Atlas Shrugs

While the World Goes to Hell in a Handbasket....

Let's watch old movies!

I don't get TMC (Turner Movie Classics)...........Hate Turner, but love that channel. I get to watch TMC when I'm in the city (NY) or Florida  and it's all I'll watch in between jihad media news channels.

Not sure who the programming director is at AMC (once great), but their termination is long overdue. With all the of the brilliant old movies, film noir, musicals, drama, etc........look at the dreck they are running.

1 Jurassic Park 8PM 2 National Lampoon’s Vacation 8PM 3 Sleeping With the Enemy 8PM 4 Meet Joe Black 8PM 5 Jaws 8PM 6 Hard to Kill 8PM Hustle 10PM 7 Tora! Tora! Tora! 8PM 8 Scarface 8PM 9 Enemy of the State 8PM 10 The Birdcage 8PM 11 Milk Money 8PM 12 The Sting 8PM 13 The In-Laws 8PM Hustle 10PM 14 Enemy of the State 8PM 15 Sleeping With the Enemy 8PM 16 Patton 8PM 17 The Last Samurai 8PM 18 Jurassic Park 8PM 19 Enemy of the State 8PM 20 The Birdcage 7:30PM Hustle 10PM 21 Hard to Kill 8PM 22 Ronin 8PM 23 Broken Trail 8PM 24 DVD_TV: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid 8PM 25 The In-Laws 8PM 26 Cocoon 8PM 27 Gothika 8PM Hustle 10PM 28 Jaws 8PM 29 The Day the Earth Stood Still 8PM 30 Tora! Tora! Tora! 8PM subscribe | unsubscribe | privacy statement | about amc | amctv.com © 2006 American Movie Classics Company, 200 Jericho Quadrangle, Jericho, NY 11753

Ok Ok not loving those flicks (me neither) how about some word games? Love word games. Hat tip MORDOR

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winning definitions are:

1. Coffee: (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted: (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained

3. Abdicate: (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade: (v.), to attempt an explanation whilst drunk.

5. Willy-nilly: (adj.), impotent.

6. Negligent: (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph: (v.), to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle: (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.  

9. Flatulence: ( n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash: (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle: (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude: (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon: (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster: (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.  

15. Frisbeetarianism: ( n.), the belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent: (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

IRAN NUCLEAR DEADLINE: AUGUST 31 YAWN

a picture is worth a thousand words..........savages with nukes

IAEA report: Iran failed to stop nuke program before deadline

President Bush says Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.

Atlas: And if they do, they use it against the Coalition of the Unwilling First

UPDATE: JAL writes and I concur;

For everyone in the Middle East knows Iran is the clear winner. Only the diplomats and politicians, including the Bush administration, will pretend otherwise. Iran has emerged as the clear champion of anti-Israeli feeling and radical Islam. The Iranians have their useful puppet in Syria; they have their proxy armies in place with Hezbollah and Hamas. They have been able to install missiles, even Revolutionary Guards, in Lebanon with impunity. Sunni regimes in the region will move to strike their own deals with Iran, just as Eastern European states did with Germany after Czechoslovakia. That includes Iraq; the lesson will not be lost on Russia and China, either. And all the while, the Iranians proceed with their nuclear plans - with the same impunity.

Finally, the other winners are the conventional diplomats at the State Department, especially Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns. In a narrow professional sense, appeasement is their business. They never saw the point to a "war on terror" they are delighted to take back the initiative from the hawks at the Pentagon and the White House.    

UPDATE: What would we do without UN reports?

U.N. Report: Iran Isn't Cooperating

UPDATE: Best collection of opinion on the Bush administration's approval of  Iran's President Mohammad Khatami’s upcoming visit to the United States.  hat tip Faith

Hezb'Allah's Hitler Youth

Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah's Armed Children's Militias: Over 2,000 Children Aged 10-15 Serving  from MEMRI

In its August 18, 2006 edition, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yusuf featured an investigative article by Mirfat Al-Hakim titled "Hizbullah's Children's Militias." The article reveals that Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 children aged 10-15 to serve in armed militias, and that the Hizbullah-affiliated Mahdi Scouts youth organization is training them to become martyrs.

The following are excerpts from the article:

Hizbullah Recruits Children Barely 10 Years Old

According to Roz Al-Yusuf, "Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 innocent children aged 10-15 to form armed militias. Before the recent war with Israel, these children appeared only in the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations, and were referred to as the 'December 14 Units,' but today they are called istishhadiyun ['martyrs']...

"Hizbullah has customarily recruited youths and children and trained them to fight from a very early age. These are children barely 10 years old, who wear camouflage uniforms, cover their faces with black [camouflage] paint, swear to wage jihad, and join the Mahdi Scouts [youth organization]...

"The children are selected by Hizbullah recruitment [officers] based on one criterion only: They must be willing to become martyrs."       

The Children Train to Become Martyrs

"The children are educated from an early age to become martyrs in their youth, like their fathers, and their training is carried out by the Mahdi Scouts youth organization... [This organization], which is affiliated with Hizbullah, teaches the children the basic principles of Shi'ite ideology and of Hizbullah's ideology... The first lesson that the children are taught by Hizbullah is 'The Disappearance of Israel,' and it is always an important part of the [training] program...

BISHOP ATTACKS CHRISTIANS

I will never understand this. Here a Bishop attacks Christians who love Israel. Speaking not for (and clearly not that dhimmi Bishop who is inches away from decapitation, allah akbar), I FREAKING LOVE THOSE CHRISTIANS;

The Bishop in Jerusalem, Riah Abu Al-Assal has joined other Arab Christian leaders in releasing a statement denouncing “Christian Zionism” and the “contemporary alliance of Christian Zionist leaders and organizations” with Israel. “Christian Zionism” has justified “colonization, apartheid and empire-building” by Israel, Bishop Riah, wrote on August 22.

Bishop Riah’s concerns were highlighted in an August 23 report by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which found that approximately 42 percent of Americans believe “Israel was given to the Jewish people by God,” while a third of Americans (35%) stated they believed the state of Israel was “part of the fulfillment of biblical prophecy about the second coming of Jesus.”

“Beliefs about the Bible are closely related to views about the state of Israel,” Pew found. “Large majorities of those who view the Bible as the literal word of God say that Israel was given by God to the Jews and that Israel is the fulfillment of prophecy (70% and 62%, respectively). These figures are much lower among those who do not believe the Bible is the actual word of God.”

