Is There a Death Threat E-Mail Address?

Another reason why some folks prefer anonymity, from JennQPublic:

JennQ's blog is here.

It's hard out there ...

Your Generation

Circa 1978, Generation X:

Old Spice 'Smell Like a Man' Campaign Cleans Up

I guess there's a market for unhindered masculinity, "Old Spice Campaign Smells Like a Sales Success, Too":

HAT TIP: Snark and Boobs.

Booman Tribune Blood Libels Pamela Geller

I had to stop. I had to stop blogging for a minute to wait for my stomach to calm down, and for the sinking feeling in my heart to go away. I write about evil a lot. I tell my readers that not only is leftist ideology collectivist and destructive, it is also evil, in the most reprehensible way fathomable. I'm not sure who takes my comments seriously, outside of my regular readership and a number of other prominent bloggers and writers with whom I communicate. (Obviously, leftists dismiss their own frequent cases of diabolical hatred as aberrations.) It's just something that I know inside my heart, and it strengthens me — thank God — to have a strong sense of righteousness. I know progressivism is the Devil's work. As an ideology perhaps at one point there was some utility in it, say, in Theodore Roosevelt's brand of progressivism. Yeah, maybe at one time real social progress was the goal. But over these last few decades, at least since the 1960s — but especially in the last 9 years since September 11 — a fundamental metastasis has occurred, and its roots are in human evil.

In any case, I'm just writing my feelings upon reading Booman Tribune's post on Pamela Geller, "Casual Suggestion." Screencaps are below. Here's the full quote from the main body of the post, by BooMan:

Apparently, Pam Geller wrote a book and someone actually reviewed it. I'm not sure which is more disturbing. Here's an idea. I promise to write a book about how right-wing lunatics are destroying the fabric of our country. I can do this with facts and citations or, if you prefer, I can just accuse them all of committing acts of bestiality, ritual Satanism, and drinking the blood of gentile babies. It's really up to the publisher. Whatever they want, I can supply. Making stuff up is easier though, so if you want the manuscript in time for a Christmas roll out, I advise we go with some bestiality. Just let me know and I'll get right to work.

The reference to the book review is for Elon Green at the communist webzine AlterNet, "Why Is Simon & Schuster Spreading the Wild Conspiracy Theories of an Unhinged Islamophobic Blogger?" Check the link. Nowhere does Elon Green actually engage the arguments in Pamela Geller's book. The "review" is frankly nothing more than a diatribe against the right-wing. What BooMan does is take it to the next step in leftist demonology, anti-Semitic blood libel. Sure, the post is formed as a hypothetical. BooMan suggests that he "can just accuse them all of committing acts of bestiality, ritual Satanism, and drinking the blood of gentile babies."

Plausible deniability then? Perhaps. Except that BooMan's first commenter picks up on the dog whistle:

Did they use ink, or the dripping blood of the Muslim babies she was eating at the time?

The blog post and comment were posted earlier this evening, and there's a new post at top (excoriating Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio). No one seems to object to this blood libel. In fact, looking at post after post after post of Booman Tribune, it's practically one long hit list against conservatives and Republicans. There is a lot of hatred there, and these are people who are already in power.

Blood libel accusations are a central manifestation of historical anti-Semitism. BooMan's deliberately vague remarks about how he "could accuse" people like Pamela Geller of "committing acts of bestiality, ritual Satanism, and drinking the blood of gentile babies" are drawn right out the ancient books of eliminationist Jew-hatred. Just to imply such abominations among conservatives is pretty sick. To make them in the context of attacking a prominent Jewish conservative woman and self-proclaimed anti-jihad blogger leaves little room for evasion. And the comments at the post simply seal the deal.

It was sickening reading this entry. And BooMan is not just a 9th tier blogger, unread and insignificant. RealClearPolitics links frequently to BooMan Tribune and the blog appears well respected around the left-wing 'sphere. That's because this is just how these folks roll. Meanwhile, the conservative-right is constantly defending itself against bogus allegations of racism. This reminds me of two key points raised about the progressive-left in Melanie Phillips' new book, The World Turned Upside Down, both of which are illustrated by BooMan: (1) anti-intellectualism and (2) Jew-hatred. And again, while this is just one case, such episodes are quite frequent and regularly renounced among conservative blogs such as NewsReal. But hopefully this kind of leftist blood libel and hatred will start getting more attention among MSM outlets. Even there it's possible to cross the red line. And BooMan's achieved that.

Janet 'The System Worked' Napolitano on Aviation Security at Foreign Affairs!!

Yep. Check it out, "Securing the Skies: A Global Push for Aviation Security":

Since its emergence in the waning days of World War II, the international civil aviation system has served as an engine of progress and prosperity -- both in the United States and in many nations around the world ....

But the international aviation system has its weak links, as illustrated by the attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound flight on December 25, 2009.

Although that incident involved a U.S. plane flying into a U.S. city, it was an international terror plot that endangered individuals from at least 17 foreign countries. The alleged attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was a Nigerian citizen educated in the United Kingdom. He received training in terrorist tactics in Yemen, purchased his ticket in Ghana, and flew from Nigeria to Amsterdam before departing for Detroit. In other words, the Christmas Day plot exploited the global aviation network -- and it underscored the reality that, despite decades of advances in screening and significant reforms following 9/11, the network still faces vulnerabilities.

Aviation security, much like other international security challenges, blurs the line between foreign and domestic. Because every airport offers a potential entry point into the global system, every nation faces the threat from gaps in aviation security throughout the world.

The international dimensions of the attempted terrorist attack on December 25 brought new urgency to the need for an international reform agenda. And over the last six months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has worked with international partners on an unprecedented campaign to strengthen the international aviation system against the evolving threats posed by terrorism.

More at the link.

Kinda funny too, how most of the rest of it attempts to assuage fears of invasion of privacy. Border invasion's not that big of a deal, though, it turns out. I guess that deemphasis helps with the unprecedented "international" effort the Obama clowns are putting out to handle all those "evolving threats to terrorism." (Clue to Janet: Those evolving threats are evolving right over our Southern border as I write this, although publishing at CFA looks good for global elite consumption, yo!).

RELATED: "Terrorist Threat On Border With Mexico."

PHOTOSHOP CREDIT: Another Black Conservative.

Stand For Borders! Stand With Arizona! Stand Against Communists! — Phoenix, July 31, 2010

I've got a couple of reports coming in from the latest Stand With Arizona event over the weekend.

Van Helsing at Moonbattery was on the scene, and here's a couple of shots from his blog post:

More at the link.

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Also, my good friend Nicole in Phoenix gave me the heads up at my Facebook profile. Some great pics from her album, and she writes: "A peaceful rally. The racist revolutionary communist party bused in and attempting to cause trouble."

Ha! I don't recall bumping into folks from revcom.us (Revolution Online) on May 29th, although the message is pretty familiar. Yet another reconquista photo album the MSM won't show you:

Christiane Amanpour (Tanks?) in Debut at ABC's 'This Week'

Folks are wiggin' over Christian Amanpour's debut as host at "This Week." I've commented on this a couple of times now, in March when Amanpour was announced as the new anchor and over the weekend as well. I doubt she'll have problems. She's an experienced journalist and it's not like ABC News is hostile to lefties. She'd have to flop numerous times before she'd get the boot. It's too bad though, since Jake Tapper was totally cool in the seat. He seemed like a good fit and was clearly pegged into the happenings with new media, blogs, etc.

In any case, Eric Boehlert can scream until he's blue in the face. The JournoList scandal pulled back the curtains on our corrupt lefty press for good. What more could they ask for? (Well, net neutrality comes to mind, but we'll save that for later.)

That said, how'd the show go itself? I'll post Speaker Pelosi's clip here (more at ABC's home), where she indicates that she's ready to "turn out the lights" on the Afghan deployment, and is bummed out that the public's not there yet:

Remember, this is the face of today's Democratic Party, whose leaders would have given up on World War II in 1942. Disgraceful.

Lady Gaga Slams Arizona's SB 1070 During Monster Ball Performance in Phoenix

She's a freak, what can I say? I still trip on her fashion and outrageousness, but at this point she's totally FUBAR on politics.

