"News from Holland: The Dutch Need Adapting to Islam..."

"Ella Vogelaar, the Dutch Minister for Residence, Neighborhoods and Integration ('voo Wonen, Wijken en Integratie') stated in an interview the 'The Netherlands will be Islamic at some point in the future'...She feels that the Netherlands should adapt to Islam, and subsidize Islamic institutions. What will emerge, according to her, is a 'Christian-Jewish-Islamic culture.'"

Sounds like a new "Summer of Love" coming...

http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/2007/07/bad-news-from-holland-dutch-need.html

See what happens when you smoke pot all day long in cafe's? Weird shit .. maaaan.

Our illustrious CBC TV showing a map of Brazil when reporting on that tragic plane crash, pinpointed Sao Paolo exactly where Rio is located. They did this both on the evening news and again this am on Newsworld.

I know that to many here, the New Yorker magazine is the epitome of the left-wing MSM; however, I would encourage you to visit their website, cleverly disguised as "newyorker.com", and click on two articles: "Pakistan" and "opium". The former describes the tightrope that Musharraf is walking in Pakistan, and why, despite the fact that so-called secularized moderates are leading many of the protests against him, his ouster will probably lead to another Islamist state.

The second article describes the UN's opium poppy eradication program in northern Afghanistan, where our brave Dutch allies are supporting the program, if by support, you mean hiding in their bases while sending out private contractors armed with handweapons, and riding in ATV's. The article goes on to describe how those who have paid bribes to the local Afghan chieftains have their fields left untouched, while the poor sharecroppers who can't afford the bribes see all their crops - not just the opium, but their wheat, watermelons, etc. - uprooted by indiscriminate UN forces. To be fair, the article also mentions the complete and utter disgust of the UN force that they are not allowed to cross the river, and start uprooting the "protected" fields.

This comes back to a point I made in another thread a few days ago: the trappings of democracy are one thing; the spirit of democracy is another. Until the lowliest citizen believes he's going to get a fair shake, that the police will not hit him up for bribes or "protection money", or that judges cannot be bought by the wealthy, all the efforts to instill democracy are useless. I wish someone could cram this simple fact into Taliban Jack's tiny little brain.

In March, the Justice Department's Inspector General revealed that FBI agents had sent a flurry of fake emergency letters to phone companies, asking them to turn over phone records immediately by promising that the proper papers had been filed with U.S. attorneys, though in many cases this was a complete lie. More than 60 of these letters were made public today as part of a FBI document dump in response to a government sunshine lawsuit centered on the FBI's abuse of a key Patriot Act power.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/fbi-patriot-act.html

Fjordman - 7/3/2007
I was planning to take a break from writing about Sweden, but I just couldn’t help it. Swedish journalist Kurt Lundgren had a noteworthy story on his blog this week. A friend told him about a magazine published by Lärarförbundet, the Swedish Teachers’ Union, the largest union for teachers and heads of schools in the country. The magazine, aimed at preschool teachers who take care of children between the ages of 0-6 years old, included recommendations to not only promote “gender equality” but also “sexual equality” at this tender age. Mr. Lundgren considers the suggestions that are sent out to kindergarten and preschool staff to be clear-cut sexual abuse of children:

“A three-year-old doesn’t have to learn queer theory, a four-year-old shouldn’t have to be force-fed lectures on gay sex by some sex freak from the Teachers’ Union. Children are supposed to play and discover their roles entirely on their own. Children are defenseless and shouldn’t be exposed to indoctrination, neither regarding sex nor politics.. (…) One wonders whether parents are aware of the abuses against preschool children that that Teachers’ Union’s magazine Pedagogiska magasinet is encouraging.”

In a kindergarten in Stockholm, the parents were encouraged by the preschool teachers - apparently ideological pioneers - to equip their sons with dresses and female first names. There are now weeks in some places when boys HAVE TO wear a dress. Lundgren considers this sexual indoctrination as worse than the political: “The political nonsense is seeking to alter opinions - the sex freaks seek to alter the children’s personality, their mentality and their entire constitution.
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Meanwhile, Sweden is in the midst of the most explosive rape wave in Scandinavian history, largely caused by immigration. While Swedish girls are called “whores” by Muslim immigrants, Swedish boys are told to wear a dress and study queer theory.”

http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3031&cid=3&sid=102

A DISTURBING video that appears to show a toddler on ecstasy is being probed by detectives.

