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Are Terrorists Phone Banking for Barack?

quidnunc — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:46:04 GMT

The 2008 Presidential campaign has already seen a number of outlandish, and patently false, attacks. The idea that Islamic terrorists are picking a side in selection of an American President might seem to be yet another for the list if it wasnt true.

Ahmed Yousef, a top political adviser for terrorist group Hamas, said in an interview on WABC radio in New York a few weeks ago that the group supports Obama.

We like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance, Yousef explained. Hamas, which seized control of the Palestinian Gaza last June, has long been designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.

The Obama campaign claimed to be flattered by the Hamas endorsement, and Obama himself told the Atlantic magazine that he understands why Hamas would support him.

It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush." Obama concluded that the perception is legitimate as long as they understand he will be unyielding in his support for Israel.

So what have Baracks Hamas newfound supporters been up to lately? Well, on the very day President Bush arrived in Israel to mark the nations 60th anniversary and to renew his push for a Palestinian state as part of elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a rocket was fired into an Israeli shopping mall. The mall was devastated, and 14 innocent civilians were seriously injured. The Popular Resistance Committees, which has Hamas members, was one of two organizations that claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Hamas endorsement of Obama is even more interesting when viewed against the backdrop of the groups aggressive promotion of violence among young Palestinians in Gaza and in the context of a recent Al-Jazeera story about how young Palestinians in Gaza have banded together to call American voters at random asking them to vote for Obama! Rockets by night, Obama phone banks by day?

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(Steve Gill in The Nashville City Paper, May 16, 2008)
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=60255

Obamas campaign may argue that there is no apparent link between the young Palestinian men and the Hamas terrorist organization. But would anyone other than the Obama campaign seriously believe that young Palestinian men are allowed free and easy access to operate an internet phone bank in the impoverished and violent Gaza Strip without Hamas knowledge and approval?

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VDH: Whats Wrong with Democrats? Some thoughts on Carter, Pelosi, and Obama

quidnunc — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:07:36 GMT

Pious Amorality

In what I think was a rephrensible one-sided Jimmy Carter article in the Guardian condemning Israel for the conditions in Gaza, I was struck by these two sentences:

It is one thing for other leaders to defer to the U.S. in the crucial peace negotiations, but the world must not stand idle while innocent people are treated cruelly. It is time for strong voices in Europe, the U.S., Israel and elsewhere to speak out and condemn the human rights tragedy that has befallen the Palestinian people.

An ex-President of the United States seems to be saying that the "strong voices" of the world should oppose the lead of his own country in pursuing a long bipartisan policy of peace negotiations. This reminds one of Carter's harsh criticism of his own country prior to the 2002 Nobel Prize deliberations, in which even one of the judges acknowledged that the award was happy payback for his antiwar stance reminsicent of his earlier letter to the Security Council to try to stymie the first George Bush's efforts to isolate Saddam Hussein and get him out of Kuwait.

It is hard to think of any ex-President in our history who has written and done so much to counter the official policies of his own country abroad. Of all the countries one could blame for human rights violations Iran, Syria, the Palestinians and Hamas, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, etc. why would he single out the only liberal democracy in the Middle East?

Veto and Drill!

Nancy Pelosi chanted "Veto and Drill", "Veto and Drill" in caricaturing the threatened presidential veto of windfall oil company taxes and desire to drill in ANWR and elsewhere. But all that might sound, in fact, good to most Americans. With the world's largest reserves of coal, after creating the nuclear power industry ex nihilo, and with billions of oil still under our soil and waters, it makes no sense to produce less energy while blaming and taxing those who produce what we have, rather than drilling, digging, and saving, as we find ways to transition to the alternate energies. The problem is not just oil, but importing oil at $120 a barrel that is bankrupting us as much as it is enriching the wrong people.

This would seem to be an explosive campaign issue (if the candidates disagreed), especially if someone could offer a rough estimate of how many billion barrels of oil are in no-go areas, times them by $120 a barrel, and then compute how many trillions in national wealth we leave untouched while we pay our enemies for the commensurate alternative. I could accept the argument that it will take years to get the oil out of Alaska, the coasts, or other federal lands and therefore is not worth it (the classic argument for stasis), if we could be convinced it will not take even a greater amount of time to get solar and wind technology cheap and efficient enough to produce the bulk of our energy needs.

