I just discovered that my spam filters have had a bayesian fit--they've been capturing legitimate mails and sending them to the junk mail bin.
No wonder things have seemed quieter than usual! Now to go and rummage through the pile...
Sunday, May 25, 2008
uurrrgh!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
'Islanders drain on economy' report under investigation
"An academic report describing Pacific Islanders as a drain on the economy is to be investigated by the Race Relations Commissioner.
...The report said Pacific Island immigrants were less productive and less likely to contribute to economic growth.
They had the highest unemployment in every age group, were less likely to start businesses, had lower rates of self-employment and were over-represented in crime statistics."
What the hell does this have to do with the Race Relations Commissioner? The report is either true--or not.
If true, then there's no case to answer. If inaccurate, it's a matter for the University to sort out.
Not very safe for academics to go against the prevailing multiculti orthodoxies these days, is it?
am I racist--and heartless?
The answer must be "yes", because I believe the current epidemic of child abuse in N.Z. is caused by welfare and pandering to the brown grievance industry. In today's NZ, that qualifies me as both.
A high-profile court case involving the murder of twin babies has just concluded with a "not guilty" verdict and the father of the twins walked out of court a free man. The detective leading the enquiry is adamant that they charged the right person and hinted at the level of obstruction his team faced on a number of levels.
The family of the twins closed ranks and refused to co-operate with the police and a politician became involved, "negotiating" with family members in an attempt to get them to help with the enquiry.
It's left a sour taste in the mouths of decent Kiwis and the perception that these people got away with murder.
As long as welfare is an optional lifestyle for drug-using, workshy people who have a massive sense of entitlement based on their skin pigment, this problem will be unfixable.
Maori culture is compulsorily revered in New Zealand and to criticise anything Maori is to be automatically labelled a "racist".
Yet Maori culture is primitive at best and was downright savage as recently as 200 years ago. A culture that hadn't invented the wheel, used stone-age tools and had no written language. A culture that practised cannibalism and slavery is held up to European Kiwis as a shining example...of what, exactly?
Maori comprise somewhere around 9% of the population yet they contribute to about 30% of the prison population. A huge proportion of violent crimes (including rape) are committed by Maori. Maori are responsible for the appalling child-abuse figures in New Zealand. Most young women on the Domestic Purposes Benefit are Maori. There are whole towns in rural NZ where the predominantly Maori population regards welfare as a viable lifestyle option--living the rural dream at the expense of hardworking, taxpaying New Zealanders. Towns where overgrown gardens, car wrecks in the front yard, houses rundown eyesores for the lack of a little simple pride and maintenance are pretty much the norm....that's not caused by colonialism.
It's caused by laziness born out of welfare dependency. And welfare is not a "wage". A wage is what one gets paid for working. Dole payments are government charity, paid for out of money taken by the implicit threat of force from working people.
The above is the tip of a bloody large and profoundly scandalous iceberg. Despite having more than equal opportunities, despite having billions of dollars thrown at them, despite having huge areas of land and vast amounts of the fishing industry gifted to them, Maori are still--as a group--utterly dysfunctional.
It's time to put an end to apartheid and invite Maori to make their way on their own two feet, for them to acknowledge the enormous gifts in the form of law and technology and material comfort the Europeans brought to this little country.
And for them to drop the bloody great chip on their collective shoulder and take responsibility for themselves. They could begin by looking at the examples set by some of the great Maori leaders of the past.
The Strong Horse and the Weak Horse: America and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Endorsed by Fox News at GOP Hub
"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse."
Osama bin Laden
"Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain. I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home."
John McCain
It has become fashionable to draw parallels between the supposed misadventures of our “New American Imperialism” and the “Fall of the Roman Empire” -- a comparison that conveniently overlooks the fact that it took over a thousand years for the Roman Empire to ‘fall’. One of the most glaring inconsistencies of this comparison is that the Roman Empire was an unapologetically ruthless military power, which experienced no liberal pangs of guilt about its hard-won conquests. Indeed, to the typical Roman, who enthusiastically relished the daily bloody spectacles of the arena, the whole concept of having moral qualms about the manner in which they had acquired their vast Empire would be incomprehensible.
