Jews Act Just Like Muslims, Stoning, Burning, Beating In The Name Of Modesty

Another example of the idiocy of religion, this time courtesy of Jews in Israel. I hope this fall Americans are smart enough to vote any politician out of office who supports Israel. There is some sort of barbaric retardation that just oozes out of the Middle East and infects societies, it seems. It’s just too bad we can’t vaccinate against religion somehow.

Jews, Christians, Catholics, Muslims, Scientologists, Hindus, Buddhists…the whole lot of them, make this world so miserable to live in that any supposed Hell there might be would probably be a welcome relief just to get away from all their bullshit. The insanity of religious zealots never ceases to amaze me.

Somebody just nuke the Middle East and get it all over with already. The sooner all the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) are gone from this Earth, the sooner the human race will get to move on to something better.

I mean, I like a good fantasy novel and fairy tales myself. But I don’t run around beating women for walking with men, burning stores because the owner sells gadgets and I don’t stone people for wearing a red shirt because the book said you shouldn’t do those things. These are the kinds of idiots that would read Fahrenheit 451 and start burning books.

What is it that makes me different from those sorts of people—besides the obvious fact I use my brain and believe that others ought to be accorded the same freedoms, liberties, and rights as I? I know what makes me different…

I’m not trying to force others to live how I think they should live because some Jewish sky-god or his carpenter son or his bandit prophet told me to. I don’t take part in the mass hysteria called religion.

The Russian Threat To Georgia And Danger Of External Forces

A bomb blast in South Ossetia outside Russian military headquarters threatens to destabilize the region yet again. The Russian and South Ossetian authorities claim a car was confiscated in Georgian territory and then driven to the Russian headquarters by Russian forces, where it exploded.

First, let’s get out of the way the fact that if the car was indeed packed with explosives, an act of terrorism was planned by someone. Secondly, let’s get it out of the way that if the Russians confiscated the vehicle and drove it to their headquarters where it exploded they are incredibly incompetent. Thirdly, we have to ask why Russians confiscated a Georgian vehicle in the first place? Fourth, we have to ask why those Georgians (if they were in fact Georgians at all were in South Ossetia given the current situation? And then, we have to ask how they would have gotten past Russian and South Ossetian forces in the first place through the buffer zone and into South Ossetia where the car was allegedly confiscated?

It is hard to conceive that a car bomb would have gotten past a military checkpoint of any kind, even when manned by average front line soldiers. If it did, it displays gross incompetence and highlights vulnerabilities and points out weaknesses in the Russian military. It is also hard to conceive that any Georgians would have made it through such check-points without any explosives and found sympathizers and supplies to then arm the vehicle with explosives while in South Ossetia.

The Danger Involved

Now, the danger is that Russia will use this as an excuse to engage in further military action aimed at overthrowing the Georgian government or to weasel out of its cease-fire agreement and find an excuse to occupy Georgian territory longer or to reoccupy Georgian territory or to invade Georgia again. Why the car exploded and the circumstances around it need to be investigated by as many international agencies as possible, and they need to demand involvement RIGHT NOW, before time and political maneuvering allow this to become something it is not.

The underlying danger that is obvious, however, is a potential danger. And it is a danger more significant than most, and perhaps even more dangerous than Iran’s seeking nuclear weapons. What danger is that?

That Al Qaeda, another terrorist organization, some rogue state government or government agency—or perhaps Abkhazian or South Ossetian seperatists—will be able to easily exploit the tension of the region and the polar political alignment of the sides involved to create discord, panic and escalate tensions to the point of renewed and possibly wider-spread conflict in the Caucasus region. Any organization that would benefit from the resultant force on force and ideological clash between Russia and the West would see the opportunity of attacking Russian forces in South Ossetia or Abkhazai as very usable for their own ends.

Analysis: Who Would Benefit From Renewed Conflict In Georgia Or With Russia?

There is an incredibly long list of just whom might benefit from a renewed conflict, and the ways in which they might benefit may be incredibly obscured.

