Wednesday - November 09, 2005

Nero Redux

- Go Read “Arc de Multiculti” by Cox & Forkum

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Hello, Europe!

I woke up early this morning around 3:00am and was surprised to see the “Foreign Spies” map glowing with dots from all over Europe. I’ve noticed over the last week or two that the number of European visitors has been steadily rising and is now at 16.3% of total readers or five times what the average number was only a month ago. We now have twice as many readers across the pond as we have in the Mountain Time Zone here in the US. I would like to welcome our new friends in what will soon be the Caliphate Of Europistan ...

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Election Results

The Dummycraps kept their Governor’s seats in New Jersey and Virginia, Ah-nold’s measures were defeated in Kalifornia and in Texas voters overwhelmingly nixed gay marriages. Liberal media thinks two out of three ain’t bad, declares overwhelming victory. Other than that, things remain quiet in the Land Of Not-Fwance ...

Democrats Keep Two Governorships
Californians reject Schwarzenegger initiatives
(CNN)

Democrats scored big in Tuesday’s off-year elections, keeping their grip on the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, while Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reform slate was soundly rejected in California. In New York City, however, Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg easily secured a second term in the Democratic-dominated Big Apple.

Also Tuesday, two states voted on gay rights ballot measures, to mixed results. In Texas, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was overwhelmingly approved. But in Maine, a measure that would have repealed a state law outlawing discrimination against gay men and lesbians was defeated.

In Virginia, Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine won the governor’s race, defeating Republican Jerry Kilgore, a former state attorney general, despite a late-minute appearance on Kilgore’s behalf Monday by President Bush.

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- The NY Slime’s Victory Celebration Is Here

- The Reuters Party Is Here, BYOB

- In addition, the NY Slimes Declares The Death Of The Republican Party Here

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Meanwhile, On The Syrian Border …

Meanwhile in Iraq, US forces mopped up the border town of Husaybah where Syria has been funneling foreign fighters into Iraq. If it were left up to me, I’d let the Marines keep moving into Syria and mop up that pesthole too. Maybe let the Air Force “soften up” the Syrians a little first with a two-month long carpet bombing exercise. I’m sure the jarheads can occupy themselves while the flyboys level Damascus ...

Marines Say Iraqi Town of Husaybah Secure
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)

U.S. and Iraqi forces secured the town of Husaybah after four days of fighting along the Syrian border and neutralized al-Qaida-led insurgents there, the Marine commander said Tuesday. “The city of Husaybah has been cleared and is secure at this time,” Col. Stephen W. Davis told The Associated Press by telephone. “Right now we are not getting any reports of resistance within the city” although pockets of fighters may reappear, he said.

About 2,500 U.S. troops and 1,000 Iraqi soldiers on Saturday began the assault on Husaybah, described as a major entry point for foreign fighters coming from Syria bound for Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. One of the goals of the operation, known as “Steel Curtain,” was to break the hold of al-Qaida and its Iraqi allies in the area before next month’s elections, in which Iraqis will choose a new parliament.

One U.S. Marine was killed during weekend in the operation, U.S. officials said. The military said earlier this week that at least 36 insurgents had been killed since the assault began. Davis said coalition forces have detained more than 150 military-aged men and they were being screened. He said three insurgents—two Saudis and a Kuwaiti—were killed by Iraqi troops Sunday when they tried to slip into a camp for displaced civilians dressed as women.

He said the Marines and Iraqis would establish a long-term presence in Husaybah to prevent insurgents from returning and would move on to other areas in the Euphrates Valley where al-Qaida and their allies were believed holed up. In a statement earlier Tuesday, the U.S. military said troops “continue to detain insurgents as they fight their way through the city. A number of the detainees have been foreign fighters who originated from various countries within Asia and Africa,” the statement added.

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Why They Are Burning Paris

The UK Guardian (Liberal rag of record in Britain) published today an article in which they interviewed several of the “downtrodden” Muslims in Fwance. Here are a few choice excerpts beginning with the reasons for the violence ....

“Because we hate, because we’re mad, because we’ve had it up to here,” said Rachid, parka hood up against the cold. “Look around you. This place is shit, it’s a dump. We have nothing here. There’s nothing for us.”

The interior minister’s forces, of which there are some 9,500 on duty around the country, are loathed. “They harass you, they hassle you, they insult you the whole time, ID checks now, scooter checks next. They call you nigger names,” said Karim, 17. “I got caught the other week smoking on the train. OK, you shouldn’t smoke on the train. But we get to Aulnay station, there are six cops waiting for us, three cars. They did the whole body search, they had me with my hands on the roof of the car. One said: ‘Go back home, Arab. Screw your race’.”

