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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Bush blamed for Holocaust

    I’m attempting to track down the roots of this Armenian Genocide legislation because last night, Crotchety Old Bastard and I had an email exchange over it and we arrived at the same conclusion; this is nothing more than an attempt by the Democrats to defund the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yesterday, Ralph Peters arrived at that same conclusion in the New York Sun;

    That’s what the Democrats are aiming at. This resolution isn’t about justice for the Armenians. Not this time. It’s a stunningly devious attempt to impede our war effort in Iraq and force premature troop withdrawals.

    The Dems calculate that, without those flights and convoys, we won’t be able to keep our troops adequately supplied. Key intelligence and strike missions would disappear.

    The Pentagon might be able to improvise other options. But the loss of the base and those routes would definitely hurt our troops. Severely. And we’d be more reliant than ever on a single, vulnerable lifeline running from Kuwait.

    It’s a brilliant ploy – the Dems get to stab our troops in the back, but lay the blame off on the Turks. They pretend they’re responding to their Armenian-American constituents – while actually moving to placate MoveOn.org.

    The Guardian explains the importance of Turkey to our logistical support of our own troops in the Middle East;

    Turkey, which is a major cargo hub for US and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations and warned that there might be a cut in the logistical support to the US over the issue.

    About 70% of US air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about a third of the fuel used by the US military there. US bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq’s northern Kurdish region.

    Despite the general’s strong words and the recalling of its ambassador, it is not clear just how far the Turkish side can go in expressing its dismay to Washington.

    Turkey suspended its military ties with France last year after the French parliament’s lower house adopted a bill that would have made it a crime to deny that the Armenian killings constituted a genocide.

    To set the tone for the vote, Pelosi actually used a normally nonpartisan activity in the House to push the voting her way, according to USAToday;

    Yet with the House’s first order of business Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear that Turkey’s position was a hard sell. She introduced the Supreme Patriarch of all Armenians, Karekin II, to deliver the morning prayer — a daily ritual intended to be apolitical.

    “With the solemn burden of history, we remember the victims of the genocide of the Armenians,” Karekin said in the House. “Give peace and justice on their descendants.” 

    Sneaky and underhanded. Even California Democrat and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos opposes pelosi’s latest dirt-dishing to the troops (USAToday);

    The Foreign Affairs Committee’s Chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., warned of the potential fallout if the proposal passed. Lantos, a Hungarian-born survivor of the Holocaust, supported a similar resolution two years ago.

    “We have to weigh the desire to express our solidarity with the Armenian people … against the risk that it could cause young men and women in the uniform of the United States armed services to pay an even heavier price than they are currently paying,” Lantos said. 

    When Bill Clinton asked Dennis Hastart to cancel a similar bill in 2000, Hastert conceded that Clinton had primacy in foreign policy dealings for the United States by virtue of his office and deferred to Clinton’s judgement, according to CNN:

    House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, said the resolution had been pulled after President Bill Clinton said he was “deeply concerned” about the language in the document. Clinton and Hastert talked by telephone on Wednesday night about the legislation.

    Hastert said Clinton had warned of “possible far-reaching negative consequences for the United States” if the House voted on the legislation.

    Pelosi and Steny Hoyer even visited the Turkish Ambassador before he was recalled to discuss the issue and came away the pompous idiots they’ve always been;

    Pelosi and the second-ranking Democrat in the House, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, met Wednesday with Turkish Ambassador Nabi Sensoy but emerged from the meeting unswayed. Hoyer told reporters he expects a floor vote on the measure before the House adjourns for the year.

    Hoyer said he hoped that Turkey would realize it is not a condemnation of its current government but rather of “another government, at another time.”

    Norman Markowitz takes the whole discussion one step further in Political Affairs Magazine – he blames Bush for the Holocaust of the 1930s and 40s;

    In 1931, Adolph Hitler, two years before the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship said “we intend to introduce a great resettlement policy….remember the extermination of the Armenians.” In 1939, in advocating a policy of mass killing in Poland to take the “Living Space” for Germans, he said privately to his officers, “who, after all speaks today, of the annihilation of the Armenians.

