Sweden-Coldest Winter in 110 Years

Here's a bit of news for you Global Warming enthusiasts: Parts of Sweden (Goteland and East Svealand) are experiencing their coldest December in 110 years.

http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/kallaste-december-pa-110-ar_5830233.svd

Why do you think they are now calling it "climate change"?

I am sure Al Gore must have an explanation for all this.

Good News From Israel

Hank Danneker of 1 New Heart informs me that Esra's surgery was successful.

http://www.1newheart.org/Sponsored_Children.php




Dear Friends and Family,


First we want to send you our most heartfelt greetings from Jerusalem.

Second we want to inform you that Esra has been extubated and is sleeping comfortable, this is a great Christmas gift!

As the word says: " ...how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

Peace & Joy,

Hank & Michele

MSNBC Brings You a Special Winter Event Edition of "Lockup"

As you know, today is the Winter Event, so we have no regular programming because our "anchors" are off. However, we are going to take you to Rikers Island for a special edition of "Lock-up", where our famous "anchors" are all gathered together to give you a special greeting.

Chris Matthews

"Boy did I get a raw deal. I was in this public bathroom standing at the urinal. The guy standing next to me looked just like Barack Obama. So's I told him, 'You know, you make my leg tingle'. Turns out he was an undercover vice cop. Boom! Next thing I know, here I am."

Keith Olbermann

"Talk about a raw deal! I get stopped by this copper for a chickensh--- speeding ticket. So's I give him one of my "special comments", and boom! Here I am."

Ed (Butter and Egg Man) Schultz


"I was in this bar, ya see. I had a few shooters, got a little "fired up", went out and robbed a convenience store of some butter and eggs, and next thing I know-here I am!"



Lawrence O'Donnell

"Talk about a raw deal! All I did was get mad at Alan Grayson and tell him off on my show. Then he writes a letter to Eric Holder and boom! Here I am."



Rachel Maddow

"Talk about a raw deal! I'm walking down the street in Washington on my way to interview some liberal Democrat. Next thing I know some Treasury agent tries to arrest me for impersonating the Secretary of the Treasury. I says, ' Do I look like the Secretary of the Treasury to you?'. Then he shows me a picture of Tim Geithner. So's I copped a plea and here I am."


Well, anyway, even though our heroes can't be here today, they all want to send you their special holiday greetings. (Chris Hayes will be filling in all 5 hours until further notice. That should do wonders for our ratings.)

"Happy Winter Event, everybody!"  (Hat tip to whoever created the above monstrosity)

Dutch Bust 12 Somalis Planning Terror Attack-Somebody Tell Clapper

"Is the director in?"

Guess what. The Dutch have have rounded up 12 Somalis who were about to carry out a terrorist attack. Has anyone told our head of National Intelligence, James Clapper? This is a Fox report, so he probably doesn't know-even though the Dutch also have a Somali in custody pending extradition who is now a "proud US citizen".


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/25/dutch-detain-somalis-terror-suspicions-675443036/?test=latestnews


AMSTERDAM -- "Dutch police have arrested 12 Somali men in the key port city of Rotterdam on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, the public prosecutor said Saturday.


The men, aged 19 to 48, were detained Friday on a tip from the intelligence services that they were planning an attack shortly in the Netherlands. There was no immediate information on the alleged target, but Rotterdam is Europe's biggest port and a hub of maritime commerce, with huge oil and gas storage facilities and dozens of massive docks.

(Can you say "profile"?)

European officials stepped up security around the holidays this year after a Nigerian man in 2009 left Amsterdam airport on Christmas Day and allegedly tried to blow up a plane over Detroit with explosives taped to his underwear.

There also have been growing holiday security concerns in Europe following a suicide bombing in Sweden and attacks on two embassies this week in Rome.

Dutch police searched a phone shop, four houses and two motel rooms in the Rotterdam area, prosecutors said Saturday. No weapons or explosives were found. Six of the suspects lived in Rotterdam, five had no permanent residence and one came from Denmark, they said.

(There's that EU free-flow zone for you)


The Dutch National Terrorism Coordinator left the terrorist alert level unchanged following the arrests, indicating the likelihood of an attack was "limited."

