I am on record (to several journalists no less) as stating that I believe the Jewish vote for the Dems will fall by at least 1/3 this election. I am not necessarily saying they will all go to Bush, but it will be severely down. Dean links to someone who seems to agree. The Jewish vote has been taken for granted by the Democratic party; this is certainly not wise in today’s global climate.

The Moslem council of Britain has been roused into action. Yes folks, three years after 9/11 and a few dozen Islamic terrorist attacks later, a message has been issued asking Mosques to be vigilant and help fight terrorism. Thats telling em.

Anti-Israeli campaigners pop up in the British media as often as Jordons breasts; somehow its taken three years to cobble together this stirring letter.

However, when asked on BBC London radio if Al Mahajaroon should be closed down, MCOB leader Inayat Bunglawala became curiously non-committal.

Al Mahajaroon promotes a peculiarly depraved, bloodthirsty version of Islamo-fascism to young Moslem men, celebrates Al Quaeda bombings, and seeks Islamic dominance of Britain through violent means.

Though asked three times, Mr Bungawala refused to call for its disbanding, recommending Police action only if laws have been broken.

Presumably, promoting mass slaughter of infidels in the name of Islam is Kosher, as long as one keeps within the law.

With this kind of leadership in the Moslem community, I foresee a long, hard road ahead.

This game may be based on some Anime but one of the toons has distinctly Cthulhu-oid features.

Via: Ghost

Tim Blair reports on a recent Islamokazi attack on McDonald’s. And the gags are already beginning.

Was this guy trying a Mr Creosote moment?

“Other states have tried — and failed — to create universal health care. Now, Maine intends to show them how it’s done. This summer, the state will begin enrolling people in its health care program, called Dirigo — the state motto and Latin for ‘I lead.’ It is aimed at ensuring health care access for all 1.3 million residents. Under the voluntary program, people will be able to get health coverage through private insurers at rates subsidized by the state and participating employers.” (03/30/04)

Via: Rational Review

I’ve always thought of James Lileks as an essayist more than a blogger, inasmuch as his site doesn’t really feature a lot of interaction or links. Also it sounds better.

Apart from being one of the most truly talented writers on the web, he’s a devoted collector of oddball stuff, stuff that in lesser hands could be described as kitschy.

Oh, hell, it is kitschy, but he truly seems to love it, and his site is a goldmine.

Well worth looking at is his Art Frahm collection. Frahm (1907-1981) was a popular commercial artist perhaps most notorious for his calendar girlie art.

I was going to put up a picture, but it might not be work-safe. (They’re only mildly risqué, 50’s cheesecake at worst, but you can’t be too careful these days.)

And you really must view them framed by Lileks’ droll commentary, in which he identifies crucial recurring motifs in Frahm’s oeuvre. (Hey, I can write Fancy-Pants Art Critic Style, too.)

Two words: Panties and celery.

Arab Media Watch http://www.arabmediawatch.com/ is another delightful Islamist group operating in the West, advertising its own particular brand of radical Islam under the banner Promoting objective coverage of Arab issues in Western media.

Unable to resist the chance of a good discussion, I attended their fun packed London conference titled Is criticizing Israel anti-Semitic, and found an auditorium packed with useful-idiot Lefties, piously clutching their Guardian newspapers and wearing Arafat headscarves. To ensure good debate, the panel of distinguished were of varied opinion, though only in the ferocity of their hatred for Israel and America.

N.B. While Middle East Media Watch has not yet had time to investigate objective reporting in the various fiefdoms, dictatorships, and totalitarian states surrounding Israel, I am confident this will happen soon, as focusing on Israel might lead to unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism.

The Irish smoking ban has received a staggering amount of media coverage in America. This appears to be the only social or cultural crisis in recent Irish history that cannot be blamed on the British, which, I sense, leaves my lost Celtic cousins uncharacteristically wide-eyed and scrambling for the right words on CNN.

This from the Telegraph Letters Page.

