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Off to Gay Paree' (NOT!)

Yes my humgry little geniuses, I am  off to Paris to see my dearest freind (I will be staying in her home so I shall spend not a dime) and while we are not cut from the same political cloth, I love her dearly..........
Want to see the lawless muslim ghettos first hand...............Bon Jour!
Postings will be light until Friday.............c ya!

Feels Like the Hostage Crisis under Jimmuh!

How long before Ted Koppel starts a late night news hour to deliver the blow blow on Bolton?

Just for knowing, The New York Sun, New York's Brightest, Smartest, Sharpest Newspaper runs this calender daily (SUBSCRIBE ALREADY).........I stole it off them today..........I too will run it everday. If you don't know Bolton's story go over to the left sidebar and read all of my pieces on the rotten UN and Coffee Enema and howthe left destroys this nation.

“Cut the throats of them and their families like sheep.”

Frontpage does Gitmo

What I saw at Gitmo

By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu

Our group went to GITMO to check out tales that the military was being too tough on these terrorist detainees. We left convinced that America is being extraordinarily lenient – far too lenient.

After speaking with soldiers, sailors, and civilians who collectively staff Gitmo, I left convinced that abuse definitely exists at the detention facilities, and it typically fails to receive the press attention it deserves: it’s the relentless, merciless attacks on American servicemen and women by these terrorist thugs. Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity, openly bragging of their desire to kill Americans. One has promised that, if released, he would find MPs in their homes through the internet, break into their houses at night, and “cut the throats of them and their families like sheep.” Others claim authority and vindication to kill women, children, and other innocents who oppose their jihadist mission authorized by the Koran (the same one that hangs in every cell from a specially-designed holder intended to protect it from a touching the cell floor – all provided at U.S. taxpayer expense). One detainee was heard to tell another: “One day I will enjoy sucking American blood, although their blood is bitter, undrinkable….” These recalcitrant detainees are known euphemistically as being “non-compliant.” They attack guards whenever the soldiers enter their cells, trying to reach up under protective facemasks to gouge eyes and tear mouths. They make weapons and try to stab the guards or grab and break limbs as the guards pass them food.

We dined with the soldiers, toured several of the individual holding camps, observed interrogations, and inspected cells. We were impressed by the universally high quality of the cadre and the facilities. While it may not be exactly “Club GITMO,” as Rush Limbaugh uses to tweak the hard-Left critics who haven’t a clue about reality here, GITMO is a far cry from the harshness experienced even by maximum security prisoners in the U.S.

and now back to our missing teen of the moment.......................

Late SUNDAY NIGHT DRINKER'S THREAD

The FOX that bit the MSM died

Fox stays on message..................while the world goes to hell in a handbasket

FOX DECLAWED IS UNWATCHABLE..........................
hat tip Tim McD

'My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies'

This is what we are up against, this is what we are attempting to reason with, negotiate with, "make whole"....................it aint good. I ran a piece on this human filth earlier in the week focusing on how the enemy exploits the kindness of Israeli society to commit acts of terror, and how that startling revelation is virtually ignored by the MSM.
In this article meet the lowlife behind the evil............

'My dream was to be a suicide bomber. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews. Yes, even babies'
By Manuela Dviri in Tel Aviv

When a soldier asked her to remove her long, dark cloak, she turned to face him. All her movements were taped by the military surveillance camera at the checkpoint: calmly, deliberately, she took off her clothing, item by item, until she looked like any normal young woman in T-shirt and jeans. It was then that she tried to set off the belt containing 20lb of explosives hidden beneath her trousers. To her horror, she did not succeed. Desperate, she clawed at her face, screaming. She was still alive, she realised. She had failed her martyrdom mission.

That afternoon, on June 21, the 21-year-old, Wafa Samir al-Biss, was brought before the press by Israeli intelligence. Her neck and hands were covered with scars caused by a kitchen gas explosion six months earlier. The ugly scars - which had been treated in a hospital in Israel - had probably helped turn her into the perfect would-be huriia (virgin), the ideal martyr, since they would make it difficult for her to find a suitable husband.

According to the Israeli doctor who attended Wafa at the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, she received blood transfusions during her treatment. "I told her, with a laugh, that now she has Jewish blood in her veins," he said, adding sadly that she had "seemed so nice - we got a lovely thank you letter from her family.''

Wafa had been sent on her mission by the Abu Rish Brigade, the small militant faction with links to Fatah. She did not, she said later, regret it, though she stressed that her decision had had nothing to do with her scarring. "My dream was to be a martyr. I believe in death," she said. "Today I wanted to blow myself up in a hospital, maybe even in the one in which I was treated. But since lots of Arabs come to be treated there, I decided I would go to another, maybe the Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews …''

hat tip Ms.Mordin

 

Education Part III: After dumbing down Math, Now it's a tool to advance Social Justice

My continuing mission is to bring the crisis in our schools to the top of the national agenda.  There is no one single crisis. The hijacking of our nation's MEALAC departments has created a generation of illiterate terror sympathizing dhimmis. The Public school system has hijacked the curriculum while standing in the way of parents who want a legitimate education but cannot use a voucher.......which BTW was signed inot law by Bush himself........

WE rank at the bottom in Math and Science of all industrialized nations. And if you beleive the Demmies that the system needs money, you're a fool. We have never spent as much money for as little result. Me? I think the whole damn system is broken. As in can't be fixed.

ELIMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. now there's a beginning. Declare the teachers union an abject failure...........fire them all (like the air traffic controllers).There is no living organism left..........just gangrene. Time to remove the tube.........because the education system in America is PVS...........be merciful and kill it. Please allow parents the RIGHT TO CHOOSE!

Ethnomathematics
Even math education is being politicized.

BY DIANE RAVITCH
Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

It seems our math educators no longer believe in the beauty and power of the principles of mathematics. They are continually in search of a fix that will make it easy, relevant, fun and even politically relevant. In the early 1990s, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics issued standards that disparaged basic skills like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, since all of these could be easily performed on a calculator. The council preferred real-life problem solving, using everyday situations. Attempts to solve problems without basic skills caused some critics, especially professional mathematicians, to deride the "new, new math" as "rainforest algebra."

In a comparison of a 1973 algebra textbook and a 1998 "contemporary mathematics" textbook, Williamson Evers and Paul Clopton found a dramatic change in topics. In the 1973 book, for example, the index for the letter "F" included factors, factoring, fallacies, finite decimal, finite set, formulas, fractions and functions. In the 1998 book, the index listed families (in poverty data), fast food nutrition data, fat in fast food, feasibility study, feeding tours, ferris wheel, fish, fishing, flags, flight, floor plan, flower beds, food, football, Ford Mustang, franchises and fund-raising carnival.

Those were the days of innocent dumbing-down. Now mathematics is being nudged into a specifically political direction by educators who call themselves "critical theorists." They advocate using mathematics as a tool to advance social justice. Social justice math relies on political and cultural relevance to guide math instruction. One of its precepts is "ethnomathematics," that is, the belief that different cultures have evolved different ways of using mathematics, and that students will learn best if taught in the ways that relate to their ancestral culture. From this perspective, traditional mathematics--the mathematics taught in universities around the world--is the property of Western civilization and is inexorably linked with the values of the oppressors and conquerors. The culturally attuned teacher will learn about the counting system of the ancient Mayans, ancient Africans, Papua New Guineans and other "nonmainstream" cultures.

 

Partisans of social-justice mathematics advocate an explicitly political agenda in the classroom. A new textbook, "Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers," shows how problem solving, ethnomathematics and political action can be merged. Among its topics are: "Sweatshop Accounting," with units on poverty, globalization and the unequal distribution of wealth. Another topic, drawn directly from ethnomathematics, is "Chicanos Have Math in Their Blood." Others include "The Transnational Capital Auction," "Multicultural Math," and "Home Buying While Brown or Black." Units of study include racial profiling, the war in Iraq, corporate control of the media and environmental racism. The theory behind the book is that "teaching math in a neutral manner is not possible." Teachers are supposed to vary the teaching of mathematics in relation to their students' race, sex, ethnicity and community.

