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October 31, 2006
International Moonbattery Glut to Worsen
As if the BBC and CNN weren't already churning out enough moonbattery and pro-Islamist propaganda for the international audience, both al-Jazeera and France want to get in on the act.
An English-language version of al-Jazeera may seem redundant with CNN and the Beeb already out there; nonetheless it will start spewing on November 15. Al-Jazz International will "provide a voice to underreported regions around the world," according to a statement. It's true that sometimes you can flip all the way through the channels without seeing any pro-Muslim coverage from the Middle East, though you have to flip fast. Al-Jazz became well-known to Western audiences by serving as Osama bin Laden's megaphone after 9/11.
Yelling "Me too!" from behind everyone else is France, which plans to launch a 24-hour news channel in December that will challenge the "Anglo-Saxon" brand of moonbattery disgorged by the BBC and CNN. France 24 will broadcast in English and French. Its chairman and chief executive Alain de Pouzilhac explains that the point is to serve people who
are looking for contradictory opinions — which is what France 24 is proposing by relying on French values.
In accord with French values, taxpayers will be forced to finance this vanity project to the tune of $100 million per year.
If this isn't enough moonbattery to keep globetrotting progressives glued to the TV screen, there is also Hugo Chavez's Telesur, which disseminates hard-Left propaganda throughout Latin America.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:52 PM | Comments (3)
Soros: No Guilt Over Helping Nazis Steal From Fellow Jews
The Hungarian Jew George Soros survived the Holocaust by pretending to be the Christian godson of a man whose role under the Third Reich was to confiscate property from Jews. Sweetness & Light quotes from an interview Soros did with Steve Kroft for 60 Minutes in 1998 regarding this phase of his life, which Soros himself credits with forming his character. It offers a disturbing perspective on the psychology of the man who has bought a large degree of control over the Democratic Party. Here's a highlight:
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that's — that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
SOROS: Not — not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't — you don't see the connection. But it was — it created no — no problem at all.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
SOROS: No.
KROFT: For example that, "I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there." None of that?
SOROS: Well, of course I c— I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was — well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets — that if I weren't there — of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would — would — would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the — whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the — I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
If Soros' Shadow Party strategy of pouring millions of dollars into left-wing 527s works, and he is able to remove the "main obstacle to a stable and just world order" by managing to "puncture the bubble of American supremacy," it's nice to know he won't lose any sleep over the chaos that ensues.
On a tip from Metalgarth.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:24 PM | Comments (3)
"Warm and Personable" Charles Rangel Calls Vice President an SOB
Giving a preview of the tone we will have in Washington if Democrats succeed in taking over Congress, potential Chairman of the very powerful Ways and Means Committee Charles Rangel has blown his top again, publicly calling the Vice President a "son of a bitch."
The outburst was triggered when Cheney pointed out that if Congress does fall and Rangel takes control of the Ways and Means Committee, Bush's tax cuts are unlikely to be extended. The effect would be tax increases of over $1 trillion, with disastrous results for the economy. Cheney also observed that Rangel "doesn't understand how the economy works."
Rather than attempt to debate economic issues, Rangel pandered to his troglodyte base by calling Cheney names, while describing himself as "warm and personable." Rangel's juvenile putdowns included a suggestion that Cheney go into "rehab" to correct "whatever personality deficit he may have suffered."
When asked if he was again accusing the Vice President of being mentally ill, Rangel offered his own manifestation of mental illness with this line:
I don't think he's shot anyone in the face lately, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
This warm and personable remark refers to a hunting accident in which Cheney peppered his friend with a few shotgun pellets.
Past assaults by Rangel on the Vice President have included statements like these:
I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil. [...] Sometimes I don't even think Cheney is awake enough to know what's going on. Rumsfeld is the guy in Washington [...] running the country.
Trying to debate people of Rangel's caliber would be like putting forth reasoned arguments during a food fight in a junior high cafeteria. Yet it will be people like this who hold our economic fate in their hands if we do not choose wisely in next week's elections.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:45 PM | Comments (5)
Global Warming Inspires British Bureaucrats to Loot the Public
If you think global warming doesn't affect you, you must not live in Britain, where Environmental Secretary David Miliband has been inspired by climate fluctuation hysteria to make a bid for sweeping "enabling powers" to extend carbon emission controls to cover "non-energy intensive" sectors of the economy, including supermarkets and hotels. The staggering costs of indulging in this moonbattery will as always be passed along to the consumer.
Green tax levies are already laying a heavy load on the shoulders of anyone who travels by air or drives a vehicle that won't blow over in a stiff wind. But that's not enough for Miliband, whose schemes would cause gas prices to keep going up in Britain even as they go down everywhere else.
EU agreements meant to suppress economic activity greenhouse gases by having countries trade carbon credits fail to cover many industries that do not produce significant emissions. But Miliband wants to force these businesses to buy carbon credits anyway, driving up prices for consumers.
David Frost of the British Chambers of Commerce calls this approach a "stealth tax" by which "business becomes the villain."
But of course, business has always been the villain from the point of view of moonbats.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:39 AM | Comments (2)
Gray Lady Endorses No Republicans
For the first time since before Watergate, the New York Times is not endorsing even a single Republican for Congress in next week's elections.
So much for evaluating candidates as individuals. It's party that matters on Pinch Sulzberger's sinking ship.
As the Fox News folks might say: Fair and balanced? You decide.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:02 AM | Comments (1)
Hanoi John Kerry Bashes American Troops
Senator John Kerry had this to say to a rally of Democratic students in California yesterday:
You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't you get stuck in Iraq.
Apparently stupidity and laziness are the only explanations that make sense to Jean François as to why soldiers would risk their lives and endure hardship to protect our country from its terrorist enemies. If they were smart like Kerry, they would figure out a way to game the system for three Purple Hearts so that they could come home and accuse those left behind of war crimes, thereby launching a stellar career in the Democratic Party.
On a tip from V the K; hat tip: Crush Liberalism.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:35 AM | Comments (13)
October 30, 2006
Web Radio Raver Calls For Assassinations
Internet radio host Hal Turner knows just what to do if the upcoming elections don't go his way: assassinate half of Congress. For good measure, he wants to take out a few Supreme Court members too.
Five-man strike teams are to be used. Turner has figured it all out with diabolical precision: with 267 Congressmen and three Supremes who are "problems," only 1,350 "committed citizens" will be required to do the dirty work.
Murdering hundreds of Congressmen may seem a little extreme, but Turner has accumulated a long list of gripes, including these:
- Our government kills innocent people in Iraq.
- It ignores the will of the people.
- Politicians lie to get elected.
- Government spending is too high.
- Turner doesn't like the Patriot Act.
His criticisms of the government come from both the Left and the Right; some are even legitimate. I doubt he'll find his 1,350 committed citizens, though if Hanson isn't committed himself, he certainly ought to be.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 3:41 PM | Comments (5)
12-Year-Old Babysitter Fends Off Naked Illegal Alien
Exhibiting an enthusiastic willingness to molest the preteen babysitters Americans won't molest, Rigoberto Ascensio Perez of Guatemala, an illegal alien with no known address in this country, broke into a Putnam County, New York house where a 12-year-old girl was babysitting her 2- and 6-year-old neighbors. Perez was wearing nothing but a mask at the time.
The undocumented housebreaker assaulted the girl, but she was able to fight him off. When police arrived, Perez had proven wise enough to put his clothes on, but not to leave the area. He bolted from the garage and broke free from a police officer, before running down an embankment and falling headfirst into a stream, where he was apprehended.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:40 PM | Comments (4)
Democrats: The Party of the Rich
Populist rhetoric aside, you have to be pretty well-heeled to afford liberal ideology these days. Libs characterize Republicans as the Party of the Rich, but as Peter Schweizer documents, the Democratic Party has a much better claim to that title.
The anti–First Amendment charade known as "campaign finance reform" resulted in a new funnel through which the rich could pour money into the pockets of Democrats: tax-exempt 527 advocacy groups such as MoveOn.org, Americans Coming Together, and the Media Fund, which have sucked up $zillions from super-rich leftists like George Soros and Peter Lewis. So far in 2006, 17 of the top 25 contributors to 527s are funding liberal causes. A few more stats:
In 2004, 25 individuals gave over $2 million to 527s. Fifteen of them were Dems.
In 2002, donors who gave $1 million or more favored Democrats to Republicans by a 12:1 spending ratio: $36 million to $3 million. Of the top 10 individual contributors, only one gave to Republicans.
In 2000, 18 of the top 25 individual donors gave to Dems. To be the Party of the Rich, you need some very wealthy friends — like lawyers, who poured $182 million into politics in 2000, 75% of it to Dems; and Tinseltown, which gave 70% of its $32 million to the party of shoeless orphans like John Kerry, Herb Kohl, John Rockefeller, and Dianne Feinstein, all of whom are worth over $25 million. The only "Republican" Senator worth that much is Lincoln "Chafing" Chafee — a notorious RINO who many conservatives agree should be tarred, feathered, and run out of the party on a rail for his left-leaning voting habits.
The average GOP contribution is around $50. The Democratic Party won't release figures for its average contribution.
Bad enough that ultra rich liberals try to buy elections for likeminded candidates. Worse, these moneyed moonbats often attempt to buy offices for themselves. Ned "The Sped" Lamont has spent $4 million of his own money on his campaign for Senate in Connecticut. It cost John Corzine $60 million to become a Senator from New Jersey. Mark Dayton spent $12 million in Minnesota, Maria Cantwell $10 million in Washington, and Herb Kohl $5 million in Wisconsin. From 2000 to 2004, candidates who spent over $4 million of their own money were Democrats by a 3:1 margin.
Michael Barone refers to the limousine liberals who support the Democratic Party as the "trust-funder Left." They are people who either inherited their money, or found some other easy way to lay hold of it — e.g., through Hollywood, the Internet bubble, or George Soros' destructive currency speculation — rather than painstakingly acquiring wealth by creating it, like the "robber-baron" capitalists they so loudly despise.
As Schweizer notes, the ultra rich "have different priorities and concerns than other Americans." This may explain why the Democratic Party doesn't seem to have a coherent platform that it is willing to share with the unwashed masses.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:48 AM | Comments (3)
Harold Ford Jr. on Foreign Policy and Religion
Voters already know that Harold Ford Jr., who might soon be elected to the Senate, is black, is not a Republican, and is regarded by People Magazine as one of the "beautiful people." But many may not be aware that he has another qualification for office: a very unique point of view.
On foreign policy, for example, Ford may not be able to tell the difference between ballistic missile and nuclear tests in North Korea, but he is probably the first to recognize the nuclear threat we face from our close ally Australia.
On religion, he earned himself a round of applause with this remarkable statement:
My friend Lincoln Davis who chairs our campaign says there are, there's one big difference between us and misfortunate Republicans when it comes to our faith: he said that Republicans fear the Lord; he said Democrats fear AND love the Lord.
Here's the video:
If voters aren't ready for Ford's cutting edge views, he can always fall back on the race card, as his supporters have done by howling this perfectly reasonable ad off the air with claims that it's racist:
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:55 AM | Comments (3)
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer, general manager of Maine television stations WVII and WFVX, having had enough global warming moonbattery, has ordered his news department to stop hyping it until "Bar Harbor is underwater."
Annoyed when his stations broadcast a report for the fright fest "A Convenient Lie" "An Inconvenient Truth" that he characterized as a commercial for Al Gore, Palmer sent out an email noting that global warming stories are the equivalent of
"the killer African bee scare" from the 1970s or, more recently, the Y2K scare when everyone's computer was going to self-destruct.
James Hanson, a prominent global warming crusader who received a $250,000 grant from a foundation headed by Teresa Heinz Kerry, is not amused. He calls Palmer's refusal to partake of the panic "irresponsible," and shrieks that if we wait until Bar Harbor is underwater, it will be "too late." Hanson is best known for yelling from atop the liberal soapbox "60 Minutes" that the Bush Administration won't let him talk about global warming.
More of a threat to Hanson's grants and TV appearances than W's sinister repression is a dawning awareness that minor climate fluctuations are not news.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:36 AM | Comments (1)
October 29, 2006
British Prisons to Honor Satan Worshippers on Halloween
Just when you thought multiculturalism had already reached the apex of absurdity, Britain's Prison Service will honor Halloween by offering special privileges to inmates who call themselves pagans — including Devil worshippers.
While other prisoners labor on Tuesday, Satanists will be granted the day off, out of respect for their religious beliefs. Rituals can be performed, though robes with hoods are off limits for "security reasons." It's not known whether sacrificing pretty virgins to the Lord of Darkness will be allowed; if not, expect a lawsuit.
Actually, the pagan inmates are getting a raw deal. They are only granted two religious days off per year. Christians and Buddhists get three. Jews get seven, and Hindus get ten. Guess how many Muslims get?
Twenty-six.
Also, all inmates have to eat halal meat, even though less than 8% are Muslim.
Maybe pagans ought to try flying jets full of people into office towers, and setting off bombs on crowded subways and buses. Then they might get the kind of respect Muslims do. But fortunately, not even Satanists are evil enough to behave like Muslims.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:26 PM | Comments (15)
Muslims Torch More French Buses, Young Woman Badly Burned
French Muslims' colorful multicultural activity of setting buses on fire produced a casualty last night, as 26-year-old Mama Galledou was burned over 70% of her body on a bus in Marseille. She lies on the verge of death.
Festive youths celebrating their cultural diversity forced their way onto her bus, doused it with flammable liquid, and set it alight in what Marseille state prosecutor Jacques Beaume referred to as an "ambush."
