This is an example of proper security, why Israel doesn’t have cretins blowing up their planes.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala was detained and interrogated for two hours at Ben-Gurion Airport last month, according to The Chronicle for Higher Education’s blog The Ticker. [snip]

American VIP Humiliated at Airport, Ynet reported

TEL AVIV, August 6, 2010 (WAFA)- Prof. Donna Shalala, Clinton’s secretary of health, arrives in Israel in order to fight academic boycott against Israel, claims she was held at Ben-Gurion Airport just because she has Arab last name, Ynet reported Friday. [snip]

An IAA spokesperson reported in response: ‘This incident is unknown to us. We performed a thorough check. There was no contact made with us or any other body. No unusual events were registered at Ben Gurion Airport, and we have no idea about this incident, which, from our perspective, never happened.’  [snip]

KUM-BA-YA  BAY-BEE!

Because the LEFT is the only one with the TRUTH!

…but I didn’t think it would take me less than a week:

As special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell heads off to the region to begin work on negotiating a cease fire between Israel and the Palestinians, President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya, ABC News has learned.

Isreal is really on its own.  Obama’s first call to a foreign leader–a Palestinian terrorist.  His first interview–Arabic news network.  Amongst his first acts as president–Executive Orders dismantling the War on Terror.  It’s not like Jewish voters didn’t have enough information to connect the dots before the election.  I wonder if the Obama presidency will teach the electorate to pay attention.

Not something to be taken lightly.

Obama will be tested within six months posited Biden, before dropping off the radar. Additionally, he pleaded for the populace not to judge the Obama Presidency harshly.

So what can happen? Will someone blow up the Sears Tower or release Sarin in the NY subway? Or will Obama pull all the troops out Of Iraq by the end of his first six months.I’ll bet the farm on that!

Here is the likely conclusion of this preference.

Immediately Al Sadr screeches for help from the Shi’a in Iran, Assuredly, they’ll be most happy to help butchering as many Sunnis as possible.

In the north, Turkey will clean up the border problem with the PKK, probably by relocating Turkey’s border somewhere south of Mosul. Why not have a war for oil; that’s more than existed in Armenia. Presumably, some ethnic cleansing is OK; if Obama’s Peoples Democratic Party says it is acceptable, then it is.

The Peoples Democratic Party will do what they did in 1972. The results will not be different.

With the eradication of Iraq, it’s a short march to Syria, consolidation of supply lines and then all out war on Israel. What do we do in this situation? Ask Pelosi and Reid. Ask Biden now. Obama stated his position a while ago.The U.S. creates more enemies and we become further isolated. Our enemies love this, both external and internal types.

The Middle East will explode with a excellent chance of becoming nuclear. What we’ll see is MAD in a small place, for starters. If you think Israel will go down alone, you are really dense.  Europe goes next; the Crusades will be a mere dot in history.

If anyone thinks Israel would listen to the US after we pull out of Iraq explain your reasoning. We already proved our word is worthless.

Losing a war has many repercussions.

Barack Obama is not the Messiah; his new title is Master of the Obvious (MotO).  For example, there’s this little nugget of wisdom from Mr. MotO—wait for it—an American president can’t just snap his fingers and erase generations of religious and ethnic tensions in the Middle East.  How does the man sleep at night when he knowingly withheld this earth shattering information?  If we’d known about this, the whole Middle East thing would have been solved years ago.

And most interesting of all, Mr. MotO dropped a dime on Iran.  Did you know a nuclear armed Iran poses “a grave threat”?  I’m flabbergasted.  All this time I thought one of the world’s largest oil exporters really needed the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.  How wrong was I?

No wonder the media worships the ground Mr. MotO walks on.  With pearls of wisdom like this, we’re in for a bright and glorious future under his leadership.

 More media bias from the MSM and their flunkies.

Agence France Presse writer Jihad Siqlawi gives us the terrorist viewpoint, in a respectful eulogy to a murderous Hizballah “fighter.”

EL-TIRI, Lebanon (AFP) - Thousands of Hezbollah supporters massed on Wednesday for the funeral of a Lebanese guerrilla whose body was handed over in a rare swap between Israel and the Shiite Muslim militia. [snip]

Black-clad men carried the coffin at the head of a cortege that filled the village streets, chanting “Our party is Hezbollah and our leader is Nasrallah,” and “Death to America”, “Death to Israel.”

From windows and balconies overlooking the procession, women sprinkled the “martyr” with rice and rose petals, ululating with joy, while others handed out sweets in the village.

Israel should have packed the body with Semtex. That would have been a super send off for everybody!

