British Cops Terrorized by Muslim Fanatics

This below video shows who is in charge on the streets of British cities. Watch as this crazy fanatic rails against "unbelievers" with a megaphone on a public street. Watch what happens when cops try to intervene. Then ask yourself what has happened to Great Britain.




Are you willing to submit to this? I am not.

Random Shots in the Dark (11)

I may not be blogging much longer, folks. I am submitting my name to the Obama Administration applying for the job of Secretary of Health and Human Services. Why am I qualified you ask? Well, I'm human, I'm healthy, and I pay my taxes.

Hey, Tom Daschle! Look on the bright side. Now you can go back to your K Street firms hauling in the big bucks again.

What? Leon Panetta made over a million bucks last year in consulting fees and speeches including talks in front of banks that were going down the toilet? How can this be?

And as for Nancy Killifer is concerned, would someone please explain to me what a "performance czar" is?

All that "Change" going on in Washington is certainly refreshing, isn't it? Bring back Nixon, I say.

Isn't it interesting how all the Palestinian supporters around the world are crying for peace whenever Israel starts fighting back? Why don't they cry for peace when Hamas or those other yahoos, Hizbollah start launching rockets into Israeli civilian centers?

Are there any cities in Europe where Muslims aren't rioting? At this rate, I may have to take my next European vacation in Oberammergau. There too? Well, how about Obersheissdorf? As long as they got beer. I can see it now-Obersheissdorferbrau (private joke for you German speakers).

When are the Europeans going to get some b---s?



I have seen a lot of morons with PHDs in recent years, but this guy Norman Finklestein (who I saw Saturday) takes the cake. Finklestein, since being canned by DePaul University, now goes around the country giving speeches at college campuses denouncing Israel and the US. The man positively oozes and reeks of arrogance. Interestingly, he is now introduced as an "independent scholar". I'll say. As for you non-academic types who are wondering who Finklestein is.....you don't want to know. Just take my word for it. The guy is a jerk with a capital "J".

Is it just me, or does this Jason character on The Bachelor look like another well- known Lothario, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa? (Maybe it is.)

Speaking of mayors, how about this guy Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland, Oregon. Has a love affair with a 17-year-old boy, and no way he'll resign. Of course, the news media won't tell you what party he belongs to (Democrat). As far as they are concerned, he could be a Whig.


New York Times photo of Sam Adams (W-OR)


Speaking of lovers, did you catch Hillary's speech at the swearing in ceremony when she thanked her husband (that would be Bill) for a "lifetime of ....uh, interesting experiences"?

And speaking of washed-up lovers, Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to do a bang-up job as Governor of California. We have no budget, the guv is starting to require guv workers to take unpaid leave every month, and as for our state tax refunds? We're getting IOUs!!




A big part of the spending problem here in California is that the Dems are solidly in the pocket of the unions. As an example, the state comptroller, John Chiang, was all in favor of the employee days off. That is until he was reminded by the unions of all the money they have contributed to his campaigns. Now he is going to court to block the move. Now there's a principled public figure!

As I sit eating dinner with my wife, she is subjecting me to yet another episode of "American Idol". The way I figure, what in the hell do we need another "star" for? I mean, are we really looking for the next Paula Abdul? Besides, after the first cut, they can all sing better than her. Before that, I had to sit through some Hollywood show called "Extra" talking about who Madonna is kookin' lately. (Kookin' is a Pittsburghese expression meaning who Madonna is going to church with lately.)

Speaking of "stars", I heard they got some guy named Christian Whale or Bail or something like that cussing on tape. How come I never hear about these boobs until they get in trouble?

Pass the Tylenol.

Anti-Semitism in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

The above video shows the vandalism at a synagogue in Caracas, Venezuela. The attack happened on January 31, 2009, when a group of attackers scaled the walls of the synagogue, tied up security guards and ransacked the place, spray-painting anti-Semitic words on the wall, and making off with all the computers-without leaving any fingerprints-a professional job by all accounts. Ordinary hooligans? Not likely.

You might ask yourself why there would be this type of expression against Jews in a Latin-American nation with a diverse population. (The Jewish population in the country is about 15,000.)

