Ramones Day At NeoCon Command Center

In honor of our good friend Nanc, today is Ramones (Read the part about their break-up. Hee, hee.) day here at NeoCon.

Enjoy the musical selection for today!

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Steve at Steve's Hodgepodge is planning a little get-together...

Let him know what you think!

The Koran Influenced America's Founding Fathers?

Keith Ellison, who took his Congressional Oath of Office Thursday with a Koran, told the Detroit Free Press that the Koran "definitely an important historical document in our national history and demonstrates that Jefferson was a broad visionary thinker who not only possessed a Quran, but read it; it would have been something that contributed to his own thinking."

Yeah, it probably slam-dunked their decision to separate the Church from the State, and found the nation on the laws of the Bible, rather than the brutal law of the Koran.

Ellison went on to claim that Jefferson's ownership of the Koran "shows that from the earliest times of this republic, the Koran was in the consciousness of people who brought about democracy."

Does that even make sense? I can't get my brain around it! I can't think of a single example where Sharia law and democracy work together. If the Koran was in the consciousness of our Founding Fathers, then it must have been there as an example of what wouldn't work!

These quotes are the very reason why Ellison should not have been allowed to use the Koran while doing the swearing-in photo op; the freak-jobs at CAIR, and the Islamic Thinkers Society will take this and run with it: "See? Your Founding Fathers intended for this nation to be based upon the laws of Allah; this is just one step closer to the inevitable: Sharia law in America."

The freak-jobs in al-Queada and those sort of terror groups will take the photo of Ellison, hand on the Koran, and show it in the Middle East where free access to information is limited, and show it as a victory for Allah. I guarantee you will see Ellison's picture in the Mosques at Friday sermon, accompanied by cries of "Allahu Akbar."

If Ellison is a true patriot, then he should be afraid and ashamed that he's done this country more harm than good.

No More Cries For Bi-Partisan Politics?

Bi-partisan politics? Not once we're in power...

I Wanna Be Sedated: Old Folks Style!

I found this over at Random Thoughts: Do They Have Meaning?, and it is a laugh riot!

Sick Of Pelosi?

With as much as we've heard about Nancy Pelosi over the last few months, I think that they ought to just go ahead and give her a show all to herself:


Hat tip to GBP Insider Payallin for the awesome graphic!

North Korea: NEW Home Of The Gulag

Communism continues to add to the socialism death toll, particularly in North Korea, where dictator Kim Jong Il keeps gulags that may be even worse than those in Siberia. The following article is from NewsMax.com, and though it is a bit lengthy, I have reproduced it in it's entirety. I believe it is a must-read.

North Korea's Horrific Gulag

Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003

Women undergo forced abortions, newborn babies are beaten to death, children are used for slave labor, and thousands every year are brutally murdered or worked to death.

The gulag is alive and well in North Korea, teeming with hundreds of thousands of brutalized human beings condemned to a blood-drenched existence so horrific it is almost impossible for civilized people to imagine.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the famed Russian author, described the Soviet Union’s “Gulag Archipelago,” a vast collection of slave labor camps in frozen Siberia where the prisoners were routinely tortured, starved and forced to work under the most inhuman of conditions. That gulag vanished when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Today, another gulag – one perhaps far more brutal than its Soviet counterpart – exists in North Korea, where an estimated 200,000 political prisoners pay the terrible price for having offended the communist dictatorship in even the most minor of ways.

In an extraordinary exercise of investigative journalism, NBC News exposed the horrors of these torture and slaughter pens, interviewing former prisoners, guards and U.S. and South Korean officials. The network revealed “the horrifying conditions these people must endure — conditions that shock even those North Koreans accustomed to the near-famine conditions of Kim Jong-il’s realm.”

'Depravity'

“It's one of the worst, if not the worst, situation — human rights abuse situation — in the world today,” said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who held hearings on the camps last year.

“There are very few places that could compete with the level of depravity, the harshness of this regime in North Korea toward its own people.”

According to NBC News:

• At one camp, Camp 22 in Haengyong, 50,000 prisoners toil each day in conditions that U.S. officials and former prisoners say result in the death of 20 percent to 25 percent of the prison population every year.

• Shockingly, products made by prison laborers may wind up on U.S. store shelves, having been “washed” first through Chinese companies that serve as intermediaries.

• Entire families, including grandchildren, are incarcerated for even the most bland political statements.

• Forced abortions are carried out on pregnant women so that another generation of political dissidents will be “eradicated.”

• Inmates are used as human guinea pigs for testing biological and chemical agents, according to former prisoners and U.S. officials.

“All of North Korea is a gulag,” one senior U.S. official told NBC News, noting that as many as 2 million people have died of starvation while Kim has amassed the world’s largest collection of Daffy Duck cartoons.

“It’s just that these people [in the camps] are treated the worst. No one knows for sure how many people are in the camps, but 200,000 is consistent with our best guess. We don’t have a breakdown, but there are large numbers of both women and children.”

Screaming Newborn Kicked to Death

One former gulag inmate, Soon Ok Lee, spent seven years at a camp near Kaechon in Pyungbuk province. She told the network: “I was in prison from 1987 till January 1993. [The women] were forced to abort their children. They put salty water into the pregnant women’s womb with a large syringe, in order to kill the baby even when the woman was eight months or nine months pregnant.

“And then, from time to time there a living infant is delivered. And then if someone delivers a live infant, then the guards kick the bloody baby and kill it. And I saw an infant who was crying with pain. I have to express this in words, that I witnessed such an inhumane hell.”

Soon watched 50 fellow prisoners dying excruciatingly painful deaths when they were used as human guinea pigs in biological warfare research.

“I saw so many poor victims,” she recalled. “Hundreds of people became victims of biochemical testing. I was imprisoned in 1987 and during the years of 1988 through ’93, when I was released, I saw the research supervisors — they were enjoying the effect of biochemical weapons, effective beyond their expectations — they were saying they were successful.”

Horrifying Experiments

Soon told NBC News about one instance when about 50 prisoners were taken to an auditorium and given a piece of boiled cabbage to eat. Within a half hour, they began vomiting blood and quickly died. “I saw that in 20 or 30 minutes they died like this in that place. Looking at that scene, I lost my mind. Was this reality or a nightmare? And then I screamed and was sent out of the auditorium.”

Kang Chol-Hwan, a journalist with Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s most important newspaper, and author of “The Aquariums of Pyongyang,” the first memoir of a North Korean political prisoner, spent almost 10 years in the gulag. He was imprisoned because his grandfather had made complimentary statements about Japanese capitalism.

He was just 9 years old when he arrived at the Yodok camp. His grandfather was never seen again, and prison conditions killed his father.

“When I was 10 years old,” Kang recalled, “we were put to work digging clay and constructing a building. And there were dozens of kids, and while digging the ground, it collapsed. And they died. And the bodies were crushed flat. And they buried the kids secretly, without showing their parents, even though the parents came.”

'Eyeballs Taken Out by Beating'

Ahn Myong Chol, a guard at the Haengyong camp from 1987 through 1994, told the network, “I heard many times that eyeballs were taken out by beating.”

“And I saw that by beating the person the muscle was damaged and the bone was exposed, outside, and they put salt on the wounded part. At the beginning I was frightened when I witnessed it, but it was repeated again and again, so my feelings were paralyzed.”

Beating and killing prisoners, Ahn said, was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and even rewarded.

“They trained me not to treat the prisoners as human beings. If someone is against socialism, if someone tries to escape from prison, then kill him. If there’s a record of killing any escapee, then the guard will be entitled to study in the college. Because of that, some guards kill innocent people.”

NBC’s investigation found that North Korea’s State Security Agency maintains a dozen political prisons and about 30 forced labor and labor education camps, mainly in remote areas in the north.

“The worst are in the country’s far northeast. Some of them are gargantuan: At least two of the camps, Haengyong and Huaong, are larger in area than the District of Columbia, with Huaong being three times the size of the U.S. capital district,” the network explained.

Lim Young Sun, a former North Korean army officer who fled the North 10 years ago, told NBC News, “The degree of punishment has become more severe.”

Lim, director of investigations for the Commission to Help North Korean Refugees, said: “Executions in public have decreased, but within labor camps it has increased. The situation especially within those camps is getting much worse.”

Evil Indeed

It was his knowledge of the gulag and its horrors that led President Bush to include North Korea in his “Axis of Evil” in his 2002 State of the Union address.

“I loathe Kim Jong-il,” Bush told Bob Woodward during an interview for the author’s book “Bush at War.”

“I’ve got a visceral reaction to this guy because he is starving his people. And I have seen intelligence of these prison camps — they’re huge — that he uses to break up families and to torture people.”

The Bush administration is finally curbing Bill Clinton's disastrous policy of pandering to and providing massive aid to Pyongyang. The regime's theft of tens of millions of dollars in food aid, intended for the starving populace but diverted to the military and the political elites, prompted the U.S. on Tuesday to delay further aid.

The U.S. is "going to be darn sure that if we tell you where the food is supposed to be and you give it to someone else, then we're going to wait, and we're going to be darn sure that our food is getting through to the right people," said Tony Hall, U.S. ambassador to U.N. food agencies.

Count your blessings that you woke up in America this morining!!! If even a bit of this is true, then we are dealing with one of the worst dictators of our time.

Do you think that it's much of a stretch to believe that Kimmie and Ahmadinenutjob are working together? Ahmadinejad is undermining us in Iraq while Kimime is likely developing nukes on the Iranian payroll...

Let's give these two despots a little of the Saddam treatment...

Praying Mantis Catches Hummingbird

The Praying Mantis has always been one of my favorite bugs. (And believe me, there aren't many!) I once even found a nest and watched the babies hatch!

Here's one lightening fast mantis...



And one unlucky hummingbird!

Iranian Documents Show Involvement In Iraq

Can we go ahead and show Iran what a really big nuke looks like close up?

Why? Because if this is true, they've declared war on us...

From The Sun:

The news that American forces had captured Iranians in Iraq was widely reported last month, but less well known is that the Iranians were carrying documents that offered Americans insight into Iranian activities in Iraq.

An American intelligence official said the new material, which has been authenticated within the intelligence community, confirms "that Iran is working closely with both the Shiite militias and Sunni Jihadist groups." The source was careful to stress that the Iranian plans do not extend to cooperation with Baathist groups fighting the government in Baghdad, and said the documents rather show how the Quds Force: the arm of Iran's revolutionary guard that supports Shiite Hezbollah, Sunni Hamas, and Shiite death squads, is working with individuals affiliated with Al Qaeda in Iraq and Ansar al-Sunna.

Another American official who has seen the summaries of the reporting affiliated with the arrests said it comprised a "smoking gun." "We found plans for attacks, phone numbers affiliated with Sunni bad guys, a lot of things that filled in the blanks on what these guys are up to," the official said.

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The news that Iran's elite Quds Force would be in contact, and clandestinely cooperating, with Sunni Jihadists who attacked the Golden Mosque in Samarra (one of the holiest shrines in Shiism) on February 22, could shake the alliance Iraq's ruling Shiites have forged in recent years with Tehran. Many Iraq analysts believe the bombing vaulted Iraq into the current stage of its civil war.

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I am forced to wonder how far we will let Iran push and destabilize the region. It would appear that Iran is already actively in Iraq to some degree.

From the Herald Tribune:
Two Iranians detained by U.S. forces in Iraq were senior members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and had coordinated attacks against coalition troops and Iraqi civilians, the head of an Iranian opposition group said.

The White House said earlier this week that U.S. troops had caught a group of Iranians in a raid on suspected insurgents in Iraq. Two of the men had diplomatic immunity and were released to Iran, but the other two were kept in custody.

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In Washington, a Pentagon official said Thursday that U.S. forces had found "indications and evidence that all of the people rounded up, including the two Iranians, are involved in the transfer of IED technologies from Iran to Iraq." IED stands for improvised explosive devices, or small bombs that are commonly used in attacks in Iraq.

U.S. officials have charged that Iran provides training and other aid to Shiite militias in Iraq, including equipment used to build roadside bombs. Tehran denies this and says it only has political and religious links with Iraqi Shiites.

"Obsession" Shown To US Congress

The parents of slain American teen Daniel Wultz, who died while on vacation in Israel after trying to shield his father from a homicide bomber, screened the movie "Obsession" in Congress.

Let's hope and pray that seeing this documentary, and remembering the vicious things the Muslim killers said about this heroic sixteen-year-old Jewish boy make a big impact on our elected representatives.

View a video of Daniel's parents discussing the screening here.

Pork Soup, Anyone?

French dhimmitude has taken a blow today, albeit a minor one...

In March I did a post about "Identity Soup."

The pork based soup, which is inexpensive to make and regarded as a traditional country dish is served in many French soup kitchens, free to the poor and accompanied with a glass of red wine and any clothing the impoverished may need.

French police had been gunning to shut the free kitchens down for some months, citing that the fare was not halal, and therefore discriminatory .

Ever hear of "beggars can't be choosers?"

Last month French dhimmi-cops banned such soup kitchens entirely, tacking on that Jews were also being discriminated against, as well as Muslims. Today, a French appellate court overturned the ban, ruling that since the soup kitchens were serving those seeking their help they were not being discriminatory.

In other words, they are a privately owned and run charity organization. They can serve whatever the hell they like, and if you want halal, go to a government welfare office. (I would say get a job, but we're talking about the French economy here...)

Have you ever heard of Jewish folk complaining about the food in soup lines, schools, ect? Have we heard of entire public schools in the UK converting to the cruel practice of halal slaughter to service a handful of Muslim kids?

From al-Reuters:

The mayor of Paris condemned the ruling and urged the police to appeal the ruling.

"Faced by this initiative which stinks of xenophobia, I want once again to express city hall's desire to fight all forms of discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism," mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement.

The food handouts are organized by a nationalist group called Solidarity of the French (SDF). It says its "pig soup," which uses pork fat for stock, is country fare much loved by French traditionalists.

"No-one has ever been able to prove that anyone has been refused soup or clothes on the grounds of their religion or race," SDF lawyer Frederic Pichon told France Info radio after Tuesday's court decision.

New Video Of Saddam!

A new video of Iraqi executioners taunting the condemned despot Saddam Hussein has surfaced...

Do You Howl, Or Meow?

I got this little quiz from Benning's Writing Pad:

You Are: 60% Dog, 40% Cat

You are a nice blend of cat and dog. You're playful but not too needy. And you're friendly but careful. And while you have your moody moments, you're too happy to stay upset for long.

Are You More Cat or Dog?

The Myth of The "Moderate Muslim"...

A few days ago, I posted this video, with an "alternative Christmas message" from a so-called "moderate Muslim" woman extolling tolerance between Christians and Muslims.



Always On Watch sent me a link to this story: It turns out that the message was nothing more than yet another bit of taqiyya by a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Excerpted from the Daily Mail(emphasis mine):

She was presented by Channel 4 as an authentic - but anonymous - voice of moderate British Islam.

She told viewers Jack Straw was wrong to criticize the veil, claiming concealing facial features "liberated" women.

And she has proven Jack Straw to be 100% correct: Anyone, with any history could lie with ease from behind the veil.

And don't even get me started on the "liberation" of women by forcing them into anonymity... If they are so "liberated," then it should be no problem for women in Muslim countries to take off the veil if they wish, and go out of their homes alone without being stoned for adultery, right?

But the Daily Mail can now unveil "Khadijah" - and reveal that she is in fact Elaine Atkinson, an English convert to Islam who travels the country working for a radical Muslim group trying to take political control of Pakistan.

I'm shocked. Yeah.

"I had always been known as a radical Feminist and had dutifully continued the family tradition of following in the footsteps of my great-grandmother, who was a suffragette.

I'll bet she's spinning in her grave like a lathe!

"Much to my greatgrandmother's horror (if she were still here to express it) I was soon to discover that Feminism and Islam went together like oil and water.

"I realised Feminism promoted the very thing it protested against: oppression of women."

And Sharia law, that mandates that women must be the property of a man, and whose word is worth half of a man's doesn't oppresss women? Did I wake up in opposite-land?

Atkinson went on, in an essay published on the Internet for fellowMuslimss: "When I see large numbers of non-believers I feel very sad for them as they remind me of rats or gerbils in cages going round and round on a treadmill, believing that they are fulfilling their sole purpose in life and reaching their true destiny (which is Argos).

So now we can add rats and gerbils to the list of animals we kaffirs are like: Dogs, pigs, apes, ect...

"If only they could uncover their eyes and see the damage they cause themselves and to their children.

And if Atkinson has her way, the only thing that would be uncovered are their eyes.

"I feel certain that if they were to have a tiny glimpse of what Islam could give them there would be Mosques on every corner instead of pubs."

Atkinson now lives with her husband Dr Zahid Iqbal, 38, who qualified as a doctor at Southampton in 1992, in a £350,000 three-bed house in Barking, east London. She abandoned her English name four years ago.

She works for the radical Minhaj ul Qur'an group from its UK base at a mosque in nearby Forest Gate - running a "sisters' group" for other female muslims, travelling the country making converts, and broadcasting on Asian local radio stations.

Minhaj ul Qur'an was established in Pakistan, but operates in 92 countries, and aims to convert the whole world in Islam.

Just another "moderate" who thinks that once we're all Muslims, we'll be tolerable.

In Pakistan the religious group has a political wing - the Pakistan People Movement - which boasts it is "actively working to establish an Islamic state in Pakistan" to ensure "muslims have an international voice and political power to relieve the ongoing oppression and subjugation of muslims around the world".

Those poor Muslims are SO oppressed, arent' they?

Contrary to her claims of being moderate, at an Islamic conference in Sheffield this year Atkinson told fellow muslims it was morally wrong to listen to any sort of music, or to watch soap operas. She urged the conference to stop watching any television at all.

Yet she's 'reaching out' through television? How funny! I guess it's OK to use the tool of the kaffir to lie to the kaffir.

In a statement issued through Channel 4, Atkinson said last night: "Minhaj-ul-Quran is a spiritual movement which promotes peace and tolerance of other faiths. It is against all forms of extremism and radicalism whether religious or otherwise."

Atkinson last night insisted that she did enjoy listening to islamic music.

Sounds like someone's speaking out of both sides of her mouth to me... But then, that's standard practice for Mohammadins, isn't it?

"Let not the believers take the disbelievers for friends rather than believers. And whoever does this has no connection with Allah unless it is done to guard (Takeyya) yourselves against them, guarding carefully. And Allah cautions you against His retribution. And to Allah is the eventual coming." (Koran 3:27)

Saddam Execution: It's Over.

Saddam was executed early morning on Dec 30, 2006.

It happened sooner than I thought; those Shiites didn't waste any time, did they?

Saddam reportedly struggled when the U.S. troops handed him over to Iraqi forces, but soon calmed down. He refused a hood, and clutched a copy of the Koran.

I'm sure Allah will welcome him in Hell.


Of course, we all know how the leftards and the U.N. will react: