Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
01/04/2011 18:44 Comments ||
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ION US DECLINE ...
To wit,
* WAFF > [ALterNet] > WE'RE BOOKED FOR A MAJOR BATTLE WITH THE TEA PARTY OVER THE US CONSTITUTION ITSELF.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [BusinessInsider]TEN US STATES THAT GET MURDERED IFF CHINA SLOWS DOWN ITS EXPORTS.
* SAME > [The Trumpet]AMERICA'S PENSIONLESS FUTURE. US Town of Pritchard, AL = San Diego, CA, ETAL. = FUTURE OF THE USA???
ARTIC = Despite knowing or recognizing its per illegality, the local Govt. of Pritchard, AL refuses to send out pension checks because said checks have no $$$ behind them [aka
"intentional" PENSION, CHECK, ETC. FRAUD BY PUBLIC-GOVT AUTHORITY]???
* SAME > [09/2010] THERE ARE ENOUGH VACANT PROPERTIES IN CHINA TO HOUSE OVER ONE-HALF OF AMERICA [200.0MIlyuhn-plus in US, but only 15% of Chin's 1.3Bilyuhn Population].
At the end of last year I reflected here at Pajamas Media that 2009 represented a tipping point for domestic terror. Grimly, that assessment has borne out recall the terror attacks aimed at New York Citys Times Square and Portlands Pioneer Courthouse Square, the Baltimore recruiting station bomber, and the virtual host of homegrown terror arrests racked up this year.
Domestic terror attempts, at any rate. Our guys have done yeoman's work to prevent a successful attack here at home. Thank you, invisible ones!
While the domestic terror trend has continued unabated, elements of pre-violent, or rather stealth, jihad are taking firm root in our government, military, judicial, and educational institutions, without the slightest opposition from the Obama administration and our homeland security agencies. In fact, if weve seen anything this year, it has been the willingness of government officials to lend their support to aid this stealth jihad.
The failure to recognize the civilizational jihad being waged against us is a bipartisan problem. Driven mainly by Muslim Brotherhood front groups [eg CAIR, ISNA, university MSAa] and pushed by non-violent Islamist organizations in the West, the threat remains badly underrated by our national security establishment. But it was placed front and center by the report titled Shariah: The Threat to America, issued by the Team B II panel of national security experts including former CIA Director Jim Woolsey and former DIA Director Lt. Gen. Ed Soyster.
This past year we have had an onslaught of examples demonstrating how far the stealth jihad outlined by Team B II has advanced:
A long list of stories at the link, some of which were reported here at Rantburg at the time, others of which are even more distressing.
Patrick Poole is a regular contributor to Pajamas Media, and an anti-terrorism consultant to law enforcement and the military.
At the end of last year I reflected here at Pajamas Media that 2009 represented a tipping point for domestic terror. Grimly, that assessment has borne out recall the terror attacks aimed at New York Citys Times Square and Portlands Pioneer Courthouse Square, the Baltimore recruiting station bomber, and the virtual host of homegrown terror arrests racked up this year.
Domestic terror attempts, at any rate. Our guys have done yeoman's work to prevent a successful attack here at home. Thank you, invisible ones!
While the domestic terror trend has continued unabated, elements of pre-violent, or rather stealth, jihad are taking firm root in our government, military, judicial, and educational institutions, without the slightest opposition from the Obama administration and our homeland security agencies. In fact, if weve seen anything this year, it has been the willingness of government officials to lend their support to aid this stealth jihad.
The failure to recognize the civilizational jihad being waged against us is a bipartisan problem. Driven mainly by Muslim Brotherhood front groups [eg CAIR, ISNA, university MSAa] and pushed by non-violent Islamist organizations in the West, the threat remains badly underrated by our national security establishment. But it was placed front and center by the report titled Shariah: The Threat to America, issued by the Team B II panel of national security experts including former CIA Director Jim Woolsey and former DIA Director Lt. Gen. Ed Soyster.
This past year we have had an onslaught of examples demonstrating how far the stealth jihad outlined by Team B II has advanced:
A long list of stories at the link, some of which were reported here at Rantburg at the time, others of which are even more distressing.
Patrick Poole is a regular contributor to Pajamas Media, and an anti-terrorism consultant to law enforcement and the military.
The news of Abu Rahmah's death has highlighted a new alliance emerging between a small number of Israeli leftists and Palestinians engaged in unarmed mass protest action. Scores of Israeli activists had actually joined Friday's demonstration, and they challenged the IDF claim that tear gas was fired only after stones were thrown by protesters. The news that Abu Rahmah had died brought hundreds of Israeli Jews to a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night outside Israel's Defense Ministry, where a handful were arrested.
The self-described leftists and anarchists engaged in direct action in concert with unarmed Palestinian protests are a negligible presence on an Israeli political spectrum whose median has moved steadily to the right over the past decade.
But their actions may be directed less at the Israeli political mainstream than at international civil society.
The Israeli protesters often use English rather than Hebrew in placards and slogans, and explicitly connect Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories with South Africa's apartheid system. That's intended as a signal to international civil society, which helped end the apartheid regime through its support for boycotts and economic sanctions in the 1980s.
Joseph Dana, an Israeli activist and the media coordinator for the Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, says these Israeli leftists are "seeking to use the privileged access their voice carries in North America and Europe to add power to the voice of the Palestinians they struggle alongside, sidestepping engagement with [an Israeli] society that is unwilling to listen."
As much as it irks Israel's liberal supporters in the West, the apartheid comparison with Israel's occupation is being drawn more and more frequently, even by current Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak (leader of the Labor Party).