Dutch intelligence services reportedly have been closely watching the growing Somali community in the Netherlands. One U.S. citizen of Somali extraction is under arrest and is fighting extradition to the U.S., suspected of supplying money to the al-Shabab insurgent group for weapons and to finance trips for potential recruits. The U.S. State Department considers al-Shabab a terror group with links to al-Qaida.

(Ayaan Hirsi Ali tried to warn the Dutch, but they wouldn't listen.)

Last year, 24-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who had studied in London, boarded a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit from Amsterdam. He is accused of trying to blow up the flight, and a judge in a federal court in Detroit has entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf.

(The old UK connection)

On Thursday, anarchists sent mail bombs to the Chilean and Swiss embassies in Rome, injuring two mail employees. A top Italian security official said the attackers wanted to avenge blows by those countries against their movement.

Last Monday, 12 men were arrested in Britain in the largest counterterrorism raid there in nearly two years. The men -- whose ages ranged from 17 to 28 -- were arrested in London, Cardiff, Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham. At least five were of Bangladeshi origin.

(But somebody forgot to tell James Clapper-head of National Intelligence)

Security officials said a large-scale terror attack was aimed at British landmarks and public spaces. Lord Carlile, the U.K. government's independent watchdog for terror, said the alleged plot appeared significant and involved several British cities, but he did not identify the targets.

Police removed computers from the suspects' homes and have up to 28 days to either charge the men or release them.

French officials, meanwhile, have ordered plainclothes police patrols in key tourist sites for the holidays, including an extra 6,000 more police for New Year's Eve.

Europe has been the target of numerous terror plots by Islamist militants. The deadliest was the 2004 Madrid train bombings, when shrapnel-filled bombs killed 191 people and wounded about 1,800. A year later, suicide bombers killed 52 commuters in London on three subway trains and a bus.

In 2006, U.S. and British intelligence officials thwarted one of the largest terror plots yet, a plan to explode nearly a dozen trans-Atlantic plane."


(cc: James Clapper)

Merry Christmas

Enjoy Celtic Woman from Ireland.

Seattle Bus Ads Rejected. Anti-Israel Forces Stuffed Poll Ballot Box

Pro-Israel Bay Area Bloggers has an update on the controversy over the Seattle anti-Israel bus ads. A poll was held to see how many supported or rejected the idea. The anti-Israel forces did what their brethren in the Democratic Party and Acorn do-they cheated. At any rate, the Seattle Metro washed their hands of the whole business and declined to run the ads.

http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2010/12/seattle-metro-bus-ads-why-do-supporters.html

Is this any surprise?

The Paris Manifesto

Europeans are speaking out


This month, an international conference was held in Paris involving representatives from several European nations. In addition, Tom Trento of the Florida Security Council attended. In all, there were about 1,200 participants. What came out of that conference was  a statement opposing the continued Islamization of Europe and any threat to the freedoms that the West enjoys.

Here is the English version of the manifesto (Gates of Vienna).

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/12/le-manifeste-de-paris.html

The Appeal of Paris — December 18th, 2010


December 23 2010



"The ‘Islamization’ of Europe Conference, which took place in Paris, on the 18th December 2010, is a founding act. For the first time, orators coming from the whole of Europe shared one same platform to denounce the Islamic conquest at work on our continent. At the end of the Conference, the thirty-two parties, organizations, associations, websites and news blogs which supported this initiative agreed, beyond their different political orientations, on a common manifesto:

We rise up against the aggressive proselytism of Islam, against the occupation of public space by muslim prayers, against the financing of mosques with public funds, against the development of the halal food market, against the fate reserved by Islam to women, as opposed to our principle of equality between women and men and, in general, against any advance of Islam on the soil of Europe,

Faced with the ‘Islamization’ of Europe, we reaffirm our unfailing attachment to our multimillenial civilization, its values and traditions,

We invite all the peoples of Europe and the world to preserve the future of our children and grand-children, by rising up against any attempt to replace the laws of their countries — a legacy of their history and a guarantee of social balance — by rules imported from abroad and incompatible with them,

We invite them to defend the European citizens’ freedom of speech, the free debate and free vote on this subject matter,

We invite them to pursue their political or editorial actions to oppose the increasing demands of Islam as they would oppose any kind of totalitarianism,

We invite them to reject any sectarianism or jealous claiming in the fight against ‘Islamization’, for any dissension would be detrimental to the people and the country,

We invite everyone to join an association or party that leads this fight, in accordance with one’s own political sensitivity and to bond with individuals, groups and countries in order to set up strong network. That’s the only way to resist the sexist, homophobic, Islamic totalitarianism, which aims, by using demographic dynamics and intimidation, to suppress a humanist civilization. We reject obscurantism, superstition and blind submission of Man to morbid and disgraceful principles.

In this day and age, we have founded a free association of independent organizations. We are a team. We have a fight. In this day and age, we launch a European movement of resistance, based upon the defence of our civilization faced with a new totalitarianism."

Below is an article on the event by the New English Review:

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/31345

Interview With Nigel Farage

British representative to the European Parliament Nigel Farage makes headlines for his amusing speeches in Strasbourg putting down the EU and its president, Herman Van Rompuy. Here he shows a more reasoned side as he discusses his ideas on the EU, immigration and other issues with RT's Laura Emmet. The interview is from earlier this year.



Sure makes sense to me.

Penn State Covers its Indoctrinators

Norman Finkelstein- boob

                                                                                                                                     

Ward Churchill - boob "Power to the people!" (Yes, that's a quote.)


Penn State University has attracted the attention of David Horowitz and the National Association of Scholars by revising its code on what professors can and can't say in the classroom. In essence, they have cleared the way for their radical leftist professors to engage in all the propaganda they want to in class, even if it has nothing to do with the subject material.

http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=1699

1987 version:



It is not the function of a faculty member in a democracy to indoctrinate his/her students with ready-made conclusions on controversial subjects. The faculty member is expected to train students to think for themselves, and to provide them access to those materials which they need if they are to think intelligently. Hence, in giving instruction upon controversial matters the faculty member is expected be of a fair and judicial mind, and to set forth justly, without supersession or innuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators.

No faculty member may claim as a right the privilege of discussing in the classroom controversial topics outside his/her own field of study. The faculty member is normally bound not to take advantage of his/her position by introducing into the classroom provocative discussions of irrelevant subjects not within the field of his/her study.



2010 version:


Faculty members are expected to educate students to think for themselves, and to facilitate access to relevant materials which they need to form their own opinions. Faculty members are expected to present information fairly, and to set forth justly divergent opinions that arise out of scholarly methodology and professionalism.




This, of course, is a national problem. Students, especially in the Humanities, are being taught what their professors think about the world no matter how outrageous. And don't think that it is all being balanced out by conservative professors spouting their views in class. For one thing, there are few conservative professors in our universities. Most are too busy making a living in the real world. Those that do enter the Halls of Ivy generally find they are as welcome as the proverbial skunk at the garden party. (I entered after retiring from the government-as a part-time teacher.)

At UCI, where I teach, the Humanities Department is much smaller than most big universities since there is so much emphasis on the physical sciences, pre-med and engineering. Yet, we had an incident recently where a women's studies professor reportedly  made it a practice to go off on regular rants against Israel causing one Jewish student to drop the class.

I myself in teaching English to foreign students make it a rule not to give my personal views on issues. If a controversial issue were to arise, I allow the students to express their views freely on these topics. When asked what my own view is, I generally tell them not to worry about what I think-rather work out their own opinions. I regard any professor who feels it is necessary to shove his or her opinions down students throats and not respect differing opinions from their students as being unprofessional.

At campus speaking events or seminars, however, that is different. In these venues, opinions are what matters, and I have chosen to become active in one particular issue (which my readers are well aware of).

This is not a matter of whether teachers have the right of free speech. They do. That said, they should perhaps keep in mind that as the saying goes, opinions are like ass----s; everybody has one. The fact that a professor has more wisdom because of his/her extensive education and research does not hold water as far as I am concerned. Most of these pin-heads have little to no actual life experience to bring into the classroom. They have gone from BS/BA to Masters to PHD to teaching. By the time they get that phd, they have been educated out of the last ounce of common sense they were born with.

You want examples? How about Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill, William Ayres, Bernadine Dorhn, Noam Chomsky...the list could go on forever. Fortunately, Finkelstein and Churchill now do their preaching from a soapbox instead of a classroom because their wacky scholarship was proven to be just that.