Support for Israel was highest in the American South, where 56% believed the land of Israel was given to the Jews by God, while 45% say the state of Israel fulfilled biblical prophecy, while the comparable figures for the Northeast were 24% and 22%.  The Church of England Newspaper

RELATED: ARAB CHRISTIANS VILIFY ISRAEL

 

OPEN SECRET AND SCANDAL: UN OFFICIALS RECEIVE FREE HOUSING

Soros is all over the UN.  Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy Secretary General, lives in a house Soros rents to him at below market rates.  In violation of UN staff regulations.

In my expose of Soros intentions to overthrow the American constitutional government piece here, I indicated how Soros pays off, buys off the UN, the Democratic party et al. In the continuing UN scandal, the inquiry into Housing Subsidies Contrary to UN Charter Goes Ignored for 8 Weeks, as Head UN Peacekeeper Does Not Respond here.

Despite numerous attempts to get to the truth, the UN continues to stonewall on this scandal. Not only stonewall, but nefariously orchestrate treacheries behind the scenes. Can't you see Soros behind this Bolton smear campaign.
On the August 29 noon briefing, Inner City Press again  asked  Kofi Annan's spokesman about housing subsidies:

Inner City Press Question: Yesterday, you promised an answer right after the briefing on the staff rules and housing subsidies.

Spokesman: I do have an answer, which is, first of all, we are in the process of replying to Ambassador Bolton's letter. The rules pertaining to rental subsidies and deductions are regulated through administrative instructions issued by the Secretary-General, which we can give you copies of since they are public documents.

In the process? In the process for months to answer a simple question?

Wednesday Kofi Annan's spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Inner City Press that the UN "in the last three years partly as a result of Oil-for Food and [the] Volcker [Committee], is really trying to bring itself up to standards it was never made to meet by the public or by the member states. I think we've done a tremendous amount in that regard. The issue of public disclosure is more tricky."

What's tricky about public disclosure? Unless of course you have something to hide.

What of this apparent conflict of interest? Asked Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Dujarric said among other things, "You have to have an honor system."

There is no honor among these theives. Honor system, at the UN?

Inner City Press At the UN,
Incomplete Reforms Allow for Gifts of Free Housing to UN Officials by Member States

Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN

  UNITED NATIONS, August 30 -- When UN officials receive free or cut-rate housing from their countries of nationality, the UN does not consider it a gift or favor, or even remuneration. Wednesday as Inner City Press' inquiry   continued, it emerged that the issue is far from abstract. In response to follow-up questions, Kofi Annan's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, "I'm not saying there are not people that do get some benefits and have declared them, because there are, and that's being looked at." When asked if the list of recipient will be made public, Mr. Dujarric said, "These are issues that are being discussed... we may very well move to some form of public disclosure."

            At the spokesman's noon media briefing on Wednesday, Inner City Press asked about whether such housing subsidy violate UN Staff Regulation 1.2(j), which states plainly that "No staff member may accept any honour, decoration, favour, gift, or remuneration from any Government." As transcribed, Inner City Press requested that the spokesman "at tomorrow's briefing publicly say if those subsidies are illegal under the rules or not." Mr. Dujarric responded, "They need to be declared and then they are deducted from the allowances received.  But I will take a look at the staff rules in details and try to square that circle."

            UN insiders interviewed by Inner City Press have called member-states' provision of free or cut-rate housing to their national who serve as UN officials both an open secret and a scandal. While in most legal systems a judge would not be allowed to rule in a case in which he or she was receiving free housing from one of the litigants, at the UN as disclosed Wednesday senior officials in such departments as peacekeeping and political affairs can make decisions impacting their countries while at the same time receiving free housing from their countries.

            What of this apparent conflict of interest? Asked Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Dujarric said among other things, "You have to have an honor system." He used as an example that the head of the UN Department of Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari, formerly foreign minister of Nigeria, might recuse himself from sensitive matters concerning Nigeria -- but not because of any housing subsidy. Mr. Dujarric added that he was neither saying nor not saying if Mr. Gambari receives any housing subsidy. (UN insiders note that the housing subsidy question should be addressed by Mr. Gambari's predecessor at DPA.) Mr. Dujarric also pointed denied that any housing subsidies were provided to Jean-Marie Guehenno or Louise Frechette. The Canadian mission's press officer Michael Kovrig, in response to a follow-up question from Inner City Press, I can now confirm that Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada did not provide any housing subsidy to Deputy Secretary-General Frechette."

My Conversation with General Moshe Yaalon "The West is Sleeping"

Yaalon: I expect resignations without committee

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” —Winston Churchill ht CPO

And so it is with General Ya'alon.

Allan Roth of One Jerusalem.Org put together another extraordinary opportunity to speak with an important figure on the world stage.  Mere Rhetoric, IsraPundit, Boker Tov Boulder, Jewish Current Issues, Tel Chai Nation, and Publius Pundit joined me in asking the General the questions that tear to heart of geopolitcs and world affairs.

General Ya'alon is, IMAO, Israel's best shot for the right leadership. While we wait for Olmert to do the right thing (is he capable?) and resign, Ya'alon represents Israel's best hope for navigating that country through an foreboding future
Continuing on the last conversation we had here, Yaalon is the voice of reason and strength, a rare quality in today's geopolitical landscape of appeasement.
Yaalon's editorial THE RULES OF WAR is a must read - a primer to where Israel has gone wrong.
Here is the audio on the Q&A, Download Yaalon830.wav
the full audio (briefing included) will be up at One Jerusalem shortly.

When I asked Yaalon how long Israel would have to live with the current leadership, Yaalon told me that it is "up to the Israeli democracy now to deal with the challenge." He said "the  last war in Lebanon was a failure in terms of mismanagement at the political level and the senior military level. The best way for those that are responsible is to resign and not go through a long process-- it might be a longer process using the democratic means to deal with this kind of failure and responsibility. But Israel should be strong, Actually one of the positive outcomes of this conflict is the perseverance and endurance of Israeli society."

Question: A unilateral retreat here from Judea and Samaria, that would be harmful, wouldn't it? It could lead to the Hamas setting up mortar attacks within Judea and Samaria, just like in Gaza too, right?

