Dec 6
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The aftermath of the so-called tragedy at Salala, Pakistan last month really brings forth their true colors, the true allegiances of our “ally” Pakistan. Although, I think calling them an ally might be stretching it a bit. In case you may have forgotten just what happened on that day, NATO fighter jets and helicopters fired [...]
Nov 15
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I really enjoyed the Mel Gibson film Conspiracy Theory. In fact, I love conspiracies altogether. Not that I believe them, but they are fun. One of the things that I find fascinating about them is that in any good conspiracy, there is at least a grain of truth. I would even go so far to [...]
Nov 5
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What is war? War is killing people and destroying property until you get your way. The people include babies, children, teens, mothers, fathers and the elderly; property includes anything of any use to man. War is industrialized waste of lives and goods to satisfy political desires. Argue that if you can… The United States has [...]
“I’LL TELL YA WHAT: I’LL TRADE JA SECURITY FOR YOUR FREEDOMS, OK?
The day that I agree with the ACLU is the day that confirms my belief that the world has truly turned upside down. That day is today. The ACLU is demanding transparency & legal justification for the killing of American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his teen age son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver in 1995, and his 17-year-old Yemeni cousin that were killed in a U.S. military drone strike that left nine people dead in southeastern Yemen. Read the rest of this entry
Oct 16
For quite some time, we in the United States have been under assault by an avalanche of information. In the 20th century, with the unleashing of a myriad of communications media, anyone and everyone selling ideas, information and entertainment vied for our attention. This has not changed as the years have marched on. So, here [...]
Oct 12
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Very few situations will elicit profanity from me, and even fewer news reports. Maybe I am mellowing with age. But the reports I have been reading today have brought forth a hearty “What the hell!” (and not a few raised eyebrows!) According to these news reports one Manssor “Jack” Arbasiar, a naturalized United States citizen [...]
Sep 27
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Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki Iraq’s cost is approaching a trillion dollars now; deaths are approaching 5,000 and those injured are coming up on 30,000 as The Trillion Dollar War of Choice explains. What hasn’t been explained, at least where I can see and understand it, is what has been gained by paying this price.
Sep 14
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1. Politicians can save the economy… False. Politicians can and repeatedly do trash it but only private enterprise can provide the wealth generation needed to to save a sick economy and to keep one healthy. The last President who said that–and proved it in the recession of 1920-1921–was Republican Warren Harding. He held off his [...]
Sep 12
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Mail’s in! Dear Jimmy Carter: You are absolutely correct (well mostly) when you say that under your administration “we never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war.” (Source) You seem, however, to have forgotten that you did facilitate the fall of the Shah of Iran (our ally) and the [...]
Sep 8
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WHO THE HELL DOES THIS GUY THINK HE IS? MUSLIMS STILL CLAIM SPAIN AFTER 519 YEARS! Ahmet Rehab, the head of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR), says that following the tenth anniversary of 9/11, with the exception of remembering the victims, America should move on from the terrorist attacks. Huh? Two questions, Ahmet: [...]
Sep 2
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Our premier spy agency has expanded into industrialized assassination, killing over 2,000 “targets” and civilians over the last 10 years, as the Washington Post dryly puts it. CIA Shifts Focus To Killing Targets will tell you more. Is creation of an automated killing machine on such a scale wise? Is it moral? It’s too secret for those discussions to occur. [...]
Sep 1
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Feedng Civil War Fever in Afghanistan provides a small slice of the reality our leaders and our media never seem to think newsworthy. It’s a small story but it provides the big picture, a picture which leaves one wondering what there ever was to gain there for the U.S. The place seems good for grinding up [...]
An In-depth Analysis of Lieberman’s Cybersecurity Bill 2011: Giving Birth to Big Brother.
After reading the revamped Cyber Security Bill 2011 sponsored by Joe Lieberman (co-sponsored by Senators Rockefeller*, Snowe, Collins, Lieberman & Carper) , shock and anger quickly set in. While the nation has been watching endless news stories about our congressmen quibbling over a measly two trillion dollars, Senator Lieberman has been silently slipping the most treacherous, deceitful & manipulative bill ever created through the Senate. When Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (SCHSGA), first proposed the earlier version of the bill (Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, S.3480), critics slammed him and it for being too broad in scope and for including a ‘kill switch’ for the Internet- so reminiscent of Hosni Mubarak’s during the Egyptian uprising. Lieberman blithely brushed criticism aside, rejected the idea of a ‘kill switch’ and claimed that… continue reading…
Jul 20
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For some time, Judge Andrew Napolotano’s Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power and Deception in American History has been on my “To Be Read” list, and has been sitting there as other tasks took precedence. After reading it, I can’t imagine why anything would. Published last year with a stirring forward from Congressman Ron [...]
Jun 11
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In preparation for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Department of Homeland Security (DHL) Secretary Janet Napolitano has been visiting American universities to give talks of where the government is today with security. She speaks of counter-terrorist efforts as a new and ever “evolving” field. She sprinkles phrases as “shared responsibility” as the guiding philosophy at [...]
Jun 4
NEW MUSLIM PUBLIC RELATIONS ADS APPEAR IN AUSTRALIA – As CNS News reports, “roadside billboards in the metropolitan Sydney area carry one of four simple slogans: ‘Jesus: A Prophet of Islam,‘ ’Holy Qur’an: The Final Testament,‘ ’Muhammad: Mercy to Mankind‘ and ’Islam: Got Questions? Get Answers.’ (‘Islam: the Final Solution’ didn’t make the cut.) Wow. Mohammed [...]
