LGF, and others apparently have also been noticing and paying attention to the previously blogged article on Islamberg.
This is a good thing!
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Euros Shocked: Poles Set “Families First”
‘Repulsive’ Poland confronts Europe
Nearly 70 years after the invasion of Poland marked the beginning of a global cataclysm, the Central European nation once again finds itself confronting a foe it sees as a threat to Western civilization. While the rest of Europe largely accommodates a rising tide of secularism, many Polish leaders are prepared to fight back with a bold, traditional social agenda they envision not only for their own country but for the continent and the world.
The Chief finds this a surprising but welcome situation.
“The family is the hope for Poland, the hope for Europe, the hope for the entire world,” the 36-year-old leader told the global gathering of more than 3,300 from 75 nations. “… Without the family, there is no nation, there is no continent, there is no civilization, there is nothing.”
Although there is more in the story, that last statement says it all!
FBI Starting to Wake Up? One can only hope!
FBI, security officials warn of growing threat from Islamic extremists ‘next door’>
In case you thought the Chief may have been a bit overly cautious in his concerns about the previously noted “Islamberg” article, there is this from the FBI:
Plots by American-based Islamic terrorists with no direct ties to international terror networks form a large and growing threat to the American homeland, FBI and other security officials say. “The trend we’re seeing is that we are uncovering more instances of people here who have been radicalized … where there is not a direct thumbprint of al-Qaeda,” says John Miller, the FBI’s assistant director for public affairs.
ONCE AND FOR ALL WE HAVE GOT TO GET PAST THIS CONCEPT THAT THE G.W.O.T. ONLY INVOLVES INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS!! Islamoterrorism is a religiously based ideology – and like many other aspects of religion it can be an intensely personally driven mindset. It should be no surprise that individuals, or groups of individuals are inclined to act independently on the basis of their deeply held beliefs.
It must be the ACTIONS and MOTIVATION that defines Islamofascist terrorism – NOT some organizational affiliation or ties.
If it walks like a duck, has feathers, and quacks like a duck – the Chief is ready to call it a duck – whether or not it’s affiliated with Donald or Daffy.
The Enemy is through the Gates!
Springtime in Islamberg:
Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state
This is unbelieveable…what in the world are we paying taxes for when the government ignores something like this?
Situated within a dense forest at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, Islamberg is not an ideal place for a summer vacation unless, of course, you are an exponent of the Jihad or a fan of Osama bin Laden.
The article goes on to descibe some of the details of this operation, which sounds like a combination of a quasi-communal village and a military (guerilla?) training camp). These guys have established such a rep in their area that the other locals are essentially cowed into submission in spite of prima facie evidence of various illegalities associated with the complex.
The whole operation is a part of the Jamaat ul Fuqra:
Islamberg is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who refers to himself as “the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr,” Gilani, has been directly linked by court documents to Jamaat ul-Fuqra or “community of the impoverished,” an organization that seeks to “purify” Islam through violence.
Though primarily based in Lahore, Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has operational headquarters in New York and openly recruits through various social service organizations in the U.S., including the prison system. Members live in hamaats or compounds, such as Islamberg, where they agree to abide by the laws of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, which are considered to be above local, state and federal authority. Additional hamaats have been established in Hyattsville, Maryland; Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulane Country, California; Commerce, California; and Onalaska, Washington. Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania.
But wait! There’s more!
Over the years, numerous members of Jamaat ul-Fuqra have been convicted in US courts of such crimes as conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, and workers’ compensation fraud. Others remain leading suspects in criminal cases throughout the country, including ten unsolved assassinations and seventeen fire-bombings between 1979 and 1990. The criminal charges against the group and the criminal convictions are not things of the past. In 2001, a resident of a California compound was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a sheriff’s deputy; another was charged with gun-smuggling’ and twenty-four members of the Red House community were convicted of firearms violations.
By 2004 federal investigators uncovered evidence that linked both the DC “sniper killer” John Allen Muhammed and “Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid to the group and reports surfaced that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded in the process of attempting to obtain an interview with Sheikh Gilani in Pakistan.
So, where is Homeland Security? The FBI? The NY State Police? ANYBODY?
