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Down Under
Australian peace activists "support" the troops
Tim Blair

Australia's peaceful try to cope with the death of an Australian serviceman in Afghanistan:

Great News, perhaps now there is blood on JH's hands people will now wake up to these illegal occupations of foreign countries! People are dying or being killed every minute. One soldier dead, well isn't that one of the risks of being in the forces.

So much for "support the troops". Here's Ron from Sydney:

Well thats what happens when you go and invade another person's country. You should not have been there in the first place, but you can thank Johhny Coward ...

Another person's country? Who owned Afghanistan? "Big deal," comments Dan of Qld:

No one forced [David Pearce] to join the army. No one forced him to travel half way around the world to kill Afghanis in their own country. I don't remember there being any Afghanis on the planes that hit the Trade centres. He joined the army to kill people and he got killed instead. You reap what you sow! If he really cared for his family he would not be there.

I bet Dan of Qld wouldn't use the "reap what you sow" argument in the case of David Hicks. For that matter, I bet Dan of Qld wouldn't use the "reap what you sow" argument within range of David Pearce's family or friends. . . .

Many more examples at the link.

No wonder Chris Sealy writes:

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a lefty ...
Posted by: Mike || 10/10/2007 08:42 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Johnny Coward line irritates me. Kinda like the Bushitler stuff.

Its way past time to return a dueling society. I think society would be a lot more civilized with the penalty for running your mouth was being shot at.
Posted by: flash91 || 10/10/2007 13:24 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Who's Behind the Censorship of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/10/2007 09:40 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Then late Tueaday evening, seven left-wing or Muslim students admitted to hanging the flyers in YAF’s name: Adam Kokesh, Amal Rammah, Lara Masri, Yong Kwon, Brian Tierny, Ned Goodwin, and Maxine Nwigwe. Adam Kokesh moron became something of a left-wing celebrity as a member of Iraq Veterans Against War who protested against the war wearing his uniform; in a glowing story, CBS “News” once asked, “Is Adam Kokesh the New Cindy Sheehan?” No, she actually has a set of testicles

In their letter owning up to producing the posters, the seven intellectual dwarves call IAFW “a celebration of racism” – though it’s not clear how Muslims are a race. The septet claimed, while they had certainly offended many students, conservatives made them do it because they are the devil. “[T]he absurdity of the [flyers’] message was clearly a horrific exaggeration of the racism that is behind this event…We wanted to counter the true hate-speech that is embodied in the upcoming Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.” It's all fake but true! Although they claimed it was mere satire, they confessed to being thrilled that YAF and IAWF were blamed for their screed. “It was inspiring to see that students directed their attention to the real threat.” They added their true motivation, exhorting the GWU administration that it “should not allow Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week to take place.”

-is slander still a crime? I hope YAF has the awareness to sue these 7 morons.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 10/10/2007 10:23 Comments || Top||

#2  If it's printed, it's libel. Slander is spoken.
Posted by: mojo || 10/10/2007 11:03 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: DMFD || 10/10/2007 19:26 Comments || Top||


Investigate the Winter Soldier Investigation
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/10/2007 09:16 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seared in Kerry's mind...under his CIA boonie hat...
Posted by: Hupase Sinatra8280 || 10/10/2007 14:30 Comments || Top||


Media Dishonesty Matters
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/10/2007 06:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Note #65
Posted by: gromgoru || 10/10/2007 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  amazing how many appeared on PMSNBC's Imus show....
Posted by: Frank G || 10/10/2007 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  The founding fathers never envisioned a massive media conglomerate choking operating the information stream in early America. It's long past the time that the Federal Trade Commission regulate 'truth' versus 'opinion'. Any interstate commerce with the appropriated labeling "The narrative content of this publication/program constitutes the opinion of its owners and operators. Users are warned that fact and truth are not necessarily employed in its production. It is provided for entertainment purposes only." would exempt the trade product from suits and challenges concerning content. Failure to so post, clearly on predominately, on the product would subject the 'owners and operators' to the fullest application of consumer protection laws upon discovery of misrepresentation and substandard quality control.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2007 8:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Video - DOJ voting rights chief steps in it
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/10/2007 10:36 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh heck. False start. Video at link.

Here is the important part:

Unbelievably, the Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, John Tanner, contends that while it's "a shame" that elderly voters may be disenfranchised by new Photo ID restrictions at the polls because many don't have driver's licenses, minorities don't have to worry quite as much. Why? Because "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do. They die first."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/10/2007 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Idiot.

Voter registration = issue you a state-created photo ID card when you register to vote. Show that card when you vote. Its that simple.

Nice thing is all the states are set up to do this already. Part of the "motor voter" laws. Make it a freebie to get the voter ID.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/10/2007 11:11 Comments || Top||


The Democrats' Unhealthy Poster Child Abuse By Michelle Malkin
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/10/2007 04:52 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn it Galileo! It's not about facts, it's about the narrative you little heretic. How dare you question the Vicar of God's moral authority on Earth. There is but one truth and all others are false. /sarcasm off
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2007 8:36 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
The Religious Quest of George Soros
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/10/2007 06:27 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For a slightly different take, there's this article from 2004.
Posted by: Mike || 10/10/2007 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  "This lack of guilt simply confirms to me that he is a man without any conscience or the necessary morals upon which to build one."

This explains a lot of his actions, re:moveon and other fronts he funds.

He is deserving of a bullet, due to his amoral evil.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/10/2007 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  He [Soros] also worked in a mannequin factory, but was fired for being too slow at putting on the heads.

He is still trying to put heads on dhimmi dolls.

Soros is said to have broke the Bank of England with his speculation. In 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused Soros of using the wealth under his control to punish ASEAN for welcoming Myanmar as a member. Later, he called Soros a moron.[10] Thai nationals have called Soros "an economic war criminal" who "sucks the blood from the people"
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/10/2007 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Last reference is from Wikipedia entry.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/10/2007 11:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Soros....American for "Piece of Shit!"
Posted by: Janos Hunyadi || 10/10/2007 14:10 Comments || Top||

#6  The last paragraph is a good one:

He then made a very common error. Instead of blaming the actual perpetrators of the evil, he blamed the "system" that he believed had spawned the evil: the religions of the God of Israel, Judaism and her spiritual cousin, Christianity. He began to envision a world so overwhelmed by "alternatives" that both Judaism and Christianity would simply cease to have the slightest significance. That's the world he has been trying to build ever since.

And my solace is that when George Soros and his ilk are long since forgotten as insignificant spots on the map of history, Judiasm and Christianity will still be going strong.

"Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away." Matt. 24:35
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/10/2007 15:35 Comments || Top||

#7  He is straight out of a James Bond novel. And that means he needs "extreme prejudice" inflicted - the sooner the better. I hope he is standing in front of Harold Pinter, Venessa Redgrave and Michael Moore when it happens.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 10/10/2007 17:00 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Islam and the Submission of Women
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) and spokesman for politicalislam.com.

FP: So tell us in general where Islam stands on women and why.

Warner: Islam’s stand on women is the same as its stand on every issue—duality and submission. Dualism demands that everything is seen, not as a unified whole, but as divided. The primary political duality is the division between kafirs (unbelievers) and believers. The primary internal duality is the division between males and females.

The principle of submission means that one must rule over the other. No surprise, the women must submit to the men.

CSPI measured the submission of the female to the male by analyzing the Islamic doctrine. All of Islam’s doctrine is found in the Koran, the Hadith (Traditions) and the Sira (the life of Mohammed), the Trilogy. We collected every verse, every paragraph and every sentence that mentioned women and their power relationships. These were all categorized into the women being superior, inferior, equal or merely mentioned.

In 4% of the cases, women were superior, in 91% of the cases they were inferior and in 5% they were equal. But there is a big catch. The only way that women are equal is after death on Judgment day, when men and women will be judged on how well they followed the Koran and the Sunna. And guess what? The only way to follow the Koran and the Sunna is to obey men. Equality means obeying men.

Woman are superior by being a mother, who must obey her husband. So the perfect woman on Judgment day will be a mother, who obeyed all the men in her life. So really, the women are subordinate to men in 100% of all of the Koran, Hadith and the Sira.

FP: So what’s the story on sex in heaven? Apparently men will have lots of fun but not women?

Warner: What does the perfect Muslim woman find when she gets to Paradise? A male Paradise. Her husband will have his pick of Allah’s houris for sex. These houris are the perfect Islamic women. They are light-complexioned, sexy, shy, perpetual virgins who never say no.

The question arises: why shy and why virgins? Since submission is key to Islam, then submission must apply in Paradise as well. A virgin knows nothing, is a blank slate, and is easily dominated. A shy woman has the same submissive qualities. A houri will not even look you in the eye, nor offer any opinions about anything.

The word houri never appears in the Koran. It is always in the plural, houris, although the Koran does not say 72 virgins, just virgins. So a subservient Islamic woman must wait in line behind perfect women to see her husband. The promised equality on Judgment day would imply that there are male houris for her pleasure, but no. There are eternally young, beautiful boys, but they don’t seem to be there for the women.

However, women are included in the drinking wine, fine food, lying about in the shade and watching and taunting the kafirs (unbelievers) burning in Hell. So Paradise is just like earth, a place based upon duality and submission. Women must submit to men in this life and the life hereafter.