May 21
I like Juan Williams and enjoy watching him on Fox News on Sunday mornings. I don’t always agree with him but he is passionate about what he believes. On The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly asked for a comment about the U. S. facing a dilemma with Muslims. He answered, “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You [...]
“As Americans have been seared by hostage taking, violent rhetoric, and terrorist attacks that have killed thousands of our citizens – A FAILURE TO CHANGE OUR APPROACH threatens a deepening spiral of division between the United States and Muslim communities.”–Barack Obama, May 19, 2011
May 14
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PAKISTANI NIGHTS: TAKING TIME OFF FROM THE JIHAD So I decide to move on from the Osama bin Laden thing and focus my blogging addiction on other topics – that is until I run smack dab into the porn story. Doesn’t get any better. I mean, think about it: The guy had three or four [...]
May 13
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A new national alert system was announced by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week. The Personal Localized Alert Network – PLAN – will be used to alert the public to emergencies via cell phone. In addition to local emergency messages, PLAN will also carry “presidential alerts.” Cell phone users will be able to opt out of [...]
May 11
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BURIAL AT SEA WAS DEMEANING; MAY SUE U.S. – In a display of hypocrisy equaled only by American liberals, Osama bin Laden’s son, Omar bin Laden says the killing of his terrorist father was “criminal,” and that he and his siblings may take legal action against America. Yep, Omar says the bin Laden boys are [...]
May 10
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Pakistan Wants to Study Secret Helicopter; Says China Does Too Pakistani officials said today they’re interested in studying the remains of the secret stealth-modified helicopter abandoned during the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. There’s more bad news: They say the Chinese are interested in taking a peek too, and they just might let them. [...]
May 9
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Attorney General Reopened Investigation Two Years Ago In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, with Barack Obama fresh off his “I killed bin Laden” victory tour, Attorney General Eric Holder’s criminal investigation into the interrogation techniques utilized by CIA officers against captured terrorists is front page news again. Holder reopened the previously reviewed [...]
You don’t say! All these nay-sayers who saw OBL as a mere figurehead can apologize for their misdirected comments. Waiting… Waiting…
SPIKING THE FOOTBALL?
In part from Meredith Jessup: Just hours after the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a firefight with U.S. commandos, John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism advisor, hailed Barack Obama’s “gutsy call,” (which it was), that gave approval for the Special Forces mission to proceed.
While the president does indeed deserve credit for ordering the raid, (and by all accounts, has accepted it), he told us yesterday that we musn’t “spike the football” because “it’s not what we do.”
But…if you visit www.gutsycall.com, guess whose re-election website you’ll find? You guessed it; Obama’s 2012 campaign has apparently purchased “gutsycall.com.”
So much for not politicizing bin Laden’s death.
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And Obama’s trip to Ground Zero today?
May 2
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- IS ANYONE SURPRISED THAT BARACK OBAMA TOOK THE CREDIT? – It should certainly be noted that Barack Obama continued this country’s efforts to track down Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Rat chose “noted” and “continued” vs. “credited” and “spearheaded” for a reason: Did America, the world, or the al Qaeda mastermind [...]
May 1
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Nearly ten years after striking at the heart of the American economy and military on 9-11-01, the mastermind behind Al-Qaeda’s war on the West has finally been tracked down and killed by covert forces. Reports state that the United States is in possession of his body as well. It took a long time for justice [...]
Apr 27
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More news from Afghanistan, some good and some bad. – http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-prison-web-20110427,0,7314837.story – In a daring prison breakout, 488 inmates of the Sarposa Prison in Kandahar escaped the jail through a tunnel dug from the outside by insurgents. The 1000 foot tunnel which must have taken months to dig terminated in one of the cells, prisoners [...]
The strategy that won the war in Iraq, and that President Obama opposed…
Apr 12
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Every now and then a game series comes along that just makes life so much better. Splinter Cell (yet another Tom Clancy franchise) is one of those series. It’s had its downs (Double Agent) and its ups (all of the other games in the series) but overall, it is just ridiculously cool. It’s the only [...]
Apr 11
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POLICE FEAR MUSLIM VIOLENCE IN RESPONSE TO ENFORCEMENT OF NEW LAW Paris police arrested a woman today for wearing a burqa on the first day of France’s ban on Muslim veils. About a dozen people, including three women wearing hijabs, staged a protest in front of Notre Dame. Police said the woman was detained because the [...]
From Cal Thomas over at Real Clear Politics:
If there were an award for stating the obvious when it comes to the Middle East, it would go to the New York Times. On its front page last Friday, the newspaper ran a story headlined, “Islamist Group is Rising Force in New Egypt.”
What group would that be? Why, the Muslim Brotherhood, of course. We have been repeatedly assured by certain pundits and members of the Obama administration that the Brotherhood are a small minority with no major influence in Egypt.
Read the rest of the article here. The NYT are shockingly ignorant sometimes.
Mar 28
I can’t believe we’re coming up on 4 years since this 10 minute video has been posted and there are just shy of 50,000 views. Well, I guess part of me CAN believe it, since there are so many anti-Semites out there. This is a quick 10 minutes, and a good summation of the constant [...]
