Via Jihad Watch we read this article on the real meaning of the Fort Dix conspiracy.

By the way,  we all know those guys: three of them ran a roofing company, one was a cab driver, one worked at Rite-Aid, and one worked at  a 7-11.

UPDATE:  Julia Gorin at FrontPage Mag -- Balkan Muslim Gratitude: 

This is Balkan blowback, and it’s been happening since we stuck our nose where it didn’t belong throughout the 1990s and, for good measure, bombed the wrong side. Maybe one day we’ll finally start talking about it. This morning, Balkan experts Jim Jatras, director of the American Council for Kosovo, and Dr. Serge Trifkovic alerted all major on-air media of their availability to discuss this development and were told, “We have our usual terror experts.”

Those would be the same terror experts who, in their daily opining on the War on Terror, haven’t touched the Balkans — a key region in the War on Terror, as it was the site of al-Qaeda’s proliferation into a truly global network and now serves as the organization’s European base and entryway for attacks on that continent and others. (Note to Fox News: “Balkans” includes Kosovo, Bosnia, Albania and others.)

So, we’re in for yet another round of terror “experts” painting terrorism in and from the Balkans as a unique thing, suspended in a vacuum of context, lest Americans start piecing things together and surmising that perhaps what happened to the Serbs is in some way related to what’s happening everywhere else on the globe.

 

 
I have seen it attributed to both Ben Franklin and Albert Einstein.  The quote:  "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result each time".

As we enter the 21st century, the French demostrate that they are insane:  

THE victims of Soviet communism would find it hard to understand, but a giant yellow banner was unfurled in the centre of Paris last week, bearing portraits of Lenin and Stalin. “Only socialism can save the world” it proclaimed in black ink.

Welcome to the annual May Day rally in Paris, always a festive affair. Salsa music blared from the back of a lorry and an aroma of barbecued Merguez sausages filled the air. Trotskyite militants handed out leaflets denouncing the capitalist system.

The march, which attracted 60,000 people under flags emblazoned with the hammer and sickle, was a reminder of how different France is to other European countries with its lingering affection for ideas jettisoned long ago elsewhere in the world.

It was also a warning to Nicolas Sarkozy, the reform-minded conservative candidate for the presidency, of the trouble that may lie in wait for him if he wins the presidential election today and embarks on ambitious plans for modernising a country badly in need of renewal and disillusioned with its ruling elite.

 
I keep rediscovering this site which has a list of Islamic terrorist attacks in the last three months worldwide. 

Couple that information with a book that I am currently reading; "Eurabia" by Bat Ye'Or, and I begin to loose hope in a future for our children. 

 

 
Copperheads

 
"Use someone else's hand to catch a snake"

 
Jonestown was the group suicide of a bunch of religious wackos, right?  Well it turns out that Jonestown was the group suicide of a bunch of Marxist  wackos.  Somehow the Leftist media interpreted events differently. 

And Waco was the group suicide of a bunch of white religious wackos, right?  Well no, in fact over half of the people who died there were from "minority" groups including 27 black adults and children.  Where were the photographs of those folks in the media reporting of the incident?

Jack Cashill lays it all out in a WorldNetDaily article which you can read here. 

I wonder how much of the factual basis for our view of the world is false? 

HT: Mac

 
It's simple:

In the experiment a frog was dropped into a pot of hot (not boiling) water. It immediately jumped out, as would any sensible frog. Then it was placed in a pot of cool water sitting on a stove. This was more to its liking, so it swam about and lounged comfortably. The heat was turned on and raised very gradually. Soon it was hotter than the water in the first experiment, but the frog didn’t jump out. This was because there was no dramatic difference, as there had been when it was taken from room temperature and dropped into hot water. The frog became accustomed to the increased temperature as it was raised little by little. Before long the temperature was so high that the frog was unable to jump out of the pot, and it died.

 
Events of the past few weeks have produced a spectacle that few get to see in their lifetimes:  the final death of a once great empire.  But the detention of the 15 British Seaman and Marines by Iran, and the reaction of the British militiary and government thereto, marks the end in no uncertain terms of Great Britain as a military, world, and perhaps cultural power.  Right before our very eyes.

On May 29 1453 Byzantium fell to the Ottoman Turks after centuries of resistance to the Muslim horde.  The greatest church in Christendom, the Hagia Sophia, became a mosque and remains one today (although it is nominally a museum).  This event marked the end of the Roman Empire. 

 At the beginning of  20th century Great Britain was the greatest Imperial power on Earth:  "The Sun never set on the British Empire".  Their spoiled and foppish citizenry, which we often see depicted in modern movies, resembles nothing so much as American citizenry today.  As in our own time they believed that they had reached the "End of History" and achieved something of a Utopia.  The wars in the first half of the 20th century would show how foolish these ideas were, and in a little over 100 years Great Britain would decline and fall, again, to the Muslims.  Their refusal to respond to an assault on their military by Muslim forces marks their final surrender to Muslim power.  It's all over but for the bleeding, crying, and final throws. 

I have seen several good articles in the past week on this subject.  Recommended reading would be Dennis Prager -- Britain Was Once Great Britain and Victor Davis Hanson -- The Postwest.

What is remarkable is rapidity of the decline and fall.  Rome was a great power for perhaps 600 years, and the longest period of relative peace in the Western world, the Pax Romana (lasting nearly 200 years), was due to that power and influence.  Even in it's decline Rome took centuries to fall.  The collapse of the British Empire has occured in the sixty or so years since the end of World War II.  Today they can not even hold on to Scotland. 

What accounts for this precipitous collapse?  In my view it is all about ideas and Ideals.  The departure of Nationalism and Religion from the public conciousness, and the rise in their stead of Multiculturalism and Leftist thought, in it's many permutations, has brought (no longer Great) Britain to it's knees.  They have just enough life left in them to finish digging their own grave.

We remember now that this process was addressed decades ago by George Orwell.  We go back now and reread "Animal Farm" and "1984".  We read the appendix to the latter wherein he defines "Newspeak" and see it's principles being applied right before our eyes.  It is ironic that "Big Brother" was and is popularly percieved as a right-wing totalitarian figure.  We see now clearly that the facism that Orwell described springs from the Left.  And Leftist values, or the lack thereof, will be the ruin of the West.   

 
A couple of days ago Hugh Hewitt invited onto his radio show a couple of really well read guys to discuss the "top 30 books that everyone ought to have read".  I won't steal Hugh's thunder,  the transcript of the discussion is here, and the audio is here.

I immediately picked one from the list, and "Abolition of Man" by C. S. Lewis is on my nightstand. 

Subsequent to the broadcast, some listeners sent Hugh links to other great "book" sites and he lists them here.

All of these sites are well worth our time now, and perhaps our time for the forseeable future.

UPDATE:  Free!!!  Teaching American History Podcasts.

...the Left has begun consuming it's own.

Yesterday Don Imus, on who's show many a liberal has appeared repeatedly, was sacrificed on the altar of Political Correctness.

In today's Denver Post -- Labor Peace Elusive, Flight woes nix meeting of Dean, AFL-CIO leader:

AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said Thursday that "a lot of work" remains to be done before he'll be pleased with the selection of Denver as the site of the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Sweeney's visit threatened to be a nonstarter. A canceled flight delayed his arrival and caused him to miss a meeting with Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean and Mayor John Hickenlooper held shortly before a convention rally.

Dean, in town to build support for the convention, did meet with representatives from local union chapters, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, whose national president, Jimmy Hoffa, also has criticized Denver, saying protests could "blow up" convention.

Suggested reading on the matter:  Fjordman -- Political Correctness — The Revenge of Marxism.

MORE:  The firing of Don Imus may have cost the Democrats access to a crucial voting block:  White Males.  Captain Ed takes the issue on:  The Law of Unintended Consequences.

Recounted over at Youtube here.

