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Iraqi, U. S. Soldiers Detain Suspects, Find Weapons
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2009 – Iraqi security forces, aided by their U.S. partners, detained suspected criminals, seized illegal weapons and found and destroyed a “sticky bomb” in Jan. 28 operations, military officials reported.

ISF, MND-B Soldiers find UXO, confiscate weapons
BAGHDAD –Iraqi Security Forces partnered with Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers found unexploded ordnance and confiscated weapons Jan. 29 - 30 while conducting operations in Baghdad.

Iraq wraps up election with no major violence
BAGHDAD – Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation's stability as U.S. officials consider the pace of troop withdrawals.

Coalition Forces Disrupt Kandahar Bomb Network
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 30, 2009 – Coalition forces in Afghanistan killed four militants and detained eight suspects during operations yesterday to disrupt Taliban bomb makers and militants in Kandahar.

Mullen Says Close to 30,000 New Soldiers Likely for Afghanistan
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Admiral Michael Mullen, the most senior American military officer, said the U.S. will probably deploy close to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to shore up deteriorating security there.

US set for ‘big bang’ financial clean-up
The Obama administration is gearing up for a “big bang” announcement within the next two weeks that will combine a bank clean-up with measures to reduce home foreclosures and probably steps to kick-start credit markets.

How big is $1 trillion, really?
NEW YORK – The Obama administration is the first government in human history to propose going $1 trillion in debt for any reason, let alone on the premise that borrowing and spending that amount would be a solution rather than another problem.

Iran says Obama's offer to talk shows US failure
US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.

N Korea breaks pacts with Seoul
North Korea vowed to disregard all its military and political agreements with South Korea yesterday in what is probably a diplomatic gambit aimed at raising Pyongyang's profile on the agenda of Barack Obama, the US president.

Time for a new world order: [Australian] PM
KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of "social capitalism" in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily.

Kemoy Gourzang gets top billing for returned wallet
There are Oscars, Emmys, Pulitzers and Nobels. And now there are Kemoys. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein created a good citizens' award Thursday for Brooklyn 10-year-old Kemoy Gourzang, the Honest Abe of the public school system.

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The Stories Behind the News

Friday
Afternoon Roundup -The Congress of Corruption and a Turkish

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:51 PM PST

Here we are headed down the dark tunnel of the Obama regime.
Poorly disguised as a "Stimulus Plan", the Democrats' Congress of
Corruption passed a huge spending plan filled to the brim with

waste and pork, and of course support for their own leftist

alliances that helped them take power, including ACORN.

And in a remarkable victory for Principles over Pork, not a
single Republican voted for the plan. Not long after Obama

had warned Republicans that they ought to listen to him
since "he won", rather than to Rush Limbaugh, they listened to

Rush Limbaugh, and won a victory of principles. Even now

support for the Stimulus plan is nearly half and half,

which shows just how unpopular the plan is, when you
compare it to the approval ratings for Obama.

The early start that the Democratic Junta is making on

embarrassing itself with its own smog of corruption is

truly impressive. Not only have Blagojevich and Patterson
created two giant embarrassments for the party, but from

Pelosi's clueless ramblings to the Congress of Corruption

passing a plan that's supposed to fix the economy but will do
nothing of the kind, the mud is pouring down. And the

media can only keep blatantly spinning the facts for so long

before the Reign of Obama, becomes the Reign of Chicago

Prince of Crime.

Meanwhile under Erdogan, Turkey continues sliding further

into the Islamofascist camp. The old secular Turkey that prevented

Islamic rule is all but vanishing away, as the Islamists have
gorged the Turkish public on hatred of America and Jews to disguise

Islamism as Turkish nationalism. With Erdogan openly calling on
Obama to legitimize Hamas and Hizbullah, Turkey is now

functioning as a pro-terrorist regime.

Erdogan's hypocrisy at Davos was all the more despicable considering what

Turkey has regularly done to its ethnic minorities, the Armenians, the

Kurds, not to mention the ethnically Turkic but religiously varying

Alevi. If Turkey wants to wail about genocide, it can look within its

own borders. If Erdogan wants to condemn conquest, he and his fellow

barbarians can leave the borders of the country they conquered,

despoiled and turned into an Islamic pigpen of poverty stricken warrens,
drug dens and mosques. While Turkey can't seem to provide a decent
living for its own citizens, sending them forth to infest Europe, it continues

to build up its military while occupying Cyprus.

Meanwhile Mitchell heads to Israel as part of the Obama
diplomatic assault on Israel. Samantha Power, despite calling for the

invasion of Israel, will now serve as the senior director
for multilateral affairs at the National Security Council.

This will put her in a prime position to push Hillary aside and
implement her own policies, traveling with Hillary Clinton,

and doing an end run around her to her friend Barack
afterward.

Of course any Jewish stupid enough to believe the lies
put out by liberal apologists for the Obama campaign that Samantha

Power is not an issue, now get their comeuppance. The apologists

of course won't retract or admit that they passed along a

lie in order to promote a blatantly anti-semitic candidate.

Meanwhile I wasn't going to post on the topic, but since
some bloggers such as Allahpundit at HotAir have blasted the Chief

Rabbinate for ending relations with the Vatican, over its
embrace of the Society of Saint Pius X. The issue here is not
simply Bishop Williamson's Holocaust denial. The SSPX's views can be
summed up as believing that Jews are the ultimate evil
and everything wrong with the world, including Capitalism,
Communist, The Renaissance, Protestantism and the French

Revolution comes from the Jews.

A few
choice selections from one essay on the SSPX website
follow,

...In the world as it is, there can be only two
truly basic modes, two poles of attraction: the
Christian and the Jewish.

Only two religions: Christian and Jewish. All that is
not of Christ and for Christ is done in favor of
Judaism.

...Christendom and Jewry are destined inevitably to meet
everywhere without reconciliation or mixing. It represents
in history the eternal struggle of Lucifer against God,
of darkness against the Light, of the flesh against the spirit.

...God gave two enemies to the nations that flourished under
the Church’s guidance in the Middle Ages: an internal one,
the spirit of rebellion against the spiritual in order
that worldly greatness be achieved; and an external one,
the Jewish people, who live among the Christians to be a goad and a
spur.

...At the end of the Middle Ages, the Gentile people
committed great sins, especially the clergy. Thus weakened, this
people succumbed to the brain and hand of Judaization
—through the Renaissance, the French Revolution, and
Communism. Judaism would give mental ammunition to the
rebels, e.g., Renaissance skeptics and 18th-century
libertines. Werner Sombart, the authoritative historian
of Capitalism who is neither Catholic nor antisemite,
shows in his book Les juifs et la vie économique how
some Protestant sects, especially the Puritans, are Judaic.

Close relations formed between Judaism and some of the
Reformation sects and a great keenness for Hebrew studies
swept Europe.

To sum up, everything the Society of Saint Pius X
dislikes about the world, including non-Catholic versions of

Christianity, is the fault of the Jews who are their eternal enemy.

I don't even need to go into the SSPX's history with Nazism

and Fascism.

My point is that one can disagree with the Rabbinate's
decision, but there is a good deal more context to it, than Bishop

Williamson's comments about the Holocaust, something that
bloggers who write about the subject should mention.

Embracing the SSPX looks a good deal like embracing the same

kinds of beliefs that caused so much persecution of the

Jews in the first place. And the Chief Rabbinate has the right
to opt out.

The Vatican meanwhile has to decide who its real
enemies are, and as a hint they're the ones

gathering en masse in front of their Cathedrals, and

taking over formerly Catholic cities. Instead the

Vatican chooses to empower the Islamists by criticizing

American and Israeli military operations against terrorists, at
a time when even the Dalai Lama seems to show some signs of

understanding that peace will not stop terrorists.

Europe is the new Israel. The Arab workers who came to
Israel drawn by work under the British Mandate, quickly

began acting like owners. Today their great-grandchildren

will insist that they are "Palestinians" and that they have been

living here for thousands of years. Europe is a generation or two

away from being in the same boat.