Yaalon: It is another example of our culture of ... The Israel public was manipulated and deceived by calling the disengagement from Gaza something, we have to take our destiny in our hands because we don't have a Palestinian partner, and to take the initiative and disengage from the Palestinians, and it seems like creating a new hope from the Israeli public, and I call it many times, that by using ... we create hawks which at the end appears to be illusion, and it's very clear like it was very clear to myself that the disengagement from Gaza would be perceived by the terrorists as a victory for them. I wasn't surprised by the Hamas victory in the elections, and I said from the very beginning that the outcome of the disengagement should be Hamasstan and Al-Qaidastan and Hezbollahstan, and today it is not just Hezbollahstan, it is Hezbollahstan with Iranian influence because of the Hamas government's decision to cooperate with the Iranian regime in the Gaza Strip. So to think now that this kind of ... regarding the West Bank is like to be blind, not to see the outcome of this kind of decision in the Gaza Strip.

[...]

Pamela: Sure. Okay, yes. It's Pamela from Atlas Shrugs. I wanted to ask how long the Israelis would have to live with the current leadership and how long General Ayalon thought he would have between now and the next onset of hostilities, because frankly this is a hudna, having delegated its sovereignty over to the UN, and I'm sure you saw Kofi Annan, everything that's come out of his mouth is a refutation of 1701, and also today I'm sure you saw that Siniora, the Lebanese Prime Minister said he refused to have direct contact with Israel, and Lebanon would be the country to ever sign a peace deal with the Jewish state. My question is, I know there's a lot of things here but, what can the Israeli people do? Do they have a choice? It's not one man, one state, one man, one vote. What can they do? Must they live with the current leadership, because there will be another onset of hostilities?

Yaalon: It is up to the Israeli democracy now to deal with the challenge, and as I said I see the last war in Lebanon as a failure in terms of mismanagement in the political level and the senior military level. The best way for those who are responsible is to resign and not to go to a long process, but it might be a longer process using the democratic means to deal with this kind of failure and responsibility, but Israel should be strong. Israel should be able to stand, and we are able to stand. Actually, one of the positive outcomes of this conflict is the civilians and the endurance of the Israeli society. Although the Israeli people in the North were attacked for about 33 days, in the end Israel is flourishing ..., economically. You can go now to the north. There is a lot of reconstruction, but the damage is not so significant like in Lebanon and we will be able to deal with it and to go now with our economical and civilian life, but at the end our ability to stand should consist of what I said in terms of what I said in term of understanding the situation, I call it clarity. In the last decade, I believe that we were confused, we were deluded by our leadership, by our media. We were deceived, we were manipulated, and we should understand, this is a challenge, we shouldn't be afraid of it, but in order to have the right solution we should agree about what is a problem and we need some clarity regarding understanding this challenge, and I believe that at the end-- we are actually-- At the end, we are a healthy, democratic society, and we will find a way to cope with it, to deal with it. I might be a longer process because of the political difficulties, but I believe in our strength and our ability to cope with it.

Question: Can I just follow up on one of the points that Pamela made? Do you feel that there's an inevitability that there is going to be a round two with Hezbollah, in terms of military action, or military ...?

Yaalon: I believe that the Iranian regime's interest is to initiate any kind of armed conflict as soon as possible. For them now if they have the capability to do it with the Palestinians, probably we would have been facing it already. The problem with the Palestinian-- the problem, it's to our benefit-- is that they are not able to do it in the West Bank, because we control the West Bank in terms of security, and they might decide to do it from the Gaza Strip, but as I said we have intensified our activities and we are doing it quite well. So in the Palestinian society, it's a problem of capability. Of course they can exploit the current situation to rearm themselves, to get more armaments, and this a fact that Yuval Diskin warned about yesterday, and we have to deal with it. Regarding Hezbollah, now it depends on the Iranian and Syrian ability to rearm Hezbollah. Hezbollah suffered from a lot of damage in term of casualties. We are not sure about the numbers, but it is between 500-600 Hezbollah terrorists, but the best of the best. We fought the special unit of Hezbollah and the best terrorists of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. It's a huge amount for an organization which is based on 1,000 of the best of the best, and ..., and of course they lost almost all of their long-rang and medium-range rockets. The Zelzals, the Fajrs. What they have, they have some more thousands of Katyushas, and now they are trying to be rearmed by the Syrians and the Palestinians and the Iranians, and now the question is the effectiveness of any kind of this deployment of the Lebanese armed forces or the international force not to allow them to be rearmed. I would say that I am skeptical about the implementation of Resolution 1701 and we should be ready to deal with it, but so far Hassan Nasrallah said that he doesn't have interest to renew the hostilities because he doesn't have the capability, actually, to renew it. Otherwise he is going to lose all his Katyushas. So it will take time for them to be ready for a second round of hostilities. When they are ready, of course they will do it.

Question: Hi I'm in a noisy public place but I'll be brief. I also think that the search for moderates, it's probably a bit amiss, in that I think that the core of what ... is not a moderate thing. I think that the moderate ... understand that ... But what we aren't doing is explaining tot he general population and to the people what ... that they're facing, and even Israelis don't ... much about the land, and certainly in Europe, I'm sitting here outside the new Scotland Yard ..., it's a tiny minority of people who understand what we're facing. What can be done to educate our side, which we know they've ... to educate their side?

Allen: Can I just jump in and very quickly a make a point that is slightly different from your assessment. There have two recent polls actually in Great Britain that show that the British people have moved from not understanding to understanding that a majority now understands about the threat of the radical Muslims. I'm not sure that's true in other European countries, although I'm told that in

France there's polling information along the same lines, but still you have an important point. How do we educate, both in Europe and in the United States I think as well. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Pamela: Allen, can I just add one thing to that question of yours? Does General Yaalon see the West's reluctance to even name the enemy as a problem? I mean, did he see Van Susteren's show last night with Centanni and Wiig who were kidnapped? They never mentioned the forced conversion at gunpoint. They never mentioned Islamic Jihad, but this is indicative of a bigger picture. Does he see this as a problem, the fear of even naming the enemy?

Yaalon: Yes, this is the main challenge I believe, to create what I call an awakening in the West. The West is sleeping. In many terms it reminds of the situation before World War II. It's very clear, the threat is very clear. You just have to listen to them. You have just to read the textbooks, and Westerners prefer to ignore it because of many reasons, to postpone for tomorrow, for the next week, for the next year, for the next generation, not to confront it. So we need an awakening. Yes, it is part of what I call the need for educating our people, ... case in Israel, and I believe that in Israel we are in the process of awakening. You can find it in the Israeli ..., but it is needed in Europe as well as in the United States. Regarding to Arab and Muslim moderates, I do not agree with it. There are few of them, but there are. They don't have the political power. I can't say that at the end they are going to win. I am not sure about it, but I am sure that there are, and we should approach them, and we should encourage them, we should support them, and not to be afraid, not in Iran, not in Iraq, not in Syria, not in Lebanon, not in the Palestinian Authority, not even in Egypt. There are. I met many of them. They do not sanctify death, they appreciate Western values, and they should be empowered.

