Iran eyes badges for Jews
Law would require non-Muslim insignia

Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.

Does anyone outside of CAIR still have any questions on why it’s appropriately labeled ISLAMOFASCISM???

Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth.

The Chief felt like he had been punched to see this on Drudge this morning. Apparently the sad lessons of the 3rd Reich are being ignored as its policies are once again being implemented. How long before there will be Islamofascist concentration camps, or will they just short-circuit the whole camp process and just start randomly killing (even more that they already do).

Ali Behroozian, an Iranian exile living in Toronto, said the law could come into force as early as next year. It would make religious minorities immediately identifiable and allow Muslims to avoid contact with non-Muslims.

Mr. Behroozian said it will make life even more difficult for Iran’s small pockets of Jewish, Christian and other religious minorities — the country is overwhelmingly Shi’ite Muslim. “They have all been persecuted for a while, but these new dress rules are going to make things worse for them,” he said. The new law was drafted two years ago, but was stuck in the Iranian parliament until recently when it was revived at the behest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But of course – Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad Ahmadinejad is the mover on this one. And the moonbats think that one can negotiate with this person? (I suppose just like Chamberlain negotiated “peace in our time” with Hitler at Munich.)

EU Internet proposals to protect society

This report is one thing. What it can actually mean is something else altogether. “Protect society?” Right, whatever THAT means.

EU proposals to regulate content on the Internet are aimed at protecting society not undermining free speech, European Union Media Commissioner Viviane Reding said on Thursday.

OK. “…to regulate content…not undermining free speech…” Huh? See recent posting for definition of “doublespeak”.

She said the proposed regulations reflected “basic societal values” — the protection of young children and restrictions on incitement to hatred.

Two parts to this then. The one sort of hearkens back to Hill and Bill: everything is “for the children”. Does this mean that the Euros want to protect young children from sexual and pornographic content for example? Somehow the Chief doubts that this is on the Euros radar screen.

The second part on the other hand: “…restrictions on incitement to hatred.” probably is the kernal of the issue. How this is interpreted will make all the difference. Does it mean that Islamofascists and Neo-nazis (for example) will be restricted? Not a problem. Will it strike at a religiously based expression of traditional morality (as for example designating non-marital sexual behavior as being “sinful”) also? What about criticism of fundamentalist Islam as being intrinsically prone to violence and terrorism? And finally – who decides?

The devil is in the details. This could be a good defense for Europe as Europe, or another construction moving towards Eurabian dhimmitude.

Overall, the Chief will remain skeptical if not fully cynical on this one, until the course of events shows otherwise. If this shows a lack of faith in the tendency of Eurocrats to get it right, well, based on the record, why shouldn’t it?

Global Government Group Gives Hillary Clinton an A+ Rating

The left-wing Citizens for Global Solutions, which believes in global government under the auspices of the United Nations, gave Senator Hillary Clinton an A+ in its most recent scoring of her voting record on issues near and dear to their globalist agenda. Hillary has improved her grade each year in the Senate, now eclipsing even “global test” John Kerry.

Yet another reason (as if any more were needed) to vote against Hillary.

‘China legitimizing terror’

Israel reads the diplomatic riot act to the ChiCom ambassador over the ChiComs acceptance of diplocontact with the Ham-ass Foriegn Minister planning a trip to China, thereby giving their Islamoterr government the mantle of diplomatic legitimacy.

Hear, hear!

Bill Clinton, Canadian speech, gibberish

You just gotta love a good description:

Mr. Clinton has become our leading feather merchant extraordinaire, bar none. And people just pack the house to hear his ceaseless spewing of statistics, the selling of his books and handshakes and to see this walking soap opera in the flesh. He has become the world’s Dr. Phil, with just the slightest touch of The Price is Right, sans the models with the signs.

There’s more, much more in the same vein vain. Check it out – the writer has Bubba nailed!

Doublethinking defense

Now that the Euros may end up in the cross-hairs of the Iranian nuclear weapons & their matching missile building, their perspective on a regional anti-ballistic missile system has gone through a major shift.

What they argued was reckless war-mongering on the part of the US to be developing an ABM system, now seems like a good idea to them now.

It brings to the Chief’s recollection the bit about nothing focusing the mind quite so intensely as the prospect of being hanged in the immediate future.

By the way, this is a very good analysis of the situation in the context of Orwell’s concept of “doublethink” which is recap’d in the piece:

Orwell’s own description of doublethink is set out as follows:

Continue reading →

More Illegals Nabbed by Sheriff’s Posse

Ignoring all the warnings by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio including the promise of jail time for illegally entering the United States through Arizona, more illegal immigrants were nabbed by the Sheriff’s posse detail early Wednesday morning….

Currently the Sheriff says there are 169 people booked into his jails for conspiring to enter the country illegally, a federal misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a new Arizona felony law punishable by up to three years in prison. “They keep on coming and I keep on putting them where they should be – in jail for violating a state and a federal law,” Arpaio says.

Way to go Sheriff Joe! Keep up the good work!

THE PEOPLE’S CUBE!

With all the heavy-duty s–t coming down concerning the Mexucan standoff, Iranian nukies, and the ChiComs, the Chief got a lift from the discovery of a rather unique web site, with a unique flavor all its own!

Just a taste:

For a good hoot go check ’em out !

U.S. Said to Weigh a New Approach on North Korea

President Bush’s top advisers have recommended a broad new approach to dealing with North Korea that would include beginning negotiations on a peace treaty, even while efforts to dismantle the country’s nuclear program are still under way, senior administration officials and Asian diplomats say.

This represents at least a partial realignment of US policy – but, the idea is not to go so far as to enter bilateral negotiations concerning nuclear issues:

Aides say Mr. Bush is very likely to approve the new approach, which has been hotly debated among different factions within the administration. But he will not do so unless North Korea returns to multinational negotiations over its nuclear program. The talks have been stalled since September.

This could be good, or not. Given the proclivities of the post-Reagan administrations to bend over backwards in the interest of showing some “progress” on refractory issues, the Chief thinks there are good grounds for some degree of cynical caution, but that may be too much to hope for any more.

FIRSTLY: The Chief is NOT impressed with the Presidents spiel last night, and even LESS impressed with the current Senate bill.

Admittedly, the 6000 Guardsment will provide some good support to the Border Patrol, but the overall impact will be limited. Needed are about another 12000 or so (minimum) and not JUST for support: set them to work pinching the illegals and enforcing the border. This should be a key function of the National GUARD – the Constitutional bit about “…provide for the commen Defense…” seems to be fairly clearly stated, eh?

The Emperor Misha does some more deconstructing of the Presidential spiel that’s worth taking a look at here.

Some of the other details on the Senate’s unlimited immigration sweepstates act, are totally insane (see below). If they REALLY pass this traitorous abortion of a bill, it’s time for something drastic to start to happen…can you say C-I-V-I-L-W-A-R???

Several relavent press items noted on the web:

Bush calls for Guard on border

Here are the gory details of last nights spiel. As noted, it partially SOUNDS good, but…the devil is in the details!

The Chief is FAR from alone in his humble opinions:

Aspects of Bush’s Plan Draw GOP Fire

President Bush drew fresh criticism from House Republicans Tuesday for endorsing eventual citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. On the morning after a prime time speech, the White House sought to emphasize efforts to strengthen border security.

“…sought to emphasize efforts…”? More symbolism over substance?

Supporters of the measure said they had the votes to block the first of several expected attempts by critics to rewrite the measure. Advanced by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., the proposal would require the government to certify that border security provisions were fully operational before any illegal immigrant could receive a change in legal status. “We must have a more permanent solution for securing our borders,” Isakson said in a statement after Bush spoke, reaffirming his intention of seeking a vote on his proposal.

Somebody needs to slap the Senate upside the head! Isakson definitely has a good idea here!

South Dakota senators approve of Guard deployment border plan

Well, more or less, anyway.

GOP Sen. Thune does:

“I applaud the president for taking steps to stop the flow of unidentified individuals who are coming across our border illegally,” Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said in a written statement Monday. “The temporary deployment of our National Guard is a good first step as we work to permanently secure our border.”

Donk Sen. Johnson, sort of:

Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., was slightly less enthusiastic. “I am open to it,” he said. “But I think it needs to be a short-term stopgap and not a long-term strategy.”

Oh no, nothing long range – that might actually result in some real…border security…instead of a pseudo-effort drummed up for the next election cycle.

Is that too cynical? Naaah – not at all, as a look at the next two items proves. ARE THEY NUTS, OR WHAT!!!????

Reform bill to double immigration

The immigration reform bill that the Senate takes up today would more than double the flow of legal immigration into the United States each year and dramatically lower the skill level of those immigrants.

What’s wrong with this picture: double the inflow, and lower the skill level? Unless you want a large class of coolie labor, this is NOT a good thing.

And, as if THAT doesn’t sound bad enough, check out this next one:

Bill permits 193 million more aliens by 2026

193 MILLION!!! WTF???? THIS is IMMIGRATION CONTROL? They’ve GOT to be kidding if they think that no one will notice this bit!

The Senate immigration reform bill would allow for up to 193 million new legal immigrants — a number greater than 60 percent of the current U.S. population — in the next 20 years, according to a study released yesterday. “The magnitude of changes that are entailed in this bill — and are largely unknown — rival the impact of the creation of Social Security or the creation of the Medicare program,” said Robert Rector, senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who conducted the study. Although the legislation would permit 193 million new immigrants in the next two decades, Mr. Rector estimated that it is more likely that about 103 million new immigrants actually would arrive in the next 20 years.

It’s definitely time to think about the revival of an old American tradition: tar and feathers!

Bush eyes border role for military

President Bush is looking at ways for the military to play a broader role along the U.S.-Mexico border and will announce new immigration initiatives in a prime-time address from the Oval Office on Monday night.

These reports MAY be encouraging. It will all depend on the ROA (Rules Of Engagement) that any troops are given. If all they can do is stand around and watch, then this will prove to be a largely meaningless bone thrown to the blogosphere. talk radio, and the minutemen to defuse their criticism.

If so, the administration will find that that dog won’t hunt!

If the GI’s will actually be detaining illegals, and actually have real bullets in their guns, and authority to act – then this could be a significant

CONSERVATIVES NEED 12-STEP PROGRAM TO MANHOOD

Ann Coulter comments on the curious reluctance of the GOP to play (appropriate) political hardball.

Pithy, and to the point. The Chief concurs fully!

Thune Backs Bill to Allow U.S. Companies to Compete with China, Cuba for Energy Resources off American Coastline

Yes!

Senator John Thune (R-SD) has signed on as an original cosponsor of the Marine Oil and Gas Environmental and Competitiveness Energy Security Act, legislation to give the United States a competitive edge over nations like China and Cuba who intend to drill soon in waters just off the coast of Florida. The legislation will be introduced today by Senator Larry Craig (R-ID).

Cubapetroleo, the state oil company of Cuba, recently signed an oil production sharing agreement with the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation and purchased three deep-water drilling rigs from them for use in the exclusive economic zone of Cuba, which extends to within 52 miles off the coast of the Florida Keys. U.S. industries are currently hamstrung by U.S. law and not able to compete with countries like China, France and Spain in our own Western Hemisphere. The Marine Oil and Gas Environmental and Competitiveness Energy Security Act would amend U.S. law to allow American industries to explore and extract resources in our region before foreign countries lock-up these critical resources.

“Democrats for too long have stood in the way of domestic oil and gas exploration. The negative results of this obstruction are today being felt by every American consumer paying $3 and more for a gallon of gasoline. And now, because of decades of Democrat obstruction, countries like Cuba and China are set to seize on the rich resources that lie off our shores,” Thune said. “I will not stand for the American consumer losing out to Communist Oil. The time to act to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and take advantage of energy sources at our fingertips is now.”

It’s about time this is done!

ChiComs drilling in the Florida straits? Maybe we should go the extra mile, and back the Phillipines drilling in the Spratley Islands (claimed by China), by sending them the 7th Fleet in support them, & see how THEY like it! F-em if they can’t take a joke!

…nightmare

More SERIOUS analysis from the DC Times. Arnaud de Borchegrave is always worth pondering on geopolitical and security issues.

All indications are that Israel does not plan to rely on either the U.N. or the United States. Vice President Dick Cheney said 18 months ago, “The Israelis may well decide to act first and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards.”

This is no surprise to the Chief. They really do mean it when they say “Never again!”

At Israel’s National Day reception in Washington last week, an Israeli official, speaking privately and not for attribution said he believed Israel would strike first in the next “month or two or three” and that fighter bombers would not be involved as they were to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor before it went critical in 1981. For Osirak, Israel used 14 F-15s and F-16s. This time, the Israeli said, it will be missiles. Cruise missiles?, we inquired. No, he replied, with a gesture of his hand that went up and down again.

Whooosh-boom!

Could they actually pull it off themselves?

What about pinpointing tunnel entrances to widely scattered Iranian nuclear facilities? The Israeli responded Israel has its own geo-stationary spy-in-the-sky satellite taking constant pictures of Iran with a resolution down to 70 centimeters: “We know far more than anyone realizes.”

Israel has developed some 100 Jericho-II medium-range ballistic missiles (which entered service in 1989). Jericho II’s range varies from 1,500 to 3,500 kilometers, depending on payload weight. They are deployed in underground caves and silos.

Israel has several satellites in orbit — Ofeq-1 through Ofeq-5 — that were launched by Shavit space launch vehicles (SLV). The first two stages of the Shavit were Jericho II missiles. There are unconfirmed reports of an upgraded Jericho-3 missile with a range of over 3,000 kilometers.

Hmmmm. That’s enough to convince the Chief of their technical prowess!

So, where does this all leave us in the context of Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad Ahmadinejad’s Iran? The situation sounds like something about halfway through a Tom Clancy novel.

This time Iran has clearly signaled a casus belli to Israel. When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declares he intends to wipe Israel off the map and then goes to sea in a sieve by declaring the Holocaust a fiction, it is hard to escape the conclusion he wants Israel to bomb Iran.

A religious fanatic who believes the return of the 12th imam to Earth will be preceded by global death and destruction in his own lifetime, Mr. Ahmadinejad presumably sees an Israeli and/or U.S. attack against Iran closing Muslim ranks the world over against the imperialist infidels.

The State Department’s top proliferation official said the administration is determined to ensure “not one centrifuge spins in Iran.” Israel is certainly poised to stop the spinning.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Mr. Ahmadinejad a “psychopath who speaks like Hitler before taking power.” And Israel is not about to succumb to the appeasement of the 1930s. Or allow a suddenly conciliatory letter from Mr. Ahmadinejad to Mr. Bush to alter Israel’s view of mortal peril to its survival.

Can you say S-E-R-I=O-U-S? Ready or not, here it comes!

Undermining border security

A good Op-Ed from the Washington Times.

Just when you think the news from the border couldn’t get worse, it does. There are credible reports that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is tipping off the Mexican government on the operations of the Minutemen — the civilian patrol group dedicated to watching the border because the U.S. Government can’t, or won’t. The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif., reports that the Internet site of the Mexican secretary of foreign relations explains how Border Patrol regularly notifies Mexican authorities on locations of field operations of the Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups as they conduct their vigils along the American side of the border.

There are more details on the fecklessness of the agency management, which “give the lie” to their attempted explanations. Their apparent misconduct has also been confirmed by Border Patrol union representatives.

WTF? Hey guys, you work for the United States of America, NOT Estados Unidos de Mexico! In the immortal words of Pogo, the ubiquitous cartoon ‘possum: “We have met the enemy and he is us!”

Democrats signal filibuster on Bush judicial nominee

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday unanimously opposed President Bush’s most recent judicial nominee, signaling they intend to try filibustering his nomination. Over those objections, Republicans managed to push White House lawyer Brett M. Kavanaugh through the committee yesterday on a 10-8 vote to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Majority Leader Bill Frist promised to have Mr. Kavanaugh, 41, confirmed to the nation’s second-highest court by Memorial Day.

Well, the President has put forward another judicial appointment, and here come the Donks again with talk about another filibuster. How tiresome is this? And anyway, what’s thier objection this time?

While Democrats on the committee acknowledged Mr. Kavanaugh has “top-flight credentials,” they said his background is overtly political. “While his academic credentials are undeniably top-notch, he has largely devoted his legal talent to helping notch political victories for his party,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said yesterday.

OH NO! He’s a (gasp, shudder) REPUBLICAN! The horror of it all! What else is a Donk to do!!??

Senators agree on ‘amnesty’ proposal

The Donks and RINOs are at it again, to the detriment of the taxpayer. The Chief, along with many others is troubled by what part of “illegal” that these “lawmakers” have trouble understanding.

Senate leaders reached an agreement yesterday on immigration reform legislation that would strengthen border security but also would allow millions of illegal aliens who have been in the U.S. for two years or longer to apply for citizenship. Derided by conservatives as “amnesty,” the proposal could be amended but senators on both sides of the aisle say they doubt it will be dramatically altered.

Helloooo? Anybody there still believe in the Constitutional functions of the government? Basics, like maintaining territorial integrity?

“America’s at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” – Claire Wolfe

U.S. hits Chinese defense spending

A bit more good sense among the day’s idiocies. The Chief concurs with this evaluation of the relative threat levels of the ChiComs as opposed to the Russians.

The Bush administration said yesterday it is more concerned with China’s cloaked spending on arms and troops than it is about a warning Wednesday from Russian President Vladimir Putin to the United States that “it is premature to speak of the end of the arms race.”

Highlighting the differences, it was noted that:

“Russia is going to make its own decisions about what military capabilities it thinks it needs,” said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. He then began comparing the Russian military-spending system, whereby Mr. Putin must submit his arms budget in public to a democratically elected parliament, with communist China, where defense spending is kept secret. China, using huge revenues from a fast-growing economy, has commenced on a military expansion of troops, nuclear weapons, aircraft and ballistic missiles positioned near Taiwan.

Not bad for a State Department weenie!

“We believe the Chinese military buildup is outsized to its needs, and specifically, we have mentioned the buildup just opposite on Taiwan on the Taiwan Straits,” Mr. McCormack told reporters. “We believe that in the past the Chinese government has not been transparent as to the amount that it has been spending, and that was the point I was trying to make about the Russian government’s expenditures, is that there is an open political process that their budget goes through.”

It all reminds the Chief of Tom Clancy’s book, The Bear and the Dragon.

‘Fates of Europe, Israel connected’

European Parliament member Hannu Takkula of Finland has urged Europeans to prevent the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Germany for the opening of the World Cup in June. In a reference to the Iranian nuclear threat, Takkula, who was speaking at a Europe Day event on Tuesday night said that never before had the fate of Israel and Europe been so inter-connected.

The Chief is always cheered to see evidence that rationality still exists in Europe, and even more surprisingly, that someone at least (at last?) is recognizing the historical values of Western Civilization.

“The same forces that hate Israel, also hate Europe,” he said, adding that Europe must remain true to its Judeo-Christian roots by supporting Israel. The heritage of the European Union was founded on three cities – Athens, Rome and Jerusalem – said Takkula, who conceded that not everyone in the European Parliament shared his enthusiasm about Israel’s capital, as illustrated by the absence of any European embassy in Jerusalem.

What a breath of fresh air! Takkula wasn’t the only voice of opposition to the prevailing political correctness of the Eurabians:

ICEJ Executive Director Malcolm Hedding, cognizant of voices within the European Union that are trying to make a distinction between the Hamas government and the Palestinian people, insisted that the EU should not differentiate between people and governments. “Otherwise, what is democracy?” he asked. “At the end of the day, people have to be responsible for the people they put in power.”

Wow! No mealy-mouthed platitudes about “not being against the (fill in blank) people, just their government policies”. The Chief definitely likes this!

47 nations gain seats on U.N.’s rights council

U.N. members elected 47 countries to a new Human Rights Council on Tuesday, choosing several that have been criticized for their poor records but keeping off others that rights groups said are the worst offenders. Cuba, China, Russia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia were among countries winning seats that human rights advocates say do not merit places because of their poor record of protection of freedoms.

I mean, including CUBA?!!!!

But Iran and Venezuela, which were identified by rights groups as having dismal rights records, did not get on the council, and the new body’s higher standards kept the worst violators off the ballot.

Small favors at least – but there’s enough de-facto police states included that the Chief starts off with no more confidence in the new Human Rights Council than I had in the old Human Rights Commission. Both are a waste of money, as is the whole UN organization itself.

F.E.T.E.

Schumer’s Dubai deal

Here’s Senator Schumer (Donk – NY) up to his usual moonbattery:

Nearly three months ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer led the charge against Dubai Ports World. We shared his worries that a Dubai firm running U.S. ports might be more easily infiltrated by al Qaeda or other terrorists. But now Mr. Schumer wants to outsource cargo screening to the very same company.

WTF?

Mr. Schumer might not even fully know what he has proposed.

THAT’s no surprise. When has the senator EVER shown evidence that he knows what he’s talking about?

In a failed amendment to the emergency-spending bill, Mr. Schumer tried to force all ports participating in the Container Security Initiative — that’s more than 40 of the world’s busiest ports including Singapore, Rotterdam and Tokyo, among others — to model their cargo-screening systems after Hong Kong’s if they want to keep sending cargo to the United States. Beyond its bullying unilateralism, this would have ended up handing much of the country’s foreign-cargo screening records to Dubai Ports World.

Sheeesh! Not just the camel jockeys – he’s managed to drag the ChiComs in on the deal. This does NOT bring a warm glow to the Chief’s heart!

Some Republicans worry that Mr. Schumer might try to insert this language into other legislation. Key targets might be the Senate’s port-security bills, including the one spearheaded by Sens. Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye. The other possibility is that Mr. Schumer might try to insert it into an unrelated bill, as he did recently.

One HAS to wonder what the real agenda of this Donk is, to demonstrate such determination to get this through, one way or another. Hopefully his plan gets shoved back doewn his throat.

Putin warns arms race not over yet

Take him at his word!

President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that the U.S.-Russian arms race is not over and called for a strengthening of his nation’s nuclear and conventional forces so Moscow can better resist foreign pressure.

“It is premature to speak of the end of the arms race,” said Mr. Putin, who pointed out in the nationally televised address that U.S. defense spending is 25 times higher than Russia’s and said his country needs to catch up. “Their house is their fortress? Well done,” he said. “But it means that we must build our house strongly, reliably, because we see what is going on in the world. “We must always be ready to counter any attempts to pressure Russia in order to strengthen positions at our expense,” he continued. “The stronger our military is, the less temptation there will be to exert such pressure on us.”

The words of the Gipper, Ronaldus Magnus, come to mind here:

U.S. to send urgent aid to Palestinians

The United States agreed under pressure yesterday to the creation of a system to transfer funds for salaries and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians — a softening of its unbending effort to isolate Hamas….The announcements followed a daylong meeting of the Middle East Quartet — the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia — where several Arab leaders warned that the financial squeeze on the Palestinian Authority (PA) could lead to civil war.

Er…Condie?…George? This sort of thing HAS been tried a FEW times before in history. The record shows it doesn’t work out very well.

The Chief recommends that the White House needs to go back and read their Kipling:

DANE GELD – Rudyard Kipling
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“We never pay ANY-one Dane-geld.
No matter how trifling the cost;
for the end of that game is oppression and shame,
and the nation that plays it is lost!”

Nothing has happened in the last 1100 years (at least!) to change the truth of this. It’s even worse when the “Danes” say in advance that they aren’t even going to be TEMPORARILY bought off:

Today, hours after the agreement to channel direct aid to the Palestinians, Hamas signaled it still had problems accepting Western demands on Israel. “The Quartet have conditions. They aim to push the Palestinian government to make concessions that harm [Palestinian] rights and red lines and give the [Israeli] occupation legitimacy,” said Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

So…this leaves us right back where we were the day before yesterday, except that the US taxpayer foots the bill for the Ham-ass Islamofascists to consolidate their position economically – and this is supposed to be a rational foriegn policy?

There must be something in the water in D.C.!

Assisted death Bill attacked by doctors

The UK is considering a doctor-assisted suicide law, and encouragingly, it is drawing some heavy opposition from the medical community. Maybe the Death Culture isn’t TOO deeply entrenched over there yet.

Senior doctors have joined the opposition to Lord Joffe’s Bill that would allow them to help terminally ill patients to die. Twenty-four consultants who specialise in palliative care say that the attempt to legalise assisted suicide is a “bad solution to a difficult problem”. In a strongly argued letter to The Daily Telegraph they say that the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, which has its second reading in the Lords on Friday, is deeply flawed.

They say the Bill “overturns without a thought the medical ethic of avoiding malevolence and the criminality of assisting suicide” and they fear that if passed it would “open the floodgates”. Dr Steve Dyer, a palliative care consultant at St Peter and St James Hospice, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, who organised the letter, said: “This Bill is at variance with the well-received principles of the care of the dying. We respect the views, the dignity and the autonomy of our patients but we do not believe it is right to end a patient’s life.”

Good for them. Hopefully this can be shut down. If not, the logical development will be for the IngSoc nationalized health system to start “assisting” patients to their final rest, all in the interest of administrative convenience, and financial savings.

Skeleton in the Bush family cupboard

Headhunters at Yale? Read on…

One of America’s great historical controversies intensifed yesterday with the publication of fresh evidence that members of an elite secret society may have dug up the remains of the Indian leader Geronimo and displayed his skull in their headquarters….Rumours that half a dozen members of the Skull & Bones society at Yale University – including President George W Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush – dug up the grave of the legendary Apache leader during the First World War have exercised historians for years.

That one the Chief has heard of before…but took it with a seriously generous grain of salt, but maybe it’s part of a larger pattern:

The society, founded in 1832 and famous for its strange rituals centred on symbols of death, has over the years been accused of obtaining the skulls of a range of famous figures, including the former president Martin Van Buren and Che Guevara.

Van Buren? Che Guevara? Hmmmm. That last one brings up an interesting feverish thought to the Chief: maybe the government could issue a sort of “letter of marque” – a privateer’s license – to obtain heads of for instance, al Zarqawi, bin Laden, etc. specifying that the bonesmen could have the skulls for their…er…ceremonial purposes. How could it fail with BOTH Bush and Kerry backing it (since both were “Bonesmen”).

Now contemporary evidence has been unearthed backing the theory that a group of young Bonesmen, based at an artillery school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, desecrated Geronimo’s grave. The Apache leader had died while in custody at Fort Sill in 1909, 23 years after he finally surrendered to US troops.

In a letter written in 1918, one society member tells another that Geronimo’s skull had been exhumed and was being kept in the “Tomb” – the society’s headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. “The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club… is now safe inside the T- [Tomb] together with his well-worn femurs, bit & saddle horn.” The letter was unearthed in Yale University archives by a historian writing about First World War Yale pilots, and published in the Yale Alumni Magazine.

You just KNOW that this gets the Native Americans fired up – and in fact this article goes into some detail about this – Geronimo at least, is worthy of respect.

As for Che – make him into a drinking mug!

4th and 8th District GOP Candidates

It gained some notice in the media when Larry Diedrich announced his candidacy for his old 4th district Senate seat, after failing to beat Donk Congresscritter Stephanie Herseth. His opponent will be incumbant Donk Jim Peterson.

In the 8th District, Flandreau Donk Senator Dan Sutton will get some local opposition from Flandreau contractor John Toates, who has reportedly filed petitions for his candidacy.

The Chief hasn’t heard anything about the House races yet. Stay tuned.

Chavez Says He May Seek ‘Indefinite’ Re-election

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said he could seek “indefinite” re-election through a referendum if the opposition boycotts upcoming presidential elections.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s an old, traditional pattern in Latim America: A populist leader gains power, consolidates his position, and then in a nominally popular election, becomes “President for life”, or some such, before morphing into yet another personal dictatorship. This has been done before by the Trujillos in the Dominican Republic, Papa Doc in Haiti, Batista of pre-Castro Cuba, Peron of Argentina, the list goes on and on.

The new twist now, is the orientation towards the Communist ideology of Castro’s Cuba of such latter-day gods with a tin badge such as the above noted Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and the moonbat-ish Evo (“Let’s legalize Cocaine production and nationalize industry”) Morales of Bolivia.

Unfortunately, there’s more of this in the offing in Peru…and don’t overlook the little item that the ChiComs are sticking their spoon in to keep the pot stirred up against us down there also.

Nine Palestinians Injured in Hamas-Fatah Gun Battle

What does one do when a scorpion is fighting with a snake? Step back and let them kill each other. Sounds like the proper response in this case:

Nine Palestinians were wounded early Tuesday in renewed clashes between militants from the Hamas and Fatah movements in downtown Gaza City, witnesses and paramedics say.

Now, if we could only figure out how to help them become more effective at this…but unfortunately, the survivors would then be more effective against us and the Israelis too….Never mind.

US prosecutors seek harsher charges in Chinese military ‘plot’

ChiComs up to their usual tricks. Seriously, anyone who thinks we can trust that regime any farther than we can throw them, has an EXTREMELY serious case of poor situational awareness.

US prosecutors warned they plan to seek harsher charges against an engineer and two kin accused of plotting to steal sensitive US Navy warship technology and trying to smuggle it to China.

Assistant US Attorney Greg Staples confirmed to US District Judge Cormac Carney that prosecutors intend to upgrade the charges from the current counts of acting as agents for the Beijing government without being registered to do so, a much lesser charge than espionage. “That’s correct,” Staples replied when Cormac asked if the US government intended to seek a new indictment containing “more serious charges” against the trio.

The three suspects were arrested in October after Mak Tai-Wing was arrested at Los Angeles airport as he and his wife boarded a flight to Hong Kong with an encrypted computer disc in their baggage, prosecutors allege. The disc contained highly-sensitive data allegedly taken by Chi Mak from a computer belonging to his employer, Paragon, a US military contractor developing secret stealth technology for US warships.

Rope. ChiCom Spies. Tree. Some assembly required.

Dakota 123 Hacked

The Chief received the following notification from Top of Cool noting a hack of the 123 site:

I checked out http://www.southdakota123.com/ just now and the site has been “defaced”. Meaning someone hacked the web server and place their own web page in place of the normal web site.

I also noticed this in the source code for the site:

HACKED By: BrEakerS
CraZiest,Dr.Death & Sw33t-Virus
Admin Your website is not secure enough,patch up your system and have a nice day
Specail Greetz to:Net^Devil,Team-Evil,Yanis,WizardZ,Red Devils
Crew,[OverclockiX],The Bekir,Yusuf,KaShTwa & All the Muslim hackers
Email- Craziest@gmail.com
Email- dr_death_around@hotmail.com

Interesting that this is claimed to be connected to Islamowackos. Low level cyberterrorism stiking right here in SD?!

UPDATE: This was from yesterday around 1630 CDT, but as of right now, their site is still down, with nothing but a black screen with a tab identification ::[Hacked by BrEakerS]::.