The two-and-a-half minute clip features a little girl rolling her eyes back in her head as a group of women look on and laugh.

At one point, the tot appears unresponsive when earphones from an iPod are put on her.

One of the women suggests the drug ecstasy - which has a slang name "X" - might be responsible for the condition of the girl, who looks about two years old.

As she squeezes her cheeks and taps her on her head, she says: "Cookie, stop rolling, girl. You shouldn't have popped no X."

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=19448380%26siteid=66633-name_page.html

One in four Israeli men eligible for national service last year dodged the draft, the highest proportion in the history of the Jewish state.
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Israeli men can avoid service in several ways. The growing number of Ultra-Orthodox Jews have special dispensation to continue religious studies, while convicted criminals are barred from serving, as are the ill and infirm.

But some young Israelis travel overseas beyond the reach of the army authorities and there is some evidence of people pretending to have mental illness to avoid service.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/18/wisrael118.xml

Ella Vogelaar....

Bring back 'Westland'

What a dildo...

tom, dick & harry

If ever a post and comment thread will save a new Hybrid buyer a wad of ca$h, this is it.

Hybrids losing popularity to diesels

J.D. Power has released the results of their second annual Alternative Powertrain Study and the number of people considering a hybrid has dipped from fifty-seven percent last year to only fifty percent.

They found that hybrid intenders are willing to pay up to $2,396 extra and expect an extra 18.5mpg with a hybrid. While the price differential is possible with tax credits, that mileage improvement is totally unrealistic.

During the same time period the number of drivers willing to consider a diesel jumped from twelve to twenty-three percent.

More: Excellent comments too!

http://tinyurl.com/2yhrwb
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Sample:
16. Parallel hybrids are going to be significantly less attractive once clean diesels start arriving next year.

king of france and the pope

that is friday the thirteenth

"I wish someone could cram this simple fact into Taliban Jack's tiny little brain."

Posted by: KevinB

The simple fact is this operation does not appear to have much hope of success and that's why Layton doesn't want our troops there. It's doubtful that there will be much help coming from the other NATO allies.

3w.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/07/18/afghanistan-nato.html

The allies of the Taliban: Taqiya, Taliban Jack Layton-NDP, and lberia.
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"This last attempt to blur the vision of democracies can be exposed with knowledge of the jihadi terror strategies and tactics, one of which is known as Taqiya, the doctrine on deception and deflection."

Preventing the West from Understanding Jihad
American Thinker ^ | JUly 17, 2007 | Walid Phares

In the years that followed 9/11, two phenomena characterized the Western public's understanding of the terrorists' ideology. The first characteristic stemmed from the statements made by the jihadists themselves. [...]
The second phenomenon of help to the public was the surfacing of a new literature produced by alternative scholars, analysts, journalists, experts, and researchers who, from different backgrounds and countries, filled in some of the gaps is "jihadi studies." Producing books, articles, and blogs from Europe, India, the Middle East, and North America, a combination of Third World-born and Western-issued scholarship began to provide the "missing link" as to what Jihadism is all about. These factors came together to shift the debate from "Jihad is spiritual yoga" to "Why didn't we know it was something else as well?" And this triggered in response one of the last attempts to prevent jihad from being understood.[...]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867137/posts
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Taqiya Alert: Al-Reuters fronts for Muslim Islamist murderers. Beware of "peace" from the Islamists. Taqiya Alert.
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Afghan rebel leader says ends insurgency -statement

KABUL, July 19 (Reuters) - A wanted rebel leader in Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has declared a ceasefire against the government, a statement signed by Hekmatyar said.

