Bush ready to OK border barrier

President Bush will sign the bill to construct 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border if it is approved by the Senate, the White House said, as Congress continued yesterday drafting more legislation to combat illegal immigration. On Wednesday night, Mr. Bush told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he would sign the bill if approved by the Senate, which spent the past two days debating whether they should even consider the fence bill.

Why the movement on this? Methinks that the pols are catching a whiff of the concern about this issue from back in the hustings.

Even the Senate has started moving out of its languor and has (at last!) shown some signs of life on this, but as always in dealing with the Senate, it ain’t over ’til it’s over:

Late yesterday, Democrats finally agreed to allow the bill to be taken up…While the bills passed the House by wide margins yesterday, they face an increasingly dim future in the Senate, which has refused to approve major border-security legislation unless it is coupled with a guest-worker program and a direct path to citizenship for most of the illegal aliens currently in the U.S.

Well, one can still hope they wake up and smell the electoral coffee on this and advance the bill.

ENEMIES

This is a summary with links to three excerpts from Bill Gertz’s new book concerning laxity in our counter-intel, especially with regards to the ChiComs, but not neglecting the North Korean freak show, or those charming al Qaida sheet-heads.

Nobody covers this stuff as well as Gertz – at least check out the articles if not the book also!

Rangel rebukes Chavez on Bush

WOW! It’s got to be a cold day in hell for the Chief to be in agreement with something from Donk Cong. Charlie Rangel, but that’s the case this time.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his Bush-bashing to Harlem yesterday and earned a stiff rebuke from the New York district’s congressman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who is no fan of President Bush. “You don’t come into my country, you don’t come into my congressional district and criticize my president,” Mr. Rangel, a Democrat, told stunned reporters on Capitol Hill.

Well said! Give credit where credit’s due.

Other NY pols are also reading from the same page:

The Big Apple hits back – hard

Clinton, Pataki, Schumer, Rangel, and Bloomberg all swing the cluebat on this one, not that even that’ll penetrate Chavez’ thick skull.

MINNESOTA TRUCKER’S ROLLING 9-11 MEMORIAL

Have you heard about this trucker who has painted his cab and trailer with the names of all those who lost their lives in 9/11? The trucker’s name is John Holmgren from Shafer, Minn. He has been “pulled over” numerous times just so the troopers can get their picture taken with the truck. The names & images were painted on by Applied Images, Fargo, North Dakota.

These pictures were received by e-mail from my daughter…the artwork speaks for itself.

This is taking the thoughts and sentiments of the Darrell Worley song Have You Forgotten? to a higher level of personal action.

This makes me realize yet once more how great the folks can be out here in “flyover country” on the northern plains. Maybe some of my redneck Alabama ancestry is coming out here, but the Chief thinks this is too cool for words!

Bring Them Freedom, Or They Destroy Us

Here’s a very interesting and worthwhile lecture from Bernard Lewis that’s posted on Real Clear Politics. It’s semi-long, but well worth a good, thoughtful look.

The final sentence of the piece is simple and profound in reference to the war on Islamofascism:

I think that the effort is difficult and the outcome uncertain, but I think the effort must be made. Either we bring them freedom, or they destroy us.

Now, read the rest to see why he reaches that conclusion.

Is It A Cuddly Universe?

This interesting post over at SDP both asks and answers this question. As if you couldn’t guess – it’s not (cuddly).

Many years ago the late Richard Grenier wrote an essay asking the question, “Is it a cuddly Universe?” The subject of his essay were the films E.T. (cuddly) and Blade Runner (not cuddly). Is there any doubt that after the speeches by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez before the United Nations that our corner of the universe is not cuddly?

This is an very incisive metaphor:

Some Americans have a view of the world that is similar to “battered woman syndrome.” This is the syndrome in which a battered woman blames herself for her beatings and is sure that if she just loves her man more or better then he’ll stop hitting her. Surely, some argue, we have done things to make the Iranians and Venezuelans angry, and if we are just a little nicer to the world then people will stop trying to kill us.

