AFTER EIGHT YEARS, BELGIAN TV SUDDENLY REMEMBERS THERE'S A US AMBASSADOR IN BELGIUM.

During the Bush years, Belgium has had three ambassadors, namely Stephen Brauer (2001-2003), a man who made it CEO of Hunter Engineering Company, Tom Korologos (2004-2007), prominent businessman, impeccable US diplomat and former senior counselor for the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) in Iraq, and Sam Fox, CEO of Harbour Group Ltd. (2007-2009).

With the changing of the guard in Washington, the US Embassy in Belgium is now headed by yet another Ambassador, Howard W. Gutman, handpicked by Obama and in function since about one month.

And suddenly, Belgian TV notices there's something like a US Ambassador. Below you see a video of the popular late-night talk show De Laatste Show (The Last Show), with anchor Michel de Vliegher, on the Eén network. Hat tip for the video Luc Van Braekel.




The contrast with his predecessors, men who made it in business, couldn't be greater. Yet where Brauer, Korologos and Fox were persona non grata in the through and through red Belgian TV, Gutman, a Washingon attorney, Obama campaign financier AND actor, is suddenly hot property. I didn't need Belgian TV to hear of Gutman's appearance on our magical kingdom's soil, since I receive montly news emails from the US Embassy. In this manner, I was able to lay my hands on Gutman's 9/11 remembrance speech.

Here... it is:

September 11 Memorial Speech by Howard W. Gutman, US Ambassador to Belgium

"Most days are solely about what we are doing.
They are meant to be lived in the present.
A busy day at work . . . picking up the kids at school . . .
But September 11 is different

It is not about what we are doing . . . but about who we are . . . and what kind of planet we live on.

It is meant to be lived not simply in the present, but in the past and even more so in the future.

In the past, as it is about memories and honor.

We of course remember and honor all who died that day.

People whose only fault was that they were Americans who happened to work in a particular office .

And people like Patrice Braut, a 31 year old Belgian, whose only fault was that he was a Belgian who loved America enough that he chose to work at Marsh & McLennon on Wall Street rather than remain in Anderlecht.

People whose only fault was that they were Americans or visitors to America who chose to board a particular flight.

We honor them all.

We honor their parents who lost children.

We honor their children who lost parents.

We honor them all, including victims of terror anywhere in the world, including right here in Europe.

And on September 11, we also so dearly honor those who lost their lives because they chose to serve.

Men and women whose office building was not a tower of trade . . .

But a Pentagon of protection for us all.

As to them, I can think of no better description of why we honor them than the lesson I recently learned from one of the heads of our American Battlefield cemeteries right here in Belgium;

He noted to me on a recent visit

That for those buried in his cemetery
They remain each day on active duty. . .
And on each day that we fail to remember them . . . that we fail to honor them . . they have served a day without a mission.

Every soldier is entitled to his mission.

We are that mission.

September 11 is indeed about the past.

But September 11 is even moreso about the future.

It is about not simply the planet that we live on,

But the one we will leave to our children.

For on September 11, the only thing more disturbing than thinking about those murdered . . .

Is thinking about those who did the murderers . . . Those who do acts of terrorism anywhere on this planet.

And that is why we are here.

That is what we are doing in Embassy Belgium.

That is what you have given your career to.

Because September 11 is first and foremost about you. . . and about all of the colleagues in the State Department.

When you are asked what you do for a career.

Don’t say that you work in a consular section, or in buildings and maintenance or in an economic section of the Embassy.

Tell them that you are preventing tomorrow’s September 11.

That you are making the planet safer for our children.

Because that is our mission daily. That is our duty.

Those who were buried this day deserve nothing less.

I now would ask you to observe a moment of silence."

Holy crapola. Have-you-ever-read-such-a-busload-of-boolshit-in-so-short-a-time??? One of the things any sensible person instinctively knows when dealing with problems, enemies, any dire situation... is to IDENTIFY your problem. To put a fitting NAME on your enemy. Since this dude clearly fails to IDENTIFY the problem, I must conclude he's no sensible person at all. 9/11 was an ISLAMIC terrorist act... the terrorists the US faces in Afghanistan and Iraq in particular, and all over the globe in the broader sense, are ISLAMIC terrorists. The scheming jihadis rounded up in Queens and the Rockies are ISLAMIC terrorists. The 14,200 or so terror attacks worldwide committed since 9/11 are ISLAMIC terrorist acts.

