Signs of Desperation on the Left

-East Syracuse, NY–

We’re doing some more railfanning, today, sitting just outside the old Amtrak station in East Syracuse. This facility is an intermodal facility… not a very large one, but the biggest in the area, and along the old NYC water route, meaning 100-150 trains per day is not unusual, here. Too bad the weather’s less than optimal for photographs. I’ve managed to find a pic of the spot I’m sitting in… well, close, anyway.  As I write this, I’m parked just to your right at the end of the guardrail.  We come here often.. it’s a nice break for us and for the kids if we’re traveling to the east along I-90 or to the north or south along I-81.

I’ve found this pic on Geno Daily’s site, which can be found here. His site shows quite a bit of the Water Route along through New York… a nice bit of work, and worth the visit. This picture is taken from on board the passing train. Essentially, you’re standing in the near track looking at the station. The building’s use as was discontinued in 1998 when a station was put up in Downtown Syracuse, about 15 miles west of here.

At the moment, the front lot of this building is being used to store new cars for a neighborhood Ford dealer. The building is looking a bit forlorn, though. Sad, really. A sad footnote in the annals of the excess of government in general and Amtrak in particular.

As I sit here, taking a break with a cold Root Beer, I’m reading the news in the local paper, and particularly the editorials they try to pass as news, I come to the conclusion that there’s a lot of desperation on the left and in the press today. (OK, let’s save time and space; we all know that with only a few exceptions, the press IS the left.)

The more I watch the leftists making noise about the reported Abu Ghraib prison abuse, the more I understand just how desperate for power they have become. And make no mistake, here, that’s what this is all about. You’ll hear a lot of wailing about ‘honor’ and so on. But that’s not what this is about. All this noise about Iraq, has in fact little to do with Iraq, and more… in fact all, to do with power here in the US, and who gets it.

What this is, is Un-American leftists understanding that without the absolute worst happening in the Middle East, they stand no chance whatever of defeating the Republicans, and regaining the power they lost. To that end of regaining that power, the Democrats will stop at NOTHING. including fanning the flames of whatever Arab hatred that comes along, heedless of the longer-term consequences to America, or for that matter, to the world as a whole, to further that quest for power.

Some perspective allows for much in the way of backing for these statements. Let’s look at several points:

Where has all the outrage from the left, over Daniel Pearl been? You do remember Mr. Pearl, right? Ah, yes, the one who had his throat cut… Some new info about that killing has come out in the last week; Apparently, Mr. Pearl was given the option of being sedated before he his throat was cut… which he refused. He knew for hours before his death he was to be killed. Apparently, the outrage for that has disappeared, even among his fellows in the press.

How about the four people dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge after being burned and decapitated? Where has the outrage gone for them? It has all but disappeared.

Of course we should not forget the unfortunate Mr. Berg. Where, again, is the outrage for that killing?  As with the others, it has become, for all intents and purposes, non-existent.

The supposed mainstream US press has been as silent on these topics as the Arab press has been.  But never let it be said that the the US press does not keep up the breast beating on prison abuse. Is the prison abuse of greater import than the islamo-facists crowd? One would think so, given the way the press is dealing with it.

For that matter, where is the feeling in the Arab world on these issues? Yes, you’ll hear some on the Arab street complain as well about prisoner abuses, but stop and think for just a minute, here. Do you suppose there’s anything that would get them to STOP complaining? I don’t, short of capitulation, and a reinstatement of the Baathists. Do you?

(In fairness, perhaps it should be said about the Arab street that given the anti-American leanings of our own press, the true picture of the Arab street isn’t making it to us, here in the States, and thereby to the rest of the world.)

About the only thing starker than the silence about abuses by Arabs on the rest of us by the left (and in this I include the press) is the utter lack of a plan to deal with the problem.

Oh, sure, John Kerry and the Democrats claim they have a solution. But here’s a question you’ll not get an answer to when you ask a Democrat: Do we have any evidence that what Mr. Kerry advises us to do… IE; turning it all over to the UN, will put us in any better shape? It’s a question I can answer. No. In fact, the evidence if anything, suggests the situation would get worse if we follow his advice.

Ignoring, of course the fact that it was UN inaction and in fact UN corruption that brought us to this pass in the first place, there’s two major problems with turning it over to the UN. First, the UN has it’s own abuse issues.

Oh, I know… you’ve been busy, and not focused on such matters. Apparently, Mr. Kerry share your pain on that point; he’s apparently as unaware of this story as you; and it doesn’t help that it seems to have gotten by the so-called mainstream press as well.  The source for this is the UN site itself.

“7 May 2004 – The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) has launched a comprehensive investigation into reported instances of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of civilians, including minors, by its personnel in Bunia, in the northeastern part of the country.

The Mission is determined to enforce Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s policy of zero tolerance of any sexual misconduct, in accordance with his bulletin on special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of last October, a UN spokesman said in New York.”

According to some sources, the UN has been aware of this abuse since last October, yet took no action. On this basis alone the UN deserves no trust in the Iraq matter. But let’s remember, that the releases coming out of Iraq these days are targeting the UN in no uncertain terms. Small wonder, with their history. Let’s take just a few examples:

Since North Korea is hot on the griddle these days,let’s recall that North Korea starved to death about 2 million of its own people, while the UN did nothing.

