Snapped Shot

This one was too good to pass up. Who knew that our little buddy would show up in defence of Sudan's right to burninate the non-Muslim peasants "peacefully" ignite their denizens. Here's more on the terror-loving Islamic thug who's currently running Sudan, in case you're interested.

Yet another instance of an Arabic media organization talking out of both sides of their mouth? A "peaceful two-state solution," indeed... Many thanks to the folks at CAMERA Snapshots (no relation) for their fine work, and for the folks at MEMRI, who do so much of the heavy lifting that goes into these discussions!

Update 1-Mar: Uhh, [awkward silence]... followed by:

Oof, that hurts the team!

Now, about those magic carbon-offset indulgences the folks on the left are championing with great fervor. You know they're hot—they were included in the "presenter's thank you gifts" at this week's Oscar telecast:

The [gift offsets] "are enough to balance out an average year in the life of an Academy Award presenter," a press release from TerraPass asserts. "For example, 100,000 pounds is the total amount of carbon dioxide created by 20,000 miles of driving, 40,000 miles on commercial airlines, 20 hours in a private jet and a large house in Los Angeles. The greenhouse gas reductions will be accomplished through TerraPass' [program] of verified wind energy, cow power [collecting methane from manure] and efficiency projects." Voila, guilt-free consumption! It reminds us of the era when rich Catholics paid the church for "dispensations" that would shorten their terms in Purgatory. (H/T Larwyn)

So, TerraPass does what, exactly? Collects money, issues these certificates and then—funds wind farms and such? Is that it? Where, exactly? Not Nantucket, we know, but where? Does anyone know how much money is going into offsets and how much real alternative energy is being produced or how much tree-planting or flurescent bulb-buying is going on? I haven't been able to access terrapass.com, so we'll have to find out when the site comes back up. Who runs that joint, anyway? Shouldn't we be "following the money" a little—make sure it's all for real—before we buy all this eco-jazz hook, line and sinker? Shouldn't someone in the press be looking at this, even just a little? We're talking about potentially an awful lot of money with apparently no one asking a single question.

As usual, the right-hand side of the blogosphere is alone in asking the "5 W's." Critical thought, as usual, is still not welcome on the left, who collectively are more than happy to accept whatever the Environmental "Fundies" (to use a derogatory term invented by those bigoted lefties) tell them, without question!

Alas, it's much easier to unquestionably follow than to think for one's self, isn't it?

Surprise, surprise! Fidel Castro has popped up on fellow dictator Hugo Chavez's (who else?) radio show. Does this mean he's genuinely still not dead? Or is Hugo just dancing for the cameras yet again?

As usual, I have to do the esplainin' that the press refuses to do. Check out this little gem:



What's missing from this caption? Maybe an explanation of what these "anti-Zionists" are all about would be in order. While it's not identified in the caption, this group is most likely from Neturei Karta, who are a notorious group of Israel-hating, Holocaust-denying Jews.

It's worth noting that these guys also showed up at David Duke's little Holocaust-denying shindig in Tehran, something which REUTERS also fails to identify.

Believe me, folks: The only people in the world that take NK seriously are people whose agenda includes the destruction of Israel.

As an aside, do you notice how similar their signs look to those from certain other flaming leftist protest groups?


What do you suppose the odds that, if you were to "accidentally" examine the balance books between NK and International ANSWER, that you'd find that both groups are one and the same--mere Leftist puppets sent to masquerade around in front of an all-too-willing press?

One step at a time!