Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is The Forgetful Murderer episode from the Casebook of Gregory Hood, brought to you by Petry fine wines, perfect for pot-roast and meat-loaf (1946, 28:19, streamed MP3).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Dress warmly if you are going to the global warming protest rally.
Be careful not to give out your personal information at the freedom of speech rally.
Feel free to litter profusely if you are celebrating the election of America’s first green president (fear me greatly, earthlings).
If you’re on the 100-mile diet, you’re bound to lose some weight, because all there is to eat right now is snow.
No doubt President BO has some Jay-Z rapping in his I-pod, this tune perhaps…
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/22/video-michelle-on-the-my-president-is-black-kerfuffle/
“It is a fundamental truth that while history always repeats itself, it almost never repeats itself precisely. There is always some measure of newness to events that allows otherwise intelligent people to repeat the mistakes of their forbearers without looking completely ridiculous.
“Given this, it is hard to believe that with the advent of the Obama administration, we are seeing history repeat itself with nearly unheard of precision. US President Barack Obama’s reported intention of appointing former Senator George Mitchell to serve as his envoy for the so-called Palestinian-Israeli peace process will provide us with a spectacle of an unvarnished repeat of history.
“In December 2000, outgoing president Bill Clinton appointed Mitchell to advise him how to reignite the “peace process” after the Palestinians rejected statehood and launched their terror war against Israel in September 2000. Mitchell presented his findings to Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush in April 2001.
“Mitchell asserted that Israel and the Palestinians were equally to blame for the Palestinian terror war against Israelis. He recommended that Israel end all Jewish building outside the 1949 armistice lines, and stop fighting Palestinian terrorists.
“As for the Palestinians, Mitchell said they had to make a ‘100 percent effort’ to prevent the terror that they themselves were carrying out. This basic demand was nothing new. It formed the basis of the Clinton administration’s nod-nod-wink-wink treatment of Palestinian terrorism since the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994…”
from “History’s Tragic Farce”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0109/glick012309.php3?printer_friendly
Not even our national anthem is safe anymore.
O Canada, Our Home and Native Land (excluding Belleisle Elementary)
Can’t win against the Global Warmies.
Is this how it goes, they’ve renamed it Climate Change but still say the cold temperatures are caused by global warming?
Gotta get a free copy of Lizzy’s Dummy book to get further muddification on the phenomenon.
Kate: Have you looked at what BBS has posted, Yes BBS i hope this is not buried Very sad indeed that Our National Anthem is at risk. I believe this is only the start of it. The reason, issues such as this usually spread throughout our educational system across the country.
Anyone who has not looked at this, you should.
Belleisle Mom stands On Guard for ‘O Canada’
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/549137
On another front Its -20 in Owen Sound not with windchill, snowsquall warning south of here today.
I know not as bad as you have had out west, I would say this is the coldest we have had in Grey/Bruce so far this winter.
BBS, Sadly, I’m not at all surprised that this story wasn’t really covered by the MSM in Canada. Abolishing the singing of the CANADIAN National Anthem in a CANADIAN school in CANADA because someone complains is getting to be the “all inclusive” norm. Patriotism is getting to be the latest dirty word of the progressive leftoids. Musn’t ruffle any feathers now should we.
DionkyIggyDionkyIggyDionkyIggyDionky >>>
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“Grits to pull plug if PM doesn’t ‘listen’
Edmonton Sun”
STOPIGGYDIONKY.
I was looking for more life history info on Pres Obama and chanced upon a site with many interesting comments on it.
http://ngoldfarb.wordpress.com/
Aunty-American says, Me hated for George; bring back George.
And, who is this Stephen, a key US ally?
Is the US a key ally of Stephen-Canada? G’wan.
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“President reaches out to key allies
WASHINGTON – President Obama phoned the leaders of Britain, Canada, and Saudi Arabia yesterday, reaching out to key US allies during his first week in office.
The White House said Obama spoke with British Prime Minster Gordon Brown, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Saudi King Abdullah, along with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.”
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/01/24/president_reaches_out_to_key_allies/
David Frum in today’s National Post:
“… Obama is among the most intellectual man [sic] ever to have gained the presidency, but his intellect has always been turned inward. His first book ranks among the finest ever produced by an American president, but it is a book about himself and was produced not at the end of a distinguished career, such as Ulysses S. Grant’s great war memoir, but before that career had even truly begun. Question: Is it possible that Obama could not see what was in front of him [during his Inauguration speech] because his gaze was fixed upon himself?
“Did he fail to comprehend what his inauguration meant to a nation because he was too preoccupied with what it meant to the man being inaugurated? …”
Frum’s got it in a nutshell: Obama’s narcissism will always prevent him from looking outward and seeing anywhere near the big picture. His so-called rhetorical skills always leave me underwhelmed because I get the feeling he’s contstantly asking himself, “Am I projecting the right gravitas? Wow, that sounded good! How do I look?”
