Yesterday I went to my alma mater to chat with some professors. In my mind, the highlight of the day was going to be having lunch with a good friend of mine, Bill Dautierieve. Instead, the highlight of the day was visiting the bathroom, one floor down from my old office, last stall, next to the painted over window. There is something comforting about the familiar feel of porcelain, the 'grout' jokes written in pencil in the tiny space between tiles, and the tag announcing that some one from the 32nd Street Crips had shared the experience in 1999. Ah, how rare the toilet induced melancholy!

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From Mehr News (Iran)

Iran announces readiness to resume nuclear activities: source
TEHRAN, July 27 (MNA) -- In a formal letter to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, Iran has announced that it is prepared to resume nuclear activities at some nuclear centers in the next few days, a European diplomat said in Vienna on Wednesday.

AP: Iran achieves solid fuel technology
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said for the first time Wednesday it has fully developed solid-fuel technology in producing missiles, a major breakthrough that increases the accuracy of missiles hitting targets.

The Shahab-3, with a range of 810 miles to more than 1,200 miles, is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching Israel and U.S. forces in the Middle East.

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Conservative Friends has started a new weekly feature called Featured Blog of the Week. Each week I pick a blog that impresses me and highlight the blog and its author. This week's featured blog is Libertarian Leanings Look for it every Tuesday.

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Four dissident unions representing about one-third of the union members in the US will boycott the upcoming AFL-CIO Convention. The boycott is more than symbolic. Two of the unions, the Service Employees Union and the Teamsters, have already withdrawn from the federation. The reason given for the withdrawal, as announced by MSM, is that the AFL-CIO has placed too much emphasis on political lobbying at the expense of membership recruitment, and for once MSM isn't far off the mark. more...

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This almost completely passed me by. I heard a snippet of this report on the radio today, and made a mental note to get a post up about it. I damn near forgot. Time to wake up, dhimmis:

July 26, 2005 — Five Egyptian men with maps of the New York City subway system and video of New York landmarks have been arrested by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark, N.J., ABC News has learned.

FBI and law enforcement officials told ABC News the five men — four illegal immigrants and one law enforcement fugitive — were arrested Sunday night following a tip to the Newark Police Department. In addition to the subway maps and video, the men had train schedules and $8,000 in $20 and $50 bills.

It's not a game, it's not happy happy funtime. What happened in London can happen here, what happened in Egypt can happen here, what happens in Israel every goddamned week can happen here.

Richard's post below was exactly right. This was going on well before Iraq, well before 9/11. I'm old enough that I watched the coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Palesimian terrorists. And it's not going to stop until Islamofascism is defeated, the dream of the global ummah crushed, and the jihadis who believe in it killed, incarcerated, and humiliated into reform.

CP@VAM

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By Demosophist

To The Michael Yon [Not Wretchard. Sheesh one would think you guys would've saved me some embarrassment by cluing me in to the mistake. At least I had the link right.]:

The enemy in Iraq does not appear to be weakening; if anything, they are becoming smarter, more complicated and deadlier. But this does not mean they are winning; to imply that getting smarter and deadlier equates to winning, is fallacious. Most accounts of the situation in Iraq focus on enemy "successes" (if success is re-defined as annihiliation of civility), while redacting the increasing viability and strength of the Iraqi government, which clearly is outpacing the insurgency.

(Cross-posted by Demosophist to Demosophia)

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The story about Bin Laden attempting to poison cocaine is just dying for a contest. A headline/post title contest.

Here's an example: "That Snow Jihad." (groan)

The winner will have the satisfaction of knowing that he/she made thousands of people spew drinks on screens, hit their head from falling off the chair, or even peeing their pants.

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First - an update on the Islamists and what the world is and isn't doing about their primitive, base, archaic, and inhuman views, actions, and perversions. (News)

In the name of Allah: A World Bank "Country Assistance Strategies" report on Pakistan estimated that 15-20% of madrassas are involved in military-related teaching and training. The World Bank maintains that the radicalization process started with their politicization during the 1980s.(So we see that the Islamist view of religion is to use God's name to further their political agenda steeped in a perversion of what moderate Muslim's, sitting outside what has become mainstream Islam, view as their faith)

Open Season For Jihadis: KARACHI - Sophisticated terror attacks using the minimum possible resources to target civilians are the issue of the day, whether it be in Egypt, the United Kingdom or Spain. (And the U.S.; I suggest that it's time to make it open season ON jihadis and those even dreaming about it)

Terror war officially recast as 'struggle': The Bush administration is retooling its slogan for the fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, pushing the idea that the long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle as a military mission. (A little late to get started in the right direction, but better late than never!)

Blair: World slept after 9/11 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that much of the world had dropped its guard to the threat of terrorism after the "wake-up call" of the 9/11 attacks of 2001. (In his saying that "Britain would not give "one inch" to terrorists and said it was time to confront them "on every single level,"" it looks like we've just seen the first yawn in Britain's wake-up to the fact of Islam being a threat to their continued existence, as they now know it,)

Turkey al-Faisal wants intensified search for Bin Laden: The new Saudi Arabian ambassador to the USA, Prince Turkey al-Faisal, called for the deployment of more forces and weapons in the search operation for the leader of al-Qaida movement, Osama Bin Laden. Prince Turkey said that "we know that Bin Laden is in an area where it is very difficult to chase him, and therefore there is a need for more assets, people and ammunition." (Now, let's see if he can walk the walk)

Egypt terror probe widens: Police said Monday they were searching for five Pakistani men in their widening investigation into Egypt's deadliest terror attack, which killed scores of people at this Red Sea resort. (Egyptian authorities continue to portray the Taba bombings as an extension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, instead of openly recognizing it as a homegrown Islamic militant movement or an al Qaeda-linked operation.)

Islam Dominates Iraq's Draft Constitution: Framers of Iraq's constitution will designate Islam as the main source of legislation - a departure from the model set down by U.S. authorities during the occupation - according to a draft published Tuesday. The draft states no law will be approved that contradicts "the rules of Islam" - a requirement that could affect women's rights and set Iraq on a course far different from the one envisioned when U.S.-led forces invaded in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein. "Islam is the official religion of the state and is the main source of legislation," reads the draft published in the government newspaper Al-Sabah. "No law that contradicts with its rules can be promulgated." (They get the right to vote, then the guys that won the election totally give in to the Sunnis, the guys that wouldn't even show up at the polls, and turn the whole country back to the stone age. Well, that must make sense to somebody, but not me.)

'BIN LADEN'S COCAINE PLOT': Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike it with poison and sell it in the United States hoping to kill thousands, according to reports. (Well, it would deter drug use, would it not?)

BLAIR'S ATTACK ON TERROR: The Prime Minister has said Iraq is just an excuse for terrorists, insisting there is no justification for what they do. And he said he wants to "expose the obscenity" of the terrorists' "warped logic". Speaking passionately at his monthly news briefing, he said the roots of terrorism go much deeper than Iraq or Afghanistan.(I think Tony is right-on here, my only question is what logic of the terrorists is he refering to as warped? In my mind, the Islamic terrorists have NO logic or mind to be logical with! They are simply mindless inhuman criminals)

And all of this is happening because of Iraq, you say. Well ....

We all awakened this morning to yet another day of tension in the world brought upon it by a group of people that our governments have been lying to us about for years, telling us over and over about those peaceful, kindly, loving, Islamists.

In case you've been in a cave with no contact with the outside world since the late 1960s, assuming you are old enought to do so, you should recall that it was then that the Palestinian secular movements such as Al Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) began to target civilians outside the immediate arena of conflict.

That was when the creation of Israel gave birth to a series of Marxist and anti-Western transformations and movements throughout the Arab and Islamic world, and it was these nationalist and revolutionary style movements, along with their view that terrorism could be effective in reaching political goals(a key component of the Islamic agenda), that the first phase of modern international Islamic terrorism was established. And ever since that time, the Islamists have been using Israel as one of their excuses for murder and mayhem to further their political agenda throughout the world with the ultimate goal of establishing the Caliphate.

But it was in 1979 that a turning point occured in international terrorism. It was then that throughout the Arab world and the West, the Iranian Islamic revolution sparked fears of a wave of revolutionary Shia Islam. Meanwhile, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent anti-Soviet mujahedeen war, lasting from 1979 to 1989, stimulated the rise and expansion of terrorist groups. It was the growth of a post-jihad pool of well-trained, battle-hardened militants that began the key trend in the international terrorism and insurgency-related violence that we see today.

It was then that, in a manner that we see repeated today, volunteers from various parts of the Islamic world fought in Afghanistan, supported by conservative countries such as Saudi Arabia. In Yemen, for instance, the Riyadh-backed Islamic Front was established to provide financial, logistical, and training support for Yemeni volunteers. So called "Arab-Afghans" and their counterparts of today, have - and still are - using their experience to support local insurgencies throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Kashmir, Chechnya, China, Bosnia, and the Philippines.

Jumping ahead a few years, we come to Osama bin-Laden. It was on August 23, 1996 that he made the statement, "it is essential to hit the main enemy who divided the Ummah [Arab world] into small and little countries." That enemy, he said, is America and Israel.

With those words, he made it clear that Al-Qaeda's objective is not limited to U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East, the 'out of Iraq' demand made by Islamists and suggested by liberal appeasers of Islamic terrorism. Rather, Al-Qaeda views getting the West to pull out of Iraq and the Middle East as a necessary prerequisite to the attainment of its ultimate goal: the establishment of an Islamist super-state ruled by the harshest version of Islamic law, primed to re-conquer formerly Muslim lands and pursue an aggressive expansionist agenda. more...

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1 "In the name of Allah: A World Bank "Country Assistance Strategies" report on Pakistan estimated that 15-20% of madrassas are involved in military-related teaching and training. " And 100% of the Israeli youth serve in the military.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 04:22 PM (/+dAV)

2 And 100 percent of Greg's brain is dog vomit. It is the dog vomit he eats every time he goes to DU(not Ducks Unlimited, a wonderful organization) and Indymedia. He continues to throw up and eat the same dog vomit over and over. Greg, you idiot, just how many people do you think Israel has? A very small number, so yes, to survive, almost all of Israeli youth serve in the military. Why don't you go post on your own sucky blog? Or better yet, go smoke some dope with your buddy Downing Street Memo moonbat. Then go to Indymedia and stay there and post with your loser friends.

Posted by: jesusland joe at July 26, 2005 04:38 PM (DDXXI)

3 Oh, by the way, Greg, you and your loser friends better watch out. Osama has been trying to find a way to poison the cocaine supply. I sure wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you. Regards!

Posted by: jesusland joe at July 26, 2005 04:44 PM (DDXXI)

4 Only religious fanatic Bush could take two secular countries where men and women were equal, militarize it, put wackos in power there and then let it be taken over by repressive nutcases. Hint: Mesopotamia is just one, guess the other after you look down at your feet!

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 26, 2005 04:52 PM (ScqM8)

5 JESUSBOY: Osama has been trying to find a way to poison the cocaine supply." He'd have better luck with the opium supply that is blooming now in Afghanistan.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 05:01 PM (/+dAV)

6 UBL is a SCUMBAG!

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 26, 2005 05:07 PM (ScqM8)

7 I hope he does poison the cocaine and heroine supply....

Posted by: Mr. K at July 26, 2005 06:12 PM (COM7H)

8 'BIN LADEN'S COCAINE PLOT': Osama bin Laden tried to buy a massive amount of cocaine, spike it with poison and sell it in the United States hoping to kill thousands, according to reports. OMG, that is brilliant! Imagine a world with no stinky stoner hippies! Gee, maybe this Osama dude's not so bad after all.

Posted by: Princess Kimberley at July 26, 2005 06:22 PM (LNA9X)

9 Sewermouth Kimberley, You are such a Coulter wannabe - go to Saudi Arabia and fight your counter-jihad!

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 26, 2005 06:29 PM (ScqM8)

10 Kimberly, I think you touched a nerve, and I like it! Keep up the great work. Greg, why don't you answer the question or respond in a logical way to what's being said? I know the answer. You're nothing but a stupid troll, and you should have been banned from this site a long time ago. Rusty, you are a patient man.

Posted by: jesusland joe at July 26, 2005 07:52 PM (DDXXI)

11 Haeseussland - Taliban are having a bumper crop of juicy opium poppies, just for you! Too much opium means a lower price and angry warlords. Therefore, UBL wants to divert cash flow out of Latin America's cartels and back into the Taliban by poisoning the Coke. All the coke addicts scared of Coke will switch and pay the Taliban, get it??

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 26, 2005 07:59 PM (ScqM8)

12 UBL is DSM's daddy. Birds of a feather. One as much a danger to American troops as the other.

Posted by: greyrooster at July 26, 2005 08:23 PM (CBNGy)

13 Klanrooster, Bush and Bin Laden are jealous when you get between them.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 26, 2005 09:02 PM (ScqM8)

14 maybe Osama will do something really stupid, like tring to steal a good amount of Coke and that will start a war between Al-Quada and the South American drug cartels....how wonderfull that would be....it could happen, as evil has a tendency to turn on itself...you know, no honor among thieves...actually makes me think how good it would be if DSM and greg turned on each other....hmmmmm

Posted by: THANOS35 at July 26, 2005 09:17 PM (9gFP6)

15 TANOS, if goddamn goat-jumper Bin Laden was stupid, he wouldn't be such a cursed problem to us, now would he?

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 26, 2005 10:12 PM (ScqM8)

16 i didnt say he might be stupid, just the chance that he would make a mistake.....the criminal type are great for doing that, specially the onees who think they are so smart....they get so cocky that they fuck up and do something really stupid and/or desperate...you really dont read into the posts much, do you???

Posted by: THANOS35 at July 26, 2005 10:41 PM (9gFP6)

17 BIN LADEN IS TOAST when we catch his sorry ass!!!!!!!

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 26, 2005 10:54 PM (ScqM8)

18 Downing Street Moron: Take your medicine. You must take your medicine or they will lock you up again.

Posted by: greyrooster at July 28, 2005 04:24 AM (CBNGy)

19 Lock your own ass up Klanpigporkerrooster.

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(Denver, CO) Following up on previous posts (here and here), 40-year-old Sylvia Ann Johnson was charged with sexual assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for hosting weekly sex-drug parties for teenage boys. In accordance with a plea agreement, she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor sex-assault counts and nine felony counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

No sentencing date has been disclosed, but Johnson could spend 58 years in prison if the book is thrown at her. Two felony drug charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement.

To summarize, Johnson committed the crimes because she wasn't a cool kid in high school and, as a result, it seems she'll be spending a nice stretch in the cooler. How ironic.

[Update 1820 EDT] According to this report, Johnson will be sentenced on September 26. Also,

Each sexual assault count carries up to two years in jail and a fine of $5,000, and each contributing count carries up to six years in prison and a $500,000 fine, according to Pam Russell, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

Companion post w/pics at Interested-Participant.

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Crazy, amazing story up at the NY Post. (Registration required-numbskulls!) Sources told the DEA that Osama met with Colombian cartel leaders, and discussed buying tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine from them, poisoning it, and shipping it on to America to kill thousands of cokeheads.

The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached decided it would be bad for their business - and, possibly, for their own health, according to law-enforcement sources familiar with the Drug Enforcement Administration's probe of the aborted transaction. The feds were told of the scheme earlier this year, but its existence had never been made public. The Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA's findings in the matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with the case.

Damn tootin' it would be bad for business! (pun intended.) Let's see: the cartels have a guaranteed annual income in the, oh, high hundred millions from these people, and Mister Turban Pants here wants to murder them all at once? Ever hear that story about the goose and the golden egg? That's a no-brainer for these rational businessmen, especially since such a collaboration would cause America to go all Clear & Present Danger--or more likely, Without Remorse-- upon their comfortable, secure buttockses.

So it's no surprise that the cartels turned Osama down. What's surprising is that he made such an idiotic offer in the first place--if in fact he did, and this source isn't just shining the DEA on. (Which I think is the most likely explanation for this story.)

And the other huge surprise is that in 2002, the Cartel leaders allowed themselves to meet with this guy. That's a huge risk right there. In fact...

If this meeting really happened, I think what went down is this. The Cartels saw a huge opportunity here--negotiate with Bin Laden, shine him on, string him along...

...and put in a back-channel call to the CIA, saying that "we're meeting with Osama bin Laden at a certain secret place in a week, and we'll give him to you if you'll just look the other way on us for fifteen years. Nobody has to know, you guys just pick up OBL, and we just stay out of the picture and mind our own business".

That's what I'd do, if I were a cartel leader.

If you were President Bush, and you got that offer, what would you do?

PS: This Foxnews article has the same story without the registration requirement, plus a note about a story that somehow escaped my watchful eye: in April, we arrested Osama's (alleged) top heroin broker. In New York City.

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1 Yeah, but does that bus run on flatulance and flowers??

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at July 26, 2005 02:41 PM (WOQ34)

2 It runs on Freedom of Speech and the blood of our brave soldiers who shed it in an effort to protect it for her. I wish she'd stop crapping all over the people trying to truly help the world out. The stupid bitch.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at July 26, 2005 03:01 PM (AHaCg)

3 Completely tasteless shit. Don't make fun of handicapped people. You are helping the enemy. [changing your name doesn't help. Grow up and get a sense of humor, dipshit - MDV]

Posted by: Pigpen at July 26, 2005 03:24 PM (PX+vn)

4 ROTFLOL!!!! Hey, Pigpen, just rember, you are the one who specifically referred to Democrats as handicapped. I would presume you meant mentally.

Posted by: William Teach at July 26, 2005 03:54 PM (IRsCk)

5 Are you trying to imply that I am MDV? Well, you'd be wrong. Even though I've never met MDV, he strikes me as someone who would have the intestinal fortitude to be able to sign his own name to what he writes. As for your "grow up and get a sense of humor" line, isn't it you just paragraph above that says not to make fun of handicapped people? Lighten up, Frances.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at July 26, 2005 04:04 PM (AHaCg)

6 RomeoDelta, I put that in Pigpen's comment. He commented under a different name on a post I did a few days ago. But, after further review, I should give him kudos for noticing that Jane Fonda is, indeed, handicapped.

Posted by: Mad Dog Vinnie at July 26, 2005 04:12 PM (Kr6/f)

7 MDV - Thanks for the clarification. Feel free to strike my comments, as the premise they are based on is incorrect.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at July 26, 2005 04:18 PM (AHaCg)

8 Just so you know, I do know how to mask myself decently (check out my IP now, dear)... I just don't care to. Seriously though, calling a retarded person a democrat is insulting to the retarded people. There is a tastless old joke about arguing with people on the internet being like competeing in the special olympics (even if you win you beat a retard). I understand the humor in that and in your post, but I also don't think humor at the expense of mentally disabled folks is something that I want to be associated with... and if someone on my ideological side of the fence use the mentally disabled to make fun of our opposition, I am going to say something about it. If you can't let a post stand as posted- and you mock your opposition by name calling (calling them a tard)- you might be a liberal (not a redneck). Oh, and don't call me Francis, the name's Psycho.

Posted by: Col. North Pigpen at July 26, 2005 04:39 PM (YAEN3)

9 Wow, I'm impressed, you can shift IP addresses. That's uber-talent if I've ever seen it. When you figure out how to get around posts that have comments closed, let me know. The proper ending to the saying is "even if you win, you're still a retard." As for the rest of your comment, you do things your way, I'll do my things my way. Sound reasonable, Francis?

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Judges on Tuesday handed down a rare maximum life sentence with no possibility of parole to the Dutch-born Muslim who confessed to - and expressed no regret for - shooting, stabbing and nearly decapitating filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

The murder stunned the country, heightened ethnic tensions and raised concerns about homegrown Islamic terrorism here and elsewhere in Europe.

Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, had mounted no defense at his two-day trial for the Nov. 2 slaying of Van Gogh, whom he accused of insulting Islam, and told the court he would do it again if given the chance.

Sorry chump, as much as I would like to have seen you fry, be shot, hanged, or worse, at least I get the satisfaction of knowing that you'll not soon receive your 72 toothless French whores in Paradise.

Okay, back to work.

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Joe Huffman, who writes the blog The View From North Central Idaho, may have been fired because his employer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a government contractor, didn't like his views on the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms. According to Huffman, he was terminated without cause and without any opportunity to defend himself. Huffman's full account of the incident can be read here:

With a two inch high stack of printouts from Huffman's websites in front of him, Sutherland and McMillan explained they had a problem with some of his postings, claiming that Huffman had released business and customer sensitive information on his blog. Huffman, who has a high level security clearance, had made indistinct statements about work on his blog. There was no classified information on any of his websites.

When Huffman asked for specific details about what was wrong, they refused specifics. He repeatedly ask for a copy of the printouts, but was only allowed to see the top page.

Via The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.

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1 Go get 'em Huffman!

Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at July 26, 2005 11:37 AM (vbPWL)

2 Libs are true to their stalinist roots. And this post is yet more evidence that freedom today is threatened by the Left, not the Right. No, greg, I'm not saying they ARE stalinists, only that modern Liberalism can be traced in a straight line back to the Bolshevik revolution. What we have in modern Liberalism is basically a kind of soft stalinism, and it's "soft" because they don't have the force of government to back them up. Or they'll fire you if they can. Also, they'll rant and rage and try to shut people up using PC speech codes and accusations of "hate" and "racism" and "nazi", and blah blah blah. They're frustrated stalinists.

Posted by: Carlos at July 26, 2005 11:47 AM (8e/V4)

3 If PNNL had a problem with his blog for which they intended to fire Huffman, they needed to explicate what aspect of his employment was violated by his blogging and give evidence, and they needed to demonstrate how they warned him of the offense, which they didn't. Otherwise, they should have simply laid him off, exercising their right under an at-will contract, assuming that was their agreement. The way they did this leaves them open to a labor dispute that could cost, along with negative publicity that will have an impact on business and morale. But the joke's on them: Trying to silence Second Ammendment support among bloggers is just spitting into the wind.

Posted by: tee bee at July 26, 2005 12:01 PM (q1JHF)

4 I also support the Bill; of Rights. I am looking at 2 long guns in my office right now. I have used them to kill lots of animals which I like to eat. I will also use them to defend my family if need be. Progressives be damned! PETA is full of sh-t and so is Pelosi. Carlos - - Joe was a real as-hole but you should capitalize his name anyway. Why stop in 1917 why no got back to THE CAPITAL?

Posted by: Rod Stanton at July 26, 2005 12:02 PM (Z6yVb)

5 I agree Carlos. The thought police are gonna PC America right into the ground. I think I read somewhere that we used to be able to hate our enemies and say derogatory things about them. Must have been nice to be able to say what you feel instead of having to do the PC tapdance.

Posted by: REMF at July 26, 2005 12:08 PM (aLiCo)

6 Carlos:I'm not saying they ARE stalinists, only that modern Liberalism can be traced in a straight line back to the Bolshevik revolution. " Carlos, Good point. Read about the Jewish influence in the Bolshevik revolution. "Amongst themselves, the Jews are quite candid about their sympathy for and involvement in Bolshevism. On 4 April 1919 the Jewish Chronicle: "There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism." (Perhaps this explains why the Red Army uses a Jewish star as its symbol?) Probably the best-known exposé of the Jewish role in the Bolshevik coup d'état was by Sir Winston Churchill, writing in the Illustrated Sunday Herald of 8 February 1920. Churchill wrote "With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of leading figures are Jews. Moreover the principal inspiration and the driving power comes from Jewish leaders." Communism was of course founded by Karl Marx whose grandfather was a rabbi by the name of Mordeccai. Marx was given his initial encouragement by a Communist-Zionist by the name of Moses Hess. As founder and editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, the main organ of leftist thought in Germany, he provided Karl Marx with his first important platform. Later, in Brussels, he collaborated with Marx on The German Ideology. It was Hess too who converted to Communism Friedrich Engels, the wealthy textiles magnate who later subsidised Marx from the profits of sweated labour in Britain and Germany. When the Bolsheviks overthrew the short-lived democratic government in Moscow and St. Petersburg in October 1917, it was a virtual Jewish coup d'état. The most prominent Jewish Commissar was Trotsky, real name Bronstein. He had been married by a rabbi in 1900, and whilst in exile in New York he had worked for Novy Mir, described in the Church Times (23 January 1925) as a "Yiddish newspaper." The various reporters and diplomats who were there at the time of the "Revolution" have given evidence as to its Jewish nature. The widow of the Guardian's correspondent Mrs. Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams wrote: "In the Soviet Republic all the committees and commissaries were filled with Jews." The most detailed description of Jewish influence in the Bolshevik 'revolution comes from Robert Wilton, the Russian correspondent of The Times. In 1920 he published a book in French, Les Derniers Jours des Romanofs, which gave the racial background of all the members of the Soviet government. (This does not appear in the later English translation, for some odd reason.) After the publication of this monumental work, Wilton was ostracised by the press, and he died in poverty in 1925. He reported that the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party was made up as follows: NAME NATIONALITY Bronstein (Trotsky) Jew Apfelbaum (Zinovief) Jew Lourie (Larine) Jew Ouritski Jew Volodarski Jew Rosenfeldt (Kamanef) Jew Smidovitch Jew Sverdlof (Yankel) Jew Nakhamkes (Steklof) Jew Ulyanov (Lenin) Russian Krylenko Russian Lounatcharski Russian " Read,'Robert Wilton, Russia's Agony (191 and The Last Days of the Romanovs (1920)." In 1920 he published a book in French, Les Derniers Jours des Romanofs, which gave the racial background of all the members of the Soviet government. (This does not appear in the later English translation, for some odd reason.) http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/wilton.html

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 12:10 PM (/+dAV)

7 Mark, Not my writing, merely a quotation.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 01:58 PM (/+dAV)

8 Mark, I just checked and you are wrong! The Russian Red Star has 5 points: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6537645495&category=36070

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 02:01 PM (/+dAV)

9 Mark Flacy:"Perhaps this indicates that you are unable to count to 6." Perhaps you should shut the fuck up. Perhaps you have 6 fingers and play a hell of a banjo.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 02:04 PM (/+dAV)

10 hm, I think his point was greg that the star of david, has six points, the Russian star you said has five, so how was he wrong?

Posted by: dave at July 26, 2005 02:14 PM (DO6vD)

11 Yes, I see. My apologies Mark. I think the rest of the article is very interesting though.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 03:13 PM (/+dAV)

12 Carlos: Excellent post. But why do you always have to get Greg the traitor started on the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOish thing.

Posted by: greyrooster at July 26, 2005 08:42 PM (CBNGy)

13 And Greg the traitor calls Greyrooster a racist. HA!

Posted by: greyrooster at July 26, 2005 08:43 PM (CBNGy)

14 I'm still astonished that Rusty allows this anti-semitic slime to comment here.

Posted by: SPQR at July 26, 2005 10:05 PM (xauGB)

15 How can it be anti-Semitic when it is the truth?

Posted by: greg at July 27, 2005 08:52 AM (/+dAV)

16 Bluto, interesting post, but can I have my comment back? I was addressing the topic, and then all hell broke loose. What kind of cave dweller draws corollaries from star points, and still gets it wrong?!? Pearls before swine and all.

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It's simple, the time of unions being powerful and relevant has long since past. Early in the 20th century when workers were oftentimes exploited by immensly powerful and heavy handed corporations the union was a natural, dare I say, even needed result.

The federal government oftentimes sided with the corporations (because they frequently were on the payroll as well) little power and few protections were afforded the average working man. The unions helped to fill the vacuum. They leveled the playing field forcing companies to negotiate with a partner of co-equal or near co-equal strength. Corporations were still powerful, profitable and growing but the situations improved for the average worker as well raising his pay, benefits and overall standard of living while at the same time affording him some basic protections.

Somewhere along the line the federal government decided they needed to be the protectorate of the American working man. Over a period of decades literally thousands of laws, edicts and madates spewed from within the bowells of the bureaucracy provided a giant "bubble" of collective immunization for the multitudes of average Joe's. This concurrent with the progressively increasing greed of the unions began to spell the end.

Companies no longer bargained from a position of superior or even co-equal power. They became the underdog being battered frontally by the unions and flanked by the federal government. Productivity waned, profits suffered. The corporations began to realize that they could not win a war against two such overwhelming opponents head to head.

The strategy they developed was multi-faceted and ingenious. First, when a union or the federal government makes doing business at a profit unfeasable, close up shop. Either move to a non-union area of the country or move offshore or even shut down completely. Second, preempt the union. Offer higher salaries, more benefits, better working conditions up front. A happy employee does not want to rock the boat. If he believes the union will not make things significantly better for him, why bother. The union wants 15% of his pay; Why vote for a union when the federal government and the company will do it for free. Lastly, eliminate as many working people as possible. If there is a machine that can do it, buy it. If there's technology out that that can eliminate men from the payroll, incorporate it. No matter how long it takes to break even on the investment, it's worth it. And so the paradigm has changed.

The Teamsters are right about one thing, the political obsession of the AFL-CIO has hurt them. After all at least a third of the card carrying union members vote Republican. It irritates these 30% that a big chunk of what was formerly their money is going to prop up Democrats. Many causes of which they personally disagree are being funded by their dues and that creates animosity in the ranks. The unions for a long time now have neglected to dance exclusively with the person that brung em.

Union membership is declining precipitously. Company's that continue to be beat up by them are destined to take one of the above courses of action. There may come a time when the only workers in this country remaining unionized are federal and municipal government employees. After all being that profit is not an issue, it's only the government as an employer who still is content to allow themselves to be extorted.

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The Teachings of Derwyn Lackey is a post written by a former student at the Center for Purposeful Living and takes you down the dark path of a cult "guru". I'd strongly recommend that everyone reads it.

I've also created a category at Our Life to house these posts to create a "one-stop-shop" for those seeking information about the group:

CPL/HSA/UfHG

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I hate writing this, but a good guy is grieving. Ron G., who writes the hilariously funny blog The Therapist, lost his father today.

Please send him your best, no matter what side you're on.

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Call me Donald Trump. Ok, not me exactly, but call loyal reader, Filthy Allah, Donald Trump. Thanks to his efforts, a British jihadi named Wasim Majid got fired.

On June 9th we posted some e-mail addresses from an al Qaeda support group masquerading as an X-Box bulletin board asking you, the readers, to e-mail these sons-of-bitches. To our surprise, one of the terrorist-loving assholes responded to quite a few readers.

It turns out he was British. Oh, and he worked for an immigration law-firm. Just the kind of person the Brits want working at an immigration law-firm: a jihadi or jihadi supporter.

Who knows, this piece of filth may have used his position to help other terrorist supporters into the U.K.? Pretty scary to think that pro-terrorist forces might become immigration lawyers and use their positions to bring more terrorists into Western countries.

Filthy Allah decided to contact the man's employer about the e-mail exchange he had with him. Long story short, just a few weeks after 7/7 the British law-firm has done the decent thing and fired Wasim Majid.

See ya, wouldn't want to be ya!

Note to British authorities: Now that Wasim is sans job, it might be in your best interests to keep an eye on the guy. Unemployment often gives rise to suicidal tendencies. Call me crazy, but the thought of a suicidal al Qaeda supporter wandering the streets of London makes me worry. Just a little.

UPDATE: And thanks to Jawa guest-poster The Dread Pundit Bluto, a jihadi journalist may have been fired! more...

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What is this? Don't these people have JOBS?

I couldn't wait to get home and post about Jane "Terrorists Need Love Too" Fonda's Leftard Express, but, alas, Both Chad and Suzanne beat me to it. Curse you!

I do have something to add though. I hope everyone will step up and get themselves some of these:

You can purchase them here.

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In an unattributed story on Friday, UK shrieking leftist paper The Guardian announced the firing of "journalist trainee" Dilpazier Aslam (who wrote this revolting opinion piece and turned out to be a member of a terrorist sympathizer organization), and may have libeled poor, inoffensive Bluto in the process:

Rightwing bloggers from the US, where the Guardian has a large online following, were behind the targeting last week of a trainee Guardian journalist who wrote a comment piece which they did not care for about the London bombings.
The story is a demonstration of the way the 'blogosphere' can be used to mount obsessively personalised attacks at high speed.

Perhaps the most extreme blog was posted by "dreadpundit", a right-wing New Yorker using the name "Bluto". He wrote: "Okay, Dilpazier, I've decided to bow to your 'logic' - sauce for the goose and all that. That's why I'm issuing a secular fatwah and asking for some loyal Briton to saw off your head and ship it to me (use Fed-Ex, please, so I can get a morning delivery, and do remember the dry ice, also, a videotape of the "execution")."

Disclaimer: I am not really interested in receiving the head of Dilpazier Aslam, nor do I advocate any act of violence against him. The spurious request is made to demonstrate via reductio ad absurdum that Aslam's logic is invalid, and, indeed, sophomoric in the extreme. This disclaimer is made because there is such an enormous number of imbeciles who advocate Leftist ideologies and who cannot be depended upon to recognize satirical comments. Forceps babies, each and every one of them.

Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.

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Jane Fonda to Oppose Iraq War on Bus Tour

Jane is up to her old traitorous tricks:

Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.
"I can't go into any detail except to say that it's going to be pretty exciting," she said.
Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on "vegetable oil." She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.

I dare any politician who pretends to be in favor of the war on terror to stand up and call this woman what she really is--a traitor to the American way.

I'm waiting.

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