I was going to wax poetic today about what I've discovered about the Islamic male mentality.  Do you realize, because of the madrases style education, the average Islamic male educated outside of the public school system here and in Europe is extremely unsophisticated intellectually?  This part of the problem with the hate spewed at the Pope.  The average Islamic male doesn't have the intellectual sophistication to comprehend 'Western Civilization' and philosophical thought.  This is not a racist slam.  It is a criticism thrown at an education system that teaches by memorization.  There's no logic, philosophy, or anything that isn't Islam or the Koran.  I can't think of anything more damning for a culture.  It is also the voice of eventual doom for a culture.  Let's face it, the Islamic militant thinks they are in a war to convert the west to Islam.  The actual battle we are watching are the first convulsions of a decayed and dying culture.  Without thought, without logic, without reason, without philosophy, without history a culture cannot survive.

I am an unabashed unapologetic chauvinistic supporter of Western Civilization, i.e. Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, Hindu-Buddhist history and culture.  Now I know why.  It may be as old as...well...civilization, but it is as vibrant and new and creative as if the world were young.  No matter how many of us the Islamic militant tries to convert, it doesn't matter.  We have books, thought, reason, art, music, poetry, dance, culture on our side.  They have a monolithic religion that has forbidden all but things associated through that religion.  That is not freedom, it is repressive tyranny of thought.

They can try to kill us all.  But, as long as there is one single candle of Western Civilized thought they have lost.  Then, like the song says, "It only takes a spark to get a fire going. And soon all those around is called up in its glowing..."  The Taliban can blow up timeless statues.  The out of control mullahs in Egypt can threaten to blow up the pyramids.  But - they can't burn all the books in the world.  They will never be able to extinguish light and civilization.  They are going to try, but they are going to fail - because they are a dying culture.

Islamic culture reached its zenith when ours was experiencing our Medieval period.  They were light and the Western world was darkness.  They 'saved' astronomy, poetry, music, philosophy, medicine, and most of the sciences - their culture was blossoming while ours was hibernating.  But, something happened, and Islamis culture began to wilt and then decay.  We are watching as it nears death.

In their anger, the young and the hate filled adults lash out at us.  But, they can't continue this indefinitely.  They have lost their soul.  They no  longer have a culture.  They may think they are winning, but they've already lost the long war.  We just need to fight the remaining battles. 

And now you know why I so strongly believe we need to take the Moral High Ground.  Someone needs to stand up for moral absolutes of right and wrong.  If necessary, I'll go down with the ship, but I will go down doing what is right.

The Giuliani Blog seems to thing a feud is developing between Romney and McCain.  Romney was quite nasty about McCain the other night.  Could he possibly running for the snippiest candidate award? 

Novak's most recent take on things.

I suggest you read the transcript from Bob Schieffer interviewing Lindsey on the CIA, detainees, etc.  I think he's getting a bum rap in the press and by the RINO conservative pundits.  I also think, and I REPEAT much of this donny-brook in the Senate is a little political showmanship to push up GOP numbers.  And, it is working. 

"...There are three branches of government. The president assumed the
Geneva Convention did not apply to the war on terror; humane
treatment did. I agree with that.The Supreme Court says the Geneva Convention applies. So what I would like to do is give our president the tools that we need to
defend ourselves, an effective CIA program, where our agents can`t
be prosecuted for war crimes ill-defined; they can`t be sued and
lose their houses because they`re doing their job; they can defend
themselves in court if they`re ever accused of doing something, by
saying, I was following orders.

We would go crazy. Unfortunately, there`s 90 percent agreement
on how to do these trials after the Supreme Court ruling, but
there`s a provision in the military commission model of the
president`s proposal that would allow the jury to get evidence not
seen by the accused, call it classified, and the person go to jail
never knowing what the jury convicted him of.

 

...I`m all for protecting classified information from being
unfairly disclosed, but you cannot have a trial and call it an
American trial, have a Geneva Convention trial where the person
goes to jail and never saw what the jury saw. What does
confrontation rights mean? It means you can tell your side of the
story.

 

Pedophiles and terrorists, everybody we try deserves to know
what they`re accused of so they can defend themselves. And if we do
it differently now, different than we have done in 200 years, it
will come back to haunt us. Because other people will start doing
this, and imagine an American in a foreign land going to the death
chamber never seeing the evidence against them. It would be an
outrage against our people, and we can`t legitimize that.

 

I`m getting pounded at home by some people: Why
can`t you work with the president? The president wants to defend
us. The CIA needs to get good information. These guys are
barbarians. Why are you standing in the way? I`m not standing in
the way. I share the same goals, but I`m a military lawyer, 22
years as a member of the Air Force JAG Corps.

