Wild bear evades German hunters

Germany’s only wild brown bear gave hunters the slip yesterday when it wandered into a lakeside resort in Bavaria and sat down in front of a police station before disappearing into the woods.

This is the first wild bear in Germany since 1834. It is believed that the subject bear wandered up from an Italian re-introduction project.

Hunters in the region have failed to track it down, despite multiple sightings. Bruno is the first wild bear known in Germany since 1835 and its arrival has prompted questions about release programmes. The animal is a product of such a scheme in northern Italy to reintroduce brown bears to the wild.

So far the bear is outsmarting the Germans. One wonders whether it is a function of being Italian in origin, or that the Gedrmans are being “buffaloed” by the bear, or what.

Bruno’s appetite has so far accounted for 25 sheep and four goats, as well as many rabbits, hares, chickens and a number of beehives.

At least the bear has a diverse diet, although he is surely NOT appreciated by the areas agriculturalists.

US divided by superhighway plan

Interesting that one has to go to UK sources to get details on this.

A massive road four football fields wide and running from Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States is being proposed amid controversy over security and the damage to the environment.

The Chief tends to agree with the gigantic security problem – not so much on environmental damage, but then hey, any stick will do when you have to kill a snake!

The “nation’s most modern roadway”, proposed between Laredo in Texas and Duluth, Minnesota, along Interstate 35, would allow the US to bypass the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to import goods from China and the Far East into the heart of middle America via Mexico, saving both cost and time.

Oh boy – that’s what we need, a way to make it easier for the ChiComs to peddle the output of their slave-labor industrial gulags to us!

Tiffany Melvin, the executive director of Nasco, a non-profit organisation which has received £1.4 million from the US Department of Transport to study whitewash the proposal, said: “We’re working on developing the existing system; these highways were developed in the 1950s and we have number of different programmes we’re working on to provide alternative fuels and improve safety…

…by letting in unlimited unregulated Mexican truckers?

…and security issues. “We get comments that we are working to bring in terrorists and drug dealers, but this is simply not true.

Let’s see – turn the border into a speed bump will help security. Of course we aren’t working to “bring in terrorists and drug dealers”. But if you build it, they WILL come – count on it!

“This is a bi-partisan effort that will ultimately improve our transportation infrastructure.

Nope! It’s a one party effort: by the Republocrats.

“Trade with China is increasing greatly, and the costs of our transportation system are ultimately born by the consumer.

Nope, TRADE with ChiComs is not increasing greatly. ChiCom dumping in the US IS increasing greatly. It’s not a two-way street, except of course for the flow of US high tech to build up the ChiCom military ability to knock us into the dirt.

“We do offer links to Canada and Mexico, but we are working on the trade competitiveness of America. We are planning for the future.”

The Chief fears this is all too true: but the future in sight from Ms. Tiffany is not the United States – it’s the so-called North American Union.

Discrimination Rights

This posting from the blog FROM THE GRANDSTAND has done an absolutely OUTSTANDING job of explaining the reality of Constitutional rights, as opposed to what the current feckless weasels of Congress, the legal establishment, etc. are trying to shove down our throats these days.

The Chief looked for an excerpt to quote, but couldn’t decide what could be excised without the surrounding context – so go check it out – this post is totally worth reading, so educate yourself, and go do it!

H/T to Emperor Misha.

Top Court Upholds No-Knock Police Search

The Supreme Court made it easier Thursday for police to barge into homes and seize evidence without knocking or waiting, a sign of the court’s new conservatism with Samuel Alito on board.

The Chief is partially conflicted by this one. On the one hand, not giving drug dealers a chance to flush the evidence seems like a good plan. On the other hand, the possible negative impact is hair-raising.

For example, what if the police go to the wrong house. Here you are, minding your own business, perhaps in an area where home-invasion robberies occur, and suddenly some guy busts through the door unannounced, and you take measures to defend yourself. Oooops!

