Bloodthirsty Liberal

With those big ol’ ears of his, you’d think President Obama would follow his own advice and listen more, lecture less:

[A] visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come “not to talk but to act” on climate change.

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Obama warned delegates that U.S. offers of funding for poor nations would remain on the table “if and only if” developing nations, including China, agreed to international monitoring of their greenhouse gas emissions.

“I have to be honest, as the world watches us … I think our ability to take collective action is in doubt and it hangs in the balance,” Obama told the COP-15 plenary session as hope faded for anything more than a vague political agreement.

“The time for talk is over, this is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward. We can do that, and everyone who is in this room will be part of an historic endeavor, or we can choose delay,” he said.

He said a lot, and it’s getting so very familiar. “The time for talk is over” is practically a catch-phrase in the lame sitcom that his administration is coming to resemble—like “Edith, stifle!” or “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

I doubt if you can find one passage by George Bush that was half as bullying and petulant as this, even in the time he was appealing to the UN and others to support the ouster of Saddam.

And not everyone appreciated his tone:

“What do you mean ‘we’, round eyes?”

When Bush thought something had to be done (and the time for talking was over), he resorted to shock and awe.

What we got from Copenhagen is shuck and jive:

“You know, it raises an interesting question as to whether technically there’s actually a signature… It’s not a legally binding agreement, I don’t know what the protocols are,” said a bleary-eyed Obama, before hopping in Air Force One for the trip back to Washington.

Even as he left, it wasn’t clear that the pact Obama described as “meaningful” would even pass muster with the European Union – or attract enough votes with the 193-nation COP 15 conference to become an official declaration.

“It’s a catastrophe,” said Dan Joergensen, a member of the European delegation. “We’re so far away from the criteria that was set up in order to call it a success, and those weren’t really that ambitious to start with.”

That brightness streaming in from the east is not the sunrise or a meteor or a comet. It’s the sparkle off my pearly whites from this [bleep]-eating grin I can’t wipe off my face. Never in the field of human endeavor was so much time and money and effort (and greenhouse fuel) wasted by so many for so little.

How do you say “Go [bleep] yourself” in Albanian, Belorussian, Chadian, Danish, Eritrean, etc, etc.

EU climate cash pledge ‘not enough’ say small nations

Developing countries and aid agencies have derided the latest pledges by richer states to tackle global warming.

EU leaders ended a Brussels summit with a three-year deal to pay 7.2bn euros (£6.5bn; $10.6bn) to help poorer nations cope with climate change.

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But leaders of poorer nations and some aid agencies described the sum offered by the EU as inadequate.

I don’t always agree with reader Joe, but I refuse to be shaken down by a passel of grifters from a pathetic pack of pygmy states. Are these ingrates not familiar with the precarious position beggars take vis a vis choosing?

How do you say “not one red cent” in the local Paraguayan dialect? Or “drown for all I care” in Seychelles?

Yet more proof, though no more is needed, that “climate change” is yet another scam by socialist elements among international institutions to bleed money from states that make it to states that don’t.

How do you say “beat it” in Somalian?

What if they held a summit on world hunger—and nobody brought refreshments?

It would be a UN operation, you can bet on that:

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday’s opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry what he called his neocolonialist foes.

Another longtime African strongman, Moammar Gadhafi, held another nightly soiree at a villa in the Italian capital in the company of hundreds of young ladies selected by a “hostess” agency.

Tunisia’s first lady and her bodyguards blocked traffic on roads leading to Via Condotti, a glamorous street of designer boutiques near the Spanish Steps. Rome daily Il Messaggero ran a photo of Leila Zine in front of luxury jewelry store Bulgari.

The images bolstered criticism that the summit called by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is long on rhetoric and extravagance and short on solutions for the world’s 1 billion hungry.

The meeting was branded a failure within a couple of hours of its start after the 192 participating countries unanimously rebuffed the United Nations’ appeal for commitments of billions of dollars in yearly aid to develop agriculture in poor nations.