Even though Jamaat ul-Fuqra has been involved in terror attacks and sundry criminal activities, recruited thousands of members from federal and state penal systems, and appears to be operating paramilitary facilities for militant Muslims, it remains to be placed on the official US Terror Watch List. On the contrary, it continues to operate, flourish, and expand as a legitimate nonprofit, tax-deductible charity.
At this point the Chief sits here at the keyboard, at a loss for words adequate to describe the situation as it deserves. Homeland Security? What homeland security?
F.E.T.E.
Good Riddance!
Brutal Taliban leader killed ‘by US forces’
The body of the Taliban’s most feared commander was put on display yesterday after he was killed in an operation including US special forces. It was the Islamic rebels’ biggest single loss since it was toppled from power in 2001. Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a one-legged battlefield veteran, was so bloodthirsty that he was once dismissed from office by the Taliban because of his excessive brutality.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer, move deserving guy!
…in the right direction!
Europe to scan mosques for radicals
Looks like the Euros are starting to finally get the point concerning activities of the Islamofascists amongst them even at the risk of mortally offending the gods of P.C with…dare one say it: “profiling”! Will wonders never cease?
Security officials from Europe’s largest countries backed a plan yesterday to profile mosques on the Continent and identify radical Islamic clerics who raise the threat of homegrown terrorism. The project, to be finished by the fall, will focus on the roles of imams, their training, their ability to speak in the local language and their sources of funding, EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini said at a press conference after a meeting on terrorism.
Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said Europe had extensive experience with the “misuse of mosques, which instead of being places of worship are used for other ends. “This is bringing about a situation that involves all of our countries and involves the possibility of attacks and developing of networks that use one country to prepare an attack in another,” Mr. Amato said.
The Chief wonders what it will take for the US Homeland Security to get enough testosterone to overcome the prospect of CAIR (Congress of Angry Isalmofascist Rabble-rousers) and start to do something like this that might actually even be effective.
Sioux Falls Moonbats out for Spring Airing Today
South Dakota Peace & Justice Center plans rally in Sioux Falls
The South Dakota Peace & Justice Center plans a rally in Sioux Falls for later today. The 11:30 a.m. event is part of a national campaign organized by the Peace Alliance to create a Department of Peace within the U.S. Government.
“The Department of Peace is not only about international peace, but it also has a domestic component that we need now more than ever. It’s time we take the focus off non-violent solutions and vengeful retributions,†according to a statement from the South Dakota Peace & Justice Center.
Ingenuity in inventing ways to waste perfectly good time and money is a wondrous and never-ending phenomenon.
Department of Peace? [gasp! choke! gag! retch! vomit!] Phew! That feels better now! Got to get out of this post before it happens again!
F.E.T.E.
Terrorism and the Border
Senate Urged to Rethink Immigration Bill After NJ Arrests
A definite reminder that all the fol-de-rol about trying to improve our homehand security is essentially an exercise in futility unless and until we demonstrate the political will to enforce and maintain our national border.
The arrest of six foreign-born Muslims accused of plotting to attack Fort Dix, N.J., should stop the Senate from producing an immigration bill that includes a “pathway to citizenship” or any other let-them-stay-here program, said a group that strongly opposes “amnesty” for illegal aliens….
The Federation for American Immigration Reform called the arrests “strong proof that lax enforcement of our immigration laws does pose a severe threat to the security of the nation, and that the government’s screening process for granting green cards and other immigration benefits is perilously flawed.”
The Chief heartily concurs!
Global Warming? Bring it on!
Not the End of the World as We Know It
In spite of what the MSM regularly trumpets, not even all the Euros buy into the Glowbull Warming religion, as indicated by this report from der Spiegel. Starting with a historical trace of the development of the current Glowbull Warming hysteria, the piece goes on with a rational examination of the science involved.
Largely unnoticed by the public, climate researchers are currently embroiled in their own struggle over who owns the truth. While some have always seen themselves as environmental activists aiming to shake humanity out of its complacency, others argue for a calmer and more rational approach to the unavoidable. One member of the levelheaded camp is Hans von Storch, 57, a prominent climate researcher who is director of the Institute for Coastal Research at the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht in northern Germany. “We have to take away people’s fear of climate change,” Storch told DER SPIEGEL in a recent interview. “Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people.”
Keeping a cool head is a good idea because, for one thing, we can no longer completely prevent climate change. No matter how much governments try to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it will only be possible to limit the rise in global temperatures to about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century. But even this moderate warming would likely have far fewer apocalyptic consequences than many a prophet of doom would have us believe.
