Sugar Daddy

AP:

Bush Says Paternalism Over in U.S. Aid

WASHINGTON (AP) - Declaring the age of paternalism over, President Bush said Thursday the United States demands clear results for the billions of taxpayer dollars it sends to Africa.

Pretend you’re a 10-year old kid once again.  If your parents told you how to spend your allowance, would you think that paternalism is over?  Actually, as long as you’re getting an allowance, paternalism is occurring.

Ready for a Good Laugh?

AP:

China: US should take lead on climate

That coming from a country so polluted that, in certain cities on certain days, one can’t see the sun at noon on a clear day.

BALI, Indonesia - China said Friday it will not consider mandatory cuts on greenhouse gases, saying the United States and other industrialized countries should take the lead in fighting climate change by embracing a less-extravagant lifestyle.

Don’t worry.  China, with its cheap labor, mass labor, and (in some cases) slave and prison labor, and in cooperation with the white world’s corporate plutocrats, is seeing to it that the average white person does have a “less-extravagant lifestyle.”

China, which some believed has surpassed the United States as the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, also questioned the fairness of binding cuts when its per capita emissions are about one-sixth of those by the U.S.

“Per Capita” being the weasel words.  China has more pollution, but far many more people, so pollutants per capita are lower.  Therefore, they comply with Kyoto.  That’s why I speculate that Kyoto is a corporate conspiracy to create a quasi-legal excuse to move what’s left of the American manufacturing base to cheap-labor Kyoto-”compliant” China.  The pressure of American labor unions is still strong enough to keep, e.g. the assembly plants for the final stage of manufacture of automobiles, in the USA, but if we ever ratify Kyoto, we’ll hear the “oops darn aw schucks” excuse that they have to move to China, like that untimely root canal is every husband’s out to keep from visiting the mother-in-law he despises.

Putin’s Suspicious Barking

The main criticism that the left-wing in America have leveled against nuclear missile defense initiatives, programs and systems, since the proposals of SDI (”Star Wars”) in the 1980s, is that these systems aren’t just for defense, that they will also have the clandestine power to launch nuclear weapons.

I’m starting to think that they’re onto something.  Russian President Vladimir Putin is adamant that the American government not build a nuclear defense system in a country that is both an American ally and borders Russia.  In doing so, Putin has equivocated such a system with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Now, if this system were purely a defense mechanism, why would Putin compare it to the Soviets actually wanting to put nuclear warheads on Cuba?  Does Putin know or think that the missile defense system is really a missile offense system?  Otherwise, logic and common sense would dictate that he would want a defense system near Russia, as the Russians and radical Islamists have been at each other’s throats for several decades.

On Obama’s Bellicosity

The Democrats love to tout their foreign relations prowess, but Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, who seriously thinks he can become President of These United States, in his proud bloviating that he would strike western Pakistan, has just dissed Pervez Musharraf, and communicated the message that he thinks that Musharraf is an incompetent boob. Now there’s the way to win friends and influence people.

In reality, if Obama becomes President does this, it would only swing the Pakistani electorate to parties and candidates sympathetic with AQ radicals. That’s the whole problem with the American invasion and occupation of Iraq — we threw a once-upon-a-time friendly secular dictator to the wolves and wound up creating a vacuum filled by AQ types.

Also, this represents the over-obsession that much of the political left has with the person of Osama Bin Laden. They just assume that he’s still alive and hiding out in the mountains of western Pakistan, and if he find him and send him to his reward, then the Obama administration would declare penultimate victory in the War on Terror, and then we can go back to the halcyon pre-9/11 days when Britney Spears was a cutting-edge political issue.

Wrong Conclusion, Wrong Headline

Live Science:

Study: Americans Don’t Understand Others

Rugged American individualism could hinder our ability to understand other peoples’ point of view, a new study suggests.

And in contrast, the researchers found that Chinese are more skilled at understanding other people’s perspectives, possibly because they live in a more “collectivist” society.

“This cultural difference affects the way we communicate,” said study co-author and cognitive psychologist Boaz Keysar of the University of Chicago.

Simple study

The study, though oversimplified compared to real life, was instructive. Keysar and his colleagues arranged two blocks on a table so participants could see both. However, a piece of cardboard obstructed the view of one block so a “director,” sitting across from the participant, could only see one block.