Question: Okay. General Yaalon, you have repeated throughout this Q-and-A and your presentation about the bedrock issue of political and military mismanagement. There a number of observers on the Israeli scene that say that it's even more fundamental, and the word in English is corruption. What is it that you as a long-term observer, both of the military scene, and also presumably the political scene, have to say about, one, its existence, and two, how you eliminate it?

Yaalon: Yeah, it's another conference call to deal with it. (laughter) But I would take it this way. I worry from this phenomenon more than from the Iranian threat, and we have to deal with it. We have to deal with it. That's what I found and I wrote about it. I believe that the decision to go to the disengagement plan was because of corruption, and understanding that by going to this kind of plan our prime minister would save himself from the investigations and unfortunately it still exists, and I would say this is the most important challenge to deal with, because I believe that the mismanagement of the leadership and the incompetence of the leadership is the outcome of the corruption

Click below for the comlete Q & A, it's fascinating.

American Superheros to the Rescue

What a great story. Superheros walk among us. I am humbled by their good work. The terrorized children of Northern Israel can use all the help they can get.

Children of northern Israel to get some superhero help

Children in northern Israel are to receive support from some of America's most famous superheroes - or at least the artists who created them. Mahrwood Press, a publishing company with offices in Florida and Jerusalem, has initiated the compilation of an anthology, Balm in Gilead, featuring short stories and illustrations that will be sold in support of children in northern Israel affected during the recent war.

"I had been contacted by an American Jewish publisher to do an insert to solicit funds for children in the North, but I wanted to do something bigger, something in the US," said Eric Mahr, Mahrwood's president, who enlisted for the project the help of artists including Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman and The Fantastic Four, and Neal Adams, a leading contemporary comic artist most famous for his work on the Batman and X-Men series. Other participants include Marv Wolfman, the creator of Blade, Robert Silverberg, a popular science fiction writer, and Dave Cockrum, a co-creator of the X-Men series.

Adams, the Batman artist, spoke about his motivation for participating in the charity project. "As a comic book artist, there is a certain guilt factor because we are paid money to draw pictures ... When an opportunity to contribute to society arises, we take it up," he said. 

Adams, who is not Jewish, said he has a special affinity for Israel because "our association to Israel as Americans is very strong. It's a first-string relationship."

Gd love you.

 

Les Miserables indeed

Is nothing sacred? hat tip Cinn Stillwell

Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and other characters have been converted to Islam in new versions of 100 classic stories on the Turkish school curriculum.

"Give me some bread, for Allah's sake," Pinocchio says to Geppetto, his maker, in a book stamped with the crest of the ministry of education.

"Thanks be to Allah," the puppet says later.

In The Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan is told that he cannot visit Aramis. The reason would surprise the author, Alexandre Dumas.

An old woman explains: "He is surrounded by men of religion. He converted to Islam after his illness."

Tom Sawyer may always have shirked his homework, but he is more conscientious in learning his Islamic prayers. He is given a "special treat" for learning the Arabic words.

Pollyanna, seen by some as the embodiment of Christian forgiveness, says that she believes in the end of the world as predicted in the Koran.

Heidi, the Swiss orphan girl in the tale by Johanna Spyri, is told that praying to Allah will help her to relax. Telegraph here

Apparently everything is fair game,  including La Fontaine's fables and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Ayn must be spinning out.

ARMITAGE: Et Tu Brute?

"If you were against the war, it was okay to forget or to reveal details about Valerie Plame, but if you supported the war, you get indicted," a Justice Department official in the Reagan administration, Victoria Toensing, said in an interview yesterday. "It's a simple as that." NY Sun

"He could have saved everybody some grief," Ms. Toensing said. "There should be some kind of indictment for this behavior."

Mr. Armitage, who resigned along with Mr. Powell at the end of Mr. Bush's first term, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Mr. Armitage, recall, was part of Colin Powell's team at State and well known as an internal Administration opponent of the "neo-cons" who supported the ouster of Saddam Hussein. The book alleges that Mr. Armitage knew as early as October 2003 that he was Mr. Novak's prime source, yet he kept quiet about it even as his colleagues in the Administration were dragged through years of criminal investigation and media accusations as the possible leaker. Even now Mr. Armitage hasn't admitted to being the leaker, though doing so would help to clarify several things about the case.

For starters, fessing up would put to rest the conspiracy theories once and for all. Bush opponents have continued to promote this myth, with Mr. Wilson writing in June 2004 that "the conspiracy to destroy us was most likely conceived--and carried out--within the office of the vice president of the United States." Not a word of that was true. WSJ

Armitage's Shame. And what must President Bush be thinking? One must be deserving of loyalty Mr Pres. Beware Condi;

At a minimum, there appears to be a serious question of disloyalty here. By keeping silent, Messrs. Powell and Armitage let the President take political heat for the case, while also letting Mr. Rove, Mr. Libby and other White House officials twist in the wind for more than two years. We also know that it was the folks in Mr. Powell's shop--including his former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson and intelligence officer Carl Ford Jr.--who did so much to trash John Bolton's nomination to be Ambassador to the U.N. in 2005. The State Department clique that Mr. Bush tolerated for so long did tremendous damage to his Administration.  WSJ

And apparently This schmuck Armitage is still trying to undermine the President and by extension, America. Talk to Syria? Next he'll be telling us to talk fo Osama?

NPR : Richard Armitage: US Must Talk to Syria

"I think [the Syrians] want to get involved," Armitage says. "I think they want to become more central to the solution and you might as well give them the opportunity."

"We get a little lazy, I think, when we spend all our time as diplomats talking to our friends and not to our enemies," he adds.

Uh say what?

For Whom the Bell Tolls in November

America, America, Gd shed his grace on thee. Do no squander it! As  Soros Shadow party angles for a coup d'etat, and jihad is the enemy we speak of only in whispers and hushed tones (!)............I ask you, who better to fight the jihad? It is not morning in America, it is late afternoon.
I asl every reader to get involved in the process and insure that America stays America.

Fight Amerabia, fight the UN takeover of our sovereignty.

Dennis writes me;

Below is a list of the top 10 Senate races in November "06"
Remember Republicans hold the Senate; 51 to 49
These will be knock down drag out fights against hard core unscrupulous Democrats.
We must fight back against Democrat supporters like the Hollywood Left,
the dominant anti-American media and George Soros and all the 527s.
Please contribute generously.
Please go to the candidates web sites to research for yourselves.