I always get the feeling that Obama’s only half there, always looking at his own performance in the middle of it. His whole attention is never on the task at hand because he’s always self-evaluating, understandable given that he, in truth, is out of his depth — or, as he might prefer to say it, beneath his pay grade.
The unsettling feeling I get is that Obama’s making it up as he goes. He’s brought aboard all of the usual Democratic pirates that Clinton had alongside his inadequate ship of state and he’s hoping to come across as the Captain of the ship when, in reality, he’s only a deckhand disguised as the Captain.
Rough seas ahead.
“Democratic pirates” above should read “Democrat priates.” Obviously, because Clinton’s crew is anything BUT democratic.
link to David Frum’s article:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/24/david-frum-the-inaugural-address-obama-should-have-delivered.aspx
Supporting Geert Wilders has the added benefit of defeating scumbags like these:
(Article from Elsevier)
‘Within 10 days arrest warrant for Wilders’
The Jordanian Muslim movement The Messenger of Allah Unites Us (TMA) is excited that Wilders will be prosecuted by the court in Amsterdam. Juridical procedures in Jordan will lead ‘within 10 days’ to an international warrant for his arrest.
‘Finally Dutch justice takes measures against these terrible crimes’ said, Zakaria Sheikh, chairman of TMA, today in De Volkskrant.
According to Sheikh, statements by Wilder lead to ‘the worldwide sowing of hatred and violence’.
The Islamic action club (TMA) began in June last year with a boycott against Dutch products because of Wilders’ movie Fitna.
At that time a juridical procedure against the Dutch parliamentarian was initiated that had to lead to an international arrest warrant and possible extradition to Jordan. Sheikh expects the arrest warrant within 10 days.
TMA said to the Dutch newspaper that it ‘does not have any problems with the Dutch people’. ‘But these criminals must be brought to trial’, said Sheikh.
Even so the action club doesn’t want to stop its boycott against Dutch products — which presumably is a great success. ‘We have touched the hearts and minds of the consumers’, said Sheikh.
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With a Wilders victory, they may get so upset they’ll blow an artery. Better yet, blow themselves up. One can only wish.
You’d think the Labour parasites in Britain could competently cope with the most basic task of securing their borders:
Ministers were criticised last night for issuing a record 151,635 work permits to foreigners as Britain slid into recession.
The document lets non-EU workers take or keep jobs here, even though hundreds of thousands of Britons are losing theirs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127112/150-000-foreigners-swell-UK-workforce-Record-number-permits-Britons-lose-jobs.html
And:
Eighty foreign killers are exploiting the chaotic asylum system to set up home in Britain, it was revealed yesterday.
The convicted murderers from Albania have been given British passports despite being officially listed as ‘wanted’ by Interpol.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127084/80-foreign-murderers-welcomed-Britain-Albanian-killers-allowed-stay-despite-Interpol-wanted-list.html#comments
Federal CPC Ag Minister Gerry Ritz has stated that PMSH has taken the barley freedom legislation off the agenda this week.
What part of this legislative process do you not understand, Mr Ritz?
There are two pieces of federal legislation.
One is the Canadian Wheat Board Act.
The other is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
These two pieces of legislation contradict each other.
The Canadian Wheat Board Act restricts the liberty and freedom of western Canadian grain farmers to live their lives in the manner they wish to do so.
When a country imposes a Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon its citizens as Canada did in 1981, it is to protect ALL its citizens from arbitrary and unconstitutional actions of governments, which is exactly what the CWB Act does.
The anachronistic CWB Act is a POS legislation that needs to be brought into line with the superior legislation of the modern Charter.
Farmer votes for or against the CWB mean nothing.
Canada is governed by rule of law.
The Cdn govt has no right to break the law as it presently does with the CWB Act.
When govts insist they can break the laws with impunity they usually get themselves into trouble, one way or another.
The Ag Minister and the the Justice Minister are both CPC members so all they need to do is take the CWB Act down the hall to the Justice Department.
The Justice Minister can make the appropriate changes to make the CWB Act conform with the Charter (ie make it voluntary) which then gives western grain farmers the same rights as everybody else in this country.
The govt can then bring the new CWB Act before Parliament and have the MPs vote unanimously to pass it.
Can anybody imagine any MP being stupid enough to vote against changing a govt act to give Canadians their freedom?
Yah, neither can I.
“The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the most significant constitutional change in our country’s history.” – Justice Minister Anne McLellan.
When Australia brought in their Rights and Freedoms Act, they did the right thing and combed thru all of their govt laws and changed the ones that didn’t conform, without any muss or fuss.
Why didn’t the brite lite PMs in the Cdn govt do the same years ago?
