I have no idea where the religious get the the idea that many gays are contemptuous and mocking of their views and in fact proponents of a transgressive sexual amorality.

What the hell is Miller doing hosting something like this? Host gay functions, sure. Host this kind of gay function? For the love of everything holy. No conservative group with an agenda one-tenth as controversial and as hateful as this could hope for a Miller sponsporship.

BTW, Sinistar's post includes the required "Schmidtt's Gay" video.

Posted by: Ace at 11:38 AM | Comments (68)
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That's my gloss, of course. Decide for yourselves:

Jewish Republicans Ban Ron Paul

He's uninvited from their debate - because of his opposition to foreign aid for Israel. But he's against almost all foreign aid, guys! Including for the Saudis. Still: it's interesting that almost all the GOP candidates found time to debate with this tiny minority. But not blacks or Hispanics or gays. Hmmm.

Reminds me of Sullivan's big Welcome To My Blog for all those he admitted trafficked in not-so-stealth anti-semitism, but were now readers because of their close alignment of interests and antipathies.

Grow up, Sullivan. Debates sponsored by black, Hispanic, and gay groups tend to be organized by left-wing identity-politics hacks who "invite" Republicans to their fora simply to be pilloried. It's arguable whether or not someone should attend just for the sake of appearances, but the idea that someone is required to attend a scheduled public mau-mau-ing simply to disprove "hate" is absurd.

I guess there are only four True Conservatives in America -- Ron Paul, Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Greenwald, and of course Thomas Ellers Ellensberg Wilson.

True Conservativism

Anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories are older "conservative" traditions than supply-side economics. Let's get back to the Good Old Days of the fifties! If it worked for Father Coughlin, it can work for us in '08!

Thanks to DrewM.

Posted by: Ace at 11:19 AM | Comments (36)
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Dr. Essam S. Omeish resigned a few hours after Virginia Governor Tim Kaine was made aware of videos that showed the appointee condemning Israel and supporting "the jihad way".

Omeish is the President of the Muslim American Society and chief of general surgery at INOVA Alexandria Hospital. A caller to Kaine's monthly radio program mentioned the videos, in which Omeish criticised the invasion of Lebanon by the "Israeli war machine", accused them of genocide and claimed the "Israeli agenda" controls congress.

Like we didn't know that already.

In another video, Omeish told a crowd of Washington-area Muslims, "...you have learned the way, that you have known that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land."

The commission was established by the Governor to to study the effects of immigration and federal immigration policies on Virginia.

Genocide? Controlling Congress? Small potatoes, Doctor. If you read AceofSpadesHQ you'd know the scope of their wickedness is far greater than even you yourself could have imagined. Let's talk Daylight Savings Time, if you have the courage to face the truth.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 11:19 AM | Comments (14)
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Transcript and video here.

Instapundit thinks the question is whether Shuster would have asked Hillary! this question. I don't think that's a question at all. Obviously he would not have.

No, the real question is where exactly is David Shuster getting his scoops and gotchas from. I'll offer the answer: The book on David Shuster is that he gets this crap from unhinged leftwing blogs and their network of unhinged commenters and tipsters. And what's more unforgivable is that he apparently doesn't even bother to do the most basic fact-checking of absurd shit he gets from his network of unhinged far-left tipsters, but instead puts it on the air directly as if it just came down from, as they say in law school, a council of 12 bishops.

Conservative Belle was able to refute this claim within (presumably) minutes simply by running a simple search for the fallen soldier's address, then comparing his zip code with the local Congressional districts in Tennessee. And yet David Shuster gets tipped some nonsense like this from one of his raving lunatic fans and simply runs it on the airwaves without the bare-minimum of fact-checking that an uncredentialed, and therefore inferior, amateur web journalist manages within 15 or so minutes.

I've got some good gotcha question for David Shuster for his many liberal guests. Think he'll take my emails? Think he'll consider asking embarrassing questions of his lefty buddies? Think he'll run my assertions as established "fact" without any checking whatsoever?

Maybe I should conduct a little web-based behavioral experiment and start contacting David Shuster and see if he's willing to ask "the tough questions," from both sides, of both sides. But it seems a test whose results we already know to a high degree of certainty.

Here's One Gotcha Question David Shuster Can Ask Of Himself: If the MSM poses as being such big supporters of the troops, why have they for just about the first time in history all but embargoed stories about Congressiona Medal of Honor winners (and winners of lesser decorations, and simple heroes who never got their medal at all)?

Hey, Shuster: Who was the last serviceman awarded the CMH? You must know that, right? You're in the media and your heart bleeds for our troops.

Or is it just the anonymous dead ones, listed as not much more than a fresh number for the latest Grim Milestone, you actually care about? Not the troops themselves, but their value as propaganda?

"The Book" On Shuster: I just sort of knew from "the word on the street" from Huggy-Bear that Shuster likes his tips from Jason Leopold, TruthOut, MediaMatters, etc.

TopSecretK9 sends this link to the American Specator reporting that Shuster's producers/monkey-handlers got this "lead" directly from MoveOn.

Journalism. It's really tough to take tips from your email box and broadcast them out to the world, eh? I can't think of any non-credentialed journalists capable of such an astounding feat.