In the same situation, what if an unfriendly neighbor, disgruntled co-worker, ex-spouse (or whatever!) makes an anonymous tip that you are a serious dealer. Then apply the above situation. Oooops again!

On balance, this certainly reperesents another level of erosion of Constitutional protections. This supports the drift towards an ever greater statism, and loss of individual liberty.

ICE Arrests About 2,000 Illegal Immigrants

This is definitely a step in the right direction…hopefully there will be more in this vein, so the immigration enforcement isn’t in vain.

In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested nearly 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country. Officials said the raids are aimed at child molesters, gang members and other violent criminals, as well as people…who sneaked back into the country after a judge threw them out. The crackdown is called Operation Return to Sender.

The New FCC

Two weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission finally secured a Republican majority, something it has not had for almost a year and half. During that time, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has had no choice but to work with the two Democrats on the commission and has generally done quite well minimizing the potential for the usual regulatory, big-government intervention in an incredibly dynamic telecommunications marketplace. Thus, one would think that there is cause for relief now that two new Republican commissioners have joined the FCC and that this agency would not begin regulating for no good reason.

Frankly, based on the overall administration record, the Chief does not hold sanguine hopes that the FCC will not come down on the side of the broadcasters. In spite of lip service to “the free-market”, the de-facto evvvect of most administration regulatory policy has been in the opposite direction, unless of course it involves the US taking it in the neck regarding international trade, and the scandalous refusal to consistantly and effectively act to enforce immigration laws.

But, surprisingly, the first issue teed up for decision is something called “multicast must carry,” a big government mandate pressed by broadcasters for years. In essence, this mandate would force cable and satellite providers to carry all the programming streams dreamed up by broadcasters, instead of allowing the marketplace and consumers to drive the demand for what they want to watch.

…the test of whether President Bush will finally get a free-market-oriented commission that understands that government intervention is a last, and usually bad, resort rests with the two new commissioners, Robert McDowell and Deborah Tate. We hope they understand how important the stakes really are.

One hopes, as does the editorialist that this will end well, but, the Chief being from Missouri (originally) they will have to “Show me” before I believe it.

Marine may call Murtha as witness

Here’s a bit more information on the possible application of “unlawful command influence” in the Haditha case, as was also noted in an earlier post.

A criminal defense attorney for a Marine under investigation in the Haditha killings says he will call a senior Democratic congressman as a trial witness, if his client is charged, to find out who told the lawmaker that U.S. troops are guilty of cold-blooded murder. Attorney Neal A. Puckett told The Washington Times that Gen. Michael Hagee, the Marine commandant, briefed Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, on the Nov. 19 killings of 24 Iraqis in the town north of Baghdad. Mr. Murtha later told reporters that the Marines were guilty of killing the civilians in “cold blood.” Mr. Murtha said he based his statement on Marine commanders, whom he did not identify.

So, the point is? Read on:

Mr. Puckett said such public comments from a congressman via senior Marines amount to “unlawful command influence.” He said potential Marine jurors could be biased by the knowledge that their commandant, the Corps’ top officer, thinks the Haditha Marines are guilty. “Congressman Murtha will be one of the first witnesses I call to the witness stand,” Mr. Puckett said yesterday.

If in fact this influence WAS exercised, there DOES need to be a Court Martial, but of the higher brass that leaked the stuff to Mutha-f Murtha.

Hurricanes Win, on Cusp of Stanley Cup

With Algor and the other moonbats proclaiming that last year’s, as well as the current hurricane season will be bad due to global warming, one can only conclude that the Carolina Hurricanes are having a good year for the same reason.

If the Mighty Ducks win the Cup next year, beware of a bird flue epidemic!

Calif. Judge Overturns Firearm Sales Ban

Considering the typical state of affairs in California, this almost falls into the realm of a “man bites dog” type story!