• Russia would benefit by posing a greater threat to the region, which would make dealing with Russia more favorably of greater importance to nations in the region—thus weakening Western influence and the perception of Western interests in or ability to protect the region. It would give Russia a stepping stone to other nations in the region, greater influence in the Black Sea region and the Middle East. It also puts them one step closer to being able to seize Armenia and Azerbaijan, and once again pursuing what has been a long-standing Russian military and geo-political goal: direct access to the oil fields of the Middle East and more warm water ports. Given Russian and Iranian cooperation, this poses a very serious and somewhat understated danger to the Middle East and the global balance of power because it is in the interests of both Russia and Iran to partner together against Western in general and US influence in particular. Seizing Georgia would also put Russia on the doorstep of Turkey which has been flirting with Russia much to the chagrin of the US, EU, and NATO. A nightmare scenario that follows from a Russian occupied and controlled Georgia is Turkey deciding to stamp out all Kurdish resistance in the Kurdish regions of their country by force, and not feeling the need to be restrained by Western/NATO influence because the Russians will offer support, arms, and perhaps be willing to send troops to help stamp out the threat of “terrorists” which the West itself has labeled the Kurdish separatist groups in order to win the favor of a Turkish government that has been seeking entrance into NATO and the EU. This would inflame Kurds everywhere, especially in Iraq, and any action by Iraqi Kurds would destabilize Iraq and possibly give both Turkey and Iraq cause to invade it in the future—again, under the auspices of eliminating a terrorist threat. This scenario is not at all improbable, given the Russian propensity recently to occupy and not relinquish territory as it rides a wave of national military, political and economic resurgence.
• South Ossetia would benefit by having a weakened Georgia on its border or seeing the Georgian government overthrown by invading Russians and the subsequent occupation of Georgia by the Russians. They would also benefit economically by a weakened Georgia. They would also be able to inflict pain and suffering on the Georgians whom they have had long-standing differences—basically, getting some payback.
• Abkhazia would benefit the same way South Ossetia would.
• Al Qaeda would benefit greatly from such a climate of East/West conflict which would relieve pressures being exerted on their organization, create a climate where the movement of illicit arms, drugs and other contraband would be increased, easier and welcome in the region of conflict and surrounding areas. This would help boost both funding and recruitment for the organization in addition to providing some relief, and possibly allow them to form alliances with some governments who would also benefit from the US having to redirect military, economic or intelligence resources to deal with a crisis in the Caucasus region and the danger such conflict would pose to European security and stability in the Middle East where it has invested billions of dollars and the lives of soldiers.
• The Taliban and their allies seeking to distract the US and coalition forces and resources (including intelligence assets from focusing on prosecuting the attack in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal regions.
• Any terrorist organization seeking to relieve pressure on it from Western forces prosecuting the so-called Global War on Terror.
• Any countries at ideological, military, economic or political odds with the USA, the EU, NATO, Russia or Georgia might welcome the opportunities that any other beneficiary might find or see in reigniting the conflict, be it arms trafficking, alliance, political or economic destabilization or otherwise. This would include countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, Bolivia, China, Myanmar, Cuba as well as various nations throughout the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
• Allies of the USA, NATO, EU or Georgia that seek to apply greater attention by those entities on the region of the Caucasus in order to put Russian expansion in check before it spreads any more than it already has. This could include separatists within Russia (such as in Chechnya or the Kabardino-Balkar Republic) and others that might see US/EU/NATO forces in the region as a counter-weight to threats they themselves face. For example, Israel would benefit greatly from halting Russian expansion and increased Western military engagement in the Caucasus region as that would create a threat to Iran, Syria, terrorist organizations that would benefit from Russian expansionism (and the conflicts that would result), and from the prospect of Turkey becoming increasingly friendly with Russia—who supplies most of the arms that many enemies of Israel and the West use, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and various insurgencies and revolutionary groups around the globe. That means that the West is less likely to be able to afford (either economically or politically) to help keep Israel’s enemies in check if Russian expansionism is allowed to grow. Interestingly enough, in this same category fall many European nations worried about their security in the face of a growing Russian threat. They know it is easier and would be more beneficial to have US/EU/NATO stronger and fortifying itself against a Russian threat now than it would be to do nothing and hope that the US/EU/NATO have the spine and wherewithal to engage Russia in open war on European soil. Europe has no desire to see a war of that magnitude in Europe proper again, and as America finds itself in decline economically, politically, and militarily…it is a very real threat/prospect.
• Rogue governmental agencies that have their own agendas, ranging from unilateral prosecution of agency or individual objectives to paying back owed markers or simply trying to increase their own relevance or budget. This could include agencies such as the CIA, NSA and other less known agencies here in the USA as well as British MI-5, Israeli Mossad, Russian FSB and various intelligence agencies of any nation mentioned anywhere in this list of those whom might benefit, including the nations of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and so on. This could even include agencies who are looking for conflict in the Caucasus region to provide them with increased justification for increased involvement in existing or looming conflicts that have related issues at stake. One instance might be the growing tension between Pakistan and both India and Afghanistan.
• Corporations and individuals with their own agendas, aimed at increasing their wealth, influence or prestige and/or benefiting from conflict between Russia and Western forces. This includes PMC’s, companies that provide defense related services, oil companies, shipping companies, infrastructure related companies that would be needed in the wake of conflict, and the list goes on and on.