The European Intifada is already under way. Islamic law is coming

to Europe will the full assent of its governments. And as in

Iran and Egypt, when the leftists have had their moment, the
Night of the Mosque and the Burqa will come down. Resisting

that should be the first priority of what's left of Europe's
religions.

On that topic, the Infidel Bloggers Alliance has a
call to defend Geert Wilders, writing,

Let’s remember that both Winston Churchill and Adolf
Hitler had the same opinion about Islam: It is a totalitarian
and violent religion. Churchill denounced and warned about that
ideology while Hitler admired it. Today Winston Churchill, the
most stalwart anti-Nazi, would be arrested in Holland for
incitement to hate and racism whereas Hitler would be free to
promote Islam and recruit Muslims into his Nazi party unmolested.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT:

Doing something real and effective to support Geert
Wilders — and freedom of expression
above all — is very simple with the
Amnesty International-SITA method: a letter in a stamped
envelope, sent by snail-mail.

Amnesty International has a strong record of success
with this method.

For the letter itself, it is even simpler: A basic-rate stamp
allows sending at least two sheets of paper. Here are some
possible things you could include:

1. Print out the first two pages of this article (one sheet front and back).
Dutch people commonly read English in addition to Dutch.
(Note than another article supporting Geert Wilders is available too).

So that's one page. For the second page...

The whole thing is worth reading for a useful alternative to silence,
which by its very nature implies assent.

Right Side News has Jeffrey Imm's article
WE ARE ALL GEERT WILDERS NOW

In the case of Geert Wilders, a court was repulsed
by his comments comparing Islamic

supremacism's beliefs to those expressed in
Hitler's Mein Kampf. That court was not repulsed by the
daily calls for killing Jews by Islamic supremacists. That
court was not repulsed by the antisemitic hate that is regularly
channeled in the Islamic supremacist media. That court was not
repulsed by the regular calls for the destruction of Israel by
Islamic supremacists. That court was not repulsed by the references to
the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion promoted in
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf within the very charter of the Islamic
supremacist Hamas organization, a group defended by
protestors in the Netherlands over the past few weeks. That
court was not repulsed by other Netherlands politicians
defending calls for an intifada against Israel, while Amsterdam
crowds called for "Jews to the gas."

Closing its eyes and plugging its ears to the reality around it, the
Netherlands court extended an accusation against Geert
Wilders of inciting hate for defying an Islamic
supremacist ideology that is itself based on hate. Like
those who charged Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with inciting hate for
defying white supremacism, no doubt they believe that if they just
silence this one man - they will set an example to others causing
"friction and unrest." No doubt they hope to persuade
those who would defy supremacism that they need to find
a more "realistic approach" and accept "forbearance" of
the supremacist cause. We have seen such tactics to silence
defiance to supremacism before. We have seen them in 1963
in Alabama. We have seen them in the decades of covenants
of security by nations that have harbored and tolerated
Islamic supremacism around the world. We have seen them
in the United Nations where Islamic supremacist groups
seek to silence dissent and free speech against such
supremacism.

We have seen them in the halls of Congress in the United
States in our present day, by those lobbying for "engagement"
and "reconciliation" with Islamic supremacist
organizations and leaders. Now we see them in the nation
of the Netherlands by a court that seeks to turn a
blind eye to the incitement of hatred throughout its nation by
Islamic supremacists and instead focuses its blame on
Geert Wilders, a leader of freedom who would dare defy
such supremacism.

Xanthippa’s Chamberpot points out that

such suppressions follow a particular pattern

Let’s go back to basic human psychology…

Whom does a bully pick on first???

The successful bully will first pick on the strongest opponent
who does not have allies ready to come to his/her defense!