Does he feel French? “We hate France and France hates us,” he spat, refusing to give even his first name. “I don’t know what I am. Here’s not home; my gran’s in Algeria. But in any case France is just fucking with us. We’re like mad dogs, you know? We bite everything we see. Go back to Paris, man.”

Sylla summed it up. “We burn because it’s the only way to make ourselves heard, because it’s solidarity with the rest of the non-citizens in this country, with this whole underclass. Because it feels good to do something with your rage,” he said.

Update: Fwance has invoked Emergency Powers Act to shutdown rioters.

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You Tell ‘Em, Marie!

_{Bob Englehart, Hartford, Connecticut—The Hartford Courant}

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   Tuesday - November 08, 2005

Deja Vu All Over Again

All I got to say is that I will personally kick the a** of the first dumb son of a b**ch who suggests we load up a boat and head for Normandy. Let ‘em dig themselves out of it this time ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/08/2005 at 06:00 PM   
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Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

ATTENTION: Les Fwenchies have decided the recent riots, pillaging and shooting by MOOS-lims is partly the fault of .... bloggers. It don’t get any crazier than that, folks! Les Gendarmes have arrested two Fwench bloggers who they say were “inciting” the riots. This is absolutley astounding. I never realized we bloggers had this much power. I’ll have to be real careful in the future or else one of you gentle readers might decide to burn down Detroit or Los Angeles because of some “inciteful” statement I made ....

Bloggers Who Urged Rioters Investigated
- PARIS (AP)

Paris prosecutors opened an inquiry Tuesday into two young bloggers who urged French youths to riot and revolt against the police, a judicial official said. The youths, a 16-year-old French teen and an 18-year-old with Ghanian nationality, were detained Monday in the Paris region, the official said.

They were to be placed under investigation, a step short of formal charges, for inciting harm to people and property over the Internet, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because French law bars the disclosure of information from ongoing investigations. The charge carries a risk of up to five years in prison and a $52,800 fine.

The blog, called “hardcore,” was run by the 18-year-old, and the younger teen posted comments on it, the official said. A 14-year-old was also questioned Monday in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence and was released.

In 12 days of unrest in France, bloggers have posted appeals for calm alongside insults targeting police, threats of more violence and warnings that the unrest will feed support for France’s anti- immigration extreme right.

One of the blogs was called “sarkodead” _ a reference to law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who inflamed passions when he called troublemakers “scum.” Both “sarkodead” and “hardcore” were hosted by Skyblog, a branch of the popular Skyrock radio station.

The blogs were taken off line this weekend, and the radio station cooperated with police by giving information to track down people who incited violence, judicial officials said.

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In The Ghetto

Life in the beautiful French Socialist ghetto. Who could ask for anything more? Free housing, government subsidies for food and clothing. Free public schools provided by the generous French state. I mean, this must be paradise on Earth for people fresh out of the sand dunes of Northern Africa, eh? So they don’t have jobs anymore because of a crashed socialist economy? What difference does that make? The government will support them. After all, it’s the evil Americans’ fault that the French (and Euro-Peon) economy sucks so badly. If only America would stop trying to be so (qu’est ce que c’est?) energetic and competitive. Perhaps if the Americans would just shut down 90% of their country’s productivity for , oh, about five hundred years, Les Fwenchies could catch up, n’est ce pas?

Skipper’s Disclaimer: Please take note of the AP reporter’s name before reading.

Immigrants Lament Decline of the Projects
by SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI
Associated Press Writer
- SAINT DENIS, Paris (AP)

The rows upon rows of towering concrete blocks have a dreary regularity: Most are exactly 17 stories high with six apartments to each floor. Today, these housing projects at the heart of rioting across France are rotting, the walls smeared with graffiti, weeds sprouting through cracks, windows protected by rusty metal bars.

But in their time, the subsidized low-cost apartments were a major step up for poor families—spacious, with central heating and bathrooms. “My first reaction was, ‘Wow, how modern and advanced!” recalls Sonia Imloul, 30, who moved into a high-rise as a child with her Algerian immigrant parents. “I was 7 when I saw a shower for the first time.” Imloul said that in the nearby bidonville, or slum, where she was born, the rats were so big that they chased the cats, and residents used a shared toilet and a municipal bath.

