John Lehman is not a man given to Bush bashing or merely flinging loose words about just to hear himself speak. He has had a distinguished career, including a tour as Ronald Reagan’s Navy secretary.
Mr. Lehman has an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that should be read, and re-read, by everyone in [...]
Archive for August, 2006
How to lose the war on terror
Posted in Terrorism, War and Peace on August 31, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Reality check?
Posted in Arabs on August 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Is it possible that one positive outcome of the conflict in Lebanon will be some reality coming out of the Arab Middle East? Anything is possible, of course. The correct question is, “is it likely?”
An article in the Arab News shows that while Arabs have zero sympathy for Jews or Israel, there may [...]
"Fight the Israel Lobby"
Posted in anti-Semitism on August 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There are many ways to say “Jew” when that word is used as an all-encompassing reason for hatred. “Fight the Israel Lobby” is one, and not exactly a new one. But when one singles out the “Israel Lobby” for criticism, one makes the tacit assumption that this lobby is making America do things [...]
A visit to Stockholm
Posted in Terrorism on August 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It appears that Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the two Fox News employes who were just released by some Palestinian thugs, also made a mental visit to Stockholm. Or at least the syndrome named after that city.
Centanni certainly sounds as though he has adapted to his captor’s mindset. Two samples, from Fox:
“We were forced to [...]
Shocking news?
Posted in Islam on August 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
“America’s Muslims Aren’t as Assimilated as You Think” is the headline on this story in today’s WaPo. Well, they don’t mean “as I think.” This news should be anything but shocking to those who have been paying attention these past few decades.
In the Washington, DC metropolitan area, many, many Muslims have moved in over the [...]
Cluster f***
Posted in Idiotarians, Israel, Terrorism on August 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
All those who’ve served in the military know what the title means. It would also seem to apply to the thinking, or lack thereof, that accompanies the cries emanating from the maintstream media and, predictably, “human rights” groups. Except the actual topic is cluster bombs.
These are nasty little munitions that are [...]
Wouldn’t they have to grow one, first?
Posted in Idiotarians, International on August 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A backbone, that is.
This just in, from that fearless defender of Israel’s right to cease to exist, Kofi Annan (via WaPo):
European countries agreed Friday to provide about half the troops for a new 15,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, with the first sizeable contingents to arrive within a week, officials announced after an emergency [...]
“Truth is a defense to libel and slander”
Posted in Islam, Terrorism on August 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
These words were spoken by former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin, who appeared, along with a CAIR apologist for terror, on the CNBC Kudlow and Company on August 18. The link, on the CAIR website, is here
The CAIR moke was making the usual whines about how unfair we are all being to the adherents [...]
The disease spreads to Fox
Posted in Idiotarians on August 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Fox News, which is our favorite, advertises itself as “fair and balanced,” and, if memory serves, “unafraid.” Well, they have become, perhaps justly so, just a little afraid of the Palestinians and their terrorist cause.
Fox, on its broadcast last night, bent over backwards, kissing their own ass, to talk about how Steve Centanni had [...]
“Some with admit…”
Posted in Israel, Terrorism, War and Peace on August 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the mainstream media will let anybody clutter up their op-ed space. Case in point, an “Egyptian democracy activist” has some words in today’s WaPo. The author lectures us on the real “new Middle East,” and, if one could ignore his underlying worldview, it might be worth reading.
The author starts with what should not [...]
Comes the apocalypse…
Posted in Iran, Islam, anti-Semitism on August 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not to keen on apocalyptic literature, let alone predictions of the end of time. The Christian Book of Revelation is believed by some literalists to predict a “rapture” presaging the second coming of Christ, at which time faithful believers will be whisked directly up to heaven, not passing go, leaving all their worldly goods, [...]
Fine Dining Macht Frei
Posted in Idiotarians, anti-Semitism on August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Just when you thought the world could not get stupider, along come some morons in Mumbai.
The graphic (as seen at Jewlicious) is the would-be logo for “Hitler’s Cross” restaurant, a new eatery with a terrible gimmick: A Hitler-Nazi theme. As described in the Times of India,
‘Hitler’s Cross’, which opened last week, serves up a wide [...]
Those who would be king
Posted in Israel, Judaism on August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s Parsha, shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9), includes some good advice for those who would be king. In fact, the portion, taken as a whole, is really a long list of reasons why anyone would not want the kingship thrust on him.
Of course, if you are a believer, then it is God who is doing the [...]
What a relief
Posted in International on August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This news flash from the Associated Press (via Jerusalem Post):
All 194 nations in the world have signed the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war, making it the first time in modern history that a treaty has won universal acceptance, the international Red Cross said Monday.
Those two nations were Montenegro which just became independent, and, [...]
"patriot"
Posted in Idiotarians, Politics on August 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Patriot” is one word you won’t find in the New York Times editorial today. As in “Patriot Act,” or in any other sense of the word. The editorial chides the administration for not doing nearly enough to protect our nation.
The money quote, in more ways than one is this:
While the administration has been [...]
Tiresome familiarity
Posted in Israel, War and Peace on August 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This kabuki dance, the charade that is the latest United Nations “resolution,” is playing out in tiresome familiarity. First, it’s all promises to do the right thing, to disarm Hizbullah (hmm, hadn’t that been ordered by a prior “resolution?”). Why is resolution in scare quotes? Because the word implies a certain seriousness [...]