When the director asked 20 American participants (none of Asian descent) to move a block, most were confused as to which block to move and did not take into account the director’s perspective. Even though they could have deduced that, from the director’s seat, only one block was on the table.

Most of the 20 Chinese participants, however, were not confused by the hidden block and knew exactly which block the director was referring to. While following directions was relatively simple for the Chinese, it took Americans twice as long to move a block.

“That strong, egocentric communication of Westerners was nonexistent when we looked at Chinese,” Keysar said. “The Chinese were very much able to put themselves in the shoes of another when they were communicating.”

I don’t think this means that Americans can’t understand other societies’ mores and folkways, and if one is going to jump to that conclusion from this study, one should also say that the Chinese don’t understand others. All it means is that it confirms what we understand from real-world observation of China and the Chinese, both historically and modern-day, that they have a collectivist and nationalist ant-like mentality.

That’s Not the Headline I Would Write

Foreign Policy magazine, the official print organ of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has released its 2007 Index of Failed States.

The MSM spin is that the failed American “occupation” of Iraq has catapulted the country to #2 on the Index, and that’s fair enough for various reasons.

However, the big story from this list is actually deja le meme chose for these sorts of rankings and lists. Every time one of these liberal think tanks releases a story about the virtues of countries, white countries are at the top of the list (if it measures virtues) or at the bottom (if it measures vices, like this Carnegie study), and vice-versa for black Africa.

If you asked the average person who works for or runs the Carnegie Endowment, they would eschew “white supremacy” and “racism.” Yet, their own study for their own purposes seems to endorse the concept.

If you look at the list of the 60 most failed states, nine of the top 11 are black African countries. Zimbabwe is #4, and Carnegie somewhat elaborates on Robert Mugabe’s failures, they can’t seem to grasp the racial angle of the matter.

Also of curiosity is the map above, a larger version is available on the Carnegie website. The reddest color represents the most failed states, and the greenest color represents the most stable states. Note the clump of dark reds in central Africa, and dark greens in northern Europe and Canada. Curiously, the USA, Britain, and much of continental Europe is light green, not dark green, meaning that Carnegie thinks there are some hints of instability in those countries. It’s not a coincidence that the USA, England and France have significant non-white populations, whom, in their native countries in Africa and the Middle East, contribute to their countries’ instability.

And Carnegie would gladly lobby governments in light green and dark green countries to accept more immigrants from people in yellow, light red and dark red countries.

Yet, There’s No Money For The Border Fence

As Otto Von Bismarck once said that the whole of the Balkans wasn’t worth the bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer, a dime spent by the State Department on facilities in Iraq is a wasted dime.

Yet, the big scandal relating to the “super-secure” embassy building that’s going up in Baghdad is the fact that, according to some estimates, we will spend billions to get it done, and a $1 billion a year to maintain it and to keep it secure.

And for what? For it to be a perpetual target by the terrorist goobers? It’s not as if the stooge Iraqi government we installed is so strong that there is some great diplomatic value in having relations with it, and as long as we’re there, it’ll do what we want anyway, and when we leave, Shia terrorists will topple that government, and the Shia warlords that will run Iraq won’t have any interest in diplomatic relations with us, and neither us with them.

So why are we wasting on this money? Halliburton. It’s the same reason why The Powers That Be don’t want to win the occupation, because too many important people are making too much money.

Dinesh D’Souza Joins the Goose Caucus

He has thrown his hat in with the Fossedal-Sharansky mentality that the United States of America is a Lincolnian credal nation, and thus American foreign and military policy should be the imperial imposition of “democracy” everywhere on Earth.

That’s because it has worked so well here.

This is coming from the same goofball that, in his book, The End of Racism, implied that western African kingdoms were qualitatively superior to western Europe in the year 1500.

There’s One Place On Earth Where Bush Is Still Loved

Albania. Mainly because they’re on our international welfare dole. Though if he starts mucking around there and says that they need comprehensive immigration reform, that’ll go out the window as well.

We’re supposedly in a war against radical Islam, but Albanian membership in NATO, and Kosovar independence, both of which Bush wants, would give moral energy to the radical Islamic enemy.

Not to mention the fact that the latter, which would cut off an important and historical piece of Serbia, would make the Russians mad. The Russians are already mad at us (i.e. President Bush), because Bush is floating the trial balloon of shooting missiles at Iran across Russian airspace. And with Russia being a reliable friend in the real War on Terror (i.e. trying to beat back Muslim Chechnyians and helping us in Afghanistan against the Taliban), why our foreign policy betters would want to cross a good friend like this is mystifying.

