Don Singleton

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Bush Failed to See Musharraf’s Faults

NYT reported In the six years since Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, joined President Bush in the fight against Al Qaeda, it has been an unlikely partnership: a president intent on promoting democracy and a military commander who seized power in a bloodless coup.

At least it was bloodless. The Islamists who have tried to kill Musharraf have killed a lot of people,

Mr. Bush has repeatedly called Gen. Musharraf “a friend.”

What would the NYT prefer. That he turned his back on him, like Carter did for the Shah of Iran, and give the Islamists atomic weapons immediately so they don't have to build them.

In 2003, the president invited the general to Camp David, a presidential perk reserved for the closest of allies. Last year, at the general’s insistence, Mr. Bush risked a trip to Pakistan, jangling the nerves of the Secret Service by spending the night in the country presumed to be home to Osama bin Laden.

CNN's six "undecided voters" were all Democratic operatives

Doug Ross reports CNN's six "undecided voters" were:

A Democratic Party bigwig
An antiwar activist
A Union official
An Islamic leader
A Harry Reid staffer
A radical Chicano separatist

What do you expect from the Clinton News Network

Which way should I go

Friday, November 16, 2007

Terrorism Pays

BBC NEWS reported The Philippines government says it has reached an agreement with the country's main Islamic separatist group on boundaries for a Muslim homeland.

Demonstrating to the terrorists that terrorism pays off.

Government negotiator Rodolfo Garcia said "demarcation" was agreed after two days of talks in Malaysia with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).... The two sides did not disclose the shape of the new agreed borders, but the talks' Malaysian hosts said the territory would be greater than the present autonomous region in Mindanao.

And it will continue to grow, since you have now proven that they can get terrority with violence and threats of violence.

Mr Garcia said the borders agreement was a "significant breakthrough".

It was. For the terrorists.

MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal told the AFP news agency his side hoped "to find closure to the centuries-old problem in Mindanao which various regimes in Manila have not solved".

Instead you are just opening the door to many more problems.

Eurostar's Advert

Sky News reported An advert depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup is being used to promote tourism to London. The image is part of a new Eurostar campaign aimed solely at the Belgian market. Posters have gone up on billboards in Antwerp, Brussels, Liege and Ghent to promote the new high-speed train connection to the English capital. The company says the advert is great for British tourism. 'It's fun, it's supposed to show how cosmopolitan London is. Yes, I really think it says London is cosmopolitan,' insisted a spokeswoman for Eurostar.

Do Europeans have a bladder control problem? We just saw it is the law that if someone knocks on your door in Scotland and requires the use of your toilet, you are required to let them enter, and in the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet.

Betsy Newmark blogged Charming. Now that is a message that would entice anyone, wouldn't it? Come to England and see skinheads urinate in public. Lovely, just lovely. Sorry to be such a fuddy-duddy, that's just not my definition of cosmopolitan.

The Islam is Peace Campaign’s Government Angle

Robert Spencer discusses the third point in the UK’s “Islam is Peace” campaign

Hat tip to Hot Air

A Grim Milestone Ignored

Patrick Poole wrote in FrontPage Magazine The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with “grim milestones” in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend. But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another “grim milestone” is reached – the 10,000th attack by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which is responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured.

The chronicler of this bloody tally is Glen Reinsford, editor of TheReligionofPeace.com, who began compiling and updating daily a detailed list of reported incidents of violence and terrorism around the world targeting non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Because of space limitations he only posts the past two months worth of attacks on his websites main page, though he has archived all of the incidents from past years (2001-2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). He also maintains a banner graphic with the updated number of attacks, which people can post on their own websites.

I have posted this graphic on my blog. Why don't you add it to yours? I am not saying that all Muslims are evil, but we really need to take notice of the fact that there have been the 10,000 attacks by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which were responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured. Most of those killed and injured were Muslims, but that just makes the threat that much worse.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Erekat: We won't accept Jewish Israel

Jerusalem Post reported Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Monday rejected Israel's demand that the Palestinians acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state.

Then cancel the "negotiations."

"There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined," Erekat told Radio Palestine.

Except slamic countries.

Additionally, Erekat said, when agreements are signed, the Palestinians would demand that Israel make a commitment in writing to releasing all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Baloney. I have an alternate suggestions. All of the Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza should move to Jordan and settle in the land the Jews left when Israel was created.

Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister

Times Online Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt. Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.

Hopefully those that say countraies under Sharia law do not do that these days will realize how wrong they are. And what will happpen to their own people, should the Muslims achieve their objectives.

President Ahmadinejad, questioned by students in New York two months ago about the executions, dodged the issue by suggesting that there were no gays in his country.

As far as he knew, there were not. They hung them all.

Britain regularly challenges Iran about its gay hangings, stonings and executions of adulterers and perceived moral criminals, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) papers show. The latest row involves a woman hanged this June in the town of Gorgan after becoming pregnant by her brother.

