A change Down Under?

Australia, one the most staunch U.S. allies in Afghanistan and Iraq, is poised to hold an election at some point this Fall (which is Spring for them, of course): http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010469. This is another election that bears watching. Under current Prime Minister John Howard, Australia has proven to be a reliable, if not the most reliable, American ally overseas. If the opposition Labour Party succeeds in ousting the Howard government, and they have consistently held a 10-point lead in the polls, it is a fairly safe bet that Aussie foreign policy will take a left turn. So, watch out, United States, and watch out Israel. Changes are a-coming..............

Battlefield England, Part Sixteen

There are apparently at least SOME academics in the UK who do not have their heads up their rear ends: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1186557430820&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull.

While I am certainly happy that the there are individuals on the other side of the pond who are not complete goobers, I remain troubled by the fact that this discussion is even taking place, and am convinced that the anti-Israel crowd has achieved a major milestone by even getting the conversation to this point.

Windsor, Ontario, loves Hezbollah

Well, some people there do, anyway: http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=9e4885a7-c3ac-4280-881d-1f83d903b7be&k=45311.

This story is already all over the blogosphere. I have seen it reported on The Canadian Sentinel and on Little Green Footballs, but the long and the short of it is that some Lebanese ex-patriates in Windsor, Ontario (right across the river from Detroit) have put up a billboard praising Hezbollah, and essentially telling anyone who doesn't like it that they can go pound sand.

Hmm................just as a matter of curiousity. Let's say a Jewish group put up a sign with Rabbi Meir Kahane's name on it, singing his praises. I wonder if that would go unchallenged.

UPDATE (4:25 p.m.): The billboard has now been removed: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=5cd07f1e-efaa-4009-a5c6-6468c9938da3&k=53710.

War. What is it good for?

If you're Iran and Syria, the answer apparently is "Quite a lot". If you don't think that the signs out of Israel's north are ominous, check out these stories. On one hand, we have Hezbollah using Iranian money to buy out land owned by Druze and Christian Lebanese so that they can have better vantage points to launch missiles at Israel: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/12/wmid112.xml. So much for that UNIFIL force.

On the other hand, we have the Syrians arming themselves with the world's most sophisticated anti-aircraft systems (thanks to my favourite anti-Semites, the Russians): http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3436827,00.html. The Syrians aren't buying this stuff for their health. They are planning for an eventual and inevitable war with Israel, one that will undoubtedly take the West by surprise, though that should not be the case given the signs out of the region.

Be ready, my friends, be ready. This will be a bloody, messy affair, and the outcome is by no means certain............

We have nothing to fear..............but Republicans

No, no, it's true! Evil Republicans are the terrorists. If you don't believe me, just check out this wacko piece from the Portland Indymedia site: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/363204.shtml.

The scary thing to me is that these nutcases live in the same country as me, and they are overwhelmingly Democrats. Come January of 2009, the Democrats will likely control both houses of Congress and the Presidency.

Christianity is violent, Islam is peaceful

Yup, that is the constant spin being put forth by organizations such as CAIR and its willing, dhimmi-loving acolytes in the MSM. I read an excellent piece on Townhall.com this morning which neatly debunks that myth: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2007/08/11/christianity_sucks_and_islam_is_awesome?page=full&comments=true.

FOR THE RECORD..............I am NOT saying that all Muslims are violent. I am NOT saying that all of Islam is violent. What I AM saying is that if you look at most of the world's most violent hotspots--you have Muslims on one side, either oppressing or claiming that they are oppressed. Israel, Sudan, Kashmir, The Phillipines, Thailand, Afghanistan, the unreported ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, where Shiites are evicting the Druze and Christian Lebanese from South Lebanon. In very recent memory, we have also had Bosnia and Kosovo, and do I even need to comment on the horrific Muslim on Muslim violence in Iraq?

To deny that there is a current, extremely violent streak in Islam is to deny reality. To deny that this element is also the most vocal is again to deny reality. Sorry, but the facts are the facts. We are being sold a bill of goods by a naive at best or delusional and deceitful at worst elite which seems incapable of acknowledging, let alone discussing this.

Ron Paul 2008 = John McCain 2000

Congressman Ron Paul is, as the MSM loves to remind us, a "revolutionary" candidate on the Republican field: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/08/ron_pauls_revolution.html. He is a media darling, just like Senator McCain eight years ago. Why is Congressman Paul so beloved, you might ask? Well, because when it comes to foreign policy, he sounds a lot more like the defeatist left wing of the Democratic Party. He wants a pullout from Iraq NOW, regardless of whether the Surge works or not. He blames the terrorist attacks that the United States has suffered squarely on us and our actions.

It's no wonder the MSM loves him. He sounds so much like one of them on the issue that matters most to them, which is seeing that the United States leaves Iraq in shame. Fortunately I have a better chance of becoming President than he does................

Syria plans for war with Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3435543,00.html

And what is Israel doing, near as I can tell? Not much. Ehud Olmert and the rest of the Tweedledees and Tweedledums who make up the Israeli government continue to release Palestinian "prisoners" at a record rate, and to fund the secular Mahmoud Abbas government, whose only significant difference from Hamas is that it is not religiously-based. They both agree on their collective desire to kill Jews. Meanwhile, to the north, a war is brewing and this one will not be anywhere near as neat or short as the one with Hezbollah last year. And like it or not, Israel has to emerge decisively victorious from this war, as it did in 1967, and unlike last summer. In order to do so, it cannot let the U.N. Security Council force it to stop if victory is imminent.

Franky, if I were running Syria, I would wait until 2008 at some point to start the hostilities. If it becomes apparent that a Democrat is going to capture the White House, I would wait even longer, until that President is inaugurated, because it's a fairly safe bet that any Democrat, and in particular Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, will not be anywhere near as friendly to Israel as the Bush 43 Administration was from 2001 until 2006 (when Bush 43 suddenly turned into Bush 41). If they play their cards right, the Syrians have a very good chance of winning the war outright................

More non-Muslims die in Darfur, World yawns

The ongoing genocide in Darfur is one that future generations will look upon with same amazement and horror that current ones do with respect to the Holocaust. However, we are living in a very different political climate than the one that existed after WWII. We are much more politically correct, much more "sensitive", and more ominously, much LESS inclined to "call it like we see it", especially if the offending party is (gasp!) adherents of the Religion of Peace (official motto: "Don't call us violent or we'll kill you").

There was an excellent article on yesterday's Frontpagemag website which discusses the obliviousness of much of the world to the crimes being committed there, while the same world obsesses over Israel to an absurd degree. I am linking to it here: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=8CA05B72-6F67-4F10-BCEB-7547A62C8D82.

Some people have a sense of humour, others don't

Here is one area where my old homeland has a big advantage over the U.S. Canadians are much more apt to see the humour in politics, and especially, how the folly and stupidity of politicians is worthy of mocking, ESPECIALLY during elections: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/rhino-party/index.html.

There is no doubt that elections are serious events, but for the most part I am of the firm belief that politics are much too serious to be taken seriously..........

Olympic events I want to see

Sorry about the light blogging in the past week. I have been attending to Mrs. BHG and the newest little BHG, as well as some personal health issues which have fortunately resolved themselves.

That said...............I was reading online that there are Redneck Olympics. No, really! Here is the story on them: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/09/ap/strange/main3150627.shtml. I guess that this should not be much of a surprise at all. If there is a movement to have ballroom dancing added as an Olympic event, why not these?

The new and improved Cold War

The Russians are going to start using Syrian ports as permanent bases: http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3434145,00.html.

Given the vastly increased Russian belligerence towards the West in general and the United States in particular, does anyone else want to bet that they won't get actively involved once the Iranian/Syrian/Hezbollah three-headed monster moves against Israel again?

More from the REAL Fascist State

No, it's not Israel. It's Iran, which is executing people at an almost unheard-of clip: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010434. The funny thing is, I don't see the U.N. Human Rights Commission launching any "permanent investigations" of Iran.

Maybe it's just me.................

Little BHG Update

The littlest BHG was born Friday, at 12:03 p.m., weighing eight pounds, three ounces. She has great lungs and thankfully, looks nothing like her dad! Mother and baby are doing well!

:-)

Blogging will be light (or non-existent) for the next few days......

.............as Mrs. BHG and I head this morning to the hospital this morning for the birth of the fourth little BHG!

Vermont man accused of sexually molesting a cow

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291858,00.html

All I can say is, it must have been a moooooooving experience.

The "Boycott Israel" movement gains new momentum

The timing of these notices and stories always amazes me, because they seem to inevitably occur just as or right after Israel has promised new concessions: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/07/31/methodists_concerned_with_israeli_occupation/.

So, now we have have the Methodists planning to divest from holdings in companies that do business with Israel. No such threat is being made against Iran, where women are treated like chattel (at best), Sudan, where a documented genocide is taking place, Saudi Arabia, which apart from oil seems to export only Wahhabism and terrorists. Nope, JUST ISRAEL.

If this push for divestment is not anti-Semitic in intent, it is certainly anti-Semitic in effect.......

New Blog Feature

At the bottom of the page, I have added a "news ticker" which will have updates on Israeli and Middle East News!

How the world saved Hezbollah

Stories like this absolutely make my head want to explode: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185893683874&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull. So, Hezbollah could have been effectively destroyed last summer, but it was saved by a combination of the EU, U.S. U.N., and weak Israeli leadership. How lovely. Is ANYONE out there as frustrated as I am in reading this?

The battle over Illegal Immigration comes to New Jersey

Last weekend, there was a protest against Illegal Immigration in Morristown, New Jersey. While there were plenty of people there who meant well on both sides of the debate, the nutcases were also out in full force, both on the left: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/07/88909.html, and on the right: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=407055&highlight=morristown.

It's more than a little scary to me that these nutcases are roaming around this country...........