AQ and ZA

I bet that if the world in general, and the United States in particular, would have left their hands off South Africa, it wouldn’t be full of Al Qaeda agents today.

I shouldn’t be surprised. This seems to be the recent history of lousy half-witted half-brained American foreign policy. In the last three decades, we have “democratized” Iran, Iraq and South Africa, and all three of these places are much more the havens for real terrorists that really want to do damage to us for the sake of it.

If there are any honest historians left in this world at the end of this century, they will recognize Fossedal and Sharansky as mad geese, and not wise philosophers.

Ugly Americans (and Europeans) Provoke Coup D’Etat in Serbia

Just as I put in a nice word for him today, he quits under pressure from the US, EU, and “mainstream” Serbian political parties.

To think, Bill Clinton bombed the hell out of that country because he thought they needed “democracy.”

Can the State Department Really Be This Dangerous? Part 2

In our continuing serial about the U.S. State Department’s continuing war on European nationalist movements, we find out that Voice of America, essentially a State Department mouthpiece, is worried that Serbian nationalist leader Tomislav Nikolic, who just won election as the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, only won his election through use of “hate speech.”

An example, from VOA via Tongue Tied:

At a news briefing, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said reports of the debate leading to Nikolic’s election suggest it harkened back to the bad days of “hate speech” of the Milosevic era, where politicians were characterized as either patriots or traitors depending on whether they supported the regime.

So, Nikolic essentially said that you’re “either with us, or against us.” That sounds very familiar. I wonder if the State Department would accuse him of using “hate speech.”

The irony of that is that so-called “hard line” Serbs are more “with us” on the War on Radical Islam than the Clinton and Bush regimes could know, in that they are/were checking Balkan Muslims. Yet, we have been hindering their ability to help us. That refrain sounds familiar as well.

UPDATE 2:10 PM:  He quit today.

What Goes Around Comes Around

The Blotter by ABC:

U.S. and German officials fear terrorists are in the advanced planning stages of an attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists in Germany.

Law enforcement officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com that U.S. air marshals have been diverted to provide expanded protection of flights between Germany and the United States.

(snip)

Of particular concern, according to U.S. and German law enforcement officials, is Patch Barracks, the headquarters for U.S. European Command, near Stuttgart.

(snip)

The 9/ll hijackers planned their operation out of Hamburg, Germany, and the country continues to be known as a staging area for al Qaeda and groups affiliated with it.

“There are 300 to 500 people who are suspected to be part of al Qaeda cells in Germany,” said Col. Andrews Pratt (Ret.) of the George Marshall Center in Germany.

“In a democratic state like Germany, you just can’t go out and arbitrarily arrest people because they are under suspicion,” Pratt said.

The whole irony of this is that the American military continues to occupy Germany. Our occupation exerts subtle pressure on the German body politic to continue and promulgate racially egalitarian policies, and that itself is the reason why Germany is a hotbed of AQ cells, which, as you read, helped plan 9/11 from there, and now wants to hurt American military installations in the country.

Not only that, the American State Department is seeking to undercut right-wing nationalist European political parties, who would crack down on radical Islam on their own home fronts. Instead, our great idea is to help the very people that would bomb our German military bases.

If one wants to imply, that Col. Pratt means with his last statement that the American military would pressure the German government not to engage in racial profiling against Middle Eastern Muslims, and the result of that would be that the George Marshall Center would get blown to pieces, the irony would be even more stark.

Bring the American troops stationed in Germany home, and put them on the Southern Border. That way, we will be more secure, and the German government can help us and themselves be more secure from terrorism.

UPDATE 2:20 PM:  The German government does want to help us fight terrorism.  If they were as “anti-American” as some people in this country claim they are, then they would have never bothered to prosecute men who used Germany as a base to execute a terrorist attack on American soil.

Dust Off the Monroe Doctrine

Jimmy, we need your help against radical Islam

Hezbollah is setting up base in Paraguay. It’s not that long of a journey from there to our free and open southern border, which, as our esteemed politicians keep saying, does not need a border wall.

We’re spending about $1 billion a week in Iraq to fight them “over there” so they don’t come and fight “over here,” yet for a little more than a week’s worth of that money that we won’t spend, we will be fighting them “over here.”

