructures necessary for the progressive agenda to take root—among them a credulous and politically disengaged majority (which forces politicians to give more weight to those who are engaged, who, on the left, tend to be the types who believe that short-term white lies or rhetorical dodges are a practical—indeed, a moral—tool that in the end brings about the greater good, and so is justified) and an epistemology that privileges anti-foundationalism, identity politics, and linguistic totalitarianism, and it becomes clear that we’ve reached a similar ending point, but that we disagree with the nature of MSM and partisan complicity.
In general, I’m willing to give the media the benefit of the doubt—they tend to go for the sensational, and many of their drones aren’t exactly the sharpest stingers in the colony—but when it comes to memes that they continue to push even after they have been thoroughly and completely problematized or outright debunked, then we can safely say that their intent has become something far more objectionable than merely selling newspapers.
In the course of my proddings over the last few years, I’ve extracted, from the likes of Greenwald(s) and Mona, confessions that they, and many of their supporters in the ranks of “true conservatives” (read: progressives who started out as cutout conservatives to claim an epiphany) are willing to do anything and everything—including lying (which they would reframe as finessing the narrative) to achieve their ends.
That is, they have stated in no uncertain terms that lying in the service of larger truths is not a political sin—and in fact, it is, in the perverse logic of arrogant, presumptuous, illiberal hacks, something of a badge of honor. Muddying the narrative waters, obstructing progress, keeping their political opponents constantly on the defensive: these are the tactics of “progressivism,” and are geared toward forcing their opponents to surrender the fight for wont of being able to elevate their own voices above the din.
So while I share Ace’s jaundiced view of the MSM, I’ve come to think of them as less gullible than opportunistic, and far more cynical than simply credulous or blinded by hatred alone.
Because to be sure, they are blinded by ideological hatred; but they have taken to channeling that hatred into a willful attempt to control the electorate and shape public debate in a way that rises to the level of intentional advocacy.
But then, maybe both of us are wrong—and what we’re seeing instead is a mass hallucination happening on the right, whereby we all went to bed on 910 and woke up on 911 as giant cockroaches.
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46 Comments ... They are just following Alinky’s
Rules for Radicals as they have been since Miz Clinton was babysitting migrant kids back in the ‘60’s. Geez...
To figure out how the MSM thinks, read the Communist Manifesto (Marx-Engels, 1848).
http://www.box.net/shared/7dnvimtb5z
Western Standard Cover: The Growing Girl Gap
MoveOn.org : Act Three is Hidden
The Flight To Flyover Country
Political analysts sometimes refer to the space between the two coasts as "flyover country," a space so uninteresting and unimportant that it bears little consideration until someone needs votes. The Midwest, with the exceptions of Chicago and perhaps the Twin Cities, get little credit for sophistication or intellectual interest. For the most part, people make jokes about cows and corn and consider the coastal megalopolises the center of American thought.
Michael Barone, writing in today's OpinionJournal, says that has changed in practice, if not yet in thought. More native-born Americans have left the coastal megalopolises for flyover country, stratifying the big American cities on the coasts and in effect abandoning them to immigrants:Posted by Ed Morrissey at 06:09 AM | Comments (22) | TrackBack (4)
"...why their middle classes have found flyover country a destination."
For this refugee from Washington, DC, the answer is easy: To return to civilization as we know it.
The End of the American Dream?--"In 2005, more people left California for other states than arrived. This situation is unprecedented during the past 150 years. “Illegals push you off the sidewalks, ram your cars, and speed through red lights and stop signs while honking their horns like they did in Mexico, and refuse to even entertain the notion of ever learning English. Welcome to Los Angeles,”"
Villainous Kate has a gem of a post up, with graphs and everything, wherein she examines Bush-hate at the NY Times.
Ah, but a rising tide lifts all boats while the Bush presidency is awash in a sea of gloomy imagery. Each new day brings a new miserable failure alert: time is running out, the tide has turned, an increasingly embattled president at odds with an ever more impatient nation stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.[…]Whatever could be driving those negative poll numbers?
Go read it all, and note the graphics - the whole post is a thing of beauty.
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Like night follows day - the right wins, the left riots.
Canada's Peace Movement - "Give suicide bombings a chance!".
His father's looks, his mother's brain.
A chicken in every pot, new skates, and a pony. Sorry, Winnipeg. Looks like your conversion to the economic model of the former East Germany will continue ...
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THE D.C. CIRCUIT HAS
REFUSED TO REHEAR Parker v. District of Columbia, in which a panel struck down the D.C. gun ban law on Second Amendment grounds. Eugene Volokh
has much more, and sees the chance of a Supreme Court cert. grant as "well over 50%."
Liberation theology--
My question was: "If the prinicipal purpose of the Church is the salvation of souls through belief in the divinity and resurrection of Jesus Christ, how does Liberation Theology serve that purpose?"
Amazingly, the Associated Press has actually reported the story of Hamas’ Islamic supremacist Mickey Mouse clone: Hamas ‘Mickey Mouse’ wants Islam takeover. LGF was the first US blog to post this stunningly evil video, a few minutes after I got an email about it from Palestinian Media Watch. Here it is again for the record: link: 94 comments
It’s amazing how little coverage is being given to the continuing disturbances in France after Nicolas Sarkozy’s election—amazing until you realize that the media are probably deliberately minimizing and under-reporting the violence.
Last night’s toll: rioting in several cities, more than 500 torched cars, hundreds of arrests, and who knows how much property damage. If this were happening in the US, you can be sure there would be dozens of articles on the wires, and blogs like Daily Kos would be ranting and blaming George Bush.
One of the very few reports: Fresh violence in France after Sarkozy election. link: 134 comments
Stocks vs. Real Estate : Which is the Superior Long Term Bet ?
Home-price forecast: First ever decline
Tales from Inside the Beeb (Mark Steyn reviews "Can We Trust The BBC?")
Average Gas Prices Climb to a New Record {What's Your Plan?]
Democrats slam Big Oil over $3 gasoline prices--I have heard that there is over 30 different "blends" of gasoline to comply with regional EPA requirements.
Now combine that map with multiple octane ratings (that change from state to state) and summer/winter blends.
Scientists look high in the sky for power: Jet stream could fill global energy needs
How Kansas Tornado Became a Monster
Aerials of Greensburg Tornado Damage
Now, take a painless blood sugar test
Daily FRED! fix ...
Thompson wins Washington GOP straw poll
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
Also of interest in FRED news- he blogged a little at RedState this afternoon!
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/about_that_wiseguy_clip_msnbc_has_been_showing
Fred Thompson on Health Care
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Here is a copy of the video if you have the stomach. Brutal.
"If these animals were so honorable and religious why did they pull this childs pants off during the stoning?" 'I have seen stoning videos before. What was new to this one was all of the cell phone cameras taking pictures of the carnage. Murdering savages.'
For those interested in the videos :
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