The city's bus drivers refused to work until security is reinforced. The number of riot police in Marseille has been doubled to over 3,000.
Muslim diversity was celebrated in other parts of France too. Last night, another bus was torched in a suburb of Paris after hooligans beat up the driver and forced the passengers off, and 46 were arrested in skirmishes with the police.
On Saturday, three police officers were injured when "youths" attacked them with stones and Molotov cocktails. Police were also involved in combat in Reims and Toulouse Saturday night, which the central police service described as "relatively calm."
Four buses were torched on Friday. A fifth was pelted with metal balls and stones, and its driver hit with pepper spray. Over the past week, nine French buses have gone up in flames.
President Jacques Chirac has expressed his "horror," and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin "strongly condemns" the attacks. I somehow doubt this will put a stop to them.
AFP attributes the violence to "social alienation, high unemployment, racial discrimination and tensions over integrating France's sizeable Muslim community." Pussyfooting around the fact that Muslims are at war with Western Civilization is not going to put a stop to the attacks either.
If only the rest of the world would learn from France's tragedy, by limiting immigration to numbers that can be assimilated — which in the case of Muslims means zero. But the establishment media's commitment to moonbattery will not allow that to happen.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:05 AM | Comments (3)
Quebec Puts the Screws to Christian Schools
Quebec's Department of Education is threatening to prohibit parents from sending their kids to evangelical Christian schools, on the grounds that these schools aren't teaching state dogma.
Parents themselves pay for these schools, over and above what they already pay in taxes to finance the state schools. But apparently they are to have no say at all in how their children are educated.
Quebec is traditionally a Catholic society. Is this yet another example of the Quebecois hysterically defending their cultural identity?
Au contraire. Quebec is actually rejecting its culture — in favor of moonbattery. The evangelical schools are being targeted for teaching Catholic doctrine on issues like homosexuality and evolution.
As Ted Byfield puts it:
Not long ago, Quebec was a Catholic Christian society, whose loyalty to its faith and historic traditions seemed unswerving. Now, having all but abandoned the church, it has the lowest attendance rates in Canada — and the highest rate of cohabitation outside marriage, highest divorce and abortion rates and lowest birth rate.
The cry of the Quebec separatists, who now sizably outnumber federalists, is they must leave Canada to preserve their heritage and culture. This is simply a lie.
First to last, their culture and heritage is Catholic Christian, and they have forsaken it. What they want to preserve is somebody else's culture, Sweden's perhaps.
If Quebec splits off from Canada, it might want to change its name to New Sweden — or maybe Moonbatlandia.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:14 AM | Comments (2)
Cross Removed From Chapel at William and Mary
On the campus of William and Mary, a 2-foot gold cross has been removed "to make the Wren Chapel less of a faith-specific space, and to make it more welcoming to students, faculty, staff and visitors of all faiths."
William and Mary was established by the Anglican Church. Wren Chapel is in a building that was finished in 1699. These days a lot of nonreligious ceremonies take place in the chapel, as do non-Christian religious services, so the cross had to go, although Christians will be allowed to display in on the altar "at appropriate religious services." How open-minded of the college.
Once again we see the mighty river of Western history abruptly petering out into a shallow multicultural swamp.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:40 AM | Comments (1)
October 28, 2006
Dems' Paranoid Fantasies Could Suppress Black Vote
It appears that the corrosive paranoia hawked by Democrats may blow up in their faces.
Rather than address the weakness of its candidates or the unconstructiveness of its message, the Democratic Party has encouraged its followers to believe that its defeats are the work of Republican trickery. In both 2000 and 2004, we were repeatedly told that Bush didn't really win, but rather stole the election, in part through suppression of the black vote Dems rely on so heavily.
Now those crucial black voters are starting to wonder, If The Man is going to suppress my vote anyway, what's the use?
As the Gray Hag puts it:
[T]here are worries among Democratic strategists in some states that blacks may not turn up at the polls in big enough numbers because of disillusionment over past shenanigans.
Complains Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist and hater of "white boys":
This notion that elections are stolen and that elections are rigged is so common in the public sphere that we're having to go out of our way to counter them this year.
Even now the Times doesn't want to admit that these "shenanigans" are either absurdly exaggerated or completely fictitious. They report that teams of lawyers have been mobilized to find evidence of the mythical voter suppression that will once again be dragged out to explain their losses if common sense prevails next month.
Possibly for the same reasons that they vote overwhelmingly Democratic and tend to be sympathetic to the theory that George Bush blew up the World Trade Center, blacks are three times as likely as whites to believe that their votes will not be accurately tallied.
Says David A. Bositis of the Joint Center for Political Economic Studies, which is "dedicated to African-American issues":
African-Americans are more susceptible to conspiracy theories about the new [voting] technology because they have been subject to actual conspiracies more often than the rest of the population.
In other words, the reason they are paranoid is that the world really is out to get them. Or at least, that's what the politically correct establishment is committed to having them believe — even if it's to their own detriment.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:09 AM | Comments (1)
October 27, 2006
Obnoxious Sheehanista Echoes John Kerry
One problem with the hyperbolic rhetoric that gushes out of Hanoi John Kerry's mouth when he denounces America's military is that there are actually people out there clueless enough to believe him. When the Democratic Party's last choice to run the country says this:
...on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.... [American troops in Vietnam] personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
and this:
American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women...
it's hardly surprising that one of Cindy Sheehan's fans — a member of Peace Fresno — would scream at the mother of a fallen Marine that the other Marines her son died saving would "go on and kill and rape and sodomize some children in front of their parents."
If you've got the stomach, check out the video here.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:53 PM
Danish Court Throws Out Cartoon Suit — On Narrow Grounds
A lawsuit filed in Denmark by a bunch of local Muslim groups against Jyllands-Posten for publishing the bland illustrations that were used as a pretext for the Cartoon Intifada has been thrown out.
Jyllands-Posten's editor in chief Carsten Juste was justifiably relieved:
Everything but a pure acquittal would have been a disaster for press freedom and the media's ability to fulfill its duties in a democratic society.
Now for the bad news: the suit was only dismissed because it couldn't be proved that "the purpose of the drawings was to present opinions that can belittle Muslims."
The Muslims who are gradually tearing Europe to the ground aren't likely to forbid themselves from presenting opinions that can belittle infidels. But then, why belittle when you can behead?