Speaking of killing millions, let’s recall Saddam Hussein’s gassing of the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, and screwing up their ecosystem so badly they will never be able to return.

And the business in the Sudan continues to this day. Ah, yes, the Sudan. Lovely vacation spot, that… Where something on the order of 2 million of Sudanese Christians have been killed in the last 15-20 years. At this moment, millions are under threat form the Sudanese government, and have been driven from their native lands under threat of mass murder.

Another UN vacation spot; Rwanda, where the UN witnessed the slaughter of around 800,000 Hutu and Tutsis, and did nothing.

Need I mention the UN’s strong pro-terrorism stance, basically supporting attacks against Israel?

And since John Kerry likes to rattle on about his time in South East Asia, perhaps a mention of the genocide of an estimated two million souls by the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge.

No, I don’t think we can trust the UN to deal with the issue of Iraq and prison abuse, or in fact much of anything, for that matter. So much for Mr. Kerry’s statements on the issue. There’s just no way Kerry can really mean what he says about his ideas for the Middle East, assuming he’s not utterly insane, or that he’s got the defeat of America and the west as a goal, or both. In which case of course, he has no business whatever in government at all, much less as the President.

Of course there’s the Democrat rank and file who are just ticked that we removed the tyrant Saddam from power, and freed all those people.  Clearly these folks ARE insane. I’ve provided many examples of this type of idiot over the last few months.

Now that I think on it; the people all bent out of shape about our removing Saddam, including the UN, are also the ones who seemingly are not all that unhappy about the deaths of Americans Pearl, Berg, and all the rest. And guess what? They’re all John Kerry supporters. That point alone tells us why the anti-war crowd is so very, very desperate, and why the deaths of these brave people mean so little, and why the name Abu Ghraib will be in the headlines until election day. Unless of course someone who has the power calls the press on their leanings.

Like, YOU, for example.

The AP is reporting:

So, the sub-plot for this is developing; What the hell was Berg still doing there?

I’m becoming concerned, though, that we’re losing focus, here. Boortz points out on his page this morning that already the left has been managing a way to blame the President for Berg’s death. The one doing this was none other than Chucklehead Rangel. says Boortz:

‘As early as Tuesday night Rangel was saying that if the “Bush economy” hadn’t lost 3 million jobs people like Berg wouldn’t have had to go over to Iraq looking for work.

Imagine the self-satisfied smirks on the faces of the Islamic killers who sawed Nick Berg’s head off.  “Yeah, we killed the infidel, and then we sent them a tape!  But now American politicians are blaming his death on the evil Bush!”

Berg’s murderers can’t vote in November, but if they could, just who do you think they would cast their ballot for?  Would they vote for the candidate who wants to go crawling on all fours to beg forgiveness from the United Nations, France and Germany?  Or would they vote for the man who has pledged to destroy them, and has shown a determination to do so.  If you think that these Islamic terrorists want Bush to win … then you’re unsalvageable.  Why wouldn’t they draw comfort and encouragement from the likes of Rangel, Kennedy, McDermott, Daschle and the the list of Democrats for whom a victory in the November election is more important than a victory in the war against terror.’

Isn’t it odd, though, how Berg has just about disappeared from the front pages, and yet our old freind, Abu Griab, remains there, along with calls for Don Rumsfeld’s head? (Yes, I know, sick play on words. I don’t care) The images of Berg having his head removed with a dull blade are too graphic a picture to show the American people, and so that outrage gets muted… but Abu Girab? That’s just Naked Arabs.  And, Heck, it doesn’t even need to be real… witness the story I ran yesterday regarding the Globe and it’s bogus pics.

Just for a moment, here, let’s suppose that this non-coverage of the bigger outrage of Berg, is misdirecting the anger of American voters. Follow that thought to it’s logical conclusion.

I tell you; there’s fact and public opinion manipulation going on here by Democats and their supporters, seeking at any cost, and I mean ANY cost, to regain power. And I wonder how many Americans have the wit to see it for what it is.

UPDATE: Jeff Jacoby this morning:

:Yes, Virginia, there really is a gaping media double standard. News organizations will shield your tender eyes from the sight of a Berg or a Daniel Pearl being decapitated, or of Sept. 11 victims jumping to their deaths, or of the mangled bodies on the USS Cole, or of Fallujans joyfully mutilating the remains of four lynched US civilians. But they will make sure you don’t miss the odious behavior of Americans or American allies, no matter how atypical that misbehavior may be or how determined the US military is to uproot and punish it.

We are at war with a vicious enemy, and propaganda in wartime is a weapon whose consequences can be deadly. Nick Berg lost his life because the Abu Ghraib pictures were turned into a worldwide media event. Yes, those who did so were sheltered by the First Amendment. That makes what they did not better but worse.”

World Net Daily is running a story which shows us where the leanings in the press are: Anti-American.

So, that the pics were a fake were was well known.
The Globe ran ’em anyway, telling their readers they were genuine.