What disgusting wretches the so-called ‘world community’ is. They watch the slaughter in Libya, in Bahrain, in Saudi Arabia, and what do they do? Nothing. The West should forever hang its head in shame if Muammar Gaddhafi and the other monstrous clowns ruining the Middle East are allowed a victory.
Michael Cohen of World Politics Review writes on the “Do Something” crowd.
I still remember seeing Red Dawn for the first time. I remember thinking that the choices that were made were so foreign, yet so plausible, that it gave me serious pause and made me think “what would I do in that situation? How would I react?” My school mascot wasn’t the Wolverines, mind you, but it still sounded every bit as defiant if you yelled it the same way.
Enter Homefront – the latest game from THQ, with a story line written by the author of Red Dawn (and Apocalypse Now). More after the jump. Read the rest of this entry
Mar 15
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On Friday, March 11, 2011, terrorists entered the home of a Jewish family in Itamar and killed five family members, stabbing them to death. The victims were: Udi Fogel, 36 Ruth Fogel, 35 And three of their children: Yoav Fogel, 11 Elad Fogel, 4 Hadas Fogel, 3 months The alarm was raised by the couple’s [...]
Mar 10
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AS NY CONGRESSMAN PETER KING HOLDS HEARINGS ON RADICALIZATION IN THE U.S. MUSLIM COMMUNITY, IT’S TIME TO HEED THE WARNING IN EUROPE The alarming increase in Muslim violence against indigenous Europeans the last several months has been virtually ignored by the American media. Is this due to respect for “peaceful” Muslims, fear of the violent [...]
Mar 1
Forgive me, but I feel like shoving this in front of everyone who chants the liberal “Faux News” mantra. There’s plenty of blame to go around about government waste, and FOX News isn’t afraid to report it, regardless of who was president at the time. As members of Congress fight over what to cut in [...]
With all the juicy news from the Maghreb, I thought I’d throw a wrench and bring you back to reality with this rather unsettling story from Heidi Blake and Christopher Hope from the Daily Telegraph. Al-Qaida are capable of detonating more than just a dirty bomb according to intelligence reports.
Elliott Abrams posts an excellent apologia for George W. Bush’s Middle East policy at the Washington Post. It is rather shocking to see even people like Chris Matthews begin to admit that Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing and that Dubya may just have been right. This happens when grotesque ideological blinkers are removed.
Kudos to President Obama for upping the usage of attack drones in Pakistan. It looks to be keeping the local Al Qaeda franchise off-balance.
STRATFOR provides its usual excellent analysis on what is happening in Egypt. Though I rarely side with Zazu or Andre on anything (except perhaps music), they are right to point out that we have supported trash in order for them to hold off even worse trash. That has to end. We do need to support dissident groups who are more amenable to American concerns. Here is another concern: Hamas is able to cross the border from the Palestinian Territories into Egypt pretty much unhindered thanks to the chaos ensuing at the moment. This means they are wilfully trying to help the Muslim Brotherhood take over the reins of power in Egypt. If they do, that will almost assuredly mean war in the Middle East, and if that happens, it’ll spread out quickly throughout the Maghred, the Arabian Peninsula, and possibly into Turkey and Southern Europe. Attach that with the headaches in Chechnya, and you have a recipe for a very hot summer, war-wise.
Kim Zigfeld doesn’t like Russia. Her hatred of the political system is palpable. Sadly, she has a strong, strong reason not to like it. It is well on its way to becoming a fascist state, and each terrorist attack will make it easier for the Putin/Medvyedev regime to lock up the country in the way they wish to. Read her article at La Russophobe detailing the incompetence that led to the horrible aiport bombing.
Russia witnesses a massacre at the hands of Islamic terrorists. The American community screams “They have nothing to hide.” Who do you believe?
Read William Wan’s article at the Washington Post for more on the story.
A nasty terrorist attack occurred today at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, killing at least 29 passengers. I have a feeling it wasn’t Swedish Lutheran grandmothers involved in this latest round of terrorism.
The good times have just ended in analyst-land. Where were the Islamists while the revolution occurred? They were planning how to seize power. Enter Rachid Ghannouchi, who had been in exile for years in London. He is not Osama bin Laden. He leans closer to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey. Let us see where Ghannouchi takes Tunisia in this dangerous time.
A pleasant and wonderful 2011 to you all, friends of Con Club. I’m starting the New Year in a pediatric ward babysitting my niece, who came down with a nasty bronchial infection. Hence, no drinks, no partying, just changing diapers and placating a little girl who has yet to reach her first birthday. I truly need to settle down…
Anyway, let’s start off the New Year with a bang. Er… on second thought… A young runt from the Taliban’s Pakistan wing is warning coalition forces that female suicide bombers will begin striking at targets soon. This grotesque tactic worked to brutal efficiency in places like Palestine, Sri Lanka and Chechnya, where “Black Widows” were used to great effect inside of Moscow’s subway system in Russia.
Daniel Freedman at Forbes speaks on behalf of trying to reform some terrorists, as has been done with Jemmah Islamiya in Indonesia.
