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Saturday Night Roundup - No Green but on the Flag of the
Prophet

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 06:54 PM PDT

First an opening from the Nobel Laureate poet Joseph Brodsky's
"Flight from Byzantium".

"The waste and horror of the East. The East is a
catastrophe of dust. Green is found only on the banners of the prophet.
Nothing grows here, except mustaches. Black-eyed, wild and by the
evening a three-day beard's worth of growth. Coal fires extinguished
with urine. That smell! With a mixture of degraded tobacco and sweaty
soap. Dirty underwear wrapped around their nether regions like a turban.
And everywhere, even in the city, sand that flies into your face--
driving the world around you out of your eyes, for which you can only be
grateful. Concrete everywhere, the consistency of pressed dung and the
color of a freshly dug grave.

The locals, in a state of complete
stupor, sitting in cheap eateries, heads tilted back, as if in reverse
prayer, to the television set where someone is always beating someone
else. Or they switch to cards, their only method of concentration.
Misanthropy? Desperation? But can you expect from a post-linear
apotheosis principle; from the man who has nowhere to go but
back.

I do not want to generalize, but the East is primarily
a tradition of subordination, hierarchy, trade, adaptation; a
tradition that is largely alien to absolute moral principles, whose role
is filled by an intensity of feeling directed toward their family and
lineage. I anticipate the objections, and will even agree to accept
them in whole or in part. But into whatever extreme we may fallen into
in the idealization of the East, there is no semblance of democratic
tradition that can be ascribed to it."

Speaking of East and West, Obama has brought
on board another Saudi stooge, this time from Human Rights Watch,
which became rather notorious for soliciting Saudi
oil money on the promise that they would use it bash
Israel.

If you were hiring a lawyer to help protect Americans
from terrorists, you likely wouldn't choose a left-wing activist who's
been a champion of the killers held at Guantanamo Bay.

Then
again, you're not President Obama. His Justice Department has raised
eyebrows by tapping Jennifer Daskal, formerly "senior counterterrorism
counsel" at Human Rights Watch, to work as counsel in its National
Security Division and to serve on a task force deciding the future of
Guantanamo and its detainees.

A former public defender, Daskal
has no prosecutorial experience -- let alone a background in national
security. So how did she land an important job at Justice -- one of only
four political appointments at the National Security Division?

Of course the reason you would want to put a terrorist
lawyer in a key place to tell American security agencies what they can't
do to terrorists is fairly obvious. The goal is to protect the terrorists.
Who by no particular coincidence often tend to be Saudi.

Meanwhile Roseanne, who
posed in Hitler costume in a magazine named after an anti-semitic
slur, backs ObamaCare and offers her own insanely Nazi health care solution

old people need to start dying earlier!

we cannot take care of millions of rich white people on their second hearts and
third livers living until after one hundred years of age! that is the
reason there is global warming and every single lack on this earth! Rich
white men with cyborg parts running goldman sachs! when someone is aged
sixty and gets sick, they need to not go to heroic measures, they need
to die and leave some food for hungry children!!

Of course despite being headed toward 60 herself, Roseanne
won't be included in this bit of killing. After all she's not a rich white
male. But it's another symptom of how the proponents for limiting care for
others, never actually include themselves.

Former New York City Mayor David
Dinkins is complaining that he won't be remembered for keeping the
libraries open 6 days a week, but for his tolerance of the Crown Heights
rioters. Of course Dinkins disingenuously blames the police, when in fact
it was his office that allowed three days of rioting to proceed, while
Dinkins himself used the excuse of watching the U.S. Open as cover for the
blank check that he gave to Al Sharpton.

Allahpundit at HotAir is
worried that 58 percent of Republicans
have very little confidence in Obama's Certificate of Live Birth.
Without even addressing the details of the controversy itself, I have to
wonder why "mainstream" Republicans are so worried about anyone in their
party believing that there are serious questions about Obama's birth
certificates.

The derogatory label "Birthers" conflates people who
question Obama's birth certificate with 9/11 Deniers who give Al Queda a
pass, and blame the US instead. A conflation that any rational person
should find obscene. Agree or disagree with the people who think there are
legitimate questions about Obama's birth certificates, but associating
them with people who basically support terrorists and mock the dead on
9/11 is deeply wrong. Far more wrong than it would be to raise questions
about Obama's place of birth, if it was completely legitimate.

The
Republican party has much more important priorities than trying to pick
internal fights out of some misguided fear that questioning the birth
certificate will make the Republican party look terribly bad. If the
Democratic party hasn't been hurt in the least by obsessing over whether
Sarah Palin had a child or not, I doubt the birth certificate issue will
do any damage if it's wrong, and can only potentially pay off, if it's
right. Keeping the issue alive cannot hurt Republicans, it can only hurt
Obama.

Israel Matzav meanwhile
has the story on the UK funding left wing anti-Israel groups in
Israel. This is of course only the tip of the iceberg. Peace Now has
refused to disclose its funding source for some time. It chose to settle
at least one lawsuit rather than reveal its sources. Much of Israel's left
wing is funded by big money from abroad.

And this is not the only
country the UK has done this too. For that matter the UK was doing this
back during the late 30's and 40's under the guidance of the Roosevelt
administration. Decades later, similar tactics would sabotage entire
countries.

At IsraPundit meanwhile has the story on
the Israeli reaction which might tackle some of the foreign NGO's for
the first time.

Recent revelations about foreign government funding for
local NGOs involved in political activity have triggered discussions by
senior Israeli officials about the possibility of making such aid
illegal, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The senior officials are
looking into whether it might be possible to ban donations from foreign
governments to political NGOs, just as it is forbidden for foreign
residents, let alone governments, to contribute to Israeli political
parties.

One of the questions that will have to be addressed,
according to an official involved in the discussions, is what
constitutes a political NGO

Ron Dermer, chief of policy planning
in the Prime Minister’s Office, decried the funding of political NGOs by
foreign governments as a “blatant and unacceptable” intervention into
Israel’s internal affairs.

“Just as it would be unacceptable for
European governments to support anti-war NGOs in the US, it is
unacceptable for the Europeans to support local NGOs opposed to the
policies of Israel’s democratically-elected government,” he
said.

Moreover, Dermer said, what makes it worse is that some of
the NGOs are not merely opposed to specific policies, but “are working
to delegitimize the Jewish state.”

Read more at Israpundit

Keep
in mind that this is a snapshot of how the 2008 Presidential election in
America was lost. And while Soros played his part, he was certainly not
the only one to fund and spawn a network of organizations. He was only the
loudest and the most willing to take responsibility for it.

As a
sideline, PowerLine has a
mention that the website of the US Consulate in Jerusalem as being all
Palestine all the time. I've
written about this in some detail before, and unfortunately it did not
begin with this administration.

Long before any negotiations have occurred, the US
Consulate General has already declared itself as Palestinian territory.
In piece after piece Israel isn't even mentioned, as if it had been
wiped off the planet as thoroughly as Saudi Arabia and the US State
Department wished it had been.

The US Consul General Jacob Walles
is listed as sending Eid al-adha greetings to the Palestinians and
Bush's Eid al-Fitr greetings are listed. no similar greetings are listed
for any Jewish holidays. The website has an Arabic language section. It
does not have a Hebrew section, despite being in a Hebrew speaking
country.

Walles commemorated Independence Day by inviting Salam
Fayyad, so-called Prime Minister of PLO's PA. No mention is made of any
Israeli officials.

Meanwhile in some
of the best of Islamic health care, dropping babies off the roof of a
mosque. I guess those honor killings have to start early.

But naturally the whole thing turned
out to be a misguided cry for access to health services

"It is also a reflection of the lack of access to health
services, that forces people to behave in this irrational manner,"
Kumari told the AP.

Clearly. The Muslim parents dropping their kids off a roof
mosque would no doubt stop if they just had more pediatric visits. Just
like the genital mutilation and honor killings have.

Eric at Tygrrr
Express has a post on Liberal
Jews and battered housewives.

Atlas has the
Shot of the Day that tells the story

Lemon Lime Moon has an
alternative version of Obama's inauguration speech

A Jew with a View has her weekly Obama watch

Obama’s bias towards the Muslim world, and against
Israel, is increasingly, painfully clear. He rants and raves when the
Israelis dare to plan a new apartment block in Jerusalem – but fumbles
and mumbles when it comes to speaking out against Iranian vote rigging
and the way the mad Mullahs are treating Iranians desperate for
change.

Hence this new feature which will appear every
week.

And to kick things off, let’s note that Obama has ordered
the State department to actually create a new appointment: U.S. Special
Representative for Muslim (Ummah) Outreach.

In other words, a
great big Dhimmi who will be a direct route via which Muslim leaders can
reach the American president.Well, isn’t that just grand?

Er,
will we also be seeing special envoys to Christianity…?How about
Judaism? Hinduism ?No…?

At Family Security Matters, a message for Congress, "Reading
Legislation is Your Job"

Gates of Vienna reports that Ireland's
multicultural madness has
hit a new low with Blasphemy Laws

Ireland has just adopted a new blasphemy law intended to
prevent the Irish from offending the sentiments of religious people in
writing and in speech. From now on it can cost you up to 190,000 kroner
(approximately $35,000 to $40,000) if you insult or criticise the
religions of the world. And that’s not all: The Irish police are now
legally allowed to break into people’s homes and confiscate books which
contain blasphemous elements.

As I recall the Irish Free State also banned Chaplin's The
Great Dictator as it might offend the Nazis. Now they're working just as
hard to avoid offending the new Nazis.

Meanwhile Putin seems set
for another invasion of Georgia. Russian media has circulated an official
warning about "Georgian provocations", which is usually the Russian
preamble to an invasion. Similarly the Russians warned about Finnish and
Polish provocations prior to their invasions of both
countries.

With no one in the White House, Putin is likely to think
that he can finish what he had to abort under Bush.