Wack-ademic Update: On "sh*tcanning 3500 hundred years of human moral development." This from a "top 5" philosophy program. Churchill was just the warm-up as is now apparent...

QandO has all you need to know about the left and their rabid opposition to Social Security reform: "I'd love to give you all that money back in a tax cut, if I thought you'd spend it properly."

And then there's all the plagiarism of Chomsky...

Here a bribe, there a bribe, pretty soon there would be no more sanctions.

But Not For Thee

Have you signed yet? And Glenn is a MUST READ on this.

Three times two ridiculous.

More apocalypse sightings.

Ghandi Down The Memory Hole?

It's not bloody so it's not news. Really.

The real next test in this drama will be in the upcoming Lebanese elections. The forces of democracy have disarmed and Hezbollah has not.

I suspect our forces will have to "accidentally" take out Syria to get over and help the Christians/ Druze/ Shiites when Hezbollah lunatic thugs come unhinged as they certainly will.

Then we'll see how the Iranian people react when they see we're serious about supporting them...

Judges Judging Against Judges

I've often commented in conversation on how sheer stupidity is self correcting. Michelle has how it applies in the case of liberal judges:

[T]he California Supreme Court issued an opinion in 2002 that sent ripples through the legal community. They ruled it was a violation of a defendant's rights to have him fitted with a shock belt as a security measure.
The case sent shockwaves through the system, and has had a chilling effect
on the use of stun belts which would have stopped the carnage in Georgia
today.

One judge dissented: George W. Bush nominee Janice Rogers Brown. Here's what she said:

"We are a court of review. The question for review here was whether the judgment of conviction must be overturned because defendant was required to
wear a stun belt, and the answer is, we should have affirmed the judgment
because no prejudice was shown. Full stop. The question in this case was not
whether stun belts pose serious medical risks for persons with heart
problems or other medical conditions, nor was it whether the current design
of the stun belt could be improved upon. There is absolutely no evidence in
the record bearing on these questions. In the absence of such evidence, we
had two choices. We could have deferred to the Legislature, which can make
law after hearing from distinguished experts on all sides of controversial
issues. Or we could have waited for a case that raised these questions on an
adequate record.

Instead, the majority, rushing to judgment after conducting an embarrassing
Google.com search for information outside the record, has tied the hands of
the Legislature, to the likely peril of judges, bailiffs, and ordinary
citizens called upon to do their civic duty."

Preiscent, no?

Let me make this clear: No matter what their ideology, threatening or harming a judge in any way ABSOLUTELY MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL -- whether in the U.S. or Iraq. But I'm guessing that the new Iraqi judges wouldn't spend a nanosecond contemplating the -- literally -- suicidal horsepucky that Judge Brown tried to stop.

And is now reaping a terrible harvest.

LOL

QOTD

"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's in English, thank a soldier." Donald strikes again...

Ugghhh

Sorry to any of you who viewed the site in the last few days and saw lots of duplicate posts! Needless to say, Blogger was out to lunch and frustrating the bejeebers out of me. All better now anyway...

Can You Say Ethnic Cleansing?

Via Normblog:

There once was a vibrant presence of nearly 1 million Jews residing in 10 Arab countries. Our Middle Eastern Jewish culture existed long before the Arab world dominated and rewrote the history of the Middle East. Today, however, fewer than 12,000 Jews remain in these lands -- almost none in Iraq.

What happened to us, the indigenous Jews of the Arab world? Why were 150, 000 Iraqi Jews -- my family included -- forced out of Iraq? Why were an additional 800,000 Jews from nine other Arab countries also compelled to leave after 1948?

When the world of the 1930s and '40s was divided between the democratic Allies and the Fascist Axis, Arab nationalists in Iraq and Palestine chose to form an alliance with Nazi Germany. The father of Palestinian nationalism and the mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, began his close collaboration with Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s.

The British put out an arrest warrant for the pro-Nazi Palestinian leader, but he escaped when war broke out in Europe in the spring of 1939. Later that year, he arrived in Baghdad and linked up with pro-Nazi Iraqi nationalist Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. In 1941 al-Husseini and al-Gaylani engineered a pro- German coup against the pro-British Iraqi government, which brought a reign of terror to Iraq's Jews. This culminated in what we remember as the Farhud, an Arabic word akin to "pogrom."