Ask Hugo Chavez, a supporter of the Palestinian side of the Middle Eastern conflict. Why should he care? Because to be anti-Israel is to express an anti-American sentiment as well. In fact, Chavez's controlled news media has taken his lead in whipping up anti-Israeli/anti-Jewish feeling.

Below is an article from the pro-Chavez paper, El Diario de Caracas with a translation:




The Zionist Jews
By Tarek Muci Nasir
El Diario Caracas

"Zionists, the destructive sect of radical Jews, are again impregnating
the Jewish community with its animosity towards humanity. The
genocide they executed in Palestine and Lebanon is similar to the
Holocaust which the Nazis executed against them, and they will
undergo another Holocaust because of the global hatred they are
accumulating. If the Jews have charged the Nazis for their victims, they will have to pay Lebanon for their killings. The Jewish race is condemned to disappear, because if they continue marrying among themselves they will continue to degenerate; if they open their marriages they will racially dilute themselves, so their only recourse is to stay united, to provoke wars, and auto-genocides.

Israelis are lying when they say they are the favored people of God;
on the contrary, because they are always at war and without their own
land, it seems that they are marked for having destroyed Jesus
Christ. We should reform the Bible which falsely refers to them as the
chosen race by God, and we will act to stop them from manipulating
the Jewish community. The United States is trapped by Zionists who
control their economy and many critical positions in their government; and we must avoid that this critical situation takes place in Venezuela before they also ruin us, because they can possess any nationality,
but first they act as Jews in whatever land they plant themselves.
Israel couldn't resist that despite possessing Jerusalem as the capital
of the Christian world, Lebanon continued to have more international
tourism, and now, due to international repulsion, Israel will have
even less [tourism].

Let's pay attention of the Israeli-Zionist associations, unions and
federations which are conspiring to Venezuela to take over our
finances, our industries, commerce, construction; which are
infiltrating government positions and politics. Possibly, we'll have
to expel them from the country, as other nations have done, which is
the reason that Jews remain in a continuous state of stateless
exodus, and it is why in 1948 they invaded Palestine, guided by
Albion. Will global justice allow the United States, England, and Israel
to destroy the Middle East to take over its oil? Only the union of its
people will save them.

The only way that humanity will reconcile with the Jews is if these
renounce their Zionist leadership, which aspires to dominate the
world, and if they stop presenting themselves as the Chosen people of
God, and when they do so, we will hug them fraternally as equal
human beings."

(Translation by Venezuelan News and Views blog)

That vile article would not have appeared in El Diario without the approval of the Venezuelan Government (Chavez). The fact of the matter is that this thug Chavez is deliberately fomenting anti-Semitism in his country over the Israel-Gaza fighting. Does one really believe that such a well-planned attack against a synagogue could have been carried out without the connivance of Chavez and his government? I don't.

And I wonder how all you hypocrites in Hollywood feel-those of you who have gone to Venezuela and kissed the butt of this tin pot dictator-all because he opposes America. I'm talking about people like Sean Penn, Danny Glover, and Harry Belafonte. It didn't bother you that Chavez was supporting the FARC terrorists in Colombia. Does it bother you now that we see the hate against Jews that Chavez is fomenting in his country?

Probably not.

Steelers Win! Celebrating the Super Bowl Steelers

As a rabid Pittsburgh Steeler fan, it is gratifying to know that the victory of my beloved Steelers in the Super Bowl is being celebrated not just in Pittsburgh, not just in the US, but worldwide! No other team has such a huge following as the Steelers. Just check out these images of the celebrations that broke out all over the world when the Steelers emerged victorious.





"Go Steelers!"


Of course, in some places, the fans got a little bit out of hand, but that is to be expected. Those things will occasionally happen, you know.





In the above photo, Steeler fans are burning the Cardinals team flag. Tsk, tsk

But now that the Super Bowl has passed, the world can get back to normal.

Meanwhile in (Once) Gay Paree.....

GAZA MANIF PARIS
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This anti-Israel protest happened January 3 in Paris. It is about 15 minutes long. The first seven minutes are marches. The second half shows the violent riot that broke out in the evening when police refused to let the march proceed to the Israeli Embassy.

Actually, this film clip was made by an anti-Israel group as the final images show.

And in Oslo, Norway.......... (January 9, 2009)

Another anti-Israel riot, this time in Oslo, Norway on January 9, 2009.