It gets worse and worse for Muslims of good will to have to apologize for the monsters in their midst who wreak havoc in the West. It is bad enough to see innocents in the so-called Ummah getting slaughtered by savages. It’s a whole other problem with Muslims bring their cancers to our lands. Most come to make a life for themselves and their families, to adapt and assimilate, and to be left alone when they worship. Their bad apples need to be gotten rid of, and harshly, if good will is to be completely restored between Muslim and Westerner.
S. E. Cupp writes for the New York Daily News on the botched suicide bombing attempt in Sweden.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
This article from Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard should come as no surprise to anyone following articles regarding prisoners leaving Guantanamo Bay.
Considering the recidivism rate is only 25% does strike me as surprising. And no, I don’t mean it’s because some of the people we picked up were innocents. Few, if any, were, despite the MSM’s lame attempts at making martyrs out of these brutes. These are simply the ones we know about. It means we’re probably doing a poor job tracking prisoners once they go home. This will mean more American and coalition-partner deaths, unfortunately.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Things are about to get very, very interesting for Julian Assange. He was arrested today in London.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Muhammad Sahimi’s tagline says it all.
Morally bankrupt U.S. media buries facts that counter the case for war.
Read his analysis here, courtesy of PBS and their Frontline: Tehran Bureau website.
This one will confound some of our readers. Ron Paul makes a case that Julian Assange should be considered a member of the press rather than a collaborator with our enemies. Yes, of course, our first impulse is to splatter Assange against a wall. Sorry, our laws won’t allow it unless it’s done in a clandestine way, so don’t get your hopes up. Also, we come out looking pretty good in the leaks, though it’s not a good sign at all that our communiqués can be so easily breached.
Give Andy Barr’s article a solid read. This will be worth discussing for some time to come.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Will the Central Asian republic (hah) of Tajikistan be the next hotspot for terrorism? Here are two articles worth pondering:
Violence in Tajikistan by Joshua Kucera, The Diplomat
Tajikistan: The Next Jihadi Stronghold? by Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
The ‘leak’ in the WikiLeaks malaise is a traitor by the name of Bradley Manning. Pvt. 1st Class Manning’s big reason for peddling information to Adriam Lamo (an appropriate name if there ever was one) and Julain Assange (the future grease spot) was bitterness over ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’. Way to go, guy. Pray the MSM doesn’t pick up on this meme, as it would rightfully and forcefully end the debate on having openly gay soldiers serving in the armed forces, whether the reasoning is right or wrong.
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This is what a serf looks like and how a cowed subject is treated. Not how a free and sovereign citizen should be dealt with. Shame on the idiots that continue to allow these daily outrages and pathetic dog and pony shows to continue. I sure feel safer, don’t you? This is the difference between looking for a terrorist and looking for ‘objects’ while completely throwing any sense of decency and logic out the window.
Thanksgiving is almost upon up. Prepare for Christ, Christmas songs, eggnog and family arguments about politics during and after Turkey Day. On to the news:
Is North Korea Moving Another ‘Red Line’? by the STRATFOR Editorial Board.
This was not the most pleasant thing to wake up to. North and South Korea are on the verge of a full-scale shooting war, yet there is little coverage of it on the news. They’re more concerned about Bristol Palin and Tea Party voters. Days like this make me wonder why I don’t just go to the local TV stations and start hurling these people off the balconies (I jest, sort of).
Geopolitical Journey, Part 5: Turkey by George Friedman, STRATFOR.
Friedman has been checking out places he considers to be potential hot spots for future altercations. He does a stand-up job analyzing what’s happening with Turkey politically these days, as they drift from being a friend to both us and Israel to drifting into the Islamist camp. Pity for them. They’ll rue that association.
We Don’t Quite Know What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Volatility by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, NNT Blog.
If you want to understand Economics and how the markets work in general, there is no one living right now more interesting to read (IMHO) than Taleb. He’s no-nonsense and loves to skewer the sacred cows on Wall Street. Make him part of your daily reading if you want your money info raw.
Syria-Lebanon: Israel is the source of terrorism in the Middle East by Channa Ya’ar, Israel National News via Voice of the Copts.
Christians in the Middle East get it. Copts get it. Maronites get it. Melkites get it. Why in the hell don’t our politicians get it?
Faking It: Taliban Negotiator Was A Phony by Rachelle Dragani, Time Magazine.
Yeah, this poseur fooled NATO and the Afghans, and is apparently a shopkeeper from Pakistan. Nice friend we have in Pakistan, eh?
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Black is white and white is black now in the Islamic world. In a move that is as disgusting as it is surreal, Raymond Ibrahim relates at the Hudson New York Briefing Council that Islamists in Egypt are trying to paint Coptic Christians as psychopathic suicide bombers, rapists, and killers in general. While the Western world looks at Egypt dumbfounded, the so-called Arabic Street (hah!) actually believe this tripe.
Cross-posted at Apocatastasis.
It looks like things are getting a bit better at the Carrera household. I may be closer to achieving that age-old dream of working again in a field I love. Now, the news:
Thailand extradites alleged arms dealer Bout to US by Grant Peck, Associated Press.
The conspiracy nuts are out on this story, and my favorite Russian blog, La Russophobe, has yet to comment on this momentous prisoner snag, but nailing Viktor Bout on arms smuggling charges (namely trying to sell them to the Colombian terrorist group FARC) has a sweet taste to it. There are many in Africa and Asia as well who are celebrating the capture of this fiend, and Russia is quaking in her boots because Bout will probably sing like a canary about how his government aided arms sales to despots.
