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Forgotten but not gone

Posted by Dave Perkins on Monday, July 31, 2006 7:07:09 PM
That's Cindy Sheehan.  She has a blog, you know.  But if you want to read Cindy Sheehan's blog badly enough, you can find it yourself.  I won't take the chance of accidentally directing either one of my readers there.

But I WILL show you the picture that is, essentially, the logo of Original Sin-dy's blog.

http://www.daveperk.com/cindyblogphoto.jpg

My stomach still hurts from laughing.  Yours may hurt for other reasons.
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Mad Max/Mel

Posted by Dave Perkins on Monday, July 31, 2006 6:27:13 PM
UPDATE--  this is the ultimate mental error... the link below is supposed to read tmz.com .  The actual link I posted goes to a site that tries to install software on your computer.

DOH! 

Oh well, it's not like I have readers or anything....

Mel Gibson's recent cop stop is world famous now, for his anti-semitic outbursts (jews are the cause of all world wars) and other interesting things that slipped through his tequila-numbed lips (I own Malibu, motherf*cker, gonna spend all my money getting even with you, etc).  Go to TMZ dot com (yes it's been fixed now) to see the officer's handwritten report, since sanitized.

I can't be absolutely certain Gibson is a conscious, serious and convinced anti-Semite.  The things he shouted in his drunken rage are the kind of things that a father passes down to a son, the things that can pop out of the son under stress even though the son is horrified to hear the father speaking through him.  And everyone knows by now that Gibson's father is an unrepentant and loud anti-Semite, given that this fact was spread worldwide by those who wanted to damage Gibson's reputation and cause his Jesus movie to fail.

But the thing that really leaps out at me is the fact that he was stopped well before noon (before dawn, actually), going almost 90, and had an open bottle of Tequila in the car with a good portion of the liquid missing.

Call me crazy, but anyone swigging hard liquor from the bottle in the MORNING, let alone behind the wheel, is a dedicated alcoholic who needs immediate treatment.

UPDATE:  I've now seen (can't remember where) photos taken by fans who were partying with The Flammable One earlier that night, and he looks utterly wildeyed.  Real real gone.  This is sad. 

Gibson's apology for his outburst and behavior is convincing and pleasantly non-Clintonized.  His concept of the role of Jews in history may or may not be valid or even properly informed, but his alcohol problem is unambiguous and demands immediate attention. 
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Nasrallah, the civic leader

Posted by Dave Perkins on Monday, July 31, 2006 12:28:07 PM
 In an earlier post I mentioned the puff pieces we've seen in the MSM, among them efforts to humanize the bloodthirsty Sheik Nasrallah of Hezbollah.  Among the things with which he's been credited is schoolbuilding.  Isn't that just precious.

Now find out why he builds schools, courtesy of Blackfive (my fave milblog).

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Us and Them

Posted by Dave Perkins on Monday, July 31, 2006 11:41:26 AM
The Herald-Sun, sort of a USA Today in Australia, has this article featuring photos of Hezbollah soldiers.  They are pictures smuggled out of Lebanon, of civvy-wearing Hezbollah fighters moving heavy weapons through suburbs, among civilians, doing the "human shield" thing.

Their side shoots ball-bearing-filled explosive rockets at Israeli cities, clearly attempting to kill as many civilians as possible.  The Israeli military is trying to kill as FEW civilians as possible, but as long as Hezbollah hides heavy weapons amongst them, the innocents in Lebanon will die. 

And the more Lebanese innocents die, the better Hezbollah does on the nightly news. 

Do you suppose Hezbollah WANTS its own civilians to die? 

I do.

Grotesque, sickening, and utterly absent from MSM discussions.  As Ehud Olmert says, an Israeli attack on southern Lebanon causing civilian deaths is viewed by Israel as a failure, while a Hezbollah attack on Israel causing civilian deaths is viewed by Hezbollah as a roaring success. 

But more remarkable than anything else in that story is this:

Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah as "cowards" for operating among civilians. "When I was in Lebanon, in the Hezbollah heartland, I said Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children," he said.


A United Nations representative, Jan Egeland, is offering criticism of Islamic terrorists for risking the lives of civilians. 