An Op-ed by Judea Pearl (Father of Daniel Pearl)

Slain American journalist Daniel Pearl


The below editorial is by Mr Judea Pearl, father of Daniel Pearl. It appeared in today's Wall Street Journal.


"This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of our son, former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. My wife Ruth and I wonder: Would Danny have believed that today's world emerged after his tragedy?


The answer does not come easily. Danny was an optimist, a true believer in the goodness of mankind. Yet he was also a realist, and would not let idealism bend the harshness of facts.

Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to several South Asian reports, would be planning terror acts from the safety of a Pakistani jail. Or that his murderer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now in Guantanamo, would proudly boast of his murder in a military tribunal in March 2007 to the cheers of sympathetic jihadi supporters. Or that this ideology of barbarism would be celebrated in European and American universities, fueling rally after rally for Hamas, Hezbollah and other heroes of "the resistance." Or that another kidnapped young man, Israeli Gilad Shalit, would spend his 950th day of captivity with no Red Cross visitation while world leaders seriously debate whether his kidnappers deserve international recognition.

No. Those around the world who mourned for Danny in 2002 genuinely hoped that Danny's murder would be a turning point in the history of man's inhumanity to man, and that the targeting of innocents to transmit political messages would quickly become, like slavery and human sacrifice, an embarrassing relic of a bygone era.

But somehow, barbarism, often cloaked in the language of "resistance," has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words "war on terror" cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil.

I believe it all started with well-meaning analysts, who in their zeal to find creative solutions to terror decided that terror is not a real enemy, but a tactic. Thus the basic engine that propels acts of terrorism -- the ideological license to elevate one's grievances above the norms of civilized society -- was wished away in favor of seemingly more manageable "tactical" considerations.

This mentality of surrender then worked its way through politicians like the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. In July 2005 he told Sky News that suicide bombing is almost man's second nature. "In an unfair balance, that's what people use," explained Mr. Livingstone.

But the clearest endorsement of terror as a legitimate instrument of political bargaining came from former President Jimmy Carter. In his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," Mr. Carter appeals to the sponsors of suicide bombing. "It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Road-map for Peace are accepted by Israel." Acts of terror, according to Mr. Carter, are no longer taboo, but effective tools for terrorists to address perceived injustices.

Mr. Carter's logic has become the dominant paradigm in rationalizing terror. When asked what Israel should do to stop Hamas's rockets aimed at innocent civilians, the Syrian first lady, Asma Al-Assad, did not hesitate for a moment in her response: "They should end the occupation." In other words, terror must earn a dividend before it is stopped.

The media have played a major role in handing terrorism this victory of acceptability. Qatari-based Al Jazeera television, for example, is still providing Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi hours of free air time each week to spew his hateful interpretation of the Koran, authorize suicide bombing, and call for jihad against Jews and Americans.

Then came the August 2008 birthday of Samir Kuntar, the unrepentant killer who, in 1979, smashed the head of a four-year-old Israeli girl with his rifle after killing her father before her eyes. Al Jazeera elevated Kuntar to heroic heights with orchestras, fireworks and sword dances, presenting him to 50 million viewers as Arab society's role model. No mainstream Western media outlet dared to expose Al Jazeera efforts to warp its young viewers into the likes of Kuntar. Al Jazeera's management continues to receive royal treatment in all major press clubs.

Some American pundits and TV anchors didn't seem much different from Al Jazeera in their analysis of the recent war in Gaza. Bill Moyers was quick to lend Hamas legitimacy as a "resistance" movement, together with honorary membership in PBS's imaginary "cycle of violence." In his Jan. 9 TV show, Mr. Moyers explained to his viewers that "each [side] greases the cycle of violence, as one man's terrorism becomes another's resistance to oppression." He then stated -- without blushing -- that for readers of the Hebrew Bible "God-soaked violence became genetically coded." The "cycle of violence" platitude allows analysts to empower terror with the guise of reciprocity, and, amazingly, indict terror's victims for violence as immutable as DNA.


When we ask ourselves what it is about the American psyche that enables genocidal organizations like Hamas -- the charter of which would offend every neuron in our brains -- to become tolerated in public discourse, we should take a hard look at our universities and the way they are currently being manipulated by terrorist sympathizers.