At Rolling Stone, "Lady Gaga Protests Arizona Immigration Law in Phoenix":

Lady Gaga loudly contested Arizona's controversial new immigration law SB 1070 during her Monster Ball tour stop in Phoenix Saturday night. With "Stop SB 1070" written prominently on her left forearm, Gaga told the approving crowd, "Tonight, I want you to reject any person or any thing or any law that has made you feel like you don't belong. I got a phone call from a couple really big rock and rollers, big pop stars, big rappers, and they said, 'We'd like you to boycott Arizona because of SB 1070.' And I said, 'Do you really think that us dumb fucking pop stars are going to collapse the economy of Arizona?'"

Instead of avoiding the state, Lady Gaga said she wanted to take the fight straight to the heart of Arizona. "I'll tell you what we have to do about SB 1070: We have to be active," she said. "We have to protest... I will not cancel my show. I will yell and I will scream louder and I will hold you, and we will hold each other, and we will peaceably protest this state. Because if it wasn't for all you immigrants, this country wouldn't have shit."

Related: At The Other McCain, "Stupid Things Lady Gaga Says."

Billy Idol Blasted for 'Selling Out'

One of the biggest criticisms of Billy Idol is that he sold out his punk roots for fame and glamour. And while even his earliest music wasn't particularly hard core, once Gen X broke up Idol became a pop star and separated from the toiling punk masses of the club scenes. I'm just recalling off hand here, but I found a post last night that captures that kinda buzz:

To, to those of us who were already punk rockers, Billy was a difficult subject to tackle. We could all agree that Rebel Yell, Eyes Without a Face and all that shit sucked. Billy was a very blatant case of “selling out”. But some of us, if we were honest with oursleves [sic], thought the White Wedding video was pretty cool and even though we thought Billy Idol was a tool, it was hard not to love the early Generation X tracks. I heard the band the first time on Burning Ambitions which as long time readers know, was my introduction to punk, playing the A-Side of this single and it stood equally alongside other class of 77′ acts like Wire, ATV and X- Ray Spex. Your Generation is like a glam version of The Ramones which is probably exactly what they were going for. It is an amazingly cool punk rock track and the B-Side is no slouch either. It’s all freakin’ cotton candy for the ears.

Actually, I have no need to prove how punk I am by dissing Idol's later tracks. By the early '80s it had been two or three years of non-stop gigs, seeing every band under the sun, U.S. and U.K. A couple of buddies started successful outfits of their own, and my best friend had shifted to rockabilly, at one point opening for acts like Stevie Ray Vaughn. In L.A. you just kinda went with the flow. Idol was cool because we liked punkers who made it big. Sure, not "selling out" is authentic, but even John Lydon cultivated his "public image" (and has more recently become a product pitchman). Besides, Steve Jones cut a few tracks on "Gen X," so you just get the real feel of what it was like back then even when Idol was going disco. Fun stuff.

Sarah Palin on 'Fox News Sunday'

She's lookin' good:

And don't forget about Palin's new book: America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag.

Due out in November.

'We Have Not Passed On What It Means to Be American to This Generation'

I'm just now seeing this clip, and it's a masterpiece. Get a cup of coffee and listen to Dennis Prager expound on America's exceptionalism. November's elections are the most important in a lifetime, which sounds like a cliche, but Prager believes it. It's a choice of direction in moral values. Our president sees America as no better than any other country in the world, and the Democratic Party is the party of acquiescence to evil:

RELATED: At The Blog Prof, "Video of Bill Kristol: These Democrats 'Would Have Given Up on WWII in 1942'."

Oakland Pot Factory Sham is Shame of a Nation

After the budget and jobs, drug decriminalization's likely the most important issue on the ballot in November's elections, and Oakland's at the forefront of the fight for sanity. (Note here that I'm always amused at JBW's childish arguments about getting the "nanny state" out of our lives, even more hilarious as he's down with Obama's uber-nanny nationalized socialism in every other area of the economy — but more on that later.) It turns out LAT has a piece on the "Walmartization" of Oakland's "medical" marijuana industry, and get a load out of that picture at the screencap. Looks like a bunch brothas from de 'hood be cruisin' down for some phat sweet-stick smokas, yo!

It's a scam, obviously. See Oakland Tribune columnist Tammerlin Drummond's piece from yesterday, "Time for an honest debate about marijuana":

The whole notion of marijuana at dispensaries being sold for strictly "medical" purposes has long been a sham.