The end is nigh.  :-)

HT Drudge.
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The dependable and decent Mr. Blair

Posted by Dave Perkins on Monday, July 31, 2006 10:42:38 AM
I heard Tony Blair this morning on my way to work, in a radio soundbyte from over the weekend.  I'll paraphrase (didn't take notes) and expand it here, to remind myself and both my readers of the foundational truth at work in the Middle East:

The violence is terrible, the civilian deaths are tragic, BUT--   far from being a reason to walk away from what we're doing, it's a reason to STAY THE COURSE.  The purpose of these civilian murders (including the firing of over 40 rockets from behind that building full of children in Qana, thus drawing fire to the building in violation of Geneva conventions and of all decency and morality) is to discourage the people in these countries from adopting democracy, to drive off the prospects of freedom and self-government through the use of intimidation, through blood and murder and fear.  These are the people who will take charge if we walk away.  Without the work we're doing, the future of the middle east is blood and fear and tyranny and hopelessness, and great danger for the rest of the world.  Remember the purple fingers of Iraqis, the millions who risked their very lives to repeatedly vote to change their own futures for the better.  It is worth it.  Remember that here in the 21st century, powerful and deadly weapons are ever easier to acquire and use, and that these men have consistently and openly stated their desire to destroy the West, to subjugate us and kill those of us who refuse Islam.  If we walk away from this conflict these people will claim victory, will be strengthened in the eyes of the Muslim public worldwide, will take over these countries and use their newfound open space and oil and money to refine their longterm plan to destroy us, and they'll develop weapons to do the job.  If you're worried about Iranian weapons, imagine a half-dozen other countries in the same area, sharing borders, sharing plans and weapons and money, all dedicated to attacking and destroying "the great Satan".  Death and destruction, here in America, would quickly follow in such a scenario.

Again, it's a paraphrase of a comment I heard on radio this morning, and an expanded paraphrase at that.  But Tony Blair is right.  And I wish with all my heart that George W. Bush was half the orator Blair is.  Clearly they share this view, but Blair is by far the more compelling in his explanation of it.
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re: previous post

Posted by Dave Perkins on Monday, July 31, 2006 10:07:50 AM
 The link to Jeff Jacoby's article, at the beginning of the previous post, doesn't seem to work, even though I've doublechecked the URL and it is accurate.

The article is linked in the text caption of the photo at top left on Townhall.com's homepage today, Monday morning July 31, 2006.  What happens to it later on is beyond my control. :-)

Here are the relevant paragraphs, at any rate.

According to a pair of Gallup polls released last week, 83 percent of Americans say Israel is justified in taking military action against Hezbollah, while 76 percent disapprove of Hezbollah's attacks on Israel. Yet when asked which side in the conflict the United States should take, 65 percent answer: neither side. Indeed, 3 in 4 Americans say they are concerned that the US military will be drawn into the fighting, or that it will increase the likelihood of terrorism against the United States.

Gallup's numbers suggest two things. First, that most Americans, sizing up the warfare in northern Israel and southern Lebanon, recognize that Hezbollah is the aggressor and that Israel is fighting in self-defense. And second, that most Americans believe this fight has nothing to do with the United States.

That second of the two things is unfortunate.  Jacoby goes on to point out how many times Hezbollah and other Islamofascist groups have attacked Americans over the years and that bin Laden constantly incites attacks on "the great Satan".  It is at our own risk, Jacoby argues, that we dismiss these events as not relevant to our own future security.

TECH--

I have learned, to my dismay, that when one makes a blogpost here and forgets to give it a title, one cannot subsequently return to the post and edit it.  The title is the link to edit the post, and without a title there is nothing to click on.  Deletion is the only option available.

Given my writing, perhaps this is wisdom. 

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Posted by Dave Perkins on Monday, July 31, 2006 9:55:04 AM
Jeff Jacoby has a new article here on townhall.com regarding a couple of Gallup polls.  It seems Americans overwhelmingly believe Israel is defending itself against Hezbollah agression.  Good.

Looks like the MSM has their work cut out for them.  All that they've done to sanitize Hezbollah so far, including puff pieces on the civic responsibility of the misunderstood Sheik Nazrallah and on the innocent Lebanese (with ball-bearing-filled rockets under their beds) who've been killed by the indiscriminate bombings of the Israeli military machine, has accomplished zippo in terms of American public opinion.  Expect an uptick in this sort of propaganda from our media, who are demonstrably tenacious in their drive to alter American public opinion away from the right and toward the left.

BTW I read over the weekend, I believe on Powerline, an actual extract from the actual Geneva accords which actually forbids the wartime hiding of soldiers and weapons, and particularly the launching of weapons, amongst civilian populations. 

Hezbollah violates the Geneva conventions with each rocket fired.

Then again Hezbollah, like al Qaeda, has never SIGNED the Geneva conventions.

Don't expect any of this Geneva-related clarification in the MSM or from the microphoned and elevated podium from which Dear Leader Annan speaks.  
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Your media at work...

Posted by Dave Perkins on Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:26:39 AM
Today's Houston Chronicle (Sunday 7/29/06) features, on page A12, an article by Julie Mason of the Chronicle's Washington Bureau entitled "Iraqi leader, Bush share talking points, press skills".

The gist of the article is that Bush is somehow coaching Maliki on how to duck the hard questions.

But here's how Mason frames this idea-- Maliki, apparently, "showed a Bush-like skill at sidestepping questions that could prompt negative headlines".

What she means, of course, are questions DESIGNED to prompt negative headlines, traps laid by an anti-Bush media determined to show, with soundbytes, that Bush's plan for Iraq isn't working.

Maliki's opinion of the future of Iraq is way too close to Bush's opinion, says Mason, and she implies it must be the result of Bush somehow compelling Maliki to say the the same things said in White House speeches and pressers.

Well, I suppose the Washington media are fully aware of how successful a strategy to speak from the same notes can work.  It is, after all, what our media does, all day every day.
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What the media really believe

Posted by Dave Perkins on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:49:42 PM
 Occasionally I'm compelled to simply cut'n'paste from and link to other blogs, usually because the lesson to be learned is so stark and clear that I can't manage to add anything.

 This is one of those occasions.  Thanks to Hugh Hewitt, and to the Robin of his Batman, Duane the Radio Blogger.  Both are linked below.

 Recently Chris Matthews of  MSNBC appeared as a telephone guest on the Don Imus radio show in New York, which is broadcast by Mess-NBC weekday mornings.  Imus questioned him on Bush and policy and he found he couldn't get a word in edgewise.  The fast talking Matthews belched out a rapid stream of unsupported and slightly unhinged opinion...  of which here is a sample-

It's all ideology with this crowd. All they care about is ideology. The President bought it, hook, line and sinker. He had it...it was just put into his head sometime after 9/11, and this philosophy is what was given him. He didn't have any philosophy when he went in, and they handed it to him, these guys with...you know, the guys you used to make fun of at school, pencilnecks, the intellectuals, the guys you never trusted. All of a sudden, he trusted the intellectuals, the guys he knew at school. They're a bunch of pencilnecks, and now he buys completely their ideology, because he didn't have one of his own coming in.

Riiighhhttt...  it's the CONSERVATIVE side that relies on pencil-neck geeks, intellectuals, to feed us OUR opinions, because WE're the ones who can't think on our own, WE're the ones who rely on group opinion and discourage inidependent thought....  mmm hmmm.... 

This isn't news, of course, but it is nonetheless sort of appalling.  The media have been relentlessly against Bush since the beginning, and this uninformed and insulting opinion of him is one of the foundations of that anti-Bush bias from which we have recoiled for so long.

Listen to the whole interview through Hugh Hewitt, and read the transcript on Radio Blogger.
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If only Hariri had lived...

Posted by Dave Perkins on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 9:43:22 AM
... then perhaps we'd have a more honest and democratic Lebanese government.

In earlier posts I've lumped the Lebanese people together with the Lebanese government when I've asserted that "Lebanon" doesn't want Hisb'Allah there.

It seems certain members of their government, though, are in fact privy to (and thus tacitly in favor of) plans made by Hisb'Allah.

I stand by my assertion where the Lebanese people are concerned. 

Note in this story that the Hisb'Allah Mullah, Nasrallah (having a little alliterative fun here, don't mind me) seems genuinely shocked that the Israelis would respond militarily to a simple abduction of a couple of soldiers.  And he is troubled that Arab leaders have not spoken against Israel's armed assault.

Maybe the Hisb boys are in need of a leader with a little better grasp of the consequences of what he does.

Here's hoping they don't get one.

ht Captains Quarters.

 

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The Global Gas Crisis

Posted by Dave Perkins on Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:52:31 AM
Apparently, the globe's got gas.  (If you follow this link and find a new and different post at the top of the Florida Cracker blog, scroll down until you see the words "gassy Gaia".  Heh.  Or use this link to the story itself on Eurekalert.org from Cal Santa Barbara.)

Furthermore, global gas is being considered as a possible cause of global warming cycles.

We knew that the methane production of the world's cattle might be a contributing factor, but to learn that the earth itself breaks wind is rather unsettling. 

Especially to Al Gore, who now won't know which way to point the finger of moral outrage.  Because even the private jets and huge luxurious SUVs he uses for travel do not expel near as many noxious gases as the earth itself apparently does... 

