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Disarming Americans: The newest strategy

"Its for the children" - natch, what else? When a leftist agenda fails, the last strategy is always to exploit kids - from Alphecca

2006 Election

Patrick Hynes from Ankle-Biter has an impressive run-down on next year

Al Timimi

How many of these guys are in the US? And how do we get rid of them? Can only link the site, not the article. Here. Tell me - how widely was all this reported?

A Lebanese looks at US Islamic Propaganda

Brigitte Gabriel: Click here: Environments of Hate: Indoctrination in the Arab WEnvironments of Hate: Indoctrination in the Arab World and Propaganda Advocacy in America’s University Classroomsorld and Propaganda Advocacy in America’s University Classrooms

Thank You, Charles

Krauthammer:

The fact that native-born Muslim Europeans are committing terrorist acts in their own countries shows that this Islamist malignancy long predates Iraq, long predates Afghanistan and long predates Sept. 11, 2001. What Europe had incubated is an enemy within, a threat that for decades Europe simply refused to face.

Reand entire.

Martini-Henry Rifles: you can buy one here. Either long- or short-lever. When facing the Mahdi army in the Sudan, you would have wanted the long lever. We know a little bit about firearms, on Maggie's. Not much - just enough to hunt, and to handle any little problems that might come up. It is Bird Dog's rule: Firearms in the house, or you cannot write for Maggie's. Sorta basic, I guess. Ahhh, the scent of cordite in the mornin'.

Online Hymnals, with midi-file music: there are two I use, here and here. I hate the sound of that computer music, but they are good for tracking down hymns.

Doyle Brunson brings his skills from Vegas to Wall Street, and there's a problem: The 700 million dollar bluff. Darn. Wall Street isn't what it used to be in the good old days.

Can't stand the New York Times anymore? Try the New York Sun, online, and also daily delivery in NYC and suburbs.

Healthy mitochondria, and aging. Take good care of your little mitochondria. They depend on you - they are your responsibility, and your tiny friends, like pets, living inside of you.

The Rove silliness: Rove got Plame's name from Novak. And she was not an undercover agent, just a regular CIA employee. This non-story will slowly go away, and such as Daniel Schorr's trademark PMS hysterical rants will speed that process along. My Way News. Poor Dan needs estrogen replacement therapy - or maybe testosterone replacement therapy...not sure which. (Sorry, Editor - I did promise never to get personal, but come on! This pompous bozo weenie schmuck deserves it. Woops - I did it again. Please forgive me.)

The Plastic Reindeer Rule for religious displays on govt property, in The Economist

Summary of European editorials on terror, in The Week

Alice Miles in the (London) Times Online:

And all this risks glamorising the work of four pathetic young men, and recruiting others to their “cause”. The shock of the blasts tore lives apart, yes, but they were not, for most of us, our lives. We are not grieving, as the friends and families of the bereaved grieve. Nothing will ever fill for them the void left by July 7, 2005. Public mourning will not bring them back; public grieving belittles their grief. It is now clear that there is something constructive that the politicians can do. Forget the mourning, and tear into those Muslim ghettos instead. Force them to open up. Make the imams answer. Tell them to let their women speak, as they have been prevented from doing until now. We have done softly, softly. We have pandered to fears about religious hatred. We have listened with utmost sympathy to their concerns. No one should stigmatise any community, the police said yesterday. But those bombers have stigmatised the communities that made them, and we should spare a thought for the devastation wrought on those communities; but then we should insist that they cannot continue in a state of alienation from the rest of society. That is a challenge for them, and for all of us. They, too, must become ordinary.

The Anglosphere is the future of freedom, and India is part of it (thanks to the Brisitsh Empire):Blackwill in The National Interest: Click here: The National Interest | | Publications::Article

No bilateral relationship in George W. Bush's first term improved as much as that between the United States and India. The president has noted, "After years of estrangement, India and the United States together surrendered to reality. They recognized an unavoidable fact--they are destined to have a qualitatively different and better relationship than in the past." Some attribute the expansion in relations to the impact of 9/11.

The NEA Convention, from Michelle:

The National Education Association recently had its annual convention, where it called for President Bush to withdraw our troops from Iraq, vowed to defeat the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and resolved to educate about the need for debt cancellation in underdeveloped countries.