Noise Machine

CSM:

Over the weekend in Cairo, young Egyptian and American students and professionals came together in a series of meetings intended to bridge differences between the two cultures and countries. They were looking for common ground between Arab and American, searching for solutions to issues that dominate the discussion in both countries.

(snip)

But while the gatherings were a chance for Americans and Egyptians to hear each other out on the most pressing issues in the region, and indeed for America, what I saw was a testament to the wide gulf that remains between East and West, especially when it comes to defining the basics of the debate: resistance, occupation, and terrorism.

If this kind of gulf exists between the white world and a “moderate” Arab-Islamic state, then that speaks volumes about the gap between ourselves and the fanatics. And to think, we’re wasting untold billions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to turn one of their fanatic hotbeds into a democracy.

Today’s Contribution to History

So we have a Royal and a Royal.  (Rimshot)

I’ll Pass

AP:

WASHINGTON - Looking for a stately home or opulent office overseas? One in a posh neighborhood or overlooking an exotic capital? Maybe with a glorious or infamous past? The U.S. government may have a deal for you.

From Kinshasa to Katmandu, Bangkok to Bogota, U.S. embassies, ambassadorial residences and other diplomatic digs are up for sale as the State Department moves its employees to more secure locations, upgrades facilities and combines operations in multipurpose compounds.

Some 29 properties worth more than $205 million are now on the market in 21 countries, including a huge and historic embassy annex in the heart of London, large chancery buildings in Panama, Nicaragua and Nepal and homes fit for envoys extraordinary in Belize and Venezuela.

Caveat emptor. U.S. Embassies are a rich target for terrorists, and some of them might not know yet that some of these installations are no longer property of the U.S. State Department.

Phrase is the Category

AP:

A spring break trip to Cuba taken by students and a teacher from a New York City public high school has raised concerns about whether the group violated U.S. travel restrictions to the Communist country.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Cheerio, London

The State Department is pondering moving the American Embassy in the UK out of central London. The main fear is terrorism from London’s massive Muslim community.

This is a canary dying in the mine of western civilization. When the most powerful white empire can’t keep its embassy in the heart of the central city of what used to be the most powerful white empire, and a country that is usually a reliable ally, because of fears of terrorism, one would be crazy not to conclude that the west is dying.

Marching Orders

KSDK-NBC-5:

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson left Saturday with a delegation of past and present U.S. officials for North Korea, where he hopes to reclaim the remains of American soldiers killed in the Korean War.

And to get new marching orders from Kim Jong-Il.  I’m surprised he isn’t taking Madeline Albright with him.

St. Louis Native Is New Ambassador to Belgium

He’s on a swift boat to Brussels by now.

Reassignment

Breitbart:

Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found bound, drunk and nude, according to Israeli media reports confirmed Monday by a government spokeswoman.

The longtime diplomat, Tsuriel Raphael, has been removed from his post and the Foreign Ministry has begun searching for a replacement, said ministry spokeswoman Zehavit Ben-Hillel.

Two weeks ago, El Salvador police found Raphael naked outside his residence, tied up, gagged and drunk, Israeli media reported. He was wearing several sex toys at the time, the media said. After he was untied, Raphael told police he was the ambassador of Israel, the reports said.

In related news, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has reassigned Tsuriel Raphael to be the head of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, with the warning that he should reduce his carbon footprint with his fetishes.

Yank Her Yankee Passport

KSDK:

It’s time for spring break and tens of thousands of college students are taking part in the annual tradition of traveling to hot spots such as Florida and Mexico. But there are new rules this year regarding passports

Students at St. Louis University are just a week away from spring break. Domestic as well as international destinations are on lots of travel agendas.

Some students are going to Panama City, Fla., while several other students will visit Panama City, Panama. And because it’s overseas, a passport is required.

I can think of one young lady that didn’t deserve a passport.  Others like her shouldn’t get one either lest everybody on Earth will hate us.

This Worries Me

Teenagers need not apply

AP:

The Bush administration is expected to announce on Thursday that it will exempt children from new rules that will require people to show passports when entering the U.S. at land or sea borders.

The new passport requirements are expected to take effect as soon as January 2008. But under the expected announcement, children aged 15 or younger with parental consent will be allowed to cross the borders at land and sea entry points with a certified copy of their birth certificates rather than passports.