The Roman formula for conquering new provinces was fairly straight-forward. The Roman legions would simply annihilate any opposing force (no matter how long it took, or what it cost them in lives and treasure), systematically root out all remaining insurgents, and impose a locally administered Roman-style government, which would eventually build Roman-style buildings in which to conduct Roman-style business.
Once their territories were conquered, however, the Romans would govern them with a relatively light touch (despite a spate of anti-Roman, pro-Christian “biblical movies” produced in the 1950s -- usually starring the late Charlton Heston -- that invariably portrayed the Roman soldiers as sadistic brutes). So long as the local citizenry behaved according to the proscribed boundaries of the Roman model of civilization, adhered to the basic tenets of Roman jurisprudence, paid their taxes (which, for the most part, were considerably less than they had been paying under their previous rulers), and offered ceremonial homage to the Emperor once a year, the Roman attitude towards the local customs and religious practices was generally fair and unobtrusive.
However, Roman authorities would react swiftly and mercilessly to any perceived threat of dissent. In 146 B.C., in the city of Corinth, in the Roman protectorate of Greece, two Roman envoys were set upon by an unruly crowd of malcontents and were beaten up. The Roman response was quick and unequivocal.
The Senate dispatched the brutal Roman General Mummius who, with his four Legions, attacked the city of Corinth. He killed all of the men of military age, enslaved all of the remaining populace, burned the city to the ground and then, ceremoniously sowed salt on the earth so that nothing would ever grow there again.
An over-reaction? Perhaps. However, needless to say, after Corinth, anyone considering attacking a Roman citizen would, most likely, have serious second thoughts.
Indeed, if we are looking for parallels between our present-day American society and the Roman Empire, we need look no further than this episode of the two Roman ambassadors in Corinth, and compare the Roman reaction then to our government’s ignoble non-response to the plight of our helpless 70 American citizens who were held hostage for 444 days in the infamous 1979 Tehran Embassy takeover.
Indeed, if we are looking for parallels between our present-day American society and the Roman Empire, we need look no further than this episode of the two Roman ambassadors in Corinth, and compare the Roman reaction then to our government’s ignoble non-response to the plight of our helpless 70 American citizens who were held hostage for 444 days in the infamous 1979 Tehran Embassy takeover.
What then, if anything, can we learn from the history of the Romans?
First, when discussing the moral lessons symbolized by the 'Fall of the Roman Empire' we should perhaps consider how long it actually took to 'fall'. If one accepts the traditional date for the founding of Rome of 753 B. C., and the traditional date of the 'fall' of 476 A.D., then that means that the Roman civilization lasted for something like 1,200 years, while the actual process of the 'fall' arguably took about 300 years.
Transposing these figures onto America's timetable, this would mean that we might start losing ground around the year 2705, and could be in serious trouble by the year 3005. It seems to me that it would be a little difficult to realistically describe this 1200 year process as a 'fall'. I think it could better be described as a pretty big success story.
Additionally, this particular episode at Corinth occurred approximately 200 years before the Empire really reached it's peak, and, far from hindering the development of the Roman world, this incident, and many others like it, only served to strengthen its reputation and intimidate its potential rivals.
For 444 days, while our hapless President Jimmy Carter dithered and dallied with endless and empty diplomatic negotiations, our helpless 70 American citizens suffered the painful privations and unknown perils of their captivity. Only when a new president was sworn into office, an altogether different kind of man, whom they suspected might actually resort to force, were the hostages released.
These, then, are the lessons from Corinth in 146 B.C., and from Tehran in 1979 A. D. Somewhere between these two extreme reactions there is an eternal truth.
There are times when force is the only answer.
This now is our new enemy
These are his warriors
This is his ambition
And this is the threat
Will we be the Strong horse?
Or the Weak Horse?
Note from Radarsite: A large portion of this article was lifted from an earlier unpublished essay "America and the Fall of the Roman Empire". It would be remiss of me to reference this essay without acknowledging all of the help and good advice I received from my friend and first editor Marilyn A., who attempted -- with varying degrees of success -- to rein in my natural loquaciousness. I am still benefiting from her insightful suggestions. -- rg Should We Bomb Iran?