In a two-day period Arab mobs went on a rampage in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, murdering, raping and pillaging these cities' Jewish communities. Nearly 200 Jews were killed, more than 2,000 injured; some 900 Jewish homes were destroyed and looted, as were hundreds of Jewish-owned shops. My father was a survivor of the carnage. He hid in a hole dug in the ground to save his life. He saw Iraqi soldiers pull small children away from their parents and rip the arms off young girls to steal their bracelets. He saw pregnant women being raped and their stomachs cut open.

Britain eventually regained control, but al-Husseini and other Palestinian nationalists had already fled to Berlin where they became honored guests of the Nazi state. Hitler told a grateful al-Husseini that "Germany's only remaining objective in the [Middle East] would be limited to the annihilation of the Jews living under British protection in Arab lands."

Later, in a speech over Radio Berlin's Arabic Service, al-Husseini voiced support for the Nazis' "Final Solution" and became the first Arab leader to call openly for the expulsion of Jews from Arab lands -- some eight years before there was a single Palestinian refugee.

Even though Hitler lost the war, al-Husseini's call was heeded. In 1948, Iraq rounded up and imprisoned hundreds of Jews. Others were removed from their jobs in the civil service, business licenses of Jews were revoked, and quotas were placed on Jewish high school and college students. Later, discriminatory restrictions were imposed on Jewish travel abroad and the buying or selling of property. Thus, even if Jews wanted to escape Iraq, they could not do so legally, and they could not liquidate their assets.

In 1950, the Iraqi parliament passed a law called Ordinance for the Cancellation of Iraqi Nationality for Jews, Law No. 1 that stripped Iraqi Jews of their citizenship. In 1951, the Iraqi parliament passed another law, confiscating all Jewish property. Within a year, most of Iraq's ancient Jewish population, my family included, fled to Israel.

Why haven't you bought "Why The Jews?" yet?

Craven Cuckoo Commie Commentary

By way of LGF a soldier points out the insanity of the whole Sgrena scenario:

My son, who is home from Baghdad on for two weeks R&R, was mad as hell about the reports that Sgrena claimed US troops intentionally tried to kill her. He told me that his platoon (and, presumably hundreds or thousands of other US troops) spent considerable time searching for her, trying to find and release her. Each time he and his troops stop a car or enter a building they put their lives at risk. They did this — putting themselves at risk — following orders to try to find and rescue her, not to kill her. If US troops were trying to kill her instead of rescue her, it hardly could have been kept a secret, since all hundreds or thousands of troops searching would have to have received similar orders. At the risk of stating the obvious, it would have been pointless to give orders to one roadblock team to shoot her if everyone else had orders to find and rescue her. What nonsense!

The Americans who lend aid and comfort to the people floating these conspiracy theories should not be tolerated when they next claim to “support the troops.”

Du-oh!

And never mind her story about picking bullets out of the car's interior -- the exterior of which having no more than a handful of bullet holes at BEST.

Oh. And it was speeding crazily -- but slowly so it wouldn't be shot at passing the checkpoint.

Cuckoo. And then some.

UPDATE: Tinfoil hats for the tinfoil apocalypse...

Iraq The Model

Has some comments worth considering on Lebanon. (via Glenn)

"The absence of a single Arab president or king at the funeral of Hariri, a man whom every Arab leader knew personally, is telling."

Hallucinations and (The Wrong Kind Of) Paranoia Italian Style

Sgrena via "Pravda". You won't be surprised. (Hat tip Roger)

AND: No wonder we're losing the war -- part deux.

Hateful Idiots Devastated

Check this out from Eugene:

Anti-Semite Forum Posting Pictures of Allegedly Jewish UCLA Faculty Members:

So far here, here, here, and here. I must admit that I was the proximate cause of this: I was quoted (though somewhat incompletely) in an article about white supremacist groups and free speech in the wake of the murders of Judge Lefkow's husband and mother; a white supremacist e-mailed me, and let's just say that I wasn't overly friendly to him. I regret that this has gotten my colleagues involved in all this, but this is America and I'm not going to be nice to Nazis to try to get them to go away.

So, yeah, we're Jews. Yeah, we're overrepresented on university faculties, in law and medicine, in the Senate, on the Supreme Court. Speaking of Nazis, we were overrepresented on the Manhattan Project, too.

