Thought I missed the anniversary of the weekend, didn't you?

Too late...

TAG TEAM.

"Air America looks like the broadcast version of the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, whereby money earmarked to save starving moppets somehow winds up in the bank accounts of bloated self-described do-gooders with political connections." - Mark Steyn

A management update that doesn't fit the MSM story line. So you'll only find out about it at places like here of course...

They only kill the Joooooooos so no problem then...

Presbyterian Anti-Semites.

Conveniently shot dead. You shouldn't have to think too hard to figure out why.

Ten years? Constantly wrong but somehow never discredited...

Orbiting the apocalypse: "But the El Dorado wasn't there; and the really big historical question is why it took the best minds of the West more than 50 years and countless lives to discover that elementary fact. This monumental self-hypnosis calls into question our collective ability to know; and when politicians and media talking heads speak with perfect assurance about "religions of peace" or alternatively, about a "death cult" with bloody borders, how certain are we that our epistemology is any better than that of the 20th century intellectuals?"

A testable argument. I hope he's right.

Did I forget to mention that the largest scandal in history just keeps rolling along?

Comment of the Day

This comment on LGF pretty much says it all about what deep stuff Britain is in regarding shutting down the preachers of hate as a helpful prerequisite to stopping the slaughter:

#122 Harry Flashman 8/5/2005 09:10PM PDT
Everyone who is getting excited here should relax, there's not a hope in hell of getting this through, this is just a case of Tony talking the talk but he won't walk the walk. For a start there is no need for new legislation, the statute books are coming down with existing laws which are simply never used. The reason for this is that the UK signed up to the European Human Rights Code, as soon as a copper tries nicking some imam or mullah he'll be hauled before the courts and get a good kicking for abusing the suspects human rights. The suspect can also accept a large dollop of British tax payer's loot by way of compensation. So who signed up for this insane Human Rights nonsense? Oh that's right, The Right Honourable Mr Anthony Blair PM, and who is the leading Human Rights lawyer in the UK who is usually bringing these cases to the courts? Why it's none other than Ms Cherie Booth (Blair) QC, his lovely wife!

Dream on guys.

WHOOPS! Don't think about this too hard or your head will explode!

They're less inclined to connect to the network and more inclined to blow it up...

Here's something else.

Fishing for blowback -- and how... (HT Drudge)

We can't be at war with Iran dept. They're champions of women's rights and civil discourse, don't you know...

The hard choices of war. (And keep scrolling for the prelude.)

About those ends justifying the means: "And it's very important to investigate every aspect of a prospective Supreme Court justice's life. After all, he may threaten the right to privacy!"

BUSTED.

Those front-page editorials...

Blackout-ron.

Watch for the MSM to furiously stomp this down the MSMemoryHole...

Could it be that bribery has failed them? What would the old man say?

An Intellectual Dynasty?

My Mom never tires of telling people that she went to high school with Arlene Dart -- the mother of Linda Evans of Dynasty fame. Imagine my surprise then when Drudge posts this critique of British society from Joan Collins. Not an intellectual tour-de-force but not exactly the soap opera fluff I was expecting as I read out of morbid curiosity...

11 Cuckoos in 1.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali points out the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM once again. Go girl...

A moderate. Jihad, that is...

"But it's not their kind of story."

D. N. C. ... Does Not Compute.

Apocalypse sooner I suspect... but for peaceful purposes only of course. I repeat: the "moderate" loser of the recent Iranian ballot-stuffing festival has openly talked about nuking Israel. And did I forget to mention that all of their public references to us begin with "The Great Satan"?

WHOOPS!

Air Enron today. (HT Power Line)

Or perhaps the real demos' votes weren't counted by the mullahs...

(Don't get me wrong Lee, I love most of your work!)

"... if you think Islamism is entirely unrelated to Islam, you will die of political correctness."

On not distinguishing between them...

What day can go by without a nadagate outing?

Shhhh! This economist doesn't exist. Not even on Fox...

Taking on Mabel. Is verboten.

An axial foci for captive minds. Anybody interested?

