UN Retroactively Clears Nazi Germany of Genocide

Following the UN report which has cleared the Sudanese government of genocide in the Dafur region, the UN has also decided to retroactively clear Nazi Germany of genocide during WWII. Although critical of certain actions by the Nazi German government at the time, the UN has declared that there was no genocide. They claim an apparent "hoax" and cite "a typical over-exaggeration by the Jews," while claiming that the Jews "deserve it."

The Arab League has appauled the decision and has demanded an apology from Israel for hanging the now vindicated Adolf Eichmann in 1962. They have declared Eichmann a Righteous Infidel for his actions during WWII.

Kerry stumbles on Russert Questions

John Kerry appeared on Tim Russert's Meet the Press yesterday. John Kerry is apparently still campaigning. I thought losers of elections should be quiet. Obviously the majority of Americans didn't like his ideas and his viewpoints. Russert isn't a total pasty for the liberal left and can ask some tougher questions of Democrats. Here he tripped up Kerry:

MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe that Iraq is less a terrorist threat to the United States now than it was two years ago?

SEN. KERRY: No, it's more. And, in fact, I believe the world is less safe today than it was two and a half years ago. And, you know, I think this is one of the difficulties of what I tried to carry in the course of the campaign....

However, the VERY NEXT QUESTION, Russert asks Kerry essentially the SAME question, yet Kerry provides a DIFFERENT response.

MR. RUSSERT: Is the United States safer with the newly elected Iraqi
government than we would have been with Saddam Hussein?

SEN. KERRY: Sure. And I'm glad Saddam Hussein is gone, and I've said that a hundred times....

So Russert asks Kerry the same question, yet he answers differently. According to Kerry, Iraq is more a terror threat than it was two years ago (with Saddam), yet it safer without Saddam. Are you confused? Perhaps Kerry doesn't exactly know where he stands, but is just spouting off lines given to him by advisors. Transcript

Chirac wants Global Tax and Enough AIDS already

Jacques Chirac, now wants a global tax to “fight AIDS.” Such as “noble” cause as the fight against AIDS is a clever way to try to introduce a global tax. I’m sure it won’t be popular today, but this is the beginning. I’m now even more glad that Kerry didn’t the election. That Francophile would be all over an idea to have global tax. Global taxes will be suggested more and more often until it finally happens. Once one global tax happens, look for many many more to have in quick succession. I’m sure many liberals are running around wondering why THEY hadn’t thought of the global tax first.

My big complaint is that no one really cares about AIDS itself, just money. They see the money they can siphon from donations and taxes. In 2004, when Bush pledged $15 billion to fight AIDS in Africa, Kofi Annan, instead of being happy, was on the BBC complaining that the Americans will administer the money themselves instead of putting it into the “Global Fund” where Annan and his goons can stick their grubby fingers. Why would Kofi really complain about how the money was distributed if he really cared about the disease itself?

My other complaint is that the attention AIDS gets has been blown entirely out of proportion. There are many diseases and afflictions and all of them will only garner so many donations and support. AIDS get too attention. Funding and attention for diseases like leukemia, cancer, Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, suffer because of all the attention AIDS gets. I even doubt AIDS is as rampant in Africa as statistics tell us. Do they do comprehensive AIDS testing on all of these people? I doubt it. Instead, they are probably suffering from malnutrition, dysentery, and other diseases like tuberculosis or malaria. Why don’t we instead focus on sending vaccines for these diseases to Africa? We probably even send AIDS drugs to people who don’t need it, but need other supplies instead. Sure, AIDS shouldn’t be completely ignored, but it is preventable in 99.5% of the circumstances. AIDS isn’t an airborne disease or a genetic disorder. AIDS can be only passed through sex (and mainly anal, at that), intravenous drug use, childbirth, and blood transfusions. In the US, we now screen blood transfusions and can prevent the childbirth transmission of AIDS. So in virtually all circumstances, AIDS can be prevented.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050126/hl_nm/davos_aids_dc_2

FINALLY! An Imam speaks out against terrorism!

One of the reasons why Islamic terrorism is so widespread is the reluctance for Muslim leaders to speak out again terrorism. Either they are afraid or they silently condone it. The other option is to quietly say they don't agree with it in English speeches. I am happy to see a prominent Imam speak out against terror.

Shun Terror, Imam Urges Muslims in Eid SermonMahmoud Ahmad, Arab News

MAKKAH, 21 January 2005 — As millions of faithful marked Eid Al-Adha yesterday, Muslims were warned against heeding militant calls to wage terrorist attacks in the name of Islam. The warning came, amid a surge in militant attacks in Muslim countries and beyond, from Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, while addressing Haj pilgrims in a customary Eid sermon. The imam also advised Islamic scholars to preach moderation to confront this “rotten” phenomenon.

