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What You Won’t Widely Read. . .

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. . .in the DEM (Defeatist, Elitist Media), and thanks to Mark for the tip:

In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.

There was the suspected militant fleeing Somalia who had been arrested on a drug charge in New Jersey. And the man stopped at a checkpoint in Tikrit who claimed to be a dirt farmer but had 11 felony charges in the United States, including assault with a deadly weapon.

The records suggest that potential enemies abroad know a great deal about the United States because many of them have lived here, officials said. The matches also reflect the power of sharing data across agencies and even countries, data that links an identity to a distinguishing human characteristic such as a fingerprint.

“I found the number stunning,” said Frances Fragos Townsend, a security consultant and former assistant to the president for homeland security. “It suggested to me that this was going to give us far greater insight into the relationships between individuals fighting against U.S. forces in the theater and potential U.S. cells or support networks here in the United States.”

Yeah, that oppressive and ineffective Patriot Act sure sucks, doesn’t it?
BZ
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Plus — you guessed it — that doesn’t even take into account those who will be released from Guantanamo via our SCOTUS. Think we might see those bastards again, eh?
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Norman Finkelstein:

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. . . another Jew who hates Israel and all other Jews.
From the most excellent Yid With Lid blog:

When it comes to low–Norman Finkelstein, former DePaul professor, is down there with the most despicable of bottom feeders. This pariah in exile sits in his late parents rent-controlled apartment, bitter over his lost tenure and being banned from Israel, plotting his next attack on the Jewish people. First it was minimizing the Shoah, then he took the opportunity to go around the world speaking for the terrorist group Hezbollah and now according to an article by JewishWeek reporter Stewart Ain he is working on a new hate-book called “A Farewell to Israel: The Coming Break-up of American Zionism” But the former Professor has found ways to get in his little jabs of hatred via his website.

So there I went, to Finkelstein’s site, where he:

Having failed as an academic, Finkelstein is now trying to emulate Ann Coulter, except that Coulter is actually sometimes funny, where Finkelstein is merely disgusting. He has mocked Holocaust survivors and victims of terrorism. He has used anti-Semitic stereotypes to describe Jewish leaders. He also specializes in making up phony quotes and attributing them to his enemies. This was one of the reasons he was denied tenure at DePaul University.

Finkelstein is nothing more than a “failed academic” who believes he not only has the right but the mandate to possess a job via producing lies and hate-mongering. He’s pissed because a board of academics had the actual temerity to call him on it.
Why doesn’t Finkelstein simply take the next logical step: leave the United States and take up residence in “Palestine” or Syria, and work for Hamas or Hezbollah?
Oh, wait, that’s right. He’d have to give up a few things like flushing toilets, air conditioners, creature comforts, nice cars, clean streets, and privilege. Not damned likely, I submit.
Why is it that so many Jews hate Jews?
BZ
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YELLOW CAKE URANIUM FROM IRAQ:

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Wait (the sound of hand slapping my forehead). Wait! I cannot believe this. Where is the outcry, the huge jolt through the Blogosphere??

I just came back from geeeeeZ! blog, where she points out this story:

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program – a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium – reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” – the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment – was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

What’s now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad – using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.

So, Saddam Hussein had no WMD or the means? Everyone said no Nigerian yellow-cake existed? And here we have 550 metric tons?

This contradicts all those lies from the Left and yet, no one blasts this from every news portal?

Am I going insane?

BZ
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Points About A.N.W.R.

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What is ANWR? These letters stand for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is located, as you can see, in the upper northeast portion of Alaska. This is the area that is at issue with regard to oil drilling in the United States, along with coastal waters. We had the chance to ameliorate the situation back in 2002 yet failed to grasp the opportunity. What kind of find might be made in ANWR? It is estimated:

Geologists agree that the Coastal Plain has the nation’s best geologic prospects for major new onshore oil discoveries. According to the Department of Interior’s 1987 resource evaluation of ANWR’s Coastal Plain, there is a 95% chance that a ‘super field’ with 500 million barrels would be discovered. DOI also estimates that there exists a mean of 3.5 billion barrels, and a 5% chance that a large Prudhoe Bay type discovery would be made.

I am a great advocate of drilling off our national coastlines and in ANWR, if for no other reason than to buttress our Strategic Petroleum Reserve for military needs. Yes, conversion to petroleum would take “time.” So what? Not acting guarantees that nothing will occur.

The Left seems to believe that drilling in ANWR is the Conservatives’ only answer to the oil energy problem. On the other hand, the only answer proffered by The Left to energy is “conserve.” Energy solutions come via a multi-layered and multi-pronged attack. Conservation is but one aspect; drilling off the coast and in ANWR is only one aspect.

On this vein, I reproduce here portions of a circulating e-mail of which we all need to be aware:

1. ANWR is in the ANWR Coastal plain:

2. This is ANWR’s relationship to the state of Alaska:

3. The delineated coastal plain is the target point of drilling, not the entire area in yellow, and not directly on the coast itself.

4. From the ANWR website, this is what the ANWR looks like.

5. This is ANWR in winter:


6. ANWR in summer (next two photographs):

7. Google Maps (2) indicates where the drilling is to occur — a barren wasteland, essentially:

8. Here is the “depleted wildlife” situation seen (in summer) created by drilling near Prudhoe Bay (P. Bay accounts for 17% of US domestic oil production):

9. The same location in winter:

10. Here, wildlife avoids the drilling area:

Again, I repeat: drilling off our coasts or in ANWR is no guarantee of reduced pricing or markedly increased production, and certainly not immediately. But I still advocate drilling if for no other reason than to supplement our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The Left expects that an entire energy paradigm shift can occur overnight. Simply, for example, converting immediately to electric vehicles guarantees the entire tanking of our national electric grid, due to undercapacity and no new electrical generation stations having been built. That too, just like drilling in ANWR, would take that proverbial “minimum of ten years” — but that’s only if The Religious Left don’t interfere in environmental terms.

BZ

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