This fusion of political correctness and relevance may be the next big thing to rock mathematics education, appealing as it does to political activists and to ethnic chauvinists.

It seems terribly old-fashioned to point out that the countries that regularly beat our students in international tests of mathematics do not use the subject to steer students into political action. They teach them instead that mathematics is a universal language that is as relevant and meaningful in Tokyo as it is in Paris, Nairobi and Chicago. The students who learn this universal language well will be the builders and shapers of technology in the 21st century. The students in American classes who fall prey to the political designs of their teachers and professors will not.

Ms. Ravitch is a historian of education at New York University, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution.

Teach Your Children Well, please

The following opinion piece ran in the LA Times (!)  and was reprinted in New York's Smartest Newspaper, The New York Sun. This is a companion piece to my previous post:

THE WORST IGNORANCE

Not knowing history is worse than ignorance of math, literature, or almost anything else. Ignorance of history is undermining Western society's ability to talk straight and think straight. Parents must attack the problem by teaching their own children the facts. Only fools would rely on the schools.

My son told me about a high school event that (at first) I didn't understand. A girl in his English class praised the Vietnam War-era draft dodgers: "If I'd lived at that time and been drafted," she said, "I would've gone to Canada too."

I thought she was merely endorsing the anti-war position. But my son set me straight. This student actually believed that if she had lived at the time, she might have been drafted. She didn't understand that conscription in the United States has always applied to males only. How could she have known? Our schools teach history ideologically. They teach the message, not the truth. They teach history as if males and females have always played equal roles. They are propaganda machines.

Ignorance of history destroys our judgment. Consider Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who just compared the Guantanamo Bay detention center to Stalin's gulag and to the death camps of Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot - an astonishing, obscene piece of ignorance. Between 15 million and 30 million people died from 1918 through 1956 in the prisons and labor camps of the Soviet gulag.

Historian Robert Conquest gives some facts. A prisoner at the Kholodnaya Gora prison had to stuff his ears with bread before sleeping on account of the shrieks of women being interrogated. At the Kolyma in Siberia, inmates labored through 12-hour days in cheap canvas shoes, on almost no food, in temperatures that could go to minus-58. At one camp, 1,300 of 3,000 inmates died in one year.

"Gulag" must not go the way of "Nazi" and become virtually meaningless. Europeans love calling Israelis "Nazis" - a transparent attempt to slough off their guilt like rattlesnakes shedding skin. ("See, the Jews are as bad as we were!") I'd like to ban the word "Nazi" except when applied to ... Nazis. Lawbreakers would be ordered to learn what Nazi actually means.

I was amazed to hear about teenagers who don't know Fact 1 about the Vietnam War draft. But I have met college students who have never heard of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge - the genocidal monsters who treated Cambodia in the 1970s to a Marxist nightmare unequaled in its bestiality since World War II.

And I know college students who have heard of President Kennedy but not of anything he ever did except get assassinated. They have never heard JFK's inaugural promise: that America would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to ensure the survival and the success of liberty." But President Bush remembers that speech, and it's lucky he does.

To forget your own history is (literally) to forget your identity. By teaching ideology instead of facts, our schools are erasing the nation's collective memory. As a result, some "expert" can go on TV and announce (20 minutes into the fighting) that Afghanistan, Iraq, or wherever "is the new Vietnam" - and young people can't tell he is talking drivel.

There is a culture war between Americans who are ashamed of this nation's history and those who acknowledge with sorrow its many sins and are fiercely proud of it anyway. Proud of the 17th-century settlers who threw their entire lives overboard and set sail for religious freedom in their rickety little ships. Proud of the new nation that taught democracy to the world. Proud of its ferocious fight to free the slaves, save the Union, and drag (lug, shove, sweat, bleed) America a few inches closer to its own sublime ideals. Proud of its victories in two world wars and the Cold War, proud of the fight it is waging this very day for freedom in Iraq and the whole Middle East.

If you are proud of this country and don't want its identity to vanish, you must teach U.S. history to your children. They won't learn it in school. This nation's memory will go blank unless you act.

Mr. Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University and a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard.

What really Happened in the Iranian Election

What Really Happened in the Iranian Election

Iranian girl being dug down into a hole in order to be STONED to DEATH according to ISLAMIC rituals.