Oh, I forgot they were Liberals.
Gee, I wonder how many people are going to read this post and wonder what the hell is wrong with that Cdn govt? Won’t give farmers their rights!
As with the brutal Muslim murder of an 83 year old Canadian infidel woman in Toronto a couple of weeks ago, once again, the MSM hides the fact that another Muslim has brutally beaten a Canadian infidel to death in our country:
“Edmonton man accused of murder in Ottawa appears in court”
(THE OTTAWA CITIZEN)
OTTAWA — A 20-year-old Edmonton man accused of second-degree murder in the death of Ottawa resident Sean Murphy appeared briefly in an Ottawa courtroom Friday.
Wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, dark blue jeans and a bright yellow shirt draped around his neck, a shackled Mohamed Jama Yusuf was ordered by a justice of the peace not to communicate with 19 potential witnesses in the case, then was remanded in custody.
Mr. Yusuf was arrested on a Canada-wide warrant in Edmonton on Tuesday in connection with Mr. Murphy’s death.
Originally, police believed the death of the 51-year-old Mr. Murphy was accidental after he was found collapsed beside his bicycle near the intersection of Merivale Road and Shillington Avenue shortly before midnight on Aug. 26. A few weeks later, they deemed the death ‘suspicious’ after rumours of a beating began to circulate.
Court was told Mr. Yusuf, who sported a thin goatee and short black hair, is being represented by Edmonton lawyer Peter Northcott. He was represented by duty counsel during his brief appearance.
After being told there would be a list of people he could not contact, Mr. Yusuf asked his lawyer if he was allowed to call his parents.
No friends or family members of either Mr. Yusuf or Mr. Murphy were present in the courtroom.
At the time of his death, Mr. Murphy’s family believed he had been assaulted, noting that he had suffered severe injuries to all sides of his head, along with bruises to his ribs and shoulder.
“It looks to us like it was an unprovoked attack,” his brother, Michael Murphy, told the Citizen last September.
Family members were told by Sean Murphy’s best friend that witnesses saw what they believed to be three people kicking a dead animal that night, but the witnesses would not report it officially because of outstanding issues with police.
(As with the long list of Muslim immigrant killings in Britain, this is standard practice for Muslim cowards)
In November, Ottawa police officially ruled the death a homicide.
Mr. Yusuf is scheduled to appear in court next on Jan. 30 by video remand.
rockyt: “Why didn’t the brite lite PMs in the Cdn govt do the same years ago?
Oh, I forgot they were Liberals.”
And lawyer$. The Charter’s been a great cash cow for the legal eagles. Ca$h for life. The Librano Way.
Ian Bostridge, Timing is Everything
Time is the stuff of music: music manipulates our experience of time; it plays with the rhythm of experience; it stretches and complicates our relationship to the passing of time. If the world of physics is a space-time continuum, music is a pitch-time continuum. We use spatial metaphors to express our experience of frequency – notes are higher and lower, something expressed formally in staff notation, and deeply inscribed in our experience of music as performers and listeners. A large interval between two notes is a gulf to be stretched over. The quintessential musical form, melody, as it moves up and down in pitch space, over time, is a sort of quasi-miraculous bridging of the gap between the abandoned past, the ungraspable present and the as-yet-to-be-achieved, utterly unreal future. We grasp it and, as we do so, time is attended to and made palpable and affective…
MSM is a crock.
“robert burns” is Robert Burns.
Then, MSM goes on to insult Burns with this:
“that other British bard”.
Robbie Burns was not British.
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“A new perspective on robert burns
By PAUL WATERS, The GazetteJanuary 24, 2009”
“Paul Waters is an editorial writer for The Gazette and a native-born Scot.”
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Entertainment/perspective+robert+burns/1213525/story.html
More threats from the Islamists. This one from Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia written to Obama:
“If the U.S. wants to continue playing a leadership role in the Middle East and keep its strategic alliances intact — especially its ‘special relationship’ with Saudi Arabia — it will have to drastically revise its policies vis-a-vis Israel and Palestine,” Turki wrote. He said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had written to Saudi King Abdullah last week urging Saudi Arabia to lead a “jihad,” or holy war, against Israel.
This call for jihad would, if pursued, create “unprecedented chaos and bloodshed” in the region, said Turki.
“So far, the kingdom has resisted these calls, but every day this restraint becomes more difficult to maintain,” he said.
Turki urged Obama to condemn what he called “Israel’s atrocities” against the Palestinians…
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Is Obama up for the next world war? Are the arrogant, supremacist Islamic nations prepared to be nuked from the face of the world? It increasingly seems that there’s no turning back.
Use it; or, lose it.
“But it’s a copout: the Swedish people do have the power and the voice – they just prefer not to use them.”
