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Israel Dismantles; World's Problems End
Posted by: muck4doo || 11/11/2005 17:58 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now that is funny!
Posted by: Penguin || 11/11/2005 22:37 Comments || Top||


US Marines to SAVE FRANCE
Sorry, this is just too funny not to share! Delete if not Rantburg Correct

Subject: US MARINES to SAVE FRANCE

You knew it was just a matter of time...President Bush has authorized the Joint Chiefs to begin drawing up a battle plan to pull France's chestnuts out of the fire again. Facing an apparent overwhelming force of up to 400 angry teenagers, Mr. Bush apparently doubts France's ability to hold them off.

"If the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France to surrender to the little pissants any day now," said Bush.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace warned the President that it might be necessary to send up to 5 Marines in order to gain control. The general admitted that 5 Marines may be overkill, but he said he wanted to be assured of gaining operational and strategic control within 24 hours of arriving on scene. He stated, however, that although he was having a hard time finding even one Marine volunteer to help "those ungrateful bastards" out for a third time, he thought that he could persuade a few female Marines to do the job before they went on maternity leave.

In an attempt to blend in with the locals and avoid offending the host nation,Gen. Pace has assured that the marines did not take soap, razors, or deodorant with them.

Posted by: Sherry || 11/11/2005 15:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  LMAO.

Alternative: One riot, one Ranger.
Posted by: Matt || 11/11/2005 15:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Please be sure the care packages from home have plenty of marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers. Nothing like an early morning smore before the fires are put out!
Posted by: 49 pan || 11/11/2005 20:02 Comments || Top||


Europe
The future descent of France
David Warren EFL

It is anyway too late to change the entire approach of the French state to the assimilation of Muslim immigrants. Nor, had it been much different, do I think the result would have been different. For the deeper reality is that France has become a moral and demographic vacuum. It has become, in the main, a pagan, childless, hedonistic country, in which there will be a Muslim majority within two generations. (Already, at least 40 per cent of the children born in French hospitals are to Muslim parents.) On present trends, the Islamicization of France, within the lifetime of most of my readers, is inevitable.

Egypt, too, was once a Christian country. And generations after the arrival of the Arabs, there were Egyptians who could not imagine it any other way. But whereas it took about five centuries to Islamicize Coptic Egypt, it will take less than one to Islamicize postmodern France.

It is against this background reality, that the riots happening today across France must be considered. They are a turning point, not only in France but all Europe. For the “moral and demographic vacuum” I mentioned above, is not in France alone. The same cultural deathwish prevails in Spain, Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, Britain, Scandinavia -- and Canada, by the way. It is called “multiculturalism” in this generation, but in another generation will be called something else.
Posted by: Ebboger Ebberesh9903 || 11/11/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The same cultural deathwish heh!
Posted by: 2b || 11/11/2005 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The "unPC" % I heard was 35% of births from non european parents, but this stays in the same bracket.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/11/2005 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  And once they obtain the majority they will do absolutely nothing with the country. It's back to the 9th century for france. No progress, no commerce, no science, just waiting around Aller to hook you up with your 72 raisins.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 11/11/2005 9:24 Comments || Top||


Zionist power stems from West's belief in "Holocaust" myth: Faurisson
Tehran Times Political Desk
Following the designation of a day as “Holocaust Day” by the United Nations, the Mehr News Agency conducted an interview with French professor Robert Faurisson on November 2 about the motivations behind this move. In the interview, the professor says that Zionists will not tolerate any questioning of the “Holocaust” and argues that the more the Western public believes in the “Holocaust” the more Muslims will be killed.
Full, tedious interview at link.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2005 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yup. We have similar total asshole professors here, too. So it's not something in the local water... wonder what it could be? The Kool Aid mix?
Posted by: .com || 11/11/2005 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  French professor Robert Faurisson do they make "people" any dumber than this.

In 1961 with parents in hand [:)] discovered Dachau. We drove there from Munich. It wasn't slick and wasn't set up for many visitors..the original rusty barbed wire etc. It made a lasting impression on me.

