A great one for all you unprepared souls out there! EP
Dang, and no time to get that Porsche I've always wanted ...
Fair warning for the humor impaired - this is from The Onion, and thus is 100% snarky sarcasm
WASHINGTON, DCOver 87 percent of Americans are unprepared to protect themselves from even the most basic world-ending scenarios, according to a study released Monday by the nonpartisan doomsday think-tank The Malthusian Institute.
Despite "more than ample warning" for the most likely means of worldwide destruction, less than one million American households have taken even the simplest precautions against nuclear shockwaves, asteroid impact, or a host of angels bearing swords of fire, the study concluded.
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"Hosts of angels..." > does this mean the job description of DHS is to shoot down Jesus Christ, etal wid a STANDARD MISSLE, or HELLFIRE from a Global Hawk??? May explain the rider-less winged horse ala FATIMA's notorious THIRD SECRET, which of course sub-explains why GABRIEL has a sword to slice and dice the earth apart like an apple. LIKE A GINSU, GABRIEL, LIKE A GINSU.
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Of course you know its Dubya's and only Dubya's fault Jesus was shot down by DHS, NOT the innocents that conspired andor atacked the WTC on 9-11. DHS was "forced" to shoot Christ down - absolutely and undeniably, unequivocaly and only coincidentally, "forced to" they say.
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the simplest precautions against nuclear shockwaves, asteroid impact, or a host of angels bearing swords of fire
fireproof suits and extinguishers to deal with volcanic upheaval, solar flares, or the Lord's purifying flame
a sudden shift in the Earth's polarity or the eating of the Sun and moon by evil wolves Skol and Hati during Ragnarok
a mile-deep, lead-lined subterranean vault built to shield a pre-selected breeding group of humans
the average household lacks the 1.2 million gallons of heating oil needed to withstand the prolonged sub-zero temperatures of another protracted Ice Age
a torrential rain of boiling blood
cantilevered leaden cofferdams for increased earthquake and radiation protection
a major gravitational disruption
Hoo boy! Where to start with such gem-quality grade material?
EMP barrier blanket? Check!
Asteroid impact airbag? Check!
Anti-flaming-angel-sword asbestos shield? Check!
Refractory carbide lava diversion baffles? Check!
Ionization proof high reflectivity mirrored solar flare escape booth? Check!
Nomex tuxedo to meet with Lords purifying flame? Check!
Polarity shift dampening Faraday cloak? Check!
Solunar poisoned wolf bait? Check!
Lead-lined salt dome? Check!
Genomically pre-selected breeding harem? Check!
Two Olympic swimming pools filled with heating oil? Check!
High temperature blood-borne pathogen deluge scuba suit? Check!
Seismically mounted cantilevered leaden cofferdams in attic? Check!
And most important of all
Size XXXL Mil-Spec all weather tinfoil hat? Check!
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May I add that 99.9999% of all Americans are not prepared for death. That is unless they are going to hell. Oh, and for those who go to church all the time, and your church thinks being gay is okay, or your priests are boinking the alter boys, see you there in the square. Being stuck on stupid is no excuse.
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Don't be silly, Nimble Spemble, Scooter McGruder announced himself as the new Pepto Bismol pink moderator a few days ago. And an appropriate warning he gives, too.
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Oh, and for those who go to church all the time, and your church thinks being gay is okay, or your priests are boinking the alter boys, see you there in the square. Being stuck on stupid is no excuse.
Asbestos usage violates a number of EPA regulations as well as international environmental laws. I'm terribly sorry, but that shield simply cannot be allowed in direct contact with either the Legions of Jehovah, Lord God Almighty, or the Hordes of Satan, Lord of the Earth.
Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.
The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland's security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.
It was the Canadian Left at its absolute insensitive and appalling worst.
On the eve of the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies, the leftist, anti-Bush Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadas national public broadcaster, aired an outrageous and disgraceful documentary on a Sunday news program regarding half-baked 9/11 conspiracy theories that only served to insult the memories of those who perished that tragic day.
Titled 9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracy, the only fascinating thing about the CBC show was its complete absurdity and the fact that it actually made it to air.
On the conspiracy side, it featured a young, budding film-maker whose online documentary portrays the destruction of the World Trade Center towers as the result of a bomb in the basement, demolition explosives planted beforehand throughout the buildings, and the airliner crash, which, it claims, was not enough in itself to topple the towers. According to this masterpiece of misleading fiction, the Pentagon was also hit by a missile, not by an airplane; and the passengers of United 93 didnt crash into a Pennsylvania field, but disembarked at an airport.
This is a widely downloaded internet conspiracy film that is being translated into different languages. The CBC swallowed it whole.
Giving his reason for making his documentary, the rather inarticulate 20-something director told the CBC interviewer: Uh, well, the original project started out what was supposed to be basically just me getting into film-making. Which is really all one needs to know about this film. Oh, and by the way, the budding Michael Moore also subscribes to the theory that the US government made 9/11 happen and didnt just allow it to take place, as some other conspiracy wackos believe. I guess thats known as taking a principled stance in their warped world.
David Ray Griffin, who lost a child on 9/11, was the other conspiracy theorist on the CBC program. Griffin, a theologian, has written a book expounding his views which are somewhat similar to those of the film-maker. Lee Hamilton, the 9/11 Commission co-chair and author of his own book on the 9/11 tragedy represented the shows anti-conspiracy side along with Jim Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics, which also published a book refuting the 9/11 conspiracy myths.
One Canadian viewer, Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington, who covered 9/11 and the War on Terror, said he was incredulous when he watched the show.
I thought it was doing a fictional story picked up on the internet and legitimizing the conspiracies, he said. Its like the guy who caught the 300-pound bass and they put the doctored photo on the internet. The network picks up the story and asks whether it could be true. You dont cover a story like that. It is basically the internet swallowing a network. They were giving legitimacy to a kid who is basically a wannabe film-maker.
The leftist CBCs reasons for allowing this travesty of journalism to be broadcast to a countrywide audience are probably several. Perhaps first and foremost, the innate anti-Americanism of CBCers, like the anti-Bush attitude of CBS journalists involved in the Dan Rather scandal, causes these America haters to lose journalistic perspective. As well, the anti-Bush position of the two conspiracy theorists matches the CBCs anti-American agenda. Many such theorists believe 9/11 was government engineered, so the Republicans would have a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. And while the CBC may not go along with this theory, it will give a nudge and a wink to it, since it is against the Bush administrations foreign policy.
An example of this nudge and wink on the show, Warmington said, concerned the use of cell phones on United 93. The conspiracy theorists said the phones wouldnt work at 30,000 feet and thus no calls were ever made. The CBC interviewer attempted to back up their claim by saying his cell phone didnt work at 35,000 feet.
It was a feeble attempt to lend credibility to a charge that he has no way of verifying, said Warmington. This kind of thing wouldnt get by a college journalism professor to freshman students on their first day.
The frat boy film-maker also rarely mentioned bin Laden or their accomplices, or examined their culpability for 9/11 or for the attacks on the USS Cole or the American embassies in Africa.
When the so-called film-maker suggests that airplanes and the passengers on it vanished harmlessly into thin air is when a real news organization would walk away, said Warmington. To me, it is just as ugly as the fabrications about President Bushs National Guard record that cost Dan Rather and others their careers. The National Enquirer would not even have run this.
In the long term, the CBC production is helping to build the kind of bridgehead one sees concerning Pearl Harbor. Regarding that historical catastrophe, conspiracy theorists believe President Roosevelt knew about the impending Japanese attack and did nothing to prevent it in order to get the United States involved in the Second World War. The same is now being said about President Bush regarding 9/11 and the current War on Terror. If such internet drivel makes it on a major network, fifty years from now, this twisted version of events could become history.
And it is a rapidly expanding bridgehead. Sadly, a recent poll on another Canadian television network showed that 22 per cent of Canadians believe the American government was involved in 9/11. Another 53 per cent are of the opinion that US foreign policy was responsible for the attack. All of which shows a diminishment of trust in American government, especially Republican government, another leftist goal.
Its amazing to me how the Left seem to like bin Laden and other terrorist leaders better than their own president, said Warmington. Its hard to win a war when youre being eaten from the inside like that. But they better be careful. They may like fiction, but one day it may come back to bite them.
At the moment, however, it is a CBC Radio reporter who got bitten by the broadcasters anti-Bush stance. Christine St. Pierre, a French-language reporter, was suspended after writing an open letter in support of Canadian troops fighting in Afghanistan. CBC employees, it seems, are not allowed to voice opinions on controversial issues.
And as for the timing of last Sundays CBC program, broadcast when the world was set to mourn the tragic loss of human life that day, Warmington perhaps sums up best the feelings of many of his fellow Canadians:
To do this on the anniversary of the death of 3,000 people is the most repugnant thing one can do. Talk about desecrating a grave. Whats next? Are they going to try to prove that Elvis is still alive or that Jimmy Hoffa is working in a doughnut shop in New Jersey?
I guess thats known as taking a principled stance in their warped world.
When the so-called film-maker suggests that airplanes and the passengers on it [Flight 93] vanished harmlessly into thin air is when a real news organization would walk away,
Its amazing to me how the Left seem to like bin Laden and other terrorist leaders better than their own president, said Warmington. Its hard to win a war when youre being eaten from the inside like that. But they better be careful. They may like fiction, but one day it may come back to bite them.
To do this on the anniversary of the death of 3,000 people is the most repugnant thing one can do. Talk about desecrating a grave.
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I know I'm ranting, but the french documentary channel "planète" has aired "loose change" for its 9/11 evening prime time, and is now re-airing in during september I think (if I judge by promo bits).
Get the pattern?
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Those "Loose Change" kids are regular looking young guys.
(with some kind of sick agenda)
It is sad that we are not all on even remotely the same page here at home, never mind Cananada
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This IS the enemy.
Pretty much so, mcsegeek1 . When you consider how the Arab world is able to delude itself with so many conspiracy theories that permit them to deny culpability. One need only regard the number of Western media that continue to fuel this sort of garbage and connect the dots.
To use some horribly PC lingo; These media maggots are enabling Arab denial and facilitating the lack of remediation that continues to fester in the Middle East. It permits plausible deniability of Arab involvement in one of the modern world's worst atrocities and minimizes any chances of them taking true responsibility for modern terrorism.
Just as the Internet assisted in the Soviet Union's downfall, I look forward to Broadcast Network News Media having their heads handed to them by the net.
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Oh, there iis definitely an organized actuall enemy information offensive going on thhat has stepped up since the Hizbollah "Victory"
This has really propelled the Loose Change , Dr. Steven Jones crowd into some kind of "main stream" thought and opinion on the subject.
Feedback loop.
Flaming Bocci balls sounds good.
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CBC is just mad cause the Canadian people kicked their liberal pals out of government.
John Kerry recently volunteered that he was prepared to kick [the Swift Boat Veterans] ass from one end of America to the other and that he would demolish us. He ought to take a Christmas cruise to Cambodia to calm down. Maybe he could take a side trip to tour Genghis Khan ruins.
It is a little difficult to imagine Kerry (I voted for it before I voted against it) kicking the most decorated living serviceman, Bud Day, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, or our salty commander, Adm. Roy Hoffman, anywhere. Perhaps Kerry had in mind using a Rice Fanny Grenade as he did by mistake on himself shortly before leaving Vietnam. If so, based on the record, he is in far more danger than anyone else.
Kerry and his friends certainly seem to show much greater anger and hatred toward us than toward the murderous al Qaeda terrorists. This is actually a positive thing. Based on his record of switching to adopt the North Vietnamese position in 1971 and (after voting to send our kids to Iraq) proposing to cut and run in Iraq, it is likely that Kerry will be endorsing our positions by 2008 and (in his words) Swift Boating himself.
If not, it is OK. After living for 34 years with his claim that our comrades, living and dead, were like the army of Genghis Khan, we will always remember and be grateful for the support of the American people in 2004. Nothing he will ever say can demolish that or will speak nearly so loudly. Sad to say, I fear that these gentlemen cannot rest as long as Kerry remains in office.
On this, the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attack on America, concern over those who will make decisions about our nation's future, combined with the positive response to my last column ("The Dangers of a Democrat House"), has convinced me to do the same kind of analysis on the United State Senate. While many Americans are disgusted with those currently in leadership positions in the "upper body" of the GOP Congress, we should be downright terrified by the prospect of the Democrats who would replace them if the balance of power shifts in November. Consider these possibilities:
Harry Reid, D-Nevada -- Having succeeded Tom Daschle as the Dems' whiner-in-chief, Reid is poised to move from minority leader to majority leader should the Democrats regain control. Reid voted "no" on a balanced budget amendment; "yes" on additional funding and stricter sentencing for "hate crimes"; "no" on increased penalties for drug offences; "no" on drilling in ANWR; and "yes" on giving away the store to illegal aliens.
Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Barbara Boxer, D-California -- As two of Reid's loyal lieutenants, Assistant Minority Leader Durbin and Chief Deputy Whip Boxer are poised to assume similar roles in the majority. Boxer, one of the most stridently left-wing members of the Senate, fights vehemently for unconscionable "rights" like partial-birth abortion, while the equally liberal Durbin publicly equated our troops in Iraq with "Nazis."
Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia -- In one of the cruelest ironies yet for the American taxpayer, the biggest pork-barrel spender in the history of the Senate could become chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Second choice for this chairmanship could be another of the Senate's most notorious liberals, Sen. Patrick Leahy of the Peoples Republic of Vermont.
Carl Levin, D-Michigan -- Levin is the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and as such would become its chairman in a Democrat Senate. He supported Bill Clinton's incursions into Kosovo but opposed the use force against Iraq. If he forgoes his right to assume chairmanship of Armed Services, it could be handed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY. Need I say more?
Joe Biden, D-Delaware -- One of the dimmer bulbs in the Senate, Biden thinks he can be elected president in two years, despite the fact that he was caught plagiarizing speeches the last time he ran. His senate votes include a "yes" on establishing a guest worker program for illegal aliens and on giving them a path to citizenship, "yes" on allowing illegals to participate in Social Security; and "no" on limiting welfare for immigrants. Biden would become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey -- Although Joe Lieberman is currently the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, his loss to in the bitter Connecticut Democratic primary will assure his ouster from the Democratic leadership. This leaves Daniel Akaka of Hawaii or Lautenberg as the most likely Democrats to chair this important committee. Akaka could very well lose his bid for reelection in November, thus leaving Lautenberg, another old-line liberal whose voting record mirrors Biden's on illegal immigration and who voted against reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts -- Disgruntled Republicans, of which I am one, who disapproved of the Senate Judiciary Committee being chaired by liberal Republican Arlen Specter, D-PA, must consider the unacceptable alternative. Had Massachusetts' senior bloviator or his socialist comrade, Pat Leahy, been in charge of this committee when President Bush nominated John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, the outcome would have been quite different. Kennedy and Leahy are the likely candidates to succeed Specter in a Democrat Senate.
From judicial nominees to international treaties, from homeland security to education, from illegal immigration to taxes, from the sanctity of marriage to the sanctity of human life, Democrats will make things decidedly worse for America. On November 7th, even if your GOP candidate makes you hold your nose to do it, please vote Republican. It's still important.
When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week that he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he "thought" might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear that he considered it especially suited for my column.
An accurate depiction of what Armitage actually said deepens the irony of his being my source. He was a foremost internal skeptic of the administration's war policy, and I had long opposed military intervention in Iraq. Zealous foes of George W. Bush transformed me, improbably, into the president's lapdog. But they cannot fit Armitage into the left-wing fantasy of a well-crafted White House conspiracy to destroy Joe and Valerie Wilson. The news that he, and not Karl Rove, was the leaker was devastating for the left.
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"Armitage's silence for the next 2 1/2 years caused intense pain for his colleagues in government and enabled partisan Democrats in Congress to falsely accuse Rove of being my primary source."
I couldn't give so much as a candy-coated crap for Armitage's colleagues in government; and Karl Rove is a big boy and perfectly capable of taking care of himself.
But the real damage cause by Armitage and his ilk is that because of this "Plamegate" nonsense, support for America's cause has been weakened at home and abroad, probably beyond repair; and America's enemies, foreign and domestic, have been emboldened.
Too bad we can't just hang the sonofabitch.
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now he's a foreign-policy advisor to McCain for his campaign in '08. Sez something, doesn't it?
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Yes, it says that McCain can't be allowed to win the nomination in '08. I haven't been active in Republican politics beyond making contributions but I might change that if I thought I could have the tiniest chance of helping to keep this guy far, far away from the presidency.
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Even though it appears Novak spilled his guts early in the investigation, he remained publicly silent through this whole folly hiding behind his version of journalistic integrity. Yet now he chastises his confidential source for not coming forward. Ironically, even Novak would agree that Armitage, as a confidential source, wasnt under any obligation to do so. In fact, before the public revelation, he said as much on numerous occasions. But because early on some partisan Democrats (aka Bush-haters) jumped the gun and made all kinds of unsubstantiated assertions he believes accepted ethical standards should have suddenly changed. For good ole Bob it wasnt his own silence, or his column itself, that caused intense pain or enabled false accusations. Nope it was his source. Novak once again proves himself to be a pompous self-promoting toad void of dignity.
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Novak was publicly silent at Fitzgerald's order. We don't know what he told Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald never threatened him with the slammer, Judith Miller kept a cell warm for weeks. I suspect Novak and Armitage are the tip of an iceberg. Could be wrong, but it's the only thing that makes Fitzgerald's actions rationally explicable.
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IANAL either, but I believe he can order him to keep silent about what he spoke to the Grand Jury about. Failure to do so is obstruction of justice. It makes sense as a way to prevent people from coordinating testimony through the press.
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Crude commentary. Liberalism collapsed because: the conservative economic program - against which the Clintons were powerless - is delivering, and Liberals are on the wrong side in the 230 year old "balancing" doctrine between security and liberty.
I have made numerous crime complaints to Homeland Security (and MI 5) in the past 5 years. I suspect that liberals have been making their complaints against security measures, to their local liberal rag.
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It also doesn't help to argue that LIBERTARIANISM = REGULATION/-CRATISM; LEGALISM = ANARCHISM, HONESTY/TRUTH = WAFFLE-ISM, UTOPIA = UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENTISM, and TIPTOEING THRU THE TULIPS + WAVY GRAVY = TAKING SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY-PROPERTIES WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. Liberalism collapsed becuz it became the evry -isms it proclaimed to hate or stand against.
Essentially everything he says in the article is the polar opposite of reality.
His "liberalism" is dying a well deserved death after 230 years not because of selling out or "self censorship" but because it is and always will be an inferior meme set to others that exist.
It is the left (in their opposition to the struggle), not the right, that uses this struggle - one they logically should join, for the Islamicists would target the left first should they come to dominate - who have shamelessly politicized the WoT into a mere tool to get back into domestic power.
Orianna Fallaci is not "embarrassingly Islamophobic", it is guys like this author are embarrassingly, even dangerously, obstinate about pursuing the failed doctrine of multiculturalism in a suicidal fashion because they are so terrified to admit that they were ever wrong, even once, about anything. I get the impression that when the Islamicists take over the continent that this author will not join the struggle and have the moment of revelation that Chamberlain had in Septmeber of 1939, so dedicate is he to his multiculti religion.
The list goes on and on.....someone should get the guy who wrote this article, and those who are his ideological fellow travellers, a rubber room and straightjacket. He's literally insane.
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They (the Dems) are... the canaries in the sulphurous mineshaft of modern democracy.
In his "I'm proud to be a lemming" article he has one good quote.
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Orianna Fallaci is not "embarrassingly Islamophobic", it is guys like this author are embarrassingly, even dangerously, obstinate about pursuing the failed doctrine of multiculturalism
He is in fact a racist who agrees on dark skinned people living in heel in order for whities like him being able to show how open-minded they are.
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I don't know when Liberalism died but I can tell you when I realized it. Sometime during Gore/Lieberman when they had no new ideas. This was confirmed during Kerry/Edwards "I'm Rubber you're glue" campaign.
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Liberalism died? Coulda fooled me. It saturates nearly every TV show, Newspaper, media outlet, news organization you can find. Half the Country, give or take a few percentile, consistenly votes for liberals. Just yesterday, Rosie O'Fat said that 'radical' Christians were more of a threat than 'radical islam, and the audience ROARED with applause.
It's the creature that will not die. We can't kill it, but only supress it, because it's proponents do not respond to logic. The enemy is real, and it never sleeps.
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I just love it when the liberals complain about ex-liberals and how they are vilified. I also like the anti-Israel arc that really filled out the article. I give it 7.5 or a strong C. If he used the word hegemony, imperialistic, or Capitalists running dog I might have bumped it up to a C+/B-.
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The contradictions to which this can lead are striking. There is, for example, a blatant discrepancy between Bushs proclaimed desire to bring democracy to the Muslim world and his refusal to intervene when the only working instances of fragile democracy in action in the whole Muslim world in Palestine and Lebanon were systematically ignored and then shattered by Americas Israeli ally.
This facile argument neatly ignores how the democratic process was perverted by being used to elect terrorists to office. Dressing a pig in a wedding gown doesn't make it any more appealing. Mantling Hamas or Hezbollah with the trappings of democracy does not alter one whit the repugnance their genocidal ideology. To ignore the fundamentally flawed philosophical base of terrorism in order to falsely establish some basis for Bush's putative contradictions is morally bankrupt. Straw men win no battles.
Bush understands much better than his critics the war on terror and the way the world works more broadly. Above all, he has had the courage to confront reality. The key planks of the Bush doctrine - regarding terrorists not as criminals but as a force at war with the US and its allies; holding state sponsors of terror responsible for the actions of their terrorist surrogates; seeing the root of terror in the profoundly dysfunctional political culture of the Middle East and fighting the ideas behind terror with an agenda of democracy and human rights; reserving the right to take pre-emptive military action against threats that could involve weapons of mass destruction - all these will be maintained by Bush's presidential successors.
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Looking at the rear bases, US troops are really fighting Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Only one is not a formal US ally. As long as there is harborage, there will be terrorists. This month is make or break for the President. If all that is promised is decades of indecisive war, then the Dems will win with crude disengagement. The Muslim world is polarizing on the side of the Jihadis, while the West is indulging them at home and facing their terror abroad. We have driving steel into the backbones of the worst enemy ever to challenge Western Civilization. Either we have a program for winning - that doesn't include terror legitimation through pseudo-democracy - or we face defeat.
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The DemoLeft will vote against the civil war they helped start or desired, and vice versa. The irony here is these Waffle-crats, etal. premises show why Jesus Christ appeared on earth. From Zawahiri's recent rant to the Chicom plan to politely but necessarily exterminate 200Milyuhn -plus Americans = Amerikans, by these gauges many of America's enemies already view America [West/Demeocracy]as defeated. - not just defeated, but eventually destroyed, the land sowed with salt so that nuthing will grow ever again ala Roman legions at CARTHAGE, Greeks at TROY, Mongols, etc.
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"The key planks of the Bush doctrine... will be maintained by Bush's presidential successors."
I would be sleeping a LOT better at night if I could believe that. It's a soothing notion, but I think it's wrong: I doubt that any of Bush's possible successors will maintain ANY of the key components of the Bush Doctrine.
"regarding terrorists not as criminals but as a force at war with the US and its allies;"
The Democrats have been making it very clear lately (such as with their hysterical complaints about ABC's The Path to 9/11) that treating terrorism as a criminal matter-- and ONLY as a criminal matter-- is exactly what they would do; that Bill Clinton "had it right." On the other hand, a Republican successor to Bush might carry on this policy-- but only with great caution, for he will be acutely aware of the enormous political price the Democrats have made Bush pay for taking us to war.
"holding state sponsors of terror responsible for the actions of their terrorist surrogates;"
Democrats aren't into holding anybody responsible for anything, especially when following through on the "holding" part with anything harsher than whining might deprive them of warm fuzzies from European diplomats and pundits. If Bush is succeeded by a Democrat, this plank goes straight onto the trash heap. A Republican President won't be much better, as he'll be unwilling to take action against any state sponsor of terrorism without truly overwhelming evidence of sponsorship.
"seeing the root of terror in the profoundly dysfunctional political culture of the Middle East and fighting the ideas behind terror with an agenda of democracy and human rights;"
Any Democrat successor to Bush is going to see the "root cause" of terrorism the way Kofi Annan sees it: as third-world poverty caused by the sins of Western powers. If a Democrat follows Bush in the White House, Americans had best be prepared to open their wallets-- wide. A Republican President might continue with Bush's policy of promoting democracy and freedom, but will be extremely reluctant to use military force.
"reserving the right to take pre-emptive military action against threats that could involve weapons of mass destruction."
If the next President is a Democrat, this plank goes straight onto the trash heap; pre-emptive military action is absolute anathema to any of today's Democrats. And a Republican, after seeing the unmitigated Hell that Bush has been put through for his pre-emptive action in Iraq, is not going to be much better.
All things considered, I think the author's belief that the Bush Doctrine will survive beyond the next two years is extremely optimistic.
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One problem here...
"...the profoundly dysfunctional political culture..."
Unfortunately the political culture is dysfunctional because the social and religious culture on which it is based are equally if not more dysfunctional.
While I support Bush &co. and wish them luck on the endeavor to change the Mid East. I doubt it can be done if the religious and social cultures are not also overthrown.
To maintain the Bush Doctrine, whomever followed Bush would have to have his courageous vison, titanium skin, and stainless steel balls... And there probably aren't any out there who fill the bill. He's a one-off, forged in (and under) fire - from within and without.
Ankle-biters are welcome to dispute this, not that I give a shit. If we survive, we'll talk - in say 2016 or so - and they can complain about the deficitgas taxyadda jizya being so high... in Arabomandarin.
In the raging 2006 controversy over military commissions lies the pressing 2008 question: Can the nation afford a President John McCain?
Of all the wars fought in American history, the war on terror or whatever we are calling it this week is uniquely about intelligence. Al Qaeda, or better yet, the metaphorical ummah on whose behalf all Islamo-fascists purport to wage jihad, does not have a territory or a public fisc to defend. In what Norman Podhoretz sagely dubs World War IV, we cannot win by conquering land or seizing treasure. Embargoes and diplomacy will not do.
The universal, reciprocal chivalry that guided warriors, and nation-states, when young John McCains unflinching valor blazed its legend on the honor-roll of American heroes no longer obtains.
Now, the enemy is barbaric, and the only weapon is intelligence.
We confront a transnational terror network that projects force like a nation but slithers in the shadows that gleefully dares a superpowers shock-and-awe to create civilian charnel houses for a rabid global media. Bombing, after all, can get you only so far especially if the enemies who most threaten you have embedded in London or Manhattan. In this war, there is one overriding question: Where are they? Where are they so we can capture or kill them before they mass-murder us? Where are they so we can disrupt the next attack the one with hi-tech weapons that could make 9/11 look like a training exercise?
Senator McCain and his entourage, Senators Lindsey Graham and John Warner, are making it ever more difficult to answer that question. They, like the JAG corps they champion, lack the vision to peer beyond familiar standards designed for dated challenges. They are an anachronism. We can admire their moorings in an era of honor of nation-states and humanity and civilized hostilities. But we cant afford it if they look at Zarqawi and see Hector.
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The ultimate Tranzi mumbles into his drool cup speaks. For every point where he touches upon fact, eh meanders through 4 or 5 Tranzi talking points. My hands are wrung out, already.
Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned that Europe and the United States must unite to head off a "war of civilizations" arising from a nuclear-armed Middle East.
In an opinion column in the Washington Post, the renowned foreign policy expert said the potential for a "global catastrophe" dwarfed lingering transatlantic mistrust left over from the Iraq war.
"A common Atlantic policy backed by moderate Arab states must become a top priority, no matter how pessimistic previous experience with such projects leaves one," Kissinger wrote.
"The debate sparked by the Iraq war over American rashness vs. European escapism is dwarfed by what the world now faces.
"Both sides of the Atlantic should put their best minds together on how to deal with the common danger of a wider war merging into a war of civilizations against the background of a nuclear-armed Middle East."
Kissinger wrote that the big threat lay in the erosion of nation states and the emergence of transnational groups. Iran was at the centre of the challenge, he said, with its support for Hezbollah, radical Shiite groups in Iraq and its nuclear program.
Washington must accept that many European nations were more optimistic about talks designed to convince Iran to halt uranium enrichment -- a process Tehran denies is aimed at making weapons, he wrote.
But in return, he said, Europe should accept the process must include a "bottom line" beyond which diplomatic flexibility must not go and a time limit to ensure talks did not become a shield for "developing new assaults."
In the article, Kissinger, national security adviser for former president Richard Nixon, and secretary of state for Nixon and his successor Gerald Ford, warned the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah was still dangerous, after its month-long conflict with Israel.
"Hezbollah's next move is likely to be an attempt to dominate the Beirut government by intimidation and, using the prestige gained in the war, manipulating democratic procedures," he said.
He concluded by noting that observers wondered whether, after the Cold War, trans-Atlantic ties could survive the loss of a common enemy.
"We now know that we face the imperative of building a new world order or potential global catastrophe. It cannot be done alone by either side of the Atlantic. Is that realization sufficient to regenerate a common purpose?" And this is why I posted it under "Opinion" for it 'tis purely so. Sometimes, when I see him interviewed or an op-ed piece appears, I'm irritated they pay attention to him mildly surprised. I keep wishing he would just die, already thinking he's passed on.
Via Murdoc Online, a great collection of slides from a briefing by Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, IV and Maj. Gen. William McCoy on the situation in Baghdad and environs.
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Jim McGreevey must be relieved. Casting about for just the right talk show to unveil the story of his spiritual journey to the center of himself, he bypassed "The 700 Club" and went directly to "The Oprah Winfrey Show" without passing Go!, collecting $200, or stopping at the John Fenwick Service Area for a sexual tryst. Didn't even need a "Get Out of Jail Free" card to escape the tormented prison of his soul.
No, all the former New Jersey governor needed was a place to discuss his new book, The Confession. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that McGreevey chose the Queen of Harpo Productions "because of her sense of faith and spirituality..." And praytell just what kind of 'faith' would that be?
It's no surprise that after two failed marriages, years of clandestine homosexual romps unknown to unsuspecting second wife Dina, and two years removed from his "I am a gay American" resignation speech, McGreevey wants to worship at the Church of Oprah. They're a perfect match. He should expect nothing less than absolution and congratulations for finally discovering his true self and never having to change his ways after mouthing the words, "I'm sorry." That's what McGreevey was forced to do in August 2004 after Golan Cipel, an Israeli citizen who served as the former governor's homeland security aide, threatened to sue him for sexual harassment. Ah, repentance without repentance. I like Oprah's church.
"I am...here today because, shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony," McGreevey said two years ago. "It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable. And for this, I ask the forgiveness and the grace of my wife."
Despite his stated contrition, the episode still didn't stop him from continuing to violate his bonds of matrimony. But that doesn't matter, because in the daytime television house of worship that sells books, McGreevey's rehabilitation is complete: He stays the same, cavorting with men, while simultaneously turning another former spouse into a single mother and two daughters into ones with a part-time daddy. I guess those casualties are a small price to pay for personal fulfillment and gratification. Ok, now I get it. The God of self-gratification Church.
"He's a totally different person," said New Jersey state senator Ray Lesniak, a McGreevey friend denying the obvious, in another AP story. "He is so much more comfortable with who he is; you can see it in his body language."
Shortly after his resignation announcement, according to the report, McGreevey had "lean(ed) on friends, family, and faith as he began a long and difficult process of reassembling his life as he wanted it to be." With the transition complete, "that life is quite full. His sprawling house is alive with pets and parties...typically showcasing a guest list that combines a mix of McGreevey's new gay friends, old political chums such as Lesniak, and the former governor's parents." Seems to like that word 'faith'. Wonder if he knows what it means?
It makes sense. Who wouldn't want to replace a wife and child with menageries and menages? It's a rebuilt lifestyle tailor-made for an offering to Oprah, where the mottos "Use Your Life" and "Live Your Best Life" are trademarked and copyrighted.
The Confession covers McGreevey's life as a false heterosexual; his deception of two women to the point of conceiving children with them; his corrupt administration and political downfall; and his ultimate finding of himself in the embrace of an Australian financial advisor (his partner, Mark O'Donnell). It marks the image transformation of McGreevey from a man who ran around trying to hide promiscuous sexual activity into one who doesn't care any more who knows about it.
"They are two different people," Lesniak said of McGreevey as governor, compared to the new, transformed McGreevey. "The first person was very guarded and very concerned about how he was perceived. He was driven to achieve and was somewhat uncomfortable. The McGreevey I know now has accepted who he is and has shared that with the rest of the world. He is comfortable with himself and concerned about being authentic to himself and his beliefs."
So the exaltation of self-fulfillment reigns. Family concerns, job responsibilities, and sacrificial behavior be damned. All come and bow down at Oprah's altar and be affirmed in your indulgence. And all of Oprah's people said: Amen.
The Drew Carey show was real funny, in a not-very subtil way, especially in original version; I've read nice things about Drew in "Bitter waitresses, I'm glad to see the rest of the cast is non-idiotarian as well, refreshing. Hat tip the No Pasaran! folks.
I say! A great hearty fat, drunken, gout-stricken 18th-Century English lord's guffaw over the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's study "Many Americans Uneasy with Mix of Religion and Politics"!
Why the guffaw? Because of the media conniption the report (released on August 24) precipitated, of course. The upshot was that "The Democratic Party continues to face a serious 'God problem' with just 26% [of Americans] saying the party is friendly to religion." If that doesn't inspire laughter, nothing does.
As a friend of mine recently said: It took America 30 years to realize radical Islam had been at war with us for 30 years.
Yet what so many of us have known (again, for around 30 years) is finally official due to the conclusion of the august research body, quoted for years by the Right and Left and everyone in between! No. Really? Democrats lean to the left? The Left is anti-God (as well as anti-national interest, anti-capitalism, anti-family and anti-everything else most of us hold dear)? Most Americans have a problem with this? You have got to be kidding!
Of course the Pew report didn't inspire laughter amongst prominent Democrats. Talking heads scrambled on air to refute, banter over, or just plain spin away this revelation (or inexplicable, horrendous error), including one Fox News contributor and democratic strategist I wouldn't mind seeing fed to the Crips (not that they'd ever gain access to her gated community).
"I'm a Democrat. I'm religious. I go to church," the aforementioned she-head argued. Yes, yes -- of course you are; of course you do. As I pointed out in a column a few years back, there wasn't one Sunday during Bill Clinton's presidency that the television news networks failed to show him leaving church that morning. The fact that he was getting sloppily serviced under the desk by Monica Lewinsky on Mondays apparently means little to this variety of religious Democrat.
While I'm at it -- and particularly since I'm a person of color: If they keep Hell hot for anyone, it's going to be the Black "reverends" who, over the years, have handed their congregations (and the Black vote) over to the serpents of the far Left for their own gain.
Of course we're all human, and the honest Christian will admit to being flawed -- personally flawed -- beyond the "God please don't smite us for the wiggly worms we are" litanies droned on Sundays. But there's a difference between the runner who occasionally stumbles, the one who runs to look good, and the one who never misses the chance to trip a fellow runner.
Does God Love the Democrat? According to what I've been taught: Sure He does. Can one be a Democrat and a godly person? Of course one can. Who can discern between those merely posturing and the sincere? In the end, only God, I suppose. We earthbound do have some pretty good indicators, however. They have to do with common-sense consistency -- or inconsistency, as the case may be...
Conservatives and many religious leaders have asserted for a long time that those who lay claim to spirituality, religiosity, and Christianity in particular are keeping highly questionable bedfellows if aligned with the Democrat Party. Save for the fringe parties that overtly deride notions of God and Country, it's been clear for quite awhile that the Democratic National Committee and the party's state level leadership are brazen and shameless idolaters, worshipping only guile, power and money.
Can a Democrat claim to be a godly person and align himself or herself with those who believe that God has no place in our society?
You see, this goes beyond accusing Christian Democrats of being hypocrites because they're pro-abortion, or Christian Republicans hypocrites because they support the death penalty and the war in Iraq. In the strictest sense, killing is serious spiritual business, but conservative arguments have more to do with what our posture concerning issues says about us, and how it affects our culture. The Sixth Commandment doesn't say "don't kill," it says "don't murder;" how some translate Christ's turning of the other cheek into "if they want to kill you, let them" is beyond my ability to warp logic.
The facts speak for themselves. The Democrat leadership in America has been hijacked by the far Left. The far Left's goal is to make the State god, and to cultivate a society in which the masses are slaves to earthly things (whether sex, drugs and money or mere survival) and in which only the most ruthless gangsters thrive.
The question is not "Can a Democrat claim to be religious?" The men who turned Christ over for crucifixion were religious. The real question is: Can a sincerely spiritual individual be party to actualizing the far Left's vision for America with a clear conscience?
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"There wasn't one Sunday during Bill Clinton's presidency that the television news networks failed to show him leaving church that morning." Well put. I dont consider myself very religious because I dont attend every Sunday, but my family/friends think I am a zealot because I attend more than twice a year. I believe God judges by your action rather than your attendance in an organized activity.
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True enough, but the point of the piece is not whether a person attends church or not.
The real question is: Can a sincerely spiritual individual be party to actualizing the far Left's vision for America with a clear conscience?
That depends on which God you're talking about. If it's the "Mother Earth" god, or the "crystal gazing" god or the "I'm ok, you're ok" god, maybe so. But if it's the God who places all those 'unreasonable' demands, moral expectations and Commandments on you, the answer is a definitive NO.
...H/T to Rand Simberg over at www.transterrestrial.com - this one is a beaut.
I am now convinced, more than ever, that the Bush pirate crew is going to pull another 9-11 before the November elections. I think they are going to declare martial law. Then when the public hits the streets in protest, they are going to trot out these "active denial" microwave weapons for crowd control. And if anyone stands around too long they will be killed, just like is happening today in Iraq.
They will use these weapons in order to "dissuade" the American people from thinking that we can non-violently protest to save our country from fascism. They are then hoping that activists will either give up and go home, or turn violent and then the military will be given the go-ahead to take people out - just like we see them doing in Iraq today.
The clamp down is coming. Folks had better come alive now before it is too late. The Bush team has decided that they do not intend to give up power. They are going to make a play for total control of the oil in the Middle East and Central Asia and will not be slowed down by elections.
There is too much money to be made by controlling the world's oil and by having endless war. Profits of the oil corporations and weapons industry have gone through the roof since 2001. They are not about to return to business as usual - back to the days prior to 9-11.
I hope my prediction on this is wrong. But from where I sit all the strands are coming together. Who would seriously doubt that at some point Bush/Cheney, who obviously do not believe in democracy, would not play their cards out all the way?
Mike
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On second thought, this isn't funny. He's obviously one of the professionally demented assholes. The funding for the thousands of such morons is not funny at all. Major bucks are being expended to spread the dementia.
A reckoning is coming for all of these interests, and I hope it's a harsh sumbitch.
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Titles are a funny thing. A girlfriend of mine has "World headquarters of ---- Company, Inc" etched on the door of her home office. That way, should she ever get a commission in Canada or Mexico, she'll be prepared. It doesn't cost anything extra to be a world headquarters, either.
I googled the organization, and got this interesting bit: In 1998 Gagnon left the FCPJ wanting to work full time on space issues and began serving as volunteer Coordinator of the GN as it has begun to make the effort to become a self sustaining membership organization.
Now that www.transterrestrial.com has dealt with the White House, would someone PLEASE have them investigate and inform Capt. Queeg who stole the strawberries. He is anxious to know.
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OH NO! Not the "Active denial" microwave weapons!
And here I thought active denial was a river in Egypt.
Al
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I hope my prediction on this is wrong. But from where I sit all the strands are coming together
So if your prediction is wrong, can I suggest a penance ? Drink 4 ounces of Draino followed by a glass of water.
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Damn, I thought it might be "Talk Like A Pirate Day®" again.
YARRR!, WE BE SO UPSET IT WERE ONLY A TINFOIL HATTED SKALAWAG ALARUM!....YARRR!
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Damn, I thought it might be "Talk Like A Pirate Day®" again.
Aye, me hearties! That be September 19, no doubt the day Jolly George and Black Dick plan their coup. Arr!
A girlfriend of mine has "World headquarters of ---- Company, Inc" etched on the door of her home office.
Used to be a place near me that was the "Intergalactic Headquarters" of something-or-other. Fairly large building, too. They moved. I hear labor is cheaper in the Magellanic Clouds.
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.
It was the Canadian Left at its absolute insensitive and appalling worst. 
When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week that he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