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The US has tried pretty hard to play down enemy casualties in Iraq since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. General Tommy Franks once famously said, ‘We don’t do body counts’. Well of course they do and USA Today got the 19,000 and change figure out of them. Add to that the 25,000 in US custody and you are starting to talk about a whole lot of terrorists who are now hors de combat.

As I’ve often said to the liberal trolls who point to US deaths as a reason for us to leave Iraq, casualties are not the be all and end all metric of success. But it seems that for the last 4 years the media, the Democrats and the left (but I repeat myself) have been wetting themselves in anticipation of each new ‘grim milestone’ of US deaths, yet they have been strangely silent on the toll this war has inflicted upon the enemy and what that might mean to the outcome in Iraq.

You almost get the impression from the media that US troops are doing nothing more than driving around Iraq waiting to be killed without ever fighting back (unless the dead are women and children attending a wedding). Turns out they have been shooting back and their aim is pretty good.

Of course the keys to victory in Iraq are Gen. Petraeus’ counter insurgency strategy as well as political reconciliation but killing the bad guys shouldn’t be overlooked either.

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The US has tried pretty hard to play down enemy casualties in Iraq since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. General Tommy Franks once famously said, ‘We don’t do body counts’. Well of course they do and USA Today got the 19,000 and change figure out of them. Add to that the 25,000 in US custody and you are starting to talk about a whole lot of terrorists who are now hors de combat.

As I’ve often said to the liberal trolls who point to US deaths as a reason for us to leave Iraq, casualties are not the be all and end all metric of success. But it seems that for the last 4 years the media, the Democrats and the left (but I repeat myself) have been wetting themselves in anticipation of each new ‘grim milestone’ of US deaths, yet they have been strangely silent on the toll this war has inflicted upon the enemy and what that might mean to the outcome in Iraq.

You almost get the impression from the media that US troops are doing nothing more than driving around Iraq waiting to be killed without ever fighting back (unless the dead are women and children attending a wedding). Turns out they have been shooting back and their aim is pretty good.

Of course the keys to victory in Iraq are Gen. PetraeusÂ’ counter insurgency strategy as well as political reconciliation but killing the bad guys shouldnÂ’t be overlooked either.

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The claim is that changes to the atmosphere are trapping more heat and warming the earth. Of course, there are other changes that have happened naturally -- such as volcanoes venting thousands of tons of reflective ash into the atmosphere -- which tend to cool the earth.

So, if these guys are really all concerned just about maintaining earth's ostensibly-unchanging temperature, why not just blast some albedoizing ash into the upper atmosphere to screen out some of the Sun's Killer Rays of Death, thus offsetting the effects of added CO2, the Invisible Killer?

It would make sense -- if climate change were not simply warmed-over Marxism and Luddism in a shiny green wrapper. So there is of course no chance any of the alarmists will even consider this fix to what they claim is our Inevitable Doom.

Because these techniques mimic natural phenomena, we know more about how quickly and well they work than we do about the efficacy of attempting to reduce greenhouse gases. We have measured the effects of the natural processes and can state with considerable certainty, bordering of complete certainty, that they will produce the result sought. Although the effects of greenhouse gas reduction would occur over a period of no less than decades and more likely centuries, the effects of geo-engineering can (and will) be manifest in a matter of weeks after application.

... Geo-engineering is ... 200 to 2,000 times less expensive ... than exclusive reliance on carbon control.

They're not pro-nature, they're just anti-human. They don't like industry and they don't like human freedom from the travails of the natural state. So this have your cake and eat it too solution has no appeal to them -- they want to take away the cake. That's always been the game.

Posted by: Ace at 09:38 AM | Comments (49)
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Former Secretaries of State James Baker and George Shultz had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday entitled "Why the 'Law of the Sea' Is a Good Deal." They take the usual strategy for LOST advocates: touting treaty benefits that we already possess under customary international law and domestic law.

My response to the secretaries is in the extended entry, for those of you who are into that kind of thing. more...

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Of course this story isn't appearing on the American (or even world) newswires. Our man in Poland, who wants to be known by his nickname "Hot," sends this translation of a Polish wire story, which I've cleaned up slightly.

The former president writes to " old-fashioned racialists"

Rome,Italy - september

In protest against the invitation of the president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia University, former Italian president Francesco Cossiga gave back the title of the doctor Honoris Causa of this University. Senator Cossiga wrote that he was indignant organizing the lecture of the Iranian leader by the chancellor of UC , whose he called "a threatening neonazi and a Islamic terrorist".

The former Italian president reminded in the sharp letter to the rector of the University Columbia that Ahmadinejad expressed the thirst of the destruction of Israel.

"Regardfully for six millions of murdered Jews whose you - old-fashioned racialists, and today also advocates of Islamic terrorists - I, a Catholic, return the title granted to me of Honoris Cause and I burn the toga which you gave to me" - declared Cossiga.

His letter finished with words: "without respect -- Francesco Cossiga".

The link to the Polish-language paper carrying this story is here. "Hot" says he's unable to find a single other reference to the protest.

The MSM has a man-crush on Mahmoud.

Too bad there are no gays in Iran.

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I'm at an internet cafe and can't watch this. (Of course, it turns out the friend I stayed with last night and today has his cable out and is waiting for the repair, which will happen sometime this afternoon, supposedly.)

But I'm told it's pretty nasty. A monkey drinking his own urine. You've been warned.

Thanks to herbert.

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