Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Congressional Moonbats attempt to abolish Free Speech

 
Unable to compete in the marketplace of ideas, Congressional Moonbats -- the far, far, far left of American politics -- are attempting to outlaw free speech under the auspices of "national security." Insight reports that Rep. Maurice Hinchey is spearheading an effort to stifle the only media channels espousing conservative opinion.


The targets are talk radio and Fox News. A House bill -- HR 3302 -- aims directly at the First Amendment:

At a recent National Conference for Media Reform, sponsored by Free Press, a Massachusetts-based group heavily subsidized by [George] Soros, Hinchey laid bare his plan to silence conservative voices on television and radio. The anti-war McGovernite attacked Savage, Limbaugh and other conservative radio hosts, saying they were "responsible" for leading the U.S. into the Iraq war, as well as for preparing the ground for future military invasions of Iran and Syria. According to Hinchey, these men pose a “threat” to American national security. Hence, under his bill, they would be fired.

"All of that stuff will end," Hinchey said... In the Senate, the legislation is being supported by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A self-styled “social democrat,” Sanders is forming a media caucus with the explicit goal of ending conservative hegemony on talk radio.

"Now is the time to begin asking that if networks provide their listeners with 99 percent of talk shows being with right-wing extremists, whether that really is what public trust is about," Sanders said in an address in January.

Like the Nazis during the rise of Hitler and the Soviet Union's Communists, suppression of free speech is a step towards totalitarianism. Hinchey's bill is a long stride in a similar direction.


It would be easy to assume that the prior sentence is an overstatement. It isn't. Compare Hinchey's plan to the Nazi Party's Emergency Decree, which was passed in February of 1933. The decree, "The Law for the Protection of People and the State" abolishes a variety of rights including free speech and free press.

In case public safety is seriously threatened or disturbed, the Reich President may take the measures necessary to reestablish law and order, if necessary using armed force. In the pursuit of this aim, he may suspend the civil rights described in articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153, partially or entirely.

In Hinchey's view, since Limbaugh, Savage, and company represent a "threat" to national security, civil liberties such as free speech can be suspended.

Hinchey's writing style isn't quite as polished as the Nazis, but his intent rings a bell. In the marketplace of ideas, the Democrats are utterly bankrupt. Since they can't gain an audience by competing effectively, they've resorted to Josef Goebbels' insidious tactics. That is, they'll overturn the game-board by changing the legal rules governing speech.

Hinchey's attempt at a Fourth Reich is doomed, to be sure, but his intent is emblematic of the Left Bank of American Politics. It sounds like a Bond film: a billionaire puppet-master buys control of certain politicians, who are already predisposed to blame America first.

But it's not an entertaining action flick, it's reality. The Soros-funded MoveOn.org Democratic bag-men are calling all the shots and one can only hope that the Blue Dog Democrats, Joe Lieberman, and a few remaining sensible types can rescue the Copperheads Soros-led Democratic Left before it's too late.

We win. They lose.

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Tenet's Smoking Gun links Hussein, Al Qaeda

 
It's a Democrat's worst nightmare. Mark Eichenlaub points us to a Weekly Standard article of critical importance. Author Thomas Joscelyn's "More then enough evidence" reveals several startling insights gleaned from George Tenet's new book:

...[it] confirms that there was a relationship between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda. And, according to Tenet, "there was more than enough evidence to give us real concern..."


Tenet devotes an entire chapter to the question of Iraq's ties to al Qaeda (Chapter 18, "No Authority, Direction, or Control")... [he] concedes that there was evidence of a worrisome relationship. For example, Tenet explains that in late 2002 and early 2003:

There was more than enough evidence to give us real concern about Iraq and al-Qa'ida; there was plenty of smoke, maybe even some fire: [Al-Qaeda affiliate] Ansar al-Islam; Zarqawi; Kurmal; the arrests in Europe; the murder of American USAID officer Lawrence Foley, in Amman, at the hands of Zarqawi's associates; and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad operatives in Baghdad.


The intelligence told us that senior al-Qa'ida leaders and the Iraqis had discussed safe haven in Iraq. Most of the public discussion thus far has focused on Zarqawi's arrival in Baghdad under an assumed name in May of 2002, allegedly to receive medical treatment. Zarqawi, whom we termed a "senior associate and collaborator" of al-Qa'ida at the time, supervised camps in northern Iraq run by Ansar al-Islam (AI).