Hear, hear!

Colorado State professor disputes global warming is human-caused

There’s a LOT of other stuff out there (in the scientific research) that backs this up.

Global warming is happening, but humans are not the cause, one of the nation’s top experts on hurricanes said Monday morning. Bill Gray, who has studied tropical meteorology for more than 40 years, spoke at the Larimer County Republican Club Breakfast about global warming and whether humans are to blame. About 50 people were at the talk.

Gray, who is a professor at Colorado State University, said human-induced global warming is a fear perpetuated by the media and scientists who are trying to get federal grants. “I think we’re coming out of the little ice age, and warming is due to changes to ocean circulation patterns due to salinity variations,” Gray said. “I’m sure that’s it.”

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The tinhorn neo-Commie virtual dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is speaking to the so-called United Nations even as the Chief types this.

He has apparently raised the status of President Bush. No longer is he a latter-day Hitler. Now he is nothing less than el Diablo – the devil himself.

Meanwhile his incipient and metastatizing neo-Stalinism is engaging in such old Soviet tricks as refusing travel rights to citizens who have offended his government by, for example, having the temerity to get married to an American.

OOOOH! OOOOH! Chavez just suggested moving the UN from the land of the devil to another location “to the south”.

WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY!

It was telling that he received hearty applause to his remarks from the enlightened masses of the UN General Assembly, thus demonstrating that no one will ever err by underestimating the worthiness of that body to engage in credible judgment.

F.E.T.E.

Next Attack Imminent: Muslims ordered to leave the United States

Take this for what it’s worth. Hopefully this report doesn’t bear out in the end, but the way things are these days, one never knows.

Urgent news from Abu Dawood, one of the newly appointed commanders of the al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan: Final preparations have been made for the American Hiroshima, a major attack on the U. S. Muslims living in the United States should leave the country without further warning.

OK? Might it not behoove one to be somewhat prepared for contingencies at least? It certainly couldn’t hurt.

The search for Adnan El Shukrijumah

There is a hunt…er…at least of Inspector Clouseau quality…for the principal Islamoterr of the operation:

…no one on planet earth is more of a threat to the lives and well-being of every man, woman and child within the United States than ferret-faced Adnan.

Read on to see why.

This piece is VERY detailed, with a lot of citations and footnotes of sources. Sports fans and fun-seekers, we MAY be in for some Bad Things Happening.

Headlines from the Book of Isaiah:

CHAPTER 17
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 ¶ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 ¶ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 ¶ Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Jihad, the Lord’s Supper, and eternal life

Spengler’s laser-sharp logic once again cuts through the fog of political correctness to slice and dice the prevailing miasma of appeasement that has the West in danger of asphyxiation.

This time he is highlighting the harsh-seeming truth that Islam’s ultimate stance towards the non-Islamic dar al Harb (that means YOU and me, infidel!) is intrinsically similar to the attitude of the (apace) aliens in the SciFi potboiler Independence Day. Recall the scene when the President met with the alien emissary who communicated that they were here to basically dissect the planet for raw materials. When the Pres. then asked what they expected us to do, the alien simply replied “Die!”.

Actually Islam DOES offer us another choice – conversion, and/or complete submission to the mullahs and ayatollahs. As far as the Chief is concerned – no thanks – not in this world, OR the next!

The Islamic world now views the pontiff as an existential threat, and with reason. Jihad is not merely the whim of a despotic divinity, as the pope implied. It is much more: jihad is the fundamental sacrament of Islam, the Muslim cognate of the Lord’s Supper in Christianity, that is, the unique form of sacrifice by which the individual believer communes with the Transcendent. To denounce jihad on theological grounds is a blow at the foundations of Islam, in effect a papal call for the conversion of the Muslims.

Just a bit from this column – but the Chief’s recommendation is that it is well worth reading carefully. The kernal is in his conclusion:

There is no Grace in Islam, no miracle, no expiatory sacrifice, no expression of love for mankind such that each Muslim need not be a sacrifice. On the contrary, the concept of jihad, in which the congregation of Islam is also the army, states that every single Muslim must sacrifice himself personally. Jihad is the precise equivalent of the Lord’s Supper in Christianity and the Jewish Sabbath, the defining expression of sacrifice that opens the prospect of eternity to the mortal believer. To ask Islam to become moderate, to reform, to become a peaceful religion of personal conscience is the precise equivalent of asking Catholics to abolish Mass.

Islam, I have argued for years, faces an existential crisis in the modern world, which has ripped its adherents out of their traditional existence and thrust them into deadly conflicts. What was always latent in Islam has now come to the surface: the practice of Islam now expresses itself uniquely in jihad. Benedict XVI has had the courage to call things by their true names. Everything else is hypocrisy and self-delusion.

DEUS VULT!

Pope lashes evil of jihad

POPE Benedict has hit out at Islam and its concept of holy war during a visit to his Bavarian homeland. The thinly veiled attack on extremist Islam’s justification for terrorism came during a theological lecture to staff and students at the University of Regensburg, where the former Joseph Ratzinger taught theology in the 1970s.

Using the words, “jihad” and “holy war”, the Pope quoted criticisms of the prophet Mohammed by a 14th century Byzantine Christian emperor, Manuel II, during a debate with a learned Persian.

Yowch! Not exactly an example of political correctness!

He also went on and noted a real problem that the West has given itself:

But in reiterating his concerns about a modern world “deaf” to God, he warned that other religious cultures saw the West’s exclusion of God “as an attack on their most profound convictions”. “A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures,” he said.

A double dose of unpleasant truths.

DISCLOSURE: I am as Catholic as Brigham Young!

Of course, the reaction to this from the “Religion of Piss Peace is predictable:

Pope’s speech stirs Muslim anger

Muslim religious leaders have accused Pope Benedict XVI of quoting anti-Islamic remarks during a speech at a German university this week.

Seems to the Chief that calling a spade a spade is NOT considered acceptable – but then, that’s what political correctness is all obout, isn’t it?

Air America: The end.

It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch of moonbats. Of course they have a replacement in the wings – the Feminazi network of Steinam and Fonda – who the Chief is willing to predict will meet with the same success as Al “Weiner” Franken.

BWUAHAHAHAHAHAH!

sic: Facile ‘fascist’ terminology

Here’s another academician who has thought himself right out of contact with reality:

Fascism as a form of government has no meaning in today’s political market. And adding an adjective like “Islamofascism” doesn’t make it so. What the Islamic terrorists are doing is not “fascism,” it’s terrorism, pure and simple based on their reading of the Koran supported by guest appearances of Osama bin Laden.

The Chief’s read on this is that Islamofascism IS a good descriptive term. The current crop of Islamists can be historically traced back to ideologic contact with the 3rd Reich’s National Socialists. The Baath movement was organized as a pan-Arabist version of national socialism to be implemented mutually in a pan-Arabic state.

It includes the forcible imposition of a particular world-view, and the suppression of opposition and dissent from whatever source. It also happened to adopt the anti-Jewish attitudes of the German (and others) to the extent of continuing to promulgate anti-Jewish literature from such sources as the late unlamented Reich, and the old Russian Czarist forged history called “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.

Terrorism is a tactic. Fighting a “War on Terror” makes as much sense as fighting a “War Against Amphibious Assault”. Same logical difference. Of course the Chief DOES admit the aspect of terror attacking non-military targets to obtain a desired reaction is particular repulsive, but then hey, attacking ANY target in any way is ultimately a means of forcing a behavioral response from the enemy.

As General Sherman noted, “War is Hell” – an organized effort to kill people and break things. The current war needs to be properly focused on the properly identified enemy, who are not just “terrorists”…they are indeed identifiable as Islamofascists, with a commonality of goals, ideology, and focus shared by the Iranian and Syrian states, organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and openly terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, et al.

All of them share the goal of either forcing the conversion of the west to their point of view, or of imposing the subjection of the state of Dhimmitude on those of us who do not accept that program.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and lays duck eggs, it must be a duck! The Islamist radicals of whatever stripe are close enough to fascism to make a quibble pointless. Since they are generally similar to the original fascists in their actions and programs, and are after all, Islamic, the term ISLAMOFASCIST fits the bill nicely for identification.

’nuff said.

Greenstone launches all-women radio talk network

Greenstone Media, a radio company whose founders include social activist Gloria Steinem and actress Jane Fonda, has launched an all-women, all-talk network across the United States.

It’s NOT the basic concept that turns the Chief’s stomach, rather it’s the quality, or lack thereof in the main instigators of this new way to waste electricity and radio spectrum.

On the other hand, if it was Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, and Laura Ingraham…it would be another story.

Marines vs. Military-Industrial Complex

The U.S. Navy’s last two battleships appeared in December 2005 to have seen their final combat, on their way to being museum pieces. That’s not necessarily so. A decision to be made on Capitol Hill this week will determine whether the USS Iowa and USS Wisconsin are ready for a possible naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf with Iran.

Advocates of maintaining the World War II-vintage warships as troop-support firing platforms fell short nine months ago in efforts to block a provision in the Defense Department authorization bill sending the vessels to museums. Overlooked then was the bill’s conference report requiring that the battle wagons be returned to active duty if the president declares a national emergency. But they will be useless relics unless this year’s Defense authorization prohibits changes in the battleships that “would impair their military utility.”

The Chief’s duly considered opinion is that these ships are still a valuable asset to the defense of the United States. Right now we couldn’t replace them if we HAD to…the infrastructure just isn’t there anymore.

Remember: “BATTLESHIPS ARE CHEAPER THAN BATTLES.” – Lord Charles Beresford.

Fatah, Hamas move toward unity

This is another one of those DUH! reports, as if anyone with half a brain and/or some degree of situational awareness didn’t already know that both of these outfits are essentially different expressions of the same attitudes and beliefs that characterize Islamofascism.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced an agreement in principle yesterday on the formation of a unity government comprising ministers from their rival Fatah and Hamas parties.

The real underlying issue behind this move is financial:

T

he final agreement is expected to include an implicit recognition of Israel by Hamas, but it was not clear whether it would go far enough to end an international aid boycott that has paralyzed the Palestinian government and left its workers unpaid for months.

The United States and European Union have insisted that aid cannot resume until the Palestinian government recognizes Israel, renounces terrorism and agrees to honor previous treaties with the Jewish state.

The Chief wouldn’t make any bets that the State Department’s Foggy Bottom Boys don’t proclaim that this is a major new change that justifies resuming payment of baksheesh tribute support payments to these bloody-handed weasels.

What happened to the attitude of the fledgling Congress that proclaimed 200 years ago in relation to the Barbary “pirates” (the same peoples that are running Islamoterrorism today) “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!” as they authorized construction of the first ships of our new government’s navy.

TERRORISM: ‘AL-QAEDA’S MR. NUCLEAR TO HEAD FRESH ATTACK ON U.S.’

If this doesn’t chill your outlook, you have to be a serious member of the ostrich club.

Osama bin Laden is planning to carry out new, more destructive attacks inside the United States, and there is someone working on this terror plot currently in the US, according to Hamid Mir, the famed Pakistani journalist who obtained the only post-9/11 interviews with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. In an interview quoted on the website of the al-Arabiya television network, Mir spoke about his last trip to Afghanistan and his meeting with al-Qaeda members and Taliban leaders.

In his interview with Al.Arabiya.net, Mir said that the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters referred to attacks targeting the US-led coalition forces during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which begins on 24 September, and that the al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden was in “good” health during a meeting he had recently with the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar.

Mir also said that bin Laden has assigned a man named Adnan Al-Shukri Juma to carry out a new attack within the US which is intended to be larger than the 11 September, 2001 attacks. According to Mir, Adnan Jumaa has smuggled explosives and nuclear materials into the US through the Mexican border over the last two years and is hiding somewhere in America where the FBI has not been able to locate him.

After spending the last two nights watching the ABC mini-series about the background leading up to 9-11, these reports have all the earmarks of that same old deja-vu all over again, except that this time it won’t be possible to blame Pres. Bubba and his clique.

We should have this Adnan Al-Shukri Juma SHOULD be on America’s Most Wanted, and on the FBI list. Methinks this is a bit more of a problem than that crackpot polygamist that there was such a to-do about.

Former Iranian President Khatemi is making the rounds of the establishment in the US these days, with speeches at the Episcopal National Cathedral, as well as Harvard, althoug there is some controversy about both appearances.

Episcopal bishops hit ‘inappropriate’ speech

disclaimer: The Chief agrees with the protest, if not all the stated reasons for it.

Some leading Episcopal bishops have sharply criticized the decision to invite former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to speak at the Washington National Cathedral, the seat of the presiding bishop of the church’s American branch.

Good enough. The interesting point made at the tail of this piece is this:

…Rev. John Peterson, director of the Cathedral’s Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, which invited Mr. Khatami….has defended the invitation. He told the Episcopal News Service that, “although former President Khatami is viewed negatively by some, he is important as the most moderate Iranian voice willing to discourse with Americans on matters of peace among the Abrahamic faiths.”

OK – so he’s the “most moderate Iranian voice”? One wonders what that means…from the following item, moderation in Iran is considerably different from what a typical American might consider it to be.

Khatami defends Ahmadinejad, Iran’s nuke plans

Remember, this is the voice of Iranian “moderation:

Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami yesterday defended his country’s nuclear program…

Sounds to the Chief like Khatemi’s “moderation” is pretty much the same on this one as Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad Ahmadinejad, who no one suspects of committing the sin of moderation.

…and rejected suggestions that freedom and human rights in Iran had deteriorated under his hard-line successor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

This is no doubt true, when one considers that freedom and human rights were realistically non-existant before anyway. Khatemi however goes on to contradict this, although he doesn’t consider the current tightening down to be a “deterioration”.

Mr. Khatami acknowledged that his two-week American tour had been criticized by religious hard-liners in Iran, but he said he did not think that Iran had regressed under Mr. Ahmadinejad. “I don’t think things have reversed,” he said. “Of course their interpretation may be different than mine, but on women and youth, the new president has said things that are very hopeful.”

What sorts of “hopeful” things?

Mr. Ahmadinejad has enforced dress codes requiring that women be dressed in black or dark blue Islamic garb from head to toe and has begun a campaign to purge liberal and secular professors from the nation’s universities. Mr. Khatami’s successor has also called for Israel’s destruction.

To quote the Brit rock band THE WHO:
“Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.
Don’t get fooled again!”

Leak cost U.S. spy links to Chinese arms sales

With all the (justified) brouhaha about the war on Islamofascism, the ChiComs continue to be 800 pound gorilla in the corner that gets ignored, which suits them just fine as they continue to ramp up to a position where they can become decisively dominant in one fell swoop. (Go back and read your Sunzi Bingfa, more commonly referred to here as Sun Tzu’s Art of War.)

A former analyst for the Pentagon’s intelligence service provided China with highly classified information prior to the loss of a major electronic spying operation against Beijing, The Washington Times has learned.

The loss of the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping operation hampered U.S. efforts to track China’s covert arms sales to nations such as Iran, Syria and Pakistan, Bush administration officials said.

OK. So not only did this traitor betray us to the ChiComs (which is bad enough!), but he effectively has also effectively given aid and comfort to the Islamofascists at the same time.

What’s left to say?

Traitor. Rope. Tree. Some assembly required!

‘Mengele Lives!’ if FDA rule approved

How sick is this?

Medical experiments could be carried out in the United States on uninformed patients under a rule change proposed by the Food and Drug Administration, charges a California pro-family group….

The proposal would allow the use of any “investigational new drug application” or “investigational device” on people who have a life-threatening medical condition for which other treatments are unsatisfactory. It applies in situations where the patients are unconscious and cannot give consent and none of their representatives is available. “Such ’emergency research’ could be conducted without any informed consent from the patient or their designated representative,”

You too, can be a guinea pig!

Ackerman said the biggest danger rests for the homeless, or other citizens in marginalized groups, because they often don’t have anyone to act as a representative if they are involved in an accident or become ill. “There will be a subclass of patients who can’t give consent themselves, or don’t have a representative,” he said. That concept was the same used by the Nazis, who considered some groups of people less than human.

Earth-like planets could litter the galaxy

Would-be galactic colonists got a boost this week when a paper in the journal Science suggested that Earth-like planets might be more common than previously thought. Despite the fact that almost all of the extra-solar planets we have detected have been gas giants – often much bigger than Jupiter – research from the US suggests many of these extra-solar solar systems could also harbour smaller, rocky worlds like Earth.

Cool! Now all we need to do is figure how to build starships!

Britain ‘more distrusting of Muslims’

Hmmmm. Now I wonder why this is the case? (Think, think!) Oh yeah – those bombs last summer – the noise must have been a wake-up call to some of the Brits.

The July 7 suicide bombings last year left Britons feeling substantially less comfortable about having a Muslim neighbour, boss or in-law, a survey has revealed.

While the majority of people questioned after the attacks recognised that Muslims suffer discrimination and prejudice, they also admitted that they had become more negative towards followers of the religion.

What goes around, comes around!

Clinton & Cohorts Demand Censorship Right to ABC

Amazing! Could you just imagine the uproar from the MSM if a group of Republicans “DEMANDED” that a TV network alter it’s programming at the behest of the complainers?

Clinton et al are apparently beyond such criticism, judging from ABC’s haste to bend over and grab its ankles for Bubba, and the lack of MSM concern about “censorship”.

BUBBA GOES BALLISTIC ON ABC ABOUT ITS DAMNING 9/11 MOVIE

A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series “The Path to 9/11″ grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden – and he is demanding the network “pull the drama” if changes aren’t made.

OUCH! The program must have been cutting pretty close to the bone to get such an immediate and rabid reaction.

First reports out of LA look like he may have succeeded too:

ABC alters 9/11 show under pressure

After a screening of the first episode in Washington last week, some audience members attacked the film’s depiction of the Clinton administration’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden. Among those unhappy was Richard Ben-Veniste, an attorney and member of the 9/11 commission whom some conservatives have dismissed as a Democratic attack dog. Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, has criticized the movie for suggesting that the Clinton administration was in a position to capture Bin Laden in 1998 but canceled the mission at the last minute.

After much discussion, ABC executives and the producers toned down, but did not eliminate entirely, a scene that involved Clinton’s national security advisor, Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger, declining to give the order to kill Bin Laden, according to a person involved with the film who declined to be identified because of the sensitivities involved.

Censorship? As far as the Chief is concerned, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck, and sadly not the one from AFLAC.

Chevron taps vast oil pool in Gulf

A trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that has the potential to boost the nation’s reserves by more than 50 percent. A test well indicates it could be the biggest domestic oil discovery since Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay more than a generation ago.

Admittedly this won’t solve the energy problem, but hey, it sure can’t hurt!