None of the leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations attended except for Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

So the UN organized an anti-hunger summit where one dictator wasted time blaming colonialism, despite 30 years of independence and iron-fisted rule, and another dictator partied with hookers.

And nobody bothered to see if the sugar daddies were going to attend, and no money was committed to feed the hungry.

Yep, sounds like a UN fustercluck to me.

This is the top of their society, a guy they sent to the UN to represent them.

An Afghan diplomat was charged Friday with beating his wife “like a dog” for more than 15 hours in their Queens home, prosecutors said.

Mohammed Fagirad, 30, a vice consul at the Afghanistan Consulate, brutalized his wife inside their Flushing home from about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday until nearly midnight, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

During the attack, Fagirad bit, slapped, choked and beat the 22-year-old woman with a belt, pushed her down a flight of stairs and sat on her chest, prosecutors said.

At one point, prosecutors said, Fagirad threw his wife up against a wall, held her there by the neck and then let her drop to the floor, where he beat her with a belt.

Fagirad told police his “wife was a dog and he was going to treat her like a dog,” prosecutors said.

When Fagirad left the home, his wife fled and went to the 109th Precinct stationhouse, where she filed a domestic violence report, prosecutors said. She then returned home.

When Fagirad returned, he demanded his wife’s cell phone and called police to file a counterclaim, prosecutors said.

The woman, who was not named, was hospitalized for bruises and scratches to her neck and back.

Prosecutors said Fagirad’s limited diplomatic immunity only covers work-related infractions.

He was awaiting arraignment last night in Queens Criminal Court.

If this is true, my Hope For The Day™ is that he spend about a decade in prison.

- Aggie

Hahahahahahahaha…

Weird translation, but what it means is that they took the trucks to their own people and left the civilians of Gaza to pound sand. What bravery!!

Gaza - Palestine Press - Jordanian official sources said in Amman that Hamas gunmen seized late Monday on “12,” a humanitarian and food aid sent by Jordan to the international relief agency UNRWA, which will provide relief to Palestinian refugees after the new Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip

The Arab satellite channel quoted official sources as saying that Jordanian trucks came from Jordan and arrived in Kerem Salem Fu entered the Gaza Strip received Alonura and after much had been seized by gunmen from Hamas and controlled it, and since yesterday afternoon.

She stressed the Jordanian news agency “Petra” that the militants were detained after entering the Jordanian aid the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing.

He was scheduled to receive the relief and Works Agency for refugees “UNRWA” in preparation for distribution to residents of the sector, but the gunmen opened fire at the driver after crossing the border and forced them to go to the stores of their own.

And asked, “UNRWA” of the carrier not to send aid shipment was scheduled today and tomorrow to the sector to solve the issue of when a convoy of aid withheld Bashahnadtha The drivers of the insurgency, where negotiations are under way in this regard

The Palestinian Keystone Cops™.

- Aggie

Since they speak a form of English there, I guess we should call it The Night Of Broken Glass

In case you’ve missed it, the Left is boycotting Starbucks because the CEO is Jewish. I’m not kidding. That is what is going on. There are no Starbucks in Israel, but it is true that a Jewish man runs the company. In addition to the boycott, they are smashing windows and looting. So, please be sure to buy your coffee from Starbucks for a few weeks until this passes.

Leftists kick in window of Starbucks shop in London

A demonstration in London against Israeli attacks on Gaza ended in violence after protesters looted and damaged shops, police said.

Scotland Yard is investigating the damage, which was thought to be targeted at coffee shop chain Starbucks for the second week running.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “(It) is believed to be two branches of Starbucks, one in Shaftesbury Avenue, junction with Rupert Street and one in Piccadilly. Windows have been smashed and shops looted.”

The article doesn’t mention why Starbucks, but if you google around for a minute, you’ll see it.

