Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc, Nov 2005

1. Nominations. It is time to st art putting some significant pressure on Arlen Specter ( RINO, PA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to st art moving Bush’s judicial nominees out of his committee. From the Judiciary Committee web page, data from August, there are 44 total vacancies on the federal bench, about 5% of the total judges. 18 of those vacancies constitute judicial emergencies. President Bush currently has 14 nominees sitting in committee awaiting hearings. He has not nominated judges for 10 of those vacancies. Specter, the infamous Gang of 14, and Chuck Schumer’s gang of obstructionists need to st art getting significant pressure on them to confirm all nominees. Specter in p articular is outrageous in his conduct, as Bush supported him over a far more conservative candidate for US Senator in the Republican primaries in 2004. Specter was in some real trouble last year and owes Bush a real debt – to be paid in performance of his duties as Chairman. He needs to get off the dime immediately. He did not show any real interest in moving Samuel Alito’s SCOTUS nomination, letting it languish over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays for nearly two months. Should the democrat leftists, Gang of 14, and Senate RINOs successfully continue to delay hearings on the 14 nominees awaiting hearings, perhaps it is time for the President to st art wholesale recess appointments of his nominees. They will serve for 2006 and the President can do another mass recess appointment in January 2007 to cover the period from 2007 – 2009. If the leftists want to fully politicize the federal bench by stopping all nominations and play scorched e arth with the nomination and hearings process in the senate, lets play along and move all our guys into office on day one of the first congressional holiday at the beginning of each presidential term in office. Use all the tools, sm artly, aggressively and bluntly.

2. Flu. Now that the hurricane season is over and there are no more missing blonds on Aruba to cover incessantly, the cable shows and the (formerly) mainstream media are st arting to focus on the expected (anticipated?) Avian Flu outbreak. They have been loudly hyping the potential for a reprise of the deadly Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, killing between 50-70 million people between 1918-1919. Of course, medical care is light years ahead of what it was then, not only in the US, but in most developed nations, so the death toll should be significantly less than it was nearly a century ago. However, I do want to contrast the fear of a flu pandemic that has the potential to kill millions with another pandemic that is also killing over a million people every single years, with most of them in the very poorest nations. And we here in the US are singularly responsible for that pandemic and have done nothing for over 30 years to stop it. The disease: Malaria. The cause: the ban on production and use of DDT brought into place in 1972 by the first EPA Administrator, William Ruckleshaus. At the time of the ban on DDT, Malaria was almost eradicated worldwide, with deaths under a few thousands yearly. DDT was used to kill Malaria-bearing mosquitoes and it worked well. When the ban went into place, the population of mosquitoes exploded and so did the yearly number of dead via the disease, today over 1.5 million yearly. Today according to Steven Miloy’s junkscience.com, over 90 million have died since the ban went into place, and nobody – especially the media, the leftists and the watermelon greens - seems to care a lot. So I won’t get real interested in the hype over the Avian Flu until the number of dead st arts approaching that 90 million number. Human life is important, and we ought to take all reasonable steps to ensure it continues and is cherished – even if that means manufacturing DDT and using it worldwide again.

3. Murtha. Captain Ed at Captain’s Qu arters posted p art of a Washington Post puff piece on the democrat’s newest poster boy for their anti-war movement, John Murtha (D, PA). If you read past the first three paragraphs, you find out that Murtha’s real record is only to support military action until the point when the first casualties st art showing up on TV, at which point he calls for immediate pullout. Murtha’s bid claim to fame was an early call to bug out of Somalia in November 1993. Murtha called for precisely the sort of action we ultimately executed; precisely the sort of spineless running for cover that convinced bin Laden and Al Qaida that we could not take a punch as a nation; and not to fight a long war with a very committed enemy such as Al Qaida and the Islamists. Murtha literally helped make up bin Laden’s mind for him that we were week and soft in 1993. And now he wants to do it again a decade and 3,000 dead Americans in a single attack on our soil later. Captain’s Qu arters describes Murtha as “… an isolationist that has never believed in a forward strategy against terror or anything else.” He is not a hawk. And he has not changed his mind on the use of American forces overseas in over a decade. He is doing what he always has been doing. Limbaugh Tues believes that the Murtha speech and resulting media fawning was a political stunt cooked up by Murtha and Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) to grab a few headlines. He may be right.

4. Woodward. Washington Post reporter extraordinaire Bob Woodward threw a hand grenade in the middle of the Fitzgerald investigation of the Valerie Plame leak. He also put the indictment of Scooter Libby at risk, perhaps even destroying it completely. Woodward had knowledge of Plame’s position at the CIA before Fitzgerald claims Libby told another reporter of it. Woodward watched the whole investigation unfold for two solid years before coming forward. His source, believed to be a former Administration official (some are pointing to Richard Armitage), got really concerned following the indictment and went to the prosecutor with additional information. Woodward treats the Plame information he was told as gossip, common in DC, rather than an attempt to exact political retribution by the administration against Wilson and Plame for Wilson’s anti-war lies and slander after his trip to Niger for the CIA. Joseph DeGenova made the rounds on FNC a week ago and said that the Woodward revelation undercuts the central fact of the case against Libby, that he was the first to know about Plame and tell a reporter. Under Justice Dep artment rules, DeGenova believes that Fitzgerald must dismiss the indictment immediately. So far, he has not. He has even gone so far as to try to convene a new Grand Jury to continue the investigation. On the other hand, the Libby defense team is in the process of setting up a defense that will put a large number of print and broadcast reporters under oath and ask them when they knew that Plame was CIA and then who they had heard it from. At this point, it appears that Fitzgerald’s investigation was fatally flawed from the beginning, and that he did not even make a cursory investigation of rumors running rampant among DC area reporters. He is either incompetent or a political hack. He may regret indicting Libby. The reporters that demanded the investigation are going to regret making that demand a lot.

5. Earle. Travis County Prosecutor Ronnie Earle (D) is now having to defend himself against charges of prosecutorial misconduct in the runup to his indictments of Tom DeLay (R, TX). DeLay’s defense team wants to subpoena members of the three Grand Juries convened over the weekend that DeLay was initially indicted and examine legal procedures and process. They will likely subpoena the Grand Jury Foreman who made the rounds of leftist talk shows following the second indictment claiming that he was going to indict regardless of evidence presented based on what he had seen on TV before the Grand Jury convened. We will see if justice can prevail in Travis County, Texas. Limbaugh, Tues.

6. UN. The UN Security Council passed its first ever condemnation of anti-Israeli terrorism by Hezbollah last week. The Security Council slammed the Iranian-backed terrorists for acts of hatred against Israel. When asked why the Security Council after all these years had finally condemned Hezbollah, the unnamed UN official had a one word answer: Bolton. Little Green Footballs, Tues.

1. Murtha. John Murtha (D, PA) reprised his year-old call for Americans to immediately withdraw all forces from Iraq early last week. The (formerly) mainstream media immediately held him up as a paragon of military support from democrats in the House, as he is a retired Marine Corps Reserve Colonel and demanded that he be immune from all criticism because he is a retiree – essentially the same argument they tried to use last year with the French-looking junior senator from MA, John Kerry (D). The call for immediate “redeployment” came close on the heels of the Senate’s call for periodic updates on the war plan from the WH in 2006. The action of these elected cowards fulfils Bin Laden’s prediction that America indeed does not have the stomach to hang in and slug out a war over a long period of time with people who delight in bloodying their noses. Their actions give aid and comfort to the enemy at precisely the point when it all seems hopeless for them because of their losses on the battlefield and pubic relations disasters like Zarqawi’s suicide bombing of the hotels in Annan Jordan. Al Jazeera and the Iranian president both met Murtha’s call to withdraw American troops with great fanfare and glowing support – as you would expect them to. Al Jazeera rebroadcast Murtha’s statement for days following it. Reaction of the media, leftist anti-war activists and their lackeys on the cable channels was near unbridled joy. Reaction from the WH and the general public, already cranky by the actions in the senate was significantly less supportive, as the phone lines, e-mails, fax machines, talk shows and blogs lit up nicely in response. The WH fired back with great vigor and after the first couple of days of public argument congressional democrats st arted running for the tall grass on the issue. House Republicans finally showed a backbone and called the democrats’ bluff with a resolution to withdraw from Iraq immediately. J.D. Hayworth, (R, AZ) on Laura Ingraham took credit for the idea. It was debated Friday on the floor of the House, in a scene that should provide valuable video footage for campaign ads against anti-war democrats for years. The democrats were screaming bloody murder over the notion that they actually should be forced to get up in public and put their votes where their mouths are. Final vote was 403-3 against pulling out of Iraq. All three in favor of pulling out were democrats. Another nine democrats voted “present.” There will be more about Murtha in the weeks to come, I expect.

2. Judges. South Dakota citizens are gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that will allow people who think their rights were violated by activist decisions by state judges to sue them for damages or get them charged with criminal offenses. The Anchorage Daily News article (AP) last Tuesday 11/15 said that judges will be stripped of their immunity in cases where they deliberately violate the law, deliberately violate the constitution or deliberately disregard facts of the case. The backers of the initiative are quoted as saying that there have not been any of these sort of egregious violations of the law by sitting state judges, but are bringing the initiative in response to outrageous court decisions at the state and federal level in recent years. They point to Kelo as one such example. Of course all the usual suspects from the judiciary and South Dakota legal community are speaking out strongly in opposition to the ballot initiative, citing the assault on judicial independence and the possibility that prisoners will do nothing except file civil and criminal complaints against the judges should this pass. The legal community – p articularly the trial lawyers and sitting judges deserve this reaction, for they have thumbed their noses at the law, at the constitution, at the facts, and at their roles in society for decades. Did they not expect that someone was going to get a belly full and stand up to do something about it ? Good luck to the South Dakota Judicial Accountability group. I expect them to gather sufficient signatures and get the initiative on the ballot . I then expect it to get thrown out in court at which time all hell is going to break loose in SD. Let the good times roll.

3. Stevens v WA. One of the real fun contact sports to watch is payback to anti-ANWR US Senators by Ted Stevens (R, AK). Stevens was enraged by his cohorts in pork going after his bridges while escaping with their pork untouched. He has also been fighting to open ANWR for oil development since the lame duck congress under Jimmy C arter locked it up with the ANLICA legislation passed in December 1980. One of the promises he extracted during the deliberations in 1980 was from Henry (Scoop) Jackson (D, WA), that he would support oil development. Unfortunately, 25-year old promises from deceased democrats don’t hold much weight with the current WA congressional delegation no matter how much Stevens believes promises made ought to be ought to be promises kept. So Stevens has st arted playing in their backyard via tweaking legislation restricting operations at BP’s Cherry Point refinery in Puget Sound. Stevens is going to remove limits on dock space at the refinery that limits what can be shipped elsewhere. Given that the vast majority of oil processed at Cherry Point comes from Prudhoe Bay, that Senators Murray and Cantwell (both D, WA) have been fighting oil exploration from ANWR for years, and finally that both have gleefully fought his bridge projects while protecting their own pork, Stevens fells well justified “fixing” this problem. Now I don’t p articularly agree with any of the rationale, but do believe that actions ought to have consequences, and it is long past time for the Alaska congressional delegation to st art removing large chunks of flesh from those who live outside of Alaska yet feel justified for whatever reason to muck around within Alaska. Go for it, Ted. Light ‘em up.

4. Stevens. Interesting political dynamic has been in play up here for the last six months or so. After over 30 years in the Senate, Ted Stevens (R, AK) has been pretty much off limits from criticism by the local media, leftist politicians, and their democrat supporters. The left pretty much stayed away because Stevens bought home the money and was pro-choice. Conservatives pretty much left him alone because he strongly advocated for the state of Alaska, was strongly pro-military, voted to confirm the judges, and was generally the most conservative candidate on the ballot at general election time. All that has changed over the last six months or so, as the Anchorage Daily News and Channel 2 have st arted going after both Stevens himself and his son in a variety of exposes over their financial dealings, carefully crafted legislation, and a variety of sweethe art business deals. So far, there have been several formal complaints made and a couple civil trials, but neither Stevens have been convicted of anything. Personally, I don’t think neither one of them are p articularly dirty. But I sure do find it fascinating how the kid-glove treatment by the leftist media here in Alaska has ended for both politicians. They are now getting treated like conservatives. This will be a most interesting year to come.

5. Payraise Repealed. Hugh Hewitt last Thursday carried a story about the PA legislature repealing a wildly unpopular payraise. The vote in the State Senate was 50-0 to repeal; 197-1 in the State House to repeal; and Governor Ed Rendell (D) signed the legislation immediately upon passage. This self-serving payraise triggered a taxpayers revolt in blue-state PA, with white-hot anti-government rhetoric in local blogs and talk radio. It took them only four months to get the legislature to repeal it. Congratulations. Hewitt then goes on to wonder if the same sort of thing is st arting to take place against the Republican controlled congress – p articularly the senate. Hewitt points out the wildly unpopular McCain anti-torture legislation; last week’s Warner amendment that came across as a “me too” response to democrat attempts to craft a pullout; failure to confirm Bush Judicial nominees to the appellate courts; hanging Samuel Alito out to dry for over 50 days; the attempt to nominate Harriet Miers; the lack of spending discipline; and the failure to extend tax cuts as reasons for the anger. He points to absolute cluelessness by Bill Frist (R, TN) who has announced his top legislative priority in 2006 is asbestos legislation, at a time where there is a SCOTUS nominee hung out to dry, a war going on and a potential avian flu epidemic hanging over us. Hewitt wonders if there may be an impending reverse-1994 with a blast from the right against moderate (leftist) weak-kneed Republican incumbents. He might be right, given the significant lag in fundraising for Republican senatorial campaigns so far this year.

1. ANWR. Leftist Republicans in the US House were feeling their oats midweek following their successful removal of ANWR drilling provisions from the omnibus budget resolution. Here’s the list of Soros-funded Republican leftists who oppose energy independence. The list was compiled by Michelle Malkin and comes from Hugh Hewitt’s blog. The number following each name is the winning percentage from the 2004 campaign. You might want to write them and thank them for $3/gallon gasoline, home heating oil and expensive natural gas throughout the upcoming winter yourself.

2. Rootkit. Sony digital media rolled out a new copy protection scheme on their music CDs a week or two ago. When you play the CD on your computer, it installs software onto your computer that hides itself and is supposed to keep you from making more than three copies of the CD. The download and installation are automatic and do not require you to agree to anything. Sony installs what hackers call a rootkit – essentially a virus that sits below the operating system on windows computers (it does not affect Mac or Linux users). Rootkits are tools used by the hacker community to invade and take over control of target computers. They are very difficult to detect and remove. Computer security companies like Computer Associates and Symantec have classified the Sony rootkit as a virus / worm / trojan and are writing tools to remove it from targeted computers. Microsoft is also writing a rootkit removal tool. Once this news hit, Sony offered a patch that will make the rootkit files visible. Unfortunately, you have to call Sony’s customer service to get instructions for removing the software. Additionally, given the level that the rootkit burrows in beneath the system files, including renaming them and hiding them, it is not all that clear at this time that Sony’s customer service will be able to successfully remove their unwelcome download. It is not al that clear that Sony will even cooperate in removing the unwanted software. As of this writing, Sony has stopped shipping the 20 or so titles copy protected and the lawyers are st arting to file lawsuits against Sony for installing unwanted software on home and office ocmputers.

3. Jordan. Al Qaida unleashed four suicide bombers on western hotels in Amman Jordan last week. Three blew themselves up. A fourth, the wife of one of the bombers, who were both higher-ups in Al Qaida’s Iraqi command structure, had a “wardrobe malfunction” and didn’t blow herself up. She was on Jordanian TV a few days later wearing the deactivated explosive vest confessing to her p art of the murders. The attacks were not so much related to the US in Iraq as they were to the split in Islam. Jordan is a flavor of Islam that is neither as radical nor proselytizing as their Wahabbist neighbors in Saudi Arabia. The Jordanian Hashemite model is the competing vision with the Islamist Wahhabis, and has been in competition for a couple hundred years. The Al Qaida wahhabists saw an opportunity to strike a blow against Jordan and perhaps open the door for a wahhabist takeover of Jordan. They cannot stand the thought of a wall of three nations – Israel, Jordan and Iraq standing between them and a wahhabist takeover of the entire Middle East. To their credit, the Jordanians didn’t like the attack a lot, responding with demonstrations against Al Qaida. Al Qaida responded by blaming the entire thing on the Americans. It is worth noting that if the Zarqawi group now has to use their leadership and family of leadership as suicide bombers, recruitment is not going all that well. Now if we can just hunt them all down and kill them before the gutless, spineless, simpering democrats force us to cut and run from Iraq.

4. Australia. The Aussies rolled up a terrorist cell a couple weeks ago with 17 arrests in Melbourne and Sidney. They found a bomb factory with sufficient materials for construction and operation of 15 bombs. Apparently they also captured all communications devices, laptops and contact information. Good show, Gentlemen.

5. Elections. Elections last week were mostly a wash for conservatives. Democrats retained their governorship in Virginia. The short form is that the Republican ran one of the more idiotic campaigns in recent memory, choosing to concentrate on immigration and the death penalty rather than basic conservative issues such as cutting taxes, controlling spending and controlling the size, scope and intrusiveness of the state government. The tax cut issue would have been a real winner. Democrats retained their NJ governorship following a really expensive and personally nasty campaign on the p art of both candidates. Unfortunately John Corzine now gets to appoint his replacement to the US Senate. Perhaps it will be Bob Torricelli. MoveOn.org and leftist moneyman George Soros lost their effort to change election laws in Ohio when voters there defeated four ballot initiatives intended to open the door for rampant voting corruption statewide. The average vote against was 70%. In California, Arnold Schwarznegger floated four ballot initiatives intended to go after the teachers unions, other state unions, change the way redistricting is done and open up elections for both congressional and legislative seats. Unions statewide spent a bunch of money defeating all four of the ballot initiatives. Although he lost, the governor took by some estimates over $100 million of opposition spending out of the unions just in time for the 2006 elections in CA. Hopefully this one will end up being a pyrrhic victory for the left. Media reaction was predictable, with gleeful stories about the upcoming Republican crackup in the 2006 congressional elections. Leftist pundits and democrat talking heads were positively giddy. Republicans do have a bit of a problem here – and that small but growing problem may end up being sufficiently large to harm the majorities. It appears that a significant number of conservatives in Virginia and California simply stayed home. These are the people that the Bush campaign turned out to vote for him last year. The lesson to congressional Republicans is that they were elected because they were more conservative than their opponents. They were not elected because they were moderate, because they wanted to get along with democrats, because they were going to get nice things written about them by the Washington Post or the NY Times, nor were they elected because they had pretty faces. When they st art acting like committed conservatives in the House and in the Senate, their voters will turn out to reelect them. Whey they don’t, conservatives will stay home.

1. CIA Hit. The CIA weasels struck again against the Bush administration last week with the leak of information about a series of secret prisons in other nations used by the US to hold and interrogate Islamist prisoners. The agency made the leak to the Washington Post, which gleefully printed the story, leading to yet another blast of anti-administration, anti-war outrage. Where is the outrage against the CIA for this leak? You would think that after the Plame-Wilson affair, when the media demanded and got a special prosecutor to investigate the leak that outed Plame, the very same media would be standing on their collective soapboxes, demanding yet another special prosecutor to investigate this leak. Of course, it all depends whose ox gets gored with intentional CIA leaks. For when the leak harms a committed leftist like Plame or Wilson, that is a truly terrible thing and must be immediately investigated and punished. When it harms the war effort; when it harms the Bush administration; when it embarrasses the Pentagon, the leak is perfectly acceptable to the media because the people have a right to know what their government is up to. The weasels in the CIA are out of control. Time to st art sending them to jail – Leavenworth rather than Club Fed.

2. Backfire. Media and democrat glee over the indictment of Scooter Libby may be tempered or even extinguished completely as the defense presents its case in court. Last week, FNC contributor and intel expert MGen Paul Vallely noted that Plame was well known as a CIA agent by reporters for at least a year before Novak’s column. Joe Wilson himself told Vallely in FNC’s Green Room that she was working at the CIA on 2-3 separate occasions up to a year before the Novak column. I expect Libby to make the CIA weasels who are leaking to the media and the reporters that have carried the stories the issue in this trial, and demonstrate without a shadow of a doubt that Plame’s position with the CIA was common knowledge among those who report on the intel community for a year or two before the Novak column. I expect them to put Plame and Wilson both on the stand and interrogate them under oath. The days of the CIA weasels like Plame and Wilson doing their dirty work and slinking back under their respective rocks to hide are over.

3. Earle. Travis Country prosecutor Ronnie Earle (D) upped the ante in the DeLay conspiracy case last week. While he did, he demonstrated quite nicely that this is simply a political hit on DeLay in p articular and against Texas Republicans in general. DeLay’s lawyer made a motion that the presiding judge, an elected democrat who had donated the largest dollar amount of any sitting democrat judge in the state to democrat candidates, causes, and even MoveOn.org, removed from the case. The judge refused to recuse himself like he did in 1993 under the same request from Kay Bailey Hutchison (R, TX) in another Earle political hit, so the matter was bumped up a level to the district presiding judge, who happened to be an elected Republican. The senior judge removed the original judge. Earle countered with a demand that the senior judge recuse himself because he was a registered Republican. The senior judge did so, which bumped the issue of who presides over the trial will be held to the Texas Supreme Court. Earle had a gambit for this court also, demanding that the Chief Justice recuse himself also. No word yet on how that request will be viewed. Earle is clearly on a roll in his attempt to prosecute DeLay. Unfortunately he has tied into a guy who is not afraid of him; not afraid of a fight; a lot better politician than he is; and someone who understands that the battle will be won or lost out in the light of day, in front of the public by telling the truth. This battle is going to touch all p arts of the Texas Judiciary and criminal justice system. The wanabee leftist politicians now serving as judges and prosecutors won’t fare very well, I expect.

4. Ninth Circus. Two stories out of the Ninth Circus this week – one very good and the other really, really bad. The good news first: The House passed an amendment as p art of their omnibus budget bill that splits the Ninth Circus into two pieces, creating a new Twelfth Circuit. The Ninth will remain, but will only contain California, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. The new Twelfth will contain everything else including the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. President Bush will get to appoint every single judge to the new circuit. He will also get to appoint replacement judges to the Ninth Circuit should some of them transfer over to the new Circuit. This will change the entire legal game in the Western US, mostly for the better. The bad news story came out of a case over a sex survey given to elementary school kids in Palmdale, CA. The survey was given to a variety of elementary school kids by a lady who was not authorized to give the survey. It had all the expected intrusive and suggestive questions. Parents were rightfully outraged and took the school district to court. The ninth Circuit panel hearing the case, led by the infamous Stephen Reinhardt, found that parents did not have the right to exclusively control sexual information that their kids hear. Here’s the infamous pull quote from Reinhardt: “Parents have a right to inform their children when and as they wish on the subject of sex,'’ said Judge Stephen Reinhardt in the 3-0 ruling.”They have no constitutional right, however, to prevent a public school from providing its students with whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise.” Using this logic, the public schools have a constitutional right according to the Ninth Circus and Reinhardt to tell any student anything they want to tell them – all completely disconnected from the wishes and desires of their parents. Anyone else out there want to defend this sort of Big Government nonsense?

5. ANWR. The US Senate in two votes last week successfully attached a amendment opening the coastal plain of ANWR to the budget reconciliation bill coming out of the senate. Congratulations to all involved, p articularly to the Alaska delegation of Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski. If this budget is passed by the House, it will open a 2000 acre area with potentially as much yearly production as Saudi Arabia for exploration and production. The bill has now passed on to the House, where the House leadership is having a difficult time rounding up enough votes to pass it. Attaching the ANWR provision to the budget is a good strategy, as it bypasses completely the filibuster antics of anti-oil leftists in the US Senate. It only takes 51 votes to pass a budget. We will hope Speaker Hastert and former majority Leader DeLay have the clout to get this passed.

6. Jihad. France is now on fire, as thousands of young Jihadis boil out of the Muslim ghettos of France, burning, looting, destroying and killing their neighbors. As of this writing, they have burned well over 1000 autos, police stations, beat a 61-year old to death, and have spread their mayhem to over 300 towns nationwide. They are coordinating their actions via internet, IM and cell phone. The mayhem is spreading to other European nations with large Muslim populations. As of this writing, the French are capitulating, trying very hard not to brutally crack down on the lawlessness, and it only took them two weeks to get into action. The young Muslims involved, mostly second and third generation immigrants who have refused to integrate into French society, are in the process of setting up their own nation within the very nation that did the most that could be done to support Iraq and Afghanistan against American invasion. This is their thanks to the French. It only took Hitler 40 days to blast thru France with the Whermacht and get a surrender. How many days will it take the enemy within – sons, daughters and grandsons of Muslim immigrants who see themselves more Muslim than French – to do the same thing? Reporting of this Intifada by western media has been awful, with absolutely no mention of the rioters and attackers as young Muslims. France has a very big problem, one that will only be solved by spilling large quantities of blood – either French or Muslim thugs. It appears that the fight has shifted to Europe. I hope that they are up to it. I expect Italy, Eastern Europe, Great Britain and the Netherlands to “get it” and fight well. I am not so sure about Scandinavia, Germany, France, Spain or Belgium. I expect the counterattack to st art from Eastern Europe, Great Britain and Italy, first internally against the Islamists who have chosen to fight against people who have taken them in and given them a home and then beyond their borders. This is Phase II of World War III.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.

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