Unwelcome Linkage
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:27:29 pm PDT
The ‘noquarter’ blog run by Larry Johnson has been added to the blacklist for spinoff links; I won’t allow any more links to that site because it’s been proven many times over to be dishonest and untrustworthy. Unfortunately there are quite a few people who apparently have not gotten the message (I just had to delete 13 links to that pit), so it’s being automatically blocked now.
I’m not going to let LGF be used to disseminate dirty tricks and misinformation, for either side of this misbegotten election.
Links to the lunatic “Pastor Manning” and his raving nonsense will also be deleted; so don’t bother posting them here.
That is all.
Radical Islam in North Carolina
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:53:25 pm PDT
Samir Khan, the North Carolina Al Qaeda sympathizer who runs a web site that features video clips of US soldiers being killed, apparently has supporters in the local mosque—and among the local moonbats: Muslim Extremist’s Web Site Stirs Mixed Emotions in Charlotte, N.C.
Abdullah Mahmud, an acquaintance of Khan’s who attends the same mosque, the Islamic Center of Greater Charlotte, defended Khan’s viewpoints, saying his anger stems from the United States’ foreign policy and occupation of Iraq.
Mahmoud said the blood-drenched videos Khan shows of U.S. soldiers injured in combat “serve the purpose of making the reality of the Iraqi scene visible to people.”
“Those videos are not much different than videos involving American soldiers targeting Iraqi civilians,” he said. “You have to look at both sides here.”
One of Khan’s neighbors, Ron Williams, also defended Khan’s right to free speech.
“Our actions (in Iraq) were interpreted broadly in the Muslim world as an attack on Islam,” Williams said, “I defend his right to speak out.”
Bolton: Obama the Naive
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:04:37 pm PDT
John Bolton takes Barack Obama to reality school: Obama the naive.
It’s in the Los Angeles Times, and I’m reluctant to link to them because of their overweening leftist bias, but this is a good op-ed. Follow the link from this Google News search page to get around their registration wall: ’Obama the naive’ - Google News.
It is an article of faith for Obama, and many others on the left in the U.S. and abroad, that it is the United States that is mostly responsible for the world’s ills. In 1984, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick labeled people with these views the “San Francisco Democrats,” after the city where Walter Mondale was nominated for president.
Most famously, Kirkpatrick forever seared the San Francisco Democrats by saying that “they always blame America first” for the world’s problems. In so doing, she turned the name of the pre-World War II isolationist America First movement into a stigma the Democratic Party has never shaken.
This is yet another piece of history that Obama has ignored or never learned. There may be one more piece of history worthy of attention: In 1984, Mondale went down to one of the worst electoral defeats in American political history. We will now see whether Obama follows that path as well.
Iowahawk to Redouble Campaign Efforts, Maybe
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:47:43 pm PDT
We shouldn’t forget that there is still a third candidate in this presidential race: iowahawk: And Then There Were Three.
“Hey stupid,” I am often asked, “what happened to your presidential campaign?”
For your information Mr. / Ms.Smarty Pants, instead of bombarding you with attack ads and TV spin doctors and donation pleas, I’ve been quietly doing the precise thing a Presidential candidate should do — working on the issues that matter to snide ingrates like you. Yes, while you were mesmerized by the hubbub and fooferaw of the so-called “major party” nominating races, I was with my hand-picked ‘trailer cabinet’ of key policy advisors, putting together our 400-point specific Change Contract For Hopeful American Greatness Renewal. Some of the highlights:
IBD: Obama's Plan to Disarm America
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:16:56 pm PDT
Investors Business Daily looks at another policy statement from Barack Obama that has gotten almost no media coverage: Obama’s Plan To Disarm The U.S.
The Obamatons [Hey, that sounds familiar! – ed.] of the mainstream media have failed to report one of the most chilling campaign promises thus far uttered by the presumptive Democrat nominee for president.
He made it before the Iowa caucus to a left-wing pacifist group that seeks to reallocate defense dollars to welfare programs. The lobbying group, Caucus for Priorities, was so impressed by Obama’s anti-military offering that it steered its 10,000 devotees his way.
In a 132-word videotaped pledge (still viewable on YouTube), Obama agreed to hollow out the U.S. military by slashing both conventional and nuclear weapons.
The scope of his planned defense cuts, combined with his angry tone, is breathtaking. He sounds as if the military is the enemy, not the bad guys it’s fighting. Here is a transcript:
“I’m the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning; and as president, I will end it.
“Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems.
“I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the Quadrennial Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending.
