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Unbeknownst to me until reading LGF were the riots in a predominantly Muslim suburb of Paris, France. Over 150 youths have been burning cars and trashbins. Two young boys died after being electrocuted in a power station while fleeing law officers. In typical Western self-abasement fashion, local news outlets blame the government for strict criminal punishment.

I believe this is only the tip of the iceberg for France (and Norway, Sweden and England for that matter). Anytime a nation has a large, unassimilated immigrant population of a different race and religion, turmoil ensues. This could not be more evidenced in nations with large influxes of Muslim immigrants. The great irony is that France prides itself on its oneness, its cultural indivisibility. France even has a committee in place to decide which words can and cannot be included in the official French dictionary. Yes, they’re that protective of their cultural heritage. What the French government has neglected to attend to is the massive amount of Muslim immigration entering the country, predominantly from Northern Africa. And the birth rate among these immigrants is overwhelming compared to the native French population.

And, like other Western European nations, the collection of statistics based on ethnicity or religion is illegal. Unfortunately, these governments put political correctness in front of the safety of their citizenry. How can the problem be addressed if the problem is not understood? For example, in Sweden, the number of annually reported rape cases has triped over the last few decades. That seems like a broad-based problem, until you delve into the forbidden statistics which show that an overwhelming majority of these rapes were committed by Muslim immigrants (and the victims were most likely to be of Swedish heritage).

But alas France has chosen to put on blinders to any solution which is not deemed politically correct. As one witty commenter said on LGF, “if only France would end it’s occupation of Iraq and support for Israel, then in fact, the Muslims in France would cease the violence and anti-Semitism.” Not likely.

Read More:

• Rioting in Paris via Fjordman
• Chirac Doesn’t Care About Black People via Gateway Pundit

Islam, France, Immigration, Crime, Rape

This week around the globe was pretty much the norm for Islamofacists. In Indonesia, three teenage girls who attended a Christian school were decapitated, while still alive, with saws. Here are the victims (Warning: very graphic). The BBC, not knowing who might be responsible, had this to say:

It is unclear what was behind the attack, but the girls attended a private Christian school and one of the heads was left outside a church leading to speculation that it might have had a religious motive.

Really? Gee, I wonder who could be responsible. The article forgets to mention that decapitation is the preffered method of slaughtering infidels for Indonesian Jihadis. Unfortunately, the BBC is too paralyzed with political correctness to call out the real culprits here.

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Islam, Jihad, Terrorism, Tolerance

Until today, I did not realize the level of foamy-mouthed, vein-pulsing-on-the-forehead insansity with which the left follows Plamegate. Visiting DailyKos, I scrolled and scrolled for any story not about Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Valerie Plame, or Patrick Fitzgerald. How naïve that was. They are talking about nothing else. It’s the same at DemocraticUnderground. These people have one track minds.

Keep in mind that an indictment is not a conviction. The media and the left really seem to have temporarily forgotten the whole ‘innocent until proven guilty’ thing, but I guess that’s a minor detail. Even AP and Reuters are getting in on the madness. Last night, Yahoo! ran a headline that said something to the effect of “Libby indicted; Rove escapes for now” (emphasis mine) For now? Do they know something we don’t? Or are they just giddly like schoolgirls at a slumber party over the whole thing?

Plame, Rove, Scooter, Fitzgerald, Indictments

Most conservative blogs (RedState or netwmd for example) are touting the good economic news released today. The US GDP grew by 3.8% in the third quarter - 0.2% more than analysts expected. Compare this with Paul Krugman’s favorite country France, where the economy grows by approximately 0.3% on a very good quarter.

All this growth in spite of the devastation of Katrina in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. All this growth in spite of the war expenditures in Iraq and Afghanistan. All this growth despite the outpouring of private aid to various natural disasters at home and around the world. The US has put up 10 consecutive quarters of over 3% growth in the GDP - this is simply phenomenal. The Washington Post is reporting that inflation decreased in the third quarter.