“Just what has been going on in the brains of the British ruling elites these past 40 years? What has been going on in the brains of the ruled British people?”
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“From Meccania to Atlantis – Part 6: When The Music Stops
The sum of our fears
Question: What are these people doing in Europe? Who invited them? Who let them in? Who let them stay? What has allowed them to even dream about moving to Europe, let alone realizing a colonization plan?
In Great Britain alone, intelligence agencies are tracking 200 terrorists plots among Pakistani Brits, of whom some 2,000 are under observation. More than 400,000 Pakistani citizens of Great Britain travel every year to Pakistan – a country of 12,000 madrassas and, as of mid-2005, 55 terrorist training camps.
Why are there a million (1) Pakistanis in Great Britain? Just what has been going on in the brains of the British ruling elites these past 40 years? What has been going on in the brains of the ruled British people?
What are these people doing in the United States? We know how they came and who and what let them in, but why? The stock answer is: the left, to gain new voters; the right, to get cheap labor. But it’s not the real answer, except if this be a society of madmen.
You have to be a moron, an ignoramus with no knowledge of history, religion, philosophy, social psychology, economics, geopolitics, strategy, statecraft, higher [and ipso facto Western (2)] culture not to be aware that you have seeded a future civil war, an economic calamity, a cultural wasteland, a major devaluation of social capital, a destruction of your own mother, your nation. Yet the people who have inflicted all this on us have very high IQs (3) and have all been educated at the very best universities.
Why is Christmas in Sweden greeted these days with flaming mayhem by imported Muslim barbarians, rather than with flaming glögg by Swedes? Why are there 2 millions irredeemably alien “refugees” (4) in Sweden, including 600,000 Muslims, when there are only 7 million Swedes proper?
There are answers to this too: the politicians and the mass media are foisting this madness on the people, and the people have no power and no voice. But it’s a copout: the Swedish people do have the power and the voice – they just prefer not to use them.”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3762
batb: Couldn’t agree more with your take on Obama. But here’s what Krauthammer recently said, which I think is perfectly NUTS:
The most striking characteristic of Barack Obama is not his nimble mind, engaging manner or wide-ranging intellectual curiosity. It’s the absence of neediness. He’s Bill Clinton, master politician, but without the hunger.
EBD: I read that Glick piece yesterday. I consider her opening paragraphs to be among the most stunning in recent memory.
This passage from the same piece perfectly encapsulates my very long held-view, which I have so often tried to get ET to see, without success:
Hamas’s electoral victory, its subsequent ouster of Fatah forces from Gaza and its recent war with Israel tells us another fundamental truth about the sources of the repeated failure of the US’s bid for Palestinian statehood. Quite simply, there is no real Palestinian constituency for it.
Carolyn Glick grew up on the south side of Chicago. She’s tough, brilliant, and street smart. She was also involved with negotiations with “Palestinians”. I find she has laser-like perception and count her among the planet’s most gifted columnists. I never miss a Glick column.
from maz2’s post @ 1:08 p.m.: “You have to be a moron, an ignoramus with no knowledge of history, religion, philosophy, social psychology, economics, geopolitics, strategy, statecraft, higher [and ipso facto Western (2)] culture not to be aware that you have seeded a future civil war, an economic calamity, a cultural wasteland, a major devaluation of social capital, a destruction of your own mother, your nation. Yet the people who have inflicted all this on us have very high IQs (3) and have all been educated at the very best universities.”
That’s exactly the problem: In order to have let this pandemonium happen — literally, meaning “demons everywhere,” the enablers aren’t necessarily morons and ignormamuses as much as they are, quite simply, UNEDUCATED.
That’s what happens when you go to “the very best universities”: You become un-educated. If ever you did know history, religion, philosophy, social psychology, economics, geopolitics, strategy, statecraft, you unlearn them at an alarming pace at the very best universities. Higher learning? I don’t think so.
Your learning descends into the gutter and the present impending disaster is the result.
me no dhimmi – I respect Charles Krauthammer’s views, though I don’t always agree with him. With regard to his view of Obama, that’s an interesting summary. I think he has a point but I’d say that the comparison ought to be, rather than with Clinton, with Chretien. Admittedly, Krauthammer couldn’t make that comparison.
But all three (Clinton, Chretien, Obama) are self-focused men, self-assertive, confident, ambitious and yes, quite ruthless. Chretien and Obama in particular are narcissists. That means their focus is always and only on themselves as Viewed. As Viewed by themselves; as Viewed by Others. And they must be in control of this View. You are allowed to View only what is provided by The Man. Every step, every word of Obama’s is geared to The View – whether it’s the closure of Guantanamo, abortion or the oath of allegiance. Every step, every word, every image, has an agenda whose origin is in narcissism.
That’s why there is no hunger because there’s no need for proof or acceptance of One’s Greatness; it’s already Known By Himself.