In the end, while it might seem a small and trivial thing, this vehicle exploding and which killed between six and nine Russian soldiers (depends on which story you read), it cannot be viewed lightly. It highlights a potential threat of great implication in the geopolitics of the Eurasian region.

Russia’s recent rhetoric accusing Ukraine of aiding Georgia in its conflict with Russia and calling it a “crime” ought to be sending off alarm bells throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Russians have to be sitting smug right now because they are playing the word and blame game so well—while the West is tongue-tied and showing absolutely no real urgency at all in defending Europe or shoring up its defenses. The lack of NATO and US troops being sent to the region, the lack of immediately bringing Ukraine and Georgia (or, more importantly, not going to Georgia’s aid after it has been a faithful ally of the USA) into NATO’s fold have exposed the vulnerable underbelly of the West.

Look for trouble in Belarus soon, as it gets ready to attempt a transition from being Europe’s last dictatorship into a democratic nation. I predict trouble and unrest, which will be followed by a display of Russian concern and rhetoric laying the groundwork for future justification. What do I mean by future justification? The very thing this explosion is giving Russia so conveniently for future aggression.

The Russian bear, from where it sits, has little to fear and sees all sorts of small game that it can kill with one swat of its paw everywhere it looks. Unfortunately for the West, the Russian bear is human, and we all know what dangers lie behind the ego.

Thought Roundup: May 9

I’ve been a bit busy the past few days but wanted to update with some things that have been on my mind lately.

1. Blogging is good group therapy. No really, it’s apparently true!

2. More jack-booted police thuggery. The excuse the Philadelphia police are making for such behavior is a lot of crap and whining. 12 hour shifts and 3 officers shot in three years is your weak excuse for such behavior? Sorry, I’m not buying that.

Why do we need police then? Hell, if lynching and simply gunning down people (like the Bell case in New York) is the best we can expect from police, we don’t really need them at all. We the People can form our own mobs and do the same. Why waste money on law enforcement and government that keeps trampling on our liberties, abusing We the People, and creating for-profit jails and prisons that are only profiting a few individuals while creating the world’s largest incarcerated population?

If you can’t handle the stress, get the hell out and find a job your weak ass can handle. As I have been saying all along, there are an awful lot of police who want to play the tough-guy/badass role of soldier, but that cannot handle it. Contrast their whiny cop excuses with the reality soldiers are facing every day. 3 killed in 3 years? Get over yourselves already.

If it’s so rough, why not just let everyone go armed and disband all the police? You won’t hear me whining. I promise you, there would be far fewer criminals and we wouldn’t have to worry about MS-13 gang numbers on the increase.

3. Speaking of MS-13 gang numbers on the rise, The Atlantic really missed with this article by Matthew Quirk. It isn’t America’s policy that is causing anything. It’s the lack of effort, control, and ineffectual government by Central American nations and the complicity of Mexico and its government in criminal endeavors and the invasion of America that are at fault.