Today's (Subliminal) Reuters Headline Review

• Italian, U.K. police interrogate torture little old lady bomb suspects
• Iran says it will resume nuclear work Monday and it's all Chimpy's fault
• That incompetent NASA investigating possible almost certainly disastrous shuttle problem -- why are we wasting all this money on space when it could better be used to create more dependency and Democratic votes?
• Bush seen lagging on second term goals D'oh
• Ex-chief of European Central Bank found dead Probably knocked off by the evil McHitler stooge competitor Greenspan
• U.S. Army studying lead-free 'green' bullet which turns out not to be an improvement but we don't want anyone to know and readers are too stoopid to read beyond the headlines anyway...
• Boggs, Sandberg enter Baseball Hall of Fame What's baseball?

Just Making Sure...

... that this is what the lefties call neanderthal backward hateful conservatism:



Yeah, right... Umm ... well ... maybe ... not ... exactly ...

Folks. This is not unusual for perhaps THE lynchpin of the "right" blogosphere.

The. Left. Is. Filled. With. Rocket. Scientists.

NOT.

Liberalism? Exploitation? Or BOTH?

Overdue

For a VDH update:

When some tried to explain that Wars 1-3 (1947, 1956, 1967) had nothing to do with the West Bank, such bothersome details fell on deaf ears.

When it was pointed out that Germans were not blowing up Poles to get back lost parts of East Prussia nor were Tibetans sending suicide bombers into Chinese cities to recover their country, such analogies were caricatured.

When the call for a “Right of Return” was making the rounds, few cared to listen that over a half-million forgotten Jews had been cleansed from Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, and lost billions in property.

When the U.N. and the EU talked about “refugee camps,” none asked why for a half-century the Arab world could not build decent housing for its victimized brethren, or why 1 million Arabs voted in Israel, but not one freely in any Arab country.

The security fence became “The Wall,” and evoked slurs that it was analogous to barriers in Korea or Berlin that more often kept people in than out. Few wondered why Arabs who wished to destroy Israel would mind not being able to live or visit Israel.

But then everyone knows all this -- right? Oh yeah. Not.

Tinfoil Update

The race between apocalypse and reformation. The former is winning of course.

It all started when we violated the Prime Directive and gave tons of money -- by sheer bad luck -- to the most backward and repressive elements in Islam. That would be the Saudis.

Now we head for the "Tinfoil Apocalypse". More and more technology leaking into the hands of ignorant, tribal nihilists.

Did I forget to mention that the "moderate" (loser!) of the recent Iranian "election" has publicly called for Israel's nuclear destruction?

No more hiding it.

No nail bombs for cows.

We have seen our western nihilists ally with Islamofascism before. (HT Glenn)

The Muslim Association of Britain Speaks And It's ...

NOT. LOOKING. PROMISING. (HT Power Line)

And Mr. Saeed may want to look at a rather different example of how the "oppression" of a billion people by the Anglosphere turned out before any more moralizing.

Let's see. Ghandi's non-violent resistance? Or psychopathically blood-soaked serial beheadings and nihilistic mockery of the the Geneva Conventions held as a point worthy of appeasement?

I recall some rather clear commentary on that topic lately.

"THE LEFT LIED AND LONDONERS DIED!" Before you accuse me of rhetorical excess, I suggest you follow the link and read carefully... (HT Glenn)

Kind of takes your breath away, doesn't it?

"In other words, that's not Zyklon B coming through the nozzle. You're only dreaming it up."

Thank you Irshad. Somebody needs to keep tilting at the Islamic reformation...

Pajama Time!

"What really sticks in the craw of conventional journalists is that although individual blogs have no warrant of accuracy, the blogosphere as a whole has a better error-correction machinery than the conventional media do..."

Fuse Syndicalism and Islam And You Get...

utopiaNihilism

Roundup

The MSMemoryHole update for today.

What Ansar al Islam?

And Wretchard weighs in...

And is Zarqawi really a Jordanian?

I bet you didn't go read John Howard yet did you?

I never watch the Apprentice unless forced to in a social setting. But the Donald has this just spot on.

Beldar's back again.

And Con-Law 101 for snarky, ad-hominem soaked libs is in session.

... well there was that little matter in East Timor...

Just what exactly did you expect when you hang around with brutal murderers, Andrea? (HT Drudge)

"We live in a sad time." Yep, that's right. The homosexuals actually vote in droves for these untethered slimebags. Stunning.