Dennis has assembled for us the critical races.

Pennsylvania Senate race
Senator Rick Santorum Republican incumbent
Santorum for Senate
P.O. Box 16426
Pittsburgh, PA 15242
email: info@ricksantorum.com

New Jersey Senate race
Tom Kean Republican challenger
Tom Kean for U.S. Senate
187 Mill Lane
Mountainside, New Jersey 07092

Ohio Senate Seat
Mike DeWine Republican incumbent (thanx oaf)
Mike DeWine for U.S. Senate
P.O. Box 340188
Columbus, Ohio 43234
info@mikedewine.com

Maryland Senate race
Michael Steele Republican challenger
Steele for Maryland
Finance Department
1350 Dorsey Rd. Bldg A, Suite A
Hanover, MD 21076
For contributor assistance, please contact the Finance Department at Contributions@steeleformaryland.com or (443) 603-1288.

Arizona Senate race
Jon Kyl Republican incumbent
Jon Kyl for U.S. Senate
P.O. Box 10246
Phoenix, AZ 85064-0246
Please make checks payable to ³Jon Kyl for U.S. Senate²
For questions contact Sarah Borst, 602-840-0306 or sborst@jonkyl.com.

Montana Senate race
Conrad Burns Republican incumbent
Conrad Burns for Senate
125 25th St. W.
Billings, MT 59102
Phone: 406-656-9999
Fax: 406-656-9963

Nebraska Senate race
Pete Rickets Republican challenger
Please make checks payable to:
Nebraska Families for Pete Ricketts, Inc.
P. O. Box 24705
Omaha, NE 68124

Missouri Senate race
Jim Talent Republican incumbent
Talent for Senate
Phone: (314) 993-8235 |
Fax: (314) 993-82819467
Dielman Rock Island Industrial Dr.St. Louis, MO 63132

Washington Senate race
Mike McGavick Republican challenger
Mike McGavick for US Senate
501 8th Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone:  (206) 838-7479

Minnesota Senate race
Mark Kennedy Republican challenger
Mark Kennedy for US Senate
P.O. Box 49333
Blaine, MN 55449
651.644.2506
info@markkennedy06.com.

Maybe the Senate isn't so safe for the GOP after all. Stephen Moore, WSJ Political Diary PAID only, writes today;

The latest Zogby poll contains new nuggets of data for Republicans to fret over -- including findings that suggest that incumbent Republicans thought to be safely in the win column are now in hot races. The Senate is very much in play and potentially within the Democrats' grasp in November. There's bad news especially in Ohio and Pennsylvania where Rick Santorum trails by 11 points against Bob Casey, Jr. and Mike DeWine is down by eight points to Sherrod Brown. Really sour news comes from Virginia, which the GOP had counted on as a "safe" seat just a month ago but thanks to George Allen's gaffes of late, he is now down one point to Democrat Jim Webb.

Most shocking was that the Senate race in Nevada is turning into a nail biter, with John Ensign leading by only three points against Jack Carter, son of the former president. Republicans had hoped that once Republicans rallied around a candidate in Tennessee after a bitter three-way primary, they could put this seat in the red column, but former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker is only up by four points against Democrat Harold Ford Jr.

Among Senate Democratic incumbents, both Debbie Stabenow in Michigan and Bob Menendez in New Jersey have shockingly tight races with a less than five-point spread in both. Republicans also have shots in Maryland and Washington State as well, if the "throw the bums out" mood persists.

Democrats would have to win six Senate seats to take over control of the Senate. That would require victories in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee and one upset among Virginia, Missouri, Nevada, or Arizona. On top of that, they would have to hold all of their incumbents. The Zogby survey suggests it's doable but only with a 1994-like voter tide against Republicans.

I don't trust Zogby, the  quintessential Democratic party tool but I do believe the Republicans are vulnerable.
I will continue to update this and I will post the House and Governor races as well. Stay with these races. Make a difference

"Death to Israel" Rally in USA

****CLICK HERE FOR JIHAD IN SAN FRAN UPDATE***

MJB writes "Death to Israel" rally planned for Salt Lake City;

PROTESTORS WILL BE PAID to show up!  How can the mainstream media ignore this insanity?  It should be condemned by the media and by our leaders.  We should urge all good people to show up as counter protestors.  Absolutely ourtageous.

Also, isn't it the crime of criminal to incite a crime?  Isn't calling for the death of Israel and all her people criminal solicitation?  The FBI should be there monitoring, ready to arrest anyone who incites these crimes.

What has become of our great nation?

SLC to issue permit for the 'Death to Israel' rally

The permit will be approved next week, after the city and Breeze finalize where the demonstration, one of several planned for that day, will be held. It will run from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Breeze, 52, said his goal is to protest "the torture and murder inflicted on Muslims by Israel and the penetration of the U.S. media by Israeli intelligence." Article here

I am all for free speech but this is not free speech. This is qualified free speech in America. You can speak but only if it is far left dogma. Truth tellers are shut up and shut down.This the new fascism. 

We dare not speak the name of the enemy that has declared war on civilization (and when spoken of it is only in hushed voices.) The kidnapped journalists forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam make no mention of it, no media would publish the innocuous Danish cartoons, even American universities refused to display the cartoons. The President is excoriated for using the term "islamofascism." The Jihad is Seattle still fresh in our memory and still a wall of silence.

In my conversation earlier today with General Yaalon, I asked him if this fear to name and  face the enemy was an obstacle to victory, he said, "yes, the West is still asleep." (transcript to follow in subsequent post.)

This is not free speech. This thuggery is fascism and it descends straight to hell. Any Atlas readers who attend this to counter protest, please send me your observations, pictures, anecdotes etc.

Jihad in West Virginia

Jihad here, jihad there, jihad jihad everywhere..................... it's late afternoon in America

VIRGINIA JIHAD NETWORK
[coming to a third grade near you,awwwwwwww]

Teacher Sentenced for Aiding Terrorists (AP) - A Maryland third grade teacher has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for lending aid to a Pakistani terrorist organization. Ali Asad Chandia, 29, was convicted in June on charges that he provided material support to the foreign terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba. Chandia is one of eleven people convicted by the government in its investigation of what it called a "Virginia jihad network."