This is a very basic psychological principle, taught to us both
in school (if one were inclined to study psychology or
anthropology/sociology or even history or business
skills) and also in fiction - good fiction (including ’science fiction’
and ‘historical novels’, ‘where’ most good ‘fiction’
writer are). From Waltari to Card, from Čapek to Asimov.
The lesson is clear. One would expect that most intelligent people
would have learned it by now…

It is precisely because Geert Wilders is not likable, it is precisely
because he is on the fringes of society, that he is one
of the ‘first lines of victims’ of this new form of
totalitarianism which hides its ugly face beneath a pretense of
‘multiculturalism’ and ‘accommodation’. Not aware of his
new totalitarianism? Please, look around!

Totalitarian governments are always bullies - it’s part of the
definition. That is why they follow classical bully-psychology:
beat up the biggest guy nobody will come and help because
he’s a jerk. When they want to establish - set a precedent -
that they have the power to control something,
totalitarian governments will pick on their strongest
opponent who is least likable. Once the precedent
is set, they can then pick on their other opponents,
one at a time. Please, notice the pattern!

While I don't agree with this assessment of Wilders,
the pattern does stand. Swap out Wilders for Limbaugh,

and you see Obama and his allies pulling the same stunt in
America. Swap out countries for individuals and

you can see the motives behind the targeting of America and
Israel.

Target, isolate and destroy the strong, and then you can
pick off the weak one by one.

On that note, Atlas
Shrugs writes that the Academic Boycott movement

has moved to the United States.

There is something strangely perverse in this idea -
schools of learning boycotting the finest minds on the planet.
But when ou think of it, it's organiic and logical, if
the barbarians have seized the helm
of education and culture.

25 years ago such an idea would have seemed outside the
realm of conceivable thought. It would have been cast
along aside the relics of Nazi past.

Atlas is shocked but I'm not. This was always the plan.
US Academia is still radicalized, it's only less radicalized

than its European counterpart. But any such movement was

bound to move here sooner or later. And it will naturally find

legitimization. Part of its goal will be along Soviet lines, to

intimidate Jewish and non-Jewish academics into remaining

silent in defense of Israel.

That is how it worked in the USSR. That is the goal here
now.

Atlas also has video on a New York Post photographer

openly being intimidated at a pro-Hamas rally.

Now having been at many rallies, I can tell you that normally the NYPD

quickly and decisively steps in to end any confrontations, or even

potential confrontations, at protest rallies.

Those are their orders. For the NYPD to refrain from doing so,

suggests that they have orders from the top,

which likely means that you should be directing your

complaints to Mayor Bloomberg's office. The man
is running for reelection, which is about the

only circumstance that can cause him to do the right
thing.

At Petunika Politik, a solidly worded denunciation of

Barack Hussein Obama.

The nation has now elected a man who seems to
effortlessly allow himself to admit his Muslim heritage, which was

denied, debunked, decried all throughout the primaries
and general election. For anyone to dare to "accuse" the
man of lying about his roots has been tantamount to
heresy. Yet in the tape of his interview, ears do not deceive.
Would this be a cause celeb if it were not for his
denial of such? Simply, no. I am reminded of the man's grandiose
speech as he created his own pulpit in Berlin while still a candidate.
The pomposity of the man astounds. What stood out for me as he read
his teleprompter was the manner in which he APOLOGIZED for America.
America holds itself to a high moral ground, and principles that no other
nation adheres to, and yet this invisible man with years missing from
his calendar is sorry for who we are and what "we've done"

Via Islamic Danger to Americans, the message Obama
should

have delivered to Muslims.

Art Freedom and Happiness has more on

Stephanopoulos'
inside media consultations with Emanuel.

This is of course the consequence of a media wholly dedicated

to ending any division between government

and the press, thus terminating the very notion of a free press.

Lemon Lime Moon writes, "It's All About the Pork" and

Doom and Gloom Gubbermint

"NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR
PROFITS"...Brainiac Obama.

Oh really Brain boy? So then don't
moan about businesses closing ,

How stupid is this man??

How is business to stay IN business and pay employees if

they can't make profits! No wonder business is escaping the

US and going bankrupt, Obama doesn't want them to make any profits.

Mr. Obama says people are losing jobs. His comments are all doom
and gloom . According to him we are in the orst shape in all history ,
in all the universe and we have absolutely no hope of relief during his
term in office. He admits it is just beyond him to help. So much for
hope boys and girls.