Another reprise for the latest MSMemoryHole -- I'm suspecting we'll be entertained by more of their puerile deceptions on this topic soon since they're not likely to dig up anything on Roberts...

Lee on the ACLU's Jesus problem. They're too dim, manipulative -- or both -- to admit it of course...

YOU. NEED. TO. READ. THIS.

(HT Glenn)

I don't link to the Guardian often -- but when I do you had better go read it... (HT Glenn)

"... Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not recall Jews lined up every morning on the borders of 1939 Germany, clamoring to get in for construction jobs and medical care.

All this nonsense usually comes, of course, from people who cherish their democratic right of vocal and public dissent, who like to live in a country where you can be openly gay or atheist or flaunt your belly-button ring. Try that anywhere in the Middle East except Israel; see how long you last.... "

Read the whole thing -- and watch for the next helping...

Wretchard Finds ...

... the real left criticizing the fake left. Hitch rocks of course:

Association with this statement and with many of its fellow-signatories involves two commitments. The first is the elementary duty of solidarity with true and authentic resistance movements within the Muslim world, such as the Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq and the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, who were fighting against Ba'athism and Talibanism (and the latent alliance between the two) long before any American or British government had woken up to the threat. It should go without saying that, though the suffering of their peoples was intense, neither Jalal Talabani nor Ahmed Shah Masoud ever considered letting off explosive devices at random in foreign capitals. I have my political and ideological differences with both groups, but these differences are between me and them, and are not mediated through acts of nihilistic murder.

My second commitment is equally elementary. The foreign policy of a democracy should be determined only at election times or by votes in Congress or Parliament. It is one hundred per cent unacceptable even to imply, let alone to assert, that a suicide-murderer or his apologists can by these means acquire the right to any say in how matters are decided.

Both of these observations, and indeed this very statement, would be redundant if it were not for the widespread cultural presence of a pseudo-Left, and an isolationist Right, both of whom have degenerated to the point where they regard jihadism as some form of "liberation theology". The old slogans are often the best, and "Death to Fascism" is life-affirming in these conditions.

But we find the Grand Mufti is in for a rough time as well from Marko Hoare:

I sign this statement as a supporter of the legitimate struggle for freedom and independence of the Palestinians, Chechens and other enslaved Muslim peoples caught between the Scylla of colonial oppression and the Charybdis of Islamofascism.

To every genuine national-liberation movement, sectarian hatred and pogroms of civilians are as alien as the foreign occupier. In German-occupied Yugoslavia during World War II, the anti-Nazi Partisans preached brotherhood and unity between Muslims, Christians and Jews; they were known to execute their own officers and soldiers if they so much as stole chickens from local peasants, let alone massacred civilians. Al-Qaeda?s Islamofascist network - targeting Jews, Kurds, Shiites, women, homosexuals, moderate Sunnis and ordinary civilians everywhere - represents, by contrast, the very antithesis of a genuine liberation movement.

Everywhere, Islamic extremists have aided and abetted the oppressors of Muslims. In World War II, the Islamofascist Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini helped incite an anti-British revolt in Iraq; he subsequently visited Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia to mobilise Bosnian Muslims to fight in the SS. Islamist terrorism in Daghestan in1999 provided Russia with the pretext for its genocidal reconquest of Chechnya. Elements in the Turkish and Israeli security services encouraged Islamic extremism as a means of dividing and weakening secular Kurdish and Palestinian nationalism respectively, helping to create a Frankenstein's monster that is claiming the lives of Turks and Kurds, Jews and Arabs alike.

There can be no freedom for Muslim peoples without the defeat of the Islamofascists and everything they stand for; and there can be no defeat of the Islamofascists without liberty for all Muslim peoples.

WOW. RTWT.

Michael notices the MSMemoryHoling of the Osaddamorama.

The smell of fear.

The Knee Bone's Connected To...

"Britania aduw kafir, walakin nahnu naeeshu fiha."

... and Brother Michael's thigh bone.

Everything you know about slavery is wrong. (HT Roger) And did I mention yet that you really, really need to get one of these?

The Corn pone outing. (HT Powerline)

And Chris Reminds Me...

That you need to read this. Badly.

