Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Media Barks, but the Caravan Moves
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Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:32 PM PDT
 The media celebrated Obama's sudden fiscal minded
reforms in cutting money for the F-22's, using that defense cut to pretend
Obama wasn't wasting money like a drunken sailor on the fourth of July,
and pluging America deep into trillion dollar deficit
territory.
But luckily we won't be wasting money on
any F-22's to defend America. We will however be sending
200 million dollars to the terrorist leaders of Fatah.
As it
turns out, and wouldn't you know it, the good folks at Fatah are having a
budget crisis. Just like us! Except we actually fund Fatah and have been
for some time. Since Fatah, better known as the Palestinian Authority led
by "President Abbas" has
a budget which consists of
Intake: Money from Western
governments
Output: Payments to terrorist
militias and Fatah leaders, a workforce that totals over 200,000
people. Or 1 in 4 Palestinian men is on the Palestinian Authority payroll.
A payroll for which we pay for.
Lest you think that 200 million is
the whole shebang. That's a down payment on a promised 900 million. That's
about the cost of four F-22's. But who needs a
top next generation fighter jet for the Air Force, except you know
Russia or China, who are busy working on their own.
Instead we get
to spend 900 million dollars to keep one of the world's foremost terrorist
groups in business. Isn't that special?
Meanwhile over at the
dentist's office, I couldn't help but overhead a conversation between a
patient and the longtime officer manager. Quoting her loosely, "Socialized medicine is coming down the pike
now, and people have to call their governors now and speak out, because
this looks good but it isn't going to work. Doctors can't work this fast,
and when it's all free, the only thing they'll really offer you for free
is to pull the teeth out."
Which would still put America
ahead of the UK where a British patient had
to pull his own teeth.
Debbie Schlussel meanwhile has
a sad preview of ObamaCareBack to "Religion of Pissed Off Madmen" news, the
Times has a great article on
the Ugly side of Dubai.
To understand what the lives of your
children and grandchildren would be like under the Ummah, take a look at
Dubai, where Islam rules.
Mohammed is an Emirati who owns a big dive shop a
hundred miles across the burning sand to the east of Dubai, at Khawr
Fakkan, in the slightly more conservative province of Sharjah. Khawr
Fakkan, circled by stark and beautiful mountains, is on the Gulf of Oman
and there is good diving to be had, plenty of tourists. Mohammed is a
divorcee and he employed young western babes and chicks to run his
business, because working in a dive centre is a sort of halfway house
between backpacking and the real world for a certain sort of young
postgrad western chick. Roxanne Hillier worked for him: young, blonde,
pretty and half South African, with an English dad called Freddie.
Roxanne’s in the rather bleak Khawr Fakkan prison right now, and will be
for the next few months, following an unsuccessful appeal against her
sentence in late June. Would you like to hear what she did to get
herself there?
It was about 2am when the old bill arrived.
Mohammed had been filling up the 80 or so oxygen tanks he needed for the
next morning’s dive; Roxanne had returned from the last dive of the day,
helped out for a bit, then, exhausted, took a nap in an anteroom.
Outside, Mohammed heard a disturbance, so he went down to check it
out.
“It was local people, gathered around the door to the dive
centre,” he told me. “They were angry, saying, ‘Who have you got in
there? You’ve got a woman in there, haven’t you?’ I told them, ‘No, no,
the dive centre is closed.’ They said to me, ‘Where is the key?’ Later
the police arrived. I told them there was nobody there, but they took my
key and opened the door and searched the place and that’s when they
found Roxanne.” The two of them were carted off to Khawr Fakkan prison
(separate cells, natch) and held on remand for a week until the case
came to court. Did you have sex with Roxanne, I ask Mohammed. “No, no,
no, never!” Did you kiss her? “No, of course not. It is not true. It is
all a misunderstanding.”