The most powerful country in the world, America, is one of the ones that has been most open to Jews. Look at the most anti-Semitic countries in recent history: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Arab world. Right up there at the forefront of civilization and power, aren't they? Is it all the workings of The Conspiracy? Or is it just that the sorts of idiots who hate Jews do other idiotic things, too?

Perfect.

I just finished reading Prager and Telushkin's "Why The Jews?" so this just hit me in the solar plexus.

Get the book and read it. It's integral to the apocalypse...

Glenn on "anti-American protest that was allowed by the Americans."

McCarthyism for thee but not for me -- Betsy Hoffman...

And not an SUV in sight.

"Michael Moore could not withstand Michael Moore's scrutiny for more than 15 seconds."

Clinton cuckoo about the moolahs? Sure looks that way to me. Is there something in the water that Southern Dhimmicrats drink?

Klux Little Byrdie

And even if you avert your eyes from the Klan, any serious Byrd watcher isn't really looking if they don't see this:

However, Steven Taylor has done some research which indicates that I shouldn't feel quite so sorry for those poor, oppressed Democrats. As it turns out, Senator "Not in the Senate, you don't!" Byrd was the Majority Whip in 1975, when a bill was introduced to reduce "the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds (67) to three-fifths (60) of the 100-member Senate". A fact that he left unmentioned when he took the floor of the Senate to rail against "men with motives and a majority [who] can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends".

Oh, and while he was speaking out against "pernicious, procedural maneuver to serve immediate partisan goals", he also neglected to mention that he'd previously been of the opinion that "Congress is not obliged to be bound by the dead hand of the past", and—approvingly—that "rules have been changed from time to time".

What's more, he also neglected to mention that the originator of the 1975 bill to amend the cloture rules was.....er, Senator Robert Byrd.

I'm sorry folks but I've about had enough of this horsepucky twice over...

Nazi Israelis?

They're getting quite good with their disguises don't you think?

Frenchies Encore

Heure de choisir le côté de gain?

Et seulement six heures?

Recherche!

With a tag line like this blog's, how could I not point to this post? Roger is rollin' today...

Ummm -- That Would Be The Strategy Behind The Strategery...

Roger points out this analysis of Friedman:

The most important mystery about the war concerns the Bush administration. In some ways, we find the other players much easier to understand than Bush. The administration has been portrayed as strategically simplistic and politically adroit and opportunistic. In fact, the exact opposite seems to be the case, from our point of view.

Strategically, the United States appears to have a well thought-out approach that makes the most of a very weak hand. The trend lines are satisfactory, particularly considering where they started. We suspect that very few people on September 12, 2001, would have thought that the situation would be as well contained today as it is. Apart from a low but tolerable level of violence in Iraq, the broader war has evolved very much in favor of the United States. This is partly due to the nature of the war and partly due to the strategic and operational choices made by the administration.

Politically, the administration has acted with massive incompetence. Its failure to give a plausible defense to a policy that can certainly be defended is amazing. Instead, the administration has stumbled through a series of untenable and incoherent justifications for its actions until the political foundations of its war plans have been undermined. From WMD to democratizing Iraq, the administration has constantly undermined its own credibility.

GO. READ. NOW!

What's that? You think I'd point you to the NYeT's Friedman with this pointy an arrow.

That would be a NYeT of course...

Some Brownish Sarcasm

Don't they understand that they are under the thumb of Karl Rove??? This is of course why the libs didn't want to liberate all those stupid brown skinned people in the Middle East -- why they'd be so stupid as to not wash the libs feet!

And just look at this for heaven's sake! The oh so haughty libs are cheering for the nutball mutilating himself with a knife and his buddies . I'm cheering for everyone else you see pictured.

But I'm the ogre and don't you forget it!

And then I have the misfortune to catch some of the Black Summit on CSPAN recently. No Thomas Sowell. No Condi. No Colin. No Thomas. No Walter Williams. No, no, no, no ... grey matter in the room whatsoever!

The libs have enslaved the blacks in this country through a vile and hateful brainwashing campaign. And they fully support what has been done by the oil ticks / Islamofascists to enslave their folks.

Is there any wonder for all the sputtering, hateful expletives hurled at the diverse leadership of Lincoln's party for working to free MORE slaves?

And Bobby "Ku Klux" Byrd is their rotweiler. Why should THAT be a surprise? After all, anyone can be rehabilitated according to the libs.

Just not me, of course...

No wonder we're "losing" -- being such lousy shots and all...