Police identify gunman as 18-year-old Bosnian

By now you have no doubt heard about the Salt Lake City mall shooting. The politically correct media is telling part of the story, but is falling under the constraints of political correctness.

Police Tuesday identified the gunman accused in Monday night’s Trolley Square shooting as Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee who lived in Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said Talovic drove his car to the mall, parked in the west parking terrace and encountered two people who he shot before entering the mall. There, he encountered a female who also was shot right away, then went into a gift shop where there were five people, all of whom the young man shot. Moving through the mall, the gunman tried to shoot others, Burbank said. The chief said he could not say now how many shots were involved in the entire episode.

Burbank praised an unnamed Ogden police officer who took action at the mall to intervene in the incident, and praised the many law enforcement and other agencies that responded quickly and professionally to the crisis. Until Salt Lake police arrived, it was “basically a shoot-out between the Ogden individual and this individual,” Burbank said.

“As you can see, this individual was well-prepared,” Burbank said, apparently referring to the young man’s backpack filled with ammunition “He had one purpose.” Six individuals died and four others were hospitalized.

SO what’s missing. Oh. Yeah…the perp was a Bosnian MOSLEM. Of course no one is willing to use the T-word: terrorism.

Hey! The Chief subscribes to the philosophy that if something walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then hey, it must be a duck! In this case, as far as the Chief can tell there is no requirement for terrorist acts to be the result of a grand conspiratorial movement. It’s all in the effect, and actions.

The MSM and apparently most government officials are afraid to call an ugly spade an ugly spade. Until we are at least willing to openly identify the enemy, what chance is there that we will meet with success in the “long war” against militant Islamofascism. This next item illustrates and confirms the problem we have with this:

Chertoff’s ‘Islam PC’ rankles fed officials

Citing recent internal memos, Department of Homeland Security employees complain their boss Michael Chertoff is hamstringing counter-terror operations with pro-Islamic political correctness. They say headquarters has cautioned officials not to describe Islamic terrorism as Islamic and to respect Islam as a “religion of peace.”

’nuff said. F.E.T.E.

Iraqi insurgents using Austrian rifles from Iran

Yesterday the Chief noted that Iran has been engaged in a series of actions that constitute de facto acts of warfare against the United States. This is another instance of their belligerence:

Austrian sniper rifles that were exported to Iran have been discovered in the hands of Iraqi terrorists, The Daily Telegraph has learned. More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.

Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon. Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the £10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.

Wow! A £10,000 piece! That’s upwards of $15,000 – would be nice to have one of those!

Australian leader: Al-Qaida wants Obama

Australia’s conservative prime minister slammed Barack Obama on Sunday over his opposition to the Iraq war, a day after the first-term U.S. senator announced his intention to run for the White House in 2008.

Why would he say something like this?

Obama said Saturday at his campaign kickoff in Springfield, Ill., that one of the country’s first priorities should be ending the war in Iraq. He has also introduced a bill in the Senate to prevent President Bush from increasing American troop levels in Iraq and to remove U.S. combat forces from the country by March 31, 2008.

What’s not to like about this, if you are al Qaida?

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a staunch Bush ally who has sent troops to Iraq and faces his own re-election bid later this year, said Obama’s proposals would spell disaster for the Middle East. “I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilize and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory,” Howard said on Nine Network television. “If I were running al-Qaida in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory, not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.”

Calling a spade a spade!

Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says

The most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq is an explosive-packed cylinder that United States intelligence asserts is being supplied by Iran. The assertion of an Iranian role in supplying the device to Shiite militias reflects broad agreement among American intelligence agencies, although officials acknowledge that the picture is not entirely complete.

Remember the Maine? The US went to war and brought down the Spanish Empire on a lot less than this, and now that the truth is known, it looks like an internal engineering explosion that sunk the US warship.

Meanwhile, we continue to pussy-foot around with Iran, who has demonstrably been engaging in repeated acts of war against the United States.

This classic phrase is the kernel of the Constitutional definition for treason…in one of these reports, that definition is fully applicable in the Chief’s humble opinion. (During the Civil War, this sort of thing was done by the northern sympathizers of the Confederacy who were known as “Copperheads” – named for the common (poisonous) snake.

