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Why would anyone want to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize when Hitler was?

A well-meaning article by National Review Editor Rich Lowry makes the point that capitalism needs a slogan like socialism has. He rightly points out that without economic growth spurred on by the adoption of capitalism in many parts of the world there would not be major gains in quality of life around the world as well. But capitalism works not because it has a slick marketing arm but because it works. And it works because it allows every player in an economy to continuously make the decisions about price, demand, supply, and every other facet of the economy without having to rely on the “wisdom” of the idiots on top.

News Busters highlighted a tirade from one of the newest crop of 24 actors, Janeane Garofalo. Don’t really give that much credence because, well, she’s paid to pretend to be other people and that doesn’t qualify her in my mind to be anything other than an actor.

But I do give credence to Sonny Corleone, um James Caan, “Nobody should give a shit about an actor’s opinion on politics.” Wait, what, that breaks my rule from the previous paragraph? Oh, well, just because you’re paid to pretend to be a bad ass in every role gives you a break from that rule. Or, if you’re Jerry Seinfeld.

With all the accusations flying at Blackwater, especially after they were kicked out of Iraq for a short while, you would think that they were the worst people in Iraq. Well, based on the following picture we see just the tip of the iceberg of al Qaeda’s evilness. Can’t we just revoke their license to work in Iraq? Isn’t that basically how the liberals want us to fight the War on Terror, with gavels and court orders?

But al Qaeda considers brutality of this type good propaganda and according to Douglas Farah propaganda is what they are focusing on now.

Why the sudden surge in communications with the network? That, to me, is the most important question. The content is important and should be analyzed, especially the call to war against Musharraf in Pakistan and the call to retake Spain for Islam. But much of the statements are simply restatements of old positions and rhetoric.

Perhaps, as the “Base” takes on a life of its own, the old leadership sees a need to reassert its relevancy. Or perhaps the old guard no longer holds a great deal of appeal to the young men wanting to fight the “hot” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and are drawn to different jihadi organizations, rather than the old men living in caves or apartments.

Or perhaps the productions are largely intended as morale boosters for the cadre in the absence of significant successful attacks in the United States and Europe.

What does seem clear to me is that this propaganda machine, run at some risk and expense, is vitally important to the leadership. It is also vital for those in a virtual world, looking for some point of connection, to have access to this material, as well as being useful to those seeking to recruit.

I am not sure what it means, but it is another sign of how much work there is to do in shutting down the message as well as the messenger.

Only through the media will they win. Our change in tactics has dealt significant blows to al Qaeda Iraq and will continue to do so. Their best chance is to beat us through the main stream media.

Or we could just let them beat each other up through the digital battlefront as they are doing in Iraq right now. Counterterrorism blog has a link-rich post that illustrates this situation. Shiite and Sunni militias are employing media warfare in their fights against each other.

Sweetness & Light takes aim at the race mongers behind the Jena 6 scandal. They take apart point by point a post made by one of AOL’s black bloggers; Black Voices, with the post from Black Voices in italics.

The six black teenagers who have become know as the Jena Six were at first charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate after nooses were hung from a tree at school.

There is no evidence that the nooses incident had anything to do with the beating. It happened three months later, and was not mentioned in any of the 40 statements taken by the authorities, according to the black US attorney on the case.

Despite their age, all but one young man was also charged as an adult.

They were tried as adults because they were adults under Louisiana law.

After being convicted by and [sic] all-white jury…

Only whites showed up for the jury pool. The 150 people called for jury duty included black citizens, but only 50 people appeared, and none of them were black. It’s difficult to have blacks on a jury when they refuse to show up for jury duty.

Bell was the last to have his conviction of aggravated assault overturned by a Louisiana appeals court last week…

Bell was both the first and last to have his conviction vacated. He was originally tried as an adult because of his four prior (violent) felony convictions.

Fights where [sic] followed by arrests, but the white teens who hung the nooses were not charged with a crime.

Because there was no law broken. However, the three white students involved were suspended. Moreover, the victim of the beating which occurred three months later had nothing whatsoever to do with this incident.

The comments also got ugly at Black Voices as a black man berated the race lobby as focusing on all the wrong stuff just so they could get their faces on TV. Another commenter, black as well, countered his opinion only like liberals can:

To Douglas Watts(No.3) if you’re really a black man, then you are definitely a sell out, uncle tom ass pro-white kiss ass.

