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MUCH TO THEIR SURPRISE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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BEATLES IN BAGHDAD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
During dinner with a Kurdish businessman in Dubai last week,
I suddenly began hearing a Beatles song in my head. Written in 1967 by John Lennon and Paul McCartney for the Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the song is Getting Better:
I've got to admit it's getting
better
a little better all the time
I have to admit it's getting better...
...getting so much better all the time
His goods and products are shipped into Dubai from India,
China, and elsewhere, where they are transshipped to Basra, Iraq's port, then
put into containers and trucked across Iraq south to north into Iraqi
Kurdistan. On average he is trucking
three container loads across Iraq a day.
I asked him what difference Bush's "surge" has made in the
past couple of months.
"A very dramatic improvement,"
was his answer.
As I am writing this (Thursday afternoon 4/19), I just
saw on Drudge that Harry Reid, the Dems' Senate leader, has proclaimed the war
in Iraq is "lost." But it's the Democrats
who are losing now, not America.
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JAHANNAM IN JOLO |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
When I saw the news bulletin that Moslem terrorists had
decapitated six hostages on the southern Philippine island of Jolo, I thought
of the 1939 movie, The
Real Glory, where Gary Cooper plays a US Army doctor trying to protect
Christian villagers in the Philippines from a cholera epidemic and Moslem
suicide killers - set in 1906!
The leader of the Moslem fanatics is named Alipang. Cooper breaks Alipang's will by threatening
to kill him and bury him wrapped in a bloody pigskin. Afraid such defilement will result in his not going to heaven but
Jahannam, Islamic Hell, Alipang commands his men to surrender.
I thought it ironic in the extreme that this news report about
Jolo should appear three days after an obscure item in the business section of
USA Today, Squeezing
Diesel Out Of Animal Fat.
The story announced: "Oil company ConocoPhillips and
meat producer Tyson Foods said Monday they're joining forces to produce diesel
fuel for U.S. vehicles using beef, pork and poultry fat."
Biofuel from pig fat.
Does that ring a bell from say, a year ago (April 2006) when you read
about Project
Jahannam?
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ESKIMOS ON MARS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
The news story headlined Canadian
Military Reinforces Arctic Claim had a dramatic lede:
"Battling high winds, 25-foot ice walls, mechanical
breakdowns and whiteout conditions, a Canadian military team, including Eskimo
reservists, last week completed a 17-day trek [across Ellesmere Island]
designed to sustain Canada's claim to sovereignty over the high Arctic."
Of course, the reporter then had to include a ridiculous
global warming spin in a story on Canadian national security:
"[Expedition leader Maj. Chris Bergeron] said old-timers
among the Eskimos, who call themselves Inuit, told him they had never seen open
water and bare rocks so close to the North Pole."
Being quite familiar with Ellesmere, Canada's northernmost
island, I can assure you the reporter, Barry Brown has never been there and is
laughingly ignorant - like most glowarmers.
Just as ignorant as the Eskimos - who live over 400 miles
away from Ellesmere's northern shore on the Arctic Ocean (which is itself 550
miles "close" to the North Pole). The
only Inuit or Eskimo community on all of Ellesmere's 76,000 square miles is
Grise Fiord on the far away south shore.
They have no knowledge at all of the Arctic Ocean.
Which brings me to Mars...
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THE IRANIAN FAÇADE |
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Written by Dagny D'Anconia
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
During a speech delivered in the Western Iranian province of Javanroud on December 20th 2006, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed:
"The Islamic Republic of Iran is now a nuclear power, thanks to the hard work of the Iranian people and authorities....Iranian young scientists reached the zenith of science and technology and gained access to the nuclear fuel cycle without the help of big powers... The Iranian nation will continue in its nuclear path powerfully and will celebrate a nuclear victory soon."
Ahmadinejad also said Israel, US, Britain will vanish - "this is a divine promise."
Thus Ahmadinejad took credit for all the nuclear work actually done by Russians, and told them they were no longer needed. He then ceased to pay them for their work. Iran was thumbing its nose at not only Israel, the US, and Britain. It was thumbing its nose most of all at Russia.
It's not a good idea to do that to people who are both ruthless and know you're a fake.
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THE MEDIA IS PSYCHOLOGICALLY SICK |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
For the sake of a few dollars more, NBC has brought closer
the day of the next public mass killing in America.
"This was a sick business tonight, going on the air
with this," acknowledged NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams of his
network's decision to air portions of the "multimedia manifesto" Cho
Seung-Hui mailed NBC in the interval between his murder sprees on the Virginia
Tech campus.
It was indeed a sick business decision. Mass killings
inspire copycats. "School campuses in at least 10 states were locked down
or evacuated in the aftermath of a Virginia Tech student's shooting
rampage," the AP reported Wednesday.
NBC is not alone in its guilt. Every news organization
which rebroadcast portions of the video, or newspapers (like mine, the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for which I write a column) which published still
photographs of Mr. Cho posing with his weapons is complicit.
We say we do this to protect "the people's right to
know." The real reason, of course, is we hope the titillation will
increase our number of viewers or readers.
But as we fatten our bottom lines, we send a message
to every sociopathic loser: Wanna be famous? Go kill a lot of
people. We'll put your face and your story and your alleged grievances
into every home in America.
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FEELING SAFER AND BEING SAFER |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
Both supporters and opponents of gun control are
shoe-horning the tragedy at Virginia Tech into their pre-established templates. Both have
ammunition.
On the one hand, Mr. Cho was able to purchase the firearms
he used in the murder spree -- Glock 19 and Walther P-22 handguns -- lawfully
at a local gun shop.