On a tip from MB.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:06 PM | Comments (2)
Defrauding the American Taxpayers Americans Won't Defraud
Thirty-four people have been arrested for defrauding Social Security of nearly $2 million by pretending to be too fat to work. The culprits were listed as:
Alfonso Alvarez, Arnaldo Cruz, Carlos Barker, Francisco Castro, Julia Del Toro, Nancy Espinosa, Maria Fernandez, Tamara Fernandez, Xiomara F. Gonzalez, Xiomara M. Gonzalez, Anibal Guerrero, Leticia Hamid, Mustafa Hamid, Frank Hernandez, Lazaro Hernandez, Roalba Iglesias, Yolando Iglesias, Migdalia Interian, Miguel Interian, Yoanka Interian, Lucas Jimenez, Maria Martinez, Richard Mendez, Miriam Moreno, Rolando Morales, Olga Pena, Lujis Santos, Magaly Telleria, Dolores Valdes, Nery Valdes, Belen Villar, and Jacobo Villar.
Uh oh, I count only 32. It looks like two of them got away.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:05 PM | Comments (3)
Israelis Fear Consequences of Dems Taking Congress
As if Israel didn't have enough problems — surrounded as it is by hundreds of millions of hostile Muslims committed to its destruction — now they face another threat: a possible Democratic takeover of Congress in the USA.
Worries Zalman Shoval, former Israeli Ambassador to the US:
What one has to look at is whether a Democratic win in one or two houses of Congress will have a far-reaching impact on the administration's ability to pursue difficult [objectives] in its foreign policy, which could both influence and have a dire effect on Israel.
A premature withdrawal from Iraq, loudly demanded by many Democrats, would be a disaster for Israel, producing an Islamist state in its neighborhood with massive oil wealth to finance terrorist adventures. Very likely Iraq would become a client state of Iran, increasing that malignant regime's power — and capacity to strike at Israel. Needless to say, the party of Dennis Kucinich, John Kerry, etc. is unlikely to take effective action in response to Iran's development of nuclear weapons.
Yoram Ettinger served as the Israeli Embassy's liaison to Congress. He's concerned about the "change in worldview of the majority on Capitol Hill" that a Democratic takeover would entail. Given the current worldview prevalent in Congress, committee heads "consider Israel to be a strategic partner in the battle against terrorist organizations and rogue regimes." However, a Congress run by liberals would be likely to choose "negotiations rather than confrontation with terrorist organizations and rogue regimes." No one knows better than an Israeli how counterproductive it is to attempt to negotiate with terrorists.
Another factor is the United Nations, which is openly and often viciously hostile toward Israel. John Bolton's willingness to stand up to this corrupt and nefarious institution has won him no friends among Dems. A Congress more willing to suck up to the slippery moonbats and totalitarians who dominate the UN would leave Israel all alone.
Jonathon Rosenblum, an independent Israeli analyst, sees danger in the Dems' appeasement-oriented mindset. He considers it likely that liberals, who tend to prefer Europe to America, will follow the European model of feeding the Muslim crocodile, hoping to be eaten last. As he notes:
A deep ambivalence towards Israel has infected the Democratic Party.
That would be putting it mildly in respect to the Dems' left-wing base, which enthusiastically sides with the Palestinian terrorists devoted to destroying Israel by whatever means, no matter how despicable. Rosenblum cites a recent American poll:
Though the Democratic Party is the political home of the vast majority of American Jews, 54 percent of Democrats advocate that the United States adopt a more neutral — i.e., less pro-Israel — stance to the Middle East, as opposed to only 29 percent of Republicans.
Rosenblum shares Ettinger's concern about a pro-UN Congress, noting that Hanoi John Kerry continually attacked John Bolton for making America the odd man out at the UN, outside the consensus of our alleged "allies":
One shudders to think where Israel would be if the United States ceased to be the "odd-man-out" at the U.N. Recall that six of those so-called European allies, including France, voted in favor of a resolution of the U.N. Human Rights Commission specifically legitimizing terrorism against Israeli citizens to further Palestinian liberation.
"Palestinian liberation" means "Jewish elimination." Yet for reasons beyond my comprehension, most American Jews will probably continue to support the Democratic Party, even though the favor will not be returned.
Being at the front line in expansionist Islam's terrorist war against modern civilization, Israel will be the first to be affected if we put fools in charge who will cause us to lose. But it won't be the last.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:57 AM | Comments (3)
October 26, 2006
Beeb's Man Among the Taliban Goes Native
Considering that it's publicly funded, you would think the BBC would be just a little more subtle about its coziness with Britain's enemies, including Taliban combatants committed to killing British troops.
The BBC's David Loyn has had exclusive access to Taleban forces mobilised against the British army in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
"There is no army on earth as mobile as the Taleban," gushes Loyn in a puff piece devoted to lionizing the goons who provided a base of operations for launching 9/11. "They have surprised the British by the ferocity of their fighting and their willingness to take casualties."
Eager to provide pro-Islamist spin, Loyn offers this analysis:
The failure of aid policies to make a difference in southern Afghanistan and increasing corruption in the government and the national army, are spreading the power base of the Taleban.
As for the British, all they are good for is blowing up peasants' hovels, killing young girls, and demolishing mosques. But they were defeated by Afghans before (in the 19th Century), and all correctly thinking people yearn to see it happen again.
Our Islamist enemies could have paid the BBC a fortune for the type of propaganda Loyn is churning out for them and it would have been worth every penny. But it's British taxpayers who pick up the check.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:58 PM | Comments (3)
Muslims Attack More French Buses
The ongoing Muslim conquest continues to make France an unpleasant place to take public transportation. Last night "youths" (politically correctese for "Muslim hooligans") in suburban Paris forced passengers off three more buses, which they subsequently set on fire.
Bus drivers are refusing to enter parts of what used to be their own country after dark. Nighttime service has already been suspended in the Essonne region due to attacks that included a tear gas bomb. Talks have been scheduled to discuss what other service will have to be curtailed as a dying France curls into itself.
One of last night's forays hit the Nanterre bus line, which passes near Paris' financial district and was not thought to be at risk of attack. The "youths" have graduated from stones and crowbars to handguns.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin gibbers harmlessly about swift and stern responses that will never come about. "We cannot accept the unacceptable," he declared. But they already have.
AP gives the official moonbat explanation for the violence:
anger over entrenched discrimination against immigrants and their French-born children, many of them Muslims from former French colonies in Africa.
Imagine the discrimination this fifth column would face in any country that hadn't come to accept its own demise.
Posted by Van Helsing at 4:22 PM | Comments (1)
Like a Bad Penny, Roseanne Is Back
Just in time for Halloween, we learn that Roseanne Barr has crawled out from under her rock. You may remember her as the particularly obnoxious sitcom star who for some reason was asked to sing the national anthem at a San Diego Padres game and took the opportunity to hold it up to ridicule — spitting, grabbing at her crotch, and screeching instead of singing.
She lay low for some time after that disgraceful performance, the public having been fed to the teeth with her. Unfortunately, spittle-spewing, self-consciously "working class" moonbattery could be coming back into fashion. Barr's admitted problem with mental illness is not the impediment it once was.