Well, are the opponents of the 2003 Bush tax cuts ready to say uncle yet? Let’s harken back to the year 2003, when opponents of the Bush supply-side cuts were armed and ready to shoot the whole thing down. George Akerhof had this to say about the cuts, representative of the sentiment among the left:

The deficits being contemplated are out of sight. Each and every measure in this package contemplates long-term cuts in revenues, which means that the government will not have the revenues it needs to pay its bills

Federal income revenue rose in 2004 despite the lower taxes, immediately proving George Akerlof dead wrong.

There is wide agreement that [the Bush plan’s] purpose is a permanent change in the tax structure and not the creation of jobs and growth in the near-term…Passing these tax cuts will worsen the long-term budget outlook, adding to the nation’s projected chronic deficits.

Unemployment is below 5%, which is the theoretical minimum. The US deficit still looms large, but it continues to shrink despite GW’s reckless spending. If Bush manages to put down the pork, with the help of congress, the deficit could easily be a non-issue. It has nothing to do with revenues though, only spending.

If the tax cuts are implemented, they will cause deficits, which in turn will raise long-term interest rates, which will actually cause an economic contraction. The net effect is likely to be negative rather than positive.

Given that the economy is absolutely booming, this is complete rubbish. In fact, if not for Katrina, the US GDP growth might have been 4.0%! Economic contraction? Nonsense.

Lastly, the redistributive aspects of the package are extremely worrisome. It seeks to redistribute wealth in the wrong direction, in a very big way, to the very wealthiest end of the spectrum. The people who least need a tax cut in the U.S. economy are those whose major source of income is taxable dividends. The average tax dividend dollar will go to people who are already indeed quite rich. In terms of redistribution of income, this is probably one of the worst possible places to give money.

Karl Marx couldn’t have said it better himself. Unfortunately, it is not right to redistribute wealth from poor to rich or vice versa. That is not the role of the government. That being said, returning to ‘the rich’ more of what they earned creates what is known as the trickle down effect. The validity of supply-side economics is debated on chalkboards, but its effectiveness is crystal clear in the United States.

Liberals have no idea how to run an economy. Perhaps that is why the US remains the only true economic superpower in the world. Old Europe’s economic influence is melting like a snowman in July. Socialist systems are not sustainable in a heterogenous nation and a global marketplace. It is very important to note how fundamentally wrong the left was over Bush’s tax cuts. Can you imagine if they had been running the country after 9/11? All signs indicate that the economy would have been chronically mismanaged leading to an unnecessarily protracted recession. The conclusions these ‘brilliant’ nobel laureates drew about Bush’s cuts were wrong, dead wrong. Why should we ever trust these people with our economy? Their incompetence is proven with almost every fact and figure of the Bush economy. Long live Reagonomics!

GDP, Bush, Katrina, Taxes

Who was the last national leader who called for an end to Zionism and for Israel (or the Jews) to be exterminated? I think your average citizen would tell you that was a crazy guy named Adolph Hitler. But update your history books folks, because that tired old line has a new face. At a recent anti-Zionism conference, the president of Iran recently remarked:

To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible… death to Israel, death to America, death to England!

I’m sure the UN will hop right into action and take Iran to task over its ‘peaceful’ nuclear reactors. We all know that Kofi Annan will get tough with Ahmadinejad or the shit is really going to hit the fan. I can almost smell the laser printers gushing out pages and pages of useless, hollow sanctions. After all, Ahmadinejad wants to do is “wipe Israel off the map.”

I hate to rage so unabashedly, but ISN’T THIS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE UN? AREN’T THEY SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH NATIONS LIKE IRAN SO THAT THEY DON’T GO COMPLETELY APESHIT? What does the UN do exactly? Other than oversee massively fradulent humanitarian programs and rape poor villagers in the Congo, that is?

Update: Gateway Pundit has a link to a BBC video covering the Anti-Zionism rally which is apparently held annually on the fifth day of Bombadon - err I mean Ramadan.

Iran, UN, Ahmadinejad, Israel

Kofi Annan probably wishes he had never appointed Paul Vocker to investigate the allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food programme. Each report he issues is more damning than the last - of Kofi and the UN Security Council. A new report released today implicates over 2,200 companies in wrongful ’service’ payments to the now deposed Iraqi dictator Hussein.