The statement, aired by a private television and circulated in Kabul, said:

"Members of Hezb-i-Islami have stopped and refrained from brother killing [brother] and from the destruction of the country and assumed political activity," the statement said. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868232/posts

Connie at Free Dominion have received a letter purporting to be a Human Rights complaint...no first name of complainant, no explanation of the allegations. But all of the contact information checks out. Either the Canadian legal system is turning into the Inquistion, or someone went through an elaborate hoax. At time of posting, we're waiting with bated breath for Connie to phone the Canadian Human Rights Commission to see if the complaint is legit.

Another poll gone horribly wrong for those suffering from Leftist Mental Disorder.

From the CTV:

The overall crime rate is down, but there is a rise in youth crime. What’s the best way to tackle the problem?
Social programs
2280 votes (23 %)
More policing
577 votes (6 %)
Stiffer sentencing
7037 votes (71 %)

Total Votes: 9894

Larry Zolf (he's not dead yet?) shows why he's Canada's most ridiculous journalist:

"Dear Prime Minister Stephen Harper, I have been a reporter, producer, host and CBC Web site columnist since 1962. You, sir, are the only prime minister I have never met or seen in action during my career, but I would like to.

I have written some critical columns on the CBC Web site about you. I'm sorry. Lately, I've become quite a fan of yours. I share your contempt for the media and your concern for human rights over corporate rights.
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Mr. Prime Minister, why not imitate Mr. Bush's treatment of Scooter Libby and show Black some mercy, too?
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Here I must admit that Conrad Black and I have been friends for years. Barbara Amiel and I were university classmates. I was a guest at her first wedding."

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=953e301a-c6f9-4c12-86b5-c6d25b9847cf

What the hell is a private sector company doing hiring Larry Zolf? I can understand the CBC, but the National Post? Whose side are they on? Do they really expect me to buy their newspaper?

Anyway, love how the shameless and honourless Zolf now shares Harper's contempt for the media. Why, only a few months ago a mentally deranged Zolf was threatening Harper over his contempt of the media, saying that "Harper’s treatment of the media is that of an ingrate. The media made Harper. The media also first made Trudeau and Mulroney. Later, the media made both Trudeau and Mulroney and their parties suffer at the polls.
A similar fate awaits Harper if he doesn’t change his basic suspicion and hatred of reporters and news commentators."

Did a senior Liberal try to protect Suzan Pawlak from prosecution?
When $15,000 went missing from the federal Liberal Party riding association accounts for London, Ontario, David Pretlove of the Ontario wing of the federal party offered to cover the shortfall as long as the police were left out of the picture. The riding executive turned down the strange offer and called the police.

http://stevejanke.com/archives/233953.php

The simple fact is this operation does not appear to have much hope of success and that's why Layton doesn't want our troops there. It's doubtful that there will be much help coming from the other NATO allies.

lberia

Don't you think before we run like cowardtl dogs ruining our military reputanion. We should wait til the enemy actually controls one small village before we conceed defeat.

How the heck can they win when they can't control one town?

Imagine sitting there in the mountains hoping canadina soldiers don't find you then reading lberia says you can't lose.

Do you not get the discordancy in your logic?

lberia: "The simple fact is this operation does not appear to have much hope of success"

True, but...

"...and that's why Layton doesn't want our troops there."

As a thought exercise consider providing an explanation why Layton and the NDP unanimously and unwaveringly supported our troops being there from early 2002 to January 23, 2006. If he felt so strongly about it he could have campaigned on it last election knowing full well that Paul Martin signed us up for a dangerous combat mission.

Shrieking Moonbat Declairs all debate on AGW OVER and those who ask questions "Traitors" !!

***LINK***

A disgusting display by RFK Jr. as he reveals the inner workings of a weak and corrupted mind.

More unreasonable accommodation??

See Calgary Herald Thurs.

B.C. Prov court judge Gordon threw out a case against a person smuggling in 50 kg of cocaine in a concealed compartment under a vehicle. The drugs were discovered by border guard(s) while doing what they are supposed to do - guard the border.

Reason given - violation of C of R & Freedoms plus no search warrant prior to action. The decision is being appealed but if allowed to stand, it will be another windfall to traffickers and we may as well have all law enforcement hired off the street & trained only to act as the lackeys of the bleeding hearts within the judiciary.