I am calling for a general boycott of European products until the EU apologizes for the anti-Semitism of the past decade and starts to show a more impressive effort to eliminate it. We don’t need their wine, their tea, their perfumes, or their shoes. If you want a Mediterranean vacation, try Tel Aviv. There is nothing that they produce that can’t be purchased from other parts of the world.

- Aggie

No, not Halliburton, or ExxonMobil—but the UN, the EU, the US… in other words, you!

The world community that berates Israel for defending itself from constant attacks by the terrorist group also facilitated Hamas’ victory in the 2006 Palestinian Authority election, when it was allowed to run under the name “List of Change and Reform.”

Since then, despite repeated promises to cut off funds for Hamas, international aid organizations and many countries kept on sending money to Gaza, purportedly for humanitarian aid. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, raises money for Gaza through its Web site, with payments going through WorldPay (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group), the Arab Bank PLC in Gaza and HSBC in Amman, Jordan. Those funds come in addition to UNRWA’s annual budget of $400 million.

The $7 billion to $10 billion that the Palestinian Authority has received since 1993 has come from the European Union, the U.N., the U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries. France alone has sent more than $3 billion. This influx of cash has done little to advance the development of a viable Palestinian state or of peace in the region. Rather, it has helped to fuel the Palestinian leadership’s terrorist agenda, and kept the Palestinian people oppressed and disenfranchised.

Ask yourself what I ask myself: what’s humane about this aid? It mires the Palestinians in a cycle of neediness and dependency, and it goes straight into the coffers of one of the most notorious terrorist organizations the world has ever known.

Other than that, it’s terrific.

If terrorists were killed instead of subsidized, terrorism would dry up, and people would find different ways to make their grievances known. Now, that would be humanitarian aid.

BTL here:

We returned from our travels only last night, to a slew of problems I won’t enumerate here, but as we spent our holiday in a foreign land with a foreign culture, I thought I’d share my observations briefly.

Aggie and I protect our secrecy perhaps to a level of paranoia, but if you knew who we were we’d have to kill you—and we love you all too much for that. Well, some of you. Well, Carol. (Joke! Take it easy, Martino, Barb, and our other cherished readers and correspondents. There are few enough of you that we worship each and every one of you.)

I say this by way of apology for the oblique way of telling the story of my family’s journey. Let’s just say we traveled in a land once ruled by a vast and powerful empire. This empire left behind ruins of temples and fortresses and whole cities since swallowed by the jungle (sorry, rainforest). We are only beginning to get a sense of their sway, their ingenuity, their might. And their cruelty.

When they conquered another tribe, they scattered the entrails of the defeated leader across the battlefield as they scattered they artists, poets, and philosophers across the empire. The defeat was not merely military, but cultural. The conquered people were absorbed only after their history was erased.

How would this admired and feared empire have dealt with an annoying yet deadly tribe of pygmies (in the metaphorical sense) who persisted in blowing poison darts and hurling sharp stones at them after repeated warnings to stop?

I don’t think you want to know.

But I’ll tell you anyway. They would have tied the leadership of the offending tribe—sorry, indigenous people—to a tree, lashed them without mercy, and then left the fire ants to finish them off. Sorry if that’s a little graphic for your Sunday morning, but this blog is nothing if not educational. The rest of the citizenry would have been lucky to survive banishment to the farthest reaches of the empire.

And this is an empire we admire! They were not the Third Reich of their day, but the First People (to employ yet more PC pablum).

Now, how should we apply this model to Israel (as if you didn’t know where I was heading)? I’m certainly not suggesting an exact reenactment (as deserved as I believe it is), but no other nation at no other time would have allowed a another nation they could have defeated to prey upon their people as the Palestinians have upon Israel. None. Ever. Period.

