"What these women want to say with the sign is unclear." Umm, not to me. Offhand, I would guess that they've been stoked up with plenty of worship of Haj Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini mixed in with being OBL whores. And -- no sorries from me -- I make absolutely no apology for my language when applied to vile cretins like this...

"And then it is done smugly."

Pssst. Don't tell Dana Milbank!

Pigs Leap Into Flight In France

"The accusation from French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy — which Iran quickly denied — appeared to reflect mounting exasperation and a tougher stance by one of three key European negotiators.

"No civilian nuclear program can explain the Iranian nuclear program. It is a clandestine military nuclear program," Douste-Blazy said on France-2 television."

My guess is that this means things are so bad that the first Iranian nuclear test is just around the corner. Maybe even the corner in a neighborhood near you...

"Certainly the most pro-American place I’ve ever been."

Did I forget to mention those lyin' eyes?

As if I should have ever wondered why Grandpa Olaf left Norway. I'm praying this isn't true since I can't find any other articles to confirm it yet. In the course of looking I ran across an interesting article that points out that Jyllands-Posten was hypocritical in that they previously didn't print some possibly offensive "Jesus characatures". But while being much more tame on the subject than I am it still comes down properly on the freedom side of the issue...

UPDATE: Looks like it's not true. But I wonder for how long?

The Onion reports on Hamas' call for a "Giant Summit". Complete with 6 digit numbers and specially chartered freight trains. Did I mention that there was no holocaust? (HT LGF)

You won't read this in the NYeT in a million years... After all, everyone knows that all the Iraqis hate us too ... or do they?

Warren Again

"Twenty-seven years ago, as Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran, the first “Islamist” regime since the foundation of Saudi Arabia, you said it was a good thing. Islam had to find its way into a new balance between “piety” and “modernity”, and the Persians were just the civilized people to find this way. I agreed we needed both piety and modernity, in East as in West, but held little hope for “a new balance” from the ayatollahs of Iran. I reminded that many welcomed Lenin as a “reformer”, then Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot. But these, you said, were all atheists; they did not have the conscience of an ancient and honourable religion to restrain them. In time we both came to see that Revolutionary Iran was a new and vicious engine of totalitarianism. And you called it, “heretical to Islam”."

And you're surely read about "Incompatibilities" also?

Steyn To The Dark Barricades

"The issue is not "freedom of speech" or "the responsibilities of the press" or "sensitivity to certain cultures." The issue, as it has been in all these loony tune controversies going back to the Salman Rushdie fatwa, is the point at which a free society musters the will to stand up to thugs. British Muslims march through the streets waving placards reading "BEHEAD THE ENEMIES OF ISLAM." If they mean that, bring it on. As my columnar confrere John O'Sullivan argued, we might as well fight in the first ditch as the last."

Early Showers In Denmark

"Excuse my choice of words, but all this pissing is pissing me off.

What's happening? I am not so much referring to the threats against Danish citizens and Danish commerce. Nor are the burnt down Embassies what occupies my mind. I am thinking of a word that keeps popping up whenever the Mohammed cartoons are mentioned.

That word is BUT. A sneaky word. It's used to deny or relativize what one has just said.

How many times lately have we not heard people of power, The Formers of Opinion and other people say that of course we have freedom of speech, BUT.

They have said it, all of them, from Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General to our own Bendt Bendtsen [ed: Danish Politician]. Once we had to be sensitive of the easily hurt feeling of the Nazis, then came the communists, now it is the Islamists. The reason I say 'Islamists' is that I don't for a moment believe all the world's Moslems are pissing on us. I think we are dealing with thugs, fools and misled people. Those are the ones we have to deal with, and then the chickenshit politicians.

The cartoons are no longer something the Jyllands-Posten can control. They have already been manipulated and misrepresented to the point that few know what's going on and fewer know how to stop it. This affair is artifically kept buoyant in a sea of lies, suppressions of the truth, misconceptions, lunacy and hypocrisy, for which this newspaper bears no blame. The only thing the Jyllands-Posten did was that it with a pin-prick made a boil of nastiness explode. It would have happened sooner or later. That it happened more than four months following the publication of the cartoons, raises a question of its own.