A California judge on Monday overturned a voter-approved city law that banned handgun possession and firearm sales, siding with gun owners who said the city did not have the authority to prohibit the weapons. Judge James Warren sided with the National Rifle Association, which argued that a local government cannot ban weapons because the California Legislature allows their sale and possession.

This is encouraging! Maybe California isn’t quite a total governmental ruin just yet!

Condemned can claim injection too painful

The Supreme Court opened the door today to new constitutional challenges to lethal injection, the method used by most states and the federal government to execute death row inmates. In a unanimous decision, the court allowed those condemned to die to make last-minute claims that the chemicals used are too painful — and therefore amount to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.

OK. Let’s see now. One can go out, take the innocent life of another through the crime of murder, and THEN seek legal protection against suffering pain during execution. Somehow this makes no sense at all to the Chief.

The other problem here is the obvious question, of what is in the water at the SCOTUS, where one and all, including the much-ballyhooed recently appointed alleged conservative Bush justices, have moved into the realm of moonbattry with a vengeance…but what do I know…I might even agree with them if I also had my common sense sucked out of my brain by attending law school!

Gigantic fireball spotted on galactic rampage

Astronomers have identified a massive comet-like structure – spanning a whopping three million light years – that is tearing through a distant galaxy cluster at more than 750 kilometres a second.

The piece goes on to note the following:

*Please take note that considerable restraint has been exercised, and no references to ‘great balls of fire’ have been made in this article.

The Chief feels he is under no such constraint, as indicated in his header.

What else is there to say except “Far out!”.

Iran accused of hiding secret nuclear weapons site

This is just about beyond the realm of being “news” since stuff like this has heen reported about for some time now, but it admittedly is somewhat more specific, so maybe it DOES count.

Nuclear experts working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna are pressing the Iranians to make a full disclosure about a network of research laboratories at a secret military base outside the capital Teheran.

The project is codenamed Zirzamin 27, and its purpose is to enable the Iranians to undertake uranium enrichment to military standard. Zirzamin means “basement” in Farsi, which suggests the laboratories are underground and 27 refers to the 27-year-old Iranian revolution.

Another nice thing about this – it DOES give the US – and Israel – more confirmation on targeting information!

Guantanamo triple suicide is good PR for terrorists, says America

America has denounced as “a good PR move” the suicides of three terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The comment was made by Colleen Graffy, a senior State Department spokesman, who told the BBC World Service that the suicides were “a tactic to further the jihadi cause”.

Be this as it may, the Chief thinks this is at least a good start at reducing the population of Islamofascist jihadistanis that have to be supported in ease by US taxpayers.

Marine Says Rules Were Followed

A sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident in Haditha, Iraq, that left as many as 24 civilians dead said his unit did not intentionally target any civilians, followed military rules of engagement and never tried to cover up the shootings, his attorney said.

The MSM, after the initial drive-by series of stories of evil USMC troopers unjustifiably killing Iraqis, a lack of any hard evidence of this is starting to take effect – and the other side of the story is starting to come out.

Ultimately, the Chief thinks this one SHOULD go down as being just one of those sad things that are an INEVITABLE part of the conduct of war. As far as I can tell, NO ONE has ever tried to refute Civil War General William T. Sherman’s ultimate observation concerning this sort of stuff: “War is hell”.

China’s hi-tech military disaster

China officially admitted that a “military aircraft” had crashed, that President Hu Jintao had ordered an investigation and that state honours would be bestowed on the victims.

…it was a Russian Ilyushin four-engined cargo jet, rebuilt to house a conspicuous array of radars and codenamed KJ-2000. The doomed flight, they implied, had been a test mission. The disaster robbed China of 35 of its best electronic warfare technicians, according to sources in Hong Kong. There were also five crew members on board.

Awwwwwwwwww. Can you say “schadenfreude“?

Iraq war foe Murtha eyes Democratic leadership

Pennsylvania Donk appeasement & surrender advocate Mutha-f Murtha has announced his position to seek the position of Donk party whip in the house.