Children aged 16 through 18 traveling with school, religious, cultural or athletic groups and under adult supervision will also be allowed to travel with only their birth certificates.

As ripe as document and identity fraud is among certain racial groups in this country, I get the feeling that these youth exemptions will be exploited quickly to make international terrorism and drug trafficking easier.

Can the State Department Really Be This Dangerous?

Or did Grover “Let’s Get All These Muslims To Vote Republican” Norquist become Secretary of State overnight?

Washington Times:

The State Department, concerned about a “nativist surge” in Western Europe, has created a position to coordinate efforts to reach out to European Muslims and help them better integrate into society, a senior official said yesterday.

If they mean “nativist surge” among European whites for nationalistic pride, then I’m for it there, and I’m for it here.

What I’m gleaning from this paragraph and article is that the State Department wants the Yankee Government to try to make alliances with European Muslims to undercut the white Euro nativism, which State thinks includes too many anti-American implications. With tomfoolery like that, it’s no wonder Euro whites have a hard on for our Yankee government.

Remember, in this same spirit, our Yankee Government is lobbying for Turkey to become part of the European Union, to reward our supposed ally in the Middle East (though they’re not that good of an ally). This would mean that Turks would have free movement around EU member states, so it’s no wonder that white Europeans oppose Turkey joining the EU.

The growing Muslim presence in Europe is “a fascinating issue and one that the American government is just now trying to get its mind around,” Mr. Fried told editors and reporters at The Washington Times.

Fascinating???? It’s outright dangerous.  Bombings, crime sprees, riots.  Not so fascinating when you’re a victim of one.   And pray tell, State, what of the growing Muslim presence here?

“Europe has to learn to do that,” he said. “You have a weird nativist surge in Western Europe, and a kind of odd panic: Aliens are here, they don’t accept our values, they are a threat to our way of life and turn to radicalism.”

Gee, where would Euro whites get a silly idea like that?

Don’t Buy the Streamers Just Yet

AP:

The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl whenever Cuban president Fidel Castro dies.

Discussions by a committee appointed earlier this month by the city commission to plan the event have even covered issues such as a theme to be printed on T-shirts, what musicians would perform, the cost and how long the celebration would last.

Such a gathering has long been part of the city’s plan for Castro’s death, but firming up the specifics has been more urgent since Castro became ill last summer and turned over power to his brother, Raul.

If I were a Miami-area Cuban-American, I wouldn’t be so quick to party once Fidel kicks the bucket. Everyone’s assuming that with Fidel gone, the Cuban people will rise up and implement a democratic republican form of government.

I wouldn’t be so sure. The reason I have my doubts is that the part of the Cuban population that would do that has already escaped to south Florida. All that’s left in Cuba are Fidel, his close relatives and henchmen, and a few million Negroes and mulattoes. When Fidel dies, Raul will become supreme dictator, and nothing will change.

State of the Union 2007

The only reason I watched the SOTU tonight is to see what Bush would say on immigration, and to hear Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) give the Democrats’ response. Interestingly, this is the second year in a row when a Virginian has given the Democratic response; last year that duty went to Gov. Tim Kaine, who was then, like Sen. Webb now, in the first month of his term. NBC’s Bio of Webb shows that he and rapper Eminem have something in common: They are both natives of St. Joseph, Missouri.

More Iraq-Vietnam Parallels

President Bush is calling for a Rooseveltian style economic “New Deal” for Iraq.

In that, Bush is yielding to liberal assumptions that poverty causes terrorism, as they make the case domestically that poverty causes crime, and in both instances, the poverty is only due to deliberate discrimination of some sort.

During the Vietnam war, President Johnson called for a “TVA on the Mekong” in the same spirit.

Duh

Business Week via Schlafly:

No matter which party you belong to, or which Big Idea or school of economic policy you subscribe to, one thing is clear: Globalization has overwhelmed Washington’s ability to control the economy.

In other words, globalism is a big flop, which erodes national sovereignty.  The rest of the article proves the thesis.

Schlafly notes the Democrats’ high profile victories in November were a result of the economic nationalist banners they raised.  I have been saying since the elections that Iraq wasn’t that big an issue; now I know what was.

NBC Tells The Truth

For Once.  And it’s Matt Lauer of all people telling the truth.

President Bush, meanwhile, is downgrading the event to a mere set of “sectarian hostilities.”