POWIP Piece of Work In Progress

Announcing POWIP’s Christmas “The Evils of Islam” Poster Contest

Here's the inspiration, via Jim Hoft:

Have fun!

Oh, and screw Max Blumenthal, too.

[UPDATE BY ENOCH]

Winner gets?????

[UPDATE BY DAN]

What would be appropriate? Giant ice pig?

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Cheesecake Retaliation for Stacy McCain [UPDATED]

Jesse & Noah -- "Dirty with a Southern Drawl"

Curvy Cutie Char E':

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Obama Claus

What Americans asked for: Border control
What Americans got: Sued

What Americans asked for: Security against terrorists
What Americans got: Roentgens and free breast and genital exams

What Americans asked for: Better access to health care
What Americans got: Higher premiums

What Americans asked for: Victory in Afghanistan
What Americans got: Negotiation with Taliban

What Americans asked for: Removal of toxic assets
What Americans got: Social programs for unions

What Americans asked for: Smaller government
What Americans got: Massive expansion of government

What Americans asked for: Less intrusion
What Americans got: Informational colonoscopy

What Americans asked for: Transparency
What Americans got: Czars

What Americans asked for: Jobs
What Americans got: Jobbed
Don't you love surprises?

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WikiLeaks, Zelaya, and Obama’s Man in Honduras

Those who've been reading me for some time might remember that Fausta and a few other bloggers and I had a conniption over Obama's behavior when Honduras ousted would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya, who had violated their Constitution in an attempt to extend his presidency. That that was so would have been clear to anyone reading the document, written in clear, simple Spanish. Early in the affair, Fausta provided an equally clear and simple English translation, had the language been a barrier, if I recall correctly.

Yet Obama, favoring now-full dictator Chavez and his cadre of Latin American tyrants, opted to pressure Honduras to abjure its Constitution and return the lunatic Zelaya, who accused operatives of subjecting him to American-devised mind-ray devices whilst holed up in an embassy. Zelaya had also unconstitutionally had ballots printed up with his name on them, and supporters ready to try to take the election by fraud. I wish I could say that I was disappointed in Obama and his administration for this, but it's just the kind of scum sucking fraud that they'd approve for anyone whose political sympathies are congruent with theirs.

I've been saying for weeks now, along with a handful of other pundits, that conspiracy theorists have been hardest hit. Now, though, it appears that Obama and company have some 'splainin' to do regarding their ambassadorial communiques.

Go to All-American Blogger's for the full story.

These are the sorts of suckers of cock that the Republicans in Congress caved to yesterday with respect to START, as Rocketman's disappeared post made clear. In 2012, we are going to have to give them a refresher course.

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Christmas Bomb Plotters Update

From John at Power Line:

Yesterday the Obama administration's top anti-terrorism officials--Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano--gave an interview to ABC's Diane Sawyer on the current state of the terrorist threat. The interview has aired, or will air, today; you can watch it here.

The questions and answers are unremarkable, except that there is a surreal moment near the end of the interview, when it becomes apparent that DNI Clapper was unaware that twelve would-be terrorists were arrested in Great Britain yesterday. Brennan jumped in to help him out, but Sawyer came back to the question later, and Clapper admitted that he hadn't heard about the arrests.

This was one of those outer space moments that are hard to fathom. The arrests were widely reported. I knew about them; Diane Sawyer knew about them; you likely did, too. Is it conceivable that the Director of National Intelligence doesn't get a daily briefing? Or that he is not briefed on likely questions before giving a network television interview? Apparently so.

Certainly makes me feel cozy.

Today, further information on the dozen would-be terrorists. A neighbor from Cardiff, Wales, states that the lads were sent to jail on relatively minor charges, mostly for various kinds of pilferage that might lead to one's hand being chopped off in Sharia territory. While in prison, they were radicalized by an imam who tended to their spiritual needs, and after their release by an imam who had also served his stint.

The local mosques claim that they were refused the use of on-site facilities to engage others in their plotting, though they eventually gathered about 30 people at a council facility in their quest to recruit more people to their alleged plot. Whether they were fingered by the local imams or not is unclear.

