Wasilla Megillah

Bruce Bawer does something tres droll with Joe McGinness's hatchet job on Sarah Palin:

When I called the real-estate lady in Wasilla and explained what I needed, she breathed a deep sigh.

“I wish I could help you out, honey,” she said in a folksy, down-home voice. “I understand what you want to do, and I must say I’d love to see you do a tell-all takedown about that horrible woman’s day-to-day life. After all, she gave my brother-in-law herpes and poisoned my dog. I’d love to see her get what she deserves! But I’m afraid there’s absolutely nothing available.”

“Surely there must be something,” I said. “This is for an important cause. You know, the truth and stuff.”

“Believe me, I’m totally with you,” she replied, “and I wish I could help you out. Let’s face it, this is the woman who had all the books from our library taken down off the shelves, piled in a dumpster, and thrown in the ocean, and then had them replaced with old copies of People and Glamour and Field and Stream. This is the woman who used to take baby birds out of the nest outside her kitchen window, wrap them in duct tape, then crush them under the heels of her Manolo Blahniks while cackling gleefully. This is the woman who used to hang out behind the Gulf station downtown on Sunday mornings after church in a plum-colored latex body stocking and provide satisfaction, shall we say, to any truck driver who stopped to take a whizz on his way from Anchorage to Fairbanks. Or vice-versa. Not to put too fine a point on it, son, but she’s the devil incarnate and needs to be exposed — for the good of the world, the good of America, and the good of this poor, long-suffering little town! But I’m afraid there’s not a single empty unit remotely close to her house.”

I looked at the Google Maps image on my computer screen. “What about that little house next door to her?”

“Sorry, there’s a guy living there who’s doing a piece for the New York Times Magazine. Nice fella, though he was pretty upset when he found out that there weren’t any French restaurants in town, and for a couple of weeks there he had trouble wrapping his mind around the idea of drinking tap water. But he cheered up a mite when I told him all about how she used to hire black men to work in her yard, then pay them extra to let her take them into her garage and beat them with a stick while screaming racial epithets.”...

New Victim Group Rears Its Head--Adult Breast Milk Consumers

A sad, sad, tale, from the Toronto Star:

A father who launched a breast-milk diet and wrote about it online has pulled his blog after four days following a wave of negative reaction. 

The man, identified only as “Curtis,” became something of an Internet sensation after launching his blog, “Don’t have a cow, man,” where he and his wife were chronicling the progress of his experiment to see how long he their freezer full of breast milk could sustain him.  

But the couple quickly became online targets, fuelled by grossed-out gawkers and those proclaiming outrage that they didn’t instead donate the milk to another mother. The story swept across Twitter, as well as news and parenting websites, even though Curtis provided no full name or location to verify his existence. 

By Friday, the blog had been removed.

Breastfeeding advocate Emma Kwasnica said the response was “a shame” and reveals the distorted view that still prevails about breast milk and a mother’s right to choose what to do with it...

On second thought, this sound like one of those Internet hustles--like that young Syrian Lesbian (Syrbian?) blogger who turned out to be a 40-year-old British infidel guy.

It's the Batty/Scary Shia Eschatology, Stupid!

If you left out all the Allah and Mahdi crap, A-jad's speech, replete as it was with mentions of the "imperialist," "colonialist" and "hegemonistic," might have been mistaken for something uttered by, say, Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky. But put all the Allah and Mahdi stuff back in, and what have you got? Something the media at large hasn't a clue about, and has thus failed to report, says Joel C. Rosenberg in The Corner:

...Ahmadinejad isn’t hiding what he believes. He denied the Holocaust. He blasted the U.S. for bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. He blamed the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on the U.S. government. He insisted that his so-called messiah known as “Imam al-Mahdi” or the Twelfth Imam is coming soon. He insisted that Jesus Christ will come with the Mahdi to take over the world. He called for “the shared and collective management of the world.”

Consider this excerpt:

This movement is certainly on its rightful path of creation, ensuring a promising future for humanity. A future that will be built when humanity initiates to [tread] the path of the divine prophets and the righteous under the leadership of Imam al-Mahdi, the Ultimate Savior of mankind and the inheritor to all divine messengers and leaders and to the pure generation of our great Prophet. The creation of a supreme and ideal society with the arrival of a perfect human being who is a true and sincere lover of all human beings, is the guaranteed promise of Allah. He will come alongside with Jesus Christ to lead the freedom and justice lovers to eradicate tyranny and discrimination, and promote knowledge, peace, justice, freedom and love across the world. He will present to every single individual all the beauties of the world and all good things which bring happiness for humankind.

Though most world leaders do not appear to understand what Ahmadinejad is really saying, students of Shia Islamic eschatology, or end-times theology, do. The Iranian leader believes the end of the world as we have known it is increasingly close at hand. He believes the time for establishing an Islamic caliphate, or global government ruled by the Mahdi, is rapidly approaching. What’s more, he believes that the way to hasten the coming of the Twelfth Imam is to acquire nuclear weapons and use them to annihilate the United States, which he calls the “Great Satan,” and Israel, which he calls the “Little Satan.”

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu understands what Ahmadinejad means. So do some of his top military advisers. That’s why they believe Iran is in the eye of a gathering storm in the Middle East, and the chance of a major war is growing...

France's Veiled Threat

France's Nicolas Sarkozy won't have to face Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the election--DSK having crashed and burned and all. But he will have to face Kenza Drider, who looks like this:



It's great to see a Muslim woman taking advantage of the freedoms available in a Western nation. Too bad she's doing it in order to set back the cause of chicks and for the sake of religious repression.

A Big Oopsy for the "Human Rights" Mausoleum?

Looks like it. From the Winnipeg Sun (hat tip: Al the Fish):

WINNIPEG - Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights is using elevators from a company whose history includes weapons manufacturing for Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

And the interesting, if not potentially controversial, twist in the development of the national museum has prompted a Winnipeg human rights advocate to question whether its planners are sufficiently looking into the backgrounds of its contractors...

Museum spokeswoman Angela Cassie confirmed that the Canadian elevator branch of ThyssenKrupp - a conglomerate resulting from the 1999 merger of the Thyssen AG and Krupp steel companies - was selected for the project through a public tendering.

Cassie said that when concerns arise about "current" practices of contractors or suppliers "that might violate human rights," the museum has an external consultant review the firms.

In the case of the elevators, however, she said that might not have occurred...

FYI, you can read all about Krupp in this book.

Update: Lit'ler Hitler at the UN; big Hitler high-fived by a NDPer, the "human rights" mausoleum and, here, by a Wahhabi: it seems to be shaping up as an all-Hitler, all-the-time sort of day.

Can You Tell Me How to Get to 'Judenrein' Street? Why, Yes--You Take a Left Turn On Wilson

In light of what's going on at the UN, this event--Temple Sinai's three-day J Street extravaganza--seems particularly--egregiously--tone deaf, bone-headed and ill-timed.

"Quartet" to the Rescue!

A-jad giving his annual deranged Zionhass speech to the G.A.? Abbas bloviating away, demanding his "rights"?

No problemo. The ever-lovin' Quartet has a plan:

Diplomats at the United Nations are already looking to limit the fallout from the Palestinian statehood application.

The Security Council could delay action on Abbas' request, giving the mediating "Quartet" -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations — more time to craft a declaration that could coax the two sides back to the table.

Or maybe not:

But the Quartet, whose envoys met for several hours Thursday, may be unable to agree on a statement that could satisfy both Israel and the Palestinians.

Yeah, that is a bit of stumbling block. I know--maybe they can convince the Jews to disavow sovereigty. Aside from that, I can't think of anything that will fly with the Naqba crowd.

Reverse Racism Revealed in a Thousand Words (or Less)

A National Post letter to the editor claims that this photo is, well, revelatory:

Re: Photo with A Problem For Everyone, Armine Yalnizyan, Sept. 21.

What a perfect photo (shown below) to illustrate this column about income inequality. The beautiful young victim of the abusive husband droops artistically over the handwritten sign detailing her plight. She is seated on the steps of some grand institution probably a bank, while the young white man dressed in a business suit, shirt and silk tie strides cruelly past, completely ignoring her.

What an image.

Jean Lawrence L'Esperance, Ottawa.

A picture may indeed, as the old cliche goes, be worth a thousand words. But not here. How does Jean know that "the beautiful young victim of the abusive husband" is legit and isn't some scam artist (like, say, Toronto's infamous "shaky lady")? How does she know that the "young white man dressed in a business suit" has a tie made of silk, or that he's "cruel"? She knows nothing at all about him, save that he's wearing a suit and appears to be Caucasian. For all she knows, he could be on his way to work at an NGO that assists street people, or the starving in Africa.

We know nothing for certain about the people in the photo. From her letter, though, we do know a great deal about Jean. For one thing, she likes to make sweeping conclusions about people based on their skin colour. For another, she isn't too fond of capitalism and its "grand" (but heartless) institutions.

Mightn't we say that, in this case, a brief letter-to-the-ed is worth a thousand words--re the letter-writer and her (or his, if the "Jean" is French) prejudices?

Did Iran Free the American Hikers So One of Them Could Bad-Mouth America?

Maybe not. Maybe he's just suffering from a bad case of "Tehranholm" Syndrome.

Liberals Detect "Jew-Hate," Demand "Hater" Be Punished for His "Hatefulness"

None of Ontario's political parties had any comment about the fire-breathing Zionhass that was on display on the Ayatollah's Al Quds Day, celebrated with Hezbo flags and age-old blood libels on the hallowed grounds of Ontario's legislature; to opine on such an event would require both courage and savvy, neither of which are generally manifested by our province's milquetoasty, mealy-mouthed political class. (Have you heard even one of them criticize the public school mosqueteria? Of course not.) But some NDP putz utters the word "Nazi" in a podcast, and don't the hyper-sensitive antennae suddenly perk up, and doesn't it elicit much sturm und drang as the Liberals, mustering their highest dudgeon (which is pretty damned high), demand that the NDP leader (a "Naziism-minimizer," according to a Liberal spinmeister) axe the alleged "hater"?

The funny thing is that the podcasts do reveal the candidate to have it in for an all-too popular scapegoat--but not the one you think:

The NDP questioned the Liberal strategy of trying to paint their candidate as a Nazi defender with out-of-context quotes. But the Liberals continued highlighting more quotes from Mr. Marco’s podcast, though they didn't specify if they were suggesting they found them offensive, too:

• “I went to Catholic church. I was even an altar boy for a long period of time and I’m proud to say was never been molested once.”
• “I’m probably unabashedly atheist for the most part.”
• “If you choose to have your faith in God ... or you choose to have your faith in aliens from outer space, whatever, so be it. Just don’t cut me off while I’m driving, don’t try to take advantage of me and screw me over with some sort of bizarre sort of financial Ponzi scheme.”

One quote from Mr. Marco’s book-burning podcast rant the Liberals have not taken issue with is his last line, where he sets his sights on Canadian pop star Justin Bieber’s autobiography.

“If you want something to burn and feel good about it, burn Bieber’s book.”  

Burn the Biebs? Shame on you, Mr. Marco.  For that you should be canned.

A-jad's Nutty Speech'll 'Doolittle' to Advance His Cause

We've grown accustomed to his face,
We've seen him speak at the UN.
We've grown accustomed to his rants,
His crazy song and dance,
His frowns, his sneers,
We've seen them all for years,
Are second nature to us now.
As is the UN's Zionhass.
We could all cuss and scream about it
And how ludicrous it is
To give this git a forum to conduct his zany biz.
We've grown accustomed to his weird,
Accustomed to his words,
Accustomed to his face.

Update: Israeli student meets A-jad, gets delightful parting gift.

Update: Latma entertain you (with a parody of a Queen hit).