...What was even more worrisome was that by the spring and summer of 2002, more than a dozen al-Qa'ida-affiliated extremists converged on Baghdad, with apparently no harassment on the part of the Iraqi government. They had found a comfortable and secure environment in which they moved people and supplies to support Zarqawi's operations in northeastern Iraq.


...More al-Qa'ida operatives would follow, including Thirwat Shihata and Yussef Dardiri, two Egyptians assessed by a senior al-Qa'ida detainee to be among the Egyptian Islamic Jihad's best operational planners, who arrived by mid-May of 2002. At times we lost track of them, though their associates continued to operate in Baghdad as of October 2002. Their activity in sending recruits to train in Zarqawi's camps was compelling enough.

There was also concern that these two might be planning operations outside Iraq. Credible information told us that Shihata was willing to strike U.S., Israeli, and Egyptian targets sometime in the future...

It strains credulity to imagine that all of this was going on without, at the very least, Saddam's tacit approval...

Read the whole thing and remember: no one tell the New York Times. They're on a monumental losing streak (market share, stock price, credibility) and no one wants them to break the cycle by having them report the truth. After all, in the Times' carefully constructed fantasy world, Saddam Hussein had nothing -- nothing! -- to do with terrorism.

8000 Years

 
Discerning Texan has a short, but must-read post:

I heard a really good question raised last week and it has been weighing heavily on me. The question is: When in the history of mankind have warriors (or "freedom fighters" if you are a Sean Penn fan...) systematically murdered their own people in order to try and win a war? Ever. Did the Nazi's do it? The Romans? Attila the Hun? The Kamikaze Japanese?

Think about it: History had to wait at least 8000 years for mankind to come to the point where people murdered their own women and children--not as collateral damage, but rather as an example of how barbaric or inhuman they can continue to be if we try to impose...PEACE.

A: The three dynamics which had to be in place were: a cowardly Democrat Congress had to be in power, a seditious American press had to be fanning the flames for a Republican President under unceasing attack, and an American public that will believe anything that any dishonest but articulate person on a blue screen tells them.

After the Democrats forced us from Vietnam, between 2-4 million souls were exterminated in the Vietnamese and Cambodian killing fields--by Communist regimes that the left intelligensia in the US had come to coddle. How many will die in the killing fields of Iraq if we abandon them to the monsters who devour their own on our TV screens every day? The Democrats can talk about Darfur and Rwanda all day -- but they ain't seen nothing yet. And they won't be able to blame this one on Bush.

Man, I just quoted the whole post. Sorry about that, but it's too good to excerpt. Go ye therefore hence and suckle at the Texan Teat of Wisdom.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Cowbung Offsets help fight global warming

 
The Sun reports that European governments are doing their part to curb global warming. British members of Parliament have asked the European Commission to examine, "the livestock question in direct connection with global warming":

The official EU declaration demands changes to animals’ diets, to capture gas emissions and recycle manure...

They warned: "The livestock sector presents the greatest threat to the planet."

Al Gore's new invention -- the Cow-Cork™ -- promises to help address the problem. The Cow-Cork can capture an entire day's worth of cow emissions in a compact, cost-effective form-factor.


However, the splinter group called People Against the Slavish Subjugation of Germs, Animals, and Stones (or PASS-GAS, for short) are protesting the plan. They claim that the act of capturing and harnessing innocent animals' air biscuits is a fundamental violation of their rights.

PASS-GAS spokesperson Flower Moonbeam stated that, "these animals don't launch 'trouser trumpets' voluntarily. They may rattle a few windows from time to time and sound a 'cheek flapper' on occasion. But let's be fair. They're not inside the house blasting 'floorboard lifters' or sealing the car windows in pursuit of a 'rolling Dutch Oven'.

We therefore believe that humans should buy Cowbung offsets, the livestock equivalent of Carbon Offsets. Animals should break free, like the wind. And people everywhere can help, simply through their purchase of Cowbung offsets, which are on sale now at Cowbunga.com."

Al Gore was unavailable for comment at press time.


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The Tenet quote you won't see in the New York Times

 
Lorie Byrd, writing at Wizbang, takes note of a curiously underreported segment of 60 Minutes' Tenet interview:

SCOTT PELLEY, CBS' "60 MINUTES": January '03, the President, again: "imagine those 19 hijackers this time armed by Saddam's Hussein," is that what you're telling the President?

GEORGE TENNET: No.

[narrating voice]

The Vice President up the anty, claiming Saddam had nuclear weapons when the CIA was saying he didn't.

