Monday, 12 September 2011
Anti-Semitism on Campus: Maybe This Will Help.............by Dan Friedman
You would think coming to the aid of besieged Jewish students on American campuses would be a high priority for America’s Jewish leaders. It is not. Now comes an Israeli organization to fill the breach. Further proof that there’s a growing gap between a weak leftist dominated Jewry here and the positive changes occurring in Israel’s body politic. As time passes and Israel weathers ever greater storms, look for this historic shift in worldwide Jewish leadership to become even more pronounced. df
US colleges to receive warning letters on anti-Semitism
News.........
Israeli 9/11 Memorial
Terrorists Can Never Win, But we Can Still Lose
CDR Salamander: First person; spoken word
BLACKFIVE: We Hate All Americans
Ten years later: 9/11 and the freedom agenda
Israel, America, and the Lessons of 9/11
Tiger from San Diego Zoo kills mate at El Paso Zoo
Russia rejects Japan's Kuril claims but ready to discuss peace treaty
Police called after man butchers cow in his driveway
Fair Taxes? Depends What You Mean by "Fair"
Starving Dogs Eat Owner After 2 Weeks Without Food
Arkansas Meteorologist Wakes Up Next to Naked Dead Man in Hot Tub
Man Assaults Neighbor Over Noisy Generator During Blackout
'Vampire' Held After Biting Man at Hooters
Free Michael Behenna
Libya: Gaddafi’s son Saadi flees to Niger
Blue Dragon Mountain: the Chinese village 'that doesn't exist'
New Zealand penguin Happy Feet may have been eaten
Love in the air to blame for suspicious behaviour on US flight
Egypt's military rulers ignored pleas from US as mob attacked Israeli embassy
Where Do We Go From Here?.............by Dan Friedman
This report from Britain and this one from the Middle East point to an old self-destructive pattern rearing its ugly head.
Dan Friedman
NYC
Genius, Government..............
This is a perfect example of the genius of government.
GM
Everything government touches, it ruins.
You will NEVER be able to factory-order an Imapala SS for about two-grand ever again.
The Volt? Hahahahahaha.........and you thought the Vega was a piece of crap!?
Reckless WoW!
Every week these cats hook up each other with hot hits and big phazed cookies to peruse and then vote on their individual fancy catchers.
And now - without further adieu or a don't
Council Winners
- *First place with 2 2/3 votes! Joshuapundit–-The Secret Blue State Plan To Steal The 2012 Elections
- Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Razor-A Short List of Lessons Since 9-11
- Third place with 1 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – The Hate That Never Ended
- Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – Simply Jews-Iran irked by errors in Qurans from China
- Fifth place with 1 vote – Bookworm Room-Paul Krugman And Potemkin Jobs
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Colossus Of Rhodey – Evidence that racism must not really be a problem anymore
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – New Zeal – Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Russian Sympathizer
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Right Truth – The Meaning Of Memorial For 9/11
- Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – What If 9/11 Never Happened?
- Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote -The Political Commentator- Obama jobs speech: This time with feeling!
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Christopher Hitchens- Simply Evil submitted byThe Watcher
- Second place with 1 2/3 votes – Accuracy In Media – Media Prepare Russian Treaty Trap for the U.S. submitted by New Zeal
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -Patterico – Bad Facts Make Bad (ADA) Law; The Case of the Alcoholic Truck Driver submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -Zen Pundit – R2P is a Doctrine Designed to Strike Down the Hand that Wields It submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes -The Moral Liberal – The Art Of Political Rhetoric submitted by Right Truth
- Fourth place with 1 vote -Andrew McCarthy – How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right submitted by Joshuapundit
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Commentary/Omri Ceren – New York Times not even bothering to source their anti-Israel partisans submitted by Bookworm Room
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis – Deutsche Bank CEO says "It's Obvious Many Banks Will Not Survive if Forced to Value Sovereign Debt at Market Prices" submitted by The Political Commentator
- Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Passing Parade – Dr. Strangetuber, Or How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Potato submitted by Simply Jews
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Fear, Honor and Interest – Libya: Airpower, SOF and the NTC submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote -Business Insider/Nassim Taleb – The American Economy Will Transfer $5 Trillion To Banker Pay And Bonuses Over The Next 10 Years submitted by The Razor
See you next week! Facebook and Twitter...cause we're pretty reckless!
News.............
The koran is the scripture as revealed to moses .... plain & simple, in the koran ....
Hillary Tanned, Rested and Ready for Primary Fight Against Obama!
Kamikaze « Neptunus Lex
An Iraqi exile gives outlet to Gadhafi's voice
CDR Salamander: North Korean Gifts
Russian army to start receiving new-generation tanks in 2014
Rescorla
$100,000 to Work at McDonalds?