The family’s new three-bedroom home was in one of the building estates that sprouted up from the 1950s as temporary housing for immigrants from the former colonies in North and West Africa who were brought to France to work in factories. Now, those jobs have largely gone, but many immigrants and their children remain stuck in the suburbs and their dreary “HLM,” short for “habitation a loyer modere,” or low-rent housing. Initially, they were a “sign of progress,” said Angelina Peralva, a specialist on urban violence and sociology professor at the University of Toulouse.

Immigrants lived side by side with French professionals, including doctors and teachers starting their careers. But the French gradually left, creating a “big image” change for the suburbs, said Peralva. Now the buildings are showing their age. The government has dynamited many to build new ones, but the original structures that remain are often in dismal condition. The “cites,” as housing projects are called, are generally isolated from neighborhoods with shops and schools, and residents complain that police stay away, leaving the neighborhoods in the hands of drug dealers and criminals.

The decaying tower blocks on leafy boulevards have a threatening feel. Windows stare out from row after row. The housing projects that were once a source of pride for the new immigrants have become a source of anger and frustration for their children who live on society’s margins, struggling with high unemployment, racial discrimination and despair. Imloul, who works with troubled teens in Seine-Saint-Denis, the northeastern Paris suburb worst-hit by the unrest, said that while the parents who moved here were happy to be living in comfort compared to where they came from—“the children do not accept the conditions they are living in.”

Imloul said the “cites” are in urgent need of investment—most importantly better schools. “There are 15-year-old students here who cannot write,” she said. “The first words children learn are swear words.” She said youths are paying the price for a French law that requires students to go to their neighborhood schools. This means parents have no choice but to send their children to a school plagued by delinquents. “The law here is that of drugs,” says Imloul as she drives past a group of men smoking marijuana. “Before this was hidden. But now, it’s in the open. It’s become normal.”

Those who can are leaving the neighborhoods—including younger generation parents—to save their children from crime. Imloul, too, is determined to leave as soon as she can afford to find a place in a safe neighborhood in Paris proper. “I don’t want my son to grow up here,” she said. “In our neighborhoods, people only survive, they don’t live.”

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Tower Of Babel

This is where it starts. Where it ends is a good question. What are the advantages of having all elementary students learn English and Spanish? I’m all in favor of students learning a second language. I took two in high school and college - first Latin then French. In those days (the 1950’s & 1960’s) students were required to take at least two years of a foreign language in high school. The thing is, we were given a choice and could pick a language that we thought might be of benefit some day.

This news story below is not about raising the competitive abilities of students by having them learn a foreign language. It is purely and simply about multi-culturalism and surrendering to the rapidly growing Spanish-speaking minority in this country. This is only the first step in creating a bi-polar country where communication is only further damaged by having two distinct national languages. Down that road is a monstrous tar pit. I’m just glad I won’t be around to be the tar-baby ... or would that be “bebé alquitrán”?

Dual-Language Public School OK’d in Georgia
JONESBORO, Ga. (AP)

A school board has voted to open a public elementary school where students will be taught to be equally proficient in English and Spanish by fifth grade. Unidos Dual Language Charter School, which is scheduled to open next fall, is believed to be the first of its kind in the state.

It won’t target the immigrant community by teaching English as a second language, but aims to teach both languages together to classes equally divided between English- and Spanish-native speakers.

“They’re able to learn a language in very natural ways,” said DeeAnn Dozier, the Clayton County schools English teacher who reviewed the petition. The board voted Monday night.

Hispanics make up nearly 8 percent of students enrolled in the state’s public schools this year, according to a report released last week by the National Council of La Raza, the largest U.S.-based Hispanic advocacy group.

The first dual language education program in the United States was started in 1962 in Coral Way, Fla., according to the Unidos petition. In 2004, 294 programs used both Spanish and English.

On the Net: Unidos Dual Language Charter School: http://www.unidoscharter.org

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Girlie Men Beware!

_{“Day By Day” by Chris Muir}

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Requiem

Not to put too fine a point on it but you are reading this on a blog ...

Newspaper Circulation Drops 2.6 Percent,
Latest Sign of Trouble in Newspaper Business
(ABC NEWS)

Average weekday circulation at U.S. newspapers fell 2.6 percent during the six month-period ending in September in the latest sign of trouble in the newspaper business, an industry group reported Monday. Sunday circulation also fell 3.1 percent at newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, according to an analysis of the data by the Newspaper Association of America.