A postscript: I'm not sure that, ecologically speaking, drilling oil in about 2000 acres in the north of Alaska is all that different from dotting our mountain ridges and coasts (ask the Kennedys et. al.) with enormous windmills or creating vast acres of solar panels throughout our fragile deserts or covering our roofs with panels and pipes and assorted gadgetry.

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(Victor Davis Hanson in The Corner , May 15, 2008)
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson051508.html

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Israel's Success Is Still Drawing Mideast's Fury

quidnunc — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:48:32 GMT

Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to see Dr. Benjamin Rush. The eminent doctor prepared a series of scientific questions for the expedition to answer.

Among them, writes Stephen Ambrose: "What Affinity between their (the Indians') religious Ceremonies & those of the Jews?" Jefferson and Lewis, like many of their day and ours, were fascinated by the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and thought they might be out there on the Great Plains.

They weren't. They aren't anywhere. Their disappearance into the mists of history since their exile from Israel in 722 B.C. is no mystery. It is the norm, the rule for every ancient people defeated, destroyed, scattered and exiled.

With one exception, a miraculous story of redemption and return, after not a century or two, but 2,000 years. Remarkably, that miracle occurred in our time. This week marks its 60th anniversary: the return and restoration of the remaining two tribes of Israel Judah and Benjamin, later known as the Jews to their ancient homeland.

Besides restoring Jewish sovereignty, the establishment of the State of Israel embodied many subsidiary miracles, from the creation of the first Jewish army since Roman times to the only recorded instance of the resurrection of a dead language Hebrew, now the daily tongue of a vibrant nation of 7 million.

As historian Barbara Tuchman once wrote, Israel is "the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago."

During its early years, Israel was often spoken of in such romantic terms. Today, such talk is considered naive, anachronistic, even insensitive, nothing more than Zionist myth designed to hide the true story, i.e., the Palestinian narrative of dispossession.

Not so. Palestinian suffering is, of course, real and heart-wrenching, but what the Arab narrative deliberately distorts is the cause of its own tragedy: the folly of its own fanatical leadership from Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem (Nazi collaborator, who spent World War II in Berlin), to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser to Yasser Arafat to Hamas of today that repeatedly chose war rather than compromise and conciliation.

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(Charles Krauthammer in Investor's Business Daily, May 15, 2008)
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295741801865066

Look at Gaza today. No Israeli occupation, no settlements, not a single Jew left. The Palestinian response? Unremitting rocket fire killing and maiming Israeli civilians. The declared casus belli of the Palestinian government in Gaza behind these rockets? The very existence of a Jewish state.

Israel's crime is not its policies but its insistence on living.

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O Hillary! My Hillary!

quidnunc — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:21:55 GMT

O Captain! My Captain!
Our fearful trip is done. Walt Whitman

Spurning appeals to throw it in, Hillary Clinton is pressing on. But she has to know her attempted Clinton restoration is over, done, finis.

She began as invincible, inevitable and ended incoherent. Ended petulant, aggrieved, self-centered, boring, stiff; calculating, cynical, contrived. She began as conservatives and moderates worst nightmare, and became shrill, cackling, Chicago-suburb Southern accent, lifelong Yankee fan, and all the endlessly morphing nightmare Plastic Girl of leftist Democrats as well.

The ship has weathered every rack,
The prize we sought is won.

Well no. Its lost. She might wind up on the ticket (though its unlikely), yet shell carry on for The Cause ever striving to advance a decaying, dispiriting liberalism and to overcome a perceived sexism, her failed presidential campaign dubious testimony to the wisdom of philosopher Gloria Steinems insight that gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

The prize the Democratic nomination was lost to a superior candidate seeking to overcome American lifes principal competing restriction that is not genderism but race. Against Obamamania, not even the leftist womens group Emilys List perhaps the nations No. 1 political action committee was enough.

Exult o shores, and ring o bells!

Hardly. Rather toll those bells, bag them, and muffle the cadencing drums. For along the way Hillary Clinton encountered abundant inconvenient truths that ultimately overwhelmed. Truths such as:

That from sea to shining sea many women dont trust her, just dont like her. Its her own woman problem rivaling bubba Bills.

That a Clinton legacy built on triangulation and $8-a-barrel oil and gazillion billions for expanding government health care, was unenduring. The latte left that long seemed so smitten, ditched her when someone better came along, leaving in shambles the Clinton legacy or the portion of it unconnected to oral sex.

That many Democrats are underwhelmed by the prospect of both Clintons returned to the White House and renting out the Lincoln Bedroom. In the words of The Wall Street Journal: It took 10 years, but you might say Democrats have finally voted to impeach.

That sniper fire on the tarmac in Tuzla summarized a litany of Billary lies and excessive behavior.

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(Ross Mackenzie in Town Hall, May 15, 2008)
http://tinyurl.com/6gwks2

Forum: News from the USA

Richard Littlejohn: Not Nice to See You, to See You if Brucie Met Gordon

quidnunc — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:08:51 GMT

How many times have I wondered why the hell anyone bothers interviewing Gordon Brown?

He drones on with his prepared script, sets the controls for the heart of the sun and stomps towards the exit, regardless of what is thrown at him.

Gordon was at it all day yesterday, during his little round of the TV and radio studios. I couldn't see the point of any of it.

Why should anyone waste their time attending his monthly news conference, let alone waste their breath asking a question? He's genetically incapable of giving a straight answer.

His ludicrous assertion that the back-flip over the 10p tax debacle was some kind of stimulus package, like the Bush tax rebate, was a risible insult to our intelligence.

If John Humphrys can't get any sense out of him, there's no hope for anyone else.

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Free the Ripper? Now, that's what I call REAL madness

This week's winner of the Here We Go Looby Loo award is London solicitor Saimo Chahal, who is demanding the release of the Yorkshire Ripper.

She claims that Peter Sutcliffe's yuman rites were breached when he was given 20 life sentences back in 1981.

Sutcliffe killed 13 women and attempted to murder seven more in a five-year spree. He's currently safely banged up in Broadmoor.

But Miss Chahal, who specialises in civil liberties and social welfare, thinks he's sane enough to be set free.

She argues that the Home Office disregarded his yuman rites by failing to set a tariff a minimum term when he was sentenced and she's confident of getting him out within three years.

There was no need to set a tariff. He was sent down for life and no one in their right mind ever expected him to be paroled.

So why the hell is Miss Chahal making such a song and dance about it now?

Apparently, she likes to take on "difficult cases".

According to a report on a legal website: "For Saimo this case raises the issue of how we treat mentally ill people who have committed heinous crimes."

I'll tell you how we treat mentally ill people who have committed heinous crimes, pet. We lock them up in a padded cell in a secure institution and throw away the key.

What we don't do is try to get them released on a technicality.

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(Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail, May 16, 2008)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/dailymail.html?in_article_id=566693&in_page_id=1790

Plods, lies & videotape. Heads must surely roll

Last year, Channel 4 produced a brilliant documentary, Undercover Mosque, which exposed the Islamic preachers of hate operating in places of worship across Britain.

Mad mullahs were caught on camera urging the murder of British soldiers, holy war against the Jews and violence against women and homosexuals.

As a result, the police in the West Midlands launched an investigation against the documentary makers, Hardcash Productions.

Rather than prosecute the rabble-rousers identified in the film, they falsely and publicly accused the producers of faking footage, using material out of context and stirring up hatred against Muslims.

Now, West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have had to pay the programme-makers 100,000 in libel damages and legal charges for these outrageous and completely unfounded slurs.

Since the police have no money of their own, that means taxpayers must pick up the bill.

This was an outrageous abuse of police power, public money and a gross dereliction of duty in the fight against terror.

If the Chief Constable of the West Midlands and the head of the CPS won't resign, they should be sacked.

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UFO: An Undeniably Fading Obsession; The opening of the British X-Files shows that the internet has killed off flying saucers

quidnunc — Thur, 15 May 2008 22:16:26 GMT

In 1985 a man wrote to the Ministry of Defence, politely explaining that he had been in contact with aliens since the age of 7. He had visited alien bases in Cheshire and Wirral, he said, befriended a charming alien called Algar and seen a UFO shot down next to Wallasey Town Hall, as if done by an invisible entity. The writer described how he had arranged for his alien chum to meet representatives of the Government, but sadly Algar was killed by rival aliens before the meeting could take place. The writer concluded: That, of course, was that.