Are we dealing with random events or with a staged clash of civilizations? One might hope for the former yet expect the latter.

That's why I say: Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Speech. There is no but."

"Small things loom large in tiny minds."

Today's Econ 101 Chapter

"But despite self-righteous accusations leveled at foreigners by the likes of Senators Schumer and Graham, the fact remains that U.S. government indebtedness is not caused by foreigners buying Uncle Sam's bonds, but by Congress spending beyond its means. If government debt is a problem, then Congress should stop borrowing. Complaints about the trade deficit are a red herring.

We Americans have many real problems confronting us. The trade deficit isn't one of them."

INDISPUTABLE PROOF OF LUNACY: "Death to Denmark." Yes, and we need a scientific study of whether the Holocaust actually happened. By Iranian nutballs. No wonder even Chirac is reconsidering appeasement...

"The Times NYeT, however, has no interest in critiquing the performance of Democrats in Louisiana."

Well, There You Have It Then

moron99 explains our childrens future for those too dense to figure it out on their own:

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"But the government message to the headmen was really we cannot protect you and you will have to look out for yourselves though we will never officially admit it. As I said, I've heard this speech before but never expected to hear it spoken in the heart of Europe."

Finally, an answer to the inexplicable failure of the Rotary Club to pentrate Hamas...

Apres moi, le deluge. Mandat grand.

Are You ShrinkWrapped?

"My speculation is that the Administration knows that much of Saddam's WMD ended up in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, home of Hezbollah, and in the dessert in Syria. The race is on to attain regime change in Syria before the Israelis (or Americans) feel compelled to act. Finding proof of WMD in Iraq, moved to Syria prior to the invasion of Iraq, will force the West vs. Iran/Syria confrontation to ratchet upwards which is why the administration is not eager to translate all the documents found in Baghdad. The Democrats have no interest in the papers either since they have staked their party's position on "Bush lied" and the post-war intel could blow that meme to shreds along with the last vestiges of authority of the Democratic left.

At the same time, the Cartoon War is a diversionary tactic being used by the Iranians and the Syrians to keep European attention focused away from the Iranian Nuclear weapons program and the Syrian/Iraqi WMD. It is also a warning shot over the bow, letting the Europeans know that any move by Israel and/or America to deal with Syria (doubtful) or Iran (more likely) militarily will be met with violence in the streets of Europe. And, while there has been minimal mention of this in the MSM, Hezbollah on the northern Israeli frontier and Hamas, from Gaza and the West Bank, have been escalating their attacks against Israel in conjunction with their "spontaneous" riots against European embassies.

In some ways, this all looks like a high stakes game of chicken, with an explosive confrontation approaching quickly. "

"It was a battle of Kuwait, not a war of Kuwait."

"Do burqas come in sizes?"

Will the imams execute themselves? I'm guessing not...

A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHINESE VIEW FROM STRATEGY PAGE: "February 7, 2006: Chinese views, among the national leadership, are often not the same as those we attribute to them. For example, India is not perceived as a major rival, unlike Japan or the U.S., They don’t believe war with the US is likely, unless we mess with Taiwan. They believe the experience in Bosnia and Kosovo indicate America understands “political warfare” much better than China does. And they don’t seem to think we’re “bogged down” in Iraq so much as that we’re gaining valuable combat experience (maybe a million “seasoned” troops by the time it’s over) as well as learning all sorts of new tricks in how to fight insurgencies, and how to use new military technologies.

The problem is that the Chinese leadership, in self-defense, have been using nationalism, and “big-bad-America” to distract the people from the corruption and other failings of the government. Don’t confuse the propaganda and hype with what the leadership really believe, and talk about among themselves."

I'm more Chinese than I look...

"YOU NO LONGER LIVE BITCHES!"

"But then, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition. It always comes as a surprise, which, as is well known, is its main weapon."

"The Contract with Al Qaeda". That hurts... (HT Power Line)

Busted!!!! (HT Michelle)

Walid has the best update today: how the "offensive cartoons" became the "cartoon offensive". Yes. And did I forget to mention Denmark becomes the chair of the UNSC?

(Tinfoil) Apocalypse on deck?