Dr. Ahmadinejad, sure, we’ll listen to what he has to say. A black man who doesn’t march to the orders of Saints Jesse and Al, well, you know.

From Investor’s Business Daily we get a great editorial exposing George Soros’ helmsmanship of the far left. The good people at Instapundit pointed this editorial out and I’m glad that they did because it gives this little tidbit about how Soros money and influence has gone to fund terrorists and their sympathizers.

Soros’ Open Society Institute gave $20,000 for the legal defense of radical attorney Lynne Stewart. She was convicted in 2002 of abetting jailed terrorists after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing….

He has handed $3.1 million to the left-wing Tides Foundation, which funds organizations, such as the Sea Shepherds, Earth First! and the Ruckus Society, that have condoned or engaged in eco-terrorism.

On the international front, Soros-backed groups have undercut important U.S. allies, including Israel and Colombia, which have aligned with the U.S. rather than the U.N.

From Iraq the Model we find out this interesting little nugget of Jihadi destruction going on in Iraq. al Qaeda Iraq has embraced scorched earth tactics in dealing with towns in Iraq.

Apparently this is the latest chapter in al-Qaeda’s war manual in their war against the Iraqi people and the coalition; raiding remote peaceful villages, burning down homes and slaughtering both man and beast.

This campaign I will call a campaign of self-destruction. For probably a year al-Qaeda was trying to build their so called Islamic State in Iraq and several times they declared parts of Baghdad or other provinces as the capital of that state.

But now that they have been losing one base after another their objective changed from adding more towns and villages to the “state” to destroying the very same towns and villages! Obviously it’s all about making headlines regardless of the means to do that!

“You know, we have terrorists because we go into their countries and steal their oil, rape their women, and kill their men. If we just laid off of them, man, we wouldn’t have no terrorists.” Next time you here a liberal tell you we create terrorists just laugh.

In other news, if only the people building these compounds in rural America were white we could, with clear conscience, call them terrorists. Unfortunately for the politically correct among us they are Muslims and they practice shooting at school buses. This just highlights the totally unconventional nature of this war and is good proof that we need every intelligence capability working to find groups like these and snuffing them out.

The vapidity of the intellectual elite of the West would be laughable if it weren’t so sad. Columbia has retroactively invited Hitler to speak at their university. The only sad part, from their point of view, is that he is unable to attend.

From the Huffington Post we find out that the State Department is doing what some individuals are already doing; taking the fight to the web. Bloated bureaucracies are so horribly slow to react to changing situations my guess is that military intelligence agencies have been doing this type of asymmetrical warfare for some time against the Jihadists. But only tasking two Arab speaking agents to this task at State, even for a bloated bureaucracy, is beyond the pale.

The people at DailyKos hate everyone who doesn’t agree with them or doesn’t hate the United States as much as them. That is the only explanation of words like the following could be written about men who were honorably discharged from the military and are now working in a profession where they protect government officials:

The story as it appears in the traditional media:

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.

The story as it would be happening if the perpetrators didn’t have federal contracts, fancy suits, and a PR firm:

Military intelligence officials are torturing employees members of a suspected terrorist cell that illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.

Don’t let any leftist make the argument against you that they support the troops. They despise the military because it is the representation of everything that they are not. They don’t want to save their lives by bringing them home they want to destroy their souls by destroying the honor they so rightly deserve.

Another thing about sites run by the far left is that their message boards are the most hate-filled places you will ever find outside select caves controlled by al Qaeda. They mercilessly attack contrary posters for typos and unfleshed out points. But I think it is their own bloggers who can’t seem to string a thought together long enough to make their point.

In Fiscal Insanity at DailyKos the poster tries to make the point that President Bush didn’t get an A in tax cuts (which was a funny aside by the president at a news conference, not a statement of historical fact if you liberals didn’t catch that). To make this point he directs us to an article from the Washington Post which goes on to tick off what we could spend money on if it weren’t for the war in Iraq. Tax cuts are not the same as spending - enough said.

BigT’s Quck Hits:

NewsBusters covers the most thought provoking student editorial ever.
Yom Kippur suicide attack averted in Israel.
Oh no! Global warming (I predict will be referred to as climate change because warming is to concrete of a term) is killing turtles and our history.
We are such warmongers that we are running out of space at military cemeteries, it’s about Iraq.
And they found the cave that Osama is hiding in. It’s on Mars.
BigT

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