“A Zogby International poll released today shows strong support for legal access to medical marijuana among likely Vermont voters: 71 percent support the medical marijuana bill currently pending in the Vermont House. The telephone poll was commissioned by the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project and conducted from March 19 to 22, surveying 502 randomly selected, likely Vermont voters. The poll has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points. Numerous other state and national polls have shown similar, strong support for medical marijuana. ... The measure drew solid support among all age groups and among self-identified conservatives, moderates and liberals.” (03/29/04)

Via: Rational Review

First up we have the Best0fMe Symphony over at Rocket Jones. Pop over and wish the host well; seems to have had a rough time this week with a bout of flu.

Second for this week is latest round of scores in the KotB competition, of which the author of this post is a judge. Congratulations to Walloworld on his ascension to King.

Ever wanted to be a political pundit? Predict the outcome of the electoral tally in November and prove it!

Wizbang has got the Bonfire this week. Please go over and see what is on the fire.

The Carnival com/mt/archives/000874.html "”>is living large this week, over at Eric Berlin’s.

The new Carnival of the Consumers is up at over at Jeff Doolittle’s.

And finally its Klingons for Christ!

If that is not enough snickering for you, then you can always go read the Yassin limerick round up over at Michele’s or Islamic country songs at Allah’s.

And finally this found on Grey Monk.

Anti-terrorist forces have raided a large number of addresses around London. Numerous arrests have been made, more worringly a large amount (half a tonne) of explosives was found as well as bomb-making equipment.

Do guns cause crime? This study should answer the question definitively.

That lover of all things nautical, and near-traiterous PM, Ted Heath has slammed Howard in a TV interview. He claims that Howard is too old to be PM. One could argue that Heath is too senile to be making pronouncements about his party. One could also argue is he is far too bitter and twisted to be a credible voice about Conservative politics.

Rather interesting the timing of this, considering the “big move” of CCO happens on Thursday. This might be his way of backing those who are getting the sack at the beginning of this week.

I hope the Conservative Party can move on from the bitter in-fighting and back-stabbing that has been going on over the last few years. There are some who need to realise that their raison d’etre in the Tory Party is to get the party elected, not to carry out personal vendettas against those they dislike.

Update: The harpies at CCO haven’t got things all their way. Their last bte noir has been entirely cleared of misemploying his wife. I suspect even those who are responsible for Betsy and IDS’ investigation knew the charges had no merit and wouldn’t stick.

Amiel has written a piece in today’s DT detailing how anti-Muslim terrorist cassandras were treated. As someone who was predicting an 9/11 level attack on the US as early as 85, with the requisite pillorying, I appreciate Ms Amiel’s thoughts on the matter. The greatest pity, of course, was the fact that both American parties prefered the Ostrich approach to seeing Islamo-kazis for what they were capable of doing.

Of course then there are the ridiculous comments like this one in today’s DT letter page about Carey’s recent comments.

Re: Think again, Lord Carey
Date: 29 March 2004

Sir – Lord Carey’s comments about Islam (News, Mar 26) appear dangerously irresponsible and inaccurate. Denigrating a religion for the extremist actions of a minority is appalling. It is the equivalent of holding Christianity responsible for the nuclear bomb, and Judaism for the horrors of the Israeli occupation.

From:
Chris Doyle, Director, Council for Arab-British Understanding, London EC4

Ok, let’s look at this letter. He claims that all three major religions are responsible for acts of extremism. I can think of very few acts of either Christian, or more importantly, Jewish extremism in the last…oh 100 years or so. How many deaths have been caused by Islamic extremism? Lets just say in the last 50 years?

Islamo-kazi luvvies would counter with the Crusades (for Christian extremism), conveniently forgetting of course, that the Crusades were caused by Islamic fanatics’ aggression in the Near East, the Iberian Peninsula, and eastern parts of the European continent. Of course, truth be told, what they really mean is that the existence of the state of Israel is an act of Jewish extremism.

A great actor, man, and satarist has died after a good innings. He will be missed by many, and this great land is a bit less funny without him around.

And you thought I was kidding, I bet. Those clever clots over at the International Jewish Conspiracy have come up with a plan to get the chosen back from the filching Mormons.

