Swedish Toothache: Sux to be American

Gates of Vienna reports it well:

And now, he is dead,

Many critcize the decision. Maybe he didn't receive full due process according to American standards, but he was given much more consideration than he would have given others. We had no right to itervene on his behalf. And I am glad we didnt.

And the Anti-Dhimmi Award of the week goes to...

SIT DOWN.

TAKE A DEEP BREATHE.

BARBARA BOXER?

CAIR Play?

Dec. 29, 2006 - In a highly unusual move, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California has rescinded an award to an Islamic activist in her home state because of the man’s connections to a major American Muslim organization that recently has been courted by leading political figures and even the FBI.

Boxer’s office confirmed to NEWSWEEK that she has withdrawn a “certificate of accomplishment” to Sacramento activist Basim Elkarra after learning that he serves as an official with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). After directing her staff to look into CAIR, Boxer “expressed concern” about some past statements and actions by the group, as well as assertions by some law enforcement officials that it “gives aid to international terrorist groups,” according to Natalie Ravitz, the senator’s press spokeswoman.

I can envision her sitting in her office visiting one of those nasty blogs, like Little Green Footballs, Gates of Vienna or the Infidel Bloggers Alliance and see that 'lil used light bulb atop her melon exploding like an IED. Way to go Barb. In the words of Victor Laszlo, "Welcome to the fight".

UPDATE: LGF aptly considers it an official Flying Pig Moment. Pamela from Atlas Shrugs reminds us of why the award was so objectionable originally. Interestingly enough, Boxer's indictment was of CAIR itself:

After directing her staff to look into CAIR, Boxer “expressed concern” about some past statements and actions by the group, as well as assertions by some law enforcement officials that it “gives aid to international terrorist groups,” according to Natalie Ravitz, the senator’s press spokeswoman.

Boxer could have very easily rescinded the award by citing the terrorist links of the recipient, Basim Elkarra, but instead chose to go after CAIR. Elkarra himself was an easy target:

(from the Atlas Shrugs post) As Executive Director, Basim Elkarra has defended someone that trained for jihad in a Pakistani terrorist camp; he has defended an imam that urged a Pakistani crowd to wage attacks on America; and he has defended an imam that was attempting to build an Islamic school for the purpose of teaching children how to commit violent acts against Americans.

One could hardly think that such an insult could be done without deliberation, especially in the present political climate and the prominence of CAIR's voice in many of the current terrorist related issues. I can't speculate on her thinking. A lucid moment? No. That doesn't happen with the MSM vultures hovering. And bloggers are less forgiving. But, somehow, Leftists escape these unPC foibles.

She is sowing the wind. But her name isn't Virgil Goode. She is not a Republican. She has left wing street cred. She will skate around the whirlwind.

Mike Nifong - The New York Times 10 Year Review

A little mind exercise:

Mike Nifong – Ten Years Hence

Mike Nifong, the former Durham County, North Carolina District Attorney, garnered much attention in 2006 for his prosecution of three white, affluent, Duke lacrosse players, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, for the rape of an African-American, exotic dancer at an alcohol infused lacrosse party. The case had all of the elements of a rape turned political drama – race, class, female victimization, which assured every new development in the case front-page headlines. The contentiousness of the issue was fueled by overzealous bloggers hoping to expand their readerships with inflammatory, and quite often, racist statements.

Much has changed in the life of Mike Nifong since his days as the feisty, well-liked prosecutor. He no longer practices law. Black marks on his record from the findings of the Federal and State investigations into his prosecutorial conduct have probably prevented him from ever practicing law again. While he has petitioned to become a member of the New Hampshire Bar, his love of the law is now a jaded fantasy. “I was only trying do justice”, he states. Many years of civil litigation have also taken a toll on his finances. The four million dollar verdict in favor of the Duke defendants had cost Nifong his home, his career and his family. His wife Cy left him in March of 2007, just a month after the Duke case was dismissed by a local judge. While the divorce papers cite “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the divorce, insiders say differently. “Cy never liked what Mike was doing. She always urged him to drop the charges. She always thought the family could make a nice life for themselves in Durham, even if he wasn’t the D.A.”, said a source close to Cy.

Mike has moved on to different pastures. He had a brief stint of self-destructiveness following the vindication of the Duke defendants. He was convicted of driving under the influence, petty drug offenses and a misdemeanor sexual molestation offense, but he puts those far behind him. “I was depressed because I was only trying to do justice for that poor, young, African-American girl. My investigator told me that he thought she was serious about the rape. And I never, never fondled that girl at the Tithole”.

Mike is more content now. He lives in a tiny, yet modest one bedroom-home just outside of Lebanon New Hampshire, where he moved just after the Syrian Wars. “I needed peace and solitude. I felt like I went through my own war – for justice”, he reflects with a determined sense of animosity. He received a modest inheritance from a relative which helps him provide for his necessities, but he has taken up a new occupation, far a field from the hostile, bickering courtroom.

Beekeeping has become his new career, profession, occupation and passion. He talks now of an orphaned hive as fervently as he once did of a guilty defendant, although now there is much less pomp and circumstance to his declarations. Still, one gets an impression of his good naturedness and passion as he sells his honey jars on Meriden Road in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Michael Nifong is a beaten man we might be able to learn from.

- P.S. Sorry Beekeepers. (ed.)

Paper of Record Provides Practical Terrorist Blueprint

Another instance of the NY Times giving the terroristas info on one of the new "most susceptible terrorist targets" in the country. Now a light bulb has gone off in the heads of local shitbag terrorists.

'CAIR's local official was quoted as saying "hmmmmm. We didnt know the tunnels would be this easy. Thank you NYT."'

NYT follow-up - 'NYPD Illegally Profiling Individuals with 'Jihad Rules" spray painted on cars." After all it is a free speech issue. CAIR threatens lawsuit. Mayor calls for ecumenism, understanding and peace. Says trans fatties are a much more grave problem.

Kick Arse Video

Normally I dont like the rap/metal joint efforts. But this is pretty friggon good:

Jeanne Kirkpatrick, RIP

Thursday Night Torshavn

A Unabomber in the making???

You interpret this Democratic Underground post:

chknltl (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-07-06 05:22 AM
Original message
Are
there any laws about mailing sand?
...you know like the kind found around
old dead tanks over in Iraq.

What if the citizens of Iraq started doing
just that, mailed these samples off to...oh I don't know..maybe the arms
manufacturers who created depleted uranium munitions, the politicians who were
bought out by those same arms manufacturers and what the hell let's add faux
news on that list. Do you suppose they might be justified in returning the
favor? It's "only" sand ya know.
Just wonderin....

Kenneth W. Stein on Jimmy Carter's New Book

Is it me, or does Kenneth W. Stein, "an Emory University professor who also directs the university’s Middle East Research Program and the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel", take the poodle for Palestine and his new book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" on with a vengeance:

A promient Middle East scholar, Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, announced his resignation as a fellow of Emory University’s Carter Center, in response to former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”

Stein, an Emory University professor who also directs the university’s Middle East Research Program and the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, characterized Carter’s book as “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments” in an email that announced his resignation yesterday.

He explained: “My continued association with the Center leaves the impression that I am sanctioning a series of egregious errors and polemical conclusions which appeared in President Carter’s book. I can not allow that impression to stand.”

[the paragraph below is a portion of the email from Professor Stein announcing his resignation - .ed

]Any material which he used from the book we did together in 1984, The Blood of Abraham, he used unilaterally. President Carter’s book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook. Having little access to Arabic and Hebrew sources, I believe, clearly handicapped his understanding and analyses of how history has unfolded over the last decade. Falsehoods, if repeated often enough become meta-truths, and they then can become the erroneous baseline for shaping and reinforcing attitudes and for policy-making. The history and interpretation of the Arab-Israeli conflict is already drowning in half-truths, suppositions, and self-serving myths; more are not necessary

This is far more serious for the ex Failure-in-Chief. Stein wrote a book with Carter, was at one point, strongly affiliated with the Carter Center. His contentions are not only with the thesis of Carter's book, but with his scholarship and even his integrity. Ouch.