United States of Greece: The Countdown by Kyle Olsen, Big Government.
Most of my friends know I lived in the Balkans for a pretty good stretch. From first-hand experience, I can relate to you that while Macedonia looked like a mediocre model of governance, they were miles ahead of the union-infested Greek economic picture even as far back as 2003, when I left. It has gotten worse, and it’s beginning to look this bad in California. Pity us. As I side note, it was nice to read that Austria told Greece to get stuffed on trying to mooch in the form of higher taxes.
‘Let My People Stay!’ – Iraqi Prime Minister Discourages Emigration by David North, Center For Immigration Studies.
Despite the constant threat of massacre by psychopaths, Iraqi leader Nouri Al-Maliki is asking France to not let people come there. WTF?!?!
An Immigration Policy Puzzle: Peruvians vs. Dominicans, Why So Different? by David North, Center For Immigration Studies.
David North provides an article showing discrepancies in wage earning among Hispanics. Peruvians are kicking ass. Dominicans? Not so much.
Muslims Burn Christian Alive and Murder His Father over Rumor by David Wood, Answering Muslims.
Burned to death… over a rumor. Gotta love that ‘Religion of Peace’, huh?
Breaking: Rangel Found Guilty by Daniel Foster, National Review.
Great. My favorite Jackie Gleason clone gets busted, and is punished with… a gibbet? I wish. He got a slap on the wrist. Worthless.
China Bashing is for Losers by Shikha Dalmia, Forbes Magazine.
I normally don’t have a problem with libertarian thinkers, especially when they have as good a track record as Dalmia does. In this case, I vehemently disagree. We should wean ourselves off of the crack pile that is China and move on to trading with more friendly, less ethically challenged, regimes. Supporting the murderers of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Christians and freedom-lovers is for losers. And this applies to the soulless technocrats who have infested both parties.
Congresses Compared by Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review.
Don’t get excited. On second thought, DO get excited. We are not going to see a replay of 1995 according to NRO esteemed pundit. We have a chance to make huge changes. Let’s see how powerful ‘People Power’ really is.
Collaborating With the Enemy in the War on Terror by Rich Trzupek, FrontPage Magazine.
No surprise finding out the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights are leaping to the defense of the traitor Anwar Al-Awlaki.
California’s Destructive Green Jobs Lobby by George Gilder, Wall Street Journal.
Environmental wackos are partially to blame for the absolutely hostile environment the California State Legislature has made for businesses. Unfortunately, we have a moronic liberal voting populace in this state that seems to be enamored with the idea of looking like the Rust Belt in a few years’ time.
If the Science Guy passes out and nobody tweets it, did it happen? by Brett Michael Dykes, The Lookout.
I’m not much of a fan of Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” but what happened to him shouldn’t happen to a dog (or even a POTUS who whines about being treated like one). Nye passed out, and not one student went to help him as they were too busy tweeting his collapse. What sick people.
Since the new TSA touchy-feely rules are now in effect and the blog topic of the week I thought I’d share a riveting and revealing story that is quickly going viral. This gentleman’s blog post on his fun at the airport has received over 5,000 comments and his calm but brave stand against fairly invasive airport security procedures has made him a Robin Hood for a great many Americans who are just fed up with it all. Pay special attention to the multitude of threats he received and the statements about him ‘giving up his rights’ that pepper the account. Kind of makes you wonder what they would do if entire flights just refused to participate in technological strip-searches and government groping exercises.
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Welcome to the deep south. That’s right. Where the hospitality flows and nothing is ever negative, it’s just ‘special’, or ‘lovely’. (“What do you think of this?” … “Oh, isn’t that lovely, dear.”)
Being the parent of three extremely extroverted kids, I often find myself struggling with the idea of being over-protective. Yes, that’s right, I’m the one who won’t let the kids go out and play in the street unsupervised even though my parents did it. I’m the one who makes sure that they are strapped into the all but bulletproof car seats in the safest cars with the bulletproof glass and tinted windows. I’m the one who won’t let the kids get into the back of the truck to ride down to the pond even though I recall falling out of the truck several times as a kid. (“Mom, I fell out of granddad’s truck on the way to the pond. It hurt.” “Oh, isn’t that lovely, dear?”)
Most days I endure the comments. “Oh, I understand why you won’t let your kids come over to spend the night. It’s fine, no really.. it’s lovely.”
Then there are days where I come to work and my colleague says “hey did you hear about..”, and suddenly I am justified. Yes, welcome to the deep south, where rolling just isn’t how they roll anymore.
Facebook is an evil idea. It destroys friendships. Oh, well… Off to the news:
Chechnya will never be quelled so long as a madman like Moscow’s hand-picked strongman, Ramzan Kadirov, is allowed to run roughshod over the citizenry, driving them to extremists who have more in common with Al Qaeda rather than the indigenous Sufi movements which are more prevalent in the region. Expect to see a lot more attacks like this one soon in Chechnya, possibly igniting a third war in the region in the past 20 years.
A shameful idiot of a Governator goes to Moscow and looks like an industrial tycoon in comparison to the locals, who are salivating at making a pseudo-Silicon Valley near Moscow that will, most likely, simply turn into a place for either the Putin/Medvyedev axis or the Russian Mafia to shake down and scare off any investment. It gets worse as Anna Chapman, the “sexy spy,” (right…) who bumbled her way into fame gets hired by a bank for her “advice.” Pity poor Russia.
Russian racism is nothing new. Anyone who doesn’t look like a run-of-the-mill Slav, even if you are as pale as the Georgians are, gets called the local equivalent of a nigger (and you’d better believe they find it as offensive as an African-American would). Russian Muslims in general are being treated in a disgraceful and inhuman way in Perm, Siberia, and insurrections are beginning to happen against officers who treat conscripts harshly. More bad news for the Russian Bear, I’m afraid.
HT: La Russophobe.
STRATFOR’s founder analyzes the death of multikulti in Germany. You may wish to read Thomas Sowell’s excellent take on the subject as well.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is in a state of panic as he tries to mend rifts caused by supporting a sleazy election win by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Other ayatollahs, based in Qom, will have none of it.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
We have enough headaches worrying about Iran to our geographical East, and North Korean to our geographical West. Now, two American citizens have decided it was a brilliant idea to help the Hugo Chávez regime make nuclear weapons. There goes the South. Are penguins conspiring for nuclear technology as well?
These missives will become fewer and fewer due to focusing my interest in November’s elections…
Iranian prosecutor ready to release American woman by Nasser Karimi, AP/Breitbart. Iran is doing everything it can to keep its vile name in the news. Sarah Shourd, one of the hikers snatched and imprisoned in Iran, is ill with a lump in her breast and precancerous cervical cells. These monsters now want to parade her release as an act of clemency at the end of Ramadan. What pigs.
Inside al Qaeda with Former Terrorist, bin Laden Associate Noman Benotman by Erick Stakelbeck. Meet Mr, Benotman, once part of a Libyan cell dedicated to knocking off Muammar al-Gaddafi and establishing a beachhead for the terrorist organization. He has since been reformed, and his information on Osama bin Laden is worth listening to.
Venezuela on the Brink by James K. Glassman, Commentary Magazine. Venezuela now has the worst economy in the world. This election will decide if the country’s fate. Will they choose change or a permanently moribund economy?
Turtle Bay’s blind mice by the Editorial Board of the New York Post. The U.N. have continued to prove to the world what an utterly useless body they have become. Though I applaud their cultural work, and have no problem seeing collaboration between countries in cultural preservation, I do see a problem when a bunch of countries with less-than-democratic pedigrees have the gall to pretend to be objective parties when dealing with rogue nations.
Blood on the Olympic Snows of Sochi? by Kim Ziegfeld, La Russophobe. The world will be sending its finest athletes to one of the most active places for terrorism on Earth. What are they thinking?!
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
No commentary necessary.
George W. Bush: Address to a Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com
Another round of news, dear friends, as I enjoy the movie “Ivan’s Childhood” while I type this out…
Militancy and the U.S. Drawdown in Afghanistan by Scott Stewart, STRATFOR. Now that American troops are leaving Iraq (and sure to come back soon enough as chaos will ensure once the Baathists and Al-Qaeda remnants feel ‘brave’ enough to go on a nationwide killing spree), attention will be focused on the alleged ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan. The militants in Afghanistan will pose a far different challenge to the organized, but mainly secular, terrorists Iraq has to contend with. They are a wily bunch, and will fight tooth-and-nail until dead or victorious.
Afghanistan and the War Legend by Robert W. Merry, STRATFOR. Straight talk for President Obama regarding how to handle Afghanistan.
Václav Havel by Johan Goldberg, National Review. The legendary Czech playwright, president and Frank Zappa fan speaks out against government incompetence regarding economic matters.
Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? by Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience.com. My retort to this silliness? Something along the lines of Chris Tucker’s comment to Jackie Chan: “We gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!”
Hamas leader rejects talks with Israel by Diaa Hadid and Karin Laub, Associated Press. A swat to the back of the head for anyone foolish enough to think that Palestinians were ever serious about peace. Shame on you. There were never serious, and would be going against their own raison d’etre if they altered their charter to make peace with Jews.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Though so much more needs to be done in Mexico in order to tackle police corruption, every little bit helps. The worry is that corruption isn’t merely in the police departments, but in the military, government and even among the people. There so many on the take from the drug cartels in certain parts of Mexico that it may be impossible to root them out entirely.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
It’ll be a while before I’m back in a groove again, but it’s nice to chat with old friends here…
Cracks in the Iranian Monolith by Michael Ledeen, Wall Street Journal. Though Iran may be close to having ‘The Bomb’, there is an outright revolt inside of Iran. We’ve heard these stories before, but this time, it’s not only the Green Movement pushing. There is movement from inside the business community and the military. Both were instrumental in causing the fall of the Shah, and both could end up ridding Iran of its scourge.
The Middle East’s widdle Hitler by Ted Nugent, Washington Times. The ‘Motor City Madman’ gives an op-ed for the Times, and pulls no punches regarding the dangers an Iran armed with nukes poses.
Deter Pyongyang through Beijing by Michael Mazza, The American. North Korea has absolutely no interest in making peace with its neighbors, as its raison d’etre for being in power will disintegrate and the regime will end up committing political (and perhaps literal) suicide. If anyone can bring the dog of the Korean Peninsula to heel, it will be China. China itself needs a good whack on the nose to control the puny tyrant of Pyongyang.
