Fakers

Hm., why is it that John Conyers who sounds like a complete idiot, never attracts any criticism or derision - while hatemongers pretending to be sensitive and concerned citizens will spend 5 years repeating that Bush is an idiot?

They know this presumably by taking a pair of calipers to the heads of people in majority Republican districts or some other such new-fangled 18th century science...

The point is that when John Conyers drilled an Assistant Attorney General (testifying for the Department of Justice) at a hearing discussing the extension of the Patriot Act and brings up the Abu Greib affair, he must have known that its a matter for the Department of Defense, not the Department of Justice.

No matter if he did or didnt. It makes no difference to me if Conyers is ignorant enough to ask such a question, or that Conyers thinks that his political supporters who wanted to hear the question asked are ignorant it happened, and the media didnt carry it, not even the reflexive Bush-haters at Pacifica Radio. Even that non-addictive sedative C-SPAN snuffed it, probably out of sympathy for a man who embarrassed himself.

While theyll be blanketly critical of the president, theyll gladly trombone any of Bushs opponents, no matter how inept and overblown they are, and go as far as call meme pimper Randi Roades brilliant if it props up their tender egos.

If you aren't sold yet on the concept of the propaganda of the middle-minded left, compare THIS to THIS on PBS which has been giving trobone lessons for decades, is as much of a non-profit entity as Adnan Khashoggi is, and only behaves evenhandedly during pledge drives.

Democrats have failed the U.S. public - they should be engaging in debate with the majority instread of navel gazing at the top of their lungs. They're supposed to be the argumentative check and balance in a time of change. Instead they act like they need to have their heads checked, and quite frankly given their predeliction of talking about how oh-so-very bright they and their agendas are, they have yet to prove it.

First you have to make something to give away

Finally, a group of people who wont be bullied with counterintuitive recreational compassion. Some clear thinkers finally start a free market, social agenda neutral" investment fund, so that someone can actually make something to give away.

Still feeding on each other

Neocoms has-beens are still fighting over Trosky's icepick.

Reuters poses cheesy glamorshots for psychopathic suicide murderers

From the Captain’s Quarters blog:

«What caught my eyes were the fact that the "insurgent" had his finger off the trigger and along the frame (excellent safety practice, but something not expected of an untrained insurgent, especially in a firefight). The second thing was that fact that he had his hand wrapped around the barrel, which would be very hot is he were actually firing it (especially during the summer in Iraq). The Machine gun in the picture is a Russian PK, which fires the powerful, long rimmed 7.62 cartridge, not the lighter intermediate round of the AK-47. Speaking as a "gun nut, firing such a machine gun in automatic while in that crouched position would put you on your rear end, with the barrel pointing towards the sky.

In short, this smells of a "staged" picture.»

When does the documentary glorifying their "bravery" come out?

The modern orientalist seeking fame and forture

Jewish cemetery hit by 117th attack in 15 years

The Guardian reports on the west Ham Jewish cemetery which has gone unmolested for more than a century, but hit by 117th attack in 15 years. West Ham is well known to football fans, but to neo-nazis and jew-haters?

«It is the 117th attack on the West Ham Jewish cemetery in east London in 15 years. Some of the graves had stood for 150 years but were pushed over or broken over the last 10 days. Others were daubed with graffiti, or sprayed with swastikas.»

Only in the last 15 years. 1990... 1991.... lets see... about the time the rock throwing craze in praise of including the Death-cult gang branch of the Palestinians in the "never-ending revolution" took hold on a large scale at the Unis. While they're whining about not holding a book with both hands, they barely make mention of ces cons who desacrate graves to insult the living.

«"Whoever did this would have had to have put some real effort in to push the stones over because they are deep in the ground. That is one thing that is so upsetting. These idiots have tried really hard to do damage. They have kicked in the door to a 19th century mausoleum dedicated to two members of the Rothschild family and have spray-painted a swastika ... on the side.

"These graves have been here in peace for 120 years and these mindless thugs have ruined that forever."»

Anti-capitalists, maybe? People envious that others manage to make a living on their own wits and effort?

Does it even matter with cowardly wankers who take their troubles out on the dead?

Born impotent	L'impuissance innée
Remember those idiotic sites after Bush's re-election where people held up little signs apologizing for their own impotence? Now the French are doing the same thing following the referendum.	Souvenez-vous de ces sites à la con suite à la réélection de Bush où les gens demandait pardon pour leur propre impuissance? A présent, ce sont les franchouilles qui s'y mettent.

Son, can you SMELL that, can you smell the mendacity?

The normally reasonable Johann Hari seems to have drunk the Indy Kool-Aid of America envy, joining the BBC in a habit of simply making up data to prop up a flawed concept.