War resolution seen hurting morale

Senate Republicans yesterday contradicted top Pentagon officials who say Congress would not injure troop morale by passing a nonbinding resolution critical of President Bush’s Iraq war plan. Sen. Lindsey Graham said he was outraged that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates would say U.S. combat forces “understand” politics back home and won’t be disheartened by a symbolic no-confidence vote against the commander in chief.

“It shows a lack of sophistication about how this would play in newspaper headlines throughout the world,” said Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican. “The war on terror is about headlines,” he told The Washington Times. “The last thing we need to do is give [terrorists] a headline by our political action that would embolden them, and by contrast would be hurtful to our men and women in the theater trying to execute the new strategy.”

You know it’s bad for Graham to get exercised like that…as often as not he’s been playing the RINO game on a lot of issues lately.

This other case is from similar noises being generated by the indigestion of Euro leaders fulminating against the US efforts:

Anti-Americanism in Europe ‘helps al-Qa’eda’

DUH! Like this takes a rocket scientist to figure out – oh wait – we ARE dealing with the Euros here…never mind…all bets are off, but the Aussie Foreign Minister tries anyway to talk some sense to them.

Anti-American feeling in Europe is playing into the hands of al-Qa’eda and unwittingly encouraging terrorism, Australia’s foreign minister said today.

Mr Downer gave warning that criticism of America’s conduct in Iraq could – inadvertently – provide an incentive for terrorist attacks. “People in the West, and not only in Europe, blame America for a suicide bomber in a market in Baghdad,” he said.

Nice Try Mr. Downer…but the Chief fears the effort to be Quixotic at best.

Parasitic infection plagues states along Mexico border

Just what we need – another open border problem:

Federal researchers say neurocysticercosis, a brain infection caused by a pork tapeworm, is a “growing public health problem in the United States,” especially in states bordering Mexico, where the disease is endemic.

Neurocysticercosis is the “most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system,” according to a study jointly conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California public health officials, who reported that “international travel and immigration are bringing the disorder to areas where it is not endemic,” such as this country.

This is some nasty stuff. If one eats larvae containing pork, an intestinal infestation of the tapeworm occurs. If the tapeworm eggs are consumed, as the result of fecal contamination of food for instance, THEN the organism encysts in soft tissues – like nerve tissues – like the brain. Unsurprisingly, 1-2 cm cysts in the brain (like large holes in swiss cheese!) does NOT do good things to nervous system functionality. See this link for some hard-core medical info on the medical situations that result.

Also…not only along the border:

“Most patients [187, or 85 percent] were foreign-born, and 137 [62 percent] had emigrated from Mexico….Although neurocysticercosis is “especially” a problem in the Southwest, it has also surfaced in other places, such as New York, Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C., data from other studies show.

GOP Lawmaker Warns of Impeachment in Border Agent Case

The fecklessness on the border has gotten so bad that it beggars the imagination to try to claim that it’s just due to some sort of governmental/bureaucratic inefficiency. IMHO, it has reached, yea surpassed the point where any benefit of the doubt is warranted. The only warrants left are the ones being referred to by Congressmant Rohrabacher in this piece:

Weeks after accusing President Bush of “shameful” behavior over the imprisonment of two Border Patrol agents who shot an unarmed suspected drug smuggler along the U.S.-Mexico border, a federal lawmaker turned up the heat further Wednesday, suggesting the president should be impeached if the two men are killed in prison.

Speaking after the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that agent Ignacio Ramos was assaulted by inmates in his Mississippi prison at the weekend, California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher had a warning for the White House. “I tell you, Mr. President, if these men — especially after this assault — are murdered in prison, or if one of them lose their lives, there’s going to be some sort of impeachment talk in Capitol Hill,” he said during a press conference in Washington, D.C.

“The president of the United States talks a lot about his Christian charity, and his religious beliefs,” Rohrabacher said. “He now is showing a mean-spirited side to him, an arrogance, in which he will turn his back, even after one of these officers in prison has been brutally assaulted.”

Meanwhile, there are reports out there that prosecutorial and judicial inquisition that has taken place here is nearly as egregious as that of NC prosecutor Nifong’s legal shennanigans in the Duke “rape” case.

How to account for the Presidential deafness on this one? Who can say for sure, but here’s ONE possible scenario:

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Could this really be it?

An Engineered Solution?

Received via e-mail:

Engineers always seem to know what to do!

Three guys — a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden, and an American engineer are working together one day. They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it. “I will give each of you one wish, which is three wishes total,” says the Genie.

The Canadian says, “I am a farmer, my dad was a farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Canada.” Pooooof! With the blink of the Genie’s eye, the land in Canada is forever made fertile for farming.

Osama bin Ladin is amazed, so he says, “I want a wall around Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran so that no infidels, Jews or Americans can come into our precious lands.” Pooooof! Again, with the blink of the Genie’s eye, there is a huge wall around those countries.

The American engineer says, “I am very curious. Please tell me more about this wall.” The Genie explains, “Well, it’s about 5000 feet high, 500 feet thick and completely surrounds the countries. Nothing can get in or out — it’s virtually impenetrable.”

The American engineer says, “Fill it with water.”

This would work for the Chief!

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National driver’s license hits a bump

A revolt against a national driver’s license, begun in Maine last month, is quickly spreading to other states.

The Maine Legislature on Jan. 26 overwhelmingly passed a resolution objecting to the Real ID Act of 2005. The federal law sets a national standard for driver’s licenses and requires states to link their record-keeping systems to national databases. Within a week of Maine’s action, lawmakers in Georgia, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked at Real ID. They are expected soon to pass laws or adopt resolutions declining to participate in the federal identification network.

The Chief is encouraged by this. Maybe real Federalism isn’t totally extinct yet – you think? Hopefully so.

Senate GOP blocks Iraq resolution

Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a resolution that would have condemned President Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq. On a 49-47 vote that largely followed partisan lines, Democrats fell 11 “ayes” short of the 60 needed to bring about a vote on the resolution, which is nonbinding but is widely viewed as a declaration of no confidence in the continued mission of the Iraq war and Mr. Bush’s handling of it.

Many of the GOP Senators are no doubt adjusting to the strange new sensation of the sudden and previously un-noticed presence of a solid protective set of bones around their spinal columns.

Of course, that didn’t mean that the old RINO tendencies were entirely absent:

Among those who voted against last night’s motion was Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia, who wrote the resolution but joined other Republicans in opposition to holding a vote because the new Democratic majority is not allowing votes on other war resolutions.

Oh well.

Conservatives need to stop playing defense

Sibby has hit it out of the park on this one. The lack of either intestinal fortitude, or any detectable spinal bone structure in much of what passes as “Republicanism” these days is such a sad turnabout from the unashamed and assertive stance of Ronaldus Magnus and his 1980’s Republican renaissance.

He extensively cites Farah from WND, and adds his own pithy comment on the sad state of current Conservatism.

The great question is what to do about it – how to organize this?

In a related development, radio talker Michael Savage has noted that he is “mulling” a presidential bid, presumably as a stimulus to some serious consideration in the GOP of an aggressive nationalistic Republicanism in contrast to the crop of RINO candidates (Giuliani, McCain, etc). This can be interesting, since Savage is indubitably an attack-dog Conservative. He would be GREAT fun to see at a candidates’ “debate” forum.

The Conservative side of the GOP could do worse than take biblical counsel: (I Corinthians 14)

8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

Well. What to say about this? Reading this may be too geeky for many, but the upshot is that that Microsoft looks more and more to the Chief like being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Satanic Enterprises Un-ltd. Unfortunately, the lead header about “obscuring the view” is literally true!

Fortunately, one can get the gist from the “Executive Summary” and “Executive Executive Summary” which constitute a sort of abstract of the whole deal:

Executive Summary

Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it’s not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.

Executive Executive Summary

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.

May it be so!

As far as the Chief is concerned – he plans on avoiding VISTA now, and if possible, forever. Time to learn LINUX I guess.

The real deal?
Against the grain: Some scientists deny global warming exists

Firstly, the logic behind the Orthodox Church of the Warming Globe:

Astrophysicist Nir Shariv, one of Israel’s top young scientists, describes the logic that led him — and most everyone else — to conclude that SUVs, coal plants and other things man-made cause global warming.

Step One Scientists for decades have postulated that increases in carbon dioxide and other gases could lead to a greenhouse effect.

Step Two As if on cue, the temperature rose over the course of the 20th century while greenhouse gases proliferated due to human activities.

Step Three No other mechanism explains the warming. Without another candidate, greenhouses gases necessarily became the cause.

Sounds simple, right? That’s the beauty of it – but wait! It turns out to not quite so simple after all:

Dr. Shariv’s digging led him to the surprising discovery that there is no concrete evidence — only speculation — that man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming. Even research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change– the United Nations agency that heads the worldwide effort to combat global warming — is bereft of anything here inspiring confidence. In fact, according to the IPCC’s own findings, man’s role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth. Unfortunately, our tools are too crude to reveal what man’s effect has been in the past, let alone predict how much warming or cooling we might cause in the future.

So, if not human activity, what’s causing changes? Hmmmm. Not only the sun, but stellar cosmic rays seem to have effects:

However, Dr. Shaviv not only believes there are credible “other suspects,” he believes that at least one provides a superior explanation for the 20th century’s warming.

“Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming,” he states, particularly because of the evidence that has been accumulating over the past decade of the strong relationship that cosmic- ray flux has on our atmosphere. So much evidence has by now been amassed, in fact, that “it is unlikely that [the solar climate link] does not exist.”

Catch that? Not just the sun, but also cosmic ray flux! So what about the evil CO2 being released by the dastardly, evil, capitalist corporations?

The sun’s strong role indicates that greenhouse gases can’t have much of an influence on the climate — that C02 et al. don’t dominate through some kind of leveraging effect that makes them especially potent drivers of climate change. The upshot of the Earth not being unduly sensitive to greenhouse gases is that neither increases nor cutbacks in future C02 emissions will matter much in terms of the climate.

There’s more noted in the rest of this piece – including some more on just how something as seemingly disconnected as cosmic rays apparently significantly affect the climate.

Chicken Little IS right: the sky IS falling, in the form of cosmic rays, and solar radiation.

Editor of Iranian Kayhan Daily Reacts to U.N. Resolution

It’s not often that the Chief shares a sentiment with Ahmadinejad Ahm-mad-on-a-jihad’s Iran on anything…but this sentiment, if not all their reasoning, is one that the Chief can heartly endorse as it refers to “preparing the U.N.’s corpse for burial in the graveyard of history”.

OH PUHLEEEESE! LET IT BE SO!

As for the rest of the Iranian article…it reeks of arrant nonsense:

“The Holocaust, or the slaughter of Jews during of WWII by German Nazis, is a myth and a contrived story….”The myth of the Holocaust is an excuse [used by] West to establish the illegal Zionist regime, and denial of it is an irrefutable attestation – in addition to many other attestations – that clearly testify to the illegality of the existence of the Zionist regime.

That’s more typical of what usually comes out of the current iteration of Iran. The UN comment sort of brings to mind the bit about even a broken (analog) clock being right at least twice a day.

Another abortion-ban bill heading for the Legislature

Lawmakers confirmed Friday that a bill banning most abortions in South Dakota will be introduced again in the Legislature, and it will contain exceptions for rape, incest and the health of women.

The Chief is NOT a fried of abortion, which in general, he considers to be a prime exemplar of what has appropriately been called “a culture of death” by Pope John Paul II. (DISCLAIMER: The Chief is not Roman Catholic.)

Overall from what is known of the proposal, it is better than nothing, but there is one major problem. The stated exceptions are for cases of rape, incest, and for the health of the mother.

As far as the rape and incest exceptions are concerned, they constitute the addition of chlorine to the gene pool. No problem to the Chief.

The area of concern is the bit about “health of the mother”. If this is not fairly specifically defined in the law, it opens up a hole big enough to drive a Peterbilt(r) through. There’s ALWAYS going to be Doctors and/or Psychiatrists that would be willing to say something like “the extra stress of pregnancy constitues some degree of threat to the overall health of the mother. Everyone knows that stress is evil, right?”

If Rep. Howie does define this term clearly and specifically, it MAY not be TOO bad. The devil will be in the details, visible when the details of the bill are released Monday.

Meanwhile, predictably enough, Kate Looby of Planned Parenthood Prevention of Parenthood misses the point of the November vote:

“The voters just spoke on this issue in November, and the message they were sending was, ‘We don’t want the government involved in this very personal, private family issue,’ and apparently, some of the legislators just can’t seem to stay out of private issues that families are facing and deal with,” Looby said.

Sorry Kate, what really happened was that many voters thought that Rep. Hunt’s no-exceptions act went too far…not that there was no place for legal limitations on pre-natal infanticide.

DEMOCRAT Rep. Mary Glenski has this about right:

The additional exceptions for rape, incest and the health of women are what voters want, state Rep. Mary Glenski, D-Sioux Falls, said. Glenski, who will be one of the sponsors of this year’s near-ban, doesn’t believe that voters are tired of the issue. She said it makes sense to bring the issue back because most South Dakotans oppose abortion. “I feel a real responsibility to try and respond to what the voters told us after the election,” Glenski said. “Many people said the lack of exceptions was the reason they voted against last year’s bill.”

The Chief awaits the details of Howie’s bill.

Panel votes to censure Sutton

What a joke the Sutton fiasco turned out to be – “censure”. Yeah, right.

Could you guess how long he would have lasted if he had been say…a H.S. coach who had done this with one of his players, all other circumstances being equal? About 15 minutes, or until the next school board meeting, whichever came first!

As an educator, the Chief KNOWS that this would have (properly) had an immediate and permanent response in an educational setting…whether or not there was a criminal prosecution that resulted from the circumstances.

The amoral pusillanimity up at Pierre is enough to leave you breathless…and if this is in South Dakota, one shudders to consider what it must be like in say…New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, etc.

P.S. Interesting commentary on Sutton situation by Rush Limbaugh yeaterday, noting no mention in the Argus-Loser of Sutton’s party affiliation as a “Democrat” until one read far into the depths of the article.

DISCLOSURE NOTICE: Although Sen. Sutton is from the Chief’s county, he is not the senator representing the Chief – as Moody county is split between the 4th and 8th legislative districts. Sutton is in the 8th, whereas the Chief is in the 4th District, represented by Sen. Peterson (who is not too bad a legislator for being a Donk).

NJ Cracks Down on Talking on a Cell Phone While Cycling

New Jersey may have unresolved problems with taxes, child welfare and gangs, but lawmakers are ready to crack down on one perceived danger: talking on a cell phone while riding a bike. A legislative committee has approved a bill that would make it illegal for people to use a hand-held telephone while riding a bicycle on a public road. Hands-free devices would be allowed and lawbreakers would face fines ranging from $100 to $250.

Phew! This one has several points of note.

Firstly, on its face, this illustrates another case of the “nanny state” and its benevolent legislators acting to protect us from ourselves (whether we need it or not: see below) and thereby justify their existence.

Then there’s this:

Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, a bill sponsor, said the measure is meant to protect bicyclists and the people they may strike when riding and yakking at the same time. “That is, in our judgment, a danger to pedestrians as well as to the bicyclists themselves, due to the fact that now they have one hand on the handlebars, they’re talking to someone and they’re on a public highway,” said Bramnick, a Union County Republican.

Aside from his argument, what in the world is a REPUBLICAN doing coming up with this sort of legislative micromanagement? Oh, right, this IS New Jersey, one of the prime breeding grounds of the RINOs, but still…

Finally, there is the issue as to how much of a problem is there from this dangerous behavior? how many thousands are being injured from careless bike riders?

Pete Garnich, owner of Knapp’s Cyclery in Lawrence, said it’s a waste of time. His store takes people out on weekly group rides and Garnich said he can’t recall anyone talking on a cell phone while riding a bike. “I wouldn’t say it’s a problem,” he said. “You can’t breathe and talk. It’s absolutely ridiculous.”

Fortunately the Garden State isn’t totally bereft of reason yet:

Not all legislators are eager to support the measure. “As my father used to tell me, ‘You can’t legislate common sense,’ and that’s exactly what this bill tries to do, as the Legislature has already tried to do on so many other occasions,” said Assemblyman Richard Merkt, R-Morris. “Is anyone dumb enough to use a cell phone in a dangerous manner while riding a bicycle really going to be smart enough to know about or pay attention to some legislator’s new law? Seems unlikely to me.”

Amazing…but all too typical. Stuff like this is the #1 reason why NJ is at the absolute bottom of the list of states where the Chief would like to live.

Officials fear war in space by China

With a bit more information on the ChiComs’ A-SAT (Anti-SATellite) system, there is nothing to ease the concerns that had resulted from said test.

China’s anti-satellite-interceptor test Jan. 11 is part of a covert space-weapons program designed to cripple the U.S. military in a conflict, defense officials said yesterday as Beijing confirmed it had destroyed one of its weather satellites. China said it had not “weaponized” space.

Of COURSE not! There are currently no admitted ChiCom weapons in space, so therefore, space is not weaponized! Voila! Of course, there is another aspect of this noted further into the article:

The report also stated that three books written by Chinese colonels in 2001, 2002 and 2005 contain “proposals for covert deployment of anti-satellite weapons directed at U.S. assets.” One author, Col. Jia Junming, stated in his 2002 book that Chinese space-weapons development should be covert and “intense internally but relaxed in external appearance to maintain our good international image and position.” The 2005 book, “Joint Space War Campaigns,” by Col. Yuan Zelu, calls for deploying an orbiting network of strike weapons that “will be concealed and launched only in a crisis or emergency” to “bring the opponent to his knees.”

This is worth a more thorough translation:

“This test was not directed at any country and does not constitute a threat to any country,” Mr. Liu said.

“This test was not directed at any country…” Of COURSE not! The A-SAT was targeted only on one of our own old satellites. No damage to anyone else, right?

“…and does not constitute a threat to any country” How could it be a threat – it is only a test, right?

This article is worth the look, and is the latest in Bill Gerth’s sterling coverage of national security issues vis-a-vis the ChiComs.

Astray in Greenland

Shocking, simply shocking! Once again the widely proclaimed paragon of journalistic excellence known as the NY Times Slimes has been caught “massaging” the message to meet its (in this case envirowacko) agenda.

In very large type, the New York Times Jan. 16 proclaimed “The warming of Greenland.” But as has become increasingly typical of their reporting on climate change, that’s only about half the news that’s fit to print.

After detailing a multiplicity of half-truths and incorrect data used by the Times, this piece concludes:

…the fact the recent Greenland story ignored the historical record and the refereed scientific literature is nothing new. On reporting about polar climate, the Gray Lady has a consistent record of hiding parts of the truth that are inconvenient to whatever story it is trying to sell.

And the MSM continues to look down its nose at the lack of informational quality in the blogosphere. Go figure.

Palestinian Gunmen Attack Empty Resort

The headline says it all.

Dozens of masked gunmen claiming to be members of al-Qaida stormed an empty Gaza Strip beach resort Tuesday and blew up a reception hall, saying they were sending a message to an ally of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, witnesses said.

The Chief can think of better ways to send a message…even a military one…like maybe attacking the enemy’s actual forces instead of a disued, empty building, but hey, what do I know?

This IS a truly appropriate illustration of the idiocy of the whole Paleswinian approach to reality. ’nuff said.

Palestinians told leave or risk death

Palestinians living in Iraq have been warned they will be killed by Shi’ite militias unless they leave the country immediately. Iraqi police say the immigrants, who are mostly Sunni Muslims, are the target of a backlash by hard-line Shi’ites, including members of the Mahdi Army led by Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

So much for inclusiveness!

Now the Shi’ite militias are stepping up their campaign to drive out Iraq’s 15,000 remaining Palestinians — less than half the estimated 40,000 living in the country at the start of the war, all of whom were welcomed by Saddam Hussein and provided with housing, money and free education. Hundreds of Iraqis were forced to leave their homes to make way for the migrants, many of whom joined the ruling Ba’ath Party.

Oh, so it’s political and economic revenge time. Yes, true Islamic Brotherhood at work. Once again it illustrates the point that “paybacks are a bitch”.

We must not fail in Iraq’

On a more positive note, the Prez, as CinC, has proclaimed a new policy for Iraq, and reconfirmed it in the State of the Union. OK.

President Bush pleaded with Congress last night to give his new strategy for victory in the struggle in Iraq a chance because “America must not fail in Iraq.” Defeat in Iraq, he said, would be “grievous and far-reaching” because the fighting in Iraq is part of a broader struggle against Islamic extremists across the Middle East and stretching to the farther reaches of the globe

True, too true! IF we are dragged from the jaws of victory by the anti-war claque in Congress, it will be a costly disaster of biblical proportions.