More on the judge who doesn’t get it
Posted in Idiotarians, Politics on August 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Wall Street Journal has written a concise summary of all that is wrong with the Dearbornistan’s idiot judge, the left-wing and anti-American Anna Diggs Taylor.
Aside from the confused legal reasoning, this enemy of the people avers “there are no hereditary Kings in America.” Take that, George W. Bush, son of some King named [...]
This judge doesn’t get it
Posted in Idiotarians, Politics on August 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In a ruling from Dearbornistan, er, Detroit, a federal judge has ruled that (from the WaPo)
…the NSA wiretapping program violates privacy and free-speech rights and the constitutional separation of powers between the three branches of government. She also found that it violates a 1978 law set up to oversee clandestine surveillance.
The lawsuit was brought by [...]
Ugly American
Posted in Politics on August 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Welcome to America” is how my Senator, George Allen, greeted an Indian American at an otherwise all-white rally in Virginia. Now, granted, that Indian American was up to no good, and was working for the opposition. But, still, the guy was a native American (hmm, a native American who is an Indian…), and is a senior [...]
"It is too late now to start again"
Posted in Iraq, War and Peace on August 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is another way of saying, “you broke it; you own it.” That’s Uncle Sam in the china shop, just smashing things up willy-nilly. The china shop in question is the tribal sewer that is Iraq. Except that we aren’t smashing things up; that’s being done, with great abandon and glee, by [...]
No to a Palestinian state
Posted in Arabs, Terrorism on August 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes the New York Times will surprise us, as it does with some analysis today. The analysis reviews what should be obvious to objective observers, that Hizbullah started the conflict, and, will likely resume it at some point — although this is only implied. Hey, it’s still the Times of moral equivalency, [...]
Disregarding history?
Posted in Islam, Terrorism on August 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There are are two nations that bear the greatest burden of responsibility for all Islamic terrorism around the globe: Saudi Arabia, and Iran. These two nations are the puppet masters for Sunni and Shia-based Islamic atrocities, respectively.While the civilized world might wish that they would kill each other off, for the time being they are [...]
Notes from the Hinterland
Posted in America on August 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We just returned from a few days in eastern Ohio, not far from Cleveland. And I’m here to report that life is quite different than it is here in the Washington, DC area.
The first, and most obvious difference? People don’t appear to still be angry about the 2000 and 2004 presdential [...]
Democrats and Israel
Posted in Israel, Politics on August 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, the rabbi of Ohev Sholom-The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., writing at NRO, notes that “It is unconscionable to be playing politics with Israel at this difficult time.” Just so, Rabbi.
The article by Rabbi Herzfeld concerns this ad from Anti-Defamation League. The ad features a resounding defense of Israel by [...]
No nation
Posted in Israel, Terrorism, War and Peace on August 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The world’s press is very much enamored with showing suffering…so long as it is Arab suffering. What you will not read or see is that virtually all such suffering is all self-inflicted.Now, in response to the treacly, whiny performance of the Prime Minister of Lebanon Fouad Siniora, Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni told him “to [...]
Don’t interfere…
Posted in Freedom, Idiotarians on August 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
…with the Cuban people’s right not to be free. A group of the usual idiots, including the guy in the tutu, Desmond, Noam (I hate everyone but Joe Stalin) Chomsky, and a whole host of others, have now gone on record: they hate freedom. From this news story:
The Communist Party newspaper Granma [...]
Wear them on your heart
Posted in Judaism on August 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
ד שְׁמַע, יִשְׂרָאֵל: יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ, יְהוָה אֶחָד. ה וְאָהַבְתָּ, אֵת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, בְּכָל-לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל-נַפְשְׁךָ, וּבְכָל-מְאֹדֶךָ. ו וְהָיוּ הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם–עַל-לְבָבֶךָ. ז וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ, וְדִבַּרְתָּ בָּם, בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ בְּבֵיתֶךָ וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ בַדֶּרֶךְ, וּבְשָׁכְבְּךָ וּבְקוּמֶךָ. ח וּקְשַׁרְתָּם לְאוֹת, עַל-יָדֶךָ; וְהָיוּ לְטֹטָפֹת, בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ. ט וּכְתַבְתָּם עַל-מְזֻזוֹת בֵּיתֶךָ, וּבִשְׁעָרֶיךָ.
A week late, but then I’m not an observant [...]
The wrong question
Posted in Israel, anti-Semitism on August 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There are rights, and wrongs in the current fighting in the Middle East. It’s certainly possible that Israel’s response has been “disproportionate,” although that’s the sort of nonsense one only hears from those losing the war. Or, those who are anti-Israel, no matter what.
In this category one must place the former Jew Robert Novak, a/k/a [...]
War is Hell
Posted in Israel, War and Peace on August 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Those of us, like me, who play videogames involving simulated death and destruction (I could’ve been a millionaire if I got paid by the hour to play Doom) may not appreciate that in real life, one does not get a “game over” message and the ability to start right up again.
That said, the picture, which [...]
Editorializing headlines
Posted in Idiotarians, Israel on August 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The basic story? The IAF struck four bridges north of Beirut. The bridges were part of the supply chain from Syria to Hizbullah. In different words, Israel continued its war against Hizbullah’s personnel, bases, and supply lines. Just as in virtually all modern wars.
The Washington Times has its story here; and [...]