Expat Yanks Robert Tumminello and Scott “Tiberius” Burgess notice especially poignant “vernal pools” of hateful invention:

«Mr. Hari immediately reveals himself to be one of the uncomprehending masses, severely misrepresenting administration policy with his claim that:

"If you are an organisation in Africa seeking a single dollar of US funds, you have to agree that - across your entire organisation - you will sign up to the evangelical agenda."

An evangelical agenda which, according to Mr. Hari, holds that "you must never 'promote promiscuity' by handing out condoms or vigorously promoting their use."

Mr. Hari needs to inform USAID, the primary administrator of American aid for Africa, as they've been consistently violating this evil no-condom policy - more so, in fact, than any organisation in the world….

…As a matter of fact, not only does the organisation support condom use, but, as the New York Times reported in 2004 - in an article headed "Bush Backs Condom Use To Prevent Spread of AIDS" (seemingly missed by Mr. Hari) - donations of condoms by USAID nearly tripled from 1999 to 2004, making that organisation (again, the primary means by which US aid is distributed) the world's largest condom donor. Mr. Hari's description of a concerted administration policy to "assault and undermine the providers of condoms" is simply ridiculous.»

Scott also points out that USAID is the largest distributer of condoms in the world. He also points out that they have a policy of not funding abortion as a birth control method, something which is compatible with virtually every person’s view of the world unless they live in Europe and North America.

Hari, in an effort to laud the greatness of the holy capucha, the most virtuous and divine preservatif, simply cant lie quickly enough to not be caught out by a guy who holds down a real job and doesn’t write political tripe for a living. Never mind that those hideous results that show that the most densely Catholics parts of Africa are least likely to be have rapid and widespread communication of HIV/AIDS.

Robert finds the Beeb trying hard to form a Zappa cover band as a mother of invention:

«Standing next to [General] Pace, Rumsfeld said nothing to contradict or to embelish on any of that.

Well, he didn't until he appeared on BBC's Newsnight, when he SUPPOSEDLY told us the following -- according to the BBC web site:

Iraq 'no more safe than in 2003'

Now, what does that title and those introductory lines indicate to you? That's right, that Rumsfeld said those words verbatim. Indeed, when I first read this page, I thought, "Wow! He said what?"

Then, seconds later, realizing it is the BBC after all, and that they are only single stroke quotes, I went looking anyway for that exact phrase . . . which had led me to believe, based on the opening lines that followed, that Rumsfeld had said that. No good. It appears NOWHERE in the piece as a Rumsfeld quote.»

If the likes of the Indy and the BBC didn’t keep inviting people to shoot fish in a barrel, they wouldn’t. Readers can smell the mendacity.

An educationally useful hoax?

Michel L., a ¡No Pasaràn! reader, sent us the follow note and a link to a foolish busybody activity which is both scientifically misguided, and quite thankfully ineffective. It seems to come from the old joke about what sort of earthquake you’d get if everyone in China jumed off of a chair at the same time. Speaking to this idiotic “Jump Day” after school activity, Michel writes:

«Apparently, liberals have found a way not only to reduce global warming, but also to extend daytime (how this is a good thing I don't know), create a more homogenous climate on Earth and still help the poor people of the third world.

Now, I'm just a humble electronics engineer and my knowledge in such matters is very limited. But, do these people even know the disaster it would be if the Earth were to change its orbit just slightly? We're talking tsunamis and typhoons everywhere.

Plus, 600,000 people jumping at the same time could hardly create enough energy to match a mild earth quake.»

Sounds more like a conspiracy started by podiatrists and orthopedic surgeons. Never mind the anger about blaming man for natural changes in the jet-stream - these folks want to unionize the air molucules and SHUT IT DOWN!

They don’t like cars, fireplaces, or industry thinking that it’s too much of a risk, but they want to alter the earth’s orbit? Oddly enough, they speak to the childish mentality of activists – everything that they don’t understand in the world is wrong – it MUST change, regardless of what it changes into or however disasterous that might be.
Don’t you think that this needs some serious scientist to look at the matter, and say, a global referendum, including animal? The problem with this anti-intellectual view that they have is that science is only used as a convenient excuse when a movement can get a scientific group to say what they want it to, but not when they don’t. It also always seems to be based on some whim which passes for a solution to something people are feeling.

What will it be a year later? Jumping the earth back into its’ original orbit?

Another fallacy is that it doesn’t understand the scale of man’s effect on nature, which if you have a hatefully inflated notion of yourself and the human race is wildly inflated.

Do these same people think that they’re living harmoniously with the nature that they pretend to care about if they try to change earth’s orbit? The reason we are not as barren and lifeless as our neighboring planets IS that orbit. Does they think that this make us a rogue planet not worthy of Mars’ goodwill? Do we need to destroy ourselves to be fair and stop making some other rock orbiting the sun less envious?