The troop “surge” is really more of a fluctuational spurt…but…if their REALLY is a change in the rules of engagement, especially as regards the so-called Mahdi Army of rad Shiite cleric al Sadr, and the counterpart Sunni militia forces…this really CAN turn things around.

Time will tell if this turn away from the oxymoronic concept of politically correct warfare is real, or another case of symbolism over substance. The battlefield will decide – and when it does, there is no further appeal to rhetoric political bullshit.

President renews push for bill on immigration

President Bush last night said his administration has made huge strides clamping down on illegal border crossings, and called on Congress to finish the job this year by passing a guest-worker bill and extending citizenship rights to illegal aliens.

You can believe as much of that as you want to. Frankly, the Chief isn’t buying into it.

In a State of the Union address designed to highlight areas where he could work with the new majority Democrats, Mr. Bush put immigration front and center, along with education, health care and energy policy — all domestic issues where he thinks he can find common ground.

On this the Prez seems to be dedicated to let that hidden Donk inside of him out of the closet once again – to the detriment of the nation’s sovereignty.

Border security? What a joke. We need to take a page from the Soviet Russian Neo-soviet policy which is somehow able to “disinvite THEIR illegals” snd send them home.

Australian flag not welcome at rock concert

Australians were told yesterday not to wave or wear their national flag at the country’s biggest rock concert for fear that it could provoke racist violence, a year after gangs rioted on a Sydney beach.

Apparently the land of Oz has it’s share of dhimmi-heads, just like the mother country (and just like us, for that matter).

The decision sparked anger from politicians, the media and war veteran associations, with one old soldier calling it “a bloody outrage”. The organisers of the Big Day Out in Sydney, which will be held on Thursday, said their decision was prompted by fans’ behaviour at last year’s festival, when young men draped in flags intimidated members of the crowd, demanding that they pledge allegiance to the emblem.

Shocking! Expecting people to pledge allegiance to the national flag? What will be next? No doubt the horrible and cruel singing of the national anthem.

Churches unite against gay laws

Tony Blair’s EngSoc regime has given the Church of England and the Church of Rome something to unite about: exemption from church agencies being forced to follow pro-gay adoption policies in contravention to their religious teachings.

Churches were on a collision course with the Government last night after the Archbishops of Canterbury and York backed their Roman Catholic counterpart by criticising new gay rights laws. Dr Rowan Williams and Dr John Sentamu, the two most senior figures in the Church of England, said in a joint letter to the Prime Minister that the consciences of Christians must not be trampled over.

What a radical concept! Someone other than Moslems should have their views respected? Revolutionary! (Or is it counter-revolutionary…whatever.)

In what is escalating into a full-scale political battle, they threw their weight behind an appeal by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor for Catholic adoption agencies to be exempted from the new laws so they can turn away same-sex couples.

It’ll be interesting to see what direction this one takes as it unfolds further.

There is no war on terror…

Britain is not fighting a “war on terror” and London is not a battlefield, the Director of Public Prosecutions said last night.

In a speech to the Criminal Bar Association, Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, said: “London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, ‘soldiers’. “We need to be very clear about this. On the streets of London, there is no such things as a ‘war on terror’, just as there can be no such things as ‘war on drugs’.

“Nope. Nothing happening here folks. It’s all under control. Go on home and watch this week’s episode of ‘Big Brother’ on the telly and leave stuff like security to your betters.”

It leaves one breathless to contemplate the total an utter supine attitude of this so-called protector of the realm’s legal welfare.

You gotta just cry for England with the likes of this dhimmi-minded gonad lacking wonder in power.

N Korea helping Iran with nuclear testing

Five’ll get you ten that THIS won’t make the Washington Post or NY Slimes! Thank G-d for the London Telegraph!

North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year.

Hmmm. Iran and the NorKs. Maybe there was something to the “axis of evil” thing after all, in spite of the objections of the disloyal opposition.

Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Teheran’s nuclear scientists.

No way this has ANY good to it.

A senior European defence official told The Daily Telegraph that North Korea had invited a team of Iranian nuclear scientists to study the results of last October’s underground test to assist Teheran’s preparations to conduct its own – possibly by the end of this year.

The clock is ticking. What to do?

The Chief has some ideas – none of which he is optimistic about given the current political gamesmanship underway in Washington these days – but there’s always hope fo some sanity…