At my own university, UCLA, a symposium last week on human rights turned into a Hamas recruitment rally by a clever academic gimmick. The director of the Center for Near East Studies carefully selected only Israel bashers for the panel, each of whom concluded that the Jewish state is the greatest criminal in human history.

The primary purpose of the event was evident the morning after, when unsuspecting, uninvolved students read an article in the campus newspaper titled, "Scholars say: Israel is in violation of human rights in Gaza," to which the good name of the University of California was attached. This is where Hamas scored its main triumph --another inch of academic respectability, another inroad into Western minds.

Danny's picture is hanging just in front of me, his warm smile as reassuring as ever. But I find it hard to look him straight in the eyes and say: You did not die in vain."


Mr. Pearl, a professor of computer science at UCLA, is president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, founded in memory of his son to promote cross-cultural understanding.

Fousesquawk comment:

Mr Pearl referred to a symposium at UCLA whose purpose was to bash Israel. This past Saturday, I attended a similar event at UC-Irvine, which featured many of the same speakers. It was completely one-sided and also engaged in its share of America-bashing as well. I will be reporting on that event shortly on this blog as well as other venues.

Let's Play "Name That Raid!"

The above photo shows:

a a drug raid

b an illegal alien roundup

c IRS agents storming the White House for tax cheats

If you guessed "c", you're a winner! (Well, sort of.)


Breaking news:

Today, IRS agents launched a series of pre-dawn raids in Washington in what they called "the biggest roundup of tax cheats in US history". According to an IRS spokesperson, the raids occurred at the White House, Department of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Department. Approximately $7,045,000 was seized in unpaid back taxes, as well as one residence. Three persons have been arrested and charged with income tax evasion. The IRS spokesperson also stated that the conspiracy reached into the highest levels of government.

It has also been reported that force had to be used to effect entry into the White House and Department of Human Services. No force was required at main Treasury since IRS ........already works there.

The IRS also stated that more arrests are expected. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who oversees the IRS, could not be reached for comment.

Report From Honest Reporting Web Site

I am posting an article from the web site Honest Reporting which they sent to me. It regards reports of Israel shelling a school in Gaza.

"In war, the saying goes, "the first victim is the truth." But an in-depth investigative report by the Canadian Globe and Mail's Middle East correspondent, Patrick Martin proved to be the exception to the rule.

Martin's front-page report investigated the Israeli shelling of Hamas terrorists near a UN school that led to the tragic deaths of 43 civilians. His conclusion: the facts don't support the accepted story that the school itself was shelled.

According to Martin:

Physical evidence and interviews with several eyewitnesses, including a teacher who was in the schoolyard at the time of the shelling, make it clear: While a few people were injured from shrapnel landing inside the white-and-blue-walled UNRWA compound, no one in the compound was killed. The 43 people who died in the incident were all outside, on the street, where all three mortar shells landed.

Stories of one or more shells landing inside the schoolyard were inaccurate.

While the killing of 43 civilians on the street may itself be grounds for investigation, it falls short of the act of shooting into a schoolyard crowded with refuge-seekers.

Martin's report confirms the underreported Israeli accounts that the IDF accurately returned fire to the location from which it was being shelled by Hamas terrorists.

Some of Martin's key findings include:

There were no dead in the UN school, only some injured according to physical evidence and interviews with several eyewitnesses

Three Israeli mortar shells landed outside the school's compound, not inside

Incorrect public pronouncements by the UN helped allow "the misconception to linger"

The fact that people were milling around the area where Hamas was firing rockets is not Israel's fault, but rather points out that Hamas fired from an area frequented by civilians, engaging in what former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a double war crime: "Attacking [Israeli] civilians and hiding behind [Palestinian] civilians."

At the time, however, John Ging, UNRWA's operations director in Gaza, condemned the attack as "horrific" and suggested Israel knew it was targeting a UN facility.

"We have provided the GPS co-ordinates of every single one of our locations," he told the BBC. "They are clearly marked with UN insignia, flags flying, lights shining on the flags at night. It's very clear that these are United Nations installations."

Later, in the Globe and Mail investigation, Ging:

acknowledged in an interview this week that all three Israeli mortar shells landed outside the school and that "no one was killed in the school."

"I told the Israelis that none of the shells landed in the school," he said.