What is clear, though, is that leftists will use this episode, not to argue that those licensed to provide spiritual succour to inmates should be well vetted, but that young Muslims oughtn't be sent to prison for relatively "minor" offenses, because they are likely to become radicalized there. No, instead they should be subject to Sharia tribunals, because they will take full responsibility for the behavior of the accused.

Yawn. Hooters.

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My 2 Cents Regarding the Tommy Christopher/Stacy McCain Kerfuffle

Donald Douglas posted on the show trial for Michael Moore on Rachel Maddow's show, regarding Moore's prior assertion that the sexual assault charges against Julian Assange were trumped up "hooey." Mr. Moore ought to know hooey when he sees it, I think, but he seems to have decided that he'd overstepped the bounds of common leftist decency, judging by the reaction he received from the identity feminists.

Yesterday, too, Tommy Christopher decided to go after Stacy for his having said that the Swedish women bringing complaints against Assange ought to have exercised better judgment, as they now find themselves in a "he said, she said" scenario with respect to prosecution. In leftist parlance, that equates to "blame the victim," "she had it coming," and so forth. Identity feminist Anna Tarkov [update: or conservative masquerading as identity feminist, see Stacy] and an unnamed Republican communication expert also leapt into the fray, the latter submitting Stacy to high inquisition on a variety of related evidentiary matters, including whether or not he'd ever written anything of merit in the defense of women.

So, when Donald writes that Stacy's post in response is bizarre, I don't really agree. The points of inquiry are themselves bizarre, which may have shaped the response in a way that seems so to him.

Now, Julian Assange is a strange fellow whose self-description at the Plenty of Fish dating site allows that he's a cad in search of the daughter of a diplomat, who also is this, that, and the other. Julian thinks that it's rather a point in his favor that he's a cad, and out about it, in the eyes of his perfect companion. Undoubtedly, there's a sort of woman who's attracted to a cad: Liz Hurley may be one of them, having just ended a short fling with Australian cricketer Shane Warne. Perhaps our Julian has a certain roguish charm, too, over and above his celebrity. Be that as it may, one of his accusers claims that he violated her while she was sleeping, which in this instance may mean passed out. Both women claim that they were held down and that he either dismissed their request to use a condom, or their request to replace it when it failed.

Michael Moore's politics certainly played a role in his decision to back Assange's bail bid by putting up some of the cash, along with noted women's rights advocate Larry Flint. Beyond that, Moore may himself at some time have been accused of elephant sealing a woman to a mattress, though that, for the moment, is a matter for speculation. As opposed to Moore, who claimed that the charges against Assange were fabricated, presumably at the behest of Assange's enemies, Stacy merely argued that the Swedish women who are now, in Assange's formulation, "in a tizzy" could have employed better judgment. Originally, they merely requested of the authorities that Assange be tested for STDs, which seems sensible enough to me.

One blogger of my acquaintance had the temerity to suggest that, since rape is a sadly commonplace sort of crime in Sweden, women are reluctant generally to report it. And the leftist defenses of Assange that purport that, were he someone else, he would never have been bothered in Southeast England by Interpol, are as numerous as the night lights in the welkin. Notoriously, it was the far-left Guardian that publicized the leaked details of Assange's alleged crimes, which has led to speculation that, when push came to shove, so to speak, they decided that it was better on the whole to call into question the behavior of the Great Man than to alienate the feminist bloc of their readers. It is very hard to reconcile, even perhaps in the leftist mind, the points that 1) he is the victim of dark police forces trumping up charges, and 2) that he nevertheless committed rape.

Let us concede for the sake of argument that Assange raped the women. Whether it constituted rape-rape, not having occurred in the wild Seventies, we will leave to Whoopi Goldberg. He should be crucified to the fullest extent of the law. However, is what Stacy says wrong?

As a matter of practical consideration, it would seem a good idea for women to avoid the occasions of rape, just as people practice "defensive driving." You may have every right to be where you are on that icy interstate, but mightn't it be a better idea to avoid "wolf packs" and so on? As clearly patronizing as it is, I would counsel my daughter so.

I think that what Stacy was saying was, "Don't be stupid!" That doesn't mean that a woman is to blame for being sexually assaulted. I'm not saying that Assange is in this guy's category, but:

Joran van der Sloot, the 22-year-old Dutch playboy twice arrested in the mysterious disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, has been named the prime suspect in the death of a young Peruvian woman found dead over the weekend in a Lima hotel.

Peruvian police on Wednesday June 2, 2010 confirmed that Joran van der Sloot, a young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, is being sought in the May 30 killing of 21-year-old Flores.

Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, 21, was found at the Miraflores Hotel Tac in Lima, Peru on Sunday in room registered to van der Sloot, who was arrested and released in connection with the disappearance of Holloway, an 18-year-old American student who went missing in Aruba five years ago this week.

Officials believe Flores was killed exactly five years after Holloway's May 30, 2005, disappearance.

Millions of people worldwide saw the surveillance footage of the young woman leaving the casino with her killer, watched in horror as she approached the hotel room that she wouldn't leave alive. She was a victim, pure and simple. But that didn't stop us, even knowing that she was dead, saying to ourselves, "Don't go in! Don't go in!" as we watched, did it?

Van der Sloot says that he attacked her when she discovered his background on the Internet on a laptop in his room. By then, it was too late.

UPDATE: Thanks to Joy for the link.

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F*cking Smurfs

I've never trusted them, always suspected them.

Now it turns out that they may be involved in extortion. And meth labs.

Also, Stacy McCain condones rape, somehow.

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My Prejudices Are Justified

The outrage that is the Pigford Settlements still hasn't burbled out of the conservative blogosphere and into this nation's MFM collective unconsciousness. Perhaps that's in part because the misallocation of a couple of billion bucks to frauds and shysters of color doesn't really register much beside the trillions in stimulus pork taken from us and utilized to our benefit in the form of the maintenance of incumbents in positions of power. Perhaps in part, too, it would serve to vindicate the eeeeevil Andrew Breitbart.

One would think that people who are dedicated to truth and fair dealing, no matter what their political affiliations, might take a deeper interest in the story. The latest is that, counter to the protestations of Ag. Sec. Vilsack, a lawyer (of color) who represented many of the plaintiffs admits that he knows of hundreds of instances of fraud, and that it was beyond easy to shake the system down when one had no valid claim.

Obviously, many people believe that the practice of underwriting fraud is justifiable, or at least beneath their notice.

Among those, probably, would be the Southern Poverty Law Center, which, working hand-in-glove with Media Matters, has been giving the DoJ and Homeland Security guidance about the real threats to Americans and their way of life. Those include knock-off Gucci handbags and shared music and video files. Today, the FCC plans to take control of the Internet, for purposes of "ensuring equal access," even as Health and Human Services have purchased the search term "Obamacare" (which used to be a slur, according to proggies) in order better to direct one away from the pernicious opinions of detractors and toward government bureaucrat propaganda. They did that with your tax dollars, Americans.

Add to the list of real, actual threats to our security climate change, to which Napolitano is devoting agency resources, while stupid Americans are upset by TSA intrusions and narcoterrorism in neighboring Mexico, never mind the close correlations between sun spot activity and global temperatures, determined with data which is actually falsifiable.

Now comes word that the stripper who made the false accusations against lacrosse players that caused such should-have-been embarrassment for 88 members of Duke's faculty and their blogospheric and MSM enablers, had they any shame, has been convicted of child abuse. In a sensible world, of course, lacrosse players, being white, privileged jocks, would have been guilty of rape, and people would see that the child abuse was an acting out of the deprived childhood that she herself experienced due to the selfishness of people just like (and including) the Duke lacrosse players, who therefore ought to be held accountable for the metaphorical rape that they have practiced against her and all other women of color.

On the other hand, not all university faculty are incestuous, just so you can keep that straight.

Here are 10 more hoaxes that would have turned out to be true, like many Pigford claims and the artifice of Global Warmening, if only the cosmos were better grounded in reality.

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