It's only just begun -- October, that is.
Some interesting snippets from Pajamas Media:
9th Circuit Court Blocks Voter ID law: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the enforcement of an Arizona law that requires voters to show identification before casting a ballot and submit proof of citizenship when registering to vote a month before the Nov. 7 general election, and just before Monday’s deadline to register. (AP/Breitbart)
UK Politician Hit For Seeing Guests: Jack Straw, the Leader of the House of Common, was criticized after admitting he asks female Muslim constituents who visit him to remove their veils. Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said it was astonishing someone as senior as Mr Straw would “selectively discriminate on the basis of religion.” A spokeswoman for Project Hijab said Mr Straw’s request showed “gross ignorance” of the religious importance of the veil. She added that many women would find his request to remove their veil very insulting, even if they complied with his “demand”. (New Scotsman)
More ...
Executing Saddam will unleash catastrophic violence, according to Saddam's attorney, Ramsey Clark. (AFP/Yahoo)
South Korea Warns NOKORS of "grave consequences", if North Korea goes through with its nuclear test. South Korean President Roh instructed his government to step up diplomatic efforts, but also ordered a "contingency plan" be drawn up if they fail, Yonhap said. (Canadian Press/Breitbart)
Pelosi's First Hundred Hours “Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to “drain the swamp” after more than a decade of Republican rule. As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats _ in her fondest wish _ win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.” (AP/Breitbart)
Interesting times we live in.
posted by wretchardthecat at 10/05/2006 06:31:00 PM
25 Comments:
Pajamas should show some class and get rid of this filthy commie scumbag!
We're getting into very dangerous territory, and I've warned my colleagues to be careful." That's what a Democrat leadership aide was saying on Wednesday, as word circulated about David Corn's blog posting that revealed that a list of gay Republicans congressional staffers was circulating through emails.
Such a list has been talked about for months, if not years, by more militant homosexual activists, who have threatened to out Republican congressional staffers or even congressmen if they take positions counter to their gay lifestyle.
Doug, Rep. Foley voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, but he was not outed until his lawyer said he was gay this week.
Nice that Ramsey Clark is such an expert on catastrophic violence.
onesimus,
I haven't looked at it, but am aware that Frist has been complaining he has been misquoted. Incidentally, Scowcroft just repudiated a direct quote by Woodward in "State of Denial". But to answer your question, there have been some, including Michael Scheuer, who think the current Afghan government is too narrowly based. That in fact, Karzai is not very representative. So in principle, there would be nothing wrong with beginning conversations with the Taliban, as in every fight (e.g. IRA). But it has to be from a position of strength. Just my 2 cents.
Well wretchard, look at it this way, no ballot worker in Arizona will get in trouble asking a Muslim chick to remove her veil to see if her face matches her ID card.
We need a constitutional amendment for Voter ID.
wretchard said...
So in principle, there would be nothing wrong with beginning conversations with the Taliban, as in every fight (e.g. IRA). But it has to be from a position of strength. Just my 2 cents.
Position of strength? Wretchard, are you now saying that there is a substitute for victory? A democratic accomodation with the Taliban? Isn't that what "conversations" with the IRA led to . . . the election of Sinn Fein members to Northern Ireland's parliament? Isn't that what Frist's comments on Fox were all about?
I think this kind of concession shows the utter bankruptcy of trying to tame Islamofascism through democracy. Seems you've learned nothing from the democratic rise of Hamas and Hezbollah: (Islamo)fascists use democracy as a stepping stone to power. Just look to how the Khomeneists took power in Iran or how Shiite Islamists took Basra from under our noses.
Why stop at the Taliban? Why not have "conversations" with Al-Qaeda? All they have to do is win elections in Afghanistan or Pakistan and we'll eagerly turn those countries over to them, babbling about the wonders of "democracy" all the while! They could probably start in Waziristan right now. This is the logic of democratic globalism taken to its defeatist extreme. Ridiculous.
October, when the stench of defeatism is masked as victory.
From military.com:
QALAT, Afghanistan - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.
The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means.
"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be successful."
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,115505,00.html
Reocon,
It would depend on what the negotiations entailed. A large part of counterinsurgency is turning one side against the other. The Anbar tribes, for example, have come in against the al-Qaeda. Maybe not forever, but for now. But the intent is fundamental. It is easy to dress up capitulation as "negotiations". But not every negotiation is a capitulation.
C-4, you are off your game when you say:
... "The Constitution of 210 years ago was a great old thing...wonderful, other than the Civil War...for getting much of what America became - right for so long. But it is long, long overdue for a real cleanup and correction of some bad provision or provisions the Fed Courts have perverted into different meaning."