Judge: Somali Pirates Who Fired on U.S. Navy Are Not Really Pirates by Andy McCarthy, National Review. Elections have consequences. This fool of a judge issued an unbelievable ruling, and we’re stuck with it as pirates are now free to shoot at our Navy and get away with it.
Scandal over Palestinian-Israeli talks by Konstantin Garibov, Voice of Russia. For interesting reading, click the above link of how Russia views our diplomacy efforts in the Middle East. Mahmoud Abbas is a leader without a mandate, and has no real power, other than that of a tin-horn dictator, in his patch of Palestine.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
I’m surprised this is from far back as early June. Condell is on top of it, as usual.
Have 11 days really passed? Time flies…
‘Israel has days to strike Bushehr’ by Hilary Leila Krieger, Jerusalem Post. I have a hard time believing that Israel will do what needs to be done (since we have a commander-in-chief who seems either unable or unwilling to actually defend our strategic partners as he coddles sworn enemies in the mistaken belief that his charm will win out over their utter contempt and disrespect of his station), but according to the JP, Drudge and a few other sources, Israel is apparently poised to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons-making capability within the next 48-72 hours. We’ll see.
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I’ve been a fan of Col. Allen West’s ever since I heard his CPAC speech earlier this year, and subsequent speeches/interviews.
He’s a plain-speaking (like Sarah Palin, I might add), no-nonsense common sense American. (I left out “conservative”, because I know how that offends some of you.)
He is infinitely qualified to serve as a congressman, governor, and eventually POTUS. Frankly, I’d trust him 100x more as POTUS than Obama, and some other Republican candidates for that matter.
West “gets” our Constitution and what it means to be an American.
If you agree, send him a donation for Florida’s 22nd district. With luck, we may see him for a long time to come.
After reading the mind-numbingly stupid comments posted by pseudo-liberals on the gay issue, I figure it’s time for me to get back to work on what’s happening elsewhere:
JPMorgan’s Masters Urges No `Panic’ as Commodities Unit Slips by Dawn Kopecki, Bloomberg. A time-honored truth states that when someone urges you not to panic, it’s because it’s time to panic. J.P. Morgan is in big trouble, and that can have an ugly effect on the economy.
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Yet another impassioned plea to knock out WikiLeaks, this time by Mark Theissen of the Washington Post.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Welcome to war, folks. Israel, and I doubt Jordan, will let this cowardly attack go unanswered.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Julian Assange has made a serious error in judgement in releasing classified documents. Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive Kenneth E. deGraffenreid makes a great case for using a Special Operations Task Force to drag this cowardly bastard to face judgment for what he did.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
…. but Mr. Mo and I are planning on being well out of the D.C. Metro area by 2011, for several reasons.
What really bothers me is that I’m not the paranoid type, but I see the path this country is going down and unless we seriously reverse it, we’re headed for this.
Selfishly, I’d like to think it happens well after 2017.
So much to read, so little time to do it…
The threat from East Africa by Mark Thiessen, Washington Post. Thiessen discusses the worrying trend of Africa’s Al Qaeda clients are linking more strongly with their counterparts in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Some worthy reading:
America plays the fool in Pakistan’s double game by Ralph Peters. Colonel Peters is one of the large chorus of defense insiders who has had no illusions regarding Pakistan’s secret service treachery against this country. They are as much an enemy as the Taliban are, and the recently exposed paperwork confirms what a blind man could see.
From WikiLeaks to the Killing Fields by the Editorial Board at the Wall Street Journal. An interesting dichotomy is made between our situation in Afghanistan and Cambodia.
The AfPak Papers by the Editorial Board at the Wall Street Journal. All that trouble to make both President Bush’s and President Obama’s case for staying the course in Afghanistan. D’oh!
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Michael Rubin asks. I answer. “No.”
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a fellow traveler with the Iranian psychopath Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Until the Turks vote their cretinous leader out, they will have to sit under Erdoğan’s Islamist thumb and prepare for their country to turn into Iran one day.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
One of the good things (if you can call it that) which occurred after 9/11 was that many people got off their rumps and decided to take a look at a map. The world became a smaller place to a lot of Americans on that day, and it behooves the general public to hip one’s self to what goes on around the world. Take the case of Yemen, for instance. Many folks would have no idea that it was once a Roman province whose climate was considered so wonderful to the conquerors that they named it Arabia Felix (Happy Arabia). They might not know that it was once the home of vibrant Jewish and Christian cultures. Not everyone’s a geographer, historian or cartographer, but when terrorist activity is taking place in the south of the Arabian peninsula, it might be worth paying attention to. Chris Harnisch of National Review Online provides an excellent primer as to what is happening in that Al Qaida-infested hornet’s nest at the moment.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
So upon enhancing my college education by embarking on obtaining a B.A. and M.A. in Social Psychology, I recently took a required Humanities course. I must be getting old or simply holding true to my morals and values within my conservative ways with a bit too much arrogance and strife, for my professor announced to the class she felt my views of politics and Obama and today’s culture of violence were “extreme”. Let me describe my experience within such class I have just finished and might you find my views as she?