“Islam is the religion of moderation. There is no room for extremism in Islam,” he said. He called on Muslims to “protect non-Muslims in the Kingdom and not to attack them in the country or anywhere. Islam is a religion of peace that abhors attack on innocents.” Militants were using misguided interpretations of Islam to justify violence, he added.
“Because Muslims have strayed from moderation, we are now suffering from this dangerous phenomenon of branding people infidels and inciting Muslims to rise against their leaders to cause instability,” Al-Sudais said.
“The reason for this is a delinquent and void interpretation of Islam based on ignorance ... faith does not mean killing Muslims or non-Muslims who live among us, it does not mean shedding blood, terrorizing or sending body parts flying.”
Al-Sudais warned that extremism would ruin the Muslim nation, adding: “This phenomenon has expanded so much that scholars must confront it with concrete proof from Islam to protect our youth from its stench and rottenness.” Arab News

What Liberal Media Bias?

The title of the article is a glaring example of liberal media bias. Instead of using a term like "Pro-life advocates" or even the harsher "Anti-Abortion protesters," the demonstrators were reduced to mere "foes." The term "foe" has a very negative connotation and doesn't exactly convey a neutral or unbiased viewpoint.

Anti-life leftists (see two can play at that game) claim that pro-lifers shouldn’t force their morals onto them. Newsflash: We, as a society, project our morals onto everyone else everyday! Laws against murder, theft, embezzlement are moral issues, because the (vast) majority society is against them. However, drinking alcohol, is legal because the majority of people do not think it is immoral to drink. That’s how a democratic society works. It’s up to the citizens whether or not we consider abortion illegal. It’s a purely legislative issue.

At the bottom of the article, you can see why the left is worried. 38 states would like ban abortion if Roe vs. Wade is reversed. (Remember reversal of Roe vs. Wade doesn’t ban abortion, but returns it to the state legislatures.) So the abortion crowd is trying to force and unpopular issue on the nation via the courts. It’s the same thing with gay marriage.

Abortion Foes Stage Protest of Roe V. Wade

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Abortion opponents on Monday marked the 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion with a day of rallies, protests and other activities as the issue takes on new urgency with the likelihood of a high court vacancy during President Bush's term.

NARAL Pro-Choice America has projected that 19 states would quickly outlaw abortion, and 19 more might follow suit, if Roe v. Wade were overturned. Last week, Norma McCorvey, the woman known as "Jane Roe" in Roe v. Wade, asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 decision. McCorvey now opposes abortion and said the case should be heard again in light of evidence that the procedure may harm women. AP via Yahoo

Crimespeaker in Stockholm Sentected to Jail

Apparently in Sweden, the supposed land of the tolerant, this minister, an oldthinker, was guilty of crimethink and crimespeak.

STOCKHOLM — A Swedish Pentecostal minister who was sentenced to a month in jail last year for preaching against homosexuality appealed the verdict yesterday. Demonstrators outside the courthouse in Joenkoeping, southern Sweden, carried banners that read: "In Sweden we put ministers in jail for preaching the Bible" and "Defend religious freedom." In a sermon in August 2003, the minister, Ake Green, said homosexuals' "sexual abnormality was like a cancer of society...." Washington Times

Oliver Stone Blames Bush for Alexander movie flop

Oliver Stone has blamed Bush and the War in Iraq for the horrendus box office performance of his movie Alexander. How sad is that? It almost reads like a Scrappleface story.

Director Oliver Stone turned on American critics and audiences on
Wednesday...

He also blamed the U.S. invasion of Iraq for the movie's poor performance at the box office, arguing that people were distracted by comparisons between Alexander the Great's forays into the Middle East and President Bush. "Because Alexander at times sounds like George (W.) Bush, (people) get the two confused," he said. "I think it makes people feel queasy about empire and the concepts that Alexander espoused, but Alexander was not attacking the east in order to drain it of its resources. He stayed in the east." "Because Alexander at times sounds like George (W.) Bush, (people) get the two confused," he said. "I think it makes people feel queasy about empire and the concepts that Alexander espoused, but Alexander was not attacking the east in order to drain it of its resources. He stayed in the east."
Reuters via Yahoo

Tsunami insania

Although there has a been a great catastrophie resulting from the tsunami, I'm wary about the donations for the relief effort. How much of these donations will ever see anything besides a foreign bureaucrat? Sucked up by corrupt officals? Every US news anchor and politician is out there trying to garner a photo op.

However, but contrary to Powell's visions of grandeur, the tsunami relief will not improve our image in the Muslim world. No amount of money given will be enough for our critics. There is no reason why Indonesians should hate us as it is, so I doubt some $350 million will make them happy.

"I hope that as a result of our efforts, as a result of our helicopter pilots being seen by the citizens of Indonesia helping them, that value system of ours will be reinforced," Powell said. Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country with 238 million people, had the largest loss of life in the Dec. 26 disaster that struck 12 countries around the Indian Ocean. Indonesia is a fledgling democracy and an ally in the Bush administration's war on terrorism, but suspicion of Americans runs deep here. ..."It turns out that the majority of those nations affected were Muslim nations," Powell said. He said of the U.S. aid, "We'd be doing it regardless of religion, but I think it does give the Muslim world and the rest of the world ... an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action." ...Powell announced no increase in the U.S. commitment of $350 million in aid, a number he has called sufficient for now. In Washington, the White House said Tuesday the number is likely to rise eventually. AP via Yahoo