Interesting. The gov't is working to arm the border guards while the judiciary is busy reducing them to robots that are incapable of doing anything without consulting the judiciary before they do anything substantial.

From National Newswatch.
"Leftist media find fool's gold"
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=757291a8-11a0-473c-b84c-0417c79b413f

Mohammed wanted to serve his country: Taqiya.
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Canaan Marine faces desertion charges

CANAAN — Mohammed Alam, 21, joined the Marines because he wanted to serve his country. He left because he feared for his life. It wasn't a looming deployment to serve in combat that caused him to go AWOL from Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C. last October. It was fear of being shot by his fellow soldiers, said his mother, Edith Walsh, of Amenia, N.Y. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868411/posts

wonder if there is an invade poland gene that goes with this one in certain countries.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070719/jimmy_legs_070719/20070719?hub=Health

"Is Google From Hell?

Pamela at Atlas Shrugs is very upset that Google has done something which has caused her blog to no longer be a resource for information on the Jihad.

If you don't believe that Google does this type of thing, then click here.

Not a single hit is directed to Little Green Footballs, the very blog I am attempting to search.

In case you are wondering, Google has not blocked this blog ... yet.

Why would Google do this? What the hell is up with them?

Would anyone from Google care to talk? Obviously, we will figure out a way to keep you anonymous, if so."

ibloga.blogspot.com (infidel bloggers)

This is something I mentioned the other day. I was researching the estimated numbers of non-muslims butchered by muslims over the course of history. A figure I understood to be some 275 million, from earlier inquiries.

All I got back was muslim apologist sites, sites that declared Christian attrocities, Hindu attrocities, etc. etc. However, nothing on Muslim genocides, ie, the estimated 80 million Hindu's killed, the Ottoman genocide of Armenians and Christians, etc.

I then googled Nazi and communist genocides. Of course, I got back all kinds of sites pertaining to this.

For some reason, Google is skewing, if not editing out the true horrors of Islam and in some cases replacing it with lies and deceipt.

Why?

The 'click here' search is: little green footballs marwan al-barghouti

I don't believe we are all of the same species. Either that, or Islam causes human genes to mutate into something else.

Willful Ignorance

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An essay by Terry Mattingly describes the primitive superstition which lies behind the conspiracy theories that are spreading like viruses through Pakistan, roiling the waters and causing unrest.

In reading his article, I was reminded that human beings are, above all, reasoning creatures. That this faculty can be short-circuited by the notion that other people (or groups of people) conspire against us, bears witness to two tendencies. One is our susceptibility to project onto others what we most fear, and the other is our laziness: in a perversion of Occam’s razor we settle for the crudest explanation for a phenomenon — or an imagined one — so that “reason” gives us the needed justification for going on the attack.

Here’s the example that Mattingly uses:

The rumor spread across Pakistan in a blitz of text messages on cell phones.

There was a killer virus on the loose, and all you had to do to catch it was answer a call from an infected number. The virus didn’t hurt cell phones but would — eyewitnesses confirmed this — cause users to drop dead. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority was forced to issue a denial, telling users that it was safe to turn their phones back on.

Unfortunately, Pakistan doesn’t have a Snopes page — a place to check out things like the latest weird email your co-worker sends you about a new destructive virus that eats your hard drive and metastasizes into a blood-sucking robot that will consume you and your mates in short order.

It will come as no surprise that many of the viruses in Pakistan often have one origin: the all powerful, evil Joooos:

Then there were messages claiming that Israeli trucks were carrying a million HIV-infected melons to Arab consumers in a new biological-warfare plot. This was not to be confused with other urban legends about a “Western-Zionist conspiracy” to use polio vaccines and other medical means to sterilize the next generation of Muslims.

More at gatesofvienna.blogspot.com

Muslim caller absolutely demolished by radio talk show host:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlSxwfOzBqo

We need more of this.

Irwin Daisy: This is something I mentioned the other day. I was researching the estimated numbers of non-muslims butchered by muslims over the course of history.

That's what you do with your spare time? Creepy...

Glob-Pail is speaking in tongues, again: "current of joy powers". It will be peace in the valley when the Elders gather at the river.
They're "taking on everything" from CC to Muslims killing Muslims in Darfur. Hallelujah. Say, Amen. Amen. It's socialist bs.
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Current of joy powers The Elders' peace gathering
globeandmail.com ^ | July 19, 2007 | STEPHANIE NOLEN

JOHANNESBURG -- The official order of business yesterday was the introduction of The Elders: convened at the request of Nelson Mandela, a collection of former leaders that has begun to work together to advance the causes of peace and global justice.

Five Nobel Laureates and a handful of other eminences gathered on the stage in Johannesburg as Mr. Mandela announced that they would seek to fulfill the traditional role of elders in a village, providing wisdom and leadership and attempting to resolve conflicts, taking on everything from climate change to the fighting in Darfur.
But as the Elders sat in a row and spoke about their very serious work, a current - of irreverence, of resilience, of what looked very much like joy - kept bubbling up through the formality. And Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who chairs this elders' council, voiced the true theme of the gathering: "Goodness will prevail." ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868459/posts

Albert Gore believes Mankind only has ten years to live !!

Unless we send him money :)

(I cannot remember the name of the cool-aide spaceship guy.)

It's going to take a 90-percent decrease in carbon emissions from developed fossil fuel guzzlers like the U.S. and a 50-percent decrease worldwide to get a handle on the problem, Gore said -- [can you say cave-man-Dave ?] changes that will take major leaps of political will far beyond what current politicians see as feasible. [such as Gore for President ?] That reduction, which would be mandated by a world-wide treaty [Maurice Strong's 'One World Governance' ?] , could happen through carbon taxes [there it is, TAXES], cap and trade [scam], technological innovations [he don't know of any, others might], and energy conservation and efficiency, he continued, as long as it is accompanied by a major grassroots public shift to sustain it at the level necessary. [who sets the level ? the UN ? as in Saddam's oil-for-food program level ?]

Many have claimed Maurice Strong to be the most dangerous man in the world --- may have been bumped by Uncle Albert.

Connie Wilkins, operator of the website "Free Dominion", appears to be facing a complaint from the Human Rights Commission:

http://freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=84457&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=ffe79c7858f6008f3a4711ba83693d65

Gleetings flom Mao Stlong in Lake Kanasi, China.

Fol Sale: Roch Ness monstels/flanchises; US$; see specimen contlact below.
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Legendary lake ‘monster’ is captured on camera

China’s Loch Ness monster has been sighted. Or so Chinese state-run television says. Not just one, but more than a dozen huge creatures can be seen churning across Lake Kanasi in remote western China, leaving a foamy wake more like an enormous motorboat than a big fish.

A rare video filmed by a tourist at the lake in the Heavenly Mountains of the wild Xinjiang region, has reignited debate over the existence of an underwater creature that can compete with the Loch Ness monster in both mass and mystery.

The grainy film shows about 15 objects moving at high speed just beneath the surface of the lake and whipping the smooth blue water into a bubbling white frenzy. Chinese Central Television broadcast the video on its news channel, describing the footage shot by a passing tourist on July 5 as the clearest ever seen of a legendary beast that has been rumoured for centuries to live in the depths of Lake Kanasi....-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/

"That's what you do with your spare time? Creepy..."

Yes, Andrew. That's what I do when responding to ignorance put forward by little creeps like you.

For years, when staying at a hotel, the G&M or National Post was delivered to every room. This past week, only once did we get the paper. I was shocked at the size of it. 3 sections and very thin. That was on Monday. Not much in it. What happened. Also noticed there were no free copies of any Calgary paper available. Guess they must be saving trees.
I also noticed that most of the G&M were still outside rooms when we returned late evening.
Out of curiosity I looked at the outside paperboxes. Many were almost full from morning to night. Few papers are being bought. There is a message there somewhere but who is listening.

I knew it! There is some good in religion.