They must have had a shortage of stones, and extra rope.

He was absolved after expressing his remorse.

Did he not even get the 100 lashes proscribed in Sharia?

Britain said that this demonstrated the unequal treatment of men and women in law and breached Iran’s pledge to restrict the death penalty to the most serious crimes.

CQ blogged See how modern the mullahcracy is? They even support abortion -- in fact, they support it by killing both the mother and the fetus at the same time.

The strange and brutal nature of shari'a law provides a wedge between the mullahs and the people they oppress. The Iranians had much more contact with the West before the 1979 revolution than the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia or the other Arabic tribes of Southwest Asia. They knew a more modern Islam, similar in nature to Turkey, where secular law prevailed over the harsh imposition of chauvinistic strictures by so-called holy men. They know a life outside of shari'a.

When will they rise up to put an end to this despicable regime? So far, although reports have them very unhappy with life under a Persian Taliban, the Iranians seem reluctant to act on their opposition. They don't want to risk the tumult a people-power revolution will cause, or the military reaction it might provoke, if they don't see much risk to anyone else but homosexuals, adulterers, and people who want to dress like they were born after 1450.

Gaius blogged So the left denounces the Bush administration at every turn and is actively trying to protect Iran. There is a strange disconnect, isn't there?

Gateway Pundit blogged Since 1979, an estimated 4,000 gays and lesbians have been executed in Iran. They are, however, given a "choice of deathstyles."

Weasel Zippers blogged Liberals who claim to be for homosexual rights defend these animals. Irony so thick you need to backhoe....

Don Surber blogged This is not too different than the conditions in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Maybe he didn’t single out gays, but he sure as heck mutilated and executed people for imaginary crimes. I am always amazed that people consider it “peace” if we ignore human rights violations like this.

I realize that the West cannot intervene in every case and that several allies — Saudi Arabia for one — also engage in this. But when we get a chance to end 30 years of tyranny, we should take it. I still hope we can avoid a war with Iran.

Monday, November 12, 2007

24 in ‘94

This is very funny. Some parodies are better than others, but this one’s perfect. It catches the vibe of the show 24 but tosses it to a time so distant (1994) that it renders the show’s basic premises and suppositions impossible to sustain.

Hat tip to Hot Air

NBC Direct

Dave And Thomas blogged NBC Direct is the Peacock's answer to Internet video and if you are a fan of NBC shows like The Office and Heroes, be prepared to get a little angry. The good news is you can now download various NBC shows to your computer. And it's free. Kinda. Free like giving an army recruiter you home phone number. First and foremost, you cannot get these shows onto you iPod. Second, it's only available to PC users with IE only.

That pretty well locks me out. I rarely use IE

Third, and this is the most annoying, you must download a crap-load of software to play the videos.

If it does not get in the way, that is OK

NBC Direct is sorta like the Real Player or the old AOL. It gets into your computer and wont' let go.

If it is as bad as AoL, don't touch it with a ten foot pole.

And we'll bet that it sends a nice stream of data back to NBC, too. Did we mention the shows are only good for 48 hours after download?

That sucks. I much prefer my video card that lets me capture programs off cable.

It looks like NBC Direct is good for a pinch if you need to catch an episode. However, it won't be replacing our DVR anytime soon. And, with the writer's strike going on at the moment, it doesn't do much good with all those shows on hold.

I agree with Graywar who commented It isn't hard to make me buy digital content folks. Just stop demanding limits on my stuff after I pay you for it.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Veteran's Day

Hat tip to Pamela Geller for this excellent photo

The only person standing, is the man in a wheelchair.

Also Hat Tip to Kim Priestap for this quote:

There are only two life forces
that have offered to die for you.
Jesus Christ and the American G.I.

Has Hell Frozen Over?

Has Hell frozen over? Google often acknowledges wierd days, and avoids standard holidays, particularly Christian, military, or patriotic ones, but they adknowledged Vererans Day Thank you, Google. But according to LGF Google’s change of heart appears only on their US pages; readers in Canada and Britain report that in their countries, Google chose not to mark Remembrance Day with a traditional poppy.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

He forgot

Yahoo! News reported A German man forgot his car after filling it up at a petrol station, police said Friday. "He just forgot about it and walked off home,"

Maybe he thought he forgot his keys, and they were at home.

said a spokesman for police in the western city of Wuppertal. After the car had sat blocking the pump for about an hour, a woman working at the petrol station became suspicious and alerted authorities. Officers contacted the 63-year-old from Remscheid, who came straight back to fetch the vehicle.

Should this man even be driving?

He had paid to fill up the car before walking off.

Which is worse, driving off without paying, or paying and walking off.