Having undergone gastric bypass surgery, Barr has lost a few pounds, but none of her obnoxiousness or moonbattery. She explains the public's anger over her deliberate butchering of the Star-Spangled Banner this way:
I was too hip for the room, I think.
Her comeback HBO comedy special has her singing her own version of "My Way," which includes the lines:
And as the baseball fans all watched, butchered that song and grabbed my crotch. Yes, I was loud, but I was proud, and did it my way.
Other recent Roseanne activities include working on the moonbat video blog "Seven Days at Minimum Wage," which she hosts with the AFL-CIO and still harder-left ACORN. A couple of years ago, she went on a college tour with Michael Moore, which she says "reignited" her passion for political humor.
It's probably safe to give the HBO show a miss.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:42 PM | Comments (6)
Gay Shame: At the Cutting Edge of Moonbattery
As noted previously, a group calling itself Gay Shame has been putting up wanted posters to intimidate a San Francisco architect, whom they resent for trying to clean up the Tenderloin district by planting trees. The report offered merely a glimpse into this cult's apparently limitless moonbattery. Venturing deeper into their moonbat cave will leave visitors scarred, but with new insight into progressive thought.
You might be surprised to learn that Gay Shame is opposed to gay marriage. This is because its members oppose marriage in any form. They have their reasons — like this one:
[M]arriage is the central institution of that misogynist, racist system of domination and oppression known as heterosexuality.
They also point out that "being queer" ought to be "an automatic challenge to the disgusting, oppressive, patriarchal institution of holy matrimony." Surprisingly, gay marriage plays right into the hands of Republicans:
The vision of the future the republicans and the gay marriage movement has offered will render most of us already in the margins of the picture (trans-people, sex workers, queers of color, HIV positive people, non-monogamous people etc) as the new enemy of the régime of married normalcy they hope to usher in.
Gay Shame is against trees and marriage, but there are things they support, including public sex in all bars:
We will not accept a crackdown on public sex, which is always a cover-up for a crackdown on queer visibility.
A favorite Gay Shame activity is defacing public sidewalks by stenciling slogans that reflect their "core values." These include:
- End Marriage
- End Prisons
- All Property Is Valueless
One of their slogans attacking even "DIY" forms of commerce as promoting the hated process of "gentrification" appeared directly in front of the moonbat-friendly Modern Times bookstore, which could barely make its rent and was providing them with free meeting space. The stencil was accompanied by a picture suggesting that such businesses should be burned down:
When the store owners threatened to revoke the free meeting space, Gay Shame removed the stencil.
Like the Dead Kennedys, Game Shame has produced its own candidate for Mayor of San Francisco. Her name is Mary. Here's her platform:
All members of the SFPD and any other law enforcement agency will be used as nutritious compost to fertilize Golden Gate Park.
Mary supports terrorism in all its forms…as long as the right people get hurt!!
This city will be run by homeless hookers and tweaker thieves, not willie brown and his army of lying bureaucrats.
Last year over 169 homeless people dies on the streets of San Francisco. This year 16,900 rich fascist politicians will take their places.
Proposition XXX: All politicians who aggressively panhandle to the rich will be forced to remove the radioactive waste from beneath the Hunter's Point Naval Ship Yard with their bare hands in the nude.
Unemployed activists will be given productive employment throwing rocks and boulders through the windows of all live-work loft-style condominiums until all loft owners are forced to take shelter in the bay.
Pacific Heights will be converted into a squatted village. 2870 Pacific Ave, the former residence of [SF Mayor] Gavin and Kimberly Newsom will be turned into a 24 hour no hold barred ecstatic queer orgy space. Unfortunately, the Newsom's will not be allowed to attend.
Gavin will be placed in a glass box with his eyelids kept open, where someone will ask him over and over again, until eternity, "Do you have any spare change". After each request, he will be required to reach into his pocket and hand over a $100 bill.
This militaristic display of Fleet Week will be ceased and instead, all of the Blue Angels will be flown into the sides of large buildings downtown.
Mary uncompromisingly supports the metric system.
The trans-America pyramid downtown will become the national center for trans-liberation.
A new marriage/domestic partnership tax will be levied. The funds will go towards providing universally available sex reassignment surgery.
All animals in the zoo will be set free and they will reclaim their instinctual desire to be herbivorous [presumably including carnivorous animals that cannot digest anything except meat].
All members of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association will be forced to convert their restaurants to free soup kitchens.
Graffiti will be promoted and funded in all its forms by the Hotel Council in order to cover up all unsightly advertising.
Only her fellow San Franciscans could make potential Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi look like a moderate.
To give an idea of what progressives are progressing toward, here are a few pictures of the Gay Shame people participating in their various activities:
Hat tip: Grade-One Gadfly
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:28 AM | Comments (10)
Congressional Candidate Runs on "Injun Time"
Okay, so Harold Ford Sr. didn't really call pro-life activists "crackers." But here's another one: Congressional candidate Steve Kagen (D-WI) felt compelled to beg for forgiveness after being recorded using the expression "we're on Injun time" to explain why he was late for a meeting on an Indian reservation.
Probably kneeling in supplication, Kagen bleated:
I did not mean any harm by my words, and I humbly apologize if I offended anyone.
But Christine Mangi, communications director for Kagen's Republican opponent John Gard, was not mollified:
You shouldn't hear remarks like this from people running for Congress. They should be held to a higher standard.
As for the Injuns themselves, Bobbi Webster, a spokesman for the Oneida Nation, said no apology is necessary because no one (except Mangi) was offended by the expression.
Tribal members say that themselves. It is not uncommon to hear somebody come in late and say, "Oh-Oh. I am running on Indian time." [...] We were laughing about all the calls we got today in regard to the Indian time comment and we said, "My God, aren't they interested in what the issues are all about?"
Good question. Some advice for Republican candidates: leave the hypersensitive grievance-mongering to Democrats.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:16 AM | Comments (1)
October 25, 2006
Anything Goes on YouTube
Well, almost anything. A Michelle Malkin video inspired by the Cartoon Intifada was apparently too hot to handle; it consisted of a slideshow featuring victims of Islamic violence. Also, this video spoofing Democratic foreign policy by David Zucker of "Airplane" and "Naked Gun" fame went a little too far and was stuck with a warning label:
But now that Google has bought YouTube, anti-conservative censorship will surely be a thing of the past.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:42 PM | Comments (1)
Song So Wrong
The thanks we get for sacrificing 33,741 American lives in battle to rescue South Korea from the starvation and slavery that North Korea would have imposed on it without our intervention can be summed up in recent remarks by Song Min-Soon, South Korea's chief presidential secretary for security:
The US has probably been involved in the largest number of wars in the history of mankind. If we leave our fate in the hands of the US just for the sake of falling in step with the international community, it would amount to giving up our own destiny.
The remarks come in the context of attempts to get South Korea to go along with sanctions intended to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Song is likely to become Foreign Minister when that post is vacated by Ban Ki-Moon, who in return is replacing the UN's moonbat-in-chief Kofi Annan.
Maybe Song is right: Americans ought to be less warlike. Maybe next time the communist dictatorship invades from the north, we ought to allow the UN to handle it without our assistance. It might help reduce carbon emissions to just let the whole Korean peninsula go dark:
Hat tip: Silent Running
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:03 PM
Dems Finally Find Appropriate Mouthpieces
It gets harder and harder for Dems to hit new lows in their political ads — yet they keep managing. Here they teach little kids to spew moonbattery:
They may be onto something. Liberal talking points do sound less absurd coming from small children.
Hat tip: Ankle Biting Pundits
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:33 PM
Trackers Not Crackers
How disappointing: Harold Ford Sr. called pro-life activists "trackers," not "crackers." For a minute there I thought some real substance was going to be injected into the political debate, just in time for the election.
Maybe it will also be revealed that George Allen said "muchacha," not "macaca." Or maybe we should just drop all the nonsense of who was insensitive to whom and start thinking about 1 billion Muslims — because they're thinking about us.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:21 PM
Survey of Muslims in America Finds Paranoia and Hostility
Just how paranoid, anti-American, and divorced from reality are Muslims in America? A survey conducted at the Islamic Society of North America's 43rd Annual Convention last month gives an idea.
The survey included 307 Muslims who were American citizens. A few highlights:
Do you consider yourself to be a Muslim first, an American first, or both equally?
MUSLIM FIRST 214
AMERICAN FIRST 4
BOTH EQUALLY 86
UNDECIDED 3Is the American government at war with the religion of Islam?
YES 208
NO 79
UNDECIDED 20Did Muslims hijack planes and fly them into buildings on 9/11?
YES 117
NO 139
UNDECIDED 51Did the U.S. government have advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and allow the attacks to occur?
YES 200
NO 70
UNDECIDED 37The British government says it stopped a plot by British Muslims in August 2006 to bomb planes flying to America. Do you believe there was a real plot by Muslims?
YES 66
NO 191
UNDECIDED 50Should Iran develop nuclear weapons?
YES 161
NO 123
UNDECIDED 23Was America justified in invading Afghanistan after 9/11?
YES 51
NO 248
UNDECIDED 8Is violence by Muslims against the American military in the U.S. acceptable, in retaliation for the American government's actions in the Muslim world?
YES 73
NO 211
UNDECIDED 23Is violence by Muslims against American government officials acceptable, in retaliation for the American government's actions in the Muslim world?
YES 51
NO 231
UNDECIDED 25
Talk about a fifth column. Those who believe in attacking the American military within the USA and assassinating our government officials may be minorities, but they are sufficiently sizable minorities to have us asking ourselves how many more of these folks we want to let into the country.
Hat tip: LGF
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:26 PM
Mad Howie, Tongue-Tied and Yellow-Bellied
Apparently DNC Chairman Howard Dean is no more capable of explaining away his fear of RNC counterpart Ken Mehlman than he is of pronouncing the phrase "gladiatorial contest."
Too bad W doesn't trip over his tongue this badly. The networks would have a lead story for the evening news for the rest of the week.
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:21 PM
Response Ad to Michael J. Fox's Missouri Moonbattery
Michael J. Fox's recent exploitation of his disease to advance the progressive campaign to further dehumanize unborn babies marked a new low in political advertising. In case you haven't seen it:
It's probably no accident that Fox's Parkinson's seems especially bad in the commercial. Here he is in his own words admitting that he will stop taking his meds in order to worsen his condition so as to pull heartstrings:
I had made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling.
As Rush Limbaugh points out, this isn't the first time Democrats have politicized disease. John Edwards famously promised that Christopher Reeve would walk again, if only voters would elect John Kerry. But Missouri's Amendment 2 battle is particularly disturbing because under cover of confusing verbiage it would establish human cloning as a constitutional right.
There is no evidence that any miracle cures are in the wings if only Jim Talent, who opposes Amendment 2, could be removed from office. The objective — beyond replacing Talent with Democrat Claire McCaskill in the Senate — is to push aside any morality regarding the sanctity of human life.
Stem cell research is not really the issue; it is already legal in Missouri, and Talent is not trying to change that. The issue is raising unborn humans in Petri dishes for purposes of harvesting their cells, like something out of a horror movie. The motivation is not so much to cure disease, as to establish that human life has no inherent value, thus defending the liberal sacrament, abortion.
Amendment 2 opponents have a response on the air, featuring Jeff Suppan, who will be pitching for the Cardinals in the World Series tonight:
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:38 AM | Comments (17)
October 24, 2006
Newsweek Eats Crow on Its Ice Age Prediction
Newsweek has now acknowledged that in 1975, when it screeched wildly about "ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically," it was referring to global cooling, which has since gone the way of the white polyester leisure suit.
Unsurprisingly, it was human pollutants that threatened to plunge the planet into icy ruin. The reason the gloomy predictions didn't come about, we are asked to believe, is that clear-air laws — no doubt inspired by Newsweek's civic-minded journalism — reduced the aerosols that were supposedly reflecting sunlight back into outer space.
Being in step with other doctrinaire liberals, the folks at Newsweek now say we're all doomed because of human-caused global warming. They know it's true because of the "widespread consensus" among likeminded scientists.
But this time, if Newsweek turns out to be wrong as usual, it can fall back on a third scenario for the planet's manmade demise:
... a small increase in air temperature could cause more snow to fall in places like northern Greenland, where the ground is often bare. (Extremely cold air doesn't hold enough moisture for a good snowfall.) Increased snow cover, by reflecting more sunlight back into space, could trigger a return of the glaciers to North America.
In other words, if the ice age shows up after all, it's still because humans caused global warming. Since climate always fluctuates, the temperature is bound to go either up or down; either way, Newsweek has its bets covered, and won't have to eat any more crow.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:44 PM | Comments (2)
The Knight Arrives in His Shining Prius
Al Gore was in Berserkly yesterday, where he presumably found a sympathetic audience for his global warming tirades. He came to lend his support to California's Prop 87, which has been propped up by progressive Hollyweird zillionaire Stephen Bing. It would cure global warming by — how else? — raising taxes.
Here's how Prince Albert made his entrance:
"I'm here to change peoples' minds on the climate crisis and to support Prop 87," Gore called to a group of reporters after he emerged from the "100 miles per gallon" Toyota Prius that brought him to a noontime rally in a sun-drenched park behind Berkeley's City Hall.
His motorcade also included three motorcycles, two limousines and a Dodge Ram 1500 light duty truck.
Maybe the truck is how the Pious Prius got there.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:52 AM | Comments (4)
Sheriff Joe Teaches Inmates English
There are many things to love about Phoenix, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio is near the top of the list. His latest outrage against the sensibilities of moonbats: mandatory English classes for inmates.