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If one doesn’t bother trying to put the pieces of the puzzle that is the Middle East together, one would find the headline counterintuitive. One should read history and learn the theological ties that bind the region. Saudi Arabia considers Israel little more than an irritant and a tool they can use to whip their citizens up into a frenzy in order to cover for their own criminal incompetence. Iran, however, scares the bejeezus out of them because the mullahcracy is nearing having nuclear arms. There is no love lost between Sunni and Shia Muslims, despite occasionally collaborating in levels for mutual benefit. If Saudi Arabia falls, and they well could to a well-armed Iran, that would give Ahmadinejad and the turbaned terrors massive control of a large part of the world’s oil supply. Hence, it is in the best interests of Saudi Arabia that Israel do the dirty deed of obliterating Iran before she gets too big for her britches.
Check out Hugh Tomlinson’s article at The (U.K.) Times here.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Not just “people who will do the work Americans don’t want to do”.
Is this part of the “change” our current administration promised us?
In the email I received….
We must have traitors and criminals associated with the Department of Homeland Security and at the White House level who wish to cause total chaos in order to turn this country into a police state under communist rule. Otherwise, one must ask the question why our government isn’t protecting our borders?
Check out these short reports.
Part 1:
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/
Part 2:
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/
Call me crazy, but I guess I’m just a tad concerned about this.
I have long adored Tom Hanks for bucking the trend in Hollywood to be anti-American and leftist in attitudes about American history. His From the Earth to the Moon series was profoundly influential on me, and I revered Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. Which is why his recent comments about American racism towards the Japanese in World War II have had me scratching my head–they seem so different from what he would normally say about such a subject. Given his past performance, though, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
In any case, here’s a masterful deconstruction of the attitudes behind the Pacific war by historian Victor Davis Hanson.
Is Tom Hanks Unhinged?
Much has been written of the recent Tom Hanks remarks to Douglas Brinkley in a Time Magazine interview about his upcoming HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. Here is the explosive excerpt that is making the rounds today.“Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”
Hanks may not have been quoted correctly; and his remarks may have been impromptu and poorly expressed; and we should give due consideration to the tremendous support Hanks has given in the past both to veterans and to commemoration of World War II; and his new HBO series could well be a fine bookend to Band of Brothers. All that said, Hanks’ comments were sadly infantile pop philosophizing offered by, well, an ignoramus.
Hanks thinks he is trying to explain the multifaceted Pacific theater in terms of a war brought on by and fought through racial animosity. That is ludicrous. Consider:
1) In earlier times, we had good relations with Japan (an ally during World War I, that played an important naval role in defeating imperial Germany at sea) and had stayed neutral in its disputes with Russia (Teddy Roosevelt won a 1906 Nobel peace Prize for his intermediary role). The crisis that led to Pearl Harbor was not innately with the Japanese people per se (tens of thousands of whom had emigrated to the United States on word of mouth reports of opportunity for Japanese immigrants), but with Japanese militarism and its creed of Bushido that had hijacked, violently so in many cases, the government and put an entire society on a fascistic footing. We no more wished to annihilate Japanese because of racial hatred than we wished to ally with their Chinese enemies because of racial affinity. In terms of geo-strategy, race was not the real catalyst for war other than its role among Japanese militarists in energizing expansive Japanese militarism.
White House advisers are considering recommending alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tried in a military court instead of a civilian one in New York City, a senior administration official told CNN on Friday.
Progressive activists blasted the potential administration switch.
“If this stunning reversal comes to pass, President Obama will deal a death blow to his own Justice Department, not to mention American values,” said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
“If the president flip-flops and retreats to the Bush military commissions, he will betray his campaign promise to restore the rule of law, demonstrate that his principles are up for grabs and lose all credibility with Americans who care about justice and the rule of law.”
I have always heard that history repeats itself because no one listened the first time around, and today I have found additional evidence to support that claim. Scroll through some of the Time magazine covers, specifically from 1976-1980 and take a look at the headlines, the people, the concerns of the day. From socialism to the war on terror – it’s all there in vivid color. I recommend starting here and moving forward for a really interesting look at, well… Time.
Four score and 285 days ago (give or take a few), our nation elected someone they thought they knew. Today, not so much – but not to worry. All (or at least some of it, digitally enhanced and re-packaged to fit the format of your screen) will be revealed, when he gets a chance to re-introduce himself to the American public. I can hardly wait.
Oh yes, Tom Jones belts it out for sure. but the reason this came to mind is due to the candid, yet expressive little gem of a comment towards Senator Bachmann.
“I’m going to treat you like a lady,” Mr. Specter shot back. “Now act like one.”
Ms. Bachmann replied, “I am a lady.”
A week from Friday is the deadline for emptying the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, a cutoff that the newly inaugurated President Obama established as one of his first acts in office. No one seriously expects his administration to meet the deadline, and Huffpo’s Nathan Harvey wails that it may take yet another year to figure it out. “By all accounts we are not going to make it. In fact, the Obama administration has asked for another full year to do so.”
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Dave’s recent War and Peace part II novel about militant Islam and the way we approach it today brought this clip to mind. If you want to see how a war is won, watch this mini-series (Band of Brothers), one of the best I have ever seen IMHO.
I can’t say enough about this segment though. Just when things are worst, a change is made. A two second politically incorrect decision and order (at 6:04) changes everything – and the effects it has on those following are obvious by the end of the clip. Watching the leadership ‘trickle down effect’ is inspiring, and makes me ‘hope’ for a leadership ‘change’.
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