For one thing, the more paleontologists and geologists study the history of the earth’s climate, the more clearly do they recognize just how much temperatures have fluctuated in both directions in the past. Even major fluctuations appear to be completely natural phenomena.
In spite of AlGor’s and Rosie’s assertions that “the science is in” it is noted
A healthy dose of skepticism is a good idea, especially when scientists become all too confident and make themselves out to be oracles. But there can be a wide gap between their predictions and the end result — a fundamental weakness of all computer simulations that present only incomplete pictures of reality….Other factors that can either weaken or strengthen the greenhouse effect are still not fully understood today.
Noting some of the contradictory phenomena, the big gorilla of the situation is noted:
But the main problem lies in correctly calculating the effects of clouds. The tops of clouds act as mirrors in the sky, reflecting sunlight back into space — thus cooling the planet. But the bottom sides keep the heat radiated by the earth from escaping into the atmosphere — causing temperatures to rise. Which of the two effects predominates depends primarily on the altitude at which clouds form. Simply put, low clouds tend to promote cooling while high clouds increase warming. So far scientists agree on only one thing, namely that more clouds will form in a greenhouse climate. They just don’t know at which altitude.
Even the most powerful computer models are still too imprecise to simulate the details. However, the clouds alone will determine whether temperatures will increase by one degree more or less than the average predicted by the models. This is a significant element of uncertainty.
Confessing to being a wanna-be beach bum, the Chief says “Bring it on & warm it up!”
Name Your Poison…er, Disaster
Radio talker Glenn Beck has posted an interactive (potential) disaster map. keying in on areas subject to volcanoes, fires, hippies(!?), hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism (high risk areas), and earthquakes.
Interesting and also a bit of a hoot.
ChiCom Food Scam Update
Scam artists in poisoned pet food scandal destroy evidence
First – your tax dollars at work?!
Scam artists in the thriving food additive export industry are quickly giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the reputation of Keystone Cops.
FDA officials made much of heading off to the Orient to get down to the roots of the melamine sickening and killing off thousands of cats and dogs in the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal. But even as they were telling us “Bon Voyage”, melamine bossman Mao Lijun, who exported tainted wheat products to Las Vegas-based ChemNutra, was razing his own building.
That’s ONE way to get rid of evidence!
“It wasn’t authorities that finally acted: Mao himself razed the brick factory–days before the investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arrived in China on a mission to track down the source of the tainted pet food ingredients.” (latimes.com, May 9, 2007).
Not only did this perp scam us, he apparently did a pretty thorough job of fouling his own nest:
…Mao Lijun territory: “Farmers in this poor rural area about 400 miles northwest of Shanghai had complained to local government officials since 2004 that Mao’s factory was spewing noxious fumes that made their eyes tear up and the poplar trees nearby shed their leaves prematurely. Yet no one stopped Mao’s company from churning out bags of food powders and belching smoke–until one day last month when, in the middle of the night, bulldozers arrived and tore down the facility.
“In the end, Chinese authorities caught up with Mao and arrested him. And Tuesday, after weeks of denials, China acknowledged that Mao’s company and another Chinese business had illegally exported wheat and rice products spiked with melamine, a chemical used in making plastics and fertilizers. That chemical is banned in foods in the U.S.”
Yowch! You do NOT want to get arrested by the ChiComs, but it couldn’t have happened to a better guy.
The State of Arab Culture
Are the Arabs already extinct?
Spengler’s latest shared thoughts from the Asia Times (a must read for the Chief).
“We [Arabs] have become extinct,” said Syrian poet Adonis in a March 11 Dubai television interview transcribed by the Israeli media monitor MEMRI, [1] but ignored by the mainstream Western media. The prognosis by Adonis, the only Arabic writer on the Nobel Prize short list, for the Arab prospect has become more bleak over the years, and his latest pronouncement has a Spenglerian finality.
DISCLAIMER: This is a SYRIAN poet that’s proclaiming the cultural extinction of the Arabs.
“We have become extinct … We have the masses of people, but a people becomes extinct when it no longer has a creative capacity, and the capacity to change its world … The great Sumerians became extinct, the great Greeks became extinct, and the Pharaohs became extinct,” he said.
The Chief concurs.