Missile Fired At McCain’s Helicopter

The Interior Ministry of the nation of Georgia said Sunday that a surface-to-air missile was fired at a helicopter last week, as it escorted an American delegation led by Senator McCain, a Republican of Arizona. The aircraft was not damaged. A spokeswoman for the Department of State, Joanne Moore, said she had no information about the incident.

The Chief has steadfastly turned away from the little demon on his left shoulder, so he will NOT say that maybe they will shoot better next time.

I will NOT say that – in spite of theMcCain-Feingold First Amendment Political Speech Suppression Act, otherwise known as Campaign Finance Reform.

Newsman to Tony Snow: ‘Don’t Point Your Finger At Me!’

A not especially eventful press briefing at the White House today turned rancorous with NBC’s David Gregory telling Press Secretary Tony Snow, “Don’t point your finger at me,” and Snow accusing the newsman of being “rude” and delivering Democratic talking points.

Nothing like the Snow-man calling a spade a spade & the obvious truth about this MSM denizen flacking for the Donks must have hit a soft spot.

Like they say in Russia Dave: toughsky-shitsky!

Israelis discovers rocket lab ‘financed by Hizbullah’

Shocking, simply shocking! The Hezbos linked up to the late, unlamented Palestinian Capo di tutti Capo Arafat’s Fatah organization.

Israel’s military has found an explosives laboratory operated by the Fatah movement and two rockets in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. The military reported the arrest of two Fatah operatives – identified as Tahar Amar and Hassan Ufi – and accused them of being responsible for the laboratory, Middle East Newsline reported. “The Fatah people were financed by Hizbullah,” a military source said. The sources said Hizbullah supplied funds and directions for rocket strikes against Israel.

So, how’s that again about not negotiating with terrorists? Oh, that MUST mean unless there are vested P.C. interest in the Paleswinians.

It’s Time to Deep-Six the UN

A few highlights:

The UN has outlived its usefulness, if indeed it ever had any. It has gone past the point of being an ineffectual joke, and entered a new stage where it actively and deliberately aids those people and regimes that most Americans consider evil….

The UN is good for nothing. The only things it can do are to skim money off its funding to line the nests of its apparatchiks, procure underage sex-slaves for its peacekeepers, and pass resolutions condemning Israel….

The real truth of the matter, the ugly truth that makes America hated and reviled the world over, is that the only force capable of keeping the peace in the world today is the armed might of the United States of America. No country can remain at war if America has the desire and will to stop it. And, without the help of the United States, the UN is a shrill but ineffectual bystander.

The President has taken an oath to preserve and protect the citizens of this country. He will violate it if he does not, with deliberate speed, begin the work of extricating us from the United Nations. Our treaty obligations cannot require us to commit national suicide.

Saying that the Chief concurs is a severe understatement! Check out the posting. The six listed specific and detailed fatal flaws of the UN alone are worth it – great sticks to flog your local internationalist moonbats.

Freedom Stage not so free

Sibby has laid out a very good treatment of the so-called debate of Governor candidates at the state fair at Huron. The debate was sponsored by, and ultimately controlled by the Mitchell Daily Republic, to the exclusion of Libertarian candidate Gerber. So much for free speech, eh?

The Chief concurs with Sibby’s jaundiced view of the Republic’s management of the debate, but would carry it even farther: the whole institutional culture of political pseudo-debates that has grown up. The whole situation with political campaigns negotiating ad nauseum over the terms of “acceptable conditions” that are required before they candidates can get on stage with each other has become a form of political minuet designed to minimize risk, and heaven forfend that a candidate should actually candidly be himself/herself!

The Chief would greatly prefer to cut to the chase, and have real debates, mano-a-mano, Lincoln-Douglas style, but apparently the politicos don’t have enough respect for the voters, or confidence in their own abilities and character to do that.

Such being the case, we’ll inevitably be subjected to more episodes of elaborately choreographed and exclusive bouts of political kabuki theater instead of a free-ranging open debate format that might actually let the voters really get to know what the candidates are all about.

’nuff said on this, for now.