True, there are many seriously ill people who benefit from smoking marijuana. A friend who passed away from brain cancer five years ago smoked the drug to help boost his appetite after chemo treatments made him nauseous.

He was an eligible candidate for a medical marijuana card.

Yet it's also true that pretty much anyone and their mother can qualify for a medical marijuana prescription in California.

You can get a medical card if you have insomnia or mood swings. Who doesn't?

There are so many conditions that make you eligible, a de facto state of legalization pretty much already exists.

For those who don't want to go through the motions of obtaining a card, there are plenty of "medical" growers with flourishing pot-sale businesses catering to recreational uses on the side.

Those who support legalization say that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol.

They say it's unfair to criminalize pot while allowing the legal sale of booze.

Prop. 19 supporters argue that both marijuana and alcohol should be regulated and taxed.

California NAACP President Alice Huffman came out in support of the measure. She said legalizing marijuana for recreational use would reduce the number of young black men in jail for marijuana-related offenses. Out of some 1,500 people in California prisons on marijuana charges, half are black.

Yet judging from the firestorm that Huffman's comments have created, there is a huge gulf between those who believe Prop. 19 will lead to more widespread use of marijuana and those who argue that the war on drugs has been a costly failure.

A coalition of black pastors is actively campaigning against Prop. 19.

They aren't moved by the argument that it would reduce the numbers of black men disproportionately incarcerated on marijuana possession charges.

They see marijuana as a scourge in their communities, an addictive substance that often leads to harder drug use. Sacramento pastor Ron Allen says he was on crack cocaine for 11 years. He said marijuana started him on the road to drug addiction.

There is no question that marijuana is an addictive drug. I know people whose brains are totally fried from decades of marijuana abuse.

Yet I also know people who use marijuana recreationally.

They aren't any more likely to become addicts than those who drink responsibly are to develop cirrhosis.

It's time we had an open and honest debate on the issue before voters go to the polls in November.

Check out Pastor Ron Allen of Sacramento at the video — he suggests this is an ultimate tragedy in a city with murder rates among the highest in the nation. Unbelievable, really. But that's what the nihilist left wants in today's America.

American Power at American Patrol

I haven't talked to Glenn Spencer since I met him at the Phoenix Rising rally, so I'm not sure if he knows it's my blog. But American Power held the lead spot yesterday at the front page of American Patrol.

Bookmark it. American Patrol is your one-stop shop for all your breaking immigration news.

Blacks as Anti-Immigrant Racists?

Probably not the meme one might expect in a Capt. Fogg thread, but here it is:

Captain, I share your feelings on a very personal level. My home state of North Carolina had a 300% increase in its Hispanic population as of the 2000 census. I expect that when all the 2010 numbers are in there will be another substantial increase. As the Hispanic population has increased, so has the bigotry against them. What I was not prepared for and still cannot fathom is the strength of African-American prejudice against Hispanics. Far too many of my people make the same bigoted commentary and enact the same disgraceful racism against Hispanics that we ourselves have suffered. For years, there has been a coalition of Blacks and Hispanics working together to combat this divide so all is not hopeless but I feel shame and frustration that such bias even exists. Being oppressed does not teach one to refrain from becoming an oppressor. This is one of the most dificult [sic] truths that I have had to face. It fills me with despair. If those who have sufferd [sic] the lash are willing to become wielders of the lash, then what hope is there for humankind?

Blacks vote Democrat overwhelming, ergo, Democrats as "wielders of the lash"? Oh, the humanity!

I wonder if Fogg banned this lady yet? There are serious consequences for breaking the narrative over there (that poor soul is headed to the camps!!).

Assassination Politics: 'Russian Spy' Anna Fermanova Busted for High-Tech Arms Smuggling

Anna Fermanova, a Russian immigrant cosmetologist, was arrested last week for "attempting to smuggle high-tech night vision scopes from the United States to Russia."

See, "A young Russian beautician, Anna Fermanova, has been arrested in Texas as part of the American investigation into suspected foreign spies, it has emerged." (HAT TIP: GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD.) See also, "Anna Fermanova’s high-tech scopes are used for assassination, say experts."

