Well, guess what? He’s suspected as the likely mastermind of today’s two car bombs that were foiled in London. ABC News reports that video pics of the man setting the bomb strongly resembles a suspect once in their custody in connection with the Barot plot in New York of which I wrote previously.
Predictably, liberal websites criticized me for rhetorically asking readers to “Guess the Religion” of the bombers. But–no surprise–I was quite apparently right on target.
Yes, ’suspected’ as ‘the likely mastermind,’ etc. Debbie, what we did awhile back: We went to Build-A-Bear and custom-ordered a dyed-blond one with split ends and a Fendi knock-off pants-suit. When you squeeze it, it says “Aieee! Muslims!”
Every morning when we read the paper, we prop the bear up in a high chair with its own little cup and saucer, and when we come to each new story (Dry Weather Is ‘Field Day’ For Pollen Sufferers, School Board Eases Budget Woes) we squeeze it and it says “Aieee! Muslims!” This is in order better to analyze the complex narratives with which the media — and indeed the world — presents us. It’s sometimes difficult to see the stories-behind-the-stories, as it were.
When we read the story about the junky car bombs that didn’t go off, we were naturally wondering who might’ve been responsible for such a thing. “Aieee!” the bear explained. “Muslims!”
The bear was quite apparently right on target!
Even so, we felt we ought to check with you, as a second-opinion sort of thing. We learned from you that the inept car bombs that didn’t explode meant that America was very soon going to be overrun by eek-explodey Muahaha bearded go-boom gentlemen of the Islamic variety, who are going to kill us unless we [mumble mumble] and pile all the Muslim shoes and eyeglasses up into a big pile and sell their gold fillings to pay for more Zyklon B, or however you’ve figured out that particular end-game (we are eager for more details on this).
Lesson: We need to order a better bear!
-Yr Sadly Pals
PS: Paki Bear says that Bonne Belle lip gloss is secretly made by Aieee-Muslims. True fact!
You know, as much as the ever-increasing gaggles of anti-Muslim bloggers like to fancy themselves as lonely prophets — forsaken snowflakes scintillating from the radiance of truth-to-power before they’re melted by the harsh heat of political correctness — the more we see ‘em, the more we think they’re hatching ‘em in a creche somewhere in Orange County, cranking ‘em out on the sevens like drive-time traffic updates.
Above: “I don’t watch the news. I make it.”
Our latest contestant is Foehammer’s Anvil. I know what you’re saying: Boy, Mister Leonard Pierce, that name sure does sound like something a guy might come up with who’s just spent many hours playing World of Warcraft and masturbating over what he remembers Seven of Nine looking like. And you’re right. But it takes a lot more than a willingness to rock an absurd self-granted tough-guy nickname to roll with the king snakes! Let’s see if he can bring it the way the authentic voices of the New Eliminationism can! How does Fudgehammer stack up in the compulsories?
SELF-GRANTED TITLE AS SOLE DISPENSER OF HARSH FACTS ABOUT ISLAMOFASCISM: Check! The subtitle of the blog is “Truth, not Islam,” which makes as much sense as “Cotton candy, not justice.”
LOTS OF FANCY-PANTS QUASI-SOCIALIST-REALIST ARTWORK STOLEN FROM OTHER SOURCES: Check! Get a load of Uncle Sam, there, gesturing just behind us and (naturally!) to the right, as if to say “That one there! With the five-o-clock shadow! Get him!”
OODLES OF UGLY, DISTRACTING ADVERTISING LINKS: Check! Take that, Atlas Shrugs — no more store-brand cheese puffs for Fudgehammer!
SCADS OF IMPENETRABLE BANNERS, LINKS, NEWSFEEDS, MADE-UP AWARDS, AND DOOFY WIDGETS THAT MAKE NAVIGATING THE SITE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE EVEN IF YOU WERE TO WISH TO DO SUCH A THING: Check! Among other things, at this site, you can map jihad (hint: a lot of it is in the Middle East!), look at a guy with a crescent moon on his cufflinks stabbing the Bible, discover that ISLAMSFORLOSERS is a top commenter, take a poll about whether or not the Democrats are pawns of “the Muslim Lobby in Washington” (hint: yes!), and join a group advocating regime change in Iran, which is sadly still necessary even after all of Michael Ledeen’s crackerjack reporting.
BIG GRAPHIC OF A TEMPLAR, JUST AS IF THE CRUSADES WERE SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF: Check, check, and double-check!
The Internet recently has introduced the world to two memorable individuals — mostly recognizable by their mouths — who vividly illustrate the striking cultural difference between East and West.
They are beauty and the beast — one a testament to civilization and hope, the other a monument to primitivism and despair. One is driven by a search for the sublime, the other by … what? Bitterness? Resentment? Retribution for perceived insults to an ideology, a system of spiritual beliefs?
Yikes, sounds like she’s just charted the trajectory of a Townhall comments thread.
Meanwhile, over yonder in Merry Olde England, where grand traditions of civility and decency are daily being eroded by resident, hate-spewing Muslim clerics, a plump boy with bad teeth got teased growing up and turned his inner rage toward something outside himself. He sang.
Her conclusion is a bit grandiose and ambitious (”there may be something about Western Civilization — the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, to mention a few highlights — that makes [Paul] Potts a possibility”), but I believe she may stumbled over some simple truth.
Or, in the words of one famous British tunesmith: “Well, if you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, ’cause theres a million things to be. You know that there are.”
Gavin adds: There may, as well, be something about Western Civilization — the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, to mention a few highlights — that makes this a possibility:
D. Aristophanes adds: Also, this is totally NOT driven by a search for the sublime. And it’s got nothing to do with a plump boy with bad teeth. Nope, not at all.
British police said they discovered an explosive device in a car laden with gasoline, nails, and gas canisters in the West End theater and entertainment district of central London early today and began a terrorism investigation.
Peter Clarke, Britain’s most senior counterterrorism police officer, said that if the explosives had detonated “there could have been significant injury or loss of life” because the car was parked in a busy part of London where “many, many” people were winding up a night out in clubs and elsewhere.
He said there had been no prior intelligence information indicating that the attack was coming. And, he said “we are keeping an entirely open mind” about the likely identity of suspects.
For those who are keeping score and just wonder why this would happen and who could possibly be behind it: their immigration laws are so lax that they allow Muslims to virtually take over London (the rest of England happening soon); they withdraw teaching about the Holocaust in public schools so as not to offend Muslims; the London Mayor has no problem with a convicted terrorist (the son of Captain Hooks a/k/a Abu Hamza Al-Masri) working on classified areas of the London Tube and welcomes HAMAS and Muslim Brotherhood figures like Yusuf Al-Qaradawi with open arms; and they greeted the 07/07/05 bombings with more bending over forward and backward to Islamists.
Picadilly Circus? Their whole country’s policies toward Islamists is a Circus. Ditto for ours, and that’s why this is coming to America, real soon. And has already been here. Neither they nor we should be surprised by this. It’s a matter of reaping what we’ve sewn. Cast thy delusional PC policies on the waters, and they return to you in spades.
…sel has formed an opinion yet as to the identity of the suspects?
Above: The Michigan Malkin, a.k.a., The Grosse Pointe Blankity-Blank
Y’know, I can see why a lot of people were opposed to the preznit’s plan for immigration reform. The bill that the wingnuts defeated yesterday would have basically created a permanent underclass of “guest workers” to be exploited by companies looking for cheap labor. And while unfettered immigration is a relatively small reason why wages for working-class people in this country are in the crapper, it’s still part of the problem. At a time when people in this country are feeling more and more economically insecure, it seems silly to pass a bill that will only exacerbate the situation.
But then when I read stories like this, I realize that the bill’s opponents weren’t concerned primarily with economic justice or with stopping the race to the bottom for cheap labor. Rather, they’re just scared of brown people:
Stephanie Usrey strode up to her local Wal-Mart store the other morning with the steely look of a boxer about to step into the ring.
A stay-at-home mother of two, Usrey has dreaded shopping at this particular branch ever since a Friday afternoon about five years ago, when she said she suddenly noticed she was the only non-Latino customer.
“That was the first time I looked around and said, ‘Man, I didn’t realize how many Mexicans there were here,’ ” Usrey, 39, recalled. “And they don’t seem to feel any discomfort when they’re, like, six inches from your face and talking to each other in their language, either. I just felt very encroached upon. . . . It was like an instant feeling of ‘I’m in the minority, and if we don’t get control over this, pretty soon all of America will be outnumbered.’”
Aaaah, good old racial paranoia.
You know, I live in a neighborhood with a sizable immigrant population from Latin America. A lot of people in this neighborhood speak Spanish to one another. Many of them shop at local businesses that have window signs written in Spanish. I hear salsa music and reggaeton blasting from passing cars.
And guess what: through some incredible magic, it doesn’t freak me out. I simply do not give a shit if the people around me look different and have funny accents and play non-white-people music. The sinister Latino hordes aren’t breaking down my door at night, shoving quesadillas down my throat and making me pledge allegiance to Hugo Chavez. So stop freaking out, silly white people. You’re embarrassing me.
[F]or all the doom and gloom we are making amazing progress. If on the evening of September 11th, an outside observer had predicted that the following would transpire in two years, he would have been considered unhinged: Saddam Hussein gone with the wind; democratic birth pangs in Iraq; the Taliban finished and Mr. Karzai attempting to create constitutional government; Yasser Arafat ostracized by the American government and lord of a dilapidated compound; bin Laden either dead or leading a troglodyte existence; all troops slated to leave Saudi Arabia — and by our own volition, not theirs; Iran and Syria apprehensive rather than boastful about their own promotion of terror; and the Middle East worried that the United States is both unpredictable in its righteous anger and masterful in its use of arms, rather than customarily irresolute and reactive.
Somebody is certainly masterful in his use of lotioned hands, as it were. Oh wait, sorry — that was the Victor Davis Pericles Scowcroft-Clausewitz Michigan J. Frog McHanson column from June 20th, 2003. That was back when the nabobs and defeatists were predicting an insurgency in Iraq, whilst Hanson was expelling great lungfuls of wind declaiming of newly-pigmented schools and righteous military anger — so glorious to the American heart, yet so pettily unvaunted by the weak-chinned and soft-muscled media.
Some people know Orson Scott Card as the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of such science fiction masterpieces as Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. Others know him as the crazy homophobe who thinks we should lock up the queers so that they don’t destroy our nation’s reproductive security and sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. But did you know that he’s also got a fine career going as a sub-Victor-Davis-Hanson pseudohistorical bloviator? It’s true!
Above: Orson Scott Card accepts the first of an unprecedented three straight Mustache Awards from the highly prestigious Harry M. Horwitz Foundation For Entertaining Haircuts.
In a recent and incredibly tedious essay, Card the brilliant academic (who currently holds an honorary professorship at Mormon-run Southern Virginia University) rambles on for roughly 28,000 pages about how our current situation is just like WWII, and al-Q’aeda is just like Hitler, and, uh, I guess Harry Reid is our Chamberlain. After refining this theory, which he developed while purchasing lawn gnomes at Target with James Lileks, several light-years past the point of comatose tedium, he gets to the meat of the matter by listing a number of lessons we must learn from the Second World War if we are to prevail against the dire threat of Muslamotarianism.
You know, ol’ Rahm Emanuel said that he was going to do this, but having seen how he and Shumer ran around as kind of an Abbott-and-Costello act in the wake of the elections, I didn’t totally believe he’d follow through. And yet, here’s Raw Story:
A group of Democrats made their case Thursday afternoon to cut all funding for the executive branch office of Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the House of Representatives. The move prompted a Republican Congressman to ask whether Cheney would get a ‘Katrina trailer’ in place of his official residence.
“I offer a simple amendment that bars the executive branch from being used to fund an office that does not exist in the executive branch, the Office of the Vice President,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Chairman of the Democratic Caucus, who introduced the amendment. “There have been 46 vice presidents in US history, and not one of them…ever claimed [that the vice president was not part of the executive branch].”
Pointing to a four-part series that ran in this week’s Washington Post on Cheney’s role in the presidency of George W. Bush, Emanuel assailed the vice president for having too much power.
“Rather than claiming that he wasn’t part of the executive branch…it sounds like he is the executive branch,” the Illinois Democrat said. “There is no Cheney branch of government…He been held unaccountable for six years, and now he wants to be held unaccountable in the historical record.”
Emanuel’s amendment moved to cut all funding to the Vice President’s executive office, as well as the funds for his residence.
With limited members in the chamber, Rep. Emanuel’s amendment appeared to be defeated by a voice vote. However, the bill is set to receive a recorded vote later in the day. A Democratic leadership staff member told RAW STORY that a party-line vote in favor of the amendment was expected.
All of Washington is dying to know what Dick Cheney keeps in his infamous ‘man-size Mosler safes’. I contacted the bright boys at Sadly, No! Research Labs for some answers. Feel free to supply your own theories in comments.
What Dick Cheney keeps in his man-size Mosler safes
The master blueprint for the man-size Mosler safe
Anyone who ever saw the master blueprint for the man-size Mosler safe
Anyone who has ever worked for the Mosler Safe Company
Multiple clones from which to harvest replacements for failed organs
The only known positive review of a Rush album
Colin Powell’s testicles
Dwarf-size Mosler safes
All the single socks that have ever gone missing from the laundry
A recipe for delicious Kentucky-style fried chicken, involving a blend of various herbs and spices, possibly numbering eleven
• A video wif Harry Reid bummin’ one-a he bitchez.
…Not the Cheney subpoena, but a foreshadowy previous round, for Harriet Miers and political director Sara Taylor.
Above: Dick “Poenas” Cheney
Cheney, who last week declared himself the head of a yet-unnamed fourth branch of government, is currently relocating his office to a fortified paperproof bunker beneath the former Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, now renamed the F.U. Leahy Executive Privilege Building.
The fallacy of hate crime laws — the prosecution of which requires a degree of mind-reading not yet available to most Earthlings — has been cast into stark relief the past few weeks.
Prosecutors regularly assign motive in cases they try.
The spark that caused the firestorm was the brutal rape-murder of a young white couple, Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, who were carjacked last January in Knoxville, Tenn. Five blacks — four men and a woman — have been charged in connection with the slayings. [… Some commentators] point out that when a black stripper charged three white members of the Duke University lacrosse team with rape, the national media grabbed the story by the ankle and wouldn’t let go. Not so Knoxville.
I live 217 miles from Knoxville. I’ve been following this case since I read about it on a national news Web site a couple of days after the victims’ bodies were found. I’m not sure why it didn’t get saturation coverage, but I can tick off a few stories in my local market that could’ve provided months of salacious speculation and didn’t. There are lots of variables for why some stories get that kind of attention and others don’t, but you could argue that the facts of this particular story were so grotesque that producers and editors were afraid of repulsing viewers or readers. That’s a reasonable, if not entirely justifiable, editorial judgment.
The perception of media bias is understandable — and a credible case can be made that the media rushed to condemn the Duke athletes because it fit a recognizable racial narrative, especially in the South.
The media love stories with built-in emotional dynamics; that’s why missing-child stories and pregnant-women-in-peril stories are so popular: They don’t have to explain why you should care. I don’t think it would have mattered if the stripper had been white or black. The real dynamic was determining whether these were good boys or bad boys and whether the accuser was a victim or a whore. Anyone could draw on their existing prejudices and hazard a guess.
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, tonight announced his support for an immediate shift in Iraq policy, calling on President Bush “to downsize the U.S. military’s role in Iraq and place much more emphasis on diplomatic and economic options.”
In a major speech on the Senate floor, Lugar said that “victory” in Iraq as defined by President Bush is now “almost impossible.” The current course of the war “has lost contact with our vital national security interests in the Middle East and beyond,” he said.
[…]I have watched him for about thirty years, and I cannot recall a moment of courage, not one time when he set himself against the conventional wisdom, nor challenged a policy before the winds had shifted against it. He was chairman of Foreign Relations for several years. What did he accomplish? Nothing. He behaved in total synch with Biden, which says it all. He had hearing on Iran, and only invited witnesses approved by Powell and Rice and their people, never a clear dissenting voice.
It was predictable for him to join the calls for retreat, as he had already been a leading soprano in the appeasement choir. It wouldn’t surprise me if Biden asked him to do it, in order to show that the establishment Pubs have abandoned the war (surprise!)
Lugar, the great Republican Foreign Policy Doyen, is saying the United States of America has lost a war against rag-tag terrorist cells — including those of al Qaeda, which killed nearly 3000 Americans on one day and has said, repeatedly, that Iraq is the battle for all the marbles … the battle they were sure they would win because America runs away whenever the heat gets turned up high enough.
And, knowing that, he would have us to run away anyhow.
Earlier this week, Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) delivered a major speech […] Abandoning his unyielding public support for the war, he called on the President to downsize the U.S. military presence in Iraq in order to “strengthen our position in the Middle East, and reduce the prospect of terrorism, regional war, and other calamities.”
Unfortunately, Lugar has no intention of acting on his rhetoric. Speaking this morning with NBC’s Matt Lauer, Lugar said that Congressional measures aimed at curtailing U.S. military involvement in Iraq, including “so-called timetables, benchmarks,” have “no particular legal consequence,” are “very partisan,” and “will not work.”
Above: “…And the GOP Moderates section goes wild!”
Despite the fact that he’s a shifty, hockey-obsessed Canadian, Abdiel has written a pretty funny review of Debbie Schlussel’s film criticism. In particular, he notes that Debbie claims to “have been down on Willis” and that she “finds it hard to believe” that a movie’s third sequel is its fourth in the series. Read teh whole thing.
Now if Abdiel will just apologize on behalf of his nation for thrusting Nickelback upon the world, I just might blogroll him… :-)