    Who does? Civilized people throughout the world for whom human rights aren’t an empty slogan. But not the Bush administration, its State Department, and its policy planners who have gone from one disaster after another in the Middle East and everywhere else.

    Hopefully, the U.S. Congress will remember.

    Remember? Historians will remember that the Democrat “leadership” (using the term loosely) are a traitorous bunch of double-dealing, back-stabbing punk-ass sissies who can’t summon the fortitude to stand up to a few squeakywheels on the internet. That’ll be their legacy.

    This isn’t my last word on this – I’ve got some interviews scheduled. 

  • Washington Post; Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled

    I know, it’s almost paralyzing, isn’t it? After a week of publishing old news on the front page of their newspaper, in the form of an expose on IEDs merely two weeks ago so they could avoid reporting the good news pouring out of Iraq, the Washington Post finally admits that the US-led coalition has made substantial headway;

    The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq.

    It doesn’t take long for the other shoe to drop, however;

    “I think it would be premature at this point,” a senior intelligence official said of a victory declaration over AQI, as the group is known. Despite recent U.S. gains, he said, AQI retains “the ability for surprise and for catastrophic attacks.” Earlier periods of optimism, such as immediately following the June 2006 death of AQI founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a U.S. air raid, not only proved unfounded but were followed by expanded operations by the militant organization.

    The article is also followed on the front page with the story of the Washington Post reporter, Salih Saif Aldin’s, death in Baghdad.

    The 32-year-old Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post’s Baghdad bureau was shot once in the forehead in the southwestern neighborhood of Sadiyah. He was the latest in a long line of reporters, most of them Iraqis, to be killed while covering the Iraq war. He was the first for The Washington Post.
     
    “The death of Salih Saif Aldin in the service of our readers is a tragedy for everyone at The Washington Post. He was a brave and valuable reporter who contributed much to our coverage of Iraq,” said Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Post. “We are in his debt. We grieve with his family, friends, fellow journalists and everyone in our Baghdad bureau.

    Yes, it’s indeed sad, but if the Post had put even one article about a single soldier or sailor or marine or airman that had died on the front page, I wouldn’t be rolling my eyes this morning. In fact, did they run a front page story of Medal of Horor recipient SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy last week? Nope. Here’s the Post’s reportage on the page 11A column “Nation in Brief“;

    Navy Seal to Be Given Posthumous Honor

         

    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A Navy Seal who was killed while leading a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan will be given the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor. Lt. Michael P. Murphy, 29, of Patchogue on Long Island is the first Medal of Honor recipient for combat in Afghanistan, the Navy said in a statement.

    That’s it – the whole thing. It’s not even the first item in the series. Yet a 32-year-old reporter gets the front page. So my excitement at a front page story of success in Iraq is tempered by my disdain for the elitist retards at the Washington Post.

    Deebow at Blackfive noticed the same poor reportage from NYT on Lt. Murphy. Linda SoG at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy goes off on the Associated Press for ignoring our heroes and naming several they should get to know.

    I’ll continue to get my news from the internet – like this news from Iraq and this from Afghanistan, both by RTO Trainer at Protein Wisdom (h/t Ace of Spades). And Victor Davis Hanson (by way of Curt at Flopping Aces and Michele Malkin). And from Gateway Pundit who has the numbers as well as the good news.

  • Democrat mental illness on SCHIP

    Just like the Defense bill that Congress rammed through the legislative process (without compromise) three times each ending with the same result (a Presidential veto), the Associated Press writes that they’ll continue the same process with the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP);

    House Democratic leaders said Sunday they were working to gather votes to override a veto on a popular children’s health program, but pledged to find a way to cover millions without insurance should their effort fail.

    At the same time, the White House sought to chide the Democratic-controlled Congress as the obstructionists in reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. It said Democrats were the ones who had shown unwillingness to compromise.

    President Bush is “more than willing to work with members of both parties from both Houses,” deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said.

    “[W]illing to work with…both parties” – why, that sounds like non-partisanship to me.

    In talk show interviews, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer did not dispute claims by Republican leaders that the GOP will have enough votes to sustain Bush’s veto when the House holds its override vote on Thursday.

    Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Hoyer promised to pass another bipartisan bill if needed.

    So instead of just hammering out some legislation on which both parties can agree, the Democrats would rather waste their time making a political statement to their base (the lunatics and crazies who think that a family with a $60,000 annual income needs free healthcare). How does that help even one American?

    “Isn’t that sad for America’s children?” said Ms. Pelosi (D., Calif.) when asked about the GOP’s assurances the override vote will fail. “It doesn’t mean we aren’t working hard throughout the country: governors, mayors, people who deal with children on a regular basis.

    “We’ll try very hard to override it. But one thing’s for sure: We won’t rest until those 10 million children have health care,” she said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

    Horseshit. You’re not going to override the veto, so why are you wasting your time? So they can blame Republicans – don’t be surprised when there’s still no bill by November next year.

    Mr. Hoyer (D-Md.) declined to predict Thursday’s vote.

    “This is a defining moment for the Republican Party, in my opinion,” Mr. Hoyer said, before adding later: The program is “not going to die. We’re going to go back and we’re going to pass another bill.”

    Well, you’re right, Mr. Hoyer, it is a defining moment for Republicans – will they hold line against this blatant pandering by the Democrats for the votes of the ignorant, or will they do what they always do in the face of bad publicity. Fold like a cheap lawn chair. Having watched the Republicans over the last few years, my money is on the latter.

    In other news, Teddy Kennedy underwent surgery yesterday;

    Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent surgery Friday to repair a partially blocked artery in his neck, which was discovered during an examination of a decades-old back injury.

    Mr. Kennedy, 75 years old, underwent the hourlong procedure on his left carotid artery — a major supplier of blood to the neck and head — at Massachusetts General Hospital, his office announced.

    I suspect they pulled a bottle of scotch out of his neck – or a canned ham. In this after-surgery photo, Kennedy seems in good humor;

  • How to undermine US foreign policy

    Since Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to undermine our foreign policy in the Middle East didn’t quite work when she went to Syria – and then the Israelis exposed Syria’s nuclear ambitions, she’s decided to attack our allies instead of cozying up to our enemies for a change. Perhaps that’ll work a little better to destroy our efforts in the region. So out of a clear blue sky, with no rhyme, no reason, Congress decides to condemn a ninety-year-old  genocide;

    President Bush has said the resolution is the wrong response to the Armenian deaths, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the measure’s timing was important “because many of the survivors are very old.”

    “It is a statement made by 23 other countries. We would be the 24th country to make this statement. Genocide still exists, and we saw it in Rwanda; we see it now in Darfur,” she told ABC’s “This Week” in an interview broadcast Sunday.

    But Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the measure was “irresponsible.”

    “Listen, there’s no question that the suffering of the Armenian people some 90 years ago was extreme. But what happened 90 years ago ought to be a subject for historians to sort out, not politicians here in Washington,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”

    “…many are very old”, Nancy? I’ll bet none are under the age of 90 – that makes them ALL old. Although most probably look younger than you and John Murtha.

    Even a half-witted moron can see that the Democrats in Congress are trying to destroy our relations with Turkey – the same as Barack Obama threatened Pakistan. Does anyone think the Democrats might condemn Viet Nam, China or Iran for human rights abuses they’re engaged in at this moment? Nope, they rather drag up long-dead ghosts and jeopardize relations with allies – it’s much more politically popular.

    A condemnation of an event 90-years ago can serve no useful purpose – but that’s never stopped Democrats before. They’re accustomed to making empty gestures. They’re an empty party with empty ideas. The Turks are so angered, they’ve recalled their diplomat – if President Bush had provoked that reaction from China or Russia, the Dems would be screaming bloody murder.