PELLEY: What's happening here?

TENNET: I don't know what's happening here. The intelligence community's judgement is he will not have nuclear weapons until the year 2007, 2009.

PELLEY: That's not what the Vice President is saying.

TENNET: Well I can't explain it.

Am I missing something or did Tenet basically say that if Saddam had been left in power, it is likely he would have a nuclear weapon today?

...Maybe Pelley and Tenet think we should have waited until 2007 to address that threat, then if our estimates were off by a year or three and Saddam had the bomb in 2004, then oopsie, tough break.

Bill Clinton will be named Pope before we'll see The New York Times call attention to this aspect of the Tenet interview or several other trivial little details:
  • At least 20 serious attacks on the U.S. thwarted by CIA (analysts say far more in total)
  • Al Qaeda made two attempts to get nukes from Pakistan
  • Al Qaeda called off a subway gas attack in NYC because "a bigger and better attack" was being planned
  • Bush argued heavily with the so-called "neocons" over what to do about Iraq
And don't look for a related op-ed with the byline of Maureen Dowd on it. Her pathetic, partisan excretions need to include four or more references to the terms "Wolfie", "Rummie", and "Bushies" for her to consider it giggle-worthy-cute.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Line o' the Day: John Edwards' Brutal Workout

 
Dean Barnett nominates his 2008 campaign quote of the day! While it's still early, I'd tend to think that this is the odds-on favorite to take the overall crown.

...our winning quote of the day comes from a NYT Magazine interview with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons:

I talk to John Edwards more than I talk to any [other Presidential candidate]. He has said more things about the conditions we need to think about. He went to yoga with me. He did the whole class, an hour and a half. He sweated like crazy. He's in good shape, but it was hard on him.

Yes, you've guessed it. We've got an exclusive shot of John sweatin' to the oldies in a brutal, testosterone-laced yoga workout.

Oops. You're right: Richard -- not Russell -- Simmons was responsible for Sweatin' to the Oldies. My bad. Oh -- and a big hat tip to Larwyn, who notes that Edwards' position may explain some of the Dems' pretzel logic.

Meet the Press: Harry Reid's Plan for America

 
Senator Reid, many on the right side of the aisle took you to task for saying the war is 'lost'. How do you respond to your critics?

No one wants to succeed in Iraq more than I do, but this war cannot be won militarily. It must be won diplomatically, via earmarks, and backroom political corner-cutting.

But can negotiation be expected to dampen the ever-growing threat of global extremism?

We on the left side of the aisle believe war never solved anything.

You mean 'war never solved anything' except for ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism?

Don't be a smart-ass, Tim. You know what I mean.

Not sure that I do, Senator. How does calling the war 'lost' help anyone but Al Qaeda?

The truth will set you free, Tim. How can our military possibly stand up to the terr-- uhm, insurgents' -- awful weapons of AK-47s, suicide bomb-belts, and old artillery shells? Their weapons are too powerful, their tactics too sophisticated, and their goals too evil for us to prevail!

Senator, where do we draw a line in the sand, so to speak? Global Islamic totalitarianism has been on the march since 1979 with the Iranian Hostage crisis and continues to escalate...

We Democrats and our friends in the mainstream media believe that terrorism is a criminal enterprise. We think the RICO statute and the prosecution of Junior Soprano are lynchpins in our anti-terror operations.

So you would treat the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, Bali, Beslan, Madrid, London, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Israel, Mumbai, Kashmir, Thailand, Darfur, Somalia, Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines as criminal investigations?

Exactly. These are all separate incidents that require their own, independent investigations. And that's why we've demanded that the President ask the City of Las Vegas for access to CSI's Gil Grissom, Nick Stokes, and Catherine Willows.

Errr... but, Senator, they're fictional characters. They're not real forensic detectives.

No matter -- think how impressed the media will be... think of the photo opps... when that team steps off a private jet in Abu Dhabi or wherever the next terrorist attack is! Picture this: a closeup of Catherine de-planing. She's wearing sun-glasses, walking down the steps in a desert wind, her hair framing her face, her clothes whipping about her, accentuating her figure, her leather chaps gently caressing her thighs...

Back to Iraq, though - what do you say to critics who point out that actual military losses pale in comparison to typical peacetime fatalities?

Like Twain said, there are lies, damn lies, and damn right wing conspiracy statistical lies.

But, sir, how would you deal "diplomatically" with terrorists who seek our destruction?

Oh, that's easy, Tim! We seek out moderate terrorists!

