ENDURING DEMENTIA: DIANA WEST

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Two breaking stories out of Afghanistan:

1) Big firefight in Paktika Province at COP Margah, which this blog has been keeping an eye on for a while. Sixty jihadis killed, all Americans okay.

BBC reports:

Two senior Afghan intelligence officials told the BBC the attack was “very close to Pakistan”, adding: “Sixty insurgents carrying so many weapons could have not crossed from Pakistan without the help of Pakistani security forces – it is either that or they turned a blind eye.”

Pakistan says it does all it can to halt insurgent activity.

Karzai’s big pal Pakistan.

MOSHE DANN: DEMOLISHING ZIONISM….HOME BY HOME

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=244889
The ruins of hundreds of once-Jewish homes throughout Judea and Samaria, and thousands more in Gush Katif and Northern Shomron serve as disgraceful memorials to Israeli injustice.
On Monday, the heads of six Knesset factions representing a majority of MKs called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to stop the demolition of “settlement” outposts and set up a legal team with a mandate to find “creative solutions” allowing all communities and neighborhoods to remain in place.

The recent destruction of three homes in the Jewish community of Migron, like that of a dozen in Or Hatzion a few days ago, several in Bat Ayin last week, nine in Amona in 2009 and many more throughout Judea and Samaria because they were built without permits, raises serious questions about the propriety and purpose of government actions.

In response to threatened and impending destruction of more Jewish homes Netanyahu instructed Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman to form a task force to examine the possibility of legalizing homes that were built without permits on allegedly private Palestinian land.

DIANA WEST: AFGHAN GENERAL…”WE HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO OPERATE WEAPONS NATO GAVE US”

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1947/Afghan-Gen-We-Have-No-Clue-How-to-Operate-the-Weapons-NATO-Gives-Us.aspx

Dementia advances in Afghanistan, courtesy the US taxpayer, who spent about $12 billion on training Afghans between October 2010 and September 2011. Not that it stopped there: $11 billion is pledged for the year ahead through September 2012.

Just think how many perfectly gorgeous Standard Poodles you could train for $23 billion dollars. And the world would be a better place….

On a recent graduation day for over 1,000 Afghan army soldiers, Reuters reports the alarming thoughts of Amlaqullah Patyani, the Afghan general in charge of all Afghan training.

Surveying his new soldiers, Patyani said:

“We have no clue how to operate the weapons that NATO gives us. And even if we did, will the weapons keep coming after 2014?” …

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE PROFESSIONAL PROTESTER

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
The Professional Protester
Contrary to their own claim that they represent the 99 percent and the media’s ceaseless hype, OWS is about as representative of ordinary Americans as your average professional protester. Which is not very.

Even opponents of the Tea Party could not seriously claim that it was a movement of professional protesters, but that’s exactly what OWS is, leavened with assorted hippies, homeless people and bored students and aging radicals along for the ride.

The professional protester is the left’s answer to everything, built around a core of far-left groups and community organizations that use local protests as a form of blackmail, these are the people who show up at everything from anti-war rallies to budget meetings with variations of the same tired agenda.

The rioting and anti-semitism are hardly a surprise. The professional protester contingent has its anarchists who can be counted on to start smashing things at the wrong time and groups who run the gamut from supporting Hamas to believing that Jews are actually reptilian space monsters in disguise.

UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY: MARK TAPSON

Unhappy Anniversary Posted By Mark Tapson URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/09/unhappy-anniversary/ With all the “Occupy movement” mayhem dominating the news last week, along with the media salivation over sexual improprieties ascribed to Herman Cain and Justin Bieber, and the continued fallout from Kim Kardashian’s divorce announcement diverting media attention from the hell being unleashed in the […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: WHITE RACISTS

White Racists Posted By Daniel Greenfield URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/09/white-racists/ Flash back twenty years to the Clarence Thomas hearings and every attack on him then and since has wound around two common points: He’s dumb and he’s oversexed. Now, twenty years later, the front-runner for the Republican nomination is being hit again by his leftist […]

HOT PICKS AND VIDEOS FROM FSM

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769/pub_detail.asp 1. VIDEO #1: Holder Refuses to Apologize for Murder of Border Agent; Says Fast & Furious Didn’t Lead to Death – VIDEO #2: Holder Struggles to Answer Simple Question About Fast And Furious 2. Atheists Angry After Wis. Gov. Changes ‘Holiday’ Tree Back to ‘Christmas’ Tree 3. VIDEO: Muslim Homeland Security Advisor Accused of […]

ALAN CARUBA: ANTI SEMITISM, A GROWTH INDUSTRY IN BAD TIMES….SEE NOTE

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10774/pub_detail.asp

GEEZ…IF THE ADL NOTICED, IT MUST BE REALLY BAD….RSK
Anti-Semitism, a Growth Industry in Bad Times Alan Caruba

In bad times, anti-Semitism seems to crawl out of the sewers like a repugnant odor. It is not subject to a rational response. It is pure emotion and a very nasty one at that. Lately we got a whiff of it at some of the Occupy protests.

On November 3rd, the Anti-Defamation League released a nationwide study that found that “anti-Semitic attitudes have risen slightly in America, demonstrating once again that ‘anti-Semitic beliefs continue to hold a vice-grip’ on asmall but not insubstantial segment of America.”

“The ADL survey found that 15 percent of Americans—nearly 35 million adults—hold deeply anti-Semitic views, an increase of 3 percent from a similar poll conducted in 2009, and matching the levels of anti-Semitic propensities recorded in the U.S. in 2005 and 2007.” Even so, what passes for anti-Semitism today is not remotely comparable to earlier, pre-World War Two generations.

One of the lesser reported aspects of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been a strong element of anti-Semitism. Little wonder that it has been endorsed by the American Nazi Party and other extreme groups, both Left and Right.

HOBBYIST PHOTOGRAPHER ASSAULTED IN ZUCOTTI PARK: CHARLES COOKE

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/282575/hobbyist-photographer-describes-assault-zuccotti-park-charles-c-w-cooke Hobbyist Photographer Describes Assault in Zuccotti Park It always helps to put a face to a name, even if it is a bruised and bloodied one. Here is such a face. It belongs to Bruce Fancher, a hobbyist photographer who lives “a few blocks” from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan. It […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: FAST AND FURIOUS IS ALL…..BUSH’S FAULT

Fast & Furious Was . . . Bush’s Fault By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/282606 I was only able to take in parts of Attorney General Eric Holder’s just-completed Senate testimony. But that was enough to see that “Bush did it” is going to be the Democrats’ excuse for the inexcusable “Fast & Furious” operation conducted by […]