Lesson from OutlawMike to Howard Gutless: Not once mentioning those dreaded M- and I-words when lamenting the terrible calamity that struck your country on 9/11 and plunged it into a war lasting till now, dear embarrassment, makes as much sense as trying to get rid of that cancer that's eating you up by insisting it's something along the lines of a flu or arthritis.


But of course, that's not the whole story. Mr. Gutman, in interviews with Belgian PC magazines, newspapers, and now on TV, has really profiled himself as Mr. Nice Guy. Posing as someone who actually works, unlike "the old ambassadors who are in 4 country clubs" (his own words); comparing the high class Belgian sea resort Knokke to France's Saint-Tropez, claiming the mayor of the town of Bree is the most talented politician on the face of the earth (Bree is the birthplace of Belgian tennis wonder Kim Clijsters) etc etc etc...

And for our MSM idiots it's of course all wonderful. The result is that the gullible Belgian TV viewer and reader of De Standaard, HLN or Het Nieuwsblad... shuts off the TV or puts away his newspaper with a warm and fluffy feeling about the new ambassador.

There are, however, some key aspects of Mr. Gutmans career that for some reason totally eluded that ordinary Belgian TV viewer and newspaper reader. From the NYT, no less:

Officials Criticize Clinton's Pardon of an Ex-Terrorist
By ERIC LIPTON
Published: Monday, January 22, 2001

An unusual combination of New York political and law enforcement leaders have condemned former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and two police officers dead.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, and United States Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat, were among those who criticized the pardon, as did Bernard B. Kerik, New York City's police commissioner, and David Trois, a Rockland County police union official.

''It sickened me,'' Mr. Kerik said yesterday of the pardon, one of 140 granted Saturday, the final day of Mr. Clinton's tenure.

And:

"Rosenberg Served 16 Years In Jail After She Was Caught Unloading 740 Pounds Of Dynamite And Weapons In New Jersey And Admitted That She Had Planned To Supply Others For “Politically Motivated Bombings.” “Ms. Rosenberg served 16 years in jail after she was found with a companion in New Jersey in 1984 unloading 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, including a submachine gun, from a car. She admitted her role in the New Jersey case, in which she had planned to supply others with explosives for politically motivated bombings.” (Eric Lipton, “Officials Criticize Clinton’s Pardon Of An Ex-Terrorist,” The New York Times, 1/22/01)"

Just let us be clear about this: this cunt Rosenberg was caught unloading small arms and 740 pounds of dynamite, meant to KILL AND MAIM US civil servants and citizens, and her lawyer, the fella who managed to get Clinton so far as TO PARDON HER... a guy who thinks that commemmorating 9/11 "... is not about what we are doing . . . but about who we are . . . and what kind of planet we live on..."

... that kind of fella...



... is Harold W. Gutman, newly appointed US Ambassador to Belgium.


Will you excuse me now, I have to puke.


MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT NINETIES NOSTALGIA.

Tanya Donelly with Pretty Deep, a solo hit from, IIRC, 1997 or so. By that time her career with Throwing Muses, a band she formed with her halfsister Kristin Hersh, was already over. I mention that band because there's some good stuff that will hopefully go into a Saturday Night post. Donelly was born in 1966 in Newport, Rhode Island, and, according to Wiki, "New England based". I'd like to know from New England readers (Scott?) whether she's still active and/or sometimes tours in the region.




Pretty deep maybe. Pretty hot certainly.


Narcotic, a song by Euro one hit wonder Liquido. Not all Krauts sing schlagers.




Nite all except socialists and jihadists.


MFBB.

NOPE AND SHAME.

CONGRATS RIO DE JANEIRO!!!!



From FOXNews.com, October 2, 2009:

"...It demeans the office," said GOP consultant Brad Blakeman, a former Bush administration official. "For the president to be reduced to the effect of the Billy Mays pitchman for the United States to get the Olympics for his home city of Chicago is just not something that presidents do."

Blakeman said Obama spent more time wooing International Olympic Committee officials than he did in his meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, before returning to Washington.

"His priorities are screwed up and the American people are seeing that this president just doesn't get the effects and importance of governing," Blakeman told FOX News...."

You betcha. Luckily zhe amerikan taxpayer only had to cough up 1.2 million US$ for this trip. What is worse though is the useless CO2 emission by Air Force One hopping over the Atlantic and back. I bet somewhere in the Arctic an iceberg breaks off before the weekend is over.

