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Posted: 17 Jul 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Two weeks after Obama paid a high profile visit to
Putin, lavishly complimenting him for doing "an extraordinary
job" and buttering him up while Putin sat there looking at him in
contempt, Putin has managed to have another human rights
activist killed. It's a small thing, but it's a ground level look at
the wages of appeasement.

Obama came to the post-Democratic Russia,
ignored the manifold human rights violations, the government seizure of
private companies, the disenfranchisement of dissident political parties
and the murder of political opponents, including one carried out in
England. He ignored the Russian invasion of Georgia, its nuclear aid to
Iran, the arms it has provided to kill US soldiers in Iraq and every ugly
thing the Putin regime has done. And after all the flattery, he was
treated with open contempt, denied even
handshakes, and the murders go on.

These are the pathetic wages
of appeasement. This is what Obama's diplomacy looks like. A murdered
woman, a smirking dictator and the media propaganda organs of Russia and
America repeating their individual party lines. Welcome back to 1939.
Except this time the role of America will have to be played by someone
else.

Meanwhile in Iran, Mousavi protesters are countering
the Ahmadinejad supporters chants of "Death to America", with "Death
to Russia" and "Death to China."

Inside the prayers — held on a former soccer field
covered with a roof — some of the worshippers rubbed their eyes as tear
gas from the scuffles outside drifted in during Rafsanjani's speech.
They traded competing chants with some hard-liners in the congregation.
When the hard-liners gave the traditional chant of "death to America,"
Mousavi supporters countered with "death to Russia" and "death to
China."

I suppose that counts as progress by Islamic standards.
And of course this can't help but remind me of this parody of Al Jazeera
that somehow slipped by network standards

And in the "Death to Everybody" news
front, more bombings targeting Western chain hotels in Indonesia's capital
Jakarta. Which is pretty much what you can expect when the man behind the
Bali bombing perps, Islamic "spiritual leader" Abu Bakar Bashir, head of
Jamat Al Islamiyah, is free as a bird after serving only 2.5 years in
jail. This after only 20 months for the Christmas bombings of churches in
2000 which killed 18 people.

That is what you get in Indonesia for
the holy task of trying to kill infidels.

Abu Bakar Bashir has openly
called for violence against Western tourists. He openly created a new
terrorist organization after being released from prison. He supports Bin
Laden and the attacks of September 11, he repeatedly issues calls for
Jihad, and his agenda is a fairly simple one.

In answer to one reporter's question as to what the West
and the United States can do to make the world safer, Bashir replied,
"They have to stop fighting Islam. That's impossible because it is
sunnatullah [destiny, a law of nature], as Allah has said in the Koran.
If they want to have peace, they have to accept to be governed by
Islam."

That is a message that more reporters and liberals need
to listen to, because it's the simple zero sum endgame of Islam. Peace can
only come through slavery. For non-Muslims to attempt to rule themselves,
let alone over a land that has Muslims in it, is to the Muslim mind an
abomination that can only be met with violence.

'The plan is breathtaking - to create one Islamic state
from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore to parts of the Philippines,
Thailand and Myanmar

The Caliphate in Southeast Asia. It is behind the
Islamic violence in Thailand and the Philippines. The US, under Bush
obviously, attempted to extradite Bashir, but that failed. So instead
Bashir continues to organize terrorist groups and terrorist attacks. The
latest bombings in Jakarta, like the previous ones, are no doubt the work
of the same smiling bearded man who is Southeast Asia's own Bin Laden, and
walks free.

But finally the bombings should be a reminder to
Western tourists not to visit Muslim countries. In Muslim countries you
have no rights. You are an infidel and little better than an animal. Your
life is worth less than a Muslim's. Your security is worth
nothing.

Most Muslims have their own Bashir's who dream of nothing
more than sending sexually frustrated young men to blow themselves to
paradise in order to take you and your family with them in a shower of
blood and bent nails. When you visit a Muslim country, you have a giant
target painted on your back for them. Why make it easy for them to kill
you?

Meanwhile the 40th anniversary of the moon landing has come
and gone, reminding us of how little America has accomplished in space
since then, as Debbie Schlussel points out.

Unfortunately, while we put men on the moon several
times, the American space program has failed in many ways. We haven't
done much since first landing on the moon.

Yes, American men
landed on the moon another five times since. And we've sent many space
shuttles out into the great beyond (with two of them, sadly,
exploding).

But what else have we done? The many space shuttle
launches are wastes of money. They don't achieve much except garner
results for a few experiments. That's about it.

Forty years ago
today, people envisioned a future with residential colonies on the moon,
or at the very least somehow harvesting the moon for energy or some
other resource. None of that has happened. And in fact, very little has
happened in the 40 years since Apollo 11 or the five other manned
landings. In fact, in terms of outer space exploration and colonization,
we haven't done much since Neil Armstrong set foot on that
rock.

Sadly, in 40 years, the most creative "visions" regarding
moon and space exploration are the stories concocted by loony conspiracy
theorists who claim we never landed there and that it's all a fiction
perpetrated on a Hollywood set.

As someone who is fascinated by
the universe and its planets and loves American history and sci-fi, our
failure to advance further in space is a huge disappointment. But it
should be a disappointment for all Americans. What held such great
promise 40 years ago is now a broken promise.

...

Perhaps
we could discover ways to humanly set foot on Mars and harvest or
colonize that planet. It's not impossible. But the uncreative minds at
NASA feel comfort in just doing the same old meaningless space shuttle
missions. NASA has become just another government bureaucracy--another
failed, bloated government bureaucracy. The pencil pushers and plain
Janes and Joes who run the place lack imagination.

But it is not
just the fault of the bureaucrats. It's the fault of the American
population, as well. Through our own fault, through the undying devotion
to pop culture and lackluster education, we've become ignorant. And in
this dumbing down, we've given up our fascination with the endless
possibilities and freedom of real science--space exploration, for the a
dangerous obsession and endless slavery to the neuroses of fake
science--"global warming," "climate change," the "green movement,"
etc.

While under Bush there was a far reaching plan for
exploration, under Obama NASA is nothing more than a prop for the Global
Warming Mafia, a problem which dates back much further than that. NASA is
currently being co-run by an affirmative action appointee and Obama's
space policy advisor.

Naturally that's the sort of thing another
Obama advisor would like to get rid, not the mafia thing, but the
criticizing the mafia thing, with Cass Sunstein, better known as Mr.
Samantha Power, pushing the internet
silence doctrine bit.

Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been
appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely
mind-boggling, explicitly supports using the courts to impose a
"chilling effect" on speech that might hurt someone's feelings. He
thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new
laws need to be written to corral them.

...

Sunstein's
book is a blueprint for online censorship as he wants to hold blogs and
web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on
websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for
spreading "rumors."

Smith notes that bloggers and others would be
forced to remove such criticism unless they could be "proven". The
litigation expense would be daunting; the time necessary to defend a
posting (or an article) would work to the benefit of the public figure
being criticized since the delay would probably allow the figure to win
an election before the truth "won out". The mere threat of retaliatory
actions would be enough to dissuade many commentators from daring to
issue a word of criticism or skepticism.

Often bloggers raise
issues to encourage others (perhaps with more resources) to further
investigate issues. Skepticism about candidates often begin on the web
or talk radio-these steps (so vital to a democracy) would be chilled
should Sunstein's ideas be put into practice. One should not dismiss
that prospect: this is the most ideologically driven administration in
many years. A Democratic Congress willing to do Barack Obama's bidding
will not serve as a check on Sunstein (or Obama). Democrats know that
criticism over their conduct often emerges from the web and talk radio
since traditional media is so reliably in their corner. Sunstein did not
join the administration for a title or to be close to his wife. He
joined, as have other ideologues throughout history, to put his ideas
into practice.

It would be ironic if after working to set up proxies
for Iranian protesters, we should now have to set up proxies for Americans
to be able to speak freely. Except I wonder what country would remain with
enough free speech to help set up proxies for us, if under Cass Sunstein,
Obama's regime joins the ranks of China and Iran.

Meanwhile in
silencing people news, Meghan McCain dug deep into her intellectual
reserves, and in an interview with Out magazine (put out by those fine
people who like to throw themselves a pride parade each year demonstrating
just how little they have to be proud of) called Joe the Plumber, a
"dumbass".

Now Meghan McCain calling anyone a dumbass who can
actually walk and chew gum at the same time ranks as ironic too.
Especially when you consider that her brain is actually 2/3rds bubble gum
and 1/3rd entitlement. But as she waddles through another interview, it's
a good demonstration of why the Republican party needs to cleanse itself
of the trash, before it can become competitive again.

Some choice
quotes from the interview, with extra bubble gum;

On election night last November, McCain was
understandably consumed with the results of the presidential race and,
like many, “assumed that Prop 8 wouldn’t pass.” The next morning,
however, she woke up in an already sour mood made worse by her BGF (best
gay friend) Josh “telling me that on top of everything else, Prop 8
passed.” Like many others, McCain was swept up in a collective sense of
grievance,

I'm sorry if you lost IQ points even reading that, but
I'm not liable for that.

But what so recently seemed antithetical to mainstream
Republicanism has lately gained support from unlikely supporters... And
John McCain’s former campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, told the Log
Cabin Republicans that same-sex marriage was consistent with sound
conservative principles.

This being the same guy who keeps leaking nasty stories
about Sarah Palin,

McCain recognizes that she has yet to win over gays. “A
lot of people in the gay community are skeptical of me as a Republican,”
she says

I think pretty much everyone is skeptical of her as a
Republican. Including the part of Meghan McCain's brain that actually
works, if there is such a part.

And now for the dumbest Meghan
McCain quotes from the article assembled in no particular order of
ditziness,

"Does it sound campy to say I love gay men?” asks Meghan
McCain, sipping an iced tea at the nouveau-chic Hotel Palomar in
Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle... “My generation -- we like our
celebrities,”... “I’d be flattered to be considered the anti–Ann
Coulter, the anti–Rush Limbaugh,”... “My mom was always for gay
marriage, but I think me being so vocal about it has made her want to be
more vocal about it,” she says. “She texted me: ‘Gay marriage passed in
Maine!!’ ”... she also views the fight for gay equality as “my
generation’s civil rights movement.”

I would say that Meghan McCain has a learning disorder,
except that being Meghan McCain itself seems to be a learning disorder.
And finally to close it up...

“In general, I don’t get a good response from the
conservative movement,”

I can't imagine why. Maybe it's because she's a liberal
Democrat trying to build a career in a party her old man belongs to, which
she also completely despises, and despite barely having 2 brain cells to
rub together, continues "speaking out" on issues, or rather bashing every
Republican she can in order to get attention from the liberal media who
are the only ones to give her a forum, and doing it as articulately as a
schizophrenic off his medication trying to report his brain
missing.

Her big message now is that since so many in the
conservative movement hate her, clearly it's because she's a straight
talker with an important message. Except as the saying goes, "They laughed
at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

Meghan McCain is
definitely a lot closer to Bozo the Clown, than to any of the above. It's
something she might want to consider. If not maybe her BGF can break it to
her.

In further or is that fuhrer "Religion of Peace" news, Islam's
big campaign to promote itself into the US came equipped with antisemitic
flavoring. This somehow surprised the ADL

"The 'WhyIslam' campaign is ostensibly an effort to
clear up misperceptions and to educate the general public about Islam,"
said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "This endeavor would on
its face appear to be the right thing to do. Unfortunately, when one
follows through to learn more, the Web site provides links to
conspiratorial anti-Semitic material as resources.

"We have
always said that our concern is with extremists who promote hatred in
the name of Islam," said Mr. Foxman. "In this 'WhyIslam' campaign, an
otherwise positive effort to promote public awareness about Islam,
providing links to sites that would be considered extreme by any measure
in their expressions of hatred for Jews and Israel taints their
message."

I would say then the Why Islam campaign was meant to clear
up the misperception that many like Foxman have that Islam is a religion
of peace and does not condone bigotry, violence or extremism. It seems to
be succeeding.

It's inevitable that any resources for Islam would
run into the widespread belief in the Muslim world that Jews are evil and
that the Holocaust never happened. It would take a lot of work and
billions more Saudi dollars to construct a seamless English Muslim
internet that would be completely free of true Muslim beliefs simply to
gull Westerners into joining the Religion of Peaceful Beheading
bandwagon.

Besides Jews for Allah is as offensive as Jews for
Jesus, or Jews for Obama, aka J Street. And while Foxman has condemned the
two former, it would be nice if he addressed a hate group who claims to be
Jewish, but in fact hates Jews and works to destroy them in support of
Islam, aka J Street. On the bright side if J Street ever runs low on Soros
blood money, they can always merge with Jews for Allah.