    Although I agree that it was a horrible event and that Turkey should have the integrity to admit their culpability, I don’t think it’s so important at this late stage of our history to make a useless statement that could damage our relations with an important mostly-secular regional partner in the war against extreme Muslims in the Middle East.

    Blue Crab Boulevard quotes Ralph Peters on the same subject;

    Legislation similar to this has come up repeatedly in Congress, yet it’s always been defeated – in 2000, because of pressure from the Clinton administration. But if the resolution passes the House and Senate now, the Turks plan to evict us from Incirlik airbase in southeastern Turkey, to halt our military over-flight privileges and to shut down the supply routes into northern Iraq.

    That’s what the Democrats are aiming at. This resolution isn’t about justice for the Armenians. Not this time. It’s a stunningly devious attempt to impede our war effort in Iraq and force premature troop withdrawals.

    Devious isn’t a strong enough word, how about traitorous. It’s only an attempt to regain some credibility among their base at the expense of our ability to support soldiers in the field. That’s traitorous. 

  • Pro-junta rally camoflages arrests

    The ruling junta organized a rally in support of itself yesterday according to Reuters;

    Burma’s junta staged a massive pro-government rally in its main city yesterday and arrested a top dissident as its relentless and ruthless response to last month’s pro-democracy uprising showed no signs of easing.

    Htay Kywe, a prominent student activist from an uprising in 1988, was detained overnight with three others in one of the many raids still being conducted by police more than two weeks after soldiers were sent in to crush demonstrations.

    The 39-year-old, a leading light in the so-called “88 Generation Students Group,” had managed to remain at large since 13 of his comrades were arrested in a series of midnight swoops on Aug. 21.

    “They had felt the net closing in for several days,” a close friend, now in exile, said in Bangkok, the capital of neighboring Thailand.

    But not to worry, the UN’s envoy is enroute to coordinate a local response, according to another Reuters story;

    U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari was flying into Bangkok ahead of Monday talks with Thailand’s leaders. He was then to travel to Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China and Japan before returning to Myanmar, where the junta faces growing pressure to halt its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters and open talks with the democratic opposition.

    And the junta is very receptive to discussions with pro-democracy elements within the country as evidenced by this quote;

    “There will emerge a peaceful, modern and developed democratic nation — according to the state’s seven-step road map,” a newspaper editorial said. It added that citizens “who are shouting at full-blast” for U.N. intervention were traitors “trying to hand over their motherland to alien countries.”

    “Such national traitors will soon meet their tragic ends,” the editorial said.

    Sounds like they’re caving, huh? Well, as long as there’s nothing to threaten China’s commerce in the area, what do the members of the junta have to fear with China and Russia running a screen play for them in the Security Council. I guess no one’s going to complain about President Bush’s unilateral actions against Burma are they?

    The junta has restored internet access, but you can be sure that it’s not without a monitoring system in place;

    “The Internet connection was restored on Saturday afternoon, but we still haven’t decided whether or not to reopen our internet cafe yet,” a Yangon Internet cafe owner said.

    There had been intermittent access to the Internet over the past week, mostly during a curfew first imposed as the junta sent the army in to end protests led by thousands of Buddhist monks.

    They’re still rounding up dissidents;

    Security forces on Saturday arrested four prominent political activists who went into hiding to escape a government manhunt after leading some of the first major marches against the government several weeks ago, Amnesty International said.

    Among those detained was one of Myanmar’s most famous dissidents, Htay Kywe. Others arrested were Aung Htoo and Thin Thin Aye, also known as Mie Mie.

    The three were believed to be the last remaining activists at large from the 88 Generation Students’ Group — the country’s boldest dissident group — which was at the forefront of a 1988 democracy uprising and one of the main forces behind the protests that started in August.

    A fourth activist, Ko Ko, was also arrested, the London-based rights group said. All four were believed to have been rounded up in Yangon, the country’s main city.

    Gateway Pundit posted the shooting of a Burmese boy on Friday. Cheap Flights Asia blog reports that a London-based insurer has pulled coverage from Myanmar International Airways – the Burmese airline – effectively grounding flights from Burma. Agam’s Gecko posted a video of a multi-faith show of support for the Burmese people in northern Thailand. Five-Year.com has al-Jazeera video of interviews with Burmese dissidents in Thailand.

    Pseudonymity reports that the Butcher of Depayin (from the 2003 uprising in Burma) has died. Warrior Lawyer writes that without an internal uprising among the Burmese military, the movement is probably doomed without international pressure.

    Spanish Pundit reports that Burmese have been tortured to death;

    Members of the 88 Generation Students and other detainees who have been arrested by authorities are now being tortured in Insein interrogation center and other detention facilities.Some have been tortured to death and others have been hospitalized in serious condition, according to sources.
    A source close to authorities in Insein prison told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that many prisoners are tortured and some are now hospitalized in serious condition, including Min Ko Naing, a prominent student leader. The source requested anonymity for his safety. 

    She also writes that India, North Korea, China and Russia are still selling weapons to the Myanmar Junta.

    But it’ll end at any minute, now – the UN has issued an extremely tepid condemnation;

    “Amnesty International believes that these high-profile opposition figures are at grave risk of torture and mistreatment,” said Daniel Alberman, an Amnesty spokesman. “The eyes of the world are on Myanmar, and the authorities will be judged by how all those who have been detained in recent weeks are treated.”

    The United Nations has spearheaded an international effort to push the military, which has ruled Myanmar since 1962, to halt its crackdown and enter negotiations with detained National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

    The U.N. Security Council issued its first statement on Myanmar on Thursday, condemning the violence against protesters and emphasizing “the importance of the early release of all political prisoners and remaining detainees.” It also called for a “genuine dialogue” between the country’s military rulers and the pro-democracy opposition.

    Yeah, a “genuine dialogue”, I guess that’s not up for interpretation, is it? This has been going on since 1962 and this is the first time the UN has bothered itself enough to issue a statement? Yet how many statements has it issued against Israel and the US?

    Why isn’t the UN getting ahead of impending refugee crisis? Reports of refugees being mugged at the Thai border (by the Thai military) are rampant – why isn’t the UN setting up refugee camps if they can’t drag their bloated asses into action to prevent the exodus? Well, the easy answer is; it’s easier to ask for money from UN members when there are pictures of grisly scenes. That’s what the UN is waiting for – propaganda to hold a telethon. You’d think that people whose only job is to provide for refugees would be on top of this, wouldn’t you? (I’m assuming my readers are rational people – not UN beaurocrats)

    Just like in Darfur where hundreds of thousands are dead and millions displaced – it’s been going on for twelve years but now everyone is getting exercised over it as a fundraising tool. So let’s have a genocide conference and beg someone else to do it.

  • Hey, WaPo, you have something on your chin

    Well, if I were a Democrat, I’d probably think this is a wonderful piece that Peter Baker wrote this morning in the Washington Post entitled “Feats Divide Pair Linked by Election” comparing the paths of President Bush and Al Gore over the last seven years. But I’m not a Democrat - I’m human – and so this is just fawning drivel masquerading as front page news;

    What a difference seven years makes. The winner of that struggle went on to capture the White House and to become a wartime leader now heading toward the final year of a struggling presidency. The loser went on to reinvent himself from cautious politician to hero of the activist left now honored as a man of peace.

    For the Gore camp, it was a day of resurrection, a day to salve the wounds of history and to write another narrative that they hope will be as enduring as Florida. “We finally have their respective legacies,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a veteran of the Clinton-Gore White House. “Bush earned the Iraq war, and Al Gore earned the Nobel Prize. Who knew Al Gore would one day thank the Supreme Court for their judgment?