And you wonder why Johnny can't read.

We said last week the London terrorists were home grown, and were right, as always. London is Jihad Central, but the Brits are "too nice" to admit it. LGF reviews Brit origins of terror:

British-based terrorists have carried out operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kenya, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Russia, Spain, and America. Many governments - Jordanian, Egyptian, Moroccan, Spanish, French, and American - have protested London’s refusal to shut down its Islamist terrorist infrastructure or extradite wanted operatives. In frustration, Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak publicly denounced Britain for “protecting killers.” One American security group has called for Britain to be listed as a terrorism-sponsoring state.Counterterrorism specialists disdain the British. Roger Cressey calls London “easily the most important jihadist hub in Western Europe.” Steven Simon dismisses the British capital as “the Star Wars bar scene” of Islamic radicals. More brutally, an intelligence official said of last week’s attacks: “The terrorists have come home. It is payback time for ... an irresponsible policy.”

The Two Americas -Definitely: the taxpayers, and those who do not. This is a dangerous and insidious thing. Every American should pay some dues to be a member of the club.  Balloon Juice. Live 8 Failed to eliminate African Poverty- Disappointing. Intell. Cons. FEC may spare blogs. - We are grateful, if it is true. Instap. Buchwald- Jesus is my Wingman. Dems try to figger out what they stand for, via Ankle-Biter The latest on protecting the 9-11 Memorial: Click here: Berstein's Plan B 9 11 Families for a Safe & Strong America . Fire's latest college speech code -Rhodes College. Medicaid and the Middle Class in the NYT

Sorry for frightening everyone with that Jihad Watch post yesterday. What are the odds that it is accurate? It worries me, too, very much. Shades of the Apocalypse piece today.

Bainbridge has his SCOTUS predictions. Sounds right to me.

Hawkins lists the myths about Iraq. Too bad the MSM doesn't read Hawkins, or won't admit to these truths. And his Conservative Grapevine is going to put me out of business, unless I diversify a bit more.

Evangelicals go green. Makes sense to me, as long as they don't buy the junk science the other greenies do. Never trust a scientific piece written by someone who hasn't at the very least taken statistics, calculus, chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physics in a decent college.

Terror Nukes Already in the US?

Jihad Watch reports planning has been going on for ten years.

Those Seals in Afghanistan

What were they doing? Times Online has a theory that they were after someone big. Thanks, Belmont. Did not know you could hit a chopper with an RPG.

The prolific Brewton has a slightly new format - intro entries with "read more," the way Auster does. Looks good. View from 1776.

From fox-murdering Free Market Fairy Tales:

"We were taught all men are brothers -
Who forgot to tell the others?"

From Paul Kelly in Weekend Australian:

The London bombing is a reminder of the consensus reached by our intelligence agencies as outlined by former ASIO chief Dennis Richardson. These points are, first, that Australia has been "part of al-Qa'ida's strategic vision for some years" predating the September 2001 attack on the US and our role in Afghanistan and Iraq; witness the earlier attempted attack on our High Commission in Singapore. Second, we "have become a target in our own right" - witness our numerous mentions by al-Qa'ida leaders and on their websites. Third, that since 2000 "there has been at least one aborted, disrupted or actual terrorist attack against us each year". Witness Bali in 2002 and the Jakarta embassy attack last year.

Roger Scruton hypothesizes envy, in Times Online:

The tendency to resent lies in all of us, and can be overcome only by a discipline that tells us to blame faults in ourselves and to forgive faults in others. This discipline lies at the heart of Christianity and many argue that it lies at the heart of Islam too. If that is so, it is time for Muslims to organise against those who preach resentment in the name of their religion, and who regard the crimes of last Thursday as virtuous deeds, performed with God’s blessing, in a holy cause.

The Global Domination Theory - Handlery in Intell. Conserv. (with whom I agree):

Islamofascist actions might be tactically motivated by a real or alleged injury of the objects of their emotional identification. Strategically, however, these battles are only a detail of a war. It is aimed in its first stage at reestablishing control over whatever Islam might have controlled or had claimed historically. (Iberia, Central Europe, the Balkans. Add the area between Turkey and “Iughuria” -- which happens to be in China. In the second stage of the struggle comes the fulfillment of God’s mandate to unite the world under the aegis of the Prophet. Does it remind you of Hitler? Or Lenin & Sons? Sounds insane?

Auster bashes immigration:

The one constant is that immigration itself must never be criticized, must never been seen as the cause of any serious problem. Indeed, according to this way of thinking, since the belief in open immigration, particularly the open immigration of non-Europeans, is the very essence of America, to turn against open immigration is to attack America, and thus to allow our enemies to win. "To refuse to surrender" therefore means to refuse to surrender the principle of non-discrimination toward non-Europeans. So, when Bush says, "We will not yield to terrorists," he means that we will continue to welcome the mass immigration of jihad-supporting Moslems into the West.

Bergen in the NYT - the UK's hospitality to terrorists is a threat to the US:

Last year a British government report estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 British Muslims are supporters of Al Qaeda or related groups. The estimate was based on intelligence, opinion polls and a report that 10,000 Muslims attended a 2003 conference held by Hizb ut-Tahrir, described by the Home Office as a "structured extremist organization." British authorities believe that between 300 and 600 British citizens were trained in Qaeda and Taliban camps in Afghanistan. For this reason, and because of Britain's relatively permissive asylum laws, Arab militants living in London sometimes jokingly refer to their hometown as Londonistan.

Here's the problem for the United States: Under our Visa Waiver Program, residents of Londonistan who hold a valid British passport can board a plane for the United States without an interview by an American consular official.

Jihad Watch: Click here: Jihad Watch

...you are dealing with an enemy that does not want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.

From Belmont Club: London is proof that we are winning:

The inevitable question then is 'why could Bin Laden not find the means to attack 30 trains?' The answer it seems to me, must be Afghanistan, Iraq, the Horn of Africa and hundred other places where he is engaged without quarter by US forces. Resources, whether Jihadi or no are not infinite. They do not have some magical machine that allows them to be everywhere at once, to sustain losses yet grow. There's no free lunch, not even, and especially not for Bin Laden. If it were true that Islamism would shrivel faster were it pursued more passively, then pre-911 policy should have finished it by now. But what we empirically observe is that ignoring them allowed them to mount 911-scale attack. Hit them continuously and in four years they could scrape together enough to blow up a London bus and some subway trains.

And last but not least, our own Chairman from Maggie's Farm

Britain's psychotically PC immigration policies: you cannot open your door to snakes who are hostile to your gentle culture, and then bitch when they bite you. Rome already tried that, and socio-politically, Italy has been a mess ever since. Remember, the barbarians did not so much attack as simply migrate into the empire. If you want a gentle, civil culture, you need tough borders and boundaries, a shell, just as we do in our personal lives. Freedom, gentility, and civility are not birthrights: some things in life must be fought for and defended. What is happening in Europe is properly called "invasion," not immigration. We have the battles of Tours and Lopanto, redux. Hey, cousins - save yourselves before it's too late. We are already calling it "Londistan" and "Euristan."

Compassion and understanding for the Nazis?

It makes as much sense to me to have worried about the "root causes" of the Third Reich's desire to conquer Europe as it does to bring a social worker and a psychotherapist to meet with Al Quaida. It's enough of a "root cause" to see the joy and triumph on their faces when they murder innocent infidels - Christians and Jews. The root cause is the desire to kill and conquer for Allah and the cure is the same as the cure for cancer - you kill the cells. The below excerpted from Rick Moran at RWN:

... the left’s compulsion to ally itself with the radical Islamists – either knowingly or through stupidity, unknowingly – is the greatest challenge facing Western Civilization in its War on Terror. The very people who should be leading this fight; the intellectuals, the educators, the editorialists, the journalists, and the literati are absent without leave in this life and death struggle. Instead, we find a an overwhelming majority of the left trying to “explain the root causes” of terrorism instead of getting up on their hind legs and fighting it. And instead of drawing clear, unmistakable intellectual and moral battle lines – a function their ancestors fulfilled more than admirably during World War II and much of the Cold War – we’re treated to an exercise in moral equivalency so profoundly disturbing in its sophistry and intellectual cowardice that our enemies don’t know whether to laugh before they slaughter us or simply shake their heads in bemused silence.