Piglet invites you artists to get creative...

Stands without comment of course...

Ah, yes. It would be the Danes for $400 that will have the UNSC chair for the upcoming stern toothless treatment of Iran... And you thought the lunatics weren't logical?

I guess the Neo-Syndicalists will want to impeach the Supreme Court next...

Seems About Right To Me

""It is very clear: Anyone who insults the Prophet must be beheaded. Remember van Gogh?" he said, referring to the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was murdered in 2004 for his controversial film about Islam.

"Whoever did it, bless him. Islam is peace but you see there will only be peace when Islam is implemented across the world. In the Prophet's time anyone who insulted the Prophet was beheaded. The same should happen now.""

Well, assuming I was a psychotic madman that is...

Glenn points out yet more supression of free speech in the South. South Korea that is. This is truly stunning. We need to invite "Yoduk Story" to America. Count me in.

"One day the British foreign secretary will wake up and discover that, in practice, there's very little difference between living under Exquisitely Refined Multicultural Sensitivity and Sharia. As a famously sensitive Dane once put it, "To be or not to be, that is the question.""

Warren is rolling: "Democracy is not just voting. Democracy is a whole bourgeois way of life, and a method for resolving disputes peacefully. It is not essentially compatible with millenarian religious schemes. We ask, “Can Islam and democracy co-exist?” What if Hamas has given us the answer?"

And again: "What I fear may hit us in due course might be awkwardly called, “the new democratic pan-Islamism"."

You won't find me quoting Juan Williams every day but: "...I pray that I don't say anything offensive to Muslims here this morning, but I gotta say it looks to me like evidence of a very weak religion when people somehow can't stand a cartoon." Keep it up Juan. You might just join the land of the sentient yet...

"Let a few more small nations succumb and someday a United States Supreme Court Justice might cite such behavior as a precedent in a decision."

Blinkered

This one is my favorite:



Blinkered. Mysogynist. Hate-filled. (Idiot.)

It's not a religion. It's an Orwellian cult nightmare.

It's in the Koran...

MR. BEAN SPEAKS: “We are in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.”

"I think the Danish ambassador should issue an apology. In the largest Christian church in Saudi Arabia." But don't bring your Bible if you're going to go look for it -- only a microscope will do...

Iraq is not as the EneMedia would have you believe, Part 67398: "Temperature data from Hell will be provided when possible."

ITM: "I don’t expect the operation to take a lot of time."

CAN'T BEAT TOM WITH A STICK: "I would guess that blogs and the internet have made the unelectable left even better organized and harder to work around; the days when a candidate could tell Barbra Streisand what she wanted to hear, pocket her check, then tell the public something that made sense are long over."

Sir Wretchard again: "We have become as the Ancients whose ideas of freedom went on to illuminate distant generations, but not their own descendants, who hastened to embrace the following dark."

"Their continued excuses appear now to have more to do with saving face among themselves than in judging reality."

Could be a rather big WHOOPS about those WMD coming up...

WRETCHARD AGAIN: "The UN, the Europeans and the US each have a paradigm problem in attempting to confront the dysfunction in the Third World. The structures don't exist to provide the necessary solution, though in the end men like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may compel a belated and painful evolution."

Katzman on the Tinfoil Apocalypse: Armageddon Calling...

Not dead yet!

NetWar goes Friday.

The $10M solution!

Of boys and books. And Hugh notices also. Did I mention that my son David is a Lego fanatic?

Shrinkwrapped is on a roll lately. Brilliant comments today centered on those "who soil themselves and blame those they envy". RTWT.

Google Gayly Gagged

Michelle's artwork wasn't big enough to express my disgust at them. So I blew her's up. I put it on Tinypic for you to link to all you like.

Child pornography support network: check.
Thought Police: that would be spelled G-o-o-g-l-e.

Our motto: "Don't be evil."

Gag me.

And speaking of payback. Chuckle.

Pamela points out WaPo's latest brush with the leftard's denihilistic ad hominism. How long do you think Howell will last after that one?