Use toilet paper sparingly, experiment with natural toilet paper substitutes including stones, vegetation and snow. Carry out all used toilet paper, brown plastic bags containing a drop of bleach make this more pleasant. Several forest fires have been started by burning toilet paper and burying paper in catholes is unacceptable as it doesnt decompose. We can, however, bury used “TP substitutes” in the cathole, another reason to test these options. Know what you are using! Poison ivy and stinging nettle have been proven incompatible as a TP substitute.

Tips for campers, courtesy of the Sierra Club, via Professor Bunyip.

I myself have solved this problem by never going camping. Nature, you might know, consists mainly of:

a) bugs;
b) dirt;
c) bad weather;
d) carnivorous animals; and
e) lousy substitutes for toilet paper,

so I’d rather stay indoors and play Top Spin Tennis on my Xbox.

Still, you’ve got to admire their willingness to experiment. It must be one of those trial-and-error things — “Hmmm. How about . . . cactus?”

We all owe a debt to the first guy who caught a lobster and said: “Now this looks like good eatin’!”

Or as the Sierra Club would have phrased it: “I wonder if I can wipe my bum with this thing?”

Alan Jackson took three bloody movies to tell the same tale.

Via: Mike

When HMG decides to poke its nose into private business, that’s bad enough. When HMG decides to spend the taxpayers’ monies on bureaucracy insted of useful service, that’s even worse. When HMG chooses to spend those monies on not only poking its nose into private business but starts to compete with &/or control, that is the extreme case of shamefulness and chutzpah. As Alex has written at Samizdata, it looks to be the case in the last area of our freedom, the world of the internet.

This MUST not stand !!

I tashte like Alcohol. Heh. Heh. I taste like beer. I like beer. Buy me a beer. I’m not drunk, I can drink plenty without… What was I saying? Beer. What Flavour Are You?

Via: Ghost

In the next of today’s quizzes, this from Michele.

Dog of Flanders poses this stumper:

If Y was the “spiritual” leader of Hamas, and Rantisi replaces him, why then isn’t anyone calling Rantisi the new “spiritual” leader?

a) He’s still short three merit badges.

b) “Spiritual leader?” No thanks, look what happened to the last one.

c) He’s actually a very confused Methodist.

d) He can’t grow required saintly beard — children snicker behind his back, call him “Fred Flintstone.”

No further commentary needed; just savor it in all its uglitude.

Many thanks to Across the Atlantic for the wee gem.

When Louis Paul Kadlecek turned 21, he went on a bender, drinking for four days straight. He was familiar with the Brazoria County (Texas) Airport, since that’s where he performed community service after “one of his previous arrests”. Kadlecek, who has never flown a plane before, stole one from a hangar and, following instructions in a pilot’s manual, took off. Within a mile he hit 100,000-volt power lines and crashed, but managed to walk home unharmed. “If stunt pilots tried 1,000 times to do the same thing, they would have been killed 999 times,” says the airport’s director. Kadlecek blamed poor airport security for his actions. “If there had even been a tall chain link fence with barbed wire on top of it, I would have just turned around and went on home,” he claims. He faces up to 20 years in prison. (Houston Chronicle) ...Where they will definitely have a tall chain link fence with barbed wire on top of it.

Via: This is True

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey has actually managed to say something I agree with completely. He gave a speech where he criticised Islam and its leaders. Much of what is said in his speech has been said on this blog in similar terms.

Needless to say, Muslims have been quick to condemn him, and are failing to take his points on board. It’s a classic case of “shooting the messenger”, or should that be “blowing up the messenger?”

Of course, Carey reverted to typical mealy-mouthed CoE leftism when he condemned the killing of the Palestinian OBL. It is, however, good to see him making some good points about the sorry state of Islam rather than sucking up to Imans and Mullahs.

Whether Muslims care to admit it or not, Islam is in crisis. Unless they are willing to clean house and clean up their image worldwide, things will only get worse – a lot worse.

Update: Tom Paine has written a rather long piece about Carey’s revelations. It might Den Besteian in length, but it is worth the effort. Peter tucks into the speech as well and comes up with a few interesting observations.

Update II: Amiel has written a piece in today’s DT detailing how anti-Muslim terrorist cassandras were treated. As someone who was predicting an 9/11 level attack on the US as early as 85, with the requisite pillioring, I appreciate Ms Amiel’s thoughts on the matter. The greatest pity, of course, was the fact that both American parties prefered the Ostritch approach to seeing Islamo-kazis for what they were capable of doing.

They’re now selling Kosher computers (Made in Israel) calledDELLiSHALOM, @ such a good price I bought one yesterday. There are some important upgrades from a typical computer, such as:

a. Naturally, the cursor moves from right to left. It comes with two hard drives-onefor fleishig (business software) and one for milchedik (games).
b. Instead of getting a “General Protection Fault” error, my PC now gets “Farklempt”
c. After my computer dies, I have to dispose of it within 24 hours.
d . The “Start” button has been replaced with the “Let’s go!! I’m not getting anyyounger!” button.
e. I hear “Havah Nagilah” during startup.
f. Microsoft Office now includes, “A little byte of this & a little byte of that.”
g. When running “Scan Disk” it prompts with a “You want I should fix this?” message
h. When my PC is working too hard, I occasionally hear a loud “Oy Gevalt!”
i. After 20 min of no activity, my PC goes “Schluffen”.
j. Computer viruses can now be cured with some matzo ball chicken soup.
k.And best of all, if you have a kosher computer, you can’t get Spam!!!!!!!!!!

Via: Saph

“Coming to a multiplex near you on May 28 is the global warming disaster movie, ‘The Day After Tomorrow.’ I’ve only seen the trailer, but my money is on the movie, not global warming, being the disaster. Featuring sensational but implausible weather phenomena … the movie’s unmistakable purpose is to scare us into submitting to the Greens’ agenda: domination of society through control of energy resources. This column has addressed Green extremism and global warming many times in the past. ... So suffice it to say that there’s no credible evidence humans are altering global climate in any measurable way and, to the extent that global climate is changing — as it always has and always will — there’s nothing that humans can do about that change except to adapt.” (03/25/04)

Via: Rational Review

“He tried it in his garage, but the plant withered. He tried it in his closet, but he said illuminating the plants ‘just runs the electric bill out of whack.’ So Powell, a multiple sclerosis patient who legally can use the drug under the state’s medical marijuana program, turned to Pierre Werner. Werner operates Primary Caregivers and Consultants, a company that helps severely ill people fill out paperwork, find a doctor and grow the marijuana they need. In some
cases, he has grown the drug for patients and sold it to them for about $100 an ounce. He has been operating the business from his home, but last week went before Clark County commissioners to ask for a business license so he could open an office. They turned him down — the county doesn’t have a business license it could assign to a business that would consult about how to obtain marijuana.” (03/25/04)

Via: Rational Review

Start planning for that summer vacation, folks!

To fully enjoy the sewers of Vienna, you should be familiar with the 1948 film, The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed and starring Orson Welles. Not only does the film capture the bizzarre nature of living in an occupied, half destroyed city at the onset of the Cold War, but proudly features the sewers of Vienna as a major player in the thriving black market at the time. If you are in Vienna and want to see the film, it plays late nights in the English language movie theatre near the Opera.

[...]

This tour only covers a much smaller part of the sewer network, but is hosted by actual sewer workers. Not only do they talk about what it is like to work below the streets, but they conduct a multi-media extravaganza loosely tied to the movie. There’s special lighting effects, video projection and someone dressed like Orson Welles who shoots a gun at you. Really.

It must be the 1948 Orson Welles, because I doubt you’d be able to fit the later version into any known sewer. Next stop, the:

Parasite Museum in Meguro, Tokyo, which displays 300 varieties of parasites that have been found in humans.

It seems that Sen. Kerry’s bad treatment of a Secret Service Agent [not a smart idea if they are supposed to protect one] is not an example of anything new in his behaviour. Paul, Dodgeblogium’s good friend, has a friend who sent him to a site that has another example, one from quite some time back.

More than one person has been blasted by Kerry with the haughty remark of “Don’t you know who I am?”. Hasn’t he ever heard of noblesse oblige? Just asking!