The matter-of-fact tone is what makes this particular letter so touching, and so representative of the hundreds of similar alien and UFO sightings reported to the MoD and now made public for the first time.

The story of Algar is more dramatic than most UFO sightings. The vast majority of UFO spotters, as revealed in the MoD files, are not fantasists, but ordinary people who thought they saw something extraordinary in the sky. The spacecraft tend to come in familiar forms, with saucer and cigar shapes the perennial favourites. Coloured lights are also popular. (Why do aliens, who clearly have no wish to make contact, still tend to turn up here with all their lights flashing? Perhaps, like us, they just forget to turn the headlights off from time to time.)

Some UFO spotters have reason to be resentful, like the elderly Hampshire fisherman taken on a tour of a spaceship by little men in green overalls but then rejected as a captive human specimen because he was too old: a notorious example of space-ageism. Some are unwilling to believe their own eyes, like the Woking policemen who saw a white light descending in Horsell. (In H.G.Wells's War of the Worlds, the first Martians land on Horsell Common, which left the policemen wondering if their account would be mocked.) Genuine report. Two competent officers slightly embarrassed, notes the report.

A few sightings are genuinely compelling and intriguing, and some are sweetly humdrum: like the alien spacecraft tootling along the A839 to Lairg at a steady and law-abiding 30mph. But most are perfectly straightforward, each written up on a determinedly undramatic form by MoD bureaucrats: time, date, angle of flight, background of informant, etc.

The sole interest of the MoD in UFO reports, the ministry declares, is to establish whether they reveal anything of defence interest. They don't. Instead, they reveal something much more interesting: a passionate fascination with the mysteries of space that transcends gender, age, class and geography, and an urgent desire to believe in other worlds that amounts to a sort of secular spiritualism. Even the most sceptical reports come tinged with awe.

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(Ben Macintyre in The Times, May 16, 2008)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article3941454.ece

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Mark Steyn: I'm Starring in One of Those Movies; You know, the one where only the maverick investigator knows something scary's going on

quidnunc — Thur, 15 May 2008 21:33:29 GMT

Many years ago, I proposed a feature to an editor about a new trend as I recall, it was celebrities wearing cravats. I wanted us to be first with the big "The Cravat Is Back!" weekend pictorial. Anyway, she demanded to know the evidence for this trend. And I cited Ted Danson wearing one to the Emmys and Roger Moore wearing one to go snorkelling in Belize. Or possibly vice versa.

"And ?" she said coldly.

"Er, what do you mean 'and'?"

"Mark, Mark, Mark," she sighed. "How many years have you been in journalism? It takes three to make a trend." And she sent me away with a flea in my ear and an undertaking not to return until Prince Edward had been spotted wearing a cravat at a gala performance of Phantom of the Opera. Or vice versa. I'm making a general point here, so let's not get hung up on details.

Here's the thing: two years ago, the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada took The Western Standard to the Alberta "human rights" commission for republishing the Danish Muhammad cartoons. A few months back, the Canadian Islamic Congress took Maclean's to the Canadian, Ontario and British Columbia "human rights" commissions for publishing an excerpt from my bestselling hate crime, America Alone. Last week, the Centre for Islamic Development took the Halifax Chronicle-Herald to the Nova Scotia "Human Rights" Commission for publishing an editorial cartoon of a, ah, person of an Islamic persuasion.

Have we got a trend yet?

This is the way it's going to be in Canada, this year, next year and beyond. A few days back I found myself on a TVOntario show with the three Osgoode Hall law students whom the media have promoted as the "complainants" in the suits against Maclean's. (They're not: Mohamed Elmasry, the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress, is.) It was not the most agreeable of encounters, at least on camera. I believe the very last words of the show were me saying to my accusers "Wanna go to dinner?" and one of their number, Khurrum Awan, yelling back, "No!" But off-air the chit-chat went rather more pleasantly, and, in the course of it, Mr. Awan observed that Jews had availed themselves of the "human rights" commissions for years but it was only when the Muzzies decided they wanted a piece of the thought-police action that all these bigwigs started agitating for reining in the commissions and scrapping the relevant provisions of Canada's "human rights" code.