Should we bomb Iran?
Cross posted from Radarsite
http://radarsite.blogspot.com/2008/05/should-we-bomb-iran.html
Recently, in a discussion on Radarsite about Iran a commenter complained that because we had gotten ourselves bogged down in our "Iraqi debacle" we had compromised our ability to react effectively to Iran's evolving threat. This relentless negativism is typical of the skewered thinking of the left -- whose primary function in life is, after all, to find something negative to say about the policies of the right.
I would suggest that it's pretty difficult to prosecute any war without getting 'bogged down'. I would suggest that it's the nature of warfare to get bogged down. We were bogged down in Vietnam and Korea, and we were bogged down for four long years in both the Pacific and in Europe during WWII.
If being bogged down means finding yourself confronted with myriad difficult and unforeseen developments, then I would argue that this is the very essence of warfare -- the Fog of War.
The enemy hardly ever does what we expect them to do, when we expect them to do it. The battleground is in a constant state of flux. Old allies suddenly become new enemies. Neutrals start taking sides. Invariably, all of those carefully-devised pre-war plans and strategies have to be thrown out the window and new plans developed. That's how it works.
It is not my intention here to rehash all of those old arguments about the manner in which we've conducted our Iraq War. That's a futile endeavor. I would, however, suggest that this particular complaint is wrong-headed for other, more important reasons.
Consider this: Had we not invaded Iraq and taken down Saddam we would now be facing two formidable ME powers both feverishly building nuclear weapons capabilities.
If Saddam were still around does anyone honestly think that he would just sit idly by while Ahmadinejad built up a formidable nuclear arsenal next door? Of course not. He was already preparing for this eventuality before we took him out.
Rather than being in a better position strategically, we would be in a much more precarious one. A position filled with even more serious threats than we presently face.In short, taking Saddam Hussein out of the equation has given us a stronger hand, not a weaker one.
But, should we actually bomb Iran?
Well, now, let's see. There are other alternatives.
We could wait until Ahmadinejad has a viable nuclear weaponry program and then sit down and try to negotiate with him. We could rely on the omnipotent UN and their toothless watch poodle, the IAEA to keep him in check. Or, finally, we could just take the good gentleman at his word that his nuclear ambitions are only peaceful.
Do any of these options look good to you, my friends?
Well, they certainly don't look too good to me.
We must act.
If the Allies had checked Hitler's geopolitical ambitions in Czechoslovakia in '38 we could have stopped the rise of the Nazi war machine in its Panzer tracks. By a preemptive military strike against Hitler's meager military forces at that point in history we could have saved millions upon millions of lives.
But we didn't act, did we?
We prevaricated and procrastinated ourselves into the monumental horrors of World War Two.
Now, as then, it's not a matter of if we have to confront Iran but rather when we confront Iran. The choice is basically pretty simple. Either fight them now on our terms or fight them later on theirs.
We made a terrible blunder in the Thirties by not listening to Hitler's threats and by not believing that he was actually serious about carrying them out. We simply cannot afford to make this same mistake again with Ahmadinejad, not with the threat of nuclear bombs. We must believe what he is telling us and the world, we must acknowledge the uncomfortable but undeniable fact that, regardless of our puny sanctions and our sanctimonious condemnations, he is daily backing up his threats with irreversible actions.
Should we bomb Iran?
The proper question should be:
Can we afford not to bomb Iran?
There are some good plans on the table for doing it the right way. I, for one, don't see that we have a choice, do you?
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Hunt for a few good men..
"The kids at Russell Ballantyne's Dunedin preschool would send the PC police into apoplexy.
They are waving toy guns and stoushing with swords. Superhero outfits are de rigeur and bikes are tussled over in the playground.
At another early childcare centre, a wrestling mat is set up specifically for play fighting - albeit under the supervision of teachers.
This is not every parent's cup of playtime fun - many would say the games perpetuate negative male stereotypes.