Barak, of course, was using it to warn his countrymen of the danger of failing to achieve a two-state solution, which leaves Palestinians effectively ruled by a state that denies them citizenship. But its function for Tel Aviv leftists is to spur the international community to action - hoping that the fact that it comes from Jewish Israelis will counter any hesitation based on sensitivity to charges of anti-Semitism in the West.
And the Knesset is currently considering legislation, likely to pass, that would make it a criminal offense for Israelis to call for international sanctions or boycotts of their state. This is a typical pattern among leftists. Radicals openly work against their country, even fight against it, and openly conspire with their nation's enemies; while at the same time, they are given cover by the more "mainstream" leftists, who use their political power to protect and defend the radicals. Think "International ANSWER" and the Democrat party.
For comic book fans, it's the irony to end all ironies: Superman, created by two Jewish artists and rife with Jewish themes and imagery, is hooking up with a band of Muslim superheroes to pursue truth, justice, and the Muslim way which would presumably include putting an end to the existence of Israel, a basic religious tenet of jihadi Islam. But as a member of the Justice League of America and the property of DC Comics, Superman apparently has little say in the matter, and he, along with Batman, Aquaman, and other JLA members, will be featured in the adventures of a group called The 99. Already a popular print product in the Gulf states, "The 99" is coming to the U.S., and has even been developed into a TV series for new U.S. kids' cable network, The Hub.
"The 99" is the brainchild of Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, founder and C.E.O. of Kuwait's Teshkeel Media Group. The 99 consists of 99 teenagers from around the world, each of whom bears an Arabic name from the Koran that reflects one of the 99 attributes of Allah, as recorded in the Koran. The comic itself first appeared in 2006 in Arabic, and an English language version was produced for the U.S. a year later (nearly 30 issues have been released in the U.S. already). A movie has been rumored, and last year a theme park one of several planned based on the The 99's characters opened in Kuwait.
#1
Hah hah, your attributes of allen have been bastardized, compartmentalized, and sold as product to be capitalized.
Think about that, pictures of parts of allen together is a picture of allen. And a theme park. And a comic book. Not in arabic. Friends with Sea Man. Its like an islamic Captain Planet.
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"They" have something very original and very islamic:
They saw off necks with butter knives in record
slow motion.
Iraqis bobbed:
http://www.nomullas.com/2iraqiworkerbeheaded.wmv
Turks bobbed:
http://www.nomullas.com/2turksbeheaded.wma
Bulgars bobbed:
http://www.nomullas.com/bulgarianbeheadingvideo.wmv
American soldiers ground to a pulp:
http://www.nomullas.com/beatingthebodies.wmv
Russian child soldier crying to his mummy,
bashed in the head then said head sliced slowly off:
http://www.nomullas.com/russiansoldierheadbashedandbeheaded.wmv
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Once the home of the brave, America is becoming the home of the risk-averse and the pain-avoiders.
I have been privileged to work with a great many young people in uniform who were and remain anything but "risk-averse." Some of them risked it all and gave their lives so we might remain free.
National sports were cancelled during WWII for obvious good reasons. The National Felon League (NFL) and the NBA should have been disbanded when the GWOT kicked off, perhaps before that. I watch neither of them, their big money, bling, and drug lifestyles make me sick! Just my humble opinion.
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Major league baseball, the minor leagues, and the Negro league all continued to play during WWII, though many players either volunteered or were drafted for the war effort.
The NFL continued to play, though their players too were drafted or volunteered.
The military academies accelerated their training to graduate cadets and midshipmen more quickly, but their sports programs continued. I didn't look up what happened to major college sports but I think at least some of that continued.
Posted by: Steve White ||
01/04/2011 14:55 Comments ||
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Not only a women's baseball league (see the film "A League of Their Own") but White Sox games in Comiskey Park beginning at 8 in the morning for workers coming off the graveyard shift. Bill Veeck's idea. He called them "Rosie the Riveter" games.
Most of the best players were in the military (Yogi Berra was at Normandy, but I think it was on D+1). So there were a lot of 4Fs and older players filling in the major league games, which probably explains why my dear Cubbies got into the World Series in 1945.
About the wussification of America: "First thing we'll do, we'll kill all the lawyers" (Shakespeare). So many asinine policies have been devised to cover tails in the event of lawsuits. Today my friend told me that policy states that staff at her medical facility cannot treat another staff member who falls ill on the job. So if one of the nurses she works with has a heart attack, she's not supposed to help; she's supposed to let the paramedics do it. Of course, in such an event, if somebody follows this policy the institution will be sued for NOT giving aid.
Ogden Nash:
Justice has been rerouted
From present to future tense.
The Law is so in love with the Law
It's forgotten common sense.
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Double checked the story on Bill Veeck and found that he was in the marines in WWII, and that he didn't take over the White Sox until later. So it may have been Veeck Senior, who was also involved with baseball; or Veeck Jr. in Milwaukee (he owned the original Brewers in the early 40s) or a different club owner who thought of the Rosie the Riveter games.
#10
I remember a comment in Stallion Gate, by Martin Cruz Smith, about a one armed outfielder playing in the MLB late in the war, so the talent may have been stretched fairly thin.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The news of Abu Rahmah's death has highlighted a new alliance emerging between a small number of Israeli leftists and Palestinians engaged in unarmed mass protest action. Scores of Israeli activists had actually joined Friday's demonstration, and they challenged the IDF claim that tear gas was fired only after stones were thrown by protesters. The news that Abu Rahmah had died brought hundreds of Israeli Jews to a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night outside Israel's Defense Ministry, where a handful were arrested.