The author seems to suggest that we shouldn’t bother trying to control our borders or deporting drains on our society. Rather, we should give them room and board at American taxpayer expense.

Here’s an idea. How about we solve America’s unemployment problem by giving every unemployed American a job and a gun—and stationing them on the border? I bet you would see the fastest decrease in the size of MS-13, the fastest reduction of narcotics traffic, the quickest reduction in unemployment, the quickest boost to the American economy, and the most secure border in our history. Alas, nothing that makes sense or is practical is ever done in America.

We might offend all those MS-13 gang members, drug traffickers, terrorists, sex offenders and other illegal aliens who aren’t American citizens.

4. Middle Eastern armies are largely worthless and have been for centuries. They can’t fight major or pitched battles worth a damn—with the sole exception of Israel of course. They’re pretty good in the terrorist department, though.

Give them some explosives, some handy women and children and they will give you fits.

Someone explain to me the point of having an Army that does nothing, as the Lebanese army seems to do so well? The Lebanese army warned its unity was in jeopardy if the crisis that nation is in is not averted.

What unity is that? The unified we’re too scared to fight sort of unity? Or is it the we only fight Israelis sort of unity? Perhaps it is the we Muslim armies only wage war on infidels sort of unity?

If I were going to war and had to choose between taking a brigade from the Lebanese army and a truckload of armed Somalis, I would instead take Bobcat Goldthwait in his suggested VW beetle with a few bottles of MadDog.

We would kick so much more ass.

Carter Talks With Terrorists Of Hamas While They Plan Attacks

So the incredibly incompetent former President, Jimmy Carter, has once again stuck his nose into foreign affairs when he ought to stick with writing books no one wants to read (except maybe Nancy Pelosi). This time, he went to the Middle East to have talks with Hamas representatives.

You had a nice chat, didn’t you, Mr. Carter?

While you were doing so, Hamas was planning a terrorist attack which they carried out on Saturday, the same day you were meeting with their representatives in Damascus.

Hamas made you look like a complete fool (not that you needed any help), and you have shown yourself to be a disgrace by supporting terrorism and terrorists. Why don’t you do all of us a favor and stay in the Middle East from now on and not bother coming back to America?

I would be laughing if the loss of lives weren’t saddening. Democrats, you are showing Americans that you support terrorists with your continued support of foolish people like Carter and Pelosi. Peace talks…what a cover for planning terrorist attacks, eh Mr. Carter?

If Carter goes to Russia to talk about missile shields, you better find a nuclear blast shelter quick…

NATO Fears Over Dutch Film About Islam?

Dutch MP Geert Wilders will soon be releasing a film about Islam that has NATO worrying about repercussions. You may recall that Net access was blocked in Pakistan recently because of a video with Mr. Wilders appearing on YouTube talking about the film?

Currently, NATO is concerned about how the upcoming release of the film will impact relations with Islamic nations. The Dutch government has also issued a heightened terrorism alert in anticipation of peaceful Islamic reaction. In Afghanistan, protesters are already calling for the government to expel Dutch and Danish troops and cut ties with those countries.

I for one am glad to see Mr. Wilders going forward with his plans. These days, Islamists use terror and intimidation of all sorts to silence any criticism of Islam or Islamic nations or anything related to their culture. It’s nice to see that Western democracies haven’t lost their spine altogether and that freedom of speech is still possible in places. Who would have thought you needed to be brave to be a cartoonist, after all?

Sadly, here in America, it is getting more difficult to criticize our own government or Islam. Laws passed under the guise of ‘hate crime’ and ‘domestic terror’ legislation are making it increasingly likely that being critical of the establishment in general and of those nations which our government considers allies—or critical to some political goal.

Really, all those anti-war protesters who want US troops to come home have to do is start posting cartoons of Muhammad daily. Soon, the furor will be such that all foreign troops will leave the Middle East. What a tragic pity that the solution is so easy and simple, yet the anti-war protesters would hypocritically rather let wars continue to be fought than offend the Islamic masses.