In the Chief’s humble opinion, this can only help the Republicans in their effort to maintain their majority status in the House.

GIVE-‘EM-HILL FURY VS. COULTER

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday blasted conservative firebrand Ann Coulter for writing that a group of World Trade Center widows are enjoying their husbands’ deaths, calling it a “vicious, mean-spirited attack.”

How mean of Ann to describe reality like that!

At a book signing in Long Island, the acid-tongued Coulter, who has frequently targeted the former first lady, shot back with even more venom. “Before criticizing others for being mean to women, perhaps Hillary should talk to her husband, who was accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick and groping Kathleen Willey at the very moment Willey’s husband was committing suicide,” Coulter said in an ABC radio interview with Sean Hannity.

The Chief’s call:
Ann 1
Hill 0

Dixie Chicks tour struggling in several markets

Hmmm. So the Dipsy Chickens tour isn’t looking too hot, but they are still really well received in Canuckia.

Apparently verbally dumping on your potential audience isn’t a good strategy for success in country music. Fancy that!

Heh heh heh.

Zarqawi killed in air raid

Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages, has been killed in a precision airstrike, U.S. and Iraqi officials said today. It was a long-sought victory in the war in Iraq.

Zarqawi and seven aides, including spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul Rahman, were killed yesterday in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad in the volatile province of Diyala, just east of the provincial capital of Baqouba, officials said.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

PR Geniuses & Media Tools?

The Skipper at BMEWS (Barking Moonbat Early Warning System) has done a good job of summarizing the background of the “journalist” originators of the story of the Haditha incident.

Surprise, surprise, surprise! It sure looks to the Chief like there just happens to be an agenda implicit in their background. Check it out!

Shackled Marine Update
Exclusive!http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/shackled.html

This letter from an attorney was released on the Michael Savage website regarding the set-up for a Haditha “show-trial” of US Marine troopers who are currently “brigged” in solitary at Camp Pendleton, and are shackled hand-and-foot any time they are out of their cells.

As my client sits shackled in solitary confinement in the Marine Corps Brig with charges yet to be filed, the Marine Corps has stooped to leaking portions of the investigation in order to advance their case in the media.

W.T.F!!!!!? No charges filed, with allegations made by ENEMY spokespeople (Sunni terrorists), and members of the USMC are slammed and treated worse than the Islamoterrs at GITMO!

The worst is the fix in from the top down, starting from the President himself, who, IMHO has proven himself to be morally unfit to be Commander-in-Chief in charge of the Marines, and the other branches of the United States Armed Forces.

When the commander-in-chief and other high level military officials are passing on the guilt of these men and making statements regarding punishment based on pure conjecture, what message is that sending to their military subordinates who will be charged with rendering a fair judgment in this case? Any potential military juror has already seen and heard their superiors at the highest levels intimate their personal verdicts. That kind of influence is patently unjust and, I’m afraid, will operate to taint the judgment of what is supposed to be an impartial fact-finder. My client’s opportunity for justice has been irreparably compromised even before the first charge has been filed.

The public comments of CINC, and SECDEF constitute an egregious abuse of power and authority to “fix” a legal outcome for political purposes. Then right after spouting off Rummy-dummy flies off to cement relations with – the Commies in Viet-nam? Hello? What’s wrong with this picture? This whole thing has moved into the realm of a hallucinatory experience – the pattern is so bizarre that it only coincidentally interfaces with reality any longer.

It is a sad day in military justice when honor on the battlefield takes a back seat to political agendas.

AMEN!

The Chief has supported Republicans since he was in high school, campaigning for a GOP Senatorial candidate in solidly Democratic south St. Louis (which later became Gephardt country). Since then he has worked in additional elections in Missouri, South Carolina, and South Dakota, all in support of GOP candidates. He was a member of the SD Delegation to the 1980 GOP Detroit Convention that formalized the beginning of the Reagan Revolution.

In spite of this history, crap like this betrayal of US forces, and the fecklessness towards border security, the half-assed committment to WINNING the war on terror by whatever means are NECESSARY to do so, has brought the Chief to the point where he actually begins to think he might actually have something in common with the KOSsacks, at least in regarding these Administration policies with total contempt and rage.

F.E.T.E.

Shackled Marine Update
Exclusive!http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/shackled.html

This letter from an attorney was released on the Michael Savage website regarding the set-up for a Haditha “show-trial” of US Marine troopers who are currently “brigged” in solitary at Camp Pendleton, and are shackled hand-and-foot any time they are out of their cells.

As my client sits shackled in solitary confinement in the Marine Corps Brig with charges yet to be filed, the Marine Corps has stooped to leaking portions of the investigation in order to advance their case in the media.

W.T.F!!!!!? No charges filed, with allegations made by ENEMY spokespeople (Sunni terrorists), and members of the USMC are slammed and treated worse than the Islamoterrs at GITMO!

The worst is the fix in from the top down, starting from the President himself, who, IMHO has proven himself to be morally unfit to be Commander-in-Chief in charge of the Marines, and the other branches of the United States Armed Forces.

When the commander-in-chief and other high level military officials are passing on the guilt of these men and making statements regarding punishment based on pure conjecture, what message is that sending to their military subordinates who will be charged with rendering a fair judgment in this case? Any potential military juror has already seen and heard their superiors at the highest levels intimate their personal verdicts. That kind of influence is patently unjust and, I’m afraid, will operate to taint the judgment of what is supposed to be an impartial fact-finder. My client’s opportunity for justice has been irreparably compromised even before the first charge has been filed.

The public comments of CINC, and SECDEF constitute an egregious abuse of power and authority to “fix” a legal outcome for political purposes. Then right after spouting off Rummy-dummy flies off to cement relations with – the Commies in Viet-nam? Hello? What’s wrong with this picture? This whole thing has moved into the realm of a hallucinatory experience – the pattern is so bizarre that it only coincidentally interfaces with reality any longer.

It is a sad day in military justice when honor on the battlefield takes a back seat to political agendas.

AMEN!

Islamists know where we live

What in the world is wrong with calling a spade a spade, or in this case, stating the simple fact that the 17 terrs busted in the land of the Great White North were all Islamofascists?

Losers, all. That’s what we Westerners are and the Islamic fundamentalists bent on our destruction know it. Even when the police nails a cell of 17 would-be terrorists, catching them red-handed with 3 tonnes of 34-0-0 fertilizer, which you can bet wasn’t acquired to fertilize their lawns, the media and government go to great lengths to assure everyone that the arrests have nothing to do with any “specific community or ethno-cultural group in Canada.” At least that’s how CSIS spokesperson Luc Portelance categorized the arrests.

The Toronto Sun’s resident Islamophile “foreign” correspondent, Eric Margolis, even went so far as to wonder if the whole investigation and arrest wasn’t some kind of CSIS set-up. Margolis moronically posited “It’s possible that among the 12 adults and five minors charged, Canadian security organizations have rounded up some loud-mouthed teenagers who have been encouraged to sedition by government “agents provocateurs”. Right, Eric, and the fertilizer was going to be used for a modest home garden in Scarborough and the electrical detonation devices seized were actually intended to be used as a TV remote and the whole conspiracy was fabricated by government agents eager to please George W. Bush and the neo-cons.

FAR, FAR too much political correctness methinks, apparently on BOTH sides of the border as noted in this OpEd from the DC Times:

Torture as defined by the media

In case you have been the least bit curious as to why al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist organizations are convinced — beyond a mushroom-cloud shadow of a doubt — that they can defeat the United States, the evidence is no further away than your newspaper, radio, network or cable news outlet. If all else fails, the twisted leadership of these evil terrorist organizations know they can always count on the liberals in the mainstream media, as well as the liberals in Congress and Europe, to act as their unquestioning propaganda ministers. To prove that what we once believed to be up is now down, and what we thought to be right is now wrong, we have several examples that embolden al Qaeda with every news report or printed word.

Check out the piece for the examples. A Marine Court-martialed and given hard time for…allowing his dog to bark at a terr prisoner is unfortunately only a part of the crapola being dished out to our troops these days.

The liberals in the media understand that with each news report on the new My Lai, each case where a U.S. soldier is punished for letting a dog bark in the face of a war prisoner, with every story that equates dunking a terrorist in water with chopping off a human head, they tell these Islamist terrorists that political correctness is weakening our foreign policy and military and robbing us of our will to prosecute the war or defend our nation. They know but don’t care. For them, the real enemy is Mr. Bush and conservative beliefs.

Down is now up. Wrong is now right. And the terrorists are not only grateful, but on the way.

The Slippery Slope of Same-Sex Marriage

This article goes into more depth on the comments in the Chief’s posting on this subject from last night, and in fact extends the argument with even more information.

Those pesky old facts – busting down moonbat arguments again, and again. Whether it is enough to get the amendment through is another matter altogether.

One has to wonder on the irony of this being voted on the date 6/6/6! It’s a plot element worthy of Hollywood – but it’s reality instead. Is there a message here? The Chief fears there is, one way or another.

Another expression on the situation was expressed in the following advert:

Click on image for enlarged view.

Will the Senate impose race-based government on Hawaii?

This pattern is getting old. Just when the Chief can’t imagine moonbats getting any farther out in left field, they come up with something so bizarre that it beggars the imagination.

In this case, the perp of the insanity du jour is Donk Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii. His scheme is to grant special rights to anyone who has any degree of native Hawaiian ancestry – would you believe down to a degree of 1/256!

As if this attempt at institutional racism isn’t bad enough, if enacted, it will open the door for similar treatment to any faction determined and influential enough to claim ITS priviliges on similar grounds.

Apparently the Senate may even pass this legal abortion, thereby demonstrating once and for all that the great tradition of the likes of Clay, Webster, et al is gone forever.

Maybe the Roman Emperor Caligula wasn’t totally insane after all when he appointed his favorite horse (Tacitus by name) to be a member of the also once great Roman Senate, as a means of demonstrating his contempt for the feckless Senate of his day.

Believers push for marriage measure

The Religious Coalition for Marriage, a fledgling organization forged to fight same-sex “marriage,” includes eight U.S. Catholic cardinals, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Church of God in Christ and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Also signed up to support passage of the Marriage Protection Amendment are Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Missouri Synod Lutherans, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches, among a host of groups representing more than 100 million Americans.

So much for divisive sectarianism on this issue!

The Chief knows that lots of libertarianish folk think that the state has no business being invoved in this sort of thing…yadda-yadda-yadda. Sorry folks, there is no realistic disputing that stable family structures are the building blocks of a stable and successful society. Historically, any time that this has NOT been the case, the entity (civilization, nation, empire, whatever…) has declined and either reformed itself in this direction, or ended up as history…with no continued existence.

Eurotrash nations that have ignored this are already deep in the realm of negative population growth, and are starting to wonder how they will sustain their continued existence. It is worth noting, that contrary to the libertarian arguments, that legalizing “gay” marriage has an effect of cheapening the whole concept of marriage itself – wherever this has been done the overall hetero marriage rate has declined significantly. Without the committment, say what you will, the resulting relationships have far less stability than a traditional family cemented by formal marriage.

In our own case, as we go farther and farther towards dismantling the traditional family basis of social structure, is it any wonder that as a nation we are becoming enervated at standing up to the threats confronting us in the world, whether it be irredentist Mexican nationalism, Islamofascist Jihad, or relentless economic (and lurking in the background military) pressure from the ChiComs.

Believe it or don’t, there IS a connection, which related to the very non-PC concept of moral fiber. This in itself has many more ramifications, of which the issues noted above are a by no means complete listing.

In short, the Chief is heartily in support of this amendment. If we can’t defend this most basic of all human institutions, then our nation and culture will inevitably find itself in the unfortunate state noted in Daniel 5: “Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”

The UK has problems with this. Unfortunately, even worse than we do. Sic transit gloria Britannia!

LONDONISTAN – HOW BRITAIN’S HABITUAL APPEASEMENT OF ISLAMISM REAPS TERROR

This piece details how creeping Dhimmitude has been sapping the strength of Britain for some period of time. Not a pretty picture:

London was dubbed “Londonistan” because, during the 1990s, Britain allowed its capital to be turned into the principal hub of Islamist radicalism and terrorism outside of Saudi Arabia. But Londonistan is more than the physical presence of Islamist extremists: It is also a state of mind. A systematic, decades-long assault on Britain’s values from within has created a cultural vacuum that Islamist extremism has exploited from without.

England afraid to fly its own flag

How Crazy is This? (Pretty crazy iindeed, but all too true!)

Following warnings by extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, in which the group said that the red cross in the England flag symbolizes the ‘blood thirsty crusaders’ and the occupation of Muslims, some of the largest companies in England have ordered their workers not to wave the flags.

A couple of items all over the media this weekend.

Canadian arrests foil terror plot

Police foiled a homegrown terrorist attack in Canada by arresting 17 suspects, apparently inspired by al Qaeda, who obtained three times the amount of explosives used in the Oklahoma City bombing, officials said yesterday….

3 tons of Ammonium Nitrate – that’s fertilizer for a LOT of corn fields, or for a big batch of ANFO (ammonium nitrate-fuel oil) explosive sludge.

“These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of terrorism against their own country and their own people,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. “As we have said on many occasions, Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism.”

This statement shows a healthy dose of reality. The previous Martin (Liberal Party) would have no doubt blamed this on the Bush administration somehow.

Meanwhile, across the pond in the UK:

Toxic gas bomb tip cued raid in Britain

A raid on an East London house where anti-terrorism police shot and wounded a man was prompted by fears that a suspect had built a bomb designed to release a cloud of toxic chemicals, police said yesterday.

The situation is apparently far from resolved:

Police Fear Bomb Has Been Moved

Anti-terrorist police hunting for a suspected chemical-based bomb after a raid on a house in east London fear that the device may have been moved and could still be used. Two days after a man was shot as armed officers stormed the house in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, a search has failed to yield any evidence of a bomb….

Police and MI5, whose intelligence led to the operation, are still working on the basis that the tip was reliable and that a device exists that could release poisonous gas on detonation.

Sort of reminds the Chief of the first few hours of a “24” season: terrs busted just a BIT too late to snag the weaponry in one fell swoop! Tune in next week so see how Jack Bauer saves the day!

Christians Under Siege in Kosovo

While the U.S. fights Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. and the United Nations are helping allies of Muslim terrorists come to power in Kosovo, a province of Serbia. This is a foreign policy disaster in the making that you should hope and pray gets some immediate attention from the media. To illustrate the dimensions of the problem, Father Keith Roderick of Christian Solidarity International has testified that Albanian Muslims in Kosovo have been systematically destroying Christian churches and other sites in Kosovo and the Serbian Christian population in the province is being “squeezed down to oblivion.” The evidence is on display in a new DVD, “Days Made Of Fear,” directed, produced and distributed by Ninoslav Randjelovic.

Why am I not surprised that this doesn;t get covered?

Bush Promises Justice in Military Investigation of Civilian Deaths

Somehow the Chief thinks that the fix is in on this one, and that these Marines are going to be hung out to dry as sacrifices to politics.