The declines show an acceleration of a years-long trend of falling circulation at daily newspapers as more people, especially young adults, turn to the Internet for news and as newspapers cut back on less profitable circulation.

In the previous six-month reporting period ending in March, weekday circulation fell 1.9 percent at U.S. daily newspapers and Sunday circulation fell 2.5 percent. Circulation has been steadily declining at newspapers for several years as readers look to other media such as cable TV and the Internet for news. Tougher rules on telemarketing have also hurt newspapers’ ability to sign up new readers.

Newspapers also face sluggish growth in advertising, higher newsprint prices and increasing concern among investors about their growth prospects.

- More On This Story On Page C-24

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Huey P. Long Award, Part I

You might as well get used to this post title. This is only part I of a series which will continue for months. The Feds are in the process of throwing billions of dollars at Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts and the heritage of the Kingfish lives on. You might say the modern-day counterparts of Governor Long are “KingPhishers” since they are already busily dreaming up ways to siphon off the rebuilding funds into all the wrong places. Starting with $45 million to finance a goat-rope. No, really. Huey P. Long would be proud. Legislation to provide funding for a cluster-f**k will be forthcoming ....

Louisiana Cash Goes To The Dogs, Cows And Goats
(WASHINGTON TIMES)

Louisiana will spend $45 million on sports and livestock facilities and other new projects in spite of a looming deficit, frustrating some officials who say the frivolity reinforces the state’s history of political patronage. “We’re in Washington with our hands out asking for $2 billion plus, and rather than holding on to the money to see what the needs are, they’re spending it on local projects financing goat shows and lawn-mower races,” says state Sen. Robert Barham, Oak Ridge Republican.

Supporters of the $4 million Morehouse Parish Equine Center say it will give a much-needed boost to the economy. Jimmy Christmas, center chairman, says it will be used for horse, cow, dog, goat and art shows; rodeos; auctions; crawfish festivals; lawn-mower races; religious functions; an animal shelter; and a community center.

“I like a good goat roping as much as anyone, but come on,” Mr. Barham said. “It’s funny, but it’s sad. At a time when Louisiana needs so much to enhance its public image, the taxpayers are just shaking their heads and wondering.” The Louisiana state Legislature yesterday began a special two-week session to deal with record-setting budget shortfalls, but this spending, approved by the state’s bond commission and headed by Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, will go unchallenged.

Also up for discussion during the special session is a bill that would allow lawmakers and their family members to obtain Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts, and proposals to restructure the state’s levee boards. The president of the Orleans Levee Board resigned last month after accusations he awarded contracts to family members. Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican, says the spending is not helping his efforts in Washington to secure emergency funding for the state to deal with the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

- Get The Rest Of The Dirty Rice & Gumbo Here

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   Monday - November 07, 2005

French Intifada

This is without a doubt the best commentary on the current crisis in France you will ever get. It comes from the New York Post and was written by a gentleman named Amir Taheri who is editor of the French quarterly “Politique Internationale,” and a member of Benador Associates in Paris. I present it here in its entirety for your education and better understanding of how deeply troubling this mess is to all of us ....

WHY PARIS IS BURNING
November 4, 2005

As the night falls, the “troubles” start — and the pattern is always the same. Bands of youths in balaclavas start by setting fire to parked cars, break shop windows with baseball bats, wreck public telephones and ransack cinemas, libraries and schools. When the police arrive on the scene, the rioters attack them with stones, knives and baseball bats. The police respond by firing tear-gas grenades and, on occasions, blank shots in the air. Sometimes the youths fire back — with real bullets.

These scenes are not from the West Bank but from 20 French cities, mostly close to Paris, that have been plunged into a European version of the intifada that at the time of writing appears beyond control. The troubles first began in Clichy-sous-Bois, an underprivileged suburb east of Paris, a week ago. France’s bombastic interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, responded by sending over 400 heavily armed policemen to “impose the laws of the republic,” and promised to crush “the louts and hooligans” within the day. Within a few days, however, it had dawned on anyone who wanted to know that this was no “outburst by criminal elements” that could be handled with a mixture of braggadocio and batons.