But increasing numbers of educators believe this is natural boyish behaviour - and boys urgently need to be allowed to be boys.
A decline in the number of male teachers, and the feminisation of our playcentres and classrooms, is suppressing boys' natural behaviour, they say.
Too often boyish boisterousness is being misread, discouraged or frowned upon and as a result, boys can become alienated.
At preschool, a male teacher is like a needle in a sandpit. Of the 15,000 early childhood teachers, only 167 are male.
At primary school the male teacher is also an endangered species. Latest Ministry of Education figures show just one in five teachers is male, compared with 42 per cent in 1956. Some primary schools are now staffed entirely by women.
Secondary schools have been the last bastions of men in the classroom, but now even their numbers are starting to dwindle. In the past two years the number of male secondary school teaching graduates dropped by about 8 per cent.
I'm going to go out on a limb here--since beginning work in a female-dominated place I've seen a theory I've long held about women confirmed......they appear to be unable to separate their personal feelings from their professional judgements.
If they feel something to be true, then it's obviously true. The feeling validates the judgement. When acting within a group of women the problem becomes worse--they talk about a problem in order to confirm their feelings, not to examine the problem critically.
Given that, how the hell are we supposed to expect that they are able to put aside their personal feelings and preferences as women when dealing with boys--and a totally different way of viewing the world--in a school environment?
I don't believe they can. And I believe the fact that women are now in charge of educating kids is the main cause of the decline in educational standards.
Hold on just a minute scumbag!
"Muslim and Christian", hang on there just a minute old son, a bit of venom should be directed at Yahoo!7 as well for just swallowing that. Thanks Yahoo, glad to know you slimeballs are on our side. Sounds like it's half Christian and half Muslim or something doesn't it. I can see lefties licking their chops with their wild fantasies about the religious right coming true. Let me quickly put some facts in the way of their wild fantasies.Yahoo!7 News - Eccentric Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to behead gays unless they leave the country, according to reports. "The Gambia is a country of believers ... sinful and immoral practices (such) as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country," the president told a crowd at a political rally on May 15, local journalists told AFP on Thursday.
He went on to say he would "cut off the head" of any gay person caught in The Gambia. [snip] "We have said it before and we will say it again. This is a Muslim and Christian country. Both the Koran and the holy Bible condemn homosexuality - pure and simple," the paper wrote on Monday. [snip]
Even the notorious Wikipedia has similar stats, so you can shelve the wild, CIA-mind-control conspiracy theories while you're at it. The Bible does condemn homosexuality, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any Christian leaders in the world calling for the beheading of homosexuals or stringing them up from the nearest crane, besides we're not the religion of peace and tolerance. This does raise more questions about the supposed tolerance and peace that we're always told Islam is famous for though, but I'm sure the left will have plenty of excuses to explain this fellow's madness away.CIA World Factbook - Muslim 90%, Christian 9%, indigenous beliefs 1%
Art? Pig's bum it is!
SMH - The opening night of an exhibition by the photographer Bill Henson featuring images of naked children was dramatically cancelled after police visited the Paddington gallery to investigate child pornography claims. The future of the exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery, which featured images of a girl and a boy, aged 12 and 13 - some of which also appear on the gallery's website - is now in doubt. [snip]
Yeah sure, next it'll be children engaged in sex acts paraded around as 'Art'. In previous times, these slimeballs would be tarred and feathered before being turfed out of town. The Sydney Morning Herald is conducting a poll on it and apparently 55% of people think it's kinda OK to have pictures of naked children in a gallery and presumably on the internet. Shame on them. Incidentally the pictures were still on the gallerys website yesterday, but this morning it's not working anymore, probably can't handle all the worlds pedophiles swamping it to check out the 'art'.The gallery's owner, Roslyn Oxley, said she had been showing similar work by Henson since 1990 "and they have never offended people". Asked by Channel Seven if she would let her daughter pose for Henson, she said: "She's been in some of his shots." [snip] One artist who attended the exhibition opening, Eugenia Raskopoulos, said the cancellation was "censorship of the worst kind".
Warren's corrugated croc
Warren creates wonderful animal sculptures from old roofing iron. (we featured two of his elephants here a while back)
This big croc now resides on our deck..brilliant!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
On the Saudi Payroll in Oz:
"It’s out in the open now: in Australia, at least, all those friendly talking-head Muslims that you see on your TV screen are in the pay of Saudi Arabia.
According to The Australian:
Muslim leaders in pay of Saudis
SIX Australian-based Muslim clerics who are leaders of the Islamic community in the country are on the payroll of the Saudi Government, receiving allowances of up to $2000 a month.
The Australian can reveal for the first time the identity of the clerics — some paid through the Saudi embassy in Canberra, others directly from Riyadh’s Dawah (preaching) Office — who receive between 3500 and 7000 Saudi riyal ($1975) a month.
The payments to the six — who include former Howard government adviser Amin Hady and Melbourne Somali imam Isse Musse — are part of Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar campaign to transform its hardline image in the West.
However, Sheik Hady told The Australian there were as many as 14 others in the country being paid by the Saudis."
Thanks to Gates of Vienna
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A Rabbi & a Transsexual walk into a bar
Oh alright, the bit about them walking into a bar was just a cheap joke, moving on. If he had been a Christian or just an ordinary white fellow, I think the mad left would have hounded him out of Britain unless he repented and cleaned up after the next Mardi Gras. Maybe next time don't send Mr/Miss Sherdley around to the peaceful and tolerant Muslims, you never know what could happen. Don't forget, it's those violent Christians you have to worry about, but you can send him/her to them, just don't take your eye off them though. While I'm on the subject of peace and tolerance, get a load of those Jews, I mean what is it with this fellow, he should be more careful, walking into a knife like that!Daily Mail - But Emma Sherdley is not exactly all woman. Until a few years ago she was a married father-of-two called Andrew. She is, though, in the middle of treatment to change gender and has the legal paperwork to prove it. But that wasn't enough to satisfy one client who claimed he had been shortchanged when he booked a female instructor to teach his wife how to drive.
He phoned the Laugh 'n' Pass driving school threatening to sue after Miss Sherdley, 42, turned up for the lesson. 'You have sent me a man. Send me a proper female. How dare you send a man with a deep voice,' he told Joanne Dixon, who runs the school in West Yorkshire. The man, a Muslim from the Meadowhall district of Sheffield who has not been named, claimed the company deliberately sent a man disguised as a woman.
Like the fellow in Britain, it's funny how the Jewish Rabbi is named but his attacker who has been convicted of a serious crime is just "Sahed A." Must be to protect them from those vigilante Anglican mobs, just be grateful for the wisdom of the authorities, it's a thankless job but someone has to maintain “community cohesion” and “feelings of public reassurance” you know. Would it be too much to ask that Sahed A. be deported back to his vastly superior homeland when he's done serving his time? It's a long stretch I know, but I think it might just prevent any more clumsy Jews & Christians walking into knives, sticks, bats and into the path of speeding bullets.Deutsche Welle - A Frankfurt court jailed a German man of Afghan origin for three-and-a-half years Tuesday, May 20, after finding him guilty of a knife attack on an Orthodox rabbi in the city last year. [snip] Sahed A. shouted "Bloody Jew, I'm going to kill you," as he stabbed Zalman Gurevich in the abdomen, witnesses said.
ALP lefties fawning over a pedophile!
LiveNews - Former Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos will be sentenced today after his conviction [guilty on 28 sex and drug counts] of child sex and drug charges. His sentencing coincides with an appeal for financial help for his family. [snip] Federal Member for the Hunter Jill Hall says the family have lost their home because of the case against the former Labor minister, and are struggling to pay the bills. [Yeah, damn that court case, can you believe that they charged him for raping boys and bankrupted him because of it, just outrageous!]
She and state MP Robert Coombs have written a letter urging government MP'S [yeah, do the right thing, where's the fair go, it's because of the victims that Milton is bankrupt now] to donate 100 dollars each to a fund for the family. [snip] Mr Coombs, who took Orkopoulos's seat after the 2007 election, said Orkopoulos's wife and daughter were unfortunate victims of his double life. [boohoo, so unfair] "They have had to sell their home," he told News Ltd. [It's just terribly unfair, pass the tissues]
"In the true Labor way we have rallied around to rattle the tin." [to support the family of a pedophile, nice one lefties] The club will also a fundraiser raffle night with a flat screen tv [you beauty] and a four-night stay [first prize for helping a pedophile, yay] at a Swansea hotel as prizes. But victims groups are outraged - Ken Marslew from Enough is Enough says the focus should be on securing compensation for the real victims.
And so they should be, are the Labor party holding any bake sales for the boys this scumbag raped, are they holding any raffles to try and compensate them? Anyone in the Australian Labor Party give a flying F"£% about them? These leftist snakes are probably angry at the victims for coming forward and sending their chum Milton to jail and bankrupting him in the process.
Just remember who you voted for NSW, you voted for this lot, many of them supported this slimeball during his trial, many of them rallied around him and now they're rattling the tin for him. Rest assured if it were up to them, I'm sure Milton would be out raping boys again! What a shameful, disgusting nest of sniveling slimeballs. Remember this at the next election folks, cos they sure won't.
She and state MP Robert Coombs have written a letter urging government MP'S [yeah, do the right thing, where's the fair go, it's because of the victims that Milton is bankrupt now] to donate 100 dollars each to a fund for the family. [snip] Mr Coombs, who took Orkopoulos's seat after the 2007 election, said Orkopoulos's wife and daughter were unfortunate victims of his double life. [boohoo, so unfair] "They have had to sell their home," he told News Ltd. [It's just terribly unfair, pass the tissues]
"In the true Labor way we have rallied around to rattle the tin." [to support the family of a pedophile, nice one lefties] The club will also a fundraiser raffle night with a flat screen tv [you beauty] and a four-night stay [first prize for helping a pedophile, yay] at a Swansea hotel as prizes. But victims groups are outraged - Ken Marslew from Enough is Enough says the focus should be on securing compensation for the real victims.
And so they should be, are the Labor party holding any bake sales for the boys this scumbag raped, are they holding any raffles to try and compensate them? Anyone in the Australian Labor Party give a flying F"£% about them? These leftist snakes are probably angry at the victims for coming forward and sending their chum Milton to jail and bankrupting him in the process.
Just remember who you voted for NSW, you voted for this lot, many of them supported this slimeball during his trial, many of them rallied around him and now they're rattling the tin for him. Rest assured if it were up to them, I'm sure Milton would be out raping boys again! What a shameful, disgusting nest of sniveling slimeballs. Remember this at the next election folks, cos they sure won't.
Dumb as a bag of hammers....
"A New Zealand man who tried to barter marijuana for snacks overlooked one important problem - a policeman was standing right behind him.
Wade Churchward, 28, paid a late-night visit to a Wellington petrol station to buy chocolates and crisps.
When - with the sweets half-eaten - he realised he had no money, he offered the cashier 12g of marijuana and a pipe for smoking it.
But he failed to notice the police car outside and the officer next in line."
Consensus?
Not that consensus has anything to do with science anyway.....
32,000 scientists have now signed the "Oregon petition," which states that
"We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."
Next time you hear some blathering gullible fool talking about the IPCC's "consensus", you could point this out to them.
The wheels are falling off the bandwagon, but politicians aren't slowing down their plans to tax the hell out of us regardless of facts.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The Marines have arrived!
FOX News - Dramatic photos show a Marine's narrow escape from death Sunday while facing insurgent gunfire in Afghanistan. The Marine, part of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), was exchanging gunfire with Taliban fighters near Garmser in Afghanistan's Helmand Province when a Reuters photographer captured the soldier's very close call.
A series of six photos show the Marine, wearing a T-shirt and fatigues but no combat helmet, ducking as insurgent gunfire tears through the top of a mud wall he's using for cover. Remarkably, the Marine escaped the gunfight without injury. “The insurgents are finding that every time they engage with the Marines, they lose,” Col. Peter Petronzio, commander of the 24th MEU, said in a statement issued May 10.
“The Marines are gaining ground every day and securing more of the routes through the district. The support we have received from our allied partners has contributed to our many successes thus far.” [snip] Troops have targeted this region on the Pakistan border that has served as a route for supplies and reinforcements for insurgents since April 28.
"Garmser is a planning, staging and logistics hub. Once lost it will mean a severe defeat for them," he told the agency. "That is why they are reinforcing with insurgents coming from other places, both north and south." Branco told the AFP that the insurgents had suffered "heavy" losses.
Geez, I sure hope they caught the marines off guard or something, otherwise what the hell was he doing without his gear on. These aren't losers and half-hearted tossbags, they're dealing with the Taliban here, these are hard bastards. They saw off them commie sumbitches back in the day, albeit with our help. Anyway, glad to hear the marines have arrived and are spreading the "love" around liberally.
So the British are helping out too eh, they should look up the Aussies too, make it a trifecta. Heck just get hold of our diggers and they can share tips and tricks, our boys have had experience with the Taliban and have been giving it back to them with compound interest recently. The cherry on top would be getting our SAS in on it too, it'll be open season on the Taliban then. Semper Fi goat humpers!
A series of six photos show the Marine, wearing a T-shirt and fatigues but no combat helmet, ducking as insurgent gunfire tears through the top of a mud wall he's using for cover. Remarkably, the Marine escaped the gunfight without injury. “The insurgents are finding that every time they engage with the Marines, they lose,” Col. Peter Petronzio, commander of the 24th MEU, said in a statement issued May 10.
“The Marines are gaining ground every day and securing more of the routes through the district. The support we have received from our allied partners has contributed to our many successes thus far.” [snip] Troops have targeted this region on the Pakistan border that has served as a route for supplies and reinforcements for insurgents since April 28.
"Garmser is a planning, staging and logistics hub. Once lost it will mean a severe defeat for them," he told the agency. "That is why they are reinforcing with insurgents coming from other places, both north and south." Branco told the AFP that the insurgents had suffered "heavy" losses.
Geez, I sure hope they caught the marines off guard or something, otherwise what the hell was he doing without his gear on. These aren't losers and half-hearted tossbags, they're dealing with the Taliban here, these are hard bastards. They saw off them commie sumbitches back in the day, albeit with our help. Anyway, glad to hear the marines have arrived and are spreading the "love" around liberally.
So the British are helping out too eh, they should look up the Aussies too, make it a trifecta. Heck just get hold of our diggers and they can share tips and tricks, our boys have had experience with the Taliban and have been giving it back to them with compound interest recently. The cherry on top would be getting our SAS in on it too, it'll be open season on the Taliban then. Semper Fi goat humpers!
Burkas banned from Danish courts
Funny how we keep being told that this is the religion of peace and tolerance, we are told oh it's just a few extremists here and there. And they are only there because of those bastard righties who just won't sing kumbaya, there is no problem, nothing to see, true meaning of 'Jihad', move along. Yet every time something happens, diplomats are bracing and people are taping the windows. Embassies are put on alert, cops are getting the armor on, politicians are stretching their backs and preparing speeches to beg, grovel and sell out their subjects. Where does this conflicting message come from, didn't they get the memo, are we being lied to, one of life's great mysteries folks.BBC - Danish diplomats to Muslim countries are preparing themselves for another wave of anti-Danish protests after the government announced it would bar judges from wearing headscarves and similar religious or political symbols in courtrooms. Although the ban will include crucifixes, Jewish skull caps and turbans as well as headscarves, the move is seen as being largely aimed at Muslim judges.