Ok, so Mukki organized a huge protest to the American presence in Iraq on the anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, right? Witness the International Herald Tribune:

BAGHDAD: Tens of thousands of people marched to the city of Najaf on Monday, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, to protest the American occupation of Iraq.

The demonstration, which was peaceful, was held at the urging of the militant Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr. He exhorted Iraqi security forces Sunday to unite with his militiamen against the American military in Diwaniya, an embattled southern city in Iraq where fighting has raged for four days.

Except the real number of participants was 5 - 7000.

Is a correction forthcoming?

 
Hello all.  This is my new Blog.  My old one is here. 

The Moonbats bark, but the Caravan moves on...

Today I received an e-mail from Dr.  Laurie Mylroie.  I reprint it here in full and beg her forgiveness.  This  information needs to reach the American public.  The Bush administration has done a terrible job of public relations in this regard.

Anyway, Dr. Mylroie's missive: 

Last week, TNR's Marty Peretz drew attention to an article on the 2001 anthrax letters by Dr. Dany Shoham and Dr. Stuart Jacobsen: http://www.tnr.com/blog/spine?pid=94301 The article underscores the very sophisticated nature of the anthrax in the letters sent to the two US senators and suggests that Iraq may well have been responsible for it.

Richard Spertzel, a BW expert formerly with UNSCOM and the Iraq Survey Group, was kind enough to share his expertise with a few colleagues and wrote the following comment on that article:

To start, I have believed all along that Iraqi intelligence had their dirty hands on this event. Based on ISG findings that Iraq had apparently decided in 1994 to not attempt production, but rather only research to enhance "break-out" capability and that the Iraqi and Syrian intelligence services had formed an alliance to develop the field "in chemical and biological of mutual interest," I now suspect that Syria made the anthrax product with Iraqi Intelligence assistance. The cooperation included Iraqi scientists assisting the Syrians.

Much of what these authors say, I can verify. Iraq had air-freighted into Baghdad two Niro spray dryers that were of the type that would yield "plus or minus any particle size" the producer desired. One of these was located at Al Hakam and was destroyed under UN supervision in May/June 1996. The other one we were unable to locate (and, of course, Iraq did not know its whereabouts) until spring 1998. Within two weeks I had a sampling team in Iraq to thoroughly sample the 2nd dryer. Unfortunately, Iraq suddenly had an urgent need for the dryer and had thoroughly disassembled it, cleaned and sterilized it and then reassembled it. We were not able to get permission to destroy it but we kept tabs on it. However, UNMOVIC never checked for it and I believe the US did not after the war. It very well could have been moved to Syria.

Iraq did import 200 metric tonnes of aerosil from Germany in 1988. The silica was for the CW/BW weapons group. We, UNSCOM, believed the silica was intended for making dusty chemical agents, but it could also have been used for BW weapons. We know that Iraq had all the aerobiology technology necessary. It appears that the UN FAO also obtained 25 metric tonnes for Iraq "drug industry" in 2002 (of course this was after the anthrax letters). This also was not checked by UNMOVIC.

There is evidence that the Pasteur Institute in Paris had the Ames strain. We know that Iraq obtained from the Pasteur Institute several strains of anthrax but we were only able to confirm the identity of one strain (Pasteur A15, I believe. I could check it.) Thus one of the other strains might have been the Ames strain; in addition to the two possible sources cited by the authors.

Thus, the authors seem to have done a rather thorough analysis that the FBI should have done. There are some minor flaws in their data but I have not checked against their sources. There is no doubt that the material in the Daschle and Leahy letters as well as the AMI building contained a hydrophilic silica. The polyglass binder came from the FBI itself. I have learned of the addition of the weak like-charge from several sources including some on the inside of the investigations. The pharmaceutical industry is interested in this because, as the authors state it also increases retention of the small particles in the lung. Normally this retention is around 40%, but the like-charge increases this approaching 100%. I suspect this was the interest of whoever did this.

I hope this helps. If you desire more comments, let me know. . . .

 He finally got his long sought Death Fatwa.