By Monday, everyone in Paris was speaking of “an unprecedented crisis.” Both Sarkozy and his boss, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, had to cancel foreign trips to deal with the riots. How did it all start? The accepted account is that sometime last week, a group of young boys in Clichy engaged in one of their favorite sports: stealing parts of parked cars. Normally, nothing dramatic would have happened, as the police have not been present in that suburb for years. The problem came when one of the inhabitants, a female busybody, telephoned the police and reported the thieving spree taking place just opposite her building. The police were thus obliged to do something — which meant entering a city that, as noted, had been a no-go area for them.

Once the police arrived on the scene, the youths — who had been reigning over Clichy pretty unmolested for years — got really angry. A brief chase took place in the street, and two of the youths, who were not actually chased by the police, sought refuge in a cordoned-off area housing a power pylon. Both were electrocuted. Once news of their deaths was out, Clichy was all up in arms. With cries of “God is great,” bands of youths armed with whatever they could get hold of went on a rampage and forced the police to flee. The French authorities could not allow a band of youths to expel the police from French territory. So they hit back — sending in Special Forces, known as the CRS, with armored cars and tough rules of engagement.

Within hours, the original cause of the incidents was forgotten and the issue jelled around a demand by the representatives of the rioters that the French police leave the “occupied territories.” By midweek, the riots had spread to three of the provinces neighboring Paris, with a population of 5.5 million. But who lives in the affected areas? In Clichy itself, more than 80 percent of the inhabitants are Muslim immigrants or their children, mostly from Arab and black Africa. In other affected towns, the Muslim immigrant community accounts for 30 percent to 60 percent of the population. But these are not the only figures that matter. Average unemployment in the affected areas is estimated at around 30 percent and, when it comes to young would-be workers, reaches 60 percent.

In these suburban towns, built in the 1950s in imitation of the Soviet social housing of the Stalinist era, people live in crammed conditions, sometimes several generations in a tiny apartment, and see “real French life” only on television. The French used to flatter themselves for the success of their policy of assimilation, which was supposed to turn immigrants from any background into “proper Frenchmen” within a generation at most. That policy worked as long as immigrants came to France in drips and drops and thus could merge into a much larger mainstream. Assimilation, however, cannot work when in most schools in the affected areas, fewer than 20 percent of the pupils are native French speakers.

France has also lost another powerful mechanism for assimilation: the obligatory military service abolished in the 1990s. As the number of immigrants and their descendants increases in a particular locality, more and more of its native French inhabitants leave for “calmer places,” thus making assimilation still more difficult. In some areas, it is possible for an immigrant or his descendants to spend a whole life without ever encountering the need to speak French, let alone familiarize himself with any aspect of the famous French culture. The result is often alienation. And that, in turn, gives radical Islamists an opportunity to propagate their message of religious and cultural apartheid.

Some are even calling for the areas where Muslims form a majority of the population to be reorganized on the basis of the “millet” system of the Ottoman Empire: Each religious community (millet) would enjoy the right to organize its social, cultural and educational life in accordance with its religious beliefs. In parts of France, a de facto millet system is already in place. In these areas, all women are obliged to wear the standardized Islamist “hijab” while most men grow their beards to the length prescribed by the sheiks. The radicals have managed to chase away French shopkeepers selling alcohol and pork products, forced “places of sin,” such as dancing halls, cinemas and theaters, to close down, and seized control of much of the local administration.

A reporter who spent last weekend in Clichy and its neighboring towns of Bondy, Aulnay-sous-Bois and Bobigny heard a single overarching message: The French authorities should keep out. “All we demand is to be left alone,” said Mouloud Dahmani, one of the local “emirs” engaged in negotiations to persuade the French to withdraw the police and allow a committee of sheiks, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, to negotiate an end to the hostilities. President Jacques Chirac and Premier de Villepin are especially sore because they had believed that their opposition to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 would give France a heroic image in the Muslim community.

That illusion has now been shattered — and the Chirac administration, already passing through a deepening political crisis, appears to be clueless about how to cope with what the Parisian daily France Soir has called a “ticking time bomb.” It is now clear that a good portion of France’s Muslims not only refuse to assimilate into “the superior French culture,” but firmly believe that Islam offers the highest forms of life to which all mankind should aspire. So what is the solution? One solution, offered by Gilles Kepel, an adviser to Chirac on Islamic affairs, is the creation of “a new Andalusia” in which Christians and Muslims would live side by side and cooperate to create a new cultural synthesis.

The problem with Kepel’s vision, however, is that it does not address the important issue of political power. Who will rule this new Andalusia: Muslims or the largely secularist Frenchmen? Suddenly, French politics has become worth watching again, even though for the wrong reasons.

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