Did I forget to mention that brief? Just checking...

Apocalypse oozing.

"... what we take for granted was in fact rooted out."

"But biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons may not be unreachable for terrorists much longer."

Gerecht Again

"In Europe as elsewhere, Westernization is the key to the growth and virulence of hard-core Islamic radicalism. The most frightening, certainly the most effective, adherents of bin Ladenism are those who are culturally and intellectually most like us. The process of Westernization liberates a Muslim from the customary sanctions and loyalties that normally corralled the dark side of the human soul. Respect for one's father, an appreciation for the human need to have fun, a toleration of eccentricity and naughty personal behavior, the love of art and folk music--all are characteristics of traditional mainstream Muslim society wiped away by the arrival of modernity and the simultaneous spread of sterile, esthetically empty, angry, Saudi-financed Wahhabi thought. In this sense, bin Ladenism is the Muslim equivalent of Western totalitarianism. This cleaning of the slate, this break with the past, is probably more profound in the Muslim enclaves in Europe--what Gilles Kepel called les banlieues de l'Islam--than it is in the urban sprawl of Cairo, where traditional mores, though under siege and badly battered by modernity, nevertheless retain considerable force. Cairo gave us Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's great intellectual; it's not unreasonable to fear that London or Paris or Berlin will give us his successor."

Welcome To (The Upcoming Apocalypse On) Planet Zongo

Glenn points out this excerpt from Steyn's latest mini-opus:

But in the real world there's only one scandal in this whole wretched business -- that the CIA, as part of its institutional obstruction of the administration, set up a pathetic 'fact-finding mission' that would be considered a joke by any serious intelligence agency and compounded it by sending, at the behest of his wife, a shrill politically motivated poseur who, for the sake of 15 minutes' celebrity on the cable gabfest circuit, misled the nation about what he found. . . . What we have here is, in effect, the old standby plot of lame Hollywood conspiracy thrillers: rogue elements within the CIA attempting to destabilize the elected government.

But wait! He's only just warming up!

Mull on this next:

Kamel Bourgass and Magdy el-Nashar are real people, not phantoms conjured by those lyin' sonsofbitches Bush and Cheney. And to those who say, "but that's why Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror," sorry, it doesn't work like that. It's not either/or; it's a string of connections: unlimited Saudi money, Westernized Islamist fanatics, supportive terrorist states, proliferating nuclear technology. One day it all comes together and there goes the neighborhood. Here's another story you may have missed this week:

''Iran will resume uranium enrichment if the European Union does not recognize its right to do so, two Iranian nuclear negotiators said in an interview published Tuesday.''

Got that? If you don't let us go nuclear, we'll go nuclear. Negotiate that, John Kerry. As with Bourgass and el-Nashar, Hossein Moussavian and Cyrus Nasseri are real Iranian negotiators, not merely the deranged war fantasies of Bush and Cheney.

The British suicide bombers and the Iranian nuke demands are genuine crises. The Valerie Plame game is a pseudo-crisis. If you want to talk about Niger or CIA reform, fine. But if you seriously think the only important aspect of a politically motivated narcissist kook's drive-thru intelligence mission to a critical part of the world is the precise sequence of events by which some White House guy came to mention the kook's wife to some reporter, then you've departed the real world and you're frolicking on the wilder shores of Planet Zongo.

What's this really about? It's not difficult. A big chunk of the American elites have decided there is no war; it's all a racket got up by Bush and Cheney. And, even if there is a war somewhere or other, wherever it is, it's not where Bush says it is. Iraq is a ''distraction'' from Afghanistan -- and, if there were no Iraq, Afghanistan would be a distraction from Niger, and Niger's a distraction from Valerie Plame's next photo shoot for Vanity Fair.

The police have found the suicide bomber's head in the rubble of the London bus, and Iran is enriching uranium. The only distraction here is the pitiful parochialism of our political culture. [Emph mine]

Steyn has a way of arranging the apocalypse into context? N'est pas?

‘Oh, he assumed you would be just another dumb westerner’.

Who won the election? (HT Glenn)

The Latest 100%...

I'm a bit distracted lately so it took me a ridiculously long time to connect this:



to the old Jew.

Eerie isn't it?