Government stoking Muslim tension

Telegraph reported "There is a disproportionate amount of discussion surrounding us," he says. "The air is thick with suspicion and unease. It is not good for the Muslim community, it is not good for society."

What are you doing to improve the situation.

The 53-year-old special needs teacher has a gentle manner and a quiet voice - he describes himself as a "community spokesman" rather than a "religious leader" - but he does not mince his words.

He says he is not a "religious leader" so he probably does not want to be confronted with quotes from the Qur'an.

Britain must, he warns, beware of becoming like Nazi Germany.

Not likely. The German Jews did not do any of the things Hitler accused them of. The Jews did not blow up any buses or subways or trains. They did not say they wanted to convert all of the Christians to Judaism, or subjugate them, or kill them. The Jews did not say that the Torah commanded them to take over the world.

"Every society has to be really careful so the situation doesn't lead us to a time when people's minds can be poisoned as they were in the 1930s. If your community is perceived in a very negative manner, and poll after poll says that we are alienated, then Muslims begin to feel very vulnerable. We are seen as creating problems, not as bringing anything and that is not good for any society."

What are you doing, in your own community to try to change the situation? Robert Spencer suggested five ways To end “Islamophobia,” Muslims should:
Focus their indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts.
Renounce definitively not just "terrorism," but any intention to replace the U.S. Constitution (or the constitutions of any non-Muslim state) with Sharia even by peaceful means.
Teach Muslims the imperative of coexisting peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis.
Begin comprehensive international programs in mosques all over the world to teach against the ideas of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism.
Actively work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.

There is, in his view, no such thing as Islamic terrorism.

There certainly has been plenty of terrorism by people who say that the Qur'an commands them to do what they are doing.

"Terrorists are terrorists, they may use religion but we shouldn't say Muslim terrorists, it stigmatises the whole community. We never called the IRA Catholic terrorists."

The IRA Catholics never quoted any bible verses ordering what they did. They never quoted a verse from either the Old Testament or the New Testament that said 9:29 Fight those who do not believe in ~~God and the Last Day~~ One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and do not forbid what ~~God and his Messenger~~ the Pope and his Bishops have forbidden — such men as practice not the religion of truth, being of those who ~~have been given the Book [i.e., Christians and Jews]~~ are Protestants – until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled

Dr Bari thinks Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, made the extremists' job easier by giving a bleak picture of the threat on the eve of the Queen's Speech.

"I think it is creating a scare in the community and wider society. It probably helps some people who try to recruit the young to terrorism. Muslim young people are as vulnerable as any others. Under this climate of fear they will begin to feel victimised."

Then, as Robert Spencer suggested, you should:
Focus their indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts.
Renounce definitively not just "terrorism," but any intention to replace the U.S. Constitution (or the constitutions of any non-Muslim state) with Sharia even by peaceful means.
Teach Muslims the imperative of coexisting peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis.
Begin comprehensive international programs in mosques all over the world to teach against the ideas of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism.
Actively work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.

Little Baby Ginn blogged Britain's march to a National Socialist future will halt the day Muslims assimilate to the culture of the country in which they've chosen to settle. It will also halt when the government and newspapers quit tiptoeing around the whining of these "community leaders" and issue some straight-talking statements.

Until then, the prescription for the U.K. and it's seething minorities is the same: assimilate with all due haste or perhaps you'd be better off elsewhere.

Robert Spencer blogged Nothing really surprising here. When have we ever seen a Muslim leader in the West say, "Yes, we have a serious problem in our community, and it's up to us to clean it up"?

Meryl Yourish blogged And they quote the ever-present Inayat Bunglawala, who is so quick to blame Israel for the problems of the Middle East, and even quicker to bring the conversation around to Jews whenever Muslims are criticized (because the Bible is just like the Koran with its calling for the stoning of adulterers except, gee, name the last time a Jewish or Christian society stoned an adulterer. Now name the last time a Muslim society did the same.

Bill Clinton Says His Wife Took the Rap on Health Care

New York Times reported Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday that he should receive more blame than his wife for the failed attempt to revamp the nation’s health care system more than a decade ago.

Was it your fault it would not work? And won't you be with her this time?

“You know how much she cares about this,”

That is immaterial. It will hurt health care in this country. And then where will sick Canadians and Europeans go, since they have destroyed health care in their countries.

Mr. Clinton told an audience in Glenwood, Iowa, according to an account on MSNBC. “She has taken the rap for some of the problems we had with health care the last time that were far more my fault than hers.”

In her Democratic presidential bid, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has placed health care at the heart of her domestic policy agenda. Her rivals have sought to portray her experience on health care as an example of why a fresh approach is needed to truly change and improve the system.

They have not shown their plans will not work. She has.

As he campaigned here Thursday, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois said Mrs. Clinton could not claim credit for trying to overhaul health care if she did not accept any of the blame.