The rampant corruption makes ‘Plamegate’ look like a joke. The former overseer of the programme Benon Sevan, was found to have accepted $150,000 in bribes and also had vouchers to sell over 11 million barrels of Iraqi oil. It’s no wonder he fought tooth and nail against any investigation of his little cash cow. The French bank which held the escrow account for the program also did not disclose the illegal kickbacks flowing back to the Iraq government.

When Bush appealed to the UN in March 2003 for support for the war in Iraq, he did not get the support of France, Russia, or China. These were three member nations of the UN Security Council. These nay votes led to the failure of the UN to back the war that the US and the UK were to begin. David Horowitz in his book Unholy Alliance asserts that it is an odd coincidence that these three nations were also given preferential treatment by Hussein via oil contracts. Now we know that Hussein awarded nations in favor of lifting the post-Gulf war sanctions exclusive contracts, and denied nations in favor of keeping the sanctions. Thus the war in Iraq cannot be referred to as illegal because the nations that voted against it in the UN Security Council were indeed under the thumb of Hussein.

It is almost surreal to see protestors waving their “No Blood for Oil” signs around. These people allege Bush and his administration of launching a war solely for securing Iraq’s oil reserves - something that supposedly repulses them. Yet these are the same people who have the utmost respect and trust for an organization which has been found guilty many, many times over of corruption involving Iraqi oil. Why is there no MoveOn.org rally calling for Koffi Annan to resign? Why isn’t the left decrying the suffering and death of millions of Iraqi citizens that the UN bestowed upon them with its blind eye? How can a Mr. Benon Sevan remain out of the public spotlight after being caught red-handed?

I’ll give you the answer to all of them, and that is that the UN is inherently superior to the US because it is an ‘international community’ and not a single nation (namely, the US). Because proponents of the UN are ardent opponents of US sovereignty, they will turn a blind eye to any wrongdoings of the UN. These people focus solely on the artifical corruption of America’s government instead, hoping to rally support for a true multi-national governing scheme. Sure, you might think that explanation is over the top. But honestly, why would a group of people be so offended by alleged corruption, and yet completely unaffected by actual corruption in their own corner?

UN, Oil-for-Food, Vocker, Iraq War, Iraqi Oil, Corruption

Thanks to The Political Teen for hosting the video I’m linking to here. This guy sounds like Hitler, just without any political capital to get the job done. Scary stuff. The worst part of all is the sincerity in his eyes and in his voice when he professes that the only way to have peace on the planet is to kill off whitey.

Kamau Kambon

Being the good conservative that I am, I like to keep tabs on the evil ways of the left. In that spirit, I signed myself up for emails from the reprehensible moveon.org organization. Recently, in a celebration of 2000 dead American soldiers, they sent out this message, which begins as follows:

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday we reached the sad milestone of 2,000 killed in Iraq. But for the most part, the national media are ignoring this tragic milestone. The men and women who died deserve better.

Ignoring? WTF? The media barely spends time covering anything but body counts in Iraq. Now that the 2000th death has come, the media has worked itself into a frenzy. I should let the links do the talking:

• Military Deaths in Iraq Reach 2,000
• U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000
• US death toll in Iraq hits 2,000
• 2,000 Dead: As Iraq Tours Stretch On, a Grim Mark
• US military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000
• Protestors mark 2,000th U.S. fatality in Iraq
• U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Hits 2,000
• 2,000 dead in Iraq a time for grief and realism

Just Google news search “2000 Iraq” for even more coverage. Talk about zero credibility. If those freaks at Moveon.org want to know what it’s like to have a story truly ignored, check out the OU suicide blast story. What a bunch of lying liars.

Ex-Donkey compares the news articles on dead American soldiers to the Iraq constitution approval stories. Guess which gets more coverage?

Update: I’m adding a trackback to The Political Teen on the Open Trackbacks post.

Moveon.org, Iraq War, Anti-War, Liberal Bias