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Our troops don’t care too much, and neither should we. My heart goes out to the men and women persevering and doing their jobs everyday without glitzy media attention. They’re the unsung heros.

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Here’s today’s quote:

Butcher of Washington [George W. Bush], you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure.

And the choices are:

1. Markos “Screw them” Zúniga
2. Michael Moore
3. Cindy Sheehan
4. Teddy Kennedy

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Bush, Butcher

Jimmy Carter doubts Hamas are terrorists - but to cover all his bases, if they are terrorists, they can change. Then Carter pleaded for the US not to stop its aid to the group that is probably not a bunch of terrorists (well, they might be).

So, in summary, Carter decries the “gulag” that is Guantanmo Bay, but favors supplying internationally recognized terrorist groups with aid and legitimacy. What a dolt.

Carter, Hamas, Relativism, Palestine

Last week, the world was given a glimpse of democracy in Palestine. What we saw was nothing short of appalling. Of the 126 available seats, the terrorist group Hamas claimed 76. The more moderate terrorist group Fatah was marginalized by only capturing 37 seats. Yet the elections were not rigged, at least not ostensibly, and violence was practically non-existent. So what went wrong? Why did democracy fail? How could all but ten available seats go members of militant Islamic terrorist groups?

Perhaps that conclusion is incorrect. Democracy didn’t fail - it worked to a tee. The Palestinians have spoken: they want explosive-toting, civilian killers as their elected representatives. There is nothing in the nature of democracy that guarantees a government of morality or tolerance or even intelligence. Here in America, I think we have been conditioned to think of democracy as a panacea for unstable regions - that somehow it will right all wrongs. Sometimes it can, as Afghanistan has shown. After ousting the Taliban, the American military has so far successfully safeguarded their fledgling democracy. In Iraq the problem seems not to be the new government itself, but the opposition from terrorists, some of which have been imported from Iran and Syria.

So why is democracy worsening the problems in Palestine? I think you have to examine the Palestinian culture - it is a death cult. Enough time has passed by that these people have numbed to the barbarism of suicide bombing and terrorism in general. They accept it as their only choice, and also as being a valid tactic, given their situtation. Take Mariam Farahat, a Palestinian woman for example. She raised six sons and sent off three of them on suicide bombing missions against Israeli targets. She wouldn’t hesistate to send her other sons for Jihad if needed. Done strapping bombs to the fruit of her loins, Mariam has a new job: she’s one of the newly elected Palestinian MPs. Her fellow countrymen revere Mariam as a hero to their cause.

In general, I don’t subscribe to the theory that “people get the government they deserve.” But in this case no words could be more true. This really is a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Hamas, Fatah, Palestine, Elections, Democracy, Islam, Terrorism

Update: I bumped this post up to the top for the time being due to the conversation in the comments section.

Abu Hamza stands trial in Britain for trying to stir up racial hatred against Jewish people. What is his defense? One of his lawyers, Edward Fitzgerald, is arguing that he isn’t guilty of hate speech, he’s only doing what the Qu’ran says:

“It is said he was preaching murder, but he was actually preaching from the Koran itself.”

The Hadith says that the trees will call out to the Muslims “there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him”.

This defense challenges the whole notion of multiculturalism. If he is convicted for doing something his culture and his religion endorse as a fundamental purpose in life, then the West is casting judgement on Islam. What type of precedent does that establish?

Hamza, Edward Fitzgerald, Terrorism, Islam

From Gates of Vienna, on the gullibility of the useful idiots of the left.

Surprise Landside Vote for the Klan on the South Bank

Sorghum City, Alabama (AP) — The stunning electoral victory by the Ku Klux Klan in this small southern town has taken veteran political observers by surprise. The political wing of the KKK won a total of 12 out of 16 seats on the city council, plus the offices of mayor and district attorney. Jimmy Carter, a former governor of the neighboring state of Georgia, headed a team of election observers who certified the election as “free and fair, within the limits to be expected in a strife-torn region like Alabama.”

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Kerry is going to try to pull off a filibuster with his drinking buddy Teddy Kennedy. Does anyone else see this as his first move as a candidate for president in 2008? What a clown.

Kerry, Filibuster, Alito

Here’s more evidence that Bush’s 2003 tax cuts were not the disaster Democrats predicted. National Review Online analyzes the Congressional Budget Office’s estimates for the capital gains tax. Before the Bush tax cut the CBO predicted a two-year, $125 billion liability. After Bush announced his ineffable cuts, the CBO revaluated the liability and surmised only a $98 billion figure. That means the CBO was predicting a $27 billion loss from the tax cuts.

Now, in 2006 we have the actual data, and it seems that 2004 and 2005 saw a $26 billion boon from the capital gains cuts. That is, the liabilities from the past two years totalled $151 billion. But far be it from the media to report the wisdom of Bush’s tax cuts. They also would not print anything in praise of supply-side economics or fiscal conservativism.

Read the whole NRO article, it’s a brilliant reaffirmation of supply-side economics and cursed Laffer Curve. But let’s not forget who predicted utter doom from these cuts.

Taxes, Bush, Laffer, Supply-Side, Democrats

Such is the mantra of the premier search tool on the internet. However, Google apparently also lives by the words “do as I say, not as I do.” Last week Google denied the Justice Department the ability to look at internet searches - say for someone querying the string “blow up subway.” Unpatriotic or not, Google made their decision. They felt the right to privacy was key in the issue obviously. However, the two-faced monster showed its ugly side shortly thereafter when Google capitulated to the communist Chinese government and agreed to censor itself for Chinese users. For example, check out a Google search in Tianamen on regular Google and now on Big Brother Google (courtesy of LGF).

That is blatant hypocrisy. For all the buzz Google garners, it can’t escape this contradictory position. On the one hand, Google supports the right to privacy even under conditions which might spell terrorism. On the other hand Google supports censorship to get a sweet piece of the market share in China. Why is it that Google feels compelled to cooperate with a repressive communist government, and not the United States’ government?

China, Google, Censorship

Well, Technorati doesn’t seem to be indexing my site anymore. That’s a major bummer because most people who don’t know me find my blog via the tags I put at the bottom of each post. Lots of other bloggers are having the same problem with Technorati, so hopefully it is resolved soon. Until then, my posts will toil in relative obscurity.

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