Savings.com sends Dear John letter to California « Hot Air
Al-Qaeda militants 'crossing into Syria from Iraq'
Ryder cancels truck rentals amid terrorist threat
IRAQ THE MODEL: Sadr says will suspend operations against US troops
9/11, Ten Years After
The Terrible Missed Chance
ECB economist resigns, calls for drastic reforms
Wealthy countries not immune from recession
Obama banks on jobs plan to save his presidency
Editorial: Jobs plan deja vu
For women, moderate midlife drinking linked to healthier old age
China vs. America
Record high prices for world food
PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe
Snuffing out children’s innocence
The decline of Swat's celebrated dancing girls
How America Got So Fat And So Sick
The Obama Family Circus
NY-9 TV Ad: You Can't Be Pro-Israel and Pro-Obama
35 yeas ago terror ended in China
The unhappy warrior
The European Court of Justice has decided: Bees or GMOs?
Poll: Republicans On Verge Of Shocking NYC Upset
For This Date 11, Month 9, remember to also take time to thank and support our troops, who deport jihadists to Hell for all time.
Let’s Roll Over
Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
Barack Obama’s Wings of Wax
Unemployment Rates: Promised vs. Actual
Wind farms: the monuments to lunacy that will be left to blot the landscape
September 11: My life and the US changed forever
Eurozone blamed by US for world's economic plight
Egyptian commandos rescue six Israelis from Cairo embassy mob
The British government and Israel Derangement Syndrome
and finally.........
My Son, Age 11, Made This 9/11 Video For His 6th Grade Classmates
Sunday, 11 September 2011
The Left Desecrates the Memories of the Fallen
I've got a roundup of radical left-wing responses to today's commemorations. See: "Progressives Shame the Country on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11."
Please join me in a prayer for the fallen, their families, our fighters at home and abroad, and for our nation. Keep the faith, friends.As it Might Have Been
Mr Bush said the cockpit storming ‘ranks among the most courageous acts in American history’ and former president Bill Clinton said the passengers and crew were ‘ordinary people given no time at all to decide’ what to do.Mr Clinton likened the actions of those aboard Flight 93 to the defenders of the Alamo in Texas or the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae some 2,500 years ago, who knew they were going to die. Leaders in Tears at 9/11 Anniversary
In the America I was born in, you might have expected to see two American presidents embracing. But not in post-modern America, where public displays of psychopathy were not just the norm, but expected from the party faithful -- and by that I mean, of course, Democrats, for whom politics is not about building roads and hospitals, but about greed for power. Greed -- now there's a subject that can cover all sorts of angles. There's a reason why it's a mortal sin, and why it does little good to tout it as a "virtue." Child porn, dope, liberal politics . . . . all have one thing in common. Greed.
Greed can be "soft", like smoking dope; or harsh, like calling Bush 'Hitler.' But it's the same mechanism: replacing principle with some form of self-indulgence. That's the nature of its sin. And it's that sin that's been killing us since the Sixties; killing you Brits since Hitler crossed into the Sudetenland. Call it whatever you wish -- call it idealism, or freedom, or pacifism or "hope" -- but greed is wanting what you want without regard to what needs to happen. That is our situation. No other Bogeys need apply.
People who put self-indulgence ahead of principle get what we get, which is to say, flaccidity, cowardice, and dishonor.
No, friends, greed is no virtue, but a myth of a materialistic age. It is childishness, wanting every day to be Christmas. And, until the bill is paid in full, I'm afraid we're in for more horrors.
[F]rom the ashes of the World Trade Center arose Barack Hussein Obama -- the One who would redeem us, floating above the world like a multicultural Messiah. He bore a miraculous name, redolent of our two worst enemies, which seemed topromise some sort of divine intervention. He offered us the Muslim heritage of his father as a magical shield, deflecting the homicidal rage of seething hordes in scary, far-off places, and preserving our peace with no price to pay. His jutting jaw, tilted upwards a la Mussolini, would be our amulet, as all the world marveled at the Lightworker, the brilliant new god America had made.
The hysteria that accompanied Obama's campaign -- the fainting at his rallies, the Il Duce-like graphics, the Styrofoam Greek columns, the singing of his praises by glassy-eyed students led by enraptured cadres of apparatchik teachers -- bore no resemblance to anything that had ever happened in mainstream American politics. We tried to create a god to defend our freedom, because it was easier than the hard work needed to defend it ourselves. Stella Paul
Not to be missed: PAUL KRUGMAN BEARS HIS SOUL
Remember
Comin' Down the Road
I'm with Vanderleun on this one:
But there is - and always has been - another America, and it is this America that I hope will emerge from this day, and remind all those who seek to harm us that we can be a nation that is as terrible as it seems foolish; that we are a country of deep resolve, capable of striking back in cold anger. Striking without compassion or regret; that we are, as the Japanese knew and were to discover, a sleeping giant. You wake us at your own risk. What I Saw
But when it comes to red dresses, I am, I have to say, with Alvin Lee:
One o'These Days, Boy . . . .
Y'all have a great Sunday. I'll check in later, just to make sure you're behaving. Or misbehavin'.
How the Attacks Unfolded
See: "How the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Unfolded."
And at The Other McCain, "On September 10th."
*****
BONUS:
* "Pentagon Memorial September 10, 2011."
* "Ari Fleischer Remembers 9/11."
* "America's Broken Unity After 9/11."
The Lessons of 9/11
By Alan Caruba
October 29, 1929 is the day the stock market crashed and is generally regarded as the day the Great Depression began.
In the earliest days of that decade-long economic disaster, excavation for the building of the Empire State Building was begun on January 21, 1930. The building’s drawings and blueprint has been produced in two weeks by architect William F. Lamb who used earlier designs for another tower. On May 1, 1931, the iconic skyscraper was opened for occupancy.
On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by Islamic terrorists sent by al Qaeda, almost all of whom were Saudis. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth was brought down in Pennsylvania when passengers fought the hijackers. Presumably it was headed for either the White House or the Capitol Building.
Not counting the hijackers, there were 2,977 victims.
In an exhaustive article by Andrew Rice, “The Saving of Ground Zero”, the story of the long, anguished struggle to build a new skyscraper to replace the Twin Towers was told in the August 8-14 edition of Business Week. Unlike the Empire State Building, the Freedom Tower is still under construction a decade passed the destruction that killed three thousand innocent Americans who did not know Islam was at war with America in particular and the West in general.
The triumphalism of Islam was expressed in the intent of some Muslims to build a mosque within steps of Ground Zero. It evoked a national uproar, but both President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg said that freedom of religion meant that it could be built. Islam is not about freedom of religion.
Islam is not a religion of peace and not a religion of tolerance. The strangest outcome of 9/11 is the way too many Americans have steadfastly resisted the fact that Islam poses both an existential and actual threat to the nation and to Western civilization.
Since 9/11/2001, there have been 23,000 terror attacks worldwide and, once again, New York and Washington, D.C. are on alert for possible car bomb terrorist attacks.
Attacks on Americans have not ceased since 9/11, from Fort Hood to Times Square.
The 16 acres of the destroyed Twin Towers was hallowed by the murder of Americans who weren’t at war with anyone, but it was also extremely valuable real estate. As Rice wrote, “To the degree that it’s possible for a 102-story building to take a city by surprise, One World Trade Center snuck up on the New York skyline.”
“For years the project, conceived in the throes of tragedy, has been debated, negotiated, renamed, redrawn, hailed as a beacon, and maligned as a boondoggle. It wasn’t until recently, though, that it presented itself as an immutable fact, beginning to replace the void above Ground Zero with steel and reflective glass.”
Consider the contrast between 1930 New York City and 2011. It took just over a year to build the Empire State Building, employing 3,400 workers. It has taken a decade for the replacement of the Twin Towers that were owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Meanwhile, the original developer, Larry Silverstein, has independently built three other office buildings to replace those destroyed on 9/11.
During the past decade, under the administrations of Bush and Obama, the U.S. has remained stuck in the quagmire of Afghanistan and Iraq. A third war, the effort to rid Libya of its dictator, has had U.S. involvement “leading from the rear”, and the whole of northern Africa’s Maghreb and Middle East is embroiled to some degree in conflict.
No one can say how the turmoil in these Muslim nations and others will turn out, but the odds are the Islamists, the jihadists, will end up in charge and their war on the West will continue.
There are lessons to be drawn from this decade and those that preceded it. Chief among them is that Islam remains at the heart of all the killing, the despotism, and instability of the Middle East and the threat to Western civilization, determined as ever to drag us back to the seventh century.
Skyscrapers can be built in a decade or less, but it takes centuries to create a civilization and to defend it against its enemies.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Hamas: Time to Invest in Cairo Real Estate..............by Dan Friedman
The Arab Spring has already opened up new opportunities in Egypt. Mr. Obama, how can we ever thank you? df
Hamas Looks to Cairo for New Headquarters
For Progressives, Conservatives and Republicans Are Greater Enemies to America Than the Terrorists Who Attacked Us on 9/11
See: "America's Broken Unity After 9/11."
Behold the mind of the progressive left on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. For radical progressives, it's America that's the problem, not the fanatical killers who continue to wage war against us.RTWT at the link.
Teaching the Wrong Lessons About 9/11
See: "Michelle Malkin: 'All the wrong 9/11 lessons'."
I don't sugarcoat September 11. We talk about what happened, what really happened and who attacked us. Some students simply don't know the history. They don't know who our enemies are, and they've been fed anti-American talking points to shift blame onto the United States rather than against those working to kill the infidels and restore Muslim supremacy worldwide.
Ten years on, it's not only "never forget," it's educate the next generation on what happened, and don't pull punches.
'I'd Be a Kamikaze': F-16 Pilot Ready to Give Her Life on September 11
Folks are getting all emotional about this story today.
See: "F-16 Pilot Heather Penney Tasked to Take Down United Flight 93 on September 11."
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