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Time For Soft Power In Iran

VDH makes the case that the recent kidnapping is a sign of weakness from the mullahcracy, a brazen attempt to get somebody, anybody, to bomb them. What to make of that?

Namely that the country’s leadership is in deep political trouble. The Iranian government is desperate to provoke the West to win back friends in the Islamic world, and to quell growing unrest at home. Subsidizing food and gas, providing billions for terrorists and building nukes all cost money at a time when the state-run Iranian economy is in shambles.

Gas prices are up, oil revenues are down, and the natives are restless. Let’s hope the collapse comes before Tel Aviv glows in the dark.

She should have floored it

A mom in a minivan got assaulted by a Critical Mass mob in San Francisco.

“It seemed like they were using their bikes as weapons,” Ferrando said. One of the bikers then threw his bike — shattering the rear window and terrifying the young girls inside.

All the while, Ferrando was screaming, “There are children in this car! There are children in this car!”

She had the presence of mind to dial 911 on her cell phone — and within minutes, the squad of motorcycle cops who were assigned to keep an eye on the ride descended on the scene.

Let’s all act surprised that the cops claim they can do nothing about this fine San Francisco traddition. Hell, even Oakland got some control over weekend cruising.

Note the mayor’s weasle-worded support for the mob. That tells the whole story.

As for reaction from City Hall, Mayor Gavin Newsom said such acts of violence — if true — “only serve to undermine the worthwhile message of Critical Mass, which is to raise the awareness of bike transportation issues.”

I like San Francisco. I really do. But the inmates are running the asylum.

Feel-good video OTD

Nice, if amazing, to see something like this on the MSM. Kudos to ABC for recognizing Bert Brady as their Person of the Week.

American Troops Terrorize Omar!

Over at Iraq The Model Omar tells of the terrifying ordeal of having American troops search his house.

Ah, you got wireless! I should bring my laptop too next time I come here, one of the soldiers joked.

The man helping Petraeus re-write the book

on counter-insurgency grew up reading Lawrence of Arabia.

When he was just 12, his father — a philosophy professor — gave him a copy of Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which he has carried ever since. “It’s fairly battered now!” he laughs. “I do believe we can learn a great deal from him.”

The fine line between clever and stupid

has been crossed in Burlington.

The mock terror attack involved two irate men armed with handguns who invaded the high school through the front door. They pretended to shoot several students in the hallway and then barricaded themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.

Two Burlington Township police detectives portrayed the gunmen. Investigators described them as members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the “New Crusaders” who don’t believe in separation of church and state. The mock gunmen went to the school seeking justice because the daughter of one had been expelled for praying before class.

Yeah. That’s the most likely source of a school attack by terrorists.

Jonestown Reminder

Mark your TV guide or set your Tivo: That Jonestown documentary airs on PBS April 9th.

Update:

If you’re setting your Tivo, it’ll be under American Experience.

Annoy the Goracle

Purchase a Carbon Debit.

Dems Try to Catch Up With Europe

Some folks can’t throw in the towel fast enough.

Kiss England Goodbye

The formerly great nation’s slide into subservient, self-denying dhimmitude seems all but complete. Some kidnapper with delusions of grandeur commits an act of war and they just take it. And now their schools are going to stop teaching certain parts of history so as not to “offend” the barbarians.

There most assuredly will not “always be an England”.

Update: Apparently only 7% of it remains.

Defining Despicable Down

Now CAIR is only going after “the racists“.

The only silver lining I see is that they’re squirming due to public pressure. And the more they do so, the more they reveal themselves for the worms they are.

Jabberwocky Bleg

I’ve heard tell of a version of Jabberwocky that uses Washington state place names. I can’t find it. Can you? If so, please leave a comment.

Thanks.

The UN would like to thank…

Here’s the sequel to the UN Watch video posted earlier.

Check out who gets thanked, and who doesn’t.

I Am John Doe

Michelle Malkin has posted the manifesto.

I may even have to buy a button.

CAIR loses one in Congress

In spite of having their very own congressman, the terrorist-supporting CAIR lost a vote in the House of Representatives.

Let the joyous news be spread. (Because the MSM won’t do it.)

Seattle: Building the Worker’s Paradise…

… one kid at a time.

The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown “their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys.” These assumptions “mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”

They claimed as their role shaping the children’s “social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity … from a perspective of social justice.”

So they first explored with the children the issue of ownership. Not all of the students shared the teachers’ anathema to private property ownership. “If I buy it, I own it,” one child is quoted saying. The teachers then explored with the students concepts of fairness, equity, power, and other issues over a period of several months.

At the end of that time, Legos returned to the classroom after the children agreed to several guiding principles framed by the teachers, including that “All structures are public structures” and “All structures will be standard sizes.”

You can be sure they think they’re being clever, intelligent and moral by talking that way. Talk about an inversion of values.

Any parent who, after learning of this, lets their kid stay in that school has abrogated his parenthood and committed malfeasance if not child abuse.

Bring on the Hillarycare!

Yes! We need Single-Payer Healthcare!

Just like in Canada!

UN fails to deny it’s a failure

This is jaw-dropping. The head of UN Watch spoke the truth to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, and all he gets from the corrupt president of the commission is the threat to have his remarks stricken from the record.

Note that he does not actually defend the UN against any of the charges. At least the UN creep knows he can’t do that. So consider it a tacit admission of serious moral inversion.

How Modern Liberals Think

If you have about 50 minutes, this is well worth a look.

I feel even better now about my decision to teach my daughter critical thinking. As I told her, I just know she’s not going to get it in school. And learning how to think is as basic and important as reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Free-Market Nanny State

Yes, I know it’s an oxymoron. But you can actually choose to pay your own money to buy an internet content filter, as American Airlines did. The result? You won’t have to see non-PC web sites, because some pinhead in Salt Lake has decreed them “pornography”.

I sent an email to the pinheads in Salt Lake asking if this outrage is really a feature of their software or, perhaps, someone at American Airlines got stoopy with local configuration. I encourage you to do the same.

Would you jump from a plane

strapped to a fifty-year-old parachute? To the Army, it’s a “proven system”. To the soldiers who use them, this upgrade has to come as welcome news.

The new parachutes address increased weight requirements and provide additional safety benefits. Beginning in 2008, all T-10 parachutes in the Army inventory for more than 50 years will be replaced with the Advanced Tactical Parachute System (ATPS) T-11. Although the T-10 is a proven system, today’s paratroopers face increased requirements beyond the T-10’s design.

I’m not ready to hit the ground at “only” 18 fps, let alone packing an extra 200 plus pounds of gear. Those Airborne guys may be crazy, but they’ve got my respect.

Legal Aid for CAIR Targets

Not only are there some real Muslim moderates, but some honest lawyers.

Really. No joke. Talk about a day brightener.

Ice, Ice, Baby

The Z machine has created Ice VII.

That’s very, very hot ice. Which is very, very cool.

Don’t swat that mosquito!

It has glowing eyes!

King David’s Surge

Time for encouraging news about the “surge”.

Are the policies paying off? “King David” as Petraeus is known from his previous tour of duty up near the Syrian border, is cautiously optimistic. “Less than half the al Qaeda leaders who were in Baghdad when this [surge] campaign began are still in the city,” he said. “They have fled or are being killed or captured. We are attriting them at a fearsome rate.”

Child Abuse

Charles was right.

There are no words.

Reprogramming Alert

This video interview a nice little list of some of the techniques which will be used against your kids – and you, if you are a “resister”, by the “educational” establishment.

Short version: If you don’t like the curriculum, don’t take their offer to be on the committee.

And now, a Public Service Announcement

It’s time to do something.

Indoctrinate U.

See the trailer here. Help them get distribution here.