HT Florida Cracker, follow link above.

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More "Lebanon supporters" in NYC

Posted by Dave Perkins on Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:37:59 AM
 

Another picture from the same rally in NYC, of another patriotic "Lebanon supporter", as Reuters puts it.

Here's hoping the owners of those flags (note Le Tricouleur de la France just right of the Union Jack) representing the Camp of Evil are paying attention.
 
Allo, Monsieur Chirac?  It doesn't matter how often or how publicly you declare your opposition to American positions....  they'll kill you just as quickly as they'll kill us. 
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al-Reuters strikes again

Posted by Dave Perkins on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:09:03 PM
 

This guy and his buddies were protesting outside the Israeli consulate in New York City today.

Ugly, sure.  But not half as ugly as the Reuters caption for this photo--

"SUPPORTERS OF LEBANON PROTEST OUTSIDE ISRAELI CONSULATE"

aargh...

First, there is nothing in this picture about Lebanon.

Second, Israel is not attacking "Lebanon", and everyone knows it.  Lebanon, such as it is, SUPPORTS what Israel is doing, and does not want Hezbollah there.

Third, can you see the little sign at your right?  "Islam will dominate", under a photograph of the White House?  And do you see the Nazi swastika molded into the Star of David on the big sign?

I admire the honesty of these creeps, and I know what to expect from them.  That's fine. 

But "Lebanon supporters"?  Al Qaeda supporters is far more accurate.  Everybody knows that these men would burn all of Lebanon to the ground if it meant victory over Israel.

Real Lebanon supporters are deeply offended at this.

Never forget that the Arabs actively supported Hitler, and in fact were known to publicly express disappointment at the slowness and incompleteness, in their view, of the holocaust.  They believed at first that Hitler was the guy who would rid the earth of Jewry, and Palestinians were naming their sons Adolph for many years after the war.

Lebanon supporters indeed.  I suppose the famous image of five black-masked and bloody men triumphantly raising Nick Berg's severed head to the camera would have been captioned "Iraq supporters express support for Iraq". 

More shame for Reuters, who've earned plenty of it these past few years.
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No surprise here....

Posted by Dave Perkins on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:59:51 AM
I heard on Fox News channel this morning that a convoy of trucks came across the border from Syria to Lebanon, carrying hundreds of new rockets to re-arm Hisb'Allah.

No surprise there. 

How do we know?  Well, it seems the Israeli special forces laser-tagged the trucks, and the IAF bombed them.  The secondary explosion was huge, and missile parts were seen flying into the air.

Score one for the good guys.

By the way, Syria does not manufacture missiles.  But Iran does.

Bill Bennett had a guest this morning named Michael Rubin, an expert on Arab affairs, and Rubin's take on this Hisb'Allah attack is like this:

When we, the U.S., backtracked on our firm stance against Iranian nuclear activity and began to offer them carrots, particularly when the carrots included benign nuclear electricity plants, the Arab world (and Iran itself) immediately concluded we were weakening.  And since they are more afraid of Iran's Shi'ite expansion than they are of Israel, they decided to make those unusual diplomatic statements we've heard, unusual in that they were blaming Hisb'Allah and were not denouncing Israel's actions outright.

The Arabs seem to have read it better than we have.  North Korea made nukes after just such a deal with Bill Clinton.  The Arab nations are afraid that Iran will move on and do exactly the same, and that we will do NOTHING.  As we did with North Korea.

And the fear here at home is that political concerns, i.e. being afraid the left will call it a "rush to war", cause the Bush administration to take too long and make too many diplomatic concessions before actually doing something about Iran, and that it will be too little too late.

Sounds like COMMON SENSE to me.

UPDATE--  now I have heard that this was not a shipment of hundreds of small missiles, but rather a larger and longer range missile which had not as yet been known to exist in the Hisb'Allah arsenal..  either way, the source is Iran and the avenue is Syria, and Israel's work is not complete until that nexus is interrupted.
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Good vs. Evil

Posted by Dave Perkins on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:30:13 PM
I am always disgusted, but never surprised, at the way Islamofascist terrorists can come up with new levels of cruelty.

LGF reveals that Hezb terrorists are setting up armed roadblocks on village roads in southern Lebanon-- to prevent villagers from leaving!

Because they need the villagers as human shields.

What's next, a Hezb rocket launcher with crying Lebanese women strapped to it to prevent Israeli attacks?

Well, actually, I know what's next-- a story in the New York Times about the callous and unprincipled Israeli army and how they kill too many civilians.

So, when you read that story, remember why the civilians are there.
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