Video games train the kids for war.
Army chic in high-fashion stores.
Law and order's done their job.
Prisons filled while the rich still rob.
Assassination politics.
Violence rules within' our nation's midst.
Well ignorance is their power tool.
You'll only know what they want you to know.
The television cannot lie.
Controlling media with smokescreen eyes.
Nuclear politicians picture show.
The acting's lousy but the blind don't know.
They scare us all with threats of war.
So we forget just how bad things are.
You taste the fear when you're all alone.
They gonna git'cha when you're on your own.
The silence of conspiracy.
Slaughtered on the altar of apathy.
You gotta wake up from your sleep.
'Cause meek inherits earth...six feet deep.
Open your eyes see the lies right in front of ya.
Open your eyes.....

"Open Your Eyes" (The Lords of the New Church:).

Undo It

Care of Amusing Bunni's Musings:

That's Rule 5 material, by the way. Gotta keep up with the linkage!

Burkas in Canada

Ezra Levant, at the Toronto Sun, "Time to face facts on burkas":

Canada’s misguided experiment with multiculturalism pretends that all cultural ideas are equal, and Canadian values, such as the equality of men and women, are no better than foreign values like the subjugation of women.

Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, enacted in 1982 when our Muslim population was tiny, is contradictory.

Section 27 of the Charter calls for “the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians.”

But Section 28 says that rights “are guaranteed equally to male and female persons.”

Well, which is it? “Enhancing” Saudi values? Or guaranteeing women’s equality?

Because you can’t have both.

Margaret Atwood published her sci-fi novel The Handmaid’s Tale, about America being taken over by a Christian theocracy that treats women as sexual property, 25 years ago.

It has become trite to watch cultural liberals like Atwood bravely attack imaginary discrimination, while staying silent on real discrimination.

The Handmaid’s Tale won Atwood the Governor General’s Award for fiction. A book about the subjugation of women in radical Islam would win Atwood a death threat.

Atwood loves posing as a feminist at champagne receptions in her honour. But she’ll leave the heavy lifting to people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

She’s the Somali refugee who wrote and narrated a movie called Submission, about the place of women in radical Islam.

The film’s producer, Theo Van Gogh, was murdered for it, but a note pinned with a knife into his body referred primarily to Hirsi Ali, who has had to live under around-the-clock security ever since.

That’s all a bit too real for Atwood, and is the reason why other feminists like the once-noisy Judy Rebick are so meek and gentle with the real butchers of women’s rights.

So, should the burka be banned?

It’s anathema for a free country like Canada to tell citizens how to dress.

The same liberty that allows the rest of us to dress as we like is the liberty that allows a woman to hide her face.

But what about in a bank?

Should masked women, Muslim or not, be allowed into a bank? If that’s okay, how about a man in a ski mask?

How about testifying in court?

Who else can hide their eyes and facial expressions while condemning an accused or swearing to their own innocence?

And why stop at witnesses — what about judges or police officers in a burka?

What about ID cards like a driver’s licence?

What point is an ID card if it doesn’t actually ID you?

Or, you could board a plane, completely covered!

Billy Idol on Twitter

Actually, it's Billy Morrison, who joined the tour in March, who's tweeting:

I'm especially excited about this one. I saw the announcements for Idol's Hollywood Palladium gig months ago, but didn't seriously consider it. But with the Pechanga date, it all came together. My wife was in high school when "Rebel Yell" came out. By that time I'd seen Idol in concert a couple of times. Weird. Check back for updates. I'm having a fun reliving some my youth here, Gen X style.

Atlas Shrugged, Behind the Scenes

Via Instapundit:

Grant Bowler is new to me, since I'm not a "Lost" fan, or whatever. And that's better. I'd hate to have Brad Pitt star (for example) and then while watching the movie have flashbacks to "Fight Club" or "Seven." Basically, it makes for a clean slate with a fresh star.

RELATED: "Cameras Roll on 'Atlas'."

Michael Totten on BDS Israel

Chilling:

You may have heard about the Palestinian BDS movement. The letters in their acronym stand for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction. They really ought to add another D for Destroy. Their goal—and they aren’t shy about saying so publicly even in English—isn’t peace between Israelis and Palestinians, which is what all civilized people should want, but the end of Israel.

Take a look at the video and see for yourself.

HAT TIP: Instapundit.