Photo: Save Leila from Execution, hat tip TimMcD

Just received the following correspondance from my buddy over at the Iranian Constitutionalist Party of Iran......I am running it verbatim (spelling errors and all)..............along with the following gruesome pictures;

Dear Pamela (aka Atlas),

I wanted to take a moment of your time and briefly explain the Iranian elections:

 

These elections were flawed from the inception by the decision of an unelected few to deny the applications of over 1,000 candidates, including all 93 women.  Second of all,  fraud in elections by the Iranian security forces was widespread, as best  stated by an official with Iran's Interior Ministry who  accused Iran's Guardian Council of election fraud in the presidential runoff vote and said he was placed under arrest when he objected to voting irregularities, Iran's official news agency said.  This official stated: "I was personally witness to interference of Guardians Council monitors' serious interference in voting stations where I was commissioned to survey the sound process of election," Ali Mirbaqeri, the managing director of the Interior Ministry's Majlis Affairs, told IRNA. Iran's Interior Ministry, still in the hands of the relatively moderate outgoing government, reported 300 complaints of electoral violations in Tehran alone, but the religious Supreme Council rejected the Ministry's request to have six voting stations closed for 'irregularities." Aides to the defeated Rafsanjani claimed "massive irregularities" in the voting. They said Rafsanjani said Ahmadinejad could only win by fraud.

 

Now lets talk about the top two hand chosen candidate themselves:

Mr. Rafsanjani a former Iranian President was convicted of conspiracy for murder by a German court, with an arrest warrant actionable in every country with an extradition treaty with Germany. How could he be presented as a moderate or the president of a nation?

Ahmadinejad, who fraudulently won in Iran's presidential race, was the candidate of the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard, in which he served as a senior commander, and of the Basij security service and militia. He also has strong backing from the Guardian Council and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who barely bothered to conceal their partiality for him. The Pasdaran is the elite military force, founded by Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeni after the 1979 revolution that toppled the shah, to guarantee the Islamic regime's safety against the Iranian military which was suspect as packed with supporters or the former shah. The Pasdaran, which gets the best modern weapons, also controls Iran's strategic weapons systems, including the Shihab-3 ballistic missiles and the suspected nuclear weapons program. The Pasdaran also runs Iran's long-standing relations with militant Islamic groups overseas, and particularly the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which makes Iran into a "state sponsor of terrorism" according to the definition of the United States. The Pasdaran also provide the 50 tons of weaponry and explosives aboard the Karine-A, the Palestinian ship that was stopped by Israeli commandos before it could smuggle its deadly cargo to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israeli officials also claim the Pasdaran has trained and equipped militants of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas.

Western intelligence sources have told United Press International that the new president served in the Al Quds Battalion of the Pasdaran, which was responsible for operations abroad. (Al Quds is the Arabic name for the city of Jerusalem, and signals strong commitment to the Palestinian cause.) The sources add that he is believed to have participated in operations in western Europe, saying in particular that he was one of a number of Iranians suspected of involvement in the killing of three Iranian Kurdish leaders in an ambush on the outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna. This is a brief qualifications of the Iranian president.

See the photos below for some of the Pasdaran Revolutionary  Guard,  whom Ahmadinejad used to work, accomplishments,  on the opposition groups in the Northern Iran!

Simply said the top two contestants are terrorist!

Now what the West should do?

After nearly a year and a half of negotiations you know that Iranian plutocrats and institutions, who make their money on black markets and on unequal terms of trade, are not impressed by Western offers to let them into the WTO, where they would have to respect transparency and equal terms of trade. Nor are they worried about the stick of the UN Security Council, given that Russia’s nuclear establishment is solvent partially because of deals with her southern neighbor and China’s long term energy stability tributary on its large scale Iran investments.

Pressure on human rights and democracy, however, will get serious attention in Iran’s domestic security apparatus . The Only option available to the West short of military intervention that I do not support, is to help the Iranians to let freedom and democracy take charge in Iran.

Thanks.  

