Listen and Remember

UA 93. The last words on this tape are "a puff of smoke".

Reverse Invasion

This is bloody brilliant. I love it. The US will agree to allow open immigration from Mexico if Mexico extends the same privilege to American and Canadian citizens. That includes the automatic right to free (and bilingual) education,the right to work, the unrestricted right to buy land (foreign nationals in Mexico are highly restricted in what sort of investments they're allowed), to start and own 100% of a company, automatic Mexican citizenship on a reciprocal basis, etc. We'll see who changes whose country.

Affleckted

Ben Affleck moves from being a mere John Kerry suckass to being utterly deranged. I hope the Secret Service is having a heart to heart with him.

Media Idiocy on Iran.

Not even the Telegraph is immune from MSM idiocy. Granted, the story and the real idiocy appeared in the Washington Post, the Telegraph should have reworded the misleading headline. The story purports to show that President Bush is planning a nuclear strike on Iran. All that really happened though is that among any number of military options presented to the White House (not to mention those short of military action), was one for the use of nuclear bunker-busting armaments. Since those options presumably range from doing nothing at all to an all out invasion, the limited use of a single tactical nuclear weapon would be in there someplace. One hopes it doesn't come to that, but if its a choice between an dangerous wacko who thinks he's the second coming of the hidden imam with a nuke in each hand, and a tactical strike, well I know what gets my vote.

Hamas and China

Vital Perspective is one of the few blogs to explore the links between Beijing and Islamists and China's hopes of using Islamism to harass and distract the US...as long as it doesn't include Muslims in Xinjiang of course. China has its own little Chechnya in waiting out there. I hope Zahar has time to get some suits made while he's in China.

Another Reason to Love John Howard

Mark Steyn has this from the almost the only world leader to tell the truth about Islam.

Don't Kill Zacarias Moussaoui.

Zacarias Moussaoui should be spared the death penalty. That's not a cry for mercy, it's a cry for justice. Justice dictates that he not get the martyrdom he craves. Justice dictates that he die old, sick,alone, and forgotten in the deepest hole in a federal prison somewhere in Montana or Idaho and then be buried, unmourned and unremarked in the same place. Let his name be erased. Let him go as a prisoner, a coward and a fool, as a fading symbol of the utter insignificance to civilisation of him and all his kind.

Your papers, please.

This needs the widest possible distribution. Tim Blair also a link.

University of Canterbury Staff: Good Riddance?

After all the pissing and moaning about academic freedom and the sacred arts, UC has laid off 8, count 'em 8, staff at the College of Arts. Frankly if they shut down the whole "Department" of American Studies, it would be no loss at all. Don't believe me? Take a look at the American Studies curriculum. Yep, I don't know how scholarship will endure without The Animal in Popular American Culture or Gender Busting and Other Radical Acts. How about all those panting to take "Hip Hop Culture"?

My personal favorite is The Body in American Culture where, I kid you not, Dr. Vernon Andrews will

marshal a variety of theoretical perspectives - race and ethnicity, feminism and queer theory, cultural studies and poststructuralism - in order to understand the importance of sport in society. It moves outside "traditional" academic texts and knowledges, employing sport biographies, movies, newsclips, sports pages and magazines to forge an understanding of contemporary issues on race and gender in America.

Oh yeah, sign me up for that.

Anybody see any history courses, you know, the ones that tell you what happened, when and why. Economics? Sorry, too many numbers. How about some study of US foreign policy or politics that goes beyond Bush hatred? No that would actually require someone to move beyond the cheap anti-Americanism that passes for political opinion around here.

Movies We'd Like to See

NRO writer James Robbins has a few movies we'd like to see those courageous folks in Hollywood make.

My personal favorite:
Ambush at Gush Katif: This film would dramatize the 2004 roadside attack in Gaza on a car driven by Israeli social worker and expectant mother Tali Hatuel. Two Palestinian gunmen rushed the vehicle and discovered that the driver was a pregnant woman — whereupon they pumped bullets into her stomach and face . . . and then pumped bullets into the face of her 11-year-old daughter . . . and into the face of her nine-year-old daughter . . . and into the face of her seven-year-old daughter . . . and into the face of her two-year-old daughter. The attackers were eventually shot and killed by Israeli soldiers. The next day, two Palestinian organizations, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committee, both claimed credit for the attack, and the official Voice of Palestine Radio called it a “heroic operation.” As an epilogue, the film would segue to the funeral for Hatuel and her daughters — which was interrupted when two more Palestinian gunmen, disguised as women, made it to the perimeter of the cemetery and opened fire on the mourners, including women and young children, who were sent scrambling behind parked cars and concrete barriers. Both gunmen were again shot dead by Israeli soldiers on hand to protect the crowd . . . and Islamic Jihad again claimed credit for the incident.

And another thing....

As some of my dissembling commentators know perfectly well, I'm not in the least concerned with private behaivior. To clarify for the morally clueless: Are you, personally, prepared to give up drinking alcohol; if a woman, to cover yourself from neck to ankle in public; if gay, to go WAY back in the closet; or, if unmarried, to give up public displays of affection? Well, are you? And those are just the things that offend moderate Muslims.

Why is it that people who have insisted on making a human rights issue out of the public display and public acceptance of their lifestyle at all times and in all places regardless of the offense caused are suddenly so reticent when it comes to Islamist sensibilities? Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

And what about YOU?

For all those who criticised the printing, posting and dissemination of the Mohammad cartoons, two questions:

1. How much are you, personally, prepared to do to accomodate Islamic sensibilities? Think about it before you answer. A lot of things you, personally, like to do, eat, drink, read, say, wear and think sorely offend Muslims.

2. Would you, personally, sign your name to a caricature of Jesus, Buddha, Mary or Krishna and post it where it would be certain to be seen? Now, what about Mohammed?

Global Warming Strikes Again.

More evidence of global warming. Bring your snow shovels.

Get out the chisels.

Michelle Malkin finds an image of Big Mo in an interesting place......the United States Supreme Court.

Buy a Dane a Drink

Long Live Denmark. They pounded the Gestapo, and they're pounding the Islamofascists, too.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

My favorite so far. I'll take it down when the Arab press stops printing racist cartoons about Jews. Courtesy of Silent Running.

Pajama Media vs. Mullahs and the State Department

It would also be wrong not put this up. There is no right to be shielded from satire in a democracy.

Mohammed Who?

It would be wrong NOT to link to this.Perhaps these cartoons will finally cause Muslims and the West to get a grip on what's really important.

Running Hot and Cold.

Now I get it. Global warming causes global cooling.
This from the Guardian:

"The powerful ocean current that bathes Britain and northern Europe in warm waters from the tropics has weakened dramatically in recent years, a consequence of global warming that could trigger more severe winters and cooler summers across the region, scientists warn today."

Viva Italia!

At last a European country with guts when it comes to Muslims. The NRO has this account of the Italian reaction to Iran's threats of genocide against Israel. Maybe the French will join in once its indigenous Muslims have finished burning down Paris...after all, even the Nazis never did that.