Friday, August 30, 2013

AALST, BELGIUM: OLV HOSPITAL IS LOOKING FOR NURSES WHO SPEAK ARABIC.

From the Belgian newssite Mozkito:

"Hospital looking for nurses who speak arabic

AALST - a job opening of recruitment bureau Randstad for a job as a nurse in a hospital in Aalst has caused quite some uproar after Steve Herman, chairman of Vlaams Belang in Aalst, put the ad with the job description on his Facebook page. The reason: the hospital, OLV (short for Onze Lieve Vrouw, Our Holy Lady) states as one of the conditions that candidates must be able to speak, apart from Dutch, arabic. "It's about a proactive enquiry for a (European) project OLV participates in and whereby non-western patients will be treated here."


A screenshot of Mozkito's webpage:


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And a screenshot of the Randstad in question, as photographed and put on Facebook by Steve Herman:


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OLV is a medium-sized hospital with a (very) good reputation in a number of fields, amongst others for robotic operations, back complications (our former King Albert II was treated here rather than in one of the hospitals around Brussels), heart diseases etc.

As a sidenote, I might add that almost one year ago, I was treated there myself for my severe back problems, and to give credit where credit is due, the specialist under whose care I was rather quickly discovered that my real problem was cancer of the bone marrow - getting a quick and correct diagnosis is, it should be obvious, of paramount importance. Note that in all its correspondence and outward communication, "OLV" only uses its own neutral acronym, "OLV", what with being ashamed of your Christian heritage and fearing that some patients of a certain non-christian background might be offended by so strongly a Christian reference as the Mother of Jesus - like I said, "OLV" means "Onze Lieve Vrouw", Our Holy Lady. But I digress.


Anyway, Chris Van Raemdonck, a spokesperson for the Onze Lieve Vrouw hospital tripped over his words to minimize the issue, explaining that Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital is 'only' participating in a European project to get 'appointed' as a European hub to treat non-western patients - read arabs - because the necessary medical capabilities and/or equipment are unavailable in the countries of origin.

Nice explanation.

This is Outlaw Mike's guess. Not so very deep in the bowels of the European Union a muslim lobby is at work to, indeed, get patients from muslim countries treated as cheap as possible since the medical sector in said countries is completely fucked up. Organisations and structures to strenghten the ties between the EU and muslim Mediterranean countries exist since the seventies, and I gather that this 'project' to dedicate distinctive European clinics as recipients of busloads of muslim patients from arabic countries, are sold as a benign initiative within the framework of EU-arab cooperation. It is going to be a kind of medical tourism (a term Van Raemdonck uses literally) and for that reason the hospital yearning to be that hub must have a cadre of nurses speaking arabic.

Memo to Mr Van Raemdonck: despite your impressive cv, see here, you are a small man who thinks small. You should see the Bigger Picture Mr. Van Raemdonck.

The Bigger Picture is this: the islamic world is rapidly becoming Mankind's Biggest Problem ever. In a NORMAL world, humanity should steadily progress, become more apt to use the planet's resources to their full extent to create harmonious societies. Harmonious and prosperous societies in which individuals can fullfill their maximum potential for the ultimate benefit of all.

In THIS world however, the muslim part of humanity is manifesting itself every year more and more as a terrible burden instead for the non-muslim part of humanity. Basically everywhere where there's a war going on, one or both sides in the conflict are muslim. In all muslim countries, parameters by which upwardly moving societies are measured, are moderate in quite a few cases and downright depressing in a plethora of others. Where muslim countries interact with others frictions and incompatibilities occur, at best. We are talking about difficult trade regulations, unfulfilled payments, strained cultural exchanges, problematic traffic of persons, the threat of cutting our oil supplies and being and the mercy for the price thereof.

When I take a plane at Zaventem or Charleroi and see that a seventysomething woman in a wheelchair has to remove part of her clothing for 'security measures' - well, that too is because of muslims.

At worst The number of cases whereby acts of violence, sometimes war, occurs, are multiplying. Look at a map of the world and see where muslim countries border non-muslim ones from West Africa to the Philippines - bloodshed everywhere. Not only that, they can't even get along with themselves.

To cut a long story short: ISLAM SUCKS, AND BIG TIME!!!!!!

As they have done so now for decades, petty western 'intellectuals' offer their screwed up opinions on every probem in the muslim world as if these problems exist on their own and don't interact with the others. The Paleostinian 'plight', whereby Israel is the evil force. The turmoil in the ME, where of course western countries are to blame. Through the foggy prism with which our hopelessly leftist 'intelligentsia' (now there's an oxymoron!) regard the developments in the arab world, the so-called 'Arab Spring' was the Facebook Revolution, masses of upright people yearning to be free of their pro-US dictators.

How incredibly foolish. ALL OF THE PROBLEMS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD CAN SIMPLY...

... be brought back to one thing.

Islam itself.


Islam itself will render hopeless each and every undertaking to get to a better, juster, and more prosperous society.


Islam ITSELF is the problem, and it is becoming a TERRIBLE BURDEN FOR HUMANITY.

What is it about that obvious fact that you DON'T understand Mr Van Raemdonck?

So no, we DON'T need more interaction with muslim countries. We need LESS. It should be clear that we DON'T NEED muslim patients. South Korea and Uruguay are perfectly able to treat their sick well. So should muslim countries. Dark EU operatives are obviously looking for another channel to milk our resources in order to alleviate the results of the islamic world's UTTER FAILURE to offer its citizens a chance to a decent life. It is yet more confirmation of the encroaching muslim presence and lobbying force in the supranational force that the EU is becoming, and THINKING EU CITIZENS SHOULD REFUSE TO GO ALONG WITH THAT STORY.

Islam is a failure in every conceivable way. We should leave that failure where it is, in the hellholes of Yemen, Syria, Gaza and Pakistan. To allow even more interaction means to import the mechanisms that ensure muslim countries' squalor in our own countrues. No, we should defititely NOT reinforce even more than it is already the muslim presence in OUR countries.

Because that's what would happen. Hire arabic speaking nurses in a Flemish middle sized town smack in the middle of the Flemish heartland - and 5 minutes after ailing Ali and Mo arrive in Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital, probably having wounded each other in their asinine internice feuds; or else severely diabetic, having propped themselves full with sugar during fucking ramadan, well, 5 minutes later and they will DEMAND that halal food is served and that Marjolein, the Flemish-as-can-be colleague of Madam arabic speaking nurse, covers her hair.

Oh yes, Mr Chris Van Raemdonck the communication specialist is such a small thinker.



It's all thoroughly depressing.



MFBB.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

SATURDAY NIGHT THE BEATLES, THE LEMONHEADS.

Must be the first time ever The Beatles make it to Saturday Night on DB. I chose While my guitar gently weeps.




Written by my favourite Beatle. Drawn from The White Album (1968).



The Lemonheads follow suit with If I could talk I'd tell you.




From the 1996 album Car Button Cloth. Frontman and only constant member is Evan Dando.



Nite.


MFBB.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

DEADLY SILENCE IN EUROPE RE THE IDENTITY OF THE KILLERS OF CHRISTOPHER LANE.

I guess I don't have to introduce this scum to you. The black teens, James Edwards and Chancey Luna, were charged with the first-degree murder on August 20 of Christopher Lane, a twenty-two year old baseball player studying in the US, and held without bail. They face a life without parole sentence if convicted. The third, a white teen named Michael Jones, was charged with use of a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon, with bail set at $1,000,000. All were charged as adults.


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It should come as no surprise that you would have a hard time finding this kind of data in the Belgian press. Especially when you rely only on our 'prime' newspaper De Standaard. They ran a short story about the event in the beginning of the week, but only mentioning 'teens'. A dog with a hat on sniffs there's something more goind on here, and 'lo and behold, a couple of minutes later I discovered the real identities of the 'teens' and - dare I use the word? - the race of the main perpetrators, as opposed to Michael Jones, the whitey who 'only' drove the car.

Well, since then De Standaard has done ITS UTMOST BEST to bury the story DEEP. Today, Thursday, I gave up trying to find the particular page after 10 minutes. 'For the fun of it', I did try googling first 'De Standaard Trayvon Martin' and then 'De Standaard Chris Lane'. And this is what I found for Trayvon Martin:


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In pole position you find a De Standaard article wherein Obamba proclaims that he could have been Trayvon Martin. Furthermore something about Beyonce demonstrating for the thug etc etc etc.


Lookie look what comes up when you enter our quality newspaper and Chris Lane:



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No no no people!!! That's 'De dagelijkse standaard' you see there, a Dutch rightwing blog, appropriately lamenting the fact that euro MSM is burying the story under tons of trivia. And jawohl, NOT A SINGLE De Standaard link to be seen re the callous murder of Lane by Edwards & Co.


For what it's worth, here's a video Edwards uploaded to Vine. Notice he's making a Crips sign. FYI, the Crips are an African American gang founded in LA in 1969 by Raymond Washington, whose main inspiration were the Black Panthers. More info here.

Alas, like the identity of the killers, the details concerning their favorite pastimes are things De Standaard will choose to disclose to you by the time Earth is about to be swallowed by the Sun, having become a Red Giant by then.




I shiver at the thought that it's looking more and more that people like Trayvon Martin, Rachel Jeantel, James Edwards and Chancey Luna do seem to represent the main body of America's black community.


As for the silence surrounding America's foremost race-baiters Obama, Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, don't miss this nail on the head column by American Thinker's Taleeb Starkes:


"...Unlike Trayvon Martin, Christopher Lane doesn't have powerful, race-baiting allies in the Oval Office, Justice Department, media, and entertainment industry. Assuredly, General Holder will not use Chris Lane's senseless murder as a catalyst to pursue his often-requested national race dialogue. Nope. Nor will the Justice Department zealously create a tips hotline (in Zimmerman-like fashion) to build an airtight case against the Chris Lane's shooter for a civil rights violation or hate crime, even though the alleged gunman once tweeted, "90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM."

There will not be nationwide "stop the violence" marches with fed-up participants wearing baseball hats to honor Chris Lane. In fact, this generic tweet from Jesse Jackson, which was likely written by his public relations aides, is all that Chris Lane's parents are likely to receive. It stated, "Praying for the family of Chris Lane. This violence is frowned upon and the justice system must prevail." Apparently, the deepest emotion that this so-called human rights activist was able to muster for Chris Lane was a figurative frown. This guy is such a phony!

Unlike Trayvon Martin's parents, no mainstream American publication will feature Chris Lane's parents and siblings on its cover with the caption "We Are Chris." Nor will any mainstream publication with a majority White readership use his death to launch a "Save our Sons" campaign, despite the statistical fact that more Whites are killed annually by Blacks than Blacks are killed by Whites. Opportunistic celebrities will not elevate Chris Lane to cultural icon status and the Smithsonian Institution will not consider incorporating any of his jogging apparel from the murder scene into its historic catalogue. Even Oklahoma's Stand Your Ground laws have escaped Florida-like scrutiny because Chris Lane never had a chance to stand his ground.

In summation, Chris Lane is not so analogous to Trayvon Martin. Chris Lane's story actually parallels Patrick Mahaney.

Who is Patrick Mahaney? Unsurprisingly, the public doesn't remember Patrick Mahaney and predictably, the American mainstream media will ensure that Chris Lane also won't be remembered. Although Patrick Mahaney was in a different city than Chris Lane when he had a similar encounter with "bored" teenagers, the callousness was the same. According to the New York Daily News:

"Six teens were arrested Sunday after beating a man unconscious in a Cincinnati suburb - because they were bored and looking for something to do. Pat Mahaney, 45, of North College Hill, landed in the hospital after a vicious attack that left him with a black eye and severe internal injuries. He was hurt so badly that his stomach filled with blood that required a tube down his throat to drain."

Both attacks occurred in the month of August roughly a year apart. However, Chris Lane died on the scene whereas Patrick suffered for eleven months before dying last month (July 2013). Another consistency between Chris Lane and Patrick Mahaney's tragedies is the perpetrators' behavior after detainment. The police in both cases stated that the juvenile delinquents were arrogant, maintained their bravado, and lacked remorse for their criminality.

America had better realize that this cavalier behavior isn't an anomaly. These sociopathic tendencies are religiously embraced by a criminal subculture within the Black community whose idea of recreation is to wreck-creation. Sadistic activities such as "Knock-out King," "Polar Bear Hunting," "Apple Picking" etc. are favorite pastimes in urban America. Unfortunately, the destructive tenets of this dysfunctional subculture have now manifested in Duncan, Oklahoma, where Blacks are a mere three-percent of its population."



And you guess it, that kind of prose is VERBOTEN in Europe.


Now, if there happens to be a De Standaard editor around reading this humble blogpost, written around midnight since yours truly was one hour ago still involved with his company's paperwork, I'd like you to know that ONCE AGAIN, asshole, I am doing YOUR WORK here - and I'm not paid for it.


Leftism is a Disease of the Mind.

Chris Lane, I will pray for you and your loved ones. RIP.



MFBB.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

SATURDAY NIGHT THIN LIZZY, PETER FRAMPTON.

Thin Lizzy opens with The boys are back in town.




Irish rock band which formed in 1969 in Dublin around Phil Lynott (guitarist, singer) and Brian Downey (drums). This single was drawn from the 1976 album Jailbreak.



Then it's Peter Frampton with Show me the way.



English multi-instrumentalist bloke from Bromley, southeast London. One of his signature songs, it was featured on his breakthrough album Frampton comes alive! (1976).

Goedenacht.



MFBB.

Friday, August 16, 2013

BILL WHITTLE ON THE FIRST DOG'S ADVENTURES AND OTHER STORIES.

Check out this wonderful piece of engineering, the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey, a military multi-mission tiltrotor aircraft with both a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability, designed to 'combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft'. Its origins can be traced back to 1980-1981, right after the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, meant to free US hostages held in Iran, demonstrated the need for "a new type of aircraft, that could not only take off and land vertically but also could carry combat troops, and do so at speed." The end result was the V-22 Osprey, with a program cost of US$35.6 billion and a unit cost (for an MV-22) of US$69.3 million (flyaway cost for FY2012).


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Last week an Osprey was used for the sole purpose of transporting:


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... Barack Obama's dog Bo to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, for the prez's umpteenth holiday this year.
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There may be no more money for White House Tours because thos eeeeeevil Republicans insisted on the sequestration, that gruesome 2 per cent cut in the governments scheduled growth of expenses, but there is plenty of money to airlift a Portuguese water dog with a technological marvel normally used for transporting Marines to a war zone.

What I don't understand is how the smoke and mirrors creep who is shitting on AMERICA day and night, and has made a sport of laughing the American people in the face, can get away with it all.

Anyway, don't miss Bill Whittle's priceless take on this latest outrageous abuse of presidential power:





MFBB.




Thursday, August 15, 2013

SCORES OF COPTIC CHURCHES ATTACKED IN EGYPT, MSM COVERAGE NONEXISTANT AS USUAL.

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs links to sites with a tally on destroyed or severely damaged Coptic churches and places of worship in Egypt. It's not clear to me whether the following list is just the daily tally or whether a resume of attacks in the past days or even weeks. This is Coptic World, and here is Nile Revolt, with the former essentially copying the list of the latter.

What IS clear however, is that at this very moment Egypt's Coptic Christians are even more under attack than usual - and NATURALLY our MSM is turning a blind eye on it. In Belgium, as so often, De Standaard, Het Laatste Nieuws et al remain completely mute on the subject while on the other hand reporting extensively on the authorization the Israeli government gave last week to build 1,200 new houses in Judea and Samaria.

Why can't they simply have objective articles on the subject like this one at Fox News?


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A photo that will NEVER make the pages of De Standaard or Het Laatste Nieuws: the destroyed Saint George Coptic Church in Assuit after a visit by muslim brotherhood thugs.


Anyway, here's the list:


Churches

Alexandria
1.Father Maximus Church

Arish
1.St George Church | Burned

Assiut
1.Good Shepherds Monastery | Nuns attacked
2.Angel Michael Church | Surrounded
3.St George Coptic Orthodox Church
4.Al-Eslah Church| Burned
5.Adventist Church | Pastor and his wife kidnapped
6.St Therese Church
7.Apostles Church | Burning
8.Holy Revival Church | Burning

Beni Suef
1.The Nuns School
2.St George Church | al-Wasta

Cairo
1.St Fatima Basilica | Heliopolis | Attempted Attack

Fayoum (Five churches)
1.St Mary Church | El Nazlah
2.St Damiana Church | Robbed and burned
3.Amir Tawadros (St Theodore) Church
4.Evangelical Church | al-Zorby Village | Looting and destruction
5.Church of Joseph | Burned
6.Franciscan School | Burned

Gharbiya
1.Diocese of St Paul | Burned

Giza
1.Father Antonios
2.Atfeeh Bishopric

Minya
1.Church of the Virgin Mary and Father Abram | Delga, Deir Mawas
2.St Mina Church | Abu Hilal Kebly, Beni Hilal
3.Baptist Church | Beni Mazar
4.Deir Mawas Bishopric
5.Delga Church | Attacked
6.The Jesuit Fathers Church | Abu Hilal district
7.St Mark Church | Abu Hilal district
8.St Joseph Nunnery
9.Amir Tadros Church
10.Evangelical Church
11.Anba Moussa al-Aswad Church
12.Apostles Church

Qena
1.St Mary’s Church | Attempted Burning

Sohag
1.St George Church
2.St Damiana | Attacked and burned
3.Virgin Mary | Attacked and burned
4.St Mark Church & Community Center
5.Anba Abram Church | Destroyed and burned

Suez
1.St Saviours Anglican Church
2.Franciscan Church and School | Street 23 | Burned
3.Holy Shepherd Monastery and Hospital
4.Good Shepherd Church (molotov cocktail thrown)- Relationship with Holy Shepherd Monastery unknown.
5.Greek Orthodox Church

Christian Institutions
■House of Father Angelos (Pastor of Church of the Virgin Mary and Father Abram) | Delga, Minya | Burned
■Properties and Markets of Copts | al-Gomhorreya Street, Assiut
■Seventeen Coptic homes | Delga, Minya | Burned
■YMCA | Minya| Burned
■Coptic Homes | Qulta Street, Assiut | Attacked
■Offices of the Evangelical Foundation & Oum al-Nour | Minya
■Coptic-owned shops, pharmacy, and hotels | Karnak and Cleopatra Streets, Luxor | Attacked and Looted
■Dahabeya Nile Boat | Minya| Church-owned
■Bible Society bookshop | Cairo | Burned
■Bible Society | Fayoum
■Bible Society | al-Gomohoreya Street, Assiut

Source: http://nilerevolt.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/1198/



You can donate to the Coptic cause here.



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Worshippers continue to pray in the burned out hulk of the Coptic Church of Saint Tadros in Alminia.


Having done for free and AGAIN the work that 'professional' journalists should do, Outlaw Mike retires for the night.



MFBB.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

BELGIUM: SOME RAMADAN SNAPSHOTS.

While ramadan has come and gone, and I actually intended to post the following items DURING the so-called muslim fasting season but couldn't get it done in time because of company chores, it's never too late to shed some light on the politically correct insanity being displayed by our moral betters in the Powers That Be:

A.) THIS RAMADAN, THE CITY OF ANTWERP HAS PAID FOR 38 MORE 'MOSQUE STEWARDS'.

Your tax euros at work!

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From De Standaard, that paradigm of fair and balanced news in the Low Countries. Not.


"The mosque stewards aren't a new concept, but this year the group in Antwerp was reinforced with 38 more of them.

The mosque stewards must make mosquegoers aware of their responsibilities vis-à-vis the neighbors and ask them, amongst others, to not keep talking at the mosque entrance once the imam's sermon is finished. People living around the mosque [autochtons - MFBB] who do experience some kind of trouble will find in the mosque stewards a listening ear.

Gazet van Antwerpen writes that over the past years police received complaints sometimes over excessive noise and parking in unauthorised (private) slots during ramadan. In 2012, 4,300 EUR was spent for equipping the mosque stewards with fluorescent vests and learning them first aid techniques. Police evaluated the project in a positive way."



Now, that is how De Standaard sees it. We will now listen to how Outlaw Mike's interpretation:


"Apparently complaints over hindrance by mosquegoers during ramadan have been steadily increasing over the past years. Local non-muslims have had to live with excessive noise and cars parked in their own private parking slots. The remedy? Instead of curtailing the noise level and fining those who park their cars illegally, no less than 38 MORE 'mosque stewards' are hired and equipped with INFIDEL TAXPAYER MONEY."


Another pic. Hey you stupid indigenous Antwerpian infidel citizen, care to know what your hard earned euros stolen, whoops confiscated by the luvely City of Antwerp are being used for?? Why, to pay the asshat below!!


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But wait, it gets better. De Standaard shines its light (ecopowered no doubt) on the duties of Belgian enterpreneurs with muslims among their personnel:


B.) SHOULD YOUR BOSS TAKE RAMADAN INTO ACCOUNT?


De Standaard knows the answer. YES of course. Read and shiver:

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"On 10 July, the yearly ramadan started. The fasting month can be rather difficult for muslims, especially in high summer, when it's hot. During ramadan participants don't eat from dawn till sunset. This can lead to dehydration and loss of concentration. Having a meal is allowed after sunset and before the sun comes up. This nightly disturbance can lead to loss of sleep, which makes it more difficult to concentrate on the job.

The employer however does not have to take ramadan into account per se. However, not doing so would not be smart. And yes, it is possible by adhering to the following - temporary - principles, e.g. a shortened lunch pause for those who participate in the ramadan, allowing them to go home earlier (given the shortened lunch pause), PROVIDING A SEPARATE ROOM FOR NOON BREAK WHERE EATING OR DRINKING IS NOT ALLOWED ETC ETC... [emphasis mine - MFBB]

For a white collar worker ramadan most of the time does not really pose a problem. With hand laborers the danger lurks in safety on the working spot however. IT IS THEREFORE ADVISABLE TO NOT LET THE HEAVIEST JOBS DONE DURING RAMADAN. WHEN IN DOUBT OVER THE SAFETY ISSUE THE EMPLOYER CAN HIRE THE SERVICES OF A DOCTOR. IF THE DOCTOR JUDGES A WORKER IS UNABLE TO PERFORM THE JOB, HE WILL SEND THE WORKER HOME. THIS LOST DAY HOWEVER WILL HAVE TO BE PAID FOR BY THE EMPLOYER [emphasis mine - MFBB]."



It really stands there. You are a boss and in a time of momentary foolishness you hired muslims. De Standaard and jobat.be think that during ramadan, if mohammed screws up his welding or masonry or whatever job because of an empty stomach, mister ramadan should be sent home with a pat on the back and YOU, the employer, should pay for the day's economic losses. It's apparently not enough for the lunatics that the Belgian government is already crushing employers under massive tax and regulatory burdens.


C.) SOME BOSSES WILL GROVEL IN THE DIRT.


However, insanity is spreading, even among those who should know better. In early July, I drove home from the University Clinic at Jette where I had gone to hear about my progress (it transpired that my treatment has gone extraordinarily well for the moment, thank you very much). After having paid a brief visit to my uncle and his wife in D., I decided to take a shortcut via secundary roads and the E40 highway to E., where I had to pick up the books from my accountant, who had been checking them. 'Lo and behold, when passing thru the outskirts of Ternat, I came across the following ads, displayed on a carriage in a meadow.


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These are ads from DIY DeMarie near the town of Ternat.

Look closely at the woman half of the couple. The caption 'Doe het zelf' means 'Do it yourself' of course.


close up


It's clearly a western woman.

Is the boss of DeMarie such a callous asshat that during ramadan he hopes to lure muslims to his business by depicting a WESTERN woman with a muslim headscarf on his ads??? Is that really possible?

If fear it is. Another one who has succumbed to the Diversinazis and is already groveling in the dirt for his future overlords.



MFBB.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

SATURDAY NIGHT THE O'JAYS, THE BOO RADLEYS.

The O'Jays with the magnificent hit Backstabbers, from the 1972 album of the same name.





Rhythm and Blues group which formed in 1958 in Canton, Ohio and has been making music and touring continuously ever since. Two of the original members, Walter Williams and Eddie Levert, are still on board.


Upbeat single by The Boo Radleys, Wake up Boo!




Blokes from Wallasey, Merseyside. Not really a Britpop group, this single, their only one, hit the billboards in the middle of the Britpop period though, which is why they are sometimes associated with the movement.


Nite.


MFBB.

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

THE ISLAMIC CATASTROPHE.

Sorry, it's in Fwench. But I guess you'll get the gist.




STOP THE NIGHTMARE.

And the first step towards that goal is acknowledgement of the situation. If you haven't done so already, do it. Start talking about it with your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers, business friends, whatever.


MFBB.

Monday, August 05, 2013

RECOMMENDED READS: MARK STEYN ON ANTHONY WEINER AND HUMA ABEDIN.

A smack in your face analysis from Mark Steyn on one sick couple which turned bloodsucking the functioning and valuable parts of society into a lifestyle. Via National Review:


"Let us put aside, as he so rarely does, Anthony Weiner’s spambot penis, and consider his wife and putative first lady. By universal consent, Huma Abedin is “smart, accomplished” (the Guardian), “whip-smart” (The Week), “accomplished” (Time), “smart and accomplished” (the Daily News) — oh, and did I mention “accomplished” (Forbes)?

So, if she’s so smart, what has she accomplished? Let us put aside her Muslim Brotherhood family background — let us put it aside in the same corner as Anthony Weiner’s infidel penis, the Muslim Brotherhood being one of the few things on the planet rising even more spectacularly than Anthony. Instead, consider merely the official résumé. Huma Abedin’s present employment is as “head of Hillary Clinton’s transition team.” Mrs Clinton, you may recall, was once secretary of state. This was way back in January. Since then, she has been “transitioning away from government to become more involved in her family’s charitable foundation.” You can’t make a “transition” without a “transition team.” Well, not in America. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands recently abdicated and managed to transition away from being queen back to the non-queen sector without benefit of a “transition team.” But it would be entirely unreasonable to expect U.S. cabinet officials to attempt the same tricky maneuver.

In 2001, Bill Clinton was struggling with his own “transition back to private life.” He was reported by his ever reliable New York Times stenographer Adam Nagourney to be having difficulty “trying to place his own telephone calls.” The telephone is a technology many older people can have problems with, particularly if they had a full-time staff to place their calls throughout the Nineties. The 1890s, that is. So, alone in retirement at Chappaqua, a bewildered Bill would pick up the speaking tube and bark, “Hello, Central, get me Gennifer Flowers.” Fortunately, he was able to make a full recovery, and has since earned (according to CNN) $89 million in “speaking fees.” But few others could manage their “transition” quite that adroitly. So for the last six months the smart, accomplished Huma Abedin has been the executive supremo of Mrs. Clinton’s “transition team.”
Is this a grueling, time-consuming burden? Is this why Anthony Weiner’s shorts find themselves alone in the small hours burning the midnight oil? No. Politico’s Maggie Haberman recently broke the exclusive news that Ms. Abedin is taking “extended vacation time from her job.” This is not because the Clintons are naturally revolted at having their good name sullied by association with a sick pervert and his creepy enabling wife, but because, as you eventually discover if you plough deep into Miss Haberman’s story, “Hillary Clinton has close to no schedule next month.” She is now transitioning from her transition to her summer in the Hamptons, and presumably that requires an entirely different kind of transition team, to bring the beach towels and mix the margaritas.


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A guy like WEINER for NY Mayor?????? Y-You got to be kidding me????????


Let us take it as read that “Head of Hillary Clinton’s Transition Team” is a meaningless title. Many societies have offices of state whose origins are lost in the mists of time. In London, David Cameron’s cabinet includes a man who holds the position of Lord Privy Seal. “Lord Privy Seal” would make an excellent ceremonial title for Anthony Weiner’s penis, but is in fact one of the most ancient gigs on the planet. Prior to 1307, his job was done by the Keeper of the Wardrobe. But the Keeper of the Wardrobe felt that, what with having to keep the wardrobe, he didn’t also have time to keep the privy seal, so a new post was created. Today, the Lord Privy Seal is a position reserved for a valued confidant the prime minister wants in his cabinet but without a department to run. Someone “smart” and “accomplished,” so to speak. But it’s one thing to have a job title rendered meaningless by the intervening seven centuries, and another to invent it out of whole cloth the day before yesterday, and have the media pass it off to their readers with a straight face. Presumably, Ye Lord Keeper of Ye Transition provides some valuable service for Mrs. Clinton, but, if so, it would be nice if Maggie Haberman could let us in on it.

What else has Huma Abedin accomplished? She was Hillary’s right-hand gal in the 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination. Which Hillary lost. So not much of an accomplishment there. Subsequently, she was deputy chief of staff at the State Department, a job so demanding she latterly combined it with some private-sector consulting. What accomplishments does the State Department have to show for the Clinton-Abedin years? Secretary Clinton, as her supporters like to brag, “traveled a million miles.” “One is always nearer by not keeping still,” wrote the poet Thom Gunn. So Mrs. Clinton flew a million miles — to “reset” our relationship with Russia, and lead from behind in the Arab Spring. This weekend, America’s embassies in Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, and a bunch of other places will be shut down because everybody hates us. Meanwhile, Putin has embraced the first American defector to Moscow in decades, and is all but egging Obama to pull out of the G20 Summit and the insufficiently LGBT-friendly Russian Olympics. As Hillary in her more reflective moments must surely wonder about those million miles, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

....

My old boss Conrad Black recently pointed out that “the economy can’t recover as it did in the past until more people are adding value” — making and doing something real. Instead, 40 percent of Americans perform minimal-skilled service jobs about to be rendered obsolete by technology, and almost as many pass their productive years shuffling paperwork from one corner of the land to another in various “professional services” jobs that exist to in order to facilitate compliance with the unceasing demands of the microregulatory state. The daily Obamacare fixes — which are nothing to do with “health” “care” but only with navigating an impenetrable bureaucracy — are the perfect embodiment of the Republic of Paperwork.
But nobody adds lack of value like America’s present leadership class — diversicrats, community organizers, and “power couples” comprising somebody handling the transition of a government official and somebody handling the transition in his boxers. If this is “smart” and “accomplished,” no wonder Putin’s laughing his head off."



Bloody insane.

But that this guy actually stands a chance of getting elected says an AWFUL lot of what America has already turned into.



MFBB.

Saturday, August 03, 2013

SATURDAY NIGHT BOZ SCAGGS, PREFAB SPROUT.

Sorry for being AWOL for such a long time, but first, in the runup to our holiday, it was such a hectic thing to get company stuff done in time, and then while away in Scotland and the Lake District I had the greatest difficulty to get online. Neither of the two cottages we stayed in had wifi so I had to rely on the ole Huawei modem, and it must be that the coverage in the places we stayed in - Drumnadrochit in Scotland, Coniston in the UK - wasn't optimal, to say the least. Loading a page took aeons sometimes.

Anyway, first Boz Scaggs with What can I say? From the album Silk Degrees (1976).




A gem from the seventies. They don't make 'em like this any anymore. They weren't shy either of using brass instruments.



Then it's Prefab Sprout with Faron Young.




From the album Steve McQueen (1985).


Goedenacht.



MFBB.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

HEAVY RIOTING IN HAMBURG BY MUSLIM YOUTHS. I SUPPOSE IT'S RAMADAN AGAIN.

From our pals at Gates of Vienna:


"Three Nights of Muslim rioting in Hamburg-Altona
by Lena

For three nights in a row there have been heavy Muslim riots in Hamburg-Altona. On Thursday evening a mob attacked policemen. Last night they burned cars and hurled stones.

About 150 young people gathered Friday night in Chemnitz Street and in Holsten Street. “They wanted to let loose,” said a police spokesman. First the rioters only lit firecrackers; later they torched cars.

In Karl Wolff Street a car was completely gutted. Another car was set on fire in Hospital Street, but was able to be extinguished. Some time later the tires of another car were burning. More than 100 police officers were out in force. They used pepper spray against the rioters. In response the mob hurled stones at the officers. A 21-year-old man was arrested.



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The following night on Sunday again around 80 young people gathered in Holsten Street, and fireworks were ignited again — luckily nothing more happened on the third night of riots. “The situation has become very calm,” said the spokesman for Hamburg police on Sunday morning.

The riots started on Thursday night when a group of youths blinded car drivers with a laser pointer. The police moved in – and suddenly saw a group of over 150 people moving towards them. 16 rioters were detained.

There was an aggressive mood and the situation escalated. In the media, not much was said about the cultural background of the rioters, but in the photos and videos it can be seen: There are ‘Asians’ and women with headscarves. Also, the battle cry “Allahu Akbar” can be heard in the video."



Here, a video of this peaceful ramadan event:




Oh the wonders of cultrual enrichment!


MFBB.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

COVERAGE OF THE ZIMMERMAN ACQUITTAL IN BELGIUM.

The jury in the Zimmerman Trial has spoken, and thank God by sticking to the facts. But Belgium's 'prime' newspaper De Standaard has spoken too, and if you are an ordinary Belgian citizen relying for all your news on this leftist rag, you will have to do it with the following. Saint Obama's forum in De Standaard today:


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"'Obama calls the death of the black youngster Trayvon Martin, shot dead by the latino Zimmerman, 'a tragedy, not only for his family and not only for a certain community, but for all of America.'

'I understand that emotions run high. But we are a judicial state and the jury has spoken. Therefore I ask every American to respect the demand for calm reflection made by the two parents who lost their young son.'

Obama also asked Americans to reflect on how to stop the wave of shooting incidents and in the future avoid this kind of tragedies. 'That's the way to honor Trayvon Martin.'"



Dixit Saint Obama as quoted by De Standaard. That's your fair and balanced info you got to rely on.


What De Standaard will NEVER NEVER NEVER let you know is, oh, e.g. the following transcript. The full one, that is:


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And here is some more crucial info you would NEVER NEVER NEVER learn if you are content with swallowing the biased, incompetent De Standaard coverage that passes over here for 'quality journalism':


(1) It had been raining, so the grass was wet. The shooting occurred at the edge of the sidewalk on the grass.

(2) The back of George Zimmerman's clothes were wet and "flecked" with grass, a police officer who investigated at the scene testified, as if he had been lying on his back in wet grass.

(3) The knees in Trayvon Martin's jeans were stained, Medical Examiner Shiping Bao testified, as if Martin had been kneeling in the wet grass.

(4) The gun that killed Trayvon Martin was in direct contact with Martin's clothing when he was shot, according to the expert analysis and testimony of Florida Department of Law Enforcement firearm's expert Amy Siewert. She testified that the tear patterns in the cloth show a "contact shot" into the clothing.

(5) But the gun that killed Martin was at least 0.4 inches and up to 4 feet away from Martin's skin when Martin was shot, according to the expert analysis and testimony of Medical Examiner (coroner) Shiping Bao. He testified that the gunshot wound and condition of the skin show it was not a "contact shot" with respect to Martin's skin.

Therefore, Martin's clothing was not up against his body. Martin's clothing was hanging some distance away from his skin when the gun was fired. Martin's clothing was hanging downward from his body by the force of gravity when the gun was fired.
That is, Martin was leaning over Zimmerman. Martin was attacking Zimmerman and was on top of him. His clothing was hanging down, away from his body.

(6) A neighbor, Jonathan Good, testified that he saw Trayvon Martin kneeling on top of George Zimmerman in the wet grass and on the edge of the sidewalk, pounding Zimmerman with his fists.
Other witnesses testified that they thought they saw Zimmerman straddling on top of Martin as the men struggled in the grass next to a sidewalk, but were less certain. The reason they were unclear is because they did not know either of the young men at the time.

(7) Zimmerman suffered many very obvious cuts and bruises, especially on the back of his head, while Martin's body showed no injuries except on his hands.

(8) However, Trayvon Martin is Black and the liberal media is overwhelmingly racist, meaning that most journalists are obsessed with people's race and view and understand everything in terms of what color the person involved happens to be. This case would never have seen the inside of a courtroom except for the inherent racism of the news media.




Judge for yourself. It shouldn't be difficult.



MFBB.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

SATURDAY NIGHT BLUE BOY, THE FLAMING LIPS.

Blue Boy opens with Remember Me, a 1997 dance hit.




The Blue Boy in question is Alexis Blackmore, a Scottish DJ. AFAIK this is his only hit.




The Flaming Lips with Do you Realize??, which is the Offical Rock Song of Oklahoma forchrissake.




TFL is an American rock band, which formed in 83 in Oklahoma City, so they've been around for quite some time. Frontman is Wayne Coyne.



Good night and fuck the ramadan!!



MFBB.

Friday, July 12, 2013

WALTER WILLIAMS ON THE BLACK EDUCATION TRAGEDY.

An interesting angle to look at the Zimmerman trial - BTW, the man is innocent, it's only the usual leftard dickheads who for unfathomable reasons are the real ones trying to divide the country - is offered by Walter Williams. As per usual, Professor Williams is right on the money. From Townhall:



"As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman's defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter that she allegedly had written to Trayvon Martin's mother. She responded that she doesn't read cursive, and that's in addition to her poor grammar, syntax and communication skills.

Jeantel is a senior at Miami Norland Senior High School. How in the world did she manage to become a 12th-grader without being able to read cursive writing? That's a skill one would expect from a fourth-grader. Jeantel is by no means an exception at her school. Here are a few achievement scores from her school: Thirty-nine percent of the students score basic for reading, and 38 percent score below basic. In math, 37 percent score basic, and 50 percent score below basic. Below basic is the score when a student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level. Basic indicates only partial mastery.


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It's not just Florida's schools. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, nationally most black 12th-graders test either basic or below basic in reading, writing, math and science. Drs. Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom wrote in their 2004 book, "No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning," "Blacks nearing the end of their high school education perform a little worse than white eighth-graders in both reading and U.S. history, and a lot worse in math and geography." Little has changed since the book's publication.

Few Americans, particularly black Americans, have any idea of the true magnitude of the black education tragedy. The education establishment might claim that it's not their fault. They're not responsible for the devastation caused by female-headed families, drugs, violence and the culture of dependency. But they are totally responsible for committing gross educational fraud. It's educators who graduated Jeantel from elementary and middle school and continued to pass her along in high school. It's educators who will, in June 2014, confer upon her a high-school diploma...."



And then of course, the usual suspects from the academia jump in, with their false and/or evasive manoeuvres:


"...Drexel University history and political science professor George Ciccariello-Maher disapprovingly says that the reaction to Jeantel's court performance "has been in terms of aesthetics, of disregarding a witness on the basis of how she talks, how good she is at reading and writing." Harking back to Jim Crow days, he adds: "These are subtle things that echo literacy testing at the polls, echo the question of whether black Americans can testify against white people, of being always suspect in their testimony. It's the same old dynamics emerging in a very different guise." Then there's Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, who says: "Cursive should be allowed to die. In fact, it's already dying, despite having been taught for decades."



Totally Polikoff-topic. Unbelievable, what a lame excuse to not address the heartbreaking problem. Williams:


"That's the kind of educational philosophy that accounts for much of our nation's educational decline."


Goddam true.


"...The educational system and black family structure and culture have combined to make increasing numbers of young black people virtually useless in the increasingly high-tech world of the 21st century. Too many people believe that pouring more money into schools will help. That's whistlin' "Dixie." Whether a student is black or white, poor or rich, there are some minimum requirements that must be met in order to do well in school. Someone must make the student do his homework, see to it that he gets a good night's sleep, fix a breakfast, make sure he gets to school on time and make sure he respects and obeys his teachers. Here are my questions: Which one of those requirements can be achieved through a higher school budget? Which can be achieved by politicians? If those minimal requirements aren't met, whatever else is done is mostly for naught.

I hope Rachel Jeantel's court performance is a wake-up call for black Americans about the devastation wrought by our educational system."



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I suppose Outlaw Mike is a racist again for posting the above graph. Nothing could be further from the truth of course, the REAL racists are the leftards themselves, who have caused the black education tragedy to happen. Just as it was not Mitt Romney 'who would put y'all (that's YOU, Blacks) in chains', according to that IDIOT and most sorry excuse for a Veep ever Joe Biden. NO, it's people like BIDEN who have already been keeping blacks in chains for AGES. Let Black people embrace conservative values, the IQ jumps fifteen-twenty points in a matter of two generations. But no, they perform so bad because of evil white racists and that problem will be addressed by pouring even more money into the bottomless pits of the NAACP and an already bankrupt education system, and by lowering the standards for black students. In other words, the Easy, Costly, and Utterly Ineffective Measures the leftist bozos are so fond of.


Prof Williams offers the answer. But because he is black himself, he's an Uncle Tom. End of story.

The older I get, the more I'm convinced leftism is a Disease of the Mind.


MFBB.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

WHY RUSSIAN DRIVERS INSTALL DASHBOARD CAMERAS.

And for every one of those lucky devils there's, how many? for whom it's the end of the road:




Somewhat surprisingly with so many road cowboys on the loose, Russia still has 'only' about double the traffic accident death rate of my own country, Belgium (19.5 per 100,000 inhabitants per year vs. 10.1).

Hat tip Theo Spark.


MFBB.

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

A DAY OUT IN THE ARDENNES.

Finally gorgeous weather, neither the kids nor the wife in the mood to venture outside - that is, outside the grounds of Chateau Outlaw - so me off to the Ardennes again. Later this summer I intend to pick up the climbing thread again and hiking in the Ardennes this Sunday afternoon would give me an indication of what my seriously damaged back allows at this point in time.


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A southward view of the E411, Belgium's main highway cutting through the Ardennes. Pic taken from the Viaduc de Custinne. In the distance, the blue-green of the Ardennes beckon. Follow this highway another 100 kloms or so and you're in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.


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The inside of the ruins of the Chateau d'Herbeumont. Sorry, really got no time to elaborate.


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A view on the Semois river meandering it's way through the hills. Note: the green sliver in the center is NOT the 'Tombeau du Chevalier'. That's the ridge in lighter green immediately to the right of this one.


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A view of a slice of the Semois - the actual river is just beyond the grassy islet in the center of the photo. Photo taken from the finger of land known as the 'Tombeau du Chevalier'. Its more prosaic name is 'Presqu'ile de Boult'.


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View of the Ile de Houx in the Meuse river, taken from amidst the ruins of the Chateau de Poilvache.


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And finally a pic of the Chateau de Crupet, or rather its donjon surrounded by a moat/pool. Crupet is a lovely, tiny village more or less right between Dinant and Namur.


The photos don't do justice to the day, but may give you an idea of the landscape in much of Belgium's southeast.


MFBB.

Monday, July 08, 2013

MC DONALDS SINT-PIETERS-LEEUW (BELGIUM) CELEBRATES RAMADAN.

This is how it goes, millimeter after millimeter, inch after inch, month after month, year after year...



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... and one day you find yourself living in an islamic country.


At a time when never before the complete and untter inability of islamic societies to offer their subjects a safe haven, where their rights are respected and where they can live an prosper peacefully, has been so abundantly clear, the staff of the Mc Donalds in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (about fifteen kloms southwest of Brussels) has decided, in their gullible and willfully chosen ignorance, to celebrate ramadan.

Well then, Mc Donalds Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, NEVER AGAIN will I set foot in your establishment. It's not only because I loathe your groveling in the dirt before your future overlords, but also because I care about animals. To Outlaw Mike, halal is HARAM. Vegetarianism's not for me, mind you. But animals shouldn't suffer when slaughtered. The sheer, mindless bestiality with which muslims treat them is therefore utterly repulsive, and indicative of what they are capable of when in conflict with other human beings.

How weird that in our schools the same ones who lecture our children about the virtues of vegetarianism are also the same ones who will usher them to multiculti meetings where they can taste halal stuff. I kid you not, I got photos of that. Subject for another post though.

Hat tip Tanguy Veys.


MFBB.

Saturday, July 06, 2013

PAT CONDELL ON THE ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE.

I was very much disappointed with Melanie Phillips's classification of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer as basically some kind of overzealous firebrands who harm the cause of the Right. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it seems to me we have long since passed the point where politely explaining your POV as Rightwingers is not going to help our cause any further: we need to 'take the gloves off'. Of course, I suspect strongly that Mrs. Phillips would never label herself a rightwinger. Although much of what she has been writing over the past years addresses the real problems the West faces, as opposed to made up problems like 'climate change', 'racism', the 'exploitation' of the south by the north, 'discrimination' of gay people etc etc, I suspect that deep underneath Mrs. Phillips may still basically hold leftist views. A condition not unlike Mr Gorbachev, who realised there were grave problems in the USSR but hoped that cosmetic changes would solve them.

Perhaps it's simply a matter too of female antagonism. Or simply not liking Pam Gellers hands on approach.

All that is understandable.

What is not understandable is her contempt for Geller's and Spencer's association with the EDL, and her labeling that organisation as a bunch of contemptuous thugs. As a Vlaams Belang member, I also very much deplore Mrs. Phillips putting my party in that category too, for that matter. But that's a subject for another post.

Re the EDL's so-called thuggish character, I wonder how Melanie Phillips would react to Pat Condell's speech on the matter?




Just remember, Mrs. Phillips, the cause of us defenders of the West is NOT helped at all by petty quarrels over differences in style. We cannot afford schisms. The only ones laughing will be the PC establishment in politics, academia and media, and the muslims.



MFBB.

Monday, July 01, 2013

LOUDSPEAKER JIHAD IN GERMANY.

A frightening article by The Gatestone Institute's Soeren Kern:


"First there was no mention of a muezzin when the mosque was inaugurated; then on Fridays only; then three times a day, now five times a day." — Interview in Die Zeit

A Turkish mosque in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has begun sounding public calls to prayer from an outdoor loudspeaker system mounted on the roof of the edifice.

The mosque is one of a growing number of Islamic institutions in Germany (and other parts of Western Europe) publicly calling the Muslim faithful to prayer -- five times a day, seven days a week -- with cries of Allahu Akbar ("Allah is Greater").

Observers believe a precedent has now been established, and that many of the other 3,000 mosques in Germany will soon begin jumping on the muezzin loudspeaker bandwagon.

The sonorous prayer calls (known as adhan in Arabic) can be heard from great distances when amplified through electric loudspeakers; some German towns and cities are actually beginning to evoke the sounds and images of the Islamic Middle East.

The latest "muezzin event" involves the Fatih Camii Mosque in Wipperfürth, a factory town situated 40 kilometers (25 miles) north-east of Cologne, which, on June 21, began publicly calling the Muslim faithful to prayer during a formal "muezzin-induction ceremony" attended by local and foreign dignitaries, including the Turkish consul, Mustafa Kemal Basa.

The Fatih Camii Mosque -- run by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Islamic Affairs (DITIB), a branch of the Turkish government that controls over 900 mosques in Germany -- received municipal approval for a muezzin publicly to call Muslims to the mosque for prayer five times a day after Mayor Michael von Rekowski said he wanted to show the world that Wipperfürth "takes pride in being an intercultural and interreligious community."

At the request of the mayor, leaders of the Wipperfürth mosque met with representatives of the Protestant and Catholic churches in town to "integrate" the timing of the Muslim prayer calls into the traditional schedule for the ringing of church bells. Although many non-Muslim townspeople are opposed to the muezzin, local clergy say they are pleased with the "peaceful coexistence between religions and culture" in the town.

The mosque in Wipperfürth is one of several in Germany to obtain municipal approval for public prayer calls.

The Turkish-run Central Mosque in the northern German town of Rendsburg, situated 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Hamburg, has been calling Muslims to prayer since 2010, when Social Democratic Mayor Andreas Breitner authorized the muezzin to issue prayer calls through three loudspeakers mounted on the top of two 26 meter (85 foot) minarets attached to each side of the mosque. Prayer calls are permitted between 6AM and 10PM.

The German newspaper Die Zeit reported that Rendsburg was engaged in a "holy war" after a local citizen's group gathered nearly 1,000 signatures opposing the muezzin. The group, which goes by the name "No Public Prayer Calls" [Kein öffentlicher Gebetsruf], had argued that the construction of the mosque was more than sufficient to guarantee the Muslims their constitutional right to free speech, and that the subsequent demands for a muezzin publicly to call the faithful to prayer was excessive. Moreover, the group argued that the Koran makes no mention of the need for muezzin, making the position superfluous.

According to one woman interviewed by the newspaper, there was no mention of a muezzin when the mosque was inaugurated in October 2009; "But then it was proposed that a muezzin should call the faithful to prayer on Fridays only. After that it was three times a day, and now it is five times a day. The prayer calls last for three minutes and the content is a bit much, especially since we are told that 'Allah is the greatest,'" she said. (The adhan, which consists of 15 verses, some of which are repeated several times, lasts for about three minutes.)

Opponents of the muezzin also pointed to the fact that the mosque adheres to Milli Görüs, a neo-Ottoman political-religious Islamist movement that calls for the "establishment of a national-religious Turkish empire." Although Milli Görüs has been monitored by German intelligence for anti-constitutional activities, the group operates freely throughout Germany..."


Note that more than three years ago we already had an article on the Rendsburg mosque, and OF COURSE in the meantime it has only gotten worse.

Here's a video showing the minarets of Hamburg's center mosque with the atrocious 'adhan' clearly audible. What a horrifying, depraved sound!



And in Eschweiler:


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"Back in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Turkish-run Kuba Camii Mosque in Eschweiler, a city situated along the German-Belgian-Dutch border and about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Cologne, obtained municipal approval in December 2012 to begin publicly calling Muslims to prayer.

The first such public prayer call took place on Friday, January 11, 2013, amid considerable fanfare. The call to prayer, which was described as an "historical event," was attended by myriad dignitaries, including the Turkish consul, Mustafa Kemal Basa, and the Turkish attaché, Tayfun Keltek.

The Turkish imam of the Kuba Camii Mosque, Bahri Ciftci, declared: "May the public prayer call be a symbol of a tolerant, intercultural and interreligious common coexistence."

During the ceremony, the mayor of Eschweiler, Rudi Bertram, said, "Tolerance must be practiced on a daily basis. We are all responsible for ensuring that there is a co-existence.""




In the meantime, as noted in a book PERSECUTED - The Global Assault on Christians by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert and Nina Shea, we can read the following:


"In today's Turkey, Christian communities confront two inter-related threats: First, they are suppressed by all-encompassing state restrictions on internal governance, education, houses of worship, and wider property rights, and the denial of legal status. They are in practice barred from operating seminaries and directly owning property. Largely through its Directorate of Religious Foundations, the state supervises and tries to control all Christian activity."

The book continues: "Second…social hostilities against Turkey's religious minorities run high. Such bigotry is reinforced by the official attitude of suspicion toward Christians. It is difficult even to have a frank national discussion about the plight of Christians in Turkey; those who have tried…can face charges for insulting Turkishness."




But that's exactly the kind of books our woolly headed mayor Rudi Bertram succesfully manages not to read.

One last word.

Mr. Bertram is a member of the socialist party SPD.

But, I suspect you suspected that already.



MFBB.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

A DAY OUT IN ANTWERP.

More like an afternoon, actually. It was a Blitzbesuch. I'll post the following pics since I promised you, Jan. I'm sorry, I'm not that good a photographer, plus these are mere iPhone shots. It's a very meagre collection below, but I'm, well, I am recovering now, my treatment ended a good month and a half ago, But I'm still rather f*cked up.


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Antwerp's Central Station, built between 1895 and 1905. The architect was Louis Delacenserie, from Bruges.


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The Antwerp Zoo, the oldest of the country (1843), also one of the oldest of Europe.


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A gem often overlooked by tourists, although it's only a five minutes walk away from the Cathedral of Our Lady, which attracts all the attention. This is the magnificent Carolus Borromeus Church on the Hendrik Conscience Square. A baroque place of worship built between 1615 and 1621, a record for those days.


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The Cathedral of Our Lady, a gothic jewel. It's a terrible pity lack of funds prohibited the completion of the tower to the right. Work began in 1352, and almost 170 years later, the church was ready - apart from the south tower, which did not reach higher than the third strinc course. In the night of 5-6 October 1533, fire severely damaged the church. The financial ramifications of this were that the funds needed to raise the south tower to the same height as the north one, were used for repairing the damage first. Thereafter no serious attempt could ever be undertaken anymore to complete the South Tower.


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Another view of the Cathedral, this time from the Grote Markt.


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The Boerentower, Belgium's first 'skyscraper'. Well, we're talking the 1930's here. It's a building in Art Deco style constructed between 1929 and 1932.


Nite.



MFBB.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

SATURDAY NIGHT MOBY, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS.

Moby opens with Natural Blues.




From the 1999 album Play.



Then it's the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Dani California. IIRC we only had RHCP here once before.




From Stadium Arcadium, a 2006 studio album. FYI, Obamination is not the only one with a composite girlfriend. The Dani in question is Kiedis'.


Slaapwel. My wife wants me to watch The King's Speech with her yet. Shudder. Marriage can be tough.



MFBB.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

DIGGING THE UNITED STATES' GRAVE ONE LAW AT A TIME.

As much as I was incensed over the scandalous decision of the US Supreme Court to declare DOMA's Section 3 unconstitutional, I think the Amnesty Bill poses an even bigger danger to the future of the US is. Hence the following link over at American Thinker, where James Simpson nails it:


"On Monday, June 24, 2013, the U.S. Senate passed a cloture motion (which ends debate) on the Schumer-Corker-Hoeven Amendment to the Gang of Eight's horrifying illegal alien amnesty bill - mislabeled "immigration reform."

The true purpose of this amnesty proposal is to capture future votes for the Democratic Party. Those who do not acknowledge that blatantly obvious fact either suffer from some debilitating mental illness or are working for the other side.

On rare occasions, even the Left admit the objective. Eliseo Medina, the honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and International Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), said in 2008:

...If we reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. Can you imagine if we have ...even two out of three, if we get 8 million new voters... we will create a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle.
The "governing coalition for the long term" refers of course to the "permanent progressive majority" Democrats have fantasized about for decades.
The number of illegals in this country is repeatedly cited as 11 million. This is almost certainly an underestimate. In reality the number is 20 to 30 million or more, according to a 2007 study in Social Contract. Bear Stearns estimated about 20 million in 2005. When amnesty passed in 1986, official estimates were 1.2 million illegals. There were actually 2.7 million - more than double. Within ten years, INS estimated the illegal population had grown to 10 million. It is delusional to believe the number has only increased by another 1 million in the 17 years since. Furthermore, when amnesty passes, the newly-legal aliens will invite their relatives to come, further inflating that number through chain migration.


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Herein lies the real reason Democrats are slavering for this amnesty bill to pass and are tickling themselves pink that there are Republicans stupid and gullible, (or corrupt) enough to help them realize their dream. And make no mistake, an increase of 30 million in the Democrat Party voter base will guarantee Democrat majorities in the U.S. House, Senate and Presidency for the foreseeable future.

Despite the impossibly bizarre belief by some Republicans that amnesty will make illegals "like us," a high level Congressional source recently acknowledged to me that passage of this bill will spell the end of our Republic and that we literally have only weeks to stop it. Despite House Speaker John Boehner's somewhat ambiguous assurances, this bill is likely to get a vote in the House.

The original Gang-of-Eight bill was really bad, as became readily apparent quite quickly. The overtly fraudulent Schumer-Corker-Hoeven Amendment was offered as a fig leaf to reassure fools that the original bill -- which already promised in-and-of-itself to enhance border security - would actually enhance border security. But in reality it makes things worse. The amendment:

* Legitimizes illegal immigration: Section 2302 says if you overstay your visa in the future you can still apply for a green card and become a citizen. It is permanent lawlessness... They cannot do that legally under current law!

* Has no requirement to deploy technologies: The Corker amendment would give the Secretary of Homeland Security full discretion as to how technology would be deployed, or whether it would be deployed at all.

* Has no fencing requirement: Similarly, building a fence is left to the discretion of DHS. (Note: since a fencing law, with money attached, passed years ago, and has been blithely ignored by the Obama administration, the amendment simply codifies Obama's open defiance of current law.)
Increases fees on visas for legal immigrants, but keeps the same low fees and fines for those applying for amnesty - favoring illegal over legal immigrants.
Under the Schumer-Corker-Hoeven amendment, the American taxpayers are on the hook for $38 billion. (The Gang-of-Eight claims the bill is fully funded by immigrant fees).

* Delays promised hiring of 20,000 new Border Patrol agents until somewhere between 2017 and 2021.

The Schumer-Corker-Hoeven Amendment, by the way, is one of the factors that convinced Bill O'Reilly to support this legislation. Bill reminds us of P.T. Barnum's timeless adage, "there's a sucker born every minute," but only on Fox News does one get a prime-time show, and only in the U.S. Senate do they get hailed as "moderates."


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In a conference call Monday evening, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that most people don't realize this bill operates in tandem with Obamacare and amounts to de facto affirmative action for illegals. He said that Obamacare will raise the cost of American citizen or legal immigrant workers by roughly $3,000, but the amnesty bill exempts illegals . This creates an incentive to fire legitimate employees or reduce them to part-time status and replace them with illegals.
He added soberly that if American people do not stand up now, no senator or group of senators has the clout to stop this thing from passing..."


I can't fucking believe how a man like McCain can support this monstrosity, while it is - should be - clear to a child that it will only lead to importing the democrat's voting pool for tomorrow, and a nigh inexaustible at that, while at the same time lead to a crushing burden on the US's productive citizens. Democrats have proven themselves to be a totally irresponsible lot, what with happily leading the US to financial ruin. While I'm less than impressed, to put it nicely, with the House and Senate Republicans, I thought that you still couldn't gather more than two of them willing to follow demonrats on the path to doom of a nation. It seems I was wrong.

Read more at Conservative Byte.

Are so many Americans sleepwalking?


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Friday, June 21, 2013

QUOTE OF THE DAY.

By Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University.


 photo walterwilliams_zps49480cc4.jpeg"Here’s Williams’ roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits."


Got that, schtoopid leftards?



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Thursday, June 20, 2013

FORMER GEERT WILDERS ALLY CONVERTS TO RELIGION OF PISS AKA ISLAM.

From the Nou breekt mijn klomp Department (Dutch equivalent of Well I'll be damned). Mark Steyn on a most peculiar conversion, that of Arnoud van Doorn, formerly of Geert Wilders' PVV party and one of the producers of Wilders' movie Fitna.

Yes, Steyn again. I do have some original material in the scaffolds but the man beats me to it every time.


Four years ago in this space, I was anticipating an increase in Islamic-conversion rates in the likes of Amsterdam and Rotterdam:

Let's say you work in an office in those cities: One day they install a Muslim prayer room, and a few folks head off at the designated time, while the rest of you get on with what passes for work in the EU. A couple of years go by, and it's now a few more folks scooting off to the prayer room. Then it's a majority. And the ones who don't are beginning to feel a bit awkward about being left behind.

What do you do? The future showed up a lot sooner than you thought. If you were a fundamentalist Christian like those wackjob Yanks, signing on to Islam might cause you some discomfort. But, if you're the average post-Christian Eurosecularist, what's the big deal? Who wants to be the last guy sitting in the office sharpening his pencil during morning prayers?

Funny how quickly it all happened. There was the woman on reception, but she retired. And the guy in personnel who used to say, sotto voce, that Geert Wilders had a point. But he emigrated the year after Wilders did.

I didn't know the half of it. The other day, Arnoud van Doorn, the producer of Wilders's anti-Islamic film Fitna, announced that he'd converted to Islam — or "accepted Islam," as they say — and made a pilgrimage to Medina to repent and ask for Allah's forgiveness. There's a lot of it about. Tony Blair's sister-in-law has converted. So has Gitmo guard Terry Holdbrooks, who was touched by the way the detainees "wake up each day and smile," and Katherine Russell, the "all-American girl" from Rhode Island who married Tamerlan Tsarnaev and whose parents were "very supportive" of their daughter's decision to "accept Islam" and retreat beneath the veil and stayed "very supportive" right up until their son-in-law blew up the Boston Marathon. The two men who butchered Royal Fusilier Lee Rigby on the streets of London were also converts, British-born sons of Nigerian Christians. Captured by the cameras with, literally, blood on their hands, they reminded me of another convert, the British comedian Omar Brooks. Mr. Brooks's best-known surefire side-splitting showstopping gag is that the attacks on the World Trade Center "changed many people's lives." Comic pause. "Especially those inside." It brought the house down!

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A few years back, in a debate at Trinity College in Dublin, he was asked what Mohammed's message to non-believers was and replied, with disarming honesty, "I come to slaughter all of you. . . . We are the Muslims. We drink the blood of the enemy." I thought of Omar Brooks for the first time in years as I watched his two blood-soaked coreligionists stagger about Wellington Street bragging about what they had done in the name of "almighty Allah." I wouldn't have been surprised to see them drinking blood had the constabulary taken any longer and left them with another 20 minutes to show off for the cameras. On the other hand, the Medway Messenger in Kent reported a prompt police response to an outbreak of octogenarian Islamophobia:

"An 85-year-old woman has this afternoon been arrested after abuse was hurled at Muslims outside Gillingham Mosque. The pensioner was handcuffed and taken away in a van by officers attending the Canterbury Street mosque for Friday prayers."

Oh. That's helpful. If you yell at a mosque, the coppers are already inside. If you deface a London war memorial with Islamic slogans, there's none in sight, and even the ubiquitous British CCTV cameras are apparently of no use in identifying the perpetrators. The day after Drummer Rigby's murder, a march in support of the "Help for Heroes" military charity ended in a five-hour standoff between marchers and police, ending with the arrest of Lee Cousins for "mocking the Islamic prayer ritual" by getting down on his hands and knees outside the pub. He was fined 600 pounds — or just shy of a thousand bucks.

"Terrorism's great achievement isn't hijacking jetliners, but hijacking the debate," wrote George Jonas in Canada's National Post. "Successful terrorism persuades the terror-stricken that he's conscience-stricken." Which is why, in the decade after 9/11, Western governments ramped up Islamic immigration instead of slowing it to a trickle; and their citizens were "very supportive" of those who converted in record numbers, instead of mourning the wholesale abandonment of their inheritance; and their community-outreach enforcers dragged those who disrespected the Prophet into court for ever more footling infractions, instead of obliging Islam to adjust to core Western values like freedom of expression. Meanwhile, Islamic self-segregation intensified. The "War on Terror" was always an evasion, for "terror" doesn't easily encompass, say, demands for segregated swimming sessions or even the nightly car burnings in Stockholm. It does, however, accurately capture the response of Sweden's "center-right" government, bleating about doing more to alleviate "social exclusion." We now expect European leaders to sound like battered wives — like Katherine Tsarnaev.

Sweden's foreign-born (i.e., overwhelmingly Muslim) population has increased from 10 percent to 15 in the last decade. Where will it be a decade hence? The Canadian author Doug Saunders, refuting theories of a "Muslim tide," says that Europe's Islamic population will peak at about 10 percent, and more likely stabilize around 7. Right now, 10 percent of Britons under 25 are already Muslim, which means one day Britain will be 10 percent Muslim — at least. And the octogenarians who yell outside the mosque will be gone.

And then there will be silence, and submission.



Of course, the mentally unstable, the ignorant, and those with fatal flaws in character will convert first.


MFBB.

Monday, June 17, 2013

MARK STEYN ON THE PC INSANITY DISPLAYED BY THE BOSTON POLICE, HAPPILY FUNDED BY THE DHS.

Mark Steyn is outdoing himself these days providing smack in your face insight. From National Review:


"A few weeks after 9/11, when government was hastily retooling its 1970s hijacking procedures for the new century, I wrote a column for the National Post of Canada and various other publications that, if you’re so interested, is preserved in my anthology The Face of the Tiger. It began by noting the observation of President Bush’s transportation secretary, Norman Mineta, that if “a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach, Florida” and “a Muslim young man” were in line to board a flight, he hoped there would be no difference in the scrutiny to which each would be subjected. The TSA was then barely a twinkle in Norm’s eye, and in that long-ago primitive era it would have seemed absurd to people that one day in America it would be entirely routine for wheelchair-bound nonagenarians to remove leg braces before boarding a plane or for kindergartners to stand patiently as three middle-aged latex-gloved officials poke around their genitals. Back then, the idea that everybody is a suspect still seemed slightly crazy....

... Along the way, alas, Secretary Mineta’s dream of a world in which “a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach” and “a Muslim young man” are subject to equal scrutiny has not come to pass. The Vero Beach gran’ma gets a lot more attention than the guy from the Yemeni madrassah, especially if she’s made the mistake of attending a tea-party meeting or two. The other day the Boston Globe ran a story on how the city’s police and other agencies had spent months planning a big training exercise for last weekend involving terrorists planting bombs hidden in backpacks left downtown. Unfortunately, the Marathon bombers preempted them, and turned the coppers’ hypothetical scenario into bloody reality.

What a freaky coincidence, eh? But it’s the differences between the simulation and the actual event that are revealing. In humdrum reality, the Boston bombers were Chechen Muslim brothers with ties to incendiary imams and jihadist groups in Dagestan. In the far more exciting Boston Police fantasy, the bombers were a group of right-wing militiamen called “Free America Citizens,” a name so suspicious (involving as it does the words “free,” “America,” and “citizens”) that it can only have been leaked to them by the IRS. What fun the law-enforcement community in Massachusetts had embroidering their hypothetical scenario: The “Free America Citizens” terrorists even had their own little logo — a skull’s head with an Uncle Sam hat. Ooh, scary! The Boston PD graphics department certainly knocked themselves out on that.


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Meanwhile, back in the real world, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was training in Dagestan, posting terrorist videos on YouTube, and getting fingered by the Russians to the FBI. Who did nothing.

If you had the misfortune to be blown up by the Tsarnaev brothers, and are now facing a future with one leg and suddenly circumscribed goals, like those brave Americans featured on the cover of the current People magazine under the headline “Boston Tough,” you might wish Boston had been a little tougher on Tamerlan and spent less time chasing the phantoms of “Free America Citizens.” But, in fact, it would have been extremely difficult to track the Tsarnaevs at, say, the mosque they attended. Your Granny’s phone calls, your teenager’s Flickr stream, and your Telecharge tickets for two on the aisle at Mamma Mia! for your wife’s birthday, and the MasterCard bill for dinner with your mistress three days later are all fair game, but since October 2011 mosques have been off-limits to the security state. If the FBI guy who got the tip-off from Moscow about young Tamerlan had been sufficiently intrigued to want to visit the Boston mosque where he is said to have made pro-terrorism statements during worship, the agent would have been unable to do so without seeking approval from something called the Sensitive Operations Review Committee high up in Eric Holder’s Department of Justice. The Sensitive Operations Review Committee is so sensitive nobody knows who’s on it. You might get approved, or you might get sentenced to extra sensitivity training for the next three months. Even after the bombing, the cops forbore to set foot in the lads’ mosque for four days. Three hundred million Americans are standing naked in the NSA digital scanner, but the all-seeing security state has agreed that not just their womenfolk but Islam itself can be fully veiled from head to toe.

We’re told that universal surveillance has prevented all kinds of atrocities we can never hear about — an answer straight out of Orwell. Yet oddly, in the ones we do hear about, the perps are hiding in plain sight (Major Hasan with “Soldier of Allah” on his business card), the intelligence services do nothing (the Pantybomber known to the CIA but still permitted to board the plane), and the digital superstate is useless (the Tsarnaev photo rang no bells with the facial-recognition software, but was identified by friends who saw it on TV).

And thus, the bozo leviathan blunders on. Big Politically Correct Brother sees everything . . . and nothing."



Watch and weep:




Dante Alighieri should have provided an Extra Hell Layer in Inferno for the Left.



MFBB.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

SATURDAY NIGHT HELEN REDDY, GERRY RAFFERTY.

I don't know how to live Him. A song from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar.




I prefer the Helen Reddy version over Yvonne Elliman's. Yeah I know she's a feminazi. So what.



It's about time for Gerry Rafferty on DowneastBlog. Right down the line.




From the album City to City (1978).


OK you jokers. For next week's Saturday Night Music, is there anyone who can provide a link to TAFKAP's Dinner with Dolores?? God zal het U lonen. Met erwten en bonen.


MFBB.


HILLARY CLINTON'S LEGACY OF SCANDAL.

Good article over at American Thinker by Jeffrey T. Brown. It fully exposes the power-hungry Hillary Rodham who is willing to step over the dead bodies of her minions to reach her goals for what she really is.


"...For as long as Hillary Clinton has been on the national scene, she has left a path of destruction and wreckage in her wake that is both impressive and terrible to behold. She is a testament to the extent of damage that can be done by one person determined to conquer everything before her in the quest for unlimited power and self-gratification. The only prize left to her in American politics is the presidency, which she has always felt is hers by right. Indeed, she would have attained it were it not for the upstart community organizer, a fellow admirer of Saul Alinsky, who spoke in volumes but said nothing.

While such determination comes at a staggering cost, we should remind ourselves that the bill is never paid by Mrs. Clinton or her equally arrogant husband. It is paid by the country. Before we ask yet again for the check, perhaps we should remind ourselves of exactly who this woman is who will soon attempt to seduce the country, and her history as the object of an absurd and undeserved degree of national affection.

Before accompanying her husband to the White House as our first co-president, Mrs. Clinton was working hard on becoming the person we now know her to be. As with her husband, the goal has always been the attainment of power masquerading as public service. Setting an example for the Obamas to emulate, the Clintons put self-absorption and personal victory before all else. The Clintons have always served themselves, and nothing else.


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Do you recall the slime that was Whitewater, in which the Clintons dissembled and lied while their former business partners went to jail? Do you remember Mrs. Clinton earning $100,000 in profit in 1979 on a $1,000 investment over the course of only 9 months in volatile cattle futures, about which she knew nothing, thanks to help from a highly placed Tyson Foods connection? Tyson profited handsomely in Arkansas, with state loans and appointments. We are to believe that Clinton studied the Wall Street Journal to achieve a feat against which the odds were one in 250 million. Do you recall the Rose Law Firm billing records that magically appeared in Mrs. Clinton's White House office, years after they had been subpoenaed? Or the death of Vince Foster under rather extraordinary and inexplicable circumstances, and the lies and cover-up that followed? Do you recall that while testifying before congressional investigators as first lady, she answered "I don't know" or "I don't remember" 250 times?

Do you recall Travelgate, in which the Clintons destroyed reputations and careers to reward campaign donors? What about the endless parade of women, long known to Mrs. Clinton and laughably passed off by her as "ministering" to a troubled young woman in the matter of Miss Lewinsky? Nevertheless, when the truth came out, she was entirely happy to exploit the illusion of victimhood for her own martyrdom in the cause of political advancement.

Wherever Mrs. Clinton goes, destruction follows. Of course, like the current president, nothing is ever her fault. She knows nothing. She is the innocent victim of all around her, endlessly bemoaning her fate as the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy that somehow has directed the events of her life even before there was a vast right-wing conspiracy.

Make no mistake: the Clintons, and Hillary Clinton in particular, hold the American public in utter contempt, but especially so their own supporters. How else to explain the countless frauds, crimes, and lies they perpetrate upon their devotees, whose own intellectual honesty is devalued to nothing by their loyalty? And how else besides intellectual dishonesty to rationalize somehow being a Hillary Clinton supporter?"




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