Bin Laden suggests more attacks on US, offers truce

Well, an excerpt of a purported audio tape of Usama bin Laden's latest rambling was played on the al-Jazeera network this morning.

The apparent death of Abdul Rehman al-Maghribi, al-Qaeda's PR guru, apparently has not stopped the flow of terrorist information to al-Qaeda'a favorite TV network. Although the tape could be on old one.

UBL is promising future attacks on this US, but is offering us a truce, "with fair conditions." Presumably, among those conditions don't include UBL surrendering himself at New York City police headquarters.

DePaul's Norman Finkelstein calls for economic boycott of Israel

Norman G. Finkelstein, an assistant political science professor at Chicago's DePaul University, is calling for economic boycott of the Jewish state. The article can be found in Counterpunch, which is co-edited by his pal Alexander Cockburn.

Finkelstein is widely dismissed as a holocaust minimizer, and the Anti-Defamation League has gone as far as naming him a holocaust denier.

Citing what he calls human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, Finkelstein (who to my knowledge has not called for a boycott of Iran), thinks this an boycott of Israel "can be justified on moral grounds."

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Blog calls for economic boycott of DePaul University

The Autonomist blogs' Steven Plaut, who has been reporting the on leftist shenanigans at Chicago's DePaul University for almost a year (more than that if you count the aforementioned Norman Finkelstein), is calling for an economic boycott of DePaul University.

Plaut calls DePaul an anti-Amerikan madrassa, and also cites firing of pro-Israel Professor Thomas Klocek controversy as additional reasons for the boycott.

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Pakistan identifies 3 of the 4 al-Qaeda members killed in drone strike

Well, it appears our drone attack didn't get al-Qaeda's number 2 (and resident Dr. Evil) Ayman al-Zawahri last Friday, but we did terminate the terror careers of four other al-Qaeda members, according to Reuters.

The biggest catch was Dr. al-Zawahri's fellow Egyptian, Midhat Mursi al-Sayid 'Umar, pictured above. According to Rewards for Justice, which was offering up to a $5 million reward for 'Umar, the deceased met an appropriate end since he was an explosives expert.

Also among the dead was Abdul Rehman Al-Misri al Maghribi, al-Qaeda's media guy. Was he the mastermind behind those poorly recorded audio messages from his father-in-law? Or those badly done home videos so cherished by al-Jazeera? A promising PR career has been cut short.

Abu Obaidah al Misri, was the third victim, he was in charge of al-Qaeda's operations in Afghanistan's Kunar province.

The fourth victim has yet to be identified.

Regretfully, there very likely some were innocent victims killed in the drone attack--it happens in all wars. But to say the CIA drone attack was another agency screw up-well, that's just wrong.

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Iran leader: Major powers responsible for humanity’s health problems

This time I'm drawing upon the wisdom of not Iran's President, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, but instead it's Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

How does he fit all of that on a business card?

The Leader Supremo of Iran says, not surprisingly, that the world's health problems should be blamed on the "major powers," meaning of course, "the West."

From the Mehr News Agency:

Despite scientific progress, the state of man’s health is worrying and health-threatening social issues have been increasing rapidly, the Leader said.

The problems of people throughout the world, especially the worrying state of health, stem from the discrimination, selfishness, and injustice practiced by the major powers, he added.

“Hunger, sexual promiscuity, drug abuse, alcoholism, and psychological warfare practiced by global propaganda machines are the most significant social ills threatening health in the modern world,” he noted.

The "scientific progress," Khameini referred to, of course comes from "the West."

More from Mehr:

Various religions, especially Islam, offer valuable recommendations for human health and wellbeing which should be practiced in societies more than before, (Khameini) stated.

Fact: The CIA rankings by life expectancy at birth by nation tell a different story.

Western countries, or Westernized Asian nations such as Singapore, those decadent states, dominate the top rankings of that list.

Iran is in the lower half of the 50th percentile, 133rd out of 226.

Explain that, Grand Poobah of Iran.

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Barack Obama: Hillary's latest apologist

Hillary made this below comment on Monday at a Martin Luther King event (not sure if they called it a "unity" function), but what she said was hardly unifying:

When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about."

File this under "the things 'they' get away with."

Yesterday, when I reported on Hillary's odious comments, I responded that "I didn't know what she was talking about."

However, Illinois Senator Barack Obama seems to know what Hillary MLK Day comments meant, according to AP:

The Illinois senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input."

"There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if you are the ordinary voter, you don't have access," Obama said. "That should be a source of concern for all of us."

Hey, Barack, when Hillary was talking "plantation," you know, I know, everyone knows that she was not talking about "special interests."

