"The German interior ministry said Sunday it had received a request to take in Guantanamo prisoners, but did not give their identities or their number. German News weekly Der Spiegel reported Monday that Washington handed Berlin a list of "nearly 10" prisoners, though Germany's interior ministry declined to confirm the figure.The southern German city of Munich has the largest community of Uighur exiles in the world, with about 500 of the Turkic-origin Muslim peoples living there. Most of the 17 Uighurs held at the controversial jail were cleared more than four years ago of being "enemy combatants." They were living in a self-contained camp in Afghanistan when the US-led bombing campaign began in October 2001 as part of the military campaign in response to the September 11 attacks."
"Officials in Germany have said a decision about whether or not to take the detainees rests largely with the individual German federal states, which so far have shown little enthusiasm for doing so, out of fear of potential acts of terror. "We have no interest exposing ourselves to additional risk," said Holger Hoevelmann, interior minister of Saxony-Anhalt, one of Germany's 16 states, speaking to the Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspaper.May 06, 2009
Obamessiah Asks Germany to Take In Gitmo Prisoners, Germany Not So Excited About That
Lieberman-DA!
"Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money," Lieberman told his Italian counterpart, Franco Frattini, during their meeting in Rome on Monday...."This is a process with no results," Lieberman said. "Everyone is earning a living off of it. There are conferences and there are meetings in five-star hotels. Do you know how much money has been spent on this? And what has come of it?
May 05, 2009
Sean Stephenson: Is This Going to Be A Gift Or A Burden?'
It's a gift and thank you Sean Stephenson for being you.
"He s quick to credit his parents, Gregg and Gloria Stephenson, who live with him in Oak Brook, and his sister, Heidi, with developing his inner strength. Apart from that fateful Halloween lesson and the daily, physical support they give their son, the Stephensons emphasized a few basics: They made him focus on what he can do and dismiss what he cannot. They used an egg-timer to contain his episodes of self-pity to 15 minutes a day. During his frequent bouts of pain, they would ask him to visualize pleasant memories. And they refused to hide him."You decide to face the music," his mom said. "He was a child first. The OI and the wheelchair come next."Added his dad: "We tried to instill a lot of positive things in his life, but he took it and ran with that. It all comes down to what someone does with what they have."Civilization Ends: Australia-Gay Sex Education Book for Two Year Olds
This is the title of a new sex ed book in Australia that explains to toddlers about how Mommy and Mom used a sperm donor and a turkey baster to make little Timmy or Jane, but that all that really matters is that Mommy and Mom love you very much and Daddies are redundant, silly billy. "The controversial publication, Where Did I Really Come From?, also features a drawing of two gay men holding a baby in a chapter about surrogacy. The publisher insists that the book, which includes in-depth descriptions of sexual intercourse, is suitable to be read to two-year-olds.
This is totally wrong. Sexual content-whether homosexual or heterosexual is inappropriate for toddlers. Period.
Ezra Levant in Reason.com: The Internet Saved My Tongue
"Had I been charged with hate speech 10 years ago, I could not have fought back as effectively. If all this had happened in 1996 instead of 2006, few would have known anything about my battle. YouTube, which brought my story alive for 600,000 people by the time the traffic died down, debuted only in 2005. Before that, there was no universally surfed repository of current event–themed videos, and bloggers were much less prevalent. And without the credit card donations made possible by PayPal (which was started in 2000), it’s unlikely that I could have raised the money to cover my legal expenses.
"In short, the Internet saved me. In that sense, my story isn’t just about free speech. It’s also about the way new technology has leveled the playing field between big government and private citizens. ""The Internet may also spell the beginning of the end for the HRCs of the world
. In the days after my meeting with McGovern, I began to blog about human rights commissions and free speech, encouraged by my worldwide support. EzraLevant.com became one of the five most popular political blogs in Canada, according to the statistics on Alexa.com. The Internet support, which soon crossed over into the mainstream media, reassured me that I was the “normal” one—that free speech was normal, that resisting government nosiness was normal—and that it was the HRCs and the Syed Soharwardys who were affronts to our Western values".How Churchill Dealt With Thugs
"Apparently, Obama got his new, sunny view of Churchill not from reading the Churchill biography that Prime Minster Gordon Brown gave him last month but from Andrew Sullivan's blog. Maybe we should be grateful to Sullivan and Obama for their confusion, however, because Churchill's actual position on what is morally permitted against a nation's enemies illuminates much more about the relationship between torture and civilization than their fictitious version."
Toronto: Creeping Sharia Alert
From the enthusiastic Toronto Star, the understatement of the article:
It usually begins with a prayer room, but rarely stops there.This the way that Sharia creeps into secular spaces: "The prayer room is not the end of the process, it's the beginning."
Does your company have a "multi-faith" prayer space? Mine does, but guess what? Only Muslims use it. There can't be any Christian iconography or photographs because that offends, there has to be carpets and people are encouraged to take their shoes off before entering. Gee-that sounds like a mosque to me.Mr. Prayer Space also notes suggests that" accommodating different faiths is a key part of Canadian multiculturalism". It may well be our undoing, too.
Dumbest Euroweenie Idea of the Day: Irish Murderers to Auschwitz For "Beginnings of Great Change" Rehab Program
Excellent.
The Holocaust is now being used as a rehabilitation program for Irish murderers. You just can't make this stuff up.
The objective of the program is to show the participants the tragic results that are likely to stem from racist hatred. The Irish government also expects that visiting the central site of the Nazi mass-murder campaign will reduce violence between the convicts themselves, as well as help them develop tolerance towards others.May 04, 2009
Attention Chicago-Awesome Fundraiser for Special Olympics
This is amazing. If anyone from Chicago is reading-please think of attending and pass the word along.
On May 13th HillBuzz will be fielding a team to help support the Special Olympics in a Bowling for the Champs event, held here in Chicago at 10Pin Lanes. Our goal is to fundraise a metaphorically “perfect game” for the cause, by raising $300 to add to the efforts of our friends over at the Chicago Young Republicans for this great event, inspired by the current president’s callous and highly inappropriate mocking of the Special Olympics while on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last month.Good News: Saudi Arabia "Mulls" Marriage Ban For Girls Under 18
If you have to "mull" this one over, you are way too far gone.
How about if you dabble in pedophilia, you get your manhood cut off, or pickled in a jar of vintage Maneshewitz and sold as good luck charms to IDF soldiers? That might be a good incentive to chase skirts your own age, or at least within a 40 year age range.Just a thought.
Seven Existential Threats: Michael Oren
Michael Oren is going to be the new Israeli Ambassador to the United States. He's a writer and historian and handles himself very well in the media.
Personally, I thought his book on the Six Day War was very boring and unreadable. However, his book Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East1776 to the Present is absolutely amazing. You won't want to put it down. It gives all kinds of wonderful historic tid bits about American involvement in the Middle East-and insights about America's previously clear view of the world jihad, now muddled in Saudi oil and appeasement monkeys. It's a must read.Today's Dumbest Idea From Wackademia
Chesler: Women's Inhumanity To Women, Jihadic Style
"In an interview with Dr. Anat Berko, the author of The Path to Paradise. The Inner World of Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers, she pointed out that there is “always a woman” behind the female suicide bomber, who functions like a “pimp or a Madam in a brothel.” Potential women suicide bombers are never alone again, they are always accompanied by at least one, usually older woman, who encourages, manipulates, guards, and supports the potential shaheeda–just like a mother might do.
In a culture in which girls are raised by women whose own mothers did not value them as they did boys, women may hunger for attention from an older woman–even one whose sole purpose is to ensure their jihadic death.In Dr. Berko’s book, there is a frightening example of how all the jailed, intercepted Palestinian female suicide bombers obeyed and respected one of their own: a woman who was the harshest, angriest, most mentally ill amongst them. Sadly, perhaps this most reminded them of their own mothers. "
Horror: Chinese Officials Forcing Surrogate Mothers to Abort
Journalism is the Real Jihad.
This is a very interesting comment piece from The Guardian. Normally, I can't read anything in Al-Guardian because of its nauseating anti-Israel and anti-American slant. However, this piece is really worth reading. It's a testimony to the incredible success that America (and it's partners) have had in Iraq. No, Iraq isn't perfect, but it's sure as hell better off than when Saddam & Sons ran the show.
The piece is not a direct shout-out "congratulations" to America, but one cannot read a comment such as this without feeling a true sense of amazement at what America-under George Bush's leadership-has achieved in Iraq in such a very short time.Glorious Andalusia Gives Green Light to War Crimes Probe Against Israel
May 03, 2009
Stop the Presses: UK's Independent Discovers Breaking Demographic "Conundrum"
Michelle Obama: $500 Sneakers To Feed the "Poor"
May 02, 2009
Good News: Antisemitic Play to Be Staged in Montreal
So, an antisemitic play is going to make its Canadian premiere in Montreal. I think Montreal is a great place for it. There is a substanial Lebanese, Hizballah-loving crowd in that lovely city and Montreal has also been very European about its immigration policy (read: Muslim).
Anyway, I can't get too excited about this play and its disgusting Jews-are the new Nazis content. It's just another tired, fruitless way of trying to stick it to the Jews and Israel.If some sloppy, trite, play is the best weapon these Jew-haters have at their disposal, I say we're winning the battle. Israel just celebrated its 61st year, and its not going away. It drives the Jew-haters crazy that we refuse, individually or collectively to just die already. So let them fester in their swill, whether theatre, politics, NGO or the UN.
We're here, we're Jews and we have no plans for mass suicide to please you. Jew-haters of the world: you'll just have to learn to live with that.
May 01, 2009
Book Review: Lights Outs-Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West by Mark Steyn
So I just finished reading Mark Steyn’s Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West. Reading anything by Steyn is the second most fun you can have by yourself. This book is essential reading for the Islamophobic, hatemongering Westerner among us-but more importantly for those who think otherwise. If you have even the slightest concern about free speech, the sharia creep into our society and the West’s increasingly stealth suicide march off a caliphate cliff, you need to read this book.
Judeo
-Christian culturecide is a terrible thing to witness, and as Steyn notes, few in the West seem to be bothered or even aware that they are experiencing it in real time.My favourite essay in the collection is The Bombay Massacres: Who’s vulnerable? It’s simply a masterpiece and shows that while the leftist-jihadist collective can fool much of the world with its propaganda, there are righteous and courageous individuals like Mark Steyn who call it like it is. In my second favourite essay, Gaza West, he aptly describes the Palestinian “culture” (and “Islamist” culture by extension) as one that’s chief success is “marinating their infants in a sick death cult in which martyrdom in the course of Jew-killing is the greatest goal to which a citizen can aspire”. Have you ever heard it put better than that?
There are those who have given their lives protecting our freedom (a number of striking examples are given in the book), and Steyn says that the least he can do is stand up to the bullying and Jew-hating creeps such as Mohammad Elmasry and the various monstrosities known as Ontario and Canadian Human Rights Commissions. He rightly notes that currently, “Jew-hating isn’t the problem, only certain types of Jew-haters…The Fuhrer isn’t coming out of retirement and, even if he does, there aren’t enough Jews left in Europe to man a decent genocide". Then he spells it out: what other than Hitler is our society prepared to make a moral judgement over? “Where,” he asks, “is our ideological offensive”. Good question.
There are lots of laughs and insights and the usual, predictable collection of fantastic turns of phrase that only Steyn could invent. I wonder if he ever sits in his own living room, in all his hateful glory, rubbing his hands together saying: damn-that was funny. But, I digress.....The main message is that this battle is about left and right, it’s about “free/not free” and is a call to action. We all need to do something, and that’s why I’m in the ring, too. I have to be able to look my kids in the eye when they ask me: Mommy-you knew what was happening, so what did you do about it?