Finally a
blog comment, not even from my own blog, but from the blog of a Rabbi
Jaffe, in response to
a post of his pointing out that Michael Jackson was antisemitic too.
The comments are a scattered collection of claims that using "kike" is not
antisemitic, intermingled with rabid antisemitism (references to Ashkenazi
characterize those as being disciplines of Kevin McDonald or one of his
even loonier imitators), but the more interesting material comes from
Lilah, who claims to have been born Jewish, but not Jewish in
identification, who goes through the classic Liberal process of defending
an antisemitic bigot by blaming the Jews for causing his
bigotry.

It's a fascinating study in self-hatred and proof once
again that liberalism really is a mental illness. We can divide it into
three parts. The first part is the affirmation of the bigot's essential
goodness

Lilah 03 Jul 2009 at 8:04

I’m an Ashkenazi Jew.
Well I am by heritage anyways, even if I’m not, as an adult, part of the
culture or religion.

However I am a huge fan of Michael. I love
him dearly and he loved me dearly. I am certain that he did not molest
little children. He helped millions of them all around the world and did
more for victims of war and famine than any other entertainer in
history, period. He has a big heart, aside from his imperfections, and
has touched people so deeply with is music.

That is the affirmation of goodness. This sets the
premise for everything that follows. Since Michael is inherently good, he
cannot possibly have behaved badly. His actions were clearly either
misinterpreted, or caused by the objects of his hate. This is the crucial
opening step. We see it done for example with Palestinian Arab terrorists
who are characterized as inherently good, because they are fighting for
freedom.

The second part that follows is the soul
searching

I am trying to read as much as possible to understand
the meaning of his words in the song. At first glance it looks really
bad and anti-semitic, but I’ve also seen interviews where when
questioned about these lyrics, he states that he loves and cares for
everyone, Jews, Arabs, everyone. I’ve heard different theories on it
that he was including Jews with Blacks in the song as a race that is
unfairly picked on. I’ve also heard that it’s used in an anti-Jew
context, which is the first thing that occurred to me.

During the soul searching, the apologetic comes to
"grips" with what happened, experiencing some element of shock at say the
comment, or a suicide bombing, and looking for alternatives before
settling on.

Now comes part 3, or the turnabout.

If it was meant in an anti-semitic context, then it does
have to do with the nasty people who happen to be Jewish who have
assaulted him mentally and emotionally throughout his life. If so, we
have to ask ourselves who we should be turning our blame on; Michael for
reacting this way, or the cruel morons who assaulted him with their
hatred in the first place and MADE JEWS LOOK BAD ENOUGH FOR ONE OF THE
MOST CARING PEOPLE ON EARTH TO SAY THAT IN THEIR SONG.

Clearly. And the turnabout is the most crucial part. In
Part 2, the soul searching, Lilah had to deal with a challenge to the
basic tenet of her belief, Michael Jackson's goodness. Similarly liberals
have to deal with challenges to their belief when they see a particularly
grisly suicide bombing, and have to try to reconcile their belief in a
Palestinian state with the ugliness of what they just saw. The turnabout
is where those beliefs are reconciled by blaming the party in Part 2, thus
reconciling their belief system with Part 1.

The crucial term is,
"We should ask ourselves who we should be turning the blame on". Anytime
this question is asked by a liberal, it usually means to turn the blame
away from the perpetrator, either on to the victim or to some higher force
above the perpetrator such as society.

At Family Security Matters,
Dr. Walid Phares challenges
Obama to call for freedom.

To close off the roundup, Isi Leibler
has a solid article, The Case Against Obama, replying indirectly to
Dershowitz. Isi Leibler may not be a name familiar to most, but he
successfully took on the corrupt Bronfman junta running the World Jewish
Congress and brought Bronfman senior down, even while being bombarded with
a torrent of hate and called a "right wing dog" by the old bootlegger
himself.

In the blog roundup meanwhile, Lemon Lime Moon has a
suggestion for bringing
some representation to the SCOTUS

At IsraPundit,Moshe Philips
of AFSI asks, Who is Israel's
Sarah Palin? and Arutz Sheva's Moshe Kempinsky
on J Street, The New Impostors

It is usually easy to spot them.
Throughout Jewish
history the embattled people of Israel have developed conditions and
neuroses very similar to victims of abuse. At times, they have begun to
blame themselves for the hatred that they have experienced hurled
against them. At other times, they have begun to assume that if they
would adopt more universal ideals and become more connected to the
greater whole they would cease to be persecuted. As a result of such a
desire they have eschewed uniqueness and national identity for the safe
anonymity of “sameness”.

The New Centrist remembers the Victims of 7-7-05