Spanish is spoken by quite a few inmates of Maricopa County jails, often because they are illegal aliens from Mexico. But as Sheriff Joe says:
These inmates happen to be incarcerated in the United States of America and in Maricopa County where I run the jails. And we speak English here, not foreign languages.
Sure to outrage ACLU types is the requirement that inmates learn God Bless America in English.
If only Arpaio would run for governor — or president.
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:32 AM | Comments (8)
Moonbats Who Don't Like Trees
Carolyn Abst, owner of a San Francisco architecture firm, had thought her neighbors would appreciate her attempts to revitalize and bring jobs to the cesspool known as the Tenderloin district. She was wrong.
One of her plans involves paying young derelicts to plant trees in an area that can use any beautification it can get. Locals were outraged. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka "Mary Hedgefunds" — a drag-queen and former prostitute who is a member of the activist group Gay Shame — sputters that homeless "youths" (i.e., runaways and budding young hobos) should not be asked to do "grunt work" like planting trees, because "It's exploitation."
The Tenderloin is populated largely by bums, pimps, drug addicts, transvestites, and prostitutes. Folks like Sycamore aim to keep it that way, and fear that any attempt to clean the place up might attract despised normal people like Carolyn Abst and distract from the more important issues of meeting the needs of prostitutes and providing subsidized housing to lowlife degenerates who don't want to be "exploited" by working.
Sickamore doesn't live in the Tenderloin anymore, but that doesn't stop him from righteously campaigning to prevent others from making it livable. Fighting at his side is a retired stripper who claims her real name is Daisy Anarchy. Head of Sex Workers Organized for Labor and Civil Rights, Ms. Anarchy specializes in disrupting neighborhood meetings aimed at improving the area. "I'm giving voice to the voiceless," she screams.
Their campaign has entailed posting wanted posters aimed at intimidating Abst, like this one:
Past generations built this country by clearing forest and draining swamps. Now it's mainly just draining swamps — unpleasant work, but someone's got to do it.
On a tip from Varla.
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:09 AM | Comments (2)
NYC Transvestites Win Keys to the Ladies' Room
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund triumphantly announced yesterday that New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has agreed to let polysexual riders use MTA restrooms "consistent with their gender expression" — in other words, men who are sufficiently weird have a legal right to use the ladies' room.
The agreement results from a suit filed on behalf of 70-year-old telephone repairman, I mean repairwoman, I mean repairperson Helena Stone, nee Henry McGuinness.
Announces a proud Ms. Stone:
I'm a 24-hour woman. I just feel like a woman and I like to wear women's clothes.
The 24-hour woman had been arrested for relieving himself in the ladies' room at Grand Central.
In addition to the right to tinkle where he pleases, Stone won a $2,000 payment for legal fees. MTA employees will be forced to undergo mandatory transgender sensitivity training.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:37 AM | Comments (2)
New Moonbat Radio Network: Nova M Radio
The ink is still wet on Air America's bankruptcy papers and already moonbats have announced a new liberal talk radio network, Nova M Radio.
Err Un-American cofounders Anita and Sheldon Drobny are behind the new venture, which is appropriately scheduled to make its first broadcast on October 30, known to some as Devil's Night. The network will feature shows hosted by Mike Malloy and Peter Collins, and a "nonpartisan" program by liberal pollster John Zogby. Deaniac Joe Trippi is lurking behind the scenes.
Displaying the same market savvy that led to Air America's collapse, they are basing the network in Joe Arpaio country. The folks at the mighty KFYI probably aren't losing much sleep. In addition to Phoenix's KPHX, it will run on KDXE in Little Rock, also hardly a hotbed of progressive moonbattery — although Little Rock did manage to produce Bill Clinton.
According to a Houston Chronicle report, the Drobnys "believed in the business model of liberal talk radio and wanted it to continue to grow." I think they meant, "wanted it to start to grow."
Maybe progressives should concentrate on winning control of Congress, so they can bring back the Orwellian "Fairness Doctrine" and force us to listen to them. As Air America proved, liberalism just doesn't work without coercion.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:54 AM
Multicultural Tolerance
Via Knowledge Is Power, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:54 AM
October 23, 2006
Peace Activist Gets Wrist Slap For Beating Singer Into Coma
Peacenik/thug Christiaan Briggs, who served as a human shield for Saddam Hussein and who beat rising pop star Billy Leeson into a coma after behaving rudely toward his girlfriend on a bus, has received an 8-month wrist slap for destroying a life with his antisocial behavior.
Leeson, who lay already comatose as Briggs walked away smirking, is lucky to be alive. He has required a tracheotomy, three brain operations, and 100 stitches in his head. Surgeons removed a large piece of his skull to lighten the pressure on his brain. His promising future with the ska band Les Incompetents is history. He is still in a lot of pain and has at least one more brain operation to look forward to.
Astoundingly, Judge Peter Birts decided that Briggs had been punished enough by his own guilty conscience, and seemed to regret having to give him any jail time at all. Here's what he had to say to Briggs at sentencing:
You are a serious, intelligent, hard-working and utterly decent young man of talent and ability and you will undoubtedly bear a heavy burden of guilt and sorrow about what you have done.
Apparently Briggs is the victim, not Leeson, because Leeson might conceivably recover one day, whereas Briggs will be gnawed at by guilt forever. Theoretically.
Maybe we ought to do away with courts altogether, and just count on criminals to feel guilty after they commit their crimes. That way leftist lawyer Lynne Stewart wouldn't have to serve her token 28 months for helping a major Islamic terror master conduct his operations from behind bars.
Meanwhile Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean face more than a decade apiece for trying to do their job.
Moonbattery has replaced justice on both sides of the Atlantic.
Hat tip: Are We Lumberjacks?
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:33 PM | Comments (1)
Michigan Judge Says No to Niqabs
Hats off to Hamtramck Judge Paul Paruk, who refused to let multicultural moonbattery turn his courtroom into the Gong Show. When Ginnnah [sic] Muhammad, an American who converted to Islam at age 10, refused to take off her niqab in his small claims court, Paruk tossed out her case.
The Honorable Judge Paruk explained:
My job in the courtroom is to make a determination as to the veracity of somebody's claim. Part of that, you need to identify the witness and you need to look at the witness and watch how they testify.
When Muslims aren't bellowing death threats, they are usually whining. Here's Ms. Muhammad:
I just feel so sad. I feel that the court is there for justice for us. I didn't feel like the court recognized me as a person that needed justice. I just feel I can't trust the court.
Dawud Walid, of the Islamic version of the ACLU, the terrorist front group CAIR, whimpered that the judge violated Ginnnnnnah's I mean Ginnnah's civil rights because
Although a niqab is donned by a minority of Muslim females, it is still a bona fide religious practice.
Typically, his sniveling took on a vaguely threatening tone:
There definitely needs to be greater sensitivity toward the growing populace in that municipality.
Hamtramck, like much of the Detroit area, has an ominously swelling Muslim population.
On a tip from The Right Reverend Rabbi Judah.
Posted by Van Helsing at 5:03 PM | Comments (8)
American Diplomat Apologizes For Calling US Policy Arrogant and Stupid
Senior US diplomat Alberto Fernandez has apologized for going on al-Jazeera to accuse American policy in Iraq of "arrogance and stupidity." He asserts that he "misspoke," and that what he said "represents neither my views nor those of the State Department." Yet somehow it came out of his mouth — and for the sake of a media outlet that famously specializes in inflaming Muslims against America and undermining American interests in any way possible.
Maybe Fernandez didn't realize that his remarks would get translated out of the fluent Arabic he used to serve them up for al-Jazz. Or maybe he is just so used to breathing Foggy Bottom's atmosphere of pure moonbattery, he didn't realize that what he was saying, in the venue he said it, bordered on treasonous.
Here's a foreign policy initiative guaranteed to improve our standing in the world: fire the entire State Department immediately and repopulate it with people willing to take their own country's side.
Hat tip: Clarity & Resolve
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:51 PM | Comments (2)
London Pro-Terror Rally
The harmonic convergence between terror-supporting Muslims and fellow-traveling progressives manifested itself in Londonistan yesterday at an Al-Quds Day rally. Al-Quds is what Muslims call Jerusalem, a city they plan to take over when they're finished with London. Publicansdecoy has a first-hand report, complete with photos:
Here's some video, via Drunken Blogging:
One day we will look back and say, with just a little bit of napalm...
Hat tip: LGF
Posted by Van Helsing at 12:00 PM | Comments (4)
More Reasons to Vote Republican
Reader Larry B makes his case:
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:14 AM | Comments (8)
Court-Imposed Muslim Brainwashing in Chicago
The least the politically correct dhimmis at the Chicago Tribune could do is include air sickness bags with their paper, if they are going to subject readers to pieces like this one telling the story of David Huffman, a young man who had to be reprogrammed after he rudely tapped a Muslim on the head.
Tapping the woman on the head was part of some harmless prank. Supposedly, it nearly dislodged her hijab. Rather than accepting his apology, she called the police and pressed battery charges.
Wondered Huffman:
I understood immediately after I did it [that he shouldn't have tapped her on the head]. But even after I apologized, she was still so angry. I didn't understand that.
But it's not that hard to grasp once you realize that incessant Muslim anger is deliberately contrived to force us to apologize, because our apologetic stance gives them the upper hand. The more we apologize, the more angry they get, because they see that their anger is working.
Though Huffman pleaded guilty, the Cook County circuit judge wouldn't settle for a fine or jail time. He forced Huffman to undergo "sensitivity training" at the Chicago office of the terrorist front group Council on American-Islamic Relations.
There Huffman spent 40 hours learning, on our government's command, why he must honor a religion devoted to our destruction. He was forced to hang out at mosques, watch Muslims play basketball, listen to speeches about tolerance from devotees of the least tolerant ideology mankind has yet devised, make a PowerPoint presentation about how nice Islam is, etc.
The brainwashing apparently worked, to some extent. The Trib smugly reports that Huffman learned to be a more multicultural kind of guy, who took off his baseball hat during Muslim prayers "as if the national anthem had begun."
On a tip from Kevin.
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:18 AM | Comments (4)
Muslims Declare Open Season on French Police
The violent phase of the Muslim conquest of Western Europe is well underway in France. The police there face a "permanent intifada" that grows every year. There were 3,842 attacks on French police officers in 2004, 4,246 in 2005, and 2,458 in only the first 6 months of 2006. Muslims also attack firefighters and rescue workers, often after luring them to a scene by setting fires.
Yesterday 30 "youths" (the sympathetic MSM's euphemism for "Muslim thugs") took over a bus in broad daylight in a Paris suburb. They forced the passengers out, set the bus on fire, then stoned the firefighters who came to put it out.
To AP's horror, some mainstream politicians are "adopting positions previously confined largely to far-right fringes" by "suggesting that the minorities themselves are not doing enough to adapt to European mores." Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of "echoing... the extreme-right National Front" for saying that those who do not love France do not have to stay.
Shockingly AP, like the rest of the MSM, actually sides with the barbarians who are openly tearing down French civilization, using euphemisms and spin to distract people from what is going on, and trotting out lame liberal excuses for Muslim behavior, for example:
Minority youths have long complained that police are more heavy-handed in their dealings with them than with whites, demanding their papers and frisking them for no apparent reason. Such perceived ill-treatment fuels feelings of injustice, as do the difficulties that many youths from immigrant families have finding work.
Almost enough to make you weep for the poor jihadists setting buses on fire and throwing rocks at firemen, isn't it?
But even if it's crystal clear whose side AP et al. are on, the decline and fall of European Civilization is too big a story for them to bury completely. Though they discredit his union as "small," they at least quote Michel Thooris of Action Police:
Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of "Allah Akbar" (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned.
Other unions toe the politically correct line of absurdly pretending that the French Intifada has nothing to do with Islam. But even they admit that France is at war. Says police union official Loic Lecouplier:
First, it was a rock here or there. Then it was rocks by the dozen. Now, they're leading operations of an almost military sort to trap us. These are acts of war.
There have been at least four gang beatings of police in Paris suburbs since September 19. According to Fred Lagache of the Alliance police union:
We are getting the impression these youths want a "remake" of what happened last year. The youths are trying to cause a police error to justify chaos.
Given that the media is squarely on the Muslims' side, this shouldn't be hard to accomplish; all that's needed is for France to fight back.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 7:22 AM | Comments (3)
Al-Jazeera Joins CNN in Airing Terrorist Snuff Movies
Fittingly, al-Jazeera is airing more of the Islamic Army videos of Americans being shot by terrorist snipers that CNN broadcast in order to show us all what they call the "unvarnished truth."
Al-Jazeera is widely acknowledged to be a participant in the Islamic terrorist movement, providing al-Qaeda and similar groups with a crucial means of distributing their propaganda. It was rumored that Bush planned to bomb al-Jazz as part of the War on Terror. CNN serves an identical role, airing what Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA) calls "terrorist snuff" films apparently provided by the very same terrorists.
If it was once a figure of speech to refer to CNN as "the enemy," it isn't anymore.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:25 AM | Comments (1)
October 22, 2006
Beebsters Admit They Are Moonbats
A leaked account of a secret "impartiality summit" called by BBC chairman Michael Grade reveals just how far gone that odious institution has let itself sink into the repugnant depths of moonbattery. BBC execs and star presenters willingly admitted that the BBC is, in the words of the Daily Mail, "dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.... by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities [i.e., Muslims]."
According to one veteran BBC exec:
There was widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness. Unfortunately, m