Like most of Spengler’s stuff, and there’s more… well worth reading and pondering.
G.W.O.T. Thailand Front Moves towards Moslem-driven Ethnic Cleansing
Point of no return for southern Thailand
In spite of the fixation of the MSM on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this report reminds one and all that it is REALLY a Global War on Terror, or more precisely, a Global War on Islamofascism.
It is now violently apparent that Thailand’s military-appointed government’s policy of reconciliation toward its three insurgency-hit majority-Muslim provinces Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala was never really implemented on the ground. Instead, southern Thailand’s three-year-old conflict is veering in a dangerous new direction, where the government is establishing a growing number of loosely regulated local militias, and in response ethnic-Malay Muslim insurgent groups have commenced attacks against the economic lifelines of certain urban districts in an intensified effort to empty the restive region of ethnic-Thai and Sino-Thai Buddhists.
This situation seems to be deteriorating rather sharply – dare one point out – under the leadership of a military government lead by
a (would you believe!) Moslem general, in this predominantly Buddhist nation.
…ethnic-Malay Muslim insurgent groups have commenced attacks against the economic lifelines of certain urban districts in an intensified effort to empty the restive region of ethnic-Thai and Sino-Thai Buddhists.
Yala province is emerging as the showcase and test case for the insurgents’ new strategy, which…aims soon to seize total control of the province, including the central government’s administrative hub and the police’s forward command center in the region…. That strategy has been most visible in Yala’s Betong district, [1] where recently insurgents and insurgent sympathizers blocked road access to the area and cut electricity and mobile-telephone signals for four straight nights. The blockade, which resulted in severe food and fuel shortages, was the first overt economic attack of the conflict. At the same time, the insurgents have increased the ferocity of their attacks on the civilian population, including a series of gruesome beheadings and burnings of their victims.
These harsh tactics have caused new waves of displaced Buddhists from both rural and semi-urban areas into Yala’s main township, where they have established shelters in a number of Buddhist temples. The insurgents’ aim “is no longer to just empty villages of Buddhists, but whole districts”, said Sunai Phasuk, Thailand representative of the US-based rights lobby Human Rights Watch. “Their strength is rising each day and they are confident they can win what they are fighting for – a separate state.”
Another clear case of the “Religion of Peace” showing anything but tranquillity in its dealings with non-Moslem neighbors as it introduces the world of ethnic cleasing to SE Asia.
ChiCom Bad Food Stuff – Update(s)
Some more coverage of the ongoing sorry situation of the ChiComs dumping adulterated food products on the North American (and presumably other) markets. Not only is it pet food, but also as chicken feed hog chow, and now fish feed!
On the face of it, the FDA is grossly understating the problem:
Shame on the FDA for consistently claiming the number 16 for dead pets in the latest wave of dead pets from poison masquerading as commercial pet food; the latest because the massive Menu Food recall is only the deadliest recall to date. Some of the same pet food manufacturers whose products are on current recall have made recalls for other contaminanted products as recently as 2006.
ChemNutra, imported poisoned Chinese foodstuff
Finned friends join hogs chickens in the new Re-Use, Re-New, Re-Poison Recycle rage
ChemNutra, the Las Vegas-based company at the heart of the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal, exported from China tainted wheat gluten that was used to make fish meal in Canada. During a Tuesday FDA/USDA media conference, live blogged by www.ptconnection.com, David Acheson, the FDA’s assistant commissioner for food protection, confirmed ChemNutra as the export source of the tainted fish meal.
OK. What gets wierder and wierder is that not only did they ship us contaminated wheat gluten, but the “wheat gluten” was really nothing but spiked and doctored-up wheat flour!
At the Tuesday media conference, federal officials revealed what some would call startling information as though it were old hat: It is wheat flour not wheat gluten that is behind the pet food recall.
“Oh, yeah, by the way, it really wasn’t wheat gluten…they played switcheroo and shipped wheat FLOUR in place of gluten. (No big deal, don’t sweat it!)”
“The Canadian-made meal included what was purported to be wheat gluten, a protein source, imported from China. (Andrew Bridges, Associated Press Writer, May 8, 2007). “The material was actually wheat flour spiked by the chemical melamine and related, nitrogen-rich compounds to make it appear more protein rich than it was, officials said.
Of course there’s more details in the article.
SO, can we really trust ANY food stuff coming in from the ChiComs? Read your labels!
Argus Bows to PC for Islamoterr Story
Double Dose of Downplaying GWOT in NJ Incident
The Sioux Falls Argus Loser Liar Leader has apparently taken what the Chief considers to be a weasel-minded mealy-mouth approach to reporting on what is arguably one of the more significant incidents concerning the activities of our neighboring practioners of the so-called “religion of peace”.
On the front page of the Argus today there is a story (not linked on their website!) with a headline that reads as follows:
6 accused of plotting to kill soldiers
“Islamic radicals” planned to hit base in Fort Dix, NJ authorities say
The body of the story reports the details of the planning and training the Islamoterrs were doing, and notes that among the key evidence was video showing the perps “shooting assault weapons on a firing range while calling for ‘jihad’ and shouting in Arabic ‘Allahu Akbar” (‘God is Great’).
Also noted were the origins of the terr wanna-bes as being in the US from Jordan, Turkey, and “Yugoslavia”, the latter of which doesn’t exist per se anymore – stating it this way avoids identifying them as ethnic “Albanians” as they were described in other reports, would make it obvious that the perps in question were of the Islamic persuasion.
So…the description of their origin is apparently a move on the part of the writer to downplay the Islamic background of the perps, and the headline of the Argus only continues the genuflection towards the shibboleth of political correctness by putting the term “Islamic radicals” in quotes.
Hello? “Islamic radicals” in quotes? Like may be this is just an FBI or NJ State Police plot to trump up some specious involvement of Muslims in a planned terrorist assault and theyREALLY are just somehow alleged to be “Islamic radicals”.
What a crock of BS! Both the Philly Enquirer writer and the Airgas-Loser’s headline writers need to once and for all wake up and smell the gunsmoke, and (finally) accept the fact that yes, indeed, there really IS a war on terror – one that isn’t necessarily linked only to al Qaeda or Iran or the Taliban or…whoever.
To continue to evade this unpleasant reality shows such a lack of situational awareness that the credibility of the MSM right here in Sioux Falls evidently leaves much to be desired. But THAT is certainly not any news, is it?
Calling a Spade a Spade, eh?
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid:
An Open Campaign of Lies, Bribery and Treason
The full-court press to turn Iraq into the next Vietnam is a story of international intrigue, wholesale lies, congressional bribery and systemic partisan treason on a scale never before seen in the United States. The entire world is watching, including our enemies, and nobody is calling it a scandal?
Today’s Democrat Party has reduced itself to the most anti-American organization in the world, yet the American press has yet to question a single outright lie, shine a light on the wholesale bribery used to buy the anti-American votes calling for retreat, surrender and defeat in the war on terror, or point out a single overt act of treason, now common place among liberal Democrats.
Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid call their surrender bill a “$124 billion bi-partisan Iraq spending bill to support our troops”. But every word of it is an outright lie!…Most importantly, the $96 billion actually authorized for the Iraq mission is tied to effectively, an immediate retreat in defeat clause forcing the American military to agree to surrender in Iraq as early as July ’07, but no later than October ’07. This is modern Democrats’ idea of “bi-partisan support for our troops.”
The Chief couldn’t have said it any better! There’s a lot more there…check it out.
More than chickenfeed at stake
No nice guys among robber barons in pet food industry
More on this situation continues to come out…but noticeably NOT in the USA MSM…apparently this doesn’t fit the NY Slimes’ test of “All the news that fits, we print”…so once again this report comes from the Great White North, eh?
The robber barons of the $15-billion-a-year pet food industry are not nice guys They’re not the guy next door who happened to go into the right business; not like Joe the Barber where you can go get your money back for a bumbled buzz cut or Uncle Charlie in the chocolate factory.
It’s thanks to the allusive robber barons of the multi-billion dollar pet industry and their unbridled greed that melamine-tainted pet food has now made its way into poultry at 38 Indiana farms.
Read the article for more of the sad details. These guys are the sort of turkeys that give capitalism a bad name.
US-Syria Meeting…and the point is…?
Rice meets Syria’s foreign minister
A month after excoriating Queen Nancy of SanFran for launching her diplomatic filibuster to Damascus, Condie herself, leader of the State Department’s Foggy Bottom Boys, makes the trip herself…for some undetermined reason.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she raised the issue of foreign fighters entering Iraq from Syria in talks with Syria’s foreign minister today but “didn’t lecture him” in the first high-level meeting in years between the two countries. Miss Rice described as “professional” and “businesslike” her half-hour meeting with Syria’s Walid Moallem on the sidelines of a major regional conference on Iraq.
So what’s the point of this meeting? Perhaps this is a clue:\
Ahead of the meeting, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said Syria had stemmed the flow of foreign fighters across its border — a chief U.S. demand. “There has been some movement by the Syrians,” said Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV. “There has been a reduction in the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq” for more than a month.
A payoff in the form of facetime and recognition as being a “real” power worth the effort of the US to touch base with? It makes as much or more sense than anything else that the Chief can think of.
Still, the point is…?
Environmental Crisis on Mars!
Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.
Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.
Hmmmm….similar to Earth’s warming – hold that thought!
Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.
Uh…hello? “…rapid changes in planetary climates COULD be natural phenomena” ?! Could be? What else are the possibilities?
Since we haven’t been to Mars yet, it’s a bit of a reach to think that V-8 SUV’s are causing the problem, so what’s left…space aliens that beat us up there with their SUV’s? Sort of doubtful.
Hmmmm. Let’s think again…what affects both Earth and Mars? Hey! What about the SUN! What a concept: solar activity can affect planetary climates! What’ll be next?
The Truth is Out There
Watergate reporter demolishes Hillary’s career story
Drawing on a trove of private papers from Hillary Clinton’s best friend, the legendary Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein is to publish a hard-hitting and intimate portrait of the 2008 presidential candidate, which will reveal a number of “discrepancies†in her official story.
First of all – that there’s PLENTY of stuff out there to make a book go in this direction is not exactly shocking.
It’ll be sort of fun to watch the kerfluffle that this is sure to start – especially because Hil & Bill can’t claim that CARL BERNSTEIN of all people is a part of the VRWCâ„¢ that’s out to get them.
Oakland Fire Repeats WTC Damage Effect
The damage to highway overpasses in Oakland produced some views evocative of Salvador Dali’s art, with a roadway seemingly melted and draped flaccidly over another.
The threat of a nightmarish morning commute led many Bay Area residents to use public transportation Monday, one day after a fiery tanker crash caused a heavily trafficked section of freeway to collapse.
The elevated section of highway that carries motorists from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to a number of freeways was destroyed early Sunday when the heat of a burning gasoline tanker truck weakened part of one overpass, crumpling it onto another.
OK. So…a gasoline tanker crashed and burned (fortunately the driver got away with minor burns) and the heat led to the collapse of highway overpasses. This happened because the burning fuel raised the temperature of the overpasses structural steel (even inside of the concrete!) so much that it weakened and/or melted, allowing the collapse…sort of like what happened to the World Trade Towers UNPROTECTED structural supports after THEY were roasted by burning jet fuel!
Another nail in the rhetorical coffin of the 9-11 conspiracy moonbats like Rosie whatsherface, et al. Don’t worry about them though…this shouldn’t slow them down, since they’ve never been stopped by pesky reality before.
ChiCom Chems Adulterate Human Food Chain
Poisoned pet food now on the human dinner table
You just HAD to know that this was going to be the outcome of this situation.
“Tainted-gluten-fed-pork has hit the dinner plates of humans, according to www.denverpost.com. “California officials have revealed that the contamination got into the food chain. About 45 residents ate pork from hogs that consumed animal feed laced with melamine from China. Melamine is used to make plastics, but it also artificially boosts the protein level and thus the price of the glutens that go into food.” (denverpost.com, April 29, 2007).
As always, the gummint is looking out for us:
Even after Captain David Elder of the FDA said, “The combination of melamine and cyanuric acid is of concern to human and animal health,” the FDA is saying that the recall of thousands of hogs was not warranted. (Italics, canadafreepress.com).
“Nope, nothing going on here folks. Don’t be alarmed…sit back and watch American Idol some more. Everything is being taken care of.”
Yeah. Right. SURE it is.
Given the way authorities have handled the contaminated pet food outbreak to date, we should be worried, very worried.
As Ann Hahn, of Atlanta wrote to Canada Free Press (CFP), “Pet owners believe we should all be very, very concerned. Why? Because cyanuric acid is a hydrolysis product of melamine. Melamine in and of itself is all right as long as you don’t eat it and your body metabolizes it. And notwithstanding the fact that the wheat gluten imported by ChemNutra in the Menu Foods pet food recalled was “human grade”.” (Emphasis added.)
And the scary chain of events that got its start months ago doesn’t even end there. We know where the tainted-gluten-fed pork is. Ergo, we know too where the wheat gluten-tainted pet food went. It went into the pigs. The pigs went into the human food supply.
“In a joint statement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stressed, “We are not aware of any human illness that has occurred from the exposure to melamine or by its by-products.” They added that they have identified no illnesses in swine fed the contaminated feed.” (Forbes.com, April 29, 2007).
Meanwhile, we’re told “let’s just ignore the 800 lb. gorilla in the room”:
No statement from either party about why salvaged pet food known to be contaminated was fed to farm animals.
After tracing more of the ChiCom business connections, the piece concludes with this:
The contaminated pet food which made ill and even killed off an untold number of cats and dogs and was then fed as “salvaged” food to hogs–which some 45 people have eaten–is a cautionary tale whose end could bring disaster for the human populations of North America, Puerto Rico and South Africa.
Bon appetit!
Cheap, Clean Power & 90 Days to Mars!
Rapid-fire pulse brings Sandia Z method near goal of high-yield fusion reactor
THIS is the sort of progress that rejuvenates the Chief’s sometimes frazzled spirit of optimism!
This achievement has been described as “amazing” and “the biggest breakthrough in energy generation in decades”. It seems to indicate that no scientific hurdle stands in the way of nuclear fusion. Just 5-7 years of engineering and configuring about 60 next generation linear transformer drivers. Then refining the system for commercial use starting in 20 years or less. All the pieces are now ready and proven, we just need to put them together for commercial nuclear fusion. The Z-pinch system is also the basis of the minimag Orion space propulsion concept which enables speeds 50 times or more faster than current chemical rockets.
OPEC should read it and weep! YOU can read it and smile!
H/T to The Devil’s Kitchen from England.
Iran Now in the Crosshairs (A good thing, too!)
Tehran insider tells of US black ops
Very interesting story in Asia Times online.
A former Iranian ambassador and Islamic Republic insider has provided intriguing details to Asia Times Online about US covert operations inside Iran aimed at destabilizing the country and toppling the regime – or preparing for an American attack.
Something else seems to be happening in conjunction with this:
“The Iranian government knows and is aware of such infiltration. It means that the Iranian government has identified them [the covert operatives] but for some reason does not want to show [this],” said the former diplomat on condition of anonymity.
Speaking in Tehran, the ex-Foreign Ministry official said the agents being used by the US “were originally Iranians and not Americans” possibly recruited in the United States or through US embassies in Dubai and Ankara. He also warned that such actions will engender “some reactions”.
…”some reactions”? Hmmmm. Like maybe the current Iranian government WANTS us to go after them…all the more to speed their stated intention to foment chaos to trigger the return of the Mahdi and their version of the apocalypse, of course with Islam reigning triumphant. THAT fits Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad Amadinejad and the REAL big dog over there: Ayatollah Khameini.
There’s quite a bit more in this piece…with stuff from the NY Slimes Seymour Hirsch who, true to form is apparently looking to undermine the effort.
F.E.T.E.
Help from the Government?
RECEIVED FROM AN E-MAIL CORRESPONDENT:
A Montana cowboy was over-seeng his herd in a remote mountainous pasture, when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”
The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his eacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?”
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Singular RAZR-V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that cans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and he data stored.
He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel Spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 3-page report on his miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says the cowboy.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as he young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a Congressman for the U.S. Government,” says the cowboy.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about cows…this is a herd of sheep.
Now give me back my dog.”
LOL
“…peace in our time!”
Senate OKs deadline in war funding
The Democrat-led Senate yesterday gave final approval to an emergency war-funding bill that sets troop withdrawal deadlines for Iraq, a measure that neither congressional chamber passed with enough votes to override President Bush’s promised veto.
Donk Sen. Neville Chamberlain Reid and Queen Nancy of SanFran have led their party firmly into the realm of appeasement and surrender “by a date certain”.
The phrase “…adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” covers it.