The mind boggles! Like the sandal and army bag wearing fakers you knew in high-school that were pained with worries about the earth, but struggled with algebra, these folks don't deserve to be ignored, they need to have their argument undercut to inspire some rationalism.

Tfeh!

But if NOT, what we have here is a wonderful setup - the groundwork for breakthrough moments for the sort of Greenie that goes along with the latest trendy complaint. Like the precience of the great Sokol suckering of '96, when the nuts rooting for the uses of a "scientific" effort for their political goals realize that they need sound science behind science, minds will change themselves.

Trailer trash nation	Les Sous-Doués en vacances se font l'Europe
'We must not let our greatness flicker'. What a joke. The French are happy to watch a DVD at home, go away on a cheap holiday, and gaze at their pierced navels. Other than that, don't bother them.	'Il ne faut pas laisser ... notre grandeur'. Quelle blague. Les franchouilles sont contents de regarder des DVD chez eux, s'éclipser de temps en temps en Framtour, et se contempler le piercing. A part ça, plus la peine de les déranger.

The hysteria that the world’s hyper-power must be perfect or it is no good is in dire contrast to the treatment given to China

The world has been recently flooded with media accounts that U.S. soldiers may have dropped or at least gotten wet a few Korans

writes Victor Davis Hanson (Shih-sheh to Stavn Piranha), although I fear his last sentences are too optimistic.

Abu Ghraib, we are told, is like the Soviet gulag — the death camp of millions. Americans are routinely pilloried abroad because they liberated Iraq, poured billions into the reconstruction, and jumpstarted democracy there — but were unable to do so without force and the loss of civilian life.

This hysteria that the world’s hyper-power must be perfect or it is no good is in dire contrast to the treatment given to China. Yet Pavlovian anti-Americanism may soon begin to die down as the Chinese increasingly flex their muscles on the global stage and the world learns better their methods of operation.

…The Patriot Act to a European is proof of American illiberality in a way that China’s swallowing Tibet or jailing and executing dissidents is not. America’s support for Saudi Arabia is proof of our hypocrisy in not severing ties with an undemocratic government, while few care that a country with leaders who traverse the globe in Mao suits cuts any deal possible with fascists and autocrats for oil, iron ore, and food.

…As nations come to know the Chinese, and as a ripe Europe increasingly cannot or will not defend itself, the old maligned United States will begin to look pretty good again. More important, America will not be the world’s easily caricatured sole power, but more likely the sole democratic superpower that factors in morality in addition to national interest in its treatment of others.

China is strong without morality; Europe is impotent in its ethical smugness. The buffer United States, in contrast, believes morality is not mere good intentions but the willingness and ability to translate easy idealism into hard and messy practice.

Most critics will find such sentiments laughable or naïve; but just watch China in the years to come. Those who now malign the imperfections of the United States may well in shock whimper back, asking for our friendship. Then the boutique practice of anti-Americanism among the global elite will come to an end.

Cal Thomas has more on the gathering threat of China…

Une maxime française (?)

There is a French maxim saying nothing kills as surely as ridiculousness

writes John Vinocur in the International Herald Tribune.

It probably goes back to the royal court at Versailles where the wrong ruffle, or faulty flounce, or stocking hue (not peach, you fool, but apricot! ) first meant hilarity, then dead men walking.

Much the same rule seems to pertain to European politics in 2005. Ridiculousness continues to look lethal.

I'm thinking of a separation from reality these days that overwhelms the acceptably contradictory and becomes grotesque - the equivalent of generals ordering their vanquished armies to defend destroyed fortifications to the death.

This is not insisting that politics should survive without contradictions and maneuvering, which, like digressions, are often the best part of the story.

But after the rejection of the European Union's constitution in referendums in France and the Netherlands, and Gerhard Schröder's mortifying defeat in a regional election in Germany's biggest state, there is a degree of political slippage, a mortal skid, really, whirling Schröder and Jacques Chirac at the heart of Europe in the direction of the absurd.

The […] French-German-supported diversion might successfully offload attention for the moment from Chirac and Schröder's leadership to Tony Blair's supposed budgetary intransigence. But it concretizes a kind of ridiculousness - offering, instead of a ruthless post-mortem discussion, the deathly internal EU tactics that Europeans have now shown they despise and that the president and chancellor just may not outlive.

In any event, neither man will die from an overload of coherence.

From fear of popular revolt, Chirac and his novice prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, are quixotically saying that no economic reform will be allowed in France that would challenge the 1960s welfare state apparatus they insist on calling the "French social model."

Schröder, in turn, claims he will defend the thin structural reforms he has undertaken. But he bases his argument for new elections in September on his reported confession to the German federal president - who will decide in July if the national vote can go ahead in September - that his own Social Democratic and Green parliamentary majority no longer has confidence in his course!