We live in a more civilized world today than did the great empires of the past—or so we tell ourselves. We like to believe that wars can end in reconciliation and rebuilding, that all any benighted land needs is a touch of Disney or Starbucks to move into the light of modernity. Clearly, the Palestinians are an exception. They indulge in a cult of blind hatred and death worship we don’t quite grasp. Unable to comprehend their apparent beliefs in child sacrifice and brutalization of women (as evidenced by their waging warfare from residential areas), we instead blame the Israel for the carnage.

Israel, which could defeat this lesser tribe and expel it from the empire if it wished to, which could bring peace to its besieged people if it were let to.

Even the Israelis themselves buy into this perverse belief in a two-state solution—after decades of empirical truth which prove the very opposite. They say they have had enough, and that they will stop the terrorist attacks from Gaza on their citizens once and for all—but this is the same leadership that has permitted these same attacks for years. Why now, and how have things changed? This is the same Kadima Party; the same Hamass; the same international community which insisted that the status quo of a slow bleed of the Israeli body politic was the only solution to the conflict.

I might have more faith in the Israelis’ will to live in real peace if this long overdue action were the the decision by Benjamin Netanyahu or some other less romantically inclined leader than the soft-headed tribal chiefs currently in power.

As it is, I can applaud Israel’s response, as I do, and put it in the context of other nations in history at war for their very survival.

But I cannot trust it. Not yet.

Hamas sure has made a lot of nice friends

The Czech Republic, which takes over the European Union’s presidency on January 1, defended Israel’s strikes against Hamas on Tuesday.

UN chief urges end to violence; Shalev: Hamas responsible for deaths in Gaza

While the EU has called for a cease-fire to end the violence between Israel and Hamas that has killed almost 350 Palestinians since Saturday morning, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg insisted Israel had the right to defend itself, according to the Reuters news agency.

“Let us realize one thing: Hamas increased steeply the number of rockets fired at Israel since the cease-fire ended on December 19. That is not acceptable any more,” Schwarzenberg told the daily Mlada Fronta Dnes in an interview.

The country currently holding the EU presidency, France, has condemned Israel’s strikes and the rocket attacks from Hamas terrorists and called for both sides to stop immediately.

It also said it deplored the many civilian casualties and condemned Israel’s “disproportionate use of force,” echoing comments from UN Secretary-General Bank Ki-moon, who has also called for a cease-fire.

Schwarzenberg, a staunch ally of the United States, said Hamas had excluded itself from serious political debate due to its rocket attacks on Israel. He also hinted the group’s putting its bases and gun warehouses in densely populated areas was the reason for the Palestinians’ growing death toll.

“Why am I one of the few that have expressed understanding for Israel? … I am enjoying the luxury of telling the truth,” Schwarzenberg told the daily.

He’s right: It is a luxury to be able to tell the truth.

- Aggie

Cause that’s what Israel just said:

A special UN officer, who planned to travel to the Palestinian territories to document human rights conditions, was reportedly denied entry to Israel on Monday, Israeli and UN officials said

Border police prevented Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on Israeli conduct in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, from entering Israel when he arrived at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Sunday.

Falk had angered Israel by making remarks comparing its forces’ actions in the Gaza Strip to those of the Nazis in wartime Europe. He was put on a plane back to Geneva on Monday. [Also, please translate: “Get your self-loathing ass back to Switerland and leave the rest of us alone.”]

UN officials said Falk, who is Jewish, has been tasked with preparing reports on human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “He was coming to follow up on his mandate, meet people and collect first-hand information,” a UN official said.

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Yigal Palmor, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Falk was denied entry because his mandate from the UN’s Human Rights Council was “profoundly distorted and conceived as an anti-Israel initiative”.

“It has nothing to do with the promotion of human rights,” Palmor said, noting that Falk’s mandate allows him to report only on Israeli violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the territories.

I’m jitterbugging around my computer right now like an NFL wide-receiver in the end zone.

That was awesome!

The deck is still stacked against Israel, but on the too rare occasions when they trump the UN and other transnational Jew-hating organizations, we should emulate Chad “Ocho Cinco” Johnson: