WorldNetDaily: A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals

WorldNetDaily: A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals: "Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because 'I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual.' No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them."

Tell it to the Japanese.

Good God where do they find these people.

This isn't the Onion, dammit!

style.org > Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow

style.org > Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow

The Corner on National Review Online

The Corner on National Review Online: "And as for the second point, as someone who believes Communism really was as bad and dangerous as we conservatives said it was, I don't think I was being hypocritical at all. I think Pinochet was an S.O.B. as I said. I do think he is accountable for real crimes. But if we're going to compare the two, I think the case for Pinochet over Castro is a no-brainer, both as an instrument of foreign policy and as a moral choice between the two (and, if you take a look, you'll see the editors of the Washington Post agree with me). Both are bad choices, but one — on myriad levels, pragmatic and moral — is far worse than the other. Making meaningful distinctions is not hypocrisy, it's called 'thinking.'"

I'll be glad when you're gone, you rascal you

The Moderate Voice - Kofi Annan, Hypocrite, retired: "Annan has never lacked for a kind word and a soft shoulder towards the world's most cruel dictators while holding the United States to a 'special responsibility' that requires that the U.S. not only avoid pursuing its interests, but also asks that the U.S. actively undermine itself whenever convenient for the Secretary-General's office. At the same time he calls the United States to its supposed 'special responsibility', however, Annan refused to uphold his own by repeatedly obstructing international cooperation in crises from Kosovo to Darfur.

Even when international cooperation has proven possible, Annan has undermined it. During the period of sanctions against Iraq from 1991-2003, the Secretary-General's office was empowered to manage the 'Oil for Food' program designed to decrease the impact of the sanctions on Iraqi civilians while blocking Iraqi rearmament. Due to massive corruption within the program, however, Saddam Hussein diverted money away from feeding his people to build himself grand new palaces while U.N. bureaucrats including Annan's own son skimmed millions off for their personal enrichment. When the fraud was exposed, Annan personally blocked all meaningful moves for accountability."

This just in ...

... nuclear war bad.

ScienceDaily: Regional Nuclear War Could Devastate Global Climate: "Even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth, university researchers have found."

Good Riddance

In a move that would make Kafka proud outgoing UN General Secretary Kofi Annan plans on attacking George Bush and his policies today when he makes his farewell speech:

In a farewell speech on U.S. soil today, retiring United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to deliver a tough critique of President Bush's policies. He will accuse the administration of trying to secure the United States from terrorism in part by dominating other nations through force, committing what he termed human rights abuses and taking military action without broad international support.

Though Annan has long been a critic of the war in Iraq and other Bush foreign policies, the planned speech is among his toughest and is unusual for a U.N. secretary-general concluding his tenure.

Annan's remarks, provided to USA TODAY by his office, list principles for international relations, among them "respect for human rights and the rule of law."

These ideas can be advanced only "if America remains true to its principles, including in the struggle against terrorism," the speech says. "When it appears to abandon its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused."

Confused? Me too, maybe he needs to go read Resolution 1441 . I wonder what Kofi thinks serious consequences are? It is not as if he or anyone else at the United Nations have had to face serious consequences for helping to pull off the largest scam in history, so I guess they don't feel that serious consequences apply to thieves and murderers and dictators.

Let me see......... this guy looked the other way during the massacre in Rwanda. He ignored the Food for Oil scandal. He was unaware of the fact that UN peacekeepers were raping women and children. He has done nothing about the ongoing crisis in Darfur. He has overlooked the systematic human rights abuses of dictators all over the world. He was Secretary General during the whole debacle over Saddam's weapons and yet he is going to stand on American soil and call Bush a bully?

What a joke.

Agree or Disagree with Kofi? go vote

Rick may get his wish

Dafydd has a post up on the possibility that Maliki will be replaced as PM in Iraq. In parliamentary systems this is not such a difficult thing to do legally. I suppose time will tell.

Imagine that. I wonder how that happened?

Blacksmiths of Lebanon: SANA: Syrian National News Agency Inquires About Pierre Gemayel's Assassination 55 mins Before it Occurs!!: "Al Seyassah daily learned from authoritative sources in Beirut, that one of the editors of the Syrian National News Agency (SANA) placed a phone call to a pro-Syrian Lebanese newspaper at 3:05 pm on Tuesday. The caller inquired about the details of the assassination of Lebanese Minister for Industry Pierre Gemayel, raising eyebrows at the Lebanese newpaper. The timing of phone call was 55 minutes before the assassination was carried out."

Ron Rosenbaum .com

Ron Rosenbaum .com: "Maybe I’m missing something but this seems insane. The United Way must have a record of the checks they received for the families. GIVE THE MONEY BACK NOW, UNITED WAY! SEND IT BACK TO THE GIVERS AND LET THE GIVERS SEND THEIR CHECKS DIRECTLY TO THE FAMILIES. STOP TALKING ABOUT WAITING FOR SPECIAL LEGISLATION. STOP SITTING ON OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE TAKEN IN THE FIRST PLACE IN ORDER!"

Frankly, I've thought United Way was a semi-scam for a long time. This just reinforces my opinion, but still it seems a pretty egregious example --- and it's a little hard not to think the United Way was completely aware of the restrictions, and saw this as a chance to get hold of the money, which would then be disbursed via a bunch of local charities, each one taking a cut of "administrative expenses", along with the United Way itself.

But maybe I'm just a cynic, and the UW really is a bunch of fools, instead of con-artists.

Welcome to the party

OxBlog: "BEINART: THE END. I recently finished reading The Good Fight by Peter Beinart, which I began almost six months ago. It took me so long to read because I made a commitment to post detailed comments about every chapter.

I made that commitment back in July because I 'expected [Beinart's] book to serve as the definitive statement of a muscular liberal foreign policy.' Let me elaborate on that. As many readers know, I started blogging more than four years ago, when I was still planted firmly on Democratic soil. Now I am registered as a Republican.

I would argue that in most respects my principles have not changed, but rather that as I learned more about the respective parties, I determined that I was in the wrong one. Reading Beinart's book was an important part of that determination."

Flags of Our Fathers: Japanese Iwo Jima eyewitness tells it in his own words - MSN-Mainichi Daily News

Flags of Our Fathers: Japanese Iwo Jima eyewitness tells it in his own words - MSN-Mainichi Daily News: "Shukan Bunshun asks Akikusa if he felt deaths of his comrades in arms was meaningful.

'Considering how this country has been without war for the past 60 years, I think it's commendable,' Akikusa replies. 'If you regard them as 'sacrificial stones' who caused Japan to relinquish what it sought to become in those times, then I want to believe their deaths were not without meaning.' (By Masuo Kamiyama, contributing writer)

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Great title

"Pinochet dead at age 91. Geppetto heartbroken."
fark.com

: New Atrocities Uncovered in Iraq WARNING Very Graphic

: New Atrocities Uncovered in Iraq WARNING Very Graphic

Tim Worstall: Take Care of the Military

Tim Worstall: Take Care of the Military: "Minette Marin:

Those who think that our armed forces don’t matter will soon discover that other people’s do."

Rape victim to get daughter back soon | ajc.com

Rape victim to get daughter back soon | ajc.com: "The Cherokee County woman who killed the man who raped her most likely will be able to take her daughter home with her, probably by next week.

First the mother has to complete a psychological evaluation.

'They want to make sure I am of no harm to myself or anyone else,' the woman said Friday after a hearing in Juvenile Court in Cherokee County. She hopes to celebrate Christmas with family in Ohio.

'I'm happy I'm getting my daughter back,' she said.

The 7-year-old girl was placed in foster care after the Nov. 5 attack.

The youngster was in their rural Cherokee County home when her mother was raped. Authorities have said Gerald A. Lee, who was armed with a shotgun, broke into the house and raped the 38-year-old mother. A fierce battle between Lee and the woman began when he threatened to also rape her daughter. She stabbed Lee several times and was severely injured during the struggle."

Got that? The guy, armed with a shotgun, raped her. He then threatened to rape her eight year old daughter, and she fought him, knife against shotgun.

So the state took her daughter and put her in foster care because they thought Mom might be a risk.

BostonHerald.com - Herald Columnists: Leadership defined, Bush stays course

BostonHerald.com - Herald Columnists: Leadership defined, Bush stays course: "the good news this week is not the ISG’s call for the measured abandonment of Iraq. It is, counterintuitively, that George Bush - sorely battered by midterm elections and the results of Donald Rumsfeld’s bankrupt Occupation-Lite strategy - is showing signs he remembers that he’s still the president.

Bush signaled late last week that, while he is awaiting the advice that truly matters, that of his military commanders, he is not inclined to engage in the drawdown of troops that the ISG advocates. He is not ready to abandon Iraq."

It was interesting watching some of the members of the ISG on TV, though, today. They seemed to be insisting that the ISG report doesn't require withdrawal, but instead says withdrawal should happen when, and if, the Iraqis are able to defend themselves... and in any case, they foresee leaving 70,000 troops in country for a long time.

Which seems to come down to "Bush should do what he's already been doing."

I've begun to think that the whole ISG report is so inconclusive that it can be cherry-picked to suit anyone's opinion.

What Would Jimmy Do? - washingtonpost.com

What Would Jimmy Do? - washingtonpost.com: "Jews, in my experience, tend to become peevish when Christians, their traditional persecutors, lecture them on morality, and Carter reports that Meir was taken aback by his 'temerity.' He is, of course, paying himself a compliment. Temerity is mandatory when you are doing God's work, and Carter makes it clear in this polemical book that, in excoriating Israel for its sins -- and he blames Israel almost entirely for perpetuating the hundred-year war between Arab and Jew -- he is on a mission from God.

Carter's interest in the Middle East is longstanding, of course; he brokered the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in 1979, and he has been rightly praised for doing so. But other aspects of his record are more bothersome. Carter, not unlike God, has long been disproportionately interested in the sins of the Chosen People. He is famously a partisan of the Palestinians, and in recent months he has offered a notably benign view of Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization that took power in the Palestinian territories after winning a January round of parliamentary elections.

There are differences, however, between Carter's understanding of Jewish sin and God's. God, according to the Jewish Bible, tends to forgive the Jews their sins. And God, unlike Carter, does not manufacture sins to hang around the necks of Jews when no sins have actually been committed."

I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you

Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91 - CNN.com

Jimmy Carter is losing his mind

Jimmy Carter needs to go back to building houses and just shut up about the Middle East. He had his chance and he blew it. From Betsy's :

He whines for the rest of the column about how Jews have criticized his book and he can't get invitations to speak on college campuses with large Jewish enrollment. He criticizes the media for ignoring the problems of the Palestinians.

The book describes the abominable oppression and persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine's citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank. An enormous imprisonment wall is now under construction, snaking through what is left of Palestine to encompass more and more land for Israeli settlers. In many ways, this is more oppressive than what blacks lived under in South Africa during apartheid. I have made it clear that the motivation is not racism but the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize choice sites in Palestine, and then to forcefully suppress any objections from the displaced citizens. Obviously, I condemn any acts of terrorism or violence against innocent civilians, and I present information about the terrible casualties on both sides.

That "imprisonment wall" that he so condemns is being built to prevent Palestinians from blowing up teenagers eating a pizza, or students getting on a bus, or families shopping together in Israel. The wall has already greatly decreased terrorist activity. Passes are needed to block terrorism. Perhaps if Palestinians weren't so devoted to the destruction of Israel that even grandmothers strap on bombs to try to kill Israeli civilians, there would not be these barriers to Palestinian travel. Carter apparently doesn't understand cause and effect, but he is ready with the moral equivalence for "any acts of terrorism or violence against innocent civilians and...the terrible casualties on both sides."

Perhaps Jimmy Carter has missed what has been happening among Palestinians recently as they fight amongst themselves over their government. Is that Israel's fault also? Can he point to anything positive that Yasser Arafat and his gang ever did for the benefit of the Palestinians? Any attempt to build up an economy? Was it Israel's fault that Arafat was a kleptocrat who resorted to efforts against Israel as a method for holding onto his own power?

Meanwhile, Alan Dershowitz exposes how Carter thinks that Israel's "persecution" of Palestinians is worse than the genocide in Rwanda. The man is an amazing and bigoted void of perspective on the entire history of the Middle East. And he demeans the victims of genocide in Rwanda by his false comparison to Israel defending itself against attacks. As Dershowitz writes,

The comparison is breathtaking and wrong. Here are the facts:

In April through July of 1994, Hutu militias slaughtered an estimated 800,000 Tutsis (and raped thousands) in an attempt to eradicate those people from the country. In just around 100 days, the Hutus killed at a rate faster than any previous or subsequent genocide in world history. During any comparable period, the number of Palestinian casualties has never exceeded the hundreds, and for the most part, they have been either combatants, human shields, or civilians inadvertently killed in efforts to kill combatants. These deaths have come in the course of Israel defending itself against three wars of annihilation in which the Palestinians openly and actively sided with the Arab invaders (1948, 1967, and 1973), two intifadas (both prompted by Israeli peace gestures), and a general war of terrorist attrition against Israeli citizens in the meantime. The worst that one could accuse Israel of is occasionally employing too much aggression in its defensive tactics - a far cry from the willful genocide of nearly a million people. Further, the Tutsis never had a chance to prevent their slaughter, whereas the Palestinians initiated the violence against Israel and repeatedly refused - and continue to refuse - to recognize Israel's legitimacy, let alone to agree to any sort of peace agreement, be it the Peel Commission, the UN Partition Plan, or the 2000 Camp David proposals.

Not to mention the Road Map to Peace and the two state solution. I think a great deal of the world has given up on a solution.

The Israelis are not saints, who is? And I have no doubt that there are Palestinians stuck in the middle of all that who want nothing more than to be left alone. Of course if they make a point of that in public they might end up hanging from a lamp post. Some people say the election of Hamas made things worse. I disagree. One thing Charles Krauthammer said that I think is true, is that the election was "honest" in that it tells us how the majority feel and with that comes a certain accountability. They picked these guys, now let the Palestinians live with the consequences.

Let me get this straight

It seems Saint Bill Clinton was spying on Princess Di. Where is the outrage? Will Leahy demand an investigation? Will Pelosi and Emmanuel decry the abuse of power?