The sad thing is that it is our children who are being cheated out of a quality education. In many cases, they get drawn into useless programs like ethnic studies, women's studies, gay, lesbian, trans-gender studies, community studies, history of consciousness, you name it. When they graduate with that piece of paper, they are equipped to do nothing but teach it to the next generation of students.

And to repeat that famous phrase, how does all that teach young students to think for themselves? According to the academics, it means that they don't have to accept what their government, their parents, their elders or their churches teach them-just accept what your misfit professor, who likely despises convention and his/her own country, teaches them.

Just look at what is coming out of our universities for the past several years. These young folks can cite you chapter and verse about all the dark chapters and mistakes in our country's history, gay issues, feministt issues, corporate evils, and on and on. Can they tell you what the capital of Poland is? Probably not. Can they tell you the exact years of World Wars I and II? Probably not. Can they tell you who our presidents were during those wars? Probably not. Can they speak a complete sentence without using the word, "like" at least twice? Probably not.

Perhaps, at this point in my rant I should concede that I am not talking about all teachers nor am I talking about all students. I am talking about trends. The basic truth is that American education, while known to have become deficient at the secondary level, is also dangerously over-rated at the university level. Inferior teachers, who teach their opinions, make inferior students, who make inferior graduates. Our children, at least if they are studying in the Humanities, are not getting the education their parents think they are paying for.

Robert Menendez From the "Beautiful State of New Joisey"

Robert Menendez-Santa's Helper

Tip of the wig to the Huffington Post

Ariana Huffington is the biggest gift the US has received from Greece since broken plates and Greek sex. Once a conservative when she married a conservative billionaire who ran for governor of California, Ariana decided in mid-life to become a liberal, kinda like that other confused soul David Brock. But this piece isn't about Ariana; it is rather about New Joisey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who has penned a tour de resistance for Ariana's Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-menendez/a-letter-to-santa-claus_b_800669.html

December 23, 2010


"Dear Santa Claus,

I am writing out of concern, because you may have to move from the North Pole due to the dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice. The Navy's chief oceanographer says that by the summer of 2020 the North Pole may not have summer ice and other scientists project that an ice-free Arctic is possible as soon as 2012!

                                                                                                                                   

"Other scientists"

"That's a big f------' deal!"

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that polar ice is melting because of greenhouse gas pollution and I am working hard to reduce these emissions. But there is probably nothing we can do in time to save the North Pole. I am worried about your safety and your ability to deliver billions of Christmas gifts if the ice cap on the North Pole no longer stays frozen all year. What will happen to your house, your workshop, the elves' houses and your reindeer barns?



I want you to know that if you want to relocate to the beautiful state of New Jersey,

Newark



Joisey City

.......I would be proud to assist you. But given the climate you are accustomed to, I will understand if you would like to relocate to the South Pole. Just be sure not to move to the Antarctic Peninsula or West Antarctic ice sheet, areas that are also experiencing rapid ice melt.


Ice melting on the scenic Joisey Turnpike


Please know that I will work to mobilize the U.S. federal government to assist when you relocate. I am sure we can both agree that on a warming planet, we need to do all we can to save Christmas."
"Save Frosty, Senator"

Sincerely,

Robert Menendez

U.S. Senator


Hoboken in the fall.


You know the problem is Menendez probably believes what he is writing. I'll bet he even put an official US Senate stamp on the envelope and mailed it to the North Pole.

Jewish Leaders Warned to Wake Up

Judenrat-Dutch Jewish Council in occupied Amsterdam 1942

David Horowitz's Frontpage is featuring an article by Susanne Reyto admonishing Jewish leaders to stand up (or wake up). Many of these rabbis and leaders are refusing to acknowledge the threat that faces them and their people.

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/12/23/will-jewish-community-leaders-stand-up/

Ms Reyto's words strike me as sound advice. I would even venture that there are many Jewish "leaders" here in Orange County who might do well to read the article.

Christian "leaders" too, for that matter.

From "Bah Humbug" to "Christmas is Evil" in UK

Ebeneezer Scrooge would be proud if he could read the latest story from the Daily Mail.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340794/Christmas-evil-Muslim-group-launch-poster-campaign-festive-period.html



You talk about going into someone's house and defecating on the rug.

"Ya talk about chickensh--!"

Tolerance? Where is the tolerance?

Here is a link to their website and phone number.

http://xmasisevil.com/

It says to call them and find out more.

Why don't you call them and find out more?