Farewell and rots of ruck to Eurabia. Kind of puts Chirac's sudden reach for the nukes into perspective, non? Of course, with his liberalesque amnesia, he forgot that one of the likely targets of a strong enough response for success is the Paris 'burbs. C'est la vie...

VDH has a "holocaust-free reality" update.

Oh, don't worry. He didn't grow up running live animals through with red-hot rods like Saddam. Well, maybe. He was only an assassin after all ... ummm, just like Saddam...

Yes, how about it?

Fisking back on double standards... (HT Glenn)

The circular circus.

Today's "fake but accurate" news update comes courtesy of the NYeT.

Red On Red

Glenn points to more red on red confirmation from Iraq The Model:

Meanwhile, there are some good news coming from Anbar.Al-Qaeda is apparently being chased down and confronted by Iraqis in Anbar and Samarra according to a report from al-Sabah. Mohammed al-Ubaidi is a citizen of Anbar who took part in a battle against al-Qaeda fighters said that people were enraged by the attacks that kill civilians in Anbar and other provinces and therefore have decided to form squads from the residents to rid Anbar from the foreign terrorists. The reports mentions that several tribes’ sheikhs had a meeting in the home of a sheikh of the Dulaim tribe where they pledged to fight al-Qaeda and throw them out of the province. There are also news that some 120 al-Qaeda members have already fled outside Iraq after a series of battles between their cells and the residents of Ramadi and other towns and suburbs of Anbar.According to the same report, similar measures are being taken by the residents in Samarra and have succeeded in forcing foreign terrorists out of their city.

And how could I have missed this?: "I have long believed that the US went into Iraq hoping to find the key to Iran. We'll find out when we try to turn the lock."

"OIF is a bomb that has detonated deep within the social structure of Iraq." ...

"Kos and MoveOn have conveniently convinced themselves that the war on terrorism is a mere subset of the struggle against the GOP. Whatever brings Democrats closer to power, ipso facto, makes the United States safer. That would be nice if it were true -- but it's clearly not, because, sometimes, Bush is right, and because, to some degree, our safety depends on his success." ...

"But insofar as the world was concerned his party was missing in action."

There goes Wretchard again...

But Hillary didn't bother to show up to hear about the actual realities of body armor of course...

The Pope gets more capital letter backing from my favorite neo-libertarians. Depressing though...

Can Al Gore put the mental back in environmental after this one?

"What do you think of Wahhabism?"

So

So, during the Clinton Administration, evidence existed (all of the information used in this article was available at the time) that:

-an invasive, extensive domestic eavesdropping program was aimed at every U.S. citizen;

-intelligence agencies were using allies to circumvent constitutional restrictions;

-and the administration was selling at least some secret intelligence for political donations.

These revelations were met by the New York Times and others in the mainstream media by the sound of one hand clapping. Now, reports that the Bush Administration approved electronic eavesdropping, strictly limited to international communications, of a relative handful of suspected terrorists have created a media frenzy in the Times and elsewhere.
The Times has historically been referred to as “the Grey Lady.” That grey is beginning to look just plain grimy, and many of us can no longer consider her a lady.

(Heh from Glenn)

Sowell has an educational update for us.

"Give me liberty or give me the right to have unprotected sex with men I don't want to have a child with" just isn't that attractive a principle in the light of day.

Can you spot the new key detail? I can...

"Here in Illinois, of course, we elect them to the U. S. Senate."

A Congress Of Your Peers. Surely someone can think of a problem with the idea...

EneMedia Watch: "Why yes, it did." Fewer EneMedia = less capability to damage Amerika, no? So blackout it is -- got to keep her alive at all costs!

Alaa also has a remedial update. (HT Glenn)

The latest from Hitch on Iraq. Mostly just a remedial update...

Psychonucleosis update. Are even our purported "friends" having second thoughts? What lies in between Afghanistan and Iraq again? Oh yeah, that's right!

UPDATE: "... this moron explained ..."

"Their desire was to cross the border and get to the heart of the problem."

MY PREDICTION: 0 stories on Saddam's terror training camps by the EneMedia. And if they finally break down and say anything it will be all about how Cheney planted the evidence.

The strategy behind the 'hoax'ocaust. Will we keep slip slidin' away?