He has a kind of point. Which is why some of us consistently opposed the use of these commissions even when it was liberal Jews using them to hunt down the last three neo-Nazis in Saskatchewan. Yet, accepting that the principle is identical, there is a difference. For the most part, the Canadian Jewish Congress, B'nai Brith and the other beneficiaries of the "human rights" regime went after freaks and misfits on the fringes of society, folks too poor (in the majority of federal cases) even to afford legal representation. These prosecutions were unfair and reflected badly on Canada's justice system, but liberal proponents of an illiberal law justified it on the assumption that it would be confined to these peripheral figures nobody cared about. You can't blame Muslim groups for figuring that what's sauce for the infidel is sauce for the believer and that, having bigger fish to fry, they're gonna need a lot more sauce.

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(Mark Steyn in Maclean's, May 14, 2008)
http://www.macleans.ca/canada/opinions/article.jsp?content=20080514_72985_72985

If you're an editor or a publisher, Canada's "human rights" regime is building a world in which the only choice on key issues of public debate is between state censorship or self-censorship. In Toronto last week, I had lunch in a fashionable eatery on King Street with a former editor who couldn't see what all the fuss was about. "You need to lighten up," she said. "Write about a movie." From next month, I'll have no choice. Although the Osgoode Hall law students protest that all they want is a "right of reply," when the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal finds us guilty, they are statutorily obligated to issue a cease-and-desist order that will have the effect of preventing Maclean's running any writing on Islam by me or anybody of a similar bent even though the plaintiffs have not challenged the accuracy of a single fact or statistic or quotation.

So four weeks from now I'll be banished from the Canadian media, which will undoubtedly be distressing to my loyal reader (I use the singular advisedly). But a year or two down the line, many other subscribers to Maclean's and the Chronicle-Herald and eventually the Globe and the Toronto Star will be wondering why there are whole areas of debate that no longer seem to get much of an airing in the public prints. In 1989, Muslims who objected to Salman Rushdie burned his novel in the streets of England. Two decades on, they've figured out that it's more efficient to use the "human rights" commissions to burn the offending texts metaphorically, discreetly, offstage and (ultimately) pre-emptively.

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British Courts Not Eager to Give Up Wigs

quidnunc — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:53:31 GMT

New robes go with the bareheaded look to be introduced in civil courts in October. But many in the legal profession would like to keep the 300-year-old tradition of horsehair wigs.

London Britain has always been a place where, if someone asks, "Why?" and the answer is, "Because we've been doing it that way for the last 800 years," the conversation is pretty much over.

So it is perhaps not surprising that the idea of ending the practice of outfitting judges and lawyers in curled wigs and tassled gowns a la 1685 has not been met with enthusiasm.

British lawyers have been who would have thought it arguing over the issue for the better part of the last 16 years, with a majority apparently in favor of keeping things exactly as they have always been.

With that in mind, Lord Chief Justice Nicholas Phillips figured that if he was going to take on 300 years of tradition, he'd better do it in style. This week, he unveiled the modern new robe that judges in the civil courts of England and Wales are expected to wear beginning in Octoberminus the traditional wing collar and minus, oh so importantly, the venerable white horsehair wig.

Judges, barristers and solicitors will continue to sport traditional attire in criminal courts, where lawyers say it's important for defendants not to be judged by their advocates' suits. But even there, wigs may already be on a long slow road to ruin. "The stage is set for anarchy. Did no one tell his Lordship about Samson and Delilah?" the Times of London wondered.

The new continental-style outfit, featuring such innovations as pockets, snap fasteners and color-coded bands depending on the court, was conceived by celebrity fashion designer Betty Jackson.

The fashionistas so far have not been wowed.

"If humanizing the judicial profession was the aim of this makeover, it is interesting that Betty Jackson decided that the outfit best suited for this would be one that looks like something an alien android with menacing religious undertones would wear when waging war with Doctor Who," sniffed the Guardians deputy fashion editor, Hadley Freeman.

The Daily Mail juxtaposed a photo of a bareheaded Lord Phillips in the new robe next to a picture of actor Patrick Stewart in his Star Trek garb.

Lord Phillips, who says he is seeking to rid the public of any notion that judges are old-fashioned and out of touch, has acknowledged that not all jurists like the new outfit. But most do, he asserts, and he assumes the rest will get used to it.

Long ago, not everyone thought the heavy, hot, itchy head gear should be a fixture. "Who would have supposed that this grotesque ornament," former Lord Chancellor John Campbell wrote in 1845, "fit only for an African Chief, would be considered indispensably necessary for the administration of justice in the middle of the 19th century?"