The only correct View, by the way, is adoration because the Truth (perfection) already exists. Have you read Jim Traver’s adoration?
“Obama is a phenomenon — a seductive mix of upright character, soaring intellect and stirring rhetoric — that Canadian leaders can’t and shouldn’t try to duplicate,” James Travers in the Toronto Star. Now, that’s not love; that’s idol worship. Travers, by the way. loathes Harper.
I’ll bet that a key Liberal strategy, soon to be presented, will be to link Ignatieff with Obama as ‘Both of us are Harvard Men’. Watch for it.
They’ll link Harper with Bush, and Ignatieff with Obama.
As for Glick’s assessment of Palestinians, I’ll continue to differ. It’s amazing how so many people try to put the cause, and only cause, of failure on achieving a Palestinian state, on the Palestinians alone. They are defined as ‘illegitimately there’ – or even, non-existent. We are told that the land was empty in 1948; that they were brought in from the outside to pretend ownership of the land; that they are incompetent farmers and don’t deserve the land. We are told that they don’t exist as ‘a people’; ie, they are defined as ‘just Arabs’ and ought to live elsewhere; or they are ‘Jordanian’ and ought to live in Jordan’. Or, they are Muslims and all Muslims hate Jews and that’s why they fight. Never, ever, is any whiff of blame attached to Israel for the failure of this two-state solution.
We are told that Oslo was an offer of a state, when it wasn’t; it was municipal governance over a few cities. We are told that they ‘ought to learn’ how to live within such a governance before they are ‘allowed’ (by whom?) a state. And so on.
Nowhere is it mentioned that the West Bank is, to the Orthodox Jews, an integral part of Israel. And that this community plays an important role in Israeli politics. Nowhere are we told that the West Bank is a vital resource of water. No-one refers to the continual settlements and expansion of these settlements of the West Bank – which, if Israel was sincere about a two-state system, would never, ever, occur.
Nor do we hear about the treatment of the Palestinians in these areas, the discriminatory water allowances, the taking of farms and orchards, the closure of borders. Nowhere.
Look – Israel doesn’t want a two-state solution. It wants the Palestinians to simply go away. I think that is clear.
As for the lack of a constituency of Palestinians, I’ll totally disagree with you. What they lack is representation of this constituency. First, there’s Arafat who is focused only on Arafat; then, there’s Fatah, which moved into corruption; then, there’s Hamas, which is a wing of the Islamic fascists. Who speaks for the Palestinians? Do you think that because no-one speaks for them that they don’t exist? Do you think that because Fatah and Hamas speak, that they represent the Palestinians in this issue of a two-state solution? That’s false logic. I remind you of our own politicans who constantly assure us that they speak ‘for the Canadian people’.
I suggest Glick explore why Hamas won, and not assume that it meant that the people wanted Islamic fascism. As for Mitchell, his remarks are filled with empty sophistry.
I agree with you, Me No Dhimmi, that Charles Krauthammer’s assessment that Barak Obama’s being a “… master politician, but without the [neediness and] hunger” is NUTS. Surprising, because Krauthammer’s analytical skills are usually razor sharp.
My feeling about Obama is that the absence of “neediness and hunger” is simply his sense of entitlement as the Golden Boy of the Dems and an African-American. He’s been riding a wave of sheer — and IMHO undeserved — adulation. His smooth-talking coolness and aloofness is studied and is actually his defence against being out of his depth.
Obama presents extremely well but I fear that under that cool, un-needy, un-hungry exterior is a presidential poseur.
I sure hope I’m wrong.
“Robbie Burns was not British.”
I know it can be confusing, but please look at a map. On it you will see a place called Britain, It is composed of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. The official name of the country that most people called Britain is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Scots are Brits Irish are Brits, Welsh are Brits and English are Brits.
If you are a Scot and don’t like to be called British, I as an Englishman don’t like to be called it either. As I see it in the 21st century, My Englishness is an ethnicity while my Britishness is only a passport.
“Lights go out across Britain as recession hits home”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/24/recession-britain
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Guardian echoes:
“The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” … Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon”
(nationmaster)
“Who won? Who won?
The Washington Post reports, Bush’s ‘War’ On Terror Comes to a Sudden End. Which came to an end, the Terror or the War? Or did we win it already? Maybe it wasn’t necessary to win it? Or maybe it foolish to try. Just what exactly is BHO signaling? Open thread.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/01/23/who-won-who-won/#comments
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Commenter The Count said:
“A lot of this is no doubt about words.”
Hamlet, the Great Danish Suicidal Ditherer:
“Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Hamlet, 2. 2”
(quotes)
maz2 at January 24, 2009 1:08 PM,
Good questions.
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“We are told…” – ET
Who are the “we” in your rant? It’s certainly not the majority commenting about the Palestinian issue on this blog.
“Never, ever, is any whiff of blame attached to Israel for the failure of this two-state solution.”
Well, that’s a rather large pile of b.s. which will require not a shovel, but a bulldozer.
How about the “whiff”, rather, stink, you, the socialists, the communists, the MSM and the Islamists, attach to Israel endlessly?
ET: Really enjoying your Obama sketches. The View! The Manufactured Man! Market product. Good stuff.
Don’t know much about narcissism as a technical psychological malady, but I do recall looking into this at one time on the internet and discovering the concept of “supply”: that the narcissist needs his supply; that if the supply is denied, he can turn vicious. I had researched this during a conflict (The Iraq War, Bush lied, people died, Gore is God….) with an old “friend” who I had long believed to be a narcissist, and who went quite berserk when he found how different my views were (we hadn’t discussed politics much before … and he started it!).
SO, perhaps we might say Krauthammer has a point about Obama not having “hunger” due to the ready supply on tap (if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphor) from MSM, academia, youth, Europe. BUT, how will our Manufactured Man react when the inevitable supply disruptions occur? We’ve already seen a few examples of his testiness, like, heh, the press room’s no place to ask questions.
You got Mitchell right!!!
For Robbie Burns.
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“My Heart’s In The Highlands
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer –
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North
The birth place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Farewell to the mountains high cover’d with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forrests and wild-hanging woods;
Farwell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart’s in the Highlands, whereever I go.”
http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/hearth.html
testing
from Drudge
Two ex-Guantanamo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hZfIcWnHqBz4kQR90lC_pXaHeW4Q
me no dhimmi- yes, that’s a very real, a deep worry with regard to Obama’s narcissism. When the ‘supply disruptions occur’ such an individual can become enraged and turn vicious.
Think about Chretien; he expected adulation. If he didn’t receive it from someone, that person ceased to exist for him. The individual became non-existent. Any Canadians who voted against Chretien simply didn’t exist; he ignored their needs.
If someone acted against him, Chretien had one agenda and only one. Destroy him. Completely and utterly destroy him.
Chretien had no principles. None. He had only one agenda; power. Winning power.
My concern about Obama is that I see him as having the same psyche; a narcissist. He does things only for The Viewing of them.
His closure of Guantanamo – ahh, the greatness of it. But notice what hasn’t been dealt with. How do you deal with militants, i.e., non-citizens who group together and attack your country and citizens using military equipment and tactics? Since they aren’t members of any nation’s military, then they don’t fall under the Geneva Conventions. Since they aren’t citizens then they don’t fall under US Criminal and constitutional law. So, how do you deal with them? Silence from Obama. Silence from the UN. Silence from the world community.
Again, my concern with Obama is that, as a narcissist, a Manufactured Man who lives within a fictional tale, written by himself, – what happens when he is faced with a reality that is out of his control? Violent rage, I suspect.
worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=2916 November 2008
In an article about the Jordan Times:
“The publications’ content withholds from its readers any bit of information that might possibly show Israel as anything but despicable, even if it that information might prove highly relevant to the lives of Jordanians. Consider the recent news — not found in the Jordanian press — that Israel is working with Jordanian officials to provide desalinated water to this parched kingdom.
Jordan faces many challenges, none as serious as its water shortage. The country lies in a desert, relying on meager supplies of rain, dwindling aquifers, and a trickle of water from its legendary but small rivers, such as the one that gives the kingdom its name. Over the years, Israel has become one of the world’s leading developers of smart water usage technology, from drip irrigation to desalination. Israel has now offered to desalinate water from the Mediterranean for its Arab neighbor. That’s the kind of story you will not read in Jordanian papers. And if it ever were to be covered, it would certainly include an unfavorable tilt.
Just last week, a delegation of water experts from Jordan traveled to Israel to discuss details of the program. Was that information offered to the Jordanian public? Of course not.
In Israel, by contrast, newspapers from across the political spectrum routinely carry coverage looking at all aspects of every story. The search for signs of goodwill from the Arab side is a favorite topic in some Israeli publications, where every positive move by the Arab side is related in its every hopeful detail, with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for criticizing the Israeli government or the settler movement.”
“Look – Israel doesn’t want a two-state solution. It wants the Palestinians to simply go away. I think that is clear.”
Rubbish. Jews accepted a two state solution in 1948 and 2001. Have you read anything from the Israeli government?
Address by FM Tzipi Livni to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting (24 Sept 2007):
A Palestinian state is an Israeli interest. Israel is committed to the establishment of a viable and vibrant Palestine, in the West Bank and Gaza, as a homeland for the Palestinian people and a peaceful neighbor to Israel. This is a shared vision, not a zero-sum game. This policy has not changed, and will not change, even in difficult periods of violence and terror.
sorry to repeat this, but Jews living in the West Bank stops their statehood how?
ex-liberal – your comments slither past the real issues.
The settlements in the West Bank stop any hope of a Palestinian state – and this land is the main base of a Palestinian state – because the settlers refuse to acknowledge that the land they are on could function within a Palestinian state. In their view, and I’m sure you know this very well, the land belongs to Israel. And I’m sure you perfectly well that the settlers have no intention of being ‘citizens of Palestine’.
Therefore, the fact that Israel not only has allowed the settlements but has continued to expand them, reveals, de facto, that Israel has no intention of a two-state solution.
As for water, the relation with the Jordanian on desalination of water has absolutely nothing to do with the water restrictions imposed by Israel on Palestinians in the West Bank, who are allowed water for only household use, and for a few days of the week, while the settlers are allowed full use of the water and for irrigation purposes. And it has nothing to do with the closure of water supplies to the greenhouses in Gaza.
ex-liberal: Found this the other day at CAMERA. Contains a fascinating story about Israel’s thrwarted attempt to give homes to 10,000 Palestinians refugee camp dwellers back in 1977. Shut down by UNRWA/PLO. As you will see “refugees” attempting to leave the camps were threatened with death. Hard to envision an outreach programme here!
Why Palestinians Still Live in Refugee Camps
Also, there’s an interesting table at the bottom: Is Gaza “the most densely populated place in the world”?
thanks me no dhimmi, Camera is an excellent source (especially when you are busy like right now with everyone yelling when’s supper?) I think it was the “evil bad” Ariel Sharon who tried to get that housing going.
just found this at Camera in one of its articles on water:
Elaborating on Israel’s alleged selfish wastefulness, Asser states:
Moreover, Israel allocates its citizens, including those living in settlements in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law [sic], with between three and five times more water than the Palestinians.
While Israelis, both Jewish and Arab, use more water per capita than Palestinians, the ratio is far less than Asser claims. In 1995, for example, Israel’s annual per capita usage was 308 CM (correcting for use of recycled water), while for West Bank Palestinians usage was 124 CM, a ration of 2.5 to 1 (based on data from Statistical Abstract of Israel, 1996).
West Bank Usage
BBC readers would have no way of knowing from Asser’s piece that West Bank Arab towns have, during Israel’s administration of the area since the Six Day War, enjoyed a dramatic improvement in water availability.
In the period, for example, from 1967 to 1995, West Bank Palestinians increased domestic water use by 640 percent, from 5.4 million cubic meters to to 40 MCM. This occurred as Israel connected hundreds of West Bank towns to its national water carrier and drilled or permitted Palestinians to drill scores of major wells as well as innumerable private ones. Israel also pumps water from its own sources back over the Green Line at the rate of more than 40 MCM annually. The Ramallah area alone receives more than 5 MCM annually from Israeli sources.
Indeed, the fact that Israel, a parched country, provides water to Jordan, in addition to the Palestinians, undermines Asser’s depiction of Israel stealing Arab water. (Israel for many years had also supplied water to south Lebanese villages which had been cut off by the Lebanese government.)
I altogether agree with the negative assessment of Obama as a narcissist.
It appears that Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail has the same Obama as Idol disease as Travers of the Star. After defining the kind of responsibility—versus rights only—that conservatives care about as “narrow and stunted”, he goes on to say, “Obviously no Canadian politician has the command of language or depth of thought to explore these ideas” the way President Obama can. Huh? Simpson also thinks that Obama’s inaugural address was “sober and beautiful”. In today’s Globe, Rex Murphy altogether disagrees.
Re Obama’s apparent intelligence and fine rhetorical skills: I’ve had a good look at his unscripted comments about the detainees (posted at SDA yesterday) and am underwhelmed by Obama’s poor command of English. These language samples are not indicative of a person who speaks fluently and correctly. His remarks are notable for both incorrect usage, including substitutions and omissions, and a lack of fluency. (I was pleased to see that Rex Murphy also noted a noun-pronoun/singular-plural anomaly in the part of the inaugural speech he quoted, as I did in my analysis of these unscripted speech samples.) As written language is a higher level skill than the spoken word, one can only imagine what Obama’s unedited writing is like!
I think the man’s a phony.
BTW, there’s a very moving photo essay of GWB at TIME, an unexpected source. It’s worth a watch, IMO.
Re Khadr: ‘great line of Stephen Harper’s in today’s National Post.
“My understanding of international law is, to be a child soldier, you have to be in an army”!
Don’t know if this is well known or not:
While reading some background info on Saul Alinsky (of Rules for Radicals fame), I learned of the Industrial Areas Foundation, which was founded by him. IAF has an international affiliate in Edmonton, the Greater Edmonton Alliance
I think it would be a good idea to look into exactly what mischief these folks are up to. Any Edmontonians up to it?
