Kids say the darndest things.

(MEMR) — Following are excerpts from the “Ammo Alaa” children’s TV show, which aired on Nour Al-Khaleejiyah TV on December 29, 2010.

TV host: Let’s see how we should answer the disgusting Jews, who say that Jerusalem belongs to them. What proof do we have that Jerusalem is Islamic? We tell our friends that. . . Am I making you fall asleep, Mr. Sa’d, or what? Wake up Sa’d. . . Have a carrot. . . First of all, we tell the Jews that the Arabs lived in the blessed city of Jerusalem, more than 2,000 years before the first Jew settled in there.

2,000 is a very big number. Not one year, not two, not ten, not a hundred — 2,000 years. That’s the first thing. We tell them that the Arabs lived in Jerusalem 2,000 years before the first Jew set foot in it. Okay? Okay!

The disgusting Jews are getting ready, and they let their little children do many disgusting things, so that they will hate Islam, and kill all our Muslim brothers there.

My advice to you is to place Jerusalem inside our hearts, learn and be smart. When we take exams, we must kill ourselves memorizing. We must do well and be very good Muslims, so we can use our knowledge to liberate Jerusalem.

Scientists know how to make weapons and things that serve Islam. They can make the Muslims have a strong state, and make a nuclear bomb and an atom bomb, and all those things that make [the Jews] stronger than us.

Multicultural cesspool.

(Daily Mail) — Muslim extremists chanted ‘British troops burn in hell’ outside a court today, as two men went on trial for burning poppies on Remembrance Day.

Ugly scenes erupted outside Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court, south-east London, as Muslims gathered to support Mohammed Haque and Emdadur Choudhury, who are accused of using ‘threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour’.

Their supporters’ chants of  ‘democracy, hypocrisy’ were met with jeers from members of the English Defence League who waved flags of St George and placards of poppies.

The defendants were allegedly part of a group who shouted slogans that British soldiers were rapists and murderers during a demonstration on November 11 last year.

The incident happened during a two-minute silence close to the Royal Albert Hall where the Remembrance Day service is traditionally held.

I have to admit, this made me smile.

LONDON (Ma’an) — Amnesty International condemned Tuesday, the US decision to use its veto on a draft resolution seeking condemnation of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The “US veto effectively gives Israel a ‘green light’ to expand illegal settlements,” a statement from the international rights organization said, and criticized American statements saying that despite the veto, the country remained opposed to settlement construction.

During the debate on resolution, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said the country “reject[s] in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity” but justified the use of the American veto saying the resolution would not “move the parties closer to negotiations and an agreement” and risked “hardening the positions of both sides.”

In its statement, Amnesty said the US veto “seriously undermines the US government’s claims to oppose Israel’s ongoing settlement construction.”

Take that, Muammar!

(CNS News) — The U.N. Security Council Tuesday issued a press statement condemning the Libyan regime’s violence against civilians — the weakest option available to it, short of saying nothing.

The U.S. and Security Council members’ envoys characterized the statement as a robust response to the crisis.

Brazilian ambassador Maria Luiza Viotti, who chairs the 15-member council this month, read the statement followiong hours of  closed-door consultations, calling it “a strong message.”

British ambassador Mark Lyall Grant described it as “extremely strong,” and U.S. deputy ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo said the international community had condemned the violence “in one clear and unified voice.”

“We hope today’s Security Council action will help bring an immediate end to this unacceptable situation,” DiCarlo added.

Agreed.

JUPITER — Toward the end of a 90-minute audience Q&A session at Tuesday night’s town hall meeting, U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, was asked by former Indian Trail Improvement District board member Christopher Karch whether President Obama is “legally there or not.”

“Who is going to tell us who this man is? Is he legally there or not?” said Karch. “What are we going to do to ensure that, if he isn’t legally there, it doesn’t happen again?”

Said West: “I will tell you this: That is the dog chasing its tail. The most important thing is, it’s the policies. That’s what we have to be standing on.”

The crowd of about 400 applauded, but Karch wasn’t satisfied.

“But if he’s not, it’s treason,” Karch said.

Said West: “You will waste more time worrying yourself to death about that instead of making sure that you expand the majority in the House of Representatives, you win back the U.S. Senate so that you can stand against the policies that are emanating out of the White House. . .

“What is your objective? Your objective is getting back to a constitutional republic principles and values. If you spend your time worrying about someone’s citizenship, you will never get to that objective.”

West didn’t offer his own opinion on Obama’s citizenship during the public forum. So PostOnPolitics asked him after the meeting.

Doesn’t get any better than this.

Via BreitbartTV

Once a terror scumbag, always a terror scumbag.

(WaPo) — Swedish tabloid Expressen says Libya’s ex-justice minister claims Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.

Expressen on Wednesday quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their correspondent in Libya that “I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie.” He didn’t describe the proof.

Abdel-Jalil stepped down as justice minister to protest the violence against anti-government demonstrations.

He told Expressen Gadhafi gave the order to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.

“To hide it, he (Gadhafi) did everything in his power to get al-Megrahi back from Scotland,” Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying.

Bring it.

(NH Journal) — A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.”

“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) told a crowd in Boston on Tuesday rallying in solidarity for Wisconsin union members.

But if Sarah Palin uses cross-hairs it’s instigating violence.

HT: UberNerd

But. . . but. . . but Barack gave the Queen such an awesome gift, his speeches on an iPod and the PM a collection of DVDs.

(Telegraph) — Michelle Obama is likely to exasperate courtiers with her comments about the royal wedding after they went to such lengths to accommodate the White House.

Even after it was clear that Prince William and Kate Middleton would not be sending a wedding invitation to the White House, Michelle Obama still appears not to have given up hope.

“If I get invited, I’ll go,” the First Lady said on the Live With Regis and Kelly Show on American television. She conceded, however, that, as things stand, she had not been invited.

Her comments are likely to exasperate senior courtiers, who — as I reported on Nov 14 last year — had to put off naming the wedding date until a week after announcing the engagement because White House officials were not at first certain when Barack Obama and his wife would make their first state visit to Britain. Obama’s men, adamant that the two events should not clash, subsequently agreed May 24 to 26, almost a month after the royal wedding, as the dates for his visit.

Can you imagine the devastation that would do to our already floundering economy?

(CNBC) — The events unfolding in Libya mark the first uprising in a major oil producing country this year, giving energy traders their first indication of where crude could climb if Mideast turmoil were to spread to Saudi Arabia or Iran.

“Pricing in Libya supply disruptions is one thing, but what if this social unrest spreads to Saudi Arabia, which holds 20 percent of the world’s oil?” said David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist for Gluskin Sheff. “Do the math: we’d be talking about $200 oil.”

Without taking into account the collateral effects of such a strategic part of the Middle East falling under siege by its own people, a simple production comparison gets the price to at least $140 a barrel.

Then there’s gas.

(USA Today) — Oil prices soared to the highest level in more than two years as violence spread in Libya and Moammar Gadhafi’s grip weakened. Only a small amount of Libya’s oil production appeared to have been affected, though analysts fear revolts will spread to OPEC heavyweights like Iran.

Benchmark West Texas Intermediate for April delivery jumped $4.59, or 5% to $94.30 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The last time oil traded at that level was Oct. 2, 2008. The April contract traded as high as $98.48 per barrel.

“If this thing escalates and there’s a good chance that there’d be a shift in supplies, $5 gas isn’t out of the question,” says Darin Newsom, senior analyst at energy tracker DTN.

The average price of regular gasoline is expected to rise to $3.25 within a few days, says Tom Kloza, chief analyst at the Oil Price Information Service. That’s 2.5% above Tuesday’s $3.17 national average.

The end is near.

(NY Mag) — Libya looks to be splitting in two. Soldiers in the east are saying they no longer back Muammar Qaddafi as the region appears to be in the hands of the protesters. General Soliman Mahmoud al-Obeidy, who joined the growing ranks of Qaddafi dissenters, told Reuters, “He bombs with airplanes and uses excessive force against unarmed people. I am sure he will fall in the coming few days.”

Hours after another former ally, Libya’s interior minister, resigned, the Libyan government claimed he had been kidnapped by “gangs” in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and another stronghold under protesters’ control. In a television interview prior to his kidnapping, the former minister, Abdul Fattah Younis al Abidi, said, “[Qaddafi] told me he was planning on using airplanes against the people in Benghazi, and I told him that he will have thousands of people killed if he does that.”

Today, Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini confirmed that suspicion, pegging the death toll from Libya’s unrest at more than 1,000 civilians. Frattini also expressed worries about the rise in “Islamic radicalism” and “the rise of an Islamic emirate” in the east now that it’s no longer under the government’s control.

In the past 24 hours, WikiLeaks has released three additional cables that the New York Times says “offer a vivid account of the lavish spending, rampant nepotism and bitter rivalries that have defined what a 2006 cable called ‘Qadhafi Incorporated.’” The dictator’s children were all the beneficiaries of income streams from the National Oil Company. What did they do with their wealth and power? Hire American pop stars like Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, and Usher to perform at New Year’s parties in St. Barts, build their own militia, and cover up domestic abuse.

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The slaughter continues.

ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — A Coptic Christian priest has been killed in southern Egypt, triggering street demonstrations by several thousand Christians.

The priest was found dead in his home. A fellow clergyman, Danoub Thabet, says his body had several stab wounds. He says neighbors reported seeing several masked men leaving the apartment and shouting “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” suggesting the killing was motivated by the divide between Egypt’s Muslims and its minority Coptic community.

About 3,000 protesters scuffled with Muslim shop owners Tuesday night and smashed the windows of a police car in the city, Assiut.

Egypt’s religious tension spiked in January when a suicide bomber killed 21 people outside a Coptic church in the port city of Alexandria. Days of protests followed.

How dare he think for himself!

Via Fox Nation

This has got to stop.

(Investors.com) — According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, state lawmakers have “routinely” been allowed to cast votes by fax or phone in recent years rather than actually appear in the statehouse. Apparently it is a courtesy extended by the majority. A few Democrats were even able to do it Tuesday. But some Republicans are beginning to rethink that practice. . . .

Also today, the Republicans moved forward with a voter ID bill that Democrats oppose, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Republicans believe they can strip the bill of the quorum-requiring financial provisions and get it through while the Democrats are out of town.

As always with these things, it is the little details that highlight the absurdity of the situation. The AP story on the direct deposit vote reported: “Tuesday’s vote was along party lines. The three Republicans on the Committee on Senate Organization voted for it and the two absent Democrats cast their no votes by fax.”

This raises the question: How can they be allowed to do that yet the legislature as a whole can still be said to not have a quorum? Some Republicans are apparently beginning to wonder this themselves.

Regarding the voter ID bill, GOP Sen. Mary Lazich, chairwoman of the committee handling the bill, refused to let missing Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach literally phone in his vote. The scene was pretty surreal, as Erpenbach was allowed to listen in by conference call, but that was it.

“I won’t extend courtesies for unethical behavior,” Lazich told Erpenbach.

“Do you want the headline to be, ‘Republicans won’t let Democrats vote,’ even though we’ve allowed that many, many times?” Erpenbach said.

Erpenbach’s name was not called as the clerk took the roll, but he repeatedly yelled, “No!” over the speakerphone. The committee’s three Republicans voted for the bill.

The irony of the protest appeared lost on Erpenbach. His absence was deliberately preventing the duly elected majority from voting on other, more pressing, legislation

Maybe if they show them to Obama he’ll open his cowardly mouth.

LONDON (AFP) — The Times newspaper said Wednesday it had footage of severely wounded and dead protesters in a Libyan hospital which proved that heavy weapons were being used to crush the uprising.

Shocking footage of corpses with bodies blasted off and patients with almost completely severed torsos provided “incontrovertible evidence” that heavy artillery was used, Martin Fletcher, the newspaper’s associate editor said.

“It’s not entirely clear how these men were killed, it could have been by fighter jets, it could have been by helicopter gunships, it could have been by mortar, it could have been by heavy machine guns,” Fletcher said.

“One thing is abundantly clear, they were not killed by tear gas or by batons or by methods of suppressing peaceful protests that are generally considered the outer limits of what is acceptable,” he added.

The images were taken at a hospital in Benghazi, the eastern Libyan city which was taken over by anti-regime groups on Monday after a bloody battle.

Veteran strongman Moamer Kadhafi Tuesday warned he would purge the North African country “house by house” and “inch by inch” if protests continued.

Surprise!

Chicago (CNN) — Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, won the Chicago mayoral election over five other challengers Tuesday, topping the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff vote, CNN projects.

With almost 75% of the vote counted, Emanuel had almost 55% of the vote, far outdistancing his rivals.

Former Chicago School Board head Gery Chico was in second place with 25%, while City Clerk Miguel del Valle had 9% and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun had more than 8%. The other two candidates both had less than 2%.

While Tuesday’s vote was technically the Democratic primary, there is no Republican contender in the heavily Democratic city, so Emanuel will succeed Richard M. Daley in the top job long associated with the Daley family.

Daley has been mayor since 1989, and his father held the post from 1955-76, making them the two longest-serving mayors in the city’s history.

Because it’s “evil” to want a baby to live.

BEHAR: But it’s illogical, what they’re doing, because if you are not going to help people with birth control, you’re going to have more abortions. Don’t they think of that?

RICHARDS: Well, that, and I thought that point-

BEHAR: So, besides being evil and immoral and unethical, they’re also stupid.

If only Dear Leader had this much insight.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday predicted decades of instability in the Arab world if protesters whom he called fanatics come to power, adding no such scenario will be permitted at home.

Medvedev’s words fall in sharp contrast with the European Union, which said in a statement on Monday that it “deplores the violence” and “repression” against the pro-democracy protesters by authorities in one of the troublespots, Libya.

Speaking at a security meeting in the Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz, Medvedev didn’t name countries, but he was referring to the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa — which has brought down governments in Tunisia and Egypt and sparked protests in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran, Morocco and Jordan.

“These states are difficult, and it is quite probable that hard times are ahead, including the arrival at power of fanatics. This will mean fires for decades and the spread of extremism,” Medvedev said in televised comments.

“They have prepared such a scenario for us before, and now more than ever they will try and realize it. In any case, this scenario won’t succeed,” he said, without identifying the people he considers could threaten the Kremlin.

Russia has crushed Islamist separatists in two wars in Chechnya in the last 15 years, and continues to battle a lingering insurgency in the wider Caucasus region. The region is the epicenter of terrorism in Russia, with most of the high-profile attacks in recent years claimed by or attributed to Caucasus rebels.

As I write this, Gaddafi is having his soldiers gun down unarmed protesters; fighters, jets, and helicopter gunships are strafing crowds; snipers are picking people off one by one; and Matthews goes on national TV and compares him to Sarah Palin. Stunning, even by Tingles lowly standards.

“She’s like Muammar Qaddafi — she just doesn’t know the world around her.” Matthews said. “If she starts showing up with an umbrella and starts saying, ‘I’m here, I’m not there.’”

HT: Daily Caller