Do you really believe this current generation of ill-informed, poll driven, media-manipulated Americans is the right one to change and rearrange the US Constitution?
Repeat after me: "Hanging Chad".
Here's an idea:
Strip all the SCOTUS add-on "improvements," and start over.
Hi...reading your post, only one question from me for your self. what do you think about Hijab Project as second paragraf on your post?
wretchard said...
It would depend on what the negotiations entailed. A large part of counterinsurgency is turning one side against the other. The Anbar tribes, for example, have come in against the al-Qaeda. Maybe not forever, but for now. But the intent is fundamental. It is easy to dress up capitulation as "negotiations". But not every negotiation is a capitulation.
As Frist's initial comments show, the intent was one of inclusion, aiming to bring unreconstructed, pro-Sharia, Taliban into the Karzai government, specifically those from the Qalat province. The Anbar Tribes analogy is apt for what it excludes: the Sunni that disdain Al-Qaeda actively support what they call the "real insurgency", an indigenous Sunni one. That is why the Sunni political parties in the present Iraqi government are so deeply allied with, or infiltrated by, the Sunni insurgency. The Iraqi Consensus Front, Mutlak, Mashdani, all these clowns are playing a very open double game. Do a little research on the Sunni parties in the present government if you disagree.
We are not in a position of strength vis-a-vis the Taliban, and mentioning "negotiations" at this stage of exhaustion is indicative of defeatism. We did not negotiate with Fascist Japan or Nazi Germany, we dictated terms after victory. Do Islamofascists get an easier deal? Negotiations are not "capitulaton" true, but they do involve compromise. The problem is one of relative gains. Do we now compromise with the Taliban? Where does the resurgent Taliban end and Al-Qaeda begin? What possible "negotiations" would you offer to al-Qaeda?
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Do you really believe this current generation of ill-informed, poll driven, media-manipulated Americans is the right one to change and rearrange the US Constitution?
Yeah, how would you like Rosie O'Donnell to fix the 2nd Amendment, Bush to fix the 4th Amendment, and Alberto Gonzales to fix the 8th Amendment? Besides, you can't just sit down and change it, because the Constitution itself calls out a different procedure that involves the legislatures of 3/4ths of the States. Cedarford's only hassle is with the current interpretation of the document. I know it's a slow process (by design) but Cedarford should vote for Presidents and Senators who will install SCOTUS judges who see things your way.
It's time to talk with our enemies.
Israel should be required to talk peace with any and all islamic / palestinian / arab groups.
Israel SHALL open ANY "peace talks" with a complete shutting down of all electricity, water, foods & goods to any and all peoples that have declared war on her.
Israel is committed to the concept that one israeli live is no more value than one arab life, so in future no prisoners will ever be exchanged for more than ONE for ONE ratio. example: if hamas has one kidnapped soldier, one arab of equal rank will be exchanged.
Israel shall be forced to "listen" to hamas etc, however israel shall start annexing adjacent lands for every act of terror committed by ANY group coming from selected land areas.
1 kassam, no deaths = 1 parcel of land 20 x 20
1 kassam, 1 injury = 4 parcels of land 20 x 20
1 kassam, 1 death = 25 parcels of land 20 x 20
1 kassam, building damaged = 3 parcels of land 20 x 02
additional schedules of land to be seized for homicide bombings, stabbings, shootings etc.
All lands to be taken shall be used to create buffers from said peoples.
During all phases of self defense israel shall hold "talks" with any and all, old and newly minted arab groups.
Concerning Lebanon,
Same concept, Israel should be open to "talk" with no preconditions with hezbollah.
However Israel shall attack any and all hezbollah targets all the time as long as hezbollah threatens israel with destruction
the term hunda is not acceptable to israel.
If hezbollah/lebanon attack, again, lands shall be taken and annexed
kinda sounds like what russia is doing with goergia
It's time to talk to our enemies
Let's open offers to North Korea to talk about anything, however:
No food, oil or any products shall be given to north korea.
If china insists on helping north korea, fine
All chinese goods shall be not allowed into the USA for 24 hours per chinese shipment of goods to north korea, but we MUST insist to the world we WANT PEACE talks
In re Constitutional provisions and revisions:
Not this generation, please God, as the ones to tamper with the document. I am a law school grad, so I have read the thing and I know what the provisions mean--and I have never heard an intelligent mainstream debate on any Constitutional subject my whole life.
Occassionally in the fringes described a far-out, you will hear some reasoned debate, such as, for example, about repealing the popular election of Senetors, so that the States regain representation against the popular Federal Behemoth. The abuse of the Commerce Clause requires that this phrase be rewritten into a negative phrase: "Congress shall pass no law regarding the commerce between the several states, or the Indian nations."
The Second Amendment should also be updated in this way: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. AND WE MEANT IT."
Art I Sect 8 also needs revision: "The Congress shall have the power ... To Declare War ... AND WE MEANT IT. CONGRESS, NOT THE PRESIDENT, YOU MORONS. CAN'T YOU READ?"
While these phrases may lack the magisterial dignity becoming to the Founding Fathers, the nonetheless reflect the original intent.
A procedure for the impeachment of judges and justices is also called for, by which I mean it should be used, not that any new Amendment need be made.
redaktør said...
wio,
I prefer the "disproportionate" Israeli response:
1 kassam rocket = war with the IDF
And war with the IDF = you get your Jihadist ass kicked back to the 7th century.
but israel is NOT doing that... STILL
1. we must raise the concept that being a "people" does not guarantee a state. and if the hamas or hezbollah or iranians refuse to NOT make war on israel then israel must destroy any state that attacks her.
we MUST teach the islamists that if they wage war, they will lose LAND.
the arab/islamist mind could give a rat's ass about a few thousand or even tens of thousands dead.
example:
hama
saddam & the shia
saddam & the kurds
saddam & the iranians
sudan/darfur
palestinian on palestinian murder
and on and on and on..
we need to Reeducate the arab - islamic mind to understand if they CHOOSE to reject OUR UN based State SYSTEM, and call for the total destruction of UN member states, then THEY LOOSE the right to BE A STATE.
we can now call them the "failed peoples of the world:, list to follow:
aztecs, ancient egyptians, romans, akhenaton, mesopotamians, mayan, incas, caaninites, moabites, the people of Bavel and now let's add the fake people "palestinians" who never invented anything except the "bomb belt" ..
we MUST impress the people of this part of the world, there is NO guarantee that they will survive as a people/race or culture if the continue to worship death and destruction.
The modern islamic/palestinian mind needs to be TRAINED, like a DOG, with the concept that there will be a PUNISHMENT for being an ASSHOLE. As of now, since the arab’s have oil as thier “get out of jail card” we have allowed, i said WE HAVE ALLOWED the islamist/palestinians to murder, destroy and bomb thier way through the last 60 years of history. Since the end of ww2, when the ARAB WORLD WAS REWARDED not PUNISHED for being HITLER whores, they gave these sick bastards COUNTRIES to rule... (read b lewish and his article on the vichy hand over to the proto baathists)
Time to make the message simple for the islamist/palestinians...
IF YOU ATTACK, YOU WILL LOOSE. You will die, and MORE importantly, you will LOOSE LAND..
A known insurgent who had been captured three times, then released.
Prosecutors have said that the servicemen killed Awad out of frustration and then planted an AK-47 assault rifle and a shovel by the body to make it look as if he had been caught digging a hole for a roadside bomb.
Bacos testified that the squad entered Hamdaniya on April 26 while searching for a known insurgent who had been captured three times, then released.
Squad leader Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins was "just mad that we kept letting him go and he was a known terrorist," Bacos said.
- CNN
We got our State-Nation in the revolution, and our Nation-State in the civil war. Decades ahead of europe in both cases. American Exceptionalism indeed... but where will it lead... ?)
Follow the bouncing ball. Senators, representatives, and Presidents will be directly sponsored by, and directly represent, corporations such as the "Great State of Texaco". It will be the same as it is now, but at least no one will pretend it's otherwise anymore.
el_jeffe said. . .
Unfortuantely (and I think you will agree, Reocon) the Nation-State is in decline. Its losing its ability to fill its mandate to advance the prosperity of the people, which is at the foundation of its legitimacy.
I don't agree. I think the nation-state is alive and well and providing nicely for many of its citizens in the first world and many in the fomer third. (I'm guessing those in the "second world" shifted either up or down a notch since the collapse of NeoStalinism.) I say "former third" because the massive industrialization taking place in China and India and the rise of new economic classes supercede the old typologies. I still see the nation-state as the prime actor in international affairs. El Jeffe writes some interesting speculation though.
Wow Boss, that was interesting. However, the 9th circuit is in lala land and their decision will be overturned.
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Then there's this:
Warning: I made it up
Man sues over Arabic script in EKG
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