Political impact

We are often asked if media reports such as the Globe & Mail's or even our own can have an impact. The answer is an unequivocal yes. Already, one European Member of Parliament, Paul van Buitenen has submitted a parliamentary question based on the Globe & Mail's investigation. The MEP points out that UNRWA's John Ging admits in the article that Israel didn't attack the school but blames the confusion on the Israelis.

Van Buitenen goes on to say that considering the fact that the EU is UNRWA's single largest donor and that it wrongly condemned Israel for attacking the UN school:

Is the EU prepared to apologize to Israel for wrongly condemning it without checking the facts on the ground?

Is the EU prepared to investigate how it was possible that Mr. Ging apparently spread misleading information concerning the supposed attack on this UNRWA school and whether this was politically motivated?

We commend the Globe and Mail for its investigative report and Mr. van Buitenen for his follow-up in the European Parliament. Please commend reporter Martin and the Globe and Mail for helping let the truth emerge about the shelling near the UN school. Please send letters to the Globe and Mail at: letters@globeandmail.com

Also write to your local media outlet if it was responsible for publishing the original allegations"

Tom Daschle- More "Change" in Washington

"Hey, whatever happened to Tom Daschle? Anybody seen him lately?"

"Ain't seen him in years, George."




The way things are shaping up, President Obama's cabinet will closely resemble that of Bill Clinton-a special prosecutor assigned for each secretary. Tom Daschle (former senator from South Dakota) is the latest cabinet nominee to get caught with tax problems.

I earlier wrote about Daschle's relationships with several firms in Washington, in which the Health and Human Services Secretary-designate walked like a lobbyist, quacked like a lobbyist, but was judged to not be a lobbyist-which Obama stated publicly that he didn't want in his administration. (it was all part of that "change" thing, you know.) Daschle, upon being defeated for re-election decided that instead of going home to South Dakota, he would hang around Washington and do business with all the friends he had met along the way.

Now we are learning that Daschle, in all his work for various and sundry outfits, neglected to pay taxes to the tune of $128,000. In addition, it comes out that he has received a lot of money in speaking fees from outfits that he would be overseeing as HHS chief. Want names?

America's Health Insurance Plans (two speeches for $40,000).
CSL Behring ($30,000)
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (16,000)

In addition, Daschle has promised that if confirmed, he will resign his job as an advisor for the Washington law firm of Alston & Byrd, LLP (2 million in earnings from that firm in the past two years-as an ADVISOR).

That's not all. Daschle earned 2 million dollars in consulting fees from Intermedia Advisors LLC of New York, which is an investment firm specializing in buyouts from Intermedia Advisors LLC in consulting fees. Of course, Daschle has promised to resign from that firm-if confirmed.

Daschle is also busy as a director of 5 firms. For example, he earned $250,000 as director of BP PLC.

(source: Orange County Register article dated 2-2-09 "Daschle fees raise red flag")

And you wonder why this guy never went back to South Dakota?

As things stand now, Daschle has paid up to the IRS (only after being nominated of course) and apologized for this "honest mistake". The Obama spokesholes are saying that Obama still stands by his man.

Change?

So Daschle will probably be confirmed and spend another 4 years in government then go back to the lucrative jobs as advisor, consultant, lobbyist, whatever you want to call it trading on his insider status in Washington. The nation's capital is a place where the corruption is now embedded. It is a town filled with climbers and other assorted clowns seeking wealth, influence, power (and don't forget the young chick- a-dees that come with all that). Barack Obama is smart enough to know he is not about to change that. Besides, it's a game he himself has learned to play.

In Mexico, a country we have always accused (rightly) of being corrupt, they at least know what to call it-corruption, mordida, whatever.) Here, on the other hand, we have legalized it for our political class.

In Londonistan-a Full Retreat

This ten-minute video is guaranteed to get your blood boiling. It shows British police in full retreat down a city street being chased, insulted, and having objects thrown at them by Muslim extremists demonstrating against Israel.

Have we reached the point when we might as well write the UK off? How much longer before we see this scene in America?

Where the hell are the soccer hooligans when you need them?

Super Bowl

Stop the war. Stop the hate. Stop the economy. Stop the politics.

Go Steelers!

My prediction:

Steelers 27
Cardinals 13

Post-game comment: Pretty good prediction if I do say so myself.