Any questions, class?

The Toronto Sun says:

Amazing how quickly we make hte transition from “Bush Lied, there were no WMD” to “the WMD are now in the hands of the terrorists because of Bush”

People, the WMD have always been in the hands of terrorists… and that’s been the point since day one. It’s just now, they’re in the hands of different terrorists.

NBC: FDNY Chief of Safety Reported Bombs Both Within the Towers and on the Planes on 9/11

Some interesting questions arise from thsi report. I’m researching the ideas presented.

boortz.com: Nealz Nuze Today’s Nuze

Just read it…. the whole thing.

Yahoo! News – says:

So, despite the desperate, anti-American posturing the left’s been pulling, Bush still wins.
Or is it BECUASE of it?

AP is reporting:

Now I’m sure there will be an outcry here in the states about this, and what bastards the soldiers who ‘abused’ the prisoners are. But consider Daniel Pearl whse story I just updated yesterday. Consider the 4 whose bodies were dragged through the stretes and hung from a bridge a few months ago.

Do you really think the Islamofacists need an excuse to be this way?

Next time some liberal weenie tries to tell you the lie that we’re at an all-time high in gas prices, tell them they’re full of thick gooey brown stuff… (no, I don’t mean oil) and then show them THIS CHART

The Marine Corps News reports some news about a Marine from my hometown:

Hat Tip: Captain Ed

My Way – News is reporting:

Not really. Not when you hide behind your wife’s finances to cover your own underhanded capaign financial deals.

Quit hiding behind the skirt, Mr. Kerry… and PRODUCE THE RECORDS.

THe WSJ today is running a column by Victor Davis Hanson… someone always worth listening to. He suggests that the 9/11 attacks and our curent problems can be laid at the feet of the left. He makes his case in part, this way:

“Imagine a different Nov. 4, 1979, in Tehran. Shortly after Iranian terrorists storm the American Embassy and take some 90 American hostages, President Carter announces that Islamic fundamentalism is not a legitimate response to the excess of the shah but a new and dangerous fascism that threatens all that liberal society holds dear. And then he issues an ultimatum to Tehran’s leaders: Release the captives or face a devastating military response.”

Won’t win the Nobel prize that way, will you, Jimmy?

Hanson goes on;

“It is easy to cite post-Vietnam guilt and shame as the likely culprit for our paralysis. After all, Jimmy Carter came in when memories of capsizing boat people and of American helicopters lifting swarms of panicked diplomats off the roof of the Saigon embassy were fresh. In 1981, he exited in greater shame: his effusive protestations that Soviet communism wasn’t something to fear all that much won him the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, while his heralded “human rights” campaign was answered by the Ortegas in Nicaragua and the creation of a murderous theocracy in Iran. Yet perhaps President Carter was not taking the American people anywhere they didn’t want to go. After over a decade of prior social unrest and national humiliation in Vietnam, many Americans believed that the United States either could not or should not do much about things beyond its shores.”

The Telegraph reports:

“Horrifying new details of how Daniel Pearl, the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter, met his death have emerged from the interrogation of new suspects by Pakistani police.

Pearl, who was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002, knew for several hours that he was about to be killed, but resisted repeated attempts to sedate him, police now believe.

He was fully aware of what was happening when the Arab extremists who took control during his final days cut his throat, according to information gleaned from Pakistani militants now in police custody.”

Does this put Abu Ghraib prison abuse reports in perspective for you? How many people at Abu Ghraib got their throats cut? How many were hanged from Bridges? How may were decapitated and dragged through the streets?

This will be the BIT topic for tonight.

Oregon Daily Emerald reports that LA TIMES editor John S. Carroll, in delivering a lecture on ethics, gave some big-brother-like twisting.

Hoo, boy, here we go:

And this guy has the enlarged pair to talk about ethics?

First, yes, we continue to find WMD. That’s been well-documented and posted here in this blog, and elsewhere
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Further, the connections between al-Qaeda and Iraq have in fact been demonstrated, and documented here and elsewhere, as well.

And as for the remainder of the world, the bottom line is their lack of understanding of the situation, is directly connected to the lies put out on the first two subjects by such outlets as the LA TIMES. And isn’t it interesting that his complaints are directed at the ones actually speaking the truth on the issues at hand?

The LA TIMES has no place lecturing ANYONE on the subject of ethics and misleading writing masquerading as NEWS.

Looks like Blogger’s got some added helps and redesign going for it’s post editing. Not sure if this adds any functionality, yet, but it looks nice. Oops. New Icon labeled ‘blockquote’.

I guess in the future, all my quotes will look like this:

“I guess in the future, all my quotes will look like this.”

OK, I guess that’s a help. Question is, now the RSS feeds deal with the new function. I guess we’ll see.

Also, I notice that SiteMeter is down with a failed HD, today with no ETA on it’s replacement. Oh, goodie. If the Site Meter code starts hanging pageloads, I’ll pull it out of my CSS coding… but it looks OK for the moment.

And yes, I got the new van, and I’m in love. I’ll post pics as soon as they come back.