Moderate terrorists?

Yes, they only blow up old people and farm animals.

So, if we do negotiate a withdrawal with moderate terrorists, how do you propose to protect the U.S. from the real extremists, who are likely to strengthen and follow us back here?

I'm glad you asked that, Tim. I call my plan Operation Invisible Maginot Fence. It involves building a series of fortified installations at all major ports -- something this administration was loathe to do -- that can protect the American people from nuclear weapons, hurricanes, and Wal-Mart's low-cost imports.

Well, thank you for your time, Senator Custer -- I mean Senator Reid. I know you have a pressing appointment...

Indeed I do. I've got an interview with Al-Jazeera television. And I'm hoping to take my message -- that the war is lost -- directly to the Arab street in the hopes that the terr-- uhm, insurgents -- leave us alone. I call this Operation Neville Pelosi Chamberlain and it's guaranteed to succeed, at least until the '08 elections are over!


Update: Welcome Gateway Pundit, Pajamas Media, and Wizbang readers! At right you'll find some additional illustrated posts, including Presidential Jeopardy and Al Gore's Second Annual Carbon Offset Going-out-of-business-Sale!.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

The Democratic Position-o-meter

 
It's Hillary and the Triangulators... in Concert!

If this pathetic posse of triangulators shifted shapes more often, they'd be considered a new species.

Lewis Black on Hollywood Enviro-frauds

 

This clip from Comedy Central is an instant classic (hat tip: Newsbusters).

Al Gore in concert

 
The Earth has got a fever and the only cure is more cowbell. Or maybe some carbon offsets, which will do about as much good as the cowbell.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Harry Reid through history


Reid at Valley Forge: But, General Washington, this war is lost, I tell you! General Cornwallis will treat us with dignity if we only raise the white flag now!

Reid with William Henry Harrison: Tippecanoe and surrender, too!

Reid at Gettysburg: Four score and seven years, my a**! This war was lost three years ago!

Reid at the onset of the Spanish-American War: Remember the Maine... and the fact that it's time we surrendered! ¿Se Habla Español?

Reid in the Argonne Forest: Over here! Over here! We are losing badly over here!

Reid at Pearl Harbor: Do you see? Do you see?? How can we possibly fight the Imperial Japanese war machine? This war is over!

Reid during an Alien Invasion: It's pointless to fight these beasts! We must surrender to survive!

* * *

If the likes of Harry Reid had accompanied George Washington in 1776, we'd still be subjects of the British crown.

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Line o' the Day


"What I think Senator Reid has lost sight of...
Presidents don't lose wars.
Political parties don't lose wars.
Nations lose wars.
And, when nations lose wars, nations suffer."

                          --Senator John McCain, April 24, 2007 (hat tip: Gateway Pundit)

Monday, April 23, 2007

Al Gore's latest plan to combat Global Warming



Ha. Ah'm Al Gore. As you know, it's gettin' hotter than hell around here.


That's why I've been telling y'all about global warming.


Skeptics will tell you that because the Earth exists in the Sun's "atmosphere," solar cycles are responsible for warming the Earth.


Let me assure you that is utter propaganda designed to damage my --er-- the world's investment in carbon offsets.


I'll admit, though, that the Sun is playing a minor role, a very minor role -- after humans, of course -- in warming the Earth.


But one of my inventions -- no, it's not the Internet, silly! -- may be able to solve the problem.


I'm talking Gore-Tex™, my miraculous invention made of recycled Llama hair and space-age petroleum byproducts.


I've devised a plan to use Gore-Tex to shield the Earth from the Sun's harmful rays.


Think of it as a pair of Ray-Bans™ for our beloved Earth Goddess Gaia.


With my new foundation, Al Gore's Mission to the Sun, we're planning on a space-shuttle launch to deploy an enormous Gore-Tex shield that can protect the Earth from getting metaphorical skin cancer.

With its adjustable filtering, we can change it from a "sunblock level" -- scientists call this an SPF factor -- 30 to SPF 3. This will have a dramatic impact on global warming, along with outlawing cars.


The UN and the IPCC are telling me this idea is sheer genius. That's why I'm asking for your help.


We're looking for your contributions. Anything you can spare, be it $500, $100, $20, or even some carbon offsets... anything you have would be greatly appreciated.


Visit AlGoreMissionToTheSun.com or call 1-888-555-GOREIFY for more information or to contribute.


And, pass the Mint Julep, will ya, Tipper? It's gettin' steamy in here!