This parallel between Islam after death and in this life is important. Islam is usually seen as a vague and confusing doctrine. This is not true. All of Islam is built on duality and submission. Islam is absolutely logical and coherent in heaven, hell and earth. Islam is submission and duality yesterday, today and tomorrow.
RTWT
Posted by: ed || 10/10/2007 08:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What an uninspiring religion: while on earth, destroy the flesh in search of the spiritual, and in heaven, destroy the spiritual in search of the flesh.
Posted by: Jules || 10/10/2007 17:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Al Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize
Ian Murray, "The Corner," National Review

As for the impending laurel wreath, am I the only one who finds it depressing that, while past laureates like Mother Teresa and Albert Schweizer spent decades working with the poor in terrible conditions, Gore wins for making a movie? Moreover, a movie of himself giving a lecture? Moreover, a movie whose upshot is that the poor in Calcutta and West Africa should be denied access to the energy that can lift them out of poverty? Given the universal praise the man gets, perhaps I am.
Posted by: Mike || 10/10/2007 12:50 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gore doesn't have the body count I usually associate with the Peace Prize (e.g. Arafat, Mandela). But if his policies are enacted then that will certainly change.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/10/2007 14:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Not much of an honor to be in the company of recent recipients.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/10/2007 14:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Give the man his prise. Why, he not only invented the internet but discovered global warming...
Posted by: CB || 10/10/2007 16:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Think about it - it could have gone to Michael Moore or Ramsey Clark or Hugo Chavez - no one that a Rantburger would respect is ever going to win the Peace Prize. I could care less - it means nothing to me and I doubt very seriously it will cause any more B.S. from the left and the elitist internationalists then currently being communicated.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 10/10/2007 16:54 Comments || Top||

#5  What, there is a Nobel prize for lying now? Let's call it dissembling. That at least sounds noble.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/10/2007 17:09 Comments || Top||

#6  A British judge just announced that the government must include explanatory information with disseminated copies of Mr. Gore's film, because to do less would be propaganda. (Sorry, no link, but Drudge links to the article)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/10/2007 18:51 Comments || Top||

#7  As a moral and intellectual lightweight, Gore in no way deserves such an award.
Posted by: Zenster || 10/10/2007 18:58 Comments || Top||

#8  You guys misspelled it. It should be spelled like it is pronounced:

PISS prize.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/10/2007 19:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Considering who's been winning this crap prize recently he fits right in.
Posted by: jds || 10/10/2007 21:01 Comments || Top||

#10  So what.

If the Nobel had any significance in the modern era, that was totally lost when they gave it to Jimmuh.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 10/10/2007 21:43 Comments || Top||

#11  He's as worthy of the Nobel prize as it's namesake.
Posted by: DMFD || 10/10/2007 23:21 Comments || Top||

#12  REUTERS > GLOBAL WARMING & NYC > KILLER HEAT WAVE MAY KILL HUNDREDS IN NYC REGION BY 2050; + GLOBAL WARMING MAY MAKE HUMIDITY WORSE. On a foggy, can't-barely-see future day on Guam, a Madoona Fan sees strange sights and explosions in the sky.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/10/2007 23:57 Comments || Top||


The Psychology of the Politics of Rage
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/10/2007 06:44 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


The evidence for Neocommunism
See also The Strange Transformation of Marxism.

Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/10/2007 06:28 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is that Gummo Marx?
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 10/10/2007 22:20 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2007-10-10
  Gunmen kidnap director of Basra Int'l Airport
Tue 2007-10-09
  Al Qaeda deputy killed in Algeria: report
Mon 2007-10-08
  Tehran University student protest -- 'Death to the dictator'
Sun 2007-10-07
  Support network in Pakistan accused of helping Taliban, others sneak across border to attack U.S
Sat 2007-10-06
  Paleo arrestfest as Hamas, Fatah detain each other's cadres
Fri 2007-10-05
  Korean leaders agree to end war
Thu 2007-10-04
  US-led team to oversee N. Korea nuclear disablement
Wed 2007-10-03
  3 die in explosion at Hamas HQ
Tue 2007-10-02
  Bhutto may allow US military strike
Mon 2007-10-01
  Hamas renews call for cease-fire with Israel
Sun 2007-09-30
  Indian troops corner rebels in Kashmir mosque
Sat 2007-09-29
  Court Lets Perv Run for President
Fri 2007-09-28
  AQI #3 Abu Usama al Tunisi bites the dust
Thu 2007-09-27
  Over 100 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
Wed 2007-09-26
  NWFP govt calls for army's help


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