The big question now is whether lawyers practicing in the civil courts can be persuaded to go along with the judges and also give up their wigs, which, in survey after survey, attorneys indicate they cherish as much as truth itself.

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(Kim Murphy in the Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2008)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-wigs15-2008may15,0,1814471.story

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-05/38882123.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_03/judges1L_468x427.jpg

Forum: Tradition and nostalgia

Phillys $100 cheesesteak

Basti — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:08:15 GMT

Phillys $100 cheesesteak

Wine snobs, whiskey snobs, beer snobs, and now sandwich snobs!

Forum: Food and drink

Shaken Republicans look to McCain as savior

Basti — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:07:37 GMT

Shaken Republicans look to McCain as savior

The only thing that can save the Repubs come Nov in regard to POTUS is that the Dems will field their Manchurian Candidate the Stealth Muzzie and the American people wont vote the ignorant weasel into office. Hillary IMO, can defeat McCain, but the Dems have a history of snatching defeat from the arms of victory. As for myself Ill be damned if Ill vote for either one of these 3 never-wass. Im planning on writing in NONE OF THE ABOVE for POTUS. A wasted vote you say. Well yes it is, but its my vote to waste and Ill be damned if Ill vote for the lesser of evils ever again!

Forum: News from the USA

Pelosi : Bush comments beneath dignity of office Biden: Bulls*%$!

Basti — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:06:44 GMT

Pelosi : Bush comments beneath dignity of office Biden: Bulls*%$!

The Left as per usual have got it all wrong, again! You dont negotiate with terrorists or Arabs (Actually thats one and the same thing) as they perceive any negotiations as a sign of weakness. Nothing less than force used in a ruthless manner will put paid to terrorist/Arab designs on Israel. As for Bidens bullshit comment, there is a man whos an expert on bullshit because hes full of it.

Forum: News from the rest of the world

Full-blooded Americans Get It

Basti — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:06:13 GMT

Full-blooded Americans Get It

Yes we get it, but what the hell are we going to do about it? We allowed the two major political parties in the US to field three candidates for the office. One candidate is over the hill and has serious senior moments. Another candidate is a man hating woman who brings the taint of Bill Clinton with her every place she goes. The final candidate is an ignorant, Marxist, and a Muslim in mufti who will undermine the country at every opportunity if elected. Its time for a serious grass roots revolt by the American people. Its time we force political parties to stop foisting off on us who they want elected and give us someone who is at least marginally qualified for the job of POTUS. None of the three candidates who are in the race are qualified for anything, but telling lie after lie and shameless pandering for votes at any price.

Forum: The Rant

Is Obama Smarter Than a 5th Grade Jaywalker?

Basti — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:05:27 GMT

Is Obama Smarter Than a 5th Grade Jaywalker?

Ive got a black Labrador Retriever who is smarter than Obama and my lab isnt a Commie Stealth Muzzie.

Forum: Victories!

Obamanation of the Proletariat

Basti — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:04:53 GMT

Obamanation of the Proletariat

Quote: Once the Marxist wing of the Democrat Party is swept into office the Chicagofication of the nation will begin. The Marxists in the purged Democrat Party will begin to change America and the world.

One paragrah from one article and it says it all!

Forum: News from the USA

USMA chief wants to change lyrics of 2 West Point songs

Basti — Thur, 15 May 2008 20:03:44 GMT

USMA chief wants to change lyrics of 2 West Point songs

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) The head of the U.S. Military Academy thinks its time to replace the men and sons in West Points two most beloved songs with more gender-neutral lyrics.

Lt. Gen. Franklin Buster Hagenbeck, superintendent of the nations oldest military academy, told a congressional oversight committee Wednesday that with more than 3,000 women graduating from West Point since 1976, the change is long overdue.

During a presentation Wednesday to the academys Board of Visitors meeting in Washington, Hagenbeck said he wants to change the words to the military academys alma mater and its companion piece, The Corps. Both songs date back about a century.

In The Corps, the proposals include changing The men to The ranks, and We sons to The Corps.

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Political correctness must be paid lip service too. Hallowed tradition and esprit de corp mean nothing.

Forum: Tradition and nostalgia