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Big Peace : Exposing the Palestinian Narrative Gingrich-Style

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:35:04 +0000

There are those who like to refer to "Arab Jews" just the same as they refer to Maronites as "Arab Christians". These typically are not out-and-in-the-open Arab nationalists, and they are very slippery about the manner in which they criticize Israel - they are the sort who make the expression "speaking out of both sides of your mouth" seem insufficient. You can actually find one or two popping up from time to time in Totten's comment section ("anan" being one example), where they keep returning to try and spin both history and current events despite consistently having their ridiculous narratives dismantled.

Big Peace : Exposing the Palestinian Narrative Gingrich-Style

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:26:06 +0000

Totten made an entry recently pointing out both the truths and the pitfalls of Gingrich's statement - some of which Hanin also falls into. While the comments section of his piece is very, very long, it's worth reading to gain a fuller perspective: http://pjmedia.com/michaeltotten/2011/12/22/a-cha... The long and short of it: The Palestinians were created and are kept isolated by their fellow "Arabs" as a weaponized people to be used as pawns by both Islamists and Arab nationalists in their mutual goals of destroying a non-Muslim/non-Arab population which has achieved sovereignty within what they consider to be their dominion. The Islamists want to destroy Israel because unbelievers should not be permitted to exist outside of being pets and cattle under Muslim control and subjugation. The Arab nationalists want to destroy Israel because Jews, like the Kurds Saddam gassed, refuse to accept and adopt an "Arab" identity. The pitfall of calling Palestinians just "Arabs" (even when most "Arabs" are not actually Arab) is that it ends up playing into the hands of the Arab-nationalists. Edit: Nonetheless, Newt's statement was, at least, a damn sight better than listening to another politican give credence to the Palestinian rewriting of history - including their UNESCO-aided program of destroying the archeological record and converting ancient Christian/Jewish holy sites into mosques.

Big Hollywood : Kickstarter: Free Market Comes to The Arts

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:52:15 +0000

One of my favorite (rather obscure) musical acts got their last album out the door via Kickstarter: http://www.facebook.com/theblueflowers And since "donations" towards their studio costs actually got you pre-release downloads, t-shirts, the album itself when it was published, etc., it was actually more like pre-purchasing. Another interesting project being funded through Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxgoldberg/n... .

Big Hollywood : 'Pontypool' Review: An Innovative Take on the Undead Film Genre

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:17:50 +0000

"The concept of 'infected language' is not new..." Pretty sure the makers were well aware of that; a copy of "Snow Crash" appears at ~51:00. You know what's also not original? Zombies. Werewolves. Human-created monsters of various sorts. Mutants. Apocalypses. Heroes that save the day. Love interests. Etc.

Big Government : Which Was Worse: Iran/Contra or Operation 'Fast and Furious'?

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:07:31 +0000

"We made a profit on obsolete weaponry sold to the Iranians so they could kill Saddam's Iraqi army, hostages long held by terrorists went home to their families, and freedom fighters could stand a chance against Soviet and Chinese supplied Commies." Correction - those weapons were sufficiently obsolete so that they were not even effective against the generation of Russian tanks Saddam was using. So actually, we sold the Mullah's weapons which were useless for the purposes they desired them, at a significant markup to free hostages and fund an anti-communist resistance.

Big Peace : Michael Totten And the Muslim Brotherhood

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:30:00 +0000

From Michael's comments section: Michael J. Totten 2011-07-14 09:49:55 "Josh Scholar: Not guys you want to get into arguments with. I’m not going to just sit there and cringe while a deranged belligerent bigot insults me, my country, and my intelligence unless he is armed. Most journalists probably do sit there and take it, but I am not them. He would have picked that fight with any American who walked into his office, but his own culture and religion forbid him from treating guests this way. No one else I’ve interviewed in this country from any other political party is even in the same time zone as this guy. Everyone else has been incredibly nice, and also far more reasonable and intelligent than this weirdo. I’d make a terrible diplomat, I know, but oh well." You have made it abundantly clear to anyone who has ever read Totten's dispatches regularly that you have not. Why don't you try these, for a start: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/?s=blumenth... I'm assuming you DO know who the Blumenthal he tears down is - and who his father was.

Big Peace : Michael Totten And the Muslim Brotherhood

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:01:11 +0000

I generally pay attention to what Bostom writes, and I own his book on the history of jihad - but this article is way off base. If he had payed more attention to what Michael wrote, in the article and in the comments section following, he'd know the impression Michael "let stand" was that Esam El-Erian was an incoherent, irrational thug. For example: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/comment/381... and http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/comment/381... Hell, it was only a few posts ago that Michael had an entry where the key point was where an Israeli Arab, once convinced he could speak freely without offending Michael, let loose with declarations that he hoped Iran would get "the bomb" and use it to destroy Israel - even if he (the Arab) was killed in the process: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2011/06/19/... .