Coming back to the subject in question, I don't see a problem with this, I'm surprised there are actually female Muslim judges in Denmark. What happened to Sharia and a woman's testimony being of lower value? Does a muslim man who appears before a female judge get to request a different one, because how dare that cur judge him! One reason I can think of to ban this veil thing is who's know if the female judge is the judge she says she is. How do we know she isn't at home watching Judge Judy while some ball-busting leftist slimeball is standing in for her. Good on the Danes, let's see if the religion of peace and tolerance will surprise us, for once.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Our tough gun-control laws at work
Amazing, yes, I just wonder how many more times we need to get lucky before the stupidity of gun control dawns upon us? Do people have to be actually shot and killed before this? If so, then does anyone know how many need to be shot and killed, 10, 20, 50, 100?May 19 2008, Daily Telegraph - A spray of bullets was fired into the Ocean Blue fish and chip shop in Sammit Ave, Condell Park, about 12.20pm. The popular lunchtime diner was packed with customers at the time the two to three shots were fired into the shop by a gunman in a white Subaru. Eight customers and seven staff were inside during the attack, witnesses said. Two bullets went through the shop's front glass window. Police said it was "amazing" no one was hit.
Does every gun-grabbing moron in this country have to be shot before they'll see the light on this issue? Do they all have to be shot before they realize, hey you know what this shit ain't workin' folks!August 2006, SMH - SEVEN people were enjoying a smoke in the street outside the Gas Nightclub when a sedan pulled up and three balaclava-masked men dressed in black got out waving guns. "Stand away!" one shouted, before opening fire about 1am yesterday. About 50 shots were fired by the gunmen, one from a pump-action shotgun, others from a rifle and a pistol.
March 2007, ABC News - New South Wales police say two men are being questioned after shots were fired inside a Sydney night club last night. Several bullets were fired into the ceiling at the Goodbar in Paddington in east Sydney.
March 2008, LiveNews - Police today said it was a miracle no bystanders were injured when a lone gunman opened fire on officers, prompting a shoot-out just metres from a busy Sydney shopping strip.
Gitmo in Perspective
Lifted from ANDREW C. McCARTHY's "After Gitmo" in the May 19 edition of NRO - Of course, our standard mechanism for resolving doubt is the judicial trial. Gitmo critics argue that we successfully tried terrorists in the federal courts throughout the 1990s and should do so again. It’s a proven formula to which, they maintain, we should return. Despite its surface appeal, this contention is a hanging curveball that by now should have been slammed out of the park. While I am very proud to have prosecuted terrorists in the 1990s, the strategy can be considered a success only if one’s chief preoccupation is due process. Viewed through the prism of national security, the effort was an abysmal failure.
Yes, every apprehended terrorist was convicted. In eight years, however, only 29 operatives, most of them low-level, were captured and tried. Between the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and its destruction on 9/11, American targets were plotted against and attacked with increasing audacity by an enemy that was growing ever larger. But because of the criminal justice system’s high evidentiary hurdles and procedural rigor, it could not have handled many more cases than the paltry number it processed — cases that invariably took years to complete, at a cost of untold millions (including the expense of securing courthouses, holding facilities, and trial participants). When one considers that we’ve frequently taken out more than 29 terrorists in a single day of combat since 9/11, it becomes easier to see the weaknesses of the justice system as a counterterrorism tool — and to understand how we’ve avoided a reprise of 9/11.
Now you understand why leftists will never rest until Gitmo is shut down.
Yes, every apprehended terrorist was convicted. In eight years, however, only 29 operatives, most of them low-level, were captured and tried. Between the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and its destruction on 9/11, American targets were plotted against and attacked with increasing audacity by an enemy that was growing ever larger. But because of the criminal justice system’s high evidentiary hurdles and procedural rigor, it could not have handled many more cases than the paltry number it processed — cases that invariably took years to complete, at a cost of untold millions (including the expense of securing courthouses, holding facilities, and trial participants). When one considers that we’ve frequently taken out more than 29 terrorists in a single day of combat since 9/11, it becomes easier to see the weaknesses of the justice system as a counterterrorism tool — and to understand how we’ve avoided a reprise of 9/11.
Now you understand why leftists will never rest until Gitmo is shut down.
Wartime naval legend HMS Exeter found off Java
Pic: Exeter, Portsmouth.
"The wreck of one of the Second World War's most famous warships has been found by deep sea explorers, 66 years after it was lost in battle.
The cruiser HMS Exeter, best known for its valiant role in the Battle of the River Plate when it hunted down the pride of the German navy, the Admiral Graf Spee, was located by divers searching the Java Sea."
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