Adding to my previous post,I decided to look up Alinsky after reading Rush Limbaugh’s response to Obama.
Here’s where I think Rush has hit the nail square on:
yoh man! Wazzup? want some Obama heroin?
( the following is not a joke )
“…A total of five men and women were arrested Wednesday night following a three-month investigation, during which undercover police purchased decks of heroin from street dealers. Undersheriff Eric Chaboty said the dealers were selling heroin in towns that stretched from Monticello to Livingston Manor.
The alleged dealers were pushing a variety of heroin that they called “Obama.” Chaboty said dealers are known to stamp the glassine wax paper that carries the heroin with brand names — like “Black Death” or “Blue Sunshine” — so that users can identify their preferred brands.
Read the rest here,
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090123/NEWS/901230343
me no dhimmi and ex-liberal, I provided my several links to problems with water in the ME several times. I won’t repeat them all; however, these all reject your claims, ex-liberal, which slide past the unequal water allowances between settlers and Palestinians in the WB, and don’t mention the cutting off of water to Gaza. Equally, the importance of control of water, with regard to Israel’s ‘ownership’ of the West Bank isn’t mentioned. Take a look at this site, which I’ve provided before. Begin the usual way and then add
globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9597
I don’t think that ‘Camera’ is unbiased but has a specific and very strong pro-Israel agenda.
As for Jordan, note that the Jordan River on its boundary with Israel; neither side is going to upset the other over this important resource.
Jordan acknowledged Israel in 1994 and supported the US coalition war against Saddam Hussein.
Yahoo news Jan 23 2009,
TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. is considering cutting more than 1,000 full-time jobs in North America and the United Kingdom to cope with faltering global demand, a news report said Friday.
… … …
Funny because when GM or Ford cuts job the left and their main stream media assure us this is proof positive Americans make crappy cars and NOT because global demand is down.
One week it is crappy US cars and no other factor will be even considered, then the next week it is global demand…Poor little Toyota, how quickly did global demand change! it is shocking I tell ya!!!
It must be fun to live in
“liberal-make-believe-world”
where you make up whatever you want as you go along to bash those you do not agree with…
Signs of the end.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
oh…and the UAE getting ….snow.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090125/NATIONAL/688880349/1010/enewsletter
Thanks, Concerned Canadian, for siting the TIME photo essay on President George W. Bush. Here’s the link for anyone else wanting to view it:
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2009/photographing_bush/
It’s very moving. God bless George W. Bush, under whose watch America experienced no repeat 9/11-type attacks.
I never said that Camera is unbiased – it just presents things you will not find in the mainstream media. I never said that Israel hasn’t done blockades or cut off water – sure they have – who would continue to supply an enemy intent on murdering your citizens. I think it used to be called seige warfare. It may not be the best or brightest way to deal with people who send rockets and/or suicide bombers into your country. But you cannot start on page 2. Israel blockades, cuts water, makes bypass roads, etc.in response to rockets, shootings, etc. (have they cut the electricity – or do they still provide the lights so the bomb makers and tunnel diggers can see what they are doing)
The government of Israel has said on many many occations that it is in favour of a state for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. I bring up Jordan/Lebanon to illustrate that Israel does make water agreements with its neighbours and surely would with a Palestinian state that was not churning out anti-Jew propaganda, sending out shahids on suicide missions, firing kassams or katusha rockets, and marching around with their faces covered yelling death to Jews.
There are what – some 250000-300000 Jews living in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) on some 2% of the land. As I have said before Jews have lived there for 3000 years, not just when Jews were sovereign. Yes orthodox observant Jews think that the land is holy and that God gave it to the children of Israel (many observant Christians think this too), but they have continued to live there when it was part of the Ottoman empire, Mamaluk empire, etc. Just because they think the land is holy does not mean that they would not live there contributing to the state of Palestine – just as observant Jews contribute to all the states they live in all over the planet. The problem is that Arab Palestinians will not/cannot ensure their safety.
Anyway, there were no “obstacle to statehood” settlements between 1947 and 1967 when Jordan was in control. In fact there were no calls for a separate Palestinian state during those years either. In fact there were no Jewish settlements in the West Bank in 1964 when the PLO was formed to eradicate Israel.
Expansion of settlements = children growing up and moving to their own homes to start families.
We could go back and forth with links on the water issue ad nauseum, but finally if Israel takes care of its own citizens first that is pretty normal, no? – most countries act in their own self interest and most people think their government should take care of them and protect them.
ET, I think you read me wrong. I have said many times the I do not think Israel is perfect or without fault. I do however think, that under the circumstances, they have done fairly well.
batb, you are right – those pics are awesome.
I miss W already.
Thanks to you and Concerned Canadian for the link.