… Not everybody takes this on straight-faced. Elements of Chirac's Gaullist party openly mock his sworn "social model" bottom line. Patrick Devedjian, a right-hand man to Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's president, said over the weekend: "The French social model isn't a model, because no one wants to emulate it. It's not social, because it's caused record unemployment."

… In the middle of this, the following brainstorm: Villepin, who had toyed publicly with the idea two years ago, said in his first major policy speech that the countries ought to move toward a French-German Union in "specific political areas." Whacked upside the head by this added incongruity, Schröder's government first responded that it "is not on the current agenda."

In fact, if Villepin is talking airily about union, it's a next-to-ridiculous concept in real time. The French have no plans to share their most treasured international lever with their neighbors: Take it on good authority, it was French insistence earlier this month that led Germany to drop its demand for UN Security Council veto-power from its very shaky bid for a council seat. …

Speaking of ridicule, Roger Cohen listed 10 points about the Constitution that "have become clear", even before the French vote took place. Nr. 7 was:

The U.S. Constitution begins with the phrase "We the People of the United States." The German, in its first sentence, says "The German people have adopted, by virtue of their constituent power, this constitution." But the EU constitution begins by saying that "His Majesty, the king of the Belgians" and other European heads of state have "agreed on the following dispositions." The French, in their unease over the treaty, have seized on something antidemocratic in its drafting and presentation. By so doing, they have already done Europe a service.

Cough up the explanations and the loot	Rendre compte et rendre gorge
Give back the cash.	Rendez l'oseille.

There are other ways to do this

"Untiring public campaign for hostages' release": a display of the european mainstream left wing public's delusion that having a baloon festival would accomplish something, or that the captors would be 'tuned in' to their view of the world or even care.

How self-inflated does ones' self-image have to be to think that this could accomplish anything?

The facts are found (or not found) elsewhere: the government denies paying blood money fo rtheir release (which guarantees a repetition of this kidnapping kabuki), but since they are mum about the terms of release, we have to rely on their history of dealing with these things as a guide.

Then again, if all it took was money, why did it take 5 months to find out who they needed to deal with? And what does France now owe the Syrians or a network of the shady leftovers from the Ceausescu era?

I thought it was a freak show	Moi, je croyais qu'elle était une foire aux atrocités
Europe becomes a sideshow.	L'Europe n'est plus qu'une attraction de foire.

Soon appearing at Dangerfield's	Bientôt au Palais des Glaces
Florence provided some good stand up comedy yesterday. Libération head honcho was on hand to call the shots and hopefully prop up newspaper sales which have tanked since the campaign for the referendum.	Hier, Florence a fait un beau one man show. Serge July était là, histoire de tirer les ficelles et booster un peu les ventes de Libé qui ont pris un coup depuis la campagne pour le référendum.

Another successful five year plan enabled for Sino-french relations

France and China are reinforcing relations and improving the means of contact with the technical miracle of a direct flight - which is a first commercial flight for this aircraft.

It's so nice to see these bonds develop. Especially in a shiny brand spanking new Air France Boeing 777-300, the only maker of a commercial aircraft that can pull this off.

Incessant bluster from Airbus Boeing was noticably absent.

I see a pile of shit	Moi, je vois un tas de merde
Asia looks at Europe and sees pitfalls. Canada no longer sees a credible alternative social model.	L'Asie porte son regard sur l'Europe et elle ne voit que des écueils à éviter. Canada n'y voit plus un crédible modèle social alternatif.

For this kind of stuff they have plenty of energy	Pour ce genre de magouille, ils dépensent une énergie folle
Racism, denunciations, anonymous tipsters. The full richness of French society stands out in this article which tells how courageous French resistants gave chase to Portuguese workers employed in France. Outstanding.	Le racisme, la délation, et les corbeaux. Toute la panoplie des richesses de la société franchouille est mise en relief dans cet article qui raconte comment les braves résistants fwançais s'en ont pris à des travailleurs portugais employés en France. Jouissif.

The Bitch is Back
So the cunt is out. We can soon expect her anti-American, pro-terrorist rants to resume for her commie rag newspaper. Libération is milking this for all it is worth. According to Marianne, Libération's PropagandaStaffel circulation is down 20% since they adopted their haughty pro-Yes stance for the referendum.	Comme ça la roulure est sortie. Nous pouvons nous attendre à la reprise de ses diatribes anti-américaines et pro-terroristes dans son torchon pour cocos. Serge July essaie de tirer un max de fric de cette histoire. Selon Marianne, la circulation de Libé PropagandaStaffel est en chute libre (-20%) depuis que le journal a appelé, de façon fort hautaine, à voter Oui au référendum.