Bill's Bites -- 2006.10.04
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British Muslim cop excused from having to police Israeli embassy
Muslim PC wins right not to protect Israeli Embassy
A Muslim police officer has been excused from guarding London's Israeli Embassy after he objected to the duty on 'moral grounds'.
PC Alexander Omar Basha - a member of the Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group - refused to be posted there because he objected to Israeli bombings in Lebanon and the resulting civilian casualties of fellow Muslims.
In a move which has caused widespread astonishment at Scotland Yard, senior officers in the DPG agreed that that PC Basha should be given an alternative posting. ...
Sixth Circuit lifts injunction on
NSA wiretapping program pending appeal
Allahpundit
So what? Who cares if the progam can proceed for a few more months until the circuit hears the case and rules on the merits?
Hugh Hewitt [broken link in original] explains the significance. Or you can just read the opinion for yourself if you prefer. It’s three paragraphs long.
Soft Bites -- -- 2006.10.04
... Gonna try a little experiment here and see how it works out. Sometimes as I surf the web I run across something that's more "human interest" than "hard news," more "entertainment" than "news" at all, and I have to stop and consider "Is that worth pushing everything on Bill's Bites" down the page to make room for, and maybe having to move something more important "below the fold?" "Sure it's a cute cartoon but George is still on dial-up. Will he appreciate it enough to justify the download time?" "So, really, what do baseball and football have to do with the price of bullets in Beirut?" Solution(?): A separate post for "Page 2 or 3" stuff that I don't want to clutter the front page with but don't want to ignore completely. Enter "Soft Bites." Is this my answer? Bark at me. ...
Supremes deny cert
on Cali public school’s Islam immersion course
Allhpundit
I was all set to correct Charles on this but he’s already corrected himself. When the Court denies cert, i.e., refuses to hear an appeal, it doesn’t mean they agree with the lower court’s decision. It simply means they don’t want to deal with the issue right now.
They might very well take it up in the future, though — and you might be surprised how they rule. If you’re counting on Scalia and Thomas to torpedo a public school’s Islamic play-acting class, you’re not thinking very strategically. Cases like this present Christians with a golden opportunity to introduce elements of religious teaching back into the state curriculum by using the left’s double standard towards Islam against it. Now that this case is on the books in the Ninth Circuit as precedent, expect Christian immersion classes to follow. ...
Video: Young Dems vandalize Talent signs for McCaskill
More fodder via Gateway Pundit: ...
DU: Thanks, YouTube, for removing Malkin’s video!
Update: YouTube targets Rusty’s videos, too
There was a poll at dKos a few months ago that asked who people despised more, Bush or Bin Laden.
Osama won. 58-41.
When you read them day in and day out, and you compare the frequency and intensity of their scrutiny of Republicans versus radical Muslims, it’s very clear very quickly who their real enemy is. But when you put the choice to them starkly, like the dKos poll did, they know how to answer. Or rather, they know how they’re supposed to answer.
But maybe that’s changing. ...
Steele demands apology from Dems for stalking
Over the weekend Maryland Lt. Gov and Senate hopeful Michael Steele attended a homecoming for the Army National Guard. While he was speaking to two mothers who sons died in Iraq, Steele noticed someone was filming his conversation. He was being filmed by a Democratic operative, sadly, something that is not new to him. Steele is calling on Congressman Ben Cardin, Sen. Schumer, MD Dem Chairman Terry Lierman, and DNC Chairman Howard Dean to apologize for what occured this weekend. If you would like to voice your opinion, the contact information for those named above will be after the letter: ...
Audio: Michelle vs. Esam Omeish on the Laura Ingraham Show
Omeish is the head of the Muslim American Society. The topic: just how much of a problem does America have with jihadis recruiting in prisons?
Things really get hopping when Ingraham asks him whether he’d prefer to live under shari’a. ...
Mark your calendars for Nation'l Bush Derangement Syndrome Day
Michelle Malkin
October 5 - Day of Mass Resistance
On October 5, people everywhere will walk out of school, take off work, and come to the downtowns & townsquares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to join us - making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"
Isn't that what elections are for?
Last year's parade was a dud. But it's always a good excuse to trot out a giant peaceful poster of Bush decapitated.
Among the celebrity participants: ...
American jihad wannabe indicted
File under Enemy Within: A federal grand jury indicted a man on charges of offering to help al-Qaida blow up fuel facilities in at least three states.
Michael Curtis Reynolds was charged in U.S. District Court in Scranton Tuesday with two counts of providing material support for a terrorist organization and two counts of seeking to take part in the destruction of property used in interstate or foreign commerce.
He was already awaiting trial in the case on two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm or an explosive device.
Aussie Muslim threatens Aussie Muslim who threatened Aussies
Last month he threatened riots over John Howard’s comments that Muslims should do more to assimilate. Now he’s being compared to Salman Rushdie for criticizing Muslims who “blindly” follow their faith.
Steyn has a great passage in his new book about the rings of supporters, apologists, opportunists, and cowards who surround every terrorist incident. It seems what we have here is a little inter-ring friction. Or, if you prefer, one of those underwater food-chain gags you see sometimes in cartoons: a little fish about to be swallowed by a bigger fish, which itself is about to be swallowed by a bigger one.
Here’s what earned him the Rushdie analogy. ...
Human smegma Fred Phelps to protest Amish girls’ funerals;
Update: Phelps agrees not to protest in exchange for radio time?
Euphoric Reality has a copy of the flier they’ve put out. Apparently Ed Rendell criticized Phelps and thus Jehovah laid low the Amish heathen through his messenger, the homicidal milkman.
He’s starting to realize that he’s alienating people, I think. Here’s his attempt to win back 49% of the population. ...
If I do a disappearing act after bit ...
... figure the front got here. It's not showing on the radar yet but in this area when the temperature drops as suddenly as it's supposed to after bit there's almost always lightening and wind to go with it. Our power grids antiquated enough that lightening means power surges capable of destroying TVs, PCs, etc, so sensible people shut things down and unplug them when the storm gets close enough to see or hear. This blogs important to me, but not important enough to risk getting a PC fried for.
A resignation: Kirk Fordham steps down
By Michelle Malkin
Via ABC News: ABC News Has Learned FORMER FOLEY CHIEF OF STAFF KIRK FORDHAM RESIGNS AMID QUESTIONS OVER WHETHER HE SUPPRESSED INFORMATION ABOUT FOLEY EMAILS
Kirk Fordham, the chief of staff to Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-NY, has submitted his resignation to his boss. Questions have been raised about Fordham's role in how the House GOP leadership handled initial reports of the scandal involving former Rep Tom Foley, R-Fl, and inappropriate internet messages to underage pages.
About Fordham from the 2005 announcement of his hiring:
Former Foley chief of staff resigns;
Update: “I will not allow the Democrats to make me a political issue”
Ian Schwartz
(via ABC News) The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill.
Those sources said Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, had urged Republican leaders last spring not to raise questionable Foley e-mails with the full Congressional Page Board, made up of two Republicans and a Democrat. ...
Aussies dance as convicted child-rapist’s home burns to the ground; Update: List circulating of closeted GOP staffers??
Torched by a “mysterious” fire after the perp was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. For raping a young girl.
The police suspect arson. But they’re not working too hard to solve it: A fire investigator said the heat was too intense to identify an ignition point.
“That’s a shame,” said the father, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Heh.
More: ...
Still Lazy Dog
I guess in some circles it's still called "Indian Summer" but the PC Police will probably be right here if I call it that. It warmed back up the last few days, just enough to be unpleasant but not quite enough to be worth sealing the house back up and turning the air back on. Weather.com says today's supposed to be the end of it and I hope they're right. In the mean time it has me a bit tuckered out from not sleeping well.
Got some errands I have to run sometime, might as well do it before it gets any hotter. Also have some behind the scenes stuff to do to get OWB fully integrated into the pack.
Later.
Foley Lawyer Cites Second-Hand Smoke, Trans Fats
(2006-10-04) -- The attorney for disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley today offered more biographical background about his client who allegedly used his elected position to prey on high school boys sexually. ...
Banned on YouTube
Michelle Malkin
Back in February, you may remember, I cobbled together a little mini-movie called "First, They Came" inspired by the Mohammed Cartoon riots. It's a simple slideshow highlighting the victims of Islamic violence over the years. We posted it at YouTube a while ago. No problems. Until last week, when I received this e-mail: ...
... I asked YouTube to inform me of the exact nature of the "inappropriateness" of the video. But no response. The banning of my innocuous video is not an isolated incident. Anti-jihad YouTube users have reported having their videos yanked and accounts suspended, including Crusader18. Another YT user, Intelsum, writes: ...
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Strangely, my conservative YouTube group (now nearly 1,000 members strong) has also now been "flagged" for containing "content that is inappropriate for some users."
Yeah, inappropriate for members of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage.
It's the predation, stupid
By Michelle Malkin
Washington is embroiled in another sex scandal. A sure-bet win for the Republicans in Florida is now imperiled. The Dems look to be one seat closer to regaining control of the House. But the latest one involving disgraced GOP Congressman Mark Foley's predatory emails and lecherous instant-message exchanges is more than just a political nightmare.
It's a parental nightmare. ...
The evil people at Gitmo...
...are the infidel-hating detainees, not our military personnel. So says an Army nurse interviewed at length by Patterico. He's got a fascinating series on his talks with the nurse, "Stashiu," who spoke on a regular basis with detainees with psychological and/or behavioral problems. A snippet: I believe that the majority of the guys there are true terrorists, and they follow the Manchester Document to the letter.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Manchester Document, it is an official Al Qaeda training manual that was discovered by British police in Manchester, England while searching the computer of a known Al Qaeda terrorist. ...
Tomorrow: more on the Gitmo hunger strike, the suicide attempts, the suicides at Guantánamo, and the mental health of the detainees. ...
Mozart Rage and backlash ...and now, Tree Rage!
The opera house director who yanked a controversial version of Mozart's "Idomeneo" now says she never really cancelled it. And the Berlin security guy who advised her against running the show now says they should go ahead and perform it. See here and here. And more: [...]
Not always so.
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Meanwhile, members of The Religion of Perpetual Outrage are taking out their centuries-old anger on a poor banyan tree:
A Reminder Of Depravity
Continuing rumors of ancient atrocities led German authorities to excavate a site that some thought contained the bodies of Nazi victims from World War II. This gossip proved all too accurate; they discovered a mass grave that the Nazis used to bury its youngest and most helpless victims: Authorities in western Germany have found a mass grave containing 35 bodies, many of them of young children, and are checking whether they may have been victims of Hitler's program of forced "euthanasia" that killed tens of thousands of people with physical and mental disabilities. ...
Illegal alien’s son
delivers letter to White House begging for amnesty
Allahpundit
He’s seven years old, his mother’s not with him, he’s surrounded by media strangers, and it is, after all, a school day.
The perfect time for a little child exploitation.
This was Coulter’s point about the Jersey Girls, of course. “Liberal infallibility,” using a victim’s personal grief as a substitute for debate on the merits. Mother Sheehan is the gold standard, but now that they’re working kids into the act, the sky’s the limit!
Making the rounds by email. Not sure where it was first posted. Russ Vaughn sent it to me a little bit ago:
Beast of Burden
From Real Clear Politics: The Democratic Party Adds Nothing to the National Debate by Robert Tracinski. Like many on the right, I have been deeply unsatisfied with the Republican Congress. The Republicans, I thought, ought to lose enough seats in the November congressional elections that they feel they've been punished for runaway federal spending.
But as the election gets nearer and I think more about what is at stake, I have come to realize that the best outcome is for the Democrats to lose. The Democrats' failure to regain control of either house of Congress would be a good start. But an unambiguous and humiliating defeat--even a loss of Democratic seats in the House and Senate--would be much better.
The best thing we can do in this election is to crush the left--because the Democratic Party adds nothing of value to the American political debate. ...
Bill's Bites -- 2006.10.03
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