Hossein Khorram

EXILES SEEK TO BLOG IRAN TO DEMOCRACY
Remember guys, these are the mullahs inches away from nuclear weaponry, thanks China- Atlas

UPDATE........and POOtin weighs in:
Putin offers Iran's president-elect to continue nuclear cooperation
Pravda Ru Sat, 25 Jun 2005 6:23 AM PDT
Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Saturday congratulated the new Iranian president-elect and said Moscow was ready to develop its nuclear cooperation with Iran in line with international agreements.

thanks Russia

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Iranian girl being dug down into a hole in order to be STONED to DEATH according to ISLAMIC rituals.

Photo: Save Leila from Execution, hat tip TimMcD

Just received the following correspondance from my buddy over at the Iranian Constitutionalist Party of Iran......I am running it verbatim (spelling errors and all)..............along with the following gruesome pictures;

Dear Pamela (aka Atlas),

I wanted to take a moment of your time and briefly explain the Iranian elections:

 

These elections were flawed from the inception by the decision of an unelected few to deny the applications of over 1,000 candidates, including all 93 women.  Second of all,  fraud in elections by the Iranian security forces was widespread, as best  stated by an official with Iran's Interior Ministry who  accused Iran's Guardian Council of election fraud in the presidential runoff vote and said he was placed under arrest when he objected to voting irregularities, Iran's official news agency said.  This official stated: "I was personally witness to interference of Guardians Council monitors' serious interference in voting stations where I was commissioned to survey the sound process of election," Ali Mirbaqeri, the managing director of the Interior Ministry's Majlis Affairs, told IRNA. Iran's Interior Ministry, still in the hands of the relatively moderate outgoing government, reported 300 complaints of electoral violations in Tehran alone, but the religious Supreme Council rejected the Ministry's request to have six voting stations closed for 'irregularities." Aides to the defeated Rafsanjani claimed "massive irregularities" in the voting. They said Rafsanjani said Ahmadinejad could only win by fraud.

 

Now lets talk about the top two hand chosen candidate themselves:

Mr. Rafsanjani a former Iranian President was convicted of conspiracy for murder by a German court, with an arrest warrant actionable in every country with an extradition treaty with Germany. How could he be presented as a moderate or the president of a nation?

Ahmadinejad, who fraudulently won in Iran's presidential race, was the candidate of the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard, in which he served as a senior commander, and of the Basij security service and militia. He also has strong backing from the Guardian Council and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who barely bothered to conceal their partiality for him. The Pasdaran is the elite military force, founded by Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeni after the 1979 revolution that toppled the shah, to guarantee the Islamic regime's safety against the Iranian military which was suspect as packed with supporters or the former shah. The Pasdaran, which gets the best modern weapons, also controls Iran's strategic weapons systems, including the Shihab-3 ballistic missiles and the suspected nuclear weapons program. The Pasdaran also runs Iran's long-standing relations with militant Islamic groups overseas, and particularly the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which makes Iran into a "state sponsor of terrorism" according to the definition of the United States. The Pasdaran also provide the 50 tons of weaponry and explosives aboard the Karine-A, the Palestinian ship that was stopped by Israeli commandos before it could smuggle its deadly cargo to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Israeli officials also claim the Pasdaran has trained and equipped militants of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas.

Western intelligence sources have told United Press International that the new president served in the Al Quds Battalion of the Pasdaran, which was responsible for operations abroad. (Al Quds is the Arabic name for the city of Jerusalem, and signals strong commitment to the Palestinian cause.) The sources add that he is believed to have participated in operations in western Europe, saying in particular that he was one of a number of Iranians suspected of involvement in the killing of three Iranian Kurdish leaders in an ambush on the outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna. This is a brief qualifications of the Iranian president.

See the photos below for some of the Pasdaran Revolutionary  Guard,  whom Ahmadinejad used to work, accomplishments,  on the opposition groups in the Northern Iran!

Simply said the top two contestants are terrorist!

Now what the West should do?

After nearly a year and a half of negotiations you know that Iranian plutocrats and institutions, who make their money on black markets and on unequal terms of trade, are not impressed by Western offers to let them into the WTO, where they would have to respect transparency and equal terms of trade. Nor are they worried about the stick of the UN Security Council, given that Russia’s nuclear establishment is solvent partially because of deals with her southern neighbor and China’s long term energy stability tributary on its large scale Iran investments.