War is bad, terrible and killing should stop, the anti-war protesters cry! Unless, of course it would offend someone and upset them because it offended their peaceful belief in stoning and beheading. For the anti-war establishment, it’s much more acceptable to let a war continue and not offend people than it is to hurt someone’s feelings and save lives. As I’ve mentioned before, you never see anti-war protesters doing anything proactive between wars. These creatures only come out when it is convenient and they need to feel good about themselves.

Real peace activists don’t wait for the wars to begin to take action.

Sorry for the side trip, but back to the upcoming film release by Mr. Wilders. I wish him a safe life. The world needs more people willing to stand up to bullies—no matter what ideology they hide behind, and no matter what spineless governments are in bed with them.

The world is well aware of the brutality perpetrated by virtually every religion out there, and yet it is somehow a bad thing to point it out about Islam. Why is this? As the modern world well knows, you don’t want to upset those selling you the oil you need to grease the wheels of civilization.

But really, what’s the point of being civilized and having a government if you’re going to allow barbarians from far away lands to dictate what you can and can’t do in your own country?

I receive a lot of spam, both in WordPress comments and in email (though Akismet is improving and catching more of it). Just today, someone proudly proclaiming his Middle Eastern name tried filling my email with spam. It of course all just went to the junk folder and I had a good laugh at it. Most of the spam I get these days originates from IP addresses in the Middle East…more gifts from those peace-loving sorts I suppose. It’s hilarious how most of it is porn related spam. I guess there are a lot of Muslim men out there that really regret making their women cover up or something.

For those who think I only pick on Islam, you’re wrong.

As soon as I hear of Christians or Buddhists walking into Muslim communities and blowing themselves up I’ll take them to task just the same. As soon as I see or hear priests in the Vatican or the Native American Church calling for the extermination of a nation and its people, I’ll take them to task. As soon as native people living in the jungle along the Amazon start roadside bombings I will take them to task as well. As soon as I hear Taoists, Wiccans and members of The Hip Hop Church are stoning and beheading people, I’ll take them to task. As soon as I hear Jews and Atheists refusing to allow women to attend school, I’ll take them to task. As soon as Scientologists…wait…everyone already knows they’re creepy and strange, right?

In the mean time, since Hamas is still praising things like gunmen walking into schools and shooting civilians, it is no wonder that humanitarian conditions in Gaza are at a 40 year low.

Maybe if they had spent more time building a society than they spent building bombs and tunnels over the past 40 years, the Palestinians would have had a thriving nation by now? But why do all that hard work when you can riot, burn flags and cars, get angry at everyone in the world except your countrymen and your own leaders, and scream for heads over a cartoon, right?

Or, optionally, you can spend your time withdrawing from book fairs, accusing Israel of crimes against humanity…all the while hypocritically ignoring genocide in Darfur by Sudan’s peaceful Islamic government, right?

Peaceful Religions? “I sincerely hope you fall off a cliff…”

My last post might leave you thinking I don’t find much humor in life. That would be untrue.

In fact, I invite everyone to visit the Dissident Voice blog and see just what I find funny. I was over there making a point about how one liberal Grand Ayatollah in Lebanon does not a peaceful religion make, and that history suggests that Islam is in fact a religion of violence by pointing out a few things.

Such as Muslim scholars have no defense for the following: Show me historical records that show the Mongols were conquering and invading other nations before enduring two centuries of Islamic brutality, invasion, forced conversion, pillaging and looting?

History shows that Islam has been a violent religion since 650 AD, and has never been a religion of peace.

Hell, even the Muslim apologists are violent! One of the moonbats flew out of the blogwork, called me an “ignorant bastard” and said “I sincerely hope you fall off a cliff…“

I nearly snarfed my coffee reading it.

I am overwhelmed by the love emanating from the peaceful religion and its defenders.

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WordPress.com apparently won’t let me embed the video I wanted to include here of a beheading, showing peaceful Islam in action.

It isn’t just Muslims, though. Jews are just as peaceful.

No Need For New Surveillance Laws

Just when I said I should stop blogging about political things, I read yet another political development that upset me enough to want to blog about it.

