Michelle 'Marie-Antoinette' Obama's much-deplored trip can be explained thusly:
Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha returned from Spain on Sunday, a vacation at a lavish hotel on the Mediterranean coast that triggered her first controversy since becoming first lady. I'm told she made the trip because she promised one of her closest friends, a longtime Chicago pal who just lost her father, she would spend time with her.
Really? I think I have a better explanation: Michelle Obama is a vain tart who cares not a whit for the American people or the role of a First Lady and decided to thumb her nose at the American people who are screwed thanks to her equally vain husband because she can. It's a mouthful, I realise, but hey....
Another vain tart.
Omar Khadr is a liar and a murderer and a terrorist. How is that for testimony?
Yet another reason why one must never compromise with the Taliban (emphasis mine):
The execution-style killings of 10 people working for a Christian medical team in a remote region of northern Afghanistan fit into Taliban insurgents' stated shift in tactics: Target Western civilians, especially Christians, as "foreign invaders."
The Taliban took credit for one of the deadliest attacks yet on aid workers in Afghanistan, saying the Christian charity workers were proselytizing to poor villagers – a charge that the International Assistance Mission, which dispatched the team, denies.
Let's assume for a moment the bolded portion were true. So? It's not like Islam put its best foot forward by allowing its rotten foot-soldiers kill aid workers. Again, the West is witness to emotionally retarded blood-letters maiming and killing others because they cannot stand the idea of individuals living their lives without hindrance. It's like a nanny-state with more grenade and acid throwing.
What country is this?
The entire Ontario Provincial Police detachment at the remote Pikangikum First Nation was marched off the reserve five weeks ago by a rock-throwing mob of elected councillors and residents.
The stunning forced departure of 11 OPP members from the isolated community, reached in summer only by air or water, went publicly unacknowledged by the force until now.
It was also almost entirely unreported, with only a couple of small stories, none with any detail, appearing locally about a week after the June 30 incident.
These stories either mentioned that “some officers” had been forced to leave or described the incident as a protest in which no one was hurt.
But an OPP occurrence report obtained by The Globe and Mail paints a very different picture – of a chaotic scene that saw officers pushed and shoved as the mob forced its way into the station, with several men trying at one point to get at the vault containing the detachment’s firearms, while others cut power and phones and disabled or blocked police cruisers.
The crowd followed the police to their residence trailer, where two off-duty constables were asleep. Over shouts of “Burn it with them inside!” a sergeant negotiated permission from the mob to wake up the officers and allow them a few minutes to pack their things.
“Police then walked approximately two kilometres to the airport carrying their personal belongings and being followed by approximately 200 people, vehicles and [a] front-end loader,” the report says.
“Once at the airport,” the document continues, “police waited on the north side of the terminal building as community members continued to throw rocks over the building at them.”
Though officers were grossly outnumbered and effectively under attack, they never did abandon the community, OPP Superintendent Ron van Straalen, commander of the northwestern Ontario region, said Thursday – with those being run out of town staying at the airport until their replacements had arrived.
If the OPP want credibility, they should assert their authority. How difficult can it be with guns, tear gas and truncheons? If liberal lawyers and judges think using necessary force is an abuse of human rights, one should remind them that aboriginals won't always stay on the government-funded ghettos up north. Sometimes they head to cottage country....
Why it was a mistake to rescue the Dutch during the war (and, no, I'm not taking that back):
Our guide, however, was an oddity. A young Dutch woman with standard leftist views, she told me how she had no time for politicians who claimed Islam was any sort of threat.
But, I said, you are Dutch and in your country a movie director was slaughtered like an animal in the street by a Muslim fanatic and a woman MP had to live with 24-hour security because she criticized some aspects of Islam.
"That happened because they offended Muslims," replied the former social worker and generally good person. "You really should not offend them." No, it seems you should not.
Some of the finest men in the land bled the fields of Holland just so it could become a haven of drugs, prostituion and now Islamofascism and its ugly mirror image, dhimmitude. They can keep their damn tulips if we can get our men back. Failing that, the very least they can do is not debase themselves or cower to horrid little wife-beaters.
Because he is Salim Mansur and he speaks the truth:
I am struck by the construction boom across the city as I visit Ramallah, the legislative and political centre of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank....There is money here, plenty of it, and those who have it are not hesitant to flaunt it.
New cars, beautiful residences, fancy stores and restaurants will startle any outsider arriving here with his head filled by the mainstream media in the West about the misery of the West Bank occupation by Israelis.
There is also poverty, Israeli checkpoints, the fence or wall separating Palestinian territories from Israel and the Israeli settlements.
And there’s the politics of resentment that spill over any conversation with ordinary Palestinians fed on a diet of half-truths and endless lies by their leaders.
But visiting with Palestinians is also an invitation to hear their bitterness about Arab leaders, and of their experience with discrimination and violence in places such as Lebanon and Kuwait.
They are their own worst enemy. Israel could have absolutely nothing to do with them and they could still tear each other to pieces.
The controversy around the proposed Cordoba Center in New York City is only an issue because if is being used by the Republicans to raise hysteria and possibly win in the mid-November elections. Americans should understand that Muslims have been always an intrinsic part of America. They were first introduced to the continent through explorers like Estevanico and Stephen the Moor. Professor Leo Weiner of Harvard University has written a book on the PreColumbian Muslims from Spain that came to escape persecution and married among the aboriginal nations. Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim, was a first shareholder of Bank of Columbia in 1807. American history is filled with such examples, including the ten million Muslim slaves who helped build the nation.
What's going on? What is this -- oh yeah, August 6, Hiroshima, the anniversary. I looked around, and behind me was a group of young people in front of a banner that said, "NO MORE HIROSHIMAS". OK, I get it, so I started listening. The fellow was actually reading a letter from the Mayor of Hiroshima, the usual prayer for peace and love among all mankind. Now, in my younger days, I was all Peace, Love and Brotherhood too. I still am, but I'm also, I think, a lot better informed about things like, say, the history behind the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and as I learned tonight, I'm also a lot less patient with the willfully stupid among us who have no excuse not to know better.
The Japanese fellow finished, accepted his applause and made way for a late-middle-age woman who I gathered was the compere for the evening. She looked and sounded like the sort of well-connected, public spirited Toronto WASP who organizes fund-raisers for battered women's shelters and the AGO.
She thanked the speaker for his "deeply felt, profound" wishes for peace, for the end of these terrible weapons, blah blah blah....
Then the killer line:
"I would like us all now to take a moment of silence together, for the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and pray that they forgive us."
How about a minute of silence for the 10 million victims of Japanese imperialism and military aggression? How about 30 seconds of thought for the 100 million people they enslaved in their "East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere"? How about a few seconds for the thousands of Australians who were captured, imprisoned in horrible conditions and executed by beheading, years before the US entered the war? How about the thousands of young Canadian men starved and tortured and marched to death by these very same Japanese? And how about one second of gratitude for the American, British, German and Hungarian scientists who gathered in New Mexico and spent 4 years and a couple billion dollars to create the weapon that brought down the Japanese Empire, ending its conquest and enslavement of the western Pacific? A weapon that not only ended the war in a few days, but completely destroyed Japanese Imperialism, probably forever?
Indeed.
When in Osaka, I read a pastoral letter from Japanese bishops stating that the way to forgiveness was to admit past wrongs and make amends. The Japanese government, it stated, must completely own up to its past crimes or there will never be peace.
What, then, is the more progressive statement- the doddering and inaccurate plea for the Japanese to forgive the West for a military act or the letter from Catholic bishops who wish to extend an olive branch to the people their government hurt in the past?
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