In Nurembnurg that same summer a column of [company size] the newly resurrected German Army marched pass us one day. I noticed that my father stiffened a bit as we watched them. [no weapons the 1st year or so]

WWII: He served in the Navy, troop transports..Pharmacist's Mate [eventually Chief], mostly in the South Pacific. After each invasion they would convert part of the ship to a hospital. Along with his department members they patched up alot of horribly wounded brave Marines.

discovered 300 page single spaced diary recently..letters doucuments. He hid it.
Posted by: Red Dog || 11/11/2005 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  with parents in hand..[:)], as my sister and I tend to our parents now, life has come full circle.

the smiley was not for Dachau..
Posted by: Red Dog || 11/11/2005 6:42 Comments || Top||

#4  "the more the Western public believes in the 'Holocaust' the more Muslims will be killed"

Actually, quite the opposite is probably true: the more we know about the Holocaust, the less likely we are to round up all the Muslims for a "final solution." I took my famiy to the museum in Washington, DC a couple of years ago and we spent the afternoon there. I know I won't forget it.

BUT it's only about the innocents: I still have no qualms about bombing or even nuking Iran's nuke sites. If they put them in their cities to lessen the probability of attack, then I see that as their suicide rather than our genocide.
Posted by: Darrell || 11/11/2005 7:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Red Dawg, what are you going to do with the diary? Yes, I wuz born nozy.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/11/2005 9:39 Comments || Top||

#6  A salute to Red Dog's father on Veteran's Day. And warm wishes to RD and sis as they tend to their parents.
Posted by: Seafarious || 11/11/2005 9:54 Comments || Top||

#7  "Full, tedious interview at link"

No thanks, I'm eating lunch.
Posted by: Xbalanke || 11/11/2005 12:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Red Dog, those letters are your father's heritage for your children. My mother came across a similar packet in the back of the basement some years ago -- a series of letters my grandmother had written to a cousin explaining why they had been out of touch until 1946. My mother translated from the German, and she and I edited and rewrote for two years, until it worked as a sensible whole. The result is now in the archives of the Holocaust Museum and Yad Vashem, and my siblings and my children know what happened during the time that was never mentioned.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2005 13:51 Comments || Top||

#9  of course, TW, depending on the neo-nazi or islamofascist level of insanity, either nothing happened in the holocaust, or Hitler didn't do enough. Sick f*ckers
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2005 15:50 Comments || Top||

#10  Bingo, Frank. The Jews were behind 9-11 and Osama is a hero for planning it. These maroons are so twisted they can use corkscrews for rulers.

Islamist adoration of the Holocaust is, quite possibly, the single driving force making a Muslim holocaust possible. The only difference will be how little mass time their own incineration will take.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2005 22:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
A Salute to Veterans
Part of the genius of our American political system is that the people who actually fight our wars are not allowed to start them. However powerful, our military forces always remain under civilian control, so that even the most decorated general or admiral is still a rank lower than the commander in chief elected by the people.

However, this subordination does not diminish the military's stature in most Americans' eyes; instead it enhances it. Perhaps because it takes even more courage to head into a fight you did not pick, such as the one now raging in Iraq.

No matter one's views of the necessity of that war or the way it is being waged, the sheer, heart-stopping bravery on display every day by the Americans stationed in Iraq is undeniable. Indeed, our all-volunteer military is a constant reminder to all terrorists and their sympathizers around the globe that our young people, too, are also willing to die for a cause. Except our cause is freedom, while theirs is quite the opposite.

So on this Veterans Day, we salute the men and women of the armed forces with gratitude and awe, especially those who came back home on crutches or in flag-draped coffins. These valiant warriors have earned their place in a long, proud tradition:

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he today that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile

This day shall gentle his condition:

And gentlemen in [America], now a-bed

Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

That fought with us ..." - Shakespeare's "Henry V."
Posted by: Bobby || 11/11/2005 11:19 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Bruce Willis, Michael Yon, Deuce Four, a movie?
Well maybe.
I've searched, trying to find if MSNBC has the video. No luck so far
Last night, after receiving an email from Michael Yon that he was appearing on Rita Crosby with Bruce Willis, and not wanting to miss CSI, I recorded Rita's show.

After pushing rewind several time, I did hear Bruce telling Rita, that "yes, there are talks about a movie, although that is not the important thing about these guys."

With Bruce's candid and honest love of our military, this could be the movie we have all wanted! Michael just had kind of a little smile, and those "special forces" eyes that kinda gleamed when the camera when to him.

Bruce did discuss with Rita the fact that MSM is NOT telling the story of what these guys are doing in Iraq.

Throughout the show, Michael's pictures of Lt. Col Kurilla from Gates of Fires was showing. Michael told the story of the picture of Major B with the young Iraqi girl killed by the terrorists.

And it ended with Bruce with, "seeing you, buddy," from Bruce to Michael.

