The problem with Iranian "people power". Did I mention Tiananmen Square?

IRAN UPDATE: The League of Nations with a blue flag.

Today's Cuckoo Clock Tick-Tock

Let me make sure I've got this right: Hamas believes the Israelies are the walking personification of evil on this planet. They should be nuked immediately by all Iranian accounts (though perhaps 1 in 10 Palestinians might have enough of a scientific education to think better of this given the proxity effects, duoh -- but I suspect the Iranian position would come out the majority in a Palestinian opinion poll).

But Hamas is cooperating with the people it claims eat Arab childrens brains as a delicacy -- no compromises, they must be driven into the sea -- to combat avian flu???

How could Hamas discredit its argument any more than that to any rational observer? These people don't really completely believe the Israelies are evil or they could never do that. Or b), they're just simply nuts.

And there you have the crux of the Tinfoil Apocalypse.

The truth? NYeT! Correction to be found on page R97...

UPDATE: "There is no film on the planet that can change a charcoal jacket to maroon and a blue tie to the same maroon while miraculously rendering realistic fleshtones."

A troubling update on why Britain is being lost...

No Evidence Reprise #4689

Move along now, no connections to be found here. Scat, skedaddle, shoo...

Did I forget to mention that it was just pure coincidence that Mussolini and Hitler fought the Allies (all 9ish of them, BTW)? And there was no reason at all for Colonel Q to throw in the towel. Just a coincidence you know...

The same as it ever was...

An update on that critical infrastructure that the DemoPublicans are ever so smugly paying attention to ... not.

And so it came to pass that Saddam fooled everyone, including himself.

Today's stopped clock in Iraq.

The Fire This Time

"Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar said Tuesday that Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him five years ago that “setting Israel on fire” was the first order of business on the Iranian agenda.

Aznar, in Israel as the guest of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, related the story to Major General (Res.) Professor Yitzhak Ben-Israel, who later confirmed to Haaretz that the remarks had been made. Aznar’s aides refused to give Haaretz the exact quote, but mentioned an article Aznar has written in the past on his meeting with Khamenei.

“He received me politely,” Aznar wrote, “and at the beginning of the meeting he explained to me why Iran must declare war on Israel and the United States until they are completely destroyed. I made only one request of him: that he tell me the time of the planned attack.”"

The Race Begins...

MS: Well, I would very much hope that the only reason he's doing this is because Karl Rove has opened up a big bank account in the Cayman Islands for him, because it's hard to see how this can be of any advantage to the Democrats. It's amazing to me. Just as they've found this sort of rather shrill opportunist bit of good news for them on the Dubai ports deal, where they found a national security angle that somehow in crude political terms worked for them, then they go and blow it all back to...Russ Feingold, basically demanding that we censure the President for eavesdropping on al Qaeda phone calls. There is no good that can come for the Democratic Party out of that, and if Russ Feingold wants to pursue it, to shore himself up with the party base, good luck to him, because it's only going to make things worse for Hillary Clinton. Hillary will have to run to the left to avoid him peeling off significant support for her.

The not so gay Eurabia of Bruce Bawer. Lefties will want to wrestle with this one with great caution. It may cause sleepless re-examination of cherished beliefs.

"We want Kurdistan to be the 51st American state."

I did mention that the Tinfoil Apocalypse was coming, didn't I?

"Things seem to have changed much less than we had expected."

French surrender watch: "Until the nation completely collapses, the French will never change." Unfortunately, I think this is too optimistic. The French nation pretty much completely collapsed after WWII but I would argue they didn't really change much. It just exposed the Vichy -- the REAL French...

"The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state" RTWT RIGHT NOW! It will absolutely bowl you over! (HT Power Line)

And Mark Steyn has now apparently been banned in Britain! This is simply freaking unacceptable for a free country. Mark Britain off the list.

Comment of the Day on Iran and the Cycles of History

"All of this reminds me of a scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," in which Lancelot is charging toward a castle gate, brandishing his sword - while the two guards at the gate smile pleasantly at his onrush. He reaches the gate, kills one guard who doesn't even try to defend himself; the other guard blurts out a dismayed, "Hey!" before Lancelot cuts him down, too.

This is the kind of mindset that is going to bring back Churchill's ominous warning to Chamberlain after Munich; words to the effect of, "You were given a choice between appeasement and war; you chose appeasement, and you will have war.""

Ah, but what did Churchill know anyway? And read the whole thing for the history lesson about the open intentions of lunatics that we should never have to be excavating from the memory hole...

Let's see, is there anyone else left for Iran to kick sand in their faces? I'm guessing the Chinese will shortly step in and be about as [SARCASM] effective [/SARCASM] as they have been with the NorKorComs...

Why, yes, there is a civil war. But you won't hear about it from the EneMedia...