Of course it's all lies and smoke and mirrors. And let me tell you
that Doom and Gloom trash talk by the administration can make
people HOPELESS. Yet his pork fund is not making jobs it is taking
money out of your pocket and making the taxpayer an employer.
His pork plan is taking jobs away! He will raise your taxes and take
them away too.

Via Democracy Broadcasting, Melanie Philip's chilling post.

new from CitizenWarrior.com...

They Are Not Terrorists

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 11:51 PM CST

DO YOU feel terror? Neither do I. Even on September 11th as I watched the planes fly into the Twin Towers, I didn't feel terror. I felt angry and confused. Flabbergasted. Astonished. I was definitely stressed by it. But I didn't feel terror.

I'll bet you can say the same. Someone has misnamed it. The correct name is demoralism, not terrorism. The hot-headed Islamic supremacists are not trying to terrorize, they are trying to demoralize as a prelude to invading and defeating us.

In war, one of the most important psychological impacts a general tries to have on his enemy is demoralization. A demoralized enemy is easier to defeat. A demoralized enemy becomes paralyzed by indecision or cuts and runs, and in the confusion is easy to route.

Islamic supremacists have been infiltrating the western world and undermining our confidence, our clarity, and our values for decades. They chose the World Trade Center for many reasons. Among other things, the Towers were symbols of Western morale. The Jihadis' aim was to demoralize the West.

And they succeeded to some degree. My wife was talking to a woman the other day about Islam and what we must do about it and the woman responded, "I don't think they can be defeated. It is in God's hands."

Unbelievable! The woman has given up.

To be demoralized means to have given up. Demoralization is the opposite of determination. When you are demoralized, you feel that no effort on your part will make any difference. For example, many people tell me they have tried educating their fellow non-Muslims about the third jihad and the response they get is either hostility or apathy. One woman told me, "It's like beating your head against a brick wall."

In other words, trying to educate the public about Islam is an exercise in futility. Many people have told me, "It's going to take a major catastrophe to wake people up." This is not too much different than, "It's in God's hands." It is saying, "I give up." It is saying, "Nothing I do will make much difference."

This attitude has to be removed from our brains, people! We can't have that kind of defeatism. If we are demoralized, the enemy has already won. We need a fighting spirit to the bitter end. Morale is a necessity.

To defeat Islamic supremacism, the most important thing that needs to be achieved is a widespread public education about it. The media will not do it. The politicians will not do it. IT IS UP TO US! It will be done one-on-one by those of us who know about the third jihad, or it won't be done.

So if you come up against what seems to be an insurmountable barrier, you should NOT decide it's impossible and start trying to explain all the reasons it cannot be done. We MUST win this fight. Failure is not an option. What you need to do is decide you will surmount that barrier or die trying. You need to confide in your allies and let us help you. We can pool our ingenuity and find a way.

Whether you are demoralized or not is UP TO YOU. The circumstances can never determine whether you will give up or not. No demoralists can make you feel demoralized without your consent. Your morale is in your control.

You must stay aware that the decision to give up or keep trying will usually function as a self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, if you decide you're going to fail, and you give up, you have failed. Your decision has become a reality. If you decide you will find a way to succeed and you try and fail, does that mean you were wrong? No, you can try again. You can try a different way. You can study about it, learn more about it, put in the time thinking about it, talk to people about it and glean their ideas, and you can keep trying until you succeed.

Either way, your decision has become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Awhile back, I wrote a short article with links giving you tools to help you restore another person's morale. The links go to a series of articles that you should study if you ever feel demoralized or disheartened by this work. The articles are based on rigorous scientific studies. These are not my little pet theories on what might work. People who change their explanatory style have a significantly and measurably improved power to persist in the face of obstacles, as shown by over seven hundred scientific studies. People who have developed this kind of psychological resilience have a significant and measurable improvement in their ability to succeed.

Study that material. Literally STUDY it. Do the writing exercise. Make SURE you keep your morale high, and then help the rest of us do the same. This arsenal of counter-demoralizing techniques are a powerful defense system against the relentless efforts of the demoralizers to make us throw in the towel. We will not throw in the towel. We will crush the third jihad and arise victorious!

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Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone.

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal and work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats.

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning.

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare.

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing, use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels.

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide.

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' - the Islamic House of Peace - there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim.

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The Fundamental Errors of Liberalism

Over at Renew America,
Dennis Campbell mused about the two fatal errors of Liberalism. The misunderstanding of
human nature and the inability to learn from history.The record is long and disgusting on how Liberals can not learn from history always thinking that this particular problem with a particular tyrant or social issue is different this time. Or in other words, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing's over and over expecting different results. But what about human nature? Where's the error in their ways with that?

The answer lies in that catchword Liberals love to use. PROGRESSIVE. That
means we should all strive to reach an ideal, a perfect world - defined by the
Liberal. And while we're at it, create by hook or by crook - particularly
through legislation - the perfect human.

Liberals are always chasing the fantasy of human perfectibility, which influences so
many aspects of their policies.

Liberals believe that if we give a powerful central government enough resources
and authority, wielded by intelligent people of good will, virtually all
problems and endeavors of human society can have happy outcomes - poverty,
education, racial disharmony, crime, affordable housing, universal health care.

Conservatives, on the other hand, recognize that government is composed of
enormously fallible people, weak and prone to doing things in their own
interest, and not in the interest of others. The larger the government, the
more these problems are magnified.

These lessons are never absorbed by liberals, it seems. They remain convinced that
negotiation and appeasement will win over despots and savages. This leads them
to a fatal conclusion regarding Islam: That we can appease and negotiate our
way to a peaceful outcome with what may be the most violent religion in the
world, indeed, in history.

Liberals should take heed to an old Irish proverb. "Lord, give me the knowledge of the
things I can change and the courage to accept the things I can't - and the
wisdom to know the difference.'

Things happen in history because they are ready to happen. This is a hard thing to
accept sometimes. But even though the ideas of freedom, democracy, the belief
in one God, were thought of long before they were accepted and dominant in the
world, they could not be accepted until the time was right. We were taught in
school about ecology - how we are all interconnected to the natural world and
the natural world is interconnected with us. Well, there is another kind of ecology
- the ecology of ideas.

Take the dinosaurs. They were the rulers of the earth for hundreds of millions of
years. Our distant ancestors - the mammals - were nothing but little warm
blooded shrews hiding in the underbrush waiting for their time in the sun. As
long as the dinosaurs ruled, we would have to wait our turn on the evolutionary
stage. But one day the ecology changed. The environment turned against the
dinosaurs and they became extinct. This gave our ancestors the chance to evolve
and become what we are today.

Ideas act in the same manner. Though many ideas exist, only a few achieve dominance
because they adapt best to the environment. Take democracy for example. The
Greek culture had it long before the Roman Empire came into being. And yet, it didn't have a chance to evolve until almost two thousand years later. The environment of ideas would not support it. What I'm saying is that you can't force history. World peace is a great idea but you
can't have it until everyone's needs that prevent peace from happening are met
worldwide.

Your can't have a universal human ideal until everyone can attain that ideal. And
you can't have a perfect game until there are perfect people. And, I'm sorry to
say, that ain't gonna happen. Perfect people is and illusion just likes Utopia.

Utopia is a direction not a destination. It can never be reached as long as we have
imperfect people. And imperfect people are a good thing to have. If you attempt
to remove all the 'undesirable' aspects of a human being you will find that
they are connected to human desirable aspects. I'm reminded of the Star Trek
episode, The Enemy Within, when Kirk's personality was split in two - the 'good side'
and the 'bad side'.

Kirk is split into two alter-egos, the evil one (hostility, lust, violence) of which
arrives unnoticed a few minutes after the good Kirk (compassion, love,
tenderness) after the crew has left the transporter room. It is quickly surmised
that neither Kirk can survive for long in his separated state.

It is a philosophical exploration of the complex duality of man and an
illustration of how his good and evil sides taken together define his very
being.

The 'good' Kirk, doesn't have any real resolve as a leader until he is rejoined
with his bad elements.

The desirable and undesirable parts of our personalities, our very being, are
two sides of the same coin. We need both to function as rational beings. Remove
one or the other and we either are left feeble and indecisive or barbaric and
feral. It's best that the Progressives in their quest to create the perfect human being leave well enough alone for they tamper with the very basics of human nature. The answer is not elimination of our 'bad' side but the integration of it.

Intimidation Tactics
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Int'l Holocaust Day marred by 2-decade high in anti-Semitism

Jerusalem Post - Israel"Blatantly anti-Semitic displays have contributed to an unacceptable wave of anti-Semitic threats of violence, intimidation and attacks against Jewish ...

The Amboy Times: Right-wing author is banned from Debate on Islam

It is worse than censorship - it's intimidation." The debate, which is set to go ahead, is between Dr Alan Sked, a senior lecturer in international history at the university, and Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, a Muslim writer and lecturer. ...

SlantRight: Susanne Winters Convicted for Speaking about Islam

By Theway2k Hamas and Victory Propaganda · Ellison is an Example of Islamic Infiltration · BBC: Hamas announces ceasefire in Gaza · The Virus of the Islamic Fifth Column · Blarney: A Ten Day Israel/Hamas Cease-Fire ...

Infiltration Tactics
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A New Dark Age Is Dawning

By Mark Taliban Slays Teacher for Not Hiking Up 'Salwar' A... Melanie Phillips: The LSE Caves In to Terror THE S... Britain's Surrender MELANIE PHILLIPS: In Britain, ... "A Victory for the Muslim Community" ASSOCIATED PR. ...

American Congress for Truth- » The UN: Thoroughly infiltrated and ...

This infiltration can be seen everywhere, from the actual staffing of the U.N. secretariat, to the power of the Islamic bloc, which is the last sizable voting bloc left now that the Soviet bloc has dissolved. ... But even there the Muslim delegates have so intimidated, with their aggression and their sheer craziness, so many of the others, even Western European delegates, that even the most intelligent representatives of Western Europe shrink from confrontation with the ...

Darkwater: US bank goes Islamic, rides storm

By shooltzon Islamic banking is more common overseas, but some US banks and credit card companies are exploring the idea of branching out into Sharia products to reach out to the growing Muslim population. So Islamic banking is only expected to ...

Disinformation Tactics
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Norwegian Daily: Terrorists Working for Western Countries ...

Thousands of Islamic jihadists (holy warriors) were trained in Osama bin Laden's training camps until the late 1980s. They came from Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa and was called Arab Afghans. ...

Foiling Another Palestinian "Peace Offensive": Behind the ...

International Middle East Media Center - Beit Sahour,West Bank,Palestinian TerritoriesUri Blau, "IDF Sources: Conditions not yet optimal for Gaza exit," Haaretz (8 January 2009); Barak Ravid, "Disinformation, Secrecy, and Lies: How the Gaza ...

911truth.org ::::: "9/11 Truth" reaches Tens of Thousands in Texas ...

The Muslim marchers had a keen interest in the 9/11 material, with many knowing about the cover-up. The radio announcer plugging 9/11 Truth as inside job over the airways. Tom tipped a kid $2 to bring a handful of VIP DVDs/flyers to a ...

Appeasement & Apologist Tactics
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The London School of Appeasement. The Banning of Douglas Murray ...

The London School of Appeasement. The Banning of Douglas Murray.

Netherlands caves on free speech

The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada

Here is a liberal Dutch society so steeped in the culture of fear and appeasement that its logic twists to try to be all things to all people. Impossible.

"Islamic Reading Room" Insults the Memory of William Gladstone ...

However, we will be the surfactant of all these foul stains on humanity's record of appeasement. The BNP will prevail, come hell or high water. Mandala on January 23rd, 2009 7:08 pm. One Sunday, watching the BBC's Sunday Show, ...

The Winston Churchill Golden Balls Award

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The Golden Balls Award goes each