Saturday, September 24, 2005

Touchstone

If this doesn't make you re-think appeasing ICEA nihilists, you are truly beyond the reach of reason. (WARNING: Not for the squeamish.)

Or on the other side...

ICEA? Peters missed something critical in his CEA acronym:
Insane Criminal Enterprise Army.

And just to get everyone's attention -- including the makers of some of my favorite large box store cafeteria meatballs -- I'm going to pronounce it I-KEE-A.

As in the war on terror ICEA.

Got to have some small amusements to go with our front row seats at the Apocalypse...

McQ provides today's CEA update on PALLYWOOD-land ... while Roger points out Iran's breathtaking synthesis of Orwellian Narco-State with a "diplomatic policy" of being a borderless CEA. Did I mention it's breathtaking? Read. Them. Both.
Ready for Rita!

No Love In Appeasing Apocalyptic Work Accidents

Criminals. Check. Stupid. Check. Did I mention delusionally cuckoo yet?


A pickup truck carrying rockets exploded on Friday at a large Hamas rally as the group paraded its weapons through a densely packed refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. At least 15 people were killed and dozens were wounded, Palestinian medical officials said.

The powerful blast sent a plume of white smoke into the sky and unleashed pandemonium in the sprawling Jabaliya refugee camp, a Hamas stronghold just north of Gaza City. Body parts were scattered on the ground as ambulances rushed to the scene, and people in the crowd wailed in grief. The casualties included a number of children.

The blast appeared to be accidental, and the Palestinian Interior Ministry issued a statement that called on Hamas to "shoulder its responsibility" for the explosion.
Hamas shouldered the responsibility by claiming it uses duds for parades and that the Israelis must have fired on them from above to cause the explosion. Israel, which has no problem acknowledging such attacks, denied having had anything to do with the explosion. The homemade Katyushas have a notorious reputation for unreliability and instability, and taking them into a large crowd like the one seen in the AP photograph amounts to criminal stupidity.
Or should I throttle way back and point out that these people are quite simply dangerously insane?

This idea of parading live and known to be unstable weapons through a crowd filled with children is simply incomprehensible without being positive confirmation of either criminal insanity, basic mental infirmity or both. The thought of doing such a thing would no more enter my mind than the idea that I could simply flap my arms and fly off a cliff.

Unfortunately, these people have become no more capable of raising their children to be rational actors than they are of truly loving them. This is just one more example in an unending series of evidence for Golda Meir's prophecy: "We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."

(BTW: Golda also said: "When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons." If you want to know what TRUE SANITY looks like, look no further!)

The fascifist liberals want to appease these people nihilistic nutters to assuage their own guilt for not being brave enough to apply the hard slog of tough love it will take to dig the Arabs out of the cultural and mental cesspool they have sunk to over long centuries of primitivism.

And these same fascifists become unremittingly insane in their opposition to taking on Iraq because they know that whether by design or luck we have got our finger on the only fault line in the Arab M.E. that has a chance of delaying -- or I pray reversing -- the apocalypse. The alliance between the Kurds and Shia based on their mutual bond of escaping the true Arab oppression of Saddam and the Wahhabist loons is really the last best chance to reverse the tide before Hamas "work accidents" evolve to involve nuclear weapons.

Because of my thesis of the Tinfoil Apocalypse, I am not sanguine.

But I refuse to surrender to nihilism through appeasement. And neither should you.

The Euros did appease Hitler with nearly incalculably disastrous results -- and Arafat's mentor was their insane ally. We were extremely lucky that Hitler never came close close to the bomb.

But anyone with more than a handful of neurons and few moments of reflection knows that the march of technology that we westerners have initiated will inexorably give the tools of nihilism to Hitler's modern progeny without extraordinary measures on our part. We have violated the "Prime Directive" and have now stuck our heads in the sand about it so firmly that an ostrich could only be green with envy.

You can go into de-nihilism if you want. But this is what you look like to me if you do so:



Oh, yes. And Lance Mannion is wrong about us neo-cons and the Prime Directive. Many of us understand the situation well. Much too well.

Friday, September 23, 2005

ImpenetrABLE frustration.

All The Senator's Staff Men: Upgraded to a Cat 2

Hugh has some questions:
Senator Schumer, how long have you known Katie Barge?
How about Lauren Weiner?

How did you meet Barge? Weiner?

Did you know they had worked for David Brock?

Did you ever discuss them with George Soros?

Who first told you about the theft of Lt. Gov. Steele's personal data?

What did you do?

Did you call FBI Director Mueller?

Do you ever call FBI Director Mueller?

Would FBI Direcor Mueller have taken your call?

Have you spoken with Barge since you learned she was the target of an investigation? Weiner? Not even to say that they'd stay on the payroll? Not even a brief conversation in the hall?
And it keeps going for the new Nixon...

Splattering Koolaid

Jon has some comments on Andrew's latest snuggling with the huge koolaid drinking echo chamber and his assessment of us righties as noncritical. Did I forget to mention that the Julie Myers appointment should be withdrawn?

Apocalypse of the Lying Tricksters

Ledeen rocks today:
Our policymakers have thus far utterly failed to design anything worthy of the name of an Iran policy, even though it is arguably the single most important challenge we face. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley recently answered a question about Iran policy by saying that we did indeed have a policy, but we hadn’t yet written it down. This is reminiscent of the old riddle of whether a falling tree makes a sound if no one is there to hear it: can there be a policy if nobody can define it?

Lacking any defined policy, we can only judge the president and his aides by their actions, and there aren’t any, aside from the occasional speech or offhand remark at a press conference. The mullahs see that, and treat it with the contempt it deserves. We are currently indistinguishable from the Europeans, who run whenever the Iranians snarl at them.

This is not a war on terror, it is paralysis at best, and appeasement at worst. The hell of it is that it is costing thousands of lives, and will cost many more until the terror masters are destroyed, or we surrender. Those words were inconceivable for many years, but it is a sign of our present fecklessness that they are now entirely appropriate. We can still lose this war. And we cannot win it so long as we are blinded by our potentially fatal failure of strategic vision: we are in a regional war, but we have limited our actions to a single theater. Our most potent weapons are political and ideological, but our actions have been almost exclusively military.

Our main enemy, the single greatest engine in support of the terror war against us, whether Sunni or Shiite, jihadi, or secular, Arab or British or Italian or Spaniard, is Iran. There is no escape from this fact. The only questions are how long it will take us to face it, how effective we will be when we finally decide to act, and how terrible the price will be for our long delay.
Would that he had a morsel of optimism. RTWT.

UPDATE: ... a nuclear Iran, and all of the misery that will most certainly accompany it. (HT LGF)

Eurabian Memory Hole Update

Strategy Page hits one out of the park again. It ends like this:
All those refugees were very unpopular in Europe. But intervention would only happen if the U.S. joined in. Most Americans were perplexed. This was a European problem, why couldn't the Europeans take care of it? But the Europeans needed American help to keep the Russians (who wanted to keep Yugoslavia together) in line, and wanted American armed forces to take the lead (because European armies were not really up to the task of doing it themselves.) So American went in, with the understanding they would be there for only one year. American troops are still there. The independent states of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia were established. Then, in 1999, Serbia was chasing a million Albanians out of Kosovo, and Europe wanted to use military force against the Serbs to prevent this atrocity. But only if the Americans took the lead. This time, even the UN would not lend moral support. But the Europeans were insistent (they didn't want hundreds of thousands of Albanian refugees descending on them). America went in, with airpower, and, more importantly, enough clout to get the Russians to withdraw their support from the Serbs. The Serbs folded, and Kosovo is also still occupied by American and European troops.

But many Europeans see Iraq as different. Foreign troops should be pulled out of Iraq immediately, leaving the Iraqis to fight it out among themselves. There will be no refugee crises. Sunni Arab refugees will flee to Jordan, Syria, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Kurdish refugees will head for Turkey, Shia Arab refugees will run for Iran. Europeans will avert their eyes and change the subject. If there is interruption to oil shipments from the Gulf, American will be blamed for removing an Iraqi government that knew how to keep order in a troubled part of the world.

Most Europeans looked the other way and changed the subject while the nazis and communists slaughtered tens of millions. So what's a few million more Arabs? It's a European tradition. Old habits are hard to break. Better to tolerate tyrants than to try and change the natural order of things.
My, my, my. Yugoslavia? Clinton? War? No U.N. support? Down the Memory Hole it goes my good fascifists!

And while I'm remembering things, I seem to remember this over on the right side of the page:
The Last Jaw Dropper
"When my grandfather left Europe in 1937, the graffiti on the walls read, 'Jews go to Palestine'. Today the graffiti reads, 'Jews out of Palestine'. How soon Europe forgets."
Of course, all this forgetfulness works a lot more smoothly once you have flushed Orwell himself down his own Memory Hole...

Thursday, September 22, 2005

The Fault (-line) Of The Apocalyptic Cuckoo Clock

Wretchard has a nice little piece today on the why of Iraq after Afghanistan -- instead of say the Saudis. It's mostly a repeat of the point that we needed someplace where at least some elements of the population would have reason to welcome us as a means to escaping oppression. Of course, we got this in spades with the Kurds and Shia comprising 80% or so of the population.

And it was right next door to the Saudis and their Wahhabi hate factory.

All well and good. And of course it's going a lot better than the MSMemory Holers would have you believe -- as Wretch also just pointed out in "The News Magazine of the Mysteries". (Did I mention that he's good?)

And then there's this game-ending little interview item brought to our attention from one of Wretch's readers with the author of the "Chasing the Ghosts" piece referred to in "Mysteries":
TONY JONES: Michael, why are they letting you get behind this curtain? Is there a message they are wanting you to get out through Time magazine to the rest of the world?

MICHAEL WARE: Clearly, these men, just like the American military I deal with and the public affairs officers who stick to me like glue and only let me see what they want me to see when I'm with them, so it is with the Jihadis. They're showing me what they want me to see, which is, to be truthful, quite a lot, but they know anything I see or hear is public record. It's their responsibility to confine their information.

This is what I do. Yeah, they do want to get a message out.

They're so media savvy. If they weren't before, they've learnt it, they've polished it.

Even a year ago when I was meeting these nationalist guerrillas who then were ill formed, not yet in clear command and control organisations, even then they were saying to me, "This war is not going to be won on the battlefield. We can't hope to defeat the Americans. It's going to be won in the living rooms of Iraq and Middle America, it's going to be won on television."

They were saying, "We can maintain this, we can, we have, we can sustain this longer than your political will will last. Before your people call you home." Again, that's a part of it now, they're saying, "We're here and we're not going away," and they want to say that to the West. They can tell Arabic channels this until the cows come home, but to have it coming through an American iconic publication like Time magazine, people will listen.

And look, the fact is it's true
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Whoops. D**m that infernal internet anyway. How can one run a decent MSMemory Hole nowadays anyway?

And d**m that PALLYWOOD too!

But then we have a commenter that puts it all in Apocalyptic perspective:
Wretchard, the more you study history, the more you wonder how the idea that humans are largely rational beings emerged in the first place.
'Tis a fascinating question as the Apocalypse materializes before our very eyes.


Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo.

The Cuckoo Clock tolls for thee.
A study in buses.
Walpurgisnacht.
Luckily they are dead MSMen walking...
A dead MSMen walking update.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

The fascifist dupes argue that there are no absolute standards for being crazy -- everything is relative. I beg to differ: Cuckoo! (HT Drudge)

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Welcoming Schizophrenia At (C)BS

(C)BS has a brain fart today and does a video covering the Iraqi Army that doesn't exist. And of course it ends with at least a touch of the standard MSM negativity. But the remarkable thing was that they didn't try to stuff the local's relief at being rescued from the insurgents bloody thugs down the MSMemory Hole -- they actually interviewed them!

When compared to (C)BS' risible work exposed so stunningly in PALLYWOOD, this is some really impressive schizophrenia.

(HT MoonBatCentral)

P.S. You did get the clue that you REALLY need to invest the 20 minutes to watch PALLYWOOD, didn't you?

Monday, September 19, 2005

Eurabian Update: "A third of Germans under 30 think America ordered the 9/11 attacks."
Did I mention that THE END ...
... is not in sight [of the gullible fascifist dupes]... ?
Canucksuts. I finally understand the wisdom of getting out of the oppressive W-land and heading up to the land of "Eh?". Where else can you steal a cool $1.5 mil and get to keep a third of it for the truly dastardly additional burden of having to serve your time in the "community". Why at that rate, one could retire handsomely on a steady diet of fraud. Oh, Canada! I didn't know I love ya' !
Today's apocalypse update. And did I mention that they were just kidding? The playful hijinx just never ends, does it?

UPDATE: "this time we really, really mean it."

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Death Cult Pallywood

How is it again that liberal pacifists can believe that a "religion" founded by a warrior can possibly be legitimate? What more perfect predicate can we find for what is in fact a death cult?

Viewed in this light, Pallywood may in fact be a step forward! The closest the Palis have gotten to Moslem Methodism, if you will.

I would almost be sympathetic with them if there were not so many Jewish baby body parts littering the streets of Israel.
PALLYWOOD: One picture can be worth a thousand weapons...
Heads you win, tails I lose...
About that Apocalypse. (HT Roger) Too much technology in the hands of the too very intensely insane can only end badly. Very badly.
"The kind of angry left-wing politics promoted by the Daily Kos and Howard Dean seems to dominate the Democrats' political dialogue. But when real things are at stake-like the value of your Manhattan co-op, a lot of Democratic voters know better."

Of Course It Would Be Destroyed In The Next Hurricane...

"There's an old adage that no one in Washington can tell the difference between $1 million and $1 billion. Seldom has that Beltway learning disability been more vividly demonstrated than in the weeks since Katrina.

When President Bush announced last Thursday that the feds would take a lead role in the reconstruction of New Orleans, he in effect established a new $200 billion federal line of credit. To put that $200 billion in perspective, we could give every one of the 500,000 families displaced by Katrina a check for $400,000, and they could each build a beach front home virtually anywhere in America."
"If I am forced to leave Lebanon, I will leave ruin and destruction behind me." Now there's a big surprise...
It's just an Orwellian kind of day what with Allah sucking ice cream cone graphics down the memory hole...

Dept. Of WW I Never Ended

"Well, the Nazis got experience on the battlefield." Thank you, Condi! Finally someone in the administration has a whiff of backbone! Did I mention that if we started giving them some battlefield experience right after Hitler's January, 1937 speech rescinding the Treaty of Versailles that WWII likely would have turned out a bit differently? Instead, we got about 70 million more experiences from them than we should have.
Of course, Monica-gate was different. That was some real urgency requiring Desert Fox. I had some minor optimism that Clinton might move toward recovering his place in history. With this he irreparably hugs the excreble Jimmy Carter.

UPDATE: Power Line engages warp drive:
Clinton's assertion that there was "no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction" is a flat-out lie. The Consensus Estimate of the American intelligence agencies has been made public, and we have quoted from it and linked to it on many occasions. America's intelligence agencies said, with a "high degree of confidence," that Saddam possessed both chemical and biological weapons. These were the same intelligence reports that Clinton received as President, so he is well aware of them. His statement was not a mistake, it was a lie.
And then there's this little Clinton quote from 03:
"[I]t is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons."
RTWT.
Let's crescent roll! I think George O would have a few choice words that he would pull out of the memory hole just for this occasion. (HT Jeff and Glenn)