Pressure on human rights and democracy, however, will get serious attention in Iran’s domestic security apparatus . The Only option available to the West short of military intervention that I do not support, is to help the Iranians to let freedom and democracy take charge in Iran.

Thanks.  

Hossein Khorram

EXILES SEEK TO BLOG IRAN TO DEMOCRACY
Remember guys, these are the mullahs inches away from nuclear weaponry, thanks China- Atlas

UPDATE........and POOtin weighs in:
Putin offers Iran's president-elect to continue nuclear cooperation
Pravda Ru Sat, 25 Jun 2005 6:23 AM PDT
Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Saturday congratulated the new Iranian president-elect and said Moscow was ready to develop its nuclear cooperation with Iran in line with international agreements.

thanks Russia

MEHR ,P.O. Box 2037,P.V.P., CA 90274 USA
Tel: (310) 377-4590 Fax: (310) 377-3103
E-mail: mehr@mehr.org

URL: http://mehr.org

 

MEHR is registered as a non-profit organization.
Contributions to MEHR are tax-exempt

Chickens Come Home to Roost

In a disturbing but not unsurprising new survey, antisemitism is on the rise among graduate students at the nation's elite universities.

U.S. Grad Students Seen Hostile To Israel

A new survey of attitudes toward Israel among graduate students at top U.S. universities offers a disturbing, if not frightening, picture of increasing sympathy for the Palestinian cause and blame on the Jewish state for the lack of peace.

The report being issued this week by The Israel Project, a Washington, D.C.-based group seeking to strengthen Israel’s image, finds that “tomorrow’s leaders … are hostile to the Jewish state,” a growing trend that could jeopardize American foreign policy toward Israel in the near future.

I say not surprising because as I have railed against for months there is a complete lack of academic integrity as tenured lefty professors en masse hijack our nation's universities.

Just last week the Wall Street Journal called Academic Integrity RIP. For those of you who are not concerned with Israel or antisemitism or thinks it doesn't effect you ---- let me say this, you are dead wrong. Siding with terrorists and murderers does not bode well for you or America.

There but for the grace of Eurabia go I.................................

oh! And while you are cruising through the Sphere, you MUST read my OpEd piece over at my bloghubby Jackson's Junction -

The Fox Declawed is UNWATCHABLE; Long Live the Blogosphere

Are you sure they weren't testing Moonbats?

-- U.S. agriculture officials say tests on cow in the United States have come back positive for mad cow disease.CNN Breaking News

Turds of a Feather, Mock together

You have come to know what China is planning by the very facts on the ground. More empirical evidence of continued alignment of our enemies:

Syria underlines China's role as a great power at UN
Syria-China, Politics, 6/24/2005

Syria on Thursday underlined the important role played by China as a great state and permanent member to the UN Security Council.

President Bashar al-Assad hailed during his meeting with China's Foreign Minister Li Zhao Xing, China's positions supporting the just Arab causes noting at the same time to "China's significant role as a great power and permanent member to the UN Security Council."

There was a stress during the meeting on the "nonstop of consultation and coordination between the two countries over issues of common interest." For his part, Chinese FM highlighted the development of ties between the two countries since the latest visit of President Assad to China last year pointing out at the, "positive role that Syria is playing in the Middle East."

Previous Stories:
  Syria welcomes visit of China's fm next month   (5/25/2005)
  Chinese senior official: Syria has key role in ME peace   (4/14/2005)
  Official Source: Syria supports China on Taiwan issue   (3/17/2005)

Supreme Court Abomination

I posted this over at Trey's place, Jackson's Junction, my blog home away from home but Tim has specifically requested I run it here and I bow to his request...............my atom RSS feed man TIM!

Tim McD, enabler of my newsfeed and all things blog related..........sent me this and frankly I couldnt change a word

Have you noticed that most news stories, about the outrageous Supreme Court ruling expanding eminent domain, don't list the justices who voted to expand the power of government over the individual.  Why are they afforded this blatant pass from the media.  The following story just mentions the name of the justice who wrote the majority opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens.   But it does list who voted against giving government this new power.