Next time, call the police! LOL

After all, didn't we oppress the KKK?

And didn't they have that hood thing going on too?

(Yes, that would be guilty. I need to atone in the Jarvis-linking department...) (HT Glenn)

UPDATED ALREADY: More. Earlier. Or later. Argghh. Just read it.

Who's your Daddy?

Today's Plame Game Humor Post

Help me out here!

And did I mention Muir is on the case?

B careful...

Whose Garden of Evil?

The British Garden of Evil in Leeds and Basra. Without al-Jadida.

They looked the other way for al Husseini also.

We were righter than we knew about that tea party incident...

Torture Time Warp Redux

Came across this work of art letter to Glenn and realized it's just too good not to savor:

Leave it to a bunch of lawyers to get all tangled up in the Theory of Torture without addressing the facts on the ground. The ONLY previously proscribed interrogation techniques that have been sanctioned at the highest levels of our government post 911 are coercive in nature and specifically not intended to do bodily or psychological harm. Sleep deprivation, loud music, kneeling, withholding blankets. THIS is torture? Nowhere in any of your recent posts or links on the issue do you even qualify the many allegations of torture as being simply about these techniques of creating discomfort. Nor do you nor any of the linked legalists cite any case of actual physical torture. Abu Ghraib was an aberration. If anything, the internal memos produced during the Abu Ghraib “exposes” and erroneously cited as existence of a “smoking gun” showed that Rumsfeld et al were intent on keeping the threshold at the discomfort level. And about that Abu Ghraib “torture”, I can only hope that my Jihadi captors subject me to live sex shows while cloaking my head in a woman’s panties. Then if they would only put in solitary for a few minutes I could work out my frustrations about their horribly coercive techniques in private. If you know what I mean. And I think you do. Margaret Hassan was shot in the head, de-limbed, beheaded and disemboweled (not necessarily in that order). I think our non-Geneva captives can sustain a little Barry Manilow. [Emph mine]

On net, Glenn gets a well deserved "I told you so".

I remain totally amazed at the complete lack of historical understanding that has become de rigeur in the world today. It's even gotten to the point where someone you'd think would have a clue on this topic like John McCain spouts off nonsense about how we should be nice nice to the beheaders so they'll treat special forces or civilian CIA in hostile territory nicely when they capture them.

Well, for the 15 seconds before the nihilists dig out their eyeballs with spoons. LOL

More on this later...

The new Muslim Jews...

I just bought my son a toy F-14 (actually his second) and F-22. Next he'll want one of these.

Comment of the Day

You don’t understand, we need terrible public schools so that we’ll have low-income workers to vote Democratic.

It’s the circle of life…

Comment by TallDave ? July 13, 2005 @ 9:35 am

POST HERE. (HT Glenn)

The stem cell's connected to the...

The forever feud -- or until us frogs notice the nuclear bubbles...

Orange Clown Stuff

Ummm, not looking very orange folks. Though there's lots of intrigue about Orange Judy...

UPDATE: More here and here.

UPDATED AGAIN: Yeouch!

AND AGAIN: It's just amazing that the Pressocrats get away with foisting this kind of garbage as something anyone would take seriously for more than 2 minutes. But what's really interesting is how utterly incompetent they are for not using it during the campaign. Intellectual midgetry par excellence... (HT Drudge)

CLOWN UPDATE: ""Take Your Daughters to Work Day" gone bad". Hoo haw!

Release Ganji!

Karl the ignoramus.

An exercise the reader can work on also...

Hitch Again

We know very well what the "grievances" of the jihadists are.

The grievance of seeing unveiled women. The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people. The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law. The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London. The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won't abandon lands in Darfur. The grievance of the existence of homosexuals. The grievance of music, and of most representational art. The grievance of the existence of Hinduism. The grievance of East Timor's liberation from Indonesian rule. All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way.

FOR a few moments yesterday, Londoners received a taste of what life is like for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, whose Muslim faith does not protect them from slaughter at the hands of those who think they are not Muslim enough, or are the wrong Muslim.

It is a big mistake to believe this is an assault on "our" values or "our" way of life. It is, rather, an assault on all civilisation.

(HT Glenn)

"Just because we are planning to kill you last doesn't make you our buddy."