Big Journalism : Libs Outraged Over Paul Ryanâs $350 Bottle of Wine, Silent When Nancy Pelosi Drowned $101,000 of B

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:51:10 +0000

http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/07/new-rutgers-... And Feinberg turns out to be a Rutgers professor, whose field of academics includes such semester-filler as classes on "Love and Money" - that course in particular being funded to the tune of $80,000.

Big Hollywood : 'Red Chapel' Review: Rare Opportunity Tonight thru Thursday to See Comedians Infiltrate, Expose Nort

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 23:01:54 +0000

Isn't the entire point of a film like this to get the truth out as far and wide as possible? So why are they showing it only in one city, in one theater, for one brief window of time? I know of bands which consist of only one or two twenty-somethings that have managed to independently release multiple albums. Digital distribution anyone?

Big Peace : The Libyan 'Not Worthy Zone'âRecalling Qadaffiâs 'Offer' to âArab Jews'

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 19:37:06 +0000

"I don’t see any other logical route to pursue than to start killing off every MF'ing, goat-molesting last damn one of them, starting with the worst specimens." Starting, leaving the implication of not finishing. The is a difference between fighting the enemy and using them as an excuse to become like them. And when you spout murder-fantasies like the above, they are who you sound just like. Actually, a lot like good old Che, too, for that matter. Remember him, and what he was? A thug who got what thugs get: Used. Used for their worst aspects, and then discarded. But realistically, you'll more likely keep it just at the level of spouting precisely the sort of reactionary comments that are explicitly useful to the very enemy you fancy yourself as opposing. There is nothing organizations such as CAIR love more to hear than precisely the sort of things you say here. And the more fools there are to supply them and their ilk with such quotes and soundbites, the more they will keep gaining ground. It's one of the easiest ways to win a fight, after all; get your opponent pissed off, manipulate them into a fury - They'll feel like they're stronger, like they're all the more certain to defeat you, as you perhaps felt when making your little response, but the reality is, it only makes them tense, slows them down, leaves them with tunnel-vision, and most of all, incites them into making stupid moves. Because they aren't thinking any more - they're too busy feeling.

Big Peace : The Libyan 'Not Worthy Zone'âRecalling Qadaffiâs 'Offer' to âArab Jews'

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 02:02:53 +0000

If you look back through my commenting history, you'll find I've long been critical of Islam and the Islamic world, from the founding of Muhammad's god-emperor cult to the modern day. That having been said, the increasing appearance, and acceptance of genocidal hyperbole like that of "InfidelCzar", or racially-tinged references like your own "little brown brethren" is making it so that comments at BigPeace are increasingly looking like left-wing troll bait - playing down to exactly the kind of stereotypes the left loves to cast everyone of a conservative bent as being. Aside from finding it fundamentally asinine on a personal level, it does injustice to contributors like Dr. Bostom. I have anti-Islamic writings floating around out there, the results of my own contemplation, research, and sometimes painful lessons, and I know the last damned thing I would want to see would be them becoming associated with comments like the above.

Big Peace : The Koran on Lying

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:14:03 +0000

I doubt that he is a Muslim, except maybe when it suits him to be when dealing with Muslim leaders. (Who have thus far played him for a fool.) I don't doubt that he is a raging narcissist in his own right: http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-o Sam Vaknin is one of the major writers on the subject of pathological narcissism. Iranian apostate Ali Sina followed up with his own article: http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html "Therefore, the question whether Obama is a Muslim or a Christian, whether he is pro Palestine, as he has been all his life or whether he is pro Israel, whether he is a black supremacist or an agent of racial harmony, are moot. Obama is anything you want him to be and situation dictates. He takes the side that is more expedient to his cause. To communists he is a comrade, to Islamists he is their man, to Palestinian fighters he is their hope and to the Jews he is a staunch Zionist. The narcissist’s creed is himself. Everything else is negotiable."

Big Peace : The Koran on Lying

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:56:03 +0000

In English, it is what we might call "operational security". Except it transcends into the Orwellian, in that the Muslim true believer actually believes that he never lies - that his lies are truth, when they need to be truth. Thus can they say with a straight face, as in the opening of the Reliance of the Traveler's section on lying, that lying is "strictly forbidden" in Islam (before it goes on to explain when and how it is best to lie when it is advantageous or obligatory). Thus may a believer say with a straight face that he is "honest", that lying is "forbidden", etc. And believe it - for as long as it is useful, or suits to inflate the narcissism inherent in Muhammad's creed.

Big Peace : A History of Nation Building - Part 5

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:07:40 +0000

Key difference between Iran and Egypt: Iranians were never Arabized, and many had only a vague, and extremely erroneous concept of Islam when the Shah was overthrown. Neither their present Arabist rulers nor "the Arab religion" of Islam are thought of kindly by many. They never lost their identity to the same degree as many other Arab/Islamic conquests. Egyptians speak Arabic and consider themselves Arabs. What Egypt could potentially become, given its willing populace, may not be so much akin to another Iran as akin to another Nazi Germany.

Big Peace : Israel Warns: Unrest in the Middle East Means Islamists May Take Power; 'We Are Living On A Volcano'

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:43:53 +0000

If you aren't already familiar with him, Michael Totten is one of the best who covers the Middle East: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/

Big Peace : Israel Warns: Unrest in the Middle East Means Islamists May Take Power; 'We Are Living On A Volcano'

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:05:35 +0000

As I pointed out previously: Tunisia's rebellion is not that seen in these other Arab states. Outside of Tunisia, it is the Muslim Brotherhood who possess the public's trust. Their answer to corrupt Islamic tyrannies is a tyranny that is even more Islamic; an ideologically purer form of psychopathy.

Big Peace : Police Join the Protesters in Tunisia -- How This Provides Lessons for Sri Lanka

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:26:51 +0000

Tunisia is by far the most Europeanized Arab nation on earth, and the authoritarian regime which until recently ruled there has been part of the reason for that - for all their corruption they have suppressed Islamism and Islamists, and not simply because they were competing for power, but because they wanted to modernize their nation. The rebellion is against an authoritarian state, not against a totalitarian one. And the Tunisians and their rebellion are NOT comparable to the others we may be seeing the beginnings of in Egypt, Yemen, etc. The Tunisians want, amongst other things, freedom of the press. The Egyptians and other Arab/Arabized nations want the Ikwhan - the Muslim Brotherhood. That is who owns the "Arab street".

Big Journalism : Media Matters Deceives Reporters about Washington Post Anti-Sarah Palin Campaign

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:07:16 +0000

Boelhert is a duplicitous sleaze, yes. And Media Matters is an often comically partisan front group. And FDR was by no means the saint he's been made out to be by the media and the educations system. And, yes, the political left has a long history of appeasing, adoring, and out right giving birth to any number of statist tyrants. But nonetheless, the Church Lady act is @%$#ing embarrassing. If I showed this article to a left-leaning acquaintance as an example of media duplicity, I would have to do it with the caveat, "Pay no mind to the comments section, this is the internet, after all." These clowns are not doing what they're doing because of "the Devil", they're doing it because they are corrupt. They desire power and influence, and power and influence attracts the corruptible - those who lack the moral center which would otherwise prevent them from abusing such power and influence.

Big Peace : Muslim Mass Prayers in the Streets: First We Take Paris, Then We Take Pleven

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:54:44 +0000

My reaction would be to stand east of them and, gesticulating wildly, begin shouting, "Yes! Fear me! Worship me! For I am your lord and master the Great and Powerful Oz!" It's hard to claim your little symbolic victory when someone turns it into impromptu street theater.

Big Peace : Iraq War Post-Mortem: We Lost, Iran Won

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:42:20 +0000

The real loss is in the Iraqi school rooms, where today the children are being taught Islamic supremacism. In twenty years the Iranian regime may no longer exist, but in the same twenty years those Iraqi children of today will become Iraq's adult population.

Squires's Comments

Big Peace : Exposing the Palestinian Narrative Gingrich-Style

Big Peace : Exposing the Palestinian Narrative Gingrich-Style

Big Hollywood : Kickstarter: Free Market Comes to The Arts

Big Hollywood : 'Pontypool' Review: An Innovative Take on the Undead Film Genre

Big Government : Which Was Worse: Iran/Contra or Operation 'Fast and Furious'?

Big Peace : Michael Totten And the Muslim Brotherhood

Big Peace : Michael Totten And the Muslim Brotherhood

Big Journalism : Libs Outraged Over Paul Ryanâs $350 Bottle of Wine, Silent When Nancy Pelosi Drowned $101,000 of B

Big Hollywood : 'Red Chapel' Review: Rare Opportunity Tonight thru Thursday to See Comedians Infiltrate, Expose Nort

Big Peace : The Libyan 'Not Worthy Zone'âRecalling Qadaffiâs 'Offer' to âArab Jews'

Big Peace : The Libyan 'Not Worthy Zone'âRecalling Qadaffiâs 'Offer' to âArab Jews'

Big Peace : The Koran on Lying

Big Peace : The Koran on Lying

Big Peace : A History of Nation Building - Part 5

Big Peace : Israel Warns: Unrest in the Middle East Means Islamists May Take Power; 'We Are Living On A Volcano'

Big Peace : Israel Warns: Unrest in the Middle East Means Islamists May Take Power; 'We Are Living On A Volcano'

Big Peace : Police Join the Protesters in Tunisia -- How This Provides Lessons for Sri Lanka

Big Journalism : Media Matters Deceives Reporters about Washington Post Anti-Sarah Palin Campaign

Big Peace : Muslim Mass Prayers in the Streets: First We Take Paris, Then We Take Pleven

Big Peace : Iraq War Post-Mortem: We Lost, Iran Won

Big Journalism : Libs Outraged Over Paul Ryanâs $350 Bottle of Wine, Silent When Nancy Pelosi Drowned $101,000 of B

Big Peace : The Libyan 'Not Worthy Zone'âRecalling Qadaffiâs 'Offer' to âArab Jews'

Big Peace : The Libyan 'Not Worthy Zone'âRecalling Qadaffiâs 'Offer' to âArab Jews'