A third-grade teacher at a Muslim school who was the last man charged as a member of the "Virginia jihad network" was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday after proclaiming his innocence in a tearful and angry statement to the court. More at WaPo

IRAQ: Proud wife of Cpl. Joe McCarthy

Proud wife of Cpl. Joe McCarthy KIA Sept. 6th 2004 of left this comment on my post  "Our Men, Love them."

Thank you for this video. It's about time someone speaks up and says its not all about the bull shit. It's fucking bull shit that people think that it's cool to be in Iraq killing people. Most of our guys (and gals) that are over there are there because they believe in America, and stand for something. It's stupid that we can watch the news and all we see for weeks is where one or a couple of our military guys have fucked up. What about those who go and do their jobs every day knowing that their buddy is being sent home in a box, then have to come home to their familys and pretend like it's all okay because no one understands....Most of all those idiots who are sitting there asking them bull shit questions like how many people did you kill. My husband was killed on Sept. 6th in Fallujah one month before he was set to come home. I burried my 21 year old husband 2 days before our first anaversery. I know what sacrifice is. Our troops who are out there on the front line know what sacrifice is. So fuck this generation X crap. I've seen what my generation stands for. We make a differance, not MTV, Not Paris Hilton, or any other Stupid examples. My Heart is still with our troops, and their mission. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE- it is paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of those who would uphold it. .....nice video

Photo:Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph McCarthy, 21, from Fallbrook, Calif., hands candy out to Iraqi children who approached him at a military checkpoint west of Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday. (Hayne Palmour / North County Times / AP photo)

How much is that dhimmi doggie at UN?

IRAN ENRICHING MORE URANIUM

 In today's NY sun, President Ahmadinejad of Iran said it is “unlikely” the U.N. Security Council will take action over his country’s nuclear program.

    Iran has so far rejected a Security Council request that it suspend uranium enrichment by August 31. Mr. Ahmadinejad did not mention this deadline in remarks to reporters yesterday.

    Mr. Ahmadinejad yesterday challenged President Bush to a live and “uncensored” televised debate on “ways to get out of the standoffs.” Iran is willing to open a dialogue with America, the Iranian leader said, if the Bush administration changes its “attitude.”  

    If the August 31 deadline passes without an Iranian agreement to halt uranium enrichment, the U.N. Security Council will then be faced with the problem of whether to impose economic sanctions. China and Russia, permanent members of the council with France, Britain, and America, have expressed caution about taking such a step.

Russia and China expressed caution? Hey c'mon now fellas. Russia says it opposes sanctions on Iran. And China........ not happening. France? France is all geared up to start talking .....again. Yeah, cheap French double talk, that's the ticket to saving the free world.

    The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna said June 8 that it cannot be sure that Iran is not hiding a nuclear-weapons program. Iran concealed nuclear work from IAEA inspectors for 18 years until 2003.

In other words, the IAEA doesn't know it's ass from its elbow - Iran could have nukes as we speak. But then again, maybe not.

Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s offer to President Bush for a debate “on how to end world predicaments” is a farce, said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. “The Iranian regime is the world’s leading sponsor of the Islamic totalitarian movement that terrorizes us, and it is eagerly pursuing long-range missiles and nuclear warheads with which to terrorize us further. The only way to “end world predicaments” is for this regime to cease to exist. We must defeat Ahmadinejad and his regime--not debate them. Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute

Hat tip to Pete at ihillary for making me the graphic. Excellent. 

UPDATE: Lebanon, Iran's proxy, speaks. No peace with Israel.

Lebanese Prime Minister Vows to Have No Contact With Israel

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Prime Minister Saniora said Wednesday that he refused to have any direct contact with Israel and Lebanon would be the last Arab country to ever sign a peace deal with the Jewish state.

"Let it be clear, we are not seeking any agreement until there is just and comprehensive peace based on the Arab initiative," he said.

He was referring to a plan that came out of a 2002 Arab League summit in Beirut. It calls for Israel to return all territories it conquered in the 1967 Mideast war, the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and a solution to the Palestinian refugee problem _ all in exchange for peace and full normalization of Arab relations with Israel.

 

Not one Word-Sanitizing Islamic Jihad

Did anyone else sit through that bullshit hour of Greta Van Sustern? OMG, one full hour of Centanni and Wiigs without mentioning the 800lb savage in the room - Islamic Jihad.

These men were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint - a good deed according to the Quran - and not one word of it mentioned? What were they thinking then? Are they Muslims now?

Not one bloody word on the subject. That was a classic moment in American dhimmitude.

Bostom: ”Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries.

What should be gleaned from this harrowing Gazan spectacle of non-Muslim journalists being kidnapped, imprisoned for nearly two weeks, and coerced at gunpoint into converting to Islam, while condemning their own societies? We must avoid indulging fantasies (such as those already expressed by the kidnapped Fox reporters upon their release) triggered by understandable Stockholm Syndrome reactions, or learned, fearful dhimmitude. Unsettling realities of the historical continuum of forced conversion to Islam must be discussed. The living Islamic fanaticism of the past cannot be allowed to poison the present (and future), unchallenged by Muslims themselves.

But it wasn't discussed. Nothing of import was discussed. Complete Sanitization. The ugliness of the track suits provided them was discussed. Yes, the unattractiveness of their garb. Some of the pain inflicted, some of the head shoved in the sand .................. but it was like old home week at FOX. Like some long lost episode of the Brady Bunch (more like the Poseidon Adventure.)

Jihad in San Fran?

***UPDATE***SCROLL FOR VIDEO AND UPDATES***

"He was absolutely indifferent, no fear, no expression,'' she said. "He was like a zombie.'' SFGate here

I know I know, don't rush to judgment. Still, I betcha it's a jihad. If it walks like a jihad, talks like a jihad, kills like a jihad.............it's mental illness. Isn't that what they always say?

Hit-and-run horror on streets of San Francisco

As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco deliberately running them down before being arrested by police, who believe the same driver struck and killed a man earlier today in Fremont.

One person was killed and 13 injured Tuesday afternoon by a driver who raced around San Francisco allegedly trying to run down pedestrians, police said. The driver, identified as Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, was arrested on suspicion of committing at least four hit-and-run attacks, but there was no immediate indication as to his motive.

Police said that Popal was probably the culprit of another fatal hit-and-run Tuesday morning in Fremont, California, just east of San Francisco.

Seven of the injured were in critical condition, police and firefighters said. 

--  Two people, one of them a child, were seriously injured on the 3500 block of California Street in Laurel Heights.

--  Two people were seriously hurt at Bush and Pierce streets.

--  One person was seriously injured at Bush and Buchanan streets.