Win a barroom bet with this one.
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Therefore, the Holy See will be the first country in the world that will have a zero carbon impact on the atmosphere.

Vatican City already uses electric NEVs for police duties.

*Those who destroy the environment are also big sinners*, said Cardinal Raffaele Martino and president of Justice and Peace.

*It's a big insult to God*, he affirmed. Other sources from Vatican City affirm that these new ecological directives will be included in the upcoming versions of Catecism.
=========================== AutoBlogGreen.com

Bet you $100 there is one country that is eco-pure. It*s a sure bet. = TG

NEVs = Neighbourhood Electric Vehicles.= TG

your tax money at work

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070719/K071925AU.html

if Nixon knew this he wouldnt have used that speech.

Try typing in "Avi Lewis" into a youtube search. You'll get a page of pure CBC radical leftism. Check out the pro-Chavez and anti-oil-to-the-U.S videos first...

General David Petraeus on the Hugh Hewitt show also:
http://www.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=fb51ec28-fccc-4220-a62b-835caed7434e

Globall cooling, Angus?
Och ay!
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Long underwear keeps Weir warm

Vancouver Sun - 3 hours ago
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- It wasn't perfect, but on the bright side, it was 12 strokes better than Mike Weir's opening round the last time the British Open was played at Carnoustie.
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"Our weapon, our jihad, our way of struggling in this country is with our tongues."

Ancient shamanism used glossolalia; Islamists use Taqiya. The MSM does it all the time.

Here, though, the plain-text of murderous Islam is used; no need to gloss/taqiya in front of this audience.
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Audio: Secretly Recorded UK Jihadi Voice Chat

While out on bail awaiting trial, Mizanur Rahman, one of the UK Islamic extremists sentenced to six years in jail yesterday for inciting violence, reached out to fellow Muslims via voice chat.

Dr. Rusty Shackleford (via Glen Jenvey) obtained a recording of one of those chats, from July 15, 2007, and I’ve taken the liberty of converting it to MP3 format and posting it here, so that as many people as possible have a chance to hear one of these creatures speak when he doesn’t know he’s being recorded.

It’s chilling stuff, as Rahman discusses with his online audience the need for every single Muslim to take part in global jihad, in order to kill every Jew in Israel. Here’s Dr. Rusty’s post at Jawa Report for more details: What Indicted Muslim Says while out on Bail: ‘Terrorize them’, ‘Kill Jews’, ‘Support Global Jihad’.
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...And now when we are facing occupation in Muslim land: in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Kashmir, in Chechnya—all over the world occupation. And people fighting and bombing Muslims everywhere from the kuffar, from the Americans, and the British, and the Israelis. So, what must we do? ...-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

ron in kelowna: If mankind has only ten years why worry, let it all hang out, go nuts!

Now you could be right on the "unless we send him money" statement, that could buy more time. Add to that he will probably also request more money for suits to accommodate his expanding girth.
That was the request of a well known evangelist some time ago, send me money for a new suit.
Appearance is everything when delivering crap, we tend not to pay attention to raggedy bums.

Jack's Newswatch:

Jack: How to make friends and influence your enemies [...]

“Conquer and wait.”

It has nothing to do with democracy. It has to do with common sense and there is not one human alive today that doesn’t realize it as they watch the most powerful nation on earth “flounder” and they wonder why.

There is no wonder — there is only the media.

The best friend a terrorist ever had — and “hesitation”....-
http://www.jacksnewswatch.info/
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Hesitation, procrastination, aka temporizing.
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Temporizing

André Aciman

"A temporizer procrastinates. He forfeits the present. He moves elsewhere in time."
"To temporize not only means to wait out something, but to compromise, to parley, to delay taking a position; it means to waver, to adapt, to conform, to evade, to shift, to fudge, to trim. To temporize is what you do when you don’t want to act, or when you can’t act, or when you don’t know how to act, or when you are forced to act (or speak) in ways that are not your own; you become evasive, deceptive. You trim. A trimmer is a timeserver."
http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/archive/2001/1/aciman.html

Wretchard says: "Holy chihuahua."
Mao Stlong say: Holy Pekinese not ughly.
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The real blowback

The Counterterrorism Blog looks at the new Ugly American. The man from China.

It is rightly observed that Pakistan is on the brink of precipice. In Pakistan, Chinese nationals, security forces and Musharraf regime, all are in an Islamist terror mess, especially after the fall of Red Mosque early this month. Wave of revenge attacks on Chinese nationals and security personnel have been increasing. Fears for a Pro-Taliban militant backed civil unrest is gaining ground, with the recent spate of violence across the country that has already taken hundreds of lives in the last seven days. Avowed militants continued suicide attacks and intensified their deadly assaults on security forces and Chinese populations. As many as Six suicide attacks have taken place since July 12 Miranshah and Swat incidents including three in one single day.

Holy chihuahua. Meanwhile, the Iranians are discovering one of the downsides to supporting armed groups, one which Americans dealing with groups in Anbar and Diyala are alive to. The prospect of terror groups running wild. The Strategy Page says ...-
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/07/real-blowback.html

irwin daisy at July 19, 2007 12:45 PM:

"Then there were messages claiming that Israeli trucks were carrying a million HIV-infected melons to Arab consumers in a new biological-warfare plot. This was not to be confused with other urban legends about a “Western-Zionist conspiracy” to use polio vaccines and other medical means to sterilize the next generation of Muslims."

You reminded me of this delightful passage from Steyn`s "America Alone:

"For example, I hadn't really followed Sudanese current events closely since, oh, General Kitchener's victory at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, but in 2003 a story from that benighted land happened to catch my eye. In the fall of that year mass hysteria apparently swept the capital city, Khartoum, after reports that foreigners were shaking hands with Sudanese men and causing their penises to disappear. One victim, a fabric merchant, told his story to the London Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi: a man from West Africa came into the shop and "shook the store owner's hand powerfully until the owner felt his penis melt into his body."

I know the feeling. The same thing happened to me after shaking hands with Senator Clinton."

British Columbia, west coast ports, scores of native bands and Super Dave Suzuki may well be SOL.

[Third-largest U.S. oil firm is willing to pay billions to pump Alberta crude to Gulf Coast refineries.] G&M
[The prospect of an expansion of the U.S. market for Canadian crude comes just a week after Chinese oil officials pulled the plug on their involvement in the Gateway pipeline project that would deliver oil sands crude to the West Coast for delivery to Asian markets.]
[Industry insiders have long acknowledged that the Gateway pipeline project faced huge hurdles, because Alberta producers have shown a clear preference for the U.S. market, and the route would have required right-of-way deals with scores of native bands.]
[U.S.-based energy economist James Williams said access to the Gulf Coast would help ensure robust markets for vastly expanded oil sands production, which could reach 3.5 million barrels a day by 2020.] G&M

3,500,000 bbl per day !! That is well into some Middle East counties territory.

2004
Saudi Arabia 10.37 MBD
Iran 4.09
UAE 2.76
Kuwait 2.51
Iraq 2.03
Canada 3.14

Alberta Tar Sands alone possible production by 2020 --- 3.50 MBD

Although tar sands occur in more than 70 countries, the two largest are Canada and Venezuela, with the bulk being found in four different regions of Alberta, Canada: areas of Athabasca, Wabasha, Cold Lake and Peace River. The sum of these covers an area of nearly 77,000 km2. In fact, the reserve that is deemed to be technologically retrievable today is estimated at 280-300Gb (billion barrels).

This is larger than the Saudi Arabia oil reserves, which are estimated at 240Gb. The total reserves for Alberta, including oil not recoverable using current technology, are estimated at 1,700- 2,500Gb.

As the media would put it --- to make headlines;

"Alberta has as much as 2,500,000,000,000 barrels of oil. Two and a half Trillion !!"

Some other provinces have lots also ---- but just want to leave it undergound. To each his own.

A century ago, hay for the 'hay-burners' was a hot topic. 'Stop using it --- we will run out.'

Oil made hay more or less redundant as a major fuel. In this century, something new could do it to oil.

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