Well, Scott F., one of the founders of this site, has unearthed a number of plausible reasons as to why the Obamba's failed to get the Olymics to that derelict industrial graveyard aka the windy city:

10. Dead people can't vote at IOC meetings
9. Obama distracted by 25 min meeting with Gen. McChrystal
8. Who cares if Obama couldn't talk the IOC into Chicago? He'll be able to talk Iran out of nukes.
7. The impediment is Israel still building settlements.
6. Obviously no president would have been able to acomplish it.
5. We've been quite clear and said all along that we didn't want the Olympics.
4. This isn't about the number of Olympics "lost", it's about the number of Olympics "saved" or "created".
3. Clearly not enough wise Latina judges on the committee
2. Because the IOC is racist.
1. It's George Bush's fault.

It's mainly #1, I'm sure of it.


MFBB.

THE REAL DISTRICT 9 IS IN BRUSSELS.

Another telling article from a leftard who has seen the light, and it's even published in a regime press newspaper like De Standaard. Suddenly, an archleftist, Luckas Van Der Talen, a green MP, discovers the bankruptcy of the multiculti phantasmagorias:

"DO WE DO HAVE BE FRIGHTENED TO FORCE OUR VALUES ON THEM? - LUCKAS VANDER TAELEN is tired to live near a ghetto where Moroccan youths treat him as if he's on their private property. 'Why dare we not come up for what in fact is essential: respect for the laws and the values of the country in which we live?' I live near a neighborhood in Vorst, from Merode street to Brussels South Station, which you cannot define, even with the most ardent multicultural mindset, as anything else than a ghetto. My daughter has long since given up entering that district. For that she has been gravely insulted too many times. I myself cycle through it each day and every time it's another adventure. Cars parked illegally in double lanes, drivers blocking a crossroads to talk with each other, youths hanging around that regard you as if you're trespassing on their private property. Keep your mouth shut, especially when you're almost ridden in the gutter: the last time I nevertheless protested, a sixteen year old scolded me as I have never been scolded before, and concluded his tirade with a message which I do not translate: 'Nique ta mère.' [yes, that's 'F$ck your mother - MFBB]. That was however still less bad than the previous time, when another maghrebin youth [meant is a Moroccan youngster - MFBB] felt offended by my behaviour when I had the audacity to take my primacy [meant is probably that he had priority on entering a roundabout - MFBB]. His honour had been so besmirched that he felt obliged to spit in my face… Therefore, by all means: keep silent. Because if you try to tell someone that doing 70km per hour is way too fast in an area with speed limit 30, then you are entitled to a confrontation with a young new Belgian who can't stand someone telling him to do this or that and is prepared to ram you in a hospital for that. Twenty years ago I was convinced that assimilating the young new Belgians would be a quick business. But now in Brussels a generation of rebels without a cause has grown up which is never pleased, always feels treated unfair, and is never responsible for anything. When something goes wrong, it's always the fault of the government or the racist Belgians. Within their own families, young maghrebin men remain untouchable too. When police rounded up a young suspect in Molenbeek, the father immediately organized a demonstration because his son 'wouldn't even steal an apple.' The efforts of the government in the problem districts have actually ensured that young people do not feel the need to leave them, a ULB-study demonstrated last year [in non-greenie speech this means that the Beljun gubbermint's woolly multiculti reach out efforts have ensconced the cretins in a local welfare environment to such an extent they certainly won't leave - MFBB]. In this manner, what was created were actually navel-staring village-like communities in the middle of a large city. A daughter of Moroccan friends has a Belgian boyfriend. She never goes out with him in the district, because she is called names instantly. Despite the fact that the young immigrants have Belgian nationality, they do not feel any affinity with this country. On the contrary: 'Belge' is a hateful insult... You almost never see young women in the district. And certainly not in the bars: there they are not even tolerated. When a female official of the municipality asked for a coffee there, it was quickly made obvious to her she wouldn't be served anything. When I cycle through the Merode quarter, I know that I won't spot a single female on a terrace until far beyond Brussels South Station. And then I'm not even talking about the troubling double sexual morality which expects that young immigrant women prove they are still virgins during the wedding night, while everyone knows that the hospitals of Brussels restore virgin membranes with a simple operation... A well-known French-Moroccan artist organized an exhibition in Brussels last week: a series of prayer mats with shoes, of which one pair, a high-heeled one, was placed in the spotlights. The art gallery immediately received threatening phone calls, the windows were damaged and spit on. The commotion apparently resulted from the artist's wish to indicate that women's status in the islamic world needed to be elevated. Apparently this is no longer possile in Brussels. After a couple of days the artwork was removed. Perhaps we must ask ourselves how it has come thus far: that we have accepted that principles like an artist's artistical freedom and equal rights for men and women are no longer guaranteed in this country. Why dare we not rise up for what is in fact essential: respect for the laws and the values of the country in which we live? A headscarf ban is no solution. But perhaps we must reflect nevertheless profoundly on how we can, in an assertive manner, make it clear that we are willing to defend what we find important. It is the merit of the left to have asked for more awareness of discrimination and dire social situations. The problem lies unfortunately deeper: we are frightened to force our values onto immigrants. Those values are however too dear to lose them."