View from an Alternative Reality
Border chief defended on ‘no confidence’
Here is a clear case for someone looking at the noonday sun and proclaiming it to be midnight! This moves the Border Patrol management into some other universe than the one that actually exists these days on the border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner W. Ralph Basham says a “no-confidence” vote against Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar by leaders of the agency’s rank and file is “derisive, detrimental and blatantly unfair” and wants to meet with union leaders to tell them the chief is the right man for the job.
Right. Like his words are going to fix everything up after years of counter-productive management filtering down from the higher managers, like maybe the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner. My guess is that his credibility will be at least zero, if not moving into the domain of negative numbers.
“From my personal experience, I do not believe the rank-and-file agents have lost confidence in this chief,” Mr. Basham said.
Some people still believe the earth is flat, that we never went to the moon, and that 9-11 was a (U.S.) government plot too…but that doesn’t mean their beliefs have a basis in reality! Besides, having worked for the Feds for a long time, the Chief has observed that higher management rarely has any SERIOUS personal interaction with the people actually doing the job…most of such “contact” is generally carefully controlled, sort of on the order of a Potemkin Village type show.
Mr. Basham said. “I would very much like for the union to come to the table, have a dialogue at this time of great challenge and great opportunity. I’m extending my personal invitation and laying my personal reputation on the line.”
Excuse me? Based on the state of the border, and Border Patrol these day, the Chief has to wonder just WHAT personal reputation is there to lose anymore? I mean, when border agents are thrown to the wolves, prosecuted, and imprisoned for doing their jobs, all on Basham’s watch, his personal (professional) reputation is pretty much D.O.A. at this point.
Not to fear, the effort to blow smoke up their rectal orifice doesn’t impress the Union:
But National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner yesterday called Mr. Basham “a political hack who blindly supports the president’s ill-conceived immigration agenda without regard for the damage it does to the mission of the agency and the security of our borders.”
Well spoken! The Chief heartily concurs!
Mr. Bonner said the council leadership, which represents all 11,000 non-supervisory Border Patrol agents, is willing to talk with Mr. Basham, but has “serious doubts” about his sincerity. “He appears to be far more concerned about the public perception of the bureau’s leadership than the underlying problems that led to the vote of no confidence,” he said.
Shocking! Such a thing in OUR government!
The rest of the piece has more pot-shotting between the managers and the union.
As far as the Chief is concerned, the Biblical test tells one what they need to know about the situation: …”by their fruits ye shall know them.” The border is broken. ’nuff said.
“…in the eye of the beholder!”
Saudi tribe holds camel beauty pageant
The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous. Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference — the competitors are camels.
If this is the best they can hope for, do we possibly have a reason for suicide bombers?
Semper Fi!
Bombshell Cripples Case Against Haditha Marines
This whole has been a travesty of injustice.
The stunning announcement that all charges are being dropped against Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz, formerly accused of murder in the Haditha incident where 24 Iraqis were killed during an insurgent ambush against the Marines, is indication that the prosecutors have a very weak case against all the defendants, lawyers for the some of the accused say.
NewsMax goes on to report more about the apparent legal collapse of the case against the Marines in this unfortunate series of events.
Haditha: Is McGirk the New Mary Mapes?
Meanwhile, and directly stimulated and related to this, is a report on the American Thinker site detailing not only the legal skullduggery, but the actual details of the ACTUAL incident as now known:
Evidence accumulates of a hoax in Haditha. The weblog Sweetness & Light has done an estimable service gathering together the articles which cast substantial doubt on the charge of a massacre of civilians at Haditha . Because the blog is too busy gathering and fisking the news, I offered and�the publisher�accepted my offer to put what he has uncovered in a narrative form.
Having done so, I can tell you that the story has a whiff of yet another mediagenic scandal like the TANG memos or the Plame ‘outing.’�While the Marines quite correctly will not comment on the case pending the outcome of their investigation, I am not bound by those rules, and�I will sum up the story for you.
Check it out. The Chief would like to take this whole deal and deposit it firmly in that posterior orifice of Donk CongMutha where the sun never shines.
Pop vs. Soda
You all know about the whole “red state – blue state” thing, right?
This addresses a much more fundamental issue in a similar way.
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DISCLOSURE: The Chief grew up in a strongly “soda” territory, but hearing the generic use of “coke” was by no means rare. He’s now in a strongly “pop” area. (Is this what the loyalists felt like when they moved to Canada?)