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British Iraq veteran wishes to fulfill childhood dream of joining Ye Olde Constables. In England, it goes without saying.

Said veteran is turned away by Ye Olde Constables for having an "inappropriate" tattoo on his arm.

What was horridly inappropriate about it?

You'll have to click over here to find out. If you suffer from high blood pressure, I'd recommend taking a few deep breaths beforehand, of course.

Ahh, Diversity:—Deleting evil Whitey Western culture, one country at a time.

(h/t IBA)

It took a couple of days to switch from "anti-Denmark anger" to "anti-Dutch" anger. These kinds of things take time, after all.

It was definitely worth the wait.

Interestingly enough, Geert appears to be covered in a Danish flag. I guess there's still an oversupply of those amongst the rage vendors in Pakistan?

The caption does say that this is "an effigy of Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders and a Danish flag," for what it's worth. Which, as far as I can tell, makes this a multi-purpose ragefest.

Anyone have an effigy of the Pope?

A new think-tank has been formed to address the constant imbalance in reporting on Israel. I highly recommend adding them to your bookmarks. (h/t CAMERA Snapshots—no relation)

GettyImages photographer John Moore has been selected by the National Press Photographers Association as being the Photojournalist of the Year for 2008. John has taken some very powerful pictures over the last year—Including one of the few shots taken of Benazir Bhutto's assassination.


(John Moore/GettyImages)

You can read more about their selection over here.

Today was "Earth Hour" today (figure that one out). This was the day that for one hour, everyone was to turn out their lights to protect the world from GLOBAL WARMING.

The environmental group WWF urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes Saturday starting at 8 p.m. wherever they were. Several U.S. cities including Chicago and Atlanta participated and symbolic darkouts or dimmings of monuments.

So, this world-wide man-made global-saving event was participated by only a few cities in America. Nice. But, did those city's efforts make any difference you ask? Let us see. Continue reading »

Despite the mainstream media's promotion that al-Sadr's Mahdi Army is inflicting major casualties on American forces, the Iraqi and coalition forces are also doing their damage. How do we know this? Say thank you to the embedded photog agents.

From one location, we can find at least two photographers for one agency that shalt not be named and al-Reuters as well. Thanks to Ali Abu Shish from Reuters and Alaa al-Marjani from (cough, cough). Again, odd finding the two most pro-embed media organizations at the same event.

And, from what can be seen from this photo here, we are not doing that much damage to them as one would think. Note the fat bellies and nice black wood coffins. And not to mention the ability to go out in broad, open daylight without fear. Is that lace I see wrapped around the bodies in later photos??? Awwww. Continue reading »

"Common" misconceptions about Islam.

(And, no, this is not a joke or a satire or a parody. These are real 'misconceptions' from apparently very stupid tourists and answers from a real Muslim. For some bizarre reason his answers don't make me feel any safer traveling to an Islamic country...)

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(Hat Tip: Jawa Report)

According to common Islamic thought, the hijab gives Muslim women dignity and respect, and protects them from the evil eyes of non-believers. Apparently, no one told these Muslim men the purpose of the hijab:

According to a LiveLeak explanation, the video host has pulled "Fitna" due to threats from the "religion of peace." I have taken it upon myself to upload it at JewTube.com. I'm not sure if it'll last there, but JewTube has been good about hosting other videos exposing radical Islam.

(WARNING! The follow video is about Islam. It contains graphic scenes of violence, courtesy of the Quran and the followers of the Religion of Peace.)



Muslims want you to make way for Islam,
but Islam does not make way for you.

The government insists that you respect Islam,
but Islam has no respect for you.

Islam wants to rule, submit, and seeks
to destroy our western civilization.

In 1945, Nazism was defeated in Europe.
In 1989, Communism was defeated in Europe.

Now the Islamic ideology has to be defeated.

Stop Islamisation.
Defend our freedom. Continue reading »

Y'all don't have anything to worry about from me. I'm behaving myself rather well over here. Honest!



(h/t Nigel, btw)

Fresh off the wires, here's Palestine's #1 angry guy.

Boy, he sure looks angry today!

I'm sorry, but there really is absolutely no excuse for photos like this. It's an AFP photo, so the link should stay good forever, but just in case, it's also archived here.

Seriously: What "news" does this convey? How does this serve the average newsreader?

As Gateway Pundit has pointed out earlier, Essam al-Sudani is actively involved with the Mahdi Army, but the picture above is well beyond all reasonable limits of news gathering, and has clearly moved into the realm of actively assisting a terrorist group.

If I were a news customer, I would demand that the AFP immediately cease all association with Mr. al-Sudani, and that they remove all of his terrorist propaganda from their archives.

Jan-Edward has more thoughts on this. Via Google Translate, he asks:

There has been in recent months and years been much discussion about whether or not to use as a (photo) journalist embedded with a military unit to work.

That is the question arises: Are there also photographers "embedded" with the other warring parties? (For words like 'rebels',' freedom 'and' terrorists' but even aside to let).

Today I ask this question but again on the agenda, following photos AFP photographer Essam al-Sudani through his press office has published.

Those photos show that Essam al-Sudani zastane Sjiitische with fighters of the Mahdi militia in Basra, for example, he photographs at the time it places a roadside bomb. I still get an uneasy feeling in these and other photographs of the said AFP photographer.

I'm glad I am not the only one thinking this.

Is it wrong to profile when a specific minority makes up a majority of terrorist attacks? The UN seems to think so:

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva has passed a resolution calling on states not to resort to racial, ethnic or religious profiling while countering terrorism.

Let's take a look at the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list:

Hmm, see any common characteristics among this group of men? If you said "young, Muslim males", you are a bigot and a racist. Go sit in a corner until you learn to be more tolerant.

I ask again, is it wrong to profile when a specific minority makes up a majority of terrorist attacks?