-- One person suffered minor injuries in an incident at 1850 Fillmore St.

--  Two other people suffered minor injuries when they were hit at Pine at Divisadero streets.

--  Two people were hit and suffered minor injuries at Divisadero and Bush streets.

  "It was like 'Death Race 2000,'" firefighter Danny Bright told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Guys were walking down the sidewalk and the guy just came up and ran them over. The guy went crazy."

"It's one of the craziest things I've seen in my years on the force," said San Francisco police Sergeant Neville Gittens. "This individual was driving around the city mowing people down."

"The hits were intentional,'' he said, noting that police are treating them as assaults.

The mayhem left a trail of debris on sidewalks and streets. White sheets covered a bloodstained patch of concrete. A broken pair of eyeglasses lay in the middle of the road. And a lone running shoe sat on the asphalt cordoned off by yellow tape. More here

Here comes the spin;

A day of hit-and-run horror that started with the death of a Fremont pedestrian and culminated in a half-hour of chaos on the streets of San Francisco ended in the arrest of a 29-year-old driver described by some relatives as mentally disturbed, but by police as apparently rational and unrepentant.

UPDATE: Here's an interesting factoid the dhimmi media won't touch. DaVinci writes;

Please check out the area (some of the earlier reports give the streets where the victims were hit) and if you follow the street plan, it passes in an extremely rough 'circle' around what I believe is called Temple Sherith Israel.  It's an immense building, can't miss it.  Huge dome - I'm certain it's the largest synagogue in San Francisco.

Malkin has alto on the temple angle here

UPDATE: Robert D writes that  "a police officer called KSFO 560 off mike and said our SF Jihadi had just returned from Afghanistan............."

UPDATE: Watch the VIDEO here and Wait for the Reporter's LAST STATEMENT hat tip Dave

"The suspect referred to himself as a terrorist but the police say may have been many things but it was but an act terrorism." Rob Roth, reporter

Learn to speak dhimmi! Imagine if you will, if someone had deliberately mowed down members of the gay community, or a white fella ran over 14 African American citizens.......... imagine the media locusts bashing American society. And then note this wall of silence.

"Two struck down in front of the Jewish Center"

Reader James writes;

It's remarkable, really. 
I would add to your posting where you talk about if a white person went on a rampage in an all black neighborhood and ended up killing some Mexicans, Asians, and Jews in the process AND THEN IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS A WHITE SUPREMACIST OR KKK MEMBER, who in the media would have said, "yeah, he drove through the black neighborhood and he's an avowed white racist, but he didn't only kill black people so there's no pattern for the victims and this definitely is not a race-based incident."  Who would say that?  Wouldn't the headline read:

White Supremacist Runs Down 13 in Black Neighborhood?

UPDATE: So once again dhimmi jihad-enabling media refuses to call Muslim terror Muslim terror the despite the following;

-The man called himself a terrorist.

-He is a Muslim.

-The driver struck pedestrians at full speed in a dozen locations.

-The final location, with 2 victims, was a Jewish Community Center.

-Intercepted Jihad documents have stated the intent to kill US pedestrians with SUVs.

-The man had recently been in Afghanistan.

-Consistent with previous jihadi attacks, the driver was reportedly calm with an angry look during the attacks, made eye contact with his victims and was unruffled afterwards.

-The man's close relatives, knowledgeable of the intimate details of his life (including his dreams), are involved with promoting books on Islam (Hamid Nekrawesh), contributing money to the anti-war Bush- hating radical Lyndon Larouche (Hamid Nekrawesh) and selling fraudulent securities as part of Pakistani earthquake "charity work" (Zarghona Ramish). Pakistani earthquake relief was also a source of funds for the UK airplane terror plotters.

Soros Stealing America

What Soros wants, what he intends to do is to take power in America.

George Soros  called defeating President Bush "the central focus of my life" and a "matter of life and death. More here

Soros is a terrible figure undermining the very foundation of America. His treachery looms darkly over the great American landcape. His black hand is in all things big and small. The graft, corruption inescapable. Soros has bought the Democratic Party lock, stock, and barrel thanks to John McCain's-McCain/Feingold Finance Reform.

Soros pays off the media as journalists have been exposed on the U.N. Payroll churning out  UN propaganda.  Soros and Ted Turner have gone sofar as to pay for journalism prizes.
Soros is all over the UN.  Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy Secretary General, lives in a house Soros rents to him at below-market rates.  In violation UN staff regulations.

Mr. Vales asked Inner City Press to hold off publishing this story. When Mr. Vales then said that no response would be possible until next week, Inner City Press decided to wait four more hours for any written responses, and then publish. Click link below Soro's Shadow party and read it all.

George Soros is working through the UN to negotiate a treaty that will ban private ownership of firearms on a worldwide basis.

Soros Shadow party means to take America. This is a wildly alarming piece.

FP: How does Soros use his influence over the Party?

POE: The Shadow Party is always changing.  New groups form and old ones dissolve. For instance, America Coming Together -- which raised $135 million for Democrat get-out-the-vote drives in 2004 – has been mothballed, at least for now.  The most active Shadow Party groups today are probably the Center for American Progress, America Votes, Democracy Alliance, the New Democrat Network, the New Politics Institute, ACORN and, of course, MoveOn.org.

FP:How does Soros use his influence over the Party?

POE:He uses it to push the Party leftward.  He is systematically purging the Party of moderates and packing it with radicals. For instance, the Shadow Party ousted Senator Joseph Lieberman in favor of Ned Lamont, because Lieberman refused to support a “cut-and-run” policy in Iraq.

FP:Isn’t that just politics as usual, though – wealthy fat cats funding their favorite candidates?

POE: Funding ordinary candidates, be they Democrats or Republicans, would be politics as usual. Funding radical candidates who seek America’s destruction is not. Money is a tool. It can be used for good or evil. The Shadow Party is using it for evil.

FP: Does the Shadow Party really seek to destroy ?

POE: Judge for yourself. In his new book The Age of Fallibility, Soros writes, “The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States” He announced in 2003 that it is necessary to “puncture the bubble of American supremacy.”  Soros is working systematically to achieve that goal.

On the economic front, he is shorting the dollar in global currency markets, trying to force a devaluation.  At the same time, Soros is orchestrating a nationwide movement to encourage mass immigration into the United States, and to mandate the provision of free social services to illegal immigrants. These measures alone have the potential to bankrupt the nation. However, if they fail, Soros has another program that will certainly finish the job. A long-time Soros operative named Jeffrey Sachs has been placed in charge of the United Nations Millennium Project – a global war on poverty designed to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor ones. Sachs is currently demanding that American taxpayers turn over $140 billion per year to his global welfare bureaucracy.

On the political front, Soros has poured massive funding into such groups as the ACLU, which uses lawsuits to hamstring the War on Terror. Soros also funds Amnesty International, whose US executive director has called for the arrest of President Bush as a war criminal.  Another Soros-funded group, The Center for Constitutional Rights, has drawn up detailed articles of impeachment against the President.

FP: Why don’t more Americans know that Soros is pushing these destructive policies?

Poe: The Shadow Party operates through deception. It uses the Democratic Party as camouflage. By posing as ordinary Democrats, Shadow Party candidates trick mainstream voters into supporting them.  Their true agenda remains concealed. As Soros writes in The Age of Fallibility, “[T]he Democratic Party does not stand for the policies that I advocate; indeed, if it did, it could not be elected.”

The fact is, Soros aspires to establish a neo-socialist order in America.  In the Atlantic Monthly of February 1997, he wrote, “The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.”

FP: Tell me about Soros’ efforts to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.

POE: Mr. Soros advocates deep structural change in our system of government.  In April 2005, Yale hosted an event called, “The Constitution in 2020”, whose stated goal was to formulate “a progressive vision of what the Constitution ought to be.”  Of the event’s five institutional sponsors, one was Soros’ flagship foundation The Open Society Institute, and two others were Soros-funded Shadow Party groups; the Center for American Progress and the American Constitution Society.  We nicknamed that event the Shadow Constitutional Convention.

FP: What parts of our Constitution does Soros want to change?

Poe: He appears to have a special animus against the Bill of Rights. Take freedom of worship, for instance. Soros seems to favor some sort of religious apartheid, with fundamentalist Christians banished to a socio-political Bantustan.  For example, in a New Yorker interview of October 18, 2004, he said of President Bush, “The separation of church and state, the bedrock of our democracy, is clearly undermined by having a born-again President.”

Then there’s the Second Amendment.  Soros has provided massive funding to anti-gun groups and anti-gun litigators.  The unprecedented assault on gun rights during the 1990s was largely bankrolled by Soros.

FP: You and David Horowitz have also accused Soros of promoting political censorship in America

POE: Most Americans do not realize that the McCain-Feingold Act of 2002 was a Trojan Horse.  Its stated purpose was to reform campaign finance law. Its actual effect is to regulate political speech. McCain-Feingold Act was a Shadow Party initiative. Soros and a group of leftwing foundations spent over $140 million to get it passed.

Here’s how it works. McCain-Feingold authorizes federal election officials to decide who may or may not run political advertisements during election season, and what sorts of ads they may run.  In September 2004, a federal judge expanded McCain-Feingold’s reach by ordering the FEC to begin censoring the Internet.  Blogger outrage forced the FEC to back down, but McCain-Feingold remains on the books. Sooner or later, it will be enforced, to the full extent its creators envisioned.  We can thank Mr. Soros for these developments.

FP: Of course, we can also thank Republican Senator John McCain, who co-sponsored the bill.

Poe: Yes, but McCain has a long history of collusion with the Shadow Party.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, Soros sponsored two so-called “Shadow Conventions,” held at the same time and in the same cities as the Republican and Democratic Conventions, in Philadelphia Los Angeles respectively. Their purpose was to promote campaign finance reform. John McCain gave the keynote speech at the Philadelphia “Soros Convention” (as columnist Robert Novak dubbed it), while Russ Feingold did so at the LA event.

McCain’s service to the Shadow Party brought him financial benefits. In 2001, McCain founded the Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues. The Institute’s major funders were mostly leftwing foundations. Prominent among them was George Soros’ Open Society Institute.

[...]

FP: You and David Horowitz charge that Hillary Clinton has a secret alliance with Soros.

POE: That’s right.  They have to keep their alliance secret because any political coordination between them would violate federal election law. Soros’s Shadow Party is barred by law from coordinating its activities with official Democratic Party candidates, such as Hillary.

It’s a poorly-kept secret, however.  At the annual Take Back America conference on June 3, 2004, Hillary gave Soros a glowing introduction, saying, “We need people like George Soros, who is fearless, and willing to step up when it counts.” More importantly, her right hand man, Harold Ickes – who served the Clinton White House as deputy chief of staff – now serves Soros as de facto CEO of the Shadow Party. Ickes plays a significant role in running Hillary’s political machine and Soros’ Shadow Party simultaneously. This is arguably illegal, but no controlling authority seems willing to intervene.

[...]One insider told a UPI reporter that the Center is “the official Hillary Clinton think tank.”  Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation wrote of the Center, “It’s not completely wrong to see it as a shadow government, a kind of Clinton White House-in-exile – or a White House staff in readiness for President Hillary Clinton.”  The Center for American Progress received its start-up funding from Soros and was, in fact,  Soros’ brainchild.

WorldNetDaily: Clinton-Soros initiative at UN summit

Inquiry Into Housing Subsidies Contrary to UN Charter Goes Ignored for 8 Weeks, As Head UN Peacekeeper Does Not Respond

Click here for August 28 follow-up story by Inner City Press.
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN

UNITED NATIONS, August 24 (updated Aug. 28, 1 pm) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has let eight weeks pass without responding to a request for information about senior UN officials receiving housing subsidies from their country of nationality, it emerged on Thursday.  Former Deputy Secretary Louise Frechette was asked if she received such subsidies and said no, according to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Despite a specific request from Inner City Press at 5 p.m. Thursday for a similar response from Jean-Marie Guehenno, the head of UN peacekeeping, five hours later by 10 p.m. deadline no response was received. Deputy UN peacekeeping spokesman Hernan Vales said that since Mr. Guehenno is out of the country, no response will be possible until next week.
           High-placed sources within UN Headquarters showed Inner City Press a copy of a letter from U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton, dated June 27, 2006, to Secretary-General. Kofi Annan. The letter asked Mr. Annan for information about UN officials who receive housing subsidies from their countries of nationality in contravention of their duties, under Article 100.1 of the UN Charter, to "refrain from any action which might reflect on their position as international officials responsible only to the Organization" of the UN.

Pimp and Liar

KOFI ANNAN HAS NO NEW INFORMATION ON IDF CAPTIVES

Liar!

ANNAN: ISRAEL GUILTY OF TRUCE VIOLATIONS

Pimp!

UPDATE: Pimp and liar

ANNAN CALLS ISRAELI BLOCKADE 'HUMILIATION'