On the other, the Virginia Tech campus is a "gun free
zone," where students, faculty and staff are forbidden to have firearms,
even if they have concealed carry permits. Mr. Cho lived in a dorm on
campus, where he stored his weapons and ammunition. The school's policy
banning guns wasn't very effective in Mr. Cho's case.
A fundamental difference between supporters and opponents of
gun control is their attitude toward personal responsibility.
Liberals tend to offer excuses for the perpetrators of
violent acts (he was poor; his mother drank; his daddy beat him), and to assume
that potential victims have no right to play a role in their own defense.
Those who think the law abiding should be permitted to carry
firearms argue that if some of the students, faculty, or staff had been armed,
they could have cut Mr. Cho's murder spree short.
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TIME TO GET RID OF THE WORLD BANK? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
With the current spectacle of the corrupt World Bank trying to rid itself of its president who is trying to de-corrupt the place, based on politicized corruption charges against him, it is time to ask:
Should the World Bank (WB), and indeed, its sister organization the International Monetary Fund (IMF), be abolished?
Both organizations had their annual spring meetings in Washington this past weekend. It is obvious to everyone that both are in deep trouble.
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CHILDISH LIBERAL ANGER |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
"Anyone
can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the
right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -
this is not easy." - Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics, II, ix, 2)
It seems all the rage these days to be angry - angry at injustice, angry at past abuses,
angry at "the system," at hypocrisy, or at anything at all. As one wag puts it, "I just hate intolerant
people!"
This form of angry expression is not the strong and
effective anger that we see in the resolve of someone like George Washington:
the controlled and consciously directed anger that seeks to solve a problem or
correct a genuine injustice.
It is instead a helpless anger, a whining anger, a pleading
anger, the anger of a wronged and passive victim of felt injustice, looking for
someone else to rectify it for them.
For the past several decades, our country, coached by childishly angry liberals, has been
practicing how to throw childish temper tantrums. The
consequences for us individually and as a nation are not good.
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MARINE CORPS CURRENCY |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
The latest coin of the United States Marines, currency good anywhere in the world:
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THE KURDISH CARD IN TURKEY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
The current media freak-out in the US is about the silly
mouth of radio buffoon Don Imus.
Multiply the frenzy by, say, 100 times, and it might give you an idea of
the media hysteria right now in Turkey about the serious mouth of Massoud
Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq.
Sick and tired of Turkish threats to his government,
Barzani, in an interview on Dubai-based Al-Arabiya
satellite television, unloaded on Turkey:
"If Ankara allows itself to interfere in our affairs, we will then
interfere for the 30 million Kurds in Turkey."
The interview was broadcast while I was
in Arbil (Hawler), capital of Iraqi Kurdistan last Saturday (4/7), and the
Kurds there were in a state of ecstatic glee over Barzani's daring to identify
Turkey's deepest fear. It's hard for us
here in America to grasp what sort of rhetorical nuclear bomb Barzani dropped
with these words.
For, you see, one third of Turkey's land and population isn't Turkish -- it's Kurdish.
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IMUS IN IDAHO |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
I've never understood why people listen to smart-aleck jerks
on trash radio like Don Imus and Howard Stern who get paid a lot of money to
say nothing of substance but say it in a pseudo-clever, hyper-cynical,
juvenilely outrageous way.
But I sure am enjoying watching him squirm. This is great karma. His public persona, with the phony cowboy
hat, the gravel voice, the wrinkled glower, was of a super tough guy, as tough
as say, the British Royal Marines.
Turns out he's as much of a surrender pussy as they are.
Imus should exchange his cowboy hat for a dhimmi head scarf
like that worn by Pelosi Galore or Limey sailorwoman Faye Turney to best
signify his submission to the gods of political correctness.
Now, if that's all this teapot tempest is, yet another
example of bottomless PC hypocrisy and Al Sharpton's unceasing effort to prey
on white guilt, it'll soon be replaced by the next media frenzy.
The real question is whether the Imus scandal will wreck the
presidential candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
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MORE THAN YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT PATERNITY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
I can't pass this one up.
DNA testing that shows among Anna Nicole Smith's multiple lovers, a
fellow named Larry Birkhead is the father of her daughter provides such an
exquisitely teachable moment about paternity - well, it's simply impossible for
me to resist.
This is going to be fun.
We'll start with a discussion of what scientists delightfully call
"sperm wars." Let's first discuss those
conducted by chimpanzees. They give the
phrase "flooding the zone" a whole new meaning.
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HEROES AND MISERABLE CREATURES |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
Danny Dietz understood these words of British philosopher
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873):
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of
things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing that is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable
creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept free by the
exertions of other men better than himself."
Linda Cuesta and Emily Fuchs are among the "miserable
creatures" to whom Mill was referring. They're trying to keep the
city of Littleton, Colorado from erecting a statue in honor of Danny Dietz, a
Navy SEAL who was killed in Afghanistan in 2005.
Petty Officer Dietz was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross,
the second highest decoration for valor, because, though badly wounded, he
fought on to permit his team mates to escape from an ambush.
Ms. Cuesta and Ms. Fuchs are among a small group of
parents who want to keep his home town from honoring Petty Officer Dietz
because the statue depicts him with his weapon.
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BRITISH AND RUTGERS WUSSIES |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
The 15 British sailors and marines held hostage by Iran, and
the members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team both have
achieved the highest status contemporary liberalism offers: victimhood.
Writing in 1852 about the "emperor" Napoleon III
(son of Napoleon's younger brother, who ruled France from 1848 to 1870), Karl
Marx said history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. The
British hostage crisis moved seamlessly from the one to the other.
Just like the Imus-Rutgers crisis.
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