The Justices on the right are spinning, rotating actually, in their graves...............

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=7&u=/nm/20050623/ts_nm/court_property_dc

 

In case you're wondering the names of those who voted to take away property rights, they are listed below:

 

John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice, was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 20, 1920.  President Ford nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat December 19, 1975.  He is 85.2 years old.  He has been on Social Security for 20 years.

 

David Hackett Souter, Associate Justice, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, September 17, 1939.  President Bush nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat October 9, 1990.  He is 65.8 years old and is now eligible for Social Security.

 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933.  President Clinton nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat August 10, 1993.  She is 72.3 years old and has been on Social Security for almost 7.5 years.

 

Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice, was born in San Francisco, California, August 15, 1938.  President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994.  He is 66.9 years old.  He has been on Social Security for almost 2 years.

 

Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice, was born in Sacramento, California, July 23, 1936.  President Reagan nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat February 18, 1988.  He is 69 years old and has been on Social Security for 4 years.

I can't help but notice that if they were treated as normal government employees, they would all have been retired a while ago.  Would it be too much to ask Supreme Court Justices to retire at age 70 and let someone else be on the bench? 

 

They were also all born in states that voted Democrat in the 2004 elections. 

 

But I'm sure glad that the Patriot Act was downsized.  I feel so much safer knowing the government can't rifle through my library records.  After the government seizes our homes we can at least enjoy anonymity at the library

On a happier note............Cujones Sighting!

Yeah Bill baby, someone with cujones!
Not enough of those b abies going around

Bill Gates to Visit Israel in October

Economy/Society

The "richest man in the world," Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, is planning to visit Israel in early October.

Globes reports that Gates will visit Israel as part of his annual tour of Europe, during which he meets with government and market leaders.

It will be the billionaire’s first visit to the Jewish State. He will meet with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and with Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (assuming they are both in their respective positions).

Israel hosts Microsoft branches in Raanana and Haifa, with over 200 employees in total.

If this doesn't provoke a resurrection............

After the desecration of the churches in Bethelem and the latest reports of atrocities committed against the Christians of Bethlehem, this news items sickens me....................

Bethlehem to be Handed Over to PA Next Week - Margot Dudkevitch
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday ordered the army to prepare to hand over to Palestinian security control the West Bank cities of Bethlehem next week and Kalkilya the week after. Mofaz stressed the need for the Palestinians to disarm all fugitives and ensure they sign a pledge to refrain from terrorist activities.
    Palestinian officials said on Thursday that hundreds of Nablus gunmen would move into the Palestinian police forces as a way of bringing them under control. The officials said that under the tentative agreement, 700 gunmen would be absorbed into the security services. However, Palestinians admitted that even with the Nablus accord, large-scale collection of weapons is not on the horizon. (Jerusalem Post)

MSM's Naked Agenda...Check out My Post at Jackson's Junction

Check out these two covers from the nations two largest weeklies:

No No you are not seeing double. These are the nation's two biggest weeklies and who are they glorifying. China, yup China.
The worst abuser of human rights, the propmaster and financier of the most heinous muslim government Sudan, yes Evil China Secretly FUNDS Massive Slaughter and Slavery in Sudan
China lover to Iran, North Korea, Pakistan.........oh where to begin?

Go over to Jackson's Junction and get my whole nasty post on this ugly story

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same and Abused Children become Bloody Murderers

Yesterday June 1970

Today June 2005

PA Television Continues to Teach Children to Become "Martyrs" Arab Press

The Palestinian Authority continues to promote “martyrdom” in its state-produced children’s television programs, according to a report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

“Shahada, or death for Allah, has been the backbone of the Palestinian Authority's messages to its children since the start of the terror war in September 2000," states the Wednesday report. "Although the number of these messages has been reduced in recent months, the promotion and glorification of child Shahada continues nonetheless, as seen this week on PA TV.”

The report cites a broadcast of a PA TV series named “The Palestinian Diaspora.” The series is presented daily as a factual portrayal of history. Though throughout the series, Israel's creation and ongoing existence have been presented as injustices that must be fought, this past week’s episode honed in on the issue of child martyrdom.

Click here to view the clip from the show

This week’s episode, set in 1956, shows Arabs mourning Israel's existence. A 12-year-old refugee is shown reading his uncle a story he wrote.

“The scene has two explicit messages,” write PMW’s Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook. “[They are:] A child should be willing and anxious to fight and die in order to destroy Israel, [and that] Arab 'refugees' can never resettle, but must 'return' to Israel.”

An excerpt from the clip, broadcast on PA TV on June 16:

[The scene opens with the 12-year-old boy's friend writing, "I shall return" over a map he drew of “Palestine,” covering all of Israel]

12-year-old Arab Boy: "His mother cried and said, 'My son! Swear to me! Don't leave me alone…! I'm afraid you will be killed.'

"Her son said to her, 'Don't cry, my mother! Let me go and fight for the sake of the homeland. The enemy stole our beautiful land… We all must fight in order to redeem the lost paradise… We lived in joy and happiness, until the foreign enemy [Israel] came and expelled us from our land, and we became refugees in tents. But we will return, by Allah's will!'

"His mother told him, 'Farewell, my son. Allah be with you.' He kissed her and left to fight, and fought until he became a Shahid [martyr for Allah]."

The Boy’s Uncle: "...Let me ask you, if they come and tell you, ‘we will give you a very big house, a car, land and money, just resettle!’ Would you agree?"

Boy: "No!"

Uncle: "...the homeland is greater than individual possessions."

The Back Story should be the FRONT story: Palestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment

Aryeh sends me this link (excellent blog  btw, on why Abu Mazzan should be arrested).
and then Aryeh assumes correctly:

I assume that you've  heard, but in case you haven't, a 21 year old young Palestinian woman who was being admitted to Israel so that Israeli doctors could treat her for serious burns all over her body (as a result of a home accident), decided to repay their generosity by bringing the Israeli army 20 pounds of ammunition. She strapped this gift to her body and intended to blow herself up with as many civilians as she could.

Now she's under arrest which is a shame for her becuase if she had succeeded in blowing herself up there'd no doubt be a street sign bearing her name andmaybe even a soccer team named after her.  By now Amnesty International would be condemning the barbaric Israelis who could allow a young woman to be driven tothis ghoulish behavior.  After all, it is our fault,right

Female Palestinian Suicide Bomber Planned to Blow Up Israeli Hospital

Wafa al-Bas, 21, arrested on Monday at a Gaza checkpoint, planned to blow herself up in an Israeli hospital. Israeli officials said Bas was burned in a cooking accident five months ago and had received treatment on humanitarian grounds at Beersheba hospital. She was making another trip for follow-up treatment but planned to blow herself up instead. In an interview shown on Israeli television, Bas said her "dream was to be a martyr." She said she was recruited by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - an off-shoot of Palestinian leader Abbas' Fatah faction. Later, she pleaded for mercy because she "didn't kill anyone."  (BBC)
    The Shin Bet received a tip that Fatah was planning to send Bas on a suicide mission via one of the Gaza Strip crossings. Israel gave the PA and Chairman Mahmoud Abbas detailed information of the plan, but the PA did nothing. (Ha'aretz)
    Security forces were alerted when the biometric screener at the terminal crossing revealed that Bas was wearing 10 kilograms of explosives. She then attempted several times to detonate the explosives but failed. She said she had intended to blow up in a "crowded area in the hospital." A senior Israeli security official pointed out that human rights groups have criticized Israel in the past for carrying out inspections on Palestinians requiring medical treatment in Israel. (Jerusalem Post)
    See also Palestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

This is the real news. The ignored, swept under the bloody rug news. The Amnesty International, UN, Eyrabia, calling Israelis Nazis, news. The real story for you isPalestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment.

Please for a moment..............sit back, close your eyes inhale through your nostrils and think about this  irrefutable truth. And then think about what you read in the papers and see on the alphabets (abc,cBS, commienewsnetwork etc.)

THIS IS THE FIGHT BOILED DOWN TO IT'S ESSENTIAL OILS.......................>