Columbia Backlash Against Bollinger

A backlash against the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, who on Monday delivered a harsh rebuke to President Ahmadinejad, is coming from faculty members and students who said he struck an “insulting tone” and that his remarks amounted to “schoolyard taunts.” The fierceness of Mr. Bollinger’s critique bought the Iranian some sympathy on campus that he didn’t deserve, the critics said, and amounted to a squandered opportunity to provide a lesson in diplomacy.

Mr. Bollinger opened a two-hour program during which the Iranian president spoke and answered questions at the Roone Arledge Auditorium in Morningside Heights by calling Mr. Ahmadinejad a “petty and cruel dictator.” He chastised the Iranian for calling for the destruction of Israel, funding terrorism, persecuting scholars, women, and homosexuals, denying the Holocaust, and for fighting a proxy war against America within the borders of Iraq. Mr. Bollinger also tauntingly predicted that the Iranian would lack the “intellectual courage” to offer real answers to questions from the audience. [snip]

I’d expect nothing else from the faculty there. They are isolated from the mainstream, fed news by the Lamestream and spend their day reading their own press releases.

That’s a feral bunch reposing there, biting their own while squandering our tax dollars. In addition, they might be rabid.

    DENNIS KUCINICH IN SYRIA, BLESSES EVERYONE BUT AMERICANS

Eligible bachelor, pacifist hunk and Ohio Representative, Dennis Kucinich was in Syria last week cuddling the region-stabilizing Bashar Assad for his open-door policy to Iraqi refugees.   The population-expanding meddling in the Iraq War of the Syrian and Iranian regimes has encouraged Iraqis friendly to both countries to take refuge across their borders.   

Experts here conclude that these population-expanding and stabilizing policies were met with approval by the impish hair-dye tester and apple-doll head model, Dennis Kucinich (D-Emented).  Syria and Iran both seek to redress the population imbalance by sending terrorists to Iraq to stop the sectarian violence by killing Iraqis,  a “fair” policy almost certain to meet with Kucinich’s endorsement.

Assad’s intimidation, murder and assassination policies in nearby Lebanon have enabled the American left’s much-admired and peace-oriented Hezbollah to threaten the destabilizing Israeli state to the south.   This reporter believes that Kucinich endorses murder, assassination, and Islamic totalitarianism as a means to continue the  “peace-process”  slaughter, and to promote stability in the region as long as it is legal.

Experts here also believe that American forces, claimed by liberals to be already short on the necessities of  war, lacked the disinfectant supplies that would be needed after Kucinich hand-shaking.  Legal scholars and compassionate conservatives here believe that Kucinich’s blessing of American forces would almost certainly violate Constitutional restrictions on religious expression, and that Kucinich wished to avoid offending Islamist Al Qaeda beheaders worldwide.

WorldNet Daily Online  (Sep 6, 2007) had this to say:  

After praising Syria following a meeting in Damascus with President Bashar Assad, Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich declared he will not visit troops in Iraq during his Middle East tour because he considers the American military presence in Iraq to be illegal.

“I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation….I don’t want to bless that occupation with my presence“,   Kucinich said in Lebanon according to the Associated Press. “I will not do it”…

It is not known when Representative Kucinich will slither back to Washington, DC.

          HAWAII SURFER DONATES BOARDS FOR GAZANS

From Yahoo News Online, August 21, 2007, Dateline Jerusalem.

An 86-year-old Jewish surfing guru from Hawaii is bringing good vibrations to the impoverished Gaza Strip.

Dorian Paskowitz, a retired doctor who has been surfing for 75 years, donated 12 surfboards to Gaza’s small surfing community on Tuesday in a novel gesture to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

“God will surf with the Devil if the waves are good”, Paskowitz said.  “When a surfer sees another surfer with a board, he can’t help but say something that brings them together.”

Tanned and shirtless, Paskowitz emerged grinning at the Israel-Gaza border crossing after handing over the dozen boards to Palestinian surfers waiting on the other side.

He said he was inspired after reading a story about two Gaza surfers who could not enjoy the wild waves off the coastal strip because they had only one board to share between them.

….He described his mission as a “mitzvah”, Hebrew for a “good deed”.

During his visit, Paskowitz said he wanted to “do something spectacular”, like getting all the surfers and paddling around the waters of Gaza”.  But those plans were scuttled by security concerns.

Arthur Rashkovan, a 28-year old surfer from Tel Aviv, said Paskowitiz’s project was part of a larger effort called “Surfing for Peace,”, aimed at bringing Middle Eastern surfers closer together.  He said eight-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, who is of Syrian descent, is expected to arrive in Israel in October to take part in the drive……

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The account of this blinding idiocy continues for several more paragaphs.  Being of a certain age, I’ve paddled in the hot pools of the sybaritic lifestyle that has boiled Paskowitz’s brain to cream cheese; I know that he means well, but still have a rough time conjuring a Jam-wearing Yassar Arafat shooting the curl, unless it involved a pistol and a Hasidic Jew.

Paskowitz’s effort is the moral dead end of upper-middle class fancies, the place where the trimmed hedges conceal the despair and devolution of the Palestinians, whose unemployment, choked ambitions and hatreds will never be washed away by blue water, health drinks and bikinis.   Kelly Slater, of Syrian descent, probably does not live in Syria.

Finally, when surf bunnies go looking for a gnarly dude, do they have an 86-year-old in mind?  Probably not.  Go back to Hawaii, you dope.

 

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Hugh Fitzgerald words on this.

Fitzgerald: Throw in a copy of Slut

The Bush Administration announces in the same breath that “over ten years” Israel will receive “$30 billion in weapons,” and that Saudi Arabia will get “$20 billion” in weapons to stave off Iran (over what time period? 10 years, like the Israelis? Or more like a year or two?). And it announces also that, furthermore, a country that is in every way hostile to us, Egypt, will receive “$13 billion” in weapons as a gift. [snip]

If this doesn’t produce some questions about our State Department, what will? Israel is the only place in the Mideast that is friendly without reservations.

The House of Saud controls by a secret police similar to what the Shah had in Iran. All of the wealth produced by oil mollifies some residents. Zealots are unconcerned by wealth; Wahabists are nothing if not zealots.

Carter’s involvement in the Mideast is well known. Put Hillary in the White House, who is to say the Saudi’s governing structure continues as is. Her involvement in the Mideast, as far as I seen, consisted of kissing Arafat’s wife. What becomes of those weapons, or the ones in Egypt’s toy box? We may get them delivered to us, but not handed back

The ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” approaches reality, very interesting, no?

America’s first War on Terror

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. [snip] …questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent United States republic. Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador’s justification:

… that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.

Thus as Joshua London’s Victory in Tripoli elaborates in lucid prose, an aggressive jihad was already being waged against the United States almost 200 years prior to America becoming a dominant international power in the Middle East. Moreover, these jihad depredations targeting America antedated the earliest vestiges of the Zionist movement by a century, and the formal creation of Israel by 162 years—exploding the ahistorical canard that American support for the modern Jewish state is a prerequisite for jihadist attacks on the United States.

Prevarications about history have the same results as those in science. The pinkies are wrong on global warming as well as history. Altering or deleting inconvenient facts fails to amend history. Adulterated positions may carry the moment, but never the day.

One neither can prove truth wrong, nor fallacy right; obfuscation of facts is merely a temporary position.

In Iraq, we are dallying with the future. As our gunboats crushed the Barbary Pirates, we shall have to repeat that confrontation again on a grander scale. The Marquis of Queensbury or the Geneva Convention rules will not be followed. Prepare thyself!

FROM:         Ali Nidal Fadil ibn Karim, Saladin House, Islamist Islands Council for the North Atlantic, Belgravia, London  SW1

TO:             Abdul-Aziz al-Filistani, Islamist Studies Union, Mohammed Qutb Towers, Unit 26, Zarqawi College, Cambridge, NAI  1

SUBJECT:    Lecture

DATE:         October 6, 2056                                        

Dear Abdul:

Thank you for your invitation of 12 September to speak to the Islamist Studies Union in November.  Unfortunately, overland travel for a man my age is very difficult, and I’m preoccupied with my new book “Sceptres and Scimitars”.  I’m told, however, that you have nearly 200,000 members now, with the Anglo-Saxon faculty heavily represented.  Wonderful.  Perhaps a series of letters from me can serve as reading material for the scholars. 

You might already know that I played a small part in changing the name of Magdalen College to Zarqawi College.  Our renewal efforts so long ago involved these changes to the superannuated Christian institutions that the old population already regarded as irrelevant.  There was only token resistance, even to the demolition of Christian architecture and iconography, because the practitioners had already demolished the meaning in them.  Still, a man your age will have no idea of how pervasive and suffocating these Christian symbols were to a man like me, or the hard work dedicated to removing them. 

When I was young like you, in Yemen, I organized a cell we called The European Reorganization Committee.  We saw the signposts even then.  We needed a plan to follow when the population dynamics shifted in our favor, and a plausible set of promises and reassurances to soften the spiritual corrections and admonitions to follow.   I know there was a lot of killing, and among the young today some revulsion at the mass decapitations at Trafalgar and Horse Guards.   The riot and blood-letting in Hyde Park was disturbing, even for me.

But, you must recall that this region has a history of such cleansing and renewal.  It’s natural to them upon reflection.  No one really cared either about the Jews  or about the infidels who adhered to morbid and blasphemous faiths.  We can’t find any of them now, of either kind, and look what we did to Israel without the slightest world condemnation!   Today, most of the objections to, and memory of these times come from the old of this land, and not from the young.  Indeed, conversion has helped.  Look at the numbers!  Blessings and peace be upon all of you!

My only regret is the Persian EMP Offensive of thirty years ago.  It destroyed them as a nation and nearly destroyed us as a movement.  It seriously handicapped us for a time, because the journalistic and print media (which required electronics) was a force multiplier for us.  Though numerous, we weren’t very powerful, and favorable coverage always makes the work of extreme, but necessary change, possible.   There was some floundering, but perhaps the information blackouts favored us too.  Who knows?  Allah Akbar!

There are many things to discuss.  The Catholic problem, the recalcitrant Pope we installed in Rome.  America and the chaos in the southwest is discouraging, but the east and west coasts are ours, especially around the important universities.   Keep one thing in mind, Abdul.  The people who might elicit your sympathy, those we’ve corrected and saved, were people with a very low price tag.  We recognized that very early.  They craved the benefits of life so much that, eventually, not killing them was considered a benefit.   It was easier then I’d ever imagined.

 Faithfully yours,

 Abu Nidal Fadil ibn Karim

I find it problematical in my personal life to leave a job uncompleted. There is a righteous obligation to see tasks to the end, disdaining a poorly finished job.

Personified by original New Englanders as well as the rest of the colonials, this work ethic built this state, this country into what it is yesterday. Hardy woodchucks created the farms and woodlots that became Vermont and New Hampshire. Seafarers from ports in Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut generated trade and wealth.

From the French and Indian War to Korea, we remained stalwart with those that fought at our side. We terminated the first rapacious jihadists, when Jefferson subdued the Barbary pirates. Through the pains of war, we kept the faith and stayed the path

In the mid 1960’s, America changed when the first spoiled generation came of age. They coveted material items, bought with others’ labor, rather than strive for them as in previous times. Never tempered in the forge of maturation, they believe in birthright and have a concomitant deficiency in sense of community. They became the me generation.

Vietnam showed this absence in an obtrusive fashion. Whether we should have or not fought there is moot. This generation demanded the politicos cut and run from there, acquiescence sold the people who worked with us into re-education and labor camps. Those who fought with the Arvin now get nothing except slum housing and pedicab work…if they’re lucky. This precipitated the slaughter in Cambodia for no reason except to exterminate the educated class. Our esteemed officials cared less; those with us paid and are paying the price.

Today, the left is executing the same nefarious diligence with Iraq. The Democrats want to cut and run immediately. Sell out to the heathens; care nothing for the Iraqis working with us. Once more, the boomer generation shows a repellent indifference for our obligations to the Middle East.

The Iraqi citizens, who assumed we would keep our word, acquire death sentences. Al Qaeda avows beheadings as soon as they ensnare those who accepted our word. That is fine with our culture of sensitivity advocates; they extend nothing to anyone adjudged a friend of the US.

Is it to be a bloodbath in Iraq? Shall we allow the leftists to isolate us from any association with other countries save Israel? They wish them destroyed. The message is the same for us.

When the wolves start eating sheep, they save the judas goat for dessert. It isn’t an honor.

This article is long. I’ve cut much to get it to this size.

Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics

Growing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research

Following the U.S. Senate’s vote today on a global warming measure (see today’s 5/15/07 AP article: Senate Defeats Climate Change Measure,) it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. [snip]

The list below is just the tip of the iceberg. A more detailed and comprehensive sampling of scientists who have only recently spoken out against climate hysteria will be forthcoming in a soon to be released U.S. Senate report. [snip]

In the meantime, please review the list of scientists below and ask yourself why the media is missing one of the biggest stories in climate of 2007. Feel free to distribute the partial list of scientists who recently converted to skeptics to your local schools and universities. The voices of rank and file scientists opposing climate doomsayers can serve as a counter to the alarmism that children are being exposed to on a daily basis. (See Washington Post April 16, 2007 article about kids fearing of a “climactic Armageddon” )

The media’s climate fear factor seemingly grows louder even as the latest science grows less and less alarming by the day. (See Der Spiegel May 7, 2007 article: Not the End of the World as We Know It ) It is also worth noting that the proponents of climate fears are increasingly attempting to suppress dissent by skeptics. (See UPI May 10, 2007 article: U.N. official says it’s ‘completely immoral’ to doubt global warming fears )

Once Believers, Now Skeptics ( Link to pdf version )

Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, a top geophysicist and French Socialist who has authored more than 100 scientific articles and written 11 books and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States, converted from climate alarmist to skeptic in 2006.[snip]

The National Post in Canada also profiled Allegre on March 2, 2007, noting “Allegre has the highest environmental credentials. [snip]

Geologist Bruno Wiskel of the University of Alberta recently reversed his view of man-made climate change and instead became a global warming skeptic. Wiskel was once such a big believer in man-made global warming that he set out to build a “Kyoto house” in honor of the UN sanctioned Kyoto Protocol which was signed in 1997. [snip]

Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv, one of Israel’s top young award winning scientists, recanted his belief that manmade emissions were driving climate change. “”Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. [snip]

Mathematician & engineer Dr. David Evans, who did carbon accounting for the Australian Government, recently detailed his conversion to a skeptic. “I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry. [snip] (Evans bio link )

Climate researcher Dr. Tad Murty, former Senior Research Scientist for Fisheries and Oceans in Canada, also reversed himself from believer in man-made climate change to a skeptic. “I stated with a firm belief about global warming, until I started working on it myself,” Murty explained on August 17, 2006. [snip]

Botanist Dr. David Bellamy, a famed UK environmental campaigner, former lecturer at Durham University and host of a popular UK TV series on wildlife, recently converted into a skeptic after reviewing the science and now calls global warming fears “poppycock.” According to a May 15, 2005 article in the UK Sunday Times, Bellamy said “global warming is largely a natural phenomenon. [snip]
Climate scientist Dr. Chris de Freitas of The University of Auckland, N.Z., also converted from a believer in man-made global warming to a skeptic. “At first I accepted that increases in human caused additions of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere would trigger changes in water vapor etc. and lead to dangerous ‘global warming,’ But with time and with the results of research, [snip]

Meteorologist Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at University of Wisconsin (now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, was pivotal in promoting the coming ice age scare of the 1970’s ( See Time Magazine’s 1974 article “Another Ice Age” citing Bryson: & see Newsweek’s 1975 article “The Cooling World” citing Bryson) has now converted into a leading global warming skeptic. [snip] However, it has now become a media free-for-all and a political issue more than a scientific problem,” Bryson explained in 2005.

Global warming author and economist Hans H.J. Labohm started out as a man-made global warming believer but he later switched his view after conducting climate research. Labohm wrote on August 19, 2006, “I started as a anthropogenic global warming believer, then I read the [UN’s IPCC] Summary for Policymakers and the research of prominent skeptics.” [snip]

Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, of Carlton University in Ottawa converted from believer in C02 driving the climate change to a skeptic. “I taught my students that CO2 was the prime driver of climate change,” Patterson wrote on April 30, 2007. Patterson said his “conversion” happened following his research on “the nature of paleo-commercial fish populations in the NE Pacific.” [snip] I was at the Geological Society of America meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my opinion were probably in the majority,” Patterson told the Winnipeg Sun on February 13, 2007. [snip] In a separate interview on April 26, 2007 with a Canadian newspaper, Patterson explained that the scientific proof favors skeptics.[snip]

Physicist Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, chairman of the Central Laboratory for the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Radiological Protection in Warsaw, took a scientific journey from a believer of man-made climate change in the form of global cooling in the 1970’s all the way to converting to a skeptic of current predictions of catastrophic man-made global warming. [snip]

“With the advent of man-made warming political correctness in the beginning of 1980s, I already had a lot of experience with polar and high altitude ice, and I have serious problems in accepting the reliability of ice core CO2 studies,” [snip]

Paleoclimatologist Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor of the Department of Earth Sciences at University of Ottawa, reversed his views on man-made climate change after further examining the evidence. “I used to agree with these dramatic warnings of climate disaster. [snip] “However, a few years ago, I decided to look more closely at the science and it astonished me. [snip]

Environmental geochemist Dr. Jan Veizer, professor emeritus of University of Ottawa, converted from believer to skeptic after conducting scientific studies of climate history. “I simply accepted the (global warming) theory as given,” Veizer wrote on April 30, 2007 about predictions that increasing C02 in the atmosphere was leading to a climate catastrophe. “The final conversion came when I realized that the solar/cosmic ray connection gave far more consistent picture with climate, over many time scales, than did the CO2 scenario,” [snip]

More to follow…

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