Chester Inspires The Comment Of The Day

It's apparent that at least some of the responders are unaware of Iran's intentions.
When the leaders of Iran get to together, they end their meetings with "Death to Israel! Death to America!" It's not an empty threat.

Iran has successfully tested its Shahab-3 missiles...firing them off of freighters and detonating them at high elevations.

According to President Reagan's chief scientific advisor, William E. Graham, the sole purpose of a test like that would be to detonate nukes at high elevations...creating EMP nukes (electro-magnetic pulse nukes.)

EMP nukes fired from the Atlantic and detonated over the east coast would shut down all the electricity as far as Chicago and St. Louis and cover the entire east coast.

There would be no refrigeration, tap water, working toilets, trucks, cars, etc.

It would result in chaos and pestilence for half the country.

The nexus of Muslim fanaticism and EMP nukes means we must act quickly and dramatically.

THAT is why the former Secretaries of Defense and State were brought to the White House. We are about to ebark on an extraordinary venture to protect our very existence.

If we don't..."Death to America!" will not be just a slogan...it will be a dream come true for the demented, twisted Islamists and their messianic 'million-man-Jonestown-kool-aid' fantasies.

Posted by: Kelley at January 6, 2006 07:18 PM

Golf, anyone?

The Neo-Syndicalists will now commence foaming...

"But I'm prepared to make an exception for Pat Robertson."

I have to admit amazement that the Catholics have selected such a clear-eyed Pope. He may even deserve that capitalization if he keeps this up...

"The best of us live in the hope of receiving judgment, not escaping it."

WALL WATCH: "The world is getting flatter but the great wall is getting thicker."

And now ... just in "time" ... the garden of the Finzi-Continis.

QandO Has Had It Today

And I'm nearly there myself:

The best defense is a good offense, offense, in this case, being to transmit the culture and values that have underpinned Western economic and political dominance to the Muslim world. That means promoting democracy, limited government, human rights, and free markets to a region of the world where they have been essentially nonexistent for the last millennium. And, even then, I'm not sure it's possible to do effectively. I just think it's the only policy that has any chance of succeeding.

Whether we'll actually even attempt to do so, and do so consistently, over the long term—is an open question. In the current political climate of America, I doubt it. And the only thing that will change the political climate is, I think, another—or perhaps more than one—terrorist attack. And a truly horrific one.

As I've related before, back in the early days after 9/11, Sci-Fi author John Ringo predicted that America would pull together for a while, but would soon fall back to squabbling, until there was another terrorist attack, at which point the cycle would start all over again. He predicted the cycle would repeat until the patience of the electorate snapped, and we went to full-scale war with the Muslim world.

Apparently, he was right. Maybe that's what it will take for the current generation of Americans to learn what our grandparents learned to their dismay in the 1930s: that liberty must be defended, and that our society, for all its faults, is far, far better than anything that is available to replace it.

So, you know what? To that end, I'm perfectly prepared to let the Left have its way.

I'll make a deal with the Left: You wanna impeach President Bush? Go ahead. Knock yourself out. In fact, let's just go to the polls and turn the whole government over to the Democrats. You wanna run the whole show? Fine. Elect Howard Dean President. End all surveillance against possible enemy combatants, unless you can get a warrant based on probable cause. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Permanently kill the PATRIOT Act. Do whatever you want to do. I'm perfectly willing, at this point, to do it your way.

I mean, really, what's the worst that can happen? An American city goes up in nuclear fire? Well, it'll probably be New York, Chicago, or LA. You know, a major city. I don't live there, nor do most Americans. So we'll be fine.

But here's the other half of the deal: If that happens, we get to march on Washington, drag you naked and screaming from your offices, and hang you from the ornate lampposts that line The Mall. Then, free from roadblocks thrown up by infantile political fools, maybe we'll get serious about defending the United States, her people, her freedoms, and her values, in an increasingly hostile world.

The only little problem here is that one of the hits we take turning our cheeks in the warm-ups may put us down so we can't get back up. And that would include my family that I love so dearly.

Frick.

RTWT. Period.

Today's miracle. And today's predictable pronouncement from the loony bin.

Think small (cap).

And down the MSMemory Hole with the net...