Well, as regards the first denial, we
don’t have to take Mohammed’s word for it, because the Sharjah judicial
authorities were kind enough to check the whole business out for
themselves. They stripped Roxanne Hillier bare and invaded her with
swabs and scrapes; a little bit of Mohammed’s DNA found inside her would
have hugely increased the eventual sentence. As it was, she received a
sentence of three months for the crime of being alone in the same
building as a man who was not her husband. She didn’t know this was the
sentence, because the court proceedings were conducted in Arabic and
therefore she could not put her case across, either. It was later they
told her what had been decided.
This is what justice looks like under Islam. This is
what the Sharia law that its proponents are so keen on bringing to Europe,
America and Canada looks like.
This is what life for Dhimmis looks
like under Islam. No rights. No justice. Just chains and bars.
But good news, the UK
may be getting its own Muslim police force. (Via Jihad Watch)
MUSLIM crime victims could gain the right to have their
cases overseen by police from their own religion, it emerged last
night.
Police in London already give victims the right to ask for
a Sikh officer to be involved in an investigation but the scheme could
be introduced for other religions elsewhere.
Chief Supt Joanna
Young, from the Met’s Criminal Justice Policy Unit, said: “If it’s a
success, I would encourage the other (police) associations to do
likewise.”
The project is intended to help investigate “honour”
killings and forced marriages but Metropolitan Police Federation
chairman Peter Smyth said: “We’re stretched thin enough already. Are
Sikh officers going to have their rotas changed so there’s always one on
duty?
“It’s political correctness gone mad. We talking about the
creation of a separate force within a force.”...
Who keeps preventing the full flowering of the necessary
American leadership? In the J Street narrative, it’s establishment
Jewish organizations, which distort American foreign policy by shielding
Israel from pressure that would otherwise lead to peace. And who better
to counter the influence of the so-called “Israel Lobby” than other
Jews? J Street and the constellation of far-left “pro-Israel”
organizations put a kosher stamp of approval on Obama’s bizarre
hectoring and moral equivalence.
To this end, J Street seems to
spend almost all of its resources bashing supporters of Israel. Those
who disagree with the organization’s positions are routinely denounced
as “right-wing” or “extremist.” Rather than draw attention to the
murderous antisemitism, terrorism and impending nuclear-armed theocracy
that Israel must confront, J Street prefers to churn out countless blog
posts, press releases and op-eds denouncing the people who it believes
are the real impediments to peace: stalwart defenders of
Israel
Of course J Street doesn't really stop there. Like many
on the left it believes Israel's existence itself is the impediment to
peace. Rather than seeing a two sided conflict, J Street is a proponent of
a one sided Israel bashing narrative in which the problem is ever and
always Israel.
Which is why calling J Street Pro-Israel is like
calling the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Pro-American.
Yoram Ettinger
meanwhile has what
would have been Prime Minister Begin's response to Obama's demand for
Yerushalayim.
"At the very end of Prime Minister Begin's
successful Camp David talks with Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat in 1978,
literally minutes before the signing ceremony, the American president
had approached [Begin] with "Just one final formal item." Sadat, said
the president, was asking that Begin put his signature to a simple
letter committing him to place Jerusalem on the negotiating table of the
final peace accord.
"I refused to accept the letter, let alone
sign it," rumbled Begin. "'If I forgot thee O Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget its cunning,' said [Begin] to the president of the United
States of America , 'and may my tongue cleave to my
mouth.'"
"Admonishment of the British foreign secretary,
[Lord Carrington], telling him in almost so many words to mind his own
business, and… saying [Carrington] should open his Bible 'and read the
First Book of Kings, chapter two, verse eleven, where you will find that
King David moved his capital from Hebron, where he had reigned for seven
years, to Jerusalem where he ruled for another thirty-three years, and
this at a time [3,000 years ago] when the civilized world had never
heard of London.'”
' Jerusalem is an epic. It is the wellspring
of a civilization. Without Jerusalem 's civilization the spiritual
history of the world would be stagnant. To us Jerusalem is family. Has
anyone ever heard of a daughter or a son of a Saladin ever fasting each
year in memory of ancient Jerusalem 's anguish? Not a one! Has anybody
ever heard of a son of a Crusader who breaks a glass at his wedding
ceremony in memory of ancient Jerusalem 's torment? Not a one! How could
you have heard, when throughout its three thousand year-long history
Jerusalem has been capital to no one but to the Jews. So it was. So it
is. And so it shall ever be.'"
We find disturbing the objections raised to the
proposed construction of residential units on property that was legally
purchased and approved by the appropriate authorities. The area in
question houses major Israeli governmental agencies, including the
national police headquarters. The United States has in the past and
recently raised objections to the removal of illegal structures built by
Arabs in eastern Jerusalem even though they were built in violation of
zoning and other requirements often on usurped land. In addition to the
Jewish housing, the project called for apartment units for Arabs as
well
It is particularly significant that the structure in
question formerly was the house of the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem Haj
Amin al-Husseni who spent the war years in Berlin as a close ally of
Hitler, aiding and abetting the Nazi extermination of Jews. He was also
linked to the 1929 massacre in Hebron and other acts of incitement that
resulted in deaths and destruction in what was then Palestine. There has
been an expressed desire by some Palestinians to preserve the building
as a tribute to Husseini.
It hasn't been a great week for Obama. With setbacks on
health care at the congressional level, forcing him and Pelosi and Reid to
postpone the big push until fall. This not only serves as a weakness for
Obama, and opens up a hole in his accomplishments schedule that will have
to be filled by more dates or pointless speeches.
Nevertheless it
is a demonstration that Obama can falter when he runs into opposition.
Naturally the rat's nest of Soros funded 501's will be scrambling like mad
to blackmail, threaten and destroy any and all Dem congressmen who have
been holding out. So a battle has been won, but the war is only
beginning.
The cops want an apology from Obama. And the doctors too.
At a Young Israel synagogue, Rabbi Yeshaya
Siff's message has an interesting take on modern morality
Today's society is overwhelmingly defined as a
modern progressive society, one in which progress in lifestyle changes
has far surpassed that of earlier generations. In technical and
political terms the above may be accurate, but morally and spiritually a
more definitive expression than "progressive" would be "permissive". The
offshoot of "relative" morality is usually "no" morality, or what was
once termed "immorality".
Barack Obama is busy showing a whole host of bitter
feelings on many subjects and there is an angry, bitter teen aspect of
his personality that is coming out. Raised in a fatherless home, with
too much feminine influence, he was raised ideologically by Frank
Marshall Davis, a dyed in the wool Marxist. Marxism at it's very core is
a childish and bitter ideology well suited to the immature. For a young
teen or preteen to have this as their rallying point it can embed
feelings of bitterness that can be hard to root out. Marxism is founded
on fostering racial hatreds and class envy.
A question for Americans: would you want a single
dollar to get into the hands of Hamas? No?
Then brace
yourselves.
Because if changes in American law are pushed
through, financial aid will be sent to a unified Palestinian government
– even if Hamas officials are part of that government.
Let’s
recap. Despite attempts by the liberal media to rebrand Hamas as
doe-eyed ‘resistance fighters’, Hamas is a terrorist organisation.
Here’s a whopping big clue to the truth of that statement: Hamas was
spawned by the radical Muslim Brotherhood. And so was Al
Queda.
Bush would never have entertained it. But apparently
Obama’s response to the question of whether America can, ethically, give
funds to Hamas is ‘Yes We Can!’.
“The administration’s proposal
is akin to agreeing to support a government that “only has a few Nazis
in it,” Rep. Mark Steven Kirk told Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton at a House hearing last week.
The Democrats have
discussed the changes to the law governing funding to Gaza this month,
as part of an $83.4-billion emergency spending bill that also contains
funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill also would
provide $840 million for the Palestinian Authority and for rebuilding in
Gaza, following Israel’s Operation Cast Lead earlier this
year.
“Are the people rejecting their saviour? Barack Obama’s
approval rating has slipped to below that of George ‘Dubya’ Bush at the
same stage in his presidency and this is causing some concern among
right-thinking (by which, of course, I mean left-thinking) people. This
is by no means the death of the dream that began in January – approval
ratings slide up and down erratically – but it is at least an early
intimation of mortality.
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