President Bush is holding the possibility of recalling Congress in the event they don’t pass new legislation that his administration feels is necessary to close gaps in intelligence. The legislation he wants has to do with eavesdropping on foreigners.

We don’t need this proposed legislation, simply put. Even though the administration says it ideally should be designed so that it doesn’t allow a focus on communications to and from Americans, it does not want a review of any envisioned law before hand. Bush and his cronies simply want to pass it and then allow limited review of the process rather than on a case by case basis, which is really unacceptable.

Part of our problem in America is that we keep passing laws that give too sweeping and broad powers to a government that is not really accountable to ‘We the People’ anymore. This legislation that Bush wants will go hand in hand with his recent destruction of the 5th Amendment to destroy more personal freedoms for Americans, seize their property, and to subvert the judicial system (pathetic as it is already) further…

Situational Analysis: Palestinian Split Is A Good Opportunity

The recent split of the Palestinian government could be the best thing to happen as far as developments between Israelis and Palestinians are concerned. A bit of smart politics and some long term vision could turn take this conflict from a seemingly endless middle-game to the end-game.

How? Well, divide and conquer does not always mean to imply that conquering must be done with fighting. As Sun Tzu put it, the best general isn’t the one who wins 100 fights, but the one who is successful in defeating his enemy 100 times without having to fight…

Whom Is Lebanon Fighting? Using Civilians For Shields?

Let me get this straight. In Lebanon, the army—which is the army of a largely Muslim nation—is doing battle with other Muslims, right? And they are doing battle with terrorists? And these terrorists are in Palestinian refugee camps?

And, according to the Lebanese army, these terrorists are using civilians as shields?

‘What The Hell?’ On Terror: An Update

It is enough to make one consider a Guinness at 5AM in the morning, but I managed to make it past 7AM and have stuck with coffee. What the hell am I talking about? Exactly.

As a veteran, I am as staunch a supporter on the need to fight terrorism and those who support it on a global scale as you will likely find. National Defense is a big issue with me, and I consider myself far more ‘hawkish’ than any American politician of the Republican party. [Note: which is why I will no longer vote Republican, for they have shown themselves to be uncaring about securing our nation's borders or winning our wars.] I would rather live in a Spartan nation than a nation full of whining me-me-me-all-I-care-about-is-me liberals any day.

If you have read my blog in the past, you are likely to know I think ‘just warfare’ is a doctrine for weakling nations.

I have to wonder, however, at the bumbling ineptitude of both our political and military leaders throughout the global alliance that is fighting what was previously called The War On Terror. To reflect the reality of how it is being waged, I thought it appropriate to give it a more accurately descriptive name…

Anti-Semitic Political Agenda Of The United Nations

I usually shake my head in disgust and shrug my shoulders whenever I hear of the many ridiculous things the UN does. Here is yet another example of the UN espousing anti-semitic views. I wanted to point it out to all those who think the UN is unbiased on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Mainstream Media Ignoring Palestinian Terrorism?

A few things that happened in the Middle East recently seem to have gone virtually unnoticed by mainstream media. That itself is not surprising. Mainstream media often misses many stories. But these were big stories, going back to Thursday the 15th.

Palestinians are an industrious people. At least the bad elements have shown they are. There are simply more incidents of violence and murder than I have time to list that have happened in the last few days…

Israel Says No Dealing With Hamas-Fatah Government

Israel is sticking to its guns and has said it will not deal with the new coalition government of the Palestinians. Good for them. It is nice to see a government that will stick to its policies even in the face of constant threats.

Hamas is, always has been, and always will be a terrorist organization. There is no reason for any government to deal with them and none should. Just as they are dedicated to the destruction of Israel, nations who believe law and order are paramount to a functioning society must dedicate themselves to the destruction of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah…

Google Bias Towards AdWords Heavy Sites

Google’s bias towards web sites that have higher concentrations of AdWords, is yet another example of why Google is becoming less useful every passing month. Instead of top news stories appearing on Google News coming from the most authoritative sites, they appear to come from those sites carrying a greater number of AdWords…