Please don't assume we're morons, Senator Obama.

Another leftist professor claims "McCarthyism"

They say patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Screaming out "McCarthyism" is the fallback for wounded Leftist professors.

From AP:

An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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The year-old Bruin Alumni Association says it is concerned about professors who use lecture time to press positions against President Bush, the military and multinational corporations, among other things. Its Web site has a list of what it calls the college's 30 most radical professors.

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Any sober, concerned citizen would look at this and see right through it as a reactionary form of McCarthyism," said education professor Peter McLaren, one of those cited by the association. "Any decent American is going to see through this kind of right-wing propaganda. I just find it has no credibility."

If Professor McLaren can't handle the heat of his left-wing rantings escaping into the public, then perhaps he should question the validity of those statements.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt tell Cheney to give Iran more time

A couple of our "allies" in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, told Vice President Dick Cheney that we should give more time for negotiations with Iran in order to resolve the nuclear dispute with that nation. So says AP.

Uh, fellas, Iran and nukes have been linked together for a number of years. It's been clear to Iran that during that time there has been significant international displeasure over its nuclear intentions.

My guess is that by giving Iran more time, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states will see their goal achieved. A nuclear armed Iran as a counter-weight to Israel, a nation that almost certainly has "the bomb."

But be careful of what you wish for: An Iran with nuclear missiles might have more than one target: The Shi'ite Muslims and the Sunni Muslims don't get along very well.

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Hey US Supreme Court! British council says towing cars may violate human rights

Since the United States Supreme Court has taken up the habit of citing foreign law in deciding the constitutionality of American statutes, I hope they consider what's going on in Great Britain in regards to the barbaric practice of towing cars without the consent of the owner.

I'd like to add, as someone who has been victimized by having my car towed for a stupid reason more than once, this is one case in British law I'll be watching closely. It's unfortunate that the Alito hearings have ended, I would have liked to have seen one of our senators ask Judge Alito how he'd rule on towing cars and how it relates to human rights. As a follow-up question, another senator could've asked the judge his opinion on the common practice of towing firms' "acquiring" the car stereos from towed vehicles.

From the London Telegraph:

Councils that tow away cars run the risk of breaking human rights legislation, the parking appeal service has said.

Yesterday it said they must use the power to clamp and remove vehicles reasonably if they were to avoid being held to have broken the law.

The advice was contained in the annual report of the National Parking Adjudication Service, which hears appeals against tickets issued by councils outside London.

Human rights violations and the towing of cars: Finally, the issue that will unite all Americans has been discovered!

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Evil from Iran: "The only solution for this cancerous tumor (Israel) is surgery."

The apologists for carnal relations (no, I didn't make that up) with chickens, are at it again.

No humor in this posting, though.

MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, keeping an eye on the Iranians. What they found recently is pure evil.

I have to jump in. Iran must not possess nuclear weapons.

Hat tip to Solomonia for finding the MEMRI article.

MEMRI came across a panel discussion of political anal-ists on Iran's Channel 2 earlier this month.

Here are some chilling excerpts:

Political analyst Dr. Majid Goudarzi: "In ancient, pre-Islamic times, there were strange disputes between the Jews and the Christians. The Jews believed that the Messiah had not come and would not come. Apparently, it was for them to decide when the Messiah would come and who he would be.

"When Jesus appeared, many people became followers of this great prophet. The king of Yemen at that time, who was probably a Jew – as can be seen in some sources – said to [the Christians]: "You have two options – either you convert [to Judaism] and renounce your Christianity, or else we will burn you.

"They prepared a great pit of fire, and burned those Christians who refused to renounce the pure religion of Jesus.

"This case of burning people, of burning believers, has become engraved in the Jewish consciousness. Later they exploited this issue, and said that in World War II – between 1942 and 1945 – the Germans did this to them. They failed to mention that historic event, and the fact that they themselves had done the same to the Christians.

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Iqbal Siddiqu, editor-in-chief of Crescent International, London: "This is the image of the Jewish people that is being promoted, and the Holocaust – the supposed Holocaust – is being constantly used and mythologized, in order to serve this political agenda, which ultimately means, of course, the interests of the State of Israel."

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Dr. Majid Goudarzi: "A country like Israel... Its flag has two colors: blue and white. The upper stripe represents the Nile, and the bottom stripe the Euphrates. It says that its reign stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. It puts the Star of David in the middle, and demonstrates its aggressive character daily, by raising this flag. I hope that one day humanity will reach the conclusion that the only solution for this cancerous tumor is surgery."

Iran must not possess nuclear weapons.

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