 

When I put that uniform on, I took an obligation as a military
officer. Now I have an obligation as a senator. I admire the
president. I want to help him. But the biggest risk in the world is
not Lindsey Graham losing an election. We can have a good country
without Lindsey Graham being in the Senate.

 

We cannot have a great nation when we start redefining who we
are under the guise of redefining our law. My biggest fear is that
as we try to solve these complicated legal procedures and problems,
that we`re seen as taking shortcuts and we don`t redefine the law,
we redefine America in a way so we can`t win this war...."

 

If you do not recognize what you just read - it's called honor.  And, if you did not hear it on Monday, this is what Rush going after Lindsey about.  This is honor.  This is statesmanship.  This is a Senator. 

I've been telling you RINO conservatives were not true Republicans, even they constantly denigrate Republicans who do not do as commanded.  Seems they are now out of the closet on their complete lack of political decency.

"Republican candidates for Congress cannot rely on the unconditional support of social conservatives if they do not toe the line on key issues like abortion, a leading conservative activist said on Wednesday. "We are all about issues. I cannot tell people to vote Democrat or Republican," said Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group...."

The Tancredo Watch has some new news about our favorite Hispanaphobe.  Let's be honest here, we all knew TT wasn't telling the truth about the SC fiasco.  But, who cares as long as TT gets all those nasty illegals deported, right?  Speaking of TT, don't forget to take the poll on how long it will be before TT decides to join Buchanan and demand GWB be impeached.  My money is when he's in either another snit with Rove or isn't getting enough attention.  Could also be one and the same!

"...The Denver Post has finally confirmed Tancredo Watch's suspicions that Tancredo's organization lied when it claimed that the Confederate paraphernalia in the South Carolina room where Tancredo spoke just 'happened to' be there because the room was inside a history museum. In fact, the Confederate-battle-flag-draped podium, portrait of Robert E. Lee, etc. etc. were all brought in especially for Tancredo's appearance by his rabid supporters..."

I love the Denver Post headline:  Tancredo Sings Dixie with Bigots!  Jim Spencer hit on several of the things we've been discussing for ages.  Last week we discussed the lies of the Tancredo team about this appearence, the misrepresnetations the Right Wing News told to cover it up, and the fact that Americans Have Had Enough Coalition is a Tancredo sponsored bunch.  Also, you will want to check out the SPLC expose I did over on Subway Canaries that completely counters  the CofCC quote.  And, remember, when dealing with the CofCC, you gotta keep their associates in mind.  Just check out the first couple of listings on their links page and I think you get the picture.  And there is still MORE about the Tancredo fiasco over at Colorado Media Matters

From Jim Spencer's Denver Post piece:  "...It is "highly possible" that members of the South Carolina Council of Conservative Citizens also were on hand for Tancredo's speech, a local chapter spokesman told me. The CofCC has staged demonstrations for the enforcement-only immigration reform Tancredo backs..

When Tancredo pleads immunity from all this, it's a wink and a nod. By demonizing illegal immigration, Tancredo has empowered and enjoyed the support of Mexican-hating xenophobes. Now, he has added the progeny of the Confederacy, whose ancestors backed slavery and racial segregation. Tancredo insists he doesn't share their bigotry. But the people he attracts help define him.

What Tancredo did is like Hillary Clinton appearing with a hammer-and-sickle flag, talking socialized medicine to an audience that includes Communists, then singing the Russian national anthem. I asked to speak to Tancredo about the divisive symbolism of the Confederate flag and Dixie. He chose not to talk. First, Tancredo's spokesman said the flags were part of a museum display. After a museum spokesman said the room was empty before the speech, Tancredo's people conceded that the flags had been moved in from an adjacent room by people attending the event....

Richard Hines booked the room at the request of Roan Garcia-Quintana, executive director of Americans Have Had Enough Coalition, which sponsored Tancredo's speech and whose board includes one of Tancredo's ex-Congressional staffers. Hines, whose wife is also a coalition board member, had his lawyer e-mail me a warning not to "injure the good reputation of Mr. Hines." Hines took care of his reputation in July 1996 in Richmond, Va. With a small group displaying Confederate flags, Hines protested putting a statue of black tennis star Arthur Ashe on a street that, Hines wrote to the Washington Post, "was designated as a memorial to the Confederacy and those who served her. ..."

...The NAACP still battles South Carolina over its display of the Confederate flag. "Their BS is that the flag reminds them of slavery," South Carolina Council of Conservative Citizens spokesman Kyle Rogers told me. He talked about the NAACP "busing in welfare mothers to demonstrate in front of the statehouse." ...No, countered CofCC national spokesman Gordon Baum. Guys like me are used being used by the Southern Poverty Law Center to smear the right wing. ..."