    “A day of resurrection”? I don’t know how many Democrats I heard say, on September 12th, 2001 that they were suddenly glad that Al Gore wasn’t the President. How the Hell do you get resurrected above that? Does anyone at the Washington Post or in the Democrat caucus really think that Gore is happier with his Nobel Prize than he would have been in the Presidency?

    I’ll tell ya, I’m happier that he got the Nobel Prize than I would be if he was President – but Gore isn’t. He thinks he deserved the Presidency, he tried to undermine the electoral process to get it. It wasn’t so hard to undermine the Nobel Committee.

    We deserve a Nobel Peace prize for not choking Gore after having to listen to his whining about losing for the last seven years.

    Perhaps Ari Fleischer said it best, in the Post article;

    “I’m sure the president, and many Republicans, roll their eyes about how political the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming,” said former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer. “For Al Gore, it’s a high honor. But for what’s probably a growing group of Americans, the Nobel Peace Prize comes coated with some strong political veneer.”

    Imagine, people might actually be thinking that the Nobel Committee isn’t the high and mighty arbiter of what’s important to the rest of the people in the world.

    Newsbusters’ Brent Baker reports similar knob-slobbering at the Big Three networks last night.

    Thank goodness that Michael Goldfarb reads “The Plank” so I don’t have to.

  • GWU prez; no expulsion for hateful seven

    George Washington University President Steven Knapp has already decided that there will be no expulsion for the seven little wantwits who posted fliers around GWU that proclaimed “Hate Muslims? So Do We!” according to David C. Lipscomb of the Washington Times;

    George Washington University President Steven Knapp has no plans to take disciplinary action against a group of students involved in an anti-Muslim flier hoax, a university spokeswoman said yesterday.

    “We have established judicial policies and procedures,” university spokeswoman Tracy Schario said. “I am confident that President Knapp will let them take their course.”

    However, Mr. Knapp “reserves the right to intervene” in the university’s student-judicial process, she said.

    Intervene in what? You mean just in case the student body decides to hang them from a crane above a flatbed truck? This is just a prelude to nothing happening.

    Jason Mattera, spokesman for the national conservative group Young America’s Foundation said Mr. Knapp’s inaction shows political bias and is unfair to the campus chapter of the group, whose name was inserted the fliers.

    “He’s going to expose himself as a liar,” Mr. Mattera said. “When it first emerged, he said we’re not going to tolerate it. Now that it turns out it’s liberals he’s going to show where his political views lie.”

    Yeah, this is a typical Leftist trick – they’ll just keep making promises until everyone forgets about it – then when finally questioned they smuggly quip that it’s “old news”.

    Mr. Mattera thinks a hearing would not be necessary because the students have admitted to posting the fliers and said they should be suspended immediately.

    The Washington Times reported Wednesday that the university’s Student Association Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger wrote a letter saying he would “support expulsion.”

    Got news for ya, guys, nothing will happen to spoiled little brat Adam Kokesh – like John Murtha, he is under protection of the worn out hags of Code Pink and the ANSWER sheep. Anything he does will have those barren, childless pimps’ approval – and the permission of gutless sissies like Steven Knapp. But you can bet cash money that if YAP ever steps out of line, they’ll be off campus so fast, the Blue Line train couldn’t catch up to them.

    In fact, if we look back to Tuesday, Knapp said about the incident (before Kokesh fessed up);

    “We do not condone, and we will not tolerate, the dissemination of fliers or other documents that vilify any religious, ethnic, or racial group,” Knapp said in the release. “This flier does not represent, in any way, shape or form, the views of the administration of GW.”

    Another Knapp quote before the Kokesh admission;

    University President Steven Knapp said in a statement, “There is no place for expressions of hatred on our campus.”

    Looks like he changed his tune, huh? Cuz it sure sounds like he’s tolerating it now. When students thought it was conservatives, they sang a different ditty, too;

    Kareem Shibib, a senior from Cornell University who came to gathering after hearing about the poster, said that the flyer is racist.

    Â “I think this is a rather overt form of racism,” Shibib said. “What is important (is) to look further into this.”

    Another muslim student;

    “I was really shocked that this sort of hatred exists on our campus. You never think this would come so close to home, from people you’re in classes with. it’s scary,” a New York Muslim student, Najah El Bash, a leader of the conservative Muslim Student Association was quoted as saying

    When everyone suspected YAF, it was hatred. But suddenly it’s Kokesh and everthing is just fine and dandy. Naked hypocrisy.

  • Inconvenient facts; Gore gets Nobel Prize for propaganda

     

    Photo from Comedy Central’s South Park

    DrewM at Ace of Spades linked the video 

    Well, we all knew it’d happen, didn’t we? The Nobel Prize committee awarded Al Gore the prize for his manbearpig documentary;

    Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
     
    Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.

    “His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change,” the citation said. “He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”

    The fact that British courts even decided last week that the documentary is full of inaccuracies, it didn’t deter the committee from making the politically-correct decision;

    A British judge has ruled the Oscar-winning film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” contains “nine errors.”

    High Court Judge Michael Burton, deciding a lawsuit that questioned the film’s suitability for showing in British classrooms, said it builds a “powerful” case that global warming is caused by humans and that urgent means are needed to counter it.

    But he also said former Vice President Al Gore, the documentary’s moderator, makes nine statements in the film that are not supported by current mainstream scientific consensus.

    And the “inaccuracies”? Curt from Flopping Aces enumerates;

    • The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming.  The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
    • The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years.  The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
    • The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
    • The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
    • The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice.  It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
    • The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
    • The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching.  The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
    • The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously.  The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
    • The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
    • The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
    • The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand.  The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

     

    The Nobel Prize panel is merely following a precedent they set sometime ago, though. They gave the Peace Prize to the blood-drenched terrorist Yassir Arafat, and Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency for making the world a more dangerous place by ignoring Iran’s march towards nuclear weapons, they might as well give a science prize to someone who makes a science film that has no science in it.

    Greg Gutfield has a similar take;

    Winning the Nobel Peace prize is like getting Miss Congeniality — it’s saying: Nice job, now leave the building, you homely pig. It’s why Arafat and Jimmy Carter each won one. It was the only way to get them off the stage without a giant hook.

    Junk Science writes;

    Since Al Gore was offered the opportunity (in person) to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 1 year, 9 months, 1 week, 20 hours, 1 minute, and 56 seconds have elapsed.

    From Hot Air;

    There are few things more important to the American left than the approval of the international left (a.k.a. “the way the world sees us”), though, which is why this really will turn up the volume on the “draft Gore” nonsense. 

    Michele Malkin has a link roundup full of more inconvenient truths. 

    Fausta calls it the “Norwegian Badge of Uselessness”

    Don Surber reports the proper way to receive the news of your Nobel Prize. Persia-born British citizen and new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is now being claimed by Iran according to Kamangir. Apparently this another Zionist plot.

    Jammie Wearing Fool uncovers the guy that sells Al Gore his carbon credits.

    Protein Wisdom’s Karl tells “A Tale of Two Oslos”

    Wall Street Journal has the Norwegian Noble Committee Peace Prize 2007 citation.

    Past winners from Associated Press;

    • 2007: Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    • 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded
    • 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency
    • 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya
    • 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran
    • 2002: Jimmy Carter, U.S.
    • 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
    • 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea
    • 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
    • 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland
    • 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, U.S.

    The Washington Post records Gore’s reaction to the announcement;

    In a brief public appearance in California, Gore vowed to use the award to increase awareness and push for a more urgent response to climate change.
    “It truly is a planetary emergency, and we have to respond quickly,” he said.
     

    I’m super serial. Excelsior!

    Footnote: I’m honored that PajamasMedia picked this post up this morning – especially since this was my first-ever post written while still in my pajamas. I guess I’ve arrived.