- Luckas Van Der Talen, Flemish MP for the green party Groen!


As remarkable as this testimony is, coming from a man who has vilified the Vlaams Belang and its voters for more than two decades... it's too little and too late. A nightmare is now rapidly engulfing most of Western Europe, and one of the focal points is Brussels... the very capital of the European Union... which is already 25% muslim. Already, Belgian law IS NOT UPHELD ANYMORE IN THREE COMMUNES. Police dare not enter certain neighborhoods anymore, the communes are a hotbed for islamic extremists where terrorist plots are prepared all over Europe (for one thing, the Madrid bombings were doctored out here), women dare not walk the streets anymore unveiled, religious police is operating already, VAT controllers know they will be lynched if they even dare so much a throw a glance at the 'books' of the numerous small, shady enterprises doing business that can't stand daylight... and the few hapless, terrified authochtons that still remain in these areas go thru hell night and day. The more able ones, the ones who still have a choice, all leave... rendering the block where they lived even more muslim. A couple who are clients of mine came back to their hometown upon retiring, after having spent the better part of their lives in Brussels, since they were government officials or something. I recall, upon visiting them one month ago in their new apartment in a small town in the province, how they told me that when once they asked a Moroccan neighbor, at 10pm, if the Moroccan's kids could keep quiet since they had to get up early in the morning, they were answered with the harsh advice to "move out themselves, if they wanted their problem solved".

Sadly, this is exactly what happened.

And I'm sure their former apartment is now inhabited by...

... other muslims.

The Belgian Army and Air Force must prepare to effectively seal off muslim neighborhoods, after which they can ascertain that forced mass deportation to the countries of origin can commence in a proper manner. This may sound insane, yet I assure you that it is not. If a nation allows that parallel societies thrive on its territory, societies where a mockery is made of the Constitution of that nation... societies where the nation's 'law enforcers' dare not even venture anymore... that nation is in time doomed. Especially when all demographic parameters predict with mathematical certainty an irresistible growth of those parallel societies.

That nation has the RIGHT... what do I say, the DUTY, to ensure that its laws, which are the RIGHTFUL FRUIT of a DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, are respected and enforced... ESPECIALLY when those laws, in theory at least, ensure the dignity of the human individual and his "inalienable rights"... and ESPECIALLY when for the restoration of those rights, temporarily lost after the violent invasion of another inhuman ideology, millions gave their lives.

When that nation shirks away from its responsibilities, you get situations like this: the website Islamisation notes that in Rome, Italy, the mayor had expressly forbidden that the famous Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele, be used for public prayers. He got a big fat FUCK YOU from these guys...





... who flouted the mayor's decree and blocked the square nevertheless for THEIR purposes. The police... stood by and did nothing. In case the word you are trying to find is on the tip of your tongue but it keeps eluding you, let me help you: it's called INTIMIDATION. Well, can you imagine, say, southern Baptists doing the same on a square in the muslim Holy City, Mecca? Of course you cannot! The idea is even laughable!!! Now, Italy has perhaps 1.5 % muslims... what will it be when there are 15%?

If the current catastrophic trend towards islamization of our Magnificent Europe is not curbed NOW... disaster awaits us, and by extension the whole of western civilization. We, looking to the future, striving for a better future, but nonetheless also respecting our past and traditions - while acknowledging the errors that have sometimes been made - can not, WILL NOT, let that happen.





PREPARE THE TANKS.



MFBB.