| Nothing To See Here, Folks |
[May. 21st, 2009|04:34 pm] |
| At the risk of becoming one of those paranoid ranters against the "mainstream media," can somebody explain how The New York Times is serving its readers by headlining the busted terrorist plot to bomb two synagogues and a military base "N.Y. Bomb Plot Suspects Acted Alone, Police Say," claiming in the lede that "the men were petty criminals," postponing until the eighth paragraph the revelation that these four merry pranksters were Muslims, and hiding in the last paragraph State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz's observation of a fact apparent to anyone with an IQ higher than dirt: that Jews were being targeted? | | Sorry, but you really do have to wonder, along with the Neanderthal Mark Steyn, whether if these guys hadn't been unlucky enough to find themselves an FBI informant who gave them dud explosives, the Times wouldn't have headlined the resulting story, "Deadly Bomb Attacks Reawaken Fears of Backlash Among U.S. Muslims"? | | This sort of coverage may keep the Council on American-Islamic Relations off the Times' back, but it does no favors to the brave and beleageured minority of Muslims trying to rescue a great world religion from a death cult and the silent majority who, like majorities anywhere and anywhen, will do anything to go along, get along and not get their heads whacked off. For the Times, it's another self-inflicted wound on the way to extinction. |
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| Three cheers for Sri Lanka! Or, who's the paper tiger now? |
[May. 18th, 2009|11:14 am] |
For well over a generation now, the pundits have been telling us that terrorism cannot be defeated by military means, that the only way of stopping to it is to "examine its root causes," meaning, apparently, to accede to at least some of its demands. So-called suicide bombing, in particular, was supposed to be unstoppable, its practitioners by definition impossible to deter.
God bless the Sri Lankan army, which has shown these lies and obfuscations for what they are--a counsel of ignorance, cowardice, and defeatism.
The so-called "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam" (which sounds like a Monty Python skit performed by Peter Sellers, doesn't it?) have been utterly defeated by the forces of a democratic country. Vellupillai Prabhakaran, their leader and inventor of suicide bombing, lies dead. A shiver of fear must be passing through Osama Bin Laden, in his cave.
Let the world note, too, that as the armies of darkness were being routed this week, the United Nations busied itself with trying to stop the onslaught, pleading that civilians were being harmed. No doubt they were. But the only way to stop the suffering was to defeat those who caused it--the "Tigers" who preyed upon those they claimed to fight for, using them, of course, as human shields when the chips were down. Just like their murderous comrades from Palestine to Pakistan. The UN will never be effective in its supposed goals of advancing human rights and welfare around the world and will never have the respect of decent people anywhere so long as it continues to shield terrorists and dictators.
The caveats are important. Of course the Sri Lankan government had to use political as well as military means to defeat the terrorists, and defections from their side were crucial. (The Washington Post quotes one such defector to the effect that the Tigers' assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi helped turn world opinion against them. Take note: world opinion is vital in the struggle against terrorism.) No doubt the Tamils had and have legitimate grievances. And of course the jihadists are an exponentially greater threat all across the globe, not least because they have been coddled and appeased by short-sighted politicians and weary publics everywhere. But mark the 18th of May, 2009 on the calendar of history: for it was the day terrorism began to die.
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| Seeing Putin's Soul |
[Aug. 15th, 2008|11:58 am] |
"I looked the man [Putin] in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul."--George W. Bush, June 16, 2001
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| War in Stalin's home town |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|04:38 pm] |
Has anyone else noticed the irony that war is now ranging in Gori, Stalin's home town, between the nation of his birth, Georgia, and the nation he led, Russia?
No Stalin Prizes for guessing whom Iosef Djugashvili is cheering on from Hell.
Shame on the West. Shame on America. Shame on Brother Obama. |
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| Marching Through Georgia |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|09:27 am] |
e.e. cumings said it first and best:
THANKSGIVING (1956) a monstering horror swallows
this unworld me by you
as the god of our fathers' fathers bows
to a which that walks like a who but the voice-with-a-smile of democracy
announces night & day
"all poor little peoples that want to be free
just trust in the u s a" suddenly uprose hungary
and she gave a terrible cry
"no slave's unlife shall murder me
for i will freely die" she cried so high thermopylae
heard her and marathon
and all prehuman history
and finally The UN "be quiet little hungary
and do as you are bid
a good kind bear is angary
we fear for the quo pro quid" uncle sam shrugs his pretty
pink shoulders you know how
and he twitches a liberal titty
and lisps "i'm busy right now" so rah-rah-rah- democracy
let's all be thankful as hell
and bury the statue of liberty
(because it begins to smell)
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| Zimbabwe: Reality surpasses satire |
[May. 2nd, 2008|11:21 am] |
It's hard to be a satirist. Really, really hard. Tom Lehrer was right: in a world in which Henry Kissinger can be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, how the hell do you write satire?
Our latest exhibit comes from Zimbabwe, where the Ministry of Truth Electoral Commission admitted after a month's delay that the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, won more votes in the presidential election than President-for-life Robert Mugabe, but flushed enough opposition ballots down the toilet to allow it to claim that Tsvangirai did not get a majority and a runoff is required, date to be set when the dictatorship feels it has murdered, imprisoned, driven out of the country or otherwise silenced enough of its enemies to guarantee it "victory."
The name of the Electoral Commission official who made this announcement? Why, Chief Elections Officer Lovemore Sekeramayi, of course. |
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| One man, one vote, once |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|12:39 pm] |
Now that Comrade Mugabe's goons have violently repressed the election that should have dumped their man in the trash compactor of tyrants where he belongs, the march of progress continues as Maoists win elections in Nepal.
"Party Chairman Prachanda said he sought to advance peace efforts but could not 'renounce every kind of violence,' only what he called 'reactionary violence,'" the New York Times reports.
This from an open admirer of the man who brought you the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution," complete with 70 million dead.
Weep for the people of Nepal and Zimbabwe. |
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| Liars, Damn Liars and Jimmy Carter |
[Apr. 21st, 2008|10:24 am] |
Did Jimmy Carter's promise "I will never lie to you" apply only to his disastrous time in office?
Carter says he has heard from Hamas leaders they would "accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians." But Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri says this is only of all "Palestinian refugees" are first allowed to "return," i.e., only after millions of Arabs are first allowed to overwhelm the Jewish state will the future of "Palestine" be decided.
Abu Zuhri also said that Hamas would see any future Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as "transitional," but Carter said the Hamas leaders whom he met "didn't say anything about transitional." Ears still waterlogged from your battle with the seagoing rabbit, Jimmy? Seriously, even Carter isn't that much of a fool, so when he says he has "no doubt that both the Arab world and the Palestinians, including Hamas, will accept Israel's right to live in peace" within pre-1967 war borders, what does he really intend? Does he think he can impose his version of wishful thinking on the Arab world? Or more likely, does he intend to compel Israel to stake the lives of another six million Jews on his fantasy version of reality? |
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| Prepare Three Envelopes, Comrade Mugabe |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|09:30 am] |
Mugabe is blaming the British for the opposition victory in the Zimbabwe elections, the results of which he has of course suppressed. Even his pal Thabo "HIV does not cause AIDS" Mbeki is starting to elbow the old tyrant a little.
But blaming Britain? Which hasn't ruled Zimbabwe since 1965? It's like the old three envelope joke. In this version, let's say, Mugabe comes into office in 1980 and finds written congratulations from Ian Smith and three sealed envelopes, "to be opened if you run into trouble."
Along about 1982, he runs into a spot of difficulty and has to slaughter some tens of thousands of Ndebele. No biggie, but he opens the first envelope, and finds a piece of paper which says, "Blame the British." So he gives a speech denouncing British imperialism, and all the good little progressives give him a pass on the genocide.
Comes the year 2000, and inflation is galloping along at several hundred percent. No prob, he opens the second envelope, in which it is written, "Blame the whites." So he gives a fiery speech denouncing white racism and has his hangers on take over white-owned farms by force. Result is the country starts to starve, but hey, Mbeki and the other African dipshit leaders give him their backing, so who cares?
Comes 2008 and Mugabe loses the election (probably for a second time). The third envelope contains the instruction to "prepare three envelopes," but Comrade Mugabe would rather follow the instructions in the first envelope.
And God hardened Pharaoh's heart...
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