When you cannot smell, you cannot taste. When you can neither smell nor taste, there is no point in eating, except for the sake of sustenance.
Fuck the past three days. What a wretched way to spend the Christmas holidays: congested, draining, isolated, and depressed.
These are among the many downsides to being goddamned.
I haven’t independently verified the following fact that Mel Konner mentions in a recent column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but it’s almost incredible. In criticizing the wretched Jimmy Carter and his new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Konner notes:
The “Historical Chronology” at the beginning of his book starts with Abraham and grows more detailed in modern times. But between 1939 and 1947 there is . . . nothing!
Is that really possible? Carter presumes to include a timeline reaching all the way back into legendary proto-history from the present day —and forgets to mention the period of the Holocaust?
If Konner is telling the truth, then Carter is as much of a Holocaust denier as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Have a look at what Brian Ross of ABC News is reporting:
Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists.
In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, made available only today, Zawahri says he has two messages for American Democrats.
“The first is that you aren’t the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahideen — the Muslim Ummah’s vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq — are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost,” Zawahri said, according to a full transcript obtained by ABC News.
Zawahri calls on the Democrats to negotiate with him and Osama bin Laden, not others in the Islamic world who Zawahri says cannot help.
I don’t know when the tape was made, but that last bit sounds like Zawahiri was sending an invitation to John Kerry and Chris Dodd: “Let’s do lunch, kafirs.”
Exhausted, but happy. Good day. Nice break to look forward to.
Test post.
John Kerry, the loser of the 2004 Presidential Election, hung out with the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad yesterday:
DAMASCUS, Syria - Sens. John Kerry and Christopher Dodd met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday and discussed the need for Damascus to cooperate with efforts to maintain the unity and stability of war-ravaged Iraq, state media reported.
The U.S. Embassy in Damascus said the meeting, which lasted two and a half hours, covered “a full-range of topics relating to U.S.-Syrian relations and regional issues.”
“I feel quite confident in saying this was a conversation worth having and that the (Bush) administration ought to pursue it,” Kerry said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press from Jerusalem where he traveled after the meeting with Assad. “I feel very strongly about that…It’s worth following up on a number of avenues.”
Why does John Kerry insist on visiting our enemies during wartime? Does anybody, besides the ignorant pricks on the anti-war Left, doubt that Syria —and to an even larger extent, Iran— are materially contributing not only to the violence being committed against our troops and friends in Iraq, but to the instability in Lebanon? Then why is this stupid bastard engaging Assad?
The only engagement I want to see in Syria is when our daisy-cutters “get in touch with” Assad’s front door.
Professor Reynolds links to this report about the thieving liar Sandy Berger:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday.
The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.
Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he said it was possible he threw them in his office trash.
Why doesn’t horseshit like this get more play in Big Media?
Because Bergler is against Bush’s war.
Of next month’s hajj to Mecca and what the Iranians have in mind for it, Amir Teheri writes:
The Islamic Republic itself is expected to send 200,000 pilgrims, representing almost 10 percent of the total. Saudi officials claim that some 5 percent of the Iranian pilgrims have always been identified as members of the Islamic Revolutionary Corps and the Islamic Republic’s various intelligence services.
This year, however, the profiles of Iranian applicants for pilgrimage visas indicate that more than 20 percent may belong to the military or security services.To these must be added professional street-fighters from the various branches of the pan-Islamic Hezbollah movement, which Iran created in the 1980s as a way to “export” Khomeinism to other Muslim countries.
The movement’s best-known branch, the Lebanese Hezbollah, has announced it will sending over 3,000 pilgrims this year - all paid for by Iran. With so many men with military and security backgrounds in Mecca, the mullahs leading the Iranian pilgrims would be in a position to seize control of the space around the black stone of the Ka’aba (The Cube) and use it as a venue for political demonstrations.
The Saudis are right to be worried. They know, just as our own military does, that Iran is a major shit-stirrer right next door in Iraq. They are supplying men, money, and IEDs in an effort to undermine our operations in Iraq, so why not export this same mayhem to Saudi Arabia?
Here’s what David Chalian at ABC’s news blog is reporting:
As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of a Democratic nomination fight, she has taken another step away from her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq by saying that she “wouldn’t have voted that way” if she knew everything she knows now.
Clinton has often been asked if she regrets her vote authorizing military action and she usually answers that question with an artful dodge, saying that she accepts responsibility for the vote and suggesting that if the Senate had all the information it has today (no WMD, troubled post-war military planning, etc. . .), there would never have been a vote on the Senate floor.
However, she has never gone as far as some of her potential rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination — who also voted for the war — and called her vote a mistake or declared that she would have cast her vote differently with all the facts presently available to her — until now.
This morning on NBC’s “Today” show, Sen. Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote and offered a slightly evolved answer. “Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn’t have been a vote,” she said in her usual refrain before adding, “and I certainly wouldn’t have voted that way.”
Does she really think that this is going to win her points with the anti-war Left? They already don’t trust her —and now she comes out with this?
By the way, it’s the anti-war Left that’s responsible for all of our problems in Iraq because they insist on misremembering the reasons why we fight and because they give aid and comfort to our enemies by playing up aberrations like Abu Ghraib. If the al-Qaedists and the insurgents didn’t have such a magnificent propaganda machine on the TV here every day and all day long, their terrorism wouldn’t have made such pessimists of the American People.
Don’t forget: the Tet Offensive was a disaster on the ground for the communists in Viet Nam. It was only a success here at home when the “Blame America” crowd absconded with the message and blunted our purpose.
From a sticky note I just found in my papers:
Why did the Left start the Sixties as the Marx Brothers and end them as Margaret Dumont?
Charles Johnson points us to this “news” story from the disgusting rats at Reuters on today’s opening of a conference of Holocaust deniers in Iran. Note how a certain former Klansman is referred to. (Emphasis added.)
Sessions at the two-day conference, held at the Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies, were to include “Holocaust: Aftermath and Exploitation” and “Demography: Denial or Confirmation?”
The conference was inspired by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who since coming to power in August 2005 has sparked international condemnation with comments referring to the Holocaust as a “myth” and calling Israel a “tumor”.
Among the participants was U.S. academic David Duke, a former Louisiana Republican Representative. He praised Iran for hosting the event.
“There must be freedom of speech, it is scandalous that the Holocaust cannot be discussed freely,” Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader told Reuters. “It makes people turn a blind eye to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”
If you were to ask a hundred American citizens with even the most rudimentary recollection of David Duke what he is best known for, which brain-damaged fuck among them would think to call Duke an “academic”? How many more would blurt out, “Oh! He was that state representative from Louisiana!”? Maybe a couple? Okay.
But if these cititzens are honest, they will surely recall that Duke was a Klansman and remains a notorious racist. So why does the KKK come fourth in a list of “academic,” “Republican,” and “representative”? Because Reuters is a chickenshit propaganda arm of the anti-American Left.
Naturally, Duke —as a Republican— is very interesting to al-Reuters’ readership. Never mind that as a high-profile leader of the KKK, Duke was a Democrat and ran for political office as such. Why wasn’t that also mentioned? Because dumbasses don’t really stop to consider that the Ku Klux Klan has always been a Democratic institution. Just ask Robert Byrd.
Anyway, it is obviously al-Reuters’ way to dignify Holocaust deniers with irrelevant or misleading descriptors so long as they serve whatever anti-American agenda they have in mind.