“Third, I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal.”
You can bet that Obama will not make this sweeping indictment of our security forces again as he tries to move to the center in the general election. But this is what he thinks, and this is what he plans to do.
UPDATE at 6/7/08 2:23:24 pm:
Here’s the video:
Congressman Keith Ellison: 'America is an Imperial Power'
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:51:51 pm PDT
At the far-left National Conference for Media Reform, Islamic congressman Keith Ellison talks about how Ronald Reagan made him sick—but not as sick as George W. Bush makes him. (Applause.)
He calls America an “imperial power.” Then he suggests that the country should get rid of “hate radio” and Fox News.
This speech is incredibly over the top. Is Ellison feeling emboldened these days by the success of Barack Obama?
Note that the people at this conference are so whacked out, they believe the media are slanted right.
(Hat tip: Bill Amos.)
Toronto Terror Suspects: 'Every Single Jew is Your Enemy'
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:34:26 pm PDT
On Thursday, wiretaps were played at the trial of the 18 Muslims arrested in Toronto in 2006 for a terrorist plot to attack Canada: Court hears accused terrorists’ ideology.
In wiretaps played at the trial of a 20-year-old man, his co-accused spoke at length about their “global fight” to “get rid of the oppressors.” They discussed the benefits of martyrdom and the need to retaliate against foreign soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, even if on Western soil. “You harm one Muslim, the whole Muslim [nation] has to defend that person,” the accused leader of the group said.
None of the suspects can be identified because of a publication ban.
In another recorded conversation, the alleged leader explained, “If they’re your enemy, they’re your enemy everywhere you see them.” He continued: “So, if the Jews are your enemy in Israel, it doesn’t mean Jews are not your enemy here. Every single Jew is your enemy.”
If that rule applies, someone might think you could just kill any Jewish man walking down the street, another group member said. “If the guy walking down the street says, pro Zion, pro Zion . . . wears a big Jewish thing saying, yeah, pro Israeli state . . . okay, now you’re a target. ”If you are to do . . . to that guy you wouldn’t be held accountable like, by ‘Allah’ or anything . . . and you would be rewarded for it because he is an enemy."
Religion of peace!
Brussels Journal and Jean-Marie Le Pen
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:46:30 am PDT
The Belgian blog run by a Vlaams Belang operative, Brussels Journal, has become completely open about their support of Eurofascist parties; here’s a post about a “communiqué” from French neo-Nazi leader Jean-Marie Le Pen: Europe’s Anti-Discrimination Madness Goes On and On and On... | The Brussels Journal.
And in their sidebar: a link to a British BNP-affiliated forum that is openly racist.
Any bloggers who are still linking to Brussels Journal should take a long hard look at what they are promoting.
Is the European Union corrupt and dominated by post-modern morons? Yes, of course. But embracing fascists and promoting their hateful (and now highly deceptive) agenda is equally vile, if not more so.
Trouble for the Messiah
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:20:33 am PDT
There’s an amazing amount of dislike for Barack Obama at the Hillary Clinton web site: HillaryClinton.com - Open Thread.
A typical comment out of hundreds:
No to OBAMA
I have thought long and hard about this, because Hillary has asked us to support Obama. My ultimate decision is based on the belief that we need someone that can bring us a better future and Hillary is the only one that can do this. I will not support Obama.
(Hat tip: committed.)
A Distinct Lack of Enthusiasm
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:33:36 am PDT
The most striking thing about Hillary Clinton’s “concession” speech was the reaction of the crowd. Most of the speech was actually about Hillary, not Obama — but every time she used her catchphrase “We must elect Barack Obama,” the crowd’s reaction was less and less enthusiastic, and a lot of people were booing.
The last time she said it, there was almost no applause. People sitting behind her podium gave it a perfunctory golf clap.
I suspect that more than a few of Hillary’s supporters will never vote for Obama; they won’t vote for McCain, either, of course. They’ll probably end up sitting it out.
It’s really comical to listen to CNN doing their best to downplay the booing; “the ceiling in this room really accentuates the low frequencies.”
Rrriiight.
Hillary's Swan Song, Thread 2
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:41:31 am PDT
Hillary had to be dragged out of the house kicking and screaming for this one.
She’s delayed for nearly an hour, so here’s another thread for this debacle.
Hillary's Swan Song, Thread 1
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:01:27 am PDT
Here comes Hillary Clinton’s concession speech, and here’s a thread to discuss...
Saturday Early Morning Open
Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:59:59 am PDT
A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
— Lyndon Baines Johnson