So how about it? Bruce playing Kurilla? Check out his website at the bottom. It's all Michael Yon all the the time.
Posted by: Sherry || 11/11/2005 10:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll go twice AND buy the DVD.

Too soon for Kurilla 2008?
Posted by: eLarson || 11/11/2005 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The only issue is who's going to get the VP slot. I'm for Kurilla-Condi. It'd be worth it just to watch the blood drain out of our enemies' faces at the mere thought.
Posted by: Matt || 11/11/2005 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Too soon for Kurilla 2008?

Let's see, if the campaigning begins a year in advance, say Nov 2007, that's a full year from now - and there will be many more Iraqi troops online by then... so maybe Kurilla's people will have been rotated home permanently...

The opportunity to vote for Kurilla, or any of the others with his class, would be an honor. I am extremely hopeful that the whores will be swept from office over the next decade, replaced by men and women like Kurilla, who know what matters, have the class and heart to do what's right and believe in America. Namely these remarkable military folks, for whom reality isn't a cartoonish fantasy such as West Wing or CINC. No more absurd multiculti moral equivalence crap and no more tranzi pandering. A new US motto of Lead, follow, or get out of the way. certainly works for me.
Posted by: Regnad Kcin || 11/11/2005 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Complete transcript posted at http://corner.nationalreview.com/

scroll down to 2:40 pm
Posted by: Sherry || 11/11/2005 14:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Just my 2cents but he'd have a good shot at Governor, Minnisota if I recall correctly. They've shown they're open to new blood. If he does good, the national positions open.
Posted by: Jineling Ulose9016 || 11/11/2005 15:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Condi-Kurilla. Ladies first.
Posted by: Mike || 11/11/2005 15:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Lt. Steve to do the PR?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2005 18:52 Comments || Top||


The Iraqi Blogosphere is Humming (go read)
Posted by: phil_b || 11/11/2005 08:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At some point I hope that the Iraqi intelligencia realize that Iraq has, for a time, an amazing potential: to become the nucleus of something comparable to the EU, or even better, to become the start of something akin to "The United States East".

That is, to be the center of a growing, Middle East democratic hegemony, a confederation of nations inclined to prosperity, openness, and peace. Inherently, it would be of "Islamic character" as much as the EU is of a "Christian character". That is, having a separation of church and state, with religion only peripherally involved in government at all, by law.

The first stage of such a union would take a profound leap of imagination. That Turkey abandon its furtive and spurned pursuit of European integration, and instead embrace Iraq as the two founding states of this confederation. What today sounds incredible is no less so than was a confederation of France and Germany after WWII.

I suspect Jordan would be quick to join such an agreement, and the three nations together would have a magnetic attraction to others. Granted, the biggest obstacle would be democracy, freedom and transparency; but the momentum in the region is already in that direction. Such concepts are no longer anethema, and are being examined closely.

Arabia would be far more hesistant, being of a conservative nature, than would many of the Gulf states, but the economic attraction would be irresistable. Other states would take far longer to integrate, in that way being more like the EU in its development. Iran might be incapable of belonging, as much as Russia cannot belong to the EU: it is just both too alien, and too enormous.

Once in its general configuration, this Middle East Common Market would easily rival the EU, and would lead to modernization, prosperity and growth at a tremendous clip.

It is an irony that the Arab world could find their empire restored, but not as an empire, and not in conflict with anyone, even the non-Arabs who lived within.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/11/2005 12:46 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2005-11-11
  Izzat Ibrahim croaks?
Thu 2005-11-10
  Azahari's death confirmed
Wed 2005-11-09
  Three hotels boomed in Amman
Tue 2005-11-08
  Oz raids bad boyz, holy man nabbed
Mon 2005-11-07
  Frankenfadeh, Day 11
Sun 2005-11-06
  Radulon Sahiron snagged -- oops, not so
Sat 2005-11-05
  U.S. Launches Major Offensive in Iraq
Fri 2005-11-04
  Frankistan Intifada Gains Dangerous Momentum
Thu 2005-11-03
  Abu Musaab al-Suri nabbed in Pak?
Wed 2005-11-02
  Omar al-Farouq escaped from Bagram
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  Zark Confirms Kidnapping Of Two Morrocan Nationals
Mon 2005-10-31
  U.N. Security Council OKs Syria Resolution
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  Third night of trouble in Paris suburb following teenage deaths
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  Serial bomb blasts rock Delhi, 25 feared killed
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