“All I know is that part of the record she’s running on is having worked on health care,” he said, “so it’s kind of hard to gauge if one of her claims is to have experience in this issue to then suggest that somehow she doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that it didn’t work.”

Friday, November 09, 2007

Does Edwards Campaign Have Ulterior Motives?

The Left Coaster blogged John Edwards is attacking Hillary Clinton harder than any Republican would, with accusations of talking out of both sides of her mouth and flip-flopping (echoes of Bush attacks on Kerry) and being less-than-honest on her plans for the Middle East. Latest polls show Edwards falling in Iowa polls, and Obama rising. Is there a connection?

Of course. Edwards is a trial attorney. He will do anything for money.

Only six months ago advisor Joe Trippi joined the Edwards campaign, and the argument could be made this new pitbull strategy for Edwards has at least a little to do with Trippi's presence. In 2004 Trippi worked for then-frontrunner Howard Dean, who engaged in a bloody battle with Dick Gephardt while John Kerry slipped past the both of them. According to Alegre's source close to Dean, Trippi couldn't stand Edwards in '04, thought he was a doubletalker who could never win. This source speaks for a lot of campaign observers who are wondering right now why Edwards would dare go so nasty in a state that abhors negative campaigns, reflected in his recent slide.

Because Silke Poney knows there is no other way to win. For anyone.

Here's the catch: Trippi is close friends with Obama advisor David Axlerod. The theory goes something like this: Axlerod and Trippi decide Edwards can't possibly win, so Axlerod sends Trippi to Edwards' campaign to put on a full-blown attack, and like a suicide bomber, Edwards blows up his own campaign, dragging Hillary down in the process with a rallying cry of "Hillary Must Not Win."

Edwards was a VP candidate, and pit dog is a job given to the VP candidate. But is he pulling Hillary down for Obama, or for Gore?

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Man arrested after reporting pot theft

Yahoo! News reported A man was arrested for drug possession after telling authorities that two masked gunmen had stolen 150 pounds of marijuana from his home.

I guess it does not take much intelligence to be a criminal. That is as bad as the guy facing drug charges after he walked into the Danbury police station puffing on a marijuana-filled cigar

Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies arrived at the home near Penitas in South Texas to find the door kicked in and nearly 15 pounds of pot lying on the floor, Sheriff Lupe Trevino said.

If they had taken that too, they would not have been able to get him for possession.

Jose Guadalupe Flores, 35, escaped while the men ransacked the house but returned later and told the deputies he had been wrapping the drugs for shipment when the intruders arrived. "The guy walked right up and said the drugs were his," Trevino said. "That's not the smartest move."

I wonder if he expects to get them back if the thief is caught.

Flores, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was charged with felony possession of marijuana at an arraignment hearing Monday. Because of his immigration status, Flores will be jailed until his case is heard.

At least they have stopped catch-and-release.

Eat more chocolate and help the environment

Yahoo! News reported Chocoholics can assuage any guilt they may feel after a new process was developed that turns the by-products of making chocolate into a biofuel -- meaning you can eat your chocolate and be eco-friendly.... North western English firm Ecotec has taken waste from the chocolate manufacturing process, turned it into bio-ethanol and mixed it with vegetable oil to produce biodiesel.

And white chocolate is very low in calories, like cauliflower, etc. <grin>

All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists

Daily Times (Pakistan) reported Muslim scientists have made all discoveries of the current age, said University of Columbia’s Arabic and Islamic Studies prof George Saliba at a seminar at the Government College University (GCU) on Monday.

And yet as this and this indicates from a pool of 1.4 BILLION Muslims which are 20% of the world's population (2 out of every 10 people), there were only 6 Nobel prizes won by Muslims, and only two of them were in sciences, and yet there are only 12 Million Jews in the entire world yet they have received 178 Nobel Prizes.

The seminar, titled The Problems of Historiography of Islamic Science, was held at Fazl-e-Hussain Hall. Saliba gave a critique of the standard classical accounts of the rise of Islamic science. He detailed problems in the accounts and explained alternative historiography that described the rise of an Islamic scientific tradition as a result of social and political conditions within the nascent Islamic empire. He said Muslim philosophy was the impetus behind Islamic science that had contributed to various disciplines including botany, zoology, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physics,

They invented physics twice. I know Allah can't seem to make up his mind (The Qur'an is unique among sacred scriptures in requiring a doctrine of abrogation (naskh) in which later pronouncements of the Prophet declare null and void his earlier pronouncements): 2:106, 16:101, 13:39, and 17:86. Is this similar?

chemistry,

another double up

physiology and mathematics in the pre-industrial era.

Lazarus commented Every primitive authoritarian culture thinks they invented everything. Remember how the Soviets "invented everything